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order to receive the benefits of paragraph 5 must fulfill the requirements prescribed by the Bureau of Navigation.

ment.

(7) To provide adequate compensation for trained men, the pay Increase of now prescribed by Executive order for each rating in the Navy is pay on reenlisthereby increased five dollars per month during the second period of service and a further sum of three dollars per month during each and every subsequent period of service: Provided, That only enlisted men who are citizens of the United States, and whose second and subsequent periods of service each follow next after service in the Navy that was terminated by reason of expiration of enlistment, shall receive the benefits of the increased pay named herein: Provided further, That in the cases of men who are or were finally discharged from the Navy by reason of expiration of enlistment, the first enlistment on or after the date of this order shall be considered the second period of service, which shall carry with it the increased pay provided by this order; except that men discharged on recommendations of boards of medical survey shall, if they reenter the service, be given credit for any previous periods of service in the Navy which were terminated by reason of expiration of enlistment. (Executive order, November 27, 1906.)

Instructors of

men.

(8) Chief petty officers detailed as instructors of apprentice seamen at naval stations who qualify as instructors by examina- apprentice seation shall receive, in addition to their pay, the sum of ten dollars per month while so detailed, such pay to be considered extra pay for special duty. (Executive order, November 27, 1906.)

(9) Chief petty officers must be citizens of the United States Chief petty of

must be

and serving under continuous service in order to be eligible for ficers citizens to be in

examination for detail as instructors of apprentice seamen at structors. naval stations. They must also qualify in accordance with the requirements prescribed by the Bureau of Navigation.

officers.

(10) Apprentice seamen detailed as apprentice chief petty offi- Apprentice cers and as apprentice petty officers first, second, and third seamen as petty classes, in connection with the instruction of apprentice seamen at naval stations, shall receive, in addition to their pay, two dollars and fifty cents, two dollars, one dollar and fifty cents, and one dollar each per month, respectively, while so detailed, such pay to be considered extra pay for special duty. (Executive order, November 27, 1906.)

(11) The complement of apprentice seamen authorized at each naval station as apprentice petty officers shall be four (one of each rating) for each seventy-five apprentice seamen under training at the station.

Stewards and cooks, certificate

(12) Stewards and cooks in the messman branch who are citizens of the United States, and who hold certificates of qualifica- of qualification. tion as stewards or cooks, shall receive five dollars per month additional to the pay of their rating while holding such certificate, such additional pay to be of a permanent character as regular pay.

(13) The extra compensation provided for "captain of the hold,” “jack-of-the-dust,” and “lamplighter" may be paid to seamen only for the first named detail, and to ordinary seamen only for the two latter details.

(14) The allowances prescribed in this article do not apply to mates.

Mates.

Extra compensation for marines.

Outfit.

(15) Enlisted men of the Marine Corps regularly detailed as gun pointers, messmen, or signalmen, or holding good conduct medals, pins, or bars, shall receive the same extra compensation in addition to their monthly pay as is now or may hereafter be allowed to enlisted men of the Navy: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to entitle any person to back pay for medals, pins, or bars held, or for other services rendered as hereinbefore referred to, or otherwise. (Executive order, June 28, 1904.)

(a) Mess sergeants, entitled to six dollars per month in addition to their regular pay (act of May 11, 1908), or mess stewards (Par. 330, Army Regulations, 1908), duly detailed and assigned to the supervision of messes of enlisted men, are authorized in accordance with orders issued by the Commandant of the Marine Corps, approved by the Navy Department.

(16) An outfit shall be furnished to each man on first enlistment not to exceed the following:

Samoans and such men of the messmen branch as are not re-
quired to possess complete outfits.
Men of the insular force__
All other enlisted men__

$20

30

Navy mall clerks.

Clothing and small stores for

60

Commanding officers shall direct which of the above amounts is to be allowed in each case of first enlistment, the outfit for "all other enlisted men" to be issued in accordance with the Uniform Regulations.

(17) Enlisted men of the Navy may, upon selection by the Secretary of the Navy, be designated by the Post Office Department as navy mail clerks and assistant navy mail clerks. They shall receive compensation for such services from the Navy Department in addition to that paid them for the grade to which they are assigned. (Art. 441.)

1135. An enlisted man of the Navy or Marine Corps sentenced men sentenced to by court-martial to confinement with loss of pay shall not be deprived of such clothing and small stores as the officer commanding the ship, or other place of confinement, may deem necessary to the prisoner's health and comfort. (Art. 1783, par. 4.)

loss of pay.

No allowance 1136. No allowance shall be made for the expenses of persons for expenses of candidates undergoing examination for appointments, except as provided by for appointment. law for midshipmen, and except candidates for appointments as pay clerks who successfully pass the required examination and receive appointments.

Allowance for witnesses.

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1137. (1) The actual expenses only of enlisted men summoned as witnesses before a court-martial shall be paid, and shall be provided by the pay officer upon order of the commanding officer of the ship or station to which they belong.

(2) Citizens not in the employ of the United States, when summoned as witnesses before naval courts, shall be paid one dollar and fifty cents per diem and five cents per mile from and to their domiciles. Judges advocate shall, in their certificates of attendance, discriminate between citizen witnesses who are and those who are not, in the employ of the Government of the United States.

1138. Marine officers are entitled to draw forage from the Quartermaster's Department if it be allowed by law and army regulations, but no commutation of forage shall be paid.

SECTION 9.-PERSONS DECEASED.

1139. (1) Immediately upon official notification of the death Gratuity of six months' pay from wounds or disease contracted in the line of duty of any to widow or officer or enlisted man on the active list of the Navy and Marine other designated Corps the Paymaster General of the Navy shall cause to be paid beneficiary. to the widow of such officer or enlisted man, or any person previously designated by him, an amount equal to six months' pay at the rate received by such officer or enlisted man at the date of his death, less seventy-five dollars in the case of an officer and thirty-five dollars in the case of an enlisted man, to defray expenses of interment, and the residue, if any, of the amount reserved shall be paid subsequently to the designated person. (Act of May 13, 1908.)

Funeral ex

an officer.

(2) No funeral expenses of a naval officer who dies in the United States, nor expenses for travel to attend the funeral of penses, death of an officer who dies 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 paymaster upon whose books the name of such officer was borne for pay. (Sec. 1587, R. S.)

Expenses of

(3) In the cases of death of the persons named below, under the circumstances mentioned, the expenses of interment shall be interment. governed as indicated:

When there is a widow or previously designated beneficiary, the deceased being

(a) An officer or enlisted man of the Navy or Marine Corps: By paragraph 1, above.

When there is no widow or previously designated beneficiary, the deceased being

(b) An officer of the Navy: By paragraph 2, above.

(c) An officer of the Marine Corps: Necessary and proper expenses not exceeding $75 shall be allowed, the bills therefor being public bills.

(d) An enlisted man of the Navy: Necessary and proper expenses not exceeding $35 shall be allowed, the bills therefor being public bills.

(e) An enlisted man of the Marine Corps: Necessary and proper expenses not exceeding $35 shall be allowed, the bills therefor being public bills.

(4) Public bills for funeral expenses under b and d as above limited shall be paid when approved by the Surgeon General, for persons in the Navy; those for persons in the Marine Corps under e and e when approved by such officers as may be designated by the Commandant.

(5) Transportation of remains is governed by annual appropriation and is distinct from "funeral expenses or "expenses of interment." (Comp. Dec., Aug. 21, 1908.)

1140. Upon the transfer of a deceased person's account to the Auditor for the Navy Department the pay officer concerned shall note thereon the amount paid by him for funeral expenses.

1141. Pay officers paying funeral expenses shall immediately report the amount thereof to the Paymaster General.

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Accounts.

Report of funeral expenses.

Service pensions to disabled enlisted men.

Official

SECTION 10.-PENSIONS.

1142. (1) Any disabled enlisted man who has not been discharged for misconduct shall, after ten years' service in the Navy or Marine Corps, be entitled to a pension, if a board of survey consisting of three naval officers, one of whom shall be a medical officer, appointed by the Secretary of the Navy, shall recommend it. (Sec. 4757, R. S.)

(2) After twenty years' service, any enlisted man disabled from sea service by reason of age or infirmity, who has not been discharged for misconduct, shall, if he so elect, be entitled to a pension equal to one-half the pay of his rating when last discharged, in lieu of being provided with a home in the Naval Home, Philadelphia. (Sec. 4756, R. S.)

re- 1143. Commanding officers on shore and afloat shall require ports of death from the proper medical officers reports of every case of death or or disability.

Report of eyewitnesses to accidents.

disability occurring to persons in the naval service under their command. These reports, made in accordance with "Instructions to Medical Officers, U. S. Navy, 1909," shall be sent to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery as evidence of claims for pensions.

1144. When any person in the Navy or Marine Corps is accidentally injured and, on account of the absence of the medical officer, or for any other reason, the facts and circumstances are not entered in the medical journal, the commanding officer shall require an officer, or some other trustworthy person who witnessed the accident, to make a written report thereon to the Surgeon General, said report to show when, where, and how the accident occurred, and what the injured person was doing at the time. This report shall be as brief as practicable, and the commanding officer in his forwarding endorsement shall state his own opinion thereon, and the matter shall be referred to in the medical journal. 1145. In case of death, injury, or disability, where the official eral to decide if medical record may be incomplete, the Surgeon General shall decide whether such death, injury, or disability occurred in the line of duty.

Surgeon Gen

records are in

complete.

CHAPTER XXV.

SUPPLIES ON SHORE.

SECTION 1.-CUSTODY AND CARE.

1146. The custody, transfer, and issue of all supplies, and the Responsibility records of all property and plants at navy yards and stations of Bureau of under the Navy Department, with the exceptions hereinafter counts. Supplies and Acnoted, shall be under the supervision of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.

The general

1147. At each navy yard and station there shall be an officer of the pay corps detailed as the general storekeeper who shall, storekeeper. under the direction of the Paymaster General, have charge, with the exceptions noted, of supplies, material, manufactured articles of ship's equipment, etc., subject to invoice.

Medical sup

1148. Medical outfits for ships in commission are furnished from a naval medical supply depot. At naval stations where there plies. is no medical supply depot the senior medical officer on duty at a navy yard shall have charge of all medicines, medical supplis, instruments, and other articles provided by the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery for use at the yard, for ships fitting out, or received from ships arriving.

1149. The midshipmen's storekeeper at the Naval Academy Midshipmen's shall be detailed from the pay corps and shall have authority, Naval Academy. storekeeper at with the approval of the Secretary of the Navy, to procure clothing and other necessaries for the midshipmen in the same manner as supplies are furnished to the Navy, this property to be issued under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy.

1150. Supplies shall be so stored and guarded as to enable the Supplies to general storekeeper to assume a rigid responsibility for their be properly proper care and expenditure. guarded.

1151. (1) Officers in charge of supplies shall exercise constant Officers in supervision over stores in their custody and protect them by every charge of suppossible means against deterioration from any cause. plies to exercise

Custody of

(2) They shall, under the direction of the commandant of the care. yard or station, have charge of the keys of all storehouses and keys. buildings containing articles for which they are responsible. The keys must never be taken out of the yard, and when not in use shall be kept in the designated place.

(3) They shall not give a receipt for articles delivered in the yard until furnished with invoices in duplicate, which shall be complete descriptive lists of the deliveries claimed, one receipt to be signed and returned to the party delivering the articles and the other to be retained.

(4) No supplies furnished and delivered by a contractor shall be received unless marked with his name.

Invoices to be furnished.

Contract supplies unmarked not to be received.

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