struction, or loss, such soldier, petty-officer, seaman, or marine shall be supplied with another truss on making a like application as provided for in section two of the original act of which this is an amendment: Provided, That such application shall not be made more than once in two years and six months: And provided further, That sections two Amended secand three [secs. 1177 and 1178 R. S.] of the said act of May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, shall be construed so as to apply to petty-officers, seamen, and marines of the naval service, as well as to soldiers of the Army. tion. trusses. SEC. 1177. Application for such truss shall be made by Application for the ruptured soldier, to an examining surgeon for pensions, May 28, 1872, s. whose duty it shall be to examine the applicant, and when 2, v. 17, p. 164. found to have a rupture or hernia, to prepare and forward to the Surgeon-General an application for such truss without charge to the soldier. See sec. 4787. Trusses, chase of. 3, v. 17, p. 164. pur SEC. 1178. The Surgeon-General is authorized and directed to purchase the trusses required for such soldiers, May 28, 1872, s. at wholesale prices, and the cost of the same shall be paid upon the requisition of the Surgeon-General out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Title 57. See note 2. SEC. 4787. Every officer, soldier, seaman, and marine, who was disabled, during the war for the suppression of the Artificial limbs, eic., to be furrebellion, in the military or naval service, and in the line nished every five of duty, or in consequence of wounds received or disease years. contracted therein, and who was furnished by the War See same sec. Department, since the seventeenth day of June, eighteen Title Pension hundred and seventy, with an artificial limb or apparatus sion Laws now in for resection, or who was entitled to receive such limb or See act of Mar. apparatus since said date, shall be entitled to receive a new 3, 1891, amending limb or apparatus at the expiration of every five years ing out "five" thereafter, under such regulations as have been or may be and inserting prescribed by the Surgeon-General of the Army. force. this sec. by strik 83. three.' Persons enti tled. June 17, 1870, s. 1, The provisions of this section shall apply to all officers, non-commissioned officers, enlisted and hired men of the July 27, 1868, s. land and naval forces of the United States, who, in the line 14, v. 15, p. 237; of their duty as such, shall have lost limbs or sustained v. 16, p. 153; June bodily injuries depriving them of the use of any of their 30, 1870, v. 16, p. limbs, to be determined by the Surgeon-General of the v. 19, p. 8; Feb. Army; and the term of five years herein specified shall be 27 1877, v. 19, p. held to commence in each case with the filing of the application for the benefits of this section. 174; Mar. 23, 1876, 252. 26 Stat. L.,1103. Supp. R. S., p. That section forty-seven hundred and eighty-seven of the Mar. 3, 1891. Revised Statutes of the United States be amended by striking out the word "five" where it occurs therein, and inserting in lieu thereof the word "three" so that when amended said section will read as follows: 947. Substitute for R. S., sec. 4787. Artificial limbs, etc., to be Every officer, soldier, seaman, and marine who was disabled during the war for the suppression of the rebellion, furnished every in the military or naval service, and in the line of duty, Note 2.-Held by the War Department that desertion does not affect the rights of a person disabled, as this section indicates, to artificial limbs or apparatus, and that it might be properly construed to include the mechanics and laborers employed at the arsenals under Title XVII, R. S. (Winthrop's Digest, 122.) The act of Aug. 15, 1876, v. 19, p. 203, allows commutation for an artificial limb or appliances every five years. three years. See sec. 4787. 14: June 17, 1870, 8.1. 1870; June 8,1872, July 27, 1868. 8. or in consequence of wounds received or disease contracted therein, and who was furnished by the War Department since Act June 30, the seventeenth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy, 8s. 1,3; see s.1177. with an artificial limb or apparatus for resection, who was See act Aug entitled to receive such limb or apparatus since said date, act Feb. 27, 1877. shall be entitled to receive a new limb or apparatus at the expiration of every three years thereafter, under such regulations as have been or may be prescribed by the Surgeon-General of the Army. 15, 1876, s. 1; see Commutation rates in money etc. June 17, 1870, s. SEC. 4788. Every person entitled to the benefits of the value for limbs, preceding section may, if he so elects, receive, instead of such limb or apparatus, the money value thereof, at the 1. Sec. 4787 following rates, namely: For artificial legs, seventy-five Feb. 27, 1877, dollars; for arms, fifty dollars; for feet, fifty dollars; for amended by act apparatus for resection, fifty dollars. amended by act Mar.3, 1891. June 8, 1872, s. 1; Aug. 15, 1876, s. 1. Mar. 3, 1891. 26 Stat.L.,948, par.5. for artificial limbs, etc., to be paratus, or commutation therefor, * * Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apand hereafter in paid to applicant; case of commutation the money shall be paid directly to R. S., sec. 4787, the soldier, sailor, or marine, and no fee or compensation 1891, Mar. 3, ch. shall be allowed or paid to any agent or attorney. no fee to agents. 562, p. 947. Money commutation, how to be paid. 2, v. 16, p. 153. SEC. 4789. The Surgeon-General shall certify to the Commissioner of Pensions a list of all soldiers who elect to June 17, 1870, 8. receive money commutation instead of limbs or apparatus, with the amount due to each, and the Commissioner of Pensions shall cause the same to be paid to such soldiers in the same manner as pensions are paid. Money commutation to those who can not use June 17, 1870, s. SEC. 4790. Every person in the military or naval service who lost a limb during the war of the rebellion, or is artificial limbs. entitled to the benefits of section forty-seven hundred and 3; June 8, 1872, s. eighty-seven, but from the nature of his injury is not able 1876 Aug. 15 to use an artificial limb, shall be entitled to the benefits of by act Feb. 27, section forty-seven hundred and eighty-eight, and shall receive money commutation as therein provided. 1877. for 8.1, amended persons to nished. 14, p. 342; Mar. Transportation SEC. 4791. The Secretary of War is authorized and whom artificial directed to furnish to the persons embraced by the prolimbs are fur- visions of section forty-seven hundred and eighty-seven, July 28, 1866, v. transportation to and from their homes and the place where 23, 1876, v. 19, p. 8; they may be required to go to obtain artificial limbs proAug. 15, 1876, s. 2, vided for them under authority of law. The transportation allowed for having artificial limbs fitted shall be furnished by the Quartermaster-General of the Army, the cost of which shall be refunded from the appropriations for invalid pensions. Title 59, chap. 6. SEC. 4877. In the arrangement of the national cemeteries Inclosures, established for the burial of deceased soldiers and sailors, headstones, and the Secretary of War is hereby directed to have the same registers. inclosed with a good and substantial stone or iron fence; 1, v. 14, p. 399; P873, v. 17, p. 545. p. 345; Mar. 3, and to cause each grave to be marked with a small head-, Feb. 22, 1867, s stone or block, which shall be of durable stone, and of June 8, 1872, v. 17, such design and weight as shall keep it in place when set, and shall bear the name of the soldier and the name of his State inscribed thereon, when the same are known, and also with the number of the grave inscribed thereon, corresponding with the number opposite to the name of the party in a register of burials to be kept at each cemetery and at the office of the Quartermaster-General, which shall set forth the name, rank, company, regiment, and date of death of the officer or soldier; or if these are unknown, it shall be so recorded. buried in nation SEC. 4878. All soldiers, sailors, or marines, dying in the Who may be service of the United States, or dying in a destitute con- al cemeteries. dition, after having been honorably discharged from the, July 17, 1862, s. 18, v. 12, p. 596; service, or who served during the late war, either in the June 1, 1872, v. 17, regular or volunteer forces, may be buried in any national P. 202, Mar. 3, 1873, v. 17, p. 605. cemetery free of cost. The production of the honorable discharge of a deceased man shall be sufficient authority for the superintendent of any cemetery to permit the interment. SEC. 431. There shall be a Hydrographic Office attached to the Bureau of Navigation in the Navy Department, for the improvement of the means for navigating safely the vessels of the Navy and of the mercantile marine, by providing, under the authority of the Secretary of the Navy, accurate and cheap nautical charts, sailing directions, navigators, and manuals of instructions for the use of all vessels of the United States, and for the benefit and use of navigators generally. 1895, supp., p. etc. SEC. 77. The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to cause Act Jan. 12, to be prepared, at the Hydrographic Office attached to the 361, 1892-1895. Bureau of Navigation in the Navy Department, maps, Maps, charts, charts, and nautical books relating to and required in navigation, and to publish and furnish them to navigators at the cost of printing and paper, and to purchase the plates and copyrights of such existing maps, charts, navigators' sailing directions and instructions, as he may consider necessary, and when he may deem it expedient to do so, and under such regulations and instructions as he may prescribe. Ibid. Money received from All moneys which may be received from the sale of maps, charts, and nautical books shall be returned by the Secretary of the Navy into the Treasury of the United States, to sales of maps, be used in the further preparation and publication of maps, charts, navigators' sailing directions, and instructions for Note 1.-An act approved Feb. 3, 1879, chap. 44, provides for headstones for soldiers' graves in private cemeteries. charts, etc. 20 Stat. L., p. 281. Ibid. Foreign hydro 7, v. 12, p. 150. the use of seamen, to be sold at the cost of printing and paper. SEC. 78. All appropriations made for the preparation graphic surveys. or publication of foreign hydrographic surveys shall only Feb, 21, 1861, s. be applicable to their object, upon the approval by the Secretary of the Navy, after a report from three competent naval officers, to the effect that the original data for proposed charts are such as to justify their publication; and it is hereby made the duty of the Secretary of the Navy to order a board of three naval officers to examine and report upon the data, before he shall approve of any application of moneys to the preparation or publication of such charts or hydrographic surveys. Rev. Stat., p. 729. of material. SEC. 3692. All moneys received from sale of Proceeds of materials, stores, or supplies to any exploring or surveying certain sales, etc., expedition authorized by law, shall respectively revert to May 8, 1872, 8.5, that appropriation out of which they were originally 3, 1847, s. 1,v. 9, p. expended, and shall be applied to the purposes for which 171: Apr. 20, 1866, they are appropriated by law. v. 17. p. 83; Mar. ss. 1, 2. v. 14, p. 40; July 28, 1866, s. 25. v. 14, p. 336; June 8, 1872, v. 17, p. 337. Feb. 14, 1879. All charts hereafter furnished to mariners or others not Cost price for in the Government service shall be paid for at the cost Feb. 14, 1879, v. price of paper and printing paid by the Government. charts. 20, p. 286; May 4, 1878, v. 20, p. 51. Title 15, chap. 1. SEC. 1362. The active list of the line officers of the Navy Grades of line of the United States shall be divided into eleven grades, as officers. See note 1. Mar. 3, 1883, 22 Stat., p. 472. See act of June 26, 1884, in relation to graduates of Naval Academy to be commissioned ensigns. See act Mar. 3, 1883, p. 63. follows, namely: First. Admiral. Second. Vice-Admiral. Third. Rear-admirals. Fourth. Commodores. Fifth. Captains. Sixth. Commanders. Seventh. Lieutenant-commanders. Ninth. Lieutenants junior grade. Eleventh. Midshipmen. Note 1.-See sec. 5, act of June 29, 1888, chap. 496, "An act to prevent injurious deposits in New York Harbor, and so forth," in relation to a line officer of the Navy to act as supervisor of the harbor. Title, Care of Public Property. Vice-Admiral to cease. Provided, That vacancies occurring in the grades of Admiral and Admiral and Vice-Admiral shall not be filled by promotion, or in any other manner; and that when the offices of said, July 16, 1862, s. grades shall become vacant, the grade itself shall cease to exist. * * ** The title of master is hereby changed to that of lieutenants, and the masters now on the list shall constitute a junior grade of, and be commissioned as, lieutenants, having the same rank and pay as now provided by law for masters, but promotion to and from said grade shall be by examination as provided by law for promotion to and from the grade of master, and nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to increase the pay now allowed by law to any officer in the line or staff; the title of midshipman is hereby changed to that of ensign, and the midshipmen now on the list shall constitute a junior grade of, and be commissioned as, ensigns, having the same rank and pay as now provided by law for midshipmen, but promotions to and from said grade shall be under the same regulations and requirements as now provided by law for promotion to and from the grade of midshipmen, and nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to increase the pay now allowed by law to any officer of said grade or of any officer of relative rank. 1, v. 12, p. 583; Dec. 21, 1864, s. 1, v. 13, p. 420; July active list. SEC. 1363. There shall be allowed on the active list of the Title 15, chap. 1. line officers of the Navy one Admiral, one Vice-Admiral, six Number on the rear-admirals, ten commodores, forty-five captains, eighty- July 25, 1866, s. five commanders, seventy-four lieutenant-commanders, two 1. v. 14, p. 222; hundred and fifty lieutenants, seventy-five masters, and sev- 9, 10, v. 16, p. 333; enty-five ensigns. July 15, 1870, 88. Aug. 5, 1882, 22 Aug. 5, 1882. Rule of promotion in the line, Aug. 5, 1882, 22 Hereafter only one-half of the vacancies in the various grades in the line of the Navy shall be filled by promotion until such grades shall be reduced to the following numbers [as in sec. 1363], and thereafter promotions to all Stat., p. 286. vacancies shall be made but not to increase either of said grades above the number aforesaid. ceeded. 222; July 16, 1862, s. 9, v. 12, p. 584. SEC. 1364. The provisions of the foregoing section [1363 Title 15, chap. 1. and August 5, 1882] shall not have the effect to vacate the When excommission of any lieutenant-commander, lieutenant, mas- July 25, 1866, ter, or ensign appointed according to law, in excess of the ss. 1. 2. v. 14, p. respective number therein fixed; nor to preclude the advancement of any officer to a higher grade, for distinguished conduct in battle, or for extraordinary heroism, under the provisions of sections fifteen hundred and six and fifteen hundred and eight. See Promotion. Selection of rear-admirals 7, v. 12, p. 584. SEC. 1365. During war rear-admirals shall be selected from those officers on the active list, not below the grade during war. of commanders, who shall have eminently distinguished, July 16, 1862, 8. themselves by courage, skill, and genius in their profession; but no officer shall be so promoted, under this provision, unless, upon recommendation of the President by name, he has received the thanks of Congress for distinguished service. |