Chapter 234. Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 234.— An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and for other purposes. May 4, 1898. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the following sums be,Naval service appropriations. 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-nine, 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 twelve thousand seven hundred and fifty petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and boys, including men in the engineers’ force and for the Coast Survey Service and Fish Commission, and of one thousand boys under training at training stations and on board training ships, and for men detailed for duty with naval militia at the pay prescribed by law, nine million one hundred and twenty-five thousand four hundred and sixty dollars.
And whenever, within the nextExigency appointments from civil life. twelve months, an exigency may exist which, in the judgment of the President, renders their services necessary, he is hereby authorized to appoint from civil life and commission such officers of the line and staff, not above the rank or relative rank of commander, and warrant officers including warrant machinists, and such officers of the Marine Corps not above the rank of captain, to be appointed from the non-commissioned officers of the Corps and from civil life, as may be requisite: *Provided,* That such officers shall serve only during the continuance*Provisos.*—termination of service.—established grades. of the exigency under which their services are required in the existing war: *And provided further,* That such officers so appointed shall be assigned to duty with rank and pay of the grades established by existing law; and warrant machinists shall be paid at the rate of onePay of warrant machinists. thousand two hundred dollars per annum. 370 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 234. 1898. Enlistment of temporary force.—seamen, etc.To enable the Secretary of the Navy to enlist, at any time after the passage of this Act, as many additional seamen, landsmen, and boys as he may deem necessary to man the ships of the Navy, or in use by the Navy, as a temporary force therefor during the existing war, and for pay of the same and of the temporary additional officers and war rant machinists hereinbefore authorized, eight million eight hundred and thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; —Marine Corps.and to enable the Secretary of the Navy to enlist, at anytime after the passage of this Act, the following additional force for the Marine Corps as a temporary force during the existing war, namely, not more than sixty gunnery sergeants with rank of first sergeants, not more than eighty corporals, and not more than one thousand five hundred privates, and for pay of the same, including the temporary additional officers hereinbefore authorized, and for provisions, clothing, fuel, military stores, transportation and recruiting, and for contingent expenses, on account of said additional force, five hundred and sixty-seven thousand nine hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. pay, miscellaneous.Pay, miscellaneous.
For commissions and interest; transportation of funds; exchange; mileage to officers while traveling under orders in the United States, and for actual personal expenses of officers while traveling abroad under orders, and for traveling expenses of apothecaries, yeomen, and civilian employees, and for actual and necessary traveling expenses of naval cadets while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment as cadets; for rent and furniture of buildings and offices not in navy-yards; expenses of courts-martial, prisoners and prisons, and courts of inquiry, boards of 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 the 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 and incidental expenses, three hundred thousand dollars.
Contingent.Contingent, Navy: For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses 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. Transportation, recruiting, and contingent.Transportation, recruiting, and contingent: For expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent of rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for men and boys, and all other expenses attending the recruiting for the naval service, and for the transportation of enlisted men and boys at home and abroad; 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.
FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 231. 1898. 371 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.
Outfits for naval apprentices: For bounties for outfits of sevenApprentices bounties.*Post*, p. 692. hundred and fifty naval apprentices, at forty-five dollars each, thirty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Naval station, Newport, Rhode Island: For maintenance ofNaval station, Newport, R. I. 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):Naval training stations.—Coasters Harbor Island, R.
I. 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 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 Training Station, Yerba Buena Island, California (for apprentices):—Yerba Buena Island, Cal. Toward the erection of buildings for the naval training station and for the construction of a wharf and bulkhead for approach to the same on Yerba Buena Island (Goat Island), California, fifty thousand dollars, said improvements to cost complete not more than one hundred 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 continue strengthening of walls already begun and to build partition—repairs. walls through building, ten thousand dollars: *Provided,* That prior*Proviso.*Examination of building. to the expenditure of any part of this appropriation for the repairs stated, the Secretary of the Navy shall cause a thorough examination of the present condition of the War College building by competent professional experts in architecture and building, who shall report to him their opinion of the adequacy of the original designs and of the fulfillment of the terms of the contract, and their recommendations as to the work necessary to insure the safety and usefulness of the building; and the necessary expense of such examination shall be paid out of this appropriation;
In all, Naval War College and Torpedo School, nineteen thousand two hundred 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 watchmen at magazines; for furniture at magazines, at the ordnance dock, New York, and at the naval proving ground; for the maintenance of the proving ground, and for target practice, three hundred thousand dollars.
For repairing and improving the telephone line connecting the NavyTelephone line to Indian Head. Department and Washington Navy-Yard with the naval proving ground at Indian Head, to be immediately available, ten thousand dollars. 372 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 234. 1898. Reserve supply of ammunition.Washington Navy-Yard.Reserve supply of ammunition, five hundred thousand dollars. Purchase and erection of new and improved machinery for the shops of the gun plant at the Washington Navy-Yard, thirty-six thousand dollars.
Capping, filling, and fusing armor-piercing shell now on hand, forty-five thousand dollars. Conversion of ordinary six-inch guns to rapid fire, twenty-five thousand dollars. Modern battery for the Chicago, fifty thousand dollars. Smokeless powder.Smokeless powder: For the purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Reserve guns for auxiliary cruisers.Vol. 26 p. 831.Reserve guns for auxiliary cruisers: 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 Vol. 27 p. 27.the Act approved May tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, two *Proviso.*Contracts.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.
Factory.Smokeless-powder factory: For the erection of buildings on Government ground for the manufacture of smokeless powder, with the necessary machinery and equipment, ninety-three thousand seven hundred and twenty-seven dollars. Torpedo station, Newport, R. I.Torpedo station, Newport, Rhode 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-five thousand dollars;
Enlarging storehouse, improvements and repairs to seaman gunners’ quarters, and providing more adequate accommodations for the increasing number of torpedo boats sent to the station for outfits and torpedo work, ten thousand five hundred dollars; in all, torpedo station, ninety-seven thousand five hundred dollars. New York Harbor, Fort Lafayette, magazine.Fitting Fort Lafayette as magazine: For the necessary improvements and fittings at Fort Lafayette, New York Harbor, to render same suitable for the storage, handling, and distribution of ammunition—selection of site for magazine. for the naval service, fifteen thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized and directed to appoint a board of officers to ascertain whether a suitable site for a naval magazine can be obtained at or near the port of New York, and to make report thereon to the next session of Congress.
Fort Mifflin, Pa., magazine.Naval magazine, Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania: For additional magazine, fixed ammunition house, two gun-cotton houses, fire plant, tramway, two filling houses, remodeling old building for watchmens’ quarters, cistern, converting old gunners’ house into storehouse, lightning conductors, with the necessary fittings to same, at the naval magazine, Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania, forty-five thousand dollars. Reserve torpedoes, etc.Reserve torpedoes and appliances:
Reserve torpedoes and torpedo appliances, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Armor-piercing projectile experiments.Experiments with armor-piercing projectiles: For conducting experiments in firing armor-piercing projectiles charged with high explosives under service conditions from naval guns at high velocities, and for the purpose of determining whether the destructive effect of shells so charged is greater than that of similar shells charged with gunpowder, and whether they can be placed on board naval vessels on the same footing as shells loaded with gunpowder, twenty-five thousand dollars.
RepairsRepairs, Bureau of Ordnance: For necessary repairs to ordnance buildings, magazines, gun parks, boats, lighters, wharves, machinery, and other objects of the like character, thirty thousand dollars. Arming, etc., Naval Militia.Arming and equipping Naval Militia: For arms, accouterments, signal outfits, boats and their equipments, and 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-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 234. 1898. 373 sixty thousand dollars. And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized and empowered to use any part of the share of moneys heretofore or herein appropriated for arming or equipping the Naval Militia forces of the State of Michigan in repairing the damage to the Yantic caused by a collision during her transportation from the Boston Navy-Yard to Michigan, as he, the Secretary, may deem proper and advisable. Contingent, Bureau of Ordnance: For miscellaneous items,Contingent. namely:
Freight to foreign and home stations, advertising, cartage, and express charges, repairs to fire engines, gas and water pipes, gas and water tax at magazines, tolls, ferriage, foreign postage, and telegrams to and from the Bureau, technical books, and incidental expenses attending inspections of ordnance material, eight thousand dollars. Civil establishment, Bureau of Ordnance: For the civilCivil establishment. establishment under the Bureau of Ordnance, namely: Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire:
For one writer, whenPortsmouth, N. H. required, five hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one writer, when required,Boston, Mass. five hundred dollars; Navy-yard, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundredNew York, N. Y. dollars; Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one chemist, atWashington, D. C. 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, Va. hundred dollars; Navy yard, Mare Island, California: For one writer, at one thousandMare Island, Cal. and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; Naval ordnance proving ground: For one writer, at one thousandNaval ordnance proving ground. anti seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island: For one chemist, atTorpedo station, Newport, R. I. 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 thousandAmount. three hundred and twenty-four dollars; and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. That a line officer of the Navy maybe detailed temporarily as assistantDetail of officer as assistant to Chief of Bureau.—pay, duties, etc. to the Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance in the Navy Department, and that such officer during such detail shall receive the highest pay of his grade, and in the case of the death, resignation, absence, or sickness of the chief of the bureau shall, unless otherwise directed by the President, as provided by sections one and seventy-nine of the Revised[R.
S., sec. 179, p. 28](/us/rs/s179/p28). Statutes, perform the duties of such chief until his successor is appointed or such absence or sickness shall cease, provided that, in case of the death, sickness, or absence on duty of the chief of the bureau and the assistant thereto, the chief clerk shall act as chief of the bureau. The Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed to report to Congress aDavid D. Porter, design for statue, etc. suitable design for a statue of David D. Porter, to be erected in the city of Washington, and the reasonable cost thereof. 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 374 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 234. 1898. 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 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 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 eighty-three Incorporation of Hydrographic Office in, etc.thousand six hundred and fifty-three dollars and forty cents; and the Hydrographic Office shall hereafter be attached to and be a part of the Bureau of Equipment.
For one steam water-boat for use at the Norfolk Navy-Yard, six thousand dollars. Civil establishment.Portsmouth, N. H.Civil establishment, Bureau of Equipment: Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one clerk, at one thousand dollars; Boston, Mass.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, N. Y.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, Pa.Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; Norfolk, Va.Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two thousand four hundred dollars; Mare Island, Cal.Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars;
Washington, D. C.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.Contingent, Bureau of Equipment: For freight and transportation 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.
Depots for coal.Depots for Coal: To enable the Secretary of the Navy to execute [R. S., sec. 1552, p. 264](/us/rs/s1552/p264).the provisions of section fifteen hundred and fifty-two of the Revised Statutes authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to establish, at such places as he may deem necessary, suitable depots of coal, and other fuel, for the supply of steamships of war, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess.
II. Ch. 231. 1898. 375 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, 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; awnings and 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, three hundred thousand dollars.
Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For contingentContingent. expenses that may arise at navy-yards and stations, twenty thousand dollars; Civil establishment, Bureau of Yards and Docks: Navy-yard,Civil establishment.Portsmouth, N. H. 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, Mass. 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 fourBrooklyn, N. Y. hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one yard pilot, two thousand dollars; two masters of tugs, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; two writers, at nine hundred dollars each; one foreman laborer, at four dollars and fifty cents per diem; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; two messengers, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem each; one draftsman, at five dollars per diem; one quarterman, at three dollars per diem; one superintendent of teams or quarterman, at four dollars per diem; one messenger to commandant, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem, including Sundays; one electrician, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, eighteen thousand five hundred and forty-one dollars and fifty cents;
Naval station, Sacketts Harbor, New York: For one ship keeper, atSacketts Harbor. N. Y. three hundred and sixty-five dollars per annum; Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at oneLeague Island, Pa. 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; one master of tugs, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, five thousand four hundred and seventy-eight dollars;
Navy-yard, Washington. District of Columbia: For one clerk, at oneWashington, D. C. thousand four hundred dollars; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one electrician, one 376 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 234. 1898. thousand two hundred dollars; in all, four thousand four hundred and seventy-eight dollars; Norfolk, Va.Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one writer, at one thousand dollars; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one 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;
Pensacola, Fla.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, Cal.Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one foreman mason, at six dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at five dollars and fifty cents per diem; one pilot, at four dollars and eighty cents per diem; one draftsman, at five dollars per diem; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one messenger and lamplighter, at two dollars per diem; one electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, twelve thousand two hundred and sixty-six dollars and fifteen cents;
Key West, Fla.Naval station, Key West, Florida: For one mail messenger, at six hundred dollars; Puget Sound, Wash.Naval station, Puget Sound, Washington: One clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one rodman inspector, at three dollars and fifty cents per diem; one messenger and janitor, at one dollar and seventy-six cents per diem, including Sundays; one master of tugs, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, four thousand one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and ninety cents;
Port Royal, S. C.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; one master of tugs, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, three thousand eight hundred and eighty-six dollars and fifty cents; In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Yards and Docks, seventy-two thousand seven 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, Pa.Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For one superintendent, at six hundred dollars; one steward, at four hundred and eighty dollars; one matron, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one chief cook, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one assistant cook, at two hundred and forty dollars; one assistant cook, at one hundred and eighty dollars; one chief laundress, at one hundred and ninety-two dollars; 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, eight thousand dollars; music in chapel, six hundred dollars; transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 234. 1898. 377 Home, five hundred dollars; for support of beneficiaries, fifty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; in all, for Naval Home, seventy-seven thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund. AndAllowance from pensions for benefit of naval hospitals. whenever any officer, seaman, or marine entitled to a pension is admitted to the Naval Home at Philadelphia, or to a naval hospital, his pension, while he remains there, shall be deducted from his accounts and paid to the Secretary of the Navy for the benefit of the fund from which such home or hospital, respectively, is maintained; and section[R.
S., sec. 4813, p. 934](/us/rs/s4813/p934), amended. forty-eight hundred and thirteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States is hereby amended accordingly. public works—bureau of yards and docks—navy-yards and stations, naval academy, and new naval observatory.Public works. Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Reappropriation ofPortsmouth, N. H.Vol. 27, p. 240. balance (six thousand three hundred and fifty dollars) of appropriation for coal pocket, Act June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, for coal sheds, Seaveys Island, for storage of coal.
Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For iron roof for BuildingBoston, Mass. Numbered Forty-two, fifteen thousand four hundred dollars. Navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York: For dredging Whitney BasinBrooklyn, N. Y. and Wallabout, to continue, fifty thousand dollars; quay wall between Dry Dock Numbered One and Main street, sixty thousand dollars; quay wall, coal dock, to complete, thirty thousand dollars; grading and sewering between dry dock and Clinton avenue, to continue, ten thousand dollars; grading and paving causeway and roads around docks, twenty thousand dollars; storehouse for steel (for construction and repair), seventeen thousand five hundred dollars; oil and varnish storehouse (supplies and accounts), forty-six thousand three hundred dollars; paving streets, five thousand dollars; addition to electric-light system, fifteen thousand dollars; replacing storehouse (building numbered thirty-one), condemned as dangerous and removed, forty-nine thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven dollars; conversion of building numbered eight into two-story fireproof storehouse for ordnance material, to be immediately available, twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars; in all, three hundred and twenty-eight thousand one hundred and thirty-seven dollars.
Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: Dredging and fillingLeague Island. Pa. in twenty thousand dollars; mooring cribs for vessels in reserve basin, fifty-six thousand dollars; extension of reserve basin, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars; continuation of west wall of causeway, twenty thousand dollars; for roads and walks to reserve basin and about the yard, five thousand dollars; workshop and boiler house for ordnance, sixty thousand dollars; steam generator for heating purposes and electric plant, five thousand five hundred dollars; in all, two hundred and eighty-six thousand five hundred dollars.
Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For improvementWashington, D. C. of electric plant, sixteen thousand dollars; storehouse for guns (ordnance), thirty-five thousand dollars; new roof for south gun shop (ordnance), twenty-five thousand three hundred and forty-seven dollars; in all, seventy-six thousand three hundred and forty-seven dollars. Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Toward enlargement of electricNorfolk, Va. plant and concentration of steam, twenty thousand dollars; extension of quay wall, thirty thousand dollars; ship fitter’s shop, at new dry dock (construction and repair), forty thousand dollars; extending railroad tracks for traveling crane, thirteen thousand dollars; steel standpipe (two hundred and seventy thousand gallons), thirteen thousand dollars; grading and paving, to continue, ten thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and twenty-six thousand dollars.
The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized and directed to causeCondemnation of land for wet dock. to be commenced, within three months after the passage of this Act, and the Attorney-General is hereby directed to carry on, proceedings 378 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 234. 1898. for the condemnation of the following tract of land for the use of the United States for the Norfolk Navy-Yard, for the purpose of constructing a wet dock, and for other purposes, namely, the tract of land known as the Cedar Grove property, containing fifty acres, with a water front of one thousand six hundred feet on the Elizabeth River, immediately opposite to the Gosport Navy-Yard, in the State of Virginia, under the Vol. 25, p. 357.Act of Congress approved August first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, entitled “An Act to authorize the condemnation of lands for sites of public buildings, and for other purposes,” and other laws of the United States, so as to completely vest in the United States the title Report.of said land.
And all such proceedings shall be reported to Congress at its next session by the Secretary of the Navy. Port Royal, S. C.Naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina: Quay wall, fifteen thousand dollars; repair shop (for steam engineering), fifty thousand dollars; dredging a channel from the outside to the naval station, one hundred thousand dollars; constructing a wharf adjoining the timber dry dock, seventy-five thousand dollars; one locomotive crane and track for dry dock, seventy thousand dollars; electric light and power plant, twenty thousand dollars; increasing facilities for storage and handling of coal, twenty thousand dollars; for the payment of the amounts awarded to the owners of the several tracts of land at the naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina, recently condemned for the use of the United States, in addition to the amount heretofore appropriated for the purchase of land at that station, twenty thousand three hundred and twenty-five dollars and fifty cents; in all, three hundred and seventy thousand three hundred and twenty-five dollars and fifty cents, to be immediately available.
Mare Island, Cal.Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For storage shed for lumber (construction and repair), twenty-eight thousand dollars; coal cylinders, forty-three thousand dollars; extending quay wall, thirty thousand dollars; shelter roof for boats, fourteen thousand three hundred dollars; plumbers’, tinners’, and paint shop (construction and repair), twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars; bath house at United States receiving ship Independence, one thousand six hundred and twenty-one dollars; washhouse and drying room United States receiving ship Independence, three thousand dollars; wharf at United States receiving ship Independence, two thousand eight hundred dollars; extension of oil house, eight thousand six hundred dollars; sidewalks and roads, seven thousand dollars; extension of electric system, fifteen thousand dollars; tools for yards and docks shops, six thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; in all, one hundred and eighty-two thousand five hundred and seventy-one dollars.
Repair of damage by earthquake.To enable the Secretary of the Navy to repair and reconstruct, where necessary, the buildings recently damaged by earthquake at the Mare Island Navy-Yard, California, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available. For tearing down and removing present naval hospital building and appendages recently destroyed by earthquake at navy-yard, Mare Island, California, and erecting a new naval hospital and appendages at that place, to be immediately available, one hundred thousand dollars.
Puget Sound, Wash.Puget Sound Naval Station, Washington: For electric-light plant, nine thousand eight hundred dollars; extension of water system, four thousand and seven dollars; steam capstans for dry dock, six thousand three hundred and twenty-five dollars; steam engineering shop and boilerhouse, fifty-six thousand dollars; continuing clearing, grading, and stumping, six thousand dollars; oil house, one thousand seven hundred dollars; dredging, twenty thousand dollars; establishing telegraphic communication, four thousand dollars; quay wall, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all one hundred and thirty-two thousand eight hundred and thirty-two dollars.
Housing torpedo vessels.Housing torpedo vessels: Hauling out and housing torpedo vessels at such navy-yard or station as may be selected, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 234. 1898. 379 Coaling wharf at Japonski Island, Alaska: Coaling wharf,Japonski Island, Alaska. five thousand dollars. Repairs and preservation at navy-yards and stations: ForRepairs and preservation. repairs and preservation at navy-yards and stations, four hundred thousand dollars.
Toward the construction of four timber dry docks, two hundred thousandTimber dry docks.*Post*, p. 1035. dollars each; in all, eight hundred thousand dollars; said dry docks to be not less than seven hundred feet in length, and of other dimensions sufficient to meet the present and probable future requirements of the largest vessels of the Navy and auxiliary fleet. One of—location. these docks to be located at the navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to cost, when completed, not exceeding eight hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; one at the navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts, to cost, when completed, not exceeding eight hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; one at the navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania, to cost, when completed, not exceeding eight hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; and one at the navy-yard, Mare Island, California, to cost, when completed, not exceeding eight hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to build one of said docks of granite or concrete faced with granite, and in such case the limit of the cost of said dock is increased two hundred thousand dollars.
Toward the construction of one steel floating dock of domestic manufactureSteel floating dock. which shall be a combined floating and graving dock, two hundred thousand dollars, said dock to be located at the naval reservation—location. at Algiers, Louisiana, to be capable of lifting a vessel of fifteen thousand tons displacement, and twenty-seven feet draft of water, to cost, including moorings and wharf, eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The Secretary of the Navy may employ, and pay out of the appropriationsExperts, etc. for dry docks herein authorized, such additional expert aids, draftsmen, writers, and copyists as may be necessary for the preparation of plans and specifications, to an amount not to exceed ten thousand dollars.
And the Secretary of the Navy be, and is hereby, authorized, underContracts for construction of docks.*Post*, p. 1035. the limitations hereinbefore provided, to make contracts for the entire construction of said dry docks, and steel floating dock, and in each case the contract shall be awarded to the lowest best responsible bidder. The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized and directed toBoard to locate new dry docks. appoint a board of naval officers to determine the desirability of locating and constructing a dry dock of sufficient capacity to take the largest naval ship in the harbor of Galveston or in the harbor of Sabine Pass, or the waters tributary thereto, Texas, and a dry dock of the same capacity in the waters of Chesapeake Bay above the mouth of the Potomac River; and to report such finding to the next session of—report. the present Congress; and the sum of one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to defray the expenses of said board.
Naval Observatory: For grounds and roads: For continuingNaval Observatory. grading, extending roads and paths, clearing and improving grounds, five thousand dollars; building a conduit for underground service for wires, pipes, and so forth, five thousand dollars; in all, ten thousand dollars. Building a double floor (under the movable floor), twenty-six inch equatorial dome, double doors at entrance to basement, and alterations to machinery, one thousand two hundred 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 department of instruction, museum of hygiene, and Naval Academy, seventy-five thousand dollars. 380 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 234. 1898. Hospital fund.Naval hospital fund: For maintenance of the naval hospitals at the various navy-yards and stations, and for care and maintenance of patients in other hospitals at home and abroad, twenty thousand dollars.
Newport, R. I., hospitalHospital for contagious diseases: For hospital for contagious diseases at Newport, Rhode Island, six thousand five hundred dollars. Contingent.Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: 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 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, 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.Repairs, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: 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.Ambulances for naval hospitals: For supplying one naval hospital with ambulance of modern construction to replace vehicle condemned as useless, six hundred dollars. Norfolk, Va., cemetery.Naval cemetery naval hospital, Norfolk, Virginia:
Labor and material for widening of approaches, and repairing and painting of all gates and fences; for making graveled roads and paths; building walls where necessary, properly grading the whole area, and planting appropriate shrubbery, one thousand dollars. Age limit, appointment as assistant surgeon raised.[R. S., sec. 1370, p, 246](/us/rs/s1370/p246), amended.That section thirteen hundred and seventy of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
" “No person shall be appointed assistant surgeon until he has been examined and approved by a board of naval surgeons designated by the Secretary of the Navy, nor who is under twenty-one or over thirty years of age, inclusive.” " —temporary service of acting assistants.The President is hereby authorized to appoint for temporary service twenty-five acting assistant surgeons, who shall have the relative rank and compensation of assistant surgeons. bureau of supplies and accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.
Provisions.Provisions, Navy: For 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); fresh water for drinking and cooking purposes; labor in general storehouses and paymasters’ offices in navy-yards, including expenses in handling stores FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 234. 1898. 381 purchased under the naval supply fund, and a chemist at two thousand dollars per annum, one million four hundred and five thousand dollars. Assistant paymasters: The active list of assistant paymasters ofIncrease in number of assistant paymasters.Civil establishment.Portsmouth N. H. the pay corps shall hereafter consist of twenty-five. Civil establishment, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: In general storehouses:
Two bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one assistant bookkeeper, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one shipping and receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; in all, five thousand eight hundred and forty dollars; Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: In general storehouses: OneBoston, Mass. bookkeeper, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars; one receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars.
In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, four thousand and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents; Navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York: One writer to boards of inspection,Brooklyn, N. Y. nine hundred dollars. In general storehouses: Tnree 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 store man, 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; Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: In general storehouse:League Island, Pa. 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, D. C. 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, R. I. clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: In general storehouses: TwoMare Island, Cal. 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. 382 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 234. 1898. Norfolk, Va.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, atone 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, 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. Contingent.Contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: 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.
Preservation, repair, etc., of vessels.Construction and repair 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 on foreign stations; purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops; carrying on work of experimental model tank; designing naval vessels; 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, two *Provisos.*Limit, wooden ships.million five hundred thousand 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 ship of the same size and like material:
“Hartford.”*Provided further,* That nothing herein contained shall deprive the Secretary of the Navy of the authority to cause the necessary repairs Ships damaged at sea.and preservation of the United States ship Hartford or to order repairs of ships damaged in foreign waters or on the high seas, so far as may be necessary to bring them home. “Hartford.”Repairs to United States steamship Hartford: Completion of repairs to and outfit for the United States steamship Hartford, thirty thousand dollars.
“Chicago.”Repairs to the United States steamship Chicago: Completion of repairs to and outfit for the United States steamship Chicago, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Coaling barge.One coaling barge, eight hundred tons capacity, sixteen thousand dollars. Portsmouth, N. H.Construction plant, navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Repairs to and improvement of plant at navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, fifty thousand dollars. Boston, Mass.Construction plant, navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts:
Repairs to and improvement of plant at navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts, fifty thousand dollars. New York, N. Y.Construction plant, navy-yard, New York, New York: Repairs to and improvement of plant at navy-yard, New York, New York, fifty thousand dollars. FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 231. 1898. 383 Construction plant, navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: RepairsLeague Island, Pa. to and improvement of plant at navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania, fifty thousand dollars.
Construction plant, navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Repairs to andNorfolk, Va. improvement of plant at navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia, fifty thousand dollars. Construction plant, navy-yard, Mare Island. California: Repairs toMare Island, Cal. and improvement of plant at navy-yard, Mare Island, California, fifty thousand dollars. Construction plant, naval station, Puget Sound, Washington: RepairsPuget Sound, Wash. to and improvement of plant at Puget Sound Naval Station, Washington, twenty thousand dollars.
Civil establishment, Bureau of Construction and Repair:Civil establishment.Portsmouth. N. H. 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, Mass. at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, two thousand four hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents.
Navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York: For one clerk to naval constructor,Brooklyn, N. Y. 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. Pa. constructor, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, two thousand four hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents;
Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one clerk to navalWashington, D. C. constructor, at one thousand four hundred dollars; Navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For one clerk to naval constructor, atNorfolk, Va. 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, Fla. seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents;
Naval Station, Port Royal, South Carolina: For one clerk to navalPort Royal, S. C. constructor, at one thousand four hundred dollars. Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk to naval constructor,Mare Island, Cal. 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 Repairs, twenty-three thousand four hundred and seven dollars; 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 launches, six hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no part of said*Provisos.* sum shall be applied to the engines, boilers, and machinery of woodenLimit, wooden vessels. ships where the estimated cost of such repair shall exceed ten per centum of the estimated cost of new engines and machinery of the same character and power, nor shall new boilers be constructed for wooden ships: *Provided further,* That nothing herein contained shall deprive“Hartford.” the Secretary of the Navy of the authority to cause the necessary repairs and preservation of the United States ship Hartford or to order 384 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 234. 1898. Ships damaged at sea.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; 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 and eighty 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, nine hundred and ninety thousand dollars. Contingent.Contingent, Bureau of Steam Engineering: For contingencies, drawing materials, and instruments for the drafting room, one thousand dollars. Machinery plants, navy-yards.Boston, Mass.Norfolk, Va.Machinery plant, navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Modern machine shop tools, fifteen thousand dollars. Machinery plant, navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Additional tools required to put the yard in condition for building and repairing modern marine machinery, including improvements in handling machinery and in the boiler-making plant; new boilers for steam engineering shops, thirty-five thousand dollars.
Key West, Fla.Machinery plant, naval station, Key West, Florida: For tools for machine shop, foundry, and boiler shop, thirty thousand dollars. Port Orchard, Wash.Machinery plant, naval station, Port Orchard, Washington: Machine tools to fit out plant for repairs of engines, boilers, and so forth, of United States naval vessels, thirty thousand dollars. Port Royal. S. C.Machinery plant, naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina: Machine tools to properly equip the plant for repairing engines, boilers, and so forth, of United States naval vessels, fifty thousand dollars.
Experiments, New York yard.Experimental purposes: Experiments with liquid fuel on steam tug, New York yard; experiments with liquid fuel on two torpedo boats, fifteen thousand dollars. Civil establishment.Portsmouth, N. H.Civil establishment, Bureau of Steam Engineering: Navy yard. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all, one thousand eight hundred dollars; Brooklyn, N. Y.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, Pa.Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; Norfolk, Va.Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For one clerk, at one thousand three hundred dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all, one thousand nine hundred dollars; Pensacola, Fla.Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida:
For one writer, at one thousand dollars; Mare Island, Cal.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.Pay of professors and others, Naval Academy:
For one professor of mathematics, one of chemistry, one of physics, and one of 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 assist- FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 234. 1898. 385 ants, at one thousand dollars each; one instructor in gymnastics, 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, 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 coxswain, 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, 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, three hundred dollars; in all, fifty-four thousand five hundred and seven dollars.
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; new fire and flushing system and other sanitary purposes, fifteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; relaying brick sidewalks adjacent to Naval Academy walls in streets of Annapolis, three thousand five hundred dollars; repaving Maryland avenue within the Naval Academy, four thousand dollars; relaying sidewalk from Maryland avenue to cadet quarters, one thousand two hundred and eighty-two dollars; repairing “Santee’s” wharf, two thousand five hundred dollars; necessary dredging and improvement of north water front, ten thousand dollars; in all, fifty-eight thousand and thirty-two dollars.
The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to contract for the construction,Additional buildings.*Post*, p. 1036. at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, of a building suitable for use as an armory, at a cost not to exceed three hundred thousand dollars; a boathouse, at a cost not to exceed three hundred thousand dollars; a power house, at a cost not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars; four double houses for officers’ quarters, at a cost not to exceed sixty thousand dollars; for grading, electric-light wiring, removing old buildings, and preparing plans, at a cost not to exceed ninety thousand dollars; for constructing the line of sea wall 386 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 234. 1898. on the river side, piling, dredging, and filling in, as may be necessary, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and the sum of five hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated toward the construction of the public works herein authorized. Fuel and lights.Heating and lighting, Naval Academy: Fuel, and for heating and lighting the Academy and school-ships, twenty thousand dollars. Contingent.Contingent, Naval Academy: Purchase of books for the library (to be purchased in open 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 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 and for supplying necessary outfit for the board house, three thousand dollars; reappropriation of amount expended by Superintendent on account of Board of Visitors in eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, remaining unpaid, one hundred and ninety-six 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, current expenses, and repairs of all kinds, and for incidental labor and expenses not applicable to any other appropriation, thirty-two thousand dollars; outfit for cadets’ laundry, to be immediately available upon the approval of the Act, one thousand seven hundred and forty-five 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-five thousand five hundred and forty-five dollars. marine corps.Marine Corps.
Pay of officers, active list.Pay, Marine Corps: For pay of officers on the active list: For one colonel commandant, one colonel, two lieutenant-colonels, one paymaster, one quartermaster, one adjutant and inspector, 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 one colonel, two lieutenant-colonels, one adjutant and inspector, two quartermasters, nine captains, three first lieutenants, and three second lieutenants, forty-three thousand one hundred and seventy dollars.
Enlisted men.Pay of noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates: For one sergeant-major, one quartermaster-sergeant, one leader of the band, one drum-major, fifty first sergeants, one hundred and fifty sergeants, two hundred and twenty corporals, thirty musicians, one hundred and twenty drummers and lifers, and two thousand four hundred and ninety-nine privates, and the number of enlisted men authorized as above for the Marine Corps shall be exclusive of those undergoing imprisonment with sentence of dishonorable discharge from the service at expiration of such confinement, and for the expenses of clerks of the United States Marine Corps traveling under orders; five hundred and sixty-nine thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight dollars. —retired.Pay and allowance for retired enlisted men:
For one sergeant major, two drum-majors, five first-class musicians, fifteen first sergeants, twenty sergeants, four corporals, one drummer, two fifers, and forty-four privates, and for those who may be retired during the year, thirty-two thousand dollars. 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.
FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 234. 1898. 387 Mileage: For mileage of officers traveling under orders withoutMileage. troops, eight thousand dollars. For commutation of quarters to officers on duty without troops whereCommutation of quarters. there are no public quarters, four thousand dollars. Pay of civil force: In the office of the colonel commandant: ForCivil force.—office colonel commandant. 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 paymaster: One chief clerk, at one thousand six—Paymaster’s office. 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—Quartermaster. 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 adjutant and inspector: One chief clerk, at one—Adjutant and Inspector. 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 assistant quartermaster, Washington, District of—Assistant Quartermaster, Washington, etc. Columbia, or San Francisco, California: One clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:—Philadelphia.
One clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one messenger, at one dollar and seventy-five cents per diem; 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 nine hundred andProvisions seventy-three noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, and for commutation of rations to fourteen 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—limit. dollars, one hundred and thirty-one thousand nine hundred and eleven dollars and fifty cents; and no law shall be construed to entitleMarines on shore duty. marines 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 three thousand and seventy-threeClothing. noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, one hundred and thirty thousand eight hundred and ten dollars and forty cents. 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, waistplates, 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, twenty-three thousand two hundred and ninety-seven dollars. 388 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 234. 1898. Transportation and recruiting.Transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps: For transportation of troops, including ferriage, and the expense of recruiting service, fifteen thousand dollars. Repairs of barracks.For repairs of barracks, Marine Corps: At Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Boston, Massachusetts; Newport, Rhode Island; Brooklyn, New York; League Island, Pennsylvania; Annapolis, Maryland; headquarters and navy-yard, District of Columbia; Norfolk, Virginia;
Port Royal, South Carolina; Pensacola, Florida; Mare Island, California; Bremerton, Washington; 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 repair of barracks and officers’ quarters at Mare Island Navy-Yard, California, damaged by earthquake, five thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars, to be immediately available. Rent of building, Philadelphia.For rent of building used for manufacture of clothing, storing supplies, and office of assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, two thousand dollars.
Barracks, Annapolis.Repairs to marine barracks, Annapolis, Maryland, one thousand five hundred dollars. Forage.Forage, Marine Corps: For forage in kind for five horses of the Quartermaster’s Department, and the authorized number of officers’ horses, three thousand dollars. Hire of quarters.Hire of quarters, Marine Corps: For hire of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them, four thousand five hundred dollars; for hire of quarters for seven enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in commandant’s, adjutant and inspector’s, paymaster’s, and quartermaster’s offices, Washington, District of Columbia, assistant quartermaster’s office, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and for the leader of the Marine Band, twenty-one dollars each per month, two thousand and sixteen dollars; for hire of quarters for seven enlisted men employed as above, and in the office of the assistant quartermaster, Washington, District of Columbia, at ten dollars each per month, eight hundred and forty dollars; in all, seven thousand three hundred and fifty-six dollars.
Reimbursement for losses by fire. Washington Navy-Yard.To reimburse the enlisted men of the United States Marine Corps who incurred loss of clothing by the fires which occurred at the navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia, on the twenty-second and twenty-ninth days of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, fifty-one *Proviso.*Schedules of losses.dollars and seventy-three cents: *Provided,* That the accounting officers of the Treasury shall in all cases require a schedule and certificate from each person making a claim under this Act.
Contingent.Contingent, Marine Corps: 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 and 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 public 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, soap, combs, and brushes 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, FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 234. 1898. 389 gas oil, and introduction and maintenance of electric lights; straw for bedding, mattresses, mattress covers, pillows, sheets; wire bunk bottoms for enlisted men at 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-seven thousand live hundred dollars. increase of the navy.Increase of the Navy.*Post*, p. 1045.Three coast-line hattie ships.
That for the purpose of further increasing the naval establishment of the United States the President is hereby authorized to have constructed by contract three seagoing coast-line battle ships carrying the heaviest armor and most powerful ordnance upon a displacement of about eleven thousand tons, to have the highest practicable speed for vessels of their class, and to cost, exclusive of armor and armament,—cost. not exceeding three million dollars each, one of said battle ships to be named the Maine; and four harbor-defense vessels of the monitor“Maine.”Four harbor-defense vessels.—cost. type, each having one or two turrets, and to cost, exclusive of armament, not exceeding one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars each; and sixteen torpedo boat destroyers of about four hundred tonsTorpedo boat destroyers.Torpedo boats.—cost. displacement, and twelve torpedo boats of about one hundred and fifty tons displacement, to have the highest practicable speed, and to cost in all, exclusive of armament, not exceeding six million nine hundred thousand dollars; and one gunboat to take the place of theGunboat in place of the “Michigan.”—cost, etc.
United States steamship Michigan, to cost, exclusive of armament, not more than two hundred and sixty thousand dollars, said gunboat to be constructed on the Great Lakes or their connecting waters: *Provided,**Provisos.*—conformance to existing treaties.Contracts. That said construction of said gunboat shall conform to all existing treaties and conventions. And not more than two of said battle ships, and not more than two of said harbor-defense vessels, and not more than five of said torpedo-boat destroyers, and not more than four of said torpedo boats shall be built in one yard or by one contracting party, and the contracts for the construction of each of said vessels shall be awarded by the Secretary of the Navy to the lowest best responsible bidder, having in view the best results and most expeditious delivery; and in the construction of all said vessels all of theConstruction.Vol. 24, p. 215. provisions of the Act of August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled “An Act to increase the naval establishment,” and amendments subsequently made thereto 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 vesselsDomestic materials. shall be of domestic manufacture except that no proposal for the torpedo vessels shall be considered unless the bidder is already in possession of adequate plant, and that the advertisement relating to theExisting torpedo plant, etc.Construction on Pacific coast. proposals for such vessels may be published for three weeks only; and, subject to the provisions hereinafter made, one and not more than one of the aforesaid seagoing battle ships, and one and not more than one of the aforesaid harbor-defense vessels, shall be built on or near the coast of the Pacific Ocean or in the waters connecting therewith: *Provided,**Proviso.*—or elsewhere.
That if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the President of the United States, from the biddings for such contracts when the same are opened and examined by him, said vessel, or either of them, can not be constructed on or near the coast of the Pacific Ocean at a cost not exceeding four per centum above the lowest accepted bid for the other battle ships or harbor-defense vessels provided for in this Act, he shall authorize the construction of said vessel, or either of them, elsewhere in the United States, subject to the limitations as to cost hereinbefore provided.
Construction and machinery: On account of the hulls and outfitsConstruction and machinery. of vessels and steam machinery of vessels heretofore and herein 390 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Chs. 234, 235. 1898. authorized, thirteen million six hundred and forty-eight thousand four *Proviso.*Quality, etc., of steel used.Vol. 24, p. 215.hundred and seventy-three dollars: *Provided,* That section two of the Act entitled “An Act to increase the naval establishment,” approved August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
" “Sec. 2. That in the construction of all naval vessels the steel material shall be of domestic manufacture, and of the quality and characteristics best adapted to the various purposes for which it may be used, in accordance with specifications approved by the Secretary of the Navy.” " Armor and armament.Vol. 28, p. 140.Armor and armament: Toward the armament and armor of domestic manufacture for the vessels authorized by the Act of July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, of the vessels authorized Vol. 28, p. 841.under the Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, of Vol. 29, p. 379.those authorized by the Act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six,Vol. 29, p. 664. of the three torpedo boats authorized by the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and of those authorized by this *Post*, p. 1045.Act, including the completion of ordnance outfit for the four harbor defense vessels, the sixteen torpedo-boat destroyers, and twelve torpedo boats named herein, seven million one hundred and sixty-two thousand *Proviso.*Cost of armor, three battle ships.Vol. 29, p. 378.eight hundred dollars: *Provided,* That the total cost of the armor according to the plans and specifications already prepared, for the three battle ships authorized by the Act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and —limit.ninety-six, shall not exceed three million two hundred and ten thousand dollars, including all cost of nickel in the same, and exclusive of the cost of transportation, ballistic test plates, and tests, and royalty for steel face-hardening process, not to exceed one-half cent per pound, and Price per ton for armor plate.which can not be made use of without the payment of royalty, and no contract for armor plate shall be made at an average rate to exceed four hundred dollars per ton of two thousand two hundred and forty Naming of battle ships and monitors.pounds, including nickel as aforesaid.
That hereafter all first-class battle ships and monitors owned by the United States shall be named for the States, and shall not be named for any city, place, or person *Proviso.*—existing names.until the names of the States, shall have been exhausted: *Provided,* That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to interfere with the names of States already assigned to any such battle ship or monitor. Equipment.Equipment: Toward the completion of the equipment outfit of the new vessels heretofore and herein authorized, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
For the installation of electric plants in gunboats numbered ten, eleven, twelve, and thirteen, forty thousand dollars. Immediate availability of appropriations.It is further provided that whenever in the judgment of the President, the public interests may require he is authorized and empowered to make any or all the provisions and appropriations of this Act immediately operative and available. Approved, May 4, 1898.