20.

Pay of officers

The pay of all officers when promoted, modified by the law in relation to the pay of officers who are subject to examination before promotion, com- when promoted. mences from the date of the signature of an appointment to perform the duty, should one be given before the issue of a warrant or commission, or from the date of the warrant or commission, should no appointment have been previously given.

21.

The commence

The sea-pay of officers will commence when they report for duty on board of a sea-going vessel. When officers are ordered home from abroad, their ment of sea-pay. sea-pay will continue until they arrive in the United States, provided they return in a naval vessel; returning otherwise, they will receive other-duty

pay.

22.

When sent from

When an officer, attached to a vessel for sea-service, enters a hospital for treatment, he shall continue to receive sea-pay for three months, unless sooner a sea-going vessel detached.

23.

to a hospital.

An officer, attached to a vessel for sea-service, who receives from the De- If given a leave partment a leave of absence on account of ill health, is entitled to sea-pay vessel on account from a sea-going for three months, and then to other-duty pay until he reports to or is of ill health. detached from his vessel.

24.

Officers of the Navy attached to vessels employed under the orders of the Department in active service on rivers or lakes are entitled to sea-pay as well as to rations.

25.

When employed in vessels on the lakes, rivers, &c.

ments.

An acting appointment by order of a Commanding Officer, and subse- Acting appointquently confirmed by the Secretary of the Navy, is deemed valid. A copy of the order, certified as such by the Commanding Officer of the vessel, may be substituted for the original. It must, however, be shown that it was issued to supply a deficiency in the established complement of the vessel.

26.

No person enlisted for the naval service is entitled to pay while at a naval hospital after the expiration of his term of enlistment, but he may be retained for treatment.

27

Masters-at-Arms, Yeomen, and Apothecaries appointed to a vessel ordered on distant service, will be allowed an advance of pay for the usual term, which will be made by the Pay Officer after the vessel is commissioned.

28.

Officers are entitled to receive the pay due them up to the date of sailing, without reference to the advance received from the Pay Agent.

29.

A temporary leave of absence does not detach an officer from duty, nor affect his rate of pay.

30.

Fourth

The accounts of officers who are paid through the Fourth Auditor's Office Officers paid will be settled only at the end of each quarter of the calendar year, or at the through period of their transfer to some disbursing-officer.

Auditor.

Pay allowed Pay

31.

Pay Officers will be allowed other-duty pay for themselves and their Officers, &c., while clerks while employed in the settlement of their accounts, not exceeding the settling accounts. period specified in paragraphs 22 and 23, Accounts.

When attached

32.

Officers temporarily absent from the vessels to which they are attached, in to a vessel, and in attendance upon a civil court or a court-martial, are entitled to sea-pay.

attendance on a court.

When ordered

for trial.

A seaman trans

33.

An officer ordered for trial before a court-martial is entitled to other-duty pay, if he is honorably acquitted.

34.

A seaman transferred to a merchant-vessel in distress and paid thereon is ferred and paid on not entitled to be paid by the United States for that period.

a merchant-vessel.

Νο allowance

35.

No allowance being made for a minister or other civil functionary for for a minister as whom passage may be ordered in a Government vessel, provision must be made and the expense defrayed by the minister himself.

passenger.

36.

Νο allowance No allowance will be made for the expenses of persons undergoing examfor expenses when inations for appointments. being examined.

SECTION II.-Allotments.

1.

unless

But one-half of An allotment must not exceed one-half the pay of the person granting it, pay can be allotted except by the special permission of the Secretary of the Navy. It must be confined to making provision for the support of the family or other relatives of the grantor, for such time as he may be absent from them on public duty. It must not be made payable on any other than the last day of the month. After having been signed it must have the approval of the Commanding Officer of the vessel or station to which the person making it is attached, and will be registered by the Pay Officer of such vessel or station, who will be responsible for its deduction from the grantor's pay; or, in special cases, it will be registered at the Fourth Auditor's Office. It will be executed in duplicate, and, in the case of commissioned or warrant officers, one part will be transmitted by the Pay Officer who has registered it to the Fourth Auditor's Office, and in the case of any other person, both parts will be so transmitted. The Pay Officer will send, with the allotments registered by him, a general abstract for the use of the Fourth Auditor's Office, and a particular abstract for each of the Pay Agents by whom they are payable. The death, discharge, resignation, forfeiture of pay by sentence of a court-martial, or desertion of a person who has an allotment running, will be communicated by the Pay Officer of the vessel or station to which he was attached to the Fourth Auditor's Office, by the first opportunity that may occur; in default of which the Pay Officer will be held liable for the amount paid by the Pay Agent in consequence of such neglect. When an allotment is stopped he will charge the allotment for as many months in advance as will probably be required for information of the discharge to reach the Fourth Auditor's Office. Immediately upon the return of a vessel to the United States, at the expiration of her cruise, the Pay Officer will send to the Fourth Auditor's Office a list of the allotments to be stopped, and he will inform the Fourth Auditor of the expiration of an allotment by limitation.

2.

lot.

All persons enlisting for the Navy, on being transferred to a sea-going Persons going to vessel, will be allowed to allot only a sum not exceeding one-half the wages sea allowed to alcorresponding with the rate they received on enlisting. Any subsequent rating conferred on board such vessel is not to govern in determining the amount that may be allotted.

Allotments to be

Allotments shall be made out by the Pay Officer, and approved by the Commanding Officer, for all those persons on board who may wish to leave made out by. them for the benefit of their families or relatives, at the earliest moment after the ship is put in commission, and shall be promptly forwarded by him as required, in order to insure payment when due. In cases of the capture of officers or men who have granted allotments which may expire after their capture, the monthly payments of the same are to be continued by Pay Agents until otherwise ordered.

4.

Boys enlisted to serve until they are twenty-one years of age will not be permitted to allot any part of their pay.

5.

Boys apprenticed not permitted to allot.

Authorized advance not to interallot

An indebtedness, arising from an authorized advance, is not to interfere with the registry of an allotment; it is to be registered to be paid at once, fere with in the same manner as if no advance had been made.

6.

ment.

ment.

When an allotment is discontinued, at the request of the person making it, Renewal of a disbefore the expiration of the term for which it was granted, it cannot be re- continued allotnewed, within that term, without the permission of the Navy Department, on satisfactory reasons being given for the discontinuance and renewal. All correspondence on the subject of allotments must be with the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury.

SECTION III.-Pensions.

Correspondence regarding ments.

allot

1.

Commanding Officers will secure to all persons under their command the rights afforded them by the pension-laws.

2.

Reports of death

Commanding Officers, on shore and afloat, will require from the proper Medical Officers reports, according to forms prescribed by the Bureau of Med- or disability. icine and Surgery, of every case of death or disability occurring to persons in the naval service, under their command. These reports will be made in duplicate, and will state clearly but briefly the circumstances under which the death, injury, or disability occurred, and distinctly whether or not in the line of duty; they will be forwarded to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Department, in order to furnish evidence as to claims for pension.

3.

When any person in the Navy is received in any naval hospital in the United If a person is States on account of wounds, injury, or disease, and after treatment shall partially disabled. remain either partially or wholly disabled, the Surgeon in charge of such hospital will report his case to the Commandant of the yard or station, and request that a survey be held upon him. The report of the survey will be made in duplicate, according to the prescribed form, and will state the present condition of the patient, the circumstances under which the wounds, injury, or disease occurred, the probable duration of the disability, and, in all cases, Mhether originating in the line of duty. Abroad, such surveys will be

When death oc

curs.

cases.

ordered by the Commander-in-Chief, on recommendation of the Surgeon of the fleet, or by the senior officer present, on recommendation of the senior Medical Officer.

4.

When any person belonging to the naval service, received in a naval hospital as above provided, shall die in such hospital, the Surgeon in charge will report the death to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, with the circumstances connected with the origin of the disease, wound, or injury, and will distinctly express the opinion whether or not it originated in the line of duty, and his reasons therefor.

5.

Exception al In exceptional cases of death, injury, or disability, not provided for in the preceding paragraphs, the Surgeon-General will decide as to whether such death, injury, or disability was received in the line of duty.

Pensions for

service.

6.

At the expiration of ten years' service, any disabled enlisted man who has not been discharged for misconduct will be entitled to a pension, if a board of survey shall recommend it; after twenty years' service, any enlisted man disabled from sea-service by reason of age or infirmity, who has not been discharged for misconduct, will be entitled to a pension equal to one-half the pay of his rating when last discharged.

Leave of ab

CHAPTER XVI.

LEAVE OF ABSENCE AND FURLOUGH.

1.

Permission to leave the United States can only be granted by the Secretary of the Navy.

2.

Commandants of navy-yards or stations may grant leave of absence not sence from Com- exceeding one week, provided it can be done without injury to the service; mandants, &c. but no leave will be granted to any person belonging to a vessel, under sailing orders, to go beyond the limits of the place or station. Within the United States leave of absence, granted by a Commanding Officer, shall not exceed, in the aggregate, one month in each year, except in special cases which will be decided by the Navy Department.

Commanders-in

3.

A Commander-in-Chief of a squadron and a Commandant of a yard or Chief and Com- station in the United States will not leave the limits of their command mandants will not longer than one week in any successive two months without the permission of the Secretary of the Navy.

leave.

4.

Sick-leave not Permission will not be granted by Commanding Officers of squadrons to be given, unless or vessels in commission to any one under their command to leave his station byfor ill health until a board of medical survey has pronounced such a measure Commanding essential. Commanding Officers of squadrons abroad will not grant leave of Officers of squad- absence, unless authorized by the Navy Department, to officers to return to rons abroad will the United States, except upon the recommendation of a medical board of return to the survey. The Commanding Officer of a vessel detached from a squadron, or United States un- on separate service, can transfer sick or invalids upon the recommendation and written report of the Medical Officers of the vessel.

not grant leave to

less

5.

Officers on sick-leave, in consequence of medical survey, will report their state of health to the Department every fifteen days.

6.

Officers on sickleave will report.

Officers apply

sion of leave on

Officers of the Navy applying for leave or for an extension, on the score of ill health, must forward to the Department the certificate of a Medical ing for an extenOfficer in the Navy, if there be one in their vicinity, or, if there be none, of account of ill some respectable physician, of their inability to perform duty. Such certifi- healthcates must state the nature of the disease and the probable duration thereof.

7.

Temporary

Temporary leave may be granted by Commanding Officers; but such leave is not to exceed twenty-four hours, unless sanctioned by the Com-leave may be mander-in-Chief or senior officer present. granted by.

8.

Petty Officers and men in the Navy will be permitted to visit the shore Leave to Petty when it can be done without injury to the service. In foreign ports such Officers and crew. permission will not be granted if objected to by the authorities, and the senior officer present must always be consulted before such leave is granted. consulted.

9.

In foreign ports, authorities to be

Leave to enlistmen, to be granted only by

Leave of absence or permission to go on liberty will not be granted to any enlisted man by any person other than the Commanding Officer of the ed vessel; and should he be absent, on service or on leave, the officer left in the Commanding command will not grant leave to any enlisted man unless specially author- Officer. ized, and the names of those to whom leave is to be granted must be specified in writing, and signed by the Commanding Officer previous to his absenting himself.

10.

Leave not to be

Leave will not be granted to enlisted men who are in debt to the Government unless they deposit the full amount of their indebtedness, and in no granted to men in debt, unlesscase unless, in the judgment of the Commanding Officer, there is no probability of desertion.

CHAPTER XVII.

CORRESPONDENCE.

1.

All persons connected with the naval service will observe the following rules in their correspondence, viz:

I. Communications are to be written in a legible hand, in concise terms, without erasures or interlineations, and on one side only of each half sheet. II. If the subject-matter can be completed on one page, and no communications or papers are inclosed, a half sheet only will be used; but if there are inclosures a whole sheet is to be used, and the inclosures placed between the leaves, separately numbered, and referred to accordingly.

III. The paper used will be white foolscap, thirteen and a half by sixteen and a half inches, weighing sixteen pounds to the ream, and made of linen stock; to be stop-ruled, with twenty-four blue lines on the first and third pages only, leaving one inch margin back and front, top and bottom.

IV. Signatures are to be distinctly legible, and the writer is to annex his rank or rate. The paper is to be folded twice, parallel with the ruling, indorsed with the name and rank of the writer, place or vessel, date, and a brief statement of the contents.

The manner of correspondence.