Leave from duty abroad.

Manner of

of leave.

day. The time required for an officer to travel to and from the place where his leave is spent shall be considered as leave, and shall be included in the report of days absent.

(2) If an officer is on duty abroad, or on a foreign station, and is granted leave for the purpose of visiting the United States, his leave begins from the date of his arrival therein, and expires on the date of his departure therefrom, and the dates of such arrival and departure must be reported to the Department.

(3) Leave of absence will be granted in terms of months and counting length days, as "one month," " one month and ten days." A leave of absence begins on the day following that on which an officer departs from his station or duty. The day of departure, whatever the hour, is counted as a day of duty; the day of return as a day of absence. Leave for one month, beginning on the first day of a calendar month, shall expire on the last day of the month, whatever its number of days. Beginning on an intermediate day, the leave will expire on the day preceding the same day of the next month.

Officers to keep account of leave granted them.

count of sick

ness.

(4) Officers of the Navy shall keep an account of all leave of absence granted them (exclusive of sick leave) and shall furnish a statement of such leave to the pay officers having their accounts, in order to insure their receiving the proper rate of pay when on leave, and to relieve the Auditor for the Navy Department from the necessity of checking their accounts when overpaid by the paymaster, which is frequently done when that officer is not aware of the total amount of leave to which the officer is entitled.

Leave on ac- 1531. (1) No commanding officer of a ship, fleet, or naval station shall grant permission to any person under his command to leave his station, or to return from abroad to the United States, on account of ill health, except upon the recommendation of a board of medical survey.

Restrictions of

leave.

(2) Requests for leave or detachment on account of ill health, when forwarded to the Navy Department, must be accompanied by the report of a medical survey.

(3) Officers on sick leave in consequence of medical survey shall report the state of their health to the Department every fifteen days.

(4) When an officer not on duty applies for leave or for an extension of leave, on account of ill health, a medical board of survey shall be held, if practicable, and a report made to the Department; or, if that be impracticable, he shall forward the certificate of a reputable physician, stating that he is unable to perform duty, the nature of the disease, and its probable duration.

1532. (1) In vessels having an ordnance officer, one of the three consisting of the executive officer, the navigator, and the ordnance officer, shall always be on board ready for duty. In other vessels the executive officer and the officer who succeeds him in his absence (art. 558, par. 2) shall not be out of the ship at the same time except on duty, or, under special circumstances, by the captain's previous permission. (Art. 237.)

(2) When there are two or more officers detailed for engineering duties, or two or more medical, pay, or marine officers, attached to a ship, one of each branch, in which there are two or more officers, must always be on board ready for duty unless

otherwise authorized, under special circumstances, by the captain's previous permission.

(3) If there are only two line officers attached to a ship, one must always be on board.

(4) Not more than one-half of the officers and crew shall be granted leave at the same time; and liberty parties shall be so selected as to leave on board an organized force that will be effective for any emergency.

1533. (1) The executive officer, and all officers senior to him Application in rank, shall make application for and report their return from for permission to leave the ship. leave to the captain. Those junior to the executive shall make application for and report their return from leave to him.

(2) No person attached to the vessel shall be allowed to leave the ship, except on duty, during coaling at any time.

1534. (1) When the sanitary or other conditions of the port do not render it inadvisable, and when authorized by the senior officer present, the commanding officer shall grant liberty to the enlisted men, but such liberty, or leave of absence, shall not be granted by other than the commanding officer.

(2) Leave shall not be granted to enlisted men who are in debt to the Government, unless the full amount of such indebtedness be deposited with the pay officer.

(3) Enlisted men shall be instructed that they must arrange, when on leave, so that they may have sufficient funds to enable them to return to their ships; recruiting officers will not furnish transportation for that purpose.

Leave to enlisted men.

CHAPTER XXXV.

QUARANTINE AND PILOTAGE.

SECTION 1.-QUARANTINE.

1585. (1) Captains of ships shall, on entering a port, foreign or domestic, comply strictly with all its quarantine regulations. (2) They shall, whether liable to quarantine or not, afford every facility to visiting health officers, and give all the information the latter may require.

Regulations complied with.

Facilities for health officers' visits.

(3) Should doubt exist as to the regulations of the port, no When doubt communication shall be held with the shore, with boats, or with exists as to other ships, until a sufficient time has elapsed to allow of the quarantine regvisit of the health officer.

ulations.

1536. (1) Should a naval vessel arrive in port with an in- Duty of capfectious or contagious disease on board, or should such disease tain when infectious disease exbreak out while lying in port, the fact shall be at once reported ists. to the commander-in-chief or senior officer present; the captain shall hoist the quarantine flag and prevent all communication liable to spread the disease elsewhere until pratique is received. (2) In order to check the spread of such disease on board ship, he shall arrange with the authorities of the port for the care and treatment of patients on shore or on board a hulk.

(3) If at sea in company with other ships, and an infectious or contagious disease exists or appears on board, he shall keep the quarantine flag flying as long as it lasts, and shall do all in his power to prevent its dissemination.

Caution in re

1537. (1) In boarding arriving vessels, care shall be taken not to violate the rules of the port; and in case they are subject to gard to boarding quarantine, the boarding officer shall, if possible, obtain the invessels. formation required without going alongside.

(2) Vessels at sea that come from a suspected port, or have Boarding ves any cases of infectious or contagious disease on board, or do not sels at sea. have a clean bill of health, or are otherwise liable to quarantine, shall not be boarded, unless it be absolutely necessary, and the fact of such communication, when it occurs, shall be reported on arrival in port to the health officer.

(3) No concealment shall be made of any circumstances that may subject a ship of the Navy to quarantine.

SECTION 2.-PILOTAGE.

1538. (1) Captains may employ pilots whenever, in their judgment, such employment is necessary. (Art. 509.)

(2) When pilots are employed, they shall not be called on board until the ship is ready to proceed to sea; nor, when coming from

No concealment of facts.

Employment of pilots.

sea, shall they be kept on board after the ship has reached her destination.

Licensed pilots (3) Preference shall be given to licensed pilots and they must to be employed. not be paid more than local rates.

Coast pilots.

Pilot does not relieve ship's of ficers from responsibility.

(4) Coast pilots shall not be employed except by special authority from the Navy Department, and when employed are not to be paid local pilotage.

(5) A pilot is considered merely as an adviser to the captain, and his presence on board a naval vessel shall not relieve the captain, or any of his subordinates, from full responsibility for the proper performance of the duties with which they, or any of them, may be charged concerning the navigation of the ship.