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	Board of Navy Commissioners - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The establishment of the Board of Naval Commissioners by act of Congress on February 7, 1815 (3 Stat.
		As provided by the act, the board, attached to the Office of the Secretary, was composed of three post-captains appointed by the U.S. President and confirmed by the Senate; the ranking officer of the board was to be its president.
		James K. Paulding (later Secretary of the Navy during the Van Buren administration) served as secretary of the board from 1815 to 1823.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Board_of_Navy_Commissioners (678 words)

	Chief of Naval Operations (CNO)
		The CNO is a four-star admiral and is responsible to the Secretary of the Navy for the command, utilization of resources and operating efficiency of the operating forces of the Navy and of the Navy shore activities assigned by the Secretary.
		A member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the CNO is the principal naval adviser to the President and to the Secretary of the Navy on the conduct of war, and is the pricipal adviser and naval executive to the Secretary on the conduct of activities of the Department of the Navy.
		He is the principal naval adviser to the President and the Secretary of the Navy on the conduct of war, and on the conduct of the activities of the Department of the Navy.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/cno.htm (1455 words)

	BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
		When the board refers to the documents and sees the fact that all of these properties had the 1957 agreement first in the chain of title, together with the deeds that all specifically mention the road, taken together it is clear that all of the properties not only have a road, but a public one.
		Commissioner Carlson asked what the impact is if the board is able to separate a land use decision and a title decision and have one act in a certain way and the other act differently.
		Commissioner Carlson stated she is not interested in dealing with the variance issue until the public and private issue is taken care of.
	commissioners.co.marion.or.us /Minutes/2005/1_19_05.asp (12869 words)

	RG45: Records of Boards and Commissions, 1812-90.
		As provided by the act, the board, attached to the Office of the Secretary, was composed of three post-captains appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate; the ranking officer of the board was to be its president.
		Included are letters received from the Secretary of the Navy transmitting communications sent to his office concerning plans and inventions (see entry 363 for the communications), from scientists accepting invitations to become associates of the commission, and from inventors requesting appearances before the commission to explain their inventions and submitting models, drawings, and other material.
		The board was appointed by the Secretary of the Navy on August 27, 1866, under a provision of an act of July 25, 1866 (14 Stat 222), for the appointment to the Regular Navy of a specified number of volunteer officers.
	www.history.navy.mil /library/guides/rg45-boards.htm (8772 words)

	Navy Decorations
		The Board continued in effect until 1842 when it was replaced by a system of naval "bureaus" under which the Navy's affairs were arranged along functional lines within five bureaus.
		In 1909 a General Board of the Navy was established to serve as an advisory body to the Secretary on matters of personnel, operations, matériel, and inspections.
		Within the Department of the Navy, the Navy includes naval combat and service forces and such aviation as may be organic.
	foxfall.com /fmd-navy.htm (601 words)

	Board Of Commissioners
		Meetings of the Tualatin Valley Water District Board of Commissioners are broadcast on Tualatin Valley Cable Access (PDF) channel 28.
		Jim believes that the Board faces a number of critical issues associated with the continued delivery of an abundant quantity of high quality, affordable water to the residents of the district.
		Commissioner Martin is striving for clean, safe, and affordable water for all District customers, and is working diligently with TVWD staff to secure a new water supply contract with the City of Portland in 2005.
	www.tvwd.org /board/board.htm (620 words)

	HyperWar: U.S. Government Manual--1945 [Department of the Navy]
		The examinations of officers to promotion to the grade of rear admiral, Medical Corps, are customarily conducted by a special examining board composed of officers of the grade of rear admiral, of which the president of this Board is a member, and the examination records are handled by this office.
		The Naval Clemency and Prison Inspection Board, convened by precept of the Acting Secretary of the Navy, of August 27, 1943, considers applications of naval prisoners for clemency and for restoration to duty.
		During the temporary absence of the Secretary of the Navy, the Under Secretary of the Navy, and the Assistant Secretaries of the Navy, the Commander in Chief, United States Fleet, and Chief of Naval Operations shall be next in succession to act as Secretary of the Navy.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USGM/Navy.html (10117 words)

	RG45: Records of Bureaus, 1823-1933.
		The Depot of Charts and Instruments, established under the Board of Navy Commissioners in 1830, was transferred to the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography, and in 1850 the U.S. Naval Academy was also placed under the bureau.
		In 1862 the Bureau of Navy Yards and Docks became the Bureau of Yards and Docks; the functions of the bureau remained relatively unchanged.
		Included are letters exchanged between the Secretary of the Navy and the chief of the bureau concerning the time, cost, and amount of work involved in the towing operations; detailed reports submitted to the bureau by naval officers conducting the experiments; and memorandums containing instructions to officers taking part in the experiments.
	www.history.navy.mil /library/guides/rg45-bureaus.htm (4117 words)

	Lighthouse Service History
		The Board demanded that only those who could read were to be appointed as keepers in order that they be able to read their written instructions.
		Most important, the Board was constantly mindful of advancing technology and took advantage of new types of lighthouses, buoys, or fog signals, as well as improvement in lighthouse optics.
		But the new commissioner had but four years to serve; in 1939 the duties of the Bureau of Lighthouses were amalgamated into the operations of the U.S. Coast Guard.
	www.michiganlights.com /lighthouseservice.htm (2732 words)

	DANFS Ships-of-the-Line Appendix
		In September 1825, Doughty provided a statistical table on the North Carolina class to the Navy Commissioners "showing the difference between the ships building, and their deviations from the draughts." This table is the most authorative contemporary document found on the actual dimensions of the North Carolina class of 74s.
		He remained from 1812 to 1837, advising the Board of Navy Commissioners and drafting leading warship designs including the Navy's new class of "double-banked frigates." The latter were improvements over the famed Constitution-Constellation classes of 1798.
		Survey of Independence--Extract from Navy Commissioners propsal to Secretary of the Navy that Independence be surveyed by experienced shipwrights and naval officers to determine "what are her defects and the best remedy for them." Letter of the Board of Navy Commissioners--National Archives.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/line/sotl.htm (10522 words)

	Portsmouth Navy Yard Closing
		Their principal reasons for abandoning the Navy Yard in this state are “ its snow storms in Winter and its Fogs in Spring and Fall--- its remote position and Boston intervening which deprive it of any advantages it might otherwise possess as an auxiliary establishment."
		By what process of reasoning the Coms have arrived at the result that a concentration of Navy Yards and Depots will be safe in time of War or beneficial in times of Peace we are unable to say.
		Resolved as the sense of this House that the Senators and Reps.in Congress from this State be requested to use all lawful and honorable means to prevent the abandonment of the Navy Yard in this State.
	www.maine.gov /sos/arc/exhibits/navyyardtrans.html (516 words)

	Chapter 5
		Congress voted to expand the US Navy to 9 ships of the line (74 guns) and 12 frigates that were to be built slowly over time.
		The Board of Navy Commissioners was replaced by five Bureaus: Yards & Docks, Construction, Equipment & Repair, Medicine & Surgery, and Ordnance & Hydrography.
		The Navy undertook explorations of the Amazon, Rio de la Plata, Arctic Sea, Pacific Ocean & charted the west coast of Africa.
	www.austincc.edu /purcell/AM5m.htm (1052 words)

	COMMODORE DAVID PORTER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		From 1815 to 1822 he was a member of the Board of Navy Commissioners but gave up his post to command the expedition tasked to suppress piracy in the West Indies from 1823 to 1825.
		At the outbreak of the Civil War, Commodore Porter’s son, Admiral David Dixon Porter (1813 –1891), was promoted to the rank of Commander and in 1862 he led the mortar fleet in the bombardment of forts south of New Orleans.
		Admiral Porter was an early proponent of littoral warfare as he emphasized the importance of protecting the coastal approaches to the large, seaboard cities of the United States with heavily armored monitors and the heaviest guns.
	www.porter.navy.mil /namesake.htm (445 words)

	Seeing The Light - Lighthouse Service chronology
		The Board was composed of two officers of the Navy, two officers of the Engineer Corps, and two civilians of "high scientific attainments." The Board was empowered under the Secretary of the Treasury, who served as President of the Board.
		The Board was further empowered to divide the coast of the United States into twelve lighthouse districts, with an army or navy officer assigned as lighthouse inspector for each.
		The Lighthouse Board reported that It had "at last succeeded in clothing all the male light-keepers, and the officers and crews of the lightships and the lighthouse tenders, in a neat, appropriate, and economical uniform, which the laborers employed as acting light-keepers are not allowed to wear.
	www.terrypepper.com /lights/lists/chronology.htm (3208 words)

	Charles Morris Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He entered the navy in 1799 and served in the Tripolitan War.
		At the outbreak of the War of 1812 he was made first lieutenant under Hull on the Constitution and later was given command of the Adams and the Congress.
		As a member of the Board of Navy Commissioners, 1823-1827 and 1832-1841, Morris was instrumental in a number of naval reforms.
	www.clements.umich.edu /webguides/arlenes/m/morrisC.html (147 words)

	Chauncey III dd 667
		Isaac Chauncey, born in Black Rock, Conn., 20 February 1779, was appointed a Lieutenant in the Navy from 17 September 1798.
		Perhaps his most outstanding service was during the War of 1812 when he commanded the naval forces on Lake Ontario, conducting amphibious operations in cooperation with the Army, and containing the large British squadron stationed there.
		His last service was as member, and, for 4 years, President, of the Board of Navy Commissioners.
	www.multied.com /navy/destroyer/Chaunceydd3.html (1142 words)

	DefenseLINK News: NAVY TO COMMISSION AEGIS GUIDED MISSILE DESTROYER PORTER (DDG 78) IN PORT CANAVERAL, FLA.
		He later served as a member of the Board of Navy Commissioners before resigning his commission to become commander in chief of the Mexican Navy.
		After the war, he served as superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy from 1866-1869 and a senior advisor to the secretary of the Navy.
		This high tech destroyer is equipped with the Navy's modern Aegis combat weapons system, the world's foremost naval weapons system.
	www.defenselink.mil /releases/1999/b03181999_bt110-99.html (665 words)

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		Captain Jones assumed command of the Mediterranean Squ adron in 1821, and in 1824 he was appointed to the Board of Navy Commissioners.
		Organized in September 1939 as a response to the war in Europe, the Neutrality Patrol was ordered to track and report the movements of any warlike operations of belligerents in the waters of the Western Hemisphere.
		The basic purpose of the patrol "was to emphasize the readiness of the United States Navy to defend the Western Hemisphere." In June, after 2 months of duty with the Neutrality Patrol, Jacob Jones returned to training midshipmen.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/destroy/dd130txt.htm (2029 words)

	DDG 73 Decatur
		On 13 June 1856 she arrived at Mare Island Navy Yard for repairs, and on 8 January 1857 sailed for Panama, touching at Central American ports for the protection of American interests.
		She embarked Secretary of the Navy C.D. Wilbur at Bremerton, Wash.; 28 July 1926 and cruised for official visits at Alaskan ports, returning to Bremerton 6 August.
		Struck from the Navy list on 16 March 1988, she was transferred to Naval Sea Systems Command for use as an experimental test platform.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/ddg-73.htm (3005 words)

	USS Decatur (DDG 73)
		The heritage of the name "Decatur" is recalled by the ship's mast and sail, recalling the Navy of Stephen Decatur's time and the first vessel to bear his name, a sloop-of-war built in 1838.
		Responsibility for the gunboat flotilla in the Chesapeake, management of the Norfolk Navy Yard, and command of all U.S. Naval forces on the Southeast coast followed.
		As Navy Commissioner, he opposed the reinstatement of Captain John Barron whom he had suspended from service much earlier while serving on an inquiry board.
	navysite.de /dd/ddg73.htm (720 words)

	University Press of Florida: Commodore John Rodgers
		Between 1798 and 1815, Rodgers fought with distinction in the Naval War with France, the Barbary War, and the War of 1812.
		He shaped the postwar development of the navy as president of the Board of Navy Commissioners from 1815 to 1835, and he led a major diplomatic mission to the Mediterranean in the mid 1820s.
		Resented for his gruff exterior but celebrated for his determination to build a navy of the highest professional standards, Rodgers never revealed to his naval contemporaries the passionate and emotional dimension of his character that is evident in his correspondence with his wife, Minerva, who bore him 11 children.
	www.upf.com /book.asp?id=SCHROF06 (343 words)

	USS Duncan
		The above is an extract from a letter of Commodore Thomas Macdonough written to Commodore John Rodgers, President of the Board of the Navy Commissioners.
		In obedience to the order of the commissioners I herewith transmitt an impartial and as far as I am capable of Judging a correct report of the character, and qualifications of each of the Commissioned & Warrant officers who were attached to my command on Lake Champlain commencing with
		Is a brave cool and deliberate young Man something of a Seaman whose habits are good, he was badly wounded on the 11th Septr.
	www.ussduncan.org /silas_page10.htm (246 words)

	USS John Rodgers (DD 983)
		The first one was from June 10, 1984, till March 13, 1985, at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula and the second overhaul was from April 1, 1991 till March 12, 1992 at Metro Machine, Chesapeake, Va.
		John Rodgers, born near present Havre de Grace, MD, 11 July 1772, entered the Navy as Second Lieutenant 8 March 1798 and was assigned to CONSTELLATION.
		Following the war, Rodgers headed the Board of Navy Commissioners until retiring in May 1837.
	navysite.de /dd/dd983.htm (1100 words)

	Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, the — Complete eBook
		Since it has been understood that such a step was in contemplation we have heard but one opinion expressed, and that in decided disapprobation of the measure.
		In England it was lately determined by the Admiralty to cut the Victory, a one-hundred gun ship (which it will be recollected bore the flag of Lord Nelson at the battle of Trafalgar,) down to a seventy-four, but so loud were the lamentations of the people upon the proposed measure that the intention was abandoned.
		We confidently anticipate that the Secretary of the Navy will in like manner consult the general wish in regard to the Constitution, and either let her remain in ordinary or rebuild her whenever the public service may require.”—New York Journal of Commerce.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/7400/9.html (352 words)

	The History Buff, Original Historical Autographs & Manuscripts
		This offering consists of 2 autograph letters signed and written as Head of the Board of Navy Commissioners one of which is illustrated.
		The letter reads in part --"The comissioners enclose the copy of a letter from Comissioner Warrington, I request you to state to the Board the reasons which induced the alterations in the cannodade beds of the John Adams." April, 8,1834.
		Rogers and his colleagues despite orders to the contrary took to the sea to engage the enemy aggressively and were very important in achieving final victory.
	www.ehistorybuff.com /rogers2als.html (459 words)

	RPO -- Oliver Wendell Holmes : Old Ironsides
		-- It has been affirmed upon good authority that the Secretary of the Navy has recommended to the Board of Navy Commissioners to dispose of the frigate Constitution.
		In England it was lately determined by the Admiralty to cut the Victory, a one-hundred gunship (which it will be recollected bore the flag of Lord Nelson at the battle of Trafalgar), down to a seventy-four, but so loud were the lamentations of the people upon the proposed measure that the intention was abandoned.
		We confidently anticipate that the Secretary of the Navy will in like manner consult the general wish in regard to the Constitution, and either let her remain in ordinary or rebuild her whenever the public service may require.' -- New York Journal of Commerce.
	rpo.library.utoronto.ca /poem/1032.html (438 words)

	USNO Command Authority
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	www.usno.navy.mil /pao/History/command_authority.shtml (45 words)

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