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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 34 STAT. · March 2, 1907 · Chapter 2512

Chapter 2512. Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 2512.— An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, and for other purposes. March 2, 1907. [[H. R. 24925](/us/bill/34/hr/24925).] [[Public, No. 171](/us/pl/34/171).] *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 eight, and for other purposes. pay of the navy.Pay of Navy.
Pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on sea duty 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; for hire of quarters for officers 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, or commutation of quarters not to exceed the amount which an officer would receive were he not serving with troops, and the proper accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow in the settlement of accounts of disbursing officers all payments made since November thirteenth, nineteen hundred and five, and prior to July first, nineteen hundred and seven, for commutation of quarters for officers on shore serving with troops and not provided with public quarters; pay of enlisted men on the retired list; extra pay to men reenlisting under honorable discharge; interest on deposits by men; pay of petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and apprentice seamen, including men in the engineers’ force, and men detailed for duty with Naval Militia, and for the Fish Commission, thirty-six thousand men; and the number of enlisted men shall be exclusive of those undergoing imprisonment with sentence of dishonorable discharge from the service at Warrant machinists.expiration of such confinement; and as many warrant machinists as the President may from time to time deem necessary to appoint, not to exceed twenty in any one year; and two thousand five hundred apprentice seamen under training at training stations and on board training ships, at the pay prescribed by law, twenty-one million dollars. *Proviso*.Refund of bounty.*Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy may, in his discretion, require the whole or a part of the bounty allowed upon enlistment to be refunded in eases where men are discharged during the first year of enlistment by request, for inaptitude, as undesirable, or for disability not incurred in line of duty. pay, miscellaneous.Pay, miscellaneous.
For commissions and interest; transportation of funds; exchange; mileage to officers while traveling under orders in the United States, and for actual personal expenses of officers while traveling abroad under orders, and for traveling expenses of civilian employees, and for actual and necessary traveling expenses of midshipmen while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment as midshipmen; for rent and furniture of buildings and offices not in navy-yards; expenses of courts-martial, prisoners and prisons, and courts of inquiry, boards of inspection, examining boards, 1177with 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 attachés and information from abroad, and the collection and classification thereof, and other necessary and incidental expenses, six hundred and seventy-five 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 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 Treasury*Proviso*.Civilian employees. are hereby authorized and directed to allow, in the settlement of 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 eight. bureau of navigation.Bureau of Navigation.
Transportation, recruiting, and contingent: Transportation:Transportation. For travel allowance of enlisted men discharged on account of expiration of enlistment; transportation of enlisted men and apprentice seamen at home and abroad, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof, transportation to their homes, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentice seamen discharged on medical survey, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof: transportation of sick or insane enlisted men and apprentice seamen to hospitals, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, and for railway guides and other expenses incident to transportation, four hundred thousand dollars.
Recruiting: Expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent ofRecruiting. rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentice seamen; actual and necessary expenses in lieu of mileage to officers on duty with traveling recruiting parties, one hundred and twenty-one thousand throe hundred and forty dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be*Proviso*.Certificate of age. expended in recruiting seamen, ordinary seamen, or apprentice seamen. unless a certificate of birth or written evidence, other than his own statement or statement of another based thereon, satisfactory to the recruiting officer, showing the applicant to be of age required by naval regulations, shall be presented with the application for enlistment.
Contingent: Advertising, telegraphing on public business, postageContingent. on letters sent abroad, ferriage, ice, continuous-service certificates, discharges, good-conduct badges, and medals for men and boys: transportation of effects of deceased officers and enlisted men of the Navy: books for training apprentice seamen and landsmen; maintenance of gunnery and other training classes; packing boxes and materials, and 1178other contingent expenses and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation, unforseen and impossible to classify, fifteen thousand dollars.
Gunnery exercises.Gunnery exercises: Prizes, trophies, and badges for excellence in gunnery exercises and target practice; for the establishment and maintenance of shooting galleries, target houses, targets, and ranges; for hiring established ranges, and for transportation of civilian assistants and equipment to and from ranges, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Outfits.Outfits on first enlistment: Outfits for all enlisted men and apprentice seamen of the Navy on first enlistment, at not to exceed sixty dollars each, six hundred thousand dollars.
Maintenance of auxiliaries.Maintenance of naval auxiliaries: Pay, transportation, shipping, and subsistence of civilian officers and crews of naval auxiliaries and all expenses connected with naval auxiliaries employed in emergencies which can not be paid from other appropriations, five hundred thousand 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 apprentice seamen: printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating, lighting, and furniture; stationery, books, and periodicals; fresh water, ice, and washing; expressage; packing boxes and materials; postage and telegraphing; telephones, and all other contingent expenses; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen; in all, fifty thousand dollars.
Coasters Harbor Island. R. I.Naval training station, Rhode Island: Maintenance of naval training station, Coasters Harbor Island, Rhode Island, namely: Labor and material: building and wharves; dredging channels; extending sea wall; repairs to causeway and sea wall; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and wharves; wharfage, ferriage, and street-car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same; fire engines and extinguishers; boats and gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating. lighting, and furniture; stationery, books, and periodicals; fresh water, ice, and washing; expressage; packing boxes and materials; postage and telegraphing; telephones, and all other contingent expenses; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen; in all, seventy-one thousand dollars.
Great Lakes.Naval training station, Great Lakes: Maintenance of naval training station: Labor and material; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and piers; street-care fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same; fire extinguishers; heating, lighting, and furniture; stationery, books, and periodicals: ice and washing; expressage; packing boxes and materials; postage, telegraphing. and telephoning; and all other contingent expenses, twenty thousand dollars.
Clerical force.For clerical force in the office of commandant as follows: One clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; one draftsman, at one thousand five hundred dollars; one subinspector. at one thousand five hundred dollars; one foreman of laborers, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, at five 1179hundred and forty dollars; in all, six thousand nine hundred and forty dollars. In all, naval training station. Great Lakes, twenty-six thousand nine hundred and forty dollars.
Naval War College, Rhode Island: For maintenance of theNaval War College, R. I. Naval War College on Coasters Harbor Island, and care of grounds for same, twelve thousand three hundred dollars; one draftsman, at one thousand two hundred dollars per year; services of a lecturer on international law. one thousand dollars; services of civilian lecturers rendered at the War College, six hundred dollars; two copyists, at nine hundred dollars each per year; purchase of books of reference, four hundred dollars; one librarian, one thousand four hundred dollars per year;
In all, Naval War College, Rhode Island, eighteen thousand seven hundred dollars. Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: One superintendentNaval Home, Philadelphia, Pa. of grounds, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one steward, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one matron, at four hundred and twenty dollars; one beneficiaries’ attendant, at two hundred and forty dollars: one chief cook, at four hundred and eighty dollars: one assistant cook, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one assistant cook, at two hundred and forty 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 and forty dollars; eight laborers, at two hundred and forty dollars each; one stable keeper and driver, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one master at arms, at four hundred and eighty dollars; two house corporals, at three hundred dollars each; one barber, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one carpenter, at eight hundred and forty-five dollars; one painter, at eight hundred and forty-five dollars; one engineer for elevator and machinery, six hundred dollars; three laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; three laborers, at three hundred dollars each; total for employees, fourteen thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
Miscellaneous: Water rent and lighting, two thousand one hundred dollars; cemetery, burial expenses, and headstones, eight hundred dollars; improvement of grounds, seven hundred and eighty dollars; repairs to buildings, boilers, furnaces, and furniture, six thousand seven hundred and forty-eight dollars; music in chapel, six hundred dollars; transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, one hundred dollars; support of beneficiaries, forty-seven thousand nine hundred and five dollars: total miscellaneous, fifty-nine thousand and thirty-three dollars;
In all, for Naval Home, seventy-three thousand six hundred and eighty-three dollars, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund: *Provided*, That for the performance of such*Proviso*.Employing beneficiaries. additional services in and about the Naval Home as may be necessary, the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to employ, on the recommendation of the governor, beneficiaries in said Home, whose compensation shall be fixed by the Secretary and paid from the appropriation for the support of the Home. bureau of ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance.
Ordnance and ordnance stores: For procuring, producing,Ordnance and ordnance stores. preserving, 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 fac-1180tories, and powder depots; for furniture in ordinance buildings at navy-yards and stations; for maintenance of the proving ground and *Proviso*.Purchase of shells.powder factory, and for target practice, four million dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of shells or projectiles except for shells or projectiles purchased in accordance with the terms and conditions of proposals submitted by the Secretary of the Navy to all of the manufacturers of shells and projectiles and upon bids received in accordance with the terms and requirements of such proposals.
All shells and projectiles shall conform to the standards prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy. Ammunition, etc., for new ships.Ammunition and other supplies for new ships, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Smokeless powder.Purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, live hundred thousand dollars. Boston, Mass.Machine tools.Machine tools for navy-yard, Boston, thirty-nine thousand dollars. Naval gun factory.For naval gun factory. Washington, District of Columbia:
New and improved machinery for existing shops, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; Modernizing batteries.For modernizing the battery of the Iowa, thirty-six thousand dollars. For modernizing the batteries of the Monterey and the Monadnock, twenty thousand dollars. New turret sights.For providing new turret sights for the four monitors of the Arkansas class, sixteen thousand dollars. New battery for the “Brooklyn.”New battery for the Brooklyn, one hundred and seventy-seven thousand two hundred dollars.
Modifying mounts, etc.For completing the work of modifying four-inch forty-caliber mounts, and providing new sights; and for modifying five-inch forty-caliber mounts, and providing new sights for same, one hundred thousand dollars. Fire-control instruments.For fire-control instruments for nineteen battle ships and twelve armored cruisers: for fire-control instruments for four monitors and twenty-five cruisers, three hundred thousand dollars. Mines.For the manufacture, purchase, repair, and maintenance of a reserve stock of mines and mine appliances, one hundred thousand dollars.
Torpedoes, etc.For fifty eighteen-inch torpedoes: converting destroyers to modern boats: converting three and fifty-five one-hundredths meter boats to five-meter boats, three hundred thousand dollars. Reserve ammunition.*Proviso*.Purchase of shells.Reserve ammunition: Toward the accumulation of a reserve, supply of ammunition, four million dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of shells or projectiles except for shells or projectiles purchased in accordance with the terms and conditions of proposals submitted by the Secretary of the Navy to all of the manufacturers of shells and projectiles and upon bids received in accordance with the terms and requirements of such proposals.
All shells and projectiles shall conform to the standards prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy. Reserve guns.Reserve guns for ships of the Navy: Purchase and manufacture of reserve guns for ships of the Navy, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Reserve torpedoes, etc.Reserve torpedoes and appliances: For the purchase or manufacture of reserve torpedoes and appliances, two hundred and fifty *Proviso*.Torpedo factory.thousand dollars: *Provided*, That of this amount not more than one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars shall be used for the construction and equipment of a torpedo factory at the torpedo station at Newport, Rhode Island.
Torpedo station, Newport, R. I.Torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: For labor, material, freight and express charges: general care of and repairs to grounds, buildings, and wharves; boats, instruction, instruments, tools, furniture. experiments, and general torpedo outfits, and new smokestack and flues for boilers, seventy thousand dollars. 1181 Arming and equipping Naval Militia: For arms, accouterments,Naval militia equipment. signal outfits, boats and their equipment, repairs to vessels loaned to States in accordance with law. fuel and clothing, and the printing or purchase of necessary books of instruction for the Naval Militia of the various States, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, sixty thousand dollars.
Repairs, Bureau of Ordnance: For necessary repairs to ordnanceRepairs. buildings, magazines, gun parks, boats, lighters, wharves, machinery, and other items of like character, thirty thousand dollars. Miscellaneous, Bureau of Ordnance: For miscellaneous items,Miscellaneous. namely: Advertising, cartage and express charges, expenses of light and water at magazines and stations: tolls, ferriage, foreign postage, and telegrams to and from the Bureau, technical books, and incidental expenses attending inspection of ordnance material, twenty thousand dollars.
Civil establishment, Bureau of Ordnance: Navy-yard, Portsmouth,Civil establishment.Portsmouth, N. H. New Hampshire: For one. writer, at one thousand dollars; Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one clerk, at one thousandBoston, Mass. two hundred dollars; Navy-yard, New York, New York: For one clerk, at one thousandNew York, N. Y. four hundred dollars; Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, atLeague Island, Pa. one thousand two hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia:
For one chemist,Washington, D. C. at two thousand five hundred dollars; two foremen of Gun Factory, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; one ordnance engineer and computing draftsman, 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;
Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For one clerk, at one thousand twoNorfolk, Va. hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousandMare Island, Cal. two hundred dollars; Naval proving ground, Indian Head, Maryland: For one clerk, atIndian Head proving ground, Md. one thousand two hundred dollars; one. foreman of powder factory, two thousand dollars: one chemist for powder factory, two thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant chemist for powder factory, two thousand dollars:
Torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: For one chemist, at twoTorpedo station Newport, R. I. 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 two hundred and six dollars and seventy-five cents; and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. . bureau of equipment.Bureau of Equipment.
Equipment of vessels: For hemp, wire, iron, and other materialsEquipment of vessels. for the manufacture of cordage, anchors, cables, galleys, and chains; specifications for purchase thereof shall be so prepared as shall give fair and free competition; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings. hammocks, and other work; water for all purposes on board 1182naval vessels, including the expenses of transportation and storage of the same; stationery for chaplains and for commanding and navigating officers of ships, equipment officers on shore and afloat, and for the use of courts-martial on board ship; the removal and transportation of ashes from ships of war; interior appliances and tools for equipment buildings in navy-yards and naval stations; supplies for seamen’s quarters; and for the purchase of all other articles of equipment at home and abroad, and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels and manufacture of equipment articles in the several navy-yards; all pilotage and towage of ships of war; canal tolls, wharfage, dock and port charges, and other necessary incidental expenses of a similar nature; services and materials in repairing, correcting, adjusting, and testing compasses on shore and on board ship; nautical and astronomical instruments, and repairs to same; libraries for ships of war. professional books and papers, and drawings and engravings for signal books; naval signals 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 mate-rials; 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 two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Coal, etc.Coal and transportation: Purchase of coal and other fuel for steamers’ and ships’ use, and other equipment purposes, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same, and for the general maintenance of naval coaling depots and coaling plants, four million one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Contingent.Contingent, Bureau of Equipment: Express charges on equipment stores, packing boxes and materials, printing, advertising, telegraphing, books, and models; stationery; furniture for equipment of offices in navy-yards; postage on letters sent abroad; ferriage, ice, and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Equipment unforeseen and impossible to classify, fifteen thousand dollars.
Ocean and lake surveys.Ocean and lake surveys; Hydrographic surveys, and for the purchase of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, and express charges on the same, seventy-five thousand dollars. Civil establishment.Portsmouth, N. H.Civil establishment, Bureau of Equipment: Navy-yard. Ports-mouth, New Hampshire: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one writer, nine hundred and fifty dollars; in all, two thou-sand one hundred and fifty dollars; Boston, Mass.Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts:
For one superintendent of rope-walk, 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 thou-sand dollars; in all, eleven thousand eight hundred dollars; New York, N. Y.Navy-yard, New York, New York:
For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand (two hundred dollars; two writers, at nine hundred and fifty dollars each: one clerk in charge of distribution of books, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, five thousand seven hundred dollars; 1183 Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at oneLeague Island, Pa. thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand four hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia:
For two clerks, at one thousand twoNorfolk, Va. hundred dollars each; one writer, at nine hundred and fifty dollars; in all, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousandMare Island, Cal. two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; one writer, at nine hundred and fifty dollars; in all, three thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one clerk, whoWashington, D.
C. shall also perform the clerical duties for the board of labor at said navy-yard, one thousand six hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: One clerk, one thousand dollars;Pensacola, Fla. Naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: One master electrician,Cavite, P. I. one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight dollars; one clerk, one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight dollars; Naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina: One clerk, one thousand dollars;Port Royal, S.
C. Naval station, Key West, Florida: One clerk, one thousand dollars;Key West, Fla. Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: One clerk, one thousandPuget Sound, Wash. dollars; 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 of yards and docks: For general maintenance ofMaintenance. yards and docks, namely:
For 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, fire engines, and fire apparatus and plants; incidental labor at navy-yards; water tax, tolls, and ferriage; pay of watchmen in navy-yards; awnings and packing boxes, and advertising for yards and docks and other purposes; and for rent of wharf and storehouse at Erie, Pennsylvania, for use and accommodation of United States steamer Wolverine, and for pay of employees on leave, nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For contingent expensesContingent. that may arise at navy-yards and stations, thirty thousand dollars. Civil establishment, Bureau of Yards and Docks: Navy-yard,Civil establishment.Portsmouth, N. H. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars: one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one messenger at six hundred dollars; one foreman laborer and head teamster, at four dollars per diem, including Sundays; one janitor, at six hundred dollars; one pilot, at three dollars per diem, including Sundays; one draftsman, at four dollars per diem; one electrician, one thousand 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 fifty dollars. 1184 Boston, Mass.Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts:
For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one messenger to commandant, at two dollars per diem; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen 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 sixty-one dollars and seventeen cents.
New York, N. Y.Navy-yard, New York, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one time clerk, one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one yard pilot, two thousand dollars; two masters of tugs, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; two writers, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; one foreman laborer, at four dollars and fifty cents per diem; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; two messengers, at two dollars and twenty- five 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, including Sundays; 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 ninety-six dollars and eighty-nine cents;
Sacketts Harbor, N. Y.Naval station, Sacketts Harbor, New York: For one ship keeper, at three hundred and sixty-six dollars per annum; League Island, Pa.Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer and telegraph operator, at one thousand dollars: one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one master of tugs, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one draftsman, at five dollars per diem; one electrician, at one thousand 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 forty-two dollars:
Washington, D. C.Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one electrician, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents: one time clerk, nine hundred dollars; in all, six thousand six hundred dollars and sixty-nine cents; Norfolk, Va.Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one writer, at one thousand dollars; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem: one electrician, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; two messengers, at two dollars per diem each; one pilot, at nine hundred dollars; 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 foreman of teams, at two dollars and twenty-four cents per diem; one messenger and janitor, civil engineer’s office, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one stenographer and typewriter, civil engineer’s office, one 1185thousand two hundred dollars: in all, sixteen thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven dollars and ninety-seven cents;
Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: For one clerk, at one thousand twoPensacola, Fla. 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 foreman laborer, at three dollars and fifty-two cents per diem; one stenographer, typewriter, and telegraph operator, at three dollars and four cents per diem; one writer, at two dollars and eighty cents per diem; in all, seven thousand five hundred and twenty-seven dollars and four cents;
Naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina: One messenger and janitor,Port Royal, S. C. one dollar and fifty cents per diem; one telegraph operator, including Sundays, two dollars per diem; in all, one thousand two hundred and three dollars; Naval station, Key West, Florida: For one mail messenger, at sixKey West, Fla. hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one messenger and janitor, at one dollar and seventy-six cents per diem, including Sundays: in all two thousand six hundred and forty-four dollars and sixteen cents;
Naval station, New Orleans, Louisiana: For one clerk, at one thousandNew Orleans, La. two hundred dollars; one rodman and inspector, at three dollars per diem; one messenger and janitor, at one dollar and fifty cents per diem, including Sundays; 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; 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; in all, seven thousand eight hundred and five dollars;
Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousandMare Island, Cal. four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one foreman mason, at six dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at live 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 foreman joiner, at four dollars and fifty-six cents per diem; one telegraph operator, at three dollars and twenty-eight cents per diem; one clerk in civil engineer’s office, at one thousand dollars; in all, fifteen thousand three hundred dollars and one cent.
Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: One clerk, at one thousandPuget Sound, Wash. two hundred dollars: one draftsman, at five dollars per diem: one messenger and janitor, at one dollar and seventy-six cents per diem, including Sundays: one master of tugs, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one copyist, at nine hundred dollars; one electrician, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one writer and telegraph operator, at nine hundred dollars; one stenographer and typewriter, civil engineer’s office, at one thousand dollars: one writer, at nine hundred dollars; one messenger, at one dollar and seventy-six cents per diem; one foreman carpenter, at four dollars and fifty cents per diem, one thousand four hundred and four dollars; in all, eleven thousand four hundred and seventy-nine dollars and eighty cents.
Naval station, San Juan, Porto Rico: One clerk, one thousand twoSan 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 seventeenHawaii. dollars and twenty-five cents per annum; one messenger, at two dollars 1186per diem, including Sundays; in all, one thousand seven hundred and forty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents.
Cavite, P. I.Naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: One clerk, one thousand 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. Guam.Naval station, Guam:
One clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; one foreman machinist, one thousand six hundred dollars; one messenger and janitor, six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand eight hundred dollars. Charleston, S. C.Navy Yard, Charleston, South Carolina: Commandant’s office: One stenographer and typewriter, at three dollars and four cents per diem; one writer and telegraph operator, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one messenger and janitor, at one dollar and fifty-two cents per diem, including Sundays.
Civil engineer’s office: One clerk, at one thousand three hundred dollars; one stenographer, at two dollars and eighty cents per diem; one messenger, at one dollar and fifty-two cents’ per diem; in all, five thousand six hundred and thirty-one dollars and thirty-six cents. In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Yards and Docks, one hundred and forty-nine thousand four hundred and twenty-four dollars and thirty-four cents, and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. 1187 public works, bureau of yards and docks.Public works.Bureau of Yards and Docks.
Portsmouth, N. H.Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Railroad and rolling stock, two thousand dollars; sewer system, extension, two thousand dollars; quay walls, to extend, twenty thousand dollars; grading, to continue, fifteen thousand dollars: central power plant, to complete, sixty thousand dollars; blasting in front of quay wall (to cost, one hundred and ten thousand dollars), fifty thousand dollars: naval prison laundry, three thousand dollars; naval prison cooking and baking plant, three thousand two hundred dollars: naval prison, furniture and fittings, eight thousand five hundred dollars; naval prison, administration building, to complete, ten thousand dollars: pattern shop for steam engineering, to complete, sixty-one thousand two hundred dollars; track for forty-ton crane, extension, ten thousand dollars, the limit of cost to be forty-six thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, two hundred and forty-four thousand nine hundred dollars.
Boston, Mass.Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Paving, to continue, twenty thousand dollars; third floor, building numbered one hundred and seven, six thousand dollars; electric plant, extensions, twenty-five thousand dollars; heating system, extensions, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars; railroad rolling stock, three thousand dollars; telephone system, extensions, one thousand dollars; railroad system extensions, two thousand dollars; repairs to dry dock numbered one. fifteen thousand dollars; completing building numbered one hundred and eight, five thousand dollars; salt water flushing for dry dock numbered two, two thousand five hundred dollars; water-closet between dry docks, ten thousand dollars; improving rope walk building, ten thousand dollars; improvements to naval prison, two thousand five hundred dollars; improvements to building numbered forty-two, nine thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Boston, one hundred and twenty- eight thousand five hundred dollars.
Navy-yard, New York, New York: Electric plant, extensions,New York, N. Y. twenty-five thousand dollars; underground conduits, extension, fifteen thousand dollars; heating system, extensions, twenty thousand dollars; electric motors for pump well valves, seven thousand dollars; electric elevators, ten thousand dollars; central power plant, to complete, one hundred and forty thousand dollars; for sidewalk on Flushing avenue and Navy street in front of the Navy-Yard, ten thousand eight hundred dollars; railroad equipment, additional, five thousand dollars; railroad system, extensions, ten thousand dollars; sewers and drains, ten thousand dollars; cement storehouse, eleven thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, New York, New York, two hundred and sixty-three thousand eight hundred dollars.
Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: To continue retainingLeague Island, Pa. wall about reserve basin, fifty thousand dollars; sea wall, extension, fifty thousand dollars; berth for receiving ship, to extend, twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars; in all, navy-yard, League Island, one hundred and twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars. Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: Paving, to extend,Washington, D. C. ten thousand dollars; grading, to extend, ten thousand dollars; quay wall, twenty-five thousand dollars; railroad bridge and tracks, forty thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Washington, eighty-five thousand dollars.
Navy-yard, Charleston, South Carolina: Stone and concreteCharleston, S. C. dry dock, to complete, fifty thousand dollars; grading and paving, fifteen thousand dollars; railroad system, extensions, fifteen thousand dollars; dredging, ninety-eight thousand dollars; conduit system, extension. ten thousand dollars; sewer system, extension, five thousand dollars; central power plant, thirty thousand dollars; railroad equipment, five thousand dollars; quay wall, thirty-four thousand dollars; heating system, extensions, fifteen thousand dollars; electric system, extension, ten thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Charleston, South Carolina, two hundred and eighty-seven thousand dollars.
Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Paving and grading, additional,Norfolk, Va. ten thousand dollars; railroad tracks, extensions, eight thousand dollars; rebuilding coal wharf, twenty-five thousand dollars; telephone system, extensions, two thousand five hundred dollars; electric plant, extensions, twenty thousand dollars: machine shop for steam engineering, to complete, twenty-five thousand dollars; concrete and granite dry dock, to complete, one hundred thousand dollars; improvements to one-hundred-ton shears, to complete, twenty thousand dollars; repairs, buildings, Saint Helena, twenty-five thousand dollars; central power plant, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars; in all. navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia, three hundred and sixty-five thousand five hundred dollars.
Naval station, Key West, Florida: Dredging and filling in,Key West, Fla. twenty-five thousand dollars; grading and paving, five thousand dollars; sidewalks along outside station wall on Government property, two thousand five hundred dollars; water system, extensions, two thousand dollars; removing steel tanks from Dry Tortugas, ten thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Key West, Florida, forty-four thousand five hundred dollars. Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: Railroad system, extension,Mare Island, Cal. five thousand dollars; electric-plant system, extension, ten thousand dollars; sewer system, extensions, three thousand dollars; heating system, extension, five thousand dollars; telephone system, extensions, one thousand dollars; electric capstans for dry dock numbered one, ten thousand dollars; extension of building numbered one hundred and nineteen, block and cooper shop, fifteen thousand dollars; improvements to building numbered ninety-six, shipfitters’ shop, three 1188thousand dollars; improvements to buildings numbered sixty-nine and seventy-one. twenty thousand dollars; improvements to coal cylinders, seven thousand five hundred dollars; workshop for electrical class, three thousand dollars; channel moorings, Mare Island Strait, nine thousand dollars; enlarging and moving dispensary building, six thousand dollars; improvements to naval prison, fifty thousand dollars; central light and power plant at Mare Island Navy-Yard, California, one hundred thousand dollars; removal of office building numbered one hundred and three, one thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Mare Island, two hundred and forty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.
Puget Sound, Wash,Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: To continue grading, ten thousand dollars; electric-light plant, extensions, six thousand dollars; water system, extensions, live thousand dollars; heating system, extensions, five thousand dollars; roads and walks, extensions, two thousand five hundred dollars; stone and concrete dry dock, to continue, two hundred thousand dollars; quay wall, extensions, thirty thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington, two hundred and fifty-eight thousand five-hundred dollars.
Pensacola, Fla.Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: Machinery for central power plant, thirty-five thousand dollars; conduit system, two thousand five hundred dollars; improvements to storehouse, building numbered twenty- five, five thousand dollars; and to enable the Secretary of the Navy to repair and reconstruct, where necessary, the buildings, wharves, and other public works recently damaged by hurricane at the navy- yard, Pensacola, two hundred thousand dollars: in all, navy-yard, Pensacola, two hundred and forty-two thousand five hundred dollars.
New Orleans, La.Naval station, New Orleans, Louisiana: Improvement of water front, twenty-five thousand dollars; levee improvement and grading, twenty-five thousand dollars; central electric light and power plant, extension, fifty thousand dollars; railroad system, five thousand dollars; drainage system, ten thousand dollars; central heating plant, eighteen thousand dollars; paving, ten thousand dollars; fitting up yard buildings eight and sixteen, four thousand three hundred dollars; dispensary building, nine, thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard.
New Orleans, one hundred and fifty-six thousand three hundred dollars. Olongapo, P. I.Naval station, Olongapo, Philippine Islands: Water system, forty thousand dollars; quay walls, fifty thousand dollars; in all, ninety thousand dollars. Guam.Naval station, island of Guam; Dredging, seven thousand five hundred dollars; extension of naval-station roads, five thousand dollars; water supply system, ten thousand dollars; in all, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Hawaii.Naval station, Hawaii:
Grading, curbing, and fencing, one thousand one hundred dollars; fender timbers, piers one and two, two thousand dollars; in all, three thousand one hundred dollars. Cavite, P. I.Naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: Extension of building numbered sixty-four, seven thousand five hundred dollars; boat storage shed, four thousand dollars; improvement of naval prison, one thousand five hundred dollars: in all, thirteen thousand dollars. Culebra, P. R.Naval station, Culebra, Porto Rico:
Clearing and grading, one thousand five hundred dollars; fencing, five hundred dollars; in all, two thousand dollars. Tutuila.Naval station, Tutuila: Barracks for native guard, five thousand dollars; operating room, one thousand dollars; in all, six thousand dollars. Newport, R. I.Steel floats, etc.Government landing, Newport, Rhode Island: Steel floats, fences, dredging, and general improvements, seven thousand eight hundred and forty dollars. Plans, etc.[R. S., sec. 3663, p. 720](/us/rs/s3663/p720).Plans and specifications for public works:
Plans and estimates required by section thirty-six hundred and sixty-three, Revised Stat-1189utes, and plans and specifications for public works, thirty thousand dollars. Repairs and preservation at navy-yards: For repairs and preservationRepairs and preservation. at navy-yards and stations, five hundred thousand dollars. Total public works, navy-yards and stations, three million one hundred and twenty-four thousand nine hundred and forty dollars. public works under the secretary of the navy.
Buildings and grounds, Naval Academy: To complete the constructionNaval Academy.New buildings. of buildings, and for other necessary improvements at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, as authorized by the Acts ofVol. 31, p. 696.Vol. 32, p. 1188. Congress approved June seventh, nineteen hundred, and March third, nineteen hundred and three, three hundred and eighty thousand dollars. Buildings for lepers, island of Guam: Naval station, island ofGuam.Care of lepers, etc. Guam:
Maintenance and care of lepers and other special patients, sixteen thousand dollars; in all, sixteen thousand dollars. Total public works under Secretary’s office, three hundred and ninety-six thousand dollars. public works under bureau of navigation.Bureau of Navigation. Naval training station, California, buildings: For extra serviceTraining stations.California. pipe to Oakland shore, fifteen thousand dollars; to repair roads, one thousand dollars. To paint barracks buildings and officers’ quarters, three thousand dollars; dispensary building, to cost not exceeding twenty thousand dollars; in all, thirty-nine thousand dollars.
Naval training station, Rhode Island, buildings: Improving andRhode Island. grading grounds and roads, two thousand five hundred dollars; rebuilding old timber wharf and improving water front, nine thousand three hundred dollars; refrigerating plant, increase, seven thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars; artesian and fresh-water system (to extend), three thousand five hundred dollars; grading and walks at barracks “C.” two thousand dollars; dredging channel and basin, five thousand dollars; steam-distributing lines, six thousand three hundred dollars; increase of heating and lighting plant, five thousand three hundred dollars; sanitary, heating, and ventilating system in barracks “B,” nine thousand eight hundred and forty dollars; completion and repairs, three double sets of officers’ quarters, four thousand two hundred and thirty-two dollars; furnishing assembly, lecture, and reading room, and improving basement story, two thousand nine hundred and ninety dollars; in all, naval training station, Rhode Island, fifty-eight thousand nine hundred and twelve dollars.
Naval training station, Great Lakes, buildings: Toward theGreat Lakes.New buildings.*Ante*, p. 567. continuance of construction of buildings in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, five hundred thousand dollars. Electrical mains and conduits, heating mains and concrete conduits,Equipment, etc. heating station equipment, power plant equipment, water supply and sewage disposal, two hundred thousand dollars; in all, seven hundred thousand dollars.
In all, public works, Bureau of Navigation, seven hundred and ninety-seven thousand nine hundred and twelve dollars. public works, bureau of ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance. Naval magazine, Dover, New Jersey: Two brick magazine buildings,Dover, N. J.New buildings. each seventy-five feet by forty feet, to be known as magazines numbered six and seven, with the necessary railroad tracks to connect 1190with the present system, twenty-two thousand dollars; in all, naval magazine. Dover, Lake Denmark, New Jersey, twenty-two thousand dollars.
Norfolk, Va.Naval magazine.Naval magazine, Saint Juliens Creek, Norfolk, Virginia: One brick magazine building, fifty feet by one hundred feet, fourteen thousand dollars; in all. fourteen thousand dollars. Indian Head proving ground, Md.Naval proving ground, Indian Head, Maryland: Shell and mount storehouse, including twenty-ton traveling crane and five-ton auxiliary hoist, to cost not exceeding twenty thousand five hundred dollars; laboratory annex, five thousand dollars; nitrate of soda storehouse, to replace building destroyed by fire, four thousand five hundred dollars: ether vault and tank, one thousand three hundred and eighty dollars; pyro storehouse, eight hundred and fifty dollars; completion of bomb proof for velocity battery, nine hundred dollars; clearing underbrush, care of grounds, and preservation of permanent way of railroad tracks, one thousand dollars; in all, naval proving ground, Indian Head, thirty-four thousand one hundred and thirty dollars.
Fort Mifflin, Pa.Naval magazine.Naval magazine, Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania: Repairs to wharf and railroad track, five thousand dollars; installation of drainage system for five dwellings to discharge into river at low-water mark, two thousand five hundred dollars; one building of corrugated steel construction. eighteen by thirty-two feet, for use of workmen, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, eight thousand two hundred dollars. New England coast.Naval magazine.Vol. 33, p. 338.Naval magazine, New England coast:
Toward the erection of the necessary buildings on ground, the purchase of which is now under negotiation, as authorized by the Act approved April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four, for a new naval magazine on the New England coast; also toward inclosing said grounds, grading and filling in, building roads and walks, improvement of the water front, necessary wharves and cranes, railroad tracks, and rolling stock for local service, fire and water service, and equipment of the establishment, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
Mare Island, Cal.Naval magazine, Mare Island, California: Toward additional magazine and storage facilities, quarters for gunners, fencing, extension of wharf, fire mains, lighting, telephone and railroad systems, and equipment pertaining thereto, fifty thousand dollars. Newport, R. I.Torpedo station.Torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: Rebuilding the oldest section of sea wall, five thousand dollars; ferry slip at torpedo station and Government landing, seven thousand five hundred dollars; in all, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
New York Harbor.Iona Island.Naval magazine, New York Harbor: For naval magazine, New York Harbor (Iona Island): Extension to locomotive house to hold number two compressed-air locomotive, eight hundred dollars; installing fire protection, standpipes, and nozzles in storehouse numbered one, one thousand and fifty dollars; one additional magazine building, standard construction, with grading of sites, fifteen thousand dollars; two filling houses, with steam heating, two thousand dollars; extension of rail-road tracks, and new sidings, three thousand dollars; one heat-test house, one thousand dollars; extending sewers, five hundred dollars; primer house, six hundred dollars; in all, twenty-three thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
Puget Sound, Wash.Naval magazine, Puget Sound, Washington: For necessary buildings, water and tire system; fencing, clearing, and grading: railroad tracks, and equipment of the naval magazine, Puget Sound, on ground recently acquired for the purpose, total cost of the improvements to said grounds not to exceed one hundred and fifty-three thousand dollars, seventy-five thousand dollars. Total public works under Bureau of Ordnance, three hundred and sixty-nine thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars. 1191 public works under bureau of equipment.Bureau of Equipment.
Naval Observatory: Grounds and roads: Continuing grading,Naval Observatory.Grounds and roads. extending roads and paths, clearing and improving grounds, ten thousand dollars. public works under bureau of medicine and surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Naval hospital, Pensacola, Florida: For the renewal of the presentPensacola, Fla.Repairs, etc. hospital buildings, fifteen thousand dollars, and for the erection of quarters for the medical staff outside the naval hospital, ten thousand dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Naval hospital, Puget Sound, Washington: For the construction ofPuget Sound, Wash. naval hospital buildings, seventy-five thousand dollars, (total cost not to exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars). Naval Hospital. Washington, District of Columbia: For the erectionWashington, D. C. of an addition, symmetrical with the northeast pavilion, solarium, and connecting corridor, to the naval hospital, Washington, DistrictNaval Hospital. of Columbia, sixty thousand dollars. Naval medical supply depot, Canacao, Philippine Islands:
For theCanacao, P. I.Medical supply depot. erection of a building for the United States naval medical supply depot on the grounds of the naval hospital. Canacao, twenty-five thousand dollars. Total public works under Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, one hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. public works, marine corps.Marine Corps. Barracks and quarters. Marine Corps: For construction of officers’Barracks and quarters. quarters, navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania, to cost not to exceed thirty thousand dollars, thirty thousand dollars:
For the purchase of ground adjoining the quartermasters’ depot,Philadelphia. Pa.Purchase of ground. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and erection thereon of an addition to said depot, at a cost of ground and building not to exceed two hundred thousand dollars, two hundred thousand dollars; To complete marine barracks and officers’ quarters, walls and improvementWashington, D. C.Marine barracks. to grounds, Washington, District of Columbia, eighty thousand dollars; For roads, walks, grading, and so forth, Marine Corps reservation,Norfolk, Va.Roads, etc. navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia, five thousand dollars;
For construction of two officers’ quarters, navy-yard, Pensacola,Pensacola, Fla. Florida, ten thousand dollars; For construction of marine barracks, naval station, Guantanamo,Guantanamo. Cuba, ten thousand dollars; For construction of an addition to the marine barracks, navy-yard,Bremerton, Wash. Bremerton, Washington, twelve thousand dollars; In all, public works, Marine Corps, three hundred and forty-seven thousand dollars. bureau of medicine and surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
Medical department: For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels inSurgeons’ necessaries. commission, navy-yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy-yards, naval laboratory, museum of hygiene, and department of instruction, and Naval Academy, two hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars. Naval hospital fund: For maintenance of the naval hospitals atHospital 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 expressageContingent. on medical stores, tolls, ferriages, care, transportation, and burial of 1192the 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’ offices and dispensaries at navy-yards and naval stations, surgeons’ quarters at naval hospitals; washing for medical department at museum of hygiene and department of instruction, naval dispensary, Washington ; naval laboratory, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, dispensaries at navy-yards and naval stations, and ships; and 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-five thousand dollars.
Transferring home remains of officers, etc.Transportation of remains: To enable the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transferred to their homes the remains of officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps who die or are killed in action ashore or afloat, and also to enable the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of civilian employees who die outside of the continental Proviso.Application of fund.limits of the United States, ten thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the sum herein appropriated shall 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.
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. Guantanamo.Hospital for laborers.For the equipment of a hospital for laborers at the naval station, Guantanamo, including ward, kitchen, dispensary, and operating-room supplies, to be immediately available, nine hundred dollars. bureau of supplies and accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.
Provisions, etc.Provisions, Navy: For provisions and commuted rations for the seamen and marines, which commuted rations may be paid to caterers of messes, in case of death or desertion, upon orders of the commanding officers, commuted rations for officers on sea duty (other than commissioned officers of the line, Medical and Pay Corps, and chief boatswains, chief gunners, chief sailmakers, chief carpenters), and midshipmen, and commuted rations stopped on account of sick in hospital and credited to the naval hospital fund; subsistence of officers and men unavoidably detained or absent from vessels to which attached under orders (during which subsistence rations to be stopped on board ship and no credit for commutation therefor to be given); labor in general 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, one hundred thousand United States Army emergency rations, five *Provisos*.Sale to civilian employees.million five hundred and forty-two 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 1193Alaska, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe: *Provided further*, That section fifteen hundred and eighty-oneNaval rations.[R.
S., sec. 1581, p. 270](/us/rs/s1581/p270).*Ante*, p. 570, amended. of the Revised Statutes, as amended by Act of June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, be, and it is hereby, further amended by adding thereto a paragraph as follows: " ‘Any article comprised in the Navy ration may be issued in excessChange in allowance. of the authorized quantity, provided there be an under issue of the same, value in some other article or articles: *And provided*,* further*, That the*Proviso*.Unexpended balances reappropriated. unexpended balances under appropriations Provisions, Navy,’ for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five and nineteen hundred and six, are hereby reappropriated for ‘Provisions, Navy,’ for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight.
” " Contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: For expressage,Contingent. fuel, books and blanks, stationery, advertising, furniture and interior fittings for general storehouses and pay offices in navy-yards; coffee mills and repairs thereto; expenses of naval clothing factory and machinery for same, postage, telegrams, telephones, tolls, ferriages, yeoman’s stores, safes, newspapers, ice, and other incidental expenses, one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the sum*Provisos*.Unexpended balance. of ten thousand dollars from the unexpended balance under appropriation “Contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts,” for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, is hereby reappropriated for “Contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts,” for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight: *Provided further*, That hereafter the purchase of supplies and thePurchases in open market. procurement of services for all branches of the naval service may be made in open market in the manner common among business men, without formal contract or bond, when the aggregate of the amount required does not exceed five hundred dollars, and when, in the opinion of the proper administrative officers, such limitation of amount is not designed to evade purchase under formal contract or bond, and equally or more advantageous terms can thereby be secured.
Freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: All freight charges pertainingFreight.Department and bureaus. to the Navy Department and its bureaus, except the transportation of coal for the Bureau of Equipment, five hundred thousand dollars. Civil establishment, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: In general storehouses: TwoCivil establishment.Portsmouth, N. H. bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each: one assistant bookkeeper, at seven hundred and twenty dollars: one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one shipping and receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; in all. five thousand eight hundred and forty dollars;
Navy-yard, Boston. Massachusetts: In general storehouses: OneBoston, Mass. bookkeeper, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one shipping clerk, at one. thousand dollars; one receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; one bookkeeper, at one thousand two hundred dollars. In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, five thousand two hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents; Navy-yard, New York, New York:
In office of board of inspection:New York, N. Y One writer, nine hundred dollars. In general storehouses: Three 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 1194and 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 store man, nine hundred dollars; one principal clerk, provisions and clothing section, one thousand four hundred dollars; one principal clerk, supply-fund section, one thousand four hundred dollars; one cloth inspector, at four dollars per diem, one thousand two hundred and fifty-six dollars.
In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one messenger, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem: in all, thirty-two thousand two hundred and nineteen dollars and nine cents. League Island, Pa.Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: In general storehouse: Two bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one assistant bookkeeper, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars.
In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty- five cents; in all, seven thousand one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents. Washington, D. C.Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: In general storehouse: One bookkeeper, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars.
In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, six thousand four hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents. Naval Academy.Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland: In general storehouse: One bookkeeper, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one receiving and shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents. Newport, R. I.Naval station, Newport, Rhode Island:
In general storehouse (training station): One clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars. In general storehouse (torpedo station): One clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, two thousand four hundred dollars. Mare Island, Cal.Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: In general storehouse: 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 1195receiving 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.
Navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington: In general storehouses: OnePuget Sound, Wash. 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; Naval station, Key West, Florida: One clerk, one thousand twoKey West, Fla. hundred dollars; in all, one thousand two hundred dollars;
In all, civil establishment. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, one hundred and three thousand nine hundred and seventy-eight dollars and thirty-four cents; and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. bureau of construction and repair.Bureau of Construction and Repair. Construction and repair of vessels: For preservation and completionPreservation and completion of vessels. of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; steam steerers, pneumatic steerers, steam capstans, steam windlasses and all other auxiliaries; labor in navy-yards and on foreign stations; purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops; carrying on work of experimental model tank; designing naval vessels; construction and repair of yard craft, lighters, and barges; 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, such as advertising, foreign postage, telegrams, telephone service, photographing, books, professional magazines, plans, stationery, and instruments for drafting room, seven million nine hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be applied to the repair of*Provisos*.Wooden ships. any wooden ship, when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers shall exceed ten per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material: *Provided further*, ThatOther ships. no part of this sum shall be applied to the repair of any other ship when the estimated cost or such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed twenty per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material: *Provided*, That nothing hereinRepairs of ships damaged in foreign waters. contained shall deprive the Secretary of the Navy of the authority to order repairs of ships damaged in foreign waters or on the high seas, so far as may be necessary to bring them home: *And provided further*, That the Secretary of the Navy shall hereafter report to Congress,Reports on proposed repairs, etc. at the commencement of each regular session, the number of vessels and their names upon which any repairs or changes are proposed which in any case shall amount to more than two hundred thousand dollars, the extent of such proposed repairs or changes, and the amounts estimated to be needed for the same in each vessel; and expenditures for such repairs or changes so limited shall be made only after appropriations in detail are provided for by Congress.
Improvement of construction plants: Construction plant, navy-yard,Construction plants.Portsmouth, N. H. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Repairs to, and improvements of, plant at navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, fifteen thousand dollars. Construction plant, navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Repairs to,Boston, Mass. and improvement of, plant at navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts, twenty thousand dollars. 1196 New York, N. Y.Construction plant, navy-yard. New York, New York: Repairs to, and improvement of, plant at navy-yard, New York, New York, twenty thousand dollars.
League Island, Pa.Construction plant, navy-yard. League Island, Pennsylvania: Repairs to, and improvement of, plant at navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania, fifteen thousand dollars. Norfolk, Va.Construction plant, navy-yard. Norfolk, Virginia: Repairs to, and improvement of. plant at navy-yard. Norfolk, Virginia, twelve thousand dollars. Pensacola, Fla.Construction plant, navy-yard. Pensacola. Florida: Repairs to, and improvement of, plant at navy-yard. Pensacola, Florida, fifteen thousand dollars.
New Orleans, La.Construction plant, naval station. New Orleans. Louisiana: Repairs to, and improvement of, plant at naval station, New Orleans, Louisiana, ten thousand dollars. Mare Island, Cal.Construction plant, navy-yard, Mare Island, California: Repairs to, and improvement of, plant at navy-yard. Mare Island. California, fifteen thousand dollars. Puget Sound, Wash.Construction plant, navy-yard. Puget Sound. Washington: Repairs to, and improvement of, plant at navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington, twenty thousand dollars.
Charleston, S. C.Construction plant, navy-yard. Charleston, South Carolina: Repairs to, and improvement of, plant at naval station, Charleston, South Carolina, twenty thousand dollars. Civil establishment.Portsmouth, N. H.Civil establishment, Bureau of Construction and Repair: 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;
Boston, Mass.Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: 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; New York, N. Y.Navy-yard, New York, New York: One clerk to naval constructor, 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;
League Island, Pa.Navy-yard, League Island. Pennsylvania: One clerk to naval constructor. at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all. two thousand four hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; Washington, D. C.Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: One clerk to naval constructor, at one thousand four hundred dollars; Norfolk, Va.Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: One clerk to naval constructor, at one thousand four hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; in all, three thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents;
Charleston, S. C.Navy-yard, Charleston, South Carolina: One clerk to naval constructor, one thousand four hundred dollars; Pensacola, Fla.Navy-Yard, Pensacola, Florida: One clerk to naval constructor, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all. two thousand two hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; Marc Island, Cal.Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: One clerk to naval constructor, at one thousand four hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; in all, three thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents; 1197 Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington:
One clerk to navalPuget Sound, Wash. 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; Naval station, New Orleans, Louisiana: One clerk to naval constructor,New Orleans, La. one thousand two hundred dollars; Naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: One clerk to naval constructor,Cavite, P. I. one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, two thousand four hundred dollars; in all, three thousand eight hundred dollars;
In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Construction and Repair, forty thousand eight hundred and twenty-four dollars and twenty-five cents; and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. bureau of steam, engineering.Bureau of Steam Engineering. Steam machinery: For completion, repairing, and preservation ofSteam machinery. machinery and boilers of naval vessels, including cost of new boilers; distilling, refrigerating, and auxiliary machinery; preservation of and small repairs to machinery and boilers in vessels in ordinary, receiving. and training vessels; repair and care of machinery of yard tugs and launches; three million five hundred thousand dollars;
For purchase, handling, and preservation of all material and stores;Materials. purchase, fitting, repair, and preservation of machinery and tools in navy-yards and stations, and running yard engines, two million dollars; For incidental expenses for navy vessels, yards, such as foreignIncidentals. postage, telegrams, advertising, expressage, photographing, books, stationery, office furnishings, and instruments, six thousand dollars; In all, steam machinery, five million five hundred and six thousand dollars.
Machinery plant, navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: For purchase ofMachinery plants.Pensacola, Fla. modern tools for use in repair of naval vessels, to replace others worn out, ten thousand dollars. Machinery plant, navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: ToPortsmouth, N. H. outfit new shops, authorized and completed or nearly completed, with new power tools, and to replace obsolete and worn-out machine tools, thirty thousand dollars; in all, thirty thousand dollars. Machinery plant, navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia:
For machine toolsNorfolk, Va. to equip machine and boiler shop extension, twenty-five thousand dollars. Machinery plant, navy-yard, New York, New York: For additionalNew York, N. Y. machine tools for copper, boiler, machine and pattern shops, and foundry, forty thousand dollars. Machinery plant, League Island, Pennsylvania: For additionalLeague Island, Pa. machine tools for machine and boiler shops, twenty-five thousand dollars. Machinery plant, naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands:
ForCavite, P. I. additional machine tools, twenty-five thousand dollars. Machinery plant, naval station, Olongapo, Philippine Islands: ForOlongapo, P. I. machine tools required for equipment of shops for repair work, twenty thousand dollars. Engineering experimental station, United States Naval Academy,Naval Academy.Engineering experimental station. Annapolis, Maryland—Salaries: One draftsman to engineering staff at the laboratory, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk to engineering staff at the laboratory, one thousand two hundred dollars; one skilled mechanic, one thousand two hundred dollars; one skilled mechanic, seven hundred and twenty dollars: one messenger, who shall also be janitor, six hundred dollars; in all, five thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. 1198 Research work, etc.Experimental and research work:
For original investigation and extended experimentation of naval appliances; and for the purchase of such machines and auxiliaries considered applicable for test and use in the naval service, twenty-five thousand dollars. Civil establishment.Portsmouth, N. H.Civil establishment. Bureau of Steam Engineering: Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: One clerk to department, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all, one thousand eight hundred dollars;
Boston, Mass.Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: One clerk to department, 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; League Island, Pa.one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand dollars; Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: One clerk to department, at one thousand two hundred dollars; Norfolk, Va.Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia:
One clerk to department, at one thousand three hundred dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all, one thousand nine hundred dollars; Pensacola, Fla.Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: One writer, one thousand dollars; Mare Island, Cal.Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: One clerk to department, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand dollars; Charleston, S. C.Navy-yard, Charleston, South Carolina:
One clerk to department, one thousand two hundred dollars; Puget Sound, Wash.Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: One clerk to department, one thousand two hundred dollars; one writer, one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand two hundred dollars: Washington, D. C.Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: One clerk to department, 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, etc.Pay of professors and others, Naval Academy: One professor as head of the department of physics, three thousand dollars; One professor of mathematics, one of mechanical drawing, one of English, one of French, and one of Spanish, at two thousand five hundred dollars each: Three professors, namely, one of English, one of French, and one of Spanish, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; Five 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 cataloguer, at one thousand one hundred dollars; two shelf assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; one secretary of the Naval Academy, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks to the superintendent, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one clerk to the superintendent, at one thousand dollars; one clerk to the commandant of midshipmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one writer to the commandant of midshipmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one clerk to the paymaster, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk to the paymaster, at one thousand dollars; one dentist, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one baker, at six hundred dollars; one mechanic in department of physics, at seven hundred and thirty dollars; one mechanic in the department of ordnance, at nine 1199hundred and fifty-one dollars and fifty-two cents; one mechanic in the department of ordnance, at seven hundred and fifty-one dollars and twenty 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; three quarter gunners, at four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and sixty-eight cents; one coxswain, at four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents; three seamen in the department of seamanship, at three hundred and ninety-seven dollars and fifty-cents; twenty attendants at recitation rooms, library, store, chapel, armory, gymnasium. and offices, at three hundred dollars each; one bandmaster, at one thousand two hundred dollars; twenty-one first-class musicians, at four hundred and twenty dollars each; seven second-class musicians, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; services of organist at chapel, three hundred dollars; one 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; two instructors in physical training, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; one clerk to the commandant of midshipmen, one thousand dollars; one electrical machinist in department of physics, one thousand dollars; one chief cook, one thousand two hundred dollars; two cooks, at six hundred dollars each, one thousand two hundred dollars; one steward, one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant steward, six hundred dollars; one head waiter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant head waiters, at four hundred and eighty dollars each, nine hundred and sixty dollars; two pantry men. at four hundred and twenty dollars each, eight hundred and forty dollars; one assistant baker, four hundred and twenty dollars: necessary waiters, at sixteen dollars per month each, thirteen thousand four hundred and forty dollars; one printer at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one printer at four hundred and eighty dollars: in all, one hundred and thirty-three thousand four hundred and eight dollars and twenty-six cents.
Pay of watchmen, mechanics, and others, Naval Academy: Pay of watchmen, mechanics, etc.Captain of the watch, and weigher, at two dollars and fifty cents per diem; second captain of the watch, at two dollars and twenty-four cents per diem; twenty-two watchmen, at two dollars per diem each; foreman of steam heating works of the academy, at five dollars per diem; labor at power house for masons, carpenters, and other mechanics, laborers, and attendants; and for care of buildings and grounds, wharves, and boats; in all, one hundred thousand dollars.
Pay of steam employees, Naval Academy: Pay of mechanics,Employees, steam engineering. attendants, and others in department of steam engineering, twenty thousand three hundred and forty-three dollars and six cents. Special course of study and training of midshipmen, as authorizedAdditional training.Vol. 22, p.285. by Act of Congress approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, three thousand dollars. Repairs, Naval Academy: Necessary repairs of public buildings,Repairs. wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, improvements, repairs, furniture, and fixtures, thirty thousand dollars.
Heating and lighting, Naval Academy: Fuel, oil, waste, andHeating, etc. 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, fifty thousand dollars. Contingent, Naval Academy: Purchase, binding, and repair ofContingent. books for the library and text-books for the use of instructors (to be purchased in open market on the written order of the superintendent), two thousand five hundred dollars; purchase of azimuth tables, seven 1200hundred dollars; stationery, blank books, models, and maps, two thousand five hundred dollars; expenses of the Board of Visitors of the Naval Academy, being mileage and five dollars per diem for each member for expenses during actual attendance at the academy, and for supplying necessary outfit for the Board house, and for clerk hire, carriages, and other incidental and necessary expenses of the Board, two thousand dollars; purchase of chemicals, apparatus, and instruments in the department of physics and for repairs of the same, three thousand dollars; purchase of gas and steam machinery, steam pipes and fittings, rent of buildings for the use of the academy, commutation of rent for bandsmen, at eight dollars per month each, 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, stationery, periodicals, materials, apparatus, machinery, tools, and fittings; for use in the department of marine engineering and naval construction, for purposes of instruction, repairs of apparatus, tools, and machinery, care and cleaning of building and its equipment, and for all other necessary purposes, fifteen thousand dollars; for contingencies for the superintendent of the academy, to be expended in his discretion, two thousand dollars; apparatus for the instruction of midshipmen in the various academic departments, fifteen thousand dollars; for care of rifle range, one thousand two hundred and seventy-seven dollars and four cents; in all, one hundred and three thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven dollars and four cents.
In all, Naval Academy, four hundred and forty thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight dollars and thirty-six cents. marine corps.Marine Corps. Pay.Officers.Pay, Marine Corps: For pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on the active list, five hundred and ninety-eight thousand one hundred and forty dollars. Retired list.For pay of officers prescribed by law, on the retired list: For one major-general, seven brigadier-generals, two colonels, seven lieutenant-colonels, five majors, six captains, seven first lieutenants, and four second lieutenants, and for officers who may be placed thereon during the year, including such increased pay as is now or may hereafter be provided for retired officers regularly assigned to active duty, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.
Enlisted men.Pay of noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, as prescribed 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, and including additional compensation for enlisted men of the Marine Corps regularly detailed as gun pointers, messmen, signalmen, or holding good-conduct medals, pins, or bars, and for prizes for excellence in gunnery exercise and target practice, both afloat and ashore, one million eight hundred and eighty-three thousand five hundred and *Proviso*.Detailed cooks.fifty-five dollars and twenty cents: *Provided*, That hereafter privates regularly detailed and serving as cooks, shall receive, in addition to the pay otherwise allowed by law, the following:
First-class cooks, ten dollars per month; second-class cooks, eight dollars; third-class cooks, seven dollars; and fourth-class cooks, five dollars. Retired enlisted men.Pay and allowance of retired enlisted men: For two sergeant-majors, one drum-major, seven gunnery-sergeants, eleven quartermaster-sergeants, twelve first sergeants, thirty-seven sergeants, five corporals, thirteen first-class musicians, one drummer, one trumpeter, and thirty-1201five privates, and for those who may be retired during the fiscal year, sixty-seven thousand four hundred and twenty-two dollars.
Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged soldiers for clothingUndrawn clothing. undrawn, eighty-five thousand five hundred and sixty-nine dollars and ninety-eight cents. Mileage: For mileage to officers traveling under orders withoutMileage. troops, forty thousand dollars; For commutation of quarters of officers on duty without troopsCommutation of quarters. where there are no public quarters, twenty 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 sixPaymaster’s office. 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 hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; In the office of each assistant paymaster: One clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; In the office of the adjutant and inspector:
One chief clerk, at oneAdjutant’s 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 thousandQuartermaster’s office. six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one draftsman, at one thousand six hundred dollars;
In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Washington, District of Columbia, or San Francisco, California: Two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each: two clerks, for duty in the Philippine Islands, 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; In all. for pay of civil force, thirty thousand three hundred andDisbursement. 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;
For interest on soldiers’ deposits, four thousand dollars, and soInterest on soldiers’ deposits. much as may be necessary to refund such deposits. In all, pay Marine Corps, two million eight hundred and forty-three thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight dollars and forty-six cents. Provisions, Marine Corps: For noncommissioned officers, musicians,Provisions, etc. and privates serving ashore, for subsistence of enlisted men when traveling on duty, or cash in lieu thereof, for commutation of rations to enlisted men regularly detailed as clerks and messengers, for payment of board and lodging of recruiting parties, transportation of provisions, and the employment of necessary labor connected therewith, and for ice for preservation of rations, five hundred and forty- eight thousand five hundred and three dollars; and no law shall be construed to entitle marines on shore duty to any rations, or commutation thereof, other than such as now are or may hereafter be allowed to enlisted men in the Army: *Provided*,* however*, That when it is impracticable*Proviso*.Navy rations or commutation. 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. 1202 Clothing.Clothing, Marine Corps:
For noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates authorized by law, six hundred thousand nine hundred and twenty 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, eighty thousand dollars. Military stores.Military stores, Marine Corps: Pay of chief armorer, at four dollars per day: one mechanic, at three dollars per day; two mechanics, at two dollars and fifty cents each per day; for purchase of military equipments, such as rides, 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 Held ovens, purchase and repair of instruments for band, purchase of music and musical accessories, purchase and marking of prizes for excellence in gunnery and ride practice, good-conduct badges; for incidental expenses of the School of Application; for the construction, equipment, and maintenance of school, library, and amusement rooms and gymnasiums for enlisted men, and the purchase and repair of all articles of field sports for enlisted men; purchase and repair of signal equipment and stores; for the establishment and maintenance of targets and ranges, and renting ranges, and for entrance fees in competitions; and for procuring, preserving, and handling ammunition, and other necessary military supplies, two hundred and twenty-five thousand seven hundred and eighty-two dollars.
Transportation, etc.Transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps: For transportation of troops, including ferriage and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof, and the expense of the recruiting service, one hundred and eighty-six thousand 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 Royal and Charleston, 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 Territory of Hawaii, the Philippine Islands, at Guam, the District of Columbia, 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, seventy-eight thou sand eight hundred and thirty-six dollars.
Forage.Forage, Marine Corps: For forage in kind for horses of the Quartermaster’s Department, and the authorized number of officers’ horses, seventeen thousand seven hundred dollars. Hire of quarters.Hire of quarters, Marine Corps: For hire of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them; for commutation of quarters for enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in the offices of the commandant, adjutant and inspector, paymaster and quartermaster, and the offices of the assistant adjutant and inspectors, the assistant paymasters, and the assistant quartermasters, at twenty- one dollars each per month, and for enlisted men employed as messengers in said offices, at ten dollars each per month, fifty-one thousand five hundred and forty-eight dollars. 1203 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 tire hand grenades; purchase and repair of carts, wheelbarrows, and lawn mowers; purchase and repair of cooking stoves, ranges, stoves and furnaces where there are no grates; purchase of ice, towels, soap, combs, and brushes for offices; postage stamps for foreign postage: purchase of books, 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, two hundred and eighty thousand eight hundred dollars.
Total under quartermaster, Marine Corps, two million seventy thousand and eighty-nine dollars. Total Marine Corps, four million nine hundred and fourteen thousand eighty-seven dollars and forty-six cents. increase of the navy.Increase of the Navy. That, for the purpose of further increasing the naval establishmentOne first-class battle ship. 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 to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not exceeding six million dollars, similar in all essential characteristics, and additional to, the battle ship authorized by the Act making appropriations*Ante*, 582. for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, plans and specifications for which last- named vessel have already been prepared and submitted by the Secretary of the Navy for the information of Congress, as required by the provisions of the aforesaid Act.
Two torpedo boat destroyers, to have the highest practicable speed,Two torpedo boat destroyers. and to cost, exclusive of armament, not to exceed eight hundred thousand dollars each: *Provided*, That the cost of the three torpedo boat*Proviso*,Cost of former boats increased. destroyers provided for in the Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred*Ante*, p. 582. and seven, exclusive of armament, shall not exceed eight hundred thousand dollars each.
And the contract for the construction of said vessels shall be awardedAward of contracts. by the Secretary of the Navy to the lowest best responsible bidder, 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 Construction. 1204Vol. 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 shall be observed and followed, and, subject to the provisions of this Act, all said vessels shall be built in compliance with the terms of said Act, and in all their parts shall be of domestic manufacture; and the steel material shall be of domestic manufacture, and of the quality and characteristics best adapted to the various purposes for which it may be used, in accordance with specifications approved by the Secretary Limit to one builder.of the Navy; and of the vessels provided for in this Act and the Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, and for other purposes, not more than one battle ship and one torpedo boat destroyer, or two torpedo boat destroyers, shall be built by one contracting party: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Construction in navy-yards if combination, etc., of builders.That the Secretary of the Navy may build any or all of the vessels herein authorized in such navy-yards as he may designate, and shall build any of the vessels herein authorized in such navy-yards as he may designate should it reasonably appear that the persons, firms, or corporations, or the agents thereof, bidding for the construction of any of said vessels have entered into any combination, agreement, or understanding the effect, object, or purpose of which is to deprive the Government of fair, open, and unrestricted competition in letting contracts for the construction of any of said vessels.
Submarine boats.Test period extended.*Ante*, p. 583.That the provision in the Naval Appropriation Act approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to contract for subsurface or submarine boats after certain tests to be completed by March twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and seven, is hereby amended, in accordance with the recommendation of the Secretary of the Navy, so as to extend the test period until May Limit of cost increased.twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and seven; and the limit of cost provided for in the authorization aforesaid is hereby increased to three million dollars, and the sum of one million dollars, which includes the half million dollars heretofore appropriated, is hereby appropriated, and to remain available until expended, no part of this appropriation to be expended for any boat that does not in such test prove to be equal in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy to the best boat now owned by the United States or under contract therefor, and no penalties under this limitation shall be imposed by reason of any delay in the delivery of said boat due to the submission or participation in the comparative trials aforesaid.
Construction and machinery.Construction and machinery: On account of hulls and outfits of vessels and steam machinery of vessels heretofore authorized, twelve million seven hundred and thirteen thousand nine hundred and fifteen dollars. Armor and armament.Armor and armament: Toward the armament and armor of domestic manufacture for vessels authorized, ten million dollars. Equipment.Increase of the Navy, Equipment: Toward the completion of the equipment outfit of the new vessels authorized, five hundred thousand dollars.
Total increase of the Navy, twenty-three million seven hundred and thirteen thousand nine hundred and fifteen dollars. Use of appropriation restricted.That no part of any sum appropriated by this Act shall be used for any expense of the Navy Department at Washington unless specific authority be given for such expenditure. Approved, March 2, 1907.
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