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CHAP. 494.— An act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and for other purposes.March 2, 1891. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Naval service appropriations. That the following sums be, and they arc 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 ninety-two, and for other purposes: pay of the navy.Pay of the Navy.
For the pay of officers on sea duty; officers on shore and other duty; officers on waiting orders; officers on the retired list; Admiral’s secretary; clerks to commandants of yards and stations; clerks to paymasters at yards and stations; general storekeepers; receiving ships and other vessels; extra pay to men reenlisting under honorable discharge; pay of petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and boys, including men in the engineers’ force and for the Coast Survey service and Fish Commission, seven thousand five hundred men and seven hundred and fifty boys at the pay prescribed by law; in all, seven million three hundred thousand dollars. pay, miscellasneous.Miscellaneous.
For commissions 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 for traveling expenses of apothecaries, yeomen, and civilian employees, and for actual and necessary traveling expenses of naval cadets while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment as cadets; for rent and furniture of buildings and offices not in navy yards; expenses of courts-martial, prisoners and prisons and courts of inquiry, 800FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 494. 1891. boards of investigation, examining boards, with clerks’ and witnesses’ fees, and traveling expenses and costs; stationery and recording; expenses of purchasing-paymasters’ offices of 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, including purchase of hooks, photographs, prints, manuscripts, and periodicals; ferriage, tolls, and express fees; costs of suits; commissions, warrants, diplomas, and discharges; relief of vessels in distress; canal tolls and pilotage; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; reports, professional investigation; cost of special instruction, at home or abroad, in maintenance of students and attaches and information from abroad, and the collection and classification thereof, and other necessary incidental expenses; in all, two hundred and forty thousand dollars.
Contingent, Navy: For all emergencies and extraordinary expensesContingent. arising at home or abroad, but impossible 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, seven thousand dollars. bureau of navigation.Bureau of navigation. Gunnery Exercises: For prizes for excellence in gunnery exercisesGunnery exercises. and target practice; for the establishment and maintenance of targets and ranges; for hiring established ranges, and for transportation to and from ranges, six thousand dollars.
Ocean and Lake Surveys: For ocean and lake surveys, theOcean and lake surveys. publication and care of the results thereof; the purchase of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, and freight and express charges on same; preparing and engraving on copper plates the surveys of the Mexican coasts, and the publication of a series of charts of the coasts of Central and South America, fourteen thousand dollars. Telegraphic Cable Surveys: To enable the President to causeTelegraph cable survey between San Francisco and Honolulu. careful soundings to be made between San Francisco, California, and Honolulu, in the Kingdom of the Hawaiian Islands, for the purpose of determining the practicability of the laying of a telegraphic cable between those points, twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, aim the President is hereby authorized to direct the use of any vessel or vessels belonging to the United States in making such survey.
Bounties for Outfits for Naval Apprentices: For bountiesNaval apprentices’ bounty. for outfits of seven hundred and fifty naval apprentices, thirty thousand dollars. Recruiting, Transportation, and Contingent, Bureau ofRecruiting, transportation, and contingent. Navigation: For expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent of rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for men and boys, and all other expenses attending the recruiting for the naval service, and for the transportation of enlisted men and boys at home and abroad; for heating apparatus for receiving and training ships, and extra expenses thereof; for freight, telegraphing on public business, postage on letters sent abroad, ferriage, ice, apprehension of deserters and stragglers, continuous-service certificates, good-conduct badges and medals for boys; school books for training ships; packing boxes and materials, and other contingent expenses and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation, unforeseen and impossible to classify, forty-five thousand dollars.
Naval Training Station, Coaster’s Harbor Island, RhodeNaval training station, Coaster’s Harbor Island, R. I. Island (for apprentices): For dredging channels, repairs to main causeway, roads, and grounds, extending seawall, and the employment of such labor as may be necessary for the proper care and 801 preservation of the same; for repairs and improvements on buildings, heating, lighting, and furniture for same: books and stationery, freight, and other contingent expenses; purchase of food and maintenance of livestock, and mail wagon and attendance on same, eighteen thousand dollars.
Naval War College and Torpedo School on Coaster’s HarborNaval War College and Torpedo School, Coaster’s Harbor Island, R. I. Island: For maintenance of the Naval War College and Torpedo school on Coaster’s Harbor Island, ten thousand dollars. bureau of ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance. Ordnance and Ordnance Stores: For procuring, producing,Material, supplies, etc. preserving, and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; for fuel, tools, and material, and labor to be used in the general work of the Ordnance Department; for furniture at magazines, at the ordnance dock, New York, and at the naval ordnance and proving ground, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars; proof of naval armament, ten thousand dollars; expenses of target practice, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars.
New Magazine: For new magazine for naval purposes at SitkaNew magazine at Sitka, or Juneau, Alaska. Craney Island magazine, Norfolk, Va. or Juneau, Alaska, ten thousand dollars. Craney Island Magazine: For dredging on the channel to Craney Island Magazine, Norfolk Harbor, and for repairs to the wharves and buildings, fifteen thousand dollars. Purchase of Floating or Tug Crane: For the purchase of aFloating or tug crane, New York navy yard. floating or tug crane for use in the transportation of material at the New York navy yard, thirty thousand dollars.
Reserve Supply of Projectiles: For reserve supply of projectilesReserve supply of projectiles. for vessels in commission, thirty thousand dollars. Repairs, Bureau of Ordnance: For necessary repairs to ordnanceRepairs. buildings, magazines, gun parks, boats, lighters, wharves, machinery, and other objects of the like character, thirty thousand dollars. Torpedo Station, Bureau of Ordnance. Newport, Rhode Island:Torpedo station, Newport, R. I. For labor, material, freight, and express charges; general care of and repairs to grounds, buildings, and wharves; boats, instruction, instruments, tools, furniture, experiments and general torpedo outfits, sixty thousand dollars.
Armor Tests: For the purpose of making ballistic tests and experimentsArmor tests. in the development of American armor the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to use one hundred thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary out of the apppropriation of one million dollars appropriated by joint resolution of September twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety, for the purchase of nickel ore or nickel matte. Naval Militia: For arms and equipment connected therewithNaval militia. for naval militia of various States under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Contingent, Bureau of Ordnance: For miscellaneous items,Contingent. namely: Freight to foreign and home stations; advertising; cartage and express charges; repairs to fire engines: gas and water pipes: gas and water tax at magazines; toll, ferriage, foreign postage, and telegrams to and from the Bureau, eight thousand dollars. Civil Establishment, Bureau of Ordnance: For the civilCivil establishment. establishment under the Bureau of Ordnance, namely: Navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire:
For one writer, whenPortsmouth. required, five hundred dollars. Navy yard. Boston, Massachusetts: For one writer, when required,Boston. five hundred dollars. Navy yard, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundredNew York. dollars. 802 Navy yard. Washington, District of Columbia: For one clerk, atWashington. one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at twelve hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; one draughtsman, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; three draughtsmen, at one thousand and eighty-one dollars each: one assistant draughtsman, at seven hundred and seventy-two dollars: two foremen, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; two copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one telegraph operator and copyist, at nine hundred dollars;
Navy yard. Norfolk/Virginia: For one clerk, at one thousandNorfolk. two hundred dollars; Navy yard, Mare Island, California: For one writer, at one thousandMare Island. and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; Naval ordnance proving-ground: For one writer, atone thousand and Proving-ground.seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island: For one chemist.,Torpedo station, Newport, R. I. at two thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one draughtsman, at one thousand five hundred dollars.
In all, twenty-six thousand eight hundred and twenty-four dollars, and no other fund appropriated lay this act shall be used in payment for such service. bureau of equipment.Bureau of equipment. Equipment of vessels: For purchase of coal for steamers’ andEquipment of vessels. ships’ use, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same; hemp. wire. iron, and other materials for the manufacture of cordage, anchors, cables, galleys, and chains; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, hammocks, and other canvas work; water for steam launches: stationery for commanding and. navigating officers of ships, equipment officers, on shore and afloat, and for the use of courts-martial on board ship, and for the purchase of all other articles of equipment at home and abroad and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels and manufacture of equipment articles in the several navy yards; foreign and local pilotage and towage of ships of war; services and materials in repairing, correcting, adjusting, and testing compasses on shore and on board ship; nautical and astronomical instruments, and repairs to same; libraries for ships of war; professional books and papers, and drawings and engravings for signal books; naval signals and apparatus, namely: signals lights, lanterns, rockets, running lights, compass-fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ships’ compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship’s way. and leads and other appliances for sounding; lanterns and lamps, and their appendages for general use on board ship, for illuminating, purposes, and oil and candles used in connection therewith; bunting and other materials for making and repairing flags of all kinds; photographic instruments and materials; musical instruments and music; and for introducing and maintaining electric lights and interior signal communications onboard vessels of war, nine hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
Civil Establishment, Bureau of Equipment: Navy yard,Civil establishment. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars. Navy yard, Boston, Massachusetts; For one superintendent of ropeBoston. walk, at one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand three hundred dollars; one writer, at nine hundred and fifty dollars; Navy yard, New York:
For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred New York.dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one- 803 writer, at one thousand dollars; one storekeeper, at nine hundred dollars. Navy yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at oneLeague Island. thousand two hundred dollars: Navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For two clerks, at one thousand two hundred Norfolk.dollars each; Navy yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousand two Mare Island.hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars;
Navy yard. Washington, District of Columbia: For one clerk, at oneWashington. thousand dollars. In all, nineteen thousand and twenty-five dollars; and no other fund appropriated by this act shall be used in payment for such service. Contingent, Bureau of Equipment: For freight and transportationContingent. of equipment stores, packing boxes and materials, printing advertising, telegraphing, books and models; postage on letters sent abroad; ferriage, ice, lighterage of ashes, and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Equipment unforeseen and impossible to classify, fifteen thousand dollars. bureau of yards and docks.Bureau of yards and docks.
Maintenance of yards and docks: For general maintenance ofGeneral maintenance. yards and docks, namely: For freight; transportation of materials and stores;, books, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines; machinery; repairs on steam fire-engines and attendance on the same; purchase and maintenance of oxen, horses, and driving teams; carts, timber-wheels, and all vehicles for use in the navy yards: tools and repairs of the same; postage on letters and other mailable matter on public service sent to foreign countries, and telegrams; stationery; furniture for Government houses and offices in navy yards; coal and other fuel; candles, oil. and gas; cleaning and clearing up yards and care of buildings; attendance on fires, lights, fire engines, and apparatus: for incidental labor at navy yards; water-tax. tolls, and ferriage; rent of four officers’ quarters at Philadelphia,Philadelphia.
Pennsylvania: pay of watchmen in navy yards: awnings and packing boxes, and advertising for yard, dock and other purposes, two hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Public Works.—Navy Yards and Stations.Public works at navy yards and stations. Portsmouth. Navy Yard. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For constructing reservoir and perfecting water system, twenty-two thousand two hundred and eighty-seven dollars. Navy Yard,’ Boston, Massachusetts: For constructing steelBoston. shears, twelve thousand dollars; extensions and renewals in water-pipe system, and repairs of wharves, five thousand dollars.
Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York: For quay wall on cob dock,Brooklyn. one hundred thousand dollars; paving and sewers around new dry-dock, twenty-one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five dollars; for one crane, five thousand dollars. Navy Yard. League Island, Pennsylvania: For west dry-dockLeague Island. pier, eighty-seven thousand four hundred and forty-one dollars and sixty-two cents; for rip rap for protection wall, nine thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; for continuation of light retaining wall. twenty-five thousand dollars; for sewers and flushing tank, five thousand six hundred and eighty-five dollars.
Navy Yard. Washington, District of Columbia: For extensionWashington. of railroad tracks, three thousand five hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents; for sanitary improvements for Smith quadrangle, five thousand dollars; converting paint shop into two officers’ quarters, eight thousand two hundred and twenty dollars and 804 fifty-nine cents, the total cost not to exceed the sum hereby appropriated; for dredging and filling in, five thousand dollars. Navy Yard, Norfolk, Virginia:
For extending machine shopNorfolk. for steam engineering, four thousand one hundred and sixty-six dollars; for extension of quay wall, twenty-five thousand dollars. Coaling Station, Port Royal, South Carolina: To continuePort Royal. the construction of a timber dry-dock at the coaling station atTimber dry-dock. Port Royal, South Carolina, and for the work provided for by the naval *Ante*, p. l94.appropriation act. approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Dry-Dock on Puget Sound: That the Secretary of the Navy be,Dry dock at Port Orchard, Puget Sound. and he hereby is, authorized to acquire for the purposes of a dry-dock a tract of land not exceeding two hundred acres in extent on Puget Sound, at Port Orchard in the county of Kitsap, State of Site.Washington, at such point as he may select, and a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars to pay for said land is hereby appropriated: Construction.and the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to have constructed by contract after public advertisement upon said land so selected, fur Dimensions.naval and commercial purposes, a dry-dock, to be not less than six hundred feet in length, not less than seventy feet in width at bottom of entrance, and capable of admitting vessels drawing thirty feet of Limit of cost, etc.water; the cost of said dry-dock not to exceed seven hundred thousand dollars, of which the sum of two hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for use during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two.
And the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, empoweredPurchase or condemnation. and directed to purchase said tract of land at such price as he may deem reasonable; and where he is unable to purchase the same at such price or where the owner or owners of any of said tract of land may be unable for any reason to vest by voluntary conveyance a complete and valid title to any part of said tract of land hereinbefore described, then the same shall be acquired by condemnation, Vol. 25, p. 357.agreeably to the act of Congress of August first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight relative to such condemnations, and to the laws of the State of Washington for the condemnation of land for public *Proviso*.uses in that State: *Provided*, That no money to be appropriated for No expenditure until valid title, etc., pass.said dry dock shall be available until a valid title to the land constituting the site of the same is vested in the United States, nor until the State of Washington shall cede to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over said tract of land during the time the United States may be or remain the owner thereof for all purposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said State and the service of any civil process thereon.
Navy Yard. Mare Island. California: For widening gaugeMare Island. of railroad track, six thousand five hundred dollars: for roads, five thousand dollars; extension of quay wall, twenty-five thousand dollars; for removal and reconstruction of return wall, sectional dry-dock basin, eleven thousand two hundred and eighty-five dollars and twenty-four cents; one twelve-ton crane, four thousand dollars. Launching Ways-and Slips at New York and NorfolkRepairs. Navy Yards: For launching ways and granite slips, thirteen thousand dollars to be made immediately available.
Repairs and Preservation at Navy Yards and Station: ForLaunching ways and granite slips, New York and Norfolk. repairs and preservation at navy yards and stations, three hundred thousand dollars. Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For contingent expensesContingent. that may arise at navy yards and stations, twenty thousand dollars. Civil Establishment, Bureau of Yards and Docks: NavyCivil establishment. Portsmouth. yard. Portsmouth. New Hampshire: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars: one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; one 805 foreman laborer and head teamster, at four dollars per diem, including Sundays; one janitor, at six hundred dollars; one pilot, at three dollars per diem, including Sundays; one foreman mason, when required, at four dollars and fifty cents per diem, one thousand four hundred and thirteen dollars;
Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one clerk, at one thousandBoston. four hundred dollars; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one messenger to commandant, at. one dollar and seventy-six cents per diem; one messenger, at one dollar and seventy-six cents per diem, one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one writer, at nine hundred dollars; Navy Yard, Brooklyn., New York: For one clerk, at one thousandBrooklyn. four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; two masters of tugs, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; two writers, at nine hundred dollars each; one foreman laborer, at four dollars and fifty cents per diem: one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; two messengers, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem each; one draughtsman, at five dollars per diem; one quarterman, at three dollars per diem; one superintendent of teams or quarterman, at four dollars per diem; one messenger to commandant, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem, including Sundays;
Naval Station, Sackett’s Harbor, New York; For one ship-keeper,Sackett’s Harbor. at three hundred and sixty-six dollars per annum; Navy Yard, League Island. Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at oneLeague Island. thousand four hundred dollars; one writer and telegraph operator, at one thousand dollars; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; Navy Yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one clerk, atWashington. one thousand four hundred dollars: one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one electrician to care for and be in charge of electric plant for electric lighting and fire alarm, one thousand dollars;
Navy Yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For one clerk, at one thousandNorfolk. four hundred dollars; one writer, atone thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one writer, at one thousand dollars; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays: two messengers, at two dollars per diem each, one pilot, at two dollars and twenty-six cents per diem; Navy yard, Pensacola, Florida: For one clerk, at one thousandPensacola. two hundred dollars; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays;
Navy yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousandMare Island. four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one foreman mason, at six dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at five dollars and fifty cents per diem; one pilot, at four dollars and eighty cents per diem, one draughtsman. at five dollars per diem; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one messenger and lamplighter, at two dollars per diem; one electrician to care for and be in charge of electric plant for electric lighting, one thousand two hundred dollars:
Naval station, Key West, Florida: For one messenger at six hundredKey West. dollars; In all, fifty-nine thousand one hundred and ninety-seven dollars and thirty-seven cents, and no other fund appropriated by this act shall be used in payment for such services. Naval Home. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For one superintendent,Naval Home, Philadelphia. Employees. at six hundred dollars; one steward, at four hundred and eighty dollars; one matron, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one chief cook, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one assistant cook, at 806 two hundred and forty dollars; one assistant cook, at one hundred and eighty dollars; one chief laundress, at one hundred and ninety-two dollars; four laundresses, atone hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; four scrubbers, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each: eight waiters at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each: eight laborers, at two hundred and forty dollars each; one stable keeper and driver, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one master at arms, at four hundred and eighty dollars; two house corporals, at three hundred dollars each; one barber, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one carpenter, at eight hundred and forty-five dollars; one painter, at six hundred Expenses.dollars; one engineer tb run elevator, six hundred dollars; water rent and gas, two thousand four hundred dollars; cemetery, burial expenses, and headstones, three hundred and fifty dollars:
Improvement of grounds, live hundred dollars; repairs to buildings, furnaces, grates, ranges, furniture, and repairs of furniture, six thousand dollars; music in chapel, six hundred dollars; transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, five Support of inmates.hundred dollars; for support of beneficiaries, fifty thousand dollars; total for Naval Home, seventy-one thousand two hundred and fifteen dollars; which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund.
New Naval Observatory.New Naval Observatory. For bookcases, railing, shelving, standards, etc., eight thousand four-hundredBookcases, etc. and sixty-four dollars: for transporting instruments, apparatus.Removing apparatus, etc. piers, books, and other articles from the old to the new Naval Repairing and remounting instruments.Observatory, two thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars; for repairing and remounting great equatorial (twenty-six inch) and its accessories, great equatorial building, including observers’ elevating platform, thirty-two thousand and six hundred dollars; for repairing and remounting meridian circle and its accessories, east transit building, six thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; for repairing and remounting transit instrument and its accessories, south transit rooms, six hundred dollars; for repairing and remounting primevertical transit instrument, two thousand five hundred and ten dollars; for Furniture, etc.furniture and gas or electric fixtures for new naval observatory, for main building, great equatorial building, clock buildings/ four transit houses, boiler house, and magnetic building, thirteen thousand Inclosing grounds, etc.six hundred and twenty-five dollars; for inclosing grounds, three thousand and sixty-six dollars; for the construction of well tank, cistern, and for purchasing and placing pump, boiler, ejectors and pipes for water supply, ten thousand nine hundred and twenty-fiveElectric plant. dollars: for installation of electric plant, eighteen thousand one hundred and seventy-nine dollars; for one standard clock, five hundredClocks, etc. and fifty dollars; for clock room fittings, including clocks, reflectors, piers, instruments, and all accessories, complete, five thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; for official residence of the superintendent, twenty thousandSuperintendent’s residence.
Grading. dollars; for grading, macadamizing, and guttering roads around new naval observatory building, twelve thousand dollars. Total for Naval Observatory, one hundred thirty-six thousand six hundred and eighty-nine dollars. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Medical Department: For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels inSurgeons’ necessaries. commission, navy yards, naval stations. Marine Corps, and Coast Survey, and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy yards, naval laboratory, museum of hygiene, and Naval Academy, sixty thousand dollars. 807 Naval Hospital Fund:
For maintenance of the naval hospitalNaval hospitals. at the various navy yards and stations, and for care and maintenance of patients in other hospitals at home and abroad, twenty thousand dollars. Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For freight,Contingent. expressage on medical stores, tolls, ferriages, transportation of sick and insane patients: care, transportation, and burial of the dead; advertising; telegraphing; rent of telephones; purchase of books and stationery; binding of unbound books and pamphlets; postage and purchase of stamps for foreign service; expenses attending the medical board of examiners; rent of rooms for naval dispensary and museum of hygiene; hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration; sanitary and hygienic instruction; purchase and repairs of wagons and harness; purchase of and feed for horses and cows; trees, plants, garden tools, and seeds: furniture and incidental articles for the museum of hygiene, naval dispensary.
Washington, naval laboratory, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, surgeons’ offices and dispensaries at navy yards and naval stations; washing for medical department at museum of hygiene, naval dispensary, Washington, naval laboratory, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, dispensaries at navy yards and naval stations and ships and rendezvous, and all other necessary contingent expenses, twenty-five thousand dollars. Repairs, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery:
For necessaryRepairs. repairs of naval laboratory, naval hospitals, and appendages, including roads, wharves, outhouses, sidewalks, fences, gardens, farms, and cemeteries, twenty thousand dollars. Medical Director’s Residence, Naval Hospital, MareMedical Director’s residence, Mare Island. Island, California: For construction of a residence for the medical director in charge of naval hospital, Mare Island, California, in full for all expenses of erecting and making necessary improvements about the grounds, fifteen thousand five hundred dollars.
Bureau of Provisions and Clothing.Bureau of Provisions and Clothing. Provisions, Navy, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing:Provisions, etc. For provisions and commuted rations for the seamen and marines, commuted rations for officers and naval cadets on sea duty, and commuted rations stopped on account of sick in hospital and credited to the hospital fund, one million dollars; for water for drinking and cooking purposes on board ships, ten thousand dollars; labor in general storehouses and paymasters’ offices in navy yards, ninety thousand dollars; in all. one million one hundred thousand dollar’s: and all supplies hereafter purchased with moneys appropriated for anyPurchase of supplies by contract upon advertisement. etc. branch of the naval establishment shall be purchased, classified, and issued for consumption or use subject to the provisions contained in the act making appropriations for the naval service, approved June*Ante*, p. 197.
R. S., sec. 3718, p. 734, amended. thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, in reference to supplies therein provided for and on hand. Contingent, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing: ForContingent. freight and express charges; candles, fuel, books and blanks, stationery, advertising; furniture for general storehouses and pay offices in navy yards; expenses of naval clothing factory and machinery for same; postage, telegrams, telephones, express charges, tolls, ferriages, yeoman’s stores, iron safes, newspapers, ice and other necessary incidental expenses, forty thousand dollars.
Civil Establishment, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing:Civil establishment. Portsmouth. Navy yard Portsmouth, New Hampshire: In general storehouses: Two bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one assistant bookkeeper, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant clerk, at seven hundred 808 and twenty dollars; one shipping and receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; Navy yard, Boston, Massachusetts: In general storehouses:
OneBoston. bookkeeper, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents: one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars; one receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars. In pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; Navy yard, Brooklyn. New York: One writer to boards of inspection,Brooklyn. nine hundred dollars. In general storehouses; Three bookkeepers. at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one assistant bookkeeper, at one thousand dollars; one assistant bookkeeper, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; three receiving clerks, at four dollars per diem each: one assistant receiving clerk, at one thousand and ninety-nine dollars; three shipping clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant bill clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; two leading men, at two dollars and fifty cents per diem each; five pressmen, at two dollars and seventy-six cents per diem each: one superintendent of coffee nulls, at three dollars per diem: one box maker, at three dollars per diem; one engineer tender, at three dollars and twenty six cents per diem; one coffee roaster, at two dollars and fifty cents per diem; one fireman, at two dollars per diem; one messenger, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem;
In pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one messenger, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem; Navy yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: In general storehouse:League Island. One bookkeeper, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant bookkeeper, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; Navy yard, Washington, District of Columbia-: In general storehouse:Washington, One bookkeeper, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars: one receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars;
In pay office; One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland: In general storehouse:Naval Academy. One bookkeeper, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one receiving and shipping clerk, atone thousand dollars; Torpedo Station, Newport. Rhode Island: In general storehouse:Torpedo station. One clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; Navy yard, Mare Island. California: In general storehouses:Mare Island.
Two bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two assistant bookkeepers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars: one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant clerk, at one thousand dollars; In pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; Navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia: In general storehouses: Two bookkeepers,Norfolk. at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two assistant bookkeepers, at one thousand seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each: one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant-bill clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one receiving clerk, at nine hundred and forty-two dollars; one assistant receiving clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars;
In pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; In all, sixty-seven thousand five hundred and eighty-one dollars and nine cents; and no other fund appropriated by this act shall be used in payment for such service. 809 bureau of construction and repair.Bureau of construction and Repair. Construction and Repair of Vessels: For preservation andPreservation, repairs, etc., of vessels. completion of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary: purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; steam steerers. pneumatic steerers; steam capstans, steam windlasses, and other steam auxiliaries; labor in navy yards and on foreign stations: purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat; general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; incidental expenses, such as advertising, freight, foreign postage, telegrams, telephone service, photographing, books, professional magazines, plans, stationery, and instruments for draughting room, one million dollars: *Provided*, That no part of*Provisos*. this sum shall be applied to the repairs of any wooden ship when theLimit of repairs to wooden ships. estimated cost of such repairs to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed twenty per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material: *Provided, further*, That nothing herein contained shall depriveVessels in foreign waters. the Secretary of the Navy of the authority to order repairs of ships damaged in foreign waters or on the high seas, so far as may be necessary to bring them home: *And provided further*, TheStatistical report on vessels.
Secretary of the Navy shall incorporate in his next annual report a statement showing the name and tonnage of each vessel that has been completed since March four, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, when authorized to be built, when begun, and when commissioned, its entire cost of construction, including armor, armament, equipment and premiums and its cost for repairs since completion; and, also, a statement showing the name and tonnage of each vessel not completed, when authorized to be built, when begun, the probable date of its completion, the amount expended upon its construction, including armor, armament, and equipment and the estimated amount required for its completion, including armor, armament, equipment, and premiums.
For Improvement of Plant at Navy Yard. Portsmouth, New Hampshire:Portsmouth. For additional tools other than those heretofore authorized,Additional tools. required, to further improve the condition of the yard for repairing iron and steel ships, twenty-five thousand dollars. Civil Establishment, Bureau of Construction and Repair:Civil establishment. Navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one clerk to navalPortsmouth. constructor, at one thousand four hundred dollars; two-writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each;
Navy-yard Boston, Massachusetts, For one clerk to naval constructor,Boston. at one thousand four hundred dollars. Navy yard. Brooklyn. New York: For one clerk to naval constructor,Brooklyn. at one thousand four hundred dollars; three writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk to navalLeague Island. constructor, at one thousand four hundred dollars; Navy yard, Washington. District of Columbia:
For one clerk toWashington. naval constructor, at one thousand four hundred dollars; Navy yard, Norfolk. Virginia: For one clerk to naval constructor, Norfolk.at one thousand four hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each: Navy yard, Pensacola, Florida: For one writer, at one thousandPensacola. and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; Navy yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk to naval constructor,Mare Island. at one thousand four hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; in all, nineteen thousand nine hundred and seventy-two dollars and fifty cents, and no other fund appropriated by this act shall be used in payment for such service. 810 bureau of steam engineering.Bureau of Steam Engineering.
Steam Machinery: For completion, repairs, and preservation ofCompletion, etc., of machinery, etc. machinery and boilers of naval vessels, including cost, of new boilers, distilling, refrigerating, and auxiliary machinery, preservation of and small repairs to machinery and boilers in vessels in ordinary, receiving and training vessels, repair and care of machinery of yard-tugs and launches, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars; For purchase, handling, and preservation of all materials andMaterials, etc. stores, purchase, fitting, repair, and preservation of machinery and tools in navy yards and stations, and running yard-engines, two hundred and forty thousand dollars;
For incidental expenses for naval vessels, yards, and the Bureau,Incidental expenses. such as foreign postage, telegrams, advertising, freight, photographing. books, stationery, and instruments, ten thousand dollars; In all, seven hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of*Provisos*. said sum shall be applied to the engines, boilers and machinery ofLimit of repairs to wooden ships. wooden ships where the estimated cost of such repair shall exceed twenty per centum of the estimated cost of new engines and Vessels In foreign waters.machinery of the same character and power: *Provided further*, That nothing herein contained shall deprive the Secretary of the Navy of the authority to order repairs of the engines, boilers and machinery of ships damaged in foreign waters or on the high seas, so far as may be necessary to bring them home.
Contingent, Bureau of Steam Engineering: For contingencies,Contingent. drawing materials, and instruments for the draughting room, one thousand dollars. Civil Establishment, Bureau of Steam Engineering: NavyCivil establishment. Portsmouth. yard Portsmouth. New Hampshire: For clerk to department, at one thousand two hundred dollars: messenger, at six hundred dollars; Navy yard Brooklyn. New York: For clerk to department, at oneBrooklyn. thousand four hundred dollars; writer, at one thousand dollars; messenger, at six hundred dollars;
Navy yard. League Island, Pennsylvania; For clerk to department,League Island. at one thousand two hundred dollars; Navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia; For clerk to department, at one thousandNorfolk. three hundred dollars; messenger, at six hundred dollars; Navy yard, Pensacola, Florida: For writer, at one thousandPensacola, dollars: Navy yard, Mare Island, California: For clerk to department, at oneMare Island. thousand four hundred dollars; messenger, at six hundred dollars; writer, at one thousand dollars:
In all. eleven thousand nine hundred dollars; and no other fundLimitation. appropriated by this act shall be used in payment for such service. Naval Academy.Naval Academy. Pay of professors and others, Naval Academy: For onePay of professors and others. professor of mathematics, one of chemistry, and one of physics, at two thousand five hundred dollars each: two professors (assistants), namely, one of French and Spanish, and one of English studies, history. and law, at two thousand two hundred dollars each: five assistant professors, namely, one of English studies, history and law, three of French, and one of drawing, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, one sword master, at one thousand five hundred dollars, and two assistants, at one thousand dollars each; one boxing master and gymnast, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant librarian, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one secretary of the Naval Academy, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks of the Superintendent, one at one thousand two hundred dollars, and one at one thousand dollars; one clerk to commandant of 811 cadets, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk to paymaster, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one dentist, at one thousand six hundred dollars: one baker, at six hundred dollars; one mechanic in department of physics and chemistry, at seven hundred and thirty dollars; one cook, at three hundred and twenty-live dollars and fifty cents: one messenger to Superintendent, at six hundred dollars; one armorer, at six hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one chief gunner’s mate, at five hundred and twenty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one quarter gunner, at four hundred and thirty three dollars and fifty cents; one cockswain, at four hundred .and sixty dollars and fifty cents; one seaman, in department of seamanship, at three hundred and ninety-seven dollars and fifty cents; one attendant in department of astronomy and one in Department of physics and chemistry, at three hundred dollars each; six attendants at recitation rooms, library, store, chapel, and offices, at three hundred dollars each; one bandmaster, at five hundred and Band.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; pay of organist at chapel of Naval Academy, three hundred dollars;
In all, fifty-two thousand three hundred and seventy-one dollars. For special course of study and training of naval cadets as authorizedSpecial training, naval cadets. Vol. 22, p. 285. by act of Congress approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, live thousand dollars. Pay of Watchmen, mechanics, and others, Naval Academy:Watchmen, mechanics. etc. For captain of the watch and weigher, at two dollars and fifty cents per diem; four watchmen, at two dollars per diem each; foreman of gas and steam-heating works of the Academy, at five dollars per diem; for labor at gasworks and steam buildings, for masons, carpenters, and other mechanics and laborers, for care of buildings, grounds, wharves, and boats, thirty-seven thousand eight hundred and sixty-four dollars and ninety-five cents; one attendant in the purifying house of the gas house, at one dollar and fifty cents per diem;
In all, forty-four thousand and eighty-six dollars and ninety-five cents. Pay of steam employees. Naval Academy: For pay of mechanicsEmployees, Department of steam engineering. and others in department of steam engineering, seven thousand eight hundred and twenty-four dollars and fifty-cents. Repairs and Improvements, Naval Academy: Necessary repairsRepairs, etc. of public buildings, pavements, wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, improvements, repairs, furniture, and fixtures, twenty-one thousand dollars.
For furnishing and fitting gymnasium, five thousand dollars,Gymnasium: immediately available. which sum shall be immediately available. Heating and lighting Naval Academy: Fuel, and for heatingHeat and lights. and lighting Academy and school ships, seventeen thousand dollars. Contingent and Miscellaneous Expenses. Naval Academy:Contingent and miscellaneous. Purchase of books for the library, two thousand dollars: stationery, blank-books, models, maps, and text books for use of instructors, two thousand dollars; expenses of the Board of Visitors of the Naval Academy,being mileage and five dollars per diem for each member for expenses during actual attendance at the Academy, one thousand five hundred dollars; purchase of chemicals, apparatus, and instruments in the department of physics and chemistry, and for repairs of the same, two thousand five hundred dollars; purchase of gas and steam machinery, steam pipes and fittings, rent of buildings for the use of the Academy, freight, cartage, water, music, musical and astronomical instruments, uniforms for the bandsmen, telegraphing, feed and maintenance of teams, current expenses, and repairs of all kinds, and for incidental labor and expenses not applica- 812 ble to any other appropriation, thirty-two thousand dollars; stores in the department of steam engineering, eight hundred dollars; materials for repairs in steam machinery, one thousand dollars;
In all, forty-one thousand eight hundred dollars. For repairs to Santee’s wharf, four thousand dollars, winch sumRepairs to Santee’s wharf: immediately available. Improvement of condemned property. Vol. 35, p. 831. shall be immediately available. For continuing the grading and improvement of the property condemned under act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and the adjacent ground, and for the improvement of theImmediately available. water front thereof, fifteen thousand dollars, winch sum shall be immediately available.
Total for the Naval Academy, two hundred and thirteen thousand and eighty-two dollars and forty-five cents. marine corps.Marine Corps. Pay, Marine Corps: For pay of officers on the active list: For Pay of officers, active list.one colonel commandant, one colonel, two lieutenant colonels, one adjutant and inspector, one paymaster, one quartermaster, four majors, two assistant quartermasters, one judge-advocate general United States Navy, nineteen captains, thirty first lieutenants and twelve second lieutenants, one hundred and eighty-one thousand three hundred dollars;
Pay of officers on the retired list: For three colonels, two lieutenantRetired officers. colonels, one quartermaster, one major, one assistant quartermaster, six captains, three first lieutenants, and three second lieutenants, forty-three thousand six hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents; Pay of noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates: ForEnlisted men. one sergeant major, one quartermaster sergeant, one leader of the band, one drum major, fifty first sergeants, one hundred and forty sergeants, one hundred and eighty corporals, thirty musicians, ninety-six drummers, and lifers, and one thousand six hundred privates, three hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars;
Pay of retired enlisted men: For one sergeant major, one drumRetired enlisted men. major, four first sergeants, five sergeants, one first-class musician, two drummers, one lifer, and eighteen privates, ten thousand eight, hundred and eighty-eight dollars and sixty-eight cents; Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged soldiers for clothingUndrawn clothing. undrawn, thirty-five thousand *Proviso*.dollars: *Provided*, That no other fund appropriated by Restriction.this act shall be used for such purpose:
Transportation: For transportation of officers traveling under ordersTransportation. without troops, nine thousand dollars; Commutation of quarters; For commutation of quarters for officersCommutation of Quarters. on duty without troops where there are no public quarters, four thousand dollars; Pay of civil force: In the office of the colonel commandant: ForPay of civil force. Clerks, etc. one chief clerk, at one thousand five hundred and forty dollars and eighty cents: one messenger, at nine hundred and seventy-one dollars and twenty-eight cents;
In the office of the adjutant and inspector: One chief clerk, at one thousand five hundred and forty dollars and eighty cents; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars and fifty-two cents; In the office of the paymaster: One chief clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars and fifty-two cents; one clerk at one thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twelve cents: In the office of the quartermaster:
One chief clerk, at one thousand five hundred and forty dollars and eighty cents; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars and fifty-two cents; 813 one clerk at one thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twelve cents; In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: One clerk, at one thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twelve cents; one messenger, at one dollar and seventy-five cents per diem; In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Washington, District of Columbia:
One clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; In all, for pay of civil force, seventeen thousand four hundred and ninety five dollars and ten cents; Total for pay of Marine Corps, six hundred and ninety-six thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars and twenty eight cents. Provisions, Marine Corps: For one thousand one hundred non-commissionedProvisions. officers, musicians, and privates, and commutation of rations to eleven enlisted men, detailed as clerks and messengers, also for payment of board and lodging of enlisted men for recruiting parties, said payment for board not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars, sixty-seven thousand dollars; and no law shall be construedLimit of shore duty, rations, etc. to entitle enlisted marines on shore duty to any rations or commutation therefor other than such as now are or may hereafter be allowed to enlisted men in the army.
For amount required to be transferred to paymaster Marine Corps, on account of rations to retired men, eighty two dollars and thirteen cents each per annum, two thousand two hundred and ninety-nine dollars and sixty-four cents; In all, sixty-nine thousand two hundred and ninety-nine dollars and sixty-four cents. Clothing. Marine Corps: For two thousand one hundred non-commissionedClothing. officers, musicians, and privates, seventy-five thousand dollars. For fuel Marine Corps:
For heating barracks and quarters,Fuel. for ranges and stoves for cooking, fuel for enlisted men, and for sales to officers, twenty-three thousand dollars. Military Stores, Marine Corps: For pay of chief armorer, atMilitary stores. three dollars per day; three mechanics, at two dollars and fifty cents each per day; for purchase of military equipments, such as cartridge boxes, bayonet scabbards, haversacks, blanket bags, knapsacks, canteens, musket slings, swords, drums, trumpets, flags, waist belts, waist plates, cartridge belts, and spare parts for repairing muskets, purchase of ammunition, purchase and repair of instruments for band, purchase of music and musical accessories, eight thousand seven hundred and thirteen dollars and fifty cents;
In all, twelve thousand and ten dollars and fifty cents. For purchase of one Gatling revolving gun complete and onePurchase of flailing and Hotchkiss guns. Hotchkiss revolving gun complete, of service type and caliber, five thousand dollars. Transportation and Recruiting, Marine Corps: For transportationTransportation and recruiting. of troops, and the expense of recruiting service, fifteen thousand dollars. For repair of barracks: At Portsmouth, New Hampshire;Repair of barracks.
Boston, Massachusetts: Brooklyn. New York; League Island, Pennsylvania; Annapolis, Maryland; headquarters and navy yard, Washington, District of Columbia; Norfolk, Virginia; Pensacola, Florida; and Mare Island, California; and per diem to enlisted men employed under the direction of the Quartermasters Department, on the repair of barracks and other public buildings, ten thousand dollars. For rent of building used for manufacture of clothing, storing supplies, and office of assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one thou—three hundred dollars.
For alterations, and repair of marine barracks at Mare Island, California, three thousand dollars. 814 Forage. Marine Corps: For forage in kind for five horses of the Forage.Quartermaster’s Department, and the authorized number of officers’ horses, three thousand live hundred dollars. Hire of quarters, Marine Corps: For hire of quarters for officersHire of quarters. serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them, four thousand five hundred dollars;
For hire of quarters for seven enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in commandant’s, adjutant and inspector’s, paymaster’s and quartermaster’s offices, Washington. District of Columbia, and assistant quartermasters’ offices, Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, and Washington, District of Columbia, at twenty-one dollars per month each, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-four dollars; For hire of quarters for three enlisted men employed as above, at ten dollars each per month, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, six thousand six hundred and twenty four dollars.
Contingent, Marine Corps: For freight, ferriage, tolls, cartage,Contingent. funeral expenses of marines, stationery, telegraphing, rent of telephones. purchase and repair of typewriters, apprehension of deserters, per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor for a period of not less than ten days, repair of gas and water fixtures, office and barracks furniture, mess utensils for enlisted men. such as bowls, plates, spoons, knives, forks, packing boxes,-wrapping paper, oilcloth. crash, rope, twine, camphor and carbolized paper, carpenters’ tools, tools for police purposes, iron safes, purchase and repair of public wagons, purchase and repair of harness, purchase of public horses, services of veterinary surgeons and medicine for public horses, purchase and repair of hose, repair of fire extinguishers, purchase of fire hand grenades, purchase and repair of carts and wheelbarrows, purchase and repair of cooking stoves, ranges, stoves, and furnaces where there are no grates, purchase of ice. towels, and soap for offices, postage stamps for foreign postage, purchase of newspapers and periodicals. improving parade grounds, repair of pumps and wharves, laying drain and water pipes, introducing gas, and for gas and oil for marine barracks maintained at the various navy yards and stations, water at the marine barracks, Boston Massachusetts;
Brooklyn, New York: Annapolis, Maryland; Mare Island, California; also straw for bedding and purchase of mattresses for enlisted men at the various posts, furniture for Government houses and repair of same, and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but impossible to anticipate or classify; in all, twenty-seven thousand live hundred dollars. For introducing electric light at Marine Barracks and naval prisonElectric light, Island. at Mare Island, California, three thousand dollars.
Total for Marine Corps, nine hundred and fifty thousand five hundred and thirty dollars and forty-two cents. Increase of the Navy.Increase of the Navy. That for the purpose of further increasing the Naval establishment of the United States the President is hereby authorized One protected cruiser.to have constructed by contract one protected cruiser of about seven thousand three hundred tons displacement, at a cost, Limit of cost.exclusive of armament, not to exceed two million seven hundred and Maximum speed.fifty thousand dollars, to have a maximum speed of not less than Construction.twenty-one knots, and in the construction of said vessel all of the Vol. 21, p. 215.provisions of the act of August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six. entitled “An act to increase the Naval Establishment,” as to Materials.materials for said vessel, its engines, boilers, and machinery, the Contract.contract under which it is built, the notice of any proposals for the Plans, etc.same, the plans, drawings, specifications therefor, and the method 815 of executing said contract, shall be observed and followed, and said vessel shall be built in compliance with the terms of said act, save that in all its parts said vessel shall be of domestic manufacture.Domestic manufacture.
And in the contract for the construction thereof such provisions for minimum speed and for premiums for increased speed and penaltiesMinimum speed. Speed premiums and penalties. for deficient speed maybe made subject to the terms of this bill, as in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy may be deemed advisable: and if the Secretary of the Navy shall be unable to contract at reasonable prices for the construction of said vessel, then he may build the same in such navy yard as he mayUnreasonable prices in bids. designate.
And so much of the act approved March second, eighteen hundredProvision for one-cruising monitor; vol. 25, p. 824. repealed. and eighty-nine, as authorized the construction by contract of one armored steel cruising monitor of not less than three thousand tons displacement, at a cost not exceeding one million five hundred thousand dollars exclusive of armament and any premium for increased speed, is hereby repealed. Under the Bureau of Ordnance.Under Bureau off Ordnance. Armament:
Towards the.armament and armor of domestic manufacture,Armament. for the vessels authorized by the act of August third, eighteen hundredVol. 24, p. 215. and eighty-six; of the vessels authorized by section three of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred andVol. 24, p. 593. eighty-seven; of the vessels authorized by the act approved SeptemberVol. 25, pp. 472, 473. seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight; of the vessels authorized by the act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine;Vol. 25, p. 824. of those authorized by the act of June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and this act, four million dollars.*Ante*, p. 205.
Under the Bureau of Equipment.Under Bureau off Equipment. Equipment of New Ships of the Navy: Supplying anchors,Equipment of new ships. chain cables, galleys and fixtures, standing and running rigging, sails, awnings, and other canvas work, and other articles comprising the equipment outfit of ships, according to their type, namely: ProtectedType. cruisers numbered seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, and twelve;Protected cruisers, etc. Gunboats. Harbor defense vessel, Ironclads.
Steel cruiser. Vol. 25, p. 472. Torpedo cruiser and boat. the Monterey: gunboats numbered five and six; the harbor-defense vessel known as the Ammen ram; ironclads Puritan, Terror, Amphitrite, and Monadnock; the steel practice cruiser provided for by the act of September seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and the torpedo cruiser and torpedo boat authorized by the act of June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, four hundred thousand dollars.*Ante*, p. 205. Under the Bureau of Yards and Docks.Under Bureau of Yards and Docks.
Traveling Cranes: For two traveling cranes of forty tons capacity,Traveling cranes. for dry-docks at New York and Norfolk, one hundred thousand dollars, to be made immediately available. Construction and Steam Machinery: Towards the constructionMachinery, boilers, etc. and completion of the new vessels heretofore and herein authorized by Congress, with their engines, boilers, and machinery, and for the payment of premiums for increased speed or horse power underPremiums. contracts now existing and to be made under this and other acts for increase of the Navy, twelve million one hundred and seven thousand dollars.
Total for increase of the Navy, sixteen million six hundred and seven thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no contract for the purchase*Proviso*. of gun steel or armor for the Navy shall hereafter be madeGun steel or armors contracted. until the subject matter of the same shall have been submitted to public competition by the Department by advertisement. Approved, March 2, 1891.