1801. Flag and Commanding Officer's Quarters.

1. If there is but one cabin available in a flagship or other ship in which a flag officer is embarked, the flag officer, the commanding officer, and the chief of staff shall share it jointly, and the choice of accommodation shall be in the order named.

2. If quarters for a flag officer are available in the ship, the commanding officer shall not be required to share his accommodations with the chief of staff.

3. In ships in which a staff is embarked and which have no quarters regularly assigned therefor, the chief of staff shall be assigned to cabin accommodations after the commanding officer of the flagship; other officers of the staff above the grade of commander to cabin accommodations, if available; other officers of the staff to appropriate quarters. All assignments of wardroom accommodations to officers of the staff shall be in accordance with rank after the executive officer, the heads of departments, the chaplain, and the commanding officer of the Marine detachment.

1802. Assignment of Officers' Quarters Afloat.

1. All commissioned officers, not in command, above the grade of ensign or second lieutenant, and ensigns or second lieutenants assigned to duty as division officers, shall, insofar as practicable, be wardroom officers and occupy wardroom quarters.

2. The assignment of officers' quarters on board ship shall be in accordance with the plans of the ship as issued by the Bureau of Ships and approved by the Chief of Naval Operations. As appropriate, plans shall show the quarters assigned to the captain, the executive officer, the heads of departments, the air group commander, aircraft squadron commanders, the commanding officer of the marine detachment, the chaplain, and, in addition, show those designated as wardroom quarters, those designated for the landing force staff and, if the size and type of the ship warrant, those designated as junior officers' quarters and warrant officers' quarters. The plans of ships designated as flagships shall show, in addition, the quarters assigned to the flag officer and to the chief of staff, and those quarters, in sufficient number to accommodate the heads of staff sections, designated for the staff. The Chief of Naval Operations shall be promptly advised when the approved plans do not make adequate provision for the above assignments.

3. Rooms and bunk rooms not specifically designated on the plans shall be assigned by the commanding officer who, in making assignments, shall exercise due regard for the relative rank of the officers concerned and the desirability of permanence of quarters assigned to watchkeeping officers

4. Each commissioned warrant officer and warrant officer shall have a room when such is available, in accordance with the plans of the

ship. When necessary, however, two or more of them shall occupy one room jointly. The rooms need not be assigned in the order of seniority.

5. Officers of any Government service, military or civil, taking passage, with or without organized units, in a ship of the Navy not fitted for transportation of passengers, shall be provided quarters in accordance with their rank and seniority relative to the officers regularly attached to the ship, insofar as conditions permit.

6. In a ship of the Navy in which quarters have been assigned for passengers, officers of any Government service, military or civil, taking passage, with or without organized units, shall be assigned to such quarters with due regard for the relative seniority of such passengers. No officer regularly attached to such a ship shall

be displaced from his quarters because of a passenger, although he may, when passenger accommodations aboard are insufficient, be required to share his quarters provided that, in the opinion of the commanding officer, his performance of duty will not be thereby impaired. Shifting of berthing assignments due to changes in relative seniority of passengers, as a result of the embarkation or debarkation of passengers at intermediate ports, shall be held to a minimum.

1803. Quarters Afloat for Enlisted Passengers.

When enlisted persons of the armed services of the United States are embarked in a ship of the Navy as organized units, they shall, when practicable, be quartered and messed apart from the crew of the ship.

NOTE.-There are no articles 1804-1810.

1811. Officers' Messes Afloat.

1. Officers shall mess in the compartments assigned therefor, and meals shall not be taken in rooms except in case of sickness or when directed by the commanding officer.

2. Separate messes shall not be formed in the same compartment except in transports when circumstances require.

3. Officers embarked as passengers shall be assigned to the mess to which they would belong if they were attached to the ship.

4. The officers of the mess shall be assigned permanent seats at the mess tables alternately, in the order of rank to the right and left of the presiding officer, except that the seat opposite that of the president shall be occupied by the mess caterer, except on those vessels whose allowance includes a billet for wardroom mess officer.

5. Compensation from mess funds of any person on active duty in the armed forces as mess treasurer or mess caterer is prohibited. 1812. President of Officers' Messes Afloat.

1. In all officers' messes afloat the senior line officer of the mess, in command or in succession to command, shall be the mess president. He shall preside, and is charged with the preservation of order. When the mess president is absent, the senior line officer of the mess in succession to command, or, if there be none, the

senior officer who is present and attached to the ship for duty, shall act as president.

2. In those ships where provision is made for separate warrant officers' messes, the senior line officer of the mess shall be the mess president, and in his absence the senior line officer of the mess who is present, if there be one, shall act as president; otherwise the foregoing provisions of this article are applicable.

1813. Treasurer of Officers' Messes Afloat.

1. Each officers' mess shall elect monthly, except on those ships having a wardroom mess officer, in which case the election shall be optional, a mess treasurer who shall have charge of the finances of the mess. All members of a mess who are attached to the ship for duty are eligible to election as mess treasurer and if elected shall so serve, except that officers charged with the custody or disbursement of public funds are not eligible and shall not serve

as mess treasurer.

2. No officer, except a wardroom mess officer, shall be required to serve more than two months consecutively as mess treasurer.

3. The mess treasurer shall keep an account of all receipts and expenditures, from which an abstract of the financial condition of the mess may at any time be ascertained. At the close of each month he shall render to the mess a statement of the accounts of the mess,