shall not be continued in the Academy or in the service except upon the recommendation of the academic board. SEC. 1526. The Secretary of the Navy shall arrange the course of Studies not to studies and the order of recitations at the Naval Academy so that the pursued on Sunstudents in said institution shall not be required to pursue their studies day. on Sunday. SEC. 1527. The store-keeper at the Naval Academy shall be detailed Store-keeper at from the Paymaster's Corps, and shall have authority, with the apthe academy. proval of the Secretary of the Navy, to procure clothing and other necessaries for the midshipmen and cadet engineers in the same manner as supplies are furnished to the Navy, to be issued under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy. SEC. 1528. Three professors of mathematics shall be assigned to duty Professors of at the Naval Academy, one as professor of ethics and English studies, ethics, Spanish, and drawing. one as professor of the Spanish language, and one as professor of drawing. SEC. 1556. Midshipmen, after graduation, when at sea, one thousand Title 15, Chap. 8. dollars; on shore duty, eight hundred dollars; ou leave, or waiting orders, six hundred dollars. Cadet midshipmen, five hundred dollars. Pay of midship men. Cadet-midship men. Cadet engineers, before final academic examination, five hundred dol-Cadet-engi lars. neers. After final academic examination, and until warranted as assistant engineers when on duty at sea, one thousand dollars; on shore duty, eight hundred dollars; on leave or waiting orders, six hundred dollars. Secretary of the Naval Academy, one thousand eight hundred dol- Secretary. lars. Clerks to paymasters at the Naval Academy and Naval Asylum, one thousand three hundred dollars. SEC. 1577. Midshipmen, and acting midshipmen in the Navy, shall be entitled to one ration, or to commutation therefor.* An Act to prevent hazing at the Naval Academy. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United June 23, 1874. States of America in Congress assembled, That in all cases when it shall Hazing at the come to the knowledge of the superintendent of the Naval Academy, at Naval Academy. Annapolis, that any cadet-midshipman or cadet-engineer has been guilty If guilty, to be of the offense commonly known as hazing, it shall be the duty of said Offenders to be superintendent to order a court-martial, composed of not less than three court-martialed. commissioned officers, who shall minutely examine into all the facts and circumstances of the case and make a finding thereon; and any cadetmidshipman or cadet-engineer found guilty of said offense by said court dismissed. shall, upon recommendation of said court be dismissed; and such find- To be forever ing, when approved by said superintendent, shall be final; and a cadet ineligible to apso dismissed from said Naval Academy shall be forever ineligible to re- pointment. appointment to said Naval Academy. Approved, June 23, 1874. NAVAL CONSTRUCTORS AND ASSISTANT NAVAL CON. STRUCTORS. SEC. 1402. The President, by and with the advice and consent of the Title 15, Chap. I. Senate, may appoint naval constructors, who shall have rank and pay as officers of the Navy. SEC. 1403. Cadet-engineers who are graduated with credit in the scientific and mechanical class of the Naval Academy may, upon the recommendation of the academic board, be immediately appointed as assistant naval constructors. [See § 1522, NAVAL ACADEMY.] Naval constructors, number and appointment of. Assistant naval constructors. SEC. 1404. Naval constructors may be required to perform duty at any Duty. navy-yard or other station. SEC. 1477. Of the naval constructors, two shall have the relative rank Title 15, Chap. 4. of captain, three of commander, and all others that of lieutenant-com * The commutation-price of the ration is thirty cents; cadet-engineers also are al lowed a ration. Title 15, Chap. C. Pay of naval constructors. Pay of assistant naval constructors. Sec. mander or lieutenant. Assistant naval constructors shall have the relative rank of lieutenant or master. SEC. 1556. Naval constructors, during the first five years after date of appointment, when on duty, three thousand two hundred dollars; on leave, or waiting orders, two thousand two hundred dollars; during the second five years after such date, when on duty, three thousand four hundred dollars; on leave, or waiting orders, two thousand four hundred dollars; during the third five years after such date, when on duty, three thousand seven hundred dollars; on leave, or waiting orders, two thousand seven hundred dollars; during the fourth five years after such date, when on duty, four thousand dollars; on leave or waiting orders, three thousand dollars; after twenty years from such date, when on duty, four thousand two hundred dollars; on leave, or waiting orders, three thousand two hundred dollars. Assistant naval constructors, during the first four years after date of appointment, when on duty, two thousand dollars; on leave, or waiting orders, one thousand five hundred dollars; during the second four years after such date, when on duty, two thousand two hundred dollars; on leave, or waiting orders, one thousand seven hundred dollars; after eight years from such date, when on duty, two thousand six hundred dollars; ou leave, or waiting orders, one thousand nine hundred dollars. NAVAL OBSERVATORY. 434. Pay of superintendent. Sec. 435. Meridians adopted. SEC. 434. The officer of the Navy employed as superintendent of the Naval Observatory at Washington shall be entitled to receive the shoreduty pay of his grade, and no other. SEC. 435. The meridian of the Observatory at Washington shall be adopted and used as the American meridian for all astronomical purposes, and the meridian of Greenwich shall be adopted for all nautical purposes. NAVAL STORE KEEPERS. NAVY HOSPITALS. Sec. 4810. Purchase and erection of Navy hospitals. 4811. Government of Naval Asylum. 4812. Allowance of rations to Navy hospitals. 4813. Allowance from pensions. Title 59, Chap. I. SEC. 4807. The Secretary of the Navy shall have the general charge Superintend- and superintendence of Navy hospitals. ence of Navy hospitals. Deduction from SEC. 4808. The Secretary of the Navy shall deduct from the pay due pay of seamen, each officer, seaman and marine, in the Navy, at the rate of twenty &c., for Navy cents per month for each person, to be applied to the fund for Navy hospital fund. of fines. hospitals. Appropriation SEC. 4809. All fines imposed on navy officers, seamen, and marines shall be paid to the Secretary of the Navy, for the maintenance of Navy hospitals. Purchase and SEC. 4810. The Secretary of the Navy shall procure at suitable places erection of Navy proper sites for Navy hospitals, and if the necessary buildings are not hospitals. procured with the site, shall cause such to be erected, having due regard to economy, and giving preference to such plans as with most convenience and least cost will admit of subsequent additions, when the funds permit and circumstances require; and shall provide, at one of the establishments, a permanent asylum for disabled and decrepit Navy officers, seamen, and marines. Government of SEC. 4811. The asylum for disabled and decrepit Navy officers, seaNaval Asylum. men, and marines shall be governed in accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy.* * * *National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. SEC. 4832. * Volunteer soldiers and sailors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve and of the Mexican war, and not provided for by existing laws, who have been or may be disabled by wounds received or sickness contracted in the line of their duty; and such of these as have neither wife, child, nor parent dependent upon them, on becoming inmates of this home, or receiving relief therefrom, shall assign thereto their pensions when required by the board of managers, during the time they shall remain therein or receive its benefits. [These homes are at Augusta, Me., Milwau. kee, Wis., Dayton, Ohio, Knightstown, Ind., and Hampton, Va.] Allowance of SEC. 4812. For every Navy officer, seamap, or marine admitted into a Navy hospital, the institution shall be allowed one ration per day during rations to Navy hospitals. his continuance therein, to be deducted from the account of the United States with such officer, seaman, or marine. SEC. 4813. Whenever any Navy officer, seaman, or marine, entitled to Allowance from a pension, is a mitted to a Navy hospital, the pension, during his con- pension. tinuance in the hospital, shall be paid to the Secretary of the Navy and deducted from the account of such pensioner. Title 8. Title to land to United SEC. 355. No public money shall be expended upon any site or land purchased by the United States for the purposes of erecting thereon any armory, arsenal, fort, fortification, navy-yard, custom-house, light-house, be purchased by or other public building, of any kind whatever until the written opinion the of the Attorney-General shall be had in favor of the validity of the title, States. nor until the consent of the legislature of the State in which the land or site may be, to such purchase, has been given. The district attorneys of the United States, upon the application of the Attorney-General, shall furnish any assistance or information in their power in relation to the titles of the public property lying within their respective districts. And the Secretaries of the Departments, upon the application of the AttorneyGeneral, shall procure any additional evidence of title which he may deem necessary, and which may not be in the possession of the officers of the Government, and the expense of procuring it shall be paid out of the appropriations made for the contingencies of the Departments respectively. SEC. 1416. The Secretary of the Navy is authorized, when in his Title 15, Chap. I. opinion the public interest will permit it, to discontinue the office or Civil officers a employment of any measurer and inspector of timber, clerk of the yard, yards may be clerk of the commandant, clerk of the store-keeper, clerk of the naval discontinued by constructor, and the keeper of the magazine employed at any navy-yard, Secretary of the and to require the duties of the keeper of the magazine to be performed Navy. by gunners. SEC. 1542. The President may select the commandants of the several Title 15, Chap. 8. navy-yards from officers not below the grade of commander. Commandant s of navy-yards. Master-work men. SEC. 1543. The persons employed at the several navy-yards to superintend the mechanical departments, and heretofore known as master mechanics, master carpenters, master joiners, master blacksmiths, master boiler-makers, master sail-makers, master plumbers, master painters, master calkers, master masons, master boat-builders, master spar-makers, master block-makers, master laborers, and the superintendents of ropewalks, shall be men skilled in their several duties and appointed from civil life, and shall not be appointed from the officers of the Navy. SEC. 1544. Laborers shall be employed in the several navy-yards by Laborers, how the proper officers in charge with reference to skill and efficiency, and selected. without regard to other considerations. SEC. 1545. Salaries shall not be paid to any employés in any of the Salaries; per navy-yards, except those who are designated in the estimates. All diem compensa-. other persons shall receive a per diem compensation for the time during tion. which they may be actually employed. SEC. 1546. No officer or employé of the Government shall require or Requiring conrequest any working man in any navy-yard to contribute or pay any tributions for pomoney for political purposes, nor shall any working man be removed litical purposes or discharged for political opinion; and any officer or employé of the navy-yards. Government who shall offend against the provisions of this section shall be dismissed from the service of the United States. at Title 2 2. Assent of SEC. 1838. The President of the United States is authorized to procure the assent of the legislature of any State, within which any purchase of land has been made for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, States to purdock-yards, and other needful buildings, without such consent having chase of lands for been obtained. forts, &c. Title 43. Eight hours a day's labor. May 23, 1872. Sec. SEC. 3738. Eight hours shall constitute a day's work for all laborers, workmen, and mechanics who may be employed by or on behalf of the Government of the United States. [See § 3689, under APPROPRIATIONS.] SEC. 2. That the proper accounting officers be, and hereby are, authorized and required, in the settlement of all accounts for the services of laborers, workmen, and mechanics employed by or on behalf of the Government of the United States, between the twenty-fifth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, the date of the act constituting eight hours a day's work for all such laborers, workmen, and mechanics, and the nineteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, the date of the proclamation of the President concerning such pay, to settle and pay for the same, without reduction on account of reduction of hours of labor by said act, when it shall be made to appear that such was the sole cause of the reduction of wages, and a sufficient sum for said purpose is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, May 23, 1872. NEUTRALITY. 5281. Accepting a foreign commission. 5284. Arming vessels to cruise against citizens of 5285. Augmenting force of foreign vessel of war. Title 67. Sec. 5286. Military expeditions against people at 5287. Enforcement of foregoing provisions. SEC. 5281. Every citizen of the United States who, within the terriAccepting a for- tory or jurisdiction thereof, accepts and exercises a commission to serve eign commission. a foreign prince, state, colony, district, or people, in war, by land or by sea, against any prince, state, colony, district, or people, with whom the United States are at peace, shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and shall be fined not more than two thousand dollars, and imprisoned not more than three years. Enlisting in SEC. 5282. Every person who, within the territory or jurisdiction of foreign service. the United States, enlists or enters himself, or hires or retains another person to enlist or enter himself, or to go beyond the limits or jurisdiction of the United States with intent to be enlisted or entered in the service of any foreign prince, state, colony, district, or people, as a soldier, or as a marine or seaman, on board of any vessel of war, letter of marque, or privateer, shall be deemed guilty of high misdemeanor, and shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars, and imprisoned not more than three years. Arming vessels against people at peace with the United States. Arming vessels citizens of the United States. SEC. 5283. Every person who, within the limits of the United States, fits out and arms, or attempts to fit out and arm, or procures to be fitted out and armed, or knowingly is concerned in the furnishing, fitting out, or arming, of any vessel, with intent that such vessel shall be employed in the service of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people, to cruise or commit hostilities against the subjects, citizens, or property of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people, with whom the United States are at peace, or who issues or delivers a commission within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States, for any vessel, to the intent that she may be so employed, shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars, and imprisoned not more than three years. And every such vessel, with her tackle, apparel, and furniture, together with all materials, arms, ammunition, and stores, which may have been procured for the building and equipment thereof, shall be forfeited; one-half to the use of the informer, and the other half to the use of the United States. SEC. 5284. Every citizen of the United States who, without the limits to cruise against thereof, fits out and arms, or attempts to fit out and arm, or procures to be fitted out and armed, or knowingly aids or is concerned in furnishing, fitting out, or arming any private vessel of war, or privateer, with intent that such vessel shall be employed to cruise, or commit hostilities, upon the citizens of the United States, or their property, or who takes the command of, or enters on board of any such vessel, for such intent, or who purchases any interest in any such vessel, with a view to share in the profits thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor. and fined not more than ten thousand dollars, and imprisoned not more than ten years. And the trial for such offense, if committed without the limits of the United States, shall be in the district in which the offender shall be apprehended or first brought. SEC. 5285. Every person who, within the territory or jurisdiction of Augmenting the United States, increases or augments, or procures to be increased vessel of war. force of foreign or augmented, or knowingly is concerned in increasing or augmenting, the force of any ship of war, cruiser, or other armed vessel, which, at the time of her arrival within the United States, was a ship of war, or cruiser, or armed vessel, in the service of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people, or belonging to the subjects or citizens of any such prince or state, colony, district, or people, the same being at war with any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people, with whom the United States are at peace, by adding to the number of the guns of such vessel, or by changing those on board of her for guns of a larger caliber, or by adding thereto any equipment solely applicable to war, shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars and be imprisoned not more than one year. SEC. 5226. Every person who, within the territory or jurisdiction of Military expe the United States, begins, or sets on foot, or provides or prepares the ditions against means for, any military expedition or enterprise, to be carried on from people at peace with the United thence against the territory or dominions of any foreign prince or state, States. or of any colony, district, or people, with whom the United States are at peace, shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and shall be fined not exceeding three thousand dollars, and imprisoned not more than three years. Enforcement of ions. SEC. 5287.* In every case in which a vessel is fitted out and armed, or attempted to be fitted out and armed, or in which the force of any ves- foregoing provissel of war, cruiser, or other armed vessel is increased or augmented, or in which any military expedition or enterprise is begun or set on foot, contrary to the provisions and prohibitions of this Title; and in every case of the capture of a vessel within the jurisdiction or protection of the United States as before defined; and in every case in which any process issuing out of any court of the United States is disobeyed or resisted by any person having the custody of any vessel of war, cruiser, or other armed vessel of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people, or of any subjects or citizens of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people, it shall be lawful for the President, or such other person as he shall have empowered for that purpose, to employ such part of the land or naval forces of the United States, or of the militia thereof, for the purpose of taking possession of and detaining any such vessel, with her prizes, if any, in order to the execution of the prohibitions and penalties of this Title, and to the restoring of such prizes in the cases in which restoration shall be adjudged; and also for the purpose of preventing the carrying on of any such expedition or enterprise from the territories or jurisdiction of the United States against the territories or dominions of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people with whom the United States are at peace. part. SEC. 5288. It shall be lawful for the President, or such person as he Compelling forshall empower for that purpose, to employ such part of the land or naval eign vessels to deforces of the United States, or of the militia thereof, as shall be necessary to compel any foreign vessel to depart the United States in all cases in which, by the laws of nations or the treaties of the United States, she ought not to remain within the United States. SEC. 5289. The owners or consignees of every armed vessel sailing Armed vessels out of the ports of the United States, belonging wholly or in part to to give bond on citizens thereof, shall, before clearing out the same, give bond to the clearance. United States, with sufficient sureties, in double the amount of the value of the vessel and cargo on board, including her armament, conditioned that the vessel shall not be employed by such owners to cruise or commit hostilities against the subjects, citizens, or property of any foreign *Amendatory act. Section five thousand two hundred and eighty-seven is amended by inserting, as the first sentence thereof, the following words: "The district courts shall take cognizance of all complaints, by whomsoever instituted, in cases of captures made within the waters of the United States, or within a marine league of the coasts or shores thereof." Approved, February 18, 1875. |