CHAPTER I.o

NAVY DEPARTMENT.

SECTION 1.-ORGANIZATION; DETAIL OF DUTIES OF BUREAUS.

1. There shall be at the seat of the Government an Executive Department, to be known as the Department of the Navy, and a the Navy. Secretary of Secretary of the Navy, who shall be the head thereof. (Sec. 415, R. S.)

2. (1) An Assistant Secretary of the Navy is authorized by Assistant Secrelaw who shall hereafter perform such duties as may be prescribed tary of the Navy. by the Secretary of the Navy or required by law. (Acts of July 11, 1890, and March 3, 1891.) All orders issued by the Assistant Secretary will be considered as emanating from the Secretary and shall have full force and effect as such.

(2) In case of the absence of the Secretary of the Navy his duties shall be performed by the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. (Sec. 177, R. S.)

Business of

3. (1) The business of the Department of the Navy shall be distributed in such manner as the Secretary of the Navy shall the Department. judge to be expedient and proper among the following bureaus: First, a Bureau of Yards and Docks; Second, a Bureau of Equipment;

Third, a Bureau of Navigation;

Fourth, a Bureau of Ordnance;

Fifth, a Bureau of Construction and Repair;

Sixth, a Bureau of Steam Engineering;

Seventh, a Bureau of Supplies and Accounts;

Eighth, a Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. (Sec. 419, R. S.) (2) The several bureaus shall retain the charge and custody of the books or records and accounts pertaining to their respective duties; and all of the duties of the bureaus shall be performed under the authority of the Secretary of the Navy, and their orders shall be considered as emanating from him, and shall have full force and effect as such. (Sec. 420, R. S.)

(3) A Judge Advocate General of the Navy is authorized by Judge Advocate the act of June 8, 1880. His office shall be in the Navy Depart- General. ment, and he shall perform such duties as may lawfully be required.

This chapter having been rewritten since the remainder of the text went to press, the provisions of the following chapters shall be considered as modified to conform to the changed duties of the bureaus as herein prescribed. See General Order No. 9, dated January 25, 1909.

(4) A Solicitor is authorized by the act of May 22, 1908; he shall perform such duties as may be assigned by the Secretary of the Navy.

(5) The General Board of the Navy, established by Navy Department General Order No. 544 of March 13, 1900, shall, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, perform such duties as are set forth in section 2 of this chapter, and such additional duties as may be prescribed from time to time by competent authority.

(6) The General Board shall be composed of the Admiral of the Navy, the Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, the Chief Intelligence Officer, the President of the War College, and such additional officers as the Secretary of the Navy may designate.

(7) An officer, of or above the grade of lieutenant, shall be detailed as secretary to the General Board. He shall record its proceedings and have charge and custody of its files and correspondence.

(8) No boards shall be appointed by any bureau without authority of the Navy Department.

(9) Orders relating to navy yard business connected with a bureau may be given and stated to be "by direction of the Secretary of the Navy," by a chief of bureau to the commandants, who shall be responsible for their execution. (Arts. 1507, par. 7, and 1548.)

(10) Each bureau shall have control of the organization and muster of the employees used entirely for its own purposes.

(11) Each bureau shall estimate for and defray from its own funds the cost necessary to carry out its duties as hereafter defined.

(12) In addition to the duties hereafter prescribed in general terms for the several bureaus, the duties of each shall include those heretofore authorized which are not in conflict with the provisions of this chapter.

(13) No permission shall be given by any bureau, board, or officer which shall grant special privileges or authority to erect building on government property without the authority of the Secretary or Assistant Secretary of the Navy.

4. The duties of the Bureau of Yards and Docks shall include preparing the details of design, and the specifications of all public works under the cognizance of the Navy Department, and such other duties as may be required by existing law.

5. (1) The duties of the Bureau of Equipment shall comprise all that relates to the equipment of ships according to the allowance lists from time to time in force. It shall make the specifications of the type and character of nautical and navigating instruments, and of electrical appliances, except those in connection with the battery and hull auxiliaries.

(2) The installation, maintenance, and repair of interior and exterior signal communications, and of all electrical appliances of whatsoever nature on board naval vessels, except range finders, battle order and range transmitters and indicators, motors and their controlling apparatus used to operate the machinery belonging to other bureaus, shall be done to the satisfaction of the Bureau of Equipment.

(3) It shall defray the expenses of pilotage of all ships in commission.

(4) It shall inspect all work done for it.

(5) It shall have control of the Naval Observatory, the Hydro- Bureau of Navigation. graphic Office, wireless apparatus and stations, and of all matters connected therewith.

6. (1) The duties of the Bureau of Navigation shall comprise the promulgation, record, and enforcement of the orders of the Secretary to the fleet and to the officers of the Navy, except such orders as pertain to the office of the Secretary; all that relates to the education of officers and men, including the Naval Academy, the Naval War College, and technical schools for officers, the apprentice seaman establishment, schools for the technical education of enlisted men, and to the supervision and control of the Naval Home at Philadelphia, Pa., Nautical Almanac and Compass Offices, to the enlistment and discharge of all enlisted persons, and to the preparation of estimates for the pay of all officers and enlisted men.

(2) It shall have under its direction all rendezvous and receiving ships, and provide transportation for all enlisted persons under its cognizance.

(3) It shall establish the complement of all ships in commission. (4) It shall keep the records of service of all fleets, squadrons, ships, officers, and men, and prepare an annual navy register for publication.

(5) It shall be charged with the preparation, revision, and enforcement of all tactics, drill books, signal codes, cipher codes, and regulations governing uniform and service afloat, and with the distribution of all general orders, special orders, and regulations. (6) Questions of naval discipline arising in the service will be submitted by this bureau for the action of the Secretary.

(7) All orders governing the movement of vessels, other than those issued by officers exercising command afloat or at shore stations, within the limits of their respective commands, will be signed by the Secretary and recorded in this bureau.

(8) It shall receive and bring to the attention of the Secretary of the Navy all applications from officers for duty or change of duty.

(2) It shall receive all reports of service performed by ships, officers, or men, and all inspections of ships not of a special nature: also reports of all drills and exercises.

(10) In order to prevent conflicting instructions, and that a proper record may be kept of the readiness of all vessels for service, all official communications from the Navy Department and its offices and bureaus to ships in commission for sea service, which refer to the movements of ships, to their condition, to their repairs, to their availability for sea service, and to their personnel, shall be forwarded through this bureau, except that when the Department has set a date for the completion of repairs to a vessel at a navy yard, subsequent requests for repairs whose time of completion will fall within the date fixed as above, shall, in general, be forwarded by the commandant direct to the bureaus concerned. (Art. 1500.)

(11) It shall be charged with the transportation, storage, and handling of coal and water used for all purposes on board naval vessels, and with the control of naval coal depots and coaling stations.

Bureau of

7. (1) The duties of the Bureau of Ordnance shall comprise all that relates to the Torpedo Station, Naval Proving Ground, and Ordnance. magazines on shore, to the manufacture of offensive and defensive arms and apparatus (including torpedoes), all ammunition, and war explosives. It shall require for or manufacture all machinery,

apparatus, equipment, material, and supplies required by or for use with the above.

(2) It shall recommend the armament to be carried by all armed vessels, the material, kind, and quality of armor, the interior dimensions of revolving turrets, and their requirements as regards rotation; it shall also fix, within the carrying power of vessels as determined by the Bureau of Construction and Repair, the location and command of the armament, and distribute the thickness of

armor.

(3) It shall, as the work proceeds, inspect the installation of the permanent fixtures of the armament and its accessories on board ship, and the methods of stowing, handling, and transporting ammunition and torpedoes, all of which work shall be performed to its satisfaction. It shall design and construct turret ammunition hoists, determine the requirements of all ammunition hoists, and the method of construction of armories and ammunition rooms on shipboard, and, in conjunction with the Bureau of Construction and Repair, determine upon their location and that of ammunition hoists. It shall confer with the Bureau of Construction and Repair respecting the arrangements for centering the turrets, and the character of the roller paths and their supports.

(4) It shall have cognizance of all electrically operated ammunition hoists, rammers, and gun-elevating gear which are in turrets; of electric range finders; of electric training and elevating gear for gun mounts not in turrets; of electrically operated air compressors for charging torpedoes; and of all battle-order and range transmitters and indicators.

(5) It shall approve the design of the various shops and buildings at navy yards where its work is executed, so far as their internal arrangements are concerned.

(6) It shall determine upon and require for or manufacture all the tools, stores, stationery, blank books, forms, material, means and appliances of every kind required in its shops, including fuel and transportation.

(7) It shall inspect all work done for it.

Bureau of 8. (1) The duties of the Bureau of Construction and Repair Construction and shall comprise all that relates to designing, building and repairRepair. ing ships of the Navy on plans approved by the Navy Department, and their equipment not otherwise provided for in this chapter. In doing this work it shall consult the Bureau of Ordinance as to the battery requirements in designing, constructing, and installing independent ammunition hoists, and other permanent fixtures, which are already specified to be the special province of the Bureau of Ordnance.

(2) It shall also have charge of all public works at navy yards unless otherwise herein provided for.

Bureau of 9. (1) The duties of the Bureau of Steam Engineering shall Steam Engineercomprise all that relates to designing the steam machinery for ing. the propulsion of naval ships, the steam pumps, heaters, distilling apparatus and steam connections of ships within the machinery space.

Bureau of

(2) It shall prepare specifications for fuel to be purchased for naval ships, and shall inspect the same.

(3) It shall inspect the work done for it.

10. (1) The duties of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts Supplies and Ac- shall comprise all that relates to the supply of funds for disbursing officers and the keeping of the money accounts of the naval

counts.

establishment; the purchase, reception, storage, care, custody, transfer, shipment, and issue of all supplies, including coal and water, for the naval establishment and the keeping of a proper system of accounts for the same, except supplies for the Marine Corps and except the reception, storage, care, custody, transfer, and issue of medical supplies; the requiring for, preparing, or manufacture of provisions, clothing and small stores; and the requiring for material under the Naval Supply Fund.

(2) It shall approve the design of the various buildings and shops at the navy yards where its own work is performed and stores are kept, so far as their internal arrangements are concerned, and, after their completion, shall have control of the

same.

(3) It shall determine upon and require for all the tools, stores, stationery, blank books, forms, materials, means, and appliances of every kind used by the Supplies and Accounts department, and all books and blanks for other departments used in connection with the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.

(4) It shall have charge of all shipments.

(5) The cost of supplies purchased by this bureau for other bureaus or branches of the naval establishment shall be defrayed out of the appropriations provided therefor by law, coming under the cognizance of those bureaus or branches.

(6) It shall make specifications for galleys, bake ovens, and other cooking apparatus and utensils.

Bureau of Medicine and

11. (1) The Bureau of Medicine and Surgery shall have control of all hospitals and of the force employed there, and it shall Surgery. have the general direction of the internal organization and administration of hospital ships; it shall have advisory power with respect to all questions connected with hygiene and sanitation affecting the service and, to this end, opportunity for unobstructed inspection; it shall provide for all physical examinations; it shall pass upon the competency, from a professional standpoint, of all men in the hospital corps for enlistment and promotion by means of examinations conducted under its supervision, or under forms prescribed by it; it shall have information as to the assignment and duties of all enlisted men of the hospital corps, with opportunity to invite the attention of the Department to any changes which may seem to be desirable; and shall have power to appoint and remove all nurses in the nurse corps (female), subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Navy.

(2) The duties of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery shall comprise all that relates to medical supply depots, medical laboratories, naval hospitals, hospital ships, dispensaries, and technical schools for the medical and hospital corps, and the nurse corps (female). It shall require for all supplies, medicines and instruments used in the medical department of the Navy.

(3) It shall approve the design of the various buildings erected within navy yards for its own purposes, so far as their internal arrangements are concerned and, after their completion, have control of the same.

(4) It shall design, erect, furnish, and maintain all the buildings constructed for its own purposes outside the limits of navy yards, for which it may have estimated; and it shall approve, under the special instructions of the Secretary, the purchase,