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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 33 STAT. · April 27, 1904 · Chapter 1622

Chapter 1622. Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 1622.— An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, and for other purposes. April 27, 1904. [[H. R. 12220](/us/bill/58/hr/12220).] [[Public, No. 181](/us/pl/58/181).] *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 any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the naval service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, and for other purposes. pay of the navy.
Pay of the Navy. Pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on sea duty; officers on shore and other duty; officers on waiting orders; officers on the retired list; clerks to commandants of yards and stations; clerks to paymasters at yards and stations; general storekeepers; receiving ships and other vessels; commutation of quarters for officers on shore not occupying public quarters, including boatswains, gunners, carpenters, sailmakers, warrant machinists, pharmacists, and mates, 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 Fish Commission, Warrant machinists. thirty-one thousand live hundred men 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; the three thousand additional men herein authorized may be recruited upon the passage of this Act, and two thousand five hundred apprentices under training at training stations and on board training ships, at the pay prescribed by law, nineteen million three hundred and twenty-four thousand and ninety-three dollars. pay, miscellaneous.
Pay, miscellaneous. For commissions and interest; transportation of funds; exchange; mileage to officers while traveling under orders in the United States, and for actual personal expenses of officers while traveling abroad under orders, and for traveling expenses of civilian employees, and for actual and necessary traveling expenses of midshipmen while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment 325 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, and other necessary and incidental expenses, six hundred thousand dollars.
Contingent, Navy: For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, Contingent. exclusive of personal services in the Navy Department or any of its subordinate bureaus or the offices at Washington, District of Columbia, arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, to be expended on the approval and authority of the Secretary of the Navy, and for such purposes as he may deem proper, sixty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the accounting officers of the *Proviso*.
Allowance to civilian employees in island possessions. Treasury 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 five. bureau of navigation. Bureau of navigation. Transportation, recruiting, and contingent:
Transportation: Transportation. For the transportation of enlisted men and apprentices at home and abroad; transportation and subsistence en route to their homes, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentices discharged on medical survey; transportation and subsistence en route to the places of enlistment, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentices discharged on account of expiration of enlistment; apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, and for railway guides and other expenses incident to transportation, two hundred and fifty-four thousand dollars.
Recruiting: Expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent of Recruiting. rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentices, and all other expenses attending the recruiting for the naval service, ninety-seven thousand one hundred and forty-one dollars. Contingent: Freight, telegraphing on public business, postage on Contingent. 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 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, thirty thousand three hundred and fifty-eight dollars.
Gunnery exercises: Prizes, trophies, and badges for excellence Gunnery 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 to and from ranges, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. 326 Outfits. Outfits on first enlistment: Outfits for all enlisted men and apprentices of the Navy on first enlistment, ten thousand men and apprentices, at forty-five dollars each, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Maintenance of colliers. Maintenance of colliers: Pay, transportation, shipping, and subsistence of civilian officers and crews of naval colliers, and all expenses connected with naval colliers employed in emergencies which can not be paid from other appropriations, two hundred and twenty-four thousand six hundred and four dollars. Naval training stations. 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-car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same; fire engines and extinguishers; boats and gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentices; printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating, lighting, and furniture; stationery, books, and periodicals; fresh water, ice, and washing; freight and expressage; packing boxes and materials; postage and telegraphing; telephones, and all other contingent expenses, forty thousand dollars.
Coasters Harbor Island, R. I. Naval training station, Rhode Island: Maintenance of naval training station, Coasters Harbor Island, Rhode Island, namely: Labor and material; buildings and wharves; dredging channels; extending sea wall; repairs to causeway and sea wall; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and wharves: wharfage, ferriage, and street-car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same; tire engines and extinguishers; boats and gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentices; printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating, lighting, and furniture; stationery, books, and periodicals; fresh water, ice, and washing; freight and expressage; packing boxes and materials; postage and telegraphing; telephones, and all other contingent expenses; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentices, one thousand dollars; in all, fifty-six 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, eight thousand dollars; one draftsman, at one thousand two hundred dollars per year; services of a lecturer on international law, to be immediately available, one thousand dollars; services of civilian lecturers rendered at the War College, to be immediately available, six hundred dollars; purchase of books of reference, four hundred dollars; in all, eleven thousand two hundred dollars.
Naval Home, Philadelphia, 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, at two hundred and forty dollars each; one stable keeper and driver, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one master at arms, at four hundred and eighty dollars; two house corporals, at three hundred dollars each; one barber, at three hundred 327 and sixty dollars; one carpenter, at eight hundred and forty-five dollars; one painter, at eight hundred and forty-five dollars; one engineer for elevator and machinery, six hundred dollars; three laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; three laborers, at three hundred dollars each; total for employees, fourteen thousand and seventy dollars.
Miscellaneous: Water rent and lighting, two thousand one hundred dollars; cemetery, burial expenses, and headstones, three hundred and fifty dollars; improvement of grounds, seven hundred and eighty dollars; repairs to buildings, boilers, furnaces, and furniture, eight thousand dollars; music in chapel, six hundred dollars; transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, one hundred dollars; support of beneficiaries, fifty thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars; total miscellaneous, sixty-two thousand six hundred and fifty-five dollars; in all, for Naval Home, seventy-six thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund. bureau of ordnance.
Bureau of Ordnance. Ordnance and ordnance stores: For procuring, producing, preserving, Ordnance and ordnance stores. and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the general work of the Ordnance Department; for watchmen at magazines, powder factory, and powder depots; for furniture in ordnance buildings at navy-yards and stations; for maintenance of the proving ground and powder factory, and for target practice, two million dollars.
Reserve supply of ammunition, five hundred thousand dollars. Ammunition, reserve supply. Purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, five hundred thousand Smokeless powder. dollars. Purchase and installation of machine tools at the navy-yard, Boston, Machine tools. Massachusetts, five thousand dollars. Purchase and installation of machine tools at the navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, four thousand dollars. Purchase and installation of machine tools at the torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island, five thousand dollars.
Purchase and installation of machine tools at naval magazine, Lake Denmark, New Jersey, two thousand dollars. Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: Purchase of a fifteen-ton Washington Navy-Yard, D. C. Machinery, etc. wrecking car, seven thousand five hundred dollars; new and improved machinery for existing shops, one hundred thousand dollars; repairs to boiler plant, three thousand dollars; repairs to cranes, machinery, locomotives, and wrecking car, ten thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and twenty thousand five hundred dollars.
Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: Purchase and installation of Mare Island, Cal. Traveling cranes. overhead traveling cranes in building numbered one hundred and eleven, thirteen thousand two hundred dollars. Reserve guns for auxiliary cruisers: Toward the armament of Reserve guns, auxiliary cruisers. Vol. 26, p. 814. modern guns for auxiliary cruisers mentioned in the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and in section four of the Act approved May tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, one Vol. 27, p. 28. hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Reserve guns for ships of the Navy: Purchase and manufacture Reserve guns for ships. of reserve guns for ships of the Navy, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: For labor, material, Torpedo station, Newport, R. I. freight, and express charges; general care of and repairs to grounds, buildings, and wharves; boats, instruction, instruments, tools, furniture, experiments, and general torpedo outfits, sixty-five thousand dollars. 328 Naval Militia equipment, etc.
Arming and equipping Naval Militia: For arms, accouterments, signal outfits, boats and their equipment, repairs to vessels loaned to States in accordance with law, and the printing or purchase of the necessary books of instruction for the Naval Militia of the various States, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, sixty thousand dollars. Repairs. Repairs, Bureau of Ordnance: For necessary repairs to ordnance buildings, magazines, gun parks, boats, lighters, wharves, machinery, and other items of like character, thirty thousand dollars.
Miscellaneous. Miscellaneous, Bureau of Ordnance: For miscellaneous items, namely: Freight to foreign and home stations, advertising, cartage and express charges, expenses of light and water at magazines and stations; tolls, ferriage, foreign postage, and telegrams to and from the Bureau, technical books, and incidental expenses attending inspection of ordnance material, seventy-five thousand dollars. Civil establishment. Portsmouth, N. H. Civil establishment, Bureau of Ordnance:
Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one writer, at one thousand dollars; Boston, Mass. Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one writer, at one thousand dollars; New York, N. Y. Navy-yard, New York, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; League Island, Pa. Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; Washington, D. C. Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one chemist, at two thousand five hundred dollars; two foremen of gun factory, at two thousand 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 draftsman, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; three draftsmen, at one thousand and eighty-one dollars each; one assistant draftsman, at seven hundred and seventy-two dollars; two copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one telegraph operator and copyist, at one thousand dollars; in all, twenty-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, galleys, and chains; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, hammocks, and other work; water for all purposes on board naval vessels, including the 329 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 and apparatus, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, rockets, and running lights; compass fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ships’ compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship’s way, and leads and other appliances for sounding; lanterns and lamps, and their appendages for general use on board ship for illuminating purposes, and oil and candles used in connection therewith; service and supplies for coast-signal service; bunting and other materials for making and repairing flags of all kinds; photographs, photographic instruments and materials; musical instruments and music; installing, maintaining, and repairing interior and exterior signal communications and all electrical appliances of whatsoever nature on board naval vessels, except range finders, battle order and range transmitters and indicators, and motors and their controlling apparatus used to operate the machinery belonging to other bureaus, three million dollars.
Depots for coal: To enable the Secretary of the Navy to execute Coal 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, six hundred thousand dollars. Coal and transportation: Purchase of coal and other fuel for Coal, etc. steamers’ and ships’ use, and other equipment purposes, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same, two million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Contingent, Bureau of Equipment: For freight and transportation Contingent. of equipment stores; packing boxes and materials, printing, advertising, telegraphing, books, and models, stationery; furniture for equipment offices in navy-yards; postage on letters sent abroad; ferriage, ice, and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Equipment unforeseen and impossible to classify, thirty-five thousand dollars. Ocean and lake surveys: Hydrographic surveys, and for the purchase Ocean and lake surveys. of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, and freight and express charges on the same, seventy-five thousand dollars.
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 ropewalk, Boston, Mass. at two thousand dollars; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand three hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; two writers, at nine hundred and fifty dollars each; 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; 330 New York, N.
Y. Navy-yard, New York, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; two writers, at nine hundred and fifty dollars each; one clerk in charge of distribution of books, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, five thousand seven hundred dollars; League Island, Pa. Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand four hundred dollars;
Norfolk, Va. Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one writer, at nine hundred and fifty dollars; in all, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; Mare Island, Cal. Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; one writer, at nine hundred and fifty dollars; in all, three thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; Washington, D. C. Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia:
For one clerk, who shall also perform the clerical duties for the board of labor employment at said navy-yard, one thousand six hundred dollars; Pensacola, Fla. Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: One clerk, one thousand dollars; Cavite, P. I. Naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: One master electrician, at six dollars per diem (in lieu of one electrician, at five dollars and four cents per diem, now appropriated for), 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 freight, transportation of materials and stores; books, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines; fire apparatus and plants; machinery; purchase and maintenance of oxen, horses, and driving teams; carts, timber wheels, and all vehicles for use in the navy-yards; tools and repairs of the same; postage on letters and other mailable matter on public service sent to foreign countries, and telegrams; stationery; furniture for Government houses and offices in navy-yards; coal and other fuel; candles, oil, and gas; attendance on light and power plants; cleaning and clearing up yards and care of buildings; attendance on fires, lights, tire engines, and fire apparatus and plants; incidental labor at navy-yards; watertax, 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 twenty-five thousand dollars.
Contingent. Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For contingent expenses that may arise at navy-yards and stations, forty 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 Sun-331days; 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;
Navy-yard, Boston Massachusetts: For one clerk, at one thousand Boston, Mass. four hundred dollars; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one messenger to commandant, at two dollars per diem; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one draftsman, at five dollars per diem; one master of tugs, at one thousand two hundred dollars; 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 thousand New York, N. Y. four hundred dollars; one time clerk in lieu of one writer, one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one yard pilot, two thousand dollars; two masters of tugs, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; two writers, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; one foreman laborer, at four dollars and fifty cents per diem; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; two messengers, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem each; one draftsman, at five dollars per diem; one quarterman, at three dollars per diem; one superintendent of teams, or quarterman, at four dollars per diem; one messenger to commandant, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem, including Sundays; one messenger, yards and docks, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem; one stenographer and typewriter, at three dollars and twenty-six cents per diem; one electrician, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one bookkeeper, or accountant, at one thousand two hundred dollars; 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, at Sacketts Harbor, N. Y. three hundred and sixty-five dollars per annum; Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one League Island, Pa. thousand four hundred dollars; one writer and telegraph operator, at one thousand dollars; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one master of tugs, at one thousand two hundred dollars; 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, at one Washington, D. C. 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 four Norfolk, Va. hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one writer, at one thousand dollars; one fore-332man 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 engineer’s 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 dollars; 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, at one 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: For one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; one rodman and inspector, three dollars per diem; one messenger and janitor, one dollar and fifty cents per diem; one master of tugs, one thousand two hundred dollars; one mail messenger, including Sundays, two dollars per diem; one telegraph operator, including Sundays, two dollars per diem; one electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, six thousand five hundred and forty-six dollars and fifty cents;
Key West, Fla. Naval station, Key West, Florida: For one mail messenger, at six hundred dollars; 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 Sundays, 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 Sundays, 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, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one quarterman joiner, at four dollars and fifty-six cents per diem; one telegraph operator, at three dollars and twenty-eight cents per diem; one clerk in civil engi-333neer’s office, at one thousand dollars; in all, fifteen thousand two hundred and ninety-one dollars and sixty-seven cents;
Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: One clerk, at one thousand Puget Sound, Wash. two hundred dollars; one draftsman, at five dollars per diem; one messenger and janitor, at one dollar and seventy-six cents per diem, including Sundays; one master of tugs, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one copyist, at nine hundred dollars; one electrician, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one writer and telegraph operator, nine hundred dollars; 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;
Naval station, San Juan, Porto Rico: One clerk, one thousand two San Juan, P. R. hundred dollars; one writer, commandant’s office, nine hundred and sixty 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 seventeen Hawaii. dollars and twenty-five cents per annum; one messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; in all, one thousand seven hundred and forty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents;
Naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: One clerk, one thousand Cavite, 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; Guam. one foreman machinist, one thousand six hundred dollars; one 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-eight thousand seven hundred and ninety 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, navy-yards and Public works.
Bureau of Yards and Docks. stations, naval academy, and new naval observatory. Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Railroad and rolling Portsmouth, N. H. stock, additions, eight thousand dollars; sewer systems, extensions, five thousand dollars; tools for yards and docks, additional, two thousand dollars; electric plant, extensions, thirty-five thousand dollars; central heating plant, extensions, ten thousand dollars; steel-plant building, for construction and repair (to cost not to exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars), to complete, fifty thousand dollars; railroad and wagon scales, eight thousand dollars; electric elevators in new storehouse, eight thousand dollars; crane, hoists, and elevator for chain shed, six thousand dollars; underground conduit system, to continue, fifteen thousand dollars; to enable the Secretary of the Navy to continue and complete his examination concerning the fresh-water Water supply.
Vol. 32, p. 672. supply at the Portsmouth Navy-Yard, directed by the Act of July first, nineteen hundred and two, two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as maybe needed; in all, one hundred and forty-nine thousand dollars. 334 Boston, Mass. Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Sewer system, extensions, fifteen thousand dollars; electric-light plant, extensions, twenty thousand dollars; paving, to continue, fifty thousand dollars; railroad system, extensions, twenty thousand dollars; tools for yards and docks, five thousand dollars; underground conduit system, fifteen thousand dollars; approach to dry dock numbered two, fifty thousand dollars; capstans for dry dock numbered one, seven thousand five hundred dollars; wire-rope mill for equipment, sixty-five thousand dollars; anchor and chain shed for equipment, nine thousand three hundred dollars; in all, navy-yard, Boston, two hundred and fifty-six thousand eight hundred dollars.
New York, N. Y. Navy-yard, New York, New York: Paving and grading, to continue, ten thousand dollars; railroad system, extensions, ten thousand dollars; electric plant, extensions, twenty thousand dollars; tools for yards and docks, two thousand dollars; railroad equipment, ten thousand dollars; cranes, seven thousand five hundred dollars; underground conduits, thirty thousand dollars; sewers and drains, six thousand dollars; commandant’s quarters, additions, four thousand five hundred dollars; locomotive and car shed, extensions, five thousand dollars; heating system, extension, ten thousand dollars; latrines, additional, four thousand dollars; extension of building ten, two thousand five hundred dollars; granite and concrete dry dock, to continue, two hundred thousand dollars; prison on Cob Dock, fifty thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, New York, New York, three hundred and seventy-one thousand five hundred dollars.
League Island, Pa. Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: To continue retaining wall about reserve basin, eighty thousand dollars; grading and paving, to continue, twenty-five thousand dollars; sewer system, extensions, three thousand five hundred dollars; electric plant, extensions, one hundred thousand dollars; railroad system, extensions, five thousand dollars; dredging and filling in Delaware water front, to continue, thirty thousand dollars; water system, extension, eight thousand dollars; underground conduit system, eight thousand dollars; fire-protection system, extensions, ten thousand dollars; sea wall extension, fifty thousand dollars; one officers’ quarters, eight thousand dollars; extension of reserve basin, to continue dredging, seventy-five thousand dollars; locomotive crane track, extension, thirty thousand dollars; storehouse for naval supplies, to complete, eighty thousand four hundred and seventy dollars; in all, navy-yard, League Island, five hundred and twelve thousand nine hundred and seventy dollars.
Washington, D. C. Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: Building for power plant, extension, to complete, one hundred and thirty-five thousand nine hundred and sixty-four dollars; coal storage and handling plant for new power plant, nineteen thousand and eighty-four dollars; machinery for power plant, extension, two hundred and five thousand two hundred dollars; sewer system, to extend, ten thousand dollars: walls about extension of yard, thirty-two thousand dollars; grading, to continue, five thousand dollars; paving, to extend, ten thousand dollars; drainage, to extend, five thousand dollars; underground conduit system, extension, ten thousand dollars; dredging, five thousand dollars; electric-light plant, extension, five thousand dollars; telephone and time systems, extensions, two thousand dollars; pipe-fitters’ shop, twenty thousand dollars; one locomotive crane, ten thousand dollars; one one-hundred-and-fifty-ton platform scale, three thousand six hundred and seventy-five dollars; building for electric power plant, extension, ninety-seven thousand nine hundred and eighty-three dollars; in all, navy-yard, Washington, five hundred and seventy-five thousand nine hundred and six dollars.
Charleston, S. C. Navy-yard, Charleston, South Carolina: Machine shop for steam engineering, to complete, thirty-four thousand dollars; power 335 house for steam engineering, to complete, twenty-five thousand dollars; stone and concrete dry dock, to continue, three hundred thousand dollars; workshop, to complete, thirty thousand dollars; equipment building, to complete, sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars; shipfitters’ shop, for construction and repair, to complete, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; foundry, for construction and repair, to complete, fifty-five thousand dollars; storehouse and storekeeper’s office, to complete, fifty thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Charleston, South Carolina, seven hundred and six thousand five hundred dollars.
Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Purchase of land, four hundred Norfolk, Va. thousand dollars; railroad tracks, extensions, five thousand dollars; machinery and tools for yards and docks, additional, three thousand dollars; fitting-out basin, to complete, fifty-five thousand dollars; piers and slips, one hundred thousand dollars; dredging, five thousand dollars; renewing wharves at entrance to dry docks, fifteen thousand dollars; water-closet at dry docks, five thousand dollars; electric plant, extensions, twenty thousand dollars; storehouse for torpedo-boat outfits, fifty-five thousand dollars; paving and grading, ten thousand dollars; railroad rolling stock, three thousand dollars; fire-protection system, extensions, fifteen thousand dollars; heating system, extensions, two thousand dollars; electric crane in erecting shop, fifteen thousand dollars; concrete and granite dry dock, to continue, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; improvement to forty-ton locomotive crane, one thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia, nine hundred and fifty-nine thousand dollars.
Naval station, Key West, Florida: Fire-protection system, extension, Key West, Fla. two thousand dollars. Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: Railroad system, extensions, Mare Island, Cal. fifteen thousand dollars; electric plant, extensions, twenty-five thousand dollars; moving and improving building numbered one hundred and thirteen, five thousand dollars; improvement of channel in Mare Island Strait, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; storage shed for yards and docks, to extend, three thousand dollars; freight shed, building forty-nine, to extend, three thousand dollars; dry dock water-closets and bath house, to complete, three thousand five hundred dollars; tools for yards and docks, five thousand dollars; sewer system, extensions, five thousand dollars; telephone system, extensions, two thousand dollars; improvement of building forty-six for coppersmiths and plumbers’ shop, twenty thousand dollars; improvement of buildings fifty-one, sixty-nine, and seventy-one, nine thousand dollars; building for oil storage, extension, seven thousand five hundred dollars; gallery for building fifty-one, one thousand five hundred dollars; elevators for buildings fifty-one and sixty-nine, four thousand dollars; improvement to rigging storeroom, building eighty-seven, five hundred dollars; improvements to medical dispensary, one thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Mare Island, two hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: Sewer system, extensions, Puget Sound, Wash. five thousand dollars; to continue grading, thirty thousand dollars; fire-protection system, extensions, four thousand dollars; electric-light plant, extensions, four thousand dollars; telephone system, extensions, two thousand dollars; railroad and equipment, extensions, sixteen thousand dollars; boat shop for construction and repair, to complete (to cost not to exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for which contract is hereby authorized), fifty thousand dollars; water system, extensions, six thousand dollars; heating system, extensions, six thousand dollars; extension of dry-dock boiler plant, fifteen thousand dollars; locomotive crane and track about dry dock (to cost ninety thousand dollars), to complete, fifty thousand dollars; dredging, ten thousand dollars; quay wall, extension, forty thousand dollars; roads and walks, five thousand dollars; yard scow, to complete, 336 three thousand five hundred dollars; joiner shop, for construction and repair, extension, fifteen thousand dollars; two warrant officers’ quarters, six thousand five hundred dollars; coal pockets, ten thousand dollars; timber storage shed, two thousand dollars; pile driver, two thousand five hundred dollars; fire-alarm system, five thousand dollars; machinery for yards and docks, carpenter shop, two thousand dollars; machinery for yards and docks, machine shop, three thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington, two hundred and ninety-two thousand five hundred dollars.
Pensacola, Fla. Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: Dredging, to continue, ten thousand dollars; central power house (to cost one hundred and four thousand five hundred dollars), sixty thousand dollars; dump scows, twelve thousand dollars; tools for yards and docks, two thousand dollars; ship fitters’ shop, building forty-four, extensions, ten thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Pensacola, ninety-four thousand dollars. New Orleans, La. Naval station, New Orleans, Louisiana: Latrines, five thousand five hundred dollars; shops for steam engineering and fittings and grading, thirty-five thousand dollars; improvement of water front, forty-five thousand dollars; levee improvement and grading, thirty thousand dollars; railroad system, twenty-five thousand dollars; paving, twenty thousand dollars; telephone system, three thousand dollars; sewer system, extensions, ten thousand dollars; water system, extensions, eighteen thousand dollars; drainage system, ten thousand dollars; coal bins, five thousand dollars; two buildings for officers’ quarters, ten thousand dollars; floor, construction and repair shops, five thousand five hundred dollars; fencing naval property, ten thousand dollars; central electric light and power plant, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; closing Pattison street and Saux lane and grading, two thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, New Orleans, two hundred and seventy-one thousand five hundred dollars.
Guantanamo, Cuba. Naval station, Guantanamo, Cuba: Dry dock, two hundred thousand dollars; dredging at Toro Key, forty thousand dollars; sea wall at Toro Key, seventy-five thousand dollars; reservoir and water system, fifty thousand dollars; clearing and grading, twenty thousand dollars; in all, three hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. Tutuila. Naval station, Tutuila: New deck for wharf, five thousand dollars; in all, naval station, Tutuila, five thousand dollars. Cavite, P.
I. Naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: Floating steel dry dock, to continue, seven hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; for improving and enlarging naval prison, ten thousand dollars; in all, seven hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. Olongapo, P. I. Establishing naval station. Naval station, Olongapo, Philippine Islands: To complete survey of reservation, twenty thousand dollars; for repairing buildings erected by the Spaniards for temporary use as shops, storehouses, offices, and so forth, twenty-five thousand dollars; toward building one thousand seven hundred and fifty feet of quay wall, at one hundred and forty-four dollars per foot (one-fourth), sixty-three thousand dollars; commandant’s quarters, nine thousand dollars; three officers’ quarters, eighteen thousand dollars; toward constructing Marine barracks and outbuildings, fifty thousand dollars;
Marine officers’ quarters, six thousand dollars; dredging entrance to basin—channel four hundred by thirty-five feet deep, about twenty-five thousand cubic yards, at thirty cents, seven thousand five hundred dollars; dredging in basin in front of quay walls, one hundred and sixty thousand cubic yards, at thirty cents, for floating dock, forty-eight thousand dollars; water supply from brick-yard springs (capacity fifty thousand gallons in ten hours), eleven thousand feet four-inch galvanized-iron pipe, forty-seven and one-half cents per foot, five thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars; valves and fittings, two hundred and fifty dollars; freight and transportation, seven hundred and twenty dollars; 337 distribution in the yard, one thousand live hundred dollars; laying pipes, three thousand two hundred dollars; temporary reservoir, forty by forty by ten feet, capacity one hundred thousand gallons, five thousand dollars; one pier for use in landing and receiving stores for immedate use, one hundred thousand dollars; toward coaling plant, five hundred thousand dollars; in all, eight hundred and sixty-two thousand three hundred and ninety-five dollars.
The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to Power plants. Consolidation and transfer to Bureau of Yards and Docks. consolidate the several power plants in any or all of the several navy-yards and stations at each navy-yard and station under the Bureau of Yards and Docks for the generation and distribution of light, heat, and power for all the purposes of the Navy. To the above end all such plants may be transferred from other bureaus to the Bureau of Yards and Docks, and all appropriations heretofore made for power houses and power plants for bureaus other than Yards and Docks are hereby reappropriated and made available under the Bureau of Yards and Docks for the consolidations herein provided for; and to further carry out the purposes of this provision there is hereby appropriated the sum of three hundred thousand dollars.
Repairs and preservation at navy-yards and stations: For Repairs and preservation. repairs and preservation at navy-yards and stations, five hundred thousand dollars. Plans and specifications for public works: For the preparation Plans, etc. of plans and specifications for public works, and for plans and estimates required by section thirty-six hundred and sixty-three, [R. S., sec. 3663, p. 720](/us/rs/s3663/p720). Revised Statutes, for public works, forty-five thousand dollars.
In all, public works, seven million two hundred and eighty-four thousand and seventy-one dollars. under the secretary of the navy. Buildings and grounds, Naval Academy: Toward the construction Naval Academy. New buildings. and furnishing of buildings, and for other necessary improvements, at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, as authorized by the Vol. 31, p. 696; Vol. 32, p. 1188. Acts of Congress approved June seventh, nineteen hundred, and March third, nineteen hundred and three, three million dollars.
In order to further improve the grounds at the Naval Academy and Removal of cemetery. secure the best site for the naval hospital heretofore authorized and appropriated for, the removal of the cemetery from its present site to another to be selected is authorized, if the Secretary, in his discretion, shall deem advisable, and to this end the sum of thirty thousand dollars, or so much as is necessary, to be immediately available, is authorized to be expended out of the three million dollars above appropriated. public works under bureau of navigation.
Public works. Bureau of Navigation. Naval training station, California (buildings): Salt-water Training stations. California. fire-protection system, fourteen thousand dollars; ventilation and sanitary improvement of barracks for increased cleanliness and to prevent spread of contagious diseases, five thousand dollars; in all, nineteen thousand dollars. Naval training station, Rhode Island (buildings): Continuing Rhode Island. sea wall on west side of island, and completing breakwater, ten thousand dollars; moving and rebuilding stables and farmer’s house to clear site for officers’ quarters, four thousand dollars; in all, naval training station, Rhode Island, fourteen thousand dollars.
Naval training station, Great Lakes: The purchase of land and Great Lakes. Establishment of board to select site, authorized. the establishment of a naval training station on the Great Lakes, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The President is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint a ‘board consisting of not less than three members, none of whom shall be a resident of any State border-338ing on the Great Lakes, whose duty it shall be to select the most available site for such naval training station on the Great Lakes, and having selected such site, to ascertain and report its probable cost and the probable expenditure which will be necessary for improving the same, including lake shore protection and construction of necessary Report, etc. harbor facilities; and to make a detailed report of their findings and proceedings to the President who, upon approval of such report, shall authorize the purchase of such site and the establishment of such naval training station.
And to defray the expenses of said board, the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Naval War College, R. I. Naval War College, Rhode Island (buildings): Altering the building formerly belonging to training station and fitting the same for occupancy by officers of the war college, six thousand five hundred dollars. Furniture for the extension of the Naval War College now nearing completion, one thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars.
In all, public works, Bureau of Navigation, two hundred and ninety-six thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars. Public works. Bureau of Ordnance. public works, bureau of ordnance. New England coast magazine. Establishment of. Naval Magazine, New England: For the purchase of land for a site for a naval magazine on or near the New England coast, north of Cape Cod, and toward the erection thereon of the necessary buildings, of inclosing said grounds, of grading and filling in, of building roads and walks, of the improvement of the water front, of the necessary wharves and cranes, of railroad tracks and rolling stock for local service, of fire and water service, and of the equipment of the establishment, seventy thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary; and the Secretary of the Navy may employ, and pay out of the appropriation hereby authorized, such additional expert aids, surveyors, architects, superintendents of construction, or draftsmen as may be necessary for the preparation of the plans and specifications and prosecution of the work authorized, to an amount not to exceed fifteen *Provisos*.
Limit of cost. thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the total cost of the establishment, complete in all respects, shall not exceed the sum of five hundred Condemnation of land. thousand dollars: *And provided further*, That should the Secretary of the Navy be unable to purchase the land for the site from the owners thereof, at a fair and reasonable valuation, he is hereby authorized and directed to institute proceedings for the condemnation of such part or parts thereof as may be necessary: *And provided further*, Chelsea, Mass., magazine to be discontinued.
That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized and directed to discontinue the magazine now in the city of Chelsea not later than the time when the new magazine for the New England coast is ready to be occupied. Dover, N. J. Naval powder depot. Naval powder depot, Lake Denmark, New Jersey: Improvements to present water system, new water mains, hydrants, and so forth, six thousand dollars; additional filling house, two thousand dollars; lengthening railroad switch, two thousand dollars; in all, naval magazine, Dover, Lake Denmark, New Jersey, ten thousand dollars.
Norfolk, Va. Naval magazine. Naval magazine, Saint Juliens Creek, Norfolk, Virginia: One magazine building, including lightning protection, track connections, and so forth, ten thousand dollars; extension of gun-cotton magazine, one thousand one hundred dollars; in all, eleven thousand one hundred dollars. Newport, R. I. Torpedo station. Naval torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: Addition to chemical laboratory, one thousand dollars; addition to seamen’s quarters and central latrine for employees, one thousand six hundred 339 dollars; coal shed and shed for fire hose and fire apparatus, one thousand five hundred dollars; fireproof storehouse for torpedo-boat supplies, thirty thousand dollars; in all, Newport, Rhode Island, thirty-four thousand one hundred dollars.
Naval proving ground, Indian Head, Maryland: Concreting Indian Head proving ground, Md. range battery, three thousand five hundred dollars; improvements to wharves and slips, eight thousand dollars; sulphuric-acid plant, consisting of the necessary buildings and apparatus for making sulphuric acid, fifty-five thousand dollars; coal-storage and coal-handling facilities, ten thousand dollars; additional powder magazines, twenty thousand dollars; extension of boiler plant, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, naval proving ground, Indian Head, one hundred and twenty-one thousand five hundred dollars.
Naval magazine, Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania: New powder Fort Mifflin, Pa. Naval magazine. magazine, including lightning protection, track connections, and so forth, twenty thousand dollars; Naval magazine, Mare Island, California: One observation Mare Island, Cal. Naval magazine. magazine for suspected powders, five hundred dollars; one filling house, one thousand seven hundred dollars; Naval magazines, Philippine Islands: Powder magazines, shell Philippines. Naval magazine. and filling houses, and so forth, fifty thousand dollars;
In all, public works, Bureau of Ordnance, three hundred and eighteen thousand nine hundred dollars. Under Bureau of Equipment. naval observatory. Naval Observatory. Naval Observatory: For grounds and roads; continuing grading, Grounds and roads. extending roads and paths, clearing and improving grounds, five thousand dollars; Fence: Materials for fence to inclose the whole of the Observatory grounds, two thousand eight hundred dollars. bureau of medicine and surgery. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
Medical Department: For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in Surgeons’ necessaries. commission, navy-yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy-yards, naval laboratory, museum of hygiene and department of instruction, and Naval Academy, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Naval hospital fund: For maintenance of the naval hospitals at Hospital fund. the various navy-yards and stations, and for care and maintenance of patients in other hospitals at home and abroad, forty thousand dollars.
Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For freight, Contingent. expressage on medical stores, tolls, ferriages, transportation of sick enlisted persons to hospital; transportation of insane patients; care, transportation, and burial of the dead; advertising, telegraphing, rent of telephones, purchase of books and stationery, binding of medical records, unbound books, and pamphlets; postage and purchase of stamps for foreign service; 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’ officers 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 340 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, fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the sum herein appropriated shall be 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. Public works. public works under bureau of medicine and surgery. Norfolk, Va., hospital Naval hospital, Norfolk, Virginia: Changing officers’ quarters into wards for enlisted men, and building quarters for officers outside of naval hospital, twenty thousand dollars.
Canacao, P. I., hospital. Naval hospital, Canacao, Philippine Islands: Naval hospital at Canacao, Philippine Islands, to complete, seventy thousand dollars. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. 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 storehouses and paymasters’ offices in navy-yards, including naval stations maintained in island possessions under the control of the United States, and expenses in handling stores purchased under the naval-supply fund; one chemist, at two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, and two chemists, at two thousand dollars each per annum, four *Proviso*.
Sale to civilian employees. million eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That 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. Contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: For freight and express charges, fuel, books and blanks, stationery, advertising, furniture for general storehouses and pay offices in navy-yards; expenses of naval clothing factory and machinery for same, postage, telegrams, telephones, tolls, ferriages, yeoman’s stores, safes, news papers, ice, transportation of stores purchased under the naval-supply 341 fund, and other incidental expenses, two hundred and fifty 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 bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one shipping and receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; in all, five thousand eight hundred and forty dollars;
Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: In general storehouses: One Boston, 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, one thousand two hundred and fifty-two dollars.
In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one messenger, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem; in all, thirty-two thousand one hundred and seventy-three dollars and three cents; Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: In general storehouse: League Island, Pa. Two bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one assistant bookkeeper, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars.
In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, seven thousand one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents; Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: In general storehouse: Washington, D. C. One bookkeeper, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars.
In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, six thousand four hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland: In general storehouse: One Naval Academy. bookkeeper, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one receiving and shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; Naval station, Newport, Rhode Island:
In general storehouse (training Newport, R. I. station): One clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars. In gen-342eral storehouse (torpedo station): One clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, two thousand four hundred dollars; Mare Island, Cal. Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: In general storehouses: Two bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two assistant bookkeepers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant clerk, at one thousand dollars.
In yard pay office: One writer, 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, Va. Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: In general storehouses: Two bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two assistant bookkeepers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant bill clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; two receiving clerks, at nine hundred and forty-two dollars each.
In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, nine thousand and fifty-five dollars and seventy-five cents; Cavite, P. I. Naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: In general storehouses: One clerk, 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 three thousand nine hundred and thirty-two dollars and twenty-eight cents; and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. Bureau of Construction and Repair. bureau of construction and repair. Preservation and completion of vessels. Construction and repair of vessels: For preservation and completion of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; steam steerers, pneumatic steerers, steam capstans, steam windlasses, and all other auxiliaries; labor in navy-yards and on foreign stations; purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops; carrying on work of experimental model tank; designing naval vessels; construction and repair of yard craft, lighters and barges for use at home stations; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat; general care, increase and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; incidental expenses for vessels and navy-yards, inspectors’ offices and bureaus, such as advertising, freight, foreign postage, telegrams, telephone service, photographing, books, professional magazines, plans, stationery, and instruments for drafting room, eight *Proviso*.
Wooden ships. million dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be applied to the repair of any wooden ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed 343 ten per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material. Improvement of construction plants: Repairs to and improvements Construction plants. Portsmouth, N. H. of plant at navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, twenty thousand dollars.
Construction plant, navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Repairs to Boston, Mass. and improvement of plant at navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts, thirty 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, fifty thousand dollars. Construction plant, navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: Repairs League Island, Pa. to and improvement of plant at navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania, twenty thousand dollars.
Construction plant, navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Repairs to and Norfolk, Va. improvement of plant at navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia, fifteen thousand dollars. Construction plant, navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: Repairs to and Pensacola, Fla. improvement of plant at navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida, twenty thousand dollars. Construction plant, navy-yard, Mare Island, California: Repairs to Mare Island, Cal. and improvement of plant at navy-yard, Mare Island, California, twenty thousand dollars.
Construction plant, navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: Repairs Puget Sound, Wash. to and improvement of Puget Sound Navy-Yard, Washington, thirty thousand dollars. Seagoing tugs: Two seagoing tugs, with all fittings, complete, each, Seagoing tugs. one hundred and seventy-five 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; Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: One clerk to naval Washington, D. C. constructor, at one thousand four hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: One clerk to naval constructor, at Norfolk, Va. one thousand four hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; in all, three thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents;
Navy-yard, Charleston, South Carolina: One clerk to naval constructor, Charleston, S. C. one thousand four hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: One clerk, at one thousand two hundred Pensacola, Fla. dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: One clerk to naval constructor, Mare Island, Cal. at one thousand four hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand 344 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 nine 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, 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. steam engineering. Steam machinery. Steam machinery: For completion, repairing, and preservation of machinery and boilers of naval vessels, including cost of new boilers; distilling, refrigerating, and auxiliary machinery; preservation of and small repairs to machinery and boilers in vessels in ordinary, receiving and training vessels, repair and care of machinery of yard tugs and launches, two million one hundred and ninety thousand dollars;
Materials, etc. For purchase, handling, and preservation of all material and stores; purchase, fitting, repair, and preservation of machinery and tools in navy-yards and stations, and running yard engines, one million two hundred thousand dollars; Incidentals. For incidental expenses for navy vessels, yards, and the Bureau, such as foreign postage, telegrams, advertising, freight, photographing, books, stationery, office furnishings, and instruments, fifteen thousand dollars;
In all, steam machinery, three million four hundred and five thousand dollars. Marine steam turbines. Tests, etc. Extended tests of marine steam turbines: For an extended series of tests, and for original investigation and research, in connection with the determination of the efficiency, economy, adaptability, and endurance of the steam turbine for naval purposes, twenty-five thousand dollars. Machinery plants. Boston, Mass. Machinery plant, navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Necessary to furnish new power plant and a number of locomotive cranes required for handling heavy parts of machinery, seventy-five thousand dollars.
Norfolk, Va. Machinery plant, navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: To furnish new and additional tools for pattern shops and foundry; also to furnish condensing apparatus for the new power plant, air compressors, and locomotive cranes, fifty thousand dollars. Civil establishment. Portsmouth, N. H. Civil establishment, Bureau of Steam Engineering: Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: One clerk to department, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all, one thousand eight hundred dollars;
Boston, Mass. Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: One clerk to department, one thousand four hundred dollars; in all, one thousand four hundred dollars; New York, N. Y. Navy-yard, New York, New York: One clerk to department, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand dollars; League Island, Pa. Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: One clerk to department, at one thousand two hundred dollars;
Norfolk, Va. Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: One clerk to department, at one thousand three hundred dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all, one thousand nine hundred dollars; 345 Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: One writer, one thousand dollars; Pensacola, Fla. Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: One clerk to department, at Mare Island, Cal. one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand dollars;
Naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina: One clerk to department, Port Royal, S. C. one thousand two hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: One clerk to department, Puget Sound, Wash. one thousand two hundred dollars; one writer, one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand two hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: One clerk to department, Washington, D. C. one thousand two hundred dollars; In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Steam Engineering, seventeen thousand nine hundred dollars; and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. naval academy.
Naval Academy. Pay of professors and others, Naval Academy: One professor Pay of professors, etc. as head of the department of physics, three thousand dollars. That the President be authorized, by and with the advice and consent Professor of mathematics authorized. Appointment, rank, etc. of the Senate, to appoint a professor of mathematics of the rank of commander to rank after Aaron Nichols Skinner and to be an extra number in the list of professors of mathematics in the Navy.
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 assistant, at one thousand two hundred dollars, and two assistants, at one thousand dollars each; one instructor in gymnastics, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant librarian, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant librarian, at one thousand dollars; one secretary to the Naval Academy, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks to the Superintendent, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one clerk to the commandant of midshipmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk to the paymaster, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one dentist, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one baker, at six hundred dollars; one mechanic in department of physics, at seven hundred and thirty dollars; one mechanic in the department of ordnance, nine hundred and fifty-one dollars and fifty-two cents; one cook, at three hundred and twenty-five dollars and fifty cents; one messenger to the Superintendent, at six hundred dollars; one armorer, at six hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one chief gunner’s mate, at five hundred and twenty-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 hun-346dred and sixty dollars each; services of organist at chapel, three hundred dollars; one assistant 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-five thousand three hundred and twenty-two dollars and fifty-two cents.
Watchmen, mechanics, etc. Pay of watchmen, mechanics, and others, Naval Academy: Captain of the watch and weigher, at two dollars and fifty cents per diem; seven watchmen, at two dollars each per diem; foreman of steam heating works of the Academy, at five dollars per diem; labor at power house, for masons, carpenters, and other mechanics and laborers; and for care of buildings and grounds, wharves, and boats, forty-two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars and fifty cents; in all, fifty thousand dollars.
Employees, steam engineering. Pay of steam employees, Naval Academy: Pay of mechanics and others in department of steam engineering, 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 operation, repair, and maintenance of the plant; heating and lighting apparatus and tools; and for heating and lighting the Academy and bandsmen’s quarters, thirty thousand dollars. Contingent. Contingent, Naval Academy: Purchase of books for the library (to be purchased in open market on the written order of the Superintendent), two thousand dollars; stationery, blank books, models, maps, and text-books, for use of instructors, three thousand dollars; expenses of the Board of Visitors of the Naval Academy, being mileage and five dollars per diem for each member for expenses during actual attendance at the Academy and for supplying necessary outfit for the Board house, and for clerk hire, carriages, and other incidental and necessary expenses of the Board, three thousand dollars; purchase of chemicals, apparatus, and instruments in the department of physics and for repairs of the same, two thousand dollars; purchase of gas and steam machinery, steam pipes and fittings, rent of buildings for the use of the Academy, freight, cartage, water, music, musical and astronomical instruments, uniforms for the bandsmen, telegraphing, feed and maintenance of teams, current expenses, and repairs of all kinds, and for incidental labor and expenses not applicable to any other appropriation, 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, Naval Academy, three hundred and twenty-eight thousand one hundred and eight dollars and forty-six cents. Promotions of boatswains, gunners, warrant machinists, carpenters, and sailmakers. That subject to the restrictions imposed by existing law, boatswains, gunners, and warrant machinists shall be eligible for appointment to the grade of ensign after four years’ service as warrant officers, and boatswains, gunners, carpenters, and sailmakers shall be eligible for appointment as chief boatswains, chief gunners, chief carpenters, and chief sailmakers after six years from date of warrant. 347 marine corps.
Marine Corps. Pay, Marine Corps: For pay and allowances prescribed by law of Pay. 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, four colonels, Retired list. four lieutenant-colonels, one adjutant and inspector, one quartermaster, one assistant quartermaster, two majors, nine captains, three first lieutenants, and four second lieutenants, seventy thousand two hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents;
Pay of noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, as prescribed Enlisted men. by law; and the number of enlisted men shall be exclusive of those undergoing imprisonment with sentence of dishonorable discharge from the service at expiration of such confinement, and for the expenses of clerks of the United States Marine Corps traveling under orders; including additional compensation for enlisted men of the Additional. Marine Corps regularly detailed as gun pointers, messmen, signalmen, or holding good conduct medals, pins or bars, fifteen thousand dollars; one million three hundred and eighty 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 quartermastersergeant, 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, thirty-eight thousand dollars; Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged soldiers for clothing Undrawn clothing. undrawn, thirty-six thousand dollars;
Mileage: For mileage of officers traveling under orders without Mileage. troops, twenty thousand dollars; For commutation of quarters of officers on duty without troops Commutation of quarters. where there are no public quarters, eight thousand dollars; Pay of civil force: In the office of the Brigadier-General Commandant: Civil force. 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 six Paymaster’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 one Adjutant 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; In the office of the quartermaster: One chief clerk, at one thousand Quartermaster’s offices. six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one draftsman, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Washington, District 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; 348 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;
Provisions, etc. In all, pay Marine Corps, two million one hundred and twenty-seven thousand six hundred and seventy-six dollars and seventy-eight cents. Provisions, Marine Corps: For noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates serving ashore, for commutation of rations to enlisted men regularly detailed as clerks and messengers, for payment of board and lodging of recruiting parties, transportation of provisions, and the employment of necessary labor connected therewith, and for ice for preservation of rations, four hundred and ninety-two thousand and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents; and no law shall be construed to entitle marines on shore duty to any rations, or commution thereof, other than such as now are or may hereafter be allowed *Proviso*.
Navy ration or commutation. to enlisted men in the Army: *Provided, however*, That when it is impracticable or the expense is found greater to supply marines serving on shore duty in the island possessions and on foreign stations with the army ration, such marines may be allowed the navy ration or commutation therefor. Clothing. Clothing, Marine Corps: For noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates authorized by law, four hundred and twenty-two thousand three hundred and seventy dollars.
Fuel. Fuel, Marine Corps: For heating barracks and quarters, for ranges and stoves for cooking, fuel for enlisted men, for sales to officers, maintaining electric lights, and for hot-air closets, sixty thousand dollars. Military stores. Military stores, Marine Corps: For pay of chief armorer, at three dollars per day; three mechanics, at two dollars and fifty cents each per day; for purchase of military equipments, such as rifles, revolvers, cartridge boxes, bayonet scabbards, haversacks, blanket bags, knapsacks, canteens, musket slings, swords, drums, trumpets, flags, waist belts, waist plates, cartridge belts, sashes for officer of the day, spare parts for repairing muskets, purchase and repair of tents and field ovens, purchase and repair of instruments for band, purchase of music and musical accessories, purchase and marking of 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; 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 procuring, preserving, and handling ammunition, and other necessary military supplies, one hundred and ten thousand eight hundred and ninety-five dollars.
Magazine rifles from Army. To reimburse the Ordnance Department, United States Army, for two thousand magazine rifles, caliber thirty, latest model, delivered to the assistant quartermaster, United States Marine Corps, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on August seventeenth, nineteen hundred and three, twenty-eight thousand five hundred and forty dollars, to remain available not to exceed two years, to replace like ordnance stores. Transportation, etc. Transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps:
For transportation of troops, including ferriage, and the expense of the recruiting service, one hundred and twenty-one thousand six hundred and twenty dollars. Repairs of barracks. For repairs of barracks, Marine Corps: Repairs and improvements to barracks and quarters at Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Boston, Massachusetts; Narragansett Station, Rhode Island; New York, New York; League Island, Pennsylvania; Annapolis, Maryland; headquarters and navy-yard, District of Columbia; Norfolk, Virginia;
Port 349 Royal, South Carolina; Pensacola, Florida; Dry Tortugas, Florida; New Orleans, Louisiana; Mare Island and San Francisco, California; Bremerton, Washington; and Sitka, Alaska; for the renting, leasing, improvement, and erection of buildings in Porto Rico, the Philippine Islands, at Guam, and at such other places as the public exigencies require; and for per diem to enlisted men employed under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department on the repair of barracks, quarters, and the other public buildings, sixty-six thousand three hundred and thirty-six dollars.
For rent of building used for manufacture of clothing, storing of Philadelphia, Pa. Rent. supplies, and office of assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, six thousand dollars. Forage, Marine Corps: For forage in kind for horses of the Quartermaster’s Forage. Department, and the authorized number of officers’ horses, seventeen thousand seven hundred dollars. Hire of quarters, Marine Corps: For hire of quarters for officers Hire of quarters. serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them; for hire of quarters for enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in the offices of the commandant, adjutant and inspector, paymaster, and quartermaster, and the offices of the assistant adjutant and 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 fire hand grenades; purchase and repair of carts, wheel-barrows, and lawn mowers; purchase and repair of cooking stoves, ranges, stoves, and furnaces where there are no grates; purchase of ice, towels, soap, combs, and brushes for offices; postage stamps for foreign postage; purchase of books, newspapers, and periodicals; improving parade grounds, repair of pumps and wharves; laying drain, water, and gas pipes; water, introducing gas, and for gas, gas oil, and introduction and maintenance of electric lights; straw for bedding, mattresses, mattress covers, pillows, sheets; wire bunk bottoms for enlisted men at various posts; furniture for Government quarters and repair of same, and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but impossible to anticipate or classify, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
That officers of the Marine Corps with creditable records who served Credit for civil war service on retirement. Vol. 30, p. 1007. during the civil war shall, when retired, be retired in like manner and under the same conditions as provided for officers of the Navy who served during the civil war. 350 Public works. public works, marine corps. Barracks and quarters. Barracks and quarters, Marine Corps: Construction and completion of one brick boiler house and bakery, navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, five thousand dollars;
Installation of electric lights in barracks and officers’ quarters, navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts, two thousand five hundred dollars; Construction and completion of an addition to marine barracks, including the erection and furnishing of a band room, mess hall, men’s kitchen, and men’s gymnasium, marine barracks, Washington, District of Columbia, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; New Orleans, La. Construction and completion of marine barracks and one set of officers’ quarters, six thousand five hundred dollars, which sum shall Vol. 31, p. 1132. be in addition to fifteen thousand dollars appropriated for this object in the naval appropriation Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, naval station, New Orleans, Louisiana, six thousand five hundred dollars;
Construction and equipment of a cold-storage and ice plant, Olongapo, Philippine Islands, five thousand dollars; Total public works under Marine Corps, one hundred and sixty-nine thousand dollars. Increase of the Navy. increase of the 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— One first-class battle ship, 16,000 tons.
One first-class battle ship, carrying the heaviest armor and most powerful armament for a vessel of its class upon a 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. Two first-class armored cruisers, 14,000 tons. Two first-class armored cruisers, of not more than fourteen thousand five hundred tons trial displacement, carrying the heaviest armor and most powerful armament for a vessel of its class; 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.
Three scout cruisers, 3,750 tons. Three scout cruisers, of not more than three thousand seven hundred and fifty tons trial displacement, carrying the most powerful *Post*, p. 1116. ordnance of vessels of their class; to have the highest speed compatible with good cruising qualities and great radius of action, and to cost exclusive of armament, not exceeding one million eight hundred thousand dollars each. Two colliers, to be built at navy-yards. Two colliers, to be capable of accompanying the battle fleet; to carry five thousand tons of cargo coal, loaded, and to have a trial speed of not less than sixteen knots, to cost not exceeding one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars each.
Said colliers shall be built in navy-yards, one on the Pacific and the other on the Atlantic coast, the same to be designated by the Secretary of the Navy. 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. 215. August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled “An Act to increase the naval establishment,” as to materials for said vessels, their engines, boilers, and machinery, the contracts under which they are built, the notice of any proposals for the same, the plans, drawings, specifications therefor, and the method of executing said contracts 351 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 of the Navy; and not more than two of the vessels provided for in Limit for one builder. *Proviso*.
Construction in navy-yards, in case of combination, etc., of builders. this 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 construction of any of said vessels.
The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to Submarine, etc., torpedo boats. contract for or purchase subsurface or submarine torpedo boats in the aggregate of, but not exceeding, eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That prior to said purchase or contract for said *Provisos*. Competition open to American inventors. boats any American inventor or owner of a subsurface or submarine torpedo boat may give reasonable notice and have his, her, or its sub surface or submarine torpedo boat tested by comparison or competition, or both, with a Government subsurface or submarine torpedo boat or any private competitor, provided there be any such, and thereupon the board appointed for conducting such tests shall report the result of said competition or comparison, together with its recommendations, to the Secretary of the Navy, who may purchase or contract for subsurface or submarine torpedo boats in a manner that will best advance the interests of the United States in torpedo or submarine warfare: *And provided further*, That before any subsurface or submarine Tests before acceptance. torpedo boat is purchased or contracted for it shall be accepted by the Navy Department as fulfilling all reasonable requirements for submarine warfare and shall have been fully tested to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Navy.
To carry out the purpose aforesaid the sum of eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated; and to make up said sum of eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars, Reappropriation. the sum of five hundred thousand dollars carried, or such parts thereof as may remain unexpended, and authorized in the naval appropriation Vol. 32, p. 1203. Act, approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, is hereby reappropriated.
Construction and machinery: On account of the hulls, outfits, and Construction and machinery. machinery of vessels, and steam machinery of vessels heretofore authorized, nineteen million eight hundred and twenty-six thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars. Armor and armament: Toward the armament and armor of domestic Armor and armament. manufacture for the vessels authorized, twelve million dollars. The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to procure by contract Contracts for armor. armor of the best quality for any or all vessels herein authorized at such price as in his judgment is just and reasonable.
Approved, April 27, 1904.
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