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Chapter 1368. Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 1368.— An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes. July 1, 1902. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemble*, Naval service appropriations. That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the naval service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes. pay of the navy.
Pay of the Navy.Pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on sea duty; officers on shore and other duty; officers on waiting orders; officers on the retired list; 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; pay of enlisted men on the retired list; extra pay to men reenlisting under honorable discharge; interest on deposits by men; pay of petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and apprentice boys, including men in the engineers’ force, and for the Fish Commission, twenty-five thousand five hundred men and two thousand five hundred apprentices under training at training stations and on board training ships, and for men detailed for duty with naval militia, at the pay prescribed by law, sixteen million one hundred and thirty-eight thousand one hundred and ninety-nine dollars. pay, miscellaneous.
Pay, miscellaneous.For commissions and interest; transportation of funds; exchange; mileage to officers while traveling under orders in the United States, and 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 663prisons, 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 dis-tress; 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; *Provided,**Proviso.* That hereafter in cases where orders are given to officers of theActual expenses of travel.
Navy or Marine Corps for travel to be performed repeatedly between two or more places in such vicinity as in the, discretion of the Secretary of the Navy is appropriate, he may direct that actual and necessary expenses only be allowed. Contingent. Navy: For all emergencies and extraordinary expensesContingent. arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, exclusive of personal services in the Navy Department or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at Washington, District of Columbia, ten thousand dollars.
And that the unexpended balance of the appropriationBringing home remains from abroad.Vol. 31. p. 685. of ten thousand dollars made in the Act approved June seventh, nineteen hundred, to enable the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps who die or are killed in action, ashore or afloat, outside of the continental limits of the United States, be, and the same is hereby, made available until used. emergency fund, navy department.
To meet unforeseen contingencies for the maintenance of the NavyEmergency fund. constantly arising, to be expended at the discretion of the President, one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the accounting officers*Proviso.*Civilians employed in island posessions. of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow, in the settlement of the accounts of disbursing officers involved, payments made under the appropriation “Emergency fund” to civilian employees appointed by the Navy Department for duty in and serving at naval stations maintained in the island possessions during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, and until such time as Congress shall make specific appropriation for the pay of such employees.
The Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, is authorized to payTransit pay. all civilian employees appointed for duty in the Philippine, Hawaiian, and Samoan islands, the island of Guam, and the island of Porto Rico, from the date of their sailing from the United States until they report for duty to the officer under whom they are to serve, and while returning to the United States by the most direct route and with due expedition, a per diem compensation corresponding to their pay while actually employed; and in cases where the appointee is not to fill an existing vacancy his pay while traveling may be charged to the annual appropriation of the bureau concerned. bureau of navigation.Bureau of Navigation.
Transportation, recruiting, and contingent: Expenses of recruitingTransportation, recruiting, and contingent. for the naval service; rent of rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for men and boys, and all other expenses attending the recruiting for the naval service, and for the transporta-664tion of enlisted men and boys 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; for heating apparatus for receiving and training ships, and extra expenses thereof; for freight, telegraphing on public business, postage on letters sent abroad, ferriage, ice, apprehension of deserters and stragglers, continuous-service certificates, discharges, good-conduct badges and medals for men and boys, schoolbooks for training apprentices and landsmen, maintenance of gunnery class, packing boxes and materials, and other contingent expenses and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation, unforeseen and impossible to classify, two hundred and seventy-five thousand 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, twelve thousand dollars. Outfits.Apprentices.Outfits for naval apprentices: Outfits for two thousand five hundred naval apprentices and one hundred hospital apprentices, at forty-five dollars each, one hundred and seventeen thousand dollars.
Landsmen.Outfits for landsmen: Outfits for five thousand landsmen under training for seamen, at forty-five dollars each, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Enlisted men, first enlistment.Outfits on first enlistment: Outfits for all enlisted men of the Navy on first enlistment, other than naval apprentices, hospital apprentices, and landsmen under training for seamen, three thousand men, at forty-five dollars each, one hundred and thirty-five 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, three hundred and fifty thousand 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 mate-rials: postage and telegraphing; telephones, and all other contingent expenses, thirty thousand dollars.
Coasters Harbor Island, R. I.Naval training station, Rhode Island: Maintenance of naval apprentice training station. Coasters Harbor Island, Rhode Island, namely: Labor and material; buildings and wharves; dredging channels; extending sea wall: repairs to causeway and sea wall; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and wharves; wharfage, ferriage, and street-car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same: wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same: fire engines and extinguishers; boats and gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentices; printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating, lighting, and furniture; books, tools, and necessary appliances for petty officers’ school: stationery, books, and periodicals; fresh water, ice, and washing; freight and expressage; packing boxes and 665materials; postage and telegraphing: telephones, and all other contingent expenses, fifty-five thousand dollars.
Naval training station, Great Lakes: The Secretary of the NavyGreat Lakes.Additional station. is hereby directed to appoint aboard, composed of naval officers, whose duty it shall be to select on the Great Lakes a suitable site for an additional naval training station, and, having selected such site, if upon private lands, to estimate its value and ascertain, as nearly as practicable, the cost for which it can be purchased or acquired, and of their proceedings and action to make full and detailed report to the Secretary, who shall transmit such report with his recommendations thereon to Congress for its action And to defray the expenses of said board the sum of five 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 War College, Rhode Island: For maintenance of theNaval War College. 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; general repairs to woodwork, and so forth, minor alterations in quarters, and necessary renewals of furniture, two thousand six hundred dollars; installing lightning protection for college building, four hundred and forty-six dollars and twenty-five cents; 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, fourteen thousand two hundred and forty-six dollars and twenty-five cents.
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 assist-ant 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, burial expenses, and headstones, three hundred and fifty 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-six thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund. bureau of ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance.
Ordnance and ordnance stores; For procuring, producing, preserving,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 Ord-666nance Department: for watchmen at magazines, powder factories, 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, eight hundred thousand dollars.
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. Improved batteries.New and improved battery for the Newark, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. New and improved batteries for the New Orleans and Albany, two hundred thousand dollars. New York Navy-Yard.Equipment of store-house.Equipment of new storehouse already authorized on the ordnance dock at the New York Navy-Yard, including crane supports and run-ways, traveling crane, freight elevators, gun skids and appliances for handling guns, eleven thousand dollars.
Steel-casting plant, Washington, D. C.Erection of a steel-casting plant at the naval gun factory, Washington. District of Columbia, ten thousand dollars. Laboratory.Equipments for the chemical and physical laboratory at the naval gun factory Washington. District of Columbia, five thousand dollars. Machine tools, etc.Pensacola, Fla.Purchase and installation of machine tools for ordnance purposes at the navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida, twelve thousand dollars. Bremerton, Wash.Purchase and installation of machine tools and motive power in ordnance workshops already authorized at navy-yard, Puget Sound, Bremerton, Washington, fifty thousand dollars.
Improved machinery, Washington, D. C.Purchase of new and improved machinery for existing shops of the naval gun factory at the Washington Navy-Yard, fifty thousand dollars. Reserve guns for auxiliary cruisers.Vol. 26, p. 814.Vol. 27, p. 28.Reserve guns for auxiliary cruisers: Toward the armament of modern guns for auxiliary cruisers mentioned in the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and in section four of the Act approved May tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, two *Proviso*.Purchase by contract.hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the Secretary of the Navy may, in his discretion, purchase by contract all or any part of such guns.
Reserve guns for ships.Reserve guns for ships of the Navy: The purchase and manufacture of reserve guns for ships of the Navy, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Unexpended balance reappropriated.Vol. 30, p. 1027.That, the unexpended balance remaining in the Treasury on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, from the appropriation “Ordnance and ordnance stores,” nineteen hundred, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, for expenditure in fulfillment of contracts heretofore made and properly chargeable to said appropriation.
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, 667namely: Freight to foreign and home stations, advertising, cartage and express charges, repairs to fire engines: gas and water pipes, gas and water tax at magazines, tolls, ferriage, foreign postage, and telegrams to and from the Bureau, technical books, and incidental expenses attending inspection of ordnance material, seventy-live thousand dollars.
Civil establishment. Bureau of Ordnance: Navy-yard, Portsmouth,Civil establishment.Portsmouth, N. H. New Hampshire: For one writer, at one thousand dollars: Navy-yard, Boston. Massachusetts: For one writer, at one thousandBoston, Mass. dollars; Navy-yard, New York, New York: For one clerk, at one thousandNew York, N. Y. four hundred dollars; Navy-yard, League Island. Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at oneLeague Island, Pa. thousand two hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia:
For one chemist, atWashington, D. C. two thousand five hundred dollars: two foremen of gun factory, at two thousand two hundred dollars each: one chief clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars: one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, atone 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, atone 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-three thousand five hundred and six dollars and seventy-five cents.
Smokeless-powder factory: For one chemist, at two thousand fiveSmokeless-powder factory. hundred dollars; one assistant chemist, at one thousand six hundred dollars; in all, four thousand one hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For one clerk, at one thousand twoNorfolk, Va. hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one writer, at one thousandMare Island, Cal. two hundred dollars; Naval proving ground, Indian Head, Maryland: For one writer, atIndian Head proving ground, Md. one thousand two 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-one 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.
Coal and transportation: For purchase of coal for steamers’ andCoal, etc. ships’ use, and other equipment purposes, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same, two million five hundred thousand dollars. 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 commanding and navigating officers of ships, equipment officers on shore and afloat, and for the use of courts-martial on hoard ship; the removal and transportation of ashes from ships of war; interior appliances and tools for equipment buildings in navy-yards and naval stations, and for the purchase of all other articles of equipment at home 668and abroad, and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels and manufacture of equipment articles in the several navy-yards; all pilot-age 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 board ship; nautical and astronomical instruments, and repairs to same; libraries for ships of war; professional books and papers, and drawings and engravings for signal books; naval signals and apparatus, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, rockets, and running lights; compass fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ships’ compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship’s way, and 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 finders, battle order and range transmitters and indicators, and motors and their controlling apparatus used to operate the machinery belonging to other bureaus, two million dollars.
Ocean and lake surveys.Ocean and lake surveys: For 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. Depots for coal.[R. S., sec. 1552, p. 364](/us/rs/s1552/p364).Depots for coal: To enable the Secretary of the Navy to execute the provisions of section fifteen hundred and fifty-two of the Revised Statutes, authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to establish, at such places as he may deem necessary, suitable depots for coal and other fuel, for the supply of steamships of war, including the purchase of *Proviso*.Expenditures for land purchase.necessary land, six hundred and forty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the accounting officers of the Treasury Department are hereby authorized and directed to allow, in the settlement of the accounts of disbursing officers of the Government, all expenditures heretofore made for land purchased for use as naval coal depots.
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. Civil Establishment.Civil Establishment. Portsmouth, N. H.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; two writers, at nine hundred and fifty dollars each; in all, six thousand four 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; 669 Navy-yard, Norfolk.
Virginia: For two clerks, at one thousand twoNorfolk, Va. hundred dollars each: one writer, at nine hundred and fifty dollars: in all, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars: Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousandMare Island, Cal, two hundred dollars: one clerk, at one thousand dollars: one writer, at nine hundred and fifty dollars: in all, three thousand one hundred and fifty dollars: Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one clerk, whoWashington, D.
C. shall also perform the clerical duties for the board of labor employment at said navy-yard, one thousand six hundred dollars: Cavite, Philippine Islands: For one electrician, at five dollars andCavite, P. I. four cents per diem: one clerk, at one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand five hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty-two cents; Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: One clerk, one thousand dollars;Pensacola, Fla. Naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina: One clerk, one thousandPort Royal, S, C. dollars;
Naval station, Key West, Florida: One clerk, one thousand dollars;Key West, Fla. Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: One clerk, one thousandPuget Sound, Wash. dollars; In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Equipment, thirty-one thousand four hundred and two dollars and fifty-two cents. bureau of yards and docks.Bureau of Yards and Docks. Maintenance of yards and docks: For general maintenance ofMaintenance. yards and docks, namely: For freight, transportation of materials and stores; books, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines; fire apparatus and plants; machinery; purchase and maintenance of oxen, horses, and driving teams; carts, timber wheels, and all vehicles for use in the navy-yards; tools and repairs of the same; postage on letters and other mailable matter on public service sent to foreign countries, and telegrams: stationery: furniture for Government houses and offices in navy-yards: 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, 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 thirty-seven 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, 670at one thousand four hundred dollars; in all, rune thousand eight hundred and sixteen dollars and twenty-rive cents.
New York, N. Y.Navy-yard, New York, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one yard pilot, two thousand dollars; two masters of tugs, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; two writers, at nine hundred dollars each; one foreman laborer, at four dollars and fifty cents per diem; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; two messengers, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem each; one draftsman, at five dollars per diem; one 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-rive cents per diem, including Sundays; one messenger, yards and docks, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem; one stenographer and typewriter, at three dollars and twenty-six cents per diem: one electrician, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one bookkeeper, or accountant, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, twenty-one thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and thirteen cents.
Sacketts Harbor, N. Y.Naval station, Sacketts Harbor, New York: For one ship keeper, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars per annum. League Island, Pa.Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer and telegraph operator, at one thousand dollars; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one master of tugs, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one draftsman, at five dollars per diem; one electrician, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one master of tugs, at one thousand dollars; in all, nine thousand nine hundred and seventyth rec 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 seven-teen dollars and twenty-rive cents: in all, five thousand six hundred and ninety-five 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 fore-man laborer, at four dollars per diem; one electrician, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; two messengers, at two dollars per diem each; one pilot, at two dollars and twenty-six cents per diem; one master of tugs, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one draftsman, one thousand rive hundred dollars; one bookkeeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, twelve thousand four hundred and fifty-eight dollars and sixty-three cents.
Pensacola, Fla.Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; in all, one thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars. 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 forty-six dollars and fifty cents.
Key West, Fla.Naval station, Key West, Florida: For one mail messenger, at six hundred dollars. 671 Navy-yard, New Orleans. Louisiana: For one clerk, at one thousandNew Orleans, La. two hundred dollars; one rodman and inspector, at three dollars per diem; one messenger and janitor, at one dollar and fifty cents per diem, including Sundays; in all, two thousand six hundred and eighty-six dollars and fifty cents. Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousandMare Island, Cal. four hundred dollars: one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one foreman mason, at six dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at five dollars and fifty cents per diem: one pilot, at one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; one draftsman, at five dollars per diem; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one electrician, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one quarterman joiner, at four dollars and fifty-six cents per diem: one telegraph operator, at three dollars and twenty-eight cents per diem; in all, fourteen thousand two hundred and ninety-one dollars and sixty-seven cents.
Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: One clerk, at one thousandPuget Sound, Wash. 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 seven dollars and forty cents.
Naval station, San Juan, Porto Rico: One clerk, one thousandNaval stations.San Juan, P. R. two hundred dollars; one writer, commandant’s office, nine hundred and sixty dollars: one mail messenger, four hundred and twenty dollars; in all, two thousand five hundred and eighty dollars. Naval station, Hawaii: One writer, at three dollars and twenty-fiveHawaii. cents per diem; one messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; in all, one thousand seven hundred and forty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents.
Naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: One clerk, one 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 seven hundred and sixty dollars and fifty-eight cents; and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service.
That the appointment of six additional civil engineers is hereby authorized,Additional civil engineers.*Post*, p. 1197. three to be appointed during the present calendar year, and the other three in the calendar year of nineteen hundred and three. public works, bureau of yards and docks, navy-yards and stations, naval academy, and new naval observatory.Public works. Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Quay wall, to extend,Portsmouth, N. H. seventy-five thousand dollars; grading, to continue, fifty thousand dollars; railroad and rolling stock, additions, ten thousand dollars; sewer systems, extensions, four thousand dollars; water systems, extensions, four thousand dollars; latrines, six thousand dollars; storehouse for general supplies, to complete, seventy-five thousand dollars; tools for yards and docks, four thousand dollars; locomotive crane and track, thirty-five thousand dollars; electric plant, extensions, twenty-five thousand dollars; telephone system, extensions, one thousand five hundred dollars; central heating plant, twenty-two thousand dollars; piers and slips, fifty thousand dollars; landing floats, one thousand eight hundred dollars: underground 672conduit system, to continue, twenty thousand dollars; office, drafting, and testing rooms for yards and docks, four thousand dollars; machine shop for equipment, extension of, thirteen thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars; chain shed and rigging loft for equipment, fifty thousand dollars; machine shop for steam engineering, extension of, fifty thousand dollars; power house and stack for steam engineering, thirty-five thousand dollars; steel-plant building for construction and repair (to cost not to exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars), fifty thousand dollars; new floor in building numbered seven, thirty thousand dollars: elevator and fittings, machine shop for equipment, six thousand dollars: fire-protection system, to complete, fifty thousand dollars; to enable the Secretary of the Navy to make an examination concerning the fresh-water supply at the Portsmouth Navy-Yard, five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be needed, said examination to include a survey of the ponds which constitute the sources of the aqueduct, an ascertainment of the quality of the water, an inquiry as to its sufficiency for all future needs, and an estimate of the value of the aqueduct, dams, and ponds; and said Secretary shall consider the desirability of controlling, by purchase or otherwise, solely for the use of the Government, the whole water sup-ply, and he shall make such recommendations on the subject as he may deem expedient to Congress at its next session; for the removal of Henderson Point, removal of.Hendersons Point, near the navy-yard.
Portsmouth. New Hampshire, in accordance with the project recommended in House Document Numbered Two hundred and forty-three. Fifty-seventh Congress, first session, two hundred thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction *Proviso*.Contracts.of the Secretary of the Navy: *Provided,* That a contract or contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of the Navy for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time he made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate five hundred and forty-nine thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated; in all, eight hundred and seventy-two thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars.
Boston, Mass.Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Ship-fitters’ shop, to complete, fifty thousand dollars; metal workers’ shop, to complete, fifty thousand dollars: piers and wharves, extensions, seventy-five thousand dollars; smithery for construction and repair, to complete, fifty thousand dollars; sawmill and spar shed, to complete, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: water-closets for building numbered forty-two, additional, two thousand five hundred dollars: water system, extensions, ten thousand dollars; sewer system, extensions, ten thousand dollars; electric-light plant, extensions, ten thousand dollars; *Post*, p. 1185.extension of naval prison, sixty thousand dollars; electric crane, steam engineering brass foundry, ten thousand dollars; culvert between dry docks, forty-one thousand two hundred dollars; forty-ton locomotive crime, forty thousand dollars: track for traveling crane, fifty-five thousand dollars: water-closets, additional, two thousand five hundred dollars; underground conduit system, forty-two thousand five hundred dollars; crane for yards and docks power house, seven thousand dollars; dispensary, twelve thousand dollars; fireproof floor in anchor and chain shed, twenty thousand dollars; forge shop, interior fittings for, five thousand dollars; erecting one-hundred-ton shears, five thousand dollars: paving, to continue, twenty thousand dollars: in all, navy-yard.
Boston, seven hundred and two thousand seven hundred dollars. New London, Conn.Naval Station, New London, Connecticut: Sea wall, sixteen thousand dollars; coaling plant, extensions, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, forty-one thousand dollars. New York, N. Y.Navy-yard, New York, New York: Paving and grading, to continue, twenty thousand dollars; dredging, to continue, twenty-five 673thousand dollars; coal-storage and coal-handling plant, extensions, one hundred thousand dollars; railroad system, extensions, fifteen thousand dollars; extending building numbered forty-one, sixty thousand dollars; locomotive and car shed, twenty-five thousand dollars; improvements to building numbered one hundred and twenty, twenty-two thousand dollars; fittings for building numbered thirty-three, six thousand dollars; fittings and electric tower, building numbered twenty-two, twenty-seven thousand dollars; extending locomotive-crane track, twenty thousand dollars; electric plant, extensions, forty” thousand dollars; electric-light system, extensions on cob dock, twenty-eight thousand dollars: rebuilding crane track, dry dock numbered three, seventeen thousand dollars: extending building numbered one hundred and sixteen, ten thousand dollars; coal pocket and machinery” for construction and repair, six thousand dollars; electric wiring, building numbered twenty-eight, six thousand dollars; storehouse for naval supply fund stores, to complete, fifty thousand dollars: new roof for steam-engineering foundry, twenty-two thousand dollars; to complete building numbered nineteen, sixty thousand dollars; extension to dispensary building, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, navy-yard.
New York. New York, five hundred and sixty thousand five hundred dollars. Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: To continue retainingLeague Island. Pa. wall about reserve basin, fifty thousand dollars; grading and paving, to continue, twenty-five thousand dollars; sewer system, extensions, five thousand dollars; electric plant, extensions, forty thousand dollars; railroad system, extensions, fifteen thousand dollars; officers’ quarters, additional, eight, thousand dollars; power house for construction and repair, fifty thousand dollars; angle smithery for construction and repair, to complete, fifteen thousand dollars; plate-bending shop for construction and repair, to complete, twenty-five thousand dollars; piers, extensions, sixty thousand dollars: locomotive-crane track, extensions, thirty thousand dollars; machinery foundations, steam engineering buildings, thirty-eight thousand eight hundred dollars; power house for steam engineering, forty-six thousand dollars; dredging, to continue, twenty-five thousand dollars; water-closets, additional, two thousand five hundred dollars; water system, extension, twelve thousand dollars: towards storehouse for naval supplies, seventy-five thousand dollars, in all, navy-yard, League Island, five hundred and twenty-two thousand three hundred dollars.
Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: Gunners’ store-house,Washington. D. C. eighty-eight thousand dollars; coppersmith shop, thirty-two thousand dollars; bronzing and plating house, twenty’ thousand dollars; purchase of land, one hundred thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Washington, two hundred and forty thousand dollars. Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Paving and grading, to continue,Norfolk, Va. fifteen thousand dollars; sewers, extensions, five thousand dollars; Stay wall for fitting-out basin, to continue, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; locomotive-crane track, to renew, fifteen thousand dollars; railroad tracks, extensions, six thousand dollars; machinery and tools for yards and docks, additional, three thousand dollars; rail-road rolling stock, three thousand dollars; telephone system, extensions, one thousand five hundred dollars; locomotive crane, five thousand dollars; fittings for ordnance storehouse, thirty-five thousand dollars: fire-protection system, fifteen thousand dollars; fittings for yard dispensary, five hundred dollars; heating system, additions, rive thousand dollars; electric plant, extensions, ten thousand dollars; remodeling machine shop for steam engineering, to complete, twenty-five thousand dollars; electric capstans for dry docks, five thousand dollars; electric drainage pump for dry docks, ten thousand dollars; steel storage building, thirty thousand dollars; construction of a bridge 674for naval hospital, five thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia, three hundred and forty-four thousand dollars.
Condemnation of additional land.Condemnation of land adjacent to the Norfolk Navy-Yard.—The Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to cause to be commenced, within three months after the passage of this Act, proceedings for the condemnation of the following tract of land, or so much thereof as he may deem necessary, for the use of the United States for the Norfolk Navy-Yard, and for other naval purposes, namely, a tract of land known as the Schmolles property, containing some two hundred and seventy-two and four-tenths acres, more or less, in Norfolk County, Virginia, and adjacent to the Vol. 25, p. 357.Norfolk Navy-Yard, under the Act of Congress approved August first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, entitled “An Act to authorize the condemnation of lands for sites of public buildings, and for other purposes,” and other laws of the United States, so as to completely vest in the United States the title of said land.
And all such proceedings shall Report.be reported to Congress at its next session by the Secretary of the Navy. Key West, Fla.Naval station, Key West, Florida: Quay wall, to continue, fifty thousand dollars; coaling pier, to complete, twenty-three thousand dollars; concrete cisterns, twenty thousand dollars; to complete purchase of land heretofore condemned and partially appropriated for, twenty-five thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars: in all, naval station, Key West, one hundred and eighteen thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
Mare Island, Cal.Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: To continue quay wall, fifty thousand dollars; paving and grading, to continue, twenty-five thousand dollars; sewers and closets, additional, eight thousand dollars; railroad system, extensions, five thousand dollars; heating system, extension, six thousand dollars; machine shop numbered two, construction and repair, to complete, fifty thousand dollars; auxiliary machine shop, steam engineering, five thousand dollars; naval prison, extension, ten thousand dollars; dry dock water-closets and bath house, five thousand dollars; coal-handling machinery, thirty-two thousand dollars; improvements to building numbered forty-live, two thousand dollars; electric plant, extension, fifteen thousand dollars; telephone system, extension, one thousand dollars; boiler and pump for new caisson, three thousand five hundred dollars; improvements to building for storing and handling guns, six thousand dollars; to complete sawmill, boiler house, and steel chimney, two thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Mare Island, two hundred and twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars.
Puget Sound, Wash.Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: Sewers, extensions, five thousand dollars; to continue, grading, thirty thousand dollars; coal shed and appliances, including pier extensions, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; fire-protection system, extensions, three thousand five hundred dollars; electric-light plant, extensions, twenty thousand dollars; telephone system, extensions, two thousand dollars; railroad and equipment, extensions, twenty thousand dollars; purchase of land, four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; smithery for construction and repair, extension, forty thousand dollars; plate metal shop for construe ion and repair, fifty thousand dollars; addition to storehouse, for supplies and accounts, fifty thousand dollars; boat shop for construction and repair (to cost not to exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for which contract is hereby authorized), fifty thousand dollars; water-closets, two thousand five hundred dollars; power house for construction and repair, seventy thousand dollars; storehouse for steel, thirty-six thousand dollars; piers, seventy-five thousand dollars; roads and walks, fifteen thousand dollars; water system, extensions, five thousand dollars; locomotive crane, eight 675thousand five hundred dollars; foundry and coppersmith’s shop (to cost not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars, for which contract is hereby authorized), fifty thousand dollars; boiler and blacksmith shop (to cost not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars, for which contract is hereby authorized), fifty thousand dollars; heating-system extensions, four thousand dollars; boiler stack and fittings for equipment shop, ten thousand dollars; quay wall, sixty thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Puget Sound.
Washington, eight hundred and ten thousand five hundred dollars. Naval station, San Juan, Porto Rico: Coaling facilities, extensions,San Juan, P. R. fifty thousand dollars; in all, San Juan, Porto Rico, fifty thousand dollars. Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: Track scales, two thousand fivePensacola, Fla. hundred dollars; in all, navy-yard, Pensacola, two thousand five hundred dollars. Naval station, New Orleans, Louisiana: Shops and offices forNew Orleans, La. yards and docks, eighty thousand dollars; power house and plant, seventy-five thousand dollars; office building, thirty-five thousand dollars; quarters for commandant, ten thousand dollars; two officers’ quarters, fourteen thousand dollars; storehouse, one hundred thousand dollars; sewer system, fifteen thousand dollars; water system, ten thousand dollars; in all, naval station.
New Orleans. Louisiana, three hundred and thirty-nine thousand dollars. Four dry docks: To complete dry docks at navy-yards: Portsmouth,Dry docks.Completion. New Hampshire; Boston, Massachusetts; League Island, Pennsylvania, and Mare Island, California, one million and fifty thousand dollars. Naval station, Tutuila: One officers’ quarters, five thousand dollars;Tutuila, Samoa. office building, ten thousand dollars; roads and walks, five thousand dollars; grading and filling, thirty thousand dollars; telephone system, two thousand dollars; light-house, Aunuu Island, one thousand dollars; waterworks and accessories, five thousand dollars; purchase of additional land at Samoa, thirty-five thousand dollars; in all, naval station, Tutuila, ninety-three thousand dollars.
Port Royal naval station, South Carolina: The Secretary ofPort Royal, S. C. the Navy is directed to investigate and report to the next session of Congress the state and condition of the Government property at Port Royal, South Carolina; its value and the practicability of its removal to another navy-yard; also to what uses, if any, said buildings and property can be devoted; what changes would be necessary for such purpose, and an estimate of cost therefor; also upon the advisability of selling and finally disposing of said property, and what price could probably be realized from such sale.
Navy-yard, Charleston, South Carolina: Stone and concreteCharleston, S. C.Dry dock. dry dock (toward completion), two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the amount authorized in the Act of Juno seventh,*Proviso*.Naval station.Vol. 31, p. 695.Increase of cost. nineteen hundred, to be expended for the purchase of a site for a naval station at or in the vicinity of Charleston, South Carolina, from the appropriation for a new naval station and a dock be increased from one hundred thousand dollars to one hundred and six thousand dollars, and six thousand dollars are hereby appropriated; office building for the commandant, thirty-five thousand dollars; quarters for the commandant, twelve thousand dollars: quarters for civil engineer, seven thousand five hundred dollars; landing and wharves, fifty thousand dollars; grading and drainage, ten thousand dollars; workshop (to cost eighty thousand dollars), fifty thousand dollars; storehouse and storekeepers’ office, fifty thousand dollars; equipment building (to cost one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars), sixty-two thousand, five hundred dollars; machine shop for steam engineering (to cost one hundred and seventy-four thousand dollars), eighty thousand dollars; 676foundry and copper shop for steam engineering (to cost one hundred and eighteen thousand dollars), sixty thousand dollars: power house (to cost fifty thousand dollars), twenty-five thousand dollars; work-shop for ordnance, forty thousand throe hundred dollars; ship titters’ shop with mold loft and furnace shed for construction and repair (to cost two hundred thousand dollars), fifty thousand dollars; power house and fuel storage for construction and repair (to cost eighty thousand dollars), thirty-five thousand dollars; machine shop for construction and repair (to cost one hundred and twenty thousand dollars), forty thousand dollars; joiner shop for construction and repair (to cost one hundred and twenty thousand dollars), thirty thousand dollars; foundry for construction and repair (to cost seventy-five thousand dollars), twenty thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Charleston, nine hundred and thirteen thousand three hundred dollars.
Contracts.In all cases where buildings and structures are provided for in this Act and whore appropriations in full are not made for the same, authority is hereby given to the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to enter into contracts for the entire construction of such buildings and structures, with the limit of cost as fixed in this Act. Repairs and preservation.Repairs and preservation at navy-yards and stations: For repairs and preservation at navy-yards and stations, five hundred thousand dollars.
Cavite, P. I.Naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: Tools and appliances for yards and docks, five thousand dollars; fire-protection system and apparatus, twelve thousand dollars; railroad system, improvements and extensions, nine thousand dollars; fitting up coal sheds, seven thousand five hundred dollars; toward the purchase or construction of a floating steel dry dock (of American manufacture) (to cost not to exceed one million two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars), two hundred thousand dollars: in all, two hundred and thirty-three thousand five hundred dollars.
Plans and specifications.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, seven million six hundred and forty-nine thousand three hundred and twenty-five dollars. public works—bureau of navigation.Public works.Bureau of Navigation.Naval Academy.New buildings, etc.
Naval Academy: Buildings and grounds, Naval Academy: Toward the construction of buildings, and for other necessary improvements, Vol. 31, p. 696.at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, as authorized by the *Post,* p. 1188.Act of Congress approved June seventh, nineteen hundred, and in accordance with the plans approved by the Secretary of the Navy, October third, nineteen hundred, and toward the construction of a Hospital.hospital (to cost not more than one hundred thousand dollars), to be built upon plans approved by the Secretary of the Navy, three hundred Dredging.thousand dollars; for dredging up to and in front of the Naval Academy, two hundred thousand dollars; in all, five hundred thousand dollars, the amount hereby appropriated to constitute a part of the eight million dollars’ limit fixed for the total cost of said buildings *Proviso.*Contracts, etc.and improvements: *Provided,* That the Secretary of the Navy may, in his discretion, continue the said improvements at the Naval Academy, either by contract or day labor, or both, as he may deem necessary or for the best interests of the Government.
Training stations.California.Naval training station, California (buildings): Two officers’ quarters, twelve thousand dollars; sinking artesian wells and water supply, seven thousand five hundred dollars; roads and grounds, three thousand five hundred dollars; purchase of tools and fitting up 677machine shop, two thousand five hundred dollars: installation of cold-storage room, originally planned, three thousand five hundred dollars; building boathouse and carpenter shop on wharf, two thousand five hundred dollars: in all, thirty-one thousand five hundred dollars.
Naval training station, Rhode Island (buildings): CompletingRhode Island. breakwater and extending sea wall, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; completing roads and sidewalks, and paving approaches to new barracks, seven thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; assembly, lecture, and reading room, twelve thousand five hundred dollars; three double sets officers’ quarters, thirty-six thousand dollars; carpenter shop and boathouse for repairs, storage, and preservation of steam launches and boats, eleven thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars; retaining wall on causeway leading from mainland to station, with guardhouses, iron-picket fence, gates, gatehouse, and appurtenances and for filling and macadamizing road, and repairs to bridge, fifteen thousand five hundred dollars; for constructing fifteen-foot mole at storehouse for discharging and loading boats and lighters, three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; in all, naval training station, Rhode Island, one hundred and fourteen thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.
Naval War College, Rhode Island; Buildings: Building andNaval War College. furnishing a fireproof annex to the college, with a covered connecting bridge, sixty thousand dollars. In all, “Public works, Bureau of Navigation,” seven hundred and five thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars. public works—bureau of ordnance.Public works.Bureau of Ordnance. Naval magazine, Iona Island, New York: Roads and walks;Naval magazines.Iona Island, N. Y. grading and filling in; wall on west side of reservation; ice house; extension of railroad tracks; magnetic-clock system for watch service, and general improvements, forty-nine thousand five, hundred dollars.
Naval magazine, Dover, Lake Denmark, New Jersey: For the purchaseDover, N. J. of additional land (about seventy-five acres) to secure control of a water supply, and expenses incident to said purchase: two powder magazines; pump house; two magazines for high explosives; carpenter’s shop, and equipments therefor; coal sheds: extension of railroad tracks; rolling stock for local service; grading; road making; walls; fences, and general improvements; quarters for gunner, and quarters for watchmen and principal employees, eighty thousand dollars.
Naval magazine, Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania: Storehouse for ammunition,Fort Mifflin, Pa. five thousand dollars. Naval magazine, Norfolk, Virginia: Fireproof building, and theNorfolk, Va. equipment thereof, for magazine workshop: one filling house; extension of railroad tracks; extension of fire and water service; for the purchase of additional land and expenses attending such purchase; or quarters for watchmen and principal employees; in all, forty-six thousand five hundred dollars.
Naval torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: Renewing sea wallNewport. R. I.Torpedo station. on east side of Goat Island, filling in and grading; erection and equipment of a carpenter’s shop and one set of quarters, twenty-eight thousand dollars; in all, naval torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island, twenty-eight thousand dollars. Naval proving ground, Indian Head, Maryland: Powder magazine,Indian Head proving ground. roads, walks, walls, fences, grading, draining, filling in, and two sets of quarters for officers: in all, naval proving ground, Indian Head, twenty-three thousand dollars.
Quarters, Rose Island, Narragansett Bay: Quarters for watchmenRose Island, Narragansett Bay.Quarters. and gunners, five thousand two hundred dollars. Naval magazine, Fort Lafayette, New York Harbor: EnlargementFort Lafayette, New York Harbor. 678of shipping house; office building; dredging channel; repairs to sea wall, and general improvements, twenty-five thousand dollars. Mare Island, Cal.Naval magazine, Mare Island, California: For new water mains and tire service at magazines; repairs to magazine wharf; steel shed for storage purposes; carpenters’ shop; extension of shell house numbered four; repairs to magazine numbered one, injured by fire; three magazines for smokeless powder; one magazine for black powder, and one magazine for small-arm ammunition, eighty thousand dollars.
Puget Sound, Wash.Naval magazine, Puget Sound, Washington: For the purchase of land for a site for a naval magazine at or near Bremerton, Washington, and toward the erection thereon of the necessary buildings; for clearing said grounds; for grading and filling in: for building roads and walks; for the necessary wharves and cranes; for railroad tracks and rolling stock for local service: for fire and water service, and for the equipment, of the establishment, fifty thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary; and the Secretary of the Navy may employ and pay, out of the appropriation hereby authorized, such additional expert aids, architects, superintendents of construction, or draftsmen as may be necessary for the preparation of the plans and specifications and prosecution of the work authorized to an amount not to exceed five thousand dollars; in all, naval magazine, Bremerton, Washington, fifty thousand dollars.
In all, public works, Bureau of Ordnance, three hundred and ninety-two thousand two hundred dollars. naval observatory.Naval Observatory. Grounds and roads.Naval Observatory: For grounds and roads; continuing grading, extending roads and paths, chairing and improving grounds, five thousand dollars. American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac.Distribution.*Post,* p. 740.Publication of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac: Hereafter there, shall be published of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac two thousand five hundred copies, five hundred of which shall be for the use of the Senate, one thousand for the use of the Mouse of Representatives, and one thousand for distribution or sale by the Navy Department. bureau of medicine and surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
Surgeon’s 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, and department of instruction, museum of hygiene, and Naval Academy, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Hospital fund.Naval hospital fund: For maintenance of the naval hospitals at the various navy-yards and stations, and for care and maintenance of patients in other hospitals at home and abroad, forty thousand dollars.
Contingent.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; rent of rooms for naval dispensary: hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration: sanitary and hygienic instruction; purchase, and repairs of wagons and harness; purchase of and feed for horses and cows; trees, plants, garden tools, and seeds; furniture and incidental articles for the museum of hygiene, naval dispensary.
Washington; naval laboratory, sick quarters at Naval 679Academy and marine barracks, surgeons’ offices and dispensaries at navy-yards and naval stations; washing for medical department at museum of hygiene, naval dispensary, Washington; naval laboratory and department, of instruction, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, dispensaries at navy-yards and naval stations and ships and rendezvous, and for minor repairs on buildings and grounds of the United States Naval Museum of Hygiene; for the care, maintenance, and treatment of the insane of the Navy and Marine Corps on the Pacific coast, and all other necessary contingent expenses, thirty-five thousand dollars.
Repairs, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For necessary repairsRepairs, of naval laboratory and department of instruction, naval hospitals and appendages, including roads, wharves, outhouses, sidewalks, fences, gardens, farms, and cemeteries, thirty thousand dollars. Naval hospital, Mare Island, California: Repairs and improvementsNaval hospitals.Mare Island, Cal in fitting up old buildings and building new; for changing officers’ quarters into wards for enlisted men and building quarters for officers outside naval hospital, twenty thousand dollars; for construction of a contagious-disease hospital, ten thousand dollars: in all, thirty thousand dollars.
Naval hospital, Canacao, Philippine Islands: Repairs andCanacao, P. I. improvements in fitting up old buildings and building new; building wharf, roads, and preparing grounds, and establishing a naval hospital at Canacao, Philippine Islands, to take the place of the present temporary hospital at Cavite, and for the transfer of public property from the old buildings to the new, fifty thousand dollars. supplies and accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. Provisions, Navy: For provisions and commuted rations for theProvisions, etc. seamen and marines, which commuted rations may be paid to caterers of messes, in cases of death or desertion, upon orders of the commanding officer; commuted rations for officers on sea duty (other than commissioned officers of the line, medical and pay corps and chief boatswains, 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 board ship and no credit for commutation therefor to be given); labor in general storehouses and paymasters’ offices in navy-yards, including naval stations maintained in island possessions under the control of the United States, and expenses in handling stores purchased under the naval-supply fund; one chemist, at two thousand five hundred dollarsChemists. per annum, and two chemists, at two thousand dollars each per annum, three million five hundred thousand dollars.
That section fifteen hundred and eighty of the Revised Statutes of[R. S., sec. 1580, p. 270](/us/rs/s1580/p270), amended. the United States be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: " “Sec. 1580. The Navy ration shall consist of the following dailyNavy ration, constituents of. allowance of provisions to each person: One pound and a quarter salt or smoked meat, with three ounces of dried or six ounces of canned fruit, and three gills of beans or peas, or twelve ounces of flour; or one pound of preserved meat, with three ounces of dried or six ounces of canned fruit, and twelve ounces of rice or eight ounces of canned vegetables or four ounces of desiccated vegetables; together with one pound of biscuit, two ounces of butter, four ounces of sugar, two ounces of coffee or cocoa or one-half ounce of tea and one ounce of condensed milk or evaporated cream; and a weekly allowance of one-half pound of macaroni, four ounces of cheese, four ounces of toma-680toes, one-half pint of vinegar, one-half pint of pickles, one-half pint of molasses, four ounces of salt, one-quarter ounce of pepper, and one-half ounce of dry mustard.
Five pounds of lard or a suitable substitute shall be allowed for every hundred pounds of flour issued as bread, and such quantities of yeast as may be necessary.” " [R. S., sec. 1581, p. 270](/us/rs/s1581/p270), amended.That section fifteen hundred and eighty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: " “Sec. 1581. Substitute ration. The following substitution for the components of the ration may be made when deemed necessary by the senior officer present in command:
“For one and one-quarter pounds of salt or smoked meat or one pound of preserved meat, one and three-quarters pounds of fresh meat; in lieu of the article usually issued with salt, smoked, or preserved meat, fresh vegetables of equal value; for one pound of biscuit, one and one-quarter pounds of soft bread, or eighteen ounces of flour; for three gills of beans or peas, twelve ounces of flour or rice or eight ounces of canned vegetables, and for twelve ounces of flour or rice or eight ounces of canned vegetables, three gills of beans or peas.
” " Extra allowance.That an extra allowance of one ounce of coffee or cocoa, two ounces of sugar, four ounces of bard bread or its equivalent, and four ounces of preserved meat or its equivalent shall be allowed to enlisted men of the engineer and dynamo force when standing night watches between eight o’clock postmeridian and eight o’clock antemeridian under steam. Substitution of tomatoes for potatoes repealed.[R. S., sec. 1584, p. 271](/us/rs/s1584/p271), amended.Vol. 21, p. 86.That section fifteen hundred and eighty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and so much of the Act of May third, eighteen hundred and eighty, “making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and for other purposes,” as authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to substitute desiccated tomatoes for desiccated potatoes, are hereby repealed.
Commuted funds, enlisted men.That money accruing from the rations of enlisted men commuted for the benefit of any mess may be paid on public bills to the commissary officer by the pay officer having their accounts. Contingent.Contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: For freight and express charges, fuel, books and blanks, stationery, advertising, furniture for general storehouses and pay offices in navy-yards; expenses of naval clothing factory and machinery for same, postage, telegrams, telephones, tolls, ferriages, yeoman’s stores, safes, newspapers, ice, transportation of stores purchased under the naval-supply fund, and other incidental expenses, two hundred thousand dollars.
Civil establishment.Portsmouth, N, H.Civil establishment, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: In general storehouses: Two bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one assistant bookkeeper, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one shipping and receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; in all, five thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.
Boston, Mass.Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: In general storehouses: One bookkeeper, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one shipping clerk, atone 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 seven-teen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, five thousand two hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents. New York, N., Y.Navy-yard, New York, New York:
In office of board of inspection: One writer, nine hundred dollars. In general storehouses: Three bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one assistant bookkeeper, at one thousand dollars; one assistant bookkeeper, at seven hundred and twenty dollars: two receiving clerks, at four dollars 681each 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-two 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 one hundred and seventy-three dollars and three cents. Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: In general storehouse:League Island, Pa, 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. Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: In general store-house:Washington, D. C. One bookkeeper, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one receiving clerk, at-one thousand dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one 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, Annapolis, Maryland: In general storehouse: OneNaval Academy. bookkeeper, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one receiving and shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents. Naval station, Newport, Rhode Island:
In general storehouse (trainingNewport, R. I. 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. Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: In general storehouses: Two bookkeepersMare Island, Cal. at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two assistant bookkeepers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each: one receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant clerk, at one thousand dollars.
In yard pay office; One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, nine thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents. Navy-yard. Norfolk. Virginia: In general storehouses: Two bookkeepers,Norfolk, Va. at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two assistant bookkeepers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant bill clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; 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. Naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: In general storehouses:Cavite, P. I. One clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one bookkeeper, at 682one thousand four hundred dollars; three assistant bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars; one shipping and bill clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; three storekeepers, at one thousand dollars each, three thousand dollars; one receiving clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars: one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant clerk, at one thousand dollars; two storemen, at nine hundred dollars each; in all, fifteen thousand eight hundred dollars.
Puget Sound, Wash.Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: In general storehouses: One principal clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two bookkeepers, 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 thirty-two dollars and twenty-eight cents; and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. bureau of construction and repair.Bureau of Construction and Repair. Preservation, repairs, etc., of vessels.Construction and repair of vessels: For preservation and completion of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; steam steerers, pneumatic steerers, steam capstans, steam windlasses, and all other auxiliaries; labor in navy-yards and on foreign stations; purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops; carrying on work of experimental model tank; designing naval vessels; 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, such as advertising, freight, foreign postage, telegrams, telephone service, photographing, books, professional magazines, plans, stationery, and instruments for drafting room, *Proviso.*Wooden ships.eight million dollars: *Provided,* That no part of this sum shall be applied to the repair of any wooden ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed ten per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material.
Construction plants.Portsmouth, N. H.Improvement of construction plants: Repairs to and improvement of plant at navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, thirty thousand dollars. Boston, Mass.Construction plant, navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Repair to and improvement of construction plant at navy-yard. Boston, Massachusetts, fifty thousand dollars. New York, N. Y.Construction plant, navy-yard, New York, New York; Repairs to and improvement of construction plant at navy-yard, New York, New York, fifty thousand dollars.
League Island, Pa.Construction plant, navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: Repairs to and improvement of construction plant at navy-yard. League Island, Pennsylvania, fifty thousand dollars. Norfolk, Va.Construction plant, navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Repairs to and improvement of construction plant at navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia, fifty thousand dollars. Mare Island, Cal.Repairs to and improvement of construction plant at navy-yard, Mare Island, California, fifty thousand dollars.
Puget Sound, Wash.Construction plant, navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: Repairs to and improvement of construction plant at Puget Sound Navy-Yard, Washington, seventy five thousand dollars. 683 Construction plant, naval station, New Orleans, Louisiana: ConstructionNew Orleans, La. plant at naval station, New Orleans, Louisiana, fifteen thousand dollars. Construction plant, naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: ConstructionCavite, P. I. plant at naval station, Philippine Islands, fifty thousand dollars.
Steel tugs, general service: Two steel tugs for general service, eachSteel tugs. seventy thousand dollars, one hundred and forty thousand dollars. Civil establishment, Bureau of Construction and Repair:Civil establishment.Portsmouth, N, H. Navy-yard, Portsmouth, Now 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 and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; in all, four thousand four hundred and fifty-one dollars and seventy-rive cents.
Navy-yard. League Island, Pennsylvania: One clerk to naval constructor,League Island, Pa. at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-rive cents; in all, two thousand four hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents. Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: One clerk to navalWashington. D. C. constructor, at one thousand four hundred dollars. Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: One clerk to naval constructor, atNorfolk, Va. one thousand four hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; in all, three thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents.
Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: One writer, at one thousand andPensacola, Fla. seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents. Naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina: One clerk to navalPort Royal, S. C. constructor, at one thousand four hundred dollars. Navy-yard, Marc Island, California: One clerk to naval constructor,Mare Island, Cal. at one thousand four hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; in all, three thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents.
Puget Sound Navy-Yard, Washington: One clerk to naval constructor,Puget Sound, Wash. one thousand four hundred dollars. In all, civil establishment. Bureau of Construction and Repair, twenty-five thousand eight hundred and twenty-four dollars and twenty-five cents; and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. That, in addition to the number of naval constructors and assistantAdditional assistant naval constructors.Vol. 30, p. 1007.*Post*, p. 1197. naval constructors now authorized, the appointment of six assistant naval constructors is hereby authorized, two to be appointed during the present calendar year and the remaining four in the calendar year of nineteen hundred and three. steam engineering.Bureau of Steam Engineering.
Steam machinery: For completion, repairing, and preservation ofSteam machinery. 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. For purchase, handling, and preservation of all material and stores;Materials. 684purchase, 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. Tests of liquid fuel.Tests of liquid fuel for naval purposes: For extended tests of liquid fuel from the California and Texas oil fields, under the direction of the Bureau of Steam Engineering, Navy Department, twenty thousand dollars.
Machinery plants.League Island, Pa.Machinery plant: Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: To complete equipment of the entire new system of steam engineering shops being constructed under appropriation made to the Bureau of Yards and Docks for building and repairing modern marine machinery, including the power plant and necessary machine tools, cranes, and appliances for handling work, to cost not more than two hundred and thirty thousand dollars, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
Norfolk, Va.Machinery plant: Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For some necessary modern machine tools, twenty-five thousand dollars. Mare Island, Cal,Machinery plant: Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: To complete equipment of the entire new system of steam engineering shops icing constructed under appropriation made to the Bureau of Yards and Docks for building and repairing modern marine machinery, including the power plant and necessary machine tools, cranes, and appliances for handling work (to cost not more than one hundred and eighty thousand dollars), eighty thousand dollars.
Puget Sound, Wash.Machinery plant: Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: To continue the equipment of the steam engineering shops being constructed under appropriation made to Bureau of Yards and Docks for building and repairing modern marine machinery, including the power plant and necessary machine tools, cranes, and appliances for handling work, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Civil establishment.Portsmouth, N. H.Civil establishment, Bureau of Steam Engineering:
Navy-yard. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: One clerk to department, at one thousand two hundred dollars: one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in ail, one thousand eight hundred dollars. Boston, Mass.Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: One clerk to department, one thousand four hundred dollars; in all, one thousand four hundred dollars. New York, N. Y.Navy-yard, New York, New York: One clerk to department, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand dollars;
League Island, Pa.Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: One clerk to department, at one thousand two hundred dollars; Norfolk, Va.Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: One clerk to department, at one thousand three hundred dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all, one thousand nine hundred dollars; Pensacola, Fla.Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: One writer, one thousand dollars; Mare Island, Cal.Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: One clerk to department, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand dollars: one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand dollars;
Port Royal, S. C.Naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina: One clerk to department, one thousand two hundred dollars; Puget Sound, Wash.Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: One clerk to department, one thousand two hundred dollars; one writer, one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand two hundred dollars; 685 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. of mathematics, one of chemistry, one of physics, and one of English, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; four professors, namely, one of English, two of French, and one of drawing, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; one assistant professor of Spanish, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; one sword master, at one thousand five hundred dollars, and two assistants, at one thousand dollars each; one instructor in gymnastics, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant librarian, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; one secretary to the Naval Academy, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks to the Superintendent, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one clerk to the, commandant of 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 cook, at three hundred and twenty-five dollars and fifty cents; one messenger to the Superintendent, at six hundred dollars; one armorer, at six hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one chief gunner’s mate, at five hundred and twenty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one quarter gunner, at four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one coxswain, at four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one seaman in the department of seamanship, at three hundred and ninety-seven dollars and fifty cents; one attendant in the department of navigation and one in the department of physics, at three hundred dollars each; six attendants at recitation rooms, library, store, chapel, and offices, at three hundred dollars each; one bandmaster, at one thousand and eighty dollars; twenty-one first-class musicians, at four hundred and twenty dollars each; seven second class musicians, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; services of organist at chapel, three hundred dollars; in all, fifty-live thousand one hundred and ninety-one dollars.
Pay of watchmen, mechanics, and others. Naval Academy:Watchmen, mechanics, etc. 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, grounds, wharves, and boats, thirty-eight thousand four hundred and twelve dollars and forty-five cents; in all, forty-six thousand two hundred and fifty-nine dollars and ninety-five cents.
Pay of steam employees, Naval Academy: Pay of mechanicsEmployees, steam engineering. and others in department of steam engineering, eleven thousand one hundred and fifty-four dollars and eighty-two cents. For special course of study and training of midshipmen, as authorizedAdditional training.Vol. 22, p. 285. by Act of Congress approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, three thousand dollars. For the purchase or construction of catboats for the special instructionPurchase of cat-boats. of midshipmen, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, four thousand five hundred dollars.
Repairs, Naval Academy: Necessary repairs of public buildings,Repairs, etc. wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, 686improvements, 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 thousand dollars.
ContingentContingent, 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, forty-two thousand dollars; stores in the departments of steam engineering, eight hundred dollars; materials for repairs in steam machinery, one thousand dollars; for contingencies for the, Superintendent of the Academy, to be expended in his discretion, one thousand dollars; apparatus for the instruction of midshipmen in the department of marine engineering and naval construction, five thousand dollars; purchase of sextants for the instruction of midshipmen *Proviso.*Payment to Walter L.
Steward.in the department of navigation, three thousand dollars: *Provided, *That the Superintendent of the Naval Academy is authorized to pay Mr. Walter L. Steward, from the appropriation “Contingent, Naval Academy,” the sum of forty dollars to reimburse him for damage done to his crops during a battalion drill of the midshipmen: in all, sixty-one thousand eight hundred dollars. Title “naval cadet” changed to “midshipman.”Appointment of midshipmen.[R. S., sec. 1513, p. 260](/us/rs/s1513/p260), amended.*Post*, p, 1197.The title “naval cadet” is hereby changed to “midshipman.
” That until the year nineteen hundred and fourteen, in addition to the naval cadets now authorized by law (the title having been changed by this Act to midshipmen), the President shall appoint five midshipmen, and there shall be appointed from the States at large, upon the recommendation of Senators, two midshipmen for each State. Total appropriation.In all, Naval Academy, two hundred and twenty-nine thousand nine *Proviso.*Restriction.hundred and five dollars and seventy-seven cents: *Provided, however, *That no part of the money appropriated in this paragraph or elsewhere in this bill shall be expended in the purchase of any history of the Spanish-American war written by Edgar Stanton Maclay, for use at the Naval Academy, in ships’ libraries, or in any other part of the naval establishment of the United States. marine corps.Marine Corps.
Pay.Pay, Marine Corps: For pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on the active list, four hundred and sixteen thousand nine hundred dollars. Rank, pay, etc., of present commandant.[R. S., sec. 1001, p. 273](/us/rs/s1001/p273).That from and after the date of the approval of this Act, the commandant of the Marine Corps shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of a major-general in the Army, and when a vacancy shall occur in the office of commandant of the corps, on the expiration of the service of the present incumbent, by retirement or otherwise, the commandant of the Marine Corps shall thereafter have the rank, pay, and allowances of a brigadier-general. 687 Pay of officers on the retired list:
For three colonels, three lieutenant-colonels,Retired list. one adjutant and inspector, one quartermaster, three majors, nine captains, three first lieutenants, and three second lieutenants, fifty-seven thousand seven hundred and sixty-live 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 two hundred and thirty-six thousand and twenty-eight dollars.
In addition to the enlisted force of the Marine Corps now authorizedAdditional force. by law there may be enlisted ten gunnery-sergeants, forty sergeants, sixty corporals, ten drummers, ten trumpeters, and six hundred and twenty privates. Pay and allowance of retired enlisted men: For one sergeant-major,Retired enlisted men. one drum-major, four gunnery-sergeants, eight first-class musicians, eleven first sergeants, twenty-nine sergeants, four corporals, one drummer, two fifers, and forty-two privates, and for those who may be retired during the year, thirty-seven thousand dollars.
Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged soldiers for clothingUndrawn clothing. undrawn, thirty thousand dollars. Mileage: For mileage of officers traveling under orders withoutMileage. troops, 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 brigadier-general commandant:Civil force.Office of commandant. One chief clerk, at one thousand five hundred and forty dollars and eighty cents; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, at nine hundred and seventy-one dollars and twenty-eight cents;
In the office of the, paymaster: One chief clerk, at one thousand sixPaymaster’s office. hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars and fifty-two cents; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twelve cents; 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, at oneAdjutant and inspector’s office. thousand five hundred and forty dollars and eighty cents; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars and fifty-two cents; In the office of the assistant adjutant and inspector: One clerk, 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. five hundred and forty dollars and eighty cents; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars and fifty-two cents; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twelve cents;
In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Washington, District ofAssistant quarter-master’s office. Columbia, or San Francisco, California: One clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, additional, for duty in the Philippines—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-five thousand four hundred andDisbursements. thirty-six dollars and twenty-three cents, and the money herein specifically appropriated for pay of the Marine, Corps shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law as pay of the Marine Corps, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund; 688 In all, pay Marine Corps, one million eight hundred and thirty-one thousand one hundred and twenty-nine dollars and twenty-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 hoard and lodging of recruiting parties, transportation of provisions and for ice for preservation thereof, four hundred and forty-five thousand and seventy-one dollars and fifty cents; and no law shall be construed to entitle marines on shore duty to any rations, or commutation thereof, other than such as now are or may hereafter be allowed to *Proviso.*Navy ration or com-mutation.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 commutation therefor.
Clothing.Clothing, Marine Corps: For noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates authorized by law, three hundred and eighty-two thousand dollars. Fuel.Fuel, Marine Corps: For heating barracks and quarters, for ranges and stoves for cooking, fuel for enlisted men, for sales to officers, maintaining electric lights, and for hot-air closets, thirty-five 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, Hags, waist belts, waist plates, cartridge belts, sashes for officer of the day, spare parts for repairing muskets, purchase and repair of tents and field ovens, purchase and repair of instruments for band, purchase of music and musical accessories, purchase and marking of medals for excellence in gunnery and rifle practice, good-conduct badges: for incidental expenses of the school of application, purchase of signal equipment and stores, for the establishment and maintenance of targets and ranges, and renting ranges, and for procuring, preserving, and handling ammunition and other necessary military sup-plies. fifty thousand two hundred and ninety-seven dollars.
Transportation and recruiting.Transportation and Recruiting, Marine Corps: For transportation of troops, including ferriage, and the expense of the recruiting service, one hundred and ten thousand 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; Mare Island, California: Bremerton, Washington; and Sitka, Alaska; for the renting, leasing, improvement, and erection of buildings in Porto Rico, the Philippine Islands, at Guam, and at such other places as the public exigencies require; and for per diem to enlisted men employed under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department on the repair of liar-racks, quarters, and other public buildings, forty-five thousand dollars.
Rent.Philadelphia, Pa.For rent of building used for manufacture of clothing, storing of supplies, and office of assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, five thousand five hundred dollars. Forage.Forage, Marine Corps: For forage in kind for horses of the quartermasters’ department, and the authorized number of officers’ horses, eleven thousand dollars. Hire of quarters.Hire of quarters, Marine Corps: For hire of quarters for officers689serving 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, twenty thousand seven hundred and forty-eight dollars.
Contingent, Marine Corps: For freight, tolls, cartage, advertising,Contingent. washing of bed sacks, mattress covers, pillowcases, towels, and sheets, funeral expenses of marines, stationery and other paper, telegraphing, rent of telephones, purchase and repair of typewriters, apprehension of stragglers and deserters, per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor for a period of not less than ten days, employment of civilian labor, repair of gas and water fixtures, office and barracks furniture, camp and garrison equipage and implements, mess utensils for enlisted men, such as bowls, plates, spoons, knives, and forks, tin cups, pans, and pots, and so forth; packing boxes, wrapping paper, oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, quarantine fees, camphor and carbolized paper, carpenters’ tools, tools for police purposes, iron safes, purchase and repair of public wagons, purchase and repair of public harness, purchase of public horses, services of veterinary surgeons and medicines for public horses, purchase and repair of hose, purchase and repair of fire extinguishers, purchase of fire hand grenades, purchase and repair of carts, wheelbarrows, and lawn mowers; purchase and repair of cooking stoves, ranges, stoves, and furnaces where there are no grates; purchase of ice, towels, soap, combs, and brushes for offices; postage stamps for foreign postage; purchase of books, news-papers, and periodicals; improving parade grounds, repair of pumps and wharves, laying drain, water, and gas pipes, water, introducing gas, and for gas, gas oil, and introduction and maintenance of electric lights; straw for bedding, mattresses, mattress covers, pillows, sheets; wire bunk bottoms for enlisted men at various posts; furniture for Government quarters and repair of same, and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but impossible to anticipate or classify, one hundred and three thousand seven hundred dollars. public works—marine corps.Public works.
Barracks and Quarters, Marine Corps: Construction of a fireproofBarracks and quarters. marine barracks, navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia, and necessary sewer-age and grading, one hundred thousand dollars; construction of a veranda on enlisted men’s quarters, navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida, three thousand five hundred dollars; installation of an electric lighting plant, marine barracks, navy-yard, New York, New York, three thousand five hundred dollars; installation of electric lights, marine bar-racks. navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, one thousand dollars; improvements, sewers, plumbing, and so forth, marine barracks, navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts, one thousand five hundred dollars; construction of a marine barracks, naval training station, San Francisco, California, thirty thousand dollars; officers’ quarters, Sitka, Alaska, erection of officers’ quarters at Sitka, Alaska, two thousand five hundred dollars, and the unexpended appropriations of two thousand five hundred dollars authorized in Act of June tenth, eighteen hundredVol. 29, p. 377. and ninety-six, and one thousand dollars authorized in Act of JuneVol. 31, p. 705. seventh, nineteen hundred, respectively, are hereby reappropriated for the erection of officers’ quarters at Sitka.
Alaska, two thousand five 690hundred dollars; for the erection of light frame buildings for the accommodation and protection of officers and enlisted men of the Marine Corps stationed on the island of Culebra, Porto Rico, five thousand dollars; in all, public works under Marine Corps, one hundred and forty-seven thousand dollars. Contracts with Carnegie Steel Company.All contracts of the Carnegie Steel Company, Limited, heretofore made between it and the United States, shall be completed by its successor, the Carnegie Steel Company, or its lawful successor, which has acquired and assumed, or may acquire and assume, all of its assets and all of its liabilities under the said contracts.
And the said Carnegie Steel Company, or its lawful successor, upon giving security in proper form and amount, conditioned for the performance by it of the said contracts according to the true intent and meaning thereof, shall be substituted therein for the said Carnegie Steel Company, Limited, and be entitled to exercise all rights thereunder which the said Carnegie Steel Company, Limited, had or would have had if it had continued in existence. increase of the navy.Increase of the Navy.
Two first-class battle ships.That for the purpose of further increasing the naval establishment of the United States, the President is hereby authorized to have constructed by contract two 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 Two first-class armored cruisers.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 dollars each; two first-class armored cruisers of not more than fourteen thousand five hundred tons trial displacement, carrying the heaviest armor and most powerful armament for vessels of their class, and to have the highest practicable speed and great radius of action, and to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not Two gunboats.exceeding four million six hundred and fifty-nine thousand dollars each; two gunboats of about one thousand tons trial displacement, to cost, Contracts.when built, exclusive of armament, not exceeding three hundred and eighty-two thousand dollars each, and the 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 Construction.Vol. 24, p. 215.the best results and most expeditious delivery; and 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 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 approved by the Secretary of the Navy; and Limit for one builder.not more than two of the six battle ships, armored cruisers, and gun boats provided for in this Act shall be built by one contracting party.
Place of construction.One battle ship or one armored cruiser herein provided for shall be built on or near the coast of the Pacific Ocean or the waters connecting therewith; but if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the President from the bidding for such contracts that said vessel can not be constructedDecision as to Pacific coast. on or near the coast of the Pacific Ocean at a cost not exceeding four per centum above the owest accepted bid for the corresponding vessel provided for in this Ac , he shall authorize the construction of 691said vessel elsewhere in the United States, subject to the limitations as to cost hereinbefore provided: *Provided,* That the Secretary of the*Proviso.*One battle ship at a navy-yard.Construction at navy-yards in case of combination, etc., of builders.
Navy shall build one of the battle ships authorized by this Act in such navy-yard as he may designate: *Provided, further.* That the Secretary of the Navy shall build all 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.
The Secretary of the Navy is hereby instructed to keep an accurateReport, etc. account of the cost of inspection and construction of vessels provided for in this Act, whether built in Government yards or by contract, and report thereon to Congress, at each session, the progress of work and cost thereof, including the inspection of all the material going into the construction of said vessels, and, upon the completion thereof, to report a full and detailed statement showing the relative cost of inspection and construction in Government yards and by contract.
And for the purpose of preparing and equipping such navy-yard or navy-yards as may be so designated for the construction of any such vessels, the sum of one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for each of the navy-yards in which the Secretary of the Navy may direct any such vessels to be built. Construction and machinery: On account of the hulls and outfitsConstruction and machinery. of vessels and steam machinery of vessels heretofore authorized, thirteen million three hundred and three thousand and ten dollars.
Armor and armament: Toward the armament and armor of domesticArmor and armament. manufacture for the vessels heretofore authorized, nine million dollars. Equipment: Toward the completion of the equipment outfit of theEquipment. new vessels authorized, four hundred thousand dollars. Approved, July 1, 1902.
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