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RULES FOR MEN-OF-WAR.

Those who are desirous of having this work, can obtain it GRATIS, by applying at

APPLETON & CO'S, BROADWAY,

NEW-YORK.

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PREFACE.

The Compiler having been many years in the service of the U. S., became impressed, after a long course of experience and observation, with the necessity and convenience of having a printed manual, (in lieu of written regulations by the captain, which are now customary in our service,) prescribing some of the most important duties for the discipline, police, and sanitary government of a Men-of-War. From this compendium the young officers may take an internal view of the duties to be performed on board vessels of war. The only compensation the compiler expects for the trouble and expense of the work, is the hope that it may prove useful.

ARTICLE 1. The strictest attention must be paid to the orders issued by the Navy Department, by the order of the President of the United States.

ART. 2. Every superior officer is directed to exact upon all occasions, from his inferiors, unequivocal, and respectful compliance with his orders; and it is expected of all his inferiors, that they do not neglect, any exterior marks of respect, whenever they address, or are addressed, by a superior; as also to check those under them, of every impropriety they may see, or hear of their committing, either wilfully, or ignorantly, and to notify the commanding officer of the

same.

ART. 3. After the ship's crew are completed, and the watches equally divided, each watch is subdivided, so as to make the quarter watches as nearly equal as possible; the mariners with the non-commissioned officers, are, like the rest of the ship's crew, to be equally divided into half and quarter watches.

ART. 4. The ship's crew are to be messed in messes of ten each; the men by themselves, and the petty officers by themselves; the men of different messes are, on every Monday morning, to appoint one of their messmates to keep their berths, cooking utensils, &c., clean, and in proper order during the succeeding week: such are to be responsible to the officers for any neglect they may discover, and none but men belonging to the boats, when in harbor, are to be exempt from this duty.

ART. 5. The time by the glass, must be regularly attended to, as well by night, as by day, and the bell must be struck every half hour.

ART. 6. The log is to be hove every hour, and the rate of sailing, courses, winds, currents, ripples, and occurrences,