Regulations for the government of the United States Navy (1865)

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Section 6.

Ordnance Officer at a Navy Yard.

860 He is to take charge of all ordnance and ordnance stores, and see that they are properly stowed and cared for, making weekly, monthly, and quarterly returns of the same, agreeably to the forms prescribed, and to keep the Ordnance Bureau informed of their condition.

861 He is to examine carefully all ordnance articles received from contractors, manufacturers, or others, and only to give receipts for them when satisfied that the terms of contract or agreement have been fully complied with.

862 He is to supervise the work done in the Ordnance Department of the yard, and to keep the bureau informed of its progress.

863 He is to supply all vessels, when fitting for sea, with such armaments and ordnance stores as may be directed by the Bureau of Ordnance, taking receipts therefor and transmitting them to the bureau.

864 lie will be careful to make his requisitions upon the bureau in ample time for all articles with which he is concerned, in order to answer promptly the demands that will probably be made upon him Navigation Officer at a Navy Yard Chief Engineer of a Navy Yard.


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