FORM NO. 1.

NOTICE TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS OF CANDIDATES

FOR ENLISTMENT IN THE NAVY.

Parents and guardians of candidates residing at a distance from New London should have their sons or wards who wish to enter the U. S. Training Ship examined by a competent physician. Any of the following conditions will be sufficient to cause the rejection of an applicant:

Greatly retarded development; feeble constitution, inherited or acquired; permanently impaired general health; decided cachexia, diathesis, or predisposition; chronic disease, or results of injuries sufficient to permanently impair efficiency, such as,—

Weak or disordered intellect; epilepsy, or other convulsions, within five years; impaired vision, or chronic disease of the organs of vision; great dulness of hearing, or chronic disease of the ears; chronic nasal catarrh, ozena, polypi, or great enlargement of the tonsils; marked impediment of speech; decided indications of liability to pulmonary disease; chronic cardiac affections; hernia, or retention of testes in inguinal cavity; cirsocele, hydrocele, stricture, fistula, or hemorrhoids; large varicose veins of lower limbs, scrotum, or cord; chronic ulcers; cutaneous and communicable diseases; unnatural curvature of the spine, torticollis, or other deformity; permanent disability of either of the extremities or articulations from any cause. Defective teeth, the loss or extensive caries of four molar teeth will cause the rejection of a candidate.

The following table will show the minimum standard of measurements required for boys at different periods from 15 to 18 years

of age:

The candidate must be able to read distinctly, with each eye singly, Snellen's twenty feet test type at a distance of fifteen feet.

Attention will also be paid to the stature of the candidate; and no boy manifestly under size for his age will be received on board the ship. In case of doubt about the physical condition of the candidate, any marked deviation from the usual standard of height will add materially to the consideration for rejection.

N. B.-No expense whatever will be allowed by the Government, whether a candidate is accepted or not.

STEPHEN B. LUCE,

Captain U. S. Navy, Commanding.

FORM NO. 2.

BOY'S OUTFIT.

I hereby acknowledge to have received from Paymaster, U. S. Navy, the following articles of clothing, etc., the cost of which to be charged to my account:

FORM NO. 3.

U. S. T. S. MINNESOTA, RULES TO BE OBSERVED.

II. Salute Officers, in uniform or citizens' clothes, whether on board ship or on shore, by standing erect and touching the cap.

III. An order from a boy petty-officer must be obeyed as promptly as one from a rated petty-officer. After the order has been complied with, if injustice has been done, the case should be reported to the Executive officer.

IV. Punctual return from leave is one of the first requirements of discipline.

V. Trafficking in clothing is prohibited. Any article of clothing found about the ship must immediately be turned over to the Masterat-arms. A boy found in possession of an article not belonging to him will expose himself to grave suspicion.

VI. Communications with the navy department must pass through the hands of the commanding officer.

VII. Improper language will not be tolerated.

VIII. Advancement and special privileges on board this ship will depend on good conduct and proficiency.

IX. The use of tobacco is strictly prohibited.

CAPTAIN S. B. LUCE, U. S. Navy..

NEW LONDON, CONN., Jan., 1880.

FORM NO. 4.

TO PASS FROM THIRD CLASS TO SECOND CLASS BOYS.

Outfit of clothing and bedding must be complete, marked and in good order; must have passed through the "setting up" exercises, facings, and movements by fours :

To distinguish petty-officers.

11. Where watches and parts of watch work in cleaning ships in port. At sea.

12. PARTS OF SHIP. Starboard, port, forward, aft, athwart ships, fore and aft, bow, stern, waist, on the bow, abeam, on the quarter, bulwarks, water ways, hammock nettings, keel, cut-water, stern-post, bilges.

13. SHIP'S FITTINGS. Hawse-holes, chain-pipes, bitts, compressors, capstans, hatchways, gratings, scuppers, pin-rails, fife-rails, chains, hammock-cloths, ladders.

14. MASTS AND SPARS. Lower-masts, top-masts, top-gallant and royal masts, try-sail masts, booms, gaffs, yards.

15. Shrouds, backstays, stays, pennants.

16. Square sails, fore and aft sails, head sails.

17. Bower anchors, sheet anchors, chains.

18. Boats and where they hoist.

19. Must know how to make square knot, bow-line, clove and two half hitches.

20. Regulations concerning use of tobacco.

superiors, either officers, or petty-officers.

25. Where is galley? Orlops? Yeoman's store room? holds? sail rooms? bag rooms.

26. Where and to whom to go when you have a complaint or report to make.

27. How hours are sounded on board ship.

28. Who and where is officer of deck.

29. How to address officers.

30. What is the signal of fire and what to do.

31. The parts of a gun and carriage.

32. Implements of gun.

33. Bugle aud drum calls.

[The examiner will here explain, clearly, to the applicant that he can never be an officer; that he cannot leave if dissatisfied, or if tempted by an outside occupation; that he must stay till he is twenty-one.] MORALS.

Arrested ever?

Intoxicating Liquors?

Tobacco ?

II.

Reformatory school?
Profanity?

Will he disuse tobacco?