Chief Engineer of a Navy Yard.... Surgeon of a Navy Yard.

end of each month the expenditure of materials and labor upon the several objects under their immediate superintendence.

880....He will have an exact account kept of all materials and labor expended on each and every object, and report to the Commandant semi-monthly the operations on the same, distinguishing the number and classes of men employed, and the kind and quantities of materials used in each.

881....He will, at the end of each fiscal year, submit to the Commandant a report of the engines and boilers that have been made or repaired, showing the original estimate and the actual expenditure.

882.. He will carefully examine, at least once a month, the engines and boilers of all vessels which may be in ordinary, to see that they are as effectually guarded against injury as circumstances will permit, and make a written report to the Commandant of the yard.

SECTION 9.

Surgeon of a Navy Yard.

883...The Surgeon of a navy yard will, in addition to the duties required in the Instructions for the Government of Medical Officers." have charge of all medicines, medical stores, instruments, and other articles provided by the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery for use at the yard for vessels fitting out or received from vessels arriving there.

884....He will give his professional attention, when necessary, to all officers and other persons belonging to the Navy and Marine corps who are attached to the yard for duty. Naval officers are only entitled to the attendance of naval surgeons when they are attached to shore stations where a surgeon is employed, to vessels in commission, or are in a naval hospital.

885....In case of wounds or injuries received by mechanics or laborers while at work in the yard, he is required to apply a first dressing, and will expend whatever may be necessary for the purpose from public stores in his charge.

886...He will report daily to the Commandant the names of all persons attached to the navy yard who are excused from duty on account of sickness, and to the officer in command of marines the names of all marines who may be unfit for duty.

Surgeon, Passed and other Assistant Surgeons of a Navy Yard or Hospital.

887....He will inspect the persons of all recruits who may offer to enlist in the Marine corps at the navy yard, and of all candidates for any appointment in the navy who may present themselves under proper authority. The report in each case must be made according to Form No. 24, Appendix.

SECTION 10.

Surgeon of a Naval Hospital.

888....In addition to the "Instructions for the Government of Medical Officers," the Surgeon of a hospital will conform to the following:

889. ..........Whenever patients are left in a hospital after the sailing of the vessel from which they were sent, he must, whenever any of them are in a situation to justify their removal, send them to the receiving vessel, or report to the Commandant of the station, that they may be sent to some other vessel or discharged.

890....Whenever any enlisted person shall not have so far recovered as to justify his removal from the hospital when his term of service shall have expired, or if the injuries or disease of any person sent to the hospital will, in the opinion of the Surgeon, prove incurable, or produce long continued inability to perform duty, the Surgeon must immediately report such cases to the Commander of the station, making a particular statement of all the facts and circumstances connected with each case within his knowledge, that they may be transmitted to the Secretary of the Navy for his decision.

891...If any clothing or other articles be furnished to men while in a hospital, a statement of them with their cost is to be made upon the back of the clothes lists which accompanied them to the hospital, and this is to be duly certified by the proper officer of the hospital, in order that the articles may be charged against the pay of those who received them.

SECTION 11.

Passed and other Assistant Surgeons of a Navy Yard or Hospital. 892. They will be guided by the regulations prescribed for medical officers of the same grade attached to vessels for sea service.

Paymaster of a Navy Yard.

SECTION 12.

Paymaster of a Navy Yard.

893...The Paymaster of a navy yard shall pay all officers and enlisted persons belonging to the navy attached to the yard and to vessels in ordinary at the yard, and, if so ordered, of those belonging to receiving vessels, and of such officers as may have their accounts transferred to him.

894....He shall pay all mechanics and laborers who may be employed under the direction of the Commandant, upon pay-rolls, (which shall have been properly made out, certified, and approved,) after he shall have satisfied himself of the correctness of the calculation.

895....As it is important that no more of the working day be absorbed in paying the men than can be avoided, they are therefore to be divided into convenient gangs, not exceeding one hundred each, and be conducted to the pay-office by the master-workmen or quartermen in the order of their names on the rolls. The names of absentees will be called a second time after the gang to which they belong has been paid, and all those who do not answer the second call, except in cases of sickness, shall not be paid until the next pay day. The masterworkmen or quartermen will be responsible for the quiet and proper deportment of the men.

896.... He will make all payments in specie, or in funds which he may receive from the government for public use.

897....He shall make requisitions semi-monthly, under the direction and with the approval of the Commanding Officer, for such amount of money as may be deemed necessary for the public service in his department.

898.... He shall keep distinct accounts of moneys received and expended under the different appropriations, and never apply them to any other objects than those for which they were drawn, except by special written authority from the Secretary of the Navy.

899....He will forward to the Department, on the first of every month, or as soon thereafter as practicable, a summary statement, showing his receipts and expenditures during the previous month, with

Inspectors in Charge of Paymaster's Stores.... Naval Constructors.

the balances then on hand under each head of appropriation; also an estimate of the amount required under each head for the succeeding month.

SECTION 13.

Inspectors in Charge of Paymasters' Stores.

900....Inspecting officers at navy yards, connected with the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, in addition to the duties prescribed in the "Instructions for the Government of Inspectors in charge of stores, Naval Storekeepers, Paymasters, and Assistant Paymasters," are charged with the following: To receive and inspect all stores offered, by authority, for delivery under contract, and to prepare for issue all such as strictly conform to the conditions of the contract and to the samples where they have been provided; to receive stores from ships returned from sea, and to keep and issue these under the direction of the bureau.

901.... The term "stores," as applicable to articles belonging to the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, is to be understood as meaning provisions, clothing, small stores, candles, Paymaster's stationery and blanks, and Steward's stores.

902.... Inspectors in charge are hereby required to exercise a constant supervision over the stores in their custody, and to protect them against deterioration by every means in their power.

SECTION 14.

Naval Constructors.

903.... The Naval Constructor will act under the direction of the Commandant of the yard, and the Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repairs.

904.... He will have the general superintendence and charge of the construction and repairs of all vessels depending upon the Bureau of Construction and Repairs, and also the immediate superintendence and direction of all master-workmen, mechanics, and laborers employed on the work confided to him, and give them their instructions accordingly.

Naval Constructors.

905.... He will conform strictly to the instructions he may receive for the building, repair, and equipment of ships, being furnished with copies of orders and contracts relating thereto; if, in the course of the repairs of any vessel, defects should be discovered which were not previously known, and which will be likely to increase the expense or delay the work, he will make immediate report of the same to the Commandant for further instructions, suggesting such modifications as will be likely to diminish the expense or increase the utility of the work. He will prepare bills of materials and schedules for advertisements, and also the accounts of cost of building and repairing ships, for transmission, when duly approved, to the Bureau of Construction and Repairs.

906.... He will, at the end of each fiscal year, submit to the Commandant a report of the vessels that have been built, repaired, and for which work has been done, giving the original estimate and the actual expenditure.

907.... He will make such suggestions to the Commandant of the yard, in the line of his profession or duty, as he may consider to be to the interest of the service.

908.... He will inform the Commandant in writing of the number of persons required, and suggest names in the various departments under his control, and will recommend their respective wages; when the services of any are no longer required, he will report to the Commandant the persons that may be dispensed with; and he will report any irregularity, incompetence, neglect, or misconduct of persons under his direction.

909....The inspection and measurement of all materials used on work under his charge, and the storage and preservation of timber and wood materials for the same, will be under his supervision and control. He will adopt measures to prevent the use or conversion of any timber or other wood material or metals until such account is taken of them as will secure a correct expenditure; and he will cause daily returns to be made to the inspector of timber of the wood materials which may have been used or converted, and to what object applied, that he may be able to furnish the information necessary, in order that requisitions may be made to cover the expenditure. He will have