NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES.

Regulation Circular No. 2.

68.... The following is substituted for Form No. 4, on page 252:

FORM No. 4.

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DESCRIPTION OF DESERTERS AND MEN Absent without Leave, 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,

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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,

NAVY DEPARTMENT,

January 30, 1866.

Secretary of the Navy.

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U. S. NAVY REGULATION CIRCULAR No 3.

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 a copy of this circular in his book of regulations.

1..........In foreign ports where a paymaster in charge of stores is stationed-whether on shore or on board a stationary storeship-all requisitions for stores will be made upon him, and all purchases in open market will be made by him, unless otherwise directed by the commander of the squadron for reasons to be stated to the Department.

2.... The descriptive lists attached to certificates of death, certificates of ordinary disability, and certificates of pension, are always to be signed by the paymaster in charge of the accounts of the person in whose case the certificate issues.

3.... Whenever a vessel-of-war visits a foreign port where there is a consular representative of the United States, the commanding officer of such vessel will consult with such representative with regard to procuring coal or other supplies of which the vessel may stand in need, and will give due consideration to his suggestions, and act upon them, if it shall appear to the interest of the naval service to do so. In receiving the suggestions of such consular representatives, and availing themselves of their local knowledge, commanding officers are not thereby in any degree relieved from the duty and responsibility of making diligent personal inquiry themselves, with the view of protecting and doing the best for the government.

4.... Attempts to influence the legislative branch of the government, or any member thereof, touching measures connected with naval affairs, are often productive of embarrassment, and are therefore disapproved, excepting when the opinion of an officer is requested, in writing, by a member or members.

5....A committee of Congress officially visiting a navy yard or station will be saluted with fifteen guns.

6.... The following is substituted for paragraph 163, page 29: