Chapter 212. making appropriations for the Naval Service for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 212.— An Act making appropriations for the Naval Service for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and for other purposes.March 3, 1893. *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-four, 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; clerks to commandants of yards and stations; clerks to paymasters at yards and stations; 716 general storekeepers; receiving ships and other vessels; extra pay to men reenlisting under honorable discharge; interest on deposits by men: 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 one thousand five hundred boys, at the pay prescribed by law; in all, seven million three hundred thousand dollars.
And every naval cadet or cadet engineer who has heretofore graduatedNaval Academy graduates.To be paid from graduation if commissioned in six months. or may hereafter graduate from the Naval Academy, and who has been or may hereafter be commissioned, within six months after such graduation, an officer in the Navy or Marine Corps of the United States, under the laws appointing such graduate to the Navy or Marine Corps, shall be allowed the pay of the grade in which he may be so commissioned from the date he takes rank as stated in his commission to the Naval constructors eligible as Chief of Bureau of Construction and Repair.date of qualification and acceptance of his commission; and any Naval Constructor having the rank of Captain, Commander or Lieutenant Commander shall be eligible as Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair. pay miscellaneousMiscellaneous.
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, 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, photographs, prints, manuscripts, and periodicals; ferriage tolls, and express fees; cost 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.
And Accounting.hereafter the accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized to credit appropriation “Pay miscellaneous,” with all receipts for interest on the account of the Navy Department with the London fiscal agents, premiums arising from sales of bills of exchange, and from any Punishment for fraudulent enlistment.appreciation in the value of foreign coin. And fraudulent enlistment, and the receipt of any pay or allowance thereunder, is hereby declared an offense against naval discipline and made punishable by general court martial, under article twenty-two of the articles for the government of the Navy; but this provision shall not take effect until sixty days after the passage of this act.
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. 717 bureau of navigationBureau of Navigation. That an officer of the Navy not below the rank of commander mayDetail of assistant to chief. be detailed as assistant to the Chief of the Bureau of Navigation in the Navy Department, and such officer shall receive the highest pay of his grade, and, in ease of the death, resignation, absence, or sickness ofTo act as chief in case of vacancy. the Chief of the Bureau, shall, unless otherwise directed by the President, as provided by section one hundred and seventy-nine of the[R.
S., sec. 179, p. 28](/us/rs/t/s179/p28) Revised Statutes, perform the duties of such Chief until his successor is appointed or such absence or sickness shall cease. Gunnery Exercises: For prizes for excellence in gunnery exercisesGunnery exercises. and target practice; diagrams and reports of 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; the publicationOcean and lake surveys. 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. Bounties for Outfits for Naval Apprentices: For bountiesApprentices bounties. for outfits of seven hundred and fifty naval apprentices, thirty thousand dollars.
Recruiting, Transportation, and Contingent, Bureau of Recruiting, transportation, etc.Navigation: For expenses of recruiting for the Naval Service; rent of rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for men and boys, an 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, farriage, ice, apprehension of deserters and stragglers, continuos service certificates, discharges, 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, forty-five thousand dollars, and in time of peace the President may in his description. and under such rules andPurchase of discharge by enlisted men. upon such conditions as he may prescribe, permit any enlisted man to purchase his discharge from the Navy or the Marine Corps, the amounts received therefrom to be covered into the Treasury.
Naval Training Station, Coasters Harbor Island, RhodeNaval Training Station. Island (For apprentices): For dredging channels, repairs to main causeway, roads, and grounds, extending sea wall, and the employment of such labor as may be necessary for the proper care and preservation of the same; for repairs to wharf and sea wall; 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, thirty thousand dollars.
For building retaining wall, from material on the island, at a priceRetaining wall. not to exceed three dollars per foot, and foundation, two thousand five hundred dollars; For two boilers and extension of boiler house, with water tank andBoiler house. feed-water tank, seven thousand dollars. For purchase of one dynamo, fifty horse power, and extension ofElectric plant. electric plant for training station and War College and Torpedo School, four thousand five hundred: Naval War College and Torpedo School on CoastersNaval War College.
Harbor Island; For maintenance of the Naval War College and Torpedo School on Coasters Harbor Island and care of grounds for same, eight thousand dollars. 718 bureau of ordnance.Bureau of ordnance. Ordnance and Ordnance Stores: For procuring, producing, preserving,Ordnance and ordnance stores. and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; for fuel, 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, an at the naval ordinance and proving ground, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars; expenses of target practice, fifteen thousand dollars;
Maintenance of new proving ground, five thousand dollars; in all,New proving ground. two hundred thousand dollars. Submarine Torpedo Boat: For building a submarine torpedo boatSubmarine torpedo boat. and conducting experiments therewith, two hundred thousand dollars, to be taken from the balances of appropriations on hand July first eighteen hundred and ninety-three, to the credit of armor and armament of vessels heretofore authorized. 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. 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. Naval Militia: For arms and equipment connected therewith forNaval militia. 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 engine; gas and water pipes; gas and water tax at magazines; tolls, ferriage, foreign postage, and telegrams to and from the Bureau, and incidental expenses attending inspections of ordnance material, eight thousand dollars. Civil Establishment, Bureau of Ordnance: For the civil establishmentCivil establishment. under the Bureau of Ordnance, namely:
Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one writer, when required,Portsmouth. 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 hundred dollars;New York. Navy-yard. Washington. District of Columbia: For one clerk, at oneWashington. thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; one draftsman, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; three draftsmen, at one thousand and eighty-one dollars each; one assistant draftsman, 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 thousand twoNorfolk. 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, at one thousandProving ground. and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island: For one chemist, atTorpedo station. two thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two bundled dollars; one draftsman, at one thousand five hundred dollars; 719 In all, twenty-six thousand eight 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: 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 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 ships’ 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 installing and maintaining electric lights and interior signal communications on board vessels of war, nine hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Civil Establishment, Bureau of Equipment: Navy-yard,Civil establishment.Portsmouth. 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 rope-walk,Boston. 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 hundredNew York. dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one 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 twoNorfolk. 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, 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; furniture for equipment offices in navy-yards; postage on letters sent abroad; ferriage, ice, lighterage of ashes, and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau o Equipment unforeseen and impossible to classify, twelve thousand dollars. bureau of yards and docks.Bureau of Yards and Docks.
Maintenance of Yards and Docks: For general maintenance ofMaintenance. yards and docks, namely: For freight; transportation of materials and stores: books, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of 720 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, Pennsylvania, pay of watchman in navy-yards: awnings and packing boxes, and advertising for yards and docks and other purposes, two hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For contingent expensesContingent. that may anise at navy-yards and stations, fifteen thousand dollars. Civil Establishment, Bureau of Yards and Docks: Navy-yard,Civil Establishment.Portsmouth. 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 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; in all, seven thousand two hundred and ninety-three dollars and fifty cents.
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; in all, five thousand three hundred and eighty-three dollars and seventy-six cents Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York:
For one clerk, at. one thousandNew York. 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 draftsman, 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; one electrician, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, sixteen thousand five hundred and forty one dollars and fifty cents.
Naval station, Sacketts Harbor, New York: For one shipkeeper, at Sacketts Harbor.three hundred and sixty five dollars per annum; Navy-Yard. League Island, Pennsylvania, For one clerk at one thousandLeague Island. 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; in all, four thousand two hundred and seventy-eight dollars. 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 one thousand dollars; in all, four thousand two hundred and seventy-eight dollars. Navy-Yard, Norfalk, Virginia; For one clerk, at one thousand fourNorfolk. 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 electrician one thousand 721 two hundred dollars; 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; in all, eight thousand five hundred and fifty eight dollars and sixty three cents Navy Yard, Pensacola, Florida:
For one clerk, at one thousand twoPensacola. hundred dollars; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; in all, one thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars. 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 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 draftsman, 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 one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, twelve thousand two hundred and sixty-six dollars and fifteen cents.
Naval station, Key West, Florida; For one messenger, at six hundredKey West. dollars. In all sixty-one thousand four hundred and ninety-four dollars and fifty-four 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. 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, 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 dollars; one engineer to run elevator, six hundred dollars; water rent and gas. two thousand four hundred dollars; cemetary, burial expenses, and headstones, three hundred and fifty dollars; improvement of grounds, five hundred dollars; repairs to buildings, furnaces, grates, ranges, furniture, and repairs of furniture, five thousand dollars music in chapel, six hundred dollars, transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, five hundred dollars; for support of beneficiaries, forty eight thousand dollars; to reset and repair footway in front of wharf, one thousand dollars; total for Naval Home, sixty-nine thousand two hundred and fifteen dollars; which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund. public works—bureau of yards and docks, navy yards and stations, naval academy, and new naval observatory.Public Works.
Navy Yard, Portsmouth. New Hampshire: For construction ofPortsmouth. boiler house for building number ten, fifteen thousand dollars. Navy Yard, Boston Massachusetts; For repairs to wharf, twentyBoston. thousand dollars. Navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York: For completing gateway onNew York. Sands street, paving and grading streets in connection with same, extension of railroad tracks, continuation of quay wall, repairs to buildings, and for other improvements at the navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York, three hundred thousand dollars, to be paid from proceeds of sale of portion of Brooklyn navy-yard under act of Congress, approved December twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-two. 722 Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania:
For continuation ofLeague Island. sea wall, twenty thousand dollars; one pair shear legs, eighteen thousand dollars; toward the construction of east dry dock pier, as estimated for by the Bureau of Yards and Docks, forty thousand dollars; the total cost for the completion of the said pier not to exceed the sum of eighty thousand dollars; in all, seventy-eight thousand dollars. Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For new timberWashington. shed for ordnance purposes, seven thousand five hundred dollars; for conversion of mold-loft building into a forge shop, eight thousand dollars; for reconstruction of forge shop with foundations for crane columns, ten thousand dollars; for one wrecking car with fifteen-ton crane attachment, two thousand five hundred dollars; for installation of electric lights in breech-mechanism shop, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, thirty thousand five hundred dollars.
Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For extension of quay wall fifteenNorfolk. thousand dollars; for extension of water system, eight thousand dollars; in all, twenty-three thousand dollars. Naval Station, Port Royal, South Carolina: For seweragePort Royal. eight hundred and forty-six dollars; for officers’ quarters, seven thousand dollars; for boathouse, one thousand dollars; for barn, seven hundred and fifty dollars; and for completing officers quarters, heretofore authorized, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, twelve thousand and ninety-six dollars.
Dry Dock, Algiers, Louisiana: Toward the establishment of aDry dock at Algiers. dry dock on the Government reservation, near Algiers, Louisiana; for plans La. and specifications, and for the acquisition of such additional land as may be necessary in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, in accordance with the recommendations of two Commissions appointed Vol. 25, p. 463.Vol. 26, p. 196.by the President under the provisions of an act approved September seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and the act approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, respectively, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For dredging, twentyMare Island. thousand dollars; for dry-air closet, four thousand dollars; for new carriage house and dirt stables, for yards and docks stables, three thousand dollars; for changes in steam-engineering buildings, four thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven dollars; for shed for bending slabs, rolls, and furnaces, six thousand three hundred and eighty-one dollars; for engine house for engine for construction and repair, three thousand tour hundred and seventy dollars; in all, forty-one thousand six hundred and forty-eight dollars.
Dry Dock, Puget Sound, Washington: To continue the constructionDry dock at Puget Sound, Wash.Vol. 26, p. 804. of the dry dock at Puget Sound, authorized by the act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, including approaches to dry dock, rent of quarters for civil engineer and inspector, pay of superintendents, inspectors, and draftsmen, necessary dredging, and incidental expenses, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Repairs and Preservation at Navy-yards and Stations:Repairs.
For repairs and preservation at navy-yards and stations, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. naval academy.Naval Academy. Buildings and grounds: For one new boiler house and fittings, to beBuildings and grounds. immediately available, twenty-six thousand dollars; for the erection of two double houses for officers’ quarters, thirty thousand dollars; in all, fifty-six thousand dollars. new naval observatory.Naval Observatory. For grounds and roads: For continuing grading, extending roadsGrounds and roads. and paths, clearing grounds of New Naval Observatory, and filling 723 ravine contiguous to boiler house, to be immediately available, twelve thousand dollars.
Stationary tire engine: For one stationary fire engine, with pipes,Stationery fire engine. connections, and frame shelter, four thousand five hundred dollars; in all, sixteen thousand five hundred dollars. bureau of medicine and surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Medical Department: For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels inSurgeons’ necessaries, etc. 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 Hospital fund: For maintenance of the naval hospitalsHospital fund. 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 to hospital, transportation of 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 repair 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. bureau of supplies and accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. Provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: ForProvisions. 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, subsistence of officers and men unavoidably detained or absent from vessels to which attached under orders (during which subsistence rations to be stopped on board ship and no credit for communication therefor to be given), and fresh water, not to exceed ten thousand dollars, for drinking and cooking purposes, nine hundred and ninety thousand dollars; labor in general storehouses and paymasters’ offices in navy-yards, including a chemist at two thousand dollars per annum,Chemist. one hundred thousand dollars; in all, one million and ninety thousand dollars.
And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directedAccounts, advances, etc. to cause general account of advances to be charged with the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, which amount shall be carried to the credit of a permanent naval-supply fund to be used under the directionNaval-supply fund. of the Secretary of the Navy in the purchase of ordinary commercial supplies for the naval service, and to be reimbursed from the properReimbursement. 724 naval appropriations whenever the supplies purchased under said fund are issued for use.
Contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: For freightContingent. 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 incidental expenses, forty thousand dollars. And section thirty-seven hundred and eighteen of the Revised StatutesAdvertising for supplies.[R.
S., sec. 3718, p. 734](/us/rs/t/s3718/p734).*Ante*, p.244. of the United States, as amended by the act of July nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, is hereby amended so as to read: “twice a week for two weeks or longer, not to exceed four weeks, or once 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 Supplies and Accounts: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 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 yard 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,New York 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 mills, 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: OneNaval Academy. bookkeeper, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one receiving and shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars. Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island: In general storehouse:Torpedo Station. One clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars. 725 Navy Yard, Mare Island, California: In general storehouses:
TwoMare Island. 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 and 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 thirty-two dollars and three cents; and no other fund appropriated by this act shall be used in payment for such service. Consolidating naval supplies: For completion of the work of arranging,Consolidating, etc., naval supplies. classifying, consolidating and cataloguing supplies of the Navy, ten thousand dollars: For expenses (not properly chargeable to other specific appropriations)Transportation, etc. of handling, shipping, and transportation from one station to another of the. stores which under the law have ceased to belong to particular bureaus and have become general supplies for use of the Navy, twenty thousand dollars. bureau of construction and repair.Bureau of Construction and Repair.
Construction and repair of vessels: For preservation andPreservation, repair, 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 drafting room, nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this sum*Provisos*.Limit of repairs, wooden ships. shall be applied to the repairs of any wooden ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed ten 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 deprive the Secretary of“Hartford” and “Kearsarge.” the Navy of the authority to cause the necessary repairs and preservation of the United States ships Hartford and Kearsarge, or to order repairs of ships damaged in foreign waters or on the high seas, so farVessels in foreign waters, etc. as may be necessary to bring them home.
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 naval constructor,Boston. at one thousand four hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York: For one clerk to naval constructor,New York. at one thousand four hundred dollars; three writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents;
Navy-yard, Leage Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk to naval constructor,League Island. at one thousand four hundred dollars; 726 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, atNorfolk. 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 thousand andPensacola. 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. bureau of steam engineering.Bureau of Steam Engineering.
Steam Machinery: For completion, repairs, and preservation ofCompletion 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 forty five thousand dollars. For purchase, handling, and preservation of all material and stores,Materials, etc. 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 naval for vessels, yards, and the Bureau,Incidental expenses. such as foreign postage, telegrams, advertising, freight, photographing, books, stationery, and instruments, ten thousand dollars; in all, six hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of said sum shall be applied to the engines,*Provisos*.Limit of repairs, wooden ships. boilers, and machinery of wooden ships where the estimated cost of such repair shall exceed ten per centum of the estimated cost of new engines and machinery of the same character and power; nor shall new “Hartford” and “Kearsarge.”boilers be constructed for wooden ships: *Provided further*, That nothing herein contained shall deprive the Secretary of the Navy of the authority to cause the necessary repairs and preservation of the United States ships Hartford and Kearsarge, or to order repairs of the engines, Vessels in foreign waters, etc.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 drafting room, one thousand dollars. Civil establishment, Bureau of Steam Engineering: Navy-yard,Civil establishment.Portsmouth. 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 oneNew York. 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 oneNorfolk. thousand three hundred dollars; messenger, at six hundred dollars; Navy-Yard, Pensacola, Florida: For writer, at one thousand dollars;Pensacola.Mare Island. Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For clerk to department, at 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 shall be used in payment for such service. 727 naval academy.Naval Academy. Pay of Professors and others, Naval Academy: For one professorPay of professors and others. 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; live 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 gym mast, atone thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant librarian, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one secretary to 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: one clerk to the commandant of cadets, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk to the 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 the 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-nine dollars and fifty cents; one seaman in the department of seamanship, at three hundred and ninety-seven 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 attendants at recitation rooms, library, store, chapel, and offices, at three hundred dollars each; one bandmaster, at five hundred and twenty eight dollars; twenty-one first-class musicians, at three hundred and forty-eight dollarsBand. each; seven second-class musicians, at three hundred dollars each; services 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, three 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 gas works and steam buildings, for masons, carpenters, and other mechanics and laborers, and for care of buildings, grounds, wharves, and boats, thirty-seven thousand eight hundred and sixty-four dollars and ninety-five cents; one attendant in purifying house of the gas house at one dollar and fifty cents per diem.
In all, forty-four thousand and sixty-nine dollars and ninety-five cents. Pay of Steam Employees Naval Academy: For pay of mechanicsEmployees, 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.
Heating and Lighting Naval Academy: Fuel, and for heatingFuel and lights. and lighting the Academy and school ships, seventeen thousand dollars. 728 Contingent and Miscellaneous Expenses, Naval Academy:Contingent expenses. Purchase of books for the library, two thousand dollars; stationery, blank books, models, maps, and textbooks for use of instructors, two Board of visitors.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, Height, 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 appropriations, thirty-two thousand dollars; stores in the departments of steam engineering eight hundred dollars; material for repairs in steam machinery, one thousand dollars;
In all, forty-one thousand eight hundred dollars. marine corps.Marine Corps. Pay, Marine Corps: For pay of officers on the active list: For onePay of officers, active list. colonel commandent, one colonel, two lieutenant-colonels, one adjutant and inspector, one paymaster, one quartmaster, four majors, two assistant quartmasters, twenty captains, thirty first lieutenant, and twelve second lieutenants, one hundred and seventy-nine thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. Pay of officers on the retired list:
For four colonels, two lieutenant-colonels,Retired officers. one major, one quartermaster, two assistant quartermasters, eight captains, three first lieutenants, and three second lieutenants, fifty-two thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents. Pay of noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates: For oneEnlisted men. sergeant-major, one quartermaster-segeant, 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 eighty five thousand dollars.
Pay of retired enlisted men: For one sergeant-major, one drum major,Retired enlisted men. three first-class musicians, nine first sergeants twelve sergeants, two corporals, five drummers, two lifers, and thirty privates, and for those who may be retired during the year, twenty-four thousand six hundred and fifty four dollars and sixty-three cents. Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged soldiers for clothingUndrawn clothing.*Proviso*.No other fund to be used.Mileage. undrawn, twenty-four thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no other fund appropriated by this act shall be used for such purpose.
Mileage: For mileage of officers traveling under orders 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: For oneCivil force. 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; 729 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 four hundred dollars; 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 to civil force, seventeen thousand six hundred and thirty-six dollars and twenty-three cents; and the money herein specifically appropriated for pay of the Marine Corps shall be disbursed and accounted tor in accordance with existing law as pay of the Marine Corps, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. Provisions, Marine Corps: For one thousand one hundred non-commissionedProvisions. officers, musicians, and privates, and for commutation for rations to eleven enlisted men detailed as clerks and messengers, also for payment of board and lodging of recruiting parties, said payment for board not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars, seventy-five thousand dollars; and no law shall be construed 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 enlist 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, five thousand dollars. 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, forFuel. ranges and stoves for cooking, fuel for enlisted men, and for sales to officers nineteen thousand five hundred 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; in all three thousand two hundred and eighty-six dollars and fifty cents; for purchase of military equipment, 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, medals for excellence in gunnery and rifle practice, good-conduct badges, incidental expenses in connection with the school of application, for the establishment and maintenance or targets and ranges, for hiring established ranges, and for procuring, preserving, and handling ammunition, ten thousand dollars; in all, thirteen thousand two hundred and eighty-six dollars and fifty-cents.
Transportation and Recruiting, Marine Corps: For transportationTransportation and recruiting. of troops, and the expenses of recruiting service, fifteen thousand dollars. For Repair of Barracks: At Portsmouth, New Hamphire; Boston.Repair of barracks. Massachusetts; Brooklyn, New York; League Island, Pennsylvania; Annapolis, Maryland; headquarters and navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia; Norfolk, Virginia; Pensacola, Florida; Mare Island, California, Port Royal, South Carolina, and Sitka, Alaska; and per diem for enlisted men employed under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department on the repair of barracks and other public buildings, ten thousand dollars.
For rent of building used for manufacture of clothing, storing supplies,Rent. and office of assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, two thousand dollars. 730 To complete the erection of barracks at naval station. Port Royal,Barracks, Port Royal, S. C. South Carolina, appropriation to be immediately available, two thousand six hundred dollars. For erection of a marine barracks on Coaster Harbor Island, Newport,Barracks. Newport.*Proviso*.Contract. Rhode Island, fifteen thousand dollars; *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used until a contract shall have been made for the completion of said barracks within the same.
Forage Marine Corps: For forage in kind for five horses of theForage. Quartermaster’s Department, and the authorized number of officer’s horses, two thousand eight hundred dollars. Hike 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 office, Washington, District of Columbia, and assistant quartermaster’s offices, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 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 stragglers and deserters, per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor for a period 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 medicines 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 books, newspapers, and periodicals: improving parade grounds, repair of pumps and wharves, laying drain and water pipes, water, introducing gas. and for gas. gas oil. and maintenance of electric lights, straw for bedding, mattresses, mattress covers, pillows, wire bunk bottoms 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, thirty thousand dollars.
International Naval Rendezvous and Review: For the expensesInternational naval rendezvous. of the International Rendezvous and Review, including assembling and preparation of ships and such temporary increase of the force of enlisted men and marines as may be required, and such other necessary expenses as the Secretary of the Navy may authorize, Immediately available.to be immediately available, three hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; and the number of persons who Limit of enlisted men.may at one time be enlisted into the Navy of the United States, including seamen, ordinary seamen, landsmen, mechanics, firemen, and coal heavers, and including one thousand five hundred apprentices and boys, hereby authorized to be enlisted annually, shall not exceed nine thousand.
And the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, Anchorage grounds. Hampton Roads and New York Harbor.authorized, empowered, and directed to define and establish suitable anchorage ground in Hampton Roads and in New York harbor during 731 the continuance of the naval rendezvous and review to be held in pursuance of the provisions of section eight of the act of Congress approvedVol. 26, p. 63. April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety, creating the World’s Columbian Exposition; and the Secretary of the Navy isRules, etc., for review, etc. hereby further authorized to make such rules and regulations regarding the movements of all vessels in the roadstead and harbor named as may be necessary in order to insure the proper and orderly conduct of said naval rendezvous and review and provide for the safety of the vessels participating therein; and such rules and regulations when so issued and published shall have the force and effect of law.
INCREASE OF THE NAVY.Increase of the Navy. That for the purpose of further increasing the Naval EstablishmentThree light-draft protected gunboats. of the United States, the President is hereby authorized to have constructed, by contract, three light-draft protected gunboats of about one thousand two hundred tons displacement each, to cost, exclusive of armament,Cost. not more than four hundred thousand dollars each, excluding any premium that may be paid for increased speed and the cost ofSpeed premiums. armament.
The contract for the construction of either of said gunboats shall contain such provisions as to speed and premiums and penalties affected by speed as may in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy may be deemed proper and fitting. In the construction of saidConstruction.Vol. 24. p. 215. vessels all the provisions of the act of August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled “An act to increase the Naval Establishment,” as to material for said vessels, their engines, boilers, and machinery, the contract under which they are built the notice of and proposals for the same, the plans, drawings, specifications therefor, and the method of executing said contracts, shall be observed and followed, and said vessels shall be built in compliance with the terms of said act, save that Domestic manufacture.*Provisos*.Bidders must have suitable plant.in all their parts said vessels shall be of domestic manufacture: *Provided, however*, That the Secretary of the Navy shall not receive or consider bids from any party or parties not provided with a plant suitable to do the work: *And provided further*, That in awarding the contractAwarding contract. for any one of these ships, the Secretary of the Navy shall award the contract at the price of the lowest bid to that one of the parties bidding on any such ship which in his judgment it is in the interest of the Government to have to do the work.
If the Secretary of the NavyTo be built at navy-yard if no reasonable contract can be made. shall be unable to contract at reasonable prices for the building of said vessels, then he may build such vessels in such navy-yard as he may designate. under the bureau of ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance. Armament and armor: AH balances of appropriations on handArmament and armor.Balance of appropriations available. July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, to the credit of armor and armament of vessels heretofore authorized, shall be available toward the armor and armament of any of the vessels heretofore authorized as well as for the armor and armament of vessels authorized by this act, including the purchase of or payment for the right to use andPayment for patented processes, etc. employ such patented processes and to manufacture and use such patented devices, apparatus, models, and designs as may, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy, be necessary or desirable to increase the efficiency of the armor and armament tor naval vessels: *Provided, always*,*Proviso*.Domestic manufacture.
That such armor and armament shall be of domestic manufacture. under the bureau of equipment.Bureau of Equipment. Equipment of New Vessels of the Navy: Toward the completionEquipment of new vessels. of the equipment outfit of the new vessels heretofore and herein authorized by Congress, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Construction and steam machinery: On account of the hullsConstruction and steam machinery. and outfits of vessels and steam machinery of vessels heretofore and 732 herein authorized, six million eight hundred and seventy-five thousand *Proviso*.Steel to be advertised for.dollars: *Provided*, That no contract for the purchase of gun steel or armor for the Navy shall hereafter be made until the subject-matter of the same shall have been submitted to public competition by the Department by advertisement.
Approved, March 3, 1893.