SEC. 1438. The Secretary of the Navy shall order a suit- Title 15, chap. 2. able commissioned or warrant officer of the Navy, except Acting as store. in the case provided in section fourteen hundred and four- keepers. teen, to take charge of the naval stores for foreign squad- s. 1, v. 5, p. 700; Mar. 3, 1847, s. 3, rons at each of the foreign stations where such stores may v. 9, p. 172. be deposited, and where a store-keeper may be necessary. See sec. 1414, June 17, 1844, under naval storekeepers, June 17, 1844, SEC. 1439. Every officer so acting as store-keeper on a Bonds of. foreign station shall be required to give a bond, in such s. 1, v. 5, p. 700. amount as may be fixed by the Secretary of the Navy, for the faithful performance of his duty. Rank. s. 1, v. 13. p. 373; July 15, 1870, s. SEC. 1491. The President may, if he shall deem it con- Title 15, chap. 4. ducive to the interests of the service, give assimilated rank to boatswains, gunners, carpenters, and sailmakers, as follows: After five years' service, to rank with ensigns, and after ten years' service to rank with lieutenants of the junior grade. SEC. 1556. * * Boatswains, gunners, carpenters, and Title 15, chap. 8. sail-makers, during the first three years after date of ap- Pay. pointment, when at sea, one thousand two hundred dollars; 3, v. 10, p. 332. on shore duty, nine hundred dollars; on leave, or waiting orders, seven hundred dollars; during the second three years after such date, when at sea, one thousand three hundred dollars; on shore duty, one thousand dollars; on leave, or waiting orders, eight hundred dollars; during the third three years after such date, when at sea, one thousand four hundred dollars; on shore duty, one thousand three hundred dollars; on leave, or waiting orders, nine hundred dollars; during the fourth three years after such date, when at sea, one thousand six hundred dollars; on shore duty, one thousand three hundred dollars; on leave, or waiting orders, one thousand dollars; after twelve years from such date, when at sea, one thousand eight hundred dollars; on shore duty, one thousand six hundred dollars; on leave, or waiting orders, one thousand two hundred dollars. Title 14, chap. 1. detachments. SEC. 1135. The officers of the Quartermaster's DepartSupplies to ment shall, upon the requisition of the naval or marine naval and marine officer commanding any detachment of seamen or marines Dec. 15, 1814, ss. under orders to act on shore, in co-operation with land 1, 2, v. 3, p. 151. troops, and during the time such detachment is so acting or proceeding to act, furnish the officers and seamen with camp equipage, together with transportation for said officers, seamen, and marines, their baggage, provisions, and cannon, and shall furnish the naval officer commanding any such detachment, and his necessary aids, with horses, accouterments, and forage. Rations to detachments with the Army. Dec. 15, 1814, s. 1, v. 3, p. 151. Title 14, chap. 5. officers associ SEC. 1143. The officers of the Subsistence Department shall, upon the requisition of the naval or marine officer commanding any detachment of seamen or marines under orders to act on shore, in co-operation with the land troops and during the time such detachment is so acting or proceeding to act, furnish rations to the officers, seamen, and marines of the same. SEC. 1342. ART. of WAR 78. Officers of the Marine Marine and Corps, detached for service with the Army by order of the Regular Army President, may be associated with officers of the Regular ated on courts. Army on courts-martial for the trial of offenders belonging June 30, 1834, to the Regular Army, or to forces of the Marine Corps so detached; and in such cases the orders of the senior officer of either corps, who may be present and duly authorized, shall be obeyed. 8. 2, v. 4, p. 713. Command when different corps SEC. 1342. ART. of WAR 122. If, upon marches, guards, happen to join. or in quarters, different corps of the Army happen to join Mar. 3, 1863, s. or do duty together, the officer highest in rank of the line Mar. 3, 1863, s. 25, of the Army, Marine Corps, or Militia, by commission, there 27, v. 12, p. 736; v. 12, p. 754. on duty or in quarters, shall command the whole, and give orders for what is needful to the service, unless otherwise specially directed by the President, according to the nature of the case. service. SEC. 1421. Any person enlisted in the military service of Title 15, chap. 1. the United States may, on application to the Navy Depart Transfer from ment, approved by the President, be transferred to the military to naval Navy or Marine Corps, to serve therein the residue of his July 1, 1864, s. term of enlistment, subject to the laws and regulations for 1, v. 13, p. 342. the government of the Navy. But such transfers shall not release him from any indebtedness to the Government, nor, without the consent of the President, from any penalty incurred for a breach of military law. v. 14, p. 517; June SEC. 1596. The Marine Corps of the United States shall Title 15, chap. 2. consist of one commandant, with the rank and pay of a colo- Number of. July 25, 1861, s. nel, one colonel, two lieutenant-colonels, four majors, one 7, v. 12, p. 275; adjutant and inspector, one paymaster, one quartermaster, Mar. 2, 1867, s. 7, two assistant quartermasters, twenty captains, thirty first 6, 1874, v. 18, p. lieutenants, thirty second lieutenants, one sergeant-major, See note 1. one quartermaster-sergeant, one drum-major, one principal musician, two hundred sergeants, two hundred and twenty corporals, thirty musicians for a band, sixty drummers, sixty fifers, and twenty-five hundred privates. 58. June C, 1874. 18 Stat. L., 58. Supp. R. S., p. Provided, That the office of commandant of the Marine Corps having the rank of a brigadier-general of the Army shall continue until a vacancy shall occur in the same, 10. and no longer; (2) and when such vacancy shall occur in said Commandant of office, immediately thereupon all laws and parts of laws Repeal of law fixcreating said office shall become inoperative, and shall, by ing rank as brig virtue of this act, from thenceforth be repealed. SEC. 1597. The provisions of the preceding section shall not preclude the advancement of any officer to a higher grade for distinguished conduct in conflict with the enemy, or for extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession, as authorized by sections sixteen hundred and five and sixteen hundred and seven. Marine Corps. adier-general. See note 2. When number may be increased by promotion. 2. v. 12, p. 275; July 16, 1862, s. 9, July 25, 1861, s. v. 12, p. 584; Jan. 24, 1865, s. 2, v. 13, p. 424. Jan. 30, 1885. Supp., 18741891, p. 473. Appointments And from and after the passage of this act there shall be no appointments, except by promotion, to fill vacancies occurring in the list of commissioned officers of the Marine Corps until the number of such officers shall have been in the Marine reduced, by casualties or otherwise, below seventy-five as June 30, 1876, Corps limited. fixed by the act approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six; and after the number of officers shall be reduced as above provided, the whole number of commis- sec. 1601. sioned officers on the active list in the Marine Corps shall not exceed seventy-five. SEC. 1598. The staff of the Marine Corps shall be separate from the line. SEC. 1599. [Superseded by act of August 5, 1882, as follows:] All the undergraduates at the Naval Academy shall Note 1.-The commandant is stationed at the headquarters of the Marine Corps, Washington, D. C.; is responsible to the Secretary of the Navy for the general efficiency and discipline of the corps, and under his direction issues, through the office of the adjutant and inspector of the corps, orders for the movement of officers and troops, and such general orders and instructions for their guidance as may be neces sary. In the absence of the commandant on duty, the business of his office is conducted by the adjutant and inspector, as "by order of the commandant;" in case of his absence on leave, disability, retirement, or death, his duties are performed by the adjutant and inspector, as "by direction of the Secretary of the Navy.", Note 2.-The office became vacant November 1, 1876, and the commandant was appointed as provided by this act. ch. 159, (19 Stat. This repeals L., 71). Staff. Mar. 2, 1847, 8, 3, v. 9, p. 154; June 30, 1834, s. 6, v. 4, p. 713. Appointments. 1. 22 Stat. L., p. Aug. 5, 1882, s. 285. 1889, Title Na cadet to be as See act Mar. 2, hereafter be designated and called "naval cadets"; and val cadets," not from those who successfully complete the six years' course less than one appointments shall hereafter be made as it is necessary to signed yearly to fill vacancies in the lower grades of the line and engineer Marine Corps. corps of the Navy and of the Marine Corps: And provided further, That no greater number of appointments into these grades shall be made each year than shall equal the number of vacancies which has occurred in the same grades during the preceding year; such appointments to be made from the graduates of the year at the conclusion of their six years' course, in the order of merit, as determined by the academic board of the Naval Academy; the assignment to the various corps to be made by the Secretary of the Navy upon the recommendation of the academic board. Credit for volunteer service. SEC. 1600. All marine officers shall be credited with the Mar. 2, 1867, s. length of time they may have been employed as officers or 3, v. 14, p. 516. See Aug.5,1882, enlisted men in the volunteer service of the United States. Division I, under Volunteer Serv ice. Rank and pay of commandant, SEC. 1601. The commandant of the Marine Corps shall 18 Stat. L., 58; 19 have the rank and pay of a colonel, and shall be appointed Stat. L., 65; 22 by selection by the President from the officers of said corps. Stat. L., 293. Mar. 2, 1867, s. 7, v. 14, p. 517; June6, 1874, v. 18, p. 58. See note 3. Mar. 2, 1847, s. 3, Staff rank. SEC. 1602. The adjutant and inspector, the paymaster, v. 9, p. 154: Feb. and the quartermaster shall have the rank of major; each 27,1877, v. 19, p. 24. assistant quartermaster shall have the rank of captain. Relative rank SEC. 1603. The officers of the Marine Corps shall be, in with the Army relation to rank, on the same footing as officers of similar 8. 4. v. 4, p. 713. grades in the Army. June 30, 1834, See 1466, Rank and Precedence, Division I. June 8,1880. cate-general. That the President of the United States be, and he is Judge advo- hereby, authorized to appoint, for the term of four years, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, from the officers of the Navy or the Marine Corps, a judge-advocate-general of the Navy, with the rank, pay, and allowances of a captain in the Navy or a colonel in the Marine Corps, as the case may be. And the office of the said Office in the judge-advocate-general shall be in the Navy Department, where he shall, under the direction of the Secretary of the June 8, 1880, v. Navy, receive, revise, and have recorded the proceedings of all courts-martial, courts of inquiry, and boards for the examination of officers for retirement and promotion in the naval service, and perform such other duties as have heretofore been performed by the solicitor and naval judgeadvocate-general. Navy ment. Depart-1 21, p. 164, ch. 129. June 5, 1896. 29 Stat. L., 251. That the Act "to authorize the President to appoint an officer of the Navy or the Marine Corps to perform the Supp. vol. 2, p. duties of solicitor and judge-advocate-general, and so forth, and to fix the rank and pay of such officer," approved June Judge advo eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty, is hereby amended by inserting in said Act in lieu of the words "with the rank, 500. Navy. cate general's pay. Note 3.-See act of January 30, 1885, which practically repeals this section. R. S., § 349. pay, and allowances of a captain in the Navy, or a colonel June 8, 1880, ch. 129 (1 Supp.. in the Marine Corps, as the case may be," the words "with R. S., 290). the rank and highest pay of a captain the Navy, or the rank, pay, and allowances of a colonel in the Marine Corps, as the case may be:" -to date from Provided, That this amendment shall take effect from July nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, the date 1892. on which the present incumbent entered on duty, and that Became a law the amount herein appropriated shall be payable from the June 5, 1896. appropriation "Pay of the Navy." SEC. 1604. Commissions by brevet may be conferred upon commissioned officers of the Marine Corps in the same cases, upon the same conditions, and in the same manner as are or may be provided by law for officers of the Army. The following are the sections relating to the conferring of brevets in the Army: Title 15, chap. 9. s. Brevets. Apr. 16, 1814, 3, v. 3, p. 124; Apr. 16, 1818, s. 2, v. 3, p. 427; June 30, 1834, s. 9, v. 4, p. 713; July 6, 1812, s. 4. v. 2, p. 785; Mar. 1, 1869, s. 2, v. 15, p. 281; Mar. 3, 1869, s. 7, v. 15, p. 318; July 15, 1870, s.-16, v. 16, p. 319. Title 14, chap. 1. Brevets. July 6, 1812, 8. 4, v.2, p.785; Apr. 16.1818, s.2, v.3, p. 427; Mar. 1, 1869, SEC. 1209. The President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, may, in time of war, confer commissions by brevet upon commissioned officers of the Army, s. 2, v. 15, p. 281. for distinguished conduct and public service in presence of the enemy. SEC. 1210. Brevet commissions shall bear date from the particular action or service for which the officers were brevetted. Mar. 1, 1869, s. 2, v. 15, p. 281. 8. 1, v. 3, p. 427; SEC. 1211. Officers may be assigned to duty or command Apr. 16, 1818. according to their brevet rank by special assignment of Mar. 3, 1869, s. 7, the President; and brevet rank shall not entitle an officer v. 15, p. 318. to precedence or command except when so assigned. SEC. 1212. No officer shall be entitled, on account of July 15, 1870, having been brevetted, to wear, while on duty, any uni- 8.16, v. 16, p. 319. form other than that of his actual rank; and no officer shall be addressed in orders or official communications by any title other than that of his actual rank. SEC. 1264. Brevets conferred on commissioned officers Title 16, chap. 3. shall not entitle them to any increase of pay. Mar. 3, 1863, v. 12, p. 758; Mar. 3, 1865, s. 9, v. 13, p. 488. Mar. 3, 1883. Officers of the Army shall only be assigned to duty or command according to their brevet rank when actually Mar. 3, 1883, 8. engaged in hostilities. SEC. 1605. Any officer of the Marine Corps may, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, be advanced not exceeding thirty numbers in rank, for eminent and conspicuous conduct in battle or extraordinary heroism, 22 Stats. L., p. 457. Title 15, chap.9. Advancement in number. Jan. 24, 1865, s. 1, v. 13, p. 424; Apr. 21, 1864, s. 6, v. 13, p. 54. SEC. 1606. Any officer who is nominated to a higher Promotion grade by the provisions of the preceding section shall be when grade is full. |