Chapter 1481. Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 1481.— An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and for other purposes. March 3, 1905. [[H. R. 18467](/us/bill/58/hr/18467).] [[Public, No. 214](/us/pl/58/214).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Naval service appropriations. That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of tiny money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the naval service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, 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; Queers on the retired list; clerks to commandants of yards and stations; clerks to pay-masters 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, sail makers, warrant machinists, pharmacists, and mates, and also naval constructors and assistant naval constructors; 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 apprentices, including men in the engineers” force, and men detailed for duty with Naval Militia, and for the Tish Commission, thirty-four thousand five hundred men; and the number of enlisted men shall be exclusive of those undergoing imprisonment with sentence of dishonorableWarrant machinists. discharge from the service at expiration of such confinement; and as many warrant machinists as the President may from time to time deem necessary to appoint, not to exceed twenty in any one year: and two thousand five hundred apprentices under training at training stations and on board training ships, at the pay prescribed by law, seventeen *Proviso.*Unexpended balances.Vol. 32, pp. 662, 1177.million five hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the sum of two million five hundred thousand dollars from the unexpended balances remaining in the Treasury under appropriations “Pay of the Navy, nineteen hundred and two,” and “Fay of the Navy, nineteen hundred and three,” is hereby reappropriated for the “Pay of the Navy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six.” 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 prisons, and courts of inquiry, boards of inspection, examining boards, with clerks’ and witnesses’ fees, and traveling expenses and costs; .stationery and recording: expenses of purchasing paymasters’ offices of the various cities, including clerks, furniture, fuel, .stationery, and incidental expenses; newspapers and advertising; foreign postage; telegraphing, foreign and domestic; telephones’; copying; care of library, including the purchase of books, photographs, prints, manuscripts, and periodicals; ferriage, tolls, and express fees: costs of suits: commissions, warrants, diplomas, and discharges: relief of vessels in distress; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; reports; professional investigation: cost of special instruction at home and abroad, in maintenance of students and attaches and information from abroad, and the collection and classification thereof, 1093and other necessary and incidental expenses, six hundred thousand dollars.
Contingent, Navy: For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses,Contingent. exclusive of personal services in the Navy Department, or any of its subordinate bureaus or the offices at Washington, District of Columbia, arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, to be expended on the approval and authority of the Secretary of the Navy, and for such purposes as he may deem proper, sixty-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the accounting officers of the TreasuryProviso.Allowance to civilian employees in island possessions. are hereby authorized and directed to allow, in the settlement of the accounts of disbursing officers involved, payments made under the appropriation “Contingent, Navy,” 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 six. bureau of navigation.Bureau of Navigation.
Transportation, recruiting, and contingent: Transportation:Transportation. For the transportation of enlisted men and apprentices at home and abroad, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof, transportation to their homes, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentices discharged on medical survey, with subsistence and transfers en route or cash in lieu thereof; transportation to the places of enlistment, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentices discharged on account of expiration of enlistment, with subsistence and transfers en route or cash in lieu thereof; transportation of sick or insane enlisted persons to hospital, with subsistence and transfers en route or cash in lieu thereof; apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, and for railway guides and other expenses incident to transportation, three hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
Recruiting: Expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent ofRecruiting. rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentices, and all other expenses attending the, recruiting of the naval service, including actual and necessary expenses in lieu of mileage to officers on duty with traveling recruiting parties, ninety thousand one hundred and forty-one dollars. Contingent: Advertising, telegraphing on public business, postageContingent. on letters sent abroad, ferriage, ice, continuous-service certificates, discharges, good-conduct badges, and medals for men and boys; transportation of effects of deceased officers and enlisted men of the Navy; books for training for apprentices and landsmen; maintenance of gunnery and other training classes; packing boxes and materials, and other contingent expenses and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation, unforeseen and impossible to classify, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Gunnery exercises: Prizes, trophies, and badges for excellenceGunnery exercises. in gunnery exercises and target practice; for the establishment and maintenance of shooting galleries, target houses, targets and ranges; for hiring established ranges, and for transportation of men and equipment to and from ranges, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Outfits on first enlistment: Outfits for all enlisted men andOutfits. apprentices of the Navy on first enlistment, twelve thousand six hundred men and apprentices, at forty-five dollars each, five hundred and sixty-seven thousand dollars.
Maintenance of colliers: Pay, transportation, shipping, andMaintenance of colliers. subsistence of civilian officers and crews of naval colliers, and all expenses connected with naval colliers employed in emergencies which cannot be paid from other appropriations, three hundred and ninety-three thousand and eighty-four dollars. 1094 Naval training station.Yerba Buena Island, Cal.Naval training station, California: Maintenance of naval 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-war fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance mi same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same; tire engines and extinguishers: boats and gymnastic implements: models and other articles needed an instruction of apprentices: printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating, lighting, and furniture: stationery, books, and periodicals; fresh water, ice, and washing; express-age; packing boxes and materials; postage and telegraphing: telephones, and all other contingent expenses, fifty thousand dollars.
Coasters Harbor Island, R. I.Naval training Station, Rhode Island: Maintenance of naval 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 cure, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and wharves; wharfage. ferriage, and street-car fare; purchase and maintenance of livestock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same; tire engines and extinguishers: boats and gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentices; printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating, lighting, and furniture; stationery, books, and periodicals; fresh water, ice, .and washing; expressage: packing boxes and materials; postage and telegraphing; telephones, and all other contingent expenses; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentices, one thousand dollars: in all, sixty-one thousand dollars, Naval War College, R.
I.Naval War College, Rhode Island: For maintenance of the Naval War College on Coasters Harbor Island, and care of grounds for same, twelve thousand three hundred dollars; one draftsman, at one thousand two hundred dollars per year; services of a lecturer on inter-national law, one thousand dollars: services of civilian lecturers rendered at the War College, six hundred dollars: purchase of books of reference, four hundred dollars; one librarian, one thousand four hundred dollars per year: in all, sixteen thousand nine hundred dollars.
Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pa.Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: One superintendent of grounds, at seven hundred and twenty dollars: one steward, at four hundred and eighty dollars: one matron, at four hundred and twenty dollars; one beneficiaries’ attendant, at two hundred and forty dollars; one chief cook, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one assistant cook, at two hundred and forty dollars; one assistant cook, at one hundred and eighty dollars: one chief laundress, at one hundred and ninety-two dollars; five laundresses, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; four scrubbers, at one, hundred and sixty-eight dollars each: one head waitress, at one hundred and ninety-two dollars; eight waitresses, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each: one kitchen servant, at two hundred dollars; eight laborers, al 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 tor employees, fourteen thousand and seventy dollars.
Miscellaneous: Water rent and lighting, two thousand one hundred dollars: cemetery, burial expenses, and headstones, four hundred and fifty dollars: improvement of grounds, seven hundred and eighty dollars: repairs to buildings, boilers, furnaces, and furniture, eight thousand dollars; music in chapel, six hundred dollars; transportation of 1095indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, one hundred dollars; support of beneficiaries, fifty thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars: total miscellaneous, sixty-two thousand seven hundred and fifty-five dollars; in all, for Naval Home, seventy-six thousand eight 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 toddling ordnance material; for the armament of ships: for fuel material, and labor to be used in the general work of the Ordnance Department: for watchmen at magazines, powder factories, and powder depots: for furniture in ordnance buildings at navy-yards and stations: for maintenance of the proving ground and powder factory, and for target practice, three million dollars. Purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, five hundred thousandSmokeless powder. dollars.
Tools, such as milling machines, planer, burnisher, band saw, wood-turningPortsmouth, N. H.Machine tools. lathe, grindstone, and so forth, at navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, five thousand dollars. Traveling cranes for ordnance machine shop at navy-yard, New York,New York.Traveling cranes. six thousand three hundred dollars. Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia, namely: New andWashington Navy-Yard, D. C.Machinery, etc. improved machinery for existing shops, one hundred thousand dollars; the third-fourth boilers and installation of same, fifty thousand dollars: new locomotive, eight thousand dollars: in all, one hundred and fifty-eight thousand dollars.
Reserve torpedoes and appliances: For the purchase of reserveReserve torpedoes, etc. torpedoes and appliances, one hundred thousand dollars. Reserve guns for auxiliary cruisers: Toward the armament ofReserve guns, auxiliary cruise is.Vol. 26, p. 811. modern guns for auxiliary cruisers mentioned in the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and in section four ofVol. 27, p. 28. the Act approved May tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, fifty thousand dollars.
Reserve guns for ships of the Navy: Purchase and manufactureReserve guns for ships. of reserve guns for ships of the Navy, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: For labor, material,Torpedo station, Newport, R. I. freight and express charges: general each of and repairs to grounds, buildings, and wharves; boats, instruction, instruments, tools, furniture, experiments, and general torpedo outfits, sixty-five thousand dollars. Arming and equipping Naval Militia:
For and accouterments,Naval militia, equipment. etc. 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, Bureau of Ordnance: For necessary repairs to ordnanceRepairs. buildings, magazines, gun parks, boats, lighters, wharves, machinery, and other items of like character, thirty thousand dollars, and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall he used in payment for such service.
Miscellaneous, Bureau of Ordnance: For miscellaneous items,Miscellaneous. namely: Advertising, cartage and express charges, expenses of light and water at magazines and stations: tolls, ferriage, foreign postage, and telegrams to and from the Bureau, technical books, and incidental expenses attending inspection of ordnance material, twenty-five thousand dollars. 1096 Civil establishment.Portsmouth, N. H.Civil establishment, Bureau of Ordnance: Navy-yard, Ports mouth, Now Hampshire:
For one writer, at one thousand dollars; Boston, Mass.Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one writer, at one thousand dollars: New York, N. Y.Navy-yard, New York, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; League Island, Pa.Navy yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; Washington, D. C.Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia; For one chemist, at two thousand five hundred dollars; two foremen of gun factory, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; one ordnance engineer and computing draftsman for gun factory, three thousand dollars; one chief clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand one hundred dollars; three writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; one drafts-man. al one thousand eight hundred dollars: three draftsmen, at one thousand and eighty-one dollars each: one assistant draftsman, at seven hunted 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-seven thousand one hundred and six dollars and seventy-five cents;
Norfolk, Va.Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; Mare Island, Cal.Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; Indian Head proving ground, Md.Naval proving ground, Indian Head, Maryland: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars: one foreman of powder factory, two thousand dollars; one chemist for powder factory, two thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant chemist for powder factory, two thousand dollars;
Torpedo station, R. I.Naval torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: For one chemist, at two thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one draftsman, at one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, five thousand two hundred dollars; In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Ordnance, forty-seven thousand and six dollars and seventy-five cents; and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. bureau of equipment.Bureau of Equipment.
Equipment of vessels.Equipment of vessels: For hemp, wire, iron, and other materials for the manufacture of cordage, anchors, cables, gallons, and chains; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, hammocks, and other work: water for all purposes on board naval vessels, including the expenses of transportation and storage of the same: stationery for chaplains and for commanding and navigating officers of ships, equipment officers on shore and afloat, and for the use of courts-martial on board ship; the removal and transportation of ashes from ships of war; interior appliances and tools for equipment buildings in navy-yards and naval stations; supplies for seamen’s quarters; and for the purchase of all other articles of equipment at home and abroad, and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels and manufacture of equipment articles in the several navy-yards; all pilotage and towage of ships of war; canal tolls, wharfage, dock and port charges, and other necessary incidental expenses of a similar nature; services and materials in repairing, correcting, adjusting, and testing compasses on shore and on 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 1097and apparatus, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, rockets, and running lights; coin pass 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; service and supplies for coast-signal service; bunting and other materials for making and repairing nags of all kinds; photo-graphs. photographic instruments, and materials: musical instruments and music; installing, maintaining, and repairing interior and exterior signal communications and all electrical appliances of whatsoever nature on board naval vessels, except range tinders, battle order and range transmitters and indicators, and motors and their controlling apparatus used to operate the machinery belonging to other bureaus, three million dollars.
Depots for coal: To enable the Secretary of the Navy to executeCoal depots.[R. S., sec. 1552, p. 264](/us/rs/s1552/p264). the provisions of section fifteen hundred and fifty two of the Revised Statutes, authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to establish, at such places as he may deem necessary, suitable depots for coal and other fuel, for the supply of steamships of war. including the purchase of necessary land, three hundred thousand dollars. Coal and transportation: Purchase of coal and other fuel forCoal, etc. steamers’ and ships’ use, and other equipment purposes, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same, and for the general maintenance of naval coaling depots and coaling plants, two million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Contingent, Bureau of Equipment: Express charges on equipmentContingent. stores; packing boxes and materials, printing, advertising, telegraphing, books, and models; stationery: furniture for equipment of 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, eleven thousand dollars. Ocean and lake surveys: Hydrographic surveys, and for theOcean and lake surveys. purchase of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, and express charges on the same, seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided, *That of*Proviso.*Channel into Welles Harbor, Midway Islands. the above, a sum not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars may be expended by the Secretary of the Navy in procuring a survey and estimate of cost for a channel into Welles Harbor, Midway Islands.
Civil establishment, Bureau of Equipment: Navy-yard, Portsmouth,Civil establishment.Portsmouth, N. H. 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; Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one superintendent of rope-walk,Boston. Mass. at two thousand dollars; one clerk, atone thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand three hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; two writers, at nine hundred and fifty dollars each; one civil superintendent of chain shop, two thousand dollars; one civil superintendent of anchor shop, two thousand dollars: in all, eleven thousand eight, hundred dollars;
Navy-yard, New York, New York: For one clerk, at one thousandNew York, N. Y. 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, atone thousand two hundred dollars; in all, five thousand seven hundred dollars; Navy-yard. League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at oneLeague Island, Pit thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand four hundred dollars;
Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For two clerks, at one thousandNorfolk, Va. two hundred dollars each; one writer, at nine hundred and fifty dollars; in all, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; 1098 Mare Island, Cal.Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; one writer, at nine hundred and fifty dollars; in all, three thousand one hundred and fifty dollars: Washington, D. C.Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia:
For one clerk, who shall also perform the clerical duties for the board of labor employment at said navy-yard, one thousand six hundred dollars: Pensacola, Fla.Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: One clerk, one thousand dollars; Cavite, P. I.Naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: One master electrician, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight dollars; one clerk, one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight dollars; Port Royal, S. C.Naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina:
One clerk, one thousand dollars: Key West, Fla.Naval station, Key West, Florida: One clerk, one thousand dollars; Puget Sound, Wash.Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: One clerk, one thousand dollars; one clerk, one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand dollars; In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Equipment, thirty-eight thousand and twenty-eight dollars. bureau of yards and docks.Bureau of Yards and Docks. Maintenance.Maintenance of yards and docks: For general maintenance of yards and docks, namely:
For books, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of tire engines: lire 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 fires, lights, tire engines, and tire apparatus and plants: incidental labor at navy-yards; water tax, tolls, and ferriage; pay of watchmen in navy-yards; awnings and packing boxes, and advertising for yards and docks and other purposes; and for rent of wharf and storehouse at Erie.
Pennsylvania, for use and accommodation of United States steamer Michigan, and for pay of employees on leave, seven hundred and fifty-four thousand dollars. Contingent.Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For contingent expenses that may arise at navy-yards and stations, thirty thousand dollars. Civil establishment.Portsmouth, N. H.Civil establishment, Bureau of Yards and Docks: Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one messenger, at six hundred dollars: one foreman laborer and head teamster, at four dollars per diem, including Sundays; one janitor, at six hundred dollars; one pilot, at three dollars per diem, including Sundays; one draftsman, at four dollars per diem: one electrician, one thousand four hundred dollars; one stenographer and typewriter, one thousand dollars; one writer, nine hundred dollars; one telegraph operator and clerk, nine hundred dollars: one draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; one master of tugs, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, thirteen thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven dollars;
Boston, Mass.Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one messenger to commandant, at two dollars per diem; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen 1099dollars and twenty-five cents; one draftsman, at five dollars per diem; one master of tugs, at. one thousand two hundred dollars; one electrician, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one stenographer and typewriter, at three dollars and twenty-eight cents per diem; one bookkeeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, twelve thousand and forty-two dollars and eighty-nine cents;
Navy-yard, New York, New York: For one clerk, at one thousandNew York, N. Y. four hundred dollars; one time clerk, one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty five cents; one yard pilot, two thousand dollars; two masters of tugs, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; two writers, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; one foreman laborer, at four dollars and fifty cents per diem; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays: two messengers, at two dollars and twenty-five vents per diem each; one draftsman, at five dollars per diem; one quarterman, at three dollars per diem; one superintendent of teams, or quarterman. at four dollars per diem; one messenger to commandant, at two dollars and twenty-five vents 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; one master of tugs, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, twenty-three thousand one hundred and sixty-six dollars and thirteen cents;
Naval station, Sacketts Harbor, New York: For one ship keeper,Sacketts Harbor, N. Y. at three hundred and sixty-five dollars per annum; Navy-yard. League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at oneLeague Island, Pa. thousand four hundred dollars; one writer and telegraph operator, at one thousand dollars; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one master of tugs, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one draftsman, at five dollars per diem; one electrician, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one master of tugs, at one thousand dollars; one foreman joiner, at four dollars per diem; one stenographer and typewriter, civil engineer’s office, one thousand dollars; in all, twelve thousand four hundred and twenty five dollars.
Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one clerk, atWashington, D. C. one thousand four hundred dollars; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one electrician, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one time clerk, nine hundred dollars; in all, six thousand five hundred and ninety-five dollars and twenty-five cents; Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For one clerk, at one thousand fourNorfolk, Va. hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one writer, at one thousand dollars; one fore-man laborer, at four dollars per diem; one electrician, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; two messengers, at two dollars per diem each; one pilot, at two dollars and twenty-six cents per diem; one master of tugs, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one draftsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; one bookkeeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; one foreman mechanic, at four dollars and twenty-four cents per diem, one thousand three hundred and twenty-seven dollars and twelve cents; one foreman of teams, at two dollars and twenty-four cents per diem, seven hundred and one dollars and twelve cents; one messenger and janitor, civil engineers office, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays, seven hundred and thirty dollars; one stenographer and typewriter, civil engineer’s office, one thousand two hundred dol-1100lars; in all, sixteen thousand six hundred and sixteen dollars and eighty-seven 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; one electrician, atone thousand four hundred dollars; one draftsman, at four dollars per diem, one thousand two hundred and fifty-two dollars; one foreman laborer, at three dollars and fifty-two cents per diem, one thousand one hundred and one dollars and seventy-six cents; one stenographer, typewriter, and telegraph operator, at three dollars and four cents per diem, nine hundred and fifty-one dollars and fifty-two cents; one writer, at two dollars and eighty cents per diem, eight hundred and seventy-six dollars and forty cents; in all, seven thousand five hundred and eleven dollars and sixty-eight cents:
Port Royal, S. C.Naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina: One messenger and janitor, one dollar and fifty cents per diem; one telegraph operator, including Sundays, two dollars per diem: in all, one thousand one hundred and ninety-nine dollars and fifty cents; Key West, Fla.Naval station, Key West, Florida: For one mail messenger, at six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars: one messenger and janitor, at one dollar and seventy-six cents per diem; in all, two thousand six hundred and forty-two dollars and forty cents;
New Orleans, La.Navy-yard, New Orleans, Louisiana: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one rodman and inspector, at three dollars per diem; one messenger and janitor, at one dollar and fifty cents per diem; one stenographer and typewriter, civil engineer’s office, at nine hundred and fifty dollars; one messenger and janitor, civil engineer’s office, at two dollars per diem, including Holidays, seven hundred and thirty dollars; one foreman laborer, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one draftsman, at one. thousand five hundred dollars; one messenger, commandant’s office, at two dollars per diem, including Sun-days, seven hundred and thirty dollars: in all, seven thousand seven hundred and ninety-six dollars and fifty cents;
Mare Island, Cal.Navy-yard. Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one foreman mason, at six dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at five dollars and fifty cents per diem; one pilot, at one thousand five, hundred dollars per annum; one draftsman, at five dollars per diem; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one electrician, atone thousand four hundred dollars; one foreman joiner, at four dollars and fifty-six cents per diem; one telegraph operator, at three dollars and twenty-eight cents per diem; one clerk in civil engineer’s office, at one thousand dollars: in all, fifteen thousand two hundred and ninety-one dollars and sixty-seven cents;
Puget Sound, Wash.Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: One clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one draftsman, at five dollars per diem; one messenger and janitor, at one dollar and seventy-six cents per diem, including Sundays; one master of tugs, at one thousand two hundred dollars: one copyist, at nine hundred dollars; one electrician, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one writer and telegraph operator, at nine hundred dollars: one stenographer and typewriter, civil engineer’s office, at one thousand dollars: one writer, at nine hundred dollars; one messenger, at one dollar and seventy-six cents per diem, five hundred and fifty dollars and eighty-eight cents; one foreman carpenter, at four dollars and fifty cents per diem, one thousand four hundred and eight dollars and fifty cents; in all, eleven thousand four hundred and sixty-six dollars and seventy-eight cents;
San Juan, P. R.Naval station, San Juan, Porto Rico: One clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; one writer, commandant’s office, nine hundred and 1101sixty dollars; one mail messenger, four hundred and twenty dollars; one foreman, one thousand one hundred dollars: in all, three thousand six hundred and eighty dollars: Naval station, Hawaii: One writer, at one thousand and seventeenHawaii. dollars and twenty-five cents per annum: one messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; in all, one thousand seven hundred and 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: one clerk, commandant’s office, seven hundred and twenty dollars: one messenger, commandant’s office, one hundred and eighty dollars; in all, three thousand three hundred and sixty dollars. Naval station, Guam:
One clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars;Gunin. one foreman machinist, one thousand six hundred dollars: office messenger and janitor, six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand eight hundred dollars; In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Yards and Docks, one hundred and forty-three thousand four hundred and forty-three dollars and ninety-two cents, and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. public works, bureau of yards and docks.Public works.Bureau of Yards and Docks.
Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Railroad and rollingPortsmouth, N. H. stock, additions, five thousand dollars; sewer systems, extension, five thousand dollars; underground conduit system, to continue, ten thousand dollars; quay walls, to extend, seventy thousand dollars: grading, to continue, thirty thousand dollars: piers and slips, to extend, twenty-five thousand dollars: fittings for dry dock numbered two. thirty five thousand dollars; sidewalks and streets, five thousand-dollars; boiler shop for steam engineering, to cost completed not to exceed one hundred and forty thousand dollars, seventy-five thousand dollars: toward pattern shop for steam engineering, thirty-nine thousand four hundred dollars; rebuilding and extending coaling plant, thirty thousand dollars: telephone system, extension, one thousand dollars; naval prison,Naval prison, etc. administration building (to cost one hundred and thirty thousand dollars), seventy thousand dollars; in all, four hundred thousand four hundred dollars.
Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Sewer system, extensions,Boston, Mass. fifteen thousand dollars: paving, to continue, twenty-five thousand dollars; railroad system, extensions, twelve thousand five hundred dollars; water system, extensions, five thousand two hundred and thirty-dollars: track for traveling crane, extension, thirty-four thousand three hundred and ten dollars; fire-protection system, to extend, eight thousand five hundred dollars; foundations fmsteam engineering tools. four thousand two hundred and sixty dollars; approach to dry dock numbered one, forty-three thousand one hundred dollars; oil storehouse, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Boston, one hundred and sixty-two thousand nine hundred dollars.
Navy-yard, New York, New York: Paving and grading, to continue,New York, N. Y. ten thousand dollars: railroad system, extensions, eight thousand dollars; electric plant, extensions, ten thousand dollars; railroad equipment, additional, five thousand dollars: underground conduits, extensions, ten thousand dollars; severs and drains, additional five thousand dollars: latrines, additional, four thousand dollars: telephone system, extension, two thousand dollars; scale house and scales, six thousand dollars; auxiliary hoist for one-hundred-ton crane, twenty thousand dollars: bridge between buildings six and one hundred and fifteen, 1102one thousand two hundred dollars; improvement in building eight, one thousand dollars: in all, navy-yard.
New York, New York, eighty-two thousand two hundred dollars. League Island, Fa,Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: To continue retaining wall about reserve basin, one hundred thousand dollars; grading and paving, to continue, twenty thousand dollars; sewer system, extensions, ten thousand dollars; railroad system, extension, twelve thousand dollars; dreeing and filling in Delaware water front, to continue, thirty thousand dollars; water system, extension, five thousand dollars; lire-protection system, extensions, five thousand dollars; extension of reserve basin, to continue dredging, seventy-five thousand dollars: locomotive crane track, extension, twenty-five thousand dollars; underground conduit system, extension, fifteen thousand dollars: telephone system, improvements, two thousand five hundred dollars; extension of building twenty-four, three thousand dollars; locomotive crane for yards and (locks, seven thousand five hundred dollars; berth for receiving ship, twenty thousand dollars; water-closets, additional, five thousand dollars: pump and boiler for caisson, dry dock numbered one, two thousand dollars: piers, extensions, forty thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, League Island, three hundred and seventy-seven thousand dollars.
Washington, D. C.Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: Paving, to extend, eight thousand dollars; underground conduit system, to extend, five thousand dollars; dredging, to continue, five thousand dollars; building for electric power plant extension, to complete, seventy-five thousand dollars; lire and telephone station and naval prison building, fourteen thousand dollars; tire-protection system, to extend, five thousand dollars; railroad system, to extend, five thousand dollars; heating system, extension, five thousand dollars: water system, to extend, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Washington, one hundred and thirty-seven thousand dollars.
Charleston. S, C.Navy-yard, Charleston, South Carolina: Stone and concrete dry dock, to continue, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; approach to dry dock, fifty-seven thousand dollars; equipment for yards and docks workshop, five thousand dollars; grading and paving, fifteen thousand dollars; railroad system, extensions, five thousand dollars; railroad equipment, five thousand dollars; water system, extension, four thousand dollars; fire-protection system, five thousand dollars; machinery for yards and docks power house, fifty thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Charleston, South Carolina, three hundred and ninety-six thousand dollars.
Norfolk, Va.Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Piers and slips, to continue, fifty thousand dollars; dredging, to continue, five thousand dollars; electric plant, extensions, twenty thousand dollars; paving and grading, additional, seven thousand five hundred dollars; railroad rolling stock, additional, three thousand dollars; fire-protection system, extensions, five thousand dollars: heating system, extensions, three thousand dollars; locomotive, six thousand dollars; underground conduit system, ten thousand dollars; improvement to one hundred-ton shears, fifteen thousand dollars; telephone system, extension, two thousand dollars; sewers, extensions, three thousand dollars; wharf extension at Saint Helena, eight thousand five hundred dollars: roads at Saint Helena, four thousand dollars; storehouse and issuing room for clothing at Saint Helena, three thousand five hundred dollars; house for contagious diseases, two thousand five hand red dollars: in all, navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia, one hundred and forty-eight thousand dollars? Key West, Fla.Water supply, etc.Naval station, Key West, Florida:
Fire-protection system, extension, three thousand dollars; pumping plant for fresh water, five, thousand dollars: dredging and filling in. fifteen thousand dollars; water system, six thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Key West, Florida, twenty-nine thousand dollars. 1103 Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: Railroad system, extension,Mare Island, Cal. five thousand dollars: electric-plant system, extension, five thousand dollars: improvement of channel in Mare Island Strait, to continue, one hundred thousand dollars; sewer system, extensions, three thousand dollars; telephone system, extensions, one thousand dollars; paving and grading, to continue, ten thousand dollars; heating system, extension, five thousand dollars; addition to tire-engine house, building ninety-nine, four thousand dollars; two floats, four thousand dollars; improvements to building seventy-seven, one thousand five hundred dollars; improvements to building seventy-one, five hundred dollars; moving and improving washhouse, four thousand two hundred dollars; completion of torpedo-boat, wharf, three thousand dollars; shed for condemned provisions, one thousand dollars.
For the purpose of preparing and equipping yard for the construction of vessels, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Mire Island, three hundred and twenty-two thousand two hundred dollars. Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: Sewer system, extensions,Puget Sound, Wash. five thousand dollars; to continue grading, twenty thousand dollars; fire-protection system, extensions, ten thousand dollars: electric-light plant, extensions, ten thousand dollars; telephone system, extensions, one thousand five hundred dollars; railroad and equipment, extensions, six thousand dollars; boat shop for construction and repair, to equip and complete, twenty-five thousand dollars; waiter system, extensions, three thousand dollars; heating system, extensions, six thousand dollars; locomotive and crane track about dry dock, to continue, thirty thousand dollars; dredging, to continue, fen thousand dollars; quay wall, extension, twenty-five thousand dollars; roads and walks, extensions, five thousand dollars; joiner shop, for construction and repair, to complete, five thousand dollars; machinery for yards and docks, two thousand dollars: piers, additional, fifty thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington, two hundred and thirteen thousand five hundred dollars.
Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: Central power house (to complete),Pensacola, Fla. forty-four thousand five hundred dollars; tools for yards and docks, two thousand dollars; water system, ten thousand dollars; fire-protection system, five thousand dollars; closets and lavatories, three thousand five hundred dollars; garbage crematory, seven thousand five hundred dollars; machinery for central power house (to cost one hundred and twenty thousand dollars), fifty thousand dollars; railroad track and equipment, ten thousand dollars: telephone system, extensions, two thousand dollars: elevator for building numbered one, one thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Pensacola, one hundred and thirty-five thousand five hundred dollars.
Naval station. New Orleans, Louisiana: Improvement of waterNew Orleans, La. front, fifty thousand dollars; levee Improvement and grading, ten thousand dollars: paving, ten thousand dollars; sewer system, extensions, five thousand dollars; water system, extensions, five thousand dollars: machinery and tools for yards and docks shop, five thousand dollars; fire-protection system, ten thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, New Orleans, ninety-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the appropriation*Proviso.*Officers’ quarters of ten thousand dollars for quarters for commandant and two officers’ quarters for fourteen thousand dollars, authorized under the naval appropriation Act for nineteen hundred and three, and two officers’ quarters for ten thousand dollars, authorized under the naval appropriation Act for nineteen hundred and five, are hereby consolidated for four officers’ quarters at the naval station, New-Orleans, Louisiana.
Naval station, Tutuila, Samoan Islands: Lumber shed, five hundredTutuila. dollars; boathouse, five hundred dollars; in all, naval station. Tutuila. one thousand dollars. Naval station, Olongapo, Philippine Islands: Repairs to existingOlongapo, P. I.Repairs, etc. buildings, twenty-five thousand dollars; drainage canal to com-1104plete, twenty-five thousand dollars; water system, to extend, twenty thousand dollars: roads and bridges, five thousand dollars; sewer system. fifteen thousand dollars: tools for general use, two thousand dollars; hoisting machinery, four thousand dollars; rock crusher and appurtenances, four thousand dollars; in all, one hundred thousand dollars.
Guam.Natal station, island of Guam: Dredging, five thousand dollars; extension of naval-station roads, five thousand dollars; in all, ten thousand dollars. Plans, etc.Plans and specification’s for public works: Plans and estimates required by section thirty-six hundred and sixty-three, Revised Statutes, and plans and specifications for public works, thirty thousand dollars. Repairs and preservation.Repairs and preservation at navy-yards: For repairs and preservation at navy-yards and stations, five hundred thousand dollars.
Total public works, three million one hundred and thirty-nine thousand seven hundred dollars. public works under the secretary of the navy.Public works. Naval Academy.New buildings.Buildings and grounds, Naval Academy: Toward the construction of buildings, and for other necessary improvements at the Naval Vol. 31, p. 696: Vol. 32, p. 1188.Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, as authorized by the Acts of Congress approved June seventh, nineteen hundred, and March third, nineteen hundred and three, eight hundred thousand dollars. public works under bureau of navigation.Public works.Bureau of Navigation.
Training stations, California.Naval training station, California, buildings: To complete salt water fire pumping system, hose, and hose houses, two thousand dollars: to complete and repair roads to wireless telegraph station on lull, one thousand five hundred dollars; painting outside and inside of officers’ quarters, and repairs, two thousand dollars; necessary work on road from Pensacola wharf to barracks, five thousand dollars: heating mains, four thousand five hundred dollars; in all, fifteen thousand dollars.
Rhode Island.Naval training station, Rhode Island, buildings: Extension of buildings, increase of heating and lighting plants to afford sufficient capacity for new barracks and lecture room, and enlarging and covering coal bin, forty thousand dollars: additional story to assembly, lecture, and reading room, completion of same in accordance with original plans, and furnishing of same, eleven thousand five hundred dollars; lire engine, with hose wagon, one thousand feet of hose, and small hose house, nine thousand dollars; furnishing the three double sets of officers’ quarters, papering walls, oiling floors, supplying carpets and window shades, constructing roads and walks, and terracing, eleven thousand dollars; repairs to timber wharf and renewal of worn-out piling, two thousand dollars: feed cable for connecting the generating plant with officers’ new quarters, one thousand dollars; in all, naval training station.
Rhode Island, seventy-four thousand five hundred dollars. Naval War College, R. I.Naval War College, Rhode Island, buildings: For furniture for officers’ quarters in building numbered ten formerly belonging to training station, two thousand dollars; for alterations to main war college building to improve lecture room, provide more committee rooms and offices, new entrance in rear, and change main stairway, repairs to and painting of main building, repairs to elect He installations, and providing new feeder from generator station, three thousand dollars: in all, five thousand dollars.
In all, public works, Bureau of Navigation, ninety-four thousand five hundred dollars. 1105 public works, bureau of ordnance.Public works.Bureau of Ordnance. Naval magazine, New York Harbor (Iona Island): Steam fireIona Island.Naval magazine. pump, two thousand dollars; new roof for administration building and repairs to walls, two thousand dollars; in all, four thousand dollars. Naval magazine, Dover, New Jersey: For naval powder depot,Dover, N. J.Naval powder depot.Grading, etc., water supply reservation.
Lake Denmark, New Jersey: Cleaning, filling in. grading, and erecting fences on tract of seventy-eight acres acquired by purchase last year as a source of water supply for the reservation, six thousand dollars; standpipe, one hundred and eighty thousand gallons capacity, for tire protection, electric pump for filling same, and extension to pump house for its accommodation, eleven thousand eight hundred dollars; thirteen small houses, each five by six feet, to be erected at hydrants for protection of hose kept for lire protection, one thousand six hundred dollars: new charging station and pipes for extension of supply of air for air locomotive, seven hundred and fifty dollars; retaining wall, fixed ammunition house numbered one, five hundred dollars; eco magneto watchman’s clock system, to insure proper watch service, two thousand dollars.
In all, naval magazine. Dover, Lake Denmark, New Jersey, twenty-two thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. Naval magazine, Saint Juliens Creek, Norfolk, Virginia:Norfolk, Va.Naval magazine. Repairing telephone line from navy-yard, one thousand dollars: improvement of the lire system, water tower and tank, pumping machinery, sprinklers, additional pipes, valves, and relaying pipes, fifteen thousand dollars: two steel frame corrugated galvanized-iron filling houses, twenty by thirty feet each, at one thousand dollars, two thousand dollars: in all, eighteen thousand dollars.
Naval proving ground, Indian Head, Maryland: Repairs toIndian Head proving ground, Md. creek wharf and water front, three thousand dollars: magazines for experimental purposes, seven thousand dollars; repairs to nitric-acid factory, ten thousand dollars; for grading, draining, clearing brush, five thousand dollars; in all, naval proving ground. Indian Head, twenty-five thousand dollars. Naval magazine, Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania: Fresh-water cisternFort Mifflin. Pa.Naval magazine. of about sixty-five thousand gallons capacity, with pump and connections, one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars: rebuild sea wall west of pier, ten thousand dollars; renew cribwork and repair wharf, five thousand dollars; in all, sixteen thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
Total public works under Bureau of Ordnance, eighty-six thousand two hundred dollars. public works under bureau of equipment.Public works, Bureau of Equipment. Naval Observatory: Grounds and roads; continuing grading, extendingNaval observatory.Grounds and roads. roads and paths, clearing and improving grounds, ten thousand dollars. public works under bureau of medicine and surgery.Public works, Bureau Medicine and surgery. Naval hospital, Chelsea, Massachusetts: Changing officers’Chelsea, Mass., hospital. quarters into wards for enlisted men, and building quarters for officers outside of naval hospital, twenty thousand dollars.
Total public works under Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, twenty thousand dollars. bureau of medicine and surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Medical Department: For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels inSurgeons’ necessaries. commission, navy-yards, naval stations. Marine Corps, and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy-yards, naval labora-1106tory, museum of hygiene and department of instruction, and Naval Academy, two hundred and forty 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 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 hooks, and pamphlets; postage and purchase of stamps for foreign service: 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 and department of instruction, naval dispensary.
Washington, naval laboratory, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, surgeons’ offices and dispensaries at navy yards and naval stations, surgeons’ quarters at naval hospitals; washing for medical department at museum of hygiene and department of instruction, naval dispensary, Washington, naval laboratory, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, dispensaries at navy-yards and naval stations, and ships and rendezvous: and for minor repairs on buildings and grounds of the United States Naval Museum of Hygiene and Department of Instruction: for the care, maintenance, and treatment of the insane of the Navy and Marine Corps on the Pacific coast, and all other necessary contingent expenses; in all, fifty thousand dollars.
Transferring home remains of officers, etc.Transportation of remains: To enable the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transferred 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, and also to enable the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of civilian employees who die outside of the continental *Proviso.*Application of fund.limits of the United States, ten thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the sum herein appropriated shall he available for payment for transportation of the remains of officers and men who have died while on duty at any time since April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and shall be available until used, and applicable to past as well as future obligations.
Repairs.Repairs, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For necessary repairs of naval laboratory, naval hospitals, and appendages, including roads, wharves, outhouses, sidewalks, fences, gardens, farms, and cemeteries, forty-five thousand dollars, bureau of supplies and accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. Provisions, etc.Provisions, Navy: For provisions and commuted rations for the seamen and marines, which commuted rations may be paid to caterers of messes, in case of death or desertion, upon orders of the commanding officers, commuted rations for officers on sea duty (other than commissioned officers of the line, Medical and Pay corps, and chief 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 store houses and paymasters’ offices in navy-yards, including naval stations maintained in island possessions under the control of the 1107United States, and expenses in handling stores purchased under the naval-supply fund; one chemist, at two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, and two chemists, at two thousand dollars each per annum, five million two hundred and twenty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That*Proviso.*Sales to civilian employees. pay department stores may be sold to civilian employees at naval stations beyond the continental limits of the United States and in Alaska, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe.
Contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: For expressage,Contingent. 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, and other incidental expenses, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: All freight charges pertainingFreight. to the Navy Department and its bureaus, except the transportation of coal for the Bureau of Equipment, four hundred thousand dollars.
Civil establishment, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: Navy-yard,Civil establishment.Portsmouth, N. H. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: In general storehouses; Two Bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred .dollars each; one assistant bookkeeper, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one hill clerk, atone thousand dollars; one assistant clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one shipping and receiving clerk, atone thousand dollars; in all, five thousand eight hundred and forty dollars:
Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: In general storehouses: OneBoston, Mass. bookkeeper, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars; one receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; one bookkeeper, at one thousand two hundred dollars. In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents: in all, five thousand two hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents; Navy-yard, New York, New York:
In office of board of inspection:New York, N. Y. One writer, nine hundred dollars. In general storehouses: Three 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 each per diem; one assistant receiving clerk, at one thousand and ninety-nine dollars; three shipping clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant bill clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; two leading men, at two dollars and fifty cents each per diem; five pressmen, at two dollars and seventy-six cents each per diem; one box maker, at three dollars per diem; one engine tender, at three dollars and twenty-six cents per diem; one coffee roaster, at two dollars and fifty cents per diem; one fireman, at two dollars per diem: one messenger, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem; one writer, one thousand dollars; one storeman, nine hundred dollars; one principal clerk, provisions and clothing section, one thousand four hundred dollars; one principal clerk, supply fund section. one thousand four hundred dollars: one cloth inspector, at four dollars per diem, one thousand two hundred and fifty-two dollars.
In card pay office: One writer, atone 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 hill 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-1108five cents; in all, seven thousand one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents; Washington, D. C.Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: In general store-house: One bookkeeper, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars.
In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, six thousand four hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; Naval Academy.Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland: In general storehouse: One bookkeeper, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one receiving and shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars: in all, two thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; Newport, R. I.Naval station, Newport, Rhode Island:
In general storehouse (training station): One clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars. In general storehouse (torpedo station): One clerk, atone thousand two hundred dollars; in all, two thousand four hundred dollars; Mare Island, Cal.Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: In general storehouses: Two bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two assistant bookkeepers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant clerk, at one thousand dollars.
In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, nine thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents; Norfolk, Ya.Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: In general storehouses: Two book-keepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two assistant Bookkeepers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each: one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant bill clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; two receiving clerks, at nine hundred and forty-two dollars each.
In yard pay office: One writer, atone thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents: in all, nine thousand and fifty-five dollars and seventy-five cents: Cavite, P. I.Naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: In general storehouses; One clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one bookkeeper, at one thousand four hundred dollars; three assistant bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars: one. shipping and bill clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; three storekeepers, at one thousand dollars each, three thousand dollars; one receiving clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant clerk, at one thousand dollars: two store men, 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 throe 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 and completion of vessels.Construction and repair of vessels; For preservation and completion of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials 1109and 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; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat; general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; incidental expenses for vessels and navy-yards, inspectors’ offices, and bureaus, such as advertising, foreign postage, telegrams, telephone service, photographing, books, professional magazines, plans, stationery, and instruments for drafting room, seven million eight hundred thousand dollars; *Provided,* That no part of this sum shall be applied to the repair of*Proviso.*Wooden shifts. any wooden ship, when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed ten per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner of a new ship of the same size and like material.
Improvement of construction plants: Construction plant, navy-yard,Construction plants.Portsmouth, N. H. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Repairs to, and improvements of. plant at navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, fifteen thousand dollars. Construction plant, navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Repairs to,Boston, Mass. and improvement of. plant at navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts, twenty thousand dollars. Construction plant, navy-yard, New York, New York: Repairs to,New York, N. Y. and improvement of, plant at navy-yard.
New York, New York, twenty thousand dollars. Construction plant, navy-yard, League Island. Pennsylvania: RepairsLeague Island, Pa. to, and improvement of, plant at navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania, fifteen thousand dollars. Construction plant, navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Repairs to, andNorfolk, Va. improvement of, plant at navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia, twelve thousand dollars. Construction plant, navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: Repairs to, andPensacola, Fla. improvement of, plant at navy-yard, Pensacola.
Florida, fifteen thousand dollars. Construction plant, navy-yard, Mare island, California: Repairs to,Mare Island, Cal. and improvement of, plant at navy-yard, Mare Island, California, fifteen thousand dollars. Construction plant, navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: RepairsPuget Sound, Wash. to, and improvement of, plant at navy-yard, Puget Sound, Navy-Yard, Washington, twenty thousand dollars. Civil establishment, Bureau of Construction and Repair:Civil establishment.Portsmouth.
N. H. Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: One clerk to naval constructor, at one thousand four hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; in all, three thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents; Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: One clerk to naval constructor,Boston, Mass. at one thousand four hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty five cents each; in all, three thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents;
Navy-yard, New York, New York: One clerk to naval constructor,New York, N. Y. at one thousand four hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand one hundred dollars each: three writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; in all, eleven thousand three hundred and fifty-one dollars and seventy-five 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-five cents; in all, two thousand four hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; 1110 Washington, D.
C.Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: One clerk to naval constructor, at one thousand four hundred dollars; Norfolk, Va.Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: One clerk to naval constructor, at one thousand four hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; in all, three thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents; Charleston, S. C.Navy-yard, Charleston, South Carolina: One clerk to naval constructor. one thousand four hundred dollars;
Pensacola, Fla.Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: One clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, two thousand two hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; Mare Island, Cal.Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: One clerk to naval constructor, at one thousand four hundred dollars: two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; in all, three thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents;
Puget Sound, Wash.Puget Sound Navy-Yard, Washington; One clerk to naval constructor, one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; one clerk, at rune hundred dollars: in all, three thousand three hundred dollars; New Orleans, La.Naval station, New Orleans, Louisiana: One clerk to naval constructor, one thousand two hundred dollars: Cavite, P. I.Naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: One clerk to naval constructor, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, two thousand four hundred dollars; in all, three thousand eight hundred dollars.
In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Construction and Repair, forty thousand eight hundred and twenty-four dollars and twenty-five cents; and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. bureau of steam engineering.Bureau of Steam Engineering. Steam machinery.Steam machinery: For completion, repairing, and preservation of machinery and boilers of naval vessels, including cost of new boilers; distilling, refrigerating, and auxiliary machinery; preservation of and small repairs to machinery and boilers in vessels in ordinary, receiving, and training vessels, repair and care of machinery of yard tugs and launches, two million five hundred thousand dollars;
Materials.For purchase, handling, and preservation of all material and stores; purchase, fitting, repair, and preservation of machinery and tools in navy-yards and stations, and running yard engines, one million four hundred thousand dollars; Incidentals.For incidental expenses for navy vessels, yards, and the Bureau, such as foreign postage, telegrams, advertising, expressage. photo-graphing, books, stationery, office furnishings, and instruments, five thousand dollars; In all, steam machinery, three million nine hundred and five thousand dollars.
Machinery plants.New York, N. Y.Machinery plant, navy-yard, New York, New York: New and additional tools for copper, boiler, machine, and pattern shops and foundry, and for an additional portable tool house, and for a thirty-foot locomotive crane, forty thousand dollars. Pensacola, Fla.Machinery plant, navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: Tools for use in repair of naval vessels, to replace others worn out. fifteen thousand dollars.Pensacola, Fla. 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 all, one thousand eight hundred dollars; 1111 Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: One clerk to department, oneBoston, Mass. thousand four hundred dollars; in all, one thousand four hundred dollars; Navy-yard, New York, New York: One clerk to department, at oneNew York, N. Y. thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand dollars;
Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: One clerk to department, at one thousand two hundred dollars: Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: One clerk to department, at oneNorfolk, Va. thousand three hundred dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all, one thousand nine hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: One writer, one thousand dollars;Pensacola, Fla. Navy-yard. Mare Island, California: One clerk to department, atMare Island, Cal. one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand dollars;
Naval station, Port Royal. South Carolina: One clerk to department,Port Royal, S. C. one thousand two hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington; One clerk to department,Puget Sound, Wash. one thousand two hundred dollars; one writer, one thousand dollars: in all, two thousand two hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: One clerk to department,Washington, D. C. one thousand two hundred dollars; In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Steam Engineering, seventeen thousand nine hundred dollars; and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service.
That a line officer of the Navy may be detailed as assistant to theDetail of line officer as assistant chief of Bureau. Chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering in the Navy Department, and that such officer during such detail shall receive the highest pay of his grade, and in case of death, resignation, absence, or sickness of the Chief of the Bureau shall, unless otherwise directed by the President, as provided by section one hundred and seventy-nine of the Revised Statutes, perform the duties of such chief until his successor is appointed or such absence or sickness shall cease. naval academy.Naval Academy.
Pay of professors and others, Naval Academy: One professorPay of professors, etc. as bead of the department of physics, three thousand dollars. One professor of mathematics, one of chemistry, one of English, one of French, and one of Spanish, at two thousand five hundred dollars each. Four professors, namely, one of English, one of French, one of drawing, and one of Spanish, at two thousand two hundred dollars each. Three instructors, at two thousand dollars each. Four instructors, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each.
Ten instructors, at one thousand five hundred dollars each. One sword master, at one thousand five hundred dollars; one assist-ant. at one thousand two hundred dollars, and two assistants, at one thousand dollars each; one instructor in gymnastics, at one thousand two hundred dollars: one assistant librarian, al one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant librarian, at one thousand dollars: one secretary of 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 Superintendent, at one thousand dollars; one clerk to the commandant of midshipmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars: one writer to the commandant of midshipmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars: one clerk to the paymaster, at one, thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk to the paymaster, at one 1112thousand dollars; one dentist, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one baker, at six hundred dollars; one mechanic in department of physics, at seven hundred and thirty dollars; one mechanic in the department of ordnance, at nine hundred and fifty-one dollars and fifty-two cents; one cook, at three hundred and twenty-five dollars and fifty cents; one messenger to the Superintendent, at six hundred dollars; one armorer, at six hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one chief gunner’s mate, at five hundred and twenty-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; ten attendants at recitation rooms, library, store, chapel, armory, gymnasium, and offices, at three hundred dollars each; one bandmaster, at one thousand two hundred 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; one assist-ant instructor in gymnastics, one thousand dollars; one clerk to the Superintendent, nine hundred dollars; one assistant baker, five hundred and forty dollars: one mechanic in department of physics, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one cook, six hundred dollars; in all, ninety-eight thousand and forty-two dollars and fifty-two cents.
Pay of watchmen, mechanics, etc.Pay of watchmen, mechanics, and others, Naval Academy: Captain of the watch, and weigher, at two dollars and fifty cents per diem; seven watchmen, at two dollars per diem each; foreman of steam heating works of the Academy, at five dollars per diem: labor at power house, for masons, carpenters, and other mechanics and laborers; and for care of buildings and grounds, wharves, and boats, fifty thousand dollars; in all, fifty-seven thousand eight hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty cents.
Employees, steam engineering.Pay of steam employees, Naval Academy: Pay of mechanics and others in department of steam engineering, fifteen thousand two hundred and eighty-five dollars and ninety-four cents. Additional training.Vol. 22, p, 285.Special course of study and training of midshipmen, as authorized by Act of Congress approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, three thousand dollars. Repairs, etc.Repairs, Naval Academy: Necessary repairs of public buildings, wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, improvements, repairs, furniture; and fixtures, thirty-one thousand dollars.
Heating, etc.Heating and lighting, Naval Academy: Fuel, oil, waste, and other materials for the ope ration, repair, and maintenance of the plant: heating and lighting apparatus and tools: and for heating and lighting the Academy and bandsmen’s quarters, forty thousand dollars. Contingent.Contingent, Naval Academy: Purchase, binding and repair of books for the library and text books for the use of instructors (to be purchased in open market on the written order of the Superintendent), two thousand five hundred dollars; stationery, blank books, models and maps, two thousand five hundred 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 1113instruments, 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, sixty thousand dollars; stores in the departments of steam engineering, one thousand dollars: materials for repairs in steam machinery, one thousand five hundred 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, thirty thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and three thousand tire hundred dollars.
In all, Naval Academy, three hundred and forty-eight thousand six hundred and seventy-five dollars and ninety-six cents. marine corps.Marine Corps. Pay, Marine Corps: For pay and allowances prescribed by law ofPay.Officers. officers on the active list, five hundred and forty-five thousand nine hundred dollars; Pay of officers on the retired list: For one major-general, fourRetired list. colonels, four lieutenant-colonels, one adjutant and inspector, one quartermaster, one assistant quartermaster, two majors, nine captains, three first lieutenants, and four second lieutenants, seventy-seven thousand and eighty-five 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 dis-charge from the service at expiration of such confinement, and for the expenses of clerks of the Knifed States Marine Corps traveling under orders; including additional compensation for enlisted men of theAdditional.
Marine Corps regularly detailed as gun pointers, messmen, signalmen, or holding good conduct medals, pins, or bars, and the following additional enlisted men, namely, ten first sergeants, sixty-seven sergeants, one hundred and forty-two corporals, ten drummers, ten trumpeters, and one thousand privates, one million five hundred and fifty thousand six hundred and twenty-eight dollars,; Pay and allowance of retired enlisted men: For two sergeants-major,Retired enlisted men. one drum major, four gunnery sergeants, one quartermaster-sergeant, twelve first sergeants, thirty-four sergeants, seven corporals, eight first-class musicians, one drummer, one trumpeter, and forty-two privates, and for those who may be retired during the year, forty-two thousand dollars;
Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged soldiers for clothingUndrawn clothing. undrawn, forty-six thousand dollars; Mileage: For mileage to officers traveling under orders without,Mileage. troops, twenty-five thousand dollars; For commutation of quarters of officers on duty without troopsCommutation of quarters. where there are no public quarters, thirteen thousand dollars; Pay of civil force: In the office of the Brigadier-General Commandant:Civil force.Commandant’s office.
One chief clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, at nine hundred and seventy-one dollars and twenty-eight cents; In the office of the paymaster: One chief clerk, at one thousand sixPaymaster’s office. hundred dollars: one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; In the office of the assistant paymaster: One clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; In the office of the adjutant and inspector:
One chief clerk, at oneAdjutant and inspector’s office. thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars; , In the office of the assistant adjutant and inspector: One clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; 1114 Quartermasters office.In the office of the quartermaster: One chief clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each: one draftsman, at one thousand six hundred dollars;
In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Washington, District of Columbia, or San Francisco, California: Two clerks, at one, thousand four hundred dollars each; 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 six hundred dollars; one messenger, at eight hundred and forty dollars;
Disbursements.In all, for pay of civil force, twenty-eight thousand nine hundred and eleven dollars and twenty-eight 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; In all, pay Marine Corps, two million three hundred and twenty-eight thousand five hundred and twenty-four dollars and twenty-eight cents.
Provisions, etc.Provisions, Marine Corps: For noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates serving ashore, for commutation of rations to enlisted men regularly detailed as clerks and messengers, for payment of board and lodging of recruiting parties, transportation of provisions, and the employment of necessary labor connected therewith, and for ice for preservation of rations, five hundred and twelve thousand and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents; and no law shall be construed to entitle marines on shore duty to any rations, or commutation thereof, other than such as now are or may hereafter be allowed to enlisted men in the Army: *Proviso,*Navy rations or commutation.*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. five hundred and seven thousand three hundred and seventy 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, sixty-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, flags, waist belts, waist plates; cartridge belts, sashes for officer of the day. spare parts for repairing muskets, purchase and repair of tents and field ovens, purchase and repair of instruments for hand, purchase of music and musical accessories, purchase and marking of prizes for excellence in gunnery and rifle practice, good-conduct badges; for incidental expenses of the school of application; for the construction, equipment, and maintenance of school, library, and amusement rooms and gymnasiums for enlisted men, and the purchase and repair of all articles of field sports for enlisted men; purchase and repair of signal equipment and stores: for the establishment and maintenance of targets and ranges, and renting ranges, and for entrance fees in competitions; and for pro-curing, preserving, and handling ammunition, and other necessary military supplies, one hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars.
Transportation, etc.Transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps: For transpor-1115tation of troops, including ferriage and the expense of the recruiting service, one hundred and thirty-six thousand six hundred and twenty dollars. For repairs or barracks. Marine Corps: Repairs and improvementsRepairs of barracks. to barracks and quarters at Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Boston, Massachusetts; Narragansett Station, Rhode Island: New York, New York: League Island, Pennsylvania: Annapolis.
Mary-land; headquarters and navy-yard, District of Columbia; Norfolk, Virginia; Port Royal and Charleston, South Carolina; Pensacola, Florida: Dry Tottugas, Florida; Now Orleans, Louisiana: Mare Island and San Francisco, California; Bremerton, Washington; and Sitka. Alaska; for the renting, leasing, improvement, and erection of buildings in Porto Rico, the Territory of Hawaii, the Philippine Islands, at Guam, and at such other places as the public exigencies require; and for per diem to enlisted men employed under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department on the repair of barracks, quarters, and the other public buildings, sixty-six thousand three hundred and thirty-six dollars.
Forage, Marine Corps: For forage in kind for horses of theForage. Quartermaster’s Department, and the authorized number of officers’ horses, seventeen thousand seven hundred dollars. Hire of quarters. Marine Corps: For hire of quarters for officersHire of quarters. serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them; for commutation 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 inspectors, the assistant paymasters, and the assistant quartermasters, at twenty-one dollars each per month, and for enlisted men employed as messengers in said offices, at ten dollars each per month, thirty-five 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, including the transportation of bodies from the place of demise to the homes of the deceased in the United States, stationery and other paper, telegraphing, rent of 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, 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 lire hand grenades; purchase and repair of carts, wheel-barrows, and lawn mowers; purchase and repair of cooking stoves, ranges, stoves, and furnaces where there are no grates; purchase of ice, towels, soap, combs, and brushes for offices; postage stamps for foreign postage; purchase of books, newspapers, and periodicals; improving parade grounds, repair of pumps and wharves: laying drain, water, and gas pipes; water, introducing gas, and for gas. gas oil, and introduction and maintenance of electric lights; straw for bedding, mattresses, mattress covers, pillows, sheets: wire bunk bottoms for enlisted men at various posts; furniture for Government quarters and 1116repair of same, and for ail emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but impossible to anticipate or classify, two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.
Total under quartermaster, Marine Corps, one million seven hundred and forty thousand eight hundred and sixty-one dollars and fifty cents. Total Marine Corps, four million sixty-nine thousand three hundred and eighty-five dollars and seventy-eight cents. public works, marine corps.Public works. Barracks and quarters.Barracks and quarters, Marine Corps: Completion of guardroom, prison, and amusement room for enlisted men, Washington, District of Columbia, twenty-tire thousand dollars.
Water tower, rain-water cistern, pumps, and connections with local water service, navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia, twenty-five thousand dollars. Total public works under Marine Corps, fifty thousand dollars. increase of the navy. Increase of Navy.That for the purpose of further increasing the naval establishment of the United States, the President is hereby authorized to have constructed by contract or in navy-yards as hereinafter provided— Two first-class battle ships, 16,000 tons.Two first-class battle ships, carrying the heaviest armor and most powerful armament for vessels of their class upon a maximum trial displacement of not more than sixteen thousand tons; to have the highest practicable speed and great radius of action, and to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not exceeding four million four hundred thousand dollars each.
Contracts.And the contract for the construction of said vessels shall be awarded by the Secretary of the Navy to the lowest best responsible bidder, Construction.having in view the best results and most expeditious delivery; and in the construction of all of said vessels the provisions of the Act of Vol. 24, p. 215August 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 manufacture; 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 Limit for one builder.of the Navy; and not more than one of the vessels provided for in this *Provisos,*Construction in navy-yards if combination, etc., of builders.Act shall be built by one contracting party: *Provided,* That the Secretary of the Navy may build any or all of, the vessels herein authorized in such navy-yards as he may designate, and shall build any of the vessels herein authorized in such navy-yards as he may designate, should it reasonably appear that the persons, firms, or corporations, or the agents thereof, bidding for the construction of any of said vessels have entered into any combination, agreement, or understanding the effect, object, or purpose of which is to deprive the Government of fair, open, and unrestricted competition in letting contracts for the Limit of cost of scout cruisers increased.*Ante*, p. 350,construction of any of said vessels; *Provided,* That the limit of cost, exclusive of armor and armament, of each of the scout cruisers authorized by the Act making appropriations for the Na val Service, approved April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four, be one million nine hundred thousand dollars. 1117 Construction and machinery:
On account of the hulls, outfits,Construction and machinery. and machinery of vessels and steam machinery of vessels heretofore authorized, twenty-three million four hundred and ten thousand eight hundred and thirty-three dollars. Armor and armament: Toward the armament and armor of domesticArmor and armament. manufacture for vessels authorized, eighteen million dollars. *And provided further,* That the Secretary of the Navy shall cause*Proviso.*Cost of armor plate, etc.Report. a thorough inquiry to be made as to the cost of armor plate and of armor plant, the report of which shall be made to Congress.
Increase of the Navy, equipment: Toward the completion of theEquipment, new vessels. equipment outfit of the new vessels authorized, eight hundred and forty-five thousand dollars. Total increase of the Navy, forty-two million two hundred and fifty-five thousand eight hundred and thirty-three dollars. Approved, March 3, 1905.