Chapter 3590. Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 3590.— An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, and for other purposes. June 29, 1906. [[H. R. 18750](/us/bill/59/hr/18750).] [[Public, No. 336](/us/pl/59/336).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be, Naval service appropriations. 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 seven, and for other purposes. pay of the navy.
Pay of Navy. Pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on sea duty; officers on shore and other duty; officers on waiting orders; officers on the retired list; clerks to commandants of yards and stations; clerks to paymasters at yards and stations, general storekeepers, receiving ships, and other vessels; commutation of quarters for officers on shore not occupying public quarters, including boatswains, gunners, carpenters, sailmakers, warrant machinists, pharmacists, and mates, and also naval constructors and assistant naval constructors; pay of enlisted men on the retired list; extra pay to men reenlisting under honorable discharge; interest on deposits by men; pay of petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and apprentice seamen, including men in the engineers’ force, and men detailed for duty with Naval Militia, and for the Fish Commission, thirty-four thousand five hundred men; 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 as many warrant machinists as the President may from Warrant machinists. 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 million two hundred and sixty-nine thousand six hundred and thirty-seven dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of *Proviso*.
Refund of bounty. the Navy may, in his discretion, require the whole or a part of the bounty allowed upon enlistment to be refunded in cases 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, with clerks’ and witnesses’ fees, and traveling expenses and costs; stationery and recording; expenses of purchasing paymasters’ offices of the various cities, including clerks, furniture, fuel, stationery, and incidental expenses; newspapers and advertising; foreign postage; telegraphing, foreign and domestic; telephones, copying; care of library, including the purchase of books, photographs, prints, manuscripts, and periodicals; ferriage; tolls, and express fees; costs of suits; commissions, warrants, diplomas, and discharges; relief of vessels in distress; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; reports; professional investigation; cost of special instruction at home and abroad, in maintenance of students and attaches and information from abroad, and the collection 554 and classification thereof, and other necessary and incidental expenses, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Reimbursement for losses at San Francisco fire. To reimburse officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps who were on duty under orders in San Francisco during the recent fire in that city for losses of clothing and other personal effects sustained by them through said fire, seven thousand dollars, or so *Proviso*. Vouchers, etc. much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, That such reimbursement shall be made under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy and upon vouchers to be approved by him in each case.
Officers not above captain advanced one grade on retirement for civil war service. That any officer of the Navy not above the grade of captain who served with credit as an officer or as an enlisted man in the regular or volunteer forces during the civil war prior to April ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, otherwise than as a cadet, and whose name is borne on the official register of the Navy, and who has heretofore been, or may hereafter be, retired on account of wounds or disability incident to the service or on account of age or after forty years’ service, may, in the discretion of the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, be placed on the retired list of the Navy with the rank and retired pay of one grade above that actually held by him *Proviso*.
Restriction. at the time of retirement: *Provided*, That this Act shall not apply to any officer who received an advance of grade at or since the date of his retirement or who has been restored to the Navy and placed on the retired list by virtue of the provisions of a special Act of Congress. Marine Corps. Officers below brigadier-general advanced one grade on retirement for civil war service. That any officer of the Marine Corps below the grade of brigadier-general who served with credit as an officer or as an enlisted man in the regular or volunteer forces during the civil war prior to April ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, otherwise than as a cadet, and whose name is borne on the official register of the Marine Corps, and who has heretofore been, or may hereafter be, retired on account of wounds or disability incident to the service, or on account of age or after forty years’ service, may, in the discretion of the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, be placed on the retired list of the Marine Corps with the rank and retired pay of one grade *Proviso*.
Restriction. above that actually held by him at the time of retirement: *Provided*, That this Act shall not apply to any officer who received an advance of grade since the date of his retirement or who has been restored to the Marine Corps and placed on the retired list by virtue of the provisions of a special Act of Congress. Diminished pay for shore duty repealed. Vol. 30, p. 1007. That the provision contained in section thirteen of an Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled “An Act to reorganize and increase the efficiency of the personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps of the United States,” reading as follows:
“*Provided*, That such officers when on shore shall receive the allowances, but fifteen per centum less pay than when on sea duty; but this provision shall not apply to warrant officers commissioned under section twelve of this Act,” be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Pay, etc., of chaplains. That all chaplains now in the Navy above the grade of lieutenant shall receive the pay and allowances of lieutenant-commander in the Navy according to length of service under the provisions of law for that rank, and all chaplains now in the Navy in the grade of lieutenant *Provisos*. shall receive their present sea pay when on shore duty: *Provided*, Rank.
Vol. 30, p. 1007. That naval chaplains hereafter appointed shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of lieutenant (junior grade) in the Navy until they shall have completed seven years of service, when they shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of lieutenant in the Navy; and lieutenants shall be promoted, whenever vacancies occur, to the grade of lieutenant-commander, which shall consist of five numbers, and when so promoted shall receive the rank, pay, and allowances of lieutenant-commander in 555 the Navy: *Provided further*, That nothing herein contained shall be Restriction. held or construed to increase the number of chaplains as now authorized by law or to reduce the rank or pay of any now serving.
That from and after the passage of this Act the allowances of civil Allowance to civil engineers, etc. engineers and professors of mathematics in the Navy shall be the same as are or may be provided by or in pursuance of law for naval constructors, and the allowances of assistant civil engineers the same as for assistant naval constructors. 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*.
Allowance to civil employees in island possesions. 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 seven. The Solicitor in the office of the Judge-Advocate-General of the Office of Judge-Advocate-General.
Solicitor’s salary. Navy shall hereafter receive an annual salary of four thousand dollars during the service of the present incumbent. bureau of navigation. Bureau of Navigation. Transportation, recruiting, and contingent: Transportation: Transportation. For the 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, three hundred and eighty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter enlisted *Proviso*.
Mileage. men, discharged on account of expiration of enlistment, shall receive in lieu of transportation and subsistence, travel allowance of four cents per mile from the place of discharge to the place of enlistment, for travel in the United States. Recruiting: Expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent of Recruiting. 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 three hundred and forty dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended *Proviso*.
Certificate of age. in recruiting seamen, ordinary seamen, or apprentice seamen, unless a certificate of birth or written evidence, other than his own statement, 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, postage Contingent. 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 556 other contingent expenses and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation, unforeseen 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 men 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 forty-five dollars *Proviso*.
Refund. each, five hundred and sixty-seven thousand dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter the Secretary of the Navy may, in his discretion, require the whole or a part of the cost of outfits allowed upon enlistment to be refunded in cases where men are discharged during the first six months of enlistment for any cause other than disability incurred in line of duty. Maintenance of colliers. Maintenance of colliers: Pay, transportation, shipping, and subsistence of civilian officers and crews of naval colliers, and all expenses connected with naval colliers employed in emergencies which can not be paid from other appropriations, four hundred and fifty 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, one thousand dollars; 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; buildings and wharves; dredging channels; extending sea wall; repairs to causeway and sea wall; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and wharves; wharfage, ferriage, and street-car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same; fire engines and extinguishers; boats and gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of 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, one thousand dollars; 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 to grounds, buildings, and pier; street-car 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. 557 For clerical force in the office of commandant as follows:
One clerk, Clerical force. 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 hundred 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 the Naval 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; purchase of books of reference, four hundred dollars; one librarian, one thousand four hundred dollars per year; in all, sixteen thousand nine hundred dollars.
Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: One superintendent Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pa. of grounds, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one steward, at four hundred and eighty dollars; one matron, at four hundred and twenty dollars; one beneficiaries’ attendant, at two hundred and forty dollars; one chief cook, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one assistant cook, at two hundred and forty dollars; one assistant cook, at one hundred and eighty dollars; one chief laundress, at one hundred and ninety-two dollars; five laundresses, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; four scrubbers, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; one head waitress, at one hundred and ninety-two dollars; eight waitresses, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; one kitchen servant, at two hundred 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 one hundred and ten 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, eight thousand dollars; music in chapel, six hundred dollars; transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, one hundred dollars; support of beneficiaries, fifty thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars; total miscellaneous, sixty-three thousand one hundred and five dollars; in all, for Naval Home, seventy-seven thousand two hundred and fifteen dollars, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund: *Provided*, That for the performance *Proviso*.
Employing beneficiaries. of such 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, preserving, Ordnance and ordnance stores. and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; 558 for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the general work of the Ordnance Department; for watchmen at magazines, powder factories, and powder depots; for furniture in ordnance buildings at navy-yards and stations; for maintenance of the proving ground and powder factory, and for target practice, three million five hundred thousand *Proviso*.
Purchase of shells. 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.
Modernizing batteries, etc. Modernizing batteries Massachusetts, Oregon, and new guns and armor for New York, four hundred and sixty-six thousand dollars. Smokeless powder. Purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, five hundred thousand dollars. Boston, Mass. Machine tools. Machine tools for ordnance machine shop, navy-yard, Boston, fifteen thousand dollars. Washington, D. C. Machinery, etc. Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia, namely: New and improved machinery for existing shops, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; the fourth-fourth boilers and installation of same, completing the plant, fifty thousand dollars; in all, two hundred thousand dollars.
Powder and shell reserve supply. *Proviso*. Purchase of shells. Reserve powder and shell: Toward the accumulation of a reserve supply of powder and shell, two 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. Torpedo station, Newport, R. I. Torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: For labor, material, freight and express charges; general care of and repairs to grounds, buildings, and wharves; boats, instruction, instruments, tools, furniture, experiments, and general torpedo outfits, sixty-five thousand dollars.
Naval militia, equipment. Arming and equipping Naval Militia: For arms, accouterments, 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. Repairs, Bureau of Ordnance: For necessary repairs to ordnance buildings, magazines, gun parks, boats, lighters, wharves, machinery, and other items of like character, thirty thousand dollars.
Miscellaneous. Miscellaneous, Bureau of Ordnance: For miscellaneous items, namely: Advertising, cartage and express charges, expenses of light and water at magazines and stations; tolls, ferriage, foreign postage, and telegrams to and from the Bureau, technical books, and incidental expenses attending inspection of ordnance material, twenty-five thousand dollars. Civil establishment. Portsmouth, N. H. Civil establishment, Bureau of Ordnance: Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire:
For one writer, at one thousand dollars; Boston, Mass. Navy yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one writer, at one thousand dollars; 559 Navy-yard, New York, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand New York, N. Y. four hundred dollars; Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one thousand League Island, Pa. two hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one chemist, at Washington, D. C. two thousand five hundred dollars; two foremen of Gun Factory, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; one ordnance engineer and computing draftsman, for Gun Factory, three thousand dollars; one chief clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand one hundred dollars; three writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; one draftsman, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; three draftsmen, at one thousand and eighty-one dollars each; one assistant draftsman, at seven hundred and seventy-two dollars; two copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one telegraph operator and copyist, at one thousand dollars; in all, twenty-seven thousand one hundred and six dollars and seventy-five cents;
Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For one clerk, at one thousand two Norfolk, Va. hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousand Mare Island, Cal. two hundred dollars; Naval proving ground, Indian Head, Maryland: For one clerk, at Indian 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;
Naval torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: For one chemist, at Torpedo station, Newport, R. I. two thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one draftsman, at one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, five thousand two hundred dollars; In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Ordnance, forty-seven thousand and six dollars and seventy-five cents; and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. bureau of equipment.
Bureau of Equipment. Equipment of vessels: For hemp, wire, iron, and other materials Equipment 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 naval vessels, including the expenses of transportation and storage of the same; stationery for chaplains and for commanding and navigating officers of ships, equipment officers on shore and afloat, and for the use of courts-martial on board ship; the removal and transportation of ashes from ships of war; interior appliances and tools for equipment buildings in navy-yards and naval stations; supplies for seamen’s quarters; and for the purchase of all other articles of equipment at home and abroad, and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels and manufacture of equipment articles in the several navy-yards; all pilotage and towage of ships of war; canal tolls, wharfage, dock and port charges, and other necessary incidental expenses of a similar nature; services and materials in repairing, correcting, adjusting, and testing compasses on shore and on board ship; nautical and astronomical instruments, and repairs to same; libraries for ships of war, professional books and papers, and drawings and engravings for signal books; naval signals and apparatus, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, rockets, and running lights; compass fittings, including 560 binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ships’ compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship’s way, and leads and other appliances for sounding; lanterns and lamps, and their appendages for general use on board ship for illuminating purposes, and oil and candles used in connection therewith; service and supplies for coast-signal service; bunting and other materials for making and repairing flags of all kinds; photographs, photographic instruments, and materials; musical instruments and music; installing, maintaining, and repairing interior and exterior signal communications and all electrical appliances of whatsoever nature on board naval vessels, except range finders, battle order and range transmitters and indicators, and motors and their controlling apparatus used to operate the machinery belonging to other bureaus, three million dollars.
Wireless telegraph, Pacific coast. For the preparation of sites, furnishing and erecting masts, buildings, and machinery foundations for United States naval wireless telegraph stations on the Pacific coast in the States of Washington, Oregon, and California, to be limited to the purposes above named, sixty-five 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, three million seven 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, eleven 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 *Proviso*.
Channel into Welles Harbor, Midway Islands. charges on the same, seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That of the above sum not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars may be expended by the Secretary of the Navy in procuring a survey and estimate of cost for a channel into Welles Harbor, Midway Islands. Civil establishment Portsmouth, N. H. Civil establishment, Bureau of Equipment: Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one writer, nine hundred and fifty dollars; in all, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars;
Boston, Mass. Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one superintendent of ropewalk, at two thousand dollars; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand three hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; two writers, at nine hundred and fifty dollars each; one civil superintendent of chain shop, two thousand dollars; one civil superintendent of anchor shop, two thousand dollars; in all, eleven thousand eight hundred dollars;
New York, N. Y. Navy-yard, New York, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; two writers, at nine hundred and fifty dollars each; one clerk in charge of distribution of books, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, five thousand seven hundred dollars; League Island, Pa. Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand four hundred dollars;
Norfolk, Va. Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one writer, at nine hundred and fifty dollars; in all, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; Mare Island, Cal. Navy-Yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; one writer, 561 at nine hundred and fifty dollars; in all, three thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia:
For one clerk, who Washington, D. C. shall also perform the clerical duties for the board of labor employment 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 Port Royal, S. C. dollars; Naval station, Key West, Florida: One clerk, one thousand dollars; Key West, Fla. Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: One clerk, one thousand Puget 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 of Maintenance. 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 Michigan, and for pay of employees on leave, eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For contingent Contingent. expenses that may arise at navy-yards and stations, thirty thousand dollars. Civil establishment, Bureau of Yards and Docks: Navy-yard, Civil establishment. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one clerk, at one thousand four Portsmouth, N. H. hundred dollars; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; one foreman laborer and head teamster, at four dollars per diem, including Sun days; one janitor, at six hundred dollars; one pilot, at three dollars per diem, including Sundays; one draftsman, at four dollars per diem; one electrician, one thousand four hundred dollars; one stenographer and typewriter, one thousand dollars; one writer, nine hundred dollars; one telegraph operator and clerk, nine hundred dollars; one draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; one master of tugs, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, thirteen thousand seven hundred and thirty-three dollars;
Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one clerk, at one thousand Boston, Mass. four hundred dollars; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one messenger to commandant, at two dollars per diem; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one draftsman, at five dollars per diem; 562 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 twenty-six dollars and sixty-one 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; 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 thirty-nine dollars and sixty-two cents;
Sacketts Harbor, N. Y. Naval station, Sacketts Harbor, New York: For one ship keeper, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars per annum; League Island, Pa. Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer and telegraph operator, at one thousand dollars; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one master of tugs, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one draftsman, at five dollars per diem; one electrician, at one thousand 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 ten 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 five hundred and eighty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents; Norfolk, Va. Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia:
For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one writer, at one thousand dollars; one 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 two dollars and twenty-six cents per diem; one master of tugs, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one draftsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; one bookkeeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; one foreman mechanic, at four dollars and twenty-four cents per diem, one thousand three hundred and twenty-two dollars and eighty-eight cents; one foreman of teams, at two dollars and twenty-four cents per diem, six hundred and ninety-eight dollars and eighty-eight cents; one messenger and janitor, civil engineer’s office, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays, seven hundred and thirty dollars; one stenographer and typewriter, civil engineer’s office, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, sixteen thousand six hundred dollars and thirteen cents; 563 Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida:
For one clerk, at one thousand two Pensacola, 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 thousand two hundred and forty-eight dollars; one foreman laborer, at three dollars and fifty-two cents per diem, one thousand and ninety-eight dollars and twenty-four cents; one stenographer, typewriter, and telegraph operator, at three dollars and four cents per diem, nine hundred and forty-eight dollars and forty-eight cents; one writer, at two dollars and eighty cents per diem, eight hundred and seventy-three dollars and sixty cents; in all, seven thousand four hundred and ninety-eight dollars and thirty-two 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 one hundred and ninety-eight dollars; Naval station, Key West, Florida: For one mail messenger, at six Key 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-two dollars and forty cents;
Navy-yard, New Orleans, Louisiana: For one clerk, at one thousand New 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, seven hundred and thirty dollars; one foreman laborer, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one draftsman, at one thousand five hundred dollars; one messenger, commandant’s office, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays, seven hundred and thirty dollars; in all, seven thousand seven hundred and ninety-three dollars and fifty cents;
Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousand Mare Island, Cal. four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one foreman mason, at six dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at five dollars and fifty cents per diem; one pilot, at one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; one draftsman, at five dollars per diem; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one electrician, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one foreman joiner, at four dollars and fifty-six cents per diem; one telegraph operator, at three dollars and twenty-eight cents per diem; one clerk in civil engineer’s office, at one thousand dollars; in all, fifteen thousand two hundred and sixty-five dollars and thirty-three cents;
Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: One clerk, at one thousand Puget Sound, Wash. two hundred dollars; one draftsman, at five dollars per diem; one messenger and janitor, at one dollar and seventy-six cents per diem, including Sundays; one master of tugs, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one copyist, at nine hundred dollars; one electrician, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one writer and telegraph operator, at nine hundred dollars; one stenographer and typewriter, civil engineer’s office, at one thousand dollars; one writer, at nine hundred dollars; one messenger, at one dollar and seventy-six cents per diem, five hundred and forty-nine dollars and twelve cents; 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 fifty-five dollars and fifty-two cents;
Naval station, San Juan, Porto Rico: One clerk, one thousand two San Juan, P. R. hundred dollars; one writer, commandant’s office, nine hundred and sixty dollars; one mail messenger, four hundred and twenty dollars; 564 one foreman, one thousand one hundred dollars; in all, three thousand six hundred and eighty dollars; Hawaii. Naval station, Hawaii: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents per annum; one messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; in all, one thousand seven hundred and forty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents;
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; In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Yards and Docks, one hundred and forty-three thousand three hundred and three dollars and ninety-three cents, and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. Chief to be selected from Civil Engineers.
That the Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks shall be selected from the members of the Corps of Civil Engineers of the Navy having not less than seven years’ active service. 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, additions, three thousand dollars; sewer system, extension, three thousand dollars; quay walls, to extend, forty thousand dollars; grading, to continue, fifteen thousand dollars; central power house, extension, thirty-five thousand dollars; central power plant, extension (to cost one hundred and twenty thousand dollars), sixty thousand dollars; central heating plant, extension, eight thousand dollars; water system, extension, five thousand dollars; workmen’s landing near reservoir, one thousand dollars; shelves, racks, and fittings for storehouse numbered eighty-six, five thousand dollars; boiler shop for steam engineering, to complete, seventy-five thousand dollars; in all, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Boston, Mass. Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Paving, to continue, twenty thousand dollars; dredging, twenty thousand dollars; underground conduit, ten thousand dollars; power house, extension, thirty-nine thousand dollars; refuse kiln, five thousand three hundred dollars; paint room, building numbered seventy-seven, seven hundred and fifty dollars; in all, navy-yard, Boston, ninety-five thousand and fifty dollars. New York, N. Y. Navy-yard, New York, New York: Paving and grading, to continue, three thousand dollars; railroad system, extensions, eight thousand dollars; electric plant, extensions, fifty thousand dollars; railroad equipment, additional, five thousand dollars; underground conduits, extensions, five thousand dollars; heating system, extensions, thirty thousand dollars; extension salt water suction and discharge pipes to power house, nine thousand dollars; street-cleaning equipment, three thousand dollars; lean-to for building numbered twenty, three thousand dollars; lean-to for building numbered one hundred and thirty-one, ten thousand dollars; disinfecting plant, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, navy-yard, New York, New York, one hundred and twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.
League Island, Pa. Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: To continue retaining wall about reserve basin, ten thousand dollars; sewer system, exten-565sions, five thousand dollars; dredging and filling in Delaware water front, to continue, fifteen thousand dollars; fire-protection system, extensions, five thousand dollars; extension of reserve basin, to continue dredging, fifty thousand dollars; building for bathing, examination of recruits, and disinfection of clothing, ten thousand dollars; electric capstan for dry dock numbered one, three thousand dollars; central heating system, ten thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, League Island, one hundred and eight thousand dollars.
Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: Paving, to Washington, D. C. extend, five thousand dollars; underground conduit system, to extend, five thousand dollars; railroad system, to extend, five thousand dollars; heating system, extension, five thousand dollars; water system, to extend, ten thousand dollars; yard wall, to complete, twenty thousand dollars; extension and improvements, telephone and fire-alarm systems, three thousand dollars; extension of gas plant, ten thousand dollars; purchase of land west of yard, to complete, two hundred dollars; in all, navy-yard, Washington, sixty-three thousand two hundred dollars.
Navy-yard, Charleston, South Carolina: Stone and concrete dry Charleston, S. C. dock, to continue, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; grading and paving, five thousand dollars; railroad system, extensions, five thousand dollars; water system, extension, five thousand dollars; piers and slips, thirty-three thousand dollars; dredging, ten thousand dollars; underground conduit system, five thousand dollars; sewer system, extension, twelve thousand dollars; interior fittings, machine shop for construction and repair, eighteen thousand dollars; foundry and copper shop, to complete, fifty-eight thousand dollars; interior fittings, equipment building, eight thousand five hundred dollars; quay wall at dry dock entrance, forty thousand dollars; dry dock latrines, three thousand dollars; one officers’ quarters, seven thousand dollars; dispensary building, twelve thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Charleston, South Carolina, four hundred and seventy-one thousand five hundred dollars.
Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Dredging, to continue, five thousand Norfolk, Va. dollars; paving and grading, additional, two thousand five hundred dollars; fire-protection system, extensions, five thousand dollars; railroad tracks, extensions, five thousand dollars; improvements to building numbered sixteen, five thousand dollars; bollards and capstans for dry docks, five thousand dollars; improvements to forty-ton locomotive crane, two thousand dollars; concrete and granite dry dock, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars; repairs, buildings at Saint Helena, twenty-five thousand dollars; stable, marine barracks, five thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia, four hundred and nine thousand five hundred dollars.
Naval station, Key West, Florida: Dredging and filling in, thirty Key West, Fla. thousand dollars; to complete two officers’ quarters, one thousand two hundred dollars; marine railway, to complete, five thousand dollars; sewer system, three thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Key West, Florida, thirty-nine thousand two hundred dollars. Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: Railroad system, extension, Mare Island, Cal. five thousand dollars; electric-plant system, extension, five thousand dollars; improvement of channel in Mare Island Strait, to complete, one hundred thousand dollars; sewer system, extensions, three thousand dollars; paving and grading, to continue, five thousand dollars; heating system, extension, five thousand dollars; improvements to building numbered one hundred and sixty-five, four thousand dollars; improvements and repairs, steam engineering, buildings, fifteen thousand dollars; bridge between buildings forty-five and sixty-five, one thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Mare Island, one hundred and forty-three thousand dollars. 566 Puget Sound, Wash.
Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: Sewer system, extensions, three thousand dollars; to continue grading, ten thousand dollars; electric-light plant, extensions, live thousand dollars; water system, extensions, two thousand five hundred dollars; heating system, extensions, four thousand dollars; dredging, to continue, ten thousand dollars; roads and walks, extensions, two thousand five hundred dollars; stone and concrete dry dock (to cost one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars), one hundred thousand dollars; smithery for construction and repair, to complete, four thousand dollars; telephone system, extensions, one thousand five hundred dollars; central power plant, sixty thousand dollars; water-closet for ships in dock, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington, two hundred and five thousand dollars.
Pensacola, Fla. Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: Water system, five thousand dollars; sewer system, ten thousand dollars; conduits and conductors for distribution of power, five thousand dollars; crib for wooden floating dry dock, twenty thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Pensacola, forty thousand dollars. New Orleans, La. Naval station, New Orleans, Louisiana: Improvement of water front, forty thousand dollars; levee improvement and grading, ten thousand dollars; machinery and tools for yards and docks shop, three thousand dollars; central electric light and power plant, to complete, fifty thousand dollars; rebuilding cross wharf, ten thousand dollars; strengthening approaches to floating dock, nine thousand five hundred dollars; railroad system, five thousand dollars; underground conduit system, five thousand dollars; drainage system, eight thousand dollars; sawmill, boat shop, and storage for construction and repair, sixty thousand dollars; toward the construction of street around naval station in lieu of Patterson street, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, New Orleans, two hundred and fifteen thousand five hundred dollars.
Olongapo, P. I. Naval station, Olongapo, Philippine Islands: Purchase and installation of tools and machinery, one hundred thousand dollars; wharf for floating dry dock, sixty-five thousand dollars; extension of drainage canal, twenty-five thousand dollars; steam floating derrick, seventeen thousand dollars; in all, two hundred and seven thousand dollars. Guam. Naval station, island of Guam: Dredging, five thousand dollars; extension of naval-station roads, five thousand dollars; artesian well, two thousand dollars; in all, twelve thousand dollars.
Hawaii. Naval station, Hawaii: For the reclamation of that portion of the naval station at Honolulu, Hawaii, known as the Reef, from materials now being dredged from the harbor at Honolulu, and for the necessary dikes or retaining walls, thirty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 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 Statutes, and plans and specifications for public works, thirty thousand dollars.
Repairs and preservation. Repairs and preservation at navy-yards: For repairs and preservation at navy-yards and stations, five hundred thousand dollars. Total public works, navy-yards and stations, two million nine hundred and fifty-two thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. public works under the secretary of the navy. Naval Academy. New buildings. Buildings and grounds, Naval Academy: Toward the construction of buildings, and for other necessary improvements at the Naval Vol. 31, p. 696.
Vol. 32, p. 1188. Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, as authorized by the Acts of Congress approved June seventh, nineteen hundred, and March third, nineteen hundred and three, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 567 public works under bureau of navigation. Bureau of Navigation. Naval training station, California, buildings: New power plant, Training stations. California. with wharf and fuel storage, thirty-nine thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; gymnasium, three thousand five hundred dollars; laundry shed, two thousand dollars; repairs to barracks, twenty-two thousand dollars; roads and grounds, three thousand dollars; in all, sixty-nine thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Naval training station, Rhode Island, buildings: Repairs to Rhode Island. barracks “B,” fifteen thousand dollars; salt-water pumping system, sixteen thousand dollars; artesian well and water system, seventeen thousand seven hundred dollars; underground conduit system, three thousand two hundred dollars; garbage incinerating plant, nine thousand dollars; improving and grading grounds, roadways, paths, and drains, and filling stagnant basins, five thousand dollars; sewerage system, extension, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; in all, naval training station, Rhode Island, sixty-eight thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
Naval War College, Rhode Island, buildings: For additional Naval War College R. I. book stacks, cases, and racks for the storage and preservation of books, maps, and records, one thousand two hundred dollars. Naval training station, Great Lakes, buildings: Toward the Great Lakes. New buildings. construction of buildings at the naval training station, Great Lakes, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That before any *Provisos*. Plans. part of this sum is expended complete plans shall be prepared and approved by the Secretary of the Navy covering the contemplated new buildings at the naval training station, Great Lakes, which plans shall involve a total expenditure of not more than two million dollars: *And provided further*, That the Secretary of the Navy shall pay a fair Price. and reasonable price for the plans herein provided for, in no event to exceed three and one-half per centum of the estimated cost of the improvements, and thereafter no money shall be expended or obligation Consulting architect. incurred for architects except that the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to employ in his discretion a consulting architect at a compensation not exceeding five thousand dollars per annum.
In all, public works, Bureau of Navigation, eight hundred and eighty-nine thousand six hundred dollars. public works, bureau of ordnance. Bureau of Ordnance. Naval magazine, Dover, New Jersey: One brick building to be Dover, N. J. New building, etc. used for drying smokeless powder, four thousand five hundred dollars; electric lights and feed wires for magazines numbered four and five, six hundred dollars; in all, naval magazine, Dover, Lake Denmark, New Jersey, five thousand one hundred dollars.
Naval magazine, Saint Juliens Creek, Norfolk, Virginia: One Norfolk, Va. Naval magazine. galvanized-iron storehouse, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand dollars. Naval proving ground, Indian Head, Maryland: Telephones Indian Head proving ground, Md. to range station, three thousand five hundred dollars; purchase and installation of six boiling tubs, one thousand two hundred dollars; extending pulping house, and altering installation of poachers, two thousand five hundred dollars; subdivision of trolley system for fire service, three thousand five hundred dollars; additional magazines, six thousand dollars; extension of railroad system, three thousand dollars; in all, naval proving ground, Indian Head, nineteen thousand seven hundred dollars.
Naval magazine, Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania: Extension of fire service, Fort Mifflin, Pa. Naval magazine. three thousand dollars; completion of sea wall south of wharf, three thousand dollars; in all, six thousand dollars. 568 New England coast. Naval magazine. Purchase of land, etc. Vol. 33, p. 338. Naval magazine, New England coast: Toward securing the land and 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 tilling 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, including the service of such additional expert aids, surveyors, architects, superintendents of construction, or draftsmen, as may be necessary for the preparation of the plans and specifications and prosecution of the work to an extent not *Provisos*.
Sale of magazine, etc., at Chelsea, Mass. to exceed fifteen thousand dollars, two hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That when the naval magazine on or near the New England coast provided for by an Act of Congress approved April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four, is completed, the Secretary of the Navy shall discontinue the present magazine in the city of Chelsea, Massachusetts, and sell such portion of the magazine and naval hospital grounds in said city of Chelsea as is undesirable for hospital purposes at public auction or private sale, upon such terms and conditions Proceeds. as shall be satisfactory to him, and the money derived from such sale shall be applied to remodeling and modernizing the hospital buildings now on said hospital grounds, and the balance of said money, if there be any after said remodeling and modernization, shall be placed to the credit of the hospital fund of the Navy.
Fort Lafayette, N. Y. Naval magazine. Naval magazine, Fort Lafayette, New York: Necessary improvements to dock and sea wall, two thousand dollars. Mare Island, Cal. Naval magazine. Naval magazine, Mare Island, California: One magazine building, thirty by eighty feet, seven thousand dollars; extension of building “A5” fifty feet, three thousand one hundred dollars; extension of primer house twenty by twenty feet, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, eleven thousand three hundred dollars.
Pensacola, Fla. Naval magazine. Naval magazine, Pensacola, Florida: Standpipe, with pump and necessary piping for connection with present magazine and shell houses, five thousand dollars. Newport, R. I. Torpedo station. Torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: Repairs to sea wall, five thousand three hundred dollars; extension of compressor room, one thousand one hundred dollars; extension of tinsmith shop, one thousand eight hundred dollars; new paint shop, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, nine thousand four hundred dollars.
Total public works under Bureau of Ordnance, two hundred and eighty-three thousand five hundred dollars. Bureau of Equipment. public works under bureau of equipment. Naval Observatory. Grounds and roads. Naval Observatory: Grounds and roads: Continuing grading, extending roads and paths, clearing and improving grounds, ten thousand dollars. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. public works under bureau of medicine and surgery. Yokohama, Japan. Purchase of land. Naval hospital, Yokohama, Japan:
For purchase of land adjoining present hospital grounds, five thousand dollars. Newport, R. I. Naval hospital. Naval hospital, Newport, Rhode Island: Changing officers’ quarters into wards for enlisted men, and building quarters for all officers outside of naval hospital, twenty thousand dollars, not more than fifteen thousand dollars of which shall be spent for all officers’ quarters. Norfolk, Va. Naval hospital. Naval hospital, Norfolk, Virginia: For the renovation of the present hospital buildings and the erection of new wards, to cost not to exceed two hundred thousand dollars, one hundred thousand dollars. 569 Naval hospital, Canacao, Philippine Islands:
For boring an artesian Canacao, P. I. Naval hospital. well, and for necessary machinery and appurtenances, seven thousand dollars. Naval hospital, Mare Island, California: For a surgical-ward building Mare Island, Cal. Naval hospital. for operating room and surgical cases, twelve thousand dollars; for a new building for infectious diseases, eight thousand dollars; and for a new power house, five thousand dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand dollars. Total public works under Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, one hundred and fifty-seven thousand dollars. public works, marine corps.
Marine Corps. Barracks and quarters, Marine Corps: Erection and equipment of Barracks and quarters. two laundries for enlisted men, marine barracks, twelve thousand dollars: For the completion of marine barracks on the Schmoele tract of land Norfolk, Va. Buildings. at the Norfolk Navy-Yard, in the State of Virginia, including plumbing, interior woodwork, painting, grading, and proper connections with the local waterworks, fifteen thousand dollars; for the construction of two additional sets of officers’ quarters, Norfolk Navy-Yard, twenty-four thousand dollars; in all, Norfolk Navy-Yard, thirty-nine thousand dollars;
For the erection of marine barracks and officers’ quarters, naval New Orleans, La. station, New Orleans, Louisiana, fifteen thousand dollars, which sum shall be in addition to fifteen thousand dollars appropriated for this object in the naval appropriation Act approved March third, nineteen Vol. 31, p. 1132. hundred and one, and six thousand five hundred dollars provided in the naval appropriation Act approved April twenty-seventh, nineteen Vol. 33, p. 350. hundred and four; For the erection of marine barracks and completion of officers’ quarters, San Francisco, Cal. marine barracks, naval training station, San Francisco, California, fifteen thousand dollars;
For the necessary repairs and improvements to such buildings at New London, Conn. the naval station, New London, Connecticut, as have been assigned to the Marine Corps by the Navy Department, twenty-five thousand dollars; For the purchase of land adjoining marine reservation, naval station, Sitka, Alaska. Sitka, Alaska, four hundred dollars; In all, public works, Marine Corps, one hundred and six thousand four hundred dollars. bureau of medicine and surgery. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
Medical department: For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in commission, Surgeons’ necessaries. 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 at Hospital fund. the various navy-yards and stations, and for care and maintenance of patients in other hospitals at home and abroad, forty thousand dollars.
Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For expressage Contingent. on medical stores, tolls, ferriages, care, transportation, and burial of the dead; advertising, telegraphing, rent of telephones, purchase of books, and stationery, binding of medical records, unbound books, and pamphlets; postage and purchase of stamps for foreign service; hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration; sanitary and hygienic instruction; purchase and repairs of wagons and harness; purchase of and feed for horses and cows; trees, plants, garden tools 570 and seeds; furniture and incidental articles for the museum of hygiene and department of instruction, naval dispensary, Washington, naval laboratory, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, surgeons’ offices and dispensaries at navy-yards and naval stations, surgeons’ quarters at naval hospitals; washing for medical department at museum of hygiene and department of instruction, naval dispensary, Washington; naval laboratory, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, dispensaries at navy-yards and naval stations, and ships and rendezvous; and for minor repairs on buildings and grounds of the United States Naval Museum of Hygiene and Department of Instruction; for the care, maintenance, and treatment of the insane of the Navy and Marine Corps on the Pacific coast, and all other necessary contingent expenses; in all, fifty-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, and shall be available until used, and applicable to past as well as future obligations.
Repairs. Repairs, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For necessary repairs of naval laboratory, naval hospitals, and appendages, including roads, wharves, outhouses, sidewalks, fences, gardens, farms, and cemeteries, forty-five thousand dollars. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. bureau of supplies and accounts. Provisions, etc. Provisions, Navy: For provisions and commuted rations for the seamen and marines, which commuted rations may be paid to caterers of messes, in case of death or desertion, upon orders of the commanding officers, commuted rations for officers on sea duty (other than commissioned officers of the line, Medical and Pay corps, and chief boatswains, chief gunners, chief sailmakers, chief carpenters), and midshipmen, and commuted rations stopped on account of sick in hospital and credited to the naval hospital fund; subsistence of officers and men unavoidably detained or absent from vessels to which attached under orders (during which subsistence rations to be stopped on board ship and no credit for commutation therefor to be given); labor in general 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 *Provisos*.
Sale to civilian employees. annum, five million two hundred and twenty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That pay department stores may be sold to civilian employees at naval stations beyond the continental limits of the United States and in Alaska, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe. Navy rations. *Provided*, That sections fifteen hundred and eighty and fifteen hundred and eighty-one, Revised Statutes, be amended to read as follows: " “Sec. 1580. Change in allowance. [R.
S., sec. 1580, p. 270, amended](/us/rs/s1580/p270). The navy ration shall consist of the following daily allowance of provisions to each person: One pound and a quarter of salt or smoked meat, with three ounces of dried or six ounces of canned or preserved fruit, and three gills of beans or pease, or twelve ounces of flour; or one pound of preserved meat, with three ounces of dried or 571 six ounces of canned or preserved fruit and eight ounces of rice or twelve ounces of canned vegetables, or six ounces of desiccated vegetables; together with one pound of biscuit, two ounces of butter, four ounces of sugar, two ounces of coffee or cocoa, or one-half ounce of tea and one ounce of condensed milk or evaporated cream; and a weekly allowance of one-quarter pound of macaroni, four ounces of cheese, four ounces of tomatoes, one-half pint of vinegar or sauce, one-quarter pint of pickles, one-quarter pint of molasses, four ounces of salt, one-half ounce of pepper, one-eighth ounce of spices, and one-half ounce of dry mustard.
Seven pounds of lard, or a suitable substitute, shall be allowed for every hundred pounds of flour issued as bread, and such quantities of yeast and flavoring extracts as may be necessary. “Sec. 1581. The following substitution for the components of the Substitutions in rations. [R. S., sec. 1581, p. 270, amended](/us/rs/s1581/p270). ration may be made when deemed necessary by the senior officer present in command: ‘For one and one-quarter pounds of salt or smoked meat or one pound of preserved meat, one and three-quarter pounds of fresh meat or fresh fish, or eight eggs; in lieu of the articles usually issued with salt, smoked or preserved meat, one and three-quarter pounds of fresh vegetables; for one pound of biscuit, one and one-quarter pounds of soft bread or eighteen ounces of flour; for three gills of beans or pease, twelve ounces of flour or eight ounces of rice or other starch food, or twelve ounces of canned vegetables; for one pound of condensed milk or evaporated cream, one quart of fresh milk; for three ounces of dried or six ounces of canned or preserved fruit, nine ounces of fresh fruit; and for twelve ounces of flour or eight ounces of rice or other starch food, or twelve ounces of canned vegetables, three gills of beans or pease; in lieu of the weekly allowance of one-quarter pound of macaroni, four ounces of cheese, one-half pint of vinegar or sauce, one-quarter pint of pickles, one-quarter pint of molasses, and one-eighth ounce of spices, three pounds of sugar, or one and a half pounds of condensed milk, or one pound of coffee, or one and a half pounds of canned fruit, or four pounds of fresh vegetables, or four pounds of flour.
“‘An extra allowance of one ounce of coffee or cocoa, two ounces of Extra allowance of coffee, etc., night watches. *Post*, p. 1193. sugar, four ounces of hard bread or its equivalent, and four ounces of preserved meat or its equivalent shall be allowed to enlisted men of the engineer and dynamo force who stand night watches between eight o’clock postmeridian and eight o’clock antemeridian, under steam.’” " Contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: For expressage, Contingent. fuel, books and blanks, stationery, advertising, furniture for general storehouses and pay offices in navy-yards; expenses of naval clothing factory and machinery for same, postage, telegrams, telephones, tolls, ferriages, yeoman’s stores, safes, newspapers, ice, and other incidental expenses, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
Freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: All freight charges pertaining Freight. Department and bureaus. to the Navy Department and its bureaus, except the transportation of coal for the Bureau of Equipment, four hundred thousand dollars. Civil establishment, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: Navy-yard, Civil establishment. Portsmouth, N. H. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: In general storehouses: Two bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one assistant bookkeeper, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one shipping and receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; in all, five thousand eight hundred and forty dollars;
Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: In general storehouses: One Boston, Mass. bookkeeper, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars; one receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; one bookkeeper, at one thousand two hundred 572 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; New York, N. Y.
Navy-yard, New York, New York: In office of board of inspection: One writer, nine hundred dollars. In general storehouses: Three bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one assistant bookkeeper, at one thousand dollars; one assistant bookkeeper, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; two receiving clerks, at four dollars each per diem; one assistant receiving clerk, at one thousand and ninety-nine dollars; three shipping clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant bill clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; two leading men, at two dollars and fifty cents each per diem; five pressmen, at two dollars and seventy-six cents each per diem; one box maker, at three dollars per diem; one engine tender, at three dollars and twenty-six cents per diem; one coffee roaster, at two dollars and fifty cents per diem; one fireman, at two dollars per diem; one messenger, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem; one writer, one thousand dollars; one 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-two dollars.
In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one messenger, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem; in all, thirty-two thousand one hundred and seventy-three dollars and three cents; 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, atone 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 573 bookkeepers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant bill clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; two receiving clerks, at nine hundred and forty-two dollars each.
In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, nine thousand and fifty-five dollars and seventy-five cents; Naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: In general storehouses: Cavite, P. I. One clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one bookkeeper, at one thousand four hundred dollars; three assistant bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars; one shipping and bill clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; three storekeepers, at one thousand dollars each, three thousand dollars; one receiving clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant clerk, at one thousand dollars; two store men, at nine hundred dollars each; in all, fifteen thousand eight hundred dollars;
Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: In general storehouses: One Puget 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 two Key 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 thirty-two dollars and twenty-eight cents; and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. bureau of construction and repair. Bureau of Construction and Repair. Construction and repair of vessels: For preservation and completion Preservation 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, and bureau, such as advertising, foreign postage, telegrams, telephone service, photographing, books, professional magazines, plans, stationery, and instruments for drafting room, seven million six hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be applied *Provisos*.
Wooden ships. to the repair of any wooden ship, when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed ten per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material: *Provided, however*, That of the above sum one hundred thousand dollars, or such portion Frigate “Constitution.” thereof as may be necessary, shall be used to repair, equip, and restore the frigate Constitution, as far as may be practicable, to her original condition, but not for active service: *And provided further*, That the Reappropriation.
Vol. 32, p. 1193. sum of three hundred thousand dollars from the unexpended balance under appropriations “Construction and repair of vessels” for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, is hereby reappropriated for “Construction and repair of vessels” for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven. Improvement of construction plants: Construction plant, navy-yard, Construction plants. Portsmouth, N. H. Portsmouth, New Hampshire:
Repairs to, and improvements of, 574 plant at navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, fifteen thousand dollars. Boston, Mass. Construction plant, navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Repairs to, and improvement of, plant at navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts, twenty thousand dollars. 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:
For 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. 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; Mare Island, Cal. Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: One clerk to naval constructor, at one thousand four hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand 575 and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; in all, three thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents;
Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: One clerk to naval constructor, Puget Sound, Wash. 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 of Steam 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, and the Bureau, Incidentals. such as foreign postage, telegrams, advertising, expressage, photographing, books, stationery, office furnishings, and instruments, five thousand dollars; In all, steam machinery, five million five hundred and five thousand dollars.
Machinery plant, navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: For purchase of Machinery 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: To outfit Portsmouth, N. H. new shops, authorized and completed or nearly completed, with new power tools, and to replace obsolete and worn-out machine tools, fifty thousand dollars; to outfit boiler shop, now building, with cranes, annealing furnace, machine and hand tools, motors and fixtures, sixty thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and ten thousand dollars.
Machinery plant, navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For machine tools Norfolk, Va. to equip machine and boiler shop extension, twenty-five thousand dollars. Machinery plant, naval station, New Orleans, Louisiana: For additional New Orleans, La. machine tools to complete the equipment of shops authorized and nearing completion, twenty-five thousand dollars. Machinery plant, navy-yard, Charleston, South Carolina: Toward Charleston, S. C. equipment of shops already authorized, fifty 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. 576 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; in all, one thousand four hundred dollars; New York, N. Y. Navy-yard, New York, New York: One clerk to department, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand dollars; League Island, Pa. Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: One clerk to department, at one thousand two hundred dollars;
Norfolk, Va. Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: One clerk to department, at one thousand three hundred dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all, one thousand nine hundred dollars; Pensacola, Fla. Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: One writer, one thousand dollars; Mare Island, Cal. Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: One clerk to department, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand dollars;
Port Royal, S. C. Naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina: One clerk to department, one thousand two hundred dollars; Puget Sound, Wash. Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: One clerk to department, one thousand two hundred dollars; one writer, one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand two hundred dollars; 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 chemistry, one of English, one of French, and one of Spanish, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; Four professors, namely, one of English, one of French, one of drawing, and one of Spanish, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; Three instructors, at two thousand dollars each;
Four instructors, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; Ten instructors, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; One sword master, at one thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant, at one thousand two hundred dollars, and two assistants, at one thousand dollars each; one instructor in gymnastics, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant librarian, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant librarian, at one thousand dollars; one secretary 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 577 dollars; one baker, at six hundred dollars; one mechanic in department of physics, at seven hundred and thirty dollars; one mechanic in the department of ordnance, at nine hundred and fifty-one dollars and fifty-two cents; one cook, at three hundred and twenty-five dollars and fifty cents; one messenger to the superintendent, at six hundred dollars; one armorer, at six hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one chief gunner’s mate, at five hundred and twenty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one quarter gunner, at four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one coxswain, at four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one seaman in the department of seamanship, at three hundred and ninety-seven dollars and fifty cents; one attendant in the department of navigation and one in the department of physics, at three hundred dollars each; sixteen 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; two seamen in the department of seamanship, at three hundred and ninety-seven dollars and fifty cents each; 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; in all, one hundred and twenty-six thousand two hundred and seventeen dollars and fifty-two cents.
No person shall be admitted for instruction at the Naval Academy Admission of foreign students restricted. at Annapolis from any foreign country except upon authority of law hereafter enacted. 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; seven watchmen, at two dollars per diem each; foreman of steam heating works of the academy, at five dollars per diem; labor at power house for masons, carpenters, and other mechanics, laborers, and attendants; and for care of buildings and grounds, wharves, and boats, sixty-seven thousand one hundred and fifty-three dollars; in all, seventy-five 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 authorized Additional 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, etc. wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, improvements, repairs, furniture, and fixtures, twenty thousand dollars.
Heating and lighting, Naval Academy: Fuel, oil, waste, and Heating, etc. other materials for the operation, repair, and maintenance of the plant; 578 heating and lighting apparatus and tools; and for heating and lighting the academy and bandsmen’s quarters, forty thousand dollars. Contingent. Contingent, Naval Academy: Purchase, binding, and repair of books for the library and text-books for the use of instructors (to be purchased in open market on the written order of the superintendent), two thousand five hundred dollars; stationery, blank books, models, and maps, two thousand five hundred dollars; expenses of the Board of Visitors of the Naval Academy, being mileage and five dollars per diem for each member for expenses during actual attendance at the academy, and for supplying necessary outfit for the Board house, and for clerk hire, carriages, and other incidental and necessary expenses of the Board, 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 in the departments of steam engineering, one thousand dollars; materials for repairs in steam machinery, one thousand five hundred dollars; for contingencies for the superintendent of the academy, to be expended in his discretion, two thousand dollars; apparatus for the instruction of midshipmen in the department of marine engineering and naval construction, thirty thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and four thousand five hundred dollars.
In all, Naval Academy, three hundred and eighty-nine thousand and sixty dollars and fifty-eight cents. Appointment of midshipmen. Time of notification of vacancies changed. Vol. 32, p. 1197. Hereafter the Secretary of the Navy shall, as soon as possible after the first day of June of each year preceding the graduation of midshipmen in the succeeding year, notify in writing each Senator, Representative, and Delegate in Congress of any vacancy that will exist at the Naval Academy because of such graduation, or that may occur for other reasons and which he shall be entitled to fill by nomination of a Nomination of candidates, etc. candidate and one or more alternates therefor.
The nomination of a candidate and alternate or alternates to fill said vacancy shall be made upon the recommendation of the Senator, Representative, or Delegate, if such recommendation is made by the fourth day of March of the year following that in which said notice in writing is given, but if it is not made by that time the Secretary of the Navy shall fill the vacancy by appointment of an actual resident of the State, Congressional district, or Territory, as the case may be, in which the vacancy will exist, who shall have been for at least two years immediately preceding the date of his appointment an actual and bona fide resident of the State, Congressional district, or Territory in which the vacancy will exist and of the legal qualification under the Filling vacancies. law as now provided.
In cases where by reason of a vacancy in the membership of the Senate or House of Representatives, or by the death or declination of a candidate for admission to the academy there occurs or is about to occur at the academy a vacancy from any State, district, or Territory that can not be filled by nomination as herein provided, the same may be filled as soon thereafter and before the final entrance examination for the year as the Secretary of the Navy Candidates selected by the President. may determine.
The candidates allowed for the District of Columbia and all the candidates appointed at large, together with alternates therefor, shall be selected by the President within the period herein *Proviso*. District of Columbia for 1908. prescribed for nomination of other candidates: *Provided*, That the President may select a candidate for the District of Columbia for the year nineteen hundred and eight. 579 That the President be authorized to appoint, by and with the advice Appointment of additional professors of mathematics. and consent of the Senate, two additional professors of mathematics in the Navy, who shall be extra numbers in said list, and who shall take rank therein according to that held by them respectively when so appointed, if such appointees are officers of the Navy, otherwise at the foot of said list.
That all records (such as muster and pay rolls and reports) relating Transfer, etc., of records, war of the Revolution. to the personnel and operations of public and private armed vessels of the North American colonies in the war of the Revolution now in any of the Executive Departments shall be transferred to the Secretary of the Navy, to be preserved, indexed, and prepared for publication. marine corps. Marine Corps. Pay, Marine Corps: For pay and allowances prescribed by law of Pay.
Officers. officers on the active list, five hundred and seventy-six thousand one hundred and eighty dollars. For pay of officers prescribed by law, on the retired list: For one Retired list. major-general commandant, six brigadier-generals, four colonels, five lieutenant-colonels, one major and adjutant and inspector, two majors, nine captains, five first lieutenants, and five 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.
Pay of noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, as prescribed Enlisted men. by law; and the number of enlisted men shall be exclusive of those undergoing imprisonment with sentence of dishonorable discharge from the service at expiration of such confinement, and for the expenses of clerks of the United States Marine Corps traveling under orders, including additional compensation for enlisted men of the Additional compensation. Marine Corps regularly detailed as gun pointers, messmen, signal-men, 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 fifty-five dollars and twenty cents.
Pay and allowance of retired enlisted men: For two sergeant-majors, Retired enlisted men. one drum-major, four gunnery-sergeants, nine quartermaster-sergeants, nine first sergeants, thirty-one sergeants, five corporals, twelve musicians, one fifer, and thirty privates, and for those who may be retired during the fiscal year, fifty thousand dollars. Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged soldiers for clothing Undrawn clothing. undrawn, seventy-seven thousand six hundred and thirty dollars.
Deposits: For interest on soldiers’ deposits, three thousand dollars, Interest on soldiers’ deposits. *Provisos*. Deposit of savings. and so much as may be necessary to refund such deposits: *Provided*, That hereafter enlisted men of the Marine Corps shall be entitled to deposit their savings with the United States, through any paymaster, in the same manner and under the same conditions as is now or may hereafter be provided for the enlisted men of the Navy: *Provided, Credit to appropriation for pay of Marine Corps. however*, That the sums so deposited shall pass to the credit of the appropriation for pay of the Marine Corps.
Mileage: For mileage to officers traveling under orders without Mileage. troops, thirty thousand dollars; For commutation of quarters of officers on duty without troops Commutation of quarters. where there are no public quarters, fifteen thousand dollars; Pay of civil force: In the office of the Brigadier-General Commandant: Civil force. Commandant’s office. One chief clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, at nine hundred and seventy-one dollars and twenty-eight cents;
In the office of the paymaster: One chief clerk, at one thousand six Paymaster’s office. 580 hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; In the office of the assistant paymaster: One clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; Adjutant and inspector’s office. In the office of the adjutant and inspector: One chief clerk, at one 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; Quartermaster’s office. In the office of the quartermaster: One chief clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one draftsman, at one thousand six hundred dollars; In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Washington, District of Columbia, or San Francisco, California: Two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; two clerks, for duty in the Philippines—one in Pay and one in Quartermaster’s Department, at one thousand four hundred dollars each;
In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: One clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one messenger, at eight hundred and forty dollars; Disbursements. In all, for pay of civil force, twenty-eight thousand nine hundred and eleven dollars and twenty-eight cents, and the money herein specifically appropriated for pay of the Marine Corps shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law as pay of the Marine Corps, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund;
In all, pay Marine Corps, two million seven hundred and seventy-nine thousand two hundred and seventy-six dollars and forty-eight cents. Provisions, etc. Provisions, Marine Corps: For noncommissioned officers, musicians, 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 *Proviso*.
Navy rations or commutation. enlisted men in the Army: *Provided, however*, That when it is impracticable or the expense is found greater to supply marines serving on shore duty in the island possessions and on foreign stations with the army ration, such marines may be allowed the navy ration or commutation therefor. Clothing. Clothing, Marine Corps: For noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates authorized by law, five hundred and seventy-five 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, and for hot-air closets, seventy thousand dollars. Military stores. Military stores, Marine Corps: Pay of chief armorer, at three dollars per day; three mechanics, at two dollars and fifty cents each per day; for purchase of military equipments, such as rifles, revolvers, cartridge boxes, bayonet scabbards, haversacks, blanket bags, knap-sacks, canteens, musket slings, swords, drums, trumpets, flags, waist belts, waist plates, cartridge belts, sashes for officer of the day, spare parts for repairing muskets, purchase and repair of tents and field ovens, purchase and repair of instruments for band, purchase of music and musical accessories, purchase and marking of prizes for excellence 581 in gunnery and rifle practice, good-conduct badges; for incidental expenses of the School of Application; for the construction, equipment and maintenance of school, library, and amusement rooms and gymnasiums for enlisted men, and the purchase and repair of all articles of field sports for enlisted men; purchase and repair of signal equipment and stores; for the establishment and maintenance of targets and ranges, and renting ranges, and for entrance fees in competitions; and for procuring, preserving, and handling ammunition, and other necessary military supplies, two hundred thousand dollars.
Transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps: For transportation Transportation, etc. of troops, including ferriage and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof, and the expense of the recruiting service, one hundred and fifty-six thousand dollars. For repairs of barracks, Marine Corps: Repairs and improvements Repairs of barracks. 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, and at such other places as the public exigencies require; and for per diem to enlisted men employed under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department on the repair of barracks, quarters, and the other public buildings, sixty-six thousand three hundred and thirty-six dollars.
Forage, Marine Corps: For forage in kind for horses of the Forage. Quartermaster’s Department, and the authorized number of officers’ horses, seventeen thousand seven hundred dollars. Hire of quarters, Marine Corps: For hire of quarters for officers Hire of quarters. serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them; for commutation of quarters for enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in the offices of the commandant, adjutant and inspector, paymaster and quartermaster, and the offices of the assistant adjutant and inspectors, the assistant paymasters, and the assistant quartermasters, at twenty-one dollars each per month, and for enlisted men employed as messengers in said offices, at ten dollars each per month, thirty-five thousand seven hundred and forty-eight dollars.
Contingent, Marine Corps: For freight, tolls, cartage, advertising, Contingent. washing of bed sacks, mattress covers, pillowcases, towels, and sheets, funeral expenses of marines, including the transportation of bodies from the place of demise to the homes of the deceased in the United States, stationery and other paper, telegraphing, rent of telephones, purchase and repair of typewriters, apprehension of stragglers and deserters, per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor for a period of not less than ten days, employment of civilian labor, repair of gas and water fixtures, office and barracks furniture, camp and garrison equipage and implements, mess utensils for enlisted men, such as bowls, plates, spoons, knives and forks, tin cups, pans, pots, and so forth; packing boxes, wrapping paper, oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, quarantine fees, camphor and carbolized paper, carpenters’ tools, tools for police purposes, iron safes, purchase and repair of public wagons, purchase and repair of public harness, purchase of public horses, services of veterinary surgeons, and medicines for public horses; purchase and repair of hose, purchase and repair of fire extinguishers, purchase of fire hand grenades; purchase and repair of carts, wheelbarrows, and lawn mowers; purchase and repair of cooking stoves, ranges, stoves, 582 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 fifty-five thousand eight hundred dollars.
Total under quartermaster, Marine Corps, one million nine hundred and twenty-six thousand and seven dollars. Total Marine Corps, four million seven hundred and five thousand two hundred and eighty-three dollars and forty-eight cents. increase of navy. Increase of Navy. That for the purpose of further increasing the naval establishment of the United States, the President is hereby authorized to have constructed by contract or in navy-yards as hereinafter provided— One first-class battle ship.
One first-class battle ship, carrying as heavy armor and as powerful armament as any known vessel of its class, to have the highest practicable speed and greatest practicable radius of action, and to cost, exclusive of armament and armor, not exceeding six million dollars: *Provisos*. Submission of plans, etc. *Provided*, That before approving any plans or specifications for the construction of such battle ship the Secretary of the Navy shall afford, by advertisement or otherwise, in his discretion, a reasonable opportunity to any competent constructor who may desire so to do, to submit plans and specifications for his consideration, for which said plans, should the same be used by the Department and be not submitted by Compensation. or on behalf of a successful bidder for the contract, such compensation shall be paid as the Secretary of the Navy shall deem just and equitable out of the amount herein appropriated under the head “Contingent, Report to Congress before issuing proposals.
Navy”: *Provided*, That before any proposals for said battle ship shall be issued or any bids received and accepted the Secretary of the Navy shall report to Congress at its next session full details covering the type of such battle ship and the specifications for the same, including its displacement, draft, and dimensions, and the kind and extent of armor and armament therefor. Three torpedo-boat destroyers. *Post*, p. 1203. Three torpedo-boat destroyers, to have the nighest practicable speed, and to cost, exclusive of armament, not to exceed seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars each.
Award of contracts. And the contract for the construction of said vessels shall be awarded by the Secretary of the Navy to the lowest best responsible bidder, *Provisos*. Pacific coast bids. having in view the best results and most expeditious delivery: *Provided*, That any bid for the construction of any of said vessels upon the Pacific coast shall have a differential of four per centum in its favor, which shall be considered by the Secretary of the Navy in awarding Construction.
Vol. 24, p. 215. contracts for the construction of said vessels; and in the construction of all of said vessels the provisions of the Act of August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled “An Act to increase the naval establishment,” as to materials for said vessels, their engines, boilers, and machinery, the contracts under which they are built, the notice of any proposals for the same, the plans, drawings, specifications therefor, and the method of executing said contracts shall be observed and followed, and, subject to the provisions of this Act, all said vessels shall be built in compliance with the terms of said Act, and in all their parts shall be of domestic manufacture; and the steel material shall be of 583 domestic manufacture, and of the quality and characteristics best adapted to the various purposes for which it may be used, in accordance with specifications approved by the Secretary of the Navy; and Limit for one builder.
Construction in navy-yards if combination, etc., of builders. not more than one of the vessels provided for in this Act shall be built by one contracting party: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy may build any or all of the vessels herein authorized in such navy-yards as he may designate, and shall build any of the vessels herein authorized in such navy-yards as he may designate should it reasonably appear that the persons, firms, or corporations, or the agents thereof, bidding for the construction of any of said vessels have entered into any combination, agreement, or understanding the effect, object, or purpose of which is to deprive the Government of fair, open, and unrestricted competition in letting contracts for the construction of any of said vessels: *Provided*, That the limit of cost, exclusive of armor Limit of cost increased.
Battleship “Connecticut.” Vol. 32, p. 690. Training ships. Vol. 32, p. 1202. and armament, of the battle ship Connecticut, authorized by the Act of Congress approved July first, nineteen hundred and two, be increased to four million six hundred thousand dollars, and that the limit of cost, exclusive of armor and armament, of each of the two training vessels authorized by the Act of Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, be increased to four hundred and ten thousand dollars: *And provided further*, That the limit of cost, Colliers. exclusive of armor and armament, of each of the two colliers authorized by the Act of Congress approved April twenty-seventh, nineteen Vol. 33, p. 350. hundred and four, be increased to one million five hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized, in his discretion, Purchase of submarine boats. to contract for or purchase subsurface or submarine torpedo boats, to an amount not exceeding one million dollars, after such tests as he shall see fit to prescribe, to determine the comparative efficiency of the different boats for which bids may be submitted: *Provided*, That *Proviso*. Tests. *Post*, p. 1204. such tests shall take place within nine months from the date of the passage of this Act; and for such purpose the sum of five hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated.
Construction and machinery: On account of hulls, outfits, and Construction and machinery. machinery of vessels and steam machinery of vessels heretofore authorized, seventeen million eight hundred and thirty thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine dollars. Armor and armament: Toward the armament and armor of domestic Armor and armament. manufacture for vessels authorized, fifteen million one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation *Proviso*.
Restriction. shall be expended for armor for vessels except upon contracts for such armor when awarded by the Secretary of the Navy, to the lowest responsible bidder, having in view the best results and most expeditious delivery. But this provision shall not apply to or interfere with Prior contracts not affected. contracts for such armor already entered into, signed and executed by the Secretary of the Navy. Total increase of the Navy, thirty-three million four hundred and seventy-five thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine dollars.
That no part of any sum appropriated by this Act shall be used for Use of appropriation restricted. any expense of the Navy Department at Washington unless specific authority be given for such expenditure. Approved, June 29, 1906.