The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-11-19


such retirement, aud no officer, heretofore or
hereafter promoted upon the retired list; shall
III consequence of such promotion, be entitled
auv increase of pay. And retired third assist
and engineers shall continue to receive the
same rate of pay they have received up the
time of the passage of this act; and the grade
of third assistant engineer the active list is
hereby abolished.
See. i. And Je it further enacted, That
no officer of the navy shall because of Vis-
condnct. be placed on the retired list; but he
shall be brought to trial by martial for
such misconduct: nor shall any lieutenant
mander. lieutenant, master, ensign, nidship-
inan, passed assistant surgeon, passed assist
ant pa yn!aster, first assistant engineer, assist
ant surgeon. assistant paymaster, or second
sistaut engineer be placed on the retired list,
except on account of physical or mental disa-
biiity.
Sac. Z. -4nd be IL further enacted, That
the pay of officer of the navy. upon his
original entry into the service. except where
he is required to give an official bond, shall
commence upon the date of his acceptance of
his appointments; but where he is required to
give such bond his pay shall commence upon
the date of the approval of his bond by the
proper authority; that hereafter the increased
pay of a promoted officer shall commence
! from the date he is to take rank as stated in
| his commission, bat if an officer of a class sub
! ect to examination before promotion shall be
| absent on duty, and by reason of such absence
or of other cause not involving fault on his
| part, shall not be examined at the time requir-
| ed by law regulation. and shall afterwards
| be examined and found qualified the increased
rate of pay to which his promotion would
! title him shall commence from the date when
! he would have been entitled to il had he been
| examined and found qualified at the time so
| Ieduired by law or regulation; and this rule
shall apply TO any cases of this description
| which may have heretofore occurred And in
every such case the period of service of the
party, in the grade to which he was promoted
shall! il reference to the rate OF his pay, be
considered to have commenced from tie date
| when he was entitled to take rank.
| 1pJ Ja
any officer of the navy on the active list be-
| low the grade of commander. swho npon ex-
animation for promotion, shall not be found
| professionally qualified, shall he suspended
from promotion for one year. with correspond
ing loss of date, when he shall be re-examin-
ed and in case of his failure upon such re-ex-
animation, lie shall be dropped from the ser
| vice.
SEC 8. -An1 be ii further enacted, That
no promotion to the grade of lieutenant com.
mander on the active list shall be made until
the number in said grade is reduced below
eighty ane thereafter eighty shall be the
number allowed by law said list; aud when
the number of lieutenant commanders shall
have been so reduced, section five Of the Act
to define the number aud regulate the appoint
ment of officers in the navy, and for other pur-
pos4s.'' approved July twenty five, eighteen
hundred and sixty six, shall be increased,
til the number IN the grade of lieutenauts
the active list shall be two hundred and eighty,
| which shall thereafter be the number of lieu
tenants allowed by law on said list.
SEC. 10. And be 1T further enacted, That
the number of masters aud ensigns the
active list authorized by law is hereby fixed
and established at hundred in each grade
and ensigns shall hereafter be steerage officers,
unless assigned to duty as watch and division
officers but this shall not be construed $
vacating the commission eff any master en-
sign now in the service.
SEC. IL. Aad be 1t further enacted. That
until the number of passed assistant paymas-
ters shall have been reduced below thirty,
there shall be no promotion to that grade,
any appointment to the grade OF ass sistant
paymaster; and after such reduction shall
have taken place, the humber in each of said
grades shall not exceed thirty in the former
and twenty in the latter.
SEC. Il. And tie ii further enacted That
the students in the Naval Academy shall here
after be styled cadet mdshipmen and they
shall be selected and appointed prescribed
in the eighth section of the 'fAct to amend
certain acts in relation to the navy, passed
March two, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven,
and shall be subject to the laws applicable 10
the students at said Academy, and receive
the pay therein prescribed but this shall not
| be construed to authorize the appoin tment OF
cadet midshipmen from among boys enlisted
in the navy. When cadet midshpmen shall
have passed successfully the graduating ex-
animation at said academy they shall receive
appointments as midshipmen, ranking accord-
ing to merit, and may be promoted to the
grade of ensign vacaucies in the number
allowed by law in that grade may
SEC. Is. And be IL fMrther enacted, That
all acts parts of acts authorizing the APP
poIntment OF temporary acting officers in the
navy be, and the same are hereby, repealed
except as to assistant surgeons.
SEC. IA. And be it further enacted, That
summary courts martial may be ordered upon
petty officers and persons of inferior ratings
by the commandants of navy yards, naval
| stations and marine barracks, in the cases,
under the regulations. and with the effect pro-
! vided for and specified in tho '.Act to provide
n linz forf fha
proved March two, eighteen hundred and ff-
ty-ive.
SEC. Is. And be it further enacted, That
the 'tJoint resolution to facilitate the settle
ment of accounts of disbursing officers ap-
proxed March two, eighteen hundred and six
ty-seven, shall not be construed to apply to
I disbursing officers Of the navy but such of
fcers shall render their accounts as the same
, were rendered before the passage of said joint
, resolution.
r SEC, 16. And be 1t further enacted That
the chiefs of bureaus in the Navy Department
, shall be entitled to the pay of commodores on
shore duty, and, if retired from said office by
t reason of age or length of service, to the re-
tired pay of that grade.
SEC. IL. And be it further enacted, That
expenses incurred bp any officer of the navy
for medicines and medical attendance shall
not be allowed unless they were incurred when
, he was on duty, and the medicines could not
have been obtained from naval supplies, or
the attendance of a naval medical officer could
not nave peen mad nor snail any funeraI ex-
penses of naval officer who died in the Uni
ted States, expenses for travel to attend the
funeral of officer who died there be allow
, ed but when officer on duty dies in a for
: eign country tho expenses of his funeral, not
!; exceeding his sea-pay for one month, shall be
betrayed by gaverhment, and paid by the pay
> master upon whose books the name 0. such Of
fcer was borne for pay.
SEC. Is. And be it further enacted, That
the superintendent of the Naval Observatory
be, and he is hereby, authorized to contract