Regulations for the government of the United States Navy (1865)
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ARTICLE II.
Line and Staff Officers, with their relative Rank.
5.....Surgeons, Paymasters, Naval Constructors, Chief Engineers, Chaplains, Professors of Mathematics, Passed Assistant Surgeons, Secre- taries, Assistant Surgeons, Assistant Naval Constructors, Assistant Pay- masters, First Assistant Engineers, Second Assistant Engineers, Third Assistant Engineers, Clerks, Carpenters, and Sailmakers, are to be regarded as Staff Officers, and all other officers of the service as Line Officers. The relative rank between the officers of these two classes is to be as follows:
6.....Assistant Surgeons to rank with Masters.
7.....Passed Assistant Surgeons to rank with Lieutenants.
8.....Surgeons to rank with Lieutenant Commanders for the first five years after promotion; after the first five years, with Commanders; and after fifteen years date of Commission, to rank with Captains.
9.....Surgeon of the Fleet to rank with Captain.
10.....Assistant Paymasters to rank with Masters.
11.....Paymasters to rank with Lieutenant Commanders for the first five years after promotion; after the first five years, with Commanders; and after fifteen years. date of commission, to rank with Captains.
12.....Fleet Paymaster to rank with Captain.
13.....Third Assistant Engineers to rank with Midshipmen.
14.....Second Assistant Engineers to rank with Ensigns.
15.....First Assistant Engineers to rank with Masters.
16.....Chief Engineers to rank with Lieutenant Commanders for the first five years after promotion; after the first five years, with Commanders; and after fifteen years. date of commission, to rank with Captains.
17.....Fleet Engineer to rank with the Captain.
18.....Assistant Naval Constructors to rank with Masters.
19.....Naval Constructors of less than twelve years. standing to rank with Lieutenant Commanders; of more than twelve years, with Commanders; and of more than twenty years, with Captains.
20.....Chaplains and Professors of Mathematics of more than twelve years. standing in their respective grades, to rank with Commanders. Chaplains and Professors of Mathematics of less than twelve years, with Lieutenant Commanders.
21.....Secretaries with Lieutenants.
22.....Clerks with Midshipmen.
23.....Carpenters and Sailmakers with Gunners.
24.....The Fleet Captain to be called the "Chief of the Staff," and to take precedence of the Staff Officers of every grade.
25.....Chiefs of Bureaus of the Staff Corps to rank with Commodores, and to take precedence of each other, according to their dates of com- mission as Surgeons, Paymasters, Naval Constructors, and Engineers, and not according to the date of appointment as Fleet Officer or Chief of Bureau.
26.....Fleet Staff Officers to take precedence of Executive Officers.
27.....All Executive Officers to have authority and precedence over all Staff Officers, (except Fleet Staff Officers,) next to the Commander, while on board the vessel, or at the station to which they are attached.
28.....In processions on shore, on courts martial, summary courts, courts of inquiry, boards of survey, and all other boards, Line and Staff Officers will take precedence according to relative rank.
29.....Temporary leaves of absence from station or ship, and reports of return, will be obtained from and made to the Commander or Executive Officer, as the Staff Officer may be senior or junior in rank to the Executive Officer, the latter being notified in the former case.
30.....The state-rooms opening into the wardroom country will be occupied, on the starboard side, by all the Line Officers borne upon the books, according to rank, commencing with the forward room.
31.....The state-rooms opening into the wardroom country will be occupied, on the port side, by the Staff Officers, as follows: the forward room shall be occupied by the Senior Engineer, in charge of the engines, and if there be no such officer on board, then by the Paymaster, or Assistant Paymaster in charge of the Pay Department; the next room by the Surgeon, or Assistant, in charge of the Medical Department; the next room by the Marine Officer in charge of the guard; and all the rooms abaft this by Staff Officers, in the order of their rank. In flag-ships the Engineer, Paymaster, and Surgeon, in charge of their respective departments, shall occupy rooms conformable to the above rule, and all other officers entitled to rooms on the port side, according to their rank. All other rooms, not assigned by the Department, shall be occupied as the Commander-in-Chief may direct.
32.....Officers duly appointed to act in a grade superior to their own shall, while so acting, be entitled to exercise command and to take precedence according to the date of their appointments.
33.....No Staff Officer is to exercise command except in the corps or department to which he belongs, or to have, in consequence of his relative rank, any additional right to quarters, other than those assigned him by regulations.
34.....When, from any circumstance whatever, the Commander-in- Chief of a fleet or squadron is rendered incapable of exercising command, the Line Officer of the fleet or squadron next in rank or seniority is to discharge his duties.
35.....If the Commander-in-Chief of a fleet or squadron be killed in battle, the Line Officer on duty on board the flag-ship highest in rank or seniority, whether detailed as an aid of any kind to the Commander-in-Chief or otherwise, is to succeed him provisionally, and until the officer of the fleet or squadron next in rank or seniority to the Commander-in-Chief announces that he has taken command. It shall be the duty of any officer thus succeeding provisionally the Commander-in-Chief to inform the officer of the fleet or squadron next in seniority to the Commander-in-Chief, as soon as practicable, of the death of the latter. The flag of the deceased Commander-in-Chief is to be kept hoisted in its place until the enemy be out of sight or captured.
36.....In case the Commander of a vessel should be rendered incapable of exercising command, or should die, the Executive Officer is always to succeed him in command until further orders, even although there may be officers on board, as passengers, higher in rank or seniority than himself; but in all cases where a Rear-Admiral, or a Commodore entitled to a broad pendant, appointed to a command or to perform any duty, is embarked on board a vessel of the Navy, as a passenger, by due authority, her Commander, if of lower grade or junior in rank, is to be amenable to his orders.
37.....Officers embarked as passengers on board a vessel-of-war, shall not be assigned to duty on board that vessel unless the exigencies of the service shall make such assignment necessary, of which necessity the Commanding Officer shall be the judge. When passengers shall be thus assigned to duty they shall have the same claim to command and quarters as if originally attached to said vessel.
38.....No officer can put himself on duty by virtue of his commission or warrant alone.
39.....Every person other than the Commanding and Executive Officers of a vessel, whatsoever may be his rank, shall regard the officer of the deck as the representative of the Commanding Officer, and shall recognize his authority as such in all matters pertaining to the management and police of the vessel which fall under his supervision.
40.....In the event of a riot, or quarrel between persons belonging to the Navy, it shall be the duty of the senior Line Officer present to suppress such disturbance, and if necessary to arrest those engaged in it, even though they be his seniors, or superiors in rank. And all persons belonging to the Navy who may be present shall render prompt assistance and obedience to the officer thus engaged in the restoration of order. Should there be no Line Officer present, the senior Staff Officer will exercise the same authority, and be entitled to the same obedience.
41.....Officers of the Line and Staff of the Marine Corps shall he regarded as belonging, respectively, to the classes of Line and Staff Officers of the Navy, and will take precedence according to their Army rank and as prescribed by the act approved July 16, 1862. Whenever Officers of the Line of the Navy and of the Marine Corps shall have the same assimilated rank and date, the Line Officer of the Marine Corps shall take precedence next after the Line Officer of the Navy, and before all Staff Officers who may hold the same relation. Staff Officers of the Marine Corps shall take precedence of all Staff Officers of the Navy of the same assimilated rank and date.
42.....Officers of the Marine Corps are not to exercise command, either afloat or at a Naval Station, over others not of their own corps, unless specially authorized by the Commander of the vessel or station for a particular purpose, or when on guard, or in the performance of police duties. But when serving on shore with a mixed detachment composed of sailors and marines, the Marine Officer will exercise command according to his relative rank and date of commission
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