clothes and effects, and either preserve the same for their legal representatives, or dispose of them at public auction, as the commander may direct. When such clothing shall be sold at auction, he may be allowed five per centum upon the amount of sales, as a compensation for his trouble. ART. 313. The ordinary distribution of the daily allowance of provisions for fourteen successive days, and the prices for the different articles according to which the quantity of substitutes, and the prices for stopped or relinquished parts of the allowance, are to be regulated, are shown in table of the appendix.

CHAPTER XIV.

SURGEON OF THE FLEET.

ART. 314. When a surgeon shall be appointed to act as surgeon of the fleet, he shall be attached to such vessel as the commander in chief of the fleet or squadron may direct.

ART. 315. His duties shall be to inspect the practice of all the surgeons or persons acting as such in the fleet, and to report to the commander in chief any errors or neglects which he may discover, to examine and certify as to the necessity of their requisitions and correctness of their accounts, and to suggest to the commander in chief and commanders of vessels the most proper measures for preventing or checking disease, or promoting the comfort of the sick.

ART. 316. He shall, when practicable, make weekly reports to the commander in chief, specifying those vessels which may appear, from the state of health of their crews, least fit for active service, or most in want of refreshments.

ART. 317. He shall keep a journal, according to the form annexed, and marked , and shall inspect the journals kept by the several surgeons in the fleet, and make such remarks upon them as he may deem proper, and transmit the same, with his own, to the commander in chief, to be by him transmitted to the Secretary of the Navy, semi-annually, on the 1st of January and 1st of July, and at the expiration of the cruise.

CHAPTER XV.

SURGEONS.

ART. 318. The surgeon will, on joining a vessel, navy yard, or hospital, take charge of, receipt for, and be held accountable for all medicines, surgical instruments, and hospital stores belonging to it.

ART. 319. He shall conform to the regulations and such allowances of medicines, instruments, and stores, as are or may be established, when making requisitions, unless there should be some special cause for varying from them, and then such cause shall be stated upon the requisition. ART. 320. He shall take care that all articles in his department are faithfully applied to the purposes for which they were intended, and that no part of them is wasted or embezzled.

ART. 321. He shall keep a regular account of receipts and expenditures in his department, according to such forms as have been, or may be prescribed, and shall make weekly reports of hospital stores expended and on hand, to his commander.

ART. 322. He will be allowed to his exclusive use, when it can be done, a convenient store room for the preservation of articles in his charge.

ART. 323. He shall be extremely attentive to the cleanliness of the sick, and of their bedding and sick bay, and shall take special care that they are supplied, at proper times, with the medicines and food which their situation may require.

ART. 324. He shall visit the sick at least twice every day, and oftener when necessary. When he shall consider it desirable to supply any sick person with hospital stores instead of his ration, he shall inform the purser daily, that he may stop the ration, and carry the amount to the credit of the navy hospital fund."

ART. 325. He shall report to the commander, daily, the names and situation of the sick, according to the form annexed, and marked and may, at the same time, suggest any measures to the commander, which he may deem important to the health of the crew.

ART. 326. He shall deposite daily, in the binnacle, a list of every officer, or other person, whose situation requires that they should be excused from duty, or whose allowance of spirits should be stopped.

ART. 327. He shall take all possible precautions to prevent the introduction or progress of contagious diseases, and make immediate report to the commander of any probable danger from, or the appearance of, any such disease.

ART. 328. He shall particularly examine the crew upon their first joining the vessel, to ascertain if they have had the smallpox, or kinepox; and, if any should be found who have not, he shall make immediate report to the commander, that they may be vaccinated as soon as practicable.

ART. 329. He will, upon application to the commander, be allowed, besides the assistant surgeons, a steward and other proper persons, to assist in the preparation and distribution of articles for the nourishment of the sick, and to perform such other services for their comfort as he may direct.

ART. 330. He shall, at all times, be prepared with every thing necessary for the relief of wounded men. He shall cause a suficient number of tourniquets to be distributed to the officers in different parts of the ship, upon the probability of an engagement; and he shall instruct all persons stationed with him, and such others as may be directed, in the proper mode of using them.

ART. 331. He shall cause all sick persons who may be sent to a hospital or hospital vessel, to be accompanied by a medical person, and shall send with them a statement of their diseases, and the treatment they have received. A list of their clothing and effects shall also be sent with them, according to form annexed, and marked

ART. 332. He shall frequently examine the provisions and spirits issued to the men, and cause the assistant surgeons to inspect and report the state of the galley daily.

ART. 333. He shall keep, or cause his assistant to keep, a journal, ac

which shall show the

cording to the form annexed, and marked state of the weather, a list of patients, with their age, rank, disease, treatment and progress of their diseases, remarks on the probable origin of prevailing diseases, topographical observations of the vicinity of anchorages, and such other professional observations as may be productive of benefit to the public service; and he shall also note the number of days any patient was subsisted from the hospital department, instead of drawing his ration from the purser. The journal shall, at all times, be subject to the inspection of the commander, the surgeon of the fleet, if any such there be, and of such other persons as may be appointed to examine the same; and it shall be forwarded to the Secretary of the Navy through the proper channels, semi-annually, on the 1st of January and 1st of July, and at the expiration of the cruise, or when the surgeon shall be removed from the vessel, navy yard, or hospital.

ART. 334. He shall, when a ship is placed in ordinary, return into the proper store all articles of which he had the charge, and shall apply to the proper officer for a survey to examine and certify as to the quantity and state of the medicines, stores, and instruments so returned; and should any deficiency of stores or medicines, or any injury to the instruments, be found to exist, the surgeon will be charged with their value, unless he shows clearly that such loss or injury was not owing to his fault or neglect.

ART. 335. Whenever any person on board shall receive any wound or injury, which may probably entitle him to make application for a pension, the surgeon shall report the same to the commander, that a proper survey may be held, and certificates granted to such as may be entitled to receive them, stating all the facts of the case, and the nature of the injury.

CHAPTER XVI.

ASSISTANT SURGEONS.

ART. 336. Assistant surgeons shall perform all professional duties which may be required by the surgeon, and will be unremitted in their attentions to the comfort and cleanliness of the sick, and exact from those under them a rigid performance of their duties.

ART. 337. In the absence of the surgeon, the assistant surgeon, oldest in commission, who is never to be absent at the same time, is to perform all the duties of the surgeon.

CHAPTER XVII.

CHAPLAINS.

ART. 338. He is to perform divine and funeral services at all times, when required so to do by his commander.

ART. 339. He shall be very attentive to the requests of all sick persons who may desire his attendance, and shall, although not requested, visit all such as may be dangerously ill, and offer them such consolation or admonition as they may require.

ART. 340. He shall instruct the midshipmen and other persons in such branches of science, relating to their profession, and upon such other subjects as he may understand, whenever he shall be directed by the commander of the vessel.

ART. 341. When a person shall be appointed to instruct the boys of the vessel, he shall frequently attend to see that he performs his duty properly, and that the boys attend regularly, and shall report to the commander those who are particularly deserving, and all who may be idle or negligent.

CHAPTER XVIII.

SCHOOLMASTER.

ART. 342. He is to give his attendance regularly at such times as shall be directed by his commanding officer, and to instruct the midshipmen and others who may be directed to attend, and report weekly to the commanding officer the attendance which they may give, and the profi ciency they may make.

CHAPTER XIX.

MIDSHIPMEN.

ART. 343. Midshipmen will be respectful and obedient to their superiors, and prompt in the execution of their duties.

ART. 344. They shall keep themselves provided with a sextant or quadrant, Bowditch's Treatise upon Navigation, and blank journals.

ART. 345. They are daily to ascertain the position of the ship, and send the same to their commander. They are to keep regular journals, as per form marked which they will present to the commander for inspection semi-monthly; and they will, at all times, embrace every opportunity of acquiring such information, theoretically and practically, as may be applicable to their profession as seamen and officers.

ART. 346. Whenever it shall be required of them by their commander, they shall attend regularly to the means of instruction which may be provided for them.

ART. 347. They are not to have permission to absent themselves from the ship except upon duty, unless their journals are kept up, and they have copies of the watch, and of the quarter and station bills for their division made out for use, and shall have given proper attention to such means of instruction as shall be provided for them.

ART. 348. When midshipmen shall have returned from a cruise, they may have reasonable leave of absence granted them to visit their friends, with instructions, upon its expiration, to report themselves at some one of the navy yards or stations where there shall be persons provided for their instruction; and while they are at such navy yard or station, they shall be considered on duty, and will be required to attend in rotation to such du

ties as the public service may require; and all those who are not so employed, shall attend regularly to instruction in the theory of their profession, or to such other duties as may be prescribed, until they shall be ordered on other service.

CHAPTER XX.

BOATSWAIN, GUNNER, CARPENTER, and SAILMAKER.

ART. 349. They must carefully examine all articles belonging to, and all stores received for, their respective departments, and see that they are of good quality, that they agree in quantity with the invoice or bill sent with them, and that they are in good order, and must make immediate report to the commander or executive officer of any defect or deficiency which they may discover.

ART. 350. They shall make no charge for expenditure or conversion of stores, without a written order from the commander, or such other officer as he may appoint to issue them, and they shall produce such order to the commander or officer appointed by him to audit their weekly accounts, as vouchers for the expenditures therein charged.

ART. 351. They shall lend no stores, except by written order of the commander, which order, together with the receipt of the person to whom the stores were lent, must be produced as vouchers for the expenditure.

ART. 352. They shall conform strictly to the length, dimensions, or quantity of articles which may be prescribed by general regulations in all their expenditures, unless expressly ordered to vary from them, which order they must preserve as a voucher.

ART. 353. They shall, as far as may be possible, expend the oldest stores first, particularly if they are of a perishable nature.

ART. 354. They shall request a survey upon all stores which may be injured or become unfit for service, and expend such as the surveying officers may condemn, preserving a copy of the survey as a voucher; but if the survey shall direct them to be converted to some other use, they shall charge themselves with them accordingly, and expend them in the same manner as any other stores.

ART. 355. They shall not receive credit for any loss or waste of stores, unless they shall produce regular vouchers or certificates to show that it was not occasioned by their neglect or misconduct.

ART. 356. They shall be particularly watchful, and make immediate report to the commander or executive officer of any neglect or misconduct which they may discover in the yeoman or person having the charge of stores.

ART. 357. They shall examine the different parts of the ship which are more immediately under their particular charge, or belonging to their department, and report their condition to the executive officer and officer of the watch at 8 o'clock in the evening, and in each morning watch, and make such further examinations and reports as may, at any time, be directed by their superior officers.

ART. 358. When a ship is about to be dismantled, they are to be careful that all the articles belonging to their respective departments are