REGULATIONS FOR THE NAVY OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES, 1862.

 

CHAPTER 14.

 

MIDSHIPMEN.

 

Article 1.

 

They shall keep themselves provided with uniforms and instruments.

 

Midshipmen shall keep themselves provided with complete full and undress uniforms, with all equipments, a sextant or octant, Bowditch’s or some other approved treatise upon navigation, some approved treatise on marine surveying, and blank journals.

 

Article 2.

 

They will ascertain daily the position of the ship.

 

They are daily to ascertain the position of the ship when at sea, by observations, when practicable, and send the same to their commanding officer.

 

Article 3.

 

They will keep journals.

 

 

They are to keep journals in such form as may be prescribed, which they will present to the commanding officer for inspection on the first day of every month; and they will at all times embrace every opportunity of acquiring useful information which may be applicable to their profession as seamen and officers.

 

Article 4.

 

They are not to absent themselves from the ship, except.

 

They are not to have permission to absent themselves from the ship unless their journals are kept up, and they have copies of the watch, quarter, and station bills, and of the separate quarter bills for their divisions made out for use, and shall give proper attention to their duties.

 

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