Chapter 186. Making appropriations for the Naval Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 186.— An Act Making appropriations for the Naval Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for other purposes.March 2, 1895. *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-six, 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 826 Commission, eight thousand two hundred and fifty men and seven hundredAdditional seamen. and fifty boys, at the pay prescribed by law; and the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to enlist as many additional seamen as in bis discretion he may deem necessary, not to exceed one thousand; in all, seven million six hundred and forty-nine thousand *Proviso*.Retired officers may act as teachers.three hundred and twenty-nine dollars: *Provided*, That any retired officer of the Navy or Marine Corps may, on his own application, be detailed to service as a teacher or professor in any school or college, but while so serving such officer shall be allowed no additional compensation.
Pay, Miscellaneous. For commissions and interest; transportation of funds; exchange;Miscellaneous. 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. That the accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorizedPhilip S. Wales.Credit in accounts. and directed to credit Philip S. Wales, medical director, United States Navy, with the sum of forty-four thousand and fifty-five dollars and eighty-nine cents, to relieve the said Wales from certain charges raised against him on the books of the Treasury upon Treasury settlement numbered eight thousand and sixty two. dated January tenth, eighteen *Proviso*.Condition.hundred and eighty-eight: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy shall be satisfied that the said Philip S.
Wales received no benefit from the payment of the vouchers represented in the charges now standing against him in said Treasury settlement numbered eight thousand and sixty-two. 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 transporting 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; 827 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, twenty-five 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 transportation of enlisted men and boys at home and aboard; 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 Station, Newport, Rhode Island: For maintenance of office ofNaval station, Newport, R. I. commandant, stationery, heating, furniture, freight and other contingent expenses, one thousand dollars; quarters for commandant, eight thousand dollars; in all, nine thousand dollars. Naval Training Station, Coasters Harbor Island, Rhode IslandNaval training station. (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, beating, 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; for hospital for station, twenty thousand dollars; in all, fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of the*Proviso*.Quarters. personnel of the training force shall be quartered on shore except in case of sickness.
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. 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, 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 proving ground, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars; expenses of target practice, fifteen thousand dollars;
To enable the Secretary of the Navy to pay, should he consider suchPayment for patent rights. payment desirable, for the exclusive rights to and for ordnance appliances now in use on naval vessels and protected and covered by Patent Numbered Five hundred and thirty-three thousand one hundred and seventy-one, said patent being embraced in a contract dated January twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three and signed by the Secretary of the Navy and the patentee and authorized in the actVol. 27, p. 238. making appropriations for the Naval Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and for other purposes, twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available. 828 Maintenance of new proving ground, five thousand dollars;New proving ground.Manufacture of gnus.
For purchase of forgings and manufacture of guns for batteries for training ships, and a reserve supply of guns for ships of the Navy, one hundred thousand dollars; in all, three hundred thousand dollars. Repairs, Bureau of Ordnance: For necessary repairs to ordnanceRepairs. buildings, magazines, gun parks, boats, lighters, wharves, machinery, and other objects of the like character, thirty thousand dollars. Magazine, Craney Island: Removal of magazine at Craney Island,Craney Island magazine. in the harbor of Norfolk, to a more suitable and safe locality, seventy-five thousand dollars, which sum shall be made immediately available.
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. Arming and equipping Naval Militia: For arms, and equipmentNaval militia. connected therewith, and 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.
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. Naval proving ground: Buildings tor magazine for high explosives,Naval proving ground. and filling house; sewerage, extension of railroad track, water supply, and so forth, twenty 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-ya rd, 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 thousand andProving ground. 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 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. 829 Bureau or Equipment.Bureau of Equipment. Equipment of vessels: For purchase of coal for steamers’ andEquipment of ves Bela. 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 sliip’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 two hundred and seventy-eight 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, 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; in all, four thousand five hundred dollars; Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one thousandLeague Island. 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 six hundred dollars, who shall also perform the clerical duties for the Board of Labor Employment at said navy-yard; In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Equipment, nineteen thousand six hundred 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; stationery; furniture for equipment offices in navy-yards; postage on letters sen tabroad; ferriage, ice, lighterage of ashes, and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Equipment unforeseen and impossible to classify, twelve thousand dollars. 830 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 drawing: purchase and repair of fire engines; machinery; repairs on steam fire engines and attendance on the same; purchase and maintenance of oxen, horses, and driving teams; carts, timber wheels, and all vehicles for use in the navy-yards; tools and repairs of the same; postage on letters and other mailable matter on public service sent to foreign countries, and telegrams; stationery; furniture for Government houses and offices in navy-yards; coal and other fuel, candles, oil, and gas; cleaning and clearing up yards and care of buildings; attendance on fires, lights, 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. Repairs and preservation at navy-yards and stations: ForRepairs, etc. repairs and preservation at navy-yards and stations, four hundred 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 three hundred and seven dollars;
Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one clerk, at one thousandBoston. four hundred dollars; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one messenger to commandant, at one dollar and seventy-six cents per diem; one messenger, at one dollar and seventy-six cents per diem; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one writer, at nine hundred dollars; in all, five thousand three hundred and ninety-three dollars and twenty-eight 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 live 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 sixty-six dollars and seventy-five cents;
Naval station, Sacketts Harbor, New York: For one ship keeper, atSacketts Harbor. three hundred and sixty-six dollars per annum: Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at oneLeague Island. thousand four hundred dollars; one writer and telegraph operator, at one thousand dollars; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; in all, four thousand two hundred and eighty four dollars; Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia:
For one clerk, at oneWashington. thousand four hundred dollars; one messenger, at two dollars per 831 diem; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one electrician, one thousand dollars; in all, four thousand two hundred and eighty-four 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 four 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 hundred and seventy dollars and eighty-nine 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-two 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 mason, at six dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at five dollars and fifty cents per diem; one pilot, at foui’ 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 ninety-three dollars and forty-five cents;
Naval station, Key West, Florida: For one mail messenger, at sixKey West. hundred dollars; In all, civil establishment. Bureau of Yards and Docks, sixty-one thousand five hundred and ninety-seven dollars and thirty-seven cents; and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such services. Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For one superintendent,Naval Homo. 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; five 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; cemetery, 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, seven 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, fifty-seven thousand one hundred dollars; in all, for Naval Home, seventy-nine thousand three 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, Boston, Massachusetts: To complete the electricBoston. plant at the Boston Navy-Yard, including United States steamer Wabash, one thousand five hundred dollars. 832 Navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York: For pumping plant for graniteNew York. dock, forty thousand dollars; grading, paving, sidewalks’, and sewers, ten thousand dollars; rebuilding construction and repair shipwright shed numbered forty-four, six thousand five hundred and thirty-four, dollars; putting equipment paint shop in good condition, three thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars; dredging, fifty-five thousand dollars; quay wall in Whitney basin (total estimated cost, one hundred and eleven thousand eight hundred and fifty-five dollars), twenty-five thousand dollars; heating apparatus for equipment rigging loft, one thousand two hundred and eighty-six dollars; extension of railroad system, ten thousand dollars, in all, one hundred and fifty-one thousand three hundred and ninety-five dollars.
Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For continuation ofLeague Island. the sea wall, twenty thousand dollars; dredging, ten thousand dollars; artesian wells, nine thousand dollars; sidewalks, three thousand five hundred dollars; one deck scow,two thousand dollars; for the construction of one steam tug, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, sixty-nine thousand five hundred dollars. Navy-Yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For extensionWashington. of quay wall, four thousand five hundred and sixty-nine dollars; extension of railroad track to store numbered two, three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; roundhouse for yard locomotive and wrecking car, four thousand five hundred dollars; extension of electric-light plant, five thousand dollars; hydrants to conform to city .standard one thousand five hundred and sixty dollars; new iron roof for foundry, thirty-three thousand dollars; in all, fifty-one thousand eight hundred and .seventy-nine dollars.
Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For extension of quay wall,Norfolk. twenty thousand dollars; sand lighter, two thousand dollars; derrick car, one thousand dollars; repairs to granite dock, fifteen thousand dollars; one deck scow, two thousand dollars; dredging,in.front of the navy-yard dock, six thousand and twelve-dollars; the Secretary of the NavyExchange of land. is hereby authorized to exchange such of the land at the navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia, being a part of a tract known as Saint Helena, (on the east side of the Elizabeth River) which the Government does not need, for a part of the adjoining tract, known as “Cedar Grove,” and now belonging to private parties, upon such terms as may be determined upon by a board of officers, accepted by the present owners of Cedar Grove, and approved by them, as may in his opinion serve the best interests of the Government; in all, forty-six thousand and twelve dollars.
Naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina: For roadways,Port Royal. five thousand five hundred and seventy-two dollars; grading anti drainage, six thousand dollars; extension of hydrant system, one thousand three hundred and eighty-five dollars; boundary fence, one thousand two hundred dollars; construction and repair shop, sixty thousand dollars; storage cisterns, three thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight dollars; in all, seventy-seven thousand nine hundred and fifteen dollars.
Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For the construction of aMare Island.Tug. steam tug at Mare Island Navy-yard, California, for the use of said yard, in addition to the sum of fifty thousand dollars authorized by the *Ante*, p. 130.Act of July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, thirty thousand dollars; Extension of quay wall toward coal shed (estimated cost, eighty-eight thousand three hundred and six dollars), ten thousand dollars; enlarging entrance to stone dry dock, twenty thousand seven hundred and thirty-six dollars; new caisson for stone dry dock, fifty-three thousand dollars; dredging, ten thousand dollars; three steam capstans for dry dock, five thousand nine hundred and seventy-one dollars, to be immediately available; railroad scales, one thousand six hundred and forty dollars; improvement of coppersmith shop, steam engineering, four thousand five hundred and twenty-seven dollars; yard roads, 833 five thousand dollars; in ail, one hundred and ten thousand eight hundred and seventy-four dollars.
Dry dock, Puget Sound Naval Station, Washington: ForPuget Sound.Dry dock. continuation of dry dock, dredging, office building, and officers’ quarters, to be made immediately available, two hundred and sixty thousand dollars; in all, two hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Naval station, Key West, Florida: For purchase of additionalKey West. lot for coal shed (twenty thousand dollars, or so much as may be necessary), twenty thousand dollars; coaling pier, forty thousand dollars; in all, sixty thousand dollars. naval academy.Naval Academy.
For buildings and grounds. Naval Academy: For continuingGrading, etc.Vol 25, p. 821. the grading and improvement of the property condemned under Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and the adjacent ground, and for the improvement of the water front of the Academy, to be immediately available, ten thousand dollars. 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 filling ravine contiguous to boiler house to Massachusetts avenue extended, twelve thousand dollars;
New buildings: For quarters for observers, two buildings, at fiveBuildings. thousand dollars each, ten thousand dollars; In all, for New Naval Observatory, twenty-two thousand dollars. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Medical Department: For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels inSurgeons’ necessaries. commission, navy-yards, naval stations. Marine Corps, and Coast Survey, and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy-yards, naval laboratory, and Naval Academy, sixty thousand dollars.
Naval hospital fund: For maintenance of the naval hospitals atHospital fund. 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, including the expense of disinterring, transportation, and burial at his late home in Cherokee.
Iowa, of the remains of W.W. A. Lathrop.Bringing home remains. A. Lathrop, an apprentice, who died in the service of the United States steamer Concord, at Wuhu, China; 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; buildings and grounds of the United States Naval Museum of Hygiene, and for minor repairs on said buildings and grounds as may be required to properly 834 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. Ambulances for naval hospitals: For supplying three navalAmbulances. hospitals with ambulances of modern construction to replace vehicles condemned as useless, one thousand eight hundred 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, which commuted rations may be paid to caterers of messes, in cases of death or desertion, upon orders of the commanding officer, 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 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, 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, atone 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 arid 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; in all, four thousand and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents; Navy-yard,Brooklyn, New York: One writer to boards of inspection,Brooklyn. nine hundred dollars. In general storehouses: Three bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one assistant bookkeeper, at one thousand dollars; one assistant bookkeeper, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; three receiving clerks, at four dollars per diem each; one assistant receiving clerk, at one thousand and ninety-nine dollars; three shipping clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant bill clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; two leading men, at two dollars and fifty cents per diem each; five pressmen, at two dollars and seventy-six cents per diem each; one superintendent of coffee mills, at three dollars per diem; one box maker, at three dollars per diem; one engine tender, at three dollars and twenty-six cents per diem; one coffee roaster, at two dollars and fifty cents per diem; one fireman, at two dollars per diem; one messenger, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem.
In yard pay 835 office: One writer, at one 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 sixty-one dollars and nine cents; 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; 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; Naval station, Newport, Rhode Island: In general storehouse: OneNewport, naval station. 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; oneshipping clerk, at one thousand dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one.assistant clerk, atone 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 eighty-one dollars and nine 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, nine hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be*Provisos*.Limit, wooden ships. 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.”. 836 the Navy of the authority to cause the necessary repairs and preservationShips damaged at sea. 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.
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. atone 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 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, 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 live 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, repairing, 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 *Provisos*.Repairs, wooden ships.launches, four hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, 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 “Hartford.”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 ship Hartford, or to Ships damaged at sea.order repairs of the engines, boilers, and machinery of ships damaged in foreign waters or on the high seas, so far as may be necessary to bring them home.
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. Steam machinery (special):
To continue work on new machinerySpecial machinery.“Chicago.” to replace present engines, boilers, and so forth, of United States steamship Chicago, two hundred thousand dollars. 837 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; 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 onePay of professors and others. professor of mathematics, one of chemistry, and one of physics, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; two professors (assistants), namely, one of French and Spanish and one of English studies, history, and law, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; five assistant professors, namely, one of English studies, history, and law, three of French, and one of drawing, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, any assistant professor at the Naval Academy who has served asPromotion of assistant professors. such for live years shall have the title and pay of a professor; 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 dollars each; one bandmaster, atBand. 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. 838 That the Secretary of the Navy shall have power to convene generalCourts-martial for cadets. courts-martial for the trial of naval cadets, subject to the same limitations and conditions now existing as to other general courts-martial, and to approve the proceedings and execute the sentences of such courts, except the sentences of suspension and dismissal, which, after having been approved by the Superintendent, shall not be carried into *Proviso*.Filling vacancies by March 4, 1895.effect until confirmed by the President: *Provided*, That every Representative or Delegate in Congress whose district or Territory is not now represented at the Naval Academy for any cause by a cadet shall be *Ante*, p. 663.permitted and authorized to recommend a candidate for appointment as a cadet at the Naval Academy of the United States, said recommendation to be made on or before the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, subject to the qualifications now prescribed by law.
Nothing herein contained shall be construed to increase the number of cadets at said Naval Academy as now provided by law. For special course of study and training of naval cadets, as authorizedAdditional training.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 eighty-six dollars and ninety-five cents, Pay of steam employees, Naval Academy:
For pay of mechanicsEmployees, steam engineering.Repairs, etc. and others in department of steam engineering,seven thousand eight hundred and twenty-four dollars and fifty cents. Repairs and Improvements, Naval Academy: Necessary repairs of public buildings, pavements, wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, improvements, repairs, furniture, and fixtures, twenty-one thousand dollars Heating and lighting Naval Academy: Fuel, and for heatingFuel and lights. and lighting the Academy and schoolships, twenty 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 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 dollars; purchase of gas and steam machinery, steam pipes and fittings, rent of buildings for the use of the Academy, freight, cartage, water, music, musical and astronomical instruments, uniforms for the bandsmen, telegraphing, feed and maintenance of teams, current expenses, and repairs of all kinds, and for incidental labor and expenses not applicable to any other appropriation, thirty-two thousand dollars; stores in the departments of steam engineering, eight hundred dollars; materials for repairs in steam machinery, one thousand dollars; in all, forty-one thousand three 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, and 839 twelve second lieutenants, one hundred and seventy-nine thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. Pay of officers on the retired list: For three colonels, two lieutenant-colonels,Retired officer. one quartermaster, one adjutant and inspector, one assistant quartermaster, twelve captains, two first lieutenants, and three second lieutenants, fifty-four thousand eight hundred and forty 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 fifers, 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-one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven dollars and sixty-seven cents.
Pay and allowance for retired enlisted men: For one sergeant-major,Retired enlisted men. one drum-major, three first-class musicians, .nine first sergeants, seventeen sergeants, three corporals, two drummers, two fifers, and forty-two privates, and for those who may be retired during the year, twenty-seven thousand dollars. Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged soldiers for clothingUndrawn clothing.*Proviso*.Condition.Mileage. undrawn, twenty-three 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, eight thousand dollars. Commutation of quarters: For commutation of quarters for officersCommutation of quarters. on duty without troops where there are no public quarters, four thousand dollars. Pay of civil force: In the office of the colonel commandant: ForCivil force. one chief clerk, at one thousand five hundred and forty dollars and eighty cents; one messenger, at nine hundred and seventy one dollars and twenty-eight cents;
In the office of the adjutant and inspector: One chief clerk, at one thousand five hundred and forty dollars and eighty cents; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars and fifty-two cents; In the office of the paymaster: One chief clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars and fifty-two cents; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twelve cents; In the office of the quartermaster:
One chief clerk, at one thousand five hundred and forty dollars and eighty cents; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars and fifty-two cents; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twelve cents; In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: One clerk, atone 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; hi all,for pay of civil force, seventeen thousand six hundred and thirty-seven dollars and ninety-eight 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 of 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, ninety thousand dollars; and no law shall be construed to entitle enlistedLimit. marines on shore duty to any rations or commutation therefor other 840 than such as now are or may hereafter be allowed to enlisted men in the Army.
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 ninety-seven dollars; 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 ninety-seven dollars.
Transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps: For transportationTransportation and recruiting. of troops, including ferriage, 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. 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. 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 for officersHire of quarters. serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them, four thousand five hundred dollars; for hire of quarters for seven enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in commandant’s, adjutant and inspector’s, paymaster’s, and quartermaster’s offices, Washington, District of Columbia, and assistant 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, tolls, cartage, advertising,Contingent. washing of bed sacks, mattress covers, pillow cases, towels, and sheets, funeral expenses of marines, stationery and other paper, 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, carpenter’s tools, tools for police purposes, iron safes, 841 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. That for the purpose of further increasing the naval establishmentTwo coastline battle ships. of the United States the President is hereby authorized to have constructed by contract two seagoing coastline battle ships designed to carry the heaviest armor and most powerful ordnance upon a displacement of about ten thousand tons, to have the highest practicable speed for vessels of their class, and to cost, exclusive of armament, notCost.Six gunboats. exceeding four million dollars each; and six light-draft composite gunboats of about one thousand tons displacement, to be fixed by the Secretary of the Navy, and no one of which shall cost more than twoCost. hundred and thirty thousand dollars, or in all for said six gunboats, one million three hundred and eighty thousand dollars, exclusive of armament, and not more than two of said gunboats shall be built in one yard, or by one-contracting party, and in each case the contract shallContracts. be awarded by the Secretary of the Navy to the lowest best responsible bidder; and three torpedo boats, at a cost of not exceeding oneThree torpedo boats. hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars each; and,subject to the provisions hereinafter made, one seagoing battle ship and one of said torpedo boats shall be built on or near the coast of the Pacific Ocean,Place of construction. or in the waters connecting therewith, and one torpedo boat on the Mississippi River, and one torpedo boat on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico; and in the construction of all said vessels all of the provisionsConstruction.Vol. 24, p. 215. of the Act of August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled “An Act to increase the naval establishment,” as to materials for said vessels, their engines, boilers, and machinery, the contracts under which they are built, except, as to premiums, which are not to be offered,No premiums. the notice of any proposals for the same, the plans, drawings, and specifications therefor, and the method of executing said contracts, shall be observed and followed, and said vessels shall be built in compliance with the terms of said Act, save that in all their parts said vessels shall be of domestic, manufacture: *Provided*, That if it shall*Proviso*.Building on Pacific coast. appear to the satisfaction of the President of the United States, from the biddings for the contracts for either of said torpedo boats, and for one of the foregoing battle ships to be built on the Pacific Coast, when the same shall be opened and examined by him, that the said torpedo boats or battle ships can not be-constructed at a fair cost at the places fixed in the proposals and biddings, he may authorize the construction of said torpedo boats, or any of them, or the battleship the biddings for which provide for building upon the Pacific Coast, elsewhere in the United States, subject to the limitations as to cost hereinbefore provided; and any of the ships, gunboats, and torpedo boats provided forUse of steel, alloy, etc.Battle ship to be named “Kearsarge.” in this Act may be constructed of steel or other metal, or of alloy, except where it is otherwise provided in this Act, and one of said battle ships shall be named Kearsarge. 842 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. 824.Vol. 26, p. 205.Vol. 26, p. 811.Vol. 27, p. 250.the Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine; of those authorized by 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 Vol. 27, p. 731.*Ante*, p. 140.authorized by the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three; and of the three torpedo boats, Act of July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-tour, and of the vessels authorized under tins Act, four million eight hundred and thirty-seven thousand six hundred and seventy dollars, of which sum two million dollars is to be made immediately available.
Construction and steam machinery: On account of the hullsConstruction and steam machinery. and out tits of vessels and steam machinery of vessels heretofore and herein authorized, eight million three hundred and forty-two thousand four hundred and twenty-two dollars, of which sum two million dollars is to be made immediately available. Equipment: Toward the completion of the equipment outfit of theEquipment. new vessels heretofore authorized by Congress, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
To pay the contractors for the construction of “Maine.”Payment of premiums.the machinery of the United States steamship Maine for earned premium over and above the contract horse power, twenty-two thousand four hundred and twenty-nine dollars and thirty cents, this amount being due under contract of April third, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, Vol. 24, p. 215. authorized by Act of Congress August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six. That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized and required to“Concord” and “Bennington.”Time penalties on, remitted. remit to N.
F. Palmer, junior, and Company, of New York City, the time penalties exacted by the Navy Department under the contracts with said company for the construction of gunboat numbered three, known as the Concord, and gunboat numbered four, known as the Bennington, the United States having suffered no damage by the delay in the construction of the said gunboats. The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized and directed toRichmond Locomotive and Machine Works.Claim to be adjusted. audit and adjust the claim of Richmond Locomotive and Machine Works, of Richmond, Virginia, against the Government of the United States, for damages and losses sustained by the said Richmond Locomotive and Machine Works in the execution of the contract to construct and deliver the machinery required for the United States battle ship Texas, caused by the delays of the Government of the United States in the construction of the hull of said battle ship Texas, and to report to Congress at its next session what amount may be due to said Richmond Locomotive and Machine Works.
The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized and required toRemission of time penalties. remit the time penalties on the Yorktown, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Newark, and forty thousand three hundred and fifty dollars is hereby appropriated for this purpose. To pay to the parties who may be found entitled to receive the same“De Soto” and “Bienville.”Payment of balance due. any balance that may be due and unpaid on account of the purchase money of the steamers De Soto and Bienville, purchased by the United States from the New York and New Orleans Steamship Company, by Vol. 12, p. 267.authority of an Act of Congress approved July eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, forty-one thousand seven hundred and one dollars and ninety-five cents. columbian museum, chicago, illinois.Columbian Museum.
That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he hereby is, authorized toCaravels “Santa Marin,” “Nina,” and “Pinta” transferred to. transfer to the trustees of the Columbian Museum of Chicago the reproductions of the caravels of Columbus, the Santa Maria, Nina, and Pinta, which were exhibited at the World’s Columbian Exposition. 843 An Act entitled “An Act to amend ‘An Act to amend section forty-fourInspectors of hulls. Error corrected hundred of title fifty-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States, concerning the regulation of steam vessels,’ approved August seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two; and also to amend section forty-four hundred and fourteen, title fifty-two, of the Revised Statutes, “RegulationAnte. p. 699 of steam vessels,” approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, is hereby amended by striking therefrom the words “Jacksonville, Florida;
Bangor,Maine; and New Haven, Connecticut;” where said words occur in the ninth paragraph of the second section thereof, following the word “Illinois” and inserting the same in the second paragraph of section two of said Act after the word “Illinois.” Approved, March 2, 1895.