PRIVATE SIGNAL 666 PROJECTILES if his vessel of such sia, Sardinia, and Turkey united in a declaration was acting independently that " privateering is and remains abolished." superior officer. The United States, however, has never assented Fifth. After the foregoing deductions, the residue is distributed all others to this declaration, and as to it, therefore, priva among doing on the books of the teering remains legitimate. See INTERNATIONAL duty board, and borne upon 10 DECLARATION OF. the fleet-captain, in LAW, ; PARIS, ship, including proportion PRIVATEERSMAN. One of the crew of a priva to their respective rates of pay. teer. All vessels of the navy within signal-distance Private Signal. A signal intelligible only to of the vessel making the capture, and in such condition as to able to render effective aid if those having the key. be Prize. A captured vessel or other property required, will share in the prize. Any person taken in naval warfare. The right to all cap temporarily absent from his vessel may share in no his absence. tures vests primarily in the sovereign, and captures made during The prize- individual can have any interest in a capture court determines what vessels shall share in a vessel what he re and also whether the was of by a public or private except prize, prize superior, ceives under the grant of the state. See INTER equal, or inferior force to the vessel or vessels of NATIONAL LAW, 11. the captors. The Secretary of the Navy deter PRIZE-COURT. The court whose jurisdiction mines what persons are entitled to share in the includes the adjudication and disposition of prize-money awarded a vessel, and transmits 12. their to the who ascer prizes. See INTERNATIONAL LAW, names Fourth Auditor, PRIZE-GOODS. Those taken upon the high seas tains, according to the above rules of distribution, jure belli from the enemy. the correct amount of each person s share. On PRIZE-LIST. A return of all the persons on application the Auditor will issue a certificate board, whether belonging to the ship or super payable to the person entitled, provided Congress at the time a is made those has authorized the an numeraries, capture ; payment by appropriation. who may be absent on duty are included. See BOUNTY FOR DESTRUCTION OF ENEMY S PRIZE-MASTER. The officer to whom a prize is VESSELS. given in charge to carry her into port. The share of prize-money awarded to the PRIZE-MONEY. Proceeds of the sale of cap United States is set apart forever as a fund for tures made as prize by authority of the United the payment of pensions to naval officers, seamen, States. Vessels and their as and marines entitled to if more cargoes captured pensions ; and, prize must be sent into port for an adjudication than sufficient for that purpose, the surplus is in a prize-court in the manner prescribed by law. applied to the making provision for the comfort If condemned, the property is sold by the U. S. of disabled officers, seamen, and marines. The marshal, and the proceeds, when the capture was Secretary of the Navy is trustee of the naval by a vessel or vessels of the navy, disposed of pension fund, and the fund is invested in securi according to the decree of the court. If the ties of the United States bearing 3 per cent, in prize was of equal or superior force to the vessel terest. See NAVY PENSION FUND. or vessels making the capture, the whole of the Privateers, and vessels not in the navy, but net will be decreed to the and controlled other executive of the proceeds captors ; by departments when of inferior force, one-half will be decreed government, do not come within the above pro to the United States and the other half to the visions, but are entitled to prize-money under captors. The prize-money adjudged to captors laws relating especially to themselves. is distributed in the following proportions : Proa. See FLYING PROA. First. To the commander of a fleet or squad Probation. The novitiate period of cadets. one-twentieth of all from before ron, part prize-money Procyon (Gr. pro/cuon ; pro, ; awarded to any vessel or vessels under his im kudn, a dog, so called from its rising before mediate command. Sirius). The proper name for the bright star Second. To the commander of a division of a a Canis Minoris. It makes an equilateral triangle fleet or squadron, on duty under the orders of with Sirius and Betelguese. See CANIS MINOR. thecommander-in-chief of such .fleet or squadron, Professors of Mathematics. These officers a sum equal to one-fiftieth of any prize-money were first appointed in the U. S. navy in 1831, awarded to a vessel of the division under his for the purpose of instructing midshipmen on command, to be paid from the moiety due the board ship, but such instruction has been found United if there be such if and no of mathe States, moiety ; not, unprofitable, latterly professors from the amount awarded to the captors. This matics have been employed at sea. A limited fiftieth part is not awarded in addition to the number have been continued on the list at the share he would be entitled to as commander of a Naval Academy and Naval Observatory. The single ship making a capture, and he may elect first to receive the appointment was Prof. Elisha which he will receive. Fitch, September 25, 1831, who died October 15, Third. To the fleet-captain, one-hundredth part 1839. At the present time there are 12 professors of all prize-money awarded to any vessel of the of mathematics in the navy on the active list, 3 fleet in which he is serving, except where the having the relative rank of captain, 4 that of capture is made by the vessel on board of which commander, 5 of lieutenant, and on the retired he is serving, in which case he will share, in list 1 with rank of commodore, 3 of captain, and proportion to his pay, with the other officers and 2 of commander. men on board such vessel. Projectiles. A projectile is properly, from its Fourth. To the commander of a single vessel, derivation, anything that is thrown forward, and one-tenth of all the prize-money awarded to the may therefore not only refer to missiles to be vessel, if such vessel at the time of the capture employed against an enemy, but, as well, to was under the command of the commanding signals of danger in peace times, or to the means officer of a fleet or a division, and three-twentieths employed to carry a line to the crew of a stranded.