Hearings and Recommendations of Officers of the Navy and Marine Corps Before the Committee on Naval Affairs, House of Representatives on the Personnel of the Navy and Marine CorpsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1914 - 817 pages |
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active list allowed amalgamation appointment Army assistant civil engineers assistant paymaster authorized strength average battleships boatswains Capt cent centum CHAIRMAN chaplains commissioned committee Congress Construction Corps Corps of Civil duties efficiency elimination ensigns examination FECHTELER flag officers fleet grade of captain grade of lieutenant graduates higher grades increase July legislation length of service lieutenant commander lieutenant junior grade line officers Marine Corps matter Medical Corps medical officers ment midshipmen military Naval Academy naval constructors naval service Navy Department Navy list Navy Register navy yards necessary number of officers ordnance organization Pay Corps pay officers personnel bill precedence promotion proportion Provided further rank of captain rank of lieutenant rear admirals recommended reserve list retired list running mate Secretary selection seniority served ships SMITH staff corps staff officers surgeon tion tonnage total number United States Navy vacancies vice admirals warrant officers
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Page 239 - Administration who has served under (d) or (f) and is retired while so serving or is retired after the completion of such service while serving in a lower rank or grade, shall be retired with the rank, pay, and allowances authorized by law for the highest grade...
Page 525 - That hereafter no payment shall be made from appropriations made by Congress to any officer in the Navy or Marine Corps on the active or retired list while such officer is employed, after June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, by any person or company furnishing naval supplies or war material to the Government; and such employment is hereby made unlawful after said date.
Page 349 - Department, as he shall judge to be expedient and proper; and all the duties of the said bureaus shall be performed under the authority of the Secretary of the Navy, and their orders shall be considered as emanating from him, and shall have full force and effect as such.
Page 236 - ... as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, and no warrant officer, heretofore or hereafter promoted six years from date of warrant, shall suffer a reduction in pay which, but for such promotion, would have been received by him: Provided, That chief boatswains, chief gunners, and chief machinists shall be eligible for appointment to the grade of ensign under the restrictions imposed by law upon the appointment of boatswains, gunners, and warrant machinists to that grade.
Page 232 - ... rate of promotion to the grade for which said officer is undergoing examination during the five fiscal years next preceding the date of the approval of said examination, and upon the termination of said suspension from promotion he shall be reexamined, and in case of his failure upon such reexamination he shall be dropped from the service with not more than one year's pay, unless otherwise recommended by the examining board pursuant to law.
Page 188 - December of each year and as soon after the first day of the month as practicable, [Each member of said board shall swear, or affirm, that he will, without prejudice or partiality, and having in view solely the special fitness of officers and the efficiency of the naval service, perform the duties imposed upon him as herein provided.
Page 232 - An act to reorganize and increase the efficiency of the personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps of the United States...
Page 228 - ... affirm, that he will, without prejudice or partiality, and having in view solely the special fitness of officers and the efficiency of the naval service, perform the duties imposed upon him by this act. Its finding, which shall be in writing, signed by all the members, not less than four governing, shall be transmitted to the President, who shall thereupon, by order, make the transfers of such officers to the retired list as are selected by the board...
Page 214 - June seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and the pay, allowances, and emoluments of the enlisted men of the Hospital Corps shall be the same as are now, or may hereafter be, allowed for respective corresponding ratings, except the rating of turret captain of the first class in the seaman branch of the Navy : Provided, That the pay of the rating of the chief pharmacist's mate shall be the same as that now allowed for the existing rating of hospital...
Page 723 - All officers so detailed shall serve for a period of four years, at the expiration of which time they shall return to duty with the line, and officers below the rank of lieutenant-colonel shall not again be eligible for selection in any staff department until they shall have served two years with the line.