Receiving Vessels. Commanding Officer will, under the direction of the Commanding Officer of the station, have them exercised at the guns, small arms, &c., sails, pulling in boats, and exercise of the boats' howitzers; and he will report to the Department at the end of each month the exercises had during the month. Particular attention will be paid to the instruction of landsmen and boys. 1051...The recruits on board a receiving vessel are not to be employed upon duties unconnected with that vessel, except by the order or sanction of the Commander of the station; and when employed in aid of the force in navy yards for rigging or equipping vessels, or for any other service, he will see that they are placed under the direction of proper navy officers. Unless for some special service, he will not authorize the employment of the recruits in a navy yard upon other duties than such as are immediately connected with the equipment of vessels, or the preparation of their outfits and stores. 1052....No recruit intended for general service is to be rated a petty officer whilst on board a receiving vessel, as that authority is to be exercised by the Commanding Officer of the sea-going vessel to which he may be transferred. 1053....When the Commanding Officer of a receiving vessel is directed to transfer men to a sea-going vessel, if there be more than a sufficient number of any class on board to comply with the order, he is to make an impartial selection, preferring those who have been "longest shipped, and sending a fair proportion of such as may be supposed qualified for petty officers, of useful mechanics, and persons of foreign birth and colored persons. 1054.... When men are to be drafted from the receiving vessel to a sea-going vessel, the selection shall be made by the Commander of the receiving vessel; and no officer, whatever may be his rank, shall be permitted to visit the receiving vessel and make selections for the ves sel which he is to command. 1055....In case of complaint or dissatisfaction as to the character or condition of the draft on the part of the Commander of the vessel to which men are transferred from a receiving vessel, it shall be the duty of the Commander of the station to order a survey, on which he will decide the case; but no men are to be returned and exchanged Receiving Vessels. except for good causes, and by his written order, in which the reasons for the same will be expressed. 1056. Should authority be given to enlist men for a particular vessel, such men shall not be detailed for any other vessel except by order of the Department. 1057... When persons who have entered at the rendezvous are brought on board the receiving vessel, care shall be taken that they are in a proper condition to be received; and if any person, when brought on board, shall be so much intoxicated as to require restraint, he shall not be received until he becomes sober. 1058. .If, between the time of a person being entered at the rendezvous and his appearance on board the receiving or other ship, he shall receive an injury which, in the opinion of the inspecting and medical officer of the receiving ship, unfits him for the service, he shall not be received. 1059....The Commander and other officers attached to the vessel designated to receive recruits are to conform to the general regulations for other vessels in commission, as far as they are applicable, and are to live on board, unless specially exempted by the Secretary of the Navy, in the same manner as though under orders for sea service. 1060....A return for each week, ending on Saturday, signed by the Commanding Officer of the receiving vessel and the Paymaster attached to her, showing all the changes with regard to recruits that have taken place in the course of it, whether resulting from deaths, desertions, discharges, apprehensions, surrenders, or transfers, is to be made to the Chief of the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, agreeably to Form No. 14, through the Commanding Officer of the station. 1061.... The Commanding Officers of receiving vessels will see that a note is made upon all accounts, transfer and descriptive lists, and on all shipping articles and enlistment returns, against the name of every person who may come under the seventh section of the act approved February 24, 1864, for enrolling and calling out the national forces. Surveys. ARTICLE XXIV. Surveys. 1062....Whenever articles are received under a contract or purchase at a navy yard, or station on shore, concerning which there is no regular inspector thereat, or received on board ship directly from a contractor or furnisher, a proper officer with the master workman under whose direction they are to be used, or the officer to whose department they may pertain, are to inspect them carefully in order to guard the government against imposition or loss, and his report, in ordinary cases, may be deemed sufficient; but if they be in doubt, or their decision be questioned, the Commanding Officer is then to have the inspection or survey made by at least three competent persons, of whom the master workman or department officer aforesaid is, if practicable, to be one, and their decision, when approved by the Commanding Officer, is to be regarded as conclusive. 1063....All applications for surveys upon articles supposed to be defective or unfit for use, or to be unequal to sample, or deficient in quality, must be made in writing, according to the prescribed form, (No. 19, Appendix,) by the person having charge of the same, to his immediate Commanding Officer, and if he deems such survey necessary he will, if acting independently, order it at once, or if not so acting, but serving in a fleet, he will transmit the same to the Commanding Officer of the division or squadron to which he belongs, who, unless otherwise directed by the Commander-in-Chief, will order such survey. When not in company with the Commander of a division or squadron, Commanders of vessels are to transmit the applications in view, when approved by themselves, to the senior officer present. 1064....Officers who may order surveys upon articles reported as defective, or requiring repairs, will, when practicable, select at least two commissioned officers for that duty, of a rank proportioned to the importance of the survey to be held, so that the United States may not be exposed to loss from the inexperience of the surveying officers, and, when it can be done, the officers shall be selected from other vessels than those to which the articles may belong. Surveys. 1065.... Surveying officers may call upon the person having charge of the articles to be surveyed, or upon any other person, for information which may assist them in making correct statements upon the subject they may have been directed to investigate; and if any person shall endeavor to deceive the surveying officers by knowingly giving false statements, or if the surveying officers shall discover, or find reason to suspect, any fraud, they shall notice it particularly in their report. 1066.The report of officers directed to survey articles represented to be unfit for service must specify by whose order the survey was held, each particular article surveyed, the state in which found, and the nost proper disposition to be made of it; and if the articles are found to be damaged, or of improper quality, their report must further state, if possible, by whom they were furnished, and whether the damage or injury was or was not owing to the misconduct or neglect of any particular person or persons. Contractor's and inspector's marks must be noted. 1067... When officers are ordered to ascertain the quantity of articles, they are not to take the account of them from the officer who has charge of them, unless it shall be impracticable to make a personal examination, or they shall be directed to take the account from him by the person ordering the examination, and when the quantity of articles shall be so taken, it must be particularly noted in their report, with the reasons why it was so taken, and they shall state what, if any, articles are found to be defective. 1068.... Reports of all surveys, except such as are hereafter provided for in this section, shall be made in triplicate, one part of which shall be written on the back of the order, or attached to it, and be furnished to the officer who requested the survey, another to the Commander of the vessel, and a third shall be transmitted to the proper bureau of the Navy Department, by the officer ordering the survey. 1069.... Discrepancies between the marks and contents of packages as to quantity or kind are to be determined and reported upon by a board of survey. It must embrace the marks of the parties who furnished and inspected them. 1070....No stores, provisions, or clothing, are to be thrown over Surveys. board, unless they are entirely useless, and except the surveying officers shall, in their report, represent them as being, in their opinion, prejudicial to the health of the ship's company, in which case the Commander of the vessel shall cause them to be thrown overboard as soon as the report of the survey is duly approved or confirmed, and the certificate of one of the surveying officers that they were so disposed of is to be attached to the report, but all other articles are to be converted to some other use, or turned into store. 1071.... If any officer of the Navy having charge of money, provisions, or other stores belonging to the United States, shall die, be suspended, removed, or otherwise separated from his vessel or station, so as to render it necessay to appoint another person to perform his duties, it shall be immediately reported by his Commander to the Senior Officer present in command, who shall order, in writing, a survey to be held by proper officers, and, when practicable, in presence of the officer who is to succeed to the charge of the articles aforesaid, and the surveying officers shall make out a statement, in writing, of the amount, quantity, or number, state and condition of such articles, in quadruplicate, and sign the same, and transmit them in a report to the officer ordering the survey, one copy to be retained by him, and three sent to the officer appointed to take charge of the money and stores, two of which he will receipt and hand over to the officer relieved, or to the representative of the officer if deceased, one to be retained by him, and the other to be forwarded to the Navy Department. 1072....All officers ordered upon surveys are strictly required to perform that duty with the utmost attention and fidelity, and to make their reports with the strictest impartiality, so that, should they be called upon, they may be able conscientiously to make oath of their correctness. 1073...In all reports of surveys involving quantities, they must be expressed in writing, and never exclusively in figures. 1074.... In all cases of survey, the officer superior or senior in rank is to prepare the report. 1075.... Whenever any important accident or derangement shall occur to the machinery of a steamer, there shall be held upon it a strict and careful survey by a board, composed of one Line Officer and at least |