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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 31 STAT. · March 3, 1901 · Chapter 852

Chapter 852. Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 852.— An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, and for other purposes. March 3, 1901. *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 two, and for other purposes. pay of the navy.
Pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on sea duty: officers Pay of the Navy.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; commutation of quarters for officers on shore not occupying public quarters, including boatswains, gunners, carpenters, sailmakers, warrant machinists, pharmacists, and mates, who shall hereafter receive the same commutation for quarters as second lieuten 1108ants of the Marine Corps; pay of enlisted men on the retired list; 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 Fish Com-mission. twenty-two thousand five hundred men, fifty additional warrant machinists, 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, fifteen million two hundred thousand two hundred and eighty-four dollars, of which sum fifty thousand dollars is hereby made immediately available for pay of additional men and warrant machinists: *Provided*, “Shore duty beyond seas” defined.That officers of the Navy, and officers and enlisted men of the Marine Corps, who have been detailed, or may hereafter be detailed, for shore duty in Alaska, the Philippine Islands, Guam, or elsewhere beyond the continental limits of the United States, shall be considered as having been detailed for “shore duty beyond seas,” and shall receive pay accordingly, with such additional pay as may be provided by law for service in island possessions of the United States.
Advancement for service Spanish war not to interfere with regular promotions.[R. S., secs. 1506. etc., p. 259](/us/rs/s1506/p259).Officers advanced to be additional numbers of grade, etc.That the advancement in rank of officers of the Navy and Marine Corps, whensoever made, for service rendered during the war with Spain, pursuant, respectively, to the provisions of sections fifteen hundred and six and sixteen hundred and five of the Revised Statutes, shall not interfere with the regular promotion of officers otherwise entitled to promotion, but officers so advanced, by reason of war service, shall, after they are promoted to higher grades, be carried there-after as additional to the numbers of each grade to which they may at any time be promoted; and each such officer shall hereafter be promoted in due course, contemporaneously with and to take rank next after the officer immediately above him; and all advancements made by reason of war service shall be appropriately so designated upon the *Proviso.*No promotions to fill such vacancies.official Navy list: *Provided, however*, That no promotion shall be made to fill a vacancy occasioned by the promotion, retirement, death, resignation, or dismissal of any officer who, at the time of such promotion, retirement, death, resignation, or dismissal, is an additional member of his grade under the foregoing provisions. 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 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; com-missions, 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, six hundred 1109thousand dollars: *Provided*, That in cases where orders are given to *Proviso.*Travel expenses.officers of the Navy or Marine Corps for travel to be performed repeatedly between two or more places in such vicinity as in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy is appropriate, he may direct that actual and necessary expenses only be allowed.
Contingent, Navy: For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses Contingent 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, ten thousand dollars. emergency fund, navy department. To meet unforeseen contingencies for the maintenance of the Navy Emergency fund.constantly arising, to be expended at the discretion of the President, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, of which fifty thousand dollars shall be immediately available. bureau of navigation.Bureau of Navigation.
Transportation, recruiting, and contingent: Expenses of recruiting Transportation, recruiting, and contingent.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, and of officers accompanying them; 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 apprentices, packing boxes and materials, and other contingent expenses and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation, unforeseen and impossible to classify, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
Gunnery exercises: Prizes for excellence in gunnery exercises and Gunnery exercises.target practice; diagrams and reports of target practice; for the establishment and maintenance of targets and ranges; for hiring established ranges, and for transportation to and from ranges, twelve thousand dollars. Outfits for naval apprentices: Outfits for two thousand five Apprentices, bounties.hundred naval apprentices and one hundred hospital apprentices, at forty-five dollars each, one hundred and seventeen thousand dollars.
Outfits for landsmen: Outfits for five thousand landsmen —landsmen.under training for seamen, at forty-five dollars each, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Naval training station, California: Maintenance of naval apprentice Naval training stations.Yerba Buena Island, Cal.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 livestock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same; tire 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.
To reimburse the appropriation “Naval training station. California, nineteen hundred and one.” for the cost of securing a supply of fresh water from Oakland, California, six thousand four hundred and fifty-nine dollars and thirty-two cents, to be immediately available. 1110 Coasters Harbor Island. R. I. Naval training station, Rhode Island: Maintenance of naval apprentice training station. Coasters Harbor Island. Rhode Island, namely: Labor and material; buildings and wharves; dredging channels; extending sea wall; repairs to causeway and sea wall; 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, forty-five thousand dollars.
Naval War College. Naval War College. Coasters Harbor Island, Rhode 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; in all. nine thousand two hundred dollars. For the services of a lecturer on international law. one thousand dollars: for the services of civilian lecturers from universities and colleges rendered at the War College, six hundred dollars, and for the purchase of books of reference, four hundred dollars; in all, two thousand dollars.
Naval Home. Philadelphia. Naval Home. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: One superintendent 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-five dollars: one painter, at eight hundred and forty-five dollars; one engineer for elevator and machinery, six hundred dollars; three laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; three laborers, at three hundred dollars each; water rent and lighting, two thousand one hundred dollars; cemetery, burial expenses, and headstones, three hundred and fifty dollars: improvement of grounds, nine hundred dollars; repairs to buildings, boilers, furnaces, furniture, eight thousand dollars; music in chapel, six hundred dollars; transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, one hundred dollars; support of beneficiaries, fifty thousand seven hundred and twenty-five 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. bureau of ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance.
Ordnance and stores. Ordnance and ordnance stores: For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the general work of the Ordnance Department; for watchmen at magazines, powder factories, and powder depots; for furniture in ordnance buildings at navy-yards 1111and stations; for maintenance of the proving ground and powder factory; and for target practice, five hundred thousand dollars.
Reserve supply of ammunition, five hundred thousand dollars. Conversion of ordinary six-inch guns to rapid fire, twenty-five thousand dollars.Reserve supply of ammunition.Rapid-fire guns. Purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, five hundred thousand Smokeless powder.dollars. New and improved machinery for existing shops of the naval gun Washington Navy-Yard.factory at the Washington Navy-Yard, fifty thousand dollars. For new and improved machinery for the proposed new workshop at the Washington Navy-Yard, estimated for by the Bureau of Yards and Docks, one hundred thousand dollars.
For automatic coal-conveying machinery and apparatus complete for the boiler-house stokers at the naval gun factory, nine thousand eight hundred and forty-nine dollars. For equipment of the forge shop at the naval gun factory after extension and remodeling, as estimated for by the Bureau of Yards and Docks, including twenty-five ton crane and runways, steam hammer, small hammers, piping, wiring, and motors, forty thousand dollars. Tools, machinery, and motive power for ordnance workshops and Mare Island, Cal.gun-carriage buildings at the navy-yard, Mare Island, California, twenty-four thousand dollars.
For new and improved battery for the Baltimore, one hundred “Baltimore,” new battery for.and seventy-five thousand dollars. Reserve guns for auxiliary cruisers: Toward the armament of Reserve guns for auxiliary cruisers.Vol. 26, p. 831.modern guns for auxiliary cruisers mentioned in the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and in section four Vol. 27, p.27.of the Act approved May tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of *Proviso.*Contractsthe Navy may, in his discretion, purchase by contract all or any part of such guns.
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. Arming and equipping Naval Militia: For arms, accouterments, Arming, etc., Naval Militia.signal outfits, boats and their equipment, and the printing or purchase 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.
Arms and equipment of United States Marine Corps: For small Arms, etc., Marine Corps.arms, machine and rapid-fire guns, accouterments, and ammunition therefor, for use of the United States Marine Corps, one hundred thousand dollars. Naval proving ground: For the purchase of additional land for the Naval proving ground, Indian Head.naval proving ground at Indian Head, twenty-five, thousand dollars. Naval station, Puget Sound, Washington: For purchase of an Naval station, Puget Sound.ammunition lighter for ordnance purposes at the naval station, Puget Sound, eighteen thousand dollars.
Repairs, Bureau of Ordnance: For necessary repairs to ordnanceBureau of Ordinance. —repairs. buildings, magazines, gun parks, boats, lighters, wharves, machinery, and other items of like character, thirty thousand dollars. Miscellaneous, Bureau of Ordnance: For miscellaneous items, —miscellaneous.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 inspection of ordnance material, seventy-five thousand dollars. 1112 Civil establishment.
Civil establishment, Bureau of Ordnance: Navy yard, Ports mouth, New Hampshire: For one writer, at one thousand dollars; Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one writer, at one thousand dollars; Navy-yard. New York. New York: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars: Navy-yard, League Island. Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; District of Columbia.Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one chemist, at two thousand five hundred dollars: one chief clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand one hundred dollars; three 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 one thousand dollars; in all, nineteen thousand one hundred and six dollars and seventy-five cents.
Smokeless-powder factory.Smokeless-powder factory: For one chemist, at two thousand five 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 hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one writer, at one thousand two hundred dollars; Naval proving ground. Indian Head. Maryland: For one writer, at one thousand two hundred dollars; Naval torpedo station.
Newport, Rhode Island: For one chemist, at 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-six thousand six hundred and six dollars and seventy-five cents: and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. bureau of equipment.Bureau of Equipment. Coal and transportation.
Coal and transportation: For purchase of coal for steamers’ and ships’ use, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same, two million dollars. Equipment of vessels. Equipment of vessels: For 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: the removal and transportation of ashes from ships of war; interior appliances and tools for equipment buildings in navy-yards and naval stations, 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, and running lights, compass fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ships’ compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship’s way, and 1113leads 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 Hags of all kinds; photographs, photographic instruments, and materials; musical instruments and music; installing, maintaining, and repairing interior and exterior signal communications and all electrical appliances of whatsoever nature-on board naval vessels, except range finders, battle order and range transmitters and indicators, and motors and their controlling apparatus used to operate the machinery belonging to other bureaus, one million five hundred thousand dollars.
Ocean and lake surveys: For hydrographic surveys, and for the Ocean and lake surveys.purchase of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, and freight and express charges on the same, 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](/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 for coal and other fuel, for the supply of steamships of war, six hundred thousand dollars: and to enable him to acquire land for a naval station and harbor and channel defense at Pearl Harbor.
Hawaii, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; in all, eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Maintenance of colliers, nineteen hundred and two: For pay, Colliers, maintenance.transportation, shipping, and subsistence of civilian officers and crews of naval colliers, and all expenses connected with naval colliers employed in emergencies which can not be paid from other appropriations, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Contingent, Bureau of Equipment: For freight and transportation Contingent expenses.of equipment stores, packing boxes and materials, printing, advertising, telegraphing, books, and models; stationery for the Bureau: furniture for equipment offices in navy-yard; postage on letters sent abroad; ferriage, ice, and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Equipment unforeseen and impossible to classify, thirty-five thousand dollars.
Civil establishment, Bureau of Equipment: Navy-yard, Ports-mouth, Civil establishmentNew Hampshire: For one clerk, at one thousand dollars; one writer, nine hundred and fifty dollars; in all, one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars; Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one superintendent of rope-walk, 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; one writer, at nine hundred and fifty dollars; in all. six thousand four hundred and seventy-five dollars:
Navy-yard, New York, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one writer, at nine hundred and fifty dollars; one writer, at nine hundred and fifty dollars; in all, four thousand five hundred dollars; Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars: one clerk, at one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand two hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one writer, at nine hundred and fifty dollars; in all, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars;
Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; one writer, at nine hundred and fifty dollars: in all, three thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one clerk, who shall also perform the clerical duties for the board of labor employment at said navy-yard, one thousand six hundred dollars; 1114 Cavite, Philippine Islands: For one electrician, at five dollars and four cents per diem: one clerk at one thousand dollars; in all. two thousand five hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty-two cents;
Navy-yard, Pensacola. Florida: One clerk, one thousand dollars; Naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina: One clerk, one thousand dollars; Naval station, Key West, Florida: One clerk, one thousand dollars; Naval station, Bremerton, Washington: One clerk, one thousand dollars: In all, civil establishment. Bureau of Equipment, twenty-nine thousand eight hundred and two dollars and fifty-two cents. bureau of yards and docks.Bureau of Yards and Docks. Maintenance. Maintenance of yards and docks:
For general maintenance of yards and docks, namely: For freight, transportation of materials and stores; books, maps, models, and drawing: purchase and repair of fire engines; fire apparatus and plants; machinery: 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 and for the Bureau of Yards and Docks; coal and other fuel, candles, oil, and gas; attendance on light and power plants; cleaning and clearing up yards and care of buildings; attendance on fires, lights, fire engines and fire apparatus and plants; incidental labor at navy-yards; water tax, tolls, and ferriage: 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, five hundred thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For contingent expenses that may arise at navy-yards and stations, fifty thousand dollars. Civil establishment Civil’ establishment, Bureau of Yards and Docks: Navy-yard, Portsmouth. New Hampshire: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; one foreman laborer and head teamster, at four dollars per diem, including Sundays; one janitor, at six hundred dollars; one pilot, at three dollars per diem, including Sundays; one draftsman, at four dollars per diem; one electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, eight thousand three hundred and thirty-seven dollars.
Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one clerk, at one thousand four 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 diem; one master of tugs, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one electrician, at one thousand four hundred dollars; in all, nine thousand eight hundred and sixteen dollars and twenty-five cents.
Navy-yard, New York, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand four 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 1115quarterman, at three dollars per diem: one superintendent of teams, Civil establishment—Continuel.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 four hundred dollars; one bookkeeper, or accountant, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, twenty-one thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and thirteen cents.
Naval station, Sacketts Harbor. New York: For one ship keeper, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars per annum. Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one 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: 0116 master of tugs, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one draftsman, at five dollars per diem; one electrician, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one master of tugs, at one thousand dollars: in all. nine thousand nine hundred and seventy-three dollars.
Navy-yard, Washington. District of Columbia: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one electrician, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, five thousand six hundred and ninety-five dollars and twenty-five cents. 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, at 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; one draftsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; one bookkeeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all. twelve thousand four hundred and fifty-eight dollars and sixty-three cents.
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; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one telegraph operator, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; 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 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 dollars. 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 one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; 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, at one thousand four 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, 1116Civil establishment—Continued.fourteen thousand two hundred and ninety-one dollars and sixty-seven cents.
Naval station. Puget Sound, Washington: One clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one draftsman, at five dollars per diem; one messenger and janitor, at one dollar and seventvsix cents per diem, including Sundays; one master of tugs, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one copyist, at nine hundred dollars; one electrician, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, six thousand seven hundred and seven dollars and forty cents. Naval station, San Juan, Porto Rico: One clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; one writer, commandant’s office, nine hundred and sixty dollars; one mail messenger, four hundred and twenty dollars; in all, two thousand live hundred and eighty dollars.
Naval station, Hawaii: One writer, at three dollars and twenty-five cents per diem: one messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays: in all, one thousand seven hundred and forty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents. Naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: One clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; one time clerk, three hundred and seventy-live, dollars; one writer, two hundred and fifty-five dollars; one messenger, one hundred and eighty-five dollars; one messenger, one hundred and fifty dollars; in all, two thousand one hundred and sixty-five dollars.
In all, civil establishment. Bureau of Yards and Docks, one hundred and four thousand six hundred and seventvnine dollars and eight 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. Portsmouth, N. H. Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Quay wall, to extend, fifty thousand dollars: grading, to continue, twenty-five thousand dollars; railroad and rolling stock, additions, ten thousand dollars: sewer systems, extensions, nine thousand dollars; water systems, extensions, six thousand dollars: latrines, two thousand dollars; extension of office building for construction and repair, and for fireproof construction, twenty thousand dollars; floating derrick, twenty thousand dollars; coal storage at electric and dry dock plants, ten thousand dollars; repairing reservoir and cleaning ponds, two thousand dollars; reconstructing building numbered sixty for boat shop and storage, seventy thousand dollars; improvements to ship-fitters’ shop, numbered forty-five, twenty thousand dollars; coal storage near building numbered forty-six, eight thousand five hundred dollars: storehouse for general supplies (to cost not more than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for which contract is hereby authorized), seventy-five thousand dollars; office building for steam engineering, fifteen thousand dollars; elevators in storehouses numbered one and two. eight thousand dollars; improvements to ordnance building numbered twenty-two. ten thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars; tools for yards and docks, two thousand dollars; elevator, shelves, and so forth, for yard dispensary. five hundred dollars; to enable the Secretary of the Navy to prepare specifications and obtain proposals from responsible contractors for removing Henderson’s Point, so as to improve the approach to the navy-yard at Portsmouth.
New Hampshire, to a depth of not exceeding thirty-five feet below mean low water for a distance of not exceeding three hundred and fifty feet, the proposals to be submitted to Congress at its next session, one thousand dollars; in all, three hundred and sixty-four thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. Boston, Mass. Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Ship-fitters shop, toward completion, fifty thousand dollars: metal workers’ shop, toward com1117pletion, fifty thousand dollars; refitting and improving machine shop numbered one. building forty-two, to complete, fifty thousand dollars; new piers and wharves, twenty-five thousand dollars; paving, twenty-five thousand dollars; dredging, twenty-five thousand dollars; electric elevators, ten thousand dollars: smithery for construction and repair, toward completion, fifty thousand dollars; fire-protection system, fifty-two thousand dollars; sawmill and spar shed (to cost not more than two hundred thousand dollars, for which contract is hereby authorized), seventy-five thousand dollars; repairs to large chimney, building numbered forty-two, eight thousand dollars; water-closets for building numbered forty-two, two thousand five hundred dollars; coal storage for steam engineering, five thousand dollars; central heating system, thirty-five thousand dollars; water system, extensions, ten thousand dollars: sewer system, extensions, five thousand dollars; electric-light plant, extensions, six thousand dollars; railroad system, extensions, six thousand dollars; coal-storage and coal-handling plant, extensions, thirty-five thousand dollars; extension of naval prison, to be immediately available, twenty-six thousand five hundred dollars; in all, navy-yard, Boston, five hundred and fifty-one thousand dollars.
Navy-yard, New York, New York: Reconstructing building numbered New York, N.Ytwenty-one for boathouse, to complete, to be immediately avail-able. eighty-five thousand dollars: paving and grading, twenty thousand dollars; granite and concrete dry dock, to continue, three hundred thousand dollars; fire-protection system, sixty thousand dollars; dredging. twenty-five thousand dollars: coal-storage and coal-handling plant, one hundred thousand dollars; railroad system, extensions, fifteen thousand dollars; piers on Cob Dock, eighty-eight thousand dollars; ordnance storehouse on Cob Dock, ninety thousand dollars; slip for ordnance.
Cob Dock, fifty thousand dollars: elevator and stair railings, oil storehouse numbered one hundred and twenty, three thousand five hundred dollars; electric motors for building numbered two, two thousand five hundred dollars; extending building numbered twenty-three, thirty thousand dollars; reconstructing building numbered nineteen (to cost not more than one hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars, for which contract is hereby authorized), one hundred thousand dollars; quay wall.
Cob Dock, extension, forty thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, New York, New York, one million and nine thousand dollars. Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: Extension of reserve League Island, Pa.basin, to continue dredging, fifty thousand dollars; electrical work-shop and storehouse for equipment, to complete, to be immediately available, thirty-three thousand dollars; to continue retaining wall about reserve basin, fifty thousand dollars; grading and paving, fifteen thousand dollars; machine shop for steam engineering, to complete, seventy-five thousand dollars; foundry and coppersmith shop for steam engineering, to complete, fifty-eight thousand dollars; boiler and black-smith shop for steam engineering, to complete fifty-eight thousand dollars; plumbers and coppersmiths’ shop and foundry for construction and repair, to complete, forty-three thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars; block, cooper, and spar shops for construction and repair, to complete, fifty-three thousand four hundred dollars; extension of pier numbered two, fifty-nine thousand dollars; storehouse for naval supplies (to cost not more than two hundred and twenty-four thousand six hundred and forty dollars, for which contract is hereby authorized), seventy-five thousand dollars; workshop and boiler house for ordnance, to extend, forty-two thousand dollars; equipment for railroad, ten thousand dollars; sewers, eight thousand five hundred dollars; roadway and retaining wall at yard entrance, twenty-five thousand dollars; heating apparatus for building numbered eight, four thousand eight hundred dollars; railroad-track scales, three thousand four hundred dollars; extension of sea wall, eleven thousand dollars; 1118parapet in front of officers’ quarters, three thousand dollars; electric elevators, seven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; outbuildings and fences, officers’ quarters, two thousand dollars: garbage-incinerating plant, eight thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, League Island, six hundred and ninety-five thousand two hundred and thirty dollars.
District of Columbia. Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: Paving, twenty-five thousand dollars: underground conduit system, to complete, twenty-two thousand dollars; electric-light plant, to extend, twenty thousand dollars; miscellaneous shop for ordnance, eighty-six thousand three hundred dollars; seamen gunners’ shop, forty thousand dollars: alterations and new roof, ordnance boiler house, forty-two thousand six hundred dollars; fireproof storage for fuses, acids, paints, and so forth, nine thousand dollars; extension and remodeling of forge shop, seventy-three thousand three hundred and ten dollars; in all.
Navy-yard, Washington, three hundred and eighteen thousand two hundred and ten dollars. Norfolk. Va. Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Concrete and granite dry dock, to continue, three hundred thousand dollars: paving and grading, to continue. fifteen thousand dollars; sewers, five thousand dollars; quay wall for fitting-out basin, to continue, seventy-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available: mooring slips at Saint Helena, forty thousand dollars: locomotive crane track, renewing, fifteen thousand dollars; railroad tracks, ten thousand dollars; alterations in plumbers’ shop, building numbered nine, ten thousand dollars; machinery and tools for yards and docks, two thousand dollars; railroad rolling stock, three thousand dollars; telephone system, one thousand dollars: pattern shop and storehouse, thirty thousand dollars; bridge between buildings numbered thirty-two and thirty-three, seven hundred and sixty dollars; fireproof shed for painting and storage of canvass, five thousand dollars; shops and storehouse for equipment, eighty thousand dollars: anchor park, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, navy-yard, Norfolk.
Virginia, five hundred and ninety-four thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. Key West, Fla. Naval station, Key West, Florida: Storehouse for supplies and accounts, sixty thousand dollars; storehouse for oils, turpentine, and so forth, five thousand dollars; smith shop, for steam engineering, eight thousand dollars; elevated tank for storing fresh water, six thousand dollars: filling, grading, and fencing, ten thousand dollars; quay wall, fifty thousand dollars; tire-protection system, five thousand dollars; in all. naval station, Key West, one hundred and forty-four thousand dollars.
Mare Island, Cal. Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: Joiner shop for construction and repair to complete, fifty thousand dollars; to continue quay wall, fifty thousand dollars: to continue dredging, fifty thousand dollars; paving, twenty-five thousand dollars; sewers and closets, five thousand dollars; storage shed for yards and docks, extension, five thousand dollars; storehouse for supplies and accounts, extension, forty thousand dollars; extension and renewal of railroad, five thousand dollars; offices for yards and docks, two thousand dollars; fire-protection system, forty-two thousand dollars: floor for building numbered fifty-two, five thousand dollars; improvements to forty-ton crane, three thousand dollars; drill room at receiving ship, nine thousand dollars; fence at northern end of yard, three thousand five hundred dollars; shelter roof for boats, improvements to. three thousand one hundred dollars; laboratory in building numbered fifty-one. one thousand five hundred dollars; new floor for building numbered fifty-three, two thousand dollars: improvements to building numbered sixty-nine, one thousand and fifty dollars; improvements to building numbered seventy-one, three thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars; testing room for construction and repair, 1119six hundred and fifty dollars; pumping and fire boat, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Mare Island, three hundred and thirty-one thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.
Naval station, Puget Sound, Washington: Sewers, extensions, Puget Sound, Wash.four thousand dollars; to continue grading, twenty thousand dollars; coal shed and appliances, seventy-five thousand dollars; sick quarters, seven thousand dollars; carpenter and joiner shop for yards and docks, ten thousand dollars; machinery for carpenter and joiner shop, three thousand dollars; extension of dry dock boiler plant, twenty thousand dollars; stable and tool shed, six thousand five hundred dollars; fire-protection system, ten thousand dollars; electric-light plant, extensions, five thousand dollars; telephone system, extensions, three thousand dollars; railroad and equipment, extensions, two thousand dollars; clearing and stumping, five thousand dollars; roadway about dry dock, six thousand dollars; dolphins, one thousand dollars; new skylight for construction and repair shop, four thousand dollars; joiner shop for construction and repair, seventy thousand dollars; water-closets and wash room for steam engineering, two thousand dollars; floor for steam-engineering shop, ten thousand dollars; storehouse for high explosives, ordnance, five thousand dollars; wharf crane for ordnance, one thousand five hundred dollars: quarters for gunner, three thousand dollars; in all, naval station, Puget Sound, Washington, two hundred and seventy-three thousand dollars.
Naval station, San Juan, Porto Rico: Coaling facilities, extensions, San Juan, Porte Rico.forty thousand dollars. Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: Motor for building numbered Pensacola, Fla.nine, one thousand five hundred dollars; extension of permanent wharf, fifteen thousand dollars; coal-storage plant, increase, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Pensacola, forty-one thousand five hundred dollars. Naval station, Algiers, Louisiana: Shops and offices for equipment, Algiers, La.eighty thousand dollars; coal-storage plant, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; for purchase of land, one hundred thousand dollars;
Purchase of land.in all, naval station, Algiers, three hundred and thirty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy may, if he deems *Proviso.*—condemnation.it for the best interests of the United States, proceed and acquire title to the land herein authorized to be purchased by condemnation thereof, by judicial proceedings to be commenced in the appropriate circuit court of the United States, which court shall, for the purpose of ascertaining the true value of the said land and buildings, appoint three commissioners, who shall be competent and disinterested appraisers, and all the proceedings for the condemnation aforesaid shall be in accordance, except as herein provided, with the Act of Congress of August first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, entitled “An Act to Vol. 25. p. 357.authorize condemnation of land for sites of public buildings, and for other purposes.
” Dredging, Dry Tortugas, Florida: Dredging channel, one hundred Dry Tortugas, Fla.thousand dollars. Four dry docks: Toward completion of dry docks at navy-yards: Four dry docks.Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Boston. Massachusetts; League Island, Pennsylvania, and Mare Island, California, one million dollars. Naval station, Hawaii: Machine shop, fifty thousand dollars;Hawaii, naval station. smithery and foundry, twenty-five thousand dollars; commandant’s house and stables, fifteen thousand dollars; extending office building, three thousand dollars; cottage for watchman, two thousand five hundred dollars; grading and fencincing, ten thousand dollars; ten-ton wharf crane, eight hundred dollars; water-pipe system, one thousand dollars; in all, naval station, Hawaii, one hundred and seven thousand three hundred dollars. 1120 Tutuila, naval station.
Naval station, Tutuila: Coal-storage plant, extensions, two hundred thousand dollars; grading, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, naval station. Tutuila, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Charleston. S. C., naval station.Dry dock authorized. Naval station, Charleston, South Carolina: Dry dock, authorized by Act of June seventh, nineteen hundred, which shall be of concrete and stone, to cost not more than one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for which contract is hereby authorized, one Appropriations for Port Roval available for: transfer of station, etc.hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and all appropriations for public works at the naval station, Port Royal, made prior to the Act of June seventh, nineteen hundred, which have not been expended are hereby authorized to be expended for the transfer of such station to and the construction of public works at the naval station, Charleston, South Carolina, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy.
Repairs and preservation. Repairs and preservation at navy-yards and stations: For repairs and preservation at navy-yards and stations, five hundred thousand dollars. In all, public works, six million seven hundred and seventy-five thousand and ten dollars. Employment of additional draftsmen, etc.The Secretary of the Navy may employ and pay out of appropriations for “Public Works, Navy-Yards, and Stations,” such additional expert aids, draftsmen writers, and copyists as may be necessary for the preparation of plans and specifications.
Inquiry, etc., on establishing naval stations in Porto Rico.The Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed to have the coast and the waters of the island of Porto Rico examined into and to report to the next Congress upon the advisability of establishing a United States naval station on said coast; the most suitable place for the same, considering, among other things, the topographical and strategic situation of this island with reference to the United States and the proposed Nicaragua Canal, and the estimated immediate cost of the same. —Philippine Islands.The Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed to have the coast and the waters of the Philippine Islands examined into and to report to the next Congress upon the advisability of establishing a United States naval station on said coast and the most suitable place for the same.
Blythe Island, Ga.Boundary line to be established, etc.For establishing and marking the boundary line of the property of the Government on Blythe Island, in the State of Georgia, to lay out a rifle range upon the same, and construct a boat landing, two thousand —report on.dollars; and the Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed to report to the next Congress as to the condition and extent of any Government property at said Blythe Island, Georgia; whether the title to the same is good, and whether it is adapted to the necessary wants of the Navy Department. public works—bureau of navigation.Bureau of Navigation.
Naval Academy. Naval Academy: Buildings and grounds. Naval Academy: Toward Buildings and improvements.the construction of buildings, and for other necessary improvements, at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, as authorized by the *Ante.* p. 696.Act of Congress approved June seventh, nineteen hundred, and in accordance with the plans approved by the Secretary of the Navy, nineteen hundred, three million dollars. Appraisers. *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy may, if he deems it for the best interests of the United States, proceed and acquire title to the land and buildings authorized to be purchased under the Act of Congress approved June seventh, nineteen hundred, by condemnation thereof by judicial proceedings to be commenced in the appropriate circuit court of the United States, which court shall, for the purpose of ascertaining the true value of the said land and buildings, appoint three commissioners, who shall be competent and disinterested appraisers, and all the proceedings for the condemnation aforesaid shall be in 1121accordance, except as herein provided, with the Act of Congress of August first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, entitled “An Act to Vol 25, p. 857authorize condemnation of land for sites of public buildings, and for other purposes.
” Naval training station, California (buildings): Swimming tank, Naval training stations.California.four thousand live hundred dollars: revetting main road, one thousand five hundred dollars: in all, six thousand dollars. Naval training station, Rhode Island (buildings): Extending Rhode Island.and completing breakwater and sea wall, and tilling in in front of new barracks, to be immediately available, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars: making roads and sidewalks, and paving approaches to new barracks, four thousand seven hundred dollars; coal shed and coal-handling appliances, three thousand five hundred dollars; reclaiming bay at south end of island, building sea wall, and repairing sea wall, and repairing and extending wharf, seven thousand nine hundred dollars: for erection of a house and necessary appurtenances over swimming tank. now under construction for apprentices, to be immediately available, three thousand five hundred dollars: for extending capacity of storehouse to include fireproof oil rooms fitted with steel storage tanks, and to outfit building with lighting, plumbing, and heating systems and fireproof shelving, partitions, and lockers, to be immediately available, nine thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars; reclaiming two stagnant water basins and leveling bank near the hospital, three thousand two hundred dollars; in all, naval training station, Rhode Island, fifty-two thousand one hundred and seventy dollars.
In all, “Public Works, Bureau of Navigation.” three million fifty-eight thousand one hundred and seventy dollars. public works—bureau of ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance. Naval magazine, Iona Island, New York: For additional buildings, Naval magazines, etc.Iona Island, N. Y.extension of railroad to northwestern end of island, grading, sea wall, and general improvements, one hundred thousand dollars. Naval magazine, Dover. New Jersey: Improvements at the naval Dover, N. J.magazine.
Dover, New Jersey, including a fixed-ammunition house, a shell house, clearing and grading land, road building, and general improvements, including a compressed-air plant and air locomotive, sixty-five thousand dollars. Naval magazine. Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania: For one magazine and Fort Mifflin. Pa.one shell house at the naval magazine. Fort Mifflin. Pennsylvania, with track connections, lightning conductors, and the necessary appurtenances, fifty-six thousand dollars. Naval magazine.
Norfolk. Virginia: For improvements at the naval Norfolk, Va.magazine. Saint Juliens Creek, near Norfolk. Virginia, namely: Shell house, store or issuing house, wharf, derrick, lightning conductors, cistern, railroad extension, grading, concreting, and other necessary objects to properly complete the work, sixty thousand five hundred dollars. Naval torpedo station. Newport, Rhode Island: One administration Newport, R. I.building for use in instruction of classes of enlisted men and officers, to contain offices, lecture rooms, overhauling room, and storeroom for torpedoes, to be immediately available, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all. naval torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Naval proving ground, Indian Head, Maryland: One building for Indian Head, Md.chronograph and record office, four thousand dollars; one building for surgeon’s office and dispensary, and equipment of same, seven thousand six hundred dollars; in all, naval proving ground, Indian Head, eleven thousand six hundred dollars. In all, public works. Bureau of Ordnance, three hundred and eighteen thousand one hundred dollars. 1122 naval observatory.Naval Observatory. Grounds, etc. Naval Observatory:
For grounds and roads: Continuing grading, extending roads and paths, clearing and improving grounds, ten thousand Purchase of lands within circle, etc.dollars: for the purchase of lands lying within the Observatory circle, as established by the joint resolution of August first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one hundred and forty-nine thousand five —without; sale.hundred and seventy-one dollars and eight cents: and the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to sell, at such time and in such manner as may Vol. 28, p. 588.be most advantageous, but at prices not less than those fixed in eighteen hundred and ninety-four, by the board of appraisers of which John W.
Ross was chairman, such lands of the Naval Observatory reservation as are situated without the limits of said circle. Board of visitors authorized.For the expenses of the board of visitors to the Naval Observatory, two thousand dollars. There shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, from persons not officers of the United States a board of six visitors to the Naval Observatory, four to be astronomers of high professional standing and two to be —appointments, etc.eminent citizens of the United States.
Appointments to this board shall be made for periods of three years, but provision shall be made by initial appointments for shorter terms so that two members shall retire in each year. Members of this board shall serve without compensation, —expenses.but the Secretary of the Navy shall pay the actual expenses necessarily incurred by members of the board in the discharge of such duties as are assigned to them by the Secretary of the Navy or are otherwise imposed upon them. The board of visitors shall make an —annual visit.annual visitation to the Observatory at a date to be determined by the Secretary of the Navy, and may make such other visitations not exceeding two in number annually by the full board or by a duly appointed committee as may be deemed needful or expedient by a majority of —report.the board.
The board of visitors shall report to the Secretary of the Navy at least once in each year the result of its examinations of the Naval Observatory as respects the condition of buildings, instruments, and apparatus, and the efficiency with which its scientific work is prosecuted. and shall also report as respects the expenditures in the administration of the Observatory. The board of visitors shall prepare and —regulations, etc.submit to the Secretary of the Navy regulations prescribing the scope of the astronomical and other researches of the Observatory and the duties of its staff with reference thereto.
When an appointment or detail is to be made to the office of astronomical director, director of the Nautical Almanac, astronomer, or assistant astronomer, the board of visitors may recommend to the Secretary of the Navy a suitable person to till such office, but such recommendation shall be determined only by a majority vote of the members present at a regularly called Rank of Superintendent of Naval Observatory prescribed.meeting of the board held in the city of Washington. The Superintendent of the Naval Observatory shall be. until further legislation by Congress, a line officer of the Navy of a rank not below that of captain. bureau of medicine and surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
Surgeons necessaries. Medical Department: For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in 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, ninety-five thousand dollars. 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, forty thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses. Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For freight, expressage on medical stores, tolls, ferriages, transportation of sick to 1123hospital, 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, for the care, maintenance, and treatment of the insane of the Navy and Marine Corps on the Pacific coast, and all other necessary contingent expenses, thirty-five thousand dollars.
Repairs, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For necessary repairs Repairs.of naval laboratory and department of instruction, naval hospitals and appendages, including roads, wharfs, outhouses, sidewalks, fences, gardens, farms, and cemeteries, twenty thousand dollars. Naval hospital, Newport, Rhode Island: Filling pond, grading Naval hospital, Newport, R. I,grounds, and additional appropriation for addition to naval hospital at naval-training station. Newport. Rhode Island, twenty thousand dollars. to be immediately available. 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 (other than commissioned officers of the line, medical and pay corps and chief boat-swains, chief gunners, chief sailmakers, chief carpenters) 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); labor in general storehouses and paymasters’ offices in navy-yards, including naval stations maintained in island possessions under the control of the United States, and 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 two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: For freight and Contingent expenses.express charges, 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, safes, newspapers, ice, transportation of stores purchased under the naval-supply fund, and other incidental expenses, two hundred thousand dollars.
Civil establishment, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: Navy-yard, Civil establishment.Portsmouth. New Hampshire: In general storehouses: Two book-keepers. 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 1124Civil establishment—Continued.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, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars; one receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; one, bookkeeper, at one thousand two hundred dollars. In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents: in all, five thousand two hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents. Navy-yard, New York. New York: In office of board of inspection:
One writer, nine hundred dollars. In general storehouses: Three bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one assistant bookkeeper, at one thousand dollars; one assistant bookkeeper, at seven hundred and twenty dollars: three receiving clerks, at four dollars each per diem; 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 each per diem: five pressmen, at two dollars and seventy-six cents each per diem; one superintendent of coffee mills, at three dollars per diem; one box maker, at three dollars per diem; one engine tender, at three dollars and twenty-six cents per diem: one coffee roaster, at two dollars and fifty cents per diem: one fireman, at two dollars per diem; one messenger, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem; one writer, one thousand dollars; one storeman. nine hundred dollars.
In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one messenger, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem; in all. thirty thousand three hundred and twelve dollars and three cents. Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: In general storehouse: One bookkeeper, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant bookkeeper, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one bookkeeper, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one receiving 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, seven thousand one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents. Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: In general store-house: 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: One bookkeeper, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one receiving and shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars; in all. two thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents. Naval station. Newport, Rhode Island: In general storehouse: One clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars.
In general storehouse (torpedo station): One clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all. two thousand four hundred dollars. Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: In general storehouses: Two bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two assistant bookkeepers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars: one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant clerk, at one thousand dollars.
In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, nine thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents. 1125 Navy-yard, Norfolk. Virginia. In general storehouses: Two bookkeepers,Civil establishment—Continued. 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. Naval station. Cavite. Philippine Islands: In general storehouses: One clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one bookkeeper, at one thousand four hundred dollars: three assistant bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars; one shipping and bill clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars: three storekeepers, at one thousand dollars each, three thousand dollars; one receiving clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars: one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant clerk, at one thousand dollars; two storemen, at nine hundred dollars each: in all, fifteen thousand eight hundred dollars.
In all, civil establishment. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, ninety-three thousand eight hundred and forty-nine dollars and twenty-eight cents; and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. bureau of construction and repair.Bureau of Construction and Repair. Construction and repair of vessels: For preservation and completionPreservation, repairs, etc., of vessels. 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, seven million dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be applied to*Proviso.*—limit wooden vessels. 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.
The Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed to have the coast andPhilippine Islands.Inquiry as to establishing naval station in. the waters of the Philippine Islands examined into and to report to the next Congress upon the advisability of establishing a United States naval station on said coast and the most suitable place for the same. Improvement of construction plants: Repairs to and improvementImprovement of construction plants. of plant at navy-yard. Portsmouth. New Hampshire, fifty thousand dollars.
Construction plant, navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Repair to and improvement of construction plant at navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts, fifty thousand dollars. Construction plant, navy-yard, New York, New York: Repairs to and improvement of construction plant at navy-yard, New York, New York, twenty-five thousand dollars. Construction plant, navy-yard, League Island. Pennsylvania: Repairs to and improvement of construction plant at navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania, fifty thousand dollars.
Construction plant, navy-yard. Norfolk, Virginia: Repairs to and improvement of construction plant at navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia, fifty thousand dollars. 1126 Construction plant, navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: Repairs to and improvement of construction plant at navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida, fifteen thousand dollars. Repairs to and improvement of construction plant at navy-yard, Mare Island, California, fifty thousand dollars. Construction plant, naval station, Puget Sound, Washington:
Repairs to and improvement of construction plant at Puget Sound Naval Station, Washington, thirty thousand dollars. Construction plant, naval station, Algiers. Louisiana: Construction plant at naval station, Algiers, Louisiana, fifteen thousand dollars. Civil establishment.Civil establishment, Bureau of Construction and Repair: Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: 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: 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, New York, New York: One clerk to naval constructor, 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: One clerk to naval 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: One clerk to naval constructor, at one thousand four hundred dollars. Navy-yard. Norfolk, Virginia: 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, Pensacola, Florida: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents. Naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina: One clerk to naval constructor, at one thousand four hundred dollars. Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: 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. Puget Sound Naval Station, Washington:
One clerk to naval constructor. one thousand four hundred dollars. In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Construction and Repair, twenty-five thousand eight hundred and twenty-four dollars and twenty-five cents: and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. steam engineering.Bureau of Steam Engineering. MachinerySteam machinery: For completion, repairing, and preservation of 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, two million one hundred and twenty thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso.*—limit wooden ships.
That no part of the said sum shall be applied to the engines, boilers, and machinery of wooden ships where the estimated cost of such repairs 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. 1127 For purchase, handling, and preservation of all material and stores,Materials. purchase, fitting, repair, and preservation of machinery and tools in navy-yards and stations, and running yard engines, one million one hundred and ten thousand dollars.
For incidental expenses for navy vessels, yards, and the Bureau,Incidentals. such as foreign postage, telegrams, advertising, freight, photographing, books, stationery, office furnishings, and instruments, fifteen thousand dollars. In all, steam machinery, three million two hundred and forty-five thousand dollars. Contingent, Bureau of Steam Engineering: For contingencies,Contingent expenses. drawing materials, and instruments for the drafting room, one thousand dollars. Machinery plant:
Navy-yard, League Island Pennsylvania: ToMachinery plants, navy-yards. equip the entire new system of steam engineering shops, being constructed under appropriation made to the Bureau of Yards and Docks, for building and repairing modern marine machinery, including the power plant and necessary machine tools, cranes, and appliances for handling work, to cost not more than two hundred and thirty thousand dollars, one hundred thousand dollars. Machinery plant: Navy-yard, Mare Island, California:
To equip the entire new system of steam engineering shops being constructed under appropriation made to the Bureau of Yards and Docks, for building and repairing modern marine machinery, including the power plant and necessary machine tools, cranes, and appliances for handling work, to cost not more than one hundred and eighty thousand dollars, one hundred thousand dollars. Civil establishment, Bureau of Steam Engineering: Navy-yard,Civil establishment Portsmouth, New Hampshire:
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: One clerk to department, one thousand four hundred dollars; Navy-yard, New York, New York: One clerk to department, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all. three thousand dollars; Navy-yard. League Island, Pennsylvania:
One clerk to department, at one thousand two hundred dollars: Navy-yard. Norfolk, Virginia: One clerk to department, at one thousand three hundred dollars: one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all. one thousand nine hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: One writer, at one thousand dollars; Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: One clerk to department, at one thousand four hundred dollars: one writer, at one thousand dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand dollars;
Naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina: One clerk to department, one thousand two hundred dollars: Naval station, Puget Sound, Washington: One clerk to department, one thousand two hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: One clerk to department, one thousand two hundred dollars; In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Steam Engineering, sixteen thousand nine hundred dollars; and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. naval academy.Naval Academy.
Pay of professors and others, Naval Academy: One professorPay of professors, etc. of mathematics, one of chemistry, one of physics, and one of English, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; four professors, namely, 1128one of English, two of French, and one of drawing, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; one assistant professor of Spanish, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; one sword master, at one thousand five hundred dollars, and two assistants, at one thousand dollars each; one instructor in gymnastics, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant librarian, at one thousand eight 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 attend-ants 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 four hundred and twenty dollars each; seven second-class musicians, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; services of organist at chapel, three hundred dollars; in all, fifty-five thousand one hundred and ninety-one dollars.
Watchmen, mechanics, etc.Pay of watchmen, mechanics, and others, Naval Academy: Captain of the watch and weigher, at two dollars and fifty cents per diem: five watchmen, at two dollars each per diem; foreman of steam heating works of the Academy, at five dollars per diem: labor at power house, for masons, carpenters, and other mechanics and laborers: and for care of buildings, grounds, wharves, and boats, thirty-eight thousand four hundred and twelve dollars and forty-five cents: in all, forty-four thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine dollars and ninety-five cents.
Employees, steam engineering.Pay of steam employees, Naval Academy: Pay of mechanics and others in department of steam engineering, seven thousand eight hundred and twenty-four dollars and fifty cents. Additional training.Vol. 22, p. 285.For special course of study and training of naval cadets, as authorized by Act of Congress approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, three thousand dollars. For the purchase or construction of catboats for the special instruction of cadets, one thousand five hundred dollars: in all, four thousand five hundred dollars.
Repairs.Repairs, Naval Academy: Necessary repairs of public buildings, wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, improvements, repairs, furniture and fixtures, and temporary quarters and recitation rooms for cadets, fifty-one thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Fuel and lights.Heating and lighting. Naval Academy: Fuel, oil, waste, and other materials for the operation, repair, and maintenance of the plant; heating and lighting apparatus and tools; for heating and lighting the Academy and bandsmen's quarters, twenty thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses.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 1129board 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 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.
Whenever, in view of the vacancies in the grade of ensign on JulyWarrant officers eligible to grade of en-sign. thirtieth of any year unfilled by graduates of the Naval Academy, the Secretary of the Navy shall so recommend, the President may appoint to that grade, as of July thirtieth, from among the boatswains, gunners, or warrant machinists, not exceeding six in any one calendar year. No person shall be so appointed who is over thirty-five years⸺qualifications. of age; who has served less than six years as a warrant officer: who is not recommended by a commanding officer under whom he has served; nor until he shall have passed such competitive examination as may be prescribed by the Navy Department. marine corps.Marine Corps.
Pay, Marine Corps: For pay and allowances prescribed by law ofPay. officers on the active list, four hundred and sixteen thousand nine hundred dollars. Pay of officers on the retired list: For three colonels, three lieutenant-colonels,Retired list. one adjutant and inspector, two quartermasters, four majors, nine captains, three first lieutenants, and three second lieutenants, sixty-three thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. Pay of noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, as prescribedEnlisted men. by law, and the number of enlisted men 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 of retired enlisted men: For one sergeant-major,⸺retired. two drum-majors, two gunnery-sergeants, six first-class musicians, fourteen first sergeants, twenty-six sergeants, five corporals, one drummer, two lifers, and forty-eight privates, and for those who may be retired during the year, thirty-seven thousand dollars. Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged soldiers for clothingUndrawn clothing. undrawn, thirty thousand dollars. Mileage: For mileage of officers traveling under orders withoutMileage. troops, sixteen thousand dollars.
For commutation of quarters to officers on duty without troopsCommutation of quarters. where there are no public quarters, eight thousand dollars. In all. for pay of Marine Corps, one million six hundred and eighty-three thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight dollars. Pay of civil force: In the office of the brigadier-general commandant:Civil force.Pay. One chief clerk, at one thousand five hundred and forty dollars and eighty cents; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; 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 hundred dollars: one clerk, at one thousand four hundred and ninety-1130six dollars and fifty-two cents: one clerk, at one thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twelve cents; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; In the office of the assistant paymaster: One clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars: In the office of the adjutant and inspector: One chief clerk, at one thousand five hundred and forty dollars and eighty cents; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars and fifty-two cents:
In the office of the assistant adjutant and inspector: One clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; In the office of the quartermaster: One chief clerk, at one thousand five hundred and forty dollars and eighty cents: one clerk, at one thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars and fifty-two cents; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twelve cents; In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Washington. District of Columbia, or San Francisco, California:
One clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia. Pennsylvania: One clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one messenger. at one dollar and seventy-five cents per diem; Amount.In all, for pay of civil force, twenty-two 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.Provisions, Marine Corps: For noncommissioned officers, musicians. and privates serving ashore, for commutation of rations to enlisted men regularly detailed as clerks and messengers, for payment of board and lodging of recruiting parties, and for ice for preservation of rations, three hundred and seventy-one thousand and seventy-one dollars and fifty cents: and no law shall be construed to entitle 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, *Proviso.*Navy ration for marines, foreign service, when necessary.Army: *Provided*, *however*, That when it is impracticable or the expense is found greater to supply marines serving on shore duty in the island possessions and on foreign stations with the army ration, such marines may be allowed the navy ration or commutation therefor.
Clothing.Clothing, Marine Corps: For noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates authorized by law, two hundred and ninety thousand one hundred and ninety-nine dollars and fifty-four cents. Fuel.Fuel Marine Corps: For heating barracks and quarters, for ranges and stoves for cooking, fuel for enlisted men. for sales to officers, maintaining electric lights, and for hot-air closets, thirty thousand dollars. Military stores.Military stores, Marine Corps: For pay of chief armorer, at 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 and repair of tents and field ovens, purchase and repair of instruments for band, purchase of music and musical accessories, purchase and marking of medals for excellence in gunnery and rifle practice, good-conduct badges; for incidental expenses of the school of application, purchase of signal equipment and stores, for the establishment and maintenance of targets and ranges, and renting ranges, and for procuring, preserving, and hand-ling ammunition and other necessary military supplies, forty-six thousand two hundred and ninety-seven dollars. 1131 Transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps:
For transportationTransportation and recruiting. of troops, including ferriage, and the expense of the recruiting service, seventy thousand dollars. For repairs of barracks, Marine Corps: Repairs and improvementsRepairs of barracks. to barracks and quarters at Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Boston, Massachusetts: Newport, Rhode Island: New York, 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; for the renting, leasing, improvement. and erection of buildings in Porto Rico, the Philippine Islands, at Guam, and at such other places as the public exigencies require; and for per diem to enlisted men employed under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department on the repair of barracks, quarters, and other public buildings, twenty thousand dollars. For rent of building used for manufacture of clothing, storingRent, Philadelphia, Pa. of supplies, and office of assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. four thousand dollars.
Forage, Marine Corps: For forage in kind for horses of the quartermasters’Forage. department, and the authorized number of officers’ horses, six thousand dollars. Hire of quarters, Marine Corps: For hire of quarters for officersHire of quarters. serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them: for hire of quarters for enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in the offices of the commandant, adjutant and inspector, paymaster, and quartermaster, and the offices of the assistant adjutant and inspector, the assistant paymaster, and the assistant quartermasters, at twenty-one dollars each per month, and for enlisted men employed as messengers in said offices, at ten dollars each per month, fourteen thousand seven hundred and forty-eight dollars.
Contingent, Marine Corps: For freight, tolls, cartage, advertising,Contingent expenses. 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 of not less than ten days, employment of civilian labor, 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, and pots, and so forth: packing boxes, wrapping paper, oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, quarantine fees, 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, purchase and repair of tire 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 Govern merit quarters and repair of same, and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but impossible to anticipate or classify, sixty-one thousand seven hundred dollars. 1132 Construction of buildings.Construction of marine barracks on the land attached to the Naval Academy, Annapolis.
Maryland, seventy-five thousand dollars. Construction of commanding officer’s and junior officers quarters on the land attached to the Naval Academy, Annapolis. Maryland, ten thousand dollars. Construction of fireproof building for offices, headquarters Marine Corps. Washington, District of Columbia, fifty thousand dollars. Construction of a marine barracks and officers’ quarters at the naval station, Algiers, Louisiana, fifteen thousand dollars. Construction of a boiler house, lavatory, and connecting bridge, installation of steam heat, and addition of a third story over two wings of marine barracks, navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York, twenty-eight thousand dollars.
In all. public works. Marine Corps, one hundred and seventy-eight thousand dollars. That hereafter the enlistments into the Marine Corps shall be for a period of not less than four years. increase of the navy.Increase of the Navy. Plans for two battle ships and two armored cruisers authorized.That, for the purpose of further increasing the naval establishment of the United States, in accordance with the latest improvements in the construction of ships and the production of armor and armament therefor, the Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed to prepare the plans and specifications of two seagoing battle ships and two armored cruisers, carrying the most suitable armor and armament for vessels of their class, and to submit to Congress a general description of such —scope, etc., of plans.battle ships and cruisers on the first Monday in December next: and said Secretary, in preparing said plans and description, shall review and further consider the questions whether said ships should be sheathed or unsheathed: what should be the weight and extent of the armor therefor: what should be the form and location of the turrets; whether any changes should be made in the number and kind of guns of the various sizes heretofore constituting the armament of similar ships; what, if any. torpedo tubes should be built into large ships: to what extent electricity should be used for auxiliary purposes, and all other questions which have arisen and are now pending among naval architects and ordnance experts concerning the construction of battle —report.ships and cruisers under modern conditions; and said Secretary shall, to such an extent as he may deem expedient, report to Congress in connection with said description his opinion upon the foregoing questions:Discretion in Secretary as to sheathing, etc., vessels already authorized, etc. and the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to exercise his discretion as to the sheathing and coppering of naval vessels herein and heretofore authorized to be built.
Iowa Iron Works, Dubuque, Iowa.Remission of time penalty on “Ericsson” authorized.That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized and directed to remit to the Iowa Iron Works, of Dubuque. Iowa, the time penalties exacted by the Navy Department under the contract with said company for the construction of the torpedo boat Ericsson, the Government having suffered no damage by the delay in the construction, and a sum sufficient for that purpose is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, not exceeding, however, the sum of seventeen thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Construction and machinery.Construction and machinery: On account of the hulls and outfits of vessels and steam machinery of vessels heretofore authorized, twenty-one million dollars. Armor and armament.Vol. 29, p. 379.Vol. 30. pp. 389, etc.*Ante*, p. 707.Armor and armament: Toward the armament and armor of domestic manufacture for the vessels authorized by the Act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six; those authorized by the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven; for those authorized by the 1133 Act of May fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; for those authorized by the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine and for those authorized by the Act of June seventh, nineteen hundred, four million dollars.
Equipment: Toward the completion of the equipment outfitEquipment. of the new vessels heretofore authorized, four hundred thousand dollars. That the President of the United States be. and he is hereby, authorizedClassification of vessels authorized and formulation of rules governing assignments to command of vessels and squadrons. to establish, and from time to time to modify, as the needs of the service may require, a classification of vessels of the Navy, and to formulate appropriate rules governing assignments to command of vessels and squadrons.
Approved, March 3, 1901.
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