Regulations for the Government of the Navy of the United States, 1876 |
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absence according acting Admiral allowed appointed approval Assistant attached authority belonging bills boats Bureau cause certified charge Chief clothing Commander-in-Chief Commanding Officer commission copy court crew death Deck direct discharge duty Engineer enlisted entitled Equipment examination Executive exercise fired flag fleet foreign forward furnished give given honorable immediately inch inspection Instructions issued keep leave lights manding Marine Master Medical ment month names naval Navy Department navy-yard necessary observed paid Pay Officer perform permit person Petty Officers port prescribed present proper provisions punishment purchases quarter quarterly rank receipt received Recruiting regard regulations repairs requisitions respective sailing salute Secretary senior senior officer sent serving ship shore side signed squadron station Surgeon survey taken tion transferred United unless vessel watch wear yard
Popular passages
Page 184 - ... points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on the starboard side, and of such a character as to be visible at a distance of at least two miles. (c) On the...
Page 249 - I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto ; that I have neither sought nor accepted not attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States...
Page 185 - When two steam vessels are meeting end on, or nearly end on, so as to involve risk of collision, each shall alter her course to starboard so that each may pass on the port side of the other.
Page 186 - Nothing in these rules shall exonerate any ship, or the owner, or master, or crew thereof, from the consequences of any neglect to carry lights or signals, or of any neglect to keep a proper look.out, or of the neglect of any precaution which may be required by the ordinary practice of seamen, or by the special circumstances of the case.
Page 250 - I have not yielded a voluntary support to any pretended government, authority, power, or constitution within the United States, hostile or inimical thereto.
Page 182 - You shall well and truly examine and inquire, according to the evidence, into the matter now before you, without partiality, favor, affection, prejudice, or hope of reward : so help you God.
Page 184 - ... light, so constructed as to show an unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of twenty points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light ten points on each side of the vessel, namely, from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on either side, and of such a character as to be visible at a distance of at least five miles.
Page 249 - That hereafter every person elected or appointed to any office of honor or profit under the Government of the United States...
Page 184 - ... use : and shall, on the approach of or to other vessels, be exhibited on their respective sides in sufficient time to prevent collision, in such manner as to make them most visible, and so that the green light shall not be seen on the port side nor the red light on the starboard side, nor, if practicable, more than two points abaft the beam on their respective sides.
Page 179 - 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, be extended for a period of either one, two.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Regulations for the Government of the Navy of the United States, 1876 |
| Author | United States. Navy Department |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1877 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 8 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 299 pages |
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