Chapter 2. To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to change the material to be used in the construction of the dry docks at the navy-yards at League Island, Pennsylvania, and Mare Island, California, from timber to concrete and stone
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CHAP. 2.— An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to change the material to be used in the construction of the dry docks at the navy-yards at League Island, Pennsylvania, and Mare Island, California, from timber to concrete and stone. January 25, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the provisions of “An League Island and Mare Island Navy-Yards. Change of material for dry docks authorized.
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, relating to the construction of dry docks, as modified by “An Act Vol. 30, pp. 379, 1035. making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, and for other purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, are hereby further modified so that the Secretary of the Navy may, in his discretion, contract for the construction of the dry docks at League Island, Pennsylvania, and at Mare Island, California, in addition to those at Boston, Massachusetts, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to be built of concrete and stone, and in such case the limit of cost of the dry docks for 2 Mare Island, California, and League Island, Pennsylvania, is so far modified that the total additional increased cost for the two dry docks aforesaid shall not in the aggregate exceed seven hundred thousand dollars.
Approved, January 25, 1900.