Chapter 1010. Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 1010.— An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, and for other purposes. March 3, 1901. [[Public, No. 160](/us/pl/57/160).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be,Naval service appropriations, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, tor the naval service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, and for other purposes. pay of the navy.
Pay and allowances prescribed by law of officersPay of the Navy. on sea duty; officers on shore and other duty; officers on waiting orders; officers on the retired list; clerks to commandants of yards and stations; clerks to paymasters at yards and stations; general storekeepers: receiving ships and other vessels; commutation of quarters for officers on shore not occupying public quarters, including boatswains, gunners, carpenters, sailmakers, warrant machinists, pharmacists, and mates, and also naval constructors find assistant naval constructors; pay of enlisted men on the retired list; extra pay to men re-enlisting under honorable discharge; interest on deposits by men; pay of petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and apprentices, including men in the engineers’ force, and men detailed for duty with Naval Militia, and for the Fish Commission, twenty-eight thousand five hundred men, the three thousand additional men herein authorized may be recruited upon the passage of this Act, and two thousand five hundred apprentices under training at training stations and on board training ships, at the pay prescribed by law, seventeen million seven hundred and six thousand and ninety-nine dollars. pay, miscellaneous.
For commissions and interest: transportation of funds; exchange;Pay, miscellaneous. mileage to officers while traveling under orders in the United States, and for actual personal expenses of officers while traveling abroad under orders, and for traveling expenses of civilian employees, and for actual and necessary traveling expenses of midshipmen while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment as midshipmen; for rent and furniture of buildings and offices not in navy-yards; expenses of courts-martial, prisoners and prisons, and courts of inquiry, boards of inspection, examining boards, with clerks’ and witnesses’ fees, and traveling expenses and costs; stationery and recording; expenses of purchasing-paymasters’ offices of the various cities, including clerks, furniture, fuel, stationery, and incidental expenses; newspapers and advertising; foreign postage; telegraphing, foreign and domestic; telephones; copying; care of library, including the purchase of books, photographs, prints, manuscripts, and periodicals; ferriage, tolls, and express fees; costs of suits; commissions, warrants diplomas and discharges; relief of vessels in distress; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; reports; professional investigation; cost of special instruction, at home or abroad, in maintenance of students and attaches and information from abroad, and the collection and classification thereof, and other necessary and incidental expenses, six hundred thousand dollars.
Contingent, Navy: For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses,Contingent exclusive of personal services in the Navy Department or any of its subordinate bureaus or the offices at Washington, District of Columbia, arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, to be expended on the approval and authority of the Secretary of the Navy and for such purposes as he may deem proper, fifteen thousand dollars. 1178 emergency fund, navy department. Emergency fund.To meet unforeseen contingencies for the maintenance of the Navy constantly arising, to be expended at the discretion of the President, twenty-five thousand dollars. bureau of navigation.Bureau of Navigation.
Transportation, recruiting, and contingent.Transportation, recruiting, and contingent: Transportation: For the transportation of enlisted men and apprentices at home and abroad; transportation and subsistence en route to their homes, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentices discharged on medical survey; transportation and subsistence en route to the places of enlistment, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentices discharged on account of expiration of enlistment; apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, and for railway guides and other expenses incident to transportation, two hundred and twenty-one thousand four hundred and twenty-nine dollars.
Recruiting: Expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent of rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentices, and all other expenses attending the recruiting for the naval service, eighty-eight thousand five hundred and seventy-one dollars. Contingent: Freight, telegraphing on public business, postage on letters sent abroad, ferriage, ice, continuous-service certificates, discharges, good-conduct badges and medals for men and boys, books for training apprentices and landsmen, maintenance of gunnery and other training classes, packing boxes and materials, and other contingent expenses and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation unforeseen and impossible to classify, twenty-seven thousand six hundred and seventy-nine dollars.
Gunnery exercises.Gunnery exercises: Prizes for excellence in gunnery exercises and target practice; diagrams and reports of target practice; for the establishment and maintenance of targets and ranges; for hiring established ranges, and for transportation to and from ranges, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Outfits.Apprentices.Outfits on first enlistment: Outfits for all enlisted men and apprentices of the Navy on first enlistment, ten thousand men and apprentices, at forty-five dollars each, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Maintenance of colliers.Maintenance of colliers: Pay, transportation, shipping, and subsistence of civilian officers and crews of naval colliers, and all expenses connected with naval colliers employed in emergencies which can not be paid from other appropriations, two hundred and twenty-nine 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, forty thousand dollars.
Coasters Harbor Island, R. I.Naval training station, Rhode Island: Maintenance of naval apprentice training station, Coasters Harbor Island, Rhode Island, 1179namely: Labor and material; buildings and wharves; dredging channels; extending sea wall; repairs to causeway and sea wall; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and wharves; wharfage, ferriage, and street-car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same; fire engines and extinguishers; boats and gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentices; printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating, lighting, and furniture; books, tools, and necessary appliances for petty officers’ school; 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, fifty-five thousand dollars.
Naval War College, Rhode Island: For maintenance of theNaval War College, R. I. Naval War College on Coasters Harbor Island, and care of grounds for same, eight thousand dollars; one draftsman, at one thousand two hundred dollars per year; services of a lecturer on international law, to be immediately available, one thousand dollars; services of civilian lecturers rendered at the War College, to be immediately available, six hundred dollars; purchase of books of reference, four hundred dollars; in all, eleven thousand two hundred dollars.
Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: One superintendentNaval Home, Philadelphia, Pa. of grounds, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one steward, at four hundred and eighty dollars; one matron, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one chief cook, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one assistant cook, at two hundred and forty dollars; one assistant cook, at one hundred and eighty dollars; one chief laundress, at one hundred and ninety-two dollars; five laundresses, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; four scrubbers, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; one head waitress, at one hundred and ninety-two dollars; eight waitresses, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; one kitchen servant, at two hundred dollars; eight laborers, at two hundred and forty dollars each; one stable keeper and driver, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one master at arms, at four hundred and eighty dollars; two house corporals, at three hundred dollars each; one barber, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one carpenter, at eight hundred and forty-five dollars; one painter, at eight hundred and forty-five dollars; one engineer for elevator and machinery, six hundred dollars; three laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; three laborers, at three hundred dollars each; total for employees, thirteen thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars.
Miscellaneous: Water rent and lighting, two thousand one hundred dollars; cemetery, including the sum of nine hundred and nineteen dollars, to put the Government plot in Mount Moriah Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in proper condition, and for its care during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, burial expenses, and headstones, one thousand two hundred and sixty-nine dollars; improvement of grounds, seven hundred and eighty dollars; repairs to buildings, boilers, furnaces, furniture, eight thousand dollars; music in chapel, six hundred dollars; transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, one hundred dollars; support of beneficiaries, fifty thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars; in all, for Naval Home, seventy-seven thousand three hundred and forty-four 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,Ordnance and ordnance stores. and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the general work of the 1180Ordnance Department; for watchmen at, magazines, powder factory and powder depots; for furniture in ordnance buildings at navy-yards and stations; for maintenance of the proving ground and powder factory; and for target practice, one million five hundred thousand *Proviso*.Unexpended balance.Vol. 31, p. 1110.dollars: *Provided,* That the unexpended balances remaining in the Treasury on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, from the appropriations “Ordnance and ordnance stores,” nineteen hundred and nineteen hundred and one, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, for expenditure in fulfillment of contracts heretofore made and properly chargeable to said appropriations.
Reserve supply of ammunition.Reserve supply of ammunition, five hundred thousand dollars. Converting guns.Conversion of ordinary six-inch guns to rapid fire, twenty-five thousand dollars. Smokeless powder.Purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, five hundred thousand dollars. Factory at Indian Head, Md.To enlarge smokeless-powder factory at Indian Head, Maryland, fifty-five thousand dollars. Improved, battery for “New York”New and improved battery for the New York, one hundred thousand dollars.
Washington, D. C., Navy-Yard.New boiler plant, etc.Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: New boiler plant, including foundations, economizers, conduits, connections, and auxiliaries for proposed power house, eighty thousand dollars. Improved machinery.New and improved machinery for existing shops, fifty thousand dollars. Enlargement of steel-casting plant.Extension of steel-casting plant, five thousand dollars. Converting gun lathes from steam to electric drive.Converting large gun lathes from steam to electric drive, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Torpedo station, Newport, R. I.Torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: For labor, material, freight, and express charges; general care of and repairs to grounds, buildings, and wharves; boats, instruction, instruments, tools, furniture, experiments, and general torpedo outfits, sixty-five thousand dollars. Arming, etc., naval militia.Arming and equipping Naval Militia: For arms, accouterments, signal outfits, boats and their equipment, repairs to vessels loaned to States in accordance with law, 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.
Repairs.Repairs, Bureau of Ordnance: For necessary repairs to ordnance buildings, magazines, gun parks, boats, lighters, wharves, machinery, and other items of like character, thirty thousand dollars. Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous, Bureau of Ordnance: For miscellaneous items, namely: Freight to foreign and home stations, advertising, cartage and express charges; expenses of light and water at magazines and stations; tolls, ferriage, foreign postage, and telegrams to and from the Bureau, technical books, and incidental expenses attending inspection of ordnance material, seventy-five thousand dollars.
Civil establishment.Portsmouth, N. H.Civil establishment, Bureau of Ordnance: Navy-yard, Portsmouth, 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; two foremen of gun factory, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; one ordnance engineer and 1181computing draftsman for gun factory, three thousand dollars; one chief clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars: one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand one hundred dollars; three writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; one draftsman, at one thousand eight, hundred dollars; three draftsmen, at one thousand and eighty-one dollars each: one assistant draftsman, at seven hundred and seventy-two dollars; two copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each: one telegraph operator and copyist, at one thousand dollars; in all, twenty-six thousand five hundred and six dollars and seventy-five cents;
Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For one clerk, at one thousand twoNorfolk, Va. hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousandMare Island, Cal. two hundred dollars; Naval proving ground, Indian Head, Maryland: For one clerk, atIndian Head proving ground, Md. one thousand two hundred dollars: one foreman of powder factory, two thousand dollars: one chemist for powder factory, two thousand five hundred dollars: one assistant chemist for powder factory, one thousand six hundred dollars;
Naval torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: For one chemist, atNewport, R. I.Torpedo station. two thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one draftsman, at one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, five thousand two hundred dollars: In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Ordnance, forty-six thousand and six dollars and seventy-five cents; and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. bureau of equipment.Bureau of Equipment.
Equipment of vessels: For hemp, wire, iron, and other materialsEquipment of vessels. 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 chaplains, 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; supplies for seamen’s quarters: 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; all pilotage and towage of ships of war; canal tolls, wharfage, dock, and port charges, and other necessary incidental expenses of a similar nature; services and materials in repairing, correcting, adjusting, and testing compasses on shore and on hoard ship; nautical and astronomical instruments, and repairs to same; libraries for ships of war; professional books and papers, and drawings and engravings for signal books; naval signals and apparatus, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, rockets, and running lights; compass fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ships’ compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship’s way, and 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; photographs, photographic instruments, and materials; musical instruments and music; installing, maintaining, and repairing interior and exterior signal communications and all electrical appliances of whatsoever nature on board naval vessels, except range 1182finders, battle order and range transmitters and indicators, and motors and their controlling apparatus used to operate the machinery belonging to other bureaus, two million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Coal, etc.Coal and transportation: Purchase of coal for steamers’ and ships’ use and other equipment purposes, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same, two million five hundred 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; furniture for equipment offices in navy-yards; postage on letters sent abroad; ferriage, ice, and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Equipment unforeseen and impossible to classify, thirty-five thousand dollars.
Ocean and lake surveys.Ocean and lake surveys: Hydrographic surveys, and for the purchase of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, and freight and express charges on the same, one hundred thousand dollars. Civil establishment.Portsmouth, N. H.Civil Establishment, Bureau of Equipment: Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one writer, nine hundred and fifty dollars; in all, two thousand one hundred and fifty 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 clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; two writers, at nine hundred and fifty dollars each: in all, seven thousand six hundred and seventy-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; two writers, at nine hundred and fifty dollars each; one clerk in charge of distribution of books, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, five thousand seven hundred dollars;
League Island, Pa,Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand four hundred dollars; Norfolk, Va.Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one writer, at nine hundred and fifty dollars; in all, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; Mare Island, Cal.Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars: one clerk, at one thousand dollars; one writer, at nine hundred and fifty dollars; in all, three thousand one hundred and fifty dollars;
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, one thousand six hundred dollars; Cavite, P. I.Cavite, Philippine Islands: For one electrician, at five dollars and four cents per diem: one clerk, at one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand five hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty-two cents; Pensacola, Fla.Navy-yard, Pensacola. Florida: One clerk, one thousand dollars;
Port Royal, S. C.Naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina: One clerk, one thousand dollars; Key West, Fla.Naval station, Key West, Florida: One clerk, one thousand dollars; Puget Sound, Wash.Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: One clerk, one thousand dollars; one clerk, one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand dollars. In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Equipment, thirty-three thousand six hundred and two dollars and fifty-two cents. bureau of yards and docks.Bureau of Yards and Docks.
Maintenance.Maintenance of yards and docks: For general maintenance of yards and docks, namely: For freight, transportation of materials and 1183stores; books, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines; tire 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; 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 tires, lights, fire engines, and fire apparatus and plants; incidental labor at navy-yards; water tax, tolls, and ferriage; pay of watchmen in navy-yards; awnings and packing boxes, and advertising for yards and docks and other purposes; and for rent of wharf and storehouse at Erie, Pennsylvania, for use and accommodation of United States steamer Michigan, and for pay of employees on leave, six hundred thousand dollars.
Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For contingentContingent. expenses that may arise at navy-yards and stations, forty 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; one draftsman, at four dollars per diem; one electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, eight thousand three hundred and fifty dollars;
Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one clerk, at one thousandBoston, Mass. four hundred dollars; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one messenger to commandant, at two dollars per diem; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one draftsman, at five dollars per diem; one master of tugs, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one electrician, at one thousand four hundred dollars; in all, nine thousand eight hundred and thirty-one dollars and twenty-five cents:
Navy-yard, New York, New York: For one clerk, at one thousandNew 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 one thousand eight hundred dollars; 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 four hundred dollars; one bookkeeper, or accountant, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, twenty-one thousand six hundred and ninety-six dollars and eighty-nine cents;
Naval station. Sacketts Harbor, New York: For one ship keeper,Sacketts Harbor, N. Y, at three hundred and sixty-six dollars per annum: Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at oneLeague Island, Pa. thousand four hundred dollars; one writer and telegraph operator, at one thousand dollars; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one master of tugs, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one draftsman, at five dollars per 1184diem: one electrician, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one master of tugs, at one thousand dollars; in all, nine thousand nine hundred and eighty-six dollars;
Washington, D. C.Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem: one electrician, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, five thousand seven hundred and one dollars and twenty-five cents; Norfolk, Va.Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one writer, at one thousand dollars; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one electrician, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; two messengers, at two dollars per diem each; one pilot, at two dollars and twenty-six cents per diem; one master of tugs, at one thousand two hundred dollars: one draftsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; one bookkeeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, twelve thousand four hundred and seventy dollars and eighty-nine cents; 4 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-two dollars; Port Royal, S. C.Naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina: For one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars: one rodman and inspector, three dollars per diem: one messenger and janitor, one dollar and fifty cents per diem; one master of tugs, one thousand two hundred dollars; one mail messenger, including Sundays, two dollars per diem; one telegraph operator, including Sundays, two dollars per diem; one electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, six thousand five hundred and fifty-five dollars:
Key West, Fla.Naval station, Key West, Florida: For one mail messenger, at six hundred dollars; New Orleans, La.Navy-yard, New Orleans, Louisiana: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one rodman and inspector, at three dollars per diem; one messenger and janitor, at one dollar and fifty cents per diem: in all, two thousand six hundred and ninety-one 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 four hundred dollars; one quarter-man joiner, at four dollars and fifty-six cents per diem; one telegraph operator, at three dollars and twenty-eight cents per diem: in all, four-teen thousand three hundred and twenty dollars and one cent;
Puget Sound, Wash.Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: One clerk, atone 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; one copyist, at nine hundred dollars; one electrician, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one writer and telegraph operator, nine hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand six hundred and fourteen dollars and sixteen cents;
Naval stations.Ban Juan, P. R.Naval station, San Juan, Porto Rico: One clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; one writer, commandant’s office, nine hundred and 1185sixty dollars; one mail messenger, four hundred and twenty dollars; in all, two thousand five hundred and eighty dollars; Naval station, Hawaii: One writer, at one thousand and seventeenHawaii. dollars and twenty-five cents per annum; one messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; in all, one thousand seven hundred and forty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents;
Naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: One clerk, one thousandCavite, P. I. two hundred dollars; one time clerk, four hundred and eighty dollars; one writer, three hundred and sixty dollars; one messenger, two hundred and forty dollars; one messenger, one hundred and eighty dollars; in all, two thousand four hundred and sixty dollars; In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Yards and Docks, one hundred and eight thousand nine hundred and three dollars and seventy 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.Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire:
Removal of HendersonsPortsmouth, N, H. Point, to complete, five hundred and forty-nine thousand dollars; quay wall, to extend, seventy-five thousand dollars; grading, to continue, twenty-five, thousand dollars; railroad and rolling stock, additions, eight thousand dollars; sewer systems, extensions, four thousand dollars; water systems, extensions, four thousand dollars; tools for yards and docks, additional, two thousand dollars: locomotive crane and track, to complete, fifty thousand dollars; electric plant, extensions, fifteen thousand dollars; central heating plant, extensions, fifteen thousand dollars; steel-plant building for construction and repair (to cost not to exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars), to continue, fifty thousand dollars; blasting in front of quay wall, twenty-five thousand dollars; naval prison, ninety-five thousand dollars (towardNaval prison. the construction of the naval prison herein authorized there is also hereby reappropriated and made available the unexpended balance ofReappropriation of unexpended balance.Vol. 31, p, 1116. appropriations made by the Acts approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, and July first, nineteen hundred and two, under the general title “Public Works, Bureau of Yards and Docks,” for extension*Ante*, p. 672. of the naval prison, navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts); in all, nine hundred and seventeen thousand dollars.
Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Sewer system, extensions,Boston, Mass. fifteen thousand dollars; electric-light plant, extensions, fifteen thousand dollars; water-closets, additional, five thousand dollars; paving, to continue, fifty thousand dollars; drains, five thousand dollars; rail-road system, extensions, twenty-four thousand dollars; pile driver, six thousand five hundred dollars; tools for yards and docks, ten thousand dollars; paint shop for construction and repair, thirty-five thousand dollars; steel shears, improvements to, fifteen thousand dollars; refitting and improving buildings forty-two and forty-three, forty thousand dollars; central heating system, extensions, twenty thousand dollars; extension of building numbered one hundred and seven, fifty thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Boston, two hundred and ninety thousand five hundred dollars.
Naval station, New London, Connecticut: Railroad scales, twoNew London, Conn. thousand five hundred dollars. Navy-yard, New York, New York: Paving and grading, to continue,New York, N. Y. twenty thousand dollars; dredging, to continue, twenty-five thousand dollars; railroad system, extensions, fifteen thousand dollars; improvements to building numbered one hundred and twenty-six, fifteen thousand dollars; electric plant, extensions, thirty thousand 1186dollars; quay wall between dry docks numbered two and three (to be immediately available), twenty-five thousand dollars; rebuilding wharves on cob dock, twenty-five thousand dollars; new roof for building numbered twenty-eight, twenty thousand dollars; piers, additional, one hundred thousand dollars; coal bins and tracks for yards and docks (to be immediately available), two thousand five hundred dollars; extension of building numbered one hundred and sixteen, four thousand five hundred dollars; repairing and rebuilding crane track around dry dock numbered one, sixteen thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, New York, New York, two hundred and ninety-eight thousand five hundred dollars.
League Island, Fa.Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: To continue retaining wall about reserve basin, fifty thousand dollars; grading and paving, to continue, thirty thousand dollars; sewer system, extensions, ten thousand dollars; electric plant, extensions, seventy-five thousand dollars; railroad system, extensions, twenty thousand dollars; dredging and tilling in Delaware water front, to continue, twenty-five thousand dollars; water system, extension, twelve thousand dollars; tools and appliances for yards and docks, five thousand dollars; pitch house and oakum loft for construction and repair, five thousand two hundred dollars; underground conduit system, twelve thousand dollars; fire-proof vault, building numbered one, two thousand dollars; houses over artesian well pumps, three thousand dollars; tire-protection system, extensions, thirty-five thousand dollars; machine shop for steam engineering, to complete, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard.
League Island, three hundred and nine thousand two hundred dollars. Washington, D. C.Power plant extension, etc.Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: Building for power plant, extension, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; piled floor in storehouse for guns and mounts, twenty-seven thousand two hundred and forty dollars; raising floor of annex to building numbered forty-six, two thousand dollars; grading and paving, twenty-five thousand dollars; coal storage and handling plant for new power plant, forty-five thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Washington, two hundred and twenty-four thousand two hundred and forty dollars.
Additional land.And upon the acquirement by the United States of title to all property abutting on Canal, Fifth, and N streets, and Georgia avenue, between the south building line of M street south and the Eastern Branch of the Potomac River, and between the east building line of Fourth street east and the west wall of the navy-yard in the city of Streets to be abandoned.Washington, District of Columbia, all portions of Canal, Fifth, and N streets, and Georgia avenue lying within such boundaries shall be abandoned and closed, and the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to take possession thereof, and said portions of said streets, together with Government reservations numbered two hundred and forty-nine and two hundred and fifty lying within the same boundaries, shall be regarded as set apart and reserved for naval purposes.
Charleston, S. C.Power house, etc.Navy-yard, Charleston, South Carolina: Power house and fuel storage for construction and repair, to complete, forty-five thousand dollars; machine shop for construction and repair, to complete, eighty thousand dollars; joiners’ shop for construction and repair, to complete, ninety thousand dollars; machine shop for steam engineering, sixty thousand dollars; power house for steam engineering, twenty-five *Proviso.*Reconvoyance land to Charleston.thousand dollars; in all, three hundred thousand dollars: *Provided, *That the Secretary of the Navy be, and hereby is, authorized to reconvey to the city of Charleston, South Carolina, a small triangular piece of land in the northern extremity of the tract recently purchased by the United States for the purposes of a navy-yard in the vicinity of Charleston, South Carolina, containing about one-thirtieth of an acre, 1187at the same rate per acre as that at which said lands were conveyed to the United States by the said city of Charleston.
Navy-yard. Norfolk, Virginia: Quay wall for fitting-out basin,Norfolk, Va. seventy-five thousand dollars: railroad tracks, extensions, five thousand dollars; machinery and tools for yards and docks, additional, three thousand dollars; electric capstans for dry docks, additional, five thousand dollars; cistern, twenty thousand dollars; landing float and slip for railroad cars, forty thousand dollars; improvements to storehouse building numbered fifteen, fifteen thousand dollars; enlarging canvas shed for storage of chain, thirty thousand dollars: in all, navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia, one hundred and ninety-three, thousand dollars.
Naval station, Key West, Florida: Quay wall, to continue, fiftyKey West, Fla. thousand dollars; marine railway, fifteen thousand dollars; coaling plant, extensions and improvements, one hundred thousand dollars; in all, naval station. Key West, one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars. Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: Medical dispensary, toMare Island, Cal. complete, two thousand dollars: repairing forty-ton crane track, six-teen thousand dollars; completing and extending timber storage, four thousand dollars; storage tank for oil, twelve thousand dollars; loco-motive crane, twelve thousand dollars: remodeling chain shed, four thousand dollars; railroad system, extensions, ten thousand dollars; electric plant, extensions, fifty thousand dollars; light and power station building, forty thousand dollars: moving and improving building numbered one hundred and thirteen, twelve thousand dollars; fittings for chapel, one thousand dollars; extension to electrical workshop, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Mare Island, one hundred and eighty-eight thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the balances*Proviso*.Unexpended balance reappropriated.Vol. 31, p. 695. from any appropriations for dredging be reappropriated for “Dredging or other means of deepening the channel in Mare Island Strait.
” Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: Sewer system, extensions,Puget Sound, Wash. five thousand dollars; to continue grading, thirty thousand dollars; fire-protection system, extensions, ten thousand dollars; electric-light plant, extensions, three thousand dollars; telephone system, extensions, one thousand dollars; railroad and equipment, extensions, ten thousand dollars; boat shop for construction and repair, to continue (to cost not to exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for which contract is hereby authorized), fifty thousand dollars; water-closets, additional, two thousand five hundred dollars; water system, extensions, eight thousand dollars; foundry and coppersmith’s shop, to complete, fifty thousand dollars; boiler and blacksmith shop, to complete, fifty thousand dollars; heating system, extensions, three thousand dollars; extension of dry-dock boiler plant, ten thousand dollars; extension of general office building, five thousand dollars; two officers’ quarters, ten thousand dollars; sick quarters, to complete, four thousand two hundred dollars; locomotive crane and track about dry dock (to cost ninety thousand dollars), forty thousand dollars; timber floats and gangway bridges, two thousand dollars; garbage scow, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington, two hundred and ninety-five thousand two hundred dollars.
Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: Crib for floating dry dock, tenPensacola, Fla. thousand dollars; dredging, to continue, ten thousand dollars; electric-light plant, additions, three thousand dollars; building for Bureau of Equipment, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Pensacola, one hundred and forty-three thousand dollars. Naval station, New Orleans, Louisiana: Latrines, one thousandNaval stations.New Orleans, La. eight hundred dollars; additions to floating dock, fifteen thousand dollars; shops for steam engineering, extension, fifty thousand dollars; 1188approach to floating dry dock, ten thousand dollars; to pay award of condemnation suit for land, thirty-five thousand dollars; in all, naval station.
New Orleans, Louisiana, one hundred and eleven thousand eight hundred dollars. Tutuila, Samoa.Naval station, Tutuila: Grading and filling, to continue, twenty thousand dollars; waterworks and accessories, five thousand dollars; carpenter and blacksmith shop, five thousand dollars; mooring, shoal, and channel buoys, four thousand dollars; ice-making plant, five thousand dollars; in all, naval station, Tutuila, thirty-nine thousand dollars. Guam.Naval station, island of Guam: General storehouse, ten thousand dollars.
Cavite, P. I.Naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: Distilling plant, twenty thousand dollars; floating steel dry dock, to continue, three hundred thousand dollars; in all, three hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Repairs, etc.Repairs and preservation at navy-yards and stations: For repairs and preservation at navy-yards and stations, five hundred thousand dollars. Plans, etc.Plans and specifications for public works: For the preparation of plans and specifications for public works, including such expert aids, draftsmen, writers, and copyists as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary, thirty thousand dollars.
In all, public works, four million three hundred and thirty-six thousand nine hundred and forty dollars. Guantanamo, Cuba.Public works, Secretary’s office: For necessary expenditures incident to the occupation and utilization of the naval station at Guantanamo, Cuba, to be used for such purposes as the Secretary of the Navy may direct, one hundred thousand dollars. public works, bureau of navigation.Public works.Bureau of Navigation. Naval Academy.New buildings.Limit of cost increased.Vol. 31, pp. 696, 1120.Restriction.Plans, etc.*Ante*, p. 676.Naval Academy:
The limit of expenditure for the construction of buildings and other necessary improvements at the Academy, as set forth in the Act of June seventh, nineteen hundred, be, and the same is hereby, increased to ten million dollars, and no part of the same shall hereafter be used for the purchase of land. The Secretary of the Navy may modify or alter all plans or estimates of cost, within said limit, for all such buildings and improvements, including the hospital and dredging authorized in the Act approved July first, nine-teen hundred and two, as he may see fit.
Repairs.Repairs, Naval Academy: For building and furnishing additional temporary quarters and recitation rooms and for enlarging and furnishing the mess hall, to be immediately available, sixty thousand dollars. Memorial tablets.Commission appointed to select sites for.That the Secretary of the Navy, the Superintendent of the Naval Academy, and the mayor of Annapolis, Maryland, are hereby appointed a commission to ascertain the sites of, and to have erected suitable tablets upon, the historic places within the grounds of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, and the sum of five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated for such purpose.
Training stations.California.Naval training station, California (buildings): Extension of new wharf, four thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; in all, four thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Rhode Island.Naval training station, Rhode Island (buildings): Extending and completing stone quay and coaling pier at southeast end of island, ten thousand dollars; filling in two stagnant basins, one near main causeway and the other adjacent to the naval hospital, four thousand five hundred dollars: additional barracks for the accommodation of apprentices and landsmen under training, with mess hall, wash room, 1189and all necessary appurtenances, two hundred and seventeen thousand five hundred dollars; in all, naval training station, Rhode Island, two hundred and thirty-two thousand dollars.
In all, Public works. Bureau of Navigation, two hundred and ninety-six thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. public works, bureau of ordnance.Public works.Bureau of Ordnance. New England Naval Magazine: The Secretary of the NavyBoston and Portsmouth navy-yards.Board of naval officers to select naval magazine site for. is hereby directed to appoint a board of naval officers, whose duty it shall be to recommend a site or sites for one naval magazine on the New England coast, north of Cape Cod, suitable for the use of the Boston and Portsmouth navy-yards; and, if upon private land, to estimate its value and ascertain as nearly as practicable the cost for which it can be purchased or acquired, and also to estimate the cost of necessary buildings, grading, and filling in, building roads and walks, improvement of water front, necessary wharves and cranes, railroad tracks and rolling stock, fire and water service, and for general equipment of said naval magazine.
The board shall make a full and detailedReport. report to the Secretary of the Navy, who shall transmit such report, with his recommendations thereon, to the next session of Congress. And to defray the expenses of said board the sum of one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available, is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Naval magazine, Iona Island, New York: One new compressed-airIona Island, N.
Y.Naval magazine. charging station, with pipes and fittings, two thousand dollars; machine tools for machine shop, two thousand dollars; machine tools for carpenters’ shop, one thousand two hundred dollars; improvements to old dock, nine thousand dollars; in all, naval magazine, Iona Island, four-teen thousand two hundred dollars. Naval powder depot, Lake Denmark, New Jersey: Four electricLake Denmark.N. J. Powder depot. elevators for two completed storehouses, ten thousand dollars; improvements to shell house numbered one; new floors, platforms, roof leaders, ventilators, and improving lightning protection, six thousand dollars; improvements to magazines numbered one and two; new’ roof gutters, ventilators, and improved lightning protection, three thousand six hundred dollars; in all, naval magazine, Dover, Lake Denmark, New Jersey, nineteen thousand six hundred dollars.
Water system, Fort Norfolk, Virginia: To connect the reservationFort Norfolk, Va.Water supply. with the city waiter mains, one thousand one hundred feet from main line, one thousand five hundred dollars. Naval torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: AdditionalNewport, R. I.Torpedo station. wharves and slips for torpedo boats; for moving present boathouse to a new location: and for dredging, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, naval torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Naval proving ground, Indian Head, Maryland: Three newIndian Head proving ground, Md. cast-steel gun platforms, four thousand five hundred dollars; lightning protection, six thousand dollars; in all, naval proving ground, Indian Head, ten thousand five hundred dollars. Naval magazine, Saint Juliens Creek, Norfolk, Virginia: OneSaint Juliens Creek, Va.Naval magazine. shell house, eleven thousand dollars. In all, public works, Bureau of Ordnance, eighty-two thousand eight hundred dollars. naval observatory.Naval Observatory.
Naval Observatory: For grounds and roads; continuing grading,Grounds and roads. extending roads and paths, clearing and improving grounds, five thousand dollars. 1190 bureau of medicine and surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Surgeons’ necessaries.Medical Department: For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in commission, navy-yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy-yards, naval laboratory, museum of hygiene and department of instruction, and Naval Academy, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Hospital fund.Naval hospital fund: For maintenance of the naval hospitals at the various navy-yards and stations, and for care and maintenance of patients in other hospitals at home and abroad, forty thousand dollars. Contingent.Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For freight, expressage on medical stores, tolls, ferriages, transportation of sick enlisted persons 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; 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, gar-den tools, and seeds; furniture and incidental articles for the museum of hygiene and department of instruction, 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 and department of instruction, naval dispensary, Washington; naval lab-oratory, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, dispensaries at navy-yards and naval stations and ships and rendezvous, and for minor repairs on buildings and grounds of the United States Naval Museum of Hygiene and Department of Instruction: for the care, maintenance, and treatment of the insane of the Navy and Marine Corps on the Pacific coast, and all other necessary contingent expenses, thirty-five thousand dollars.
Repairs.Repairs, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For necessary repairs of naval laboratory, naval hospitals and appendages, including roads, wharves, outhouses, sidewalks, fences, gardens, farms, and cemeteries, forty thousand dollars. Naval hospitals.New York. N. Y.Naval hospital, New York, New York: Changing officers’ quarters into wards for enlisted men, and building quarters for officers outside of naval hospital, twenty thousand dollars. Washington. D. C.Naval Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia:
The erection and completion of new buildings for the accommodation of the United States naval hospital. Washington, District of Columbia, on the grounds belonging to the United States Naval Museum of Hygiene, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Naval laboratory, New York. N. Y.Naval laboratory, New York, New York: Erection and completion of a new building for the accommodation of the United States naval laboratory, New York, New York, on the grounds of the United States naval hospital.
New York, New York, seventy-five thousand dollars. Naval hospital, Yokohama, Japan.Naval hospital, Yokohama, Japan: Erection of new buildings at the United States naval hospital at Yokohama, Japan, to replace buildings unfit for further use, twenty-five thousand dollars. supplies and accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. Provisions, etc.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 officers, commuted rations for officers on sea duty (other than commissioned officers of the line.
Medical and Pay corps, and chief 1191boatswains, chief gunners, chief sailmakers, chief carpenters, and midshipmen), 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 hoard ship and no credit for commutation therefor to be given); labor in general storehouses and paymasters1 offices in navy-yards, including naval stations maintained in island possessions under the control of the United States, and expenses in handling stores purchased under the naval-supply fund; one chemist, at two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, and two chemists, at two thousand dollars each per annum, four million dollars.
Contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: For freightContingent. 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, safes, news-papers, ice, transportation of stores purchased under the naval-supply fund, and other incidental expenses, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Clothing and small-stores fund: For purchase of clothing andClothing, etc. small stores for issue to the Naval service, the present fund being in-adequate to meet the requirements of the service at this time; to be added to the “clothing and small-stores fund.” one million dollars. Civil establishment, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: Navy-yard,Civil establishment.Portsmouth, N. H. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: In general storehouses: Two bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one assistant bookkeeper, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one shipping and receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; in all, five thousand eight hundred and forty dollars;
Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: In general storehouses: OneBoston, Mass. bookkeeper, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars; one receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; one bookkeeper, at one thousand two hundred dollars. In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, five thousand two hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents; Navy-yard, New York, New York:
In office of board of inspection:New York, N. Y. One writer, nine hundred dollars. In general storehouses: Three book-keepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one assistant bookkeeper, at one thousand dollars; one assistant bookkeeper, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; two 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 box maker, at three dollars per diem; one, engine tender, at three dollars and twenty-six cents per diem; one coffee roaster, at two dollars and fifty cents per diem; one fireman, at two dollars per diem; one messenger, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem; one writer, one thousand dollars: one storeman, nine hundred dollars; one principal clerk, provisions and clothing section, one thousand four hundred dollars; one principal clerk, supply fund section, one thousand four hundred dollars; one cloth inspector, one thousand two hundred and fifty-six 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-two thousand two hundred and nineteen dollars and nine cents; 1192 League Island, Pa.Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: In general storehouse: 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 receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars.
In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, seven thousand one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents; Washington, D. C.Navy-yard. Washington, District of Columbia; In general store-house: One bookkeeper, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one ship-ping 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.Naval Academy. Annapolis, Maryland: In general storehouse: One bookkeeper, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one receiving and shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; Newport, R. I.Naval station, Newport, Rhode Island:
In general storehouse (training station): One clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars. In general storehouse (torpedo station): One clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars: in all, two thousand four hundred dollars; Mare Island, Cal.Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: In general storehouses: Two bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two assistant bookkeepers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant clerk, at one thousand dollars.
In yard pay office; One writer, atone thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, nine thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents; Norfolk, Va.Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: In general storehouses: Two book-keepers, 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; two receiving clerks, at nine hundred and forty-two dollars each.
In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, nine thousand and fifty-five dollars and seventy-five cents; Cavite, P. I.Naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: In general storehouses: One clerk, atone thousand six hundred dollars; one bookkeeper, at one thousand four hundred dollars; three assistant bookkeepers, atone thousand two hundred dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars; one shipping and bill clerk, atone thousand two hundred dollars; three storekeepers, at one thousand dollars each, three thousand dollars; one receiving clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant clerk, at one thousand dollars; two storemen, at nine hundred dollars each; in all, fifteen thousand eight hundred dollars;
Puget Sound, Wash.Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: In general storehouses: One principal clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two book-keepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, two thousand four hundred dollars; one bill clerk, one thousand dollars; one receiving clerk, one thousand dollars; one shipping clerk, one thousand dollars; in all, six thousand eight hundred dollars; Key West, Fla.Naval station, Key West, Florida: One clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, one thousand two hundred dollars;
In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, one hundred and three thousand nine hundred and seventy-eight dollars 1193and thirty-four cents; and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. bureau of construction and repair.Bureau of Construction and Repair. Construction and repair of vessels: For preservation and completionPreservation and repair of vessels. of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary: purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; steam steerers, pneumatic steerers, steam capstans, steam windlasses, and all other auxiliaries; labor in navy-yards and on foreign stations; purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops; carrying on work of experimental model tank; designing naval vessels; construction and repair of yard craft, lighters and barges for use at home stations; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat; general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; incidental expenses for vessels and navy-yards, inspectors’ offices, and bureau, such as advertising, freight, foreign postage, telegrams, telephone service, photographing, books, professional magazines, plans, stationery, and instruments for drafting room, eight million dollars: *Provided,* That no part of this sum shall*Proviso*.Wooden ships. 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.
Improvement of construction plants: Repairs to and improvementsConstruction plants.Portsmouth, N. H. of plant at navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, twenty thousand dollars. Construction plant, navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Repairs toBoston, Mass. and improvement of plant at navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts, fifty thousand dollars. Construction plant, navy-yard, New York, New York: Repairs toNew York, N. Y. and improvement of plant at navy-yard, New York, New York, fifty thousand dollars.
Construction plant, navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: RepairsLeague Island, Pa. to and improvement of plant at navy-yard. League Island, Pennsylvania, thirty thousand dollars. Construction plant, navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Repairs to andNorfolk, Va. improvement of plant at navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia, thirty thousand dollars. Construction plant, navy-yard, Mare Island. California: Repairs toMare Island, Cal. and improvement of plant at navy-yard, Mare Island, California, thirty thousand dollars.
Construction plant, navy-yard. Puget Sound, Washington: RepairsPuget Sound, Wash, to and improvement of plant at Puget Sound Navy-Yard, Washington, seventy-five thousand dollars. Construction plant, naval station, New Orleans, Louisiana: RepairsNew Orleans, La. to and improvement of plant at naval station, New Orleans, Louisiana, twenty-five thousand dollars. Steel ammunition lighter, naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands:Cavite, P. I. One steel steam ammunition lighter, with all fittings complete, for use at naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands, thirty thousand dollars.
Civil establishment, Bureau of Construction and Repair:Civil establishment.Portsmouth, N. H. Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: One clerk to naval constructor, at one thousand four hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; in all, three thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents; Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: One clerk to naval constructor,Boston, Mass. at one thousand four hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; in all, three thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents;
Navy-yard, New York, New York: One clerk to naval constructor,New York, N. Y. at one thousand four hundred dollars: three writers, at one thousand 1194and 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: One clerk to naval constructor, at one thousand four hundred dollars: one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, two thousand four hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents;
Washington, D. C.Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: One clerk to naval constructor, at one thousand four hundred dollars; Norfolk, Va.Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: One clerk to naval constructor, at one thousand four hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; in all, three thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents: Charleston, S. C.Navy-yard, Charleston, South Carolina: One clerk to naval constructor, one thousand four hundred dollars;
Pensacola, Fla.Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; Mare Island, Cal.Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: One clerk to naval constructor, at one thousand four hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; in all, three thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents; Puget Sound, Wash.Puget Sound Navy-Yard, Washington: One clerk to naval constructor, one thousand four hundred dollars;
New Orleans, La.Naval station, New Orleans, Louisiana: One clerk to naval constructor, one thousand two hundred dollars; In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Construction and Repair, twenty-seven thousand and twenty-four dollars and twenty-five cents; and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. steam engineering.Bureau of Steam Engineering. Steam machinery.Steam machinery: For completion, repairing, and preservation of machinery and boilers of naval vessels, including cost of new boilers; distilling, refrigerating, and auxiliary machinery; preservation of and small repairs to machinery and boilers in vessels in ordinary, receiving and training vessels, repair and care of machinery of yard tugs and launches, two million one hundred and ninety thousand dollars;
Materials, etc.For purchase, handling, and preservation of all material and stores; purchase, fitting, repair, and preservation of machinery and tools in navy-yards and stations, and running yard engines, one million two hundred thousand dollars; Incidentals.For incidental expenses for navy vessels, yards, and the bureau, such as foreign postage, telegrams, advertising, freight, photographing, books, stationery, office furnishings, and instruments, fifteen thousand dollars; In all, steam machinery, three million four hundred and five thousand dollars.
Machinery plants.Boston, Mass.Machinery plant, navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Electric cranes for foundry, boiler shop, and smithery, and for some large and powerful machine tools to complete equipment of shops, sixty thousand dollars. Norfolk, Va.Machinery plant, navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Cranes and heavy tools to equip the shops as altered, twenty-five thousand dollars. Annapolis, Md.New building for experiment station, etc.Building on land owned by the Government, Annapolis, Maryland:
Bureau of Steam Engineering: For a building to be used as an experiment station and testing laboratory in the department of marine engineering and naval construction (to cost not to exceed two hundred and fifty thousand dollars), two hundred and fifty thousand Equipment.dollars. For the complete equipment of this building with all the necessary appliances and apparatus as an experiment station and testing laboratory, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 1195 Civil establishment, Bureau of Steam Engineering:
Navy-yard,Civil establishment.Portsmouth, N. H. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: One clerk to department, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all, one thousand eight hundred dollars: Navy-yard. Boston. Massachusetts; One clerk to department, oneBoston, Mass. thousand four hundred dollars; in all, one thousand four hundred dollars; Navy-yard, New York, New York; One clerk to department, at oneNew York, N. Y. thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand dollars;
Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: One clerk to department,League Island, Pa. at one thousand two hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: One clerk to department, at oneNorfolk, Va. thousand three hundred dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all, one thousand nine hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: One writer, one thousand dollars;Pensacola, Fla. Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: One clerk to department, atMare Island, Cal. one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand dollars;
Naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina: One clerk to department,Port Royal, S. C. one thousand two hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: One clerk to department,Puget Sound, Wash. one thousand two hundred dollars; one writer, one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand two hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: One clerk to department,Washington, D. C. one thousand two hundred dollars; In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Steam Engineering, seventeen thousand nine hundred dollars; and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. naval academy.Naval Academy.
Pay of professors and others, Naval Academy: One professorPay of professors, etc. as head of department of physics, three thousand dollars. One professor as head of department of modern languages, three thousand dollars. One professor of mathematics, one of chemistry, and one of English, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; four professors, namely, one of English, one of French and Spanish, one of French, and one of drawing, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; one assistant professor of Spanish, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; ten instructors, at one thousand five hundred dollars each.
One sword master, at one thousand five hundred dollars; one assist-ant, at one thousand two 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 assistant librarian, at one thousand 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 midshipmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk to the paymaster, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one dentist, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one baker, at six hundred dollars; one mechanic in department of physics, at seven hundred and thirty dollars; one mechanic in the department of ordnance, nine hundred and fifty-one dollars and fifty-two cents; 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-1196nine dollars and fifty cents; one quarter gunner, at four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one coxswain, at four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one seaman in the department of seamanship, at three hundred and ninety-seven dollars and fifty cents; one attendant in the department of navigation and one in the department of physics, at three hundred dollars each; eight attendants at recitation rooms, library, store, chapel, armory, 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, seventy-seven thousand four hundred and forty-two dollars and fifty-two cents.
Watchmen, mechanics, etc.Pay of watchmen, mechanics, and others, Naval Academy: Captain of the watch and weigher, at two dollars and fifty cents per diem; seven watchmen, at two dollars each per diem; foreman of steam heating works of the Academy, at five dollars per diem; labor at power house, for masons, carpenters, and other mechanics and laborers, and for care of buildings, and grounds, wharves, and boats, forty-two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars and fifty cents; in all, fifty thousand dollars.
Employees, steam engineering.Pay of steam employees, Naval Academy: Pay of mechanics and others in department of steam engineering, eleven thousand one hundred and fifty-four dollars and eighty-two cents. Additional training.Vol. 22, p. 285.Special course of study and training of midshipmen, as authorized by Act of Congress approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, three thousand dollars. Repairs, etc.Repairs, Naval Academy: Necessary repairs of public buildings, wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, improvements, repairs, furniture, and fixtures, thirty-one thousand dollars.
Heating, etc.Heating and lighting, Naval Academy: Fuel, oil, waste, and other materials for the operation, repair, and maintenance of the plant; heating and lighting apparatus and tools; for heating and lighting the Academy and bandsmen’s quarters, twenty-five thousand dollars. Contingent.Contingent, Naval Academy: Purchase of books for the library (to be purchased in open market on the written order of the Superintendent), two thousand dollars; stationery, blank books, models, maps, and text-books, for use of instructors, two thousand dollars; expenses of the Board of Visitors of the Naval Academy, being mileage and five dollars per diem for each member for expenses during actual attendance at the Academy and for supplying necessary outfit for the board house, and for clerk hire, carriages, and other incidental and necessary expenses of the board, 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, fifty 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; apparatus for the instruction of midshipmen in the department of marine engineering and naval construction, ten thousand dollars.
Repairs to sextants.Repairs of sextants in the department of navigation, one thousand dollars. In all, Naval Academy, two hundred and seventy thousand three hundred and ninety-seven dollars and thirty-four cents. 1197 The grades of the active list of the Navy hereinafter designatedActive list of the Navy.Increase in certain grades of.Vol. 30, p. 1005. shall be so increased that there shall be thirty additional lieutenant-commanders, in all two hundred; fifty additional lieutenants, in all three hundred and fifty; such total numbers of lieutenants (junior grade) and ensigns as may qualify for said grades under existing law and the provisions of this Act; thirty additional surgeons with the rank of lieutenant-commander, in all eighty-five; one hundred and twenty additional passed assistant and assistant surgeons, with the rank, respectively, of lieutenant and lieutenant (junior grade), in all two hundred and thirty; two additional pay inspectors, in all fifteen; thirty-six additional paymasters, in all seventy-six; twenty-six additional passed assistant and assistant paymasters, in all ninety-six; twenty-nine additional naval constructors and assistant naval*Ante*, p. 683. constructors, in all seventy-five; one additional civil engineer, in all twenty-eight; and twelve assistant civil engineers, of whom six*Ante*, p. 671. shall have the rank of lieutenant (junior grade) and six the rank of ensign; *Provided,* That assistant civil engineers, during the first five*Provisos*.Pay of assistant civil engineers. years after date of appointment, shall receive, per annum, when on duty, one thousand five hundred dollars, when on leave or waiting orders, one thousand dollars; during the second five years after such date, when on duty, one thousand eight hundred dollars, when on leave or waiting orders, one thousand two hundred dollars; and after ten years from such date, when on duty, two thousand one hundred dollars, and when on leave or waiting orders, one thousand four hundred dollars: *And provided further,* That promotions in the corps ofExaminations for promotion. civil engineers shall be after such examination as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe.
The increase in the grades of lieutenant-commander and lieutenantLimit of yearly increase. provided for in this Act shall be filled by promotion each year of not exceeding twenty-five per centum of the total number of the increase in each of said grades; and not more than twenty-five assistant surgeons, not more than twenty assistant paymasters, nor more than five assistant naval constructors, nor more than three assistant civil engineers, in addition to those necessary to fill vacancies in said grades, shall be appointed in any one calendar year.
Hereafter in each calendar year there may, under the restrictionsAppointment of ensigns from warrant officers. imposed by existing law, be appointed from the boatswains, gunners, and warrant machinists of the Navy twelve ensigns. There shall be allowed at the Naval Academy two midshipmen forMidshipmen.Increase of appointments of.[R. S., sec. 1513, p. 260](/us/rs/s1513/p260), amended.*Provisos*.Equitable distribution of increase. each Senator, Representative, and Delegate in Congress, two for the District of Columbia, and five each year at large; *Provided,* That the additional Congressional appointments authorized by this Act shall be made at such times as may be determined by the Secretary of the Navy, who shall equitably distribute the increase among the several States, Districts, and Territories, so that ultimately, if practicable, each Senator, Representative, and Delegate may recommend for appointment during each Congress one midshipman. *Provided further, *Present vacancies.That members of the Fifty-seventh Congress who will not be members of the Fifty-eighth Congress, and in whose Districts or States appointments have not been made or vacancies filled in the Fifty-seventh Congress, may immediately upon the passage of this Act make the additional appointments herein provided for.
The Secretary of the Navy shall as soon as practicable after the fifthNotice of vacancy to be annually given. day of March in each year notify in writing each Senator, Representative, and Delegate in Congress of any vacancy which may be regarded as existing in the State, District, or Territory which he represents, and the nomination of a candidate to fill such vacancy shall be madeNominations. upon the recommendation of the Senator, Representative, or Delegate. Such recommendation shall be made by the first day of June of that year, and if not so made the Secretary of the Navy shall fill the vacancy by the appointment of an actual resident of the State, District, 1198or Territory in which the vacancy exists, who shall have been for at least two years immediately preceding his appointment an actual bona fide resident of the State, District, or Territory in which the vacancy exists and shall have the qualifications otherwise prescribed *Proviso*.Punishment for hazing.by law: *And provided further,* That the Superintendent of the Naval Academy shall make such rules, to be approved by the Secretary of the Navy, as will effectually prevent the practice of hazing; and any cadet found guilty of participating in or encouraging or countenancing such practice shall be summarily expelled from the Academy, and shall not thereafter be reappointed to the Corps of Cadets or be eligible for appointment as a commissioned officer in the Army or Navy or Marine Corps until two years after the graduation of the class of which he was a member.
Increase in force until June 30, 1913.That the provisions of this Act for the increase of appointments of midshipmen to the Naval Academy shall continue in force until the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and thirteen: and thereafter one midshipman, as now provided by law, shall be appointed for each Senator, Representative, and Delegate in Congress. Porto Rico.Appointment from.That hereafter there shall be at the Naval Academy one midshipman from Porto Rico, who shall be a native of said island, and whose appointment shall be made by the President on the recommendation of the governor of Porto Rico.
Ages of candidates after January 1, 1904.[R. S., sec. 1517, p. 261](/us/rs/s1517/p261), amended.That after January first, nineteen hundred and four, all candidates for admission to the Naval Academy at the time of their examination must be between the ages of sixteen and twenty years. Officers advanced in rank, etc., not affected.Nothing contained in this Act shall affect the officers of the Navy who may have been or may hereafter be advanced in rank under existing provisions of law by which they become extra numbers in their respective grades, or operate to vacate the commission of any officer now in the service.
Marine Corps.Increase of.[R. S., sec. 1596, p. 272](/us/rs/s1596/p272), amended.That from and after the passage of this Act, and in order to further increase the efficiency of the Marine Corps, the following additional officers, noncommissioned officers, drummers, trumpeters, and privates Vol. 30, p. 1008.to those now provided by law for said corps, are hereby authorized and directed, namely: One colonel, one lieutenant-colonel, five majors, twelve captains, twenty-five first lieutenants, twelve second lieutenants, one assistant adjutant and inspector with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, two assistant adjutants and inspectors with the rank of major, one assistant quartermaster with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, five assist-ant quartermasters with the rank of captain, one assistant paymaster with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, one assistant paymaster with the rank of captain, one sergeant-major, forty quartermaster-sergeants, twelve first sergeants, sixty-five sergeants, fifty-five corporals, ten drummers, ten trumpeters, and five hundred and twenty-seven privates: *Provisos*.Present vacancies.*Provided,* That the vacancies now existing in the line and the staff departments of the Marine Corps and those created by this Act below the grade of brigadier-general shall be filled, respectively, first by promotion by seniority and then by selection and appointment as now provided by law, excepting that vacancies in the grade of second lieutenant shall be filled first, as far as practicable, from graduates of the Naval Academy each year on completing the prescribed course at the Naval Academy, exclusive of the probationary tour of sea service before final graduation, then from meritorious noncommissioned officer’s and from civil life between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-seven Present commissions not to be vacated.Filling of vacancies in grade of field officers, staff departments.Restriction.years: *Provided,* That the commissions of officers now in the Marine Corps shall not be vacated by this Act: *And provided further,* That officers selected for appointment to fill vacancies in the grade of field officers in any of the staff departments shall be taken from officers on the active list not below the grade of captain anti who have seen not less than seven years’ service as commissioned officers in the Marine 1199Corps.
And that appointments to the grade of captain in any of the staff departments shall he made from officers on the active list of the Marine Corps not below the grade of first lieutenant. marine corps.Marine Corps. Pay, Marine Corps: For pay and allowances prescribed by law ofPay. officers on the active list, five hundred and forty-seven thousand nine hundred dollars; Pay of officers on the retired list: For three colonels, three lieutenant-colonels,Retired list. one adjutant and inspector, one quartermaster, one assistant quartermaster, two majors, nine captains, three first lieutenants, and three second lieutenants, fifty-five thousand one hundred and forty dollars;
Pay of noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, as prescribedEnlisted men. by law, and the number of enlisted men shall be exclusive of those undergoing imprisonment with sentence of dishonorable discharge from the service at expiration of such confinement, and for the expenses of clerks of the United States Marine Corps traveling under orders, one million three hundred and sixty-five thousand six hundred and twenty-eight dollars; Pay and allowance of retired enlisted men:
For one sergeant-major,Retired enlisted men. one drum-major, four gunnery-sergeants, eight first-class musicians, twelve first sergeants, thirty-one sergeants, five corporals, one drummer, one fifer, and forty-three privates, and for those who may be retired during the year, thirty-eight thousand dollars; Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged soldiers for clothingUndrawn clothing. undrawn, thirty-six thousand dollars; Mileage: For mileage of officers traveling under orders withoutMileage. troops, twenty thousand dollars;
For commutation of quarters to officers on duty without troopsCommutation of quarters. where there are no public quarters, eight thousand dollars; Pay of civil force: In the office of the major-general commandant:Civil force.Office of commandant. One chief clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, at nine hundred and seventy-one dollars and twenty-eight cents; In the office of the paymaster: One chief clerk, at one thousand sixPaymaster’s office. hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars;
In the office of the assistant paymaster: One clerk, at one thousandAssistant paymaster’s office. four hundred dollars; In the office of the adjutant and inspector: One chief clerk, atAdjutant and inspector’s office. one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars; In the office of the assistant adjutant and inspector: One clerk, atAssistant adjutant and inspector’s office. one thousand two hundred dollars; In the office of the quartermaster:
One chief clerk, at one thousandQuartermaster’s office. six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one draftsman, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Washington, District ofAssistant quartermaster’s office. Columbia, or San Francisco, California: One clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, additional, for duty in the Philip-pines—one in Pay and one in Quartermaster’s Department—at one thousand four hundred dollars each;
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-seven thousand one hundred andDisbursements. ten dollars and three cents, and the money herein specifically appro-1200priated 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;
In all, pay Marine Corps, two million and ninety-seven thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight dollars and three cents. Provisions, etc,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, transportation of provisions and the employment of necessary labor connected therewith, and for ice for preservation of rations, four hundred and ninety-two thousand and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents; and no law shall be construed to entitle marines on shore duty to any rations, or commutation thereof, other than such as now are or may hereafter be allowed *Proviso*.Navy rations or Commutation.to enlisted men in the Army: *Provided, however,* That when it is impracticable or the expense is found greater to supply marines serving on shore duty in the island possessions and on foreign stations with the army ration, such marines may be allowed the navy ration or com-mutation therefor.
Clothing.Clothing, Marine Corps: For noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates authorized by law, four hundred and twenty-two thousand three hundred and seventy dollars. Fuel.Fuel, Marine Corps: For heating barracks and quarters, for ranges and stoves for cooking, fuel tor enlisted men, for sales to officers, maintaining electric lights, and for hot-air closets, fifty thousand dollars. Military stores.Military stores, Marine Corps: For pay of chief armorer, at three dollars per day; three mechanics, at two dollars and fifty cents each per day: for purchase of military equipments, such as rifles, revolvers, cartridge boxes, bayonet scabbards, haversacks, blanket bags, knapsacks, canteens, musket slings, swords, drums, trumpets, flags, waist belts, waist plates, cartridge belts, sashes for officer of the day, spare parts for repairing muskets, purchase and repair of tents and field ovens, purchase and repair of instruments for band, purchase of music and musical accessories, purchase and marking of medals for excellence in gunnery and rifle practice, good-conduct badges: for incidental expenses of the school of application; for the construction, equipment, and maintenance of school, library, and amusement rooms and gymnasiums for enlisted men; purchase and repair of signal equipment and stores, for the establishment and maintenance of tar-gets and ranges, and renting ranges, and for procuring, preserving, and handling ammunition and other necessary military supplies, one hundred and ten thousand eight hundred and ninety-five dollars.
Transportation.Transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps: For transportation of troops, including ferriage, and the expense of the recruiting service, one hundred and twenty-one thousand six hundred and twenty dollars. Repairs of barracks.For repairs of barracks, Marine Corps: Repairs and improvements 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; Dry Tortugas, Florida; New Orleans, Louisiana; Mare Island and San Francisco, 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 bar-racks, quarters, and the other public buildings, sixty-six thousand three hundred and thirty-six dollars. 1201 For rent of building used for manufacture of clothing, storing ofPhiladelphia, Pa.Rent. supplies, and office of assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, six thousand dollars.
Forage, Marine Corps: For forage in kind for horses of the quartermaster’sForage. department, and the authorized number of officers’ horses, seventeen thousand seven hundred dollars. Hire of quarters, Marine Corps: For hire of quarters for officersHire of quarters. serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them; for hire of quarters for enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in the offices of the commandant, adjutant and inspector, paymaster, and quartermaster, and the offices of the assistant adjutant and inspector, the assistant paymaster, and the assistant quartermasters, at twenty-one dollars each per month, and for enlisted men employed as messengers in said offices, at ten dollars each per month, thirty thousand seven hundred and forty-eight dollars.
Contingent, Marine Corps: For freight, tolls, cartage, advertising,Contingent. washing of bed sacks, mattress covers, pillow-cases, towels, and sheets, funeral expenses of marines, including the transportation of bodies from the place of demise to the homes of the deceased in the United States, stationery and other paper, telegraphing, rent of tide-phones, purchase and repair of typewriters, apprehension of stragglers and deserters, per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor for a period of not less than ten days, employment of civilian labor, repair of gas and water fixtures, office, and barracks furniture, camp and garrison equipage and implements, mess utensils for enlisted men, such as bowls, plates, spoons, knives and forks, tin cups, pans, pots, and so forth; packing boxes, wrapping paper, oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, quarantine fees, camphor and carbolized paper, carpenters’ tools, tools for police purposes, iron safes, purchase and repair of public wagons, purchase and repair of public harness, purchase of public horses, services of veterinary surgeons and medicines for public horses, purchase and repair of hose, purchase and repair of fire extinguishers, purchase of fire hand grenades, purchase and repair of carts, wheel-barrows, 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, mat-tresses, 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, one hundred and thirty-six thousand dollars. public works, marine corps.Public works.
Barracks and Quarters, Marine Corps: Purchase of ground andBarracks and quarters. erection of building at Philadelphia, to be used for manufacture of clothing and storing of supplies and office of assistant quartermaster (to cost not to exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars), one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; construction and completion of commanding officers’ and junior officers’ quarters, navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia, forty-two thousand dollars; construction and completion of commanding officers’ and junior officers’ quarters, naval training station, San Francisco, California, sixteen thousand dollars; construction and completion of one power house and the installation of steam heat, marine barracks and officers’ quarters, navy-yard, Mare Island, Cali-1202fornia, eleven thousand dollars; in all, public works under Marine Corps, two hundred and nineteen thousand dollars. increase of the navy.Increase of the Navy.
Three first-class battle ships, 16,000 tons.That for the purpose of further increasing the naval establishment of the United States the President is hereby authorized to have constructed by contract or in navy-yards as hereinafter provided three first-class battle ships carrying the heaviest armor and most powerful ordnance for vessels of their class upon a trial displacement of not more than sixteen thousand tons, 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 and twelve thousand Two first-class battle ships, 13,000 tons.dollars each; two first-class battle ships, carrying the heaviest armor and most powerful ordnance for vessels of their class, upon a trial displacement of not more than thirteen thousand 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 five Two steel training ships.hundred thousand dollars each; two steel ships, to be used in training landsmen and apprentices, to be propelled by sail, and to cost, exclusive of armament, not exceeding three hundred and seventy thousand One brig.dollars each; one wooden brig, to be used for training landsmen and apprentices at stations, to be propelled by sail, and to cost, exclusive of armament, not exceeding fifty thousand dollars; and the Contracts.contract for the construction of each of said vessels shall be awarded, by the Secretary of the Navy, to the lowest best responsible bidder, having in view the best results and most expeditious delivery; and Construction.in the construction of all of said vessels the provisions of the Act of August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled “An Act to Vol. 24, p. 215.increase the naval establishment.” as to materials for said vessels, their engines, boilers, and machinery, the contracts under which they are built, the notice of any proposals for the same, the plans, drawings, specifications therefor, and the method of executing said contracts shall be observed and followed, and, subject to the provisions of this Act, all said vessels shall be built in compliance with the terms of said Act, and in all their parts shall be of domestic machinery; and the steel material shall be of domestic manufacture, and of the quality and characteristics best adapted to the various purposes for which it may be used, in accordance with specifications Limit for one builder.approved by the Secretary of the Navy; and not more than two of the five battle ships provided for in this Act shall be built by *Proviso*.Construction in navy-yards in case of combination, etc., of builders.one contracting party; *Provided further,* That the Secretary of the Navy may build any or all of the vessels herein authorized in such navy-yards as he may designate, and shall build any of the vessels herein authorized in such navy-yards as he. may designate, should it reasonably appear that the persons, firms, or corporations, or the agents thereof, bidding for the construction of any of said vessels, have entered into any combination, agreement, or understanding, the effect, object, or purpose of which is to deprive the Government of fair. open, and unrestricted competition in letting contracts for the construction of any of said vessels.
Submarine torpedo boats.Purchase of, authorized.Amount limited.*Provisos*.Competition open to American inventors, etc.The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to contract for or purchase subsurface or submarine torpedo boats in the aggregate of, but not exceeding, five hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* That prior to said purchase or contract for said boats any American inventor or owner of a subsurface or submarine torpedo boat may give reasonable notice and have his, her, or its subsurface or submarine torpedo boat tested by comparison or competition, or both, with a Government subsurface or submarine torpedo boat or any Report, etc.private competitor, provided there be any such, and thereupon the 1203board appointed for conducting such tests shall report the result of said competition or comparison, together with its recommendations, to the Secretary of the Navy, who may purchase or contract for sub-surface or submarine torpedo boats in a manner that will best advance the interests of the United States in submarine warfare: *And provided further,* That before any subsurface or submarine torpedo boat is purchasedSatisfactory tests before purchase. or contracted for it shall be accepted by the Navy Department as fulfilling all reasonable requirements for submarine warfare and shall have been fully tested to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Navy.
To carry out the purpose aforesaid the sum of five hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Construction and machinery; On account of the hulls and outfitsConstruction and machinery. of vessels and steam machinery of vessels heretofore authorized, fifteen million twenty-five thousand six hundred and thirty-two dollars. Armor and armament: Toward the armament and armor of domesticArmor and armament. manufacture for the vessels authorized, ten million dollars.
Equipment: Toward the completion of the equipment of the newEquipment. vessels authorized, four hundred thousand dollars. Approved, March 3, 1901.