Chapter 849.
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Chap. 849 Statutes, 1st sess., 49th Cong., p. 215, to be observed. of the act of August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled “An act to increase the naval establishment,” as to material for said vessels, their engines, boilers, and machinery, the contracts under which they are built, the notice of and proposals for the same, the plans, drawings, and specifications therefor, and the method of executing said contracts, shall be observed and followed, and said vessels shall be built in compliance with the terms of said act, so far asContracts. the same relate to vessels constructed under contract, save that in all their parts they shall be of domestic manufacture.
The contracts for the construction of said cruisers shall contain provisions to the effect that the contractor guarantees that when completed and tested for speed, under conditions to be prescribed by the Navy Department, the vessel shall exhibit a maximum speed of at least nineteen knots per hour; and for every quarter knot of speed so exhibited above said guaranteePremiums for speed. the contractor shall receive a premium over and above his contract price of fifty thousand dollars, and for every quarter knot that said vessel fails of reaching said guaranteed speed there shall be deducted from the contract-price the sum of fifty thousand dollars.
In making proposals for contracts for building the vessels authorizedPlace of building. to be constructed under this act, it shall be required that one of such vessels shall be built on or near the coast of the Pacific Ocean, or the waters connecting therewith, one of them on or near the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, or the waters connecting therewith, and two of them on or near the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, or the waters connecting therewith, and at such places on or near such coasts or waters as the Secretary of the Navy shall approve.
If it shall appear to the satisfaction of the President of the UnitedPresident may designate place of construction. States, from the biddings for said contracts, when the same are opened and examined by him, that said vessels cannot be constructed at a fair cost on or near the coast of the Pacific Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico, he shall authorize the construction of said vessels or either of them elsewhere in the United States. And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to readvertise for the construction of cruiser number one,Readvertisement for construction of Newark. known as “The Newark,” and the limit of cost of said vessel is hereby extended to one million three hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of armament.
Sec. 3. That for the purpose of further increasing the naval establishmentFurther increase. of the United States, the sums of money hereinafter named are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended by the President, in the exercise of his discretion, upon plans and specifications, to be furnished by the Navy Department: For floating batteries or rams, or other naval structures, to be usedFloating batteries. for coast and harbor defense, one million dollars.
The final cost of said floating batteries, rams, or other naval structures, exclusive of armament, shall not exceed two million dollars. For the purchase of, and the trial and testing of torpedoes and appliancesTorpedoes. using explosives to be operated from naval vessels, floating batteries, or rams, fifty thousand dollars, which sum shall be immediately available. That the material used in all naval structures provided for in thisMaterial, etc., to be of American manufacture. act, and the armament for the same shall be, so far as practicable, of American production and furnished and manufactured in the United States, and all contracts made for their construction shall be under theLaws 1st secs. 49th Cong., p. 215.*Proviso*. provisions of the act of August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled “An act to increase the naval establishment:” *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy may employ and pay out of appropriations for new ships such civilian expert aids, additional draughtsmen, writers, copyists, and model-makers on the designs therefor as may be necessary. 594 Sec. 4.
For expenditure towards the construction and completionCompletion of double turreted monitors, etc.Vol. 23, p. 433.Laws 1st sess. 49th Cong., p.2l5. (exclusive of armament) of the five double-turreted monitors, the four vessels authorized by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and the vessels authorized by the act of August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, two million four hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Towards the armament, of domestic manufacture, for the vessels authorizedArmament. by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, of the vessels authorized by sections one and two of the act of August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, of the unfinished monitors mentioned in section three of the same act, and of the Miantonomoh, and of the vessels authorized by this act, two million one hundred and twenty-eight thousand three hundred and sixty-two dollars.
Towards procuring, testing, and delivering the armor and gun steelArmor and gun steel. for the vessels authorized by section one of the act of August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and the unfinished monitors mentioned in section three of the same act, and the vessels authorized by *Proviso*.To be of domestic manufacture.this act, four million dollars: *Provided*, Said armor and gun steel shall be of domestic manufacture. Approved, March 3, 1887.