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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 31 STAT. · June 7, 1900 · Chapter 859

Chapter 859. Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 859.— An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, and for other purposes. June 7, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Staten of America in Congress assembled*, Naval service appropriations. That the following sums be, 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 one. and for other purposes: pay of the navy.
Pay of the Navy.Pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on sea duty; officers on shore and other duty; officers on waiting orders; officers on the retired list; Admiral’s secretary; clerks to commandants of yards and stations; clerks to paymasters at yards and stations; general store-keepers. receiving snips and other vessels; for four additional clerks, one to commandant, at one thousand five hundred dollars per year, and one to paymaster and general storekeeper, at one thousand three hundred dollars per year, at Honolulu, and one to commandant, at one thousand five hundred dollars per year, and one to paymaster and general storekeeper, at one thousand three hundred dollars per year, at Samoa; commutation of quarters for officers on shore not occupying public quarters; 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 Commission, seventeen thousand five hundred men and two thousand five hundred apprentices under training at training stations and on board training snips, and for men detailed for duty with naval militia at the pay prescribed by law. twelve million eight hundred and ten thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven dollars. pay, miscellaneous.
Pay, miscellaneous.For commissions and interest; transportation of funds; exchange; mileage to officers while traveling under orders in the United States, and transportation of baggage allowed by regulations, 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, 685foreign and domestic; telephones; copying; care of library, including the purchase of books, photographs, prints, manuscripts, and periodicals: ferriage, tolls, and express fees; costs of suits: commissions, warrants, diplomas, and discharges; relief of vessels in distress; canal tolls and pilotage: recovery of valuables from shipwrecks: quarantine expenses; reports: professional investigation; cost of special instruction. at home or abroad, in maintenance of students and attachés, and information from abroad, and the collection and classification thereof, and other necessary and incidental expenses, five hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That in lieu of traveling expenses and all allowances *Proviso.*Mileage within the United States.whatsoever connected therewith, including transportation of baggage, officers of the Navy traveling from point to point within the United States under orders shall hereafter receive, mileage at the rate of eight cents per mile, distance to be computed by the shortest usually traveled route; but in cases where orders are given for travel to be performed repeatedly between two or more places in the same vicinity the Secretary of the Navy may. in his discretion, direct that actual and necessary expenses only be allowed.
Actual expenses only —without.shall be paid for travel under orders outside the limits of the United States in North America. Contingent, Navy: For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses Contingent.arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, exclusive of personal services in the Navy Department, or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices, at Washington, District of Columbia, ten thousand dollars, and to enable the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps who die or are killed in action, ashore or afloat, outside of the continental limits of the United States, ten thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the sum *Proviso.*Transporting mains, etc.herein appropriated shall be available for transportation of the remains of officers and men who have died or who have been killed while on duty at any time since April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. emergency fund, navy department.
To meet unforeseen contingencies for the maintenance of the Navy Emergency fundconstantly arising, to be expended at the discretion of the President, three hundred thousand dollars. bureau of navigation.Bureau of Navigation. Transportation, recruiting, and contingent: For expenses of Transportation, recruiting, and contingent.recruiting for the naval service; rent of rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for men and boys, and all other expenses attending the recruiting for the naval service, and for the transportation of enlisted men and boys at home and abroad 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, eighty thousand dollars.
Gunnery exercises: For prizes for excellence Gunnery exercises.in gunnery exercises anil target practice; diagrams and reports of target practice; for the establishment and maintenance of targets and ranges, for hiring established ranges, and for transporting to and from ranges, twelve thousand dollars. 686 Apprentices’ bounties. Outfits for naval apprentices: For outfits for two thousand five hundred naval apprentices, at forty-five dollars each, one hundred and twelve thousand five hundred dollars. —landsmen.
Outfits for landsmen: For outfits for two thousand five hundred landsmen under training for seamen, at forty-five dollars each, one hundred and twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Naval training stations.Yerba Buena Island, Cal. Naval training station, California: Maintenance of naval apprentice training station. Yerba Buena Island, California, namely: Labor and material: buildings and wharves: general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and wharves: wharfage, ferriage, and street-car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same; fire engines and extinguishers; boats and gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentices; printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating, lighting, and furniture; stationery, books, and periodicals; fresh water, ice, and washing; freight and expressage; packing boxes and materials; postage and telegraphing: telephones, and all other contingent expenses, thirty thousand dollars.
Naval training station, California (buildings): Three sets of officers’ quarters, twenty-five thousand dollars; extension of wharf, three thousand dollars; sick quarters for apprentices, one thousand five hundred dollars; additional boiler, engine, and dynamo for lighting buildings, three thousand dollars; stable, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; fitting storehouse for general storekeeper in basement of barracks, one thousand dollars; in all, thirty-four thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; to be immediately available.
Coasters Harbor Island, R. I. Naval training station, Rhode Island: For 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, 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-live thousand dollars.
Naval training station, Rhode Island—Buildings: For building breakwater, wharf, and sea wall for new barracks, twenty-five thousand dollars: for two thousand feet of six-inch water mains with valves complete for new barracks, four thousand eight hundred dollars; reclaiming basin northwest of main causeway, nine thousand five hundred dollars; building and furnishing storehouse for general storekeeper, ten thousand dollars; power house to be fitted with boilers, dynamos, connections, and so forth, for lighting the new barracks at this station, and a salt-water pumping outfit for fire protection to be installed in the same building, to be immediately available, nine thousand five hundred and fifty dollars; in all. naval training station.
Rhode Island, fifty-eight thousand eight hundred and fifty 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, nine thousand two hundred dollars. Naval Home. Philadelphia. Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For one superintendent of grounds, at six hundred dollars; one steward, at four hundred and eighty dollars; one matron, at three hundred and sixty 687dollars; 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 six hundred 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 and repairs to the same, eight thousand dollars; music in chapel, six hundred dollars; transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, one hundred dollars; for support of beneficiaries, fifty thousand nine hundred and seventy 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 ordnance stores: For procuring, producing, preserving. Ordinance and ordnance stores.and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the general work of the Ordnance Department; for watchmen at magazines: for furniture in ordnance buildings at navy-yards and stations; for maintenance of the proving ground and powder factory: and for target practice, five hundred thousand dollars. Reserve supply of ammunition, five hundred thousand dollars.Reserve supply of ammunition.Rapid-fire guns.
Conversion of ordinary six-inch guns to rapid tire, twenty-five thousand Smokeless powder.dollars. Purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, five hundred thousand dollars. Purchase and erection of new and improved machinery for the shops Washington Navy-yard.of the gun plant at the Washington Navy-Yard, viz: For existing shops, fifty thousand dollars: for one new proposed shop estimated for by the Bureau of Yards and Docks, one hundred thousand dollars; for new and improved machinery for the instruction of seamen gunners. twenty-five thousand dollars: in all. gun plant at Washington, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
For new watchmen’s quarters and inclosure fence for gun park at Norfolk Navy-Yard.Saint Helena. Norfolk Navy-Yard, five thousand five hundred dollars. Reserve guns for auxiliary cruisers: Toward the armament Reserve guns for auxiliary cruisers.Vol. 26, p.831.of 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*.Contracts.the 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, furni688ture, experiments, and general torpedo outfits, sixty-five thousand dollars. Naval Station, Puget Sound. Buildings, Naval Station, Puget Sound: For erection and equipment of ordnance shop and two magazine buildings at Bremerton, Puget Sound Naval Station, eighty thousand dollars.
Arming, etc., Naval Mililia. Arming and equipping Naval Militia: For arms, accouterments, signal outfits, boats and their equipments, 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. And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized and empowered to use any part of the share of moneys heretofore or herein appropriated for arming and equipping the Naval Militia forces of the State of Connecticut in repairing the boilers of United States steamship Elfrida as he, the Secretary, may deem proper and advisable.
New York Harbor.Fort Lafayette magazine. Fitting Fort Lafayette as magazine: Additional work necessary in fitting Fort Lafayette, New York Harbor, for use as a naval magazine, fifteen thousand dollars. Norfolk. Va. Naval magazine, Norfolk. Virginia: Railroad track, lightning rods, grading, filling, ditching and draining, and other necessary improvements at the naval magazine, Saint Juliens Creek, near Norfolk. Virginia, twenty thousand dollars. Dover. N.J. Naval magazine, Dover, New Jersey:
Improvement at the naval magazine, Dover. New Jersey, including a new storehouse and magazine, light, heat, and power plant connected with small machine shop, new wagon shed, railroad connections to new buildings and with the Morris County Railroad, water reservoir, fire system, grading, and road improvements, one hundred thousand dollars. Repairs. Repairs, Bureau of Ordnance: For necessary repairs to ordnance buildings, magazines, gun parks, boats, lighters, wharves, machinery, and other items of the like character, thirty thousand dollars.
Contingent. Contingent, Bureau of Ordnance: For miscellaneous items, 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, thirty thousand dollars. Civil establishment.Portsmouth, N. H. Civil establishment, Bureau of Ordnance:
Navy-yard, Ports-mouth, New Hampshire: For one writer, at one thousand dollars: Boston, Mass.Navy-yard. Boston, Massachusetts: For one writer, at one thousand dollars: New York. N. Y.Navy-yard. New York. New York: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; League Island. Pa.Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; Washington, D.C.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 two hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; one draftsman, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; three draftsmen, at one thousand and eighty-one dollars each; one assistant draftsman, at seven hundred and seventy-two dollars; two copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one telegraph operator and copyist. at nine hundred dollars: in all. fifteen thousand four hundred and eighty-nine dollars and fifty cents;
Smokeless-powder factory.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; 689 Navy-yard, Norfolk. Virginia: For one clerk, at one thousand two Norfolk, Va.hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one writer, at one thousand Mare Island. Cal.and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; Naval proving ground, Indian Head, Maryland:
For one writer, at Indian Head provine ground.one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; Naval torpedo station. Newport. Rhode Island: For one chemist, at Newport, R. I.two thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one draftsman, at one thousand live hundred dollars; in all, five thousand two hundred dollars; In all, civil establishment. Bureau of Ordnance, thirty-two thousand six hundred and twenty-four dollars; and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. bureau of equipment.Bureau of Equipment.
Equipment of vessels: For purchase of coal for steamers’ and Equipment of vessels.ship’s use, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same; hemp, wire, iron, and other materials for the manufacture of cordage, anchors, cables, galleys, and chains; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, hammocks, and other work; water for all purposes on board naval vessels, including the expenses of transportation and storage of the same; stationery for commanding and navigating officers of ships, equipment officers on shore and afloat, and for the use of courts-martial on board ship; 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, running lights, compass fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ships’ compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship’s way. and leads and other appliances for sounding; lanterns and lamps, and their appendages, for general use on board ship for illuminating purposes, and oil and candles used in connection therewith; bunting and other materials for making and repairing flags of all kinds; photographic instruments and materials; musical instruments and music; installing, maintaining, and repairing interior and exterior signal communications and all electrical appliances of whatsoever nature on board naval vessels, except range tinders, battle order and range transmitters and indicators, and motors and their controlling apparatus used to operate the machinery belonging to other Bureaus, two million six 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, seven hundred thousand dollars. 690 Cavite equipment plant.
Equipment plant at Cavite, Philippine Islands: For the purchase of the necessary tools and appliances for the enlargement and for increasing the facilities of the equipment plant at Cavite, Philip-pine Islands, twenty thousand dollars. Contingent. Contingent, Bureau of Equipment: For freight and transportation of equipment stores, packing boxes and materials, printing, advertising, telegraphing, books, and models: stationery for the Bureau; furniture for equipment offices in navy-yards; postage on letters sent abroad; ferriage, ice, mid emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Equipment unforeseen and impossible to classify, twenty- five thousand dollars.
Civil establishment.Portsmouth, N. H. Civil establishment, Bureau of Equipment: Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one clerk, at one thousand dollars; Boston, Mass.Navy-yard. Boston, Massachusetts: For one superintendent of 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: in all, five thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars:
New York, N. Y.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; in all. three thousand five hundred and fifty dollars; League Island, Pa.Navy-yard, League Island. Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars: Norfolk, Va.Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, two thousand four hundred dollars:
Mare Island, Cal.Navy-yard. Mare Island. California: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars: in all, two thousand two hundred dollars; Washington, D. C.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, at one thousand six hundred dollars: Cavite.Cavite. Philippine Islands: For one electrician, at five dollars and four cents per diem, one thousand five hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty-two cents;
In all, civil establishment. Bureau of Equipment, nineteen thousand and fifty-two dollars and fifty-two cents; and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. 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 tire 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, four hundred and seventy- five thousand dollars. 691 Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For contingent Contingent.expenses that may arise at navy-yards and stations, fifty thousand dollars. Civil establishment, Bureau of Yards and Docks: Navy-yard, Civil establishment.Portsmouth, N H.Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars: one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one messenger, at six hundred dollars: one foreman laborer and head teamster, at four dollars per diem, including Sundays; one janitor, at six hundred dollars; one pilot, at three dollars per diem, including Sundays; in all. five thousand eight hundred and eighty-five dollars.
Navy-yard. Boston. Massachusetts: For one clerk, at one thousand Boston, Mass.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; in all. eight thousand four hundred and sixteen dollars and twenty-five cents.
Navy-yard. New York, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand New York, N. Y.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 quarterman. at three dollars per diem: one superintendent of teams, or quarterman. at four dollars per diem; one messenger to commandant, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem, including Sundays; one messenger, yards and docks, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem; one stenographer and typewriter, at three dollars’ and twenty-six cents per diem; one electrician, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all. twenty thousand two hundred and sixty-six dollars and thirteen cents.
Naval station. Sacketts Harbor. New York: For one ship keeper, at Sacketts Harbor, N. Y.three hundred and sixty-five dollars per annum. Navy-yard, League Island. Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one League Island. Pa.thousand four hundred dollars; one writer and telegraph operator, at one thousand dollars; one messenger, at two dollars per diem: one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one master of tugs, at one thousand two hundred dollars: in all. five thousand four hundred and seventy-eight dollars.
Navy-yard. Washington. District of Columbia: For one clerk, at Washington D. Cone thousand four hundred dollars: one messenger, at two dollars per diem: one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one electrician, at one thousand two hundred dollars: one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents: in all, five thousand four hundred and ninety-five dollars and twenty-five cents. Navy-yard. Norfolk. Virginia: For one clerk, at one thousand four Norfolk, Va.hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one writer, at one thousand dollars; one fore-man 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: in all, nine thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight dollars and sixty-three cents.
Naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina: One clerk, at one thousand Port Royal, S. C.two hundred dollars: one rodman and inspector, at three dollars 692per diem: one messenger anil 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.
Pensacola, Fla.Navy-yard. Pensacola, Florida; For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; in all, one thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars. Key West, Fla.Naval station, Key West, Florida; For one mail messenger, at six hundred dollars. Mare Island, Cal.Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one foreman mason, at six dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at five dollars and fifty cents per diem; one pilot, at 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 two hundred dollars; one quarterman joiner, at four dollars and fifty-six cents per diem; one telegraph operator, at three dollars and twenty-eight cents per diem; in all, fourteen thousand and ninety-one dollars and sixty-seven cents.
Puget Sound, Wash.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 seventy-six cents per diem, including Sundays; one master of tugs, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all. four thousand six hundred and seven dollars and forty cents. In all, civil establishment. Bureau of Yards and Docks, eighty-three thousand four hundred and thirty-nine dollars and eighty-three cents; and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. public works, bureau of yards and docks, navy-yards and stations, naval academy, and new naval observatory.Public works.
Portsmouth, N. H. Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Quay wall, forty thousand dollars; grading, twenty-five thousand dollars; railroad and rolling stock, forty-five thousand dollars; sewer systems, extensions, five thousand dollars; water systems, extensions, eighteen thousand dollars; machine shop for equipment, one hundred thousand dollars; machine shop for steam engineering, fifty thousand dollars: smith shop for construction and repair, twenty-two thousand dollars; latrines, two thousand dollars; remodeling building forty-two for yards and docks, six thousand dollars; office building for construction and repair, fifteen thousand dollars; underground conduit system, eighteen thousand dollars; tire-protection system, sixty thousand dollars; in all, four hundred and six thousand dollars.
Boston« Mass. Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Ship fitters’ shop, to cost not more than two hundred thousand dollars, for which contract is hereby authorized, one hundred thousand dollars; metal workers’ shop, to cost not more than two hundred thousand dollars, for which contract is hereby authorized, one hundred thousand dollars; rebuilding building forty-two, seventy-five thousand dollars; refitting and improving machine shop numbered one, building forty-two, to cost not more than one hundred thousand dollars, for which contract is hereby authorized, fifty thousand dollars; trusses under pattern-shop floor, building forty- two, ten thousand dollars; extension of building forty, equipment shops, one hundred thousand dollars; chain and anchor-storage shed for equipment, ninety thousand dollars; yards and docks shop building, ninety-693thousand dollars; new piers and wharves, fifty thousand dollars; paving. twenty-five thousand dollars: railroad and platform scales, five thousand three hundred dollars: crane scow, twenty thousand dollars: wharf-pillar crane, six thousand dollars: dredging, thirty thousand dollars; new caisson for stone dry dock, to be immediately available, forty thousand dollars, and the unexpended appropriation for swinging gates in the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety- seven, is hereby reappropriated for caisson: machine tools for yards and docks shops, five thousand dollars: electric elevators, ten thousand dollars, smithery for construction and repair, to cost not more than two hundred thousand dollars, for which contract is hereby authorized. one hundred thousand dollars: tire-protection system, sixty thousand dollars; in all. navy-yard.
Boston, nine hundred and sixty-six thousand three hundred dollars. Navy-yard, New York, New York: To complete railroad system New York, N. Y.with terminal bridge and float, thirty thousand dollars; quay wall, Whitney Basin, to complete, fifty thousand dollars; reconstructing building twenty-one for boathouse, to cost not more than one hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars, for which contract is hereby authorized. one hundred thousand dollars; completing the conversion of building numbered eight, twelve thousand two hundred dollars, to be immediately available; paving and grading, to continue, forty-two thousand dollars; extending yard sewers, to continue, eight thousand dollars; granite and concrete dry dock, to cost not more than one million dollars, for which contract is hereby authorized, two hundred thousand dollars; pay office and auction rooms, eighteen thousand dollars; storehouse for naval-supply fund stores, to cost not more than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for which contract is hereby authorized, one hundred thousand dollars; extending electric light and power plant, twenty-five thousand dollars; removing crib work, and so forth.
Cob Dock, eight thousand dollars; pumping plant, dry dock numbered three, to be immediately available, eighty thousand dollars; surgeons’ office and dispensary, twelve thousand dollars: fire-protection system, to cost not more than one hundred and sixty-two thousand dollars, one hundred thousand dollars; completing repairs to dry dock numbered two. three hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available; bascule bridge, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars; new roof for building numbered twelve, four thousand dollars; completing building numbered twenty-three (two elevators), four thousand seven hundred dollars; in all. navy-yard, New York.
New York, one million two hundred and eight thousand nine hundred dollars. Navy-yard, League Island. Pennsylvania: To complete one pair League Island, Pa.shear legs, seventeen thousand dollars; to complete new coping for dry dock, twenty-eight thousand dollars; extension of reserve basin, to continue dredging, one hundred thousand dollars; to continue increase of electric plant, twenty thousand dollars; to complete fireproof store-house for equipment, eighteen thousand dollars; electrical workshop and storehouse for equipment, eighty-four thousand dollars; to continue retaining wall about reserve basin, one hundred thousand dollars; grading and paving, fifteen thousand dollars: shed for combustibles, fifteen thousand dollars; machine shop for steam engineering, to cost not more than one hundred and seventy-four thousand dollars, for which contract is hereby authorized, seventy-four thousand dollars; foundry and coppersmith shop for steam engineering, to cost not more than one hundred and eighteen thousand dollars, for which contract is hereby authorized, sixty thousand dollars; boiler and blacksmith shop for steam engineering, to cost not more than one hundred and eighteen thousand dollars, for which contract is hereby authorized, sixty thousand dollars; pattern shop and storehouse for patterns for steam engineering, sixty-one thousand five hundred dollars; smithery shop for 694construction and repair, forty-three thousand two hundred dollars: angle smithery for construction and repair, thirty-six thousand dollars: plumbers’ and coppersmiths’ shop and foundry for construction and repair, to cost not more than one. hundred and three thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars, for which contract is hereby authorized, sixty thousand dollars; block, cooper, and spar shops for construction and repair, to cost not more than one hundred and thirteen thousand four hundred dollars, for which contract is hereby authorized, sixty thousand dollars: tire proof shed for painting and storage of canvas, three thousand eight hundred dollars; extension of water system, eighteen thousand dollars; chain shed and anchor rack, eleven thousand dollars; trolley ear and line in navy-yard, five thousand dollars; fire-protection system, fifty thousand dollars: in all, navy-yard, League Island, nine hundred and thirty-nine thousand five hundred dollars.
Washington, D. C. Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia; Extension of store numbered one, eighteen thousand dollars; paving, fifty thousand dollars; underground conduit system, thirty thousand dollars; fire-proof floors for pattern shop, fifteen thousand dollars; boiler house for heating plant, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars; skylight for north gun shop, three thousand two hundred and two dollars and thirty-two cents; storehouse for combustible material, four thousand dollars: coal shed and coal-handling appliances, forty thousand dollars; fire-protection system, forty thousand dollars; tool shop, eighty-six thousand three hundred dollars; gunner’s workshop, eighty thousand eight hundred dollars; extension of forge shop and new roof, thirty- two thousand three hundred dollars; completing shop and office building for construction and repair, thirty thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard.
Washington, four hundred and forty-four thousand one hundred and two dollars and thirty-two cents. Norfolk, Va. Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Quay wall north of timber basin, twenty-five thousand dollars: concrete and granite dry dock, to cost not more than one million two hundred thousand dollars, for which contract is hereby authorized, two hundred thousand dollars; remodeling machine shop for steam engineering, sixty thousand dollars; extension of locomotive crane track, fifteen thousand dollars; increasing electric plant, twenty thousand dollars: office building for steam engineering, twenty thousand dollars; storehouse for yards and docks, forty five thousand dollars; paving and grading, twenty thousand dollars; garbage crematory, five thousand dollars; stables, seven thousand five hundred dollars; surgeons’ office and dispensary, ten thousand dollars; remodeling steamfitters’ and plumbers’ shop for construction and repair, fifteen thousand dollars; new altars for timber dry dock, fifteen thousand dollars; laundry at Saint Helena for receiving ship, five thousand dollars; sewers, four thousand dollars; constructing ship furniture rooms in building numbered thirty, two thousand five hundred dollars; alterations in building numbered fifteen, storehouse, three thousand two hundred dollars: in all. navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia. four hundred and seventy-two thousand two hundred dollars.
New London, Conn. Naval station, New London, Connecticut: The unexpended balance of an appropriation under the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for coal sheds and machinery is hereby reappropriated for rebuilding wharf. Port Royal, S C. Naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina: Toward rebuilding dry dock, to cost not to exceed five hundred thousand dollars, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to rebuild or repair said dock in concrete or stone, or both, as he may elect; condensing plant, thirty thousand dollars; fire-engine house, nine thousand dollars; grading and drainage, two thousand dollars; purchase of land, twenty-six thousand dollars; crane supports in steam-engineering machine shop, ten thousand dollars; in 695all naval station.
Port Royal, two hundred and twenty-seven thousand dollars. The expenditure of the appropriations hereinbefore provided under Board on proposed change of station.the head of Public Works tn the Bureau of Yards and Docks at the naval station. Port Royal. South Carolina, is left in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, who is hereby authorized and directed to forthwith appoint a board of naval officers whose duty it shall be to examine into the expediency of changing said station to some point in the State of South Carolina at or near the city of Charleston, and, if the Secretary on such examination shall decide that such change is expedient and desirable, be is authorized to expend the money herein-before appropriated upon such new naval station and a dock therefor having thirty feet depth of water on the sill at mean high tide; and for the purchase of a site for the same he is authorized to expend out of said appropriation a sum not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars.
Naval station, Key West, Florida: Building for equipment, Key West. Fla.forty-seven thousand dollars; construction and repair shop, fifty thousand dollars: floor in new machine shop, steam engineering, three thousand dollars: in all. naval station. Key West, one hundred thousand dollars. Navy-yard. Mare Island, California: Tools for yards and docks, Mare Island, Cal.ten thousand dollars; sewers, ten thousand dollars: sidewalks and roads, fifteen thousand dollars; water system, one hundred and seven thousand dollars; enlarging freight shed, five thousand dollars; medical dispensary, seven thousand five hundred dollars; light and power station. thirty thousand dollars; shelter roof for construction and repair, two thousand two hundred dollars: joiner shop for construction and repair, to cost not more than one hundred thousand dollars, for which contract is hereby authorized, fifty thousand dollars; anchor shed, seven thousand dollars: to continue quay wall, thirty thousand dollars; for the construction of a chapel, five thousand dollars; crane scow, twelve thousand dollars; to continue dredging, one hundred thousand dollars: foundry for construction and repair, four thousand five hundred dollars; pattern shop for construction and repair, six thousand dollars; coal storage, fifty thousand dollars; changes and extensions in electric system, twelve thousand dollars; enlargement of equipment offices, building sixty-five, five thousand dollars; completing workshop and boiler house for Bureau of Equipment, ten thousand dollars: in all, navy-yard, Mare Island, four hundred and seventy-eight thousand two hundred dollars.
Naval station, Puget Sound, Washington: Yard scow, three Puget Sound, Wash.thousand five hundred dollars; water system, additions, twelve thousand dollars; fence about station, entrance gate, and guard quarters, fifteen thousand dollars: sewers, two thousand five hundred dollars; angle, plate, and smithery shed, twelve thousand dollars; wharf crane, five thousand dollars; fire-protection system, additions, seven thousand dollars: composition fittings for dry dock, five thousand dollars; dry-dock pumping plant, improvements, two thousand one hundred and sixty-five dollars; electric-light plant, to complete, seven thousand dollars; to continue grading, ten thousand dollars; equipment shop, eighty-five thousand dollars; coal shed and appliances, forty thousand dollars: in all, naval station, Puget Sound.
Washington, two hundred and six thousand one hundred and sixty-five dollars. And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized and directed to Board on proposed dry dock, Columbia River, Oreg.appoint a board of naval officers to determine the desirability of locating and constructing a dry dock on the Columbia River. Oregon, and to report such finding to the next session of the present Congress; and the sum of one. thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to defray the expenses of said board. 696 San Juan, Porto Rico.
Naval station, San Juan, Porto Rico: Coaling facilities, thirty thousand dollars: pier, fifteen thousand dollars: dredging, two thousand dollars: electric-light plant, live thousand dollars: in all. naval station. San Juan. Porto Rico, fifty-two thousand dollars. Pensacola, Fla. Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: Hand pillar crane, seven thousand three hundred dollars: boiler and engine room, building twenty- six, for construction and repair, one thousand dollars; boiler room, building thirty-eight, for construction and repair, one thousand two hundred dollars: in all. navy-yard.
Pensacola, nine thousand five hundred dollars. Algiers, La. Naval station, Algiers, Louisiana: Shops for steam engineering, fifty thousand dollars; shops for construction and repair, ninety-five thousand dollars; in all. naval station. Algiers, one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars. Dry Tortugas, Fla. Dredging, Dry Tortugas, Florida: Dredging channel, one hundred thousand dollars. Algier, La., dry dock. Dry dock, Algiers, Louisiana: To complete floating dry dock for Algiers, Louisiana, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available.
Completing four dry docks. Four dry docks: Toward completion of dry docks at navy-yards: Portsmouth. New Hampshire: Boston. Massachusetts; League Island. Pennsylvania, and Mare Island. California, nine hundred thousand dollars. Dry dock, Havana. Purchase authorized. Dry dock, Havana. Cuba: The President is hereby authorized to purchase from the Government of Spain, for a sum not to exceed two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, the ten-thousand-ton steel floating dry dock belonging to that Government and now in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, and the sum of three hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purchase of said dock and for transferring and mooring the same in such location as may be determined upon by the President.
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, eight million one hundred and five thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven dollars and thirty-two cents. Naval Academy.Buildings and improvements. Buildings and grounds, Naval Academy: Toward the construction of buildings, and for other necessary improvements, at the Naval Academy. Annapolis, Maryland, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars*Provisos*.—plans for proposed.: *Provided*, That before any part of this sum is expended, complete plans shall be prepared and approved by the Secretary of the Navy covering all contemplated new buildings and improvements at the Naval Academy and for each and every purpose connected there-with; which plans shall involve a total expenditure of not more than eight million dollars, including the sum of one million two hundred and twenty thousand dollars heretofore appropriated and the sum herein appropriated for said buildings and improvements and for all additional laud needed and required to carry out the aforesaid plans: —contracts authorized. *Provided further*, That after the preparation and approval of the plans herein provided for, the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to enter into contract or contracts for any part or all of the improvements and buildings herein authorized, within the said limit of cost, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law.
Naval Observatory. Naval Observatory: For grounds and roads: Continuing grading, extending roads and paths, clearing and improving grounds, ten thousand dollars. New buildings. New Buildings: Construction on the grounds of a building suitable for a dwelling for the foreman and captain of the watch, two thousand five hundred dollars. 697 bureau of medicine and surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Medical Department: For surgeons necessaries for vessels in Surgeons necessaries.commission, navy-yards. naval stations, Marine Corps, and Coast Survey, and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy-yards, naval laboratory and department of instruction, museum of hygiene, and Naval Academy, ninety-live thousand dollars.
Naval hospital fund: For maintenance of the naval hospitals at Hospital fund.the various navy-yards and stations, and for care and maintenance of patients in other hospitals at home and abroad, forty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That from and after July first, nineteen hundred, all forfeitures *Proviso.*Credit for desertion forfeitures.on account of desertion shall be passed to the credit of the naval hospital fund. Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For freight, Contingent.expressage on medical stores, tolls, ferriages, transportation of sick to hospital, transportation of insane patients; care, transportation, and burial of the dead; advertising; telegraphing: rent of telephones; purchase of books and stationery ; binding of medical records, unbound books and pamphlets; postage and purchase of stamps for foreign service; expenses attending the medical board of examiners: rent of rooms for naval dispensary: hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration: sanitary and hygienic instruction: purchase and repairs of wagons and harness; purchase of and feed for horses and cows; trees, plants, garden tools, and seeds; furniture and incidental articles for the museum of hygiene, naval dispensary, Washington: naval laboratory, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, surgeons offices and dispensaries at navy-yards and naval stations; washing for medical department at museum of hygiene, naval dispensary, Washington: naval laboratory and department of instruction, sick quarters at Naval Academy anil marine barracks, dispensaries at navy-yards and naval stations and ships and rendezvous, and for minor repairs on buildings and grounds of the United States Naval Museum of Hygiene, and all other necessary contingent expenses, thirty thousand dollars.
Repairs, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery : For necessary repairs 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. New York, New York: Removing old boilers, Naval hospitals.New Yorkcondemned as worn-out and worthless, and furnishing and installing two new boilers at naval hospital. New York, five thousand dollars.
Naval hospital, Newport, Rhode Island: Addition to the Newport..naval hospital at naval training station, Newport. Rhode Island, twenty thousand dollars. Naval hospital, Mare Island, California: New boiler house, Mare Island.boilers, and equipment for naval hospital, Mare Island. California, ten thousand dollars. The active list of surgeons shall hereafter consist of fifty-five, and Surgeons.Number, active list.Assistant surgeons.—rank.that of passed assistant and assistant surgeons of one hundred and ten.
Assistant surgeons shall rank with assistant surgeons in the Army: *Provided*, That the assistant surgeons under the age of fifty years *Proviso.*—certain temporary appointments made permanentappointed for temporary service during the war with Spain, having creditable records, who are now in the Navy may be given permanent commissions. Section thirteen of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled “An Act to reorganize Vol. 30, p. 1007and increase the efficiency of the personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps of the United States.” is hereby so amended as to provide that nothing therein contained shall operate to reduce the pay which, but for the Pay of commissioned officers not reduced.passage of said Act, would have been received by any commissioned officer at the time of its passage or thereafter. 698 bureau of supplies and accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.
Provisions. Provisions, Navy: For provisions and commuted rations for the seamen and marines, which commuted rations may be paid to caterers of messes in cases of death or desertion, upon orders of the commanding officer, commuted rations for officers on sea duty (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-sup-ply fund: one chemist, at two thousand live hundred dollars per annum, and two chemists, at two thousand dollars each per annum, two million five hundred thousand dollars.
Contingent. Contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: For freight and 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, iron safes, newspapers, ice. transportation of stores purchased under the naval-supply fund, and other incidental expenses, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Civil establishment.Portsmouth. N. H. Civil establishment, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: In general storehouses: Two bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one assistant bookkeeper, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars: one shipping and receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars: in all. live thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.
Boston, Mass.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. In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, four thousand and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents. New York. N. YNavy-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 store main 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. 699 Navy-yard. League Island, Pennsylvania: In general storehouse:League Island, Pa. One bookkeeper, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant bookkeeper, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all. one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars.
Navy-yard. Washington, District of Columbia: In general store-house: Washington, D. C.One bookkeeper, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars: one receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars: one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars. In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, six thousand four hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents.
Naval Academy. Annapolis. Maryland: In general storehouse: OneNaval Academy. bookkeeper, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one receiving and shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars: in all, two thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-live cents. Naval station. Newport, Rhode Island: In general storehouse: One Newport, R. I.clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars. Navy-yard, Mare Island. California: In general storehouses: Two Mare Island, Cal.bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each: two assistant bookkeepers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each: one receiving clerk, at one. thousand dollars; one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant clerk, at one thousand dollars.
In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents: in all. nine thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents. Navy-yard, Norfolk. Virginia: In general storehouses: Two book-keepers. Norfolk, Va.at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two assistant bookkeepers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars: one assistant bill clerk. at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one receiving clerk, at nine hundred and forty-two dollars: one assistant receiving clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars.
In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents: in all. eight thousand eight hundred and thirty-three dollars and seventy-five cents. Naval station. Cavite, Philippine Islands: In general storehouses: Cavite.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: in all. ten thousand eight hundred dollars.
In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, eighty-one thousand two hundred and thirty-two dollars and three 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 completion Preservation, repairs, etc., of vessels.of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of mate-rials 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, profes700sional magazines, plans, stationery, and instruments for drafting room, *Proviso.*Limit, wooden ships.six million dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be applied to the repair of any wooden ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed ten per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material.
Portsmouth. N. H.Construction plant, navy-yard. Portsmouth. New Hampshire: Re-pairs to and improvement of plant at navy-yard, Portsmouth. New Hampshire, twenty-five thousand dollars. Boston. Mass.Construction plant, navy-yard. Boston. Massachusetts: Repair to and improvement of construction plant at navy-yard. Boston. Massachusetts. twenty-five thousand dollars. New York. N. Y.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. League Island, Pa.Construction plant, navy-yard, League Island. Pennsylvania: Repairs to and improvement of construction plant at navy-yard, League Island. Pennsylvania, twenty-five thousand dollars. Norfolk. Va.Construction plant, navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Repairs to and improvement of construction plant at navy-yard. Norfolk, Virginia, twenty-five thousand dollars. Pensacola, Fla.Construction plant, navy-yard, Pensacola.
Florida: Repairs to and improvement of construction plant at navy-yard, Pensacola. Florida, five thousand dollars. Mare Island. Cal.Construction plant, navy-yard, Mare Island, California: Repairs to and improvement of construction plant at navy-yard. Mare Island, California, twenty-five thousand dollars. Port Royal, S. C.Construction plant, naval station. Port Royal. South Carolina: Repairs to and improvement of construction plant at naval station. Port Royal. South Carolina, five thousand dollars.
Puget Sound, Wash.Construction plant, naval station. Puget Sound, Washington: Repairs to and improvement of construction plant at Puget Sound Naval Station. Washington, twenty-five thousand dollars. Algiers, La.Construction plant, naval station. Algiers, Louisiana: Construction plant at naval station. Algiers, Louisiana, twenty-five thousand dollars. Civil establishment.Portsmouth. N.H. Civil Establishment, Bureau of Construction and Repair: Navy-yard. Portsmouth. New Hampshire:
For one clerk to naval constructor. at one thousand four hundred dollars: two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each: in all. three thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents. Boston, Mass.Navy-yard. Boston. Massachusetts: For one clerk to naval constructor. at one thousand four hundred dollars: two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty five cents each: in all. three thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents.
New York. N. Y.Navy-yard. New York, Now York: For 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. League Island. Pa.Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk to naval constructor, at one thousand four hundred dollars: one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-live cents: in all. two thousand four hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents.
Washington, D. C.Navy-yard. Washington, District of Columbia: For one clerk to naval constructor, at one thousand four hundred dollars. Norfolk, Va.Navyvard, Norfolk. Virginia: For one clerk to naval constructor, at one thousand four hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each: in all. three thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents. Pensacola. Fla.Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: For one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents. 701 Naval station.
Port Royal. South Carolina: For one clerk Port Royal. S. C.to naval constructor, at one thousand four hundred dollars. Navy-yard. Mare Island. California: For one clerk to naval constructor,Mare Island, Cal. at one thousand four hundred dollars: two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; in all, three thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents. Puget Sound Naval Station. Washington: One clerk to naval constructor, Puget Sound, Wash.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. bureau of steam engineering.Bureau of Steam Engineering. Steam machinery: For completion, repairing, and preservation ofMachinery.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, one million five hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of the said sum shall be applied to the engines, *Proviso.*Limit, wooden ships.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.
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, nine hundred and sixty 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, two million five hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
Contingent, Bureau of Steam Engineering: For contingencies, Contingent.drawing materials, and instruments for the drafting room, one thousand dollars. Machinery plant, navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Machinery plants, navy-yards.Portsmouth, N. H.Modern machine tools required to fit out plant for repairs of engines, boilers, and so forth, of naval vessels, twenty-five thousand dollars. Machinery plant, navy-yard. Boston. Massachusetts: Additional Boston, Mass.machine tools to put the yard in condition for building and repairing modern marine machinery, fifty thousand dollars.
Machinery plant, navy-yard. Mare Island, California: AdditionalMare Island, Cal. tools required to put the yard in condition for building and repairing modern marine machinery, fifty thousand dollars. Machinery plant, naval station, Algiers, Louisiana: Necessary Algiers, La.machine tools required to fit up plant for repairs of engines, boilers, and so forth, of naval vessels, twenty-five thousand dollars. Machinery plant, naval station, Honolulu, Hawaii: Necessary Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands.machine tools required to fit up plant for repairs of engines, boilers, and so forth, of naval vessels, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Machinery plant, naval station, San Juan, Porto Rico: Necessary San Juan, Porto Rico.machine tools required to fit up plant for repairs of engines, boilers, and so forth, of naval vessels, twenty-five thousand dollars. Civil establishment, Bureau of Steam Engineering: Navy-yard,Civil establishment.Portsmouth, N.H. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one clerk to department, at one thousand two hundred dollars: one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all, one thousand eight hundred dollars; 702 Boston, Mass.Navy-yard.
Boston. Massachusetts: For one clerk to department, one thousand four hundred dollars; New York, N. Y.Navy-yard, New York. New York: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars: one writer, at one thousand dollars: one messenger. at six hundred dollars: in all. three thousand dollars: League Island, Pa.Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars: Norfolk, Ya.Navy-yard. Norfolk. Virginia: For one clerk, atone thousand three hundred dollars: one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all. one thousand nine hundred dollars:
Pensacola, Fla.Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: For one writer, at one thousand dollars; Mare Island, Cal.Navy-yard, Mare Island. California: For one clerk to department, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars: one writer, at one thousand dollars: in all. three thousand dollars; Chief of Bureau,appointment, etc.In all, civil establishment. Bureau of Steam Engineering, thirteen thousand three hundred dollars: and no other fund appropriated by [R.
S., sec. 424. p. 71, amended](/us/rs/s424/p71).this Act shall be used in payment for such service. Section four hundred and twenty-four of the Revised Statutes is hereby amended so as to read as follows: The Chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering shall be appointed from the line of officers of the Navy not below the grade of lieutenant-commander, and shall be a skillful engineer. naval academy.Naval Academy. Pay of professors, etc. Pay of professors and others, Naval Academy:
For one professor of mathematics, one of chemistry, one of physics, and one of English, at two thousand five hundred dollars each: four professors, namely, one 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, atone thousand two hundred dollars; one dentist, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one baker, at six hundred dollars: one mechanic in department of physics, at seven hundred and thirty dollars: one cook, at three hundred and twenty-five dollars and fifty cents; one messenger to the Superintendent, at six hundred dollars: one armorer, at six hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one chief gunner’s mate, at five hundred and twenty-nine dollars and fifty cents: one quarter gunner, at four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one cockswain, at four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one seaman in the department of seamanship, at three hundred and ninety-seven dollars and fifty cents; one attendant in the department of navigation and one in the department of physics, at three hundred dollars each; six attendants at recitation rooms, library, store, chapel, and offices, at three hundred dollars each: one bandmaster, at one thousand and eighty dollars: twenty-one first-class musicians, at 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-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-one dollars.
Watchmen, mechanics etc. Pay of watchmen, mechanics, and others. Naval Academy: For the captain of the watch and weigher, at two dollars and fifty cents per diem: four watchmen, at two dollars each per diem; foreman of gas and steam heating works of the Academy, at five dollars per diem: 703for labor at gas works and steam buildings, for masons, carpenters, and other mechanics and laborers, and for care of buildings, grounds, wharves, and boats, thirty-seven thousand eight hundred and sixty- four dollars and ninety-five cents; one attendant in purifying house of the gas house, at one dollar and fifty cents per diem; in all. forty- four thousand and sixty-nine dollars and ninety-five cents.
Pay of steam employees, Naval Academy: For pay of mechanics Employees steam engineering.and others in department of steam engineering, seven thousand eight hundred and twenty-four dollars and fifty cents. For special course of study and training of naval cadets, as authorized Additional training.Vol. 22, p. 285.by Act of Congress approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, three thousand dollars. Repairs, Naval Academy: Necessary repairs of public buildings, Repairs.wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, improvements, repairs, furniture and fixtures, twenty-one thousand dollars.
Heating and lighting, Naval Academy: Fuel. oil. waste, and Fuel and lights.other materials for the operation, repair, and maintenance of the plant; heating and lighting apparatus and tools; for heating and lighting the. Academy, twenty thousand dollars. Contingent, Naval Academy: Purchase of books for the library Contingent.(to be purchased in open market on the written order of the Superintendent), two thousand dollars: stationery, blank books, models, maps, and text-books for use of instructors, two thousand dollars; expenses of the Board of Visitors of the Naval Academy, being mileage and five dollars per diem for each member for expenses during actual attendance at the Academy and for supplying necessary outfit for the board house, three thousand dollars; purchase of chemicals, apparatus, and instruments in the department of physics, and for repairs of the same, two thousand dollars: purchase of gas and steam machinery, steam pipes and fittings, rent of buildings for the use of the Academy, freight, cartage, water, music, musical and astronomical instruments, uniforms for the bandsmen, telegraphing, feed and maintenance of teams, current expenses, and repairs of all kinds, and for incidental labor and expenses 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 any naval cadet shall have finished four years of his Cadets.Succeeding appointment after four years of six-year course.undergraduate, course of six years the succeeding appointment may be made from his Congressional district or at large in accordance with existing law. The appointees to follow the two classes of cadets now at sea may Appointments following two classes now at sea etc.enter the Academy during the present year and those to succeed the class which is now finishing its four years of study shall be appointed before March fourth, next, to enter the Academy during the year nineteen hundred and one.
During a period of twelve years from the. passage of this Act any Retired list.Active service for officers authorized.naval officer on the retired list may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, be ordered to such duty as he may be able to perform at sea or on shore, and while so employed shall receive the pay and allowances of an officer of the active list of the grade from which he was retired. marine corps.Marine Corps. Pay, Marine Corps: For pay and allowances prescribed by law of Pay.officers on the active list, four hundred and sixteen thousand nine hundred dollars. 704 Retired list.Pay of officers on the retired list:
For one colonel, three lieutenant-colonels, one adjutant and inspector, two quartermasters, four majors, nine captains, three first lieutenants, and three second lieutenants, fifty-six thousand six hundred and seventy dollars. Enlisted men.Pay of noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, as prescribed by law, and the number of enlisted men authorized for the Marine Corps shall be exclusive of those undergoing imprisonment with sentence of dishonorable discharge from the service at expiration of such confinement, and for the expenses of clerks of the United States Marine Corps traveling under orders, one million one hundred and twelve thousand five hundred and forty-eight dollars. —retired.Pay and allowance of retired enlisted men:
For one sergeant-major, two drum-majors, six first-class musicians, fifteen first sergeants, twenty-seven sergeants, five corporals, one drummer, two fifers, and forty-nine privates, and for those who may be retired during the year, thirty-six thousand five hundred dollars. Undrawn clothing.Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged soldiers for clothing undrawn, thirty thousand dollars. Mileage.Mileage: For mileage of officers traveling under orders without troops, twelve thousand dollars.
Commulation of quarters.For commutation of quarters to officers on duty without troops where there are no public quarters, eight thousand dollars. Civil force.—office commandant. Pay of civil force: In the office of the brigadier-general commandant: For one chief clerk, at one thousand five hundred and forty dollars and eighty cents; one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, at nine hundred and seventy-one dollars and twenty-eight cents; —paymaster’s office.In the office of the paymaster:
One chief clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred and ninety- six dollars and fifty-two cents; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twelve cents; —assistant paymaster’s office.In the office of the assistant paymaster: One clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; —adjutant and inspector.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; —assistant adjutant and inspector.In the office of the assistant adjutant and inspector:
One clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; —quartermasters officeIn 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; —assistant quarter masters.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; In all for pay of civil force, twenty-one thousand four 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 ana seventy-705one 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 Army.
Clothing, Marine Corps: For noncommissioned officers, musicians, Clothing.and privates authorized by law, two hundred and ninety thousand one hundred and ninety-nine dollars and fifty-four cents. Fuel, Marine Corps: For heating barracks and quarters, for Fuel.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, Marine Corps: For pay of chief armorer, at Military stores.three dollars per day; three mechanics, at two dollars and fifty cents each per day; for purchase of military equipments, such as rifles, revolvers, cartridge boxes, bayonet scabbards, haversacks, blanket bags, knapsacks, canteens, musket slings, swords, drums, trumpets, flags, waist belts, waist plates, cartridge belts, sashes for officer of the day, spare parts for repairing muskets and purchase and repair of tents and field ovens, purchase and repair of instruments of 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 handling ammunition and other necessary military supplies, forty-six thousand two hundred and ninety-seven dollars.
Transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps: For transportation Transportation and recruiting.of troops, including ferriage, and the expense of the recruiting service, thirty-five thousand dollars. For repairs of barracks. Marine Corps: Repairs and improvements Repairs of barrack.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.
Additions to barracks at New York, New York, fifteen thousand dollars. Erection of a building for use of the band of the Marine Corps, and enlisted men’s quarters at Headquarters, Washington, District of Columbia, four thousand five hundred dollars. Erection of new barracks of fireproof material at League Island, Pennsylvania one hundred thousand dollars. Increasing the size and capacity of the naval prison, Mare Island Navy-Yard, California, fifteen thousand dollars. Erection of officers’ quarters at Sitka, Alaska, one thousand dollars,Sitka, Alaska. and the unexpended appropriation of two thousand five hundred dollars authorized in Act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. is hereby reappropriated for the erection of officers’ quarters at Sitka, Alaska.
For rent of building used for manufacture of clothing, storing of Rent, Philadelphia, Pa.supplies, and office of assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, three thousand three hundred dollars. 706 Forage. Forage, Marine Corps: For forage in kind for horses of the quartermaster’s department, and the. authorized number of officers’ horses, six thousand dollars. Hire of Hire of quarters. quarters. Marine Corps: For hire of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them; for hire of quarters for enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in the offices of the commandant, adjutant and inspector, paymaster, and quarter- master, 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. Contingent, Marine Corps: For freight, tolls, cartage, advertising, washing of bed sacks, mattress covers, pillow-cases, 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, repair of gas and water fixtures, office and barracks furniture, camp and garrison equipage and implements, mess utensils for enlisted men. such as bowls, plates, spoons, knives and forks, tin cups, pans, pots, and so forth; packing boxes, wrapping paper, oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, camphor and carbolized paper, carpenters’ tools, tools for police purposes, iron safes, purchase and repair of public wagons, purchase and repair of public harness, purchase of public horses, services of veterinary surgeons and medicines for public horses, purchase and repair of hose, purchase and repair of lire extinguishers, purchase of fire hand grenades, purchase and repair of carts, wheelbarrows, and lawn mowers; purchase and repair of cooking stoves, ranges, stoves, and furnaces where there are no grates: purchase of ice, towels, soap, combs, and brushes for offices; postage stamps for foreign postage; purchase of books, newspapers, and periodicals; improving parade grounds, repair of pumps and wharves, laying drain, water, and gas pipes, water, introducing gas. and for gas. gas oil, and introduction and maintenance of electric lights; straw for bedding, mattresses, mattress covers, pillows, sheets; wire bunk bottoms for enlisted men at various posts; furniture for Government quarters and repair of same, and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but impossible to anticipate or classify, sixty-one thousand seven hundred dollars: *Proviso.*Mare Island barracks. *Provided*, That four thousand two hundred dollars of the foregoing appropriation shall be applied to the restoration of the sewer system for the Marine Barracks, Mare Island. increase of the navy.Increase of the Navy.
Two sea going battle ships.That for the purpose of further increasing the naval establishment of the United States, the President is hereby authorized to have constructed by contract two seagoing battle ships, carrying the heaviest armor and most powerful ordnance for vessels of their class, upon atrial displacement of about thirteen thousand five hundred tons, and to have the highest practicable speed and great radius of action, and to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not exceeding three million Three armored cruisers.six hundred thousand dollars each; three armored cruisers of about thirteen thousand tons trial displacement, carrying the heaviest armor and most powerful ordnance for vessels of their class, and to have the highest practicable speed and great radius of action, and to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not exceeding four million two hundred Three protected cruisers.and fifty thousand dollars each; and three protected cruisers of about eight thousand tons trial displacement, carrying the most pow707erful ordnance for vessels of their class and to have the highest speed compatible with good cruising qualities, and great radius of action, and to cost, exclusive of armament, not exceeding two million eight hundred thousand dollars each; and the contract for the construction of Contracts.each of said vessels shall be awarded by the Secretary of the Navy to the lowest best responsible bidder, having in view the best results and most expeditious delivery; and not more than two of the vessels herein Construction in one yard limited, etc..provided for shall be built in one yard or by one contracting party; and in the construction of all said vessels all the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled “An Act making Vol. 30, p. 1045.appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, and for other purposes,” shall be observed and followed; and subject to the provisions hereinafter made, two and Construction on Pacific coast.not more than two of the aforesaid vessels shall be built on or near the coast of the Pacific Ocean, or in the waters connecting therewith: *Provided*, *Proviso.*—condition, cost.That if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the President from the biddings for such contracts, when the same are opened and examined by him, that said vessels, or any of them, can not be constructed on or near the coast of the Pacific Ocean at a cost not exceeding four per centum above the lowest accepted bid for the other vessels provided for in this Act, he shall authorize the construction of said vessels, or either of them, elsewhere in the United States, subject to the limitations as to cost hereinbefore provided.
Construction and machinery: On account of the hulls and outfits Construction and machinery.of vessels and steam machinery of vessels heretofore authorized, twelve million seven hundred and forty thousand six hundred and ninety-nine dollars. Armor and armament: Toward the armament and armor of domestic Armor and armament.Vol. 28, p. 84l.Vol. 29, p. 379.manufacture for the vessels authorized by Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five; for those authorized by the Act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six; for those authorized by the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven; for those authorized by Vol. 30, pp. 389, 1045.the 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 this Act, four million dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby *Proviso.*Secretary of Navy may contract for armor for above vessels.—or may erect armor factory.authorized to procure by contract armor of the best quality for any or all vessels above referred to, provided such contracts can be made at a price which in his judgment is reasonable and equitable; but in case he is unable to make contracts for armor under the above conditions, he is hereby authorized and directed to procure a site for and to erect thereon a factory for the manufacture of armor, and the sum of four million dollars is hereby appropriated toward the erection of said factory.
The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized and directed to contract Five Holland submarine torpedo boats authorized.for five submarine torpedo boats of the Holland type of the most improved design, at a price not to exceed one hundred and seventy thousand dollars each: *Provided*, That such boats shall be similar in *Proviso.*—dimensions.dimensions to the proposed new Holland, plans and specifications of which were submitted to the Navy Department by the Holland Torpedo Boat Company November twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine.
The said new contract and the submarine torpedo boats covered by Contract stipulations.the same are to be in accordance with the stipulations of the contract of purchase made April eleventh, nineteen hundred, by and between the Holland Torpedo Boat Company, represented by the secretary of said company, the party of the first part, and the United States, rep-resented by the Secretary of the Navy, the party of the second part. Equipment: Toward the completion of the equipment outfit of the Equipment.new vessels heretofore authorized, four hundred thousand dollars.
Approved, June 7, 1900.
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