While it is realized that an article on the workings of a navy yard pay-office may not be of such universal interest as is a subject relating to the general-mess or kindred matters—such subject having an appeal to every member of the Service, from captain to coal-passer—yet, since the management of a yard pay office appertains at some time to the duties of nearly two hundred officers of the staff, and its efficiency affects the financial comfort of all officers of the navy and many thousand civilian employees, the preparation of this paper may, perhaps, be justified. It is, however, fitting to premise that these remarks are not intended in any way for the information of those pay-officers of the upper grades whose experience and knowledge are greater than the writer's; but are rather designed to illumine the labors of the comparative tyro whose pay-office assignment is yet a thing of the future.
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