Chapter 165. Making appropriations for the Naval Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen handled and ninety-five, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 165.— An Act Making appropriations for the Naval Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen handled and ninety-five, and for other purposes.July 26, 1894. *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-five, 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; 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, eight thousand two hundred and fitly men and seven hundred and fifty boys, at the pay prescribed by law; in all, seven million four hundred seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Previous service.
That all officers who have been appointed to any corps of the Navy 124 after service in a different branch of the Navy, shall have all the benefits of their previous service in the same manner as if said appointmentsNaturalization of aliens. were a re entry into the Navy. Any alien of the age of twenty-one years and upward who has enlisted or may enlist in the United States Navy or Marine Corps, and has served or may hereafter serve five consecutive years in the United States Navy or one enlistment in the United States Marine Corps, and has been or may hereafter be honorably discharged, shall be admitted to become a citizen of the United States upon his petition, without any previous declaration of his intention to become such; and the court admitting such alien shall, in addition to proof of good moral character, be satisfied by competent proof of. such person’s service in and honorable discharge from the Vacancies, ensign and assistant engineer grades.United States Navy or Marine Corps: *Provided further*, That in order to fill vacancies that may exist in the grade of ensign in the Navy and in the grade of assistant engineer in the Navy, the Secretary of the Navy shall, in case the number of vacancies in either of such grades exceeds the number of naval cadets in the line division or in the engineer division of the class of naval cadets finally graduated in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, or in any one year thereafter, select Selection from graduates, engineer or line division.a number equal to such excess from the final graduates of said class in the engineer division or in the line, division, as the case may require, who shall be reported as proficient and be recommended thereto by the Academic Board, and such final graduates shall be appointed to fill vacancies in the grade of ensign in the Navy or in the grade of assistant engineer in the Navy, respectively, and the naval cadets so Rank.appointed to fill vacancies in such grades shall take rank in those respective grades next after the naval cadets appointed from the line division or from the engineer division, as the ease may be to fill vacancies in those grades, but among themselves according to merit as determined by the-Academic Board.
Pay, Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous. For commissions and interest; transportation of funds; exchange; mileage to officers while traveling under orders in the United States, and for actual personal expenses of officers while traveling abroad under orders, and for traveling expenses of apothecaries, yeomen, and civilian employees, and for actual and necessary traveling expenses of naval cadets while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment as cadets; for rent and furniture of buildings and offices not in navy-yards; expenses of courts-martial, prisoners and prisons, and courts of inquiry, 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; costs of suits; commissions, warrants, diplomas, and discharges; relief of vessels in distress; canal tolls and pilotage; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; reports; professional investigation; cost of special instruction, at home or abroad, in maintenance of students and attaches and information from abroad,and the collection and classification thereof, and other necessary incidental expenses; in all, two hundred and forty thousand dollars.
Contingent, Navy: For all emergencies and extraordinary expensesContingent. arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, exclusive of personal services in the Navy Department, or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices, at Washington, District of Columbia, seven thousand dollars. 125 Bureau of Navigation.Bureau of Navigation. 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 ofRecruiting, 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, and all other expenses attending the recruiting for the Naval Service, and for the trasportation of enlisted men and boys at home and abroad; for heating apparatus for receiving and training ships, and extra expenses thereof; for freight, telegraphing on public business, postage on letters sent abroad, ferriage, ice, apprehension of deserters and stragglers, continuous-service certificates, 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.
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 live stock, and mail wagon, and attendance on same, thirty thousand dollars.
Naval War College and Torpedo School on CoastersNaval War College and Torpedo School. 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. To enable the Secretary of the Navy in his discretion to purchase forLetter-engraving machine. the United States the Ourdan and Kolb letter-engraving machine and the right to manufacture and use, without the payment of royalty, others of said machine and any and every improvement or modification of said machine or applicable, to said machine and referred to in the letters patent that have been or may hereafter be granted to the inventors of said machine or their assignees, twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Bureau of Ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance. Ordnance and Ordnance Stores: For procuring,Ordnance and Ordnance stores. producing, preserving, and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the general work of the Ordnance Department; for furniture at magazines, at the ordnance dock, New York, and at the naval ordnance and proving ground, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars; expenses of target practice, fifteen thousand dollars.
Maintenance of new proving ground, five thousand dollars.New proving ground. In all, two hundred thousand dollars. 126 Repairs, Bureau of Ordnance: For necessary repairs to ordnanceRepairs. buildings, magazines, gun parks, boats, lighters, wharves, machinery, and other objects of the like character, including one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars for the addition of two rooms to the quarters of the inspectors of ordnance at Fort Norfolk, Virginia, thirty thousand dollars;
For construction and extension of buildings at the naval magazine,Mare Island, Cal.Magazine. Mare Island, to replace those destroyed by the explosion on June thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, seventeen thousand nine hundred dollars; in all, forty-seven thousand nine hundred dollars. Torpedo Station, Bureau of Ordnance, Newport, RhodeTorpedo Station. Island: 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;
For replacing the gun-cotton factory destroyed by fire July third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, eleven thousand and seventy-seven dollars; in all, seventy-one thousand and seventy seven dollars. Naval Militia: For arms, and equipment connected therewith, andNaval militia. for the printing of necessary books of instruction, for naval militia of various States, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, twenty-five thousand dollars. Gun Plant, Washington Navy-Yard:
For gun plant, navy-yard,Gun plant, Washington. D. C. Washington, District of Columbia: Erection of steam hammers, blast to furnace and forges, in the new forge shop at the Washington navy-yard (mold-loft building converted into forge shop, Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three), six thousand dollars; for necessary machinery to equip the new machine shop at the Washington navy-yard (old forge shop reconstructed, Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three), and for additional boiler power, one hundred and eleven thousand dollars; in all, for Washington navy-yard, one hundred and seventeen thousand dollars.
Contingent, Bureau of Ordnance: For miscellaneous items,Contingent. namely: Freight to foreign and home stations; advertising; cartage and express charges; repairs to fire engines; gas and water pipes; gas and water tax at magazines; tolls, ferriage, foreign postage, and telegrams to and from the Bureau, technical books, and incidental expenses attending inspections of ordnance material, eight thousand dollars. Civil Establishment, Bureau of Ordnance: For the civilCivil establishment. establishment under the Bureau of Ordnance, namely:
Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one writer, whenPortsmouth. required, five hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one writer, when required,Boston. five hundred dollars; Navy-yard, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundredNew York. dollars; 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; in all, fifteen thousand nine hundred and eighty-nine dollars and fifty cents.
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; 127 Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island: For one chemist, atTorpedo Station. two thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one draftsman, at one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, five thousand two hundred dollars.
In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Ordnance, 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 vessel. 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 oil board ship; nautical and astronomical instruments, and repairs to same; libraries for ships of war; professional books and papers, and drawings and engravings for signal books; naval signals and apparatus, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, rockets, running lights, compass fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ships’ compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship’s way, and leads and other appliances for sounding; lanterns and lamps, and their appendages for general use on board ship; for illuminating purposes, and oil and candles used in connection therewith; bunting and other materials for making and repairing flags of all kinds; photographic instruments and materials; musical instruments and music; and installing and maintaining electric lights and interior .signal communications on board vessels of war, one million ninety thousand dollars.
Civil Establishment,Bureau of Equipment: Navy-yard,Portsmouth,Civil establishment.Portsmouth. New Hampshire: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand two hundred 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; in all, five thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars;
Navy-yard, New York: For one clerk, atone 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; in all, four thousand five 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; in all, two thousand two hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one clerk, at oneWashington. thousand dollars; in all, Civil Establishment, Bureau of Equipment, 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, 128 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 of 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 maintenanceMaintenance. of yards and docks, namely: For freight; transportation of materials and stores; books, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of tire engines; machinery; repairs on steam tire 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 tires, lights, tire 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; awnings and packing boxes, and advertising for yards and docks and other purposes, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For contingentContingent. expenses that may arise at navy-yards and stations, fifteen thousand dollars. Civil Establishment, Bureau of Yards and Docks: Navy-yard,Civil establishmentPortsmouth. 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 live 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, atSacketts Harbor. 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 129 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, at oneWashington. 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, Norfolk, 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 tour dollars per diem; one electrician, one thousand 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 bundled 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 Inland. 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 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 ail, Civil Establishment, Bureau of Yards and Docks, 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, atone hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; four scrubbers, at one hundred and sixty eight dollars each; eight waiters, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; eight laborers, at two hundred and forty dollars each; one stable-keeper and driver at three hundred and sixty dollars; one master at arms, at four hundred and eighty dollars; two house corporals, at three hundred dollars each; one barber, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one carpenter, at eight hundred and forty-five dollars; one painter, at six hundred dollars; one engineer to run elevator, six hundred dollars; water rent and gas, two thousand four hundred dollars; cemetery, burial expenses, and headstones, three hundred and fifty dollars; improvement of grounds, five hundred dollars; for reconstructing bulkhead of wharf property, three thousand one hundred and fifty dollars, said sum to be immediately available; 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; in all, twenty-three thousand three hundred and sixty-five dollars; for support of beneficiaries, fifty-seven thousand one hundred dollars; in all for Naval Home, eighty thousand four hundred and sixty-five dollars, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund. 130 Public Works—Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy-yards and Stations, Naval Academy, and New Naval Observatory.Public works.
Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For electric light plant,Boston. fifteen thousand dollars. Navy-yard. Brooklyn, New York: For caisson for granite dock,New York. thirty-five thousand dollars: for renewing buildings numbered one hundred and fourteen, one hundred and fifteen, and one hundred and sixteen (0. and R.), seventy thousand dollars; for grading, paving, and laying of sewers, ten thousand dollars: for quay wall inside of Whitney basin, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and forty thousand dollars.
Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For continuationLeague Island. of sea wall, twenty thousand dollars; for completion of shear legs, eleven thousand nine hundred dollars; for an electric light plant, ten thousand dollars; to complete east dry-dock pier, forty thousand dollars, to be immediately available; in all, eighty-one thousand nine hundred dollars. Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For extensionWashington. of yard wall through marsh, twenty-four thousand six hundred and ninety three dollars: retaining wall for, and raising lower door, store numbered ten, ten thousand nine hundred and fifteen dollars; locomotive wrecking crane, seven thousand five hundred dollars; completing conversion of mold loft building into forge shop, six thousand nine hundred and thirty-six dollars; in all, fifty thousand and forty-four dollars.
Navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For extension of electric plant,Norfolk. eight thousand dollars; for sewers, drains, and water-closets in offices and shops, fifteen thousand dollars; for continuing quay wall, fifteen thousand dollars. For the construction of a fireproof storehouse to replace the storehouseNew storehouse. building numbered fifteen, destroyed by fire in December, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, seventy-two thousand three hundred and sixty-five dollars and seventy-seven cents; in all, one hundred and ten thousand three hundred and sixty five dollars and seventy-seven cents.
Naval Station, Port Royal, South Carolina: For repairs toPort Royal. main wharf, eighteen thousand three hundred and sixty-eight dollars. For paying Justin McCarthy, contractor for building the dry dockPayment to Justin McCarthy. at Port Royal, South Carolina, in full for loss and damage caused by the cyclone of August twenty seventh and twenty eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, as ascertained by the Navy Department, eighteen thousand five hundred and twenty-one dollars and forty-two cents.
Dry dock at Algiers, Louisiana: For the purpose, of completing theAlgiers, dry dock. purchase of additional lands necessary for the establishment of a dry dock at Algiers, Louisiana, cost of advertising, plans and specifications for said dry dock, and expenses of judicial proceedings instituted for the condemnation of such additional lands, twenty-three thousand and twenty five dollars and three cents. Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For extending yard railroads,Mare Island. eighteen thousand three, hundred and thirty-two dollars: for navy-yard roads, five thousand dollars; for shed over galvanizing plant (C. and IL), three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; for cottage for electrician, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven dollars; in all, twenty-nine thousand and nineteen dollars.
For the construction of a steam tug at Mare Island Navy Yard. California,Tug. for the use of said yard, fifty thousand dollars. Dry Dock, Puget Sound [Naval Station], Washington: ForPuget Sound.Dry dock.*Post*, p. 413. artesian wells, three thousand five hundred dollars; to defray the expenses incurred prior to September sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, in boxing test wells, recording titles and deeds, perfecting titles, and in connection with the purchase of the Puget Sound dry 131 dock, two thousand five hundred and seventy nine dollars and eighty three cents, the same having been expended by Lieutenant A.
B. Wykoff, United States Navy, by direction of the Navy Department; in all, six thousand and seventy-nine dollars and eighty-three cents. For Naval Station, Key West, Florida: Coaling shed, tenKey West. thousand dollars. Repairs and Preservation at Navy-yards and Stations: ForRepairs. etc. repairs and preservation at navy-yards and stations, three hundred thousand dollars. naval academy.Naval Academy. For Buildings and Grounds, Naval Academy: ImprovementWater front. of the water front of the Academy, ten thousand dollars.
For repairs to the gas-plant, five thousand dollars.Gas plant.Paving, etc. To pave Hanover street from Maryland avenue to Wagner street, Wagner street from Hanover street to King George street, and King George street from College avenue to College or Graveyard Creek, in the city of Annapolis, Maryland, thirteen thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to convey to the city of Annapolis, Maryland, the title to the bed of King George street from College avenue to College or Graveyard Creek. new naval observatory.Naval Observatory.
For Grounds and Roads: For continuing grading, extendingGrounds and roads. roads and paths, clearing and improving grounds of New Naval Observatory, and tilling ravine contiguous to boiler house to Massachusetts avenue extended, twelve thousand dollars. Instruments and accessories: Miscellaneous instruments and accessories,Instruments, etc. namely: One comet seeker, four hundred dollars; one standard mercurial barometer, four hundred dollars; one magnetic theodolite, eight hundred dollars; one dip circle, two hundred and fifty dollars; one earth inductor inclinometer, three hundred dollars; one galvanometer, eighty dollars; one telescope and scale, fifty dollars; one quadrant galvanometer, sixty-two dollars; one compensator, fourteen dollars; glass scales, one hundred dollars; beam suspensions, one hundred dollars; one photographic register, one hundred and fifty dollars; one alt-azimuth instrument, mounted and proteetedfrom weather, six thousand five hundred dollars; eye pieces and shades, two hundred and fifty dollars; one twelve-inch object-glass, two thousand dollars.
For freight elevator, five hundred dollars; in all, twenty-three thousand nine hundred and fifty-six 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. For complete renovation of present hospital buildingBrooklyn, N. Y. hospital.Renovation. at Brooklyn, New York, with a view of placing it in a perfect sanitary condition, namely: for sealing all the walls to remove existing disease germs and for antiseptically finishing and painting them, removing rotten wooden floors and replacing them by tile with slate sidings impervious to moisture, scraping and painting all doors and woodwork, refitting windows so as to be utilized in ventilation, remodelling cased wooden stairways and renewing them with iron or other suitable material, fifteen thousand dollars; for construction of one ward of modern 132 design of sufficient size and cubic air space to accommodate at least fifty sick and wounded men, to be one story high with suitable elevavation and to be constructed of the same material used for present hospital, twenty-five thousand dollars; for erection of retaining and boundary wall, fifteen thousand dollars; for kitchen, mess ball, and smoking room removed from basement and located apart, conveniently for inmates and attendants of main hospital building and proposed adjacent wards, three thousand five hundred dollars; for construction of an operating ward with all modern antiseptic appliances, one thousand five hundred dollars; for heating and fire apparatus enlarged and improved:
Plumbing renewed, five thousand dollars; for elevator for transporting sick and wounded introduced, three thousand dollars; for apartment fitted in main building for chapel, reading room, and sailors’ library, one thousand dollars; in all, sixty-nine thousand dollars, which sum shall be paid from that portion of the naval hospital fund accruing from the sale of naval hospital grounds to the city of Brooklyn, and placed to the credit of the naval hospital fund, in pursuance of the Vol. 26, p. 213.provisions of the Act approved July second, eighteen hundred and ninety.
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 medical records, 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; hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration; sanitary and hygienic instruction; purchase and repairs of wagons and harness; purchase of and feed for horses and cows; trees, plants, garden tools, and seeds; furniture and incidental articles for the museum of hygiene, naval dispensary, Washington; naval laboratory, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, surgeons’ offices and dispensaries at navy-yards and naval stations; washing for medical department at museum of hygiene, naval dispensary, Washington, naval laboratory and department of instruction, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, dispensaries at navy-yards and naval stations and ships and rendezvous; for necessary expenses incident to removal of museum of hygiene to old observatory building and grounds, and for such minor repairs on said building and grounds as may be required to properly receive and preserve the exhibits, and all other necessary contingent expenses, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Repairs, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For necessaryRepairs. repairs of naval laboratory, and department of instruction, 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. That an officer of the pay corps of the Navy may be detailed asDetail of assistant chief authorized.[R. S., sec. 179. p. 28](/us/rs/t/s179/p28). assistant to the Chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts in the Navy Department, and that such officer shall, in case of the death, resignation, absence, or sickness of the Chief of the Bureau, unless otherwise directed by the President, as provided by section one hundred and seventy-nine of the Devised Statutes, perform the duties of such chief until his successor is appointed or such absence or sickness shall cease.
Provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: ForProvisions. provisions and commuted rations for the seamen and marines, commuted rations for officers on sea duty, and naval cadets and commuted rations stopped on account of sick in hospital and credited to the naval hospital fund, subsistence of officers and men unavoidably detained or 133 absent from vessels to which attached under orders (during which subsistence rations to be stopped on board ship and no credit for commutation therefor to be given), and fresh water for drinking and cooking purposes, one million and seventy five thousand dollars; labor in general storehouses and paymasters’ offices in navy-yards, including a chemist at two thousand dollars per annum, one hundred thousand dollars; in all, one million one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
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-five thousand dollars. 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; in all, five thousand eight hundred and forty dollars; Navy yard, Boston, Massachusetts: In general storehouses: OneBoston. bookkeeper, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one shipping clerk, atone 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; in all, four thousand and thirty-four dollars and fifty 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, 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 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 boxmaker, 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 yard pay office: One writer, atone thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents: one messenger, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem; in all, twenty-eight thousand four hundred and twelve dollars and three cents. Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: In general storehouse:Longue Island. One bookkeeper, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant bookkeeper, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, one thousand nine 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 yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, six thousand four hundred 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; in all, two thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents. 134 Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island: In general storehouse:Torpedo station. One clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars. Navy yard, Mare Island, California: In general storehouses: 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 yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents. In all, eight thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven 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 yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, eight thousand eight hundred and thirty-three dollars and seventy-five cents; in all, Civil Establishment, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, 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. 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, *Provisos*.Limit, wooden ships.nine hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this sum 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:“Hartford.” *Provided further*, That nothing herein contained shall deprive the Secretary of the Navy of the authority to cause the necessary repairs and Vessels damaged at sea.preservation of the United States ship Hartford or 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 the repair of the ship Constitution, now lying at the Portsmouth“Constitution.” navy-yard, in the State of New Hampshire, in order that it maybe used as a training ship for the naval militia, eight thousand dollars. For the repairs of the hull of the United States ship Hartford, to be“Hartford.” used as a training ship when repaired, one hundred and 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; in all. three thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents; 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 135 and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; in all,four thousand four hundred and fifty-one dollars and seventy-five cents;
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, atone thousand four hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For one clerk to naval constructor,Norfolk. at one thousand four hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; in all, three thousand four hundred and thirty four dollars and fifty cents;
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,three thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents; in all, Civil Establishment Bureau of Construction and Repair, 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 twenty-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 for naval vessels, yards, and the Bureau,Incidental expenses. such as foreign postage, telegrams, advertising, freight, photographing, books, stationery, and instruments, ten thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Repairs, wooden ships.
That no part of said sum shall be applied to the engines, 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 boilers be constructed for wooden ships: *Provided further*, That nothing herein“Hartford.” contained shall deprive the Secretary of the Navy of the authority to cause the necessary repairs and preservation of the United States ship Hartford, or to order repairs of the engines, boilers, and machinery ofVessels damaged at sea. ships damaged in foreign waters or on the high seas, so far as may be necessary to bring them home.
Steam machinery (special): To commence the construction ofSpecial machinery.“Chicago.” new machinery, engines, and boilers of United States steamship Chicago, two hundred thousand dollars. To replace present machinery and boiler of tug Standish, at Naval“Standish.” Academy, with new machinery, fifteen thousand dollars. To replace present machinery and boiler of tug Fortune, at Norfolk,“Fortune.” Virginia, with new machinery, fifteen thousand dollars. 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; in all, one thousand eight 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; in all, three thousand dollars; 136 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; in all, one thousand nine 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, three thousand dollars.
In all, Civil Establishment, Bureau of Steam Engineering, eleven thousand nine hundred dollars; and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. 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 gymnast, at one 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 sixty-nine 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 Band.dollars each; one bandmaster, at five hundred and twenty eight dollars; twenty-one first-class musicians, at three hundred and forty-eight dollars each; seven second-class musicians, at three hundred dollars each; services of organist at chapel of Naval Academy, three hundred dollars; in all, fifty two thousand four hundred and seven dollars: *Proviso*.Nomination of candidates.R.
S., sec. 1514, p. 260, amended.*Provided*, That section fifteen hundred and fourteen, chapter five, title fifteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States, is hereby amended so that it shall hereafter read: The Secretary of the Navy shall, as soon after the fifth of March in each year as possible, notify in writing each Member and Delegate of the House of Representatives of any vacancy that may exist in his district. The nomination of a candidate to till said vacancy shall be made upon the recommendation of the Member or Delegate, if such recommendation is made by the first day of July of that year; but if it is not made by that time, the Secretary Appointments from district where vacancy exists.of the Navy shall till the vacancy by appointment of an actual resident of the district in which the vacancy exists, who shall have been for at least two years immediately preceding the date of his. appointment an actual and bona fide resident of the district in which the 137 vacancy exists and of the legal qualification under the law as now provided.
The candidate allowed for the District of Columbia, and all the candidates appointed at large, shall be selected by the President. That every Member or Delegate of Congress whose district or territoryAppointments from districts not now represented.*Post*, pp. 413, 663, 638. is now unrepresented at the Naval Academy by a cadet who is not an actual resident of the district shall be permitted on or before the first day of September, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to recommend a candidate for appointment as a cadet at the Naval Academy, and the Secretary of the Navy shall nominate such candidate for appointment to the Academy, subject to qualifications now prescribed by law.
Such cadets when appointed to be in addition to the number of cadets now allowed, and the sum of five thousand fiveAdditional appropriation. hundred dollars, or so much thereof as is necessary, is hereby appropriated for the additional number of cadets herein authorized. For special course of study and training of naval cadets, as authorizedAdditional training, cadets.Vol. 22, p. 265. 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 gasworks 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 ofEmployees, steam engineering. mechanics and others in department of steam engineering, seven thousand eight hundred and twenty-four dollars and fifty cents. Repairs and Improvements, Naval Academy: NecessaryRepairs, etc. repairs 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. 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 thousand dollars; expenses of the Board of Visitors of the Naval Academy,Board of Visitors. being mileage and five dollars per diem for each member for expenses during actual attendance at the Academy, one thousand five hundred dollars; purchase of chemicals, apparatus, and instruments in the department of physics and chemistry, and for repairs of the same, two thousand five hundred dollars; purchase of gas and steam machinery, steam pipes and fittings, rent of buildings for the use of the Academy, freight, cartage, waiter, 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 departments of steam engineering, eight hundred dollars: materials 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 commandant, one colonel, two lieutenant-colonels, one adjutant and inspector, one paymaster, one quartermaster, four majors, two assistant quartermasters, twenty captains, thirty first lieutenants, 138 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, one assistant quartermaster, twelve captains, two first lieutenants, and three second lieutenants, fifty-six thousand eight hundred and sixty-five dollars.
Pay of noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates: For oneEnlisted men. 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 filers, and one thousand six hundred privates, and for the expenses of clerks of the United States Marine Corps traveling under orders, three hundred and eighty-four thousand seven hundred and *Proviso*.ninety-fourDrum-major. dollars and seventy-nine cents: *Provided*, That the pay of the drum major shall’be the same as that now established, or that may be hereafter established, for first sergeants in the Marine Corps of the same length of service.
Pay of retired enlisted men: For one sergeant-major, one drum-major.Retired enlisted men. three first-class musicians, five first sergeants, sixteen sergeants, three corporals, one drummer, two lifers and thirty-three 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*. 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 withoutMileage. 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 five hundred and fifty dollars. Pay of civil force: In the office of the colonel commandant: For one Civil 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; 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, or San Francisco, California:
One clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars: in all, for pay of 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 for 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 139 for board not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars, seventy-four thousand six hundred and sixty one dollars and fifty-five cents; and no law shall be construed to entitle enlisted marines on shore dutyLimit to enlisted men. to any rations or commutation therefor other than such as now are or may hereafter be allowed to enlisted men in the Army.
For amount required to be transferred to credit “Pay Marine Corps,” on account of rations to retired men, eighty-two dollars and thirteen cents each per annum, five thousand three hundred and thirty-eight dollars and forty-five cents. Clothing, Marine Corps: For two thousand one hundred non-commissionedClothing. officers, musicians, and privates, eighty thousand dollars. Fuel, Marine Corps: For heating barracks and quarters, forFuel. ranges and stoves for cooking, fuel for enlisted men, and for sales to officers, maintaining electric lights, and for hot-air closets, 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 equipments, such as cartridge boxes, bayonet scabbards, haversacks, blanket bags, knapsacks, canteens, musket slings, swords, drums, trumpets, flags, waist belts, waist plates, cartridge belts, sashes for officer of the day, spare parts for repairing muskets, purchase of ammunition, and 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, signal equipment and stores, binocular glasses, for the establishment and maintenance of 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 expense of recruiting service, fifteen thousand dollars. For Repairs of Barracks: At Portsmouth, New Hampshire;Repair of barracks. Boston, Massachusetts; Newport, Rhode Island; 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. Alteration and repair of marine barracks and other public buildings, repair of parade ground, relaying walks and gas and water pipes at navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York, five thousand dollars. . For the introduction of steam heat into the marine barracks and officers’ quarters, navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts, and incidental expenses connected therewith, three thousand dollars.
For rent of building used for manufacture of clothing, storing supplies,Rent. and office of assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, two thousand dollars. Forage, Marine Corps: For forage in kind for five horses of theForage. Quartermaster’s Department, and the authorized number of officers’ horses, two thousand eight hundred dollars. Hire of Quarters, Marine Corps: For hire of quarters forHire of quarters. 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 140 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-tour 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, wheelbarrows, and lawn mowers, 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, water, and gas 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.
INCREASE OF THE NAVY.Increase of Navy. Armor and Armament: Toward the, armament and armor ofArmor and armament.Vol. 24, p.215. domestic manufacture for the vessels authorized by the Act of August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six; of the vessels authorized by Vol. 25, p. 472.Vol. 25, p. 824.Vol. 26. p. 205.the Act approved September seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight; of the vessels authorized by the Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine; of those authorized by Vol. 26. p. 814.Vol. 27, p. 250.Vol. 27, p. 731.the Act of June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety; of the one authorized by the Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-one; of those authorized by the Act of July nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two; and of the vessels authorized by the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, four million dollars.
Construction and Steam Machinery: On account of the hullsConstruction and steam machinery. and outfits of vessels and steam machinery of vessels heretofore or herein authorized, five million nine hundred and fifty-five thousand and twenty-five dollars and from this amount there shall be paid ail speed premiums upon new naval vessels earned previous to January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and which remain unpaid at this Speed premiums.date, the. amount of such speed premium in each ease being according to t he official report in the trial of each vessel approved by the Secretary of the Navy.
The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to use the four hundredCruiser of “Vesuvius” type.Vol. 25, p. 824.Amount to be used for torpedo boats. and fifty thousand dollars “for the construction of one additional cruiser of the Vesuvius type,” appropriated by the Act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, or so much thereof as maybe necessary for the construction, armament, and equipment of three torpedo boats, to cost, all together, not more than the said sum of four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
And authority is hereby given to transform “Vesuvius.”To be transformed.the United States steamship Vesuvius into a torpedo cruiser if, in the opinion of the. Secretary of the Navy, such transformation will add to 141 “the efficiency of this vessel for naval purposes.” And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to remit the time penalties on theRemission of time penalties. dynamite cruiser Vesuvius, and a sum sufficient for such purpose is hereby appropriated. Approved, July 26, 1894.