1029. The Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repairs is required to be appointed from the list of officers of the navy not below the grade of commander, and he must also be a skillful naval constructor.

1030. The Chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering is required to be appointed from among the chief engineers of the navy, and he must be a skillful engineer.

1031. The Chief of the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing is required to be appointed from the list of paymasters of the navy of not less than ten years' standing.

1032. The Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery is required to be appointed from the list of surgeons of the navy.

1033. Each of these bureaus has a Chief Clerk provided by law; also its several clerks of the different classes and draughtsmen when needed, as appropriated for by Congress from year to year.

1034. All estimates for specific, general, and contingent expenses of the department and of the several bureaus must be furnished to the Secretary of the Navy by the chiefs of these bureaus respectively.

1035. These bureaus are charged with the custody of the books, records, and accounts pertaining to their respective duties, which duties are performed under the authority of the Secretary of the Navy. Their orders are considered as emanating from him.

To particularize the duties of these several officers and organizations, we commence with the head of the depart

ment.

THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY.

1036. The Secretary of the Navy is required to keep in proper books a complete inventory of all property belonging to the United States in the buildings, rooms, offices,

and grounds occupied by him and under his charge. (R. S., § 197.)

1037. He is required to execute such orders as he shall receive from the President relative to the procurement of naval stores and materials and the construction, armament, equipment, and employment of vessels of war, as well as all other matters connected with the naval establishment. (R. S., § 417.)

1038. He has the custody and charge of all the books, records, and other property remaining in and appertaining to the department. (R. S., § 418.)

1039. He is required to cause from time to time to be collected and transmitted to him at the seat of government all flags, standards, and colors taken by the navy from the enemies of the United States. (R. S., § 428.)

1040. He is required to report annually to CongressA statement of the appropriations of the preceding fiscal year for his department, showing the amount appropriated under each specific head, the amount expended under each head, and the balance which on the 30th day of June preceding such report remained unexpended, such report to be accompanied by estimates of the probable demands on each appropriation.

A statement of all offers for contracts for supplies and services made during the preceding year by classes, indicating such as have been accepted.

A statement showing the amounts expended during the preceding fiscal year for wages of mechanics and laborers. employed in building, repairing, and equipping vessels of the navy, or in receiving and securing stores and materials for those purposes, and showing the expenditures for the purchase of material and stores for the same purpose, and the cost or estimated value of the stores on hand under the appropriation in the navy-yards at the commencement of

the fiscal year next preceding; also the cost or estimated value of articles received and expended during the year, together with the cost or estimated value of the articles belonging to the appropriation which may be on hand in the navy-yards at the close of the next preceding year.

A statement of all acts done by him in making sale of any vessel or materials of the navy, specifying all vessels and materials sold, the parties buying the same, and the amount realized therefrom; also such other facts as may be necessary to a full understanding of his acts. (R. S., § 429.)

1041. The estimates for expenditures required by the Department of the Navy, for the purposes specified by law under particular heads, must be given by him in detail, and the expenditures made under appropriations therefor must be accounted for, so as to show the disbursements of each bureau under the respective appropriations. The Secretary of the Navy is required also to submit annually to Congress estimates of the claims and demands chargeable upon and payable out of the naval pension fund. (R. S., §§ 3666, 3667.)

1042. All appropriations for specific, general, and contingent expenses of the Navy Department are required to be under his control and to be expended by his direction. (R. S., § 3676.)

1043. He is authorized to cause to be prepared at the Hydrographic Office maps, charts, and nautical books relating to and required in navigation; to publish and furnish them to navigators at the cost of printing and paper; to purchase the plates and copyrights of such existing maps, charts, navigators' sailing directions and instructions as he may consider necessary, and when he may deem it expedient, under such regulations and instructions as he may prescribe. All moneys received from the sales of such

charts, &c., are required to be paid by him into the Treas ury, to be used in the further preparation of maps, charts, &c., as before stated. (R. S., §§ 432, 433.)

1044. He is authorized to place the supervision of the Nautical Almanac in charge of any officer or professor of mathematics in the navy who is competent for that service. (R. S., § 436.)

1045. He is authorized to designate a board of naval surgeons for the examination of persons proposed for appointment as surgeons and assistant surgeons in the navy; also a board of paymasters for the examination of persons, as to their physical, mental, and moral qualifications, who are proposed for appointment as assistant paymasters in the navy; and he may prescribe the examination to be made as to the qualifications of persons proposed for promotion to the grades of passed assistant paymasters and paymasters.

The bonds required of such officers for the faithful discharge of their duties are subject to the examination and approval of the Secretary. He is authorized also to desig nate a board of competent engineers and medical officers for the examination of persons proposed for appointment as second assistant engineers in the navy or for appointment or promotion in the engineer corps. (R. S., §§ 1370, 1380, 1383, 1392.)

1046. He may appoint for temporary service such acting assistant surgeons as the exigencies of the service may require. (R. S., § 1411.)

1047. He may appoint citizens who are not officers of the navy to be storekeepers on foreign stations, and fix the amount of the required official bond, when a suitable commissioned or warrant officer of the navy cannot be ordered on such service, or when in his opinion the public interest will be promoted thereby. (R. S., §§ 1414, 1415,

1048. He is authorized to discontinue the office or employment of any measurer and inspector of timber, clerk of the yard, clerk of the commandant, clerk of the storekeeper, clerk of the naval constructor, and keeper of the magazine at any navy-yard, and to require the duties of the latter to be performed by gunners. (R. S., § 1416.) 1049. He may place on furlough any officer on the active list of the navy. (R. S., § 1442.)

1050. He may detail a line officer to act as the aid or executive of the commanding officer of a vessel of war or naval station, which detailed officer, when not impracticable, must be next in rank to such commanding officer. (R. S., § 1469.)

1051. He is required, as soon after the 5th of March in each year as possible, to notify in writing each member and delegate of the House of Representatives of any vacancy that may exist in the district of such member or delegate in the cadet midshipmen at the Naval Academy, and he may fill that vacancy unless a nomination shall be made before the 1st of July by the member or delegate entitled to make the same. (R. S., § 1514.)

1052. The Secretary of the Navy may prescribe regulations for the examination at stated times of all candidates for admission to the Naval Academy. (R. S., § 1515.)

1053. He is authorized to make provision by regulation for educating at the Naval Academy, as naval constructors or steam engineers, such midshipmen and others as may show a peculiar aptitude therefor, and to this end to form a separate class at the academy, to be styled cadet engineers, or otherwise afford to such persons all proper facilities for such a scientific mechanical education as will fit them for these professions. He may annually appoint cadet engineers in the navy, not exceeding twenty-five in number; but no persons other than midshipmen are eligible