Chapter 386. Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 386.— An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes. March 3, 1897. *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, 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-eight, 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 in deposits by men; pay of eleven thousand petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and boys, including men in the engineers’ force and for the Coast Survey Service and Fish Commission, and of seven hundred and fifty boysFIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 386. 1897.649 under training at training stations and on board training ships, at the pay prescribed by law, eight million two hundred and thirty-live thousand three hundred and eighty-five dollars. 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 cutlets 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 inspection, 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 attachés and information from abroad, and the collection and classification thereof, and other necessary and incidental expenses, three hundred thousand dollars. Contingent, Navy: For all emergencies and extraordinary expensesContingent. arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, exclusive of personal services in the Navy Department, or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices, at Washington, District of Columbia, seven thousand dollars. bureau of navigation.
Bureau of Navigation. Gunnery exercises: For prizes for excellence in gunnery exercisesGunnery exercises. and target practice; 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; 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, at forty-five dollars each, thirty three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Recruiting, transportation, and contingent: For expenses ofRecruiting, transportation, etc. recruiting for the naval service; rent of rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for men and boys, and all other expenses attending the recruiting for the naval service, and for the transportation of enlisted men and boys at home and abroad; for heating apparatus for receiving and training ships, and extra expenses thereof; for freight, telegraphing on public business, postage on letters sent abroad, ferriage, ice, apprehension of deserters and stragglers, continuous-service certificates, discharges, good-conduct badges, and medals for boys, schoolbooks for training ships, packing boxes and materials, and other contingent expenses and emergencies arising under650 cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation, unforeseen, and impossible to classify, forty-five thou sand dollars.
Naval Station, Newport, Rhode Island: Naval station, Newport, R. I.For maintenance of office of commandant; fuel, stationery, books, furniture, freight, and other contingent expenses, one thousand dollars. Naval Training Station, Coasters Harbor Island, Rhode 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 impairs to wharf and seawall; for repairs and improvements to 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; and purchase of fresh water, thirty thousand dollars.
Naval War College and Torpedo School, Coasters Harbor Island, Rhode Island: Naval War College and Torpedo School.For maintenance of the Naval War College and Torpedo School on Coasters Harbor Island, and care of grounds for same, including one draftsman, at one thousand two hundred dollars per year, nine thousand two hundred dollars; To complete installation of standpipes for tire hose and connections; complete window-casing repairs; rain-water cisterns, pumps, and tanks; leveling grounds about college, sodding, two thousand dollars;
In all, Naval War College and Torpedo School, eleven thousand two hundred dollars. bureau of ordnance. Bureau of Ordnance. Ordnance and ordnance stores: Ordnance and ordnance stores.For procuring, 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 proving ground, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars; expenses of target practice, fifteen thousand dollars; maintenance of new proving ground, five thousand dollars; in all, two hundred thousand dollars.
Payment to be made for patent right.Vol. 28, p. 827; Vol. 27, p. 238.The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized and required to pay to the patentee the twenty-five thousand dollars appropriated in the “Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for other purposes,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five said Act providing “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.
” Modern battery “Hartford.”Modern battery for the Hartford, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Reserve ammunition.Reserve supply of ammunition, five-hundred thousand dollars. Reserve guns for auxiliary cruisers: Auxiliary cruisers.Armament.Vol. 26, p. 832; Vol. 27, p. 28. Toward the armament of modern guns for auxiliary cruisers mentioned in the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and in section four of the Act approved May tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two two *Proviso*.Contract.hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy may, in his discretion, purchase by contract all or any part of such guns.
Torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: Torpedo station, Newport, R. I.Expenses.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; continuing extension of sea wall, five thousand dollars; enlarging boiler house, and two new boilers, six thousand five hundred dollars; in all, seventy-one thousand five hundred dollars. 651 Arming and equipping Naval Militia:
For arms, accouterments,Naval Militia. signal out fits, boats and their equipments, the printing of the necessary books of instruction for the Naval Militia of the various States, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, fifty 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. 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 civil establishmentCivil 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 chemist, atWashington. two thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, at one 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, eighteen thousand four 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-live 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-nine thousand three hundred and twenty-four dollars; and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. bureau of equipment. Bureau of Equipment. Equipment of vessels; For purchase of coal for steamers’ andEquipment of vessels. ships’ use, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same; hemp, wire, iron, and other materials for the manufacture of cordage, anchors, cables, galleys, and chains; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, hammocks, and other work: water for steaming purposes; 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 and652 on board ship; nautical and astronomical instruments, and repairs to same; libraries for ships of war; professional books and papers, and drawings and engravings tor 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 four hundred and fifty-eight thousand one hundred and seventeen dollars.
Civil establishment, Bureau of Equipment: Civil establishment.Portsmouth.Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one clerk, at one thousand dollars; Boston.Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts; For one superintendent of ropewalk, 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;
New York.Navy-yard, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, two thousand six hundred dollars; League Island.Navy yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; Norfolk.Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two thousand four hundred dollars; Mare Inland.Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars;
Washington.Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one clerk, at one 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, fifteen thousand five 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 for the Bureau; 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, fifteen thousand dollars.
Flags of Maritime Nations: Flags of Maritime Nations.New edition to be printed.The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to contract at once with a lithographic or color printing establishment having ample facilities for the suitable and satisfactory execution thereof for the printing of a new edition, to consist of five thousand copies, of the book of “Flags of Maritime Nations,” of which number one thousand copies shall be for use of the Navy Department and three hundred copies for the use of the Revenue-Cutter Service; and the remaining copies shall be delivered to the superintendent of public documents for distribution to the Senate and House of Representatives, one thousand two hundred copies to the Senate and two thousand five hundred copies to the House of Representatives. bureau of yards and docks.
Maintenance of yards and docks: Bureau of Yards and Docks.Maintenance.For general maintenance of 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; tools653 and repairs of the same; postage on letters and other mailable matter on public service sent to foreign countries, and telegrams; stationery; furniture for Government houses and offices in navy-yards; coal and other fuel, candles, oil, and gas; cleaning and clearing up yards and care of buildings; attendance on fires, lights, fire engines, and apparatus; incidental labor at navy-yards; water tax, tolls, and ferriage; rent of four officers’ quarters at.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; pay of watchmen in navy-yards; awning sand packing boxes, and advertising for yards and docks and other purposes; and for rent of wharf and storehouse at Erie, Pennsylvania, for use and accommodation of United States steamer Michigan, two hundred and seventy-five 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 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; in all, five thousand eight hundred and eighty-five 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; one master of tugs, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, six thousand five hundred and eighty-three dollars and seventy-six cents;
Navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand fourNew York. hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; two masters of tugs, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; two writers, at nine hundred dollars each; one foreman laborer, at four dollars and fifty cents per diem; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; two messengers, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem each; one draftsman, at five dollars per diem; one quarterman, at three dollars per diem; one superintendent of teams or quarterman, at four dollars per diem; one messenger to commandant, at two dollars and twenty-live 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 ship keeper, atSacketts Harbor. three hundred and sixty-five dollars per annum; Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one thousandLeague Island four hundred dollars; one writer and telegraph operator, at one thousand dollars; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; in all, four thousand two hundred and seventy-eight dollars; Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia:
For one clerk, 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 two hundred dollars; in all, four thousand four 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 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 fifty-eight dollars and sixty-three cents; 654 Pensacola.Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida:
For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred’ dollars: one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; in all, one thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars; Mare Island.Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousand four1 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;
Key West.Naval station, Key West, Florida: For one mail messenger, at six hundred dollars; Puget Sound.Naval station, Puget Sound, Washington: One clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one rod man inspector, at three dollars and fifty cents per diem: one messenger and janitor, at one dollar and seventy-six cents per diem, including Sundays; in all, two thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven dollars and ninety cents; Port Royal.Naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina: One clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one rodman and inspector, at three dollars per diem; one messenger and janitor, at one dollar and fifty cents per diem, including Sundays; in all, two thousand six hundred and eighty-six dollars and fifty cents;
In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Yards and Docks, sixty-seven thousand one hundred and ten dollars and forty-four cents; and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such services. Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Naval Home.For one superintendent, at six hundred dollars; one steward, at four hundred and eighty dollars; one matron, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one chief cook, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one assistant cook, at two hundred and forty dollars; one assistant cook, at one hundred and eighty-dollars; one chief laundress, at one hundred and ninety-two dollars; five laundresses, at one hundred and sixty eight dollars each; four scrubbers, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; one head waiter, at one hundred and ninety-two dollars; eight waitresses, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; one kitchen servant, at two hundred dollars; 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 lighting, two thousand four hundred dollars; cemetery, burial expenses, and headstones, three hundred and fifty dollars: improvement of grounds, seven 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-five thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; in all, for Naval Home, seventy-eight thousand seven hundred and twenty-five 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: Boston.For swinging gates for dry dock, ten thousand dollars: additional culverts in caisson for filling dry dock, four thousand five hundred dollars; in all, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars. 655 Navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York: For quay wall, WhitneyNew York. Basin, eighteen thousand dollars; dredging Wallabout Channel, thirty thousand dollars; quay wall, Wallabout Channel, ten thousand dollars; coal shed for dry dock, five thousand dollars; grading and sewering between dry dock and Clinton avenue, ten thousand dollars; grading and paving streets, five thousand dollars; latrines, eighteen thousand dollars; addition to electric plant, twelve thousand dollars; flushing-culverts in causeway (to be immediately available), twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy, after further*Proviso*.Sanitary improvements. investigation, shall be satisfied that the proposed plan for improving the sanitary conditions will be practicable and expedient; in all, one hundred and thirty-three thousand dollars.
Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For new coping forLeague Island. dry dock, sixty-four thousand dollars; causeway across back channel (west wall), twenty thousand five hundred and forty-seven dollars; dredging fresh-water basin and tilling in, one hundred thousand dollars; new boiler house for steam engineering, three thousand seven hundred and ninety-five dollars; wharf crane, three thousand dollars; weighing scales, one thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars; in all one hundred and ninety-three thousand two hundred and twenty-two dollars.
Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For dredgingWashington. in front of seawall, three thousand eight, hundred and sixty-one dollars; new scale house, one thousand two hundred and seventy-one dollars and eighty-two cents; in all, five thousand one hundred and thirty-two dollars and eighty-two cents. Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For continuing extension of quayNorfolk. wall north of timber basin, ten thousand dollars; completing quay wall from timber basin to marine railway, ten thousand dollars; paving, grading, and sewers, five thousand dollars; piping and engine for fire service, fifteen thousand dollars; renewing deteriorated parts of wooden dry dock numbered two, twenty thousand dollars; dredging, thirty -five thousand dollars; rebuilding blacksmith shop, thirty-five thousand dollars: in all, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
Naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina: For grading andPort Royal. drainage, seven thousand five hundred and seventy-nine dollars and twenty-five, cents; railway track scales, five hundred dollars; storage cistern, three thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven dollars and eighty-eight cents; machinery to be placed in machine shop just completed, fifty thousand dollars: in all sixty-one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven dollars and thirteen cents. Naval station, Key West, Florida:
For sea wall from machineKey West. shop lot to extension of Eaton street, two thousand dollars; dredging along front of wharf and inside the L, three thousand dollars; new machine shop, thirty thousand dollars; in all, thirty-five thousand dollars. Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For extension of quayMare Island. wall, thirty thousand dollars; grading and paving about the stone dry dock, ten thousand dollars; dredging, twenty thousand dollars; dredging a channel in Mare Island Strait to enable all classes of naval vessels to reach the navy-yard, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; completing coppersmith’s shop, steam engineering, three thousand dollars; storage shed north of building numbered fifty-five, three thousand seven hundred and eighty-five dollars; in all, two hundred and sixteen thousand seven hundred and eighty-live dollars.
Puget Sound Naval Station, Washington: For continuingPuget Sound. clearing, stumping, and grading station, ten thousand dollars; wharf, sixty thousand dollars; filling in marsh, five thousand dollars; extension of brick discharge culvert, five thousand one hundred and forty-three dollars and sixty-two cents; in all, eighty thousand one hundred and forty-three dollars and sixty-two cents. Repairs and preservation at navy-yards and stations: ForRepairs, etc. repairs and preservation at navy-yards and stations, four hundred thousand dollars. 656 Naval Academy:
Naval Academy.For buildings and grounds, Naval Academy: For extension to sick quarters for cadets rendered necessary in order that there may be an operating room, two thousand five hundred dollars. New Naval Observatory: Naval Observatory.For grounds and roads: For continuing grading, extending roads and paths, clearing and improving grounds of new Naval Observatory, five thousand dollars. bureau of medicine and surgery. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Medical Department: Surgeons’ necessaries.For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in commission, navy-yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, anti Coast Survey, and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy-yards, naval laboratory and department of instruction, museum of hygiene, and Naval Academy, sixty-live thousand dollars.
Naval hospital fund: Hospital fund.For maintenance of the naval hospitals at the various navy-yards and stations, and for care and maintenance of patients in other hospitals at home and abroad, twenty thousand dollars. Naval hospital, Chelsea, Massachusetts: Chelsea hospital.To enable the Secretary of the Navy to cause the removal of the brick Avail in front of the United States naval hospital, on Broadway, in the city of Chelsea, Massachusetts, and to substitute in place thereof an iron fence, six thousand dollars, and one thousand dollars of this amount, or so much thereof as maybe necessary, shall be used to repair the sea Avail on the water front of said naval hospital.
Naval hospital, naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina: Port Royal.For hospital at the naval station at Port Royal, South Carolina, four thousand dollars. Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: Contingent.For freight, 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 fur 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, and for minor repairs on buildings and grounds of the United States Naval Museum of Hygiene, and all other necessary contingent expenses, thirty thousand dollars.
Repairs, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: Repairs.For necessary 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: AmbulancesFor supplying two naval hospitals with ambulances of modern construction to replace vehicles condemned as useless, one thousand two hundred dollars. Naval cemetery at naval hospital, Brooklyn, New York:
Cemetery, Brooklyn.For labor and material for widening of approaches, and repairing and painting all gates and fences; for making graveled roads and paths; building Avails where necessary, properly grading the whole area, and planting appropriate shrubbery, one thousand dollars. 657 bureau of supplies and accounts. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. Provisions, Navy: For provisions and commuted rations for theProvisions. 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); fresh water for drinking and cooking purposes; labor in general storehouses and pay-masters’ offices in navy-yards, including expenses of handling stores purchased under the naval supply fund, and a chemist at two thousand dollars per annum, one million four hundred and 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;
Boston.Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: In general storehouses: One book-keeper, 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-live cents; in all, four thousand and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents; New York.Navy-Yard, Brooklyn, New York: One writer to boards of inspection, nine hundred dollars.
In general storehouses: Three bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars 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, atone 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; one writer, one-thousand dollars; one storeman, nine hundred dollars.
In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one messenger, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem. In all, thirty thousand three hundred and twelve dollars and three cents; League Island.Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: In general storehouse: One bookkeeper, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant bookkeeper, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; in al), one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; Washington.Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia:
In general storehouse: One bookkeeper, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars. 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; Annapolis.Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland: In general storehouse:
One bookkeeper, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one receiving and shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; 658 Naval station.Naval station, Newport, Rhode Island: In general storehouse: One clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; Marc Island.Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: In general storehouses: Two bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two assistant bookkeepers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one 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, nine thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents; Norfolk.Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: In general storehouses: Two bookkeepers, 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-live cents; in all, eight thousand eight hundred and thirty-three dollars and seventy-five cents; In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, seventy thousand four hundred and thirty-two dollars and three cents, and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. Naval supply fund: Naval supply fund.Additional advance.Vol. 27, p. 723.And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to cause the general account of advances tube charged with the sum of one million dollars, in addition to the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, provided in the Act approved March third, *Ante*, p. 370.eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and the three hundred thousand dollars, provided in the Act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, making in all one million five hundred thousand dollars, which amount shall be carried to the credit of the permanent naval supply fund, to be used under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy in the purchase of supplies for the naval service, and to be reimbursed from the proper naval appropriations, whenever the supplies purchased under said fund are issued for use.
Contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: Contingent.For freight and express charges, candles, fuel, books and blanks, stationery, advertising, furniture for general storehouses and pay offices in navy-yards, expenses of naval clothing factory and machinery for same, postage, telegrams, telephones, tolls, ferriages, yeoman’s stores, iron safes, newspapers, ice, transportation of stores purchased under the naval-supply fund, and other incidental expenses, fifty thousand dollars. bureau of construction and repair.
Bureau of Construction and Repair. Construction and repair of vessels: Preservation, repair, etc., of vessels.For preservation and completion of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; steam steerers, pneumatic steerers, steam capstans, steam windlasses, and all other auxiliaries; labor in navy yards and mi foreign stations; purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops: carrying on work of experimental model tank; 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, one million five hundred thousand *Provisos*.Limit, wooden ships.dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be applied to the repair 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 “Hartford.”ship of the same size and like material: *Provided further*, That nothing herein contained shall deprive the Secretary of the Navy of the authority659 to cause the necessary repairs and preservation of the United States ship Hartford or to order repairs of ships damaged in foreign waters orShips damaged at sea.“Constitution.”Care and preservation.Vol. 28, p. 134. on the high seas, so far as may be necessary to bring them home: *Provided further*, That the balance of the appropriation under the Act of July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, “for the repair of the United States ship Constitution, now lying at the Portsmouth Navy-Yard, in the State of New Hampshire, in order that it may be used as a training ship for the Naval Militia, eight thousand dollars,” or such part thereof as may be required, is hereby made immediately available for such work as may be necessary for the proper care and preservation of that historic vessel.
Repairs to United States steamship Hartford: Completion of repairs“Hartford.” to the United States steamship Hartford, seventy thousand dollars. Repairs to the United States steamship Chicago: Completion of“Chicago.” repairs to the United States steamship Chicago, fifty thousand dollars. Steam tug for naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina: ConstructionTug, Port Royal. of one steam tug for the use of the naval station. Port Royal, South Carolina, fifty thousand dollars. Steam tug for naval station, Puget Sound, Washington:
ConstructionTug, Puget Sound. of one steam tug for the use of the naval station, Puget Sound, Washington, fifty thousand dollars. Steel lighter for navy-yard, New York: Construction of one steelSteel lighter, N. Y. lighter for use of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts at the navyyard, New York, twenty thousand dollars. Model tank, navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: CompletionModel tank. of the model tank, to be immediately available, ninety-two thousand five hundred dollars.
Civil Establishment, Bureau of Construction and Repair: Civil establishment. Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one clerk to naval constructor,Portsmouth. 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 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, atone thousand four hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one clerk to navalWashington. constructor, at one thousand four hundred dollars;
Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For one clerk to naval constructor, atNorfolk. one thousand four hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; 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 and660 *Provisos*.Limit, 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 “Hartford.”constructed for wooden ships: *Provided further*, That nothing herein contained shall deprive the Secretary of the Navy of the authority to cause the necessary repairs and preservation of the United States ship Hartford, or to order repairs of the engines, boilers, and machinery of Ships damaged at sea.ships damaged in foreign waters or on the high seas, so far as may be necessary to bring them home;
Materials, etc.For purchase, handling, and preservation of all material and stores, purchase, fitting, repair, and preservation of machinery and tools in navy-yards and stations, and running yard engines, three hundred thousand dollars. Incidental expenses.For incidental expenses for navy vessels, yards, and the Bureau, such as foreign postage, telegrams, advertising, freight, photographing, books, stationery, and instruments, ten thousand dollars; In all, steam machinery, seven hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars.
Steam machinery (special): Special machinery.“Chicago.”To complete new machinery and boilers, now building at. New York Navy-Yard, for United States steamship Chicago, one hundred and .seventy-five thousand dollars; “Hartford.”To complete new machinery and boilers, now building at Mare Island navy-yard, fur United States steamship Hartford, one hundred thousand dollars; “Enterprise.”Transfer of “Galena’s” boilers.The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to transfer to the Enterprise the two boilers of the Galena, now at the navy-yard at Portsmouth, *Proviso*.Expense.New Hampshire: *Provided*, That all expenses incurred in the installation of such boilers in the Enterprise shall be borne by the State of Massachusetts;
In all, steam machinery (special), two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Contingent, Bureau of Steam Engineering: Contingent.For contingencies, drawing materials, and instruments for the drafting room, one thousand dollars. Improvement of plant, navy-yard, Mare Island, California: Mare Island.Tools. For modern machine tools for boiler shop and machine shop, fifty thousand dollars. Civil establishment, Bureau of Steam Engineering: Civil establishment.Portsmouth.Navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire:
For one clerk, atone thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all, one thousand eight hundred dollars; New York.Navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, atone thousand dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand dollars; League Island.Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, atone thousand two hundred dollars; Norfolk.Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For one clerk, atone thousand three hundred dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all, one thousand nine hundred dollars;
Pensacola.Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: For one writer, at one thousand dollars; Mare Island.Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; one 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: Pay of professors and others.For one professor of mathematics, one of chemistry, one of physics, and one of661 English, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; five professors, namely, one of French and Spanish, one of English, two of French, and one of drawing, at two thousand two hundred dollars each: one assistant professor of French, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; one sword master, at one thousand five hundred dollars, and two assistants, at one thousand dollars each; one instructor in gymnastics, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant librarian, atone thousand four hundred dollars; one secretary to the Naval Academy, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks to the Superintendent, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; 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, 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, at three hundred dollars each; six attendants at recitation rooms, library, store, chapel, and offices, at three hundred dollars each; one bandmaster,Band. 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, three hundred dollars; in all, fifty-four thousand five hundred and seven dollars: *Provided*, That the proper pay officer*Proviso*.Longevity pay to professors.Vol. 28, p. 837. of the Navy be, and is hereby, authorized to pay the professors at the Naval Academy, whose compensation was affected by the Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, at the rate of compensation fixed by that Act from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.
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 the captain of the watch and weigher, at two dollars and fifty cents per diem; four watchmen, at two dollars per diem each; foreman of gas and steam-heating works of the Academy, at five dollars per diem; for labor at gas works and steam buildings, for masons, carpenters, and other mechanics and laborers, and for care of buildings, grounds, wharves, and boats, thirty-seven thousand eight hundred and sixty-four dollars and ninety-five cents; one attendant in purifying house of the gas house, at one dollar and fifty cents per diem; in all, forty-four thousand and sixty-nine dollars and ninety-five cents.
Pay of steam employees, Naval Academy: For pay of mechanicsEmployees, steam engineering. and others in department of steam engineering, seven thousand eight hundred and twenty-four dollars and fifty cents. Repairs, Naval Academy: Necessary repairs of public buildings,Repairs, etc. pavements, wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, improvements, repairs, furniture and fixtures, twenty one thousand dollars: continuing the grading and improvement of the propertyGrading, etc.Vol. 25, p. 821. 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 completion of improvement of the water front of the Academy, now in progress, to be immediately available, five thousand dollars; in all, repairs, Naval Academy, twenty-six thousand dollars. 662 Heating and lighting, Naval Academy:
Fuel and lights.Fuel, and for heating and lighting the Academy and school-ships, twenty thousand dollars. Contingent, Naval Academy: Contingent.Purchase of books for the library (to be purchased in often market on the written order of the Superintendent), two thousand dollars; stationery, blank books, models, maps, and text-books for use of instructors, two thousand dollars: expenses Hoard of Visitors.of the Board of Visitors of the Naval Academy, including mileage, three thousand dollars; purchase of chemicals, apparatus, and instruments in the department of physics, 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, cur-rent 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; for contingencies for the Superintendent of the Academy, to be expended in his discretion, one thousand dollars; in all, forty-three thousand eight hundred dollars. marine corps.
Marine Corps. Pay, Marine Corps: Pay of officers, active list.For pay of officers on the active list: For one colonel commandant, one colonel, two lieutenant-colonels, one adjutant and inspector, one paymaster, one quartermaster, four majors, two assistant quartermasters, twenty captains, thirty first lieutenants, and thirteen second lieutenants, one hundred and eighty thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars. Retired officers.Pay of officers on the retired list: For two colonels, three lieutenant colonels, one adjutant and inspector, nine captains, two first lieutenants, and three second lieutenants, forty-two thousand eight hundred and thirty-two dollars and fifty cents.
Enlisted men.Pay of noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates: For one sergeant-major, one quartermaster-sergeant, one leader of the baud, one drum-major, fifty first sergeants, one hundred and fifty sergeants, two hundred and twenty corporals, thirty musicians, one hundred and twenty drummers and filers, and two thousand and twenty-six privates, and for the expenses of clerks of the United States Marine Corps traveling under orders, four hundred and fifty-six thousand four hundred and seven dollars and sixty-seven cents.
Retired enlisted men.Pay and allowance for retired enlisted men: For one sergeant-major, two drum-majors, four first-class musicians, twelve first sergeants, twenty sergeants, four corporals, one drummer, two fifers, and forty-five privates, and for those who may be retired during the year, thirty-one thousand four hundred and three dollars and eighty cents. Undrawn clothing.Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged soldiers for clothing *Proviso*.Condition.undrawn, twenty-three thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used for such purpose.
Mileage.Mileage: For mileage of officers traveling under orders without troops, eight thousand dollars. Commutation of quarters, officers.For commutation of quarters to officers on duty without troops where there are no public quarters, four thousand dollars. Pay of civil force: Civil force. In the office of the colonel commandant: For 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, atone 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, atone 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; 663 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-live 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 five hundred noncommissionedProvisions. officers, musicians, and privates, and for commutation of rations to twelve 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, one hundred thousand dollars; and no law shall be construed to entitle marinesLimit. on shore duty to any rations or commutation therefor other than such as now are or may hereafter be allowed to enlisted men in the Army.
Clothing, Marine Corps: For two thousand six hundred noncommissionedClothing. officers, musicians, and privates, ninety-seven thousand two hundred and fifty-five dollars. Fuel, Marine Corps: For heating barracks and quarters, forFuel. ranges and stoves for cooking, fuel for enlisted men, 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; 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: *Provided*, That the provisions of the clause*Proviso*.Pacific railroads accounts.Vol. 20, p. 420. contained in the Act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to make such entries upon the books of the Department as will carry to the credit of certain railroad companies named in said Act amounts earned or to be earned by them during each fiscal year on account of transportation of the Army and transportation of the mails be, and the same are hereby, extended and made applicable to the transportation of the Navy and the Marine Corps.
For repairs of barracks, Marine Corps: At Portsmouth, NewRepairs of barracks. Hampshire; 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 Orchard, Washington; Port Royal, South Carolina; and Sitka, Alaska; and per diem for enlisted men employed under the direction of the Quartermaster’s664 Department on the repair of barracks and other public buildings, ten thousand dollars.
For rent of building used for manufacture of clothing, storing supplies, and office of assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, two thousand dollars. For raising the marine barracks, Boston, Massachusetts, an additional story, three thousand one hundred dollars. Officers quarters.For the erection of officers’ quarters at the marine barracks, naval station. Port Royal, South Carolina, two thousand five hundred dollars. For alteration and repair of marine barracks and other public buildings, relaying walks and Hugging at navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York, ten thousand dollars.
Port Orchard.For the erection of a building for marine barracks, naval station. Port Orchard, Washington, ten thousand dollars. For quarters for officers at naval station. Port Orchard, Washington, five thousand dollars. For stumping, grading, and grubbing for a parade ground, naval station, Port Orchard, Washington, three thousand dollars. Forage, Marine Corps: Forage.For forage in kind for five horses of the Quartermasters Department, and the authorized number of officers’ horses, three thousand dollars.
Hire of quarters, Marine Corps: Hire of quarters.For hire of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them, four thousand five hundred dollars; for hire of quarters for seven enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in commandant’s, adjutant and inspector’s, paymaster’s, and quartermaster’s offices, Washington, District of Columbia, and for the leader of the Marine, Band, and for assistant quartermaster’s office, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at twenty one dollars per month each, two thousand and sixteen dollars; for hire of quarters for four enlisted men employed as above, at ten dollars each per month, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, six thousand nine hundred and ninety-six dollars.
Contingent, Marine Corps: Contingent.For freight, tolls, cartage, advertising, washing of bed sacks, mattress covers, pillowcases, 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, 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 tire 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 introduction 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; thirty-three thousand seven hundred dollars. increase of the navy.
Increase of the Navy. Three torpedo boats.That for the purpose of further increasing the naval establishment of the United States, the President is h ere by authorized to have constructed665FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Chs. 386, 387. 1897. by contract not more than three torpedo boats, to have a speed of not less than thirty knots, to cost in all not exceeding eight hundredCost. thousand dollars. And not more than two of said torpedo boats shall be built in one yard or by one contracting party, and in each case theContracts. contract shall be awarded by the Secretary of the Navy to the lowest best responsible bidder.
And in the construction of said torpedo boatsConstruction.Vol. 24, p. 215. all the provisions of the Act of August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled “An Act to increase the naval establishment,” as to materials for said vessels, their engines, boilers, and machinery, the contracts under which they are built, except as to premiums, which are not to be offered, the notice of 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, and in all their parts shall be of domestic manufacture.
Construction and machinery: On account of the hulls and outfitsConstruction and machinery. of vessels and steam machinery of vessels heretofore authorized, and authorized under this Act, six million four hundred and twenty-five thousand three hundred and fifty-nine dollars. Armor and armament: Toward the armament and armor of domesticArmor and Armament.Vol. 24, p. 215.Vol. 27, pp. 250, 731. manufacture for the vessels authorized by the Act of August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six; of those authorized by the Act of July nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two; of the vessels authorized by the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three; ofVol. 28, pp. 140, 841. the three torpedo boats, Act of July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and the torpedo boats authorized under this Act; of the vessels authorized under the Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, of the vessels authorized by the Act of June tenth,*Ante*, p, 378. eighteen hundred and ninety-six, seven million two hundred and twenty thousand seven hundred and ninety-six dollars, to be immediately available: *Provided*, That the total cost of the armor, according to the plans*Provisos*.Limit to cost of armor. and specifications already prepared, for the three battle ships authorized by the Act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, shall not exceed two million four hundred and seven thousand five hundred dollars, exclusive of the cost of transportation, ballistic test plates, and tests, and no contract for armor plate shall be made at an average rate to exceed three hundred dollars per ton of two thousand two hundred and forty pounds: *And provided further*, That the Secretary of the NavyContracts for hulls may include armor. is authorized, in his discretion, to contract with either or all of the builders of the hulls and machinery of those vessels, or with any one or more bidders, for the furnishing of the entire amount of said armor at a cost not exceeding the aforesaid three hundred dollars per ton, if he shall deem it for the best interest of the Government.
Equipment: Toward the completion of the equipment outfit of theEquipment. new vessels heretofore authorized by Congress, one hundred and sixty-two thousand six hundred and twenty-eight dollars, of which sum thirty thousand dollars to be immediately available. Training-vessel for Naval Academy: For one composite vessel,Training ship for Naval Academy. propelled by steam and sail, to be used for the training of cadets at the Naval Academy, including outfit, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Approved, March 3, 1897.