When provisions

or stores are damaged.

Should a pay

10.

If provisions or stores are so much damaged as to be unfit for issue, they may be condemned to be sold, when in a foreign port. Within the United States such damaged stores or provisions are to be returned into store, when practicable.

11.

In the event of the death of a Pay Officer on duty, or of his being proofficer die or be nounced by competent medical authority to be deranged or disabled in mind incapacitated. or body to such an extent as to seriously incapacitate him for the performance of his duties, the Commanding Officer of the vessel or station to which he has been or is attached, shall immediately take possession of the keys of the safe and store-rooms of such Pay Officer, and report all the facts in the case to the senior officer present, which latter officer shall, without delay, direct a board of officers to take an inventory of the money and stores then on hand; and shall appoint a suitable person to take charge of the same, and to perform the duties of such Pay Officer until otherwise directed by competent authority. The senior officer present shall also appoint another suitable peron to complete the vouchers, transfer the accounts, close up the books, and to have the custody of the same, and of all papers necessary to the complete settlement of the accounts of such Pay Officer, and to be responsible for their proper transmission to the Department. Both the above-named appointees shall be present when the above inventories are taken, and shall be furnished with copies thereof, which copies, duly certified, shall be considered satisfactory vouchers for the money and stores thus ascertained to be on hand.

On the death or

of stores.

If such Pay Officer, while of sound mind, shall have nominated, in writing, the person to be selected to have custody of the books, vouchers, and other papers, and to complete the accounts as above mentioned, the senior officer present shall, unless manifestly contrary to the public interest, conform to such nomination, and shall inform the Department, without delay, of his entire action in the matter.

12.

If any officer of the Navy having charge of money, provisions, or other suspension of a stores belonging to the United States, shall die, be suspended, removed, or person in charge otherwise separated from his vessel or station, so as to render it necessary to appoint another person to perform his duties, it shall be immediately reported by his Commanding Officer to the senior officer present in command, who shall order, in writing, a survey to be held by proper officers, and, when practicable, in presence of the officer who is to succeed to the charge of the articles aforesaid, and the surveying officers shall make out a statement, in writing, of the amount, quantity or number, state and condition of such articles, in quadruplicate, and sign the same, and transmit them in a report to the officer ordering the survey, one copy to be retained by him, and three sent to the officer appointed to take charge of the money and stores, two of which he will receipt and hand over to the officer relieved, or to the representative of the officer, if deceased, one to be retained by him and the other to be forwarded to the Navy Department.

Directions

re

13.

All officers ordered upon surveys are strictly required to perform that duty garding surveys. with the utmost attention and fidelity, and to make their reports with impartiality, and in all reports of surveys involving quantities they must be expressed in writing, and never exclusively in figures.

Survey in case

14.

Whenever an important accident or derangement shall occur to the maaccident to ma- chinery of a steamer, a survey will be held upon it by a board composed of one Line Officer and at least two Engineers, who will report, in writing, the nature and extent of the accident or derangement, the cause, the proba

hinery.

ble time of repair, and to whom, if to any one, blame is to be attributed. The
report is to embrace every detail necessary to a complete understanding of
the case.
The order of the survey will accompany the report, which is to be
made in duplicate and forwarded to the Department by the first opportunity.

15.

Whenever, in the opinion of the senior Medical Officer of a vessel, any Surveys on offiperson attached to her is unfit for service, he will report such to the Com- cers or crew. manding Officer, who, if on separate or detached service, will order a survey to be held upon such person by the Medical Officer of the vessel and such others as may be convenient, not exceeding three, though two will suffice where the full number cannot be procured. In extreme cases the survey may be conducted by the Medical Officer of the ship, but if serving in squadron the Commanding Officer of the vessel will report all such cases to the Commander-in-Chief or senior officer present, who will order the survey, which will examine and report upon such person in accordance with the form prescribed by the regulations of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. When the person is found unfit for duty the report is to state the character of the disease or injury, its probable duration, and in every case all the facts and circumstances connecting the disease or injury with the performance of duty or exposure incident thereto. When a person is reported unfit for duty, and the survey is approved by the officer ordering it, he is to be disposed of as promptly as possible, in the manner recommended by the board, and in case of discharge from service without reference to the state of his account.

16.

Should it be necessary to destroy clothing or other personal effects of officers or men, to prevent the spread of disease, the Commanding Officer will direct a survey to be held on the articles, and the report, approved by him, will be transmitted to the Department, containing a descriptive list of the articles, with an estimate of their value. The surveying officers will base their estimates on the actual value of clothing destroyed, and not on the prices at which the clothing was issued.

17.

All reports of surveys on account of temporary disability are to be made Surveys on acout in duplicate and forwarded, through the proper channels, to the Bureau of count of tempora Medicine and Surgery.

18.

No survey on a vessel in commission will be held without the authority of the Department, either in our own or in foreign ports, unless the supposed defect shall have occurred from the vessel getting on shore or from some accidental cause, as collision for instance.

19.

ry disability.

Surveys not to gel, &c.

be held on a ves

of survey.

Besides the surveys above specified, the Commanding Officer of a vessel, Quarterly board when practicable, will appoint, at the commencement of each quarter, to serve to the end of it, three suitable officers, to whom, as a continued board of survey, the Pay Officer will refer, through the senior of the three, either verbally or in writing, all such articles in his department as he may judge to be unfit for use, or which do not correspond with their marks in quantity or kind, provided they do not exceed in quantity, on any one occasion, the bulk of a package of clothing, or, in the case of provisions, two barrels ; this board shall survey and pronounce upon such articles, which, with the consent of the Commanding Officer, are to be disposed of as recommended.

At the end of the quarter, or earlier, if ordered, the board is to report in the Report of quarform prescribed, in triplicate, to the Commanding Officer for his action and tely survey. signature, separately in the case of clothing or small-stores, upon all the

articles it has condemned during the quarter, and the disposition which has

been made of them, in order that these reports may answer as authenticated vouchers for the Pay Officer.

If a member of

20.

Should any officer attached to a board of survey die, or be detached during a board of survey the quarter, the above report is to be made up to the time of such occurrence, is detached or dies. and be signed by the survivors, in the former case, who are to append a note as to the cause of the absence of other signatures, and by all the members in the latter case. In either event another report is to be made at the end of the quarter, if surveys have been held in the mean time.

Surveys on instruments.

21.

When instruments are injured, or, having been injured, are returned into store without the report of a survey, a survey will be ordered on them and information obtained of all the circumstances attending their injury, and whether occasioned by carelessness or negligence of those having charge of or using them; if so, the board will state in their report the names of those through whose want of care the injury has occurred, which is to be forwarded to the Bureau of Navigation.

For the pay

expenses the travel must be performed.

CHAPTER XV.

TRAVEL NU ND OTHER ALLOWANCES-REGULATIONS REGARDING PAY

PENSIONS.

SECTION I.-Traveling and other allowances. Regulations regarding pay. 1.

No officer or other person can be paid traveling-allowance except for travel ment of traveling actually performed, in obedience to orders, at the sole expense of the officer and without Government transportation. To entitle an officer of the Navy, including a secretary or clerk, to traveling-expenses, he must show the Pay Officer his orders, with the indorsements thereon, after having reported for duty.

When ordered

2.

Officers and others ordered from one station to another, as members of from one station courts-martial, courts of inquiry, boards of examination, inspection, &c., or to another. as witnesses, will be allowed traveling-expenses from the place whence ordered and back again, (unless other orders are given,) upon presentation to the Pay Agent of their orders to that service and discharge therefrom. Pay Officers, as vouchers in the settlement of their accounts, will have the orders for traveling-expenses above referred to copied, which copies will be certified by the officers as correct.

es.

Citizens 8um

3.

Citizens not in the employ of the Government of the United States when moned as witness- summoned as witnesses before naval courts will be paid two dollars per diem and eight cents per mile from and to their domiciles. Judge-Advocates, in their certificates of attendance, will discriminate between citizen witnesses and those who are in the employ of the Government of the United States.

4.

The allowance for the traveling-expenses of officers of the Navy is fixed by law at eight cents per mile. For traveling out of the United States the actual necessary expenses only are allowed. Detention at any place on the route must be certified by the officer to have been necessarily incurred in awaiting the next conveyance. The expenses must be shown by vouchers in the usual form, unless the officer certifies that it was not practicable to obtain them, in which case his own certificate to a detailed statement of the actual and necessary expenses will be received as sufficient evidence. The traveling-expenses of officers within the United States will be paid by the Pay Agent at the place to which they shall have been ordered, or by the Pay

Officer of the vessel to which their orders attach them. When a doubt exists as to the distance traveled, the certificate of the officer stating the route by which he traveled, with the distance thereon, and that it was the shortest route usually traveled, will be received as evidence, where the Post-Office records do not determine, and he should certify that a public conveyance was not furnished.

5.

lowance out of the

The actual and necessary traveling-expenses of officers proceeding from Traveling a Lthe United States, under orders for foreign service, will be paid upon the United States, production of bills and receipts; or if they certify that it was not practica- how paid. ble to obtain receipts, then upon a statement of the actual and necessary expenses, made with as much particularity as may be in their power, and certified to be correct. The traveling-expenses of officers returning to the United States from foreign service under orders, or under permission granted in consequence of sickness or medical survey, will be paid upon the same evidence as is required in the case of officers going abroad. Fares on railroads, steamboats, and packets, hack and other conveyance for self and baggage to and from points of arrival and departure, and reasonable charges for extra baggage, will be allowed.

6.

tickets.

Navy officers and other persons traveling under orders or authority de- If provided with rived from the Navy Department, who shall be furnished with passes, passage-tickets, or transportation in any way or kind at the expense of the United States, shall not be paid mileage or the difference between mileage and the cost of such transportation. The Government has the right of election in such cases either to transport or to allow mileage, and when one or the other has been done it is to be considered final.

7.

Pay Officers are not entitled to traveling-expenses in coming to Wash Paymasters not ington to settle their accounts unless they do so under orders from the De- allowed travelingpartment.

8.

expenses, when.

Yeomen not al

Pay Officers' Yeomen and Apothecaries are not allowed traveling-expenses unless by special direction of the Department, which will be only their act- lowed travelingual expenses.

9.

expenses, but by

Allowance to

Any person re-enlisting for the term of three years, within three months after the date of an honorable discharge, is, by law, entitled to three months' honorably-dispay, in accordance with the rating borne upon his discharge, although the re-enlistment may have taken place immediately after such discharge.

10.

Pay Officers will be allowed the unavoidable loss sustained on clothing and small-stores committed to their charge, not exceeding on the former one and a half per cent., or on the latter, two per cent.

11.

To entitle any persons to the one-fourth additional pay granted by the act of July 17, 1862, he must either have re-enlisted to serve until the return of the vessel in which he is serving, and his discharge therefrom in the United States, or he must have been detained by the Commanding Officer under the seventeenth section of the said act. In order to sustain a charge for such additional payment, it will be necessary for the Pay Officer to produce, upon the settlement of his account, a certificate of the Commanding Officer that the persons to whom such additional compensation has been allowed did re-enlist as aforesaid, or were detained by him under the section of the

re-enlistment

charged men, on

in

three months after discharge.

Allowance

act referred to. This additional pay, under the seventeenth section of the act of July 17, 1862, is to be allowed to all enlisted men detained after the expiration of their terms of enlistment, whether serving on foreign stations or in home squadrons.

12.

for For the subsistence of prisoners on board of public vessels who may mess in the subsistence of the cabin, there will be allowed two dollars per day; in the wardroom, one prisoners.

Officers ordered

dollar and fifty cents per day, which shall be credited to the mess and paid by the Pay Officer, for each person. For their subsistence in any other officers' mess there shall be paid one dollar per day for each person, and for their subsistence in any other than an officers' mess, or by themselves, one ration will be allowed. It is required in every case that the caterer of the mess shall furnish the Pay Officer with his certificate, approved by the Commanding Officer of the vessel, that the actual cost is equal to the amount charged. No other charge is to be made, nor shall any person thus conveyed be required to pay to the mess, in which he may live, any compensation.

13

When officers are ordered to take passage in any vessel of the Navy, no al to take passage. lowance will be made to any mess for their subsistence.

Allowance for

pilots.

14.

For the subsistence of each pilot who may mess in the wardroom, one dol the subsistence of lar and fifty cents per day will be credited to the mess and paid by the Pay Officer. For their subsistence in any other officers' mess, there shall be so credited and paid one dollar per day, and for their subsistence in any other than an officers' mess, or by themselves, one ration will be allowed.

Transportati o n

15.

A clerk to a Commanding Officer who is relieved on a foreign station will for a clerk, if Com- be entitled to transportation to the United States, but transportation will not manding Officer is relieved abroad. be furnished or paid to any one going abroad to take his place.

16.

Allowance of No funeral expenses of an officer of the Navy who dies in the United funeral-expenses. States, nor expenses for travel to attend the funeral of an officer who dies

No extra com

there, shall be allowed. But when an officer on duty dies in a foreign country the expenses of his funeral, not exceeding his sea-pay for one month, shall be defrayed by the Government and paid by the Pay Officer upon whose books the name of such officer was borne for pay.

17.

No officer or other person whose salary, pay, or emolument is fixed by law pensation allowed or regulation shall receive any additional pay, extra allowance, or compento those whose pay sation for the disbursement of public money, or for any other service or duty, is fixed by law, unless the same be authorized by law and the appropriation therefor explicitly sets forth that it is for such additional pay, extra allowance, or compensation.

unless

No commissions

18.

No charge will be allowed in the accounts of Pay Officers for a commission allowed to persons paid to any person for making purchases on foreign stations. Such purmaking purchases. chases are to be made by the Paymaster of the fleet, or other Pay Officers, or by the resident Naval Storekeeper.

The commence

19.

Upon the appointment of an officer (not bonded) his pay will commence at ment of the pay of the date of acceptance. This rule applies to secretaries and clerks, but they are not to be appointed until the officer authorized to confer the appointment has left his domicile to enter upon the service on which he may be ordered.

officers.