toms. prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people, with whom the United States are at peace. Detention by SEC. 5290. The several collectors of the customs shall detain any vescollectors of cus- sel manifestly built for warlike purposes, and about to depart the United States, the cargo of which principally consists of arms and munitions of war, when the number of men shipped on board, or other circumstances, render it probable that such vessel is intended to be employed by the owners to cruise or commit hostilities upon 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, until the decision of the President is had thereon, or until the owner gives such bond and security as is required of the owners of armed vessels by the preceding section. Construction of this Title. Sec. SEC. 5291. The provisions of this Title shall not be construed to extend to any subject or citizen of any foreign prince, state, colony, district, or people who is transiently within the United States, and enlists or enters himself on board of any vessel of war, letter of marque, or privateer, which at the time of its arrival within the United States was fitted and equipped as such, or hires or retains another subject or citizen of the same foreign prince, state, colony, district, or people, who is transiently within the United States, to enlist or enter himself to serve such foreign prince, state, colony, district, or people, on board such vessel of war, letter of marque, or privateer, if the United States shall then be at peace with such foreign prince, state, colony, district, or people. Nor shall they be construed to prevent the prosecution or punishment of treason, or of any piracy defined by the laws of the United States. NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, &c. 192. Expenditure for newspapers. Title 4. Sec. 1779. Restriction on payments for newspapers. SEC. 192. The amount expended in any one year for newspapers, for Expenditure any Department, except the Department of State, including all the Bureaus and offices connected therewith, shall not exceed one hundred dollars. And all the newspapers purchased with the public money for the use of either of the Departments must be preserved as files for such Department. for newspapers. Title 19. Restriction upon payments for newspapers, &c. Sec. SEC. 1779. No executive officer, other than the heads of Departments, shall apply more than thirty dollars, annually, out of the contingent fund under his control, to pay for newspapers, pamphlets, periodicals, or other books or prints not necessary for the business of his office. 1756. Form of oath of office. 1757. Oath for certain persons. Title 19. Form of oath of office. OATH OF OFFICE. Sec. 1758. Who may administer oath. SEC. 1756. Every person elected or appointed to any office of honor or profit, either in the civil, military, or naval service, excepting the President and the persons embraced by the section following, shall, before entering upon the duties of such office, and before being entitled to any part of the salary or other emoluments thereof, take and subscribe the following oath: "I, A B, 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, nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority, or pretended authority, in hostility to the United States; that I have not yielded a voluntary support to any pretended government, authority, power, or constitution within the United States, hostile or inimical thereto. And I do further swear (or affirm) that to the best of my knowledge and ability I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter, so help me God." Oath for SEC. 1757. Whenever any person who is not rendered ineligible to office by the provisions of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution tain persons. is elected or appointed to any office of honor or trust under the Government of the United States, and is not able, on account of his participation in the late rebellion, to take the oath prescribed in the preceding section, he shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe in lien of that oath the following oath: "I, A B, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God." cer SEC. 1758. The oath of office required by either of the two preceding Who may adsections may be taken before any officer who is authorized either by the minister oath. laws of the United States, or by the local municipal law, to administer oaths, in the State, Territory, or District where such oath may be ad ministered. SEC. 1759. The oath of office taken by any person pursuant to the Custody of oath. requirements of section seventeen hundred and fifty-six, or of section seventeen hundred and fifty-seven, shall be delivered in by him to be preserved among the files of the House of Congress, Department, or court to which the office in respect to which the oath is made may appertain. SEC. 212. The clerk in the Department of State who may from time Title 5. Duty of clerk to time be assigned to the duty of examining applications for passports is authorized to receive and attest, but without charge to the affiant, State Departall oaths or affidavits required by law or by the rules of the Depart- ment. ment of State to be made before granting passports. [See June 20, 1874.] Titie 47. Passports, how SEC. 4075. The Secretary of State may grant and issue passports, and cause passports to be granted, issued, and verified in foreign countries by such diplomatic or consular officers of the United States, and under granted. such rules as the President shall designate and prescribe for and on behalf of the United States; and no other person shall grant, issue, or verify any such passport. Where a legation of the United States is established in any country, no person other than the diplomatic representative of the United States at such place shall be permitted to grant or issue any passport, except in the absence therefrom of such representa tive. SEC. 4076. No passport shall be granted or issued to or verified for any other persons than citizens of the United States. To be issued to citizens only. SEC. 4077. All persons who shall be authorized to grant, issue, or Returns of pass verify passports, shall make return of the same to the Secretary of ports issued. State, in such manner and as often as he shall require; and such returns shall specify the names and all other particulars of the persons to whom the same shall be granted, issued, or verified, as embraced in such passport. SEC. 4078. If any person acting, or claiming to act, in any office or False passports. capacity, under the United States, or any of the States of the United States, who shall not be lawfully authorized so to do, shall grant, issue, or verify any passport or other instrument in the nature of a passport, to or for any citizen of the United States, or to or for any person claiming to be or designated as such in such passport or verification, or if any consular officer who shall be authorized to grant, issue, or verify passports shall knowingly and willfully grant, issue, or verify any such passport to or for any person not a citizen of the United States, he shall be imprisoned for not more than one year, or fined not more than five hundred dollars, or both; and may be charged, proceeded against, tried, convicted, and dealt with therefor in the district where he may be arrested or in custody.* * See section 4062, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, as to penalty for violating passports. June 29, 1874. Pas port fees to be collected. [From legislative appropriation act.] That from and after the first day of July next a fee of five dollars shall be collected for each citizen's passport issued from the Department. An account of these fees shall be kept, and the amount collected shall Account to be be paid into the Treasury of the United States at least quarterly. kept, &c. Approved June 20, 1874. Title 15, Chap. 8. Furlough pay. SEC. 1556. Pay of officers. Sec. 1563. Advances to persons on distant stations. 1565. Chiefs of Bureaus. 1567. Officers serving as store-keepers on foreign 1568. Civilians store-keepers on foreign stations. [See under each corps or grade.] SEC. 1557. Officers on furlough shall receive only one-half of the pay to which they would have been entitled if on leave of absence. SEC. 1558. The pay prescribed in the two preceding sections shall be allowances, ex- the full and entire compensation of the several officers therein named, cept as he rein and no additional allowance shall be made in favor of any of said officers specified. on any account whatever, except as hereinafter provided. Volunteer serv ice. Commence SEC. 1559. When a volunteer naval service is authorized by law, the officers therein shall be entitled to receive the same pay as officers of the same grades, respectively, in the Regular Navy. SEC. 1560. The pay of an officer of the Navy, upon his original entry ment of pay, into the service, except where he is required to give an official bond, original entry. shall commence upon the date of his acceptance of his appointment; but where he is required to give such bond his pay shall commence upon the date of the approval of his bond by the proper authority. SEC. 1561. When an officer is promoted in course to fill a vacancy, ment of pay of and is in the performance of the duties of the higher grade from the promoted offi- date he is to take rank, he may be allowed the increased pay from such Commence cers. date. In cases of de- SEC. 1562. If an officer of a class subject to examination before prolayed examina- motion shall be absent on duty, and by reason of such absence, or of tion, other cause not involving fault on his part, shall not be examined at the time required by law or regulation, and shall afterward be examined and found qualified, the increased rate of pay to which his promotion would entitle him shall commence from the date when he would have been entitled to it had he been examined and found qualified at the time so required by law or regulation; and this rule shall apply to any cases of this description which may have heretofore occurred. And in every such case the period of service of the party, in the grade to which he was promoted, shall, in reference to the rate of his pay, be considered to have commenced from the date when he was so entitled to take rank. [See § 1495, under PROMOTION.] Advances to persons on tant stations. SEC. 1563. The President of the United States may direct such addis- vances, as he may deem necessary and proper, to such persons in the naval service as may be employed on distant stations where the discharge of the pay and emoluments to which they are entitled cannot be regularly effected. Chiefs of Bureaus. SEC. 1565. The pay of chiefs of Bureaus in the Navy Department shall be the highest pay of the grade to which they belong, but not below that of commodore. Officers serving SEC. 1567. Officers who are ordered to take charge of naval stores for as store-keepers foreign squadrons, in the place of naval storekeepers, shall be entitled on foreign sta to receive, while so employed, the shore-duty pay of their grades; and when the same is less than fifteen hundred dollars a year, they may be allowed compensation, including such shore-duty pay, at a rate not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars a year. tions. Civilians store SEC. 1568. Civilians appointed as storekeepers on foreign stations shall keepers on for receive compensation for such services at a rate not exceeding fifteen eign stations. hundred dollars a year. SEC. 1592. Officers on the retired list, when on active duty, shall receive the full pay of their respective grades. Pay of retired officers on active duty. Officers retired SEC. 1593. Officers placed on the retired list, on furlough pay, shall receive only one-half of the pay to which they would have been enti- on furlough pay. tled if on leave of absence on the active list. Pay Corps, number of. No promotion in certain grades until number is reduced. Appointments, SEC. 1376. The active list of the Pay Corps of the Navy shall consist Title 15, Chap. 1. of thirteen pay directors, thirteen pay inspectors, fifty paymasters, thirty passed assistant paymasters, and twenty assistant paymasters. SEC. 1377. Until the number of passed assistant paymasters shall have been reduced below thirty, there shall be no promotion to that grade, nor any appointment to the grade of assistant paymaster.* SEC. 1378. All appointments in the Pay Corps shall be made by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. SEC. 1379. No person shall be appointed assistant paymaster who is, at the time of such appointment, less than twenty-one or more than of assistant paytwenty-six years of age; nor until his physical, mental, and moral qualifications have been examined and approved by a board of paymasters appointed by the Secretary of the Navy, and according to such regulations as he may prescribe. how made. Qualification s masters. motion. SEC. 1380. Passed assistant paymasters shall be regularly promoted Order of proand commissioned from assistant paymasters, and paymasters from passed assistant paymasters; subject to such examinations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy. Acting appoint SEC. 1381. When the office of paymaster or assistant paymaster ments on ships at becomes vacant, by death or otherwise, in ships at sea, or on foreign sea. stations, or on the Pacific coast of the United States, the senior officer present may make an acting appointment of any fit person, who shall perform the duties thereof until another paymaster or assistant paymaster shall report for duty, and shall be entitled to receive the pay of such grade while so acting. the fleet. SEC. 1382. The President may designate among the paymasters in the Paymasters of service, and appoint to every fleet or squadron a paymaster, who shall be denominated "paymaster of the fleet." SEC. 1383. Every paymaster, passed assistant paymaster, and assistant Bonds. paymaster shall, before entering on the duties of his office, give bond, with two or more sufficient sureties, to be approved by the Secretary of the Navy, for the faithful performance thereof. Paymasters shall give bonds in the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, passed assistant paymasters in the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, and assistant paymasters in the sum of ten thousand dollars. SEC. 1384. Officers of the Pay Corps shall give new bonds with New bonds. sufficient sureties, whenever required to do so by the Secretary of the Navy. SEC. 1385. The issuing of a new appointment and commission to any Bond, not affectofficer of the Pay Corps shall not affect or aunul any existing bond, but ed by a new comthe same shall remain in force, and apply to such new appointment and commission. mission. Clerks, when SEC. 1386. Paymasters of the fleet, paymasters on vessels having complements of more than one hundred and seventy-five persons, on supply- allowed. steamers, store-vessels, and receiving-ships, paymasters at stations and at the Naval Academy, and paymasters detailed at stations as inspectors of provisions and clothing, shall each be allowed a clerk. Clerks, SEC. 1387. No paymaster shall be allowed a clerk in a vessel having not allowed. the complement of one hundred and seventy-five persons or less, excepting in supply-steamers and store-vessels. *Accomplished. when Clerks of passed SEC. 1388. Passed assistant paymasters and assistant paymasters assistant and as attached to vessels of war shall be allowed clerks, if clerks would be sistant paymasters. allowed by law to paymasters so attached. Loans to offi- SEC. 1389. It shall not be lawful for any paymaster, passed assistant cers by paymas- paymaster, or assistant paymaster, to advance or loan, under any pretense whatever, to any officer in the naval service, any sum of money, public or private, or any credit, or any article or commodity whatever. ters Title 15, Chap. 2. SEC. 1432. No commanding officer of any vessel of the Navy shall be required to perform the duties of a paymaster, passed assistant payActing as pay master, or assistant paymaster. masters. Title 15, Chap. 4. Rank. paymasters. Title 15, Chap. 8. Pay of fleet Pay directors Paymasters. SEC. 1475. Officers of the Pay Corps on the active list of the Navy shall have relative rank as follows: Pay directors, the relative rank of captain. Paymasters, the relative rank of lieutenant-commander or lieutenant. Passed assistant paymasters, the relative rank of lieutenant or master. Assistant paymasters, the relative rank of master or ensign. SEC. 1556. * hundred dollars. * * * Pay directors and pay inspectors, and inspectors. at sea, four thousand four hundred dollars. Assistant mast * * Paymasters, during the first five years after date of commission, when at sea, two thousand eight hundred dollars; on shore duty, two thousand four hundred dollars; on leave or waiting orders, two thousand dollars; during the second five years after such date, when at sea, three thousand two hundred dollars; on shore duty, two thousand eight hundred dollars; on leave or waiting orders, two thousand four hundred dollars; during the third five years after such date, when at sea, three thousand five hundred dollars; on shore duty, three thousand two hundred dollars; on leave or waiting orders, two thousand six hundred dollars; during the fourth five years after such date, when at sea, three thousand seven hundred dollars; on shore duty, three thousand six hundred dollars; on leave or waiting orders, two thousand eight hundred dollars; after twenty years from such date, when at sea, four thousand two hundred dollars; on shore duty, four thousand dollars; on leave or waiting orders, three thousand dollars. Passed assistant paymasters, during the first five years after date of appointment, when at sea, two thousand dollars; on shore duty, one thousand eight hundred dollars; on leave or waiting orders, one thousand five hundred dollars; after five years from such date, when at sea, two thousand two hundred dollars; on shore duty, two thousand dollars; on leave or waiting orders, one thousand seven hundred dollars. * * * * * * during the first five years after date of appointment, when at sea, one thousand seven hundred dollars; on shore duty, one thousand four hundred dollars; on leave or waiting orders, one thousand dollars; after five years from such date, when at sea, one thousand nine hundred dollars; on shore duty, one thousand six hundred dollars; on leave or waiting orders, one thousand two hundred dollars. Person acting SEC. 1564. Any person performing the duties of paymaster, acting asas paymaster. when office va sistant paymaster, or assistant paymaster, in a ship at sea, or on a forcant in ship at eign station, or on the Pacific coast of the United States, by appointment of the senior officer present, in case of vacancy of such office, in accordance with the provisions of section thirteen hundred and eightyone, and not otherwise, shall be entitled to receive the pay of such grade while so acting. sea |