Excerpt from The Petition of M. F. Maury to the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress Assembled Having completed this careful examination, the law required the Board to report to the Secretary of the Navy the names and rank of all officers who, ln lts judg ment, should be incapable of performing promptly and efficiently all their duty both. Ashore and afloat; and, whenever said Board shall believe said incompetency has arisen from any cause implying suficiefnt blame on the part of the officer to justify it, ...
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Excerpt from The Petition of M. F. Maury to the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress Assembled Having completed this careful examination, the law required the Board to report to the Secretary of the Navy the names and rank of all officers who, ln lts judg ment, should be incapable of performing promptly and efficiently all their duty both. Ashore and afloat; and, whenever said Board shall believe said incompetency has arisen from any cause implying suficiefnt blame on the part of the officer to justify it, they shall recommend. That his name be stricken altogether from the rolls. It is submitted that there be comparatively. But, few officers in the navy capable of performing promptly and efficiently all their duty both ashore and afloat. Naval duties are multifarious, and iavolve attainments of. The highest order in many-departments of learning and know ledge; and it is rare to find anyone officer a perfect master of every branch of art and science. Connected with his profession. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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