Chapter 2507. Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 2507.— An Act Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, and for other purposes. March 2, 1907. [[H. R. 23821](/us/bill/59/hr/23821).] [[Public, No. 166](/us/pl/59/166).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Fortifications appropriations. That the sums of money herein provided for be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be available until expended, namely: fortifications and other works of defense.
Modernizing older emplacements.Fire-control stations, etc. For modernizing older emplacements, one hundred thousand dollars. For construction of fire-control stations and accessories, including purchase of lands and rights of way, and for the purchase, installation, operation, and maintenance of necessary lines and means of electrical communication, including telephones, dial and other telegraphs, wiring and all special instruments, apparatus, and materials, coast signal apparatus, and salaries of electrical experts, engineers, mid other necessary employees, connected with the use of coast artillery;
Range, finders, etc.for the purchase, manufacture, and test of range finders and other instruments for tire control at the fortifications, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, nine hundred thousand dollars. Searchlights. For purchase and installation of searchlights for the defenses of our most important harbors, two hundred and ten thousand dollars. 1059 For the protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications for Preservation, etc.which there may be no special appropriation available, two hundred thousand dollars.
Toward the construction of about four thousand eight hundred Fort Moultrie, S.C.Protecting wall.linear feet of wall necessary for the protection of Fort Moultrie, Sullivans Island, South Carolina, from the effects of storms (to cost not to exceed two hundred and twenty-five thousand six hundred dollars), one hundred thousand dollars. Toward the building sea walls for the protection of the sites of the Forts Pickens and McRee, Fla.Sea walls, etc.fortifications and of the necessary post buildings at Forts Pickens and McRee, Pensacola Harbor, Florida, (to cost not to exceed nine hundred and seven thousand one hundred dollars), four hundred thousand dollars.
Toward the repair and restoration of batteries and other structures Pensacola, Fla.Repair of batteries, etc.appurtenant to the defenses of Pensacola and for retaining walls to protect the batteries from Hoods (to cost not to exceed one hundred and nine thousand three hundred and fifty-five dollars), fifty thousand dollars. Toward the repair and restoration of batteries and other structures Mobile, Ala.Repair of defenses.appurtenant to the defenses of Mobile, Alabama, and for rebuilding sea walls and groins for protection of the sites of the fortifications and of the garrison posts (to cost not to exceed one million eighty-nine thousand live hundred dollars), five hundred thousand dollars.
For rebuilding and strengthening the levees for protection of the Fort Saint Philip, La.Rebuilding levees.site of the defenses and the garrison post at Fort Saint Philip, New Orleans, Louisiana, one hundred thousand dollars. For preparation of plans for fortifications, five thousand dollars. Plans. For tools, electrical and engine supplies and appliances, to be furnished Electric plants.by the Engineer Department, for the use of the troops for maintaining and operating electric light and power plants in gun and mortar batteries, forty thousand dollars.
For construction of sea walls and embankments, twenty-five thousand Sea walls.dollars. Preservation and repair of torpedo structures: For preservation Torpedo structures.and repair of structures erected for the torpedo defense of the United States, ten thousand dollars. For the construction of mining casemates, cable galleries, torpedo Submarine mines.storehouses, cable tanks, and other structures necessary for the operation, preservation, and care of submarine mines and their accessories, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, to be expended by the Engineer Department. armament of fortifications.
Armament. For the purchase, manufacture, and test of machine and automatic Machine guns.guns, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, thirty thousand dollars. For the purchase, manufacture, and test of mountain, field, and siege Mountain, field, and siege cannon.cannon, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, three hundred thousand dollars.
For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for machine Ammunition.and automatic guns, and for mountain, field, and siege cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection there with and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For the purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon for coast Seacoast cannon.defense, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, one hundred and thirty-two thousand dollars. 1060 Ammunition.
For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Inspecting instruments. For the purchase, manufacture, and test of inspecting instruments for the manufacture of cannon, carriages, and ammunition, and for the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, five thousand dollars.
Ammunition, etc., for seacoast artillery practice. For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition, subcaliber tubes, and other accessories for seacoast artillery practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Alterations, mobile artillery. For the alteration and maintenance of the mobile artillery, including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work and the expenses of the mechanics engaged thereon, thirty thousand dollars.
Ammunition, etc., for field practice. For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition, subcaliber tubes, and other accessories for mountain, field, and siege artillery practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, seventy-seven thousand dollars. Alterations, seacoast artillery. For the alteration and maintenance of the seacoast artillery, including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work and the expenses of the mechanics engaged thereon, four hundred thousand dollars.
Alterations for rapid-fire field material. For the alteration of three and two-tenths inch material to rapid-fire field material, including sights, implements, equipments, and the materials and machinery necessary for alteration and manufacture at the arsenals, twenty thousand dollars. Replacing ammunition, etc., destroyed by storm on Gulf coast. For replacing and overhauling ammunition, and for replacing or repairing instruments for fire control, tools, and other ordnance property destroyed or damaged by the storm of September twenty-six to twenty-eight, nineteen hundred and six, at Forts Pickens and McKee, Florida;
Forts Morgan and Gaines, Alabama; and Fort Saint Philip, Louisiana, thirty thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight dollars. Converting muzzle to breech loading guns. For converting muzzle-loading field guns to breech-loading guns for saluting purposes, and for necessary mounts for the same, five thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Issue of guns for permanent militia camping grounds, repealed.Vol. 22, p. 93. Section two of the Act approved May nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, authorizing the Secretary of War to issue, on the requisition of the governor of a State bordering on the sea or Gulf coast, and having a permanent camping ground for the encampment of the militia not less than six days annually, two heavy guns and four mortars, with carriages and platforms, for their instruction, and for the construction of a suitable battery for the cannon so issued, and appropriating five thousand dollars for each State to carry out the *Proviso*,Present issues not affected.above-mentioned objects, is hereby repealed: *Provided*, That this repeal shall not affect the existing law regarding the disposition of the cannon and other stores already issued.
Sandy Hook proving grounds, N. J. proving ground, sandy hook, new jersey. Maintenance. For current expenses and maintenance of the ordnance proving ground, Sandy Hook, New Jersey, including expenses incident to the transportation of men and material therefor, general repairs and alterations and accessories incidental to testing and proving ordnance, including hire of assistants for the Ordnance Board, skilled mechanical labor, purchase of instruments and other supplies, building and repairing butts and targets, clearing and grading ranges, fifty thousand two hundred and forty-three dollars. 1061 For the necessary expenses of officers while temporarily employed Expenses of officers.on ordnance duties at the proving ground and absent from their proper station, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per diem while so employed, and the compensation of draftsmen while employed in the Army Ordnance Bureau on ordnance construction, eighteen thousand seven hundred dollars.
For repairs of railroad tracks connecting the proving ground with Tracks, repairs.the Central Railroad of New Jersey, six thousand dollars. submarine mines. For the purchase of submarine mines and necessary appliances to Submarine mines.Purchase, etc.operate them for closing the channels leading to our principal seaports, and continuing torpedo experiments; for the purchase of the necessary machinery, tools, and implements for the repair shop of the torpedo depot at Fort Totten, New York, and for extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days on work in connection with the issue, receipt, and care of submarine mining material at the torpedo depot, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For the procurement of one torpedo planter, for use on the Pacific Torpedo planter, Pacific coast.coast, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. fortifications in insular possessions. Insular possessions. For construction of seacoast batteries in the Hawaiian Islands, two Seacoast batteries.Hawaiian Islands.hundred thousand dollars. For construction of seacoast batteries in the Philippine Islands, five Philippine Islands.hundred thousand dollars.
For construction of fire-control stations and accessories, including Fire-control stations, etc.purchase of lands and rights of way, and for the purchase, installation, operation, and maintenance of necessary lines and means of electrical communication, including telephones, dial and other telegraphs, wiring and all special instruments, apparatus, and materials, coast signal apparatus, and salaries of electrical experts, engineers, and other necessary employees, connected with the use of coast artillery;
Range finders, etc.for the purchase, manufacture, and test of range finders and other instruments for lire control at the fortifications, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, one hundred thousand dollars. For purchase and installation of searchlights for the defenses of Searchlights.most important harbors, thirty thousand dollars. For the construction of mining casemates, cable galleries, torpedo Submarine mines.Construction, etc.storehouses, cable tanks, and other structures necessary for the operation, preservation, and care of submarine mines and their accessories, two hundred thousand dollars, to be expended by the Engineer Department.
For the purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon for Seacoast cannon.coast defense, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, four hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary *Proviso*.Carriage for 12-inch rifle.of War is authorized to mount one twelve-inch rifle to be procured out of appropriations made or to be made hereunder for the insular possessions, said gun being on hand in excess of the number of carriages provided for emplacements in the United States.
For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast Ammunition.cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, fifty thousand dollars. For purchase, manufacture, and test of inspecting instruments for Inspecting instruments, etc.the manufacture of cannon, carriages, and ammunition, and for the 1062machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Altering seacoast artillery, etc. For the alteration and maintenance of the seacoast artillery, including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work, and the expenses of the mechanics engaged thereon, five thousand dollars. Submarine mines, etc.Purchase. For the purchase of submarine mines and necessary appliances to operate them for closing the channels leading to the principal seaports of the insular possessions, two hundred and five thousand four hundred and forty dollars.
Charge of expenses against appropriation. The Chief of Ordnance, in conducting manufacturing or similar operations, is authorized to charge any indirect or general expense for labor or material therefor against any of the appropriations authorizing these operations in such manner as is most economical and efficient, provided that the methods adopted shall show that each of such appropriations bears its ratable share of the total amount of these expenses. Board of Ordnance and Fortification. board of ordnance and fortification.
Purchases, etc. To enable the Board to make all needful and proper purchases, experiments, and tests to ascertain, with a view to their utilization by the Government, the most effective guns, small arms, cartridges, projectiles, fuses, explosives, torpedoes, armor plates, and other implements and engines of war, and to purchase or cause to be manufactured, under authority of the Secretary of War, such guns, carriages, armor plates, and other war material as may, in the judgment of the Board, be necessary in the proper discharge of the duty devolved upon it by Vol. 25, p. 489.the Act approved September twenty-second, eighteen hundred and Civilian member.eighty-eight: to pay the salary of the civilian member of the Board of Vol. 26, p. 769.Ordnance and Fortification provided by the Act of February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for the necessary traveling expenses of said member when traveling on duty as contemplated in said Act; for the payment of the necessary expenses of the Board, Per diem.including a per diem allowance to each officer detailed to serve thereon, when employed on duty away from his permanent station, of Tests, etc.two dollars and fifty cents a day, and for the test of experimental guns, carriages, and other devices procured in accordance with the recommendation of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification, twenty-five thousand dollars, the expenditure of which shall be made by the several bureaus of the War Department heretofore having jurisdiction of the same, or by the Board itself, as the Secretary of War may *Proviso*.Right to use invention.direct: *Provided*, That before any money shall be expended in the construction or test of any gun, gun carriage, ammunition, or implements under the supervision of the said Board, the Board shall be satisfied, after due inquiry, that the Government of the United States has a lawful right to use the inventions involved in the construction of such gun, gun carriage, ammunition, or implements, or that the construction or test is made at the request of a person either having such lawful right or authorized to convey the same to the Government.
Material to be of American manufacture. That all material purchased under the foregoing provisions of this Act shall be of American manufacture, except in cases when, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, it is to the manifest interest of the United States to make purchases in limited quantities abroad, which material shall be admitted free of duty. Approved, March 2, 1907.