REGULATIONS FOR THE CONFEDERATE STATES SCHOOL-SHIP PATRICK HENRY.

 

CHAPTER 10.

 

DISCIPLINE.

 

1.          The laws for the government of the Navy of the Confederate States are to be strictly observed by every person attached to the school ship.

 

2.          The commandant being charged with, and held responsible for, the good order and discipline of the school-ship, all persons attached thereto, for any purpose, are to give implicit obedience to his commands.

 

3.          Any student who shall be intoxicated, or shall use, or bring into the school-ship, or have in his quarters, or elsewhere within the limits of the ship, any spirituous, vinous, fermented, or other intoxicating drinks, may be dismissed from the navy.

 

4.          Any student who shall leave the ship without permission first duly obtained, shall be dismissed from the naval service.

 

5.          Profane, obscene, or vulgar language, is strictly prohibited.

 

6.          Any person attached to the school-ship who shall publish, prepare, or submit for publication, in any manner or form, any matter relating to transactions or occurrences, official or private, which have taken place within the ship, or are in any wise connected with it, without permission previously obtained from the Secretary of the Navy or the commandant, shall be dismissed.

 

7.          No fire-arms or fire-works of any description, or gunpowder in any form, shall be introduced by any student on board the ship; nor shall the same be used by any person on board, without the sanction of the commandant.

 

8.          Students are strictly forbidden to contract debts while connected with the school-ship, unless with the sanction of the commandant.

 

9.          All combinations, under any pretext whatever, are strictly prohibited.

 

10.      Students must never present themselves to the commandant or to any other superior officer set over them, or at their offices or quarters, to make known a complaint, or for any other purpose, except by invitation, in greater numbers than three at a time.

 

11.      Students are not only required to abstain from all vicious, immoral, and irregular conduct, but are enjoined to conduct themselves upon every occasion with the propriety and decorum which characterize the society of gentlemen.   Those guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, may be punished by dismission from the service.

 

12.      No student is to visit the room of another, or to absent himself unnecessarily from his own room, during the hours of recitation or study.

 

13.      No student shall remove from the mess assigned him without the authority of the commandant.

 

14.      No student shall introduce any improper character on board the ship; nor shall he introduce any person into the students quarters at any other time than during the hours of recitation, prior to the time prescribed to commence evening studies.

 

15.      No student shall answer for another at any roll-call, or muster of any kind.

 

16.      The customary salute of officers in addressing or passing each other, is to be strictly observed on board.   The junior or inferior will be the first to extend the salute, and the senior or superior will be scrupulously careful in returning it.

 

17.      No person shall be excused from the performance of his duties on the plea of sickness, unless so excused by the surgeon; and no person whose name is on the sick-list, will be permitted to leave the ship, unless it be recommended by the surgeon and approved by the commandant.

 

18.      Any student who shall, when absent from the ship, commit any immoral or disgraceful act, may, on satisfactory proof, be punished as though the offence had been committed on board, even to dismissal, if necessary, from the naval service.

 

19.      Officers and others having cause of complaint against any person connected with the ship, or employed in any capacity on board, will make the same known to the commandant; and they are not to undertake to address a complaint to a higher authority, unless the commandant should fail promptly to notice the same, or the decision given by him should be unsatisfactory.

 

20.      It shall be the duty of every officer, professor, and instructor attached to the ship, having knowledge of any violation of a law or regulation, or of any crime, irregularity, neglect, or other improper conduct of which a student or any other person has been guilty, to report the same without delay to the commandant.

 

21.      No student shall use any reproachful or provoking speech or gesture towards another, or shall by any means traduce or defame another, or strike, or in any manner offer violence to another, without subjecting himself to the severest punishment which the offence may require.

 

22.      The punishments to which students shall be liable for offences they may commit whilst borne on the rolls of the school-ship exclusive of those resulting from demerits, or such as may proceed from judicial investigations by courts-martial, or courts of inquiry, will be distributed among the following three classes:

 

First Class. – Confinement to the limits of the ship; private reprimands; deprivation of recreation within the ship; confinement to room or apartment; reprimand to be read on parade; suspension from recitations and from all drills and exercises.

 

Second Class. – Confinement in guard-room.

 

Third Class. – Dismissal, unless the offender avail himself of a privilege that my be granted to him of resigning; public dismission.

 

23.      Punishments of the first or second class, just mentioned, may be directed by the commandant, or the commanding officer of the ship for the time being; but, unless in an extreme case, the circumstances of which are to be communicated to the department with all proper dispatch, “deprivation of recreation within the ship” shall not be prolonged beyond twenty days; “suspension from recitations and all drills and exercises” beyond fourteen days, or “confinement in the guard-room” beyond one week, without the direct sanction of the Secretary of the Navy.

 

24.      “Confinement in guard-room” shall only be ordered upon those who, in the judgment of the commandant or commanding officer, shall be guilty of highly insubordinate, riotous, or mutinous conduct, or who shall not conform to the conditions imposed when ordered to confine themselves to their rooms, apartments, or to other limits which may be prescribed to them.

 

25.      Any student who shall leave the guard-room without express permission, when placed there for punishment, may be regarded as guilty of the very serious military offence of breach of arrest.

 

26.      Removal from the service, either with or without permission to resign, will only be authorized or ordered by the Secretary of the Navy, with the sanction of the President of the Confederate States.

 

27.      While a student is under the punishment of “confinement to the limits of the ship,” he is, on no account, to go out of the ship, either in a boat or otherwise, unless ordered so to do by a superior officer.

 

28.      When a student is under the punishment of “deprivation of recreation within the vessel,” he is, on no account, to absent himself from his room or apartment, except during the times absolutely necessary to enable him to attend the recitations of his studies, meals, parades, drills, exercises of small arms, swords, or great guns, and to answer the calls of nature.

 

29.      While a student is under the punishment of “confinement to room or apartment,” he is, on no account, to absent himself from his room or apartment, except during the times absolutely necessary to enable him to attend meals, and to answer the calls of nature.

 

30.      While a student is under the punishment of “suspension from recitations and all drills and exercises,” he is, on no account, to absent himself from his room or apartment, except during the times absolutely necessary to enable him to answer the calls of nature.

 

31.      Any student who shall hesitate or refuse to submit to any of the foregoing punishments of the first or second class, when ordered so to do by the commandant, or the commanding officer for the time being, may be dismissed forthwith from the naval service; and if any student or students shall, individually or collectively, decline or refuse to convey into confinement, either to a guard-room or other designated place, any other student or students, when ordered so to do by competent authority, or shall not obey the order promptly and literally, he or they may likewise be so dismissed.

 

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