Chapter 391. making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty three, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 391.— An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty three, and for other purposes.August 5, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Appropriations, naval service. That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the naval service of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and for other purposes: 285 For the pay of the Navy, for the active-list, namely:
For one Admiral,Navy active-list. one Vice Admiral, twelve rear-admirals, eight chiefs of bureau, twenty-four commodores, forty-nine captains, eighty-nine commanders, eighty lieutenant-commanders, two hundred and eighty lieutenants, one hundred and one masters, one hundred ensigns, eighty-two midshipmen, fifteen medical directors, fourteen medical inspectors, fifty surgeons, seventy-nine passed assistant surgeons, ten assistant surgeons, two assistant surgeons not in the 1 ne of promotion, who shall, after fifteen years’ service, be entitled to receive, as annual pay, when at sea, twenty one hundred dollars; when on shore duty, eighteen hundred dollars, and when on leave or waiting orders, sixteen hundred dollars; twelve pay directors, thirteen pay-inspectors, fifty paymasters, thirty passed assistant paymasters, twenty assistant paymasters, sixty nine chief engineers, one hundred passed assistant engineers, thirty-five assistant engineers, seventy-three cadet engineers (graduates), twenty-four chaplains, twelve professors of mathematics, ten naval constructors, seven assistant naval constructors, ten civil engineers, one hundred and ninety-one warrant-officers, forty-one mates, two hundred and one cadet-midshipmen (on probation), one hundred and two cadet-engineers, one hundred and thirty-cadet midshipmen (not graduates); in all, four million forty-eight thousand three hundred dollars: *Provided*, That*Proviso.* hereafter there shall be no appointments of cadet-midshipmen or cadet-engineers at the Naval Academy, but in Heu thereof naval cadets shall be appointed from each Congressional district and at large, as now Provided by law for cadet-midshipmen, and all the undergraduates at the Naval Academy shall hereafter be designated and called “ naval cadets; ” and from those who successfully complete the six years’course appointmentsTerm “ naval cadets” substituted for cadetmidship-men. shall hereafter be made as it is necessary to fill vacancies in the lower grades of the line and Engineer Corps of theNavy andofthe Marine Corps: *And provided further*, That no greater number of appointments into these grades shall be made each year than shall equal the number of vacancies which has occurred in the same grades during the preceding year; such appointments to be made from the graduates of the year, at the conclusion of their six years’ course, in the order of merit, as determined by the academic board of the Naval Academy; the assignment to the various corps to be made by the Secretary of the Navy upon the recommendation of the academic board.
But nothing herein contained shall reduce the number of appointments from’ such graduates below ten in each year, nor deprive of such appointment any graduate who may complete the six years’ courseAppointments to equal number of vacancies in each year; exception. during the year eighteen hundred and eighty-two. And if there be a surplus of graduates, those who do not receive such appointment shall be given a certificate of graduation, an honorable discharge, and one year’s sea-pay, as now provided by law for cadet-midshipmen; and so much of section fifteen hundred and twenty-one ofSurplus of graduates, how dis-posed of. the Revised Statutes as is inconsistent herewith is hereby repealed.
That any cadet whose position in his class entitles him to be retainedR.S. 1521,261, repealed. in the service may, upon his own application, be honorably discharged at the end of four years’ course at the Naval Academy, with a proper certificate of graduation. That the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe a special course of Discharge with certificate of graduation.study and training at home or abroad for any naval cadet. That the pay of naval cadets shall be that now allowed by law to cadet-midshipmen; and as much of the money hereby appropriated as may be necessary during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eigh een hundred stud eighty-three, shall be expended for that purpose.
That the active-list of the medical corps of the Navy shall hereafterSpecial course of study may be prescribed.Pay of naval cadets. consist of fifteen medical directors, fifteen medical inspectors, Active-list of medical corps to consist of, etc.fifty surgeons, and ninety assistant and passed assistant surgeons. That the active-list of the pay corps of the Navy shall hereafter consistPay corps of Navy to consist of, etc. of thirteen pay-directors, thirteen pay-inspectors, forty paymasters, twenty passed assistant paymasters, and ten assistant paymasters. 286 That the active-list of the engineer corps of the Navy shall hereafterEngineer corps of Navy to consist of, etc. consist of ten chief engineers with the relative rank of captain, fifteen chief engineers with the relative rank of commander, forty-five chief engineers with the relative rank of lieutenant-commander or lieutenant, sixty passed assistant engineers, and forty assistant engineers, with the relative rank for each as now fixed bylaw; and after the number of officers in the said grades shall be reduced as above provided, the number in each grade shall not exceed the reduced number which is fixed by the provisions of this act for the several grades.
That no officer now in the service shall be reduced in rank or deprivedExemptions. of his commission by reason of any provision of this act reducing the Proviso.number of officers in the several staff corps: *Provided*, That uo further appointments of cadet-engineers shall be made by the Secretary of the 18 Stat., 192.Navy under section three of the act of eighteen hundred and seventy-four. That as vacancies shall occur in any of the grades of the medical, pay,Promotions to be made as vacancies occur,only, etc. and engineer corps of the Navy, no promotion shall be made to fill the same until the number in said grade shall be reduced below the number which is fixed by the provisions of this act for such grade.
For pay of the retired-list, namely: For forty-two rear-admirals,Retired-list. twenty commodores, twelve captains, ten commanders, fifteen lieutenant-commanders, eight lieutenants, eleven masters, five ensigns, two midshipmen, twenty-two medical directors, two medical inspectors, two surgeons, five passed assistant surgeons, seven assistant surgeons, nine pay-directors, two pay-inspectors, three paymasters, two passed assistant paymasters, one assistant paymaster, nine chief engineers, nineteen passed assistant engineers, twenty-five assistant engineers, nine chaplains, seven professors of mathematics, three naval constructors, ten boatswains, five gunners, thirteen carpenters, and ten sailmakers; in all, six hundred and ninety seven thousand ninebundred Vacancies, how filled.and twenty-five dollars.
Hereafter only one-half of the vacancies in the varions grades in the line of the Navy shall be filled by promotion until such grades shall be reduced to the following numbers, namely: rear admirals, six; commodores, ten; captains, forty-five; commanders, eighty-five; lieutenant commanders, seventy-four; lieutenants, two hundred and fifty; masters, seventy-five; ensigns, seventy five; and thereafter promotions to all vacancies shall be made but not to increase either of said grades above the numbers aforesaid.
Hereafter there shall be uo Promotions and increase oi pay prohibited.promotion or increase of pay in the retired list of the Navy but the rank and pay of officers on the retired list shall be the same that *Proviso.*they are when such officers stall be retired: *And provided further*, That whenever on an inquiry had pursuant to law, concerning the fitness ot an officer of Unfitness for promotion sufficient cause for discharge, instead of placed on retired-list, etc.Petty officers and men.the Navy for promotion, it shall appear that such officer is unfit to perform at sea the duties of the place to which it is proposed to promote him, by reason of drunkenness, or from any cause arising from his own misconduct, and having been informed of and heard upon the charges against him, he shall not be placed on the retired-list of the Navy, and if the finding of the board be approved by the President, he shall be discharged with not more than one year’s pay.
For pay to petty-officers, seamen, ordinary seamen, landsmen, and boys, including men in the engineers’ force, and for the Coast Survey Service, not exceeding eight thousand two hundred and fifty in all, two million four hundred and ninety thousand dollars. For two secretaries, one to the Admiral and one to the Vice Admiral,Secretaries, clerks to paymasters, etc., extra pay.Mileage. clerks to paymasters, clerks at inspections, navy-yards, and stations, and extra pay to men enlisted under honorable discharge; commission and interest, transportation of funds, exchange, mileage to officers while traveling under orders in the United States, and for actual personal expenses of officers while traveling abroad under orders; and officers of the Navy traveling abroad under orders hereafter issued shall travel by the most direct route, the occasion and necessity for such order to be certified by the officer issuing the same; and shall receive, in lieu of 287 the mileage now allowed by law, only their actual and reasonable expenses, certified under their own signatures and approved by the secretary Pay of officers, the number o f which may be in excess of quota fixed by provisions of this act.Credit of service.of the Navy; and for the payment of any such officers as may be in service, either upon the active or retired list, during the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, in excess of the numbers of each class provided for in this act, and for any increase of pay arising from different duty, as the needs of the service may require, three hundred thousand dollars.
And all officers of the Navy shall be credited with the actual time they may have served as officers or enlisted men in the regular or volunteer Anny or Navy, or both, and shall receive all the benefits of such actual service in al) respects in the same manner as if all said service had been continuous and in the regular Navy: *Provided*, That*Proviso.* nothing in this clause shall be so construed as to authorize any change in the dates of commission or in the relative rank of such officers.
And Balances of cert a i n appropriations may be used, etc., for pay of officers.should the sums appropriated for the pay of the officers on the active and retired lists of the Navy be insufficient, then and in that case the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to use any and all balances which may be due or become due to “pay of the Navy,” from the other bureaus of the department, for that purpose. For contingent expenses of the Navy, namely: For rent and furnitureContingent expenses. of buildings and offices not in navy-yards; expenses of courts-martial and courts of inquiry, boards of investigation, exandning boards, with clerks’ and witnesses’ fees,and traveling expenses and costs; stationery and recording; expenses of purchasing-paymasters’ offices at the various cities, including clerks, furniture, fuel, stationery and incidental expenses; newspapers and advertising; foreign postage; telegraphing, foreign and domestic; telephones; copying; care of library; mail and express wagons and livery and express fees and costs of suits; commissions, warrants, diplomas, and discharges; relief of vessels in distress and pilotage; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; care and transportation of the dead; reports, professional investigation, and information from abroad; and all other emergencies, and extraordinary expenses arising at home or abroad, but impossibleExtraordinary expenses. to be anticipated or classified, exclusive of personal services in the Navy Department or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at Washington, District of Columbia, one hundred thousand dollars.
BUREAU OF NAVIGATION. For foreign and local pilotage and towage of ships of war; servicesNavigation supplies. and materials in correcting compasses on board ship, and for adjusting and testing compasses on shore; nautical and astronomical instruments, nautical books, maps, charts, and sailing directions, and repairs of nautical instruificnts for ships of war; books for libraries for ships of war; naval signals and apparatus, namely, signal-lights, lanterns, rockets, running-lights, drawings, and engravings for signal-books; compass-fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ships’ corn-passes; logs anti other appliances for measuring the ship’s ways, and leads and other appliances for sounding; lanterns and lamps, and their appendages, for general use on board ship, including those for the cabin, wardroom, and steerage, for the holds and spirit-room, for decks and quartermasters’ use; bunting and other materials for flags, and making and repairing flags of all kinds; oil for ships of war other than that used for the engineer department, candles when used as a substitute for oil in binnacles and running-lights, for chimneys and wicks, and soap, used in navigation department; stationery for commanders and navigators of vessels of war, and for use of courts-martial; musical instruments and music for vessels of war; steering-signals and indicators, and for speaking-tubes and gongs, for signal communication on board vessels of war, one hundred thousand dollars.
For experimenting in lighting vessels of war by means of electricity,Experiments in lighting vessels of war by electricity. five thousand dollars. 288 For beginning the transfer to copper-plates of five hundred and thirtyTransfer, etc., of photolithographic charts.Contingent expenses. photolithographic charts, fifteen thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of the Bureau of Navigation, namely: For freight and transportation of navigation materials; postage and telegraphing on public business; advertising for proposals; packing-boxes and materials; and all other contingent expenses, four thousand dollars. ’ For the civil establishment at naval-yards and stations, five thousandCivil establishment. two hundred and eight dollars and sixty-two cents.
To complete survey of west coast of Mexico and extend the same to theCompletion of survey of west coast of Mexico, etc. Gulf of Dulce, fourteen thousand dollars. BUREAU OF ORDNANCE. For fuel, tools, materials, and labor used in procuring, producing, andOrdnance stores and supplies. preserving ordnance material; for the armament of ships, and for the general work of the Ordnance Department for these purposes, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The words “ ordnance” and “gunpowder” in section thirty-seven hundred and twenty-one of Meaning of words “ordnance” and “gunpowder” in R.
S. 3721,7:15.the Revised Statutes shall be construed to mean offensive and defensive arms, ammunition, and explosives, the apparatus tor their military use, and the materials for producing the whole, and also transportation, necessary information concerning them, and whatever is requisite in military experiments with them. For steel rifled breech-loading guns, with carriages and ammunition, one Steel tiled brooch-loading guns.hundred thousand dollars. For necessary repairs to ordnance buildings, magazines, gun-parks, boats, lighters,Repairs, etc. wharves, machinery’, and other objects of the like character (including the necessary building at the Powder house, etc., at magazine, Mare Island.Miscellaneous.magazine at Mare Island for filling powder and shell and storing empty tanks, two thousand five hundred dollars), seventeen thousand five hundred dollars.
For miscellaneous items, namely: For freight to foreign and home stations, advertising and auctioneers’ fees, cartage and express charges, repairs to fire-engines, gas and water pipes, gas and water tax at magazines, toll, ferriage, foreign postage, and telegrams, three thousand five hundred dollars. For the civil establishment at naval-yards and stations, five thousandCivil establishment. nine hundred and forty-three dollars and twelve cents. For the torpedo corps, namely: For labor, material, and freight and expressTorpedo corps. charges; general repairs to grounds, buildings, and wharves; boats; instruction, experiments, and general torpedo outfits; purchase of torpedoes and appliances for their use, sixty thousand dpllars.
BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING. For equipment of vessels: For coal for steamers’ and ships’ use,Equipment of vessels. including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling; hemp, wire, and other materials for the manufacture of rope; bides, cordage, canvas, leather, iron for manufacture of cables, anchors, galleys, and chains; furniture, wood, hose, bake-ovens, and cooking-stoves; boat-detaching apparatus; life-rafts for monitors; heating-apparatus for receiving-ships; and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels and manufacture of equipment articles in the several navy-yards, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For expenses of recruiting: For expenses of recruiting, rent of rendezvous,Recruiting. and expenses of maintaining the same, advertising for men and boys, and all other expenses attending the recruiting for the naval service, ten thousand dollars. For transportation of enlisted men: For expenses attending the transportationTransportation of enlisted men. of enlisted men and boys at home and abroad, thirty-five thousand dollars. 289 For contingent expenses equipment and recruiting:
For extra expensesContingent expenses. of training-ships, freight and transportation of equipment stores, printing, advertising, telegraphing, books and models, postage, car-tickets, ferriage, ice, apprehension of deserters and stragglers, assistance to vessels in distress, continuous-service certificates and good-conduct badges for enlisted men, schoolbooks for training-ships, extra medals for boys, and emergencies arising under cognizance of Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting unforeseen and impossible to classify, fifteen thousand dollars.
For the civil establishment at navy-yards and stations, nine thousandCivil establishment. one hundred and twenty five dollars and eighty-seven cents. BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS. For general maintenance of yards and docks, namely: For freight Yards and docks.and transportation of materials and stores, books, models, maps, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines; machinery, and patent rights to use the same; repairs on steam fire-engines, and attendance on the same; purchase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and driving teams, carts, and timber-wheels for use in the navy-yards, and tools and repairs of the same; dredging; postage and telegrams; furniture for government houses and ofiices in the navy-yards; coal and other fuel; candles, oil, and gas; cleaning and clearing up yards, and care of public buildings; attendance on fires; lights; fire-engines and apparatus; for clerical and incidental labor at navy-yards: water-tax, and for toll and ferriages; rent of officers quarters at.
League Island; pay of the watchman in the navy-yards; and for awning and packing boxes, two hundred and twenty thousand dollars. For contingent expenses that may arise at navy-yards and stations,Contingent expenses.Civil establishment.*Proviso.* twenty thousand dollars. For the civil establishment at navy-yards and stations, eighteen thousand nine hundred and fifty-three dollars and twelve cents: *Provided, *That if the Secretary of the Navy shall find that work at all the navy-yards now maintained cannot be carried on during the current fiscal year with advantage to the service and economy to the government for the amounts in this act appropriated for the maintenance of and civil Suspension of work, etc., at yards.establishment at the navy yards, he shall not make any deficiency for these purposes, but he shall suspend work at those yards where he finds it can best be dispensed with, and shall close such yards and transfer all perishable property and stores therefrom to other yards for use therein, and report the facts and the reasons governing bis action to the next session of Congress; and at the yards so closed only such officers and employees shall be retained as are necessary to preserve and take care of the property of the government, and all other persons shall be transferred or discharged: *Provided further*, That the navy-yard*Proviso.*Work at navy-yards, Washington and Boston. at Washington, District of Columbia, may, at the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, be maintained as a manufacturing yard for the Bureaus of Equipment and Recruiting and Ordnance, and that work may be continued in the rope-walk in the Boston*Proviso.* navy-yard: *And provided further*, That nothing herein shall be held to interfere with the permanent improvement of any navy-yard as now authorized by law, or the expenditure for such purpose of any money appropriated by Congress therefor.
That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized and Navy-yard, Norfolk.Proposed purchase of additional land and water front for wet-dock, etc.directed to ascertain on what terms can be had such additional lands and water front contiguous to the Norfolk navy-yard as are deemed necessary for the construction of a wet-dock, and such other works as are demanded for the sufficient capacity and efficiency of that yard; and that he report the result of such negotiations to the next session of Congress.
That the Secretary of the Navy shall appoint a commission, to consistCommission to examine and re- of three persons, one of whom shall be appointed from the line officers 290 and one from the staff officers of the Navy, and one from civil life, which port as to sale of navy-yards, etc.commission shall consider and report to the next session of Congress upon the question whether it is advisable to sell any of the navy-yards, and, if so, which; and as to each of said yards said commission shall report as to its cost, its area, its present value, including in separate items the value of the land, structures, machinery, and other personal property; the depth of water at the yard, and whether it remains and will remain at such depth, or will require expense to keep open its water communication; its condition as to .being in working order or otherwise; the condition and value of its “plant” in the different Departments; its advantages and disadvantages as a naval station, and for the construction of vessels; its probable value for other purposes, in case the yard is discontinued; whether there is any demand for the yard for mercantile or other purposes; whether it can probably be sold, and at what price, in case of discontinuance; the annual cost during each of the past fifteen years of maintaining it; the value of what it has produced during each of said years, so far as it can be ascertained; its value or necessity for purposes of defense on that part of the coast where it is situated, or in general, and also as regards any city in its vicinity; and any other facts which such commission may deem useful or advisable to report in regard to this question.
BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY. For support of the medical department, for surgeons’ necessaries forSurgeons’ necessaries. vessels in commission, navy-yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and Coast Survey, forty thousand dollars. For the naval-hospital fund, namely: For maintenance of the navalHospital fund. hospitals at the various navy-yards and stations, thirty thousand dollars. And if the Secretary of the Navy shall not be able to maintain properly the whole number of naval hospitals now kept open, on the amounts hereby appropriated for the maintenance of and civil establishment at naval hospitals, he shall close those which are least necessary to the service, and provide for the patients now cared for therein at such other naval hospitals as may be most convenient.
For contingent expenses of the bureau: For freight on medical stores;Contingent expenses. transportation of insane patients to the government hospital; advertising; telegraphing; purchase of books; expenses attending the medical board of exandners; rent of rooms for naval dispensary; purchase and repair of wagons and harness; purchase and feed of horses and cows; trees, garden-tools, and seeds, fifteen thousand dollars. For necessary repairs of naval laboratory, naval hospitals, and appendages,Repairs. including roads, wharves, outhouses, sidewalks, fences, gardens, farms, and cemeteries, fifteen thousand dollars.
For the maintenance of the civil establishment at the several naval Civil establishment.hospitals, navy-yards, naval laboratory, and Naval Academy, twenty thousand dollars. For continuing investigations of atmospheric impurities, two thousand Investigation of atmospheric impurities.dollars. BUREAU OF PROVISIONS AND CLOTHING. For provisions for the seamen and marines; commuted rations forProvisions and Clothing. officers, seamen, and marines; expenses of the handling and transportation of provisions; of inspections and storehouses; and for purchase of water for ships, for cooking and drinking purposes, and for provisions and commutation of rations for seven hundred and fifty boys, one million dollars.
For contingent expenses: For freight on shipments (except provisions),Contingent expenses. candles,’fuel; books and blanks; stationery; advertising and commissions on sales; foreign postage, telegrams, and express charges; toll, ferriages, and car-tickets; and yeoman’s stores, iron safes, ice, 291 newspapers, and incidental expenses absolutely necessary, fifty thousand dollars. For civil establishment, six thousand two hundred and five dollarsCivil establishment. and seventy-five cents.
BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR. For preservation and completion of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary;Construction , preservation, etc., of vessels, etc purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; labor in navy-yards and on foreign stations; preservation of materials; purchase of tools; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat, and for general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair, and incidental expenses, namely, advertising and foreign postage, one million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no*Proviso.*Repairs of wooden ships.Repairs of ships abroad. part of this sum shall be applied to the repairs of any wooden ship when the estimated cost of such repairs shall exceed thirty per centum of the estimated cost of a new ship of the same size and like material: *Provided, *Nothing herein contained shall deprive the Secretary of the authority to order repairs of ships damaged in foreign waters or onConstruction of two steam cruising vessels; limit of cost; to be built of steel. the high seas, so far as may be necessary to bring them home.
Any portion of said sum not required for the purposes aforesaid may be applied toward the construction of two steam cruising vessels of war, which are hereby authorized, at a total cost, when fully completed, not to exceed the amount estimated by the late Naval Advisory Board for such vessels, the same to be constructed of steel, of domestic manufacture, having as near as may be a tensile strength of not less than sixty thousand pounds to the square inch, and a ductilityTonnage. in eight inches of not less than twenty five per centum; said vessels to be provided with full sail-power and full steam power.
One of said vessels shall be of not less than five thousand nor more than six thousand tons displacement, and shall have theSpeed.Armament. highest attainable speed, and shall be adapted to be armed with not more than four breech-loading rifled cannon, of high power, of not less than eight-inch caliber, or two of ten-inch caliber, and not more than twenty-one breech-loading rifled cannon, of high power, of not less than six-inch caliber; one of said vessels shall be of not less than four thousand three hundred nor more than four thousand seven hundred tons displacement, and shall have the highest attainable speed, and shall be adapted to be armed with four breech-loading rifled cannon, of high power, of not less than eight-inch caliber, or two of ten-inch caliber, and not more than fifteen breech-loading rifled cannon, of high power, of not less than six-inch caliber.
The secretaryAppointment of a Naval Advisory Board authorized. of the Navy is hereby empowered and directed to organize a board of naval officers and experts for bis advice and assistance, to be called the “Naval Advisory Board,” to serve during the period required for the construction, armament, and trial of the vessels hereby authorized to be constructed, and no longer. Said board shall consistof fiveofficerson the active list of the Navy in the line and the staff, to be detailed by the secretary of the Navy, without reference to rank and with reference only to character, experience, knowledge, and skill, and two persons of established reputation and standing, as experts in naval or marine construction, to be selected from civil life, and employed for this sole duty by the Secretary of the Navy, and to be paid such sum, out of the appropriation Compensation.hereby made, not exceeding eleven thousand dollars, as he may direct: *Provided however*, That no person shall be a member of said board who has any interest, direct*Proviso.* or indirect, in any invention, device, or process, patented or otherwise, to be used in the construction of said vessels, their engines, boilers, or armament, nor in any contract for the same.
It shallDuties. be the duty of said board to advise and assist the secretary of the Navy, in his office or elsewhere, in all matters referred to them by him relative to the designs, models, plans, specifications, and contracts for said vessels in all their parts, and relative to the mate rials to be used therein and to the construction thereof, and espe- 292cially relative to the harmonious adjustment, respectively, of their hulls, machinery, and armament; and they shall examine all materials to be used in said vessels, and inspect the work on the same as it progresses, and have general supervision thereof, under the direction of said Secretary.
But said board shall have no power to make or enter into any Drawings, specifications in a d e, etc.; when adopted and approved, no change to be made except, etc.contract, nor to direct or control any officer of the Navy, the chief of any bureau of the Navy, or any contractor. Neither of the vessels hereby authorized to be built shall be contracted for or commenced until full and complete detail drawings and specifications thereof, in all its parts, including the hull, engines, and boilers, shall have been provided or adopted by the Navy Department, and shall have been approved, in writing, by said board, or by a majority of the members thereof, and by the Secretary of theCompensation in case of change, etc., in construction.
Navy; and after said drawings and specifications have been provided, adopted, and approved as aforesaid, and the work has been commenced or a contract made for it, they shall not be changed in any respect, when the cost of such change shall in the construction exceed five hundred dollars, except upon the approval of said board, or a majority of the members thereof, in writing, and upon the written order of the Secretary of the Navy; and, if changes are thus made, the Interior deflective steel armor.actual cost thereof and the damage caused thereby shad be ascertained, estimated, and determined by said board; and in any contract made pursuant to this act it’shall be provided in the terms thereof that the contractor shall be bound by the determination of said board, or a majority thereof, as to the amount of the increased or diminished Public advertisement, etc., for plans, models, designs, etc.compensation said contractor shall be entitled to receive, if any, in consequence of such change or changes.
The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to cause the said cruising vessels of war aforesaid to be provided with interior deflective steel armor, if the same, upon full investigation, shall seem to be practicable and desirable, and if the same shall be approved by said board, or a majority thereof, in writing. Before any of the vessels hereby authorized shall be contracted for or commenced the Secretary of the Navy shall, by proper public advertisement and notice, invite all engineers and mechanics of established Board to examine and report, etc.reputation, and all reputable manufacturers of vessels, steam-engines, boilers, and ordnance, having or controlling regular establishments, and being engaged in the business., all officers of the Navy, and especially all naval constructors, steam-engineers, and ordnance officers of the Navy, having plans, models, or designs of any vessels of the classes hereby authorized, or of any part thereof, within any given period, not less than sixty days, to submit the same to said board; and it shall be the duty of said board to carefully and fully examine the same and to hear any proper explanation thereof, and to report to the Secretary of the Navy, in writing, whether, in their opinion, any such plan, model, or design, or any suggestion therein, is worthy of adoption in the construction of said vessels, their engines, boilers, or armament; and if in such construction any such plan, model, design, or suggestion shall be adopted, for the use of which any citizen not an officer of the Navy would have a just claim for compensation, the contractor shall bind himself to discharge the government from all liability on account of such adoption and use: *Proviso.*Board to prepare plans, drawings, etc., for vessels, machinery, and armament.Civil establishment.*Provide^* That said Naval Advisory Board herein provided for shall, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, prepare plans, drawings, and specifications for vessels, their machinery, and armament, recommended by the late Naval Advisory Board not herein authorized to be built.
For the civil establishment, twenty’ thousand and fifty’ two dollars and eighty seven cents. BUREAU OF STEAM-ENGINEERING. For repairs, completion, and preservation of machinery and boilersSteam machinery. in vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase and preservation of all 293 materials and stores; and patent rights, purchase, fitting, and repair of machinery and tools in the navy-yards and stations; wear, tear, and repair of machinery and boilers of naval vessels; incidental expenses, such as foreign postages, telegrams, advertising, freight, photographing, books, and instruments, one million six hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, ThatProviso no part of said sum shall be applied to the repair of engines and machinery of wooden ships where the estimated cost of such repair shall exceed thirty per cent, of the estimated cost of new engines and machinery of the same character and power.
That four hundred thousand dollars of the above amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be applied by the Secretary of the Navy to the following objects, namely: Under the Bureau of Construction and Repair: To building and fitting the turrets and pilothouse of the ironclad steamer Miantonomoh;ironclad steamers Miantonomob, and Monadnock, Puritan, Amphitrite, and Terror. and to the launching to the best advantage with such necessary attachments and appliances as will render redocking of the ships unnecessary, of the iron clad steamers Monadnock, Puritan, Amphitrite, and Terror; and that no further steps shall be taken or contracts entered into or approved for the repairs or completion of any of the four iron clads aforesaid until the further order of Congress; and the NavalNaval Advisory-Board to examine and report on completing engines, etc.
Advisory Board, created by this act, is directed to report to the secretary of the Navy in detail by the first day of December, eighteen hundred and eighty two, as to the wisdom and expediency of undertaking and completing the engines, armor, and armaments of said iron clads, and whether any changes in the original plan or plans should be made, together with the cost of the completion of each according to the plans recommended, if the completion of any of them is recommended; and the said Secretary shall transmit said report to Congress at its next session with his recommendation thereon, and that any part of the appropriation for said bureau not used as above specified may be applied toward the construction of engines and machinery of the two new cruising vessels provided for in this act.
For the purchase of one testing-machine, for making tests of plate-iron,Purchase of testing machine.Contingent expenses.Civil establishment. and so forth, six thousand dollars. For contingencies, such as instruments and materials for draughtingroom, one thousand dollars. For the civil establishment, ten thousand and nineteen dollars. NAVAL ACADEMY.Naval Academy. For pay of professors and others: For two professors, namely, one ofPay of professors and others. mathematics and one of chemistry, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; three professors (assistants), namely, one of physics, one of Spanish, and one of English studies, history, anti law, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; six assistant professors, namely, four of French, one of English studies’, history, and laws, and one of drawing, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; swordmaster, atone thousand five hundred dollars, and two assistants, at one thousand dollars each; boxing-master and gymnast, at one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant librarian, at one thousand four hundred dollars; secretary of the Naval Academy, one thousand eight hundred dollars; three clerks to superintendent, at one thousand two hundred dollars, one thousand dollars, and eight hundred dollars, respectively; one clerk to commandant of cadets, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk to paymaster, one thousand dollars; one dentist, one thousand six hundred dollars; one baker, six hundred dollars; one mechanic in department of physics and chemistry, seven hundred and thirty dollars; one messman, two hundred and eighty-eight dollars; one cook, three hundred and twenty-five dollars and fifty cents; one messenger to superintendent,six hundred dol lars; one armorer, five hundred and twenty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one gunner’s mate, four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents, and one quarter-gunner, four hundred and nine dollars and fifty cents; one cockswain, four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one 294 seaman in the department of seamanship, one seaman in the Department of astronomy, and one seaman in the department of physics and chemistry, at three hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty cents each; one bandmaster, five hundred and twenty-eight dollars; twenty-one first-class musicians, at three hundred and forty-eight dollars each; seven second class musicians, at three hundred dollars each; in all, fifty-two thousand five hundred and six dollars.
For pay of watchmen and others: For captain of the watch and weigher,Captain of watch, watchmen, and others. at two dollars and fifty per day; four watchmen, at two dollars per day each; foreman of the gas and steam heating works of academy, atfive dollars per day; ten attendants at gas and steam-heating works, one at three dollars, one at two dollars and fifty cents, and eight at two dollars per day each; one steam-pipe fitter, six hundred dollars; one foreman of joiners, one foreman of painters, and one foreman of masons, at three dollars and fifty cents per day each; one mason, at three dollars per day; two joiners and one painter at two dollars and fifty cents per day each; one tinner, one gas fitter, and one blacksmith, at two dollars and fifty cents per day each; in all, twenty-four thousand five hundred and seven dollars and fifty cents.
For pay of mechanics and others: For one mechanic at workshop, atMechanics and laborers. two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem; one master-laborer, to keep public grounds in order, at two dollars and twenty-eight cents per diem; fourteen laborers, to assist in same, three at two dollars per diem each and eleven at one dollar and fifty cents per diem each; one laborer, to superintend quarters of cadet-midshipmen and public grounds, at two dollars per diem; six attendants at recitation-rooms, library, paymaster’s office, chapel and offices, and store, at twenty dollars per month each; twenty servants, to keep in order and attend to quarters of cadet-midshipmen and public buildings, at twenty dollars per month each; in all, sixteen thousand eight hundred and thirty-five dollars and ninety-five cents.
For pay of employees in the department of steam-engineering: ForEmployees in Department of steam-engineering. master machinist, boilermaker, and pattern-maker, at one thousand two hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty cents per annum each; two machinists, one blacksmith, and one molder, at nine hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents per annum each; and two laborers, at five hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty cents per annum each; in all eight thousand five hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty cents.
For necessary repairs of public buildings, pavements, wharves, andRepairs of buildings, etc. walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, and for improvements, repairs, and furniture and fixtures, twenty-one thousand dollars For fuel, and for heating, and lighting the academy and school-ships,Fuel, lights, etc. seventeen thousand dollars. For contingent expenses, Naval Academy: For purchase of books for theContingent expenses.Stationery. library, two thousand dollars. For stationery, blank-books, models, maps, and for text books for use of instructors, two thousand dollars.
For expenses of the board of visitors to the Naval Academy, two thousand sixBoard of visitors. hundred dollars. For purchase of chemicals, apparatus, and instruments in the Department of physics and chemistry, and for repairs of the same, two thousand fiveChemicals, etc. hundred dollars. For purchase of gas and steam machinery; steam-pipe and fittings;Miscellaneous. rent of building for the use of the academy; freight, cartage, water, music, musical and astronomical instruments; uniforms for the bandsmen, telegraphing; and for feed and maintenance of teams; and for the current expenses and repairs of all kinds; and for incidental labor and expenses not applicable to any other appropriation, thirty-four thousand six hundred dollars. - For stores in the department of steamenginery, eight hundred dollars.
For materials for repairs in steam-machinery, one thousand dollars. 295 MARINE CORPS. For pay of officers on the active-list, as follows: For one colonelPay. commandant, one colonel, two lieutenant-colonels, one adjutant and inspector, one quartermaster, one paymaster, four majors, two assistant quartermasters, one judge-advocate-general United States Navy, nineteen captains, thirty first lieutenants, and fourteen second lieutenants, one hundred and seventy-two thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.
For pay of officers on the retired-list: For one colonel, one lieutenant-colonel, three majors, two assistant quartermasters, two captains, three first lieutenants, and three second lieutenants, twenty-seven thousand three hundred and seventy dollars. For pay of non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates: For one leader of the band, one sergeant-major, one quartermaster sergeant, and one drum major, fifty first sergeants, one hundred and forty sergeants, one hundred and eighty corporals, thirty musicians, ninety six drummers and flfers, and one thousand five hundred privates, three hundred and eighty-nine thousand and fifty-two dollars.
For ten clerks and two messengers, sixteen thousand and thirty-five dollars; payments to discharged soldiers for clothing undrawn, twenty thousand dollars; transportation of officers traveling under orders without troops, eight thousand dollars; commutation of quarters for officers where there are no public buildings, ten thousand dollars; in all, fifty-four thousand and thirty-five dollars. For provisions, sixty-eight thousand and thirteen dollars and ten cents.Provisions. For clothing, seventy-nine thousand eight hundred and twenty-three dollars and forty cents.Clothing.
For fuel, eighteen thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars and fifty cents.Fuel. For military stores, namely: For pay of one chief armorer, at threeStores. dollars per day; three mechanics, at two dollars and fifty cents per day each; purchase of military equipments, such as cartridge-boxes, bayonet-scabbards, haversacks, blanket-bags, canteens, musket slings, swords, flags, knapsacks, drums, fifes, bugles, and other instruments, five thousand dollars; for purchase of one hundred Springfield rifles, one thousand five hundred dollars; purchase of ammunition, one thousand dollars; purchase and repair of instruments for the band, and purchase of music, five hundred dollars; in all, eleven thousand two hundred and eighty-six dollars and fifty cents For transportation of troops and for expenses of recruiting, ten thousand dollars.Transportation and recruiting.Repairs of bar racks.
For repairs of barracks, and rent of buildings to be used for the manufacture of clothing, stores for supplies, and offices of assistant quartermaster at Philadelphia, and for hire of quarters where there are no public buildings, thirteen thousand dollars. For forage for four public horses, one for messenger to commandantForage. and stall’, Washington, District of Columbia, and three for general use at marine barracks, Mare. Island, California, and League Island, Pennsylvania, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For the purchase of forage, four thousand six hundred and eighty dollars: *Provided*, That no commutation for forage shall be paid.*Proviso.*Contingencies. For contingencies, namely: For freight; ferriage; toll; cartage; funeral expenses of marines; stationery; telegraphing; rent of telephone; apprehension of deserters; per diem to enlisted men employed on constant labor; repair of gas and water fixtures; office and barrack furniture; packing-boxes; wrapping-paper; oilcloth; crash; rope; twine; carpenter’s tools; tools for police purposes; purchase and repair of hose; repairs to public carryall; purchase and repair of harness; purchase and repair of handcarts and wheelbarrows; purchase and repair of cooking-stoves, ranges, and so forth; stoves where there are no grates; purchase of ice; towels and soap for offices; improving parade- 296grounds; repair of pumps; and for other purposes, including gas and oil for marine barracks maintained at the various navy-yards and stations; and water at marine barracks, Boston Massachusetts;
Brooklyn New York; and Mare Island, California; also straw for bedding tor enlisted men at the various posts, and furniture for government houses, twenty-five thousand dollars. At the Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; For superintendent,Naval Asylum. six hundred dollars; steward, four hundred and eighty dollars; matron, three hundred and sixty dollars; cook, two hundred and forty dollars; two assistant cooks, one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; chief laundress, one hundred and ninety-two dollars; six laundresses, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; nine scrubbers and waiters, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; six laborers, at two hundred and forty dollars each; stable-keeper and driver, three hundred and sixty dollars; master-at-arms, four hundred and eiglity dollars; corporal, three hundred dollars; barber, three hundred and sixty dollars; carpenter, eight hundred and forty-five dollars; water rent and gas, two thousand dollars; ice, two hundred dollars; car tickets two hundred and fifty dollars; cemetary and burial expenses, headstones, and digging graves, three hundred and fifty dollars; improvement of grounds, five hundred dollars; repairs to buildings and preservation of all kinds, painting, and for grates, furnaces, ranges, furniture, billiard tables, and repairs of furniture, four thousand five hundred dollars; and for support of beneficiaries, forty-three thousand five hundred dollars; in all, fifty-nine thousand eight hundred and thirteen dollars; which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund Sec. 2. —That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Navy, asInventory and appraisenent of stores and supplies in bureaus of Navy Department, etc. soon as may be after the passage of this act, to cause an account to be taken of the stock of stores and supplies pertaining and belonging to the several bureaus of the Navy Department, in which account shall be stated the original cost of each article and the date of purchase, so far as the same is known, and cause an appraisement of the present value of such stores and supplies to be made and entered in such account; and said appraised value, when so entered, shall hereafter be the price at which they shall be charged in accounting with the several bureaus.
Appraisement to be made by boards of naval officers.Sale of unserviceable stores, etc.; proceeds paid into Treasury United States.Such appraisal shall be made by boards of officers of the Navy to be designated by the Secretary; and all such stores and supplies as shall be foundby boards of appraisers to be unserviceable for use in the Navy, shall be condemned and sold in the manner hereinafter provided for the sale of old materials, and the proceeds thereof, after deducting the cost of such appraisal, condemnation, and sale, shall be paid into the Treasury.
And no old material of the Navy shall hereafter he sold or exchanged by the Secretary of the Navy, or by any officer of the Navy, which can be profitably used by reworking or otherwise in the construction or repair of vessels, their machinery, armor, armament, or equipment; but the same shall be stored and preserved for future use. And when any such old material cannot be profitably used as aforesaid, the same shall be appraised and sold at public auction after public notice and advertisement shall have been given according to law under such rules and regulations and in such manner as the said Secretary may direct.
The net proceeds arising from the sales of such old materials shall be paid into the Treasury. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Navy Secretary of Navy to report annually to Congress.annually to report in detail to Congress, in his annual report, the proceeds of all sales of materials, stores, and supplies, made under the provisions of this act, and the expenses attending such sales. It shall also be the duty-of the Secretary of the Navy, as soon as may be after the passage of this act, to cause to be exandned by Board of officers, etc., to examine vessels not in actual service at sea, etc.competent boards of officers of the Navy, to be designated by him for that duty, all vessels belonging to the Navy not in actual service at sea, and vessels at sea as soon as practicable after (hey shall return to the United States, and hereafter all vessels on their return from foreign stations, and all vessels in the United States as often as once in three years, FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 391, 392. 1882. 297 when practicable; and said boards shall ascertain and report to theReport. Secretary of the Navy, in writing, which of said vessels are unfit for further service, or, if the same are unfinished in any navy-yard, those which cannot be finished without great and disproportionate expense, Condemned vessels, name of, to be stricken from Navy Register.Shore duty of officers prohibited; exceptions.and shall in such report state fully the grounds and reasons for their opinion.
And it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Navy, if he shall concur in opinion with said report, to strike the name of such vessel or vessels from the Navy Register and report the same to Congress Sec. 3. No officer of the Navy whose pay is appropriated for in this bill shall be employed on any shore duty after October first eighteen hundred and eighty two, unless the Secretary of the Navy shall determine that the employment of an officer on such duty is required by the public interests, and shall so state in the order of employment, and also the duration of such service, beyond which time it shall not continue.
Approved, August 5, 1882.