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Chapter 421. Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, and for other purposes

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Chap. 421: Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, and for other purposes. Chapter 421 30 Stat. 1024 1899-03-03 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-03 55 3 public chap. 421.— An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, and for other purposes.March 3, 1899. *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, nineteen hundred, and for other purposes: pay of the navy.
For the pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on sea duty; Pay of the Navy. officers on shore and other duty; officers on waiting orders; officers on the retired list, including the admiral of the Navy, whose pay and 1025FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 421. 1899. allowances shall be the same as those received by the last General of the United States Army; clerks to commandants of yards and stations; clerks to paymasters at yards and stations; general storekeepers, receiving ships and other vessels; extra pay to men reenlisting under honorable discharge; interest on deposits by men; pay of petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and apprentice boys, including men in the engineers’ force and for the Coast Survey Service and Fish Commission, seventeen thousand five hundred men and two thousand five hundred apprentices 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, and for men to be enlisted to fill vacancies, this last item to be immediately available, thirteen million five hundred thousand one hundred and seventy-one dollars.
The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to pay to such officers Payment to temporary officers for service performed before date of commission. as were appointed for temporary service in the Navy during the late war with Spain, and who entered upon the performance of duty prior to the date on which they accepted their commissions and executed oaths of office, the pay of their grades for the interval during which they were so employed, such payments to be made from the appropriation “Pay of the Navy.” pay, miscellaneous.
For commissions and interest; transportation of funds; exchange; Pay, miscellaneous. mileage to officers while traveling under orders in the United States, and for actual personal expenses of officers while traveling abroad under orders, and for traveling expenses of apothecaries, yeomen, and civilian employees, and for actual and necessary traveling expenses of naval cadets while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment as cadets; for rent and furniture of buildings and offices not in navy-yards; expenses of courts-martial, prisoners, and prisons, and courts of inquiry, boards of 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, five hundred thousand dollars.
Contingent, Navy: For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses Contingent. 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, ten thousand dollars. bureau of navigation.Bureau of Navigation. Transportation, recruiting, and contingent: For expenses of Transportation, recruiting and contingent. 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 1026 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, sixty thousand dollars.
Gunnery exercises: For prizes for excellence in gunnery exercises Gunnery 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, twelve thousand dollars. Outfits for naval apprentices: For bounties for outfits of two Apprentices’ bounties. thousand five hundred naval apprentices, at forty-five dollars each, one hundred and twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
Naval training station, Yerba Buena Island, California Naval training stations. Yerba Buena Island, Cal. (buildings): 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 apprentice training station, Yerba Buena Island, California—Maintenance:
Maintenance of naval apprentice training station, Yerba Buena Island, California, namely: Labor and material; buildings, and wharves; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and wharves; wharfage, ferriage, and street-car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same; fire engines and extinguishers; boats and gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentices; printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating, lighting, and furniture; stationery, books, and periodicals; fresh water, ice, and washing; freight and expressage; packing boxes and materials; postage and telegraphing; telephones, and all other contingent expenses, thirty thousand dollars.
Naval training station, Coasters Harbor Island, Rhode Coasters Harbor Island, R. I. Island (for apprentices): For dredging channels, repairs to main causeway, roads, and grounds, extending sea wall, and the employment of such labor as may be necessary for the proper care and preservation of the same; for repairs to wharf and sea wall; for repairs and improvements 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.
Barracks, mess hall, wash room, and so forth, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Naval War College, Coasters Harbor Island, Rhode Naval War College. Island: For maintenance of the Naval War College 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. Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For one superintendent Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pa. of grounds, 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 waitress, 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-1027five dollars; one painter, at six hundred dollars; one engineer to run elevator, six hundred dollars; water rent and lighting, two thousand one hundred dollars; cemetery, burial expenses, and headstones, three hundred and fifty dollars; improvement of grounds, seven hundred dollars; repairs to buildings, boilers, furnaces, furniture, and repairs to the same, eight thousand dollars; music in chapel, six hundred dollars; transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, three hundred dollars; for support of beneficiaries, fifty-two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars; in all, for Naval Home, seventy-six thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund.
And Allowance from pensions for benefit of naval hospitals. R. S., sec. 4813, p. 934. 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 forty-eight hundred and thirteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States is hereby amended accordingly. 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 in ordnance buildings at navy yards and stations; for the maintenance of the proving ground, and for target practice, three hundred thousand dollars. Reserve supply of ammunition, five hundred thousand dollars.Reserve supply of ammunition.
Purchase and erection of new and improved machinery for the shops Washington Navy-Yard. of the gun plant at the Washington Navy-Yard, fifty thousand dollars. Conversion of ordinary six-inch guns to rapid fire, twenty-five thousand dollars. Purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, one million dollars.Smokeless powder. Reserve guns for auxiliary cruisers: Toward the armament Reserve guns for auxiliary cruisers. Vol. 26, p. 831. Vol. 27, p. 27. 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 hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the Secretary of *Proviso.* Contracts. the Navy may, in his discretion, purchase by contract all or any part of such guns.
Smokeless-powder factory: Necessary expenses incident to the Factory. work of continuing the development of the smokeless powder factory, twenty-five thousand dollars. Torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: For labor, material, Torpedo station, Newport, R. I. 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. Fitting Fort Lafayette as magazine:
Additional work necessary New York Harbor. Fort Lafayette magazine. in fitting Fort Lafayette, New York Harbor, in suitable condition for magazine purposes, five thousand dollars. Naval magazine, New York Harbor: For the purchase of land Naval magazine. for a site for a naval magazine, near New York City, and for the erection thereon of the necessary buildings; for inclosing said grounds; for grading and filling in; for building roads and walks; for the improvement of the water front; for the necessary wharves and cranes; for railroad tracks and water service; and for the equipment of the establishment, six hundred thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary; and the Secretary of the Navy may employ and pay out of the appropriation hereby authorized such additional expert aids, architects, superintendent of construction, or draftsmen, as may be necessary for the preparation of the plans and specifications and prosecution of the work authorized, to an amount not to exceed seven thousand dollars. 1028 Naval Magazine, Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania:
For extending Fort Mifflin, Pa. two shell houses at the naval magazine, Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania; construction of necessary roadbeds, extension and repair of piers, improvement and repair of dike walls, and expenses incident thereto, sixty-eight thousand dollars. Repairs, Bureau of Ordnance: For necessary repairs to ordnance Repairs. buildings, magazines, gun parks, boats, lighters, wharves, machinery, and other items of the like character, thirty thousand dollars. Arming and equipping Naval Militia:
For arms, accouterments, Arming, etc., Naval Militia. 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, sixty thousand dollars. Contingent, Bureau of Ordnance: For miscellaneous items, namely: Contingent. 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, fifteen thousand dollars.
Machinery for ordnance building, navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: Boilers, machinery, tools, and appliances for the new ordnance building at the navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania, sixty thousand dollars. Naval magazine, near Norfolk, Virginia: New watchmen’s quarters and storehouse at magazine grounds, Saint Juliens Creek, near Norfolk, Virginia, and for the purchase of additional land needed to extend the borders of same, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Steam lighter for navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: Purchase of a steam lighter for ordnance purposes at the navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania, thirty thousand dollars. Civil establishment, Bureau of Ordnance: Navy-yard, Portsmouth, Civil establishment. Portsmouth, N. H. New Hampshire: For one writer, one thousand dollars; Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one writer, one thousand Boston, Mass. dollars; Navy-yard, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred New York, N.
Y. dollars; Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: One clerk, one thousand League Island, Pa. two hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one chemist, at Washington, 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 copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one telegraph operator and copyist, at nine hundred dollars; in all, fifteen thousand four hundred and eighty-nine dollars and fifty cents;
Smokeless-powder factory: For one chemist, at two thousand five Smokeless-powder factor. hundred dollars; one assistant chemist, at one thousand six hundred dollars; in all, four thousand one hundred dollars. Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For one clerk, at one thousand two Norfolk, Va. hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one writer, at one thousand Mare Island, Cal. and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; Naval ordnance proving ground: For one writer, at one thousand Naval ordnance proving ground. and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents;
Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island: For one chemist, at Torpedo 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, thirty-two thousand six hundred and twenty-four dollars; and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. 1029 The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to transfer to the Transfer to Yale University of Maxim guns presented by students. officers of Yale University the custody of the two Maxim rapid-fire guns, with their mounts and the stand of colors, presented by its students and graduates to the United States at the opening of the war with Spain for use upon the auxiliary cruiser Yale, to be retained until said guns may be required for use by the Government. bureau of equipment.Bureau of Equipment.
Equipment of vessels: For purchase of coal for steamers’ and Equipment 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 all purposes on board naval vessels, including the expenses of transportation and storage of the same; 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, two million two hundred and twenty-five thousand four hundred and eighty dollars and ten cents.
Ocean and lake surveys: Ocean and lake surveys; the publication Ocean and lake surveys. and care of the results thereof; the purchase of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, and freight and express charges on the same; preparing and engraving on copperplates the surveys of the Mexican coasts, and the publication of a series of charts of the coasts of Central and South America, and for surveys of the imperfectly known parts of the coasts and harbors of the Philippine Archipelago, and the islands of Cuba and Porto Rico, with their bordering keys and waters and the minor outlying islands; to be made immediately available, one hundred thousand dollars.
Depots for coal: To enable the Secretary of the Navy to execute Depots for coal. R. S., sec. 1552, p. 264. 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, four hundred thousand dollars. Civil establishment, Bureau of Equipment: Navy-yard, Portsmouth, Civil establishment. Portsmouth, N.
H. New Hampshire: For one clerk, at one thousand dollars; Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one superintendent of ropewalk, Boston, Mass. at one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand three hundred dollars: one writer, at nine hundred and fifty dollars; in all, five thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars; Navy-yard, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred NEw York, N.
Y. dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one writer, at nine hundred and fifty dollars; in all, three thousand five hundred and fifty dollars; 1030 Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one League Island, Pa. thousand two hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For two clerks, at one thousand two Norfolk, Va. hundred dollars each, two thousand four hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousand Mare Island, D.
C. two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand two hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one clerk, at one Washington D. C. 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, seventeen thousand four hundred and seventy-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 transportation Contingent. 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, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. bureau of yards and docks.Bureau of Yards and Docks.
Maintenance of yards and docks: For general maintenance of yards Maintenance. 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 and fifty thousand dollars.
Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For contingent expenses Contingent. 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 thousand four Boston, Mass. hundred dollars; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one messenger to commandant, at two dollars per diem; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one draftsman, at five dollars per day; one master of tugs, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, eight thousand four hundred and sixteen dollars and twenty-five cents.
Navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand four Brooklyn, 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 1031 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 messenger, yards and docks, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem; one stenographer and typewriter, at three dollars and twenty-six cents per diem; one electrician, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, twenty thousand two hundred and sixty-six dollars and thirteen cents.
Naval station, Sacketts Harbor, New York: For one ship keeper, at three Sacketts Harbor, N. Y. hundred and sixty-five dollars per annum. Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one thousand League Island, Pa. 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 one thousand Washington, D. C. 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; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, five thousand four hundred and ninety-five dollars and twenty-five cents. Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred Norfolk, Va. 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: one master of tugs, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, nine thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight dollars and sixty-three cents.
Naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina: One clerk, at one thousand Port Royal, S. C. 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; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem; one telegraph operator, at two dollars per diem; one electrician, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, six thousand five hundred and forty-six dollars and fifty cents.
Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred Pensacola, Fla. dollars; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; in all, one thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars. Naval station, Key West, Florida: For one mail messenger, at six hundred Key West, Fla. dollars. Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousand four Mare Island, Cal. 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 electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; one quarterman joiner, at four dollars and fifty-six cents per diem; one telegraph operator, at three dollars and twenty-eight cents per diem; in all, fourteen thousand and ninety-four dollars and seven cents.
Naval station, Puget Sound, Washington: One clerk, at one thousand two Puget Sound, Wash. hundred dollars; one draftsman, at five dollars per diem; one messenger and janitor, at one dollar and seventy-six cents per diem; one master of tugs, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, four thousand six hundred and seven dollars and forty cents. 1032 In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Yards and Docks, eighty-three thousand four hundred and forty-two dollars and twenty-three cents; and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. public works—bureau of yards and docks—navy-yards and stations, naval academy, and new naval observatory.Public Works.
Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Building to replace hospital Portsmouth, N. H. numbered twenty-eight, six thousand dollars; sawmill for construction and repair, thirty thousand dollars; foundry for construction and repair, forty thousand dollars; plate-angle, smith, and beam shed for construction and repair, thirty-five thousand dollars; electric-light plant, fifty thousand dollars; electric-light building, thirty thousand dollars; two officers’ quarters, fifteen thousand dollars; coal-storage and coal-handling machinery, one hundred thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, three hundred and six thousand dollars.
Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: New gate and entrance house Boston, Mass. to yard, twenty-five thousand dollars; new railroad system, forty thousand dollars; locomotive and cars, ten thousand dollars; constructing new piers and extending old ones, and dredging, one hundred thousand dollars; coal-storage and coal-handling plant, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars; repairing drainage system and connecting with metropolitan sewer, twelve thousand dollars; electric-light building with coal-storage and coal handling appliances for same, fifty thousand dollars; electric elevators in four storehouses, twelve thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Boston, three hundred and seventy-nine thousand dollars.
That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to provide for the Enlargement of dock at southern boundary by Fitchburg Railroad Company. enlargement of the slip or dock at the southern boundary of the United States navy-yard at Boston, Massachusetts, partly upon the land of the navy-yard and partly upon lands belonging to the Fitchburg Railroad Company, said slip to be enlarged beyond its present width eighty feet upon the lands of the United States and twenty feet upon the lands of the Fitchburg Railroad Company, so that the same shall be one hundred and sixty feet in width, measured northerly from the land parallel to and twenty feet southerly from the boundary between the lands of the United States and lands of the Fitchburg Railroad Company, and to be increased in length to a total of five hundred and seventy feet, measured from the harbor commissioner’s line as now established upon the front of the said railroad company’s property; the said slip to be used by both the Fitchburg Railroad and the United States for the berthing of vessels at their respective wharves; and the Secretary of Contract. the Navy is empowered to make a contract with the said Fitchburg Railroad Company pursuant to the provisions of this Act.
That in Retaining walls east side, etc. consideration of the privileges granted by this Act to the Fitchburg Railroad Company for the use of a portion of this slip extending northerly of the boundary line of the United States navy-yard, said railroad company shall build suitable retaining walls upon the east side and at the head of the slip upon the Government lands, or if the United States shall so elect in lieu thereof shall pay to the United States such sums of money as may be determined by arbitration, and shall dredge Dredging basin. the entire slip or basin to a depth of thirty feet at mean low water and maintain such depth as long as it enjoys the privileges above stated.
It is further provided that the said railroad company shall use and —use of. occupy only sixty feet of the width of the said basin within the limits of the navy-yard property, and is to erect no construction of any kind within the limits of the said basin, either upon the lands of the Government or upon that portion of the said railroad company’s lands included in the basin. That the right to use said dock or any part Suspension of railroad’s right to use. thereof by said railroad company may be temporarily suspended by the Secretary of the Navy whenever in case of war or other emergency it 1033 shall be necessary, in his judgment, for the United States Government to have the exclusive use of the same, and for any such suspension said company shall not be entitled to any compensation.
The Secretary of the Navy shall notify the railroad company to that effect, and thereupon and during the continuance of such emergency the Government shall have the sole use of said dock. That the entire expense of the Railroad to bear the expenses, etc. construction of the said slip or basin and all future repair thereof shall be borne by the said railroad company, including the excavation and removal of any wharves, piers, buildings, earth, or constructions of any kind that may be upon the said site, and said materials and constructions shall be disposed of in such a manner or deposited in such places as shall be designated, with the approval of the Secretary of the Navy, and the construction and improvement herein provided for shall be without any expense whatever to the United States.
That the privileges Commencement and completion. hereby granted to the Fitchburg Railroad Company shall become null and void unless the improvements hereby authorized are begun within six calendar months from the date of the approval of this Act, and completed in every respect in accordance with the terms hereof, and to the acceptance of the Secretary of the Navy, within eighteen calendar months from the same date. Navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York: Removing crib work, and so forth, Brooklyn Navy-Yard.
Whitney Basin, one hundred thousand dollars; extending quay wall, Cob Dock, eighty-two thousand seven hundred dollars: extending building numbered thirty-three, forty-eight thousand dollars; erecting shop, wing of building numbered twenty-eight, for steam engineering, forty-seven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; coppersmith shop for steam engineering, fifteen thousand one hundred and twelve dollars; administration building for steam engineering, thirty-seven thousand dollars; paving streets, fifty thousand dollars; extending yard sewers, eighteen thousand dollars; extending railroad system, thirty thousand dollars; extending electric plant, twenty thousand dollars; new roof for building numbered twelve, eight thousand dollars; new floor for building numbered fourteen, twelve thousand dollars; two officers’ quarters, fourteen thousand dollars; reconstructing and enlarging building numbered twenty-two, seventy thousand dollars; coal-storage and coal handling plant, sixty thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, New York, six hundred and twelve thousand and sixty-two dollars.
Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: Dredging and filling in League Island, Pa. Delaware water front, fifty thousand dollars; extension of reserve basin, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; new roads and walks about yard, fifteen thousand dollars; extension of drainage system, seven thousand dollars; commandant’s office, fifty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty-five dollars; water-closets, four thousand seven hundred and twelve dollars; east wall of causeway, seventy-three thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; railroad tracks about yard, twenty thousand dollars; artesian well, five thousand four hundred dollars; four officers’ quarters, twenty-five thousand dollars; locomotive crane about dry dock, sixty-five thousand dollars; retaining wall about reserve basin, one hundred thousand dollars; storehouses for ships’ equipment along reserve basin, thirty-six thousand dollars; continuation of seawall west of new dry dock, fifty thousand dollars; plate-bending shop, construction and repair, seventy-five thousand dollars; coal-storage and coal-handling plant, fifty thousand dollars; fireproof storehouse, forty-five thousand dollars: in all, navy-yard, League Island, eight hundred thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven dollars.
Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: New steel roof and Washington, D. C. repairs to pattern-shop building numbered thirty, twenty-one thousand dollars; new steel roof and repairs to copper rolling mill, seventeen thousand dollars; extension of north gun shop, fifteen thousand dollars; new steel roof and extension of store numbered twelve, ten thousand dollars; extension of storehouse for guns, thirty-five thousand dollars; shop and office building for construction and repair, one hundred thousand dollars; one officer’s quarters, seven thousand 1034 dollars; in all, navy-yard, Washington, two hundred and five thousand dollars.
Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Quay wall for fitting out basin, one Norfolk, Va. hundred thousand dollars; ship fitters’ shop for construction and repair, one hundred thousand dollars; building for electric plant, plumbers’ shop, and machine shop (yards and docks), seventy-five thousand dollars; blacksmith shop and plumbers’ shop, fifty thousand dollars; one hundred and twenty ton floating derrick, seventy thousand dollars; two officers’ quarters, ten thousand dollars; grading and paving streets and for sewers, twenty thousand dollars; storehouse for torpedoes, and so forth, seventy-five thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Norfolk, five hundred thousand dollars.
And the sum of one hundred and forty-five thousand six hundred and Payment of land condemned. eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to pay and satisfy the amount awarded to the property owners as found by the final judgment to be rendered in the matter of the condemnation proceedings begun under the direction of the Attorney-General of the United States in the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Virginia on the twenty-fourth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for the condemnation of the tract of land mentioned therein for the use of the United States at Norfolk, Virginia; and such further sum is appropriated as may be necessary to pay the costs of said proceedings: *Provided,* That said sum, the purchase money, shall be paid into *Proviso.* —to be paid into court. court to be distributed among those entitled thereto, or their attorneys of record, under said judgment and decree in full satisfaction of the payment for the lands mentioned and described therein.
Naval station, New London, Connecticut: Dredging, twenty-five New London, Conn. thousand dollars. Naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina: Building for workshops Port Royal, S. C. (yards and docks), fifty-four thousand dollars; paint shop and storage for combustibles, thirteen thousand dollars; extension of storehouse, thirty thousand dollars; dredging plant, six thousand dollars; grading and drainage, six thousand dollars; sawmill and boat shop (construction and repair), thirty thousand dollars; shipwright’s shed (construction and repair), six thousand dollars; the Secretary of Purchase of adjoining property. the Navy is hereby authorized to procure, by purchase, in his discretion, at such price as he may deem fair and reasonable, not to exceed the sum of twenty-six thousand dollars, the following-described property adjoining and contiguous to the United States Naval Station, Port Royal, South Carolina, being lots in township numbered two, south of Beaufort base line, range numbered one, west of Saint Helena meridian, in section numbered five, according to the survey thereof made by the United States direct tax commissioners for South Carolina, and recorded in their office, namely:
Twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-one, thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-six, thirty-seven, thirty-eight, forty-three, forty-four, forty-five, forty-six, forty-seven, forty-nine, fifty, fifty-one, fifty-two, fifty-three, fifty-four, fifty-nine, sixty, sixty-one, sixty-two, sixty-three, and sixty-four; also section numbered eight, lots one, two, three, four, five, six, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-six, thirty-seven, and thirty-eight; in all, naval station, Port Royal, one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars.
Naval station, Key West, Florida: Sea wall, three thousand dollars; Key West, Fla. sidewalks, one thousand five hundred and twenty dollars; two officers’ quarters, eight thousand dollars; purchase of additional land, one hundred thousand dollars; in all, naval station, Key West, one hundred and twelve thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: Quay wall, seventy-two Mare Island, Cal. thousand dollars; crematory, seven thousand five hundred dollars; 1035 additional tools for machine shop (yards and docks), four thousand dollars; extension and renewal of railroad and its equipments, twenty thousand dollars; fire-engine house, seven thousand dollars; additional storehouse for supplies and accounts, forty thousand dollars; blockmakers’, coopers’, and varnishers’ shop (construction and repair), sixteen thousand dollars; dredging channel and anchorage ground, one hundred thousand dollars; timber shed (supplies and accounts), twenty-six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; apartment house for junior and other officers, fifteen thousand dollars; sidewalks and roads, five thousand dollars; boat shops (construction and repair), seventy-two thousand dollars; machine shop (construction and repair), thirty-four thousand dollars; grading and paving streets, six thousand dollars; building for storing and handling guns, twenty-two thousand dollars; moving back ferry slip, eighty thousand dollars; shipwrights’ shop (construction and repair), seventy-five thousand dollars; steam engineering, machine shop, and foundry, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; grading yard, one hundred thousand dollars; storehouse for equipment materials, forty-five thousand dollars; workshop and boiler house for Bureau of Equipment, thirty-five thousand dollars; chain shed for Bureau of Equipment, four thousand five hundred dollars; in all, navy-yard, Mare Island, nine hundred and thirty-five thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Puget Sound Naval Station, Washington: Pump and boiler house Puget Sound, Wash. for new water station, three thousand dollars; yard water-closets, one thousand dollars; purchase of additional land near springs, one thousand dollars; continuing clearing, grading, and stumping station, twelve thousand dollars; concrete floor for construction and repair shop, eight thousand dollars; yard railway, three thousand five hundred dollars; extension of boiler room and steam plant for yards and docks, twenty thousand dollars; in all, Puget Sound Naval Station, forty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.
Repairs and preservation at navy-yards and stations: For repairs Repairs and preservation. and preservation at navy-yards and stations, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to use the balance remaining Dry dock, Algiers, La. Payment of interet and costs under decree in condemnation proceedings. Vol. 27, p. 722. Vol. 28, p. 130. unexpended of the appropriations made by the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, “Dry dock, Algiers, Louisiana,” and by the Act approved July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, “Dry dock at Algiers, Louisiana,” for the payment of the interest and costs adjudged by the decrees of the court in the proceedings for the condemnation of the lands acquired, as authorized by said Acts.
The provisions of “An Act making appropriations for the naval service Construction of granite dry dock authorized.for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and for other purposes,” approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, relating to the construction of dry docks, are hereby modified so that the Secretary of the Navy may, in his discretion, contract for the construction of one of the four dry docks named in said provision in addition to that at Boston, to be built of granite, or of concrete faced with granite, and in such case the limit of the cost of each of said dry docks is fixed at one million one hundred thousand dollars.
Toward the construction of said dry docks there is hereby appropriated *Ante,* p. 379. the sum of eight hundred thousand dollars in addition to the appropriations contained in said provisions of the Act of May fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, which may be used in carrying out the terms of this provision. The Secretary of the Navy may employ and pay, out of the appropriation Experts, etc. for public works herein authorized under the Bureau of Yards and Docks, such additional expert aids, draftsmen, writers, and copyists as may be necessary for the preparation of plans and specifications, and for such services an amount not to exceed five thousand dollars is made immediately available. 1036 buildings and grounds at the naval academy, annapolis, maryland.Naval Academy.
For completion of buildings and other works authorized under the Act Completion of buildings. *Ante,* p. 385. making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, under such plans as may be adopted by the Secretary of the Navy, not to exceed in cost one million two hundred and twenty thousand dollars, seven hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Naval Observatory: For grounds and roads: For continuing grading, Naval Observatory. extending roads and paths, clearing and improving grounds, ten thousand dollars. bureau of medicine and surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
Medical Department: For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in Surgeons, 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. Naval hospital fund: For maintenance of the naval hospitals at Hospital fund. the various navy-yards and stations, and for care and maintenance of patients in other hospitals at home and abroad, twenty thousand dollars.
Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For freight, expressage Contingent. 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, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For necessary repairs of Repairs. naval laboratory and department of instruction, naval hospitals and appendages, including roads, wharves, outhouses, sidewalks, fences, gardens, farms, and cemeteries, twenty thousand dollars. Naval cemetery, naval hospital, Chelsea, Massachusetts: Building Chelsea, Mass., cemetery. fence to inclose cemetery, laying out approaches and paths, caring for graves, resetting headstones, and general renovation, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Naval hospital, Chelsea, Massachusetts: Building annex for kitchen, Hospital. bathroom, closets, and lavatories, furniture and fittings, and general renovation of hospital and appendages, forty-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available. bureau of supplies and accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. Provisions, Navy: For provisions and commuted rations for the Provisions. 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, 1037 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 purchased under the naval supply fund; one chemist, at two thousand five hundred dollars per annum; and two chemists, at two thousand dollars each per annum, three million dollars.
Civil establishment, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: Navy-yard, Civil establishment. Portsmouth, N. H. 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: One bookkeeper, Boston, Mass. 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, nine Brooklyn, N.
Y. hundred dollars. In general storehouses: Three bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one assistant bookkeeper, at one thousand dollars; one assistant bookkeeper, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; three receiving clerks, at four dollars per diem each; one assistant receiving clerk, at one thousand and ninety-nine dollars; three shipping clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant bill clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; two leading men, at two dollars and fifty cents per diem each; five pressmen, at two dollars and seventy-six cents per diem each; one superintendent of coffee mills, at three dollars per diem; one box maker, at three dollars per diem; one engine tender, at three dollars and twenty-six cents per diem; one coffee roaster, at two dollars and fifty cents per diem; one fireman, at two dollars per diem; one messenger, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem; 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: One League Island, Pa. 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: One Washington, D. C. 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: One Annapolis, Md. 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: One clerk, Newport, R. I. at one thousand two hundred dollars. Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: In general storehouses: Two Mare Island, Cal. bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two assistant 1038 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. Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: In general storehouses: Two bookkeepers, Norfolk, Va. at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two assistant bookkeepers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant bill clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one receiving clerk, at nine hundred and forty-two dollars: one assistant receiving clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars.
In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, eight thousand eight hundred and thirty-three dollars and seventy-five cents. In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, 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, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: For freight Contingent. 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, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
The active list of passed assistant and assistant paymasters of the Pay Passed assistant and assistant paymasters. Corps shall hereafter consist of thirty and forty, respectively: *Provided,* That when such appointments of assistant paymasters are made *Proviso.* —age limit. from among those who served honorably as such in the late war with Spain the age limit may be increased to forty-five years. The officer of the Pay Corps of the Navy detailed as assistant to the Pay of officer of Pay Corps, detailed as assistant to chief of Bureau.
Vol. 28, p. 132. Chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts pursuant to the Act of Congress approved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, shall hereafter receive the highest pay of his grade. bureau of construction and repair.Bureau of Construction and Repair. Construction and repair of vessels: For preservation and Preservation, repair, etc., of vessels. completion of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; steam steerers, pneumatic steerers, steam capstans, steam windlasses, and 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, three million dollars: *Provided,* That no part of this sum shall be applied to the repair *Proviso.* Limit, wooden ships. 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.
Construction plant, navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Repairs to and Portsmouth, N. H. improvement of plant at navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, twenty-five thousand dollars. Construction plant, navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Repair to and Boston, Mass. improvement of plant at navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts, twenty-five thousand dollars. Construction plant, navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York: Repairs to and Brooklyn, N. Y.1039 improvement of plant at navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Construction plant, navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: Repairs to and League Island, Pa. improvement of plant at navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania, twenty-five thousand dollars. Construction plant, navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Repairs to and Norfolk, Va. improvement of plant at navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia, twenty-five thousand dollars. Construction plant, navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: Repairs to and Pensacola, Fla. improvement of construction plant at navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Construction plant, navy-yard, Mare Island, California: Repairs to and Mare Island, Cal. improvement of plant at navy-yard, Mare Island, California, twenty-five thousand dollars. Construction plant, naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina: Repairs to Port Royal, S. C. and improvement of construction plant at naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina, twenty-five thousand dollars. Construction plant, naval station, Key West, Florida: Repairs to and Key West, Fla. improvement of construction plant at naval station, Key West, Florida, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Construction plant, naval station, Puget Sound, Washington: Repairs to and Puget Sound, Wash. improvement of plant at Puget Sound Naval Station, Washington, twenty-five thousand dollars. Civil establishment, Bureau of Construction and Repair: Navy-yard, Civil establishment. Portsmouth, N. H. 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, at Boston, Mass. 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, at one Brooklyn, N. Y. 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 naval constructor, League Island, Pa. 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 naval Washington, D. C. constructor, at one thousand four hundred dollars. Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For one clerk to naval constructor, at one Norfolk, Va. 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 and seventeen Pensacola, Fla. dollars and twenty-five cents. Naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina: For one clerk to naval Port Royal, S. C. constructor, at one thousand four hundred dollars. Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk to naval constructor, at Mare Island, Cal. 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, twenty-three thousand four hundred and seven dollars; and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. The Act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, authorizing the Holland submarine boats, purchase of two authorized. Vol. 29, p. 379. construction, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, of two submarine boats, is hereby amended so as to permit the Secretary to contract for two submarine boats of the Holland type, similar to the submarine boat Holland. 1040 bureau of steam engineering.Bureau of Steam Engineering.
Steam machinery: For completion, repairing, and preservation of Completion 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 and eighty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no part of said sum shall be applied to the engines, *Proviso.* Limit, wooden ships. boilers, and machinery of wooden ships where the estimated cost of such repair shall exceed ten per centum of the estimated cost of new engines and machinery of the same character and power, nor shall new boilers be constructed for wooden ships.
For purchase, handling, and preservation of all material and stores, purchase, Materials. fitting, repair, and preservation of machinery and tools in navy-yards and stations, and running yard engines, four hundred thousand dollars. For incidental expenses for navy vessels, yards, and the Bureau, such as Incidental expenses. foreign postage, telegrams, advertising, freight, photographing, books, stationery, and instruments, ten thousand dollars. In all, steam machinery, one million and ninety thousand dollars.
Contingent, Bureau of Steam Engineering: For contingencies, drawing Contingent. materials, and instruments for the drafting room, one thousand dollars. Machinery plant, navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Additional tools Machinery plants, navy-yards. Norfolk, Va. required to put the yard in condition for building and repairing modern marine machinery with economy and dispatch, fifteen thousand dollars. Machinery plant, naval station, Puget Sound, Washington: Additional Puget Sound, Wash. tools required to fit out plant for repairs of engines, boilers, and so forth, of United States naval vessels, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Machinery plant, navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: Boiler-making League Island, Pa. plant, fifteen thousand dollars. Machinery plant, navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York: Additional tools Brooklyn, N. Y. required to put the yard in condition for building and repairing modern marine machinery with economy and dispatch, fifty thousand dollars. Civil establishment, Bureau of Steam Engineering: Navy-yard, Civil establishment. Portsmouth, N. H. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one clerk to department, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all, one thousand eight hundred dollars;
Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one clerk to department, one thousand Boston, Mass. three hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred Brooklyn, N. Y. dollars: one writer, at one thousand dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand dollars; Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one thousand two League Island, Pa. hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For one clerk, at one thousand three hundred Norfolk, Va. dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all, one thousand nine hundred dollars;
Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: For one writer, at one thousand Pensacola, Fla. dollars: Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk to department, at one Mare Island, Cal. 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, thirteen thousand two hundred dollars; and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. naval academy.Naval Academy.
Pay of professors and others, Naval Academy: For one professor Pay of professors and others. of mathematics, one of chemistry, one of physics, and one of 1041 English, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; six professors, namely, one of English, one of French and Spanish, three of French, and one of drawing, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; 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, 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 navigation 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, at one thousand and eighty 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-five thousand four hundred and fifty-nine 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 Employees, steam engineering. mechanics and others in department of steam engineering, seven thousand eight hundred and twenty-four dollars and fifty cents. For special course of study and training of naval cadets, as authorized Additional training. Vol. 22, p. 285. by Act of Congress approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, three thousand dollars. Repairs, Naval Academy: Necessary repairs of public buildings, Repairs, etc. wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, improvements, repairs, furniture and fixtures, twenty-one thousand dollars.
Heating and lighting, Naval Academy: Fuel, and for heating Fuel and lights. and lighting the Academy and school-ships, twenty thousand dollars. Contingent, Naval Academy; Purchase of books for the library Contingent. (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; 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 1042 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: For pay and allowances prescribed by law of Pay of officers, active list. officers on the active list, three hundred and forty-four thousand nine hundred dollars. Pay of officers on the retired list: For one colonel, one lieutenant-colonel, Retired officers. one adjutant and inspector, two quartermasters, one major, nine captains, three first lieutenants, and three second lieutenants, forty-five thousand seven hundred and ninety-five dollars. Pay of noncommissioned officers, musicians and privates, as prescribed Enlisted men. by law, and the number of enlisted men authorized 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, one million one hundred and twelve thousand five hundred and forty-eight dollars.
Pay and allowance for retired enlisted men: For one sergeant-major, —retired. two drum-majors, five first-class musicians, sixteen first sergeants, twenty-three sergeants, four corporals, one drummer, two fifers, and forty-eight privates, and for those who may be retired during the year, thirty-four thousand dollars. Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged soldiers for clothing undrawn, twenty-three thousand dollars.Undrawn clothing. Mileage: For mileage of officers traveling under orders without troops, Mileage. twelve thousand dollars.
For commutation of quarters to officers on duty without troops where Commutation of quarters. there are no public quarters, eight thousand dollars. Pay of civil force: In the office of the colonel commandant: for Civil 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, D. C. 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.
Provisions, Marine Corps: For one thousand nine hundred and Provisions. seventy-three noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, and for commutation of rations to sixteen 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, three hundred and sixty-six thousand and seventy-one dollars 1043 and fifty cents; and no law shall be construed to entitle marines on Marines on shore duty. 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-four Clothing. noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, two hundred and ninety thousand one hundred and ninety-nine dollars and fifty-four cents. Fuel, Marine Corps: For heating barracks and quarters, for ranges Fuel. and stoves for cooking, fuel for enlisted men, for sales to officers, maintaining electric lights, and for hot-air closets, twenty-five thousand dollars. Military stores, Marine Corps: For pay of chief armorer, at Military stores. three dollars per day; three mechanics, at two dollars and fifty cents each per day; for purchase of military equipments, such as rifles, revolvers, 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 tents and field ovens, 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, forty-six thousand two hundred and ninety-seven dollars.
Transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps: For transportation Transportation and recruiting. of troops, including ferriage, and the expense of recruiting service, twenty-five thousand dollars. For repairs of barracks, Marine Corps: At Portsmouth, New Repair 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; Port Royal, South Carolina;
Pensacola, Florida; Mare Island, California; Bremerton, Washington; and Sitka, Alaska; and at such other place or places as the exigency of the service requires the renting, leasing, or erection of barracks; and per diem for enlisted men employed under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department on the repair of barracks and other public buildings, thirteen thousand dollars. For rent of building used for manufacture of clothing, storing supplies, Rent of building, Philadelphia. and office of assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, three thousand three hundred dollars.
Erection and completion of a building for marine barracks, Annapolis, Barracks, Annapolis. Maryland, fifty thousand dollars. Erection and completion of commanding officer’s quarters, Annapolis, Maryland, nine thousand dollars. Erection and completion of two sets of officers’ quarters, Annapolis, Maryland, fourteen thousand dollars. Clearing and grading, laying sewers, water pipes, and pavements, erecting fences and flagstaff, and otherwise improving site for marine barracks and officers’ quarters, and building a bridge to connect same with Naval Academy inclosure, Annapolis, Maryland, eight thousand dollars.
Forage, Marine Corps: For forage in kind for five horses of the Forage. quartermaster’s department, and the authorized number of officers’ horses, six thousand dollars. Hire of quarters, Marine Corps: For hire of quarters for officers Hire of quarters. serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them, nine thousand dollars; for hire of quarters for eleven enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in commandant’s, adjutant and inspector’s, paymaster’s, and 1044 quartermaster’s offices, and the offices of the assistant quartermasters, Washington, District of Columbia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and for the leader of the Marine Band, twenty-one dollars each per month, three thousand and twenty-four dollars; for hire of quarters for five enlisted men employed as above, at ten dollars each per month, six hundred dollars; in all, twelve thousand six hundred and twenty-four dollars.
For provisions, clothing, fuel, military stores, transportation and For men enlisted before June 30, 1899. recruiting, forage, and hire of quarters for officers and men to be commissioned and enlisted previous to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, twenty thousand four hundred dollars, to be immediately available. Contingent, Marine Corps: For freight, tolls, cartage, advertising, Contingent. 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, camp and garrison equipage and implements, mess utensils for enlisted men, such as bowls, plates, spoons, knives and forks, tin cups, pans, pots, and so forth; 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, 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 quarters and repair of same, and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but impossible to anticipate or classify, fifty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. increase of the navy.Increase of the Navy.
That for the purpose of further increasing the naval establishment Three sea-going coast-line battleships. 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 for vessels of their class upon a trial displacement of about thirteen thousand five hundred tons, to be sheathed and coppered, and to have the highest practicable speed and great radius of action, and to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not exceeding three million six hundred thousand dollars each; three armored cruisers of about twelve thousand tons trial Three armored cruisers. displacement, carrying the heaviest armor and most powerful ordnance for vessels of their class, to be sheathed and coppered, and to have the highest practicable speed and great radius of action, and to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not exceeding four million dollars each; and six protected cruisers of about two thousand five hundred Six protected cruisers. tons trial displacement, to be sheathed and coppered, and to have the highest speed compatible with good cruising qualities, great radius of action, and to carry the most powerful ordnance suited to vessels of their class, and to cost, exclusive of armament, not exceeding one million one hundred and forty-one thousand eight hundred dollars each; and the contracts for the construction of each of said vessels shall be Contracts. awarded by the Secretary of the Navy to the lowest best responsible bidder, having in view the best results and most expeditious delivery; 1045FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 421, 422. 1899. and not more than two of the seagoing battleships and not more than Construction in one yard limited. two of the armored cruisers herein provided for and not more than two of the protected cruisers herein provided for shall be built in one yard or by one contracting party; and in the construction of all said vessels all *Ante,* p. 389. of the provisions of the Act of May fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval establishment for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and for other purposes,” shall be observed and followed: and, subject to the provisions hereinafter made, one and not Construction on Pacific coast. more than one of the aforesaid seagoing battle ships, and one and not more than one of the aforesaid armored cruisers shall be built on or near the coast of the Pacific Ocean or in the waters connecting therewith: *Provided,* That if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the President *Proviso.* —condition, cost. of the United States, from the biddings for such contracts when the same are opened and examined by him, said vessels, 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 cruisers provided for in this Act, he shall authorize the construction of said vessels, 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 outfits Construction and machinery. of vessels and steam machinery of vessels heretofore and herein authorized, five million nine hundred and ninety-two thousand four hundred and two dollars. Armor and armament: Toward the armament and armor of Armor and armament. Vol. 28, p. 140. Vol. 28. p. 841. Vol. 29, p. 379. Vol. 29. p. 664. *Ante,* p, 389. domestic manufacture for the vessels authorized by the Act of July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, of the vessels authorized under the Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, of those authorized by the Act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, of those authorized by the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, of those authorized by the Act of May fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and of those authorized by this Act, four million dollars: *Provided,* That in procuring armor for *Provisos.* Limit of price contracts for armor. the seagoing coast-line battle ships and the harbor defense vessels of the monitor type, authorized by the Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and for other purposes, approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, the Secretary of the Navy may contract for suitable armor for said vessels under the limitations as to price for the same as fixed by this Act: *And provided further,* That no contracts for Contract for armor to precede contract for hull. the armor for any vessels authorized by this Act shall be made at an average rate exceeding three hundred dollars per ton of two thousand two hundred and forty pounds, including royalties, and in no case shall a contract be made for the construction of the hull of any vessel authorized by this Act until a contract has been made for the armor of such vessel.
The President is hereby authorized to appoint, by selection and promotion, Admiral of the Navy. Grade revived. *Ante,* p. 995. an Admiral of the Navy, who shall not be placed upon the retired list except upon his own application; and whenever such office shall be vacated by death or otherwise the office shall cease to exist. Equipment: Toward the completion of the equipment outfit of the Equipment. new vessels heretofore and herein authorized, four hundred thousand dollars. Approved, March 3, 1899.
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