368 REGULATIONS FOR THE Regulation Circular No. 2. 67.... The following is substituted for Form No. 3, on pages 250 NOTE.-Care must be taken that every column be correctly filled, and that all casualties, transfers, or discharges which have occurred during the quarter, or to date of roll, are duly noted, reporting dates of various changes, where transferred, &c. The names of the men thus reported to be entered in common with those remaining on board. If the information required by the printed headings cannot be otherwise obtained, obtain it from the men themselves, making notes, showing the portions thus obtained, in the column for remarks. Commanding officers are requested to keep themselves supplied with blanks by application to the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, or Fleet Paymaster. Name. Regulation Circular No. 2. 68....The following is substituted for Form No. 4, on page 252: FORM NO. 4. DESCRIPTION OF Deserters AND MEN Absent without Leare, from 69.. ...The following is substituted for section 1236, page 225: "The officer by whose order a general court martial, summary court martial, or court of inquiry, has been convened, is the only proper person to dissolve the court. When, therefore, any court shall have concluded the trial of all cases actually referred to it, and transmitted, severally, Commanding. Height. Feet. Inches. Permanent 370 REGULATIONS FOR THE NAVY U. S. Regulation Circular No. 2. the records of its proceedings in each to the officer by whose order it was convened, it will await the further orders of that officer, whose duty it shall be, so soon as such records are received, to revise the same, and either to return them to the court for its reconsideration or to dissolve the court; and, after having dissolved the court, to forward such records to the Department as soon as practicable. 70....Steam may be raised on board vessels of the Navy for the purpose of dispelling damp and unwholesome air or drying the ship, whenever, in the opinion of the Commanding Officer, it is necessary. GIDEON WELLES, Secretary of the Navy. NAVY DEPARTMENT, January 30, 1866. U. S. NAVY REGULATION CIRCULAR No. 5. The following alterations and additions are hereby made to the Regulations published for the government of all persons attached to the United States naval service under date of April 18, 1865, and will be obeyed accordingly: Every person subject to the control of the Navy Department will preserve this Circular in his Book of Regulations. 1.......... The flag of the Admiral is a rectangular flag of blue color, with four white stars in the centre, forming a diamond, and is to be worn at the main of vessels, and in the bow of his barge or tender. The Admiral's salute shall be seventeen guns; all other honors and ceremonies the same as now authorized for the Vice-Admiral. 2....The flag of a Commodore is a swallow-tailed broad pendant of blue color, with one white star, and is authorized to be worn by officers of that grade at the main, and in the bows of boats, when in command of single ships other than the flag-ship; and if in command of shore stations, on board the receiving ship, or if there be no such vessel, to hoist it at the usual place in the Yard for displaying a flag. 3.... Passed Assistant Paymasters and First Assistant Engineers will rank with Lieutenants; Second Assistant Engineers, with Masters; Third Assistant Engineers, with Midshipmen who have graduated at the Naval Academy; and Cadet Engineers, with Midshipmen who have not graduated at the Naval Academy. 4.... Paragraph 19 of Regulation Circular No. 2, prohibiting officers from visiting the District of Columbia without the permission of the Secretary of the Navy, is rescinded. 5....So much of paragraph 15 of Regulation Circular No. 3 as makes it obligatory upon the authority convening a Court Martial to detail an officer to assist the accused, is rescinded. The court may, upon the request of the accused, select some officer within reach to defend him. NAVY DEPARTMENT, May 20, 1867. GIDEON WELLES, |