The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-08-20

lSteF, as the case may De . LTOVtueU 0OO"g'j
| That the members of the board shall in eve
cry case be sworn to an honest and Impair
tial discharge of their duties, and that no
officer of the army shall be retired either
partially or wholly from the service without
having had fair and full hearing before
the board, if upon due summons, he shall
demand it.
Sec. Is. And be 10 further enacted, That
the officers partially retired shall be entitled
to wear the uniform of their respective
grades, shall continue to be borne upon the
Army Register, or Navy Register, as the
csae may be, and shall be subject to the
rules and articles of war, and to trial by
general court-martial for any breach of the
said articles
Sec. l9. Aad be 10 further enacted, That so
much of the sixth section of the act of Au-
gust twenty-three, eighteen hundred and
forty-two, as allows additional or double ra-
tions to the commaudant Of each permanent
or fixed post garrsoned with troops, be and
the same is hereby repealed
Sec. 90 ind be it further enacted, That
officers of the army, when absent from their
appropriate duties for period exceeding six
months, either with or without leave, shall
not receive the allowances authorized by
the existing laws for servants, forage, trans
portation of baggage, fuel, and quarters,
either in kind or in communication.
Sec. 81. Aad be it further enacted, That
any officer Of the navy who has been forty
years in the service of the United States
may, upon his own application to the Pres
ident of the United States be placed upon
the list of retired officers of the navy, and
shall receive the pay and emoluments al
lowed by this act.
Sec. %. And be II further enzcted, That
if any officer of the navy shall have become,
or shall hereafter become, incapable Of per-
forming the duties of his office, he shall be
placed upon the retired list and withdrawn
from active service and command and from
the line of promotion, with the following
pay and emoluments,- namely:
Captains in the navy, thirteen hundred
dollars;
Commanders in the navy, eleven hun
dred dollars;
Lieutenants in the navy, one thousand
dollars;
Surgeons ranking with captains, thirteen
hundred dollars;
Surgeons ranking with commanders, eleY-
en- hundred dollars.
Surgeons ranking with lieutenant, one
thousand dollars;
Paymasters ranking with commanders,
eleven hundred dollars
Paymasters ranking with captains, thiT-
teen hundred dollars.
Paymasters ranking with lieutenants,
one thousand dollars;
Chief engineers one thousand dollars;
First assistant engineer, seven hundred
dollars.
Second assistant engineers, Eve hundred
dollars.
Third assistant engineers, four hundred
dollars;
Masters, four hundred dollars;
Passed midshipmen, three hundred and
TO eaenilars: and with fnr,r- sa-iioorS tnv |
navy, to be cOmmuted at thirty cents each |
ration and without any other pay or allow
ances. Captains, commanders, and Heuten- |
ants now on the retired list of the navy /
shall receive the same compensation, and !
no greater than is allowed TO retired officers !
of the same rank by the provisions of this
act. The neZt officer in rank shall be pro-
NOTED to the place of the retired officer, ac-
cording tC the established rules of the SER
vice. And the same rule of promotion /
shall be applied succe cessiVely to the vacan-
cies consequent upon the retirement of an
officer.
Sec. %. And be 1t further enacted, That
ordered to perform the duties appropriate to 1
his commission, shall report himself unable /
to comply with such order, or whenever, in |
the judgment of the President of the United |
States, an officer of the navy shall in any
way be incapacitated from performing the
duties OF his Office, the President, at his dis
cretion, shall direct the Secretary Of the |
Navy to refer the case of such officer to a |
board of not more than nine, and not less |
than Eve commissioned officers, two-fifths |
OF whom shall be members of the Medical
Bureau OF the Navy the Board, except
those taken from the Medical Bureau, to be
composed, if possible, las far as may bel, of
his seniors in rank. Z he determination of
the board in each case shall, with a record |
of its proceedings be transmitted to the Sec
retary of the Navy, to be laid before the
President for his approval or disapproyal, |
and orders in the case. The board, when |
ever it finds an officer incapacitated for ac- |
tive service, will report whether, in its |
judgment, the incapacity result from long |
and faithful service, from wounds or injury |
received in the line of duty, from sickness
or exposure therein, or from any other Incl
dent of service. If so, and the President
approve OF such judgment, the disabled Of |
ficer shall thereupou be placed upon the list |
visions of this act but if such disability |
or incompetency proceeded from other
causes, and the President concur in opinion
with the board, the officer may be retired
upon luFlough pay, or he shall be wholly
retired from the service, with one years
pay at the discretion of the President ara
in this last case his name shall be wholly
omitted from the Navy Register. The
members of the board shall, in every case,
be sworn TO an honest and impartial dis
charge of their duties, and no officer of the
navy shall be retired, either partially or
wholly, from the service without having
had fair and full hearing before the board
if he shall demand il.
Sec. "a. And be IL further enacted, That,
the retired officers shall be entitled TO wear
the uniform of their respective grades shall
continue TO be borne upon the Navy Regis
ter shall be subject to the rules and arti-
cles governing the navy, and to trial by
general court martial.
Sec 25. And be IL further enacted, That
retired officers of the army, navy, aud ma
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