Regulations for the government of the Navy of the United StatesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1896 - 513 pages |
Common terms and phrases
amount appointment apprentices approval authority bills boats Bureau of Equipment Bureau of Navigation Bureau of Ordnance Bureau of Supplies captain certificate charge clothing commander in chief commanding officer commission copy court court-martial crew cruise deck deposit desertion direction disbursing discharge duty engineer enlisted ensign equipment examine executive officer exercise expenditures fire flag officer foreign forwarded guns inspection instructions invoices issue judge advocate junior mand Marine Corps ment mess month naval station Navy Department navy yard necessary offi officer of marines ordnance pay officer Paymaster payment perform person petty officer port prescribed proper punishment purchase quarter quarterly quartermaster receipt receiving ship record reenlistment regulations repairs requisitions returns ruffles and flourishes salute Secretary SECTION senior officer present ship's shore staff steam storekeeper Supplies and Accounts survey thereof tion transferred United unless vessel vouchers
Popular passages
Page 187 - All purchases and contracts for supplies or services in any of the departments of the Government, except for personal services, shall be made by advertising a sufficient time previously for proposals respecting the same when the public exigencies do not require the immediate delivery of the articles or performance of the service.
Page 276 - Persons honorably discharged from the military or naval service by reason of disability resulting from wounds or sickness incurred in the line of duty, shall be preferred for appointments to civil offices, provided they are found to possess the business capacity necessary for the proper discharge of the duties of such offices.
Page 299 - Who, for the purpose of obtaining, or aiding others to obtain, the approval, allowance, or payment of any claim against the United States...
Page 299 - Who, having charge, possession, custody or control of any money or other property of the United States, furnished or intended for the military service thereof, knowingly delivers, or causes to be delivered, to any person having authority to receive the same, any amount thereof less than that for which he receives a certificate or receipt; or...
Page 123 - ... the armies of the United States, either the Regular or the Volunteer Forces...
Page 43 - The use of force against a foreign and friendly state, or against anyone within the territories thereof, is illegal. The right of selfpreservation, however, is a right which belongs to States as well as to individuals, and in the case of States it includes the protection of the State, its honor, and its possessions, and the lives and property of its citizens against arbitrary violence, actual or impending, whereby the State or its citizens may suffer irreparable injury.
Page 133 - Second, special courts-martial; and Third, summary courts-martial. A. COMPOSITION ART. 4. Who May Serve on Courts-Martial. — All officers in the military service of the United States, and officers of the Marine Corps when detached for service with the Army by order of the President...
Page 6 - ... courts-martial in cases where such courts are ordered by the Secretary of the Navy; to prepare...
Page 282 - That the term of enlistment of any enlisted man in the Navy may, by his voluntary written agreement, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy with the approval of the President...
Page 206 - The gross amount of all moneys received from whatever source for the use of the United States, except as otherwise provided in the next section, shall be paid by the officer or agent receiving the same into the Treasury, at as early a day as practicable, without any abatement or deduction on account of salary, fees, costs, charges, expenses, or claim of any description whatever.