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

FORM No. 4.

DESCRIPTION OF DESERTERS AND MEN Absent without Leave, from the U. S. S.

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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.

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,

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When any commissioned or warrant officer, seaman, marine, or other person belonging to the navy, shall be accused of a capital crime, or of having used violence, or committed any offense against the person or property of any citizen of any of the United States, such as is punishable by the known laws of the land, the commanding officer and officers of every vessel, naval station, or command to which the person or persons so accused shall belong, are hereby required, upon applications duly made by or in behalf of the party or parties injured, to use their utmost endeavors to deliver over such accused person or persons to the civil magistrate, and likewise to be aiding and assisting to the officers of justice in apprehending and securing the person or persons so accused, in order to bring him or them to trial.

7....Article II, pages 2 and 3, is amended as follows:

LINE OFFIcers.

Midshipmen, who have finally graduated, shall rank next after En

signs.

Boatswains next after Midshipmen who have finally graduated.
Gunners next after Boatswains.

Midshipmen, who have not finally graduated, next after Gunners.
Mates next after Midshipmen who have not finally graduated.

STAFF OFFICERS.

3d Assistant Engineers. To have assimilated rank with MidshipClerks... men who have not finally graduated.

Carpenters

Sailmakers.

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To have assimilated rank with Mates.

8.... The second clause of paragraph 178, page 30, having been superseded by paragraph 20, page 359, Regulations Circular No. 2, the first or remaining clause is hereby rescinded.

9........Reports in full of the character and qualifications of officers having been provided for by forms 25, 26, and 27, pages 271, 272, and 273, and paragraph 44, page 354, Regulation Circular No. 1, all other testimonials or certificates to persons either in or out of the naval service are forbidden, excepting the following mentioned:

Those that are authorized by paragraph 20, page 359, Regulation Circular No. 2, which, however, must not be given if the official asso

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ciation or intercourse between the two has been for a less period than three months.

Such cases of exceptional good conduct as may require special report. Those that are authorized by paragraph 969, page 172.

To enlisted persons who are then, or who shall have been, in the Navy, who can receive the benefit of a letter of recommendation as to character and service from any officer acquainted with them.

And appointed persons, who can receive commendatory letters or certificates from those by whom they were appointed or under whom they immediately served, countersigned by the commanding officer; but such letters or certificates are not to be given except at the termination of the appointment, nor unless the service of the persons shall have exceeded three months.

10....Forms 26 and 27, pages 272 and 273, and paragraph 44, page 354, Regulation Circular No. 1, will hereafter apply to commandants of yards and stations, who will make quarterly returns in accordance therewith of officers attached to the yard or station.

11....Commanding officers of vessels will see that the steam heaters placed on board be not removed from their positions during warm weather, as the practice of taking them down and storing them in the hold rapidly destroys them.

12.... Paragraph 364, page 65, is amended by adding to it the following words: this report will be forwarded to the Bureau of Construction and Repair.

13.... Page 237, report of "sailing qualities of ship," according to form No. 1, page 246, to be sent to the Bureau of Construction and Repair, instead of the Navy Department.

14.... The attention of all persons in the naval service is particularly called to the following law, any violation of which will be considered as an offense against the naval regulations, in addition to the penalty imposed by the law:

AN ACT reducing the duty on imports, and for other purposes. SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That no officer or other person connected with the navy of the United States shall, under any pretense, import in any ship or yessel of the United States, any goods, wares, or merchandise liable to the payment of any duty.

Approved July 30, 1846.