Excerpt from Historical Sketch of the United States Naval AcademyThe Naval Regulations issued in 1802 assigned no particular duties to the but directed the commanding officers to consider them as meriting in an especial degree the fostering care of the Government. Commanders were to see that the schoolmasters performed their duty toward the midshipmen by diligently and faithfully instructing them in those sciences appertaining to their department while the midshipmen, on their part, were to consider it a duty they owed to their country to employ a due portion of their time in the study of naval tactics, and in acquiring a thorough and extensive knowledge of all the various duties to be performed on board of a ship of war.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.