Chapter 640. making appropriations for the Naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 640.— An Act making appropriations for the Naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for other purposes.June 30, 1890. *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 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 ninety-one, and for other purposes: pay of the navy.Pay of the Navy.
For the pay of officers on sea duty; officers on shore and otherOfficers and seamen. duty; officers on waiting orders; officers on the retired list; admirals, secretary; clerks to commandants of yards and stations; clerks to paymasters at yards and stations; inspections; 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 engineer’s 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 two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. pay, miscellaneous.Miscellaneous.
For commissionsand 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, yeoman, 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, 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 books, 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 attachés 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 extraordinaryContingent. expenses arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated 190FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 640. 1890. 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. Farmer’s House, Coaster’s Harbor Island, R. I.For the Purchase of Farmer’s House, Coaster’s Harbor Island, Rhode Island:
For the purchase of the Farmer’s House, on Coaster’s Harbor Island, erected by W. A. Whaley, at his expense, under permisson granted him by the Secretary of the Navy, September twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Gunnery exercises.Gunnery exercises: For prizes for excellence in gunnery 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.Ocean and lake surveys: For ocean and lake surveys, the publication and care of the results thereof: the purchase of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, preparing and engraving on Mexican, etc,, coast surveys.copper plates the surveys of the Mexican coasts, and the publication of a series of charts of the coasts of Central and South America, ten thousand dollars. Naval apprentices bounty.Bounty for naval apprentices: For bounties for outfits of seven hundred and fifty naval appentices, thirty thousand dollars.
Recruiting and transportation.Recruiting and transportation: 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, thirty thousand dollars. Contingent.Contingent, Bureau of Navigation: 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; schoolbooks 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, fifteen thousand dollars.
Naval training station. Coaster’s Harbor Island, R. I.Naval Training Station, Coaster’s Harbor Island, Rhode 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 preservation of the same; for repairs and improvements on buildings, including the building on Coaster’s Harbor Island, formerly occupied by the Naval War College; heating, lighting, and furniture tor same; books and stationery, freight, and other contingent expenses; purchase of food and maintenance of livestock, and mail wagon and attendance on same, fourteen thousand dollars.
Naval War College and Torpedo School, Coaster’s Harbor Island, R. I.Naval War College and Torpedo School on Coaster’s Harbor Island: For maintenance of the Naval War College and Torpedo School on Coaster’s Harbor Island ten thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to cause the building for use by the Naval War College and Torpedo School, for the construction of which the sum of one hundred thousand dollars was Vol. 25, p. 812.appropriated in the act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, to be erected on Coaster’s Harbor Island. bureau of ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance.
Material and supplies.Ordnance and ordnance stores: For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; for fuel, tools, and material, and labor to be used in the gen- 191eral work of the Ordnance Department; for furniture at magazines, at the ordnance dock. New York, and at the naval ordnance battery and proving-ground, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. For proof of naval Armament, six thousand dollars. For the purchase of armor plates for reception tests of modern projectiles, fifty thousand dollars.
Naval Ordnance Range and Proving-Ground: For draining,Naval ordnance range and proving ground. erection of firing butts, screens, cranes, building of wharf, chronograph house, and other necessary improvements of naval ordnance range and proving-ground heretofore authorized by act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the moneys heretofore and hereby appropriated*Proviso*.To be expended on acquiring title. for the purpose of erecting buildings and making other improvements on said proving-ground may be forthwith expended upon the acquisition by the United States or the title thereto.
For one steel shell-lighter of about sixty-eight tons displacement,Steel shell-lighter. with carrying capacity of about forty-five tons, eight thousand dollars; To enable the Secretary of the Navy to manufacture and experimentallySubmarine gun, etc., tests. test, under rules and conditions to be prescribed by him, a submarine gun and projectiles for the same, thirty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this money shall be expended until the*Provisos*.Conditional expenditure. owners of the patents to be tested under this provision shall agree by contract to give the Government the option within a specified time to contract at such price as shall be satisfactory to the Secretary of the Navy for the exclusive right on the part of the Government to manufacture by contract or otherwise such submarine guns and projectiles without the payment of any royalty on the same: *Provided*, That such submarine gun and projectiles shall prove satisfactoryLimitations. on due test, and be approved by the Secretary of the Navy; and for testing torpedoes, twenty thousand dollars; in all fifty thousandTorpedo tests. 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, fifteen thousand dollars. Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island: For labor, material.Torpedo station, Newport, R. I. freight, and express charges; general care of and repairs to grounds, buildings, and wharves; boats, implements, tools, furniture, experiments and general torpedo outfits; sixty 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 pipe; gas and water tax at magazine; 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 requiredBoston. five hundred dollars; Navy-yard, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundredNew York. dollars; 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 six hundred dollars; three draughtsman, 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; 192 Norfolk.Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia:
For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; Mare Island.Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; Proving-ground.Naval ordnance proving-ground: For one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; Torpedo station.Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island: For one chemist, 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 six hundred and twenty-four dollars.
And no other fund appropriated by this act shall be used in payment for such service. bureau of equipment.Bureau of Equipment. Equipment of vessels.Equipment of vessels: For purchase of coal for steamers and ships’ use, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same; hemp, wire and other materials for the manufacture of rope and cordage; iron for the manufacture of anchors, cables, galley, and chains; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, hammock-cloths, boom-covers, tarpaulins, hammocks, and bags; water for steam launches; stationery for equipment officers, 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 correcting compasses on board ship, and for adjusting and testing compasses on shore: nautical and astronomical instruments, and repairs of nautical instruments for ships of war; libraries for ships of war; professional books and papers, and drawings and engravings for signal books; naval signals and apparatus, namely: signal 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 including those for the cabin, wardroom, and steerage, for the holds and storerooms; for decks and quartermaster’s use; bunting and other materials for flags, and making and repairing flags of all kinds; oil for ships of war, other than that used in the engineer department: candles, when used as a substitute for oil in binnacles and running-lights, chimneys and wicks, and soap used in the navigation department; photographic instruments and materials; 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 speaking-tubes and gongs for signal communications on board vessels of war; and.for introducing and maintaining electric lights on board vessels of war, nine hundred thousand dollars.
U. S. S. Lancaster.For installing the United States steamship Lancaster with an electric lighting plant, ten thousand dollars. Electric welding machine at Boston.Electric Welding Machine: For installing an electric welding machine in the Boston navy-yard, twelve thousand dollars: *provided*, That the party supplying the said machine and apparatus Proviso.Conditions precedent to payment, etc.shall guarantee that it will operate satisfactorily in the welding of steel links for chain cables of the various sizes up to two and one half inches in diameter, and no payment shall be made until tests shall have been made to the satisfaction of the Secretary of Navy, and no royalty shall be paid for the use of said machine.
Civil establishment, Portsmouth.Boston.Civil Establishment, Bureau of Equipment: Navy-yard, 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 193 rope-walk, atone 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 two hundredNew York. dollars; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand dollars: one storekeeper, at nine hundred dollars; Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk,League Island. at one thousand two hundred dollars: Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For two clerks, at one thousandNorfolk. two hundred dollars each; Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousandMare Island. two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars;
Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia; For one clerk, atWashington. one 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 and navigation 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, ten thousand dollars. bureau of yards and docks.Bureau of Yards and Docks.
Maintenance of yards and docks: For general maintenanceGeneral maintenance. of 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 the 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, Pennsylvania; pay of watchmen in navy-yards;Philadelphia. awnings anti packing-boxes, and advertising for yard and 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 increasing water-supply, six thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; completing hydrant system, six thousand and eighty dollars; for reconstructing buildings numbers forty-five and forty-six. destroyed by fire January twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety, at the United States navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for construction and repair, fifty thousand dollars, appropriation to be immediately available.
Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For new boiler and pumpingBoston. machinery, taking down and resetting the end of granite dry dock and putting in the necessary backing and drainage, fifty thousand dollars. Navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York: For extending railroadBrooklyn. system and necessary rolling-stock, five thousand dollars; for completing approaches to timber dry-dock, twenty-five thousand dollars; 194 for repairing cob-dock, improvement of Whitney Basin, rebuilding seawall and dredging, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; for relaying water-pipes in the yard, fifteen thousand dollars.
League Island.Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For rebuilding Broad street wharf, sixty thousand dollars; and the sum of twenty-six thousand four hundred and sixteen dollars and forty cents Vol. 25, p. 818.appropriated by act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, for landing wharf foot of Fifteenth street, is hereby transferred to the rebuilding of the Broad street wharf in addition to the sum appropriated by this act; for building and furnishing two officers’ quarters, ten thousand dollars; for dredging and filling in and paving and improvement of grounds, twenty-five thousand dollars; for extending permanent seawall, twenty-five thousand dollars: for the construction of a light retaining-wall, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Washington.Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For changing building number seven into an apartment house of three stories for additional quarters, ten thousand dollars; for dredging and filling in, five thousand dollars. Norfolk.Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For completing railroad system. five thousand dollars: for completing water system, five thousand dollars; for completing approaches to timber dry-dock, ten thousand dollars; for extending machine-shop (for steam-engineering), five thousand dollars; for connecting new pumps with old dry-dock, fifteen thousand dollars.
Port Royal.Coaling Station, Port Royal, South Carolina: Toward the construction of a timber dry-dock or floating dock, at the coaling station, Port Royal, South Carolina, in accordance with the recommendation of the commissions to report as to the most desirable location on or near the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and the South Atlantic coasts for navy-yards and dry-docks, two hundred thousand dollars. Dry or floating dock.And the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to make a contract for the construction of said timber dry-dock, or floating dock, the cost not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars.
Key West.Naval Station, Key West, Florida: For changing location of railroad scale-house and pump-house, made necessary by new treasury buildings, one thousand dollars. Mare Island.Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For bridge across sectional dock basin, two thousand dollars; for boat landings, three thousand dollars; for building wagon-road towards cemetery and magazine, five thousand dollars; for replanking wharves, five thousand dollars; for completing electric-light plant, thirty thousand dollars; for moving ferry slip back, straightening seawall, and dredging, twenty thousand dollars: for completing repairs to sectional dry-dock, fifteen thousand dollars.
New London.Naval Station, New London: For rebuilding the wharf, six thousand five hundred dollars. Launching ways and granite slips. New York and Norfolk.Launching Ways and Granite Slips at New York and Norfolk Navy-yards: For extending launching ways and making alterations in granite slips, thirteen thousand dollars. Repairs.Repairs and preservation at Navy-yards and Stations: For repairs and preservation at navy-yards and stations, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Sale of condemned stores, etc.The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to sell, after advertisement of the sale for such time as in his judgment the public interests may require, condemned naval supplies, stores, and materials, either by public auction or by advertisement for sealed proposals for the purchase of the same.
Contingent.Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For contingent expenses that may arise at navy-yards and stations, twenty thousand dollars. 195 Civil Establishment, Bureau of Yards and Docks: Navy-yard,Civil establishment.Portsmouth. Portsmouth, Now 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 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.
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; one master of tugs, at one thousand five hundred dollars; for two writers, at nine hundred dollars each per annum; 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-five 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;
Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For one clerk atNorfolk. one thousand four hundred dollars, one writer, at one 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 thousandMore 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;
Naval Station, Key West. Florida: For one messenger, at sixKey West. hundred dollars; in all, fifty-three thousand nine hundred and eighty-six dollars and four cents. And no other fund appropriated by thisLimitation. act shall be used in payment for such services. And the President be, and he hereby is, required to appoint a commissionDry-dock site on Pacific coast. composed of two competent naval officers, one competent Army officer, and two competent persons from civil life, whose dutyAppointment of commissiou to select. it shall be to select a suitable site, having due regard to commercial and naval interests, for a dry-dock at some point on the shores of the Pacific Ocean or the waters connected therewith north of the parallel of latitude marking the northern boundary of California, including the waters of Puget Sound, and also Lakes Union and 196 Washington, in the State of Washington; and having selected such Valuation, etc,, and report.site shall, if upon private lands, estimate its value, and ascertain, as nearly as practicable, the cost for which it can be purchased or acquired, and of their proceedings and action make full and detailed report to the President, and the President shall transmit such report with his recommendations to Congress.
Dry-dock site on Gulf of Mexico.Appointment of commission to select.And the President be, and he hereby is, required to appoint a commission composed of two competent naval officers, one competent Army officer, and two competent persons from civil life, whose duty it shall be to select a suitable site, having due regard to commercial and naval interests, fora dry-dock at some point on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico or the waters connected therewith: and having selected such site shall if upon private lands, estimate its value and Valuation, etc,, and report.ascertain as nearly as practicable the cost for which it can be purchased or acquired, and of their proceedings and action make full and detailed report to the President, and the President shall Expenses of dry-dock commissions.transmit such report with his recommendations to Congress.
That to defray the expenses of such commissions the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated. Naval Home.Philadelphia.Employees.Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For one Superintendent, 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 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, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; four scrubbers,atone 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 bundled 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 Expenses.painter, at 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, five hundred dollars; repairs to buildings, furnace, grates, ranges, furniture, and repairs of furniture, four thousand five hundred dollars; music in chapel, six hundred dollars: and the sum of eight hundred dollars Vol. 25, p. 465.appropriated by act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, is hereby reappropriated for fitting up bath rooms for beneficiaries: transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, five hundred dollars; erecting elevator in main Support of inmates.building of Naval Home, four thousand dollars; for support of beneficiaries, fifty thousand dollars; total for Naval Home, seventy-three thousand one hundred and fifteen dollars; which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund, bureau of medicine and surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
Surgeons necessaries.Medical Department: For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in 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. Naval hospitals.Naval-Hospital Fund: For maintenance of the naval 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.Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For freight, expressage on medical stores,tolls, ferriages, transportation of sick and 197 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; hygiene and sanitary investigation and illustration; sanitary and hygiene 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 and dispensaries at navy-yards: 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, navy hospitals, and appendages, including roads, wharves, outhouses, sidewalks, fences, gardens, farms, and cemeteries, twenty thousand dollars.
Laundry at Naval Hospital, New York: For constructionLaundry, New York. of a laundry and drying room at the naval hospital, New York, in full for all expenses of erecting the building and supplying necessary machinery and fittings, five thousand six hundred dollars. Sick quarters at navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire:Sick quarters, Portsmouth. For additional appropriation for erecting and furnishing sick quarters at the navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, eight thousand dollars; total for Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, one hundred and thirty eight thousand and six hundred dollars. bureau of provisions and clothing.Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, Provisions, Navy, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing:
ForProvisions, etc. provisions for the seamen and marines, commuted rations for officers, naval cadets, seamen, and marines, and commuted rations stopped on account of sick in hospital and credited to the hospital fund, nine hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars; for water for drinking and cooking purposes on board ships, eleven thousand dollars; labor and expenses of general storehouses and paymasters’ offices in yards, not to exceed ninety thousand dollars; in all, one million and sixty-six thousand dollars.
And the clothing fund andClothing and small stores funds to be consolidated. small stores fund shall be hereafter consolidated and administered as a fund to be known as the clothing and small stores fund. Contingent, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing: For freightContingent, on shipments; candles, fuel, books and blanks, stationery, advertising; furniture for general store houses and pay-offices in navy-yard; expenses of naval clothing factory and machinery for same: foreign postage, telegrams, telephones, express charges, tolls, ferriages, yeoman’s stores, iron safes, newspapers, ice, and other necessary incidental expenses, forty thousand dollars.
And section thirty-seven[R. S. 3718, p. 734, amended](/us/rs/t/s3718/p734).Advertising for bidders for naval supplies. hundred and eighteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States is hereby amended by striking out the words “once a week for four weeks” and inserting in lieu thereof the words “twice a week for two weeks or longer, not to exceed four weeks, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy.” Civil Establishment, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing:Civil establisment.Portsmouth.
Navy-yard Portsmouth, New Hampshire: In General storehouses: Two bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars per annum each; one assistant bookkeeper, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one shipping and receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; 198 Boston.Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: In general store houses: One 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; Brooklyn.Navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York: One writer to boards of inspection. nine hundred dollars. In general storehouses: Three bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars per annum each; one assistant bookkeeper, atone 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 per annum 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 mills, at three dollars per diem; one box-maker, at three dollars per diem; one engine-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; League Island.Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: In general storehouse: One bookkeeper, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant bookkeeper, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; Washington.Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: In general storehouse: 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;
Iii pay-office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; Naval Academy.Naval Academy. Annapolis, Maryland: In general storehouse: One bookkeeper, at. one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one receiving and shipping clerk, at one thou sand dollars; Torpedo station.Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode island; In general storehouse: One clerk, at one thousand .two hundred dollars; Mare Island.Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: In general storehouses:
Two bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars per annum each; two assistant bookkeepers, at seven hundred and t went y dollars per annum 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; Norfolk.Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: In general storehouses: Two bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars per annum each; two assistant bookkeepers, at one thousand seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents per annum 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 thirty-two dollars and three cents; and no other fund appropriated by this act shall be used in payment for such service. 199 bureau of construction and repair.Bureau of construction and Repair. Construction and Repair of Vessels: For preservationPreservation, repairs, etc., of vessels. and 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 draught in groom, one million dollars: *Provided*, That no part of*Provisos*.Limit of repairs to wooden ships. this sum shall be applied to the repairs of anywooden ship when the 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 containedVessels in foreign waters. shall deprive 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.
For Improvement of plant at Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire:Portsmouth.Additional tools. For additional tools other than those heretofore authorized, required to further improve the condition of the yard for repairing iron and steel ships, fifty thousand dollars. For Improvement of plant at Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts:Boston.Additional tools. For additional tools, other than those heretofore authorized, required to further improve the condition of the yard for repairing iron and steel ships, fifty thousand dollars.
For the improvement of plant at navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania:League Island.Additonal tools. For additional tools other than those heretofore authorized, required to further improve the condition of the yard for repairing iron and steel ships, fifty thousand dollars. For Improvement of plant at Navy-yard, New York: ForBrooklyn.Additional tools. additional tools, other than those heretofore authorized, required to further improve the condition of the yard for building and repairing iron and steel ships, fifty thousand dollars.
For Improvement of plant at navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: ForNorfolk.Additional tools. additional tools, other than those heretofore authorized, required to further improve the condition of the yard for building and repairing iron and steel ships, and the erection of the same, fifty thousand dollars. For improvement of plant at Navy-yard, Mare Island,Mare Island.Additional tools. California: For additional tools, other than those heretofore authorized, required to further improve the condition of the yard for building and repairing iron and steel ships, and the erection of the same, fifty thousand dollars.
Civil Establishment, Bureau of Construction and Repair:Civil establishment.Portsmouth. Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one clerk to naval 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 navalBoston. constructor, 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. 200 at one thousand four hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; Pensacola.Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida:
For one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents: Mare Island.Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk to naval constructor, 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 Limitation.cents. And no other fund appropriated by this act shall be used in payment for such service. bureau of steam engineering.Bureau of Steam Engineering.
Completion, etc., of machinery, etc.Steam Machinery: For completion, repairs, plans and drawings, and preservation of machinery and boilers of naval vessels, including cost of new boilers, 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 thousand dollars; Materials, etc.For purchase, handling, and preservation of all materials and 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.
Incidental expenses.For incidental expenses for naval vessels, yards, and the Bureau, such as foreign postages, telegrams, advertising, freight, photographing, books, stationery, and instruments, ten thousand dollars; in *Proviso*.Limit of repairs to wooden ships.all, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of said sum shall be applied to the engines and machinery of wooden ships where the estimated costs of such repair shall exceed twenty per centum of the estimated cost of new engines and machinery of the same character and power; but nothing herein contained shall prevent the repair or building of boilers for wooden ships the hulls of which can he fully repaired for twenty per centum of the estimated cost of a new ship of the same size and material.
Contingent.Contingent, Bureau of Steam Engineering: For contingencies, drawing materials, and instruments for the draughtingroom, one thousand dollars. Boston.Extra tools.Improvement of machinery plant, navy-yard Boston, Massachusetts: For extra tools required to put the yard in condition for repairing modern marine machinery with economy and dispatch, including improvements in boiler-making plant, and improved machine tools, forty thousand dollars. Brooklyn.Extra tools.Improvement of machinery plant, navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York:
For extra tools required to put the ya.rd in condition for building and repairing modern marine machinery with economy and dispatch, including traveling crane in foundry and new boiler shop, seventy five thousand dollars. Mare Island.Extra tools.Improvement of machinery plant, navy-yard Mare Island, California: For extra tools required to put the yard in condition for building and repairing modern marine machinery with economy and dispatch, including improvements in boiler making plant, and improved machine tools, fifty thousand dollars.
Civil establishment.Portsmouth.Civil Establishment, Bureau of Steam Engineering: Navy-yard Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For clerk to department, at one thousand two hundred dollars; messenger at six hundred dollars; Brooklyn.Navy-yard Brooklyn, New York: For clerk to department, atone thousand four hundred dollars; writer, at one thousand dollars; messenger at six hundred dollars; League Island.Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For clerk to Department, at one thousand two hundred dollars; 201 Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia:
For clerk to department, at oneNorfolk. thousand three hundred dollars; messenger, at six hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: For writer at one thousand dollars;Pensacola. Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For clerk to department, atMare Island. one thousand four hundred dollars; messenger at six hundred dollars: writer, at one thousand dollars; in all eleven thousand nine hundred dollars. And no other fund appropriated by this act shallLimitation. 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, seven thousand five hundred dollars, two professors (assistants) namely, one of French and Spanish, and one of English studies, history, and law, at two thousand two hundred dollars each, four thousand four hundred dollars; 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, nine thousand dollars; 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 to the Superintendent, one at one thousand two hundred dollars, and one at one thousand dollars, respectively, two thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk to commandant of 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-five 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 sixtynine dollars and fifty cents; one seaman in department of seamanskip, at three hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one attendant in the department of astronomy and one in the Department of physics and chemistry, at three hundred dollars each, six hundred dollars; six attendants at recitation rooms, library, store, chapel, and offices, at three hundred dollars each, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one bandmaster at five hundred and twenty-eight dollars; twenty-one first class musicians, at three hundredBand. and forty eight dollars each, seven thousand three hundred and eight dollars; seven second-class musicians, at three hundred dollars each, two thousand one hundred dollars; pay of organist at chapel of Naval Academy, three hundred dollars; in all fifty two thousand three hundred and twenty-three 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, five thousand dollars. Pay of watchmen, mechanics, and others, Naval Academy:Watchmen, mechanics, etc. For captain of the watch and weigher, at4wo 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; 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 202 four dollars and ninety-five cents; one attendant in the purifying-house of the gas-house, at one dollar and fifty cents per diem, five hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty cents; in all, forty-four thousand and sixty-nine dollars and ninety-five cents.
Employees, Department of team engineering.Pay of Steam Employees, Naval Academy: For pay of mechanics and others in department of steam-engineering, seven thousand eight hundred and twenty four dollars and fifty cents. Repairs, etc.Repairs and Improvements Naval Academy: Necessary repairs of public buildings, pavements, wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy improvements, repairs, furniture, and fixtures, twenty one thousand dollars. New furniture.New furniture for cadet’s quarters, six thousand five hundred dollars.
Gymnasium, etc.Immediately available.For rebuilding gymnasium, twenty thousand dollars; for additional houses for instructors, four houses, twenty thousand dollars, which sums shall be made immediately available. Purchase of land.Opening King George’s street.For the purchase of land to open King George’s street to the Government property and expense of opening said street, three thousand five hundred dollars. Heat and lights.Heating and lighting Naval Academy: Fuel, and for heating and lighting the academy and school-ships, seventeen thousand dollars.
Contingent and miscellaneous.Contingent and Miscellaneous expenses, Naval Academy: Purchase of books for the library, two thousand dollars: stationery, blank-books, models, maps, and textbooks for use of instructors, two thousand dollars; expenses of the Board of Visitors to the Naval Academy, being mileage and five dollars perdiem 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 applicable 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.
Total for Naval Academy, two hundred and thirty-nine thousand and seventeen dollars and forty five cents. marine corps.Marine corps. Pay of officers, active List.Pay, Marine Corps: For pay of officers on the active list: For 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 thousand four hundred and eighty dollars.
Retired list.Pay of officers on the retired list: For two colonels, one lieutenant colonel, one quartermaster, two majors, one assistant quartermaster, five captains, three first lieutenants, and three second lieutenants, thirty-seven thousand seven hundred and fifty-five dollars. Enlisted men.Pay of non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates: For 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 fifers, and one thousand six hundred privates, three hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars. 203 Pay of retired enlisted men:
For one sergeant major, one drumRetired enlisted men. major, four first sergeants, four sergeants, one first class musician, two drummers, one fifer, and thirteen privates, eight thousand seven hundred and forty-three dollars and forty four cents. Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged soldiers for clothingUndrawn clothing.*Proviso*.Limitation. undrawn, thirty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, that no other fund appropriated by 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: ForCivil 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; 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-three dollars and thirty five cents. Total for pay of Marine Corps, six hundred and eighty-seven thousand four hundred and seventy-one dollars and seventy nine 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 of enlisted men for recruiting parties,:said payment for board not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars, sixty-seven thousand dollars;
For amount required to be transferred to paymaster, Marine Corps, on account of rations to retired men, eighty-two dollars and twenty two cents each per annum, two thousand one hundred and thirty seven dollars and seventy-two cents: in all sixty-nine thousand one hundred and thirty seven dollars and seventy-two 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 thousand dollars. Military stores, Marine Corps: For pay of chief armorer, atMilitary stores, etc. three dollars per day, nine hundred and thirty-nine dollars; three mechanics, at two dollars and fifty cents each per day, two thousand three hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty cents: for purchase of military equipments, such as cartridge-boxes, bayonet-scabbards, haversacks, blanket-bags, knapsacks, canteens, musket-slings, 204 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 thousands dollars.
Transportation and recruiting.Transportation and Recruiting, Marine Corps: For transportation of troops, and the expense of recruiting service, twelve thousand dollars. Repair etc., of barracks, etc.For repair of barracks: At Portsmouth, New Hampshire; 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 Quartermaster’s Department, on the repair of barracks and other public buildings, ten thousand dollars, of which the sum of one thousand seven hundred and thirty seven dollars is hereby made immediately available for repair of marine barracks, Brooklyn, New York.
For alteration and repair of colonel commandant’s quarters, based upon survey dated September twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, seven thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. For rent of building used for manufacture of clothing, storing-supplies and office of assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one thousand three hundred dollars. For erection of marine barracks at Sitka, Alaska, six thousand dollars. Forage.Forage, Marine Corps: For forage in kind for five horses of the Quartermaster’s Department, and the authorized number of officers, horses, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Hire of quarters.Hire of quarters, Marine Corps: For hire of quarters for officers 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.Contingent, Marine Corps: For freight, ferriage, tolls, cartage, 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 or 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 safe, 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 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 sta- 205tions, 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 five hundred dollars; total for Marine Corps, nine hundred and thirty-eight thousand and eighty-three dollars and fifty one cents. appropriations for supplies.Appropriations for supplies.
For expenses of arranging, classifying, consolidating, and cataloguingFuture classification, etc,, and issue of supplies as naval and not bureau supplies. supplies for tire Navy, herein provided for and now on hand, ten thousand dollars; and all supplies purchased with moneys appropriated by this act shall be deemed to be purchased for the Navy and not for any bureau thereof, and these supplies, together with all supplies now on hand, shall be arranged, classified, consolidated, and catalogued, and issued for consumption or use, under such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, without regard toRegulations for issue. the bureau for which they were purchased.
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 to have constructed by contract three seagoing coast-line battle shipsThree sea going coast dine battle ships.Description. designed to carry the heaviest armor and most powerful ordnance upon a displacement of about eight thousand five hundred tons, with a coal endurance of about five thousand knots on the total coal capacity at the most economical rate of speed, and to haveSpeed.Cost. the highest practicable speed for vessels of their class, to cost, exclusive of armament and of any premiums that may be paid for increased speed not exceeding four million dollars each; one protectedOne protected cruiser. cruiser of about seven thousand three hundred tons displacement, at a cost, exclusive of armament, not to exceed two million sevenCost.Speed.One torpedo cruiser.Cost. hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to have a maximum speed of not less than twenty-one knots; one swift torpedo cruiser of about seven hundred and fifty tons displacement, at a cost, exclusive of armament, not to exceed three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to have a maximum speed of not less than twenty-three knots; andSpeed.One torpedo-boat.Cost.Constructions contracts, etc.Vol. 24. pp. 215–217. one torpedo boat, at a cost not to exceed one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; and in the construction of all said vessels all of the provisions of the act of August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled, “An act to increase the Naval Establishment,” as to materials for said vessels, their engines, boilers, and machinery, the contracts under which they are built, the notice of any proposals for the same, the plans, drawings, specifications therefor, and the method of executing said contracts, snail be observed and followed, and said vessels shall be built in compliance with the terms of said act. save that in all their parts said vessels shall be of domesticDomestic manufacture. manufacture.
And in the contracts for the construction of each of said vessels such provisions for minimum speed and for premiumsSpeed.Premiums and penalties. for increased speed and penalties for deficient speed may be made subject to the terms of this bill, as in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy may be deemed advisable. In making proposals for contracts for building the vessels authorizecl by this act it shall be required that one of such vessels shall be built on or near the coastBuilding.One on Pacific.One on Gulf of Mexico.Two on Atlantic. 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 there with 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 206FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Chs. 640, 641. 1890. such coasts or waters as the Secretary of the Navy shall approve: *Proviso*.*Provided*, That if it shall appear to the satisfaction If prices unreasonable, etc., vessels built elsewhere.of the President of the United States, from the biddings for said contracts, when the same are opened and examined by him, that said vessels can not 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 if the Secretary of the Navy shall be unable to contract at reasonable prices for the construction of any of said vessels, then he may build such vessel or vessels in such navy-yards as he may designate. under the bureau of ordnance.Under Bureau of Ordnance.
Armament.Vol. 53, p. 483.Armament: Towards the armament and armor of domestic manufacture, for the vessels authorized by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five; of the vessels authorized by sections Vol. 24, p. 215.one and two of the act of August third, eighteen hundred and eighty six; of the unfinished monitors mentioned in section three of the Vol. 24, p. 216.Vol. 24, p. 594.same act; of the Miantonomoh; of the vessels authorized by the act approved March third, Vol. 25, pp. 472, 473.eighteen hundred and eighty seven; of the vessels authorized by the act approved September seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and of those authorized by the act. of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the armament Gunnery training ship.with modern batteries of a gunnery training ship, two million five hundred thousand dollars.
Washington.Gun Plant, Navy Yard, Washington, District op Columbia: Completion of gun factory.For completion of the gun factory, one hundred and forty five thousand dollars. Machinery, boilers, etc.Construction and Steam Machinery: Towards the construction and completion of the new vessels heretofore and herein authorized by Congress, with their engines, boilers and machinery, and for the Speed premiums.payment of premiums for increased speed or horsepower under contracts now existing and to be made under this and other acts for increase of the Navy, five million four hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
Appropriation for increase.Total for increase of the Navy, eight million one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Approved, June 30, 1890.