compensation has been allowed did reenlist as aforesaid, or were detained by him under the section referred to.

Seamen

per

1074. Every seaman, ordinary seaman, or landsman, who performs the duty of a fireman or coal passer shall be entitled to re- forming duty in ceive, in addition to his compensation as seaman, ordinary seaman, engineer departor landsman, thirty-three cents a day for the time he is employed as fireman or coal passer. (Sec. 1570, R. S.)

ment.

in distress.

1075. A seaman transferred to a merchant ship in distress Seamen transand paid thereon is not entitled to be paid by the United States ferred to a ship for the time so engaged; but his commanding officer shall stipulate that such seaman's wages shall equal his pay in the Navy, and the amount agreed upon shall be entered upon the articles.

1076. Petty officers or enlisted men absent from their stations Men absent or duty without leave, or after their leave has expired, shall for- without leave to forfeit pay. feit all pay accruing during such unauthorized absence. The pay officer shall be notified daily of checkages of pay and rations to be made for such reason, the ration account of absentees being checked in the month during which absence occurs.

Marine de

1077. When a marine detachment is ordered on shore to duty requiring the services of a marine pay officer, the accounts of such tachment on officers and enlisted persons of the Navy as accompany and are at- shore duty. tached to said detachment shall be regularly transferred to and carried by the marine pay officer, and they shall be paid in the same manner as the officers and men of the Marine Corps with whom they are serving.

SECTION 2.-PAY AND BOUNTIES, MARINE CORPS.

Pay and al

1078. (1) The officers of the Marine Corps shall be entitled to receive the same pay and allowances, and the enlisted men shall lowances. be entitled to receive the same pay and bounty for reenlisting, as are or may be provided by or in pursuance of law for the officers and enlisted men of like grades in the infantry of the Army. (Sec. 1612, R. S.; art. 1134, par. 15.)

(2) In determining the allowances referred to in the foregoing paragraph of this article, the United States Army Regulations shall govern as far as practicable.

1079. All officers of the Marine Corps are entitled to ten per Longevity pay. centum in addition to their current yearly pay, as given in the pay tables, for each and every period of five years' service, provided the total amount of such increase shall not exceed forty per centum of their current yearly pay, and provided further that the pay of a colonel shall not exceed $5,000 per annum, that of a lieutenant-colonel $4,500 per annum, and that of a major $4,000 per annum.

1080. (1) Marine officers when absent on account of sickness Pay during or wounds, or lawfully absent from duty and waiting orders, shall absence. receive full pay; when absent with leave, for other causes, full pay during such absence not exceeding in the aggregate thirty days in one year, and half pay during such absence exceeding thirty days in one year, except as hereafter provided. When absent without leave, they shall forfeit all pay during such absence, unless the absence is excused as unavoidable.

Leave, cumu

(2) All officers on duty shall be allowed, at the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, sixty days' leave of absence without lative. deduction of pay or allowance, provided that the same be taken once in two years; and the leave of absence may be extended to

Retired pay.

Marine officers wholly retired.

Allowance of clothing to enlisted men.

Additional pay for continuous service.

Additional pay for expert riflemen, etc.

Failure to requalify.

three months, if taken once only in three years, or to four months if taken once only in four years.

1081. (1) Marine officers retired from active service shall receive seventy-five per centum of the pay of the rank upon which they are retired, including the percentage added for length of service.

(2) Marine officers wholly retired from the service shall be entitled to receive, upon their retirement, one year's pay and allowances of the highest rank held by them at the time of their retirement.

1082. Enlisted men of the Marine Corps are entitled to an annual allowance of uniform clothing. Any articles drawn in excess of this allowance shall be charged against them, and for articles not drawn they shall receive pay according to the annual estimated value thereof; but such amounts shall not be paid until final discharge from the service. (Arts. 204 and 1783.)

1083. (1) Enlisted men of the Marine Corps are entitled to additional pay for each three years' continuous service, up to and including the seventh three years, without regard to discharge and reenlistment, as follows:

(a) Noncommissioned officers above the grade of sergeant, four dollars per month for each three years;

(b) Sergeants and corporals, three dollars per month for each three years;

(c) Privates, drummers, and trumpeters, three dollars per month for the second and third three years each, and one dollar per month for each subsequent three years up to and including the seventh.

(2) After the seventh three years no further increase in pay is allowed for continuous service. (Army act of May 11, 1908, and Comp. Dec., Aug. 8, 1908.)

(3) Enlisted men of the Marine Corps qualified as expert riflemen, under the Small Arms Firing Regulations, U. S. Army, are entitled to five (5) dollars per month, those qualified as sharpshooters to three (3) dollars per month, and those qualified as marksmen to two (2) dollars per month, in addition to their pay, from the date of qualification until the close of the next succeeding target year, provided that during that time they continue to be members of an organization armed with a rifle or reenlist in such organization within three (3) months from date of discharge.

(4) If a marine, having qualified as an expert rifleman, fails in the next succeeding target year to requalify as such, he is entitled to the classification and pay of a sharpshooter until the close of the next succeeding target year following such failure to requalify. Similarly, if a marine who is classified as a sharpshooter fails in the next succeeding target year to requalify as such, he is entitled to the classification and pay of a marksman until the close of the next succeeding target year following such failure to requalify. If a marksman fails to requalify as such, his additional pay will cease at the close of the target year next succeeding that in which he qualified. If a marine, through the exigencies of the service, is not given an opportunity in the next succeeding target year to requalify for a classification already attained, he will be entitled to the pay of such classification until the close of the next target year in which opportunity to requalify is given him, such extension not to exceed three years.

Evidence of

(5) The fact of qualification will be evidenced in circular orders issued by headquarters, Marine Corps, which will show the date qualification. of actual qualification from which the marine is entitled to increased pay, and the first muster rolls rendered to the adjutant and inspector's department, and such pay rolls upon which credits for this extra compensation appear shall give the number and date of the circular order. Hold-over classifications shall be evidenced by similar circular orders. When a marine ceases to be entitled to this additional pay, or when such pay is reduced through failure to requalify, the fact shall be noted on the muster rolls rendered to the adjutant and inspector's department, and upon the pay rolls wherein the credits for extra compensation cease.

(6) Commanding officers of vessels of the Navy where marines Pay roll vouchare serving afloat, and commanding officers of marines serving on ers to support credits. shore, will be furnished copies of the above-mentioned circular orders for the use of the paymaster upon whose rolls credits for the extra compensation above provided appear, which shall be accepted by pay officers of the Navy and the paymasters of the Marine Corps as pay roll vouchers supporting these credits and as evidence of the right of the enlisted man concerned to receive pay corresponding to the man's classification from the date of qualification, and to continue to receive this compensation in the manner and until the dates above provided for.

1084. The musicians of the Marine Band shall be entitled to receive four dollars a month each, in addition to their pay as noncommissioned officers, musicians, or privates of the Marine Corps, so long as they shall perform, by the order of the Secretary of the Navy or other superior officer, on the Capitol grounds or the President's grounds. (Sec. 1613, R. S.)

Musicians of

Marine Band.

Pay and allow

men retired.

1085. (1) When an enlisted man in the Marine Corps shall have served thirty years either in the Army, Navy, or Marine ances of enlisted Corps, or in all, he shall, upon making application to the President, be placed upon the retired list, with seventy-five per centum of the pay and allowances he may then be in receipt of, and said allowances shall be as follows: Nine dollars and fifty cents per month in lieu of rations and clothing and six dollars and twentyfive cents per month in lieu of quarters, fuel, and light. In computing the necessary thirty years' time all service in the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps shall be credited. (Act of March 2, 1907.) (2) Enlisted men thus retired shall be furnished with transportation in kind to their homes.

SECTION 3.-ADVANCES.

1086. The President of the United States may direct such ad- Authority for vances, as he may deem necessary and proper, to such persons in advance of pay. the naval service as may be employed on distant stations where the discharge of the pay and emoluments to which they are entitled can not be regularly effected. (Sec. 1563, R. S.)

Restrictions as

1087. Overpayments, other than such as are produced by authorized advances, will be invariably disallowed, whether made in to overpayments. money, clothing, or small stores, excepting payments for the commutation of rations, and such advances in clothing or small stores as may have been made by the previous order of the captain of a ship, upon the ground that they were necessary to the health and comfort of the men, which order must be produced. A gen

Advances to officers ordered

eral approval of the roll in which the advances are charged will not be sufficient.

1088. (1) All officers of the Navy and Marine Corps, when to foreign duty, ordered to duty at sea, or to shore duty outside the continental limits of the United States, or to Alaska, shall be entitled to an advance of three months' pay, provided they have not received an advance of pay within the previous twelve months. All such officers returning from duty, at sea or on shore, outside the continental limits of the United States, or in Alaska, shall be entitled, at the time of detachment, to an advance of two months' pay, at the discretion of the senior officer present.

By whom paid.

Transfer from one ship to another.

Advances not checked until ship sails.

Duty of officer making the ad

vance.

Duty of off

(2) Any officer of the Navy or Marine Corps presenting his orders to any purchasing pay officer of the Navy, or a marine officer presenting such orders to a paymaster of his own corps, shall be paid this advance.

(3) Officers transferred from one ship to another, both ships being in commission for sea service, are not thereby entitled to such advance.

(4) Officers are entitled to the pay due them up to the date of sailing, without reference to the advance received. Should the ship, however, be detained beyond the time covered in such advance, officers shall have the amount checked against them by the pay officer, but may, upon proper application, receive an additional advance at the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy.

1089. (1) A pay officer shall, on paying an advance, endorse upon the original orders of the officer of the Navy or Marine Corps receiving it, the date and the amount advanced; and shall also notify the pay officer of the ship, without delay, of every such advance paid. A certified copy of the orders upon which advanced pay is furnished should in all cases accompany the voucher.

(2) Every officer who, after being ordered to duty, receives an cer receiving an advance of pay shall immediately give notice thereof to the pay advance. officer taking up his accounts, and no officer shall knowingly receive pay which should be checked against such advance.

Duty of pay officer of ship.

Pay clerks.

Ration money distinct from pay.

Entry on rolls of advances or overpayments.

Advances to recruits.

(3) In cases where such advance of pay has been made, the pay officer of the ship on which the officer receiving it reports for duty shall, without delay, inform both the Auditor for the Navy Department and the pay officer who made the advance that he has checked the specified amount, adding the name of the ship to which such officer is first attached, the officer's name and rank, the date of the order, amount of pay advanced, and from whom received.

(4) Pay clerks may, upon application to the Secretary of the Navy, be allowed an advance as herein provided.

1090. The ration is not pay and shall not be commuted in advance, nor shall commuted rations go to liquidate indebtedness to the Government, except when desired by the individuals for whom commuted.

1091. In all cases of advances or overpayments appearing on the rolls, the name of the pay officer making such advance or overpayment shall be noted over the amount.

1092. (1) Recruiting officers shall advance no pay to recruits unless specially authorized by the Navy Department, and the amount thus paid to petty officers shall not be in excess of that paid to seamen. Good security is to be taken in every such case until the person receiving the advance is mustered on board a ship of the United States.

(2) Recruiting officers shall not pay any advance or bounty money except to the person entitled to receive it; and they must produce his receipt, together with a certificate from the commanding officer of the ship to which the recruit may have been sent, that he has been actually received on board, or a statement as to his nonreceipt.

(3) Recuits shall be provided with necessary clothing and small stores upon the written order of the captain of the ship, and if an advance in money has been authorized but not paid, the amount of such issues shall be deducted from the advance.

(4) When recruits to whom an advance has been paid are mustered on board a receiving ship, the pay officer thereof shall certify to the recruiting officer that the amounts of money paid to the recruits, as exhibited by the accounts received, have been duly charged to them.

SECTION 4.-ALLOTMENTS.

1093. Every assignment of wages due to persons enlisted in the naval service, and all powers of attorney or other authority to draw, receipt for, or transfer the same shall be void unless attested by the commanding officer and paymaster. The assignment of wages must specify the precise time when they commence. 1576, R. S.)

(Sec.

1094. (1) Each person in the Navy and Marine Corps serving at remote stations or on board a seagoing ship, or when detailed for duty on a foreign station, except apprentice seamen on cruising training ships, shall, with the approval of his commanding officer, be allowed to allot such portion of his pay for the support of his family or other relatives, or for his own savings, as he may desire. (Act of June 10, 1896.)

Assignments

of pay to be attested.

Allotments.

Made out by

(2) Allotments shall be made out by the pay officer at the earliest possible moment after a ship is commissioned; and, after pay officer. approval, shall be promptly forwarded by him, as herein required, in order to insure payment when due. At shore stations of the Marine Corps allotments shall be made out by the commanding officers of marines and, after approval, shall be promptly forwarded by him to the paymaster charged with the settlement of the accounts.

(3) An allotment shall be executed in duplicate and, in the How made, case of an enlisted person, witnessed by the commanding officer registered, and paid. and paymaster, except where allotments are registered by a paymaster of the Marine Corps, in which case the witnessing of such by the paymaster shall not be required. After having been signed, it must be approved by the commanding officer and registered by the pay officer, who shall be responsible for its deduction from the grantor's pay. Both copies shall be forwarded to the Auditor for the Navy Department, who will forward to the purchasing pay officer the copy intended for him. An allotment shall be made payable on the last day of the month, and for a stated term. In special cases it may be registered at the Auditor's office.

(4) The death, discharge, resignation, desertion, or forfeiture Death or disof pay by sentence of court-martial, of a person who has an allot-charge of person having allotment running shall be cause for stopping the same, and the pay ment. officer of the ship to which the person was attached shall notify the Auditor for the Navy Department by the first opportunity;