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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 35 STAT. · May 13, 1908 · Chapter 166

Chapter 166. Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 166.— An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes. May 13, 1908.[[H. R. 20471](/us/bill/70/hr/20471).][[Public, No. 115](/us/pl/70/115).] *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 nine, and for other purposes.
Pay of The Navy. Pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on sea duty andPay of Navy. 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; two clerks to general inspectors of pay corps; commutation of quarters for officers on shore not occupying public quarters, including boatswains, gunners, carpenters, sailmakers, warrant machinists, pharmacists, and mates, and also naval constructors and assistant naval constructors; for hi re of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them, or commutation of quarters not to exceed the amount which an officer would receive were he not serving with troops;Number of enlisted men increased. 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, forty-two thousand men; three thousand ofImmediate enlistments authorized. the additional men herein authorized may be recruited upon the passage of this Act; and the number of enlisted men shall be exclusive of those undergoing imprisonment with sentence of dishonorable dischargeWarrant machinists. from the service at expiration of such confinement; and as many warrant machinists as the President may from time to time deem necessary to appoint, not to exceed twenty in any one year; and two thousand five hundred apprentice seamen under training at training stations and on board training ships, at the pay prescribed by law, thirty million nine hundred and seventy-four thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Hereafter all commissioned officers of the active list of the NavyPay increased.Officers on active list.R. S., sec. 1556, p. 265, amended. shall receive the same pay and allowances according to rank and length of service, and the annual pay of each grade shall be as follows: For Admiral, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars; rear-admiral, first nine, eight thousand dollars: rear-admiral, second nine, or commodore, six thousand dollars; captain, four thousand dollars; commander, three thousand five hundred dollars; lieutenant-commander, three thousand dollars; lieutenant, two thousand four hundred dollars; lieutenant, junior grade, two thousand dollars; ensign, one thousand seven 128 hundred dollars.
There shall be allowed and paid to each commissionedLongevity. officer below the rank of rear-admiral ten per centum of his current yearly pay for each term of five years service in the Army, Navy and Marine Corps. The total amount of such increase for lengthMaximum increase. of service shall in no case exceed forty per centum on the yearly pay of the grade as provided by law: *Provided*, That the annual pay of*Proviso*.Maximum annual pay for captain, etc. captain shall not exceed five thousand dollars per annum; of commander, four thousand five hundred dollars per annum; and of lieutenant-commander, four thousand dollars per annum.
All officers onAdditional for foreign service. sea duty and all officers on shore duty beyond the continental limits of the United States shall while so serving receive ten per centum additional of their salaries and increase as above provided, and such increase shall commence from the date of reporting for duty on board ship or the date of sailing from the United States for shore duty beyond the seas or to join a ship in foreign waters. The pay of midshipmenMidshipmen. shall hereafter be six hundred dollars per annum while at the Naval Academy, and one thousand four hundred dollars per annum after graduation from the Naval Academy.
The pay of all warrantWarrant officers, etc. officers and mates is hereby increased twenty-five per centum, and all paymasters’ clerks shall, while on duty, receive the same pay and allowances as warrant officers of like length of service in the Navy. The pay of all active and retired enlisted men of the Navy is herebyEnlisted men. increased ten per centum: *Provided further*, That the pay and allowances of chiefs of bureaus in the Navy Department shall be the highestChiefs of bureaus.R.S., sec. 1565, p. 269. pay of the grade to which they belong, and not below that of rear-admiral of the lower nine, and that the pay and allowances of chaplainsChaplains. in the Navy shall in no case exceed that provided for lieutenant-commanders.
Aids to rear-admirals embraced in the nine lowerAids to rear-admirals. numbers of that grade shall each receive one hundred and fifty dollars additional per annum, and aids to all other rear-admirals, two hundred dollars additional per annum each. When an officer of the Navy hasRetirement, etc., thirty years’ service. been thirty years in the service, he may, upon his own application, in the discretion of the President, be retired from active service and placed upon the retired list with three-fourths of the highest pay of his grade: *And provided further*, That any officer of the Navy who isRank, pay, etc., of retiring bureau chiefs. now serving or shall hereafter serve as chief of a bureau in the Navy Department, and shall subsequently be retired, shall be retired with the rank, pay and allowances authorized by law for the retirement of such bureau chief.
The pay of all commissioned, warrant andBasis of pay of retired commissioned, etc., officers.R. S., sec.1569, p.269. appointed officers and enlisted men of the Navy now on the retired list shall be based on the pay, as herein provided for, of commissioned, warrant and appointed officers and enlisted men of corresponding rank and service on the active list; and all pay herein provided shall remain in force until changed by Act of Congress. Nothing herein shall beNo reduction of present pay. construed so as to reduce the pay or allowances now authorized by law for any commissioned, warrant or appointed officer or any enlisted man of the active or retired lists of the Navy, and all laws inconsistentRepeal. with this provision are hereby repealed.
That hereafter immediately upon official notification of the deathAllowances for death.R. S., sec. 1587, p. 271. from wounds or disease contracted in, line of duty of any officer or enlisted man on the active list of the Navy and Marine Corps the Paymaster-General of the Navy shall cause to be paid to the widow of such officer or enlisted man, or any person previously designated by him, an amount equal to six months’ pay at the rate received by such officer or enlisted man at the date of his death, less seventy-five dollars in the case of an officer and thirty-five dollars in the case of an enlisted man, to defray expenses of interment, and the residue, if any, of theInterment expenses. amount reserved shall be paid subsequently to the designated person.
The Secretary of the Navy shall establish regulations requiring each officer and enlisted man to designate the proper person to whom thisBeneficiaries to be designated. 129 amount shall be paid in case of death, and said amount shall be paid to that person from funds appropriated for the pay of the Navy and Marine Corps. Pay, Miscellaneous.Pay. The Secretary of the Navy shall send to Congress at the beginningSchedule of, and allowance to be sent to Congress. of its next regular session a complete schedule or list showing the amount in money of all pay under the provisions of this Act and for all allowances for each grade of officers in the Navy, including retired officers, and for all officers included in this Act and for all enlisted men so included.
The estimates for the support of the Navy shall hereafter show,Estimates for support of Navy.Requirements. under the head of Pay of the Navy, the sums allowed for pay of officers belonging to the line, to the several departments of the staff, and to the retired list; the estimates to show under each head the amount allowed for pay proper, for increases due to longevity and foreign service, and for pay at sea rates to officers employed on shore; together with the total number of warrant and petty officers and seamen of the several grades and designations, including as to each class the amount allowed for pay proper and for longevity or service increases.
The estimates shall include a list giving the rates of pay for all petty officers and other enlisted men of the Navy. For commissions and interest; transportation of funds; exchange;Miscellaneous expenses. 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; copying; care of library, including the purchase of books, photographs, prints, manuscripts, and periodicals; ferriage; tolls, and costs of suits; commissions, warrants, diplomas, and discharges; relief of vessels in distress; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; reports; professional investigation; cost of special instruction at home and abroad, in maintenance of students and attaches and information from abroad, and the collection and classification thereof; all charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus for ice for the cooling of drinking water on shore (except at naval hospitals), telephone rentals and tolls, telegrams, cablegrams, and postage, foreign and domestic, post-office box rentals; and other necessary and incidental expenses, seven hundred and twenty-three thousand dollars.
Contingent, Navy: For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses,Contingent. exclusive of personal services in the Navy Department, or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at Washington, District of Columbia, arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, to be expended on the approval and authority of the Secretary of the Navy, and for such purposes as he may deem proper, sixty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the accounting officers of the Treasury are*Proviso*.Civilian employees. 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 nine. 130 Bureau of navigation.Bureau of Navigation.
Transportation: For travel allowance of enlisted men discharged onTransportation. account of expiration of enlistment; transportation of enlisted men and apprentice seamen at home and abroad, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof, transportation to their homes, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentice seamen discharged on medical survey, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation of sick or insane enlisted men and apprentice seamen to hospitals, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, and for railway guides and other expenses incident to transportation, four hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
Recruiting: Expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent ofRecruiting. rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentice seamen; actual and necessary expenses in lieu of mileage to officers on duty with traveling recruiting parties, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of*Proviso*.Certificate of age. this appropriation shall be expended in recruiting seamen, ordinary seamen, or apprentice seamen, unless a certificate of birth or written evidence, other than his own statement or statement of another based thereon, satisfactory to the recruiting officer showing the applicant to be of age required by naval regulations, shall be presented with the application for enlistment.
Contingent: Advertising, ferriage, continuous-service certificates,Contingent. discharges, good-conduct badges, and medals for men and boys; purchase of gymnastic apparatus; 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 other contingent expenses and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation, unforeseen and impossible to classify, twelve thousand four hundred and sixty-two dollars.
Gunnery exercises: Prizes, trophies, and badges for excellence inGunnery exercises. gunnery exercises and target practice; for the establishment and maintenance of shooting galleries, target houses, targets, and ranges; for hiring established ranges, and for transportation of civilian assistants and equipment to and from ranges, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Outfits on First Enlistment: Outfits for all enlisted men, andOutfits. apprentice seamen of the Navy on first enlistment, at not to exceed sixty dollars each, nine hundred thousand dollars.
Maintenance of Naval Auxiliaries: Pay, transportation, shipping,Maintenance of auxiliaries. and subsistence of civilian officers and crews of naval auxiliaries and all expenses connected with naval auxiliaries employed in emergencies which can not be paid from other appropriations, five hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Naval Training Station, California: Maintenance of naval trainingNaval Training Station.Yerba Buena Island, Cal. 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, and washing; packing boxes and materials; and all other contingent expenses; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen: *Provided*, That the sum of four thousand five hundred and sixty-four*Proviso*.Dispensary. dollars and five cents is hereby appropriated for the equipment and 131 smaintenance of the dispensary, said sum to be immediately available; inImmediately available. all, sixty-five thousand two hundred and sixteen dollars and five cents.
Naval Training Station, Rhode Island: Maintenance of navalCoasters Harbor Island, R. I. training station, Coasters Harbor Island, Rhode Island, namely: Labor and material; building and wharves; dredging channels; extending sea wall; repairs to causeway and sea wall; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and wharves; wharfage, ferriage, and street-car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same; fire engines and extinguishers; boats and gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating, lighting, and furniture; stationery, books, and periodicals; fresh water, and washing; packing boxes and materials; and all other contingent expenses; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen; in all, seventy-nine thousand five hundred and eleven dollars.
Naval Training Station, Great Lakes: Maintenance of navalGreat Lakes. training station: Labor and material; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and piers; 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; washing; packing boxes and materials; and all other contingent expenses, twenty-nine thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars.
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, thirty-six thousand eight hundred dollars.
Naval War College, Rhode Island: For maintenance of theNaval War College, R. I. Naval War College on Coasters Harbor Island, and care of grounds for same, twelve thousand three hundred dollars; one draftsman, at one thousand two hundred dollars per year; services of a lecturer on international law, one thousand dollars; services of civilian lecturers rendered at the War College, six hundred dollars; two copyists, at nine hundred dollars each per year; purchase of books of reference, four hundred dollars; one librarian, one thousand four hundred dollars per year; in all, Naval War College, Rhode Island, eighteen thousand seven hundred dollars.
Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: One superintendentNaval Home, Philadelphia, Pa. of grounds, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one steward, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one matron, at four hundred and twenty dollars; one beneficiaries’ attendant, at two hundred and forty dollars; one chief cook, at four hundred and eighty dollars; one assistant cook, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one assistant cook, at two hundred and forty dollars; one chief laundress, at one hundred and ninety-two dollars; five laundresses, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; four scrubbers, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; one head waitress, at one hundred and ninety-two dollars; eight waitresses, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; one kitchen servant, at two hundred and forty dollars; eight laborers, at two hundred and forty dollars each; one stable keeper and driver, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one master at arms, at four hundred and eighty dollars; two, house corporals, at three hundred dollars each; one barber, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one carpenter, at eight hundred and forty-five dollars; one painter, at eight hundred and forty-five dollars; one engineer for elevator and machinery, six 132 hundred dollars; three laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; three laborers, at three hundred dollars each; total for employees, fourteen thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
Miscellaneous: Water rent and lighting, two thousand one hundred dollars; cemetery, burial expenses, and headstones, eight hundred dollars; improvement of grounds, seven hundred and eighty dollars; repairs to buildings, boilers, furnances, and furniture, six thousand seven hundred and forty-eight dollars; music in chapel, six hundred dollars; transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, one hundred dollars; support of beneficiaries, forty-four thousand three hundred and seventy-three dollars; total miscellaneous, fifty-five thousand five hundred and one dollars.
In all, for Naval Home, seventy thousand one hundred and fifty-one dollars, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund: *Provided*, That for the performance of such additional*Proviso*.Employing beneficiaries. 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.
For badges and ribbons to be distributed by the Secretary of theBadges, etc. Navy to officers and men of the Navy and Marine Corps who have participated in engagements and campaigns deemed worthy of such commemoration, three thousand five hundred dollars. That the use of irons, single or double, as a form of punishment inUse of irons restricted. the Navy of the United States is hereby abolished, except for the purposes of safe custody or when part of the sentence imposed by a general court-martial.
Bureau of Ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance. Ordnance and Ordnance Stores: For procuring, producing, preserving,Ordnance and ordnance stores. and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the general work of the Ordnance Department; for watchmen at magazines, powder 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, four million five hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the*Provisos*.Purchase of shells restricted. 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 standard prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy. Ammunition and other supplies for ships, two million seven hundredAmmunition, etc., for ships.*Provisos*.Present supply utilized, etc. and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to utilize all ammunition and other supplies already on hand under the appropriations “Increase of the Navy; Armor and Armament,” “Reserve Ammunition,” and “Reserve Powder and Shell,” for general issue to ships in commission, as though purchased from this appropriation: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of shells or projectilesPurchase of shells restricted. 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. Purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, six hundred andSmokeless powder. fifty thousand 133 dollars. Machine tools, navy-yard, New York, and magazine, Dover, NewMachine tools. Jersey, ten thousand dollars. Machine tools, navy-yard, Mare Island, California, fifty thousand dollars. One five-ton auxiliary hoist, building numbered one hundred andMare Island, Cal.Auxiliary hoist. eleven, navy-yard, Mare Island, California, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For Naval Gun Factory, Washington, District of Columbia: New and improved machinery for existing shops, oneNaval Gun Factory, D. C. hundred and fifty thousand dollars. New Batteries For Ships of The Navy: For completing the workNew batteries. of modifying four-inch forty-caliber mounts, and providing new sights; and for modifying five-inch forty-caliber mounts, and providing new sights for same, sixty thousand dollars. For replacing three-pounder and six pounder guns, mounts, and sights on board battle ships and armored cruisers by three-inch fifty-caliber, or larger, guns, mounts, and sights, four hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.
For replacing eight-inch Mark V guns (forty-caliber) with eight-inch Mark VI guns (forty-five caliber) on United States ship “Maryland” and class (twenty guns), two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. To reline and convert twelve-inch Mark HI guns to Mark IV guns, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For replacing Mark IX Modern two-firing locks with Mark X firing locks on five-inch and six-inch guns, forty-five thousand dollars. For fire-control instruments for ships, three hundred thousandFire-control instruments. dollars.
Torpedoes, and Converting Torpedo Boats: For convertingTorpedo boat changes. twenty torpedo boats from boats using three and fifty-five one-hundredths meter, to boats using five-meter torpedoes, and for the purchaseTorpedoes. and manufacture of torpedoes, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Torpedoes And Appliances: For the purchase and manufacture ofTorpedoes and appliances. torpedoes and appliances, three hundred thousand dollars. Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island:
For labor, material;Torpedo station, Newport, R.I. general care of and repairs to grounds, buildings, and wharves; boats, instruction, instruments, tools, furniture, experiments, and general torpedo outfits, seventy thousand dollars. Arming and Equipping Naval Militia: For arms, accouterments,Naval militia.Equipping. signal outfits, boats and their equipment, 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, one hundred thousand dollars.
Repairs, Bureau of Ordnance: For necessary repairs to ordnanceRepairs. buildings, magazines, gun parks, boats, lighters, wharves, machinery, and other items of like character, thirty thousand dollars. Miscellaneous, Bureau of Ordnance: For miscellaneous items,Miscellaneous. namely: Advertising, cartage, expenses of light and water at magazines and stations; tolls, ferriage, technical books, and incidental expenses attending inspection of ordnance material, fourteen thousand and sixty-six dollars.
Civil Establishment, Bureau of Ordnance: Navy-yard, Portsmouth,Civil establishment.Portsmouth, N. H. New Hampshire: For one writer, at one thousand dollars. Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one clerk, at one thousandBoston, Mass. two hundred dollars. Torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: For one chemist, at twoNewport, R.I. thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one draftsman, at one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, five thousand two hundred dollars.
Navy-yard, New York, New York: For one clerk, at one thousandNew York, N.Y. four 134 hundred dollars. Navy-yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one thousandPhiladelphia, Pa. two hundred dollars. Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one chemist, atWashington, 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, 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.
Naval proving ground, Indian Head, Maryland: For one clerk, atIndian Head, 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. In all, seven thousand seven hundred dollars. Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For one clerk, at one thousand twoNorfolk, Va. hundred dollars. Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousandMare Island, Cal. two hundred dollars.
In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Ordnance, forty-seven thousand two hundred and six dollars and seventy-five cents. Bureau of Equipment.Bureau of Equipment. Equipment of Vessels: For hemp, wire, iron, and other materialsEquipment of vessels. for the manufacture of cordage, anchors, cables, galleys, and chains; specifications for purchase thereof shall be so prepared as shall give fair and free competition; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, hammocks, and other work; water for all purposes on board 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 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 135 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 seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Equipment Machinery Plants: For the purchase and installationMachinery plants.Equipment buildings. of the necessary machinery and tools in the following equipment buildings which have been appropriated for and are nearing completion: Equipment building at Charleston, fifty thousand dollars;Charleston. Equipment building at New Orleans, twenty-five thousand dollars;New Orleans. Equipment building at Pensacola, twenty-five thousand dollars;Pensacola. In all, equipment machinery plants, one hundred thousand dollars.
Coal and Transportation: Purchase of coal and other fuel forCoal, etc. steamers’ and ships’ use, and other equipment purposes, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same, and for the general maintenance of naval coaling depots and coaling plants, five million dollars. Contingent, Bureau of Equipment: Packing boxes and materials,Contingent. printing, advertising, books, and models; stationery; furniture for equipment of offices in navy-yards; ferriage and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Equipment unforeseen and impossible to classify, eleven thousand eight hundred and twenty-one dollars.
Ocean and Lake Surveys: Hydrographic surveys, and for the purchaseOcean and lake surveys. of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, seventy-five thousand dollars. Depots for Coal: To enable the Secretary of the Navy to executeDepots for coal. the provisions of section fifteen hundred and fifty-two of the Revised Statutes, authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to establish at such places as he may deem necessary, suitable depots for coal and other fuel for the supply of steamships of war, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Civil Establishment, Bureau of Equipment: Navy-yard, Portsmouth,Civil establishment.Portsmouth, N. H. New Hampshire: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one writer, nine hundred and fifty dollars; in all, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one superintendent of ropewalk,Boston, Mass. at two thousand dollars; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand three hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; two writers, at nine hundred and fifty dollars each; one civil superintendent of chain shop, two thousand dollars; one civil superintendent of anchor shop, two thousand dollars; in all, eleven thousand eight hundred dollars.
Navy-yard, New York, New York: For one clerk, at one thousandNew York, N. Y. four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; two writers, at nine hundred and fifty dollars each; one clerk in charge of distribution of books, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, five thousand seven hundred dollars. Navy-yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one thousandPhiladelphia, Pa. four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand four hundred dollars.
Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one clerk, whoWashington, D. C. shall also perform the clerical duties for the board of labor at said navy-yard, one thousand six hundred dollars. Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For two clerks, at one thousand twoNorfolk, Va. hundred dollars each; one writer, at nine hundred and fifty dollars; in all, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. Naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina: One clerk, one thousandPort Royal, S. C. dollars.
Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: One clerk, onePensacola, Fla. thousand 136 dollars. Naval station, Key West, Florida: One clerk, one thousandKey West, Fla. dollars. Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousandMare Island, Cal. two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; one writer, at nine hundred and fifty dollars; in all, three thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: One clerk, one thousandPuget Sound, Wash. dollars; one clerk, one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand dollars.
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. In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Equipment, thirty-eight thousand and twenty-eight dollars. Bureau of Yards and Docks.Bureau of Yards and Docks. Maintenance of Yards and Docks: For general maintenance ofMaintenance. yardsand 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; stationery; furniture for Government houses and offices in navy-yards; coal and other fuel; candles, oil, and gas; attendance on light and power plants; cleaning and clearing up yards and care of buildings; attendance on fires, lights, fire engines, and fire apparatus and plants; incidental labor at navy-yards; water tax, tolls, and ferriage; pay of watchmen in navy-yards; awnings and packing boxes, and advertising for yards and docks and other purposes; and for rent of wharf and storehouse at Erie, Pennsylvania, for use and accommodation of United States steamer Wolverine, and for pay of employees on leave, one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Contingent, Bureau Of Yards and Docks: For contingentContingent. expenses that may arise at navy-yards and stations, thirty thousand dollars. Civil establishment, Bureau of Yards and Docks: Navy-yard,Civil establishment.Portsmouth, N. H. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one mail messenger at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; one foreman laborer and head teamster, at four dollars per diem, including Sundays; one janitor, at six hundred dollars; one pilot, at three dollars per diem, including Sundays; one draftsman, at four dollars per diem; one electrician, one thousand four hundred dollars; one stenographer and typewriter, one thousand dollars; one writer, nine hundred dollars; one telegraph operator and clerk, nine hundred dollars; one draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; one master of tugs, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, thirteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one clerk, at one thousandBoston, Mass. four hundred dollars; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one messenger to commandant, at two dollars per diem; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one draftsman, at five dollars per diem; one master of tugs, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one electrician, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one stenographer and typewriter, at three dollars and twenty-eight cents per diem; one bookkeeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, twelve thousand and sixty-one dollars and seventeen cents.
Navy-yard, New York, New York: For one clerk, at one thousandNew York, N. Y. four hundred dollars; one time clerk, one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one yard pilot, two thousand dollars; two 137 masters of tugs, at one thousand live hundred dollars each; two writers, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; one foreman laborer, at four dollars and fifty cents per diem; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; two messengers, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem each; one draftsman, at five dollars per diem; one quarterman, at three dollars per diem; one superintendent of teams, or quarterman, at four dollars per diem, including Sundays; one messenger to commandant, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem, including Sundays; one messenger, yards and docks, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem; one stenographer and typewriter, at three dollars and twenty-six cents per diem; one electrician, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one bookkeeper, or accountant, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one master of tugs, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, twenty-three thousand one hundred and ninety-six dollars and eighty-nine cents.
Naval station, Sacketts Harbor, New York: For one ship keeper inSacketts Harbor, N. Y. charge, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars per annum. Navy-yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one thousandPhiladelphia, Pa. four hundred dollars; one writer and telegraph operator, at one thousand dollars; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one master of tugs, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one draftsman, at five dollars per diem; one electrician, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one master of tugs, at one thousand dollars; one foreman joiner, at four dollars per diem; one stenographer and typewriter, civil engineer’s office, one thousand dollars; in all, twelve thousand four hundred and forty-two dollars.
Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one clerk, atWashington, D. C. one thousand four hundred dollars; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one electrician, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one time clerk, nine hundred dollars; in all, six thousand six hundred dollars and sixty-nine cents. Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For one clerk, at one thousand fourNorfolk, Va. hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one writer, at one thousand dollars; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one electrician, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; two messengers, at two dollars per diem each; one pilot, at nine hundred dollars; one master of tugs, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one draftsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; one bookkeeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; one foreman mechanic, at four dollars and twenty-four cents per diem; one foreman of teams, at two dollars and twenty-four cents per diem; one messenger and janitor, civil engineer’s office, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one stenographer and typewriter, civil engineer’s office, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, sixteen thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven dollars and ninety-seven cents.
Navy-yard, Charleston, South Carolina: Commandant’s office: OneCharleston, S. C. stenographer and typewriter, at three dollars and four cents per diem; one writer and telegraph operator, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one messenger and janitor, at one dollar and fifty-two cents per diem, including Sundays. Civil engineer’s office: One clerk, at one thousand three hundred dollars; one stenographer, at two dollars and eighty cents per diem; one messenger, at one dollar and fifty-two cents per diem; in all, five thousand six hundred and thirty-one dollars and thirty-six cents.
Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: For one clerk, at one thousand twoPensacola, Fla. hundred dollars; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, includ- 138 ing Sundays; one electrician, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one draftsman, at four dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at three dollars and fifty-two cents per diem; one stenographer, typewriter, and telegraph operator, at three dollars and four cents per diem; one writer, at two dollars and eighty cents per diem; in all, seven thousand five hundred and twenty-seven dollars and four cents.
Naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina: One messenger and janitor,Port Royal, 8. C. one dollar and fifty cents per diem; one telegraph operator, including Sundays, two dollars per diem; in all, one thousand two hundred and three dollars. Naval station, Key West, Florida: For one mail messenger, at sixKey West, Fla. hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one messenger and janitor, at one dollar and seventy-six cents per diem, including Sundays; in all, two thousand six hundred and forty-four dollars and sixteen cents.
Naval station, New Orleans, Louisiana: For one clerk, at one thousandNew Orleans, La. two hundred dollars; one rodman and inspector, at three dollars per diem; one messenger and janitor, at one dollar and fifty cents per diem, including Sundays; one stenographer and typewriter, civil engineer’s office, at nine hundred and fifty dollars; one messenger and janitor, civil engineer’s office, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one foreman laborer, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one draftsman, at one thousand five hundred dollars; one messenger, commandant’s office, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; in all, seven thousand eight hundred and. five dollars.
Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousandMare Island, Cal. four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents: one foreman mason, at six dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at 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 three hundred dollars and one cent.
Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: One clerk, at one thousandPuget Sound, Wash. two hundred dollars; one draftsman, at five dollars per diem; one messenger and janitor, at one dollar and seventy-six cents per diem, including Sundays; one master of tugs, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one copyist, at nine hundred dollars; one electrician, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one writer and telegraph operator, at nine hundred dollars; one stenographer and typewriter, civil engineer’s office, at one thousand dollars; one writer, at nine hundred dollars; one messenger, at one dollar and seventy-six cents per diem; one foreman carpenter, at four dollars and fifty cents per diem, one thousand four hundred and four dollars; in all, eleven thousand four hundred and seventy-nine dollars and eighty cents.
Naval station, San Juan, Porto Rico: One clerk, one thousand twoSan Juan, P. R. hundred dollars; one writer, commandant’s office, nine hundred and sixty dollars; one mail messenger, four hundred and twenty dollars; one foreman, one thousand one hundred dollars; in all, three thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Naval station, Hawaii: One writer, at one thousand and seventeenHawaii. dollars and twenty-five cents per annum; one messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; in all, one thousand seven hundred and forty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents.
Naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: One clerk, one thousandCavite, P. I. two hundred dollars; one time clerk, four hundred and eighty dollars; 139 one writer, three hundred and sixty dollars; one messenger, two hundred and forty dollars; one messenger, one hundred and eighty dollars; one clerk, commandant’s office, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one messenger, commandant’s office, one hundred and eighty dollars; in all, three thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.
Naval station, Guam: One clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars;Guam. one foreman machinist, one thousand six hundred dollars; one messenger and janitor, six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand eight hundred dollars. In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Yards and Docks, one hundred and forty-nine thousand six hundred and fifty-two dollars and ninety cents. Public Works, Bureau of Yards and Docks.Public works.Bureau of Yards and Docks. Navy-Yard, Ports Mouth, New Hampshire:
Sewer system, extension,Portsmouth, N. H. six thousand five hundred dollars; to complete blasting in front of quay wall, sixty thousand dollars; storehouse for combustibles, thirty thousand one hundred dollars; railroad extension, ten thousand dollars; heating system, extension, twenty thousand dollars; electric plant, extension, twenty thousand dollars; steam main central power plant to steam engineering plant, nine thousand dollars; naval prison extension, sixty-five thousand dollars; quay walls, extension, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, two hundred and forty-five thousand six hundred dollars.
Navy-Yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Railroad rolling stock, threeBoston, Mass. thousand dollars; telephone system, extensions, two thousand dollars; repairs to pier numbered one, five thousand dollars; power plant, extensions, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; railroad system, extensions, seven thousand dollars; underground conduit system, extension, thirty thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, navy-yard, Boston, one hundred and ninety-seven thousand eight hundred dollars.
Navy-Yard, New York, New York: Electric plant, extensions,New York, N. Y. forty thousand dollars; underground conduits, extension, twenty-five thousand dollars; central power plant, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars; railroad equipment, additional, five thousand dollars; sewers and drains, fifteen thousand dollars; railroad system, extensions, fifteen thousand dollars; repairs to roofs of buildings, twenty thousand dollars; telephone system, extensions, twelve thousand dollars; reconstructing roof, power house numbered forty-one, thirty-three thousand dollars; extending chemical laboratory, six thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, New York, New York, two hundred and eighty-six thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy*Provisos*.Improvement of water front. is hereby authorized to expend toward the general improvement of the water front at the navy-yard, New York, New York, the unexpended balance of the appropriation made by the Act approved JuneBalance available.Vol. 31, p. 693. seventh, nineteen hundred, making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, and for other purposes, for the construction of a bascule bridge at said navy-yard: *Provided further.* That the limit of cost of dry dockDry dock number four.Limit of cost, etc. numbered four at the navy-yard.
New York, New York, is hereby fixed at one million five hundred thousand dollars, and the Secretary of the Navy is authorized, in his discretion, to construct said dry dock by contract or day labor, or both, as he may deem to be for the best interests of the Government. Navy-Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Shelves and wall cases,Philadelphia, Pa. and so forth, for building numbered four, Supplies and Accounts storehouse, twelve thousand dollars; extension to railroad system, ten thousand dollars; extension of electric conduit system, eight thousand dollars; central power plant, extension, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; equipment for railroad, five thousand dollars; raising and 140 repairing mess hall at camp, five thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Philadelphia, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars.
Navya-Yard, Washington, District of Columbia: Quay wall, toWashington, D. C. complete, twenty-five thousand dollars; storage bins for perishable material, six thousand dollars; machinery for power-plant extension, twelve thousand dollars; electric-light plant extension, five thousand dollars; in all, forty-eight thousand dollars. Navya-Yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Railroad tracks, extensions, fifteenNorfolk, Va. thousand dollars; telephone system, extensions, seven thousand dollars; electric plant, extensions, fifty thousand dollars; repairs, buildings, Saint Helena, twenty-five thousand dollars; central power plant, to complete, two hundred thousand dollars; dredging, to continue, fifty thousand dollars: railroad rolling stock, ten thousand dollars; extension of wharf at dry dock numbered three, fifty thousand dollars; heating system, extensions, ten thousand dollars; compressed-air system, extensions, ten thousand dollars; dry kiln for construction and repair, seven thousand five hundred dollars; renew roof of foundry, building numbered twenty-two, steam engineering, eight thousand dollars; new roof and crane for building numbered twenty-three, steam engineering, sixty thousand dollars; elevator in buildings numbered eleven, thirteen, fourteen, seventeen, and thirty-three, twenty thousand dollars; naval supply storehouse (to cost four hundred and fifty thousand dollars) fifty thousand dollars; improvements to building numbered sixteen, complete, twenty-five thousand dollars; heating building numbered thirty-seven, steam engineering, seven thousand five hundred dollars; improvements to water front, one hundred thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia, seven hundred and five thousand dollars.
Navya-Yard, Charleston, South Carolina: Sewer system, extensionCharleston, S. C. five thousand dollars; heating system, extensions, ten thousand dollars; completing power plant, seventy thousand dollars; slips for torpedo boats, fifty thousand dollars; elevator and interior fittings, building numbered seven, seventeen thousand dollars; paving and grading (to continue), ten thousand dollars; clearing yard, five thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Charleston, South Carolina, one hundred and sixty-seven thousand dollars.
Navya-Yard, Pensacola, Florida: Machinery for central powerPensacola, Fla. plant, fifteen thousand dollars; water system, ten thousand dollars; railroad track and equipment, ten thousand dollars; tools for yards and docks, one thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, navy-yard, Pensacola, thirty-six thousand eight hundred dollars. Naval Station, New Orleans, Louisiana: Drainage system, toNew Orleans, La. continue, five thousand dollars; central heating plant, extension, ten thousand dollars; underground conduit system, five thousand dollars; improvements to machine shop, building numbered four, six thousand dollars; sewer system, extensions, five thousand dollars; improvements to River Front, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, New Orleans, fifty-six thousand dollars.
Navy-Yard , Mare Island , California: Railroad system, extension,Mare Island, Cal. ten thousand dollars; telephone system, extensions, two thousand dollars; central power plant at Mare Island Navy-Yard, California, one hundred thousand dollars; gradingand paving, extension, fifteen thousand dollars; quay wall, extension, fifty thousand dollars; new elevators in buildings numbered sixty-nine and seventy-one, four thousand dollars; dredging, ten thousand dollars; improvement of channel in Mare Island Strait, to continue, twenty thousand dollars; in all, navyyard, Mare Island, two hundred and eleven thousand dollars.
Navy-Yard , Puget Sound, Washington: Electric-light plant,Puget Sound, Wash. extensions, five thousand dollars; water system, extensions, twelve thousand dollars; heating system, extensions, six thousand dollars; 141 stone and concrete dry dock, to continue (to cost two million dollars), one hundred thousand dollars; sewer system, extensions, three thousand dollars; telephone system, extensions, three thousand dollars; railroad and equipment, extensions, ten thousand dollars; central power plant, extensions, two hundred and eighty thousand dollars; hardwood lumber shed, twenty thousand dollars; water-closet for ships in dock, twelve thousand dollars; oil house, thirty thousand dollars; dry kiln, six thousand dollars; underground conduit system, fifteen thousand dollars; electric elevator and fittings, building numbered fifty-nine, eight thousand dollars; foundry for all departments (to cost one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars), fifty thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington, five hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
Naval Station, Olongapo, Philippine Islands: Toward theOlongapo, P. I. improvement and development of the Naval Station, Olongapo, Philippine Islands, one hundred thousand dollars. The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to expend, without limitation as to quantities and unit prices, the various amounts appropriated by the ActVol. 33, p. 336. approved April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, and for other purposes,” for the naval station, Olongapo, Philippine Islands, for the respective improvements therein named.
Naval Station, Island of Guam: Dredging, three thousand dollars;Guam. extension of naval-station roads, ten thousand dollars; watersupply system, ten thousand dollars; fire-protection system, seven thousand five hundred dollars; extension of telephone system, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, thirty-two thousand dollars. Naval Station, Honolulu, Hawaii: Repairs to wharves, six thousandHonolulu, Hawaii. dollars. Naval Station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: The Secretary of thePearl Harbor, Hawaii.Naval station established.
Navy is hereby authorized and directed to establish a naval station at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the site heretofore acquired for that purpose; and to erect thereat all the necessary machine shops, storehouses, coal sheds, and other necessary buildings, and to build thereat one graving dry dock capable of receiving the largest war vessels of the Navy, at a cost not to exceed two million dollars for said dry dock. The sums hereinafter stated are hereby appropriated and madeImmediately available. immediately available, to be expended at the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, to wit:
Toward dredging an entrance channel of aDredging.Dry dock.Machine shops, etc. depth of thirty-five feet, four hundred thousand dollars; toward construction of dry dock, three hundred thousand dollars; toward erecting machine shops (to cost three hundred thousand dollars), one hundred thousand dollars; storehouses (to cost three hundred thousand dollars), one hundred thousand dollars; toward yard development,one hundred thousand dollars; in all, one million dollars. That theContracts.
Secretary of the Navy may, in his discretion, enter into contracts for any portion of the work, including material therefor, within the respective limits of cost herein stipulated, subject to appropriations to be made therefor by Congress, or may direct the construction of said works or any portion thereof under the supervision of a civil engineer of the Navy. Naval Station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: Extension of boatstorageCavite, P. I. shed, six thousand dollars; improvements to central wharf, five thousand dollars; receiving and shipping shed, five thousand five hundred dollars; improvements to buildings one, two, three, four H, six thousand dollars; improvements to building numbered twenty-nine, four thousand five hundred dollars; improvements to building numbered nine, three thousand five hundred dollars; lumber shed in building numbered eighty-four, one thousand seven hundred dollars; improvements to building numbered twenty-three, six thousand five 142 hundred dollars; improvements to number one ways, sixteen thousand dollars; improvements to building numbered eighty-three, three thousand dollars; railroad system, extension, two thousand dollars; in all, fifty-nine thousand seven hundred dollars.
Naval Station, Culebra , Porto Rico : Clearing and cleaning station,Culebra, P. R. one thousand five hundred dollars; cold-storage plant, four thousand dollars; improvements, water system, one thousand six hundred dollars; sewer system, two thousand dollars; fire-protection system, two thousand dollars; in all, eleven thousand one hundred dollars. Naval Station, Tutuila : Dispensary and sick quarters, fifteenTutuila. thousand dollars. Plans And Specifications For Public Works :
Navy Department:Plans, etc. Plans and estimates required by section thirty-six hundred and sixty-three,R. S., sec.3663, p. 720: Revised Statutes, and plans and specifications for public works, thirty thousand dollars. Repairs And Preservation at Navy-Yards : For repairs and preservationRepairs and preservation. at navy-yards and stations, six hundred thousand dollars. Floating Derricks : One one-hundred ton floating derrick (to costFloating derricks. two hundred and fifty thousand dollars), one hundred thousand dollars.
The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to transfer fromOne-hundred ton shears. the navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts, to and erect at the navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the one-hundred ton shears improvedVol. 32, pp. 672, 1185.Reappropriation. and repaired under the Acts approved July first, nineteen hundred and two, and March third, nineteen hundred and three, and the unexpended balances of the appropriations made by said Acts for the improvement of said shears are hereby reappropriated, and the further sum of two thousand four hundred dollars is hereby appropriated for this purpose.
Total public works, navy-yards and stations, four million six hundredPower plants.Report to Congress on cost of consolidation.Vol. 33, p. 337. and fifty-nine thousand four hundred dollars. The Secretary of the Navy shall report to Congress, at the commencement of the next regular session, the amount of money expended on consolidation of power plants since the authorization for such consolidation was given, in nineteen hundred and four, such statement to be in detail for each navy-yard and to indicate amount expended for building and machinery separately; also to include a statement of the value of building and power plants at each navy-yard at the date of the above noted authorization; also the total amounts appropriated for power houses and power-plant extensions which had not been utilized on April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four, the date of the authorization of the consolidations.
Public Works Under The Secretary of The Navy. Buildings and Grounds, NAval ACademy : For enlarging the waterNaval Academy.Waterworks. plant of the Naval Academy, enlarging the reservoir, installing additional pumps, filters, piping, and strainers; and for all other materials and labor for this purpose, forty thousand dollars. For the erection of three fireproof buildings, to be used as magazinesMagazines, etc. and filling house, and including necessary grading, walks, and landing stage, seven thousand dollars.
Buildings For Lepers, Island of Guam : Naval station, island ofGuam.Care of lepers, etc. Guam: Maintenance and care of lepers and other special patients, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, fifteen thousand dollars. Total public works under Secretary’s office, sixty-two thousand dollars. Public Works Under Bureau of Navigation.Bureau of Navigation. Naval Training Station, CAlifornia, Buildings : Extension ofTraining stations.California. wharf to which Pensacola is moored, twelve thousand dollars; pipe line and tank for dispensary, four thousand dollars; repairs to long wharf, nine thousand dollars; increase of electric plant, two thousand 143 live hundred dollars; roads, grounds, and planting of trees, two thousand dollars; in all, twenty-nine thousand five hundred dollars.
Naval Training Station, Rhode Island , buildings : ImprovingRhode Island. and grading grounds and roads, two thousand dollars; dredging channel and basin, three thousand dollars; steam-distributing lines, eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; increase of heating and lighting plant, fifteen thousand dollars; electric distributing and lighting system, to increase, eight thousand three hundred and forty dollars; receiving and disinfecting building, thirty thousand dollars; additional detention building, twenty thousand dollars; repairs to barracks “B,” nine thousand eight hundred dollars; walks at detention barracks, two thousand dollars; water-closet buildings for workmen, one thousand five hundred dollars; new wharf to Reina Mercedes, fifteen thousand dollars; for bakery, including scales, refrigerating plant, and necessary equipment to make the same suitable for use in connection with the training of bakers and cooks, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, naval training station, Rhode Island, one hundred and thirty-nine thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars.
Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Buildings : To completeGreat Lakes.New buildings.Vol 34, p. 567. buildings in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. To complete electrical mains and conduits, heating mains and concreteEquipment, etc. conduits, heating station equipment, power plant equipment, water supply and sewage disposal, one hundred and ninety-three thousand one hundred dollars.
Furniture, commandant’s quarters, three thousand five hundred dollars. Furniture, six officers’ quarters, nine thousandArchitect’s fee. dollars. For architect’s fee of three and one-half per centum of estimated cost of buildings authorized by Act of Congress, approved June twenty ninth, nineteen hundred and six, seventy thousand dollars. For cost of inspection of public works, twenty-five thousand dollars. For pile revetment and grading at site of sewage-disposal plant, thirty-five thousand dollars.
Construction of trestle to power house, ten thousand dollars. In all, one million and ninety-five thousand six hundred dollars; In all, public works, Bureau of Navigation, one million two hundred and sixty-four thousand nine hundred and ninety dollars. Public Works, Bureau of Ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance. Naval Proving Ground, Indian Head, Maryland : Providing andIndian Head proving ground, Md. laying conduits for chronograph, bell, telephone and power lines, three thousand seven hundred and forty dollars; raising roof of powder factory storehouse, and so forth, three thousand four hundred and forty dollars; concrete retaining wall, two thousand five hundred dollars; extending machine shop, two thousand and eighty dollars; tide bridge for loading barges, three thousand dollars; in all, naval proving ground, Indian Head, fourteen thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.
Naval magazine, Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania: Three filling houses,Fort Mifflin, Pa.Naval magazine. five thousand one hundred dollars; installation of watchman’s clock system, two thousand dollars; to complete one building for marine guard, seven thousand five hundred dollars; in all, fourteen thousand six hundred dollars. Naval magazine, Mare Island, California: One compressed air locomotive,Mare Island, Cal.Naval magazine. three thousand five hundred dollars; one hoisting crane on wharf, two thousand dollars; new floors in buildings numbered A one, two, three, and four, six thousand dollars; in all, eleven thousand five hundred 144 dollars.
Naval magazine, New York Harbor; For naval magazine, New YorkIona Island, New York Harbor. Harbor (Iona Island): Marine barracks, ten thousand dollars; in all, ten thousand dollars. For naval magazine, navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: One fuzePuget Sound, Wash.Naval magazine house, two thousand two hundred dollars; one observation magazine, three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; one magazine, seven thousand dollars; one watchman’s house, four thousand five hundred dollars; one stable, one thousand five hundred dollars; railroad system, fifteen thousand four hundred dollars.
In all, thirty-four thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. Torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: Steel track, six hundredNewport, R. I.Torpedo station. and fifty dollars; new water main across harbor, three thousand five hundred dollars; additional machinery for torpedo factory, fifty thousand dollars; in all, fifty-four thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. Navy-Yard, Pensacola, Florida : For navy-yard, Pensacola,Pensacola, Fla. Florida: Construction of water tank tower, five thousand dollars.
Naval Magazine, Olongapo, Philippine Islands : For naval station,Olongapo, P. I.Naval magazine. Olongapo, Philippine Islands: One chemical laboratory for testing smokeless powder, two thousand dollars; one set of quarters for inspector of ordnance and powder, six thousand dollars. Total public works under Bureau of Ordnance, one hundred and fifty-two thousand three hundred and sixty dollars. Public Works Under Bureau of Equipment.Bureau of Equipment. Naval Observatory : Grounds and roads:
Continuing grading,Naval Observatory.Grounds and roads. extending roads and paths, clearing and improving grounds, ten thousand dollars. Public Works Under Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.Hospitals.Annapolis, Md. Naval hospital, Annapolis, Maryland: For the erection of new wards, eighty-five thousand dollars. Naval hospital, Norfolk, Virginia: For the renovation of the presentNorfolk, Va. hospital buildings and for the erection of new wards, to cost not to exceed two hundred thousand dollars, as authorized by the Act of Congress approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, one hundred thousand dollars.
Naval hospital, Great Lakes: For the erection of naval hospital buildings, to cost not to exceed two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, one hundred thousand dollars. Naval hospital, Puget Sound, Washington: For the completion of naval hospitalGreat Lakes. buildings, seventy-five thousand dollars, (total cost notPuget Sound, Wash to exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars,) as authorized byVol. 34, p, 1191. the naval Act of March second, nineteen hundred and seven. Total public works under Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
Public Works, Marine Corps.Marine Corps. For the completion of marine barracks, navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts,Boston, Mass.Marine barracks, etc. twenty thousand dollars. For the completion of the storehouse, marine barracks, navy-yard,New York, N. Y. New York, New York, thirty thousand dollars. Barracks and quarters, Marine Corps: To complete three officersPhiladelphia, Pa. quarters, marine barracks, navy-yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, fifteen thousand dollars. To complete the quartermaster’s depot, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,Purchase of ground the purchase of ground adjoining such building, and addition to depot, seventy thousand dollars.
For the completion of officers’ quarters, marine barracks, navy-yard,Norfolk, Va. Norfolk, Virginia, five thousand dollars.145 Naval station, Charleston, South Carolina: For the completion ofCharleston, S. C. officers’ quarters, twenty-five thousand dollars; and for marine barracks, fifty thousand dollars; in all, seventy-five thousand dollars. To complete officers’ quarters, marine barracks, navy-yard, Pensacola,Pensacola, Fla. Florida, five thousand dollars. For installing electric lights and heating system, marine barracks,Sitka, Alaska.
Sitka, Alaska, five thousand dollars. For the completion of officers’ quarters, naval station, Olongapo,Olongapo, P. I. Philippine Islands, ten thousand dollars; and for the construction and completion of amusement room and gymnasium for enlisted men, ten thousand dollars. For the necessary repairs and improvements to such buildings atNew London, Conn.Repairs, etc. the naval station, New London, Connecticut, as have been assigned to the Marine Corps by the Navy Department, ten thousand dollars, which sum shall be in addition to the twenty-five thousand dollars appropriated for this object in the naval appropriation Act, approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six.
In all, public works, Marine Corps, two hundred andVol. 34, p. 569. fifty-five thousand dollars. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Medical Department: For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels inSurgeon’s necessaries, etc. commission, navy-yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy-yards, naval laboratory, museum of hygiene, and department of instruction, and Naval Academy, two hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For tolls, ferriages,Contingent. care, transportation, and burial of the dead; advertising, purchase of books and stationery, binding of medical records, unbound books, and pamphlets; hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration; sanitary and hygienic instruction; purchase and repairs of wagons, automobile-ambulances, and harness; purchase of and feed for horses and cows; trees, plants, garden tools and seeds; furniture and incidental articles for the museum of hygiene and department of instruction, naval dispensary, Washington, naval laboratory, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, surgeons’ offices and dispensaries at navy-yards and naval stations, surgeons’ quarters at naval hospitals; washing for medical department at museum of hygiene and department of instruction, naval dispensary, Washington naval laboratory, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, dispensaries at navy-yards and naval stations, and ships; and for minor repairs on buildings and grounds of the United States Naval Museum of Hygiene and Department of Instruction; for the care, maintenance, and treatment of the insane of the Navy and Marine Corps on the Pacific coast, and all other necessary contingent expenses; in all, sixty thousand dollars.
Transportation of Remains: To enable the Secretary of the Navy,Transferring home remains of officers, etc. 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 limits of the United States, ten thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the*Proviso.*Application of fund. sum herein appropriated shall be available for payment for transportation of the remains of officers and men who have died while on duty at any time since April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.
Repairs, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For necessary repairsRepairs, etc. of naval laboratory, naval hospitals, and appendages, including roads, wharves, outhouses, sidewalks, fences, gardens, farms, and cemeteries, forty-five thousand dollars.146 In all, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, three hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. The nurse corps (female) of the United States Navy is hereby established,Nurse corps, female.Organization. and shall consist of one superintendent, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Navy, who shall be a graduate of a hospital training school having a course of instruction of not less than two years, whose term of office may be terminated at his discretion, and of as many chief nurses, nurses, and reserve nurses as may be needed: *Provided*, That*Provisos*.Appointment, examination, etc. all nurses in the nurse corps shall be appointed or removed by the Surgeon-General, with the approval of the Secretary of the Navy, and that they shall be graduates of hospital training schools having a course of instruction not less than two years.
The appointment of superintendent,Superintendent, etc. chief nurses, nurses, and reserve nurses shall be subject to an examination as to their professional, moral, mental, and physical fitness, and that they shall be eligible for duty at naval hospitals and on board of hospital and ambulance ships and for such special duty as may be deemed necessary by the Surgeon-General of the Navy. ReserveAssignment of reserve nurses to active duty. nurses may be assigned to active duty when the necessities of the service demand, and when on such duty shall receive the pay and allowances of nurses: *Provided*, That they shall receive no compensationCompensation, etc. except when on active duty.
The superintendent, chief nurses, and nurses shall respectively receive the same pay, allowances, emoluments,Vol. 31, p. 753. and privileges as are now or may hereafter be provided by or in pursuance of law for the nurse corps (female) of the Army. The pay of enlisted men of the Hospital Corps shall be the same as that provided for the corresponding ratings of the seaman branch and otherHospital Corps.Pay of enlisted men rated. staff corps of the Navy. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.
Provisions, Navy: For provisions and commuted rations for the seamenProvisions, etc. and marines, which commuted rations may be paid to caterers of messes, in case of death or desertion, upon orders of the commanding officers, commuted rations for officers on sea duty (other than commissioned officers of the line, Medical and Pay Corps, and chief boatswains, chief gunners, chief sailmakers, chief carpenters), and midshipmen, and commuted rations stopped on account of sick in hospital and credited to the naval hospital fund; subsistence of officers and men unavoidably detained or absent from vessels to which attached under orders (during which subsistence rations to be stopped on board ship and no credit for commutation therefor to be given); labor in general storehouses and paymasters’ offices in navy-yards, including naval stations maintained in island possessions under the control of the United States, and expenses in handling stores purchased under the naval supply fund; one chemist, at two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, and two chemists, at two thousand dollars each per annum, and for the*Proviso.*Sales to civilian employees. purchase of United States Army emergency rations, as required: *Provided*, That such stores as the Secretary of the Navy may designate may be procured and sold to officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps, also 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.
In all, six million nine hundred and thirty-one thousand one hundred and fifty-three dollars and seventy-five cents. Contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: For fuel, booksContingent. and blanks, stationery, advertising, furniture and interior fittings for general storehouses and pay offices in navy-yards; coffee mills and repairs thereto; expenses of naval clothing factory and machinery for same, tolls, ferriages, yeoman’s stores, safes, newspapers, and other incidental expenses, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars.147 Freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts:
All freight and expressFreight, Department and bureaus. charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus, except the transportation of coal for the Bureau of Equipment, live 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: OneBoston, Mass. bookkeeper, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars; one receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; one bookkeeper, at one thousand two hundred dollars. In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, five thousand two hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents. Naval station, Newport, Rhode Island:
In general storehouse (trainingNewport, R. I. 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. Navy-yard, New York, New York: In office of board of inspection:New York, N. Y. One writer, nine hundred dollars. In general storehouses: Three bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one assistant bookkeeper, at one thousand dollars; one assistant bookkeeper, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; two receiving clerks, at four dollars each per diem; one assistant receiving clerk, at one thousand and ninety-nine dollars; three shipping clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant bill clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; two leading men, at two dollars and fifty cents each per diem; five pressmen, at two dollars and seventy-six cents each per diem; one box maker, at three dollars per diem; one engine tender, at three dollars and twenty-six cents per diem; one coffee roaster, at two dollars and fifty cents per diem; one fireman, at two dollars per diem; one messenger, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem; one writer, one thousand dollars; one storeman, nine hundred dollars; one principal clerk, provisions and clothing section, one thousand four hundred dollars; one principal clerk, supply-fund section, one thousand four hundred dollars; one cloth inspector, at four dollars per diem, one thousand two hundred and fifty-two dollars.
In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one messenger, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem; in all, thirty-two thousand two hundred and nineteen dollars and nine cents. Navy-yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: In general storehouse: TwoPhiladelphia, Pa. bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one assistant bookkeeper, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars.
In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, seven thousand one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents. Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: In general storehouse:Washington, D. C. One bookkeeper, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars.
In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, six thousand four hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents.148 Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland: In general storehouse: OneNaval Academy. bookkeeper, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one receiving and shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents. Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: In general storehouses:
Two bookkeepers,Norfolk, Va. at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two assistant bookkeepers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant bill clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; two receiving clerks, at nine hundred and forty-two dollars each. In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, nine thousand and fifty-five dollars and seventy-five cents.
Naval station, Key West, Florida: One clerk, one thousand twoKey West, Fla. hundred dollars; in all, one thousand two hundred dollars. Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: In general storehouse: TwoMare Island, Cal. 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. Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: In general storehouses: OnePuget Sound, Wash. principal clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two bookkeepers at one thousand two hundred dollars each, two thousand four hundred dollars; one bill clerk, one thousand dollars; one receiving clerk, one thousand dollars; one shipping clerk, one thousand dollars; in all, six thousand eight hundred dollars.
Naval station, 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.
In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, one hundred and three thousand nine hundred and seventy-eight dollars and thirty-four cents. Bureau of Construction and Repair.Bureau of Construction and Repair. Construction and Rep Air of Vessels: For preservation and completionConstruction and repair of vessels. of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; steam steerers, pneumatic steerers, steam capstans, steam windlasses, and all other auxiliaries; labor in navy-yards and on foreign stations; purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops; carrying on work of experimental model tank; designing naval vessels; construction and repair of yard craft, lighters, and barges; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat; general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; incidental expenses for vessels and navy-yards, inspectors’ offices, such as advertising, photographing, books, professional magazines, plans, stationery, and instruments for drafting room, eight million dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be applied to the repair of*Provisos.*Wooden ships. any wooden ship, when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed ten per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of 149 a new ship of the same size and like material: *Provided further*, That no part ofOther ships. this sum shall be applied to the repair of any other ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed twenty per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material:Repairs of ships in foreign waters. *Provided further*, That nothing herein contained shall deprive the Secretary of the Navy of the authority to order repairs of ships damaged in foreign waters or on the high seas, so far as may be necessaryRepairs to specified vessels. to bring them home.
And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to make expenditures from appropriate funds under the various bureaus for repairs and changes on the vessels herein named in an amount not to exceed the sum specified for each vessel, respectively, as follows: The Brooklyn, four hundred and fifty-three thousand five hundred dollars; the San Francisco, six hundred thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; the Baltimore, six hundred and fifty-three thousand three hundred dollars; the Alabama, six hundred and sixty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; the Illinois, six hundred and sixty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; the Iowa, five hundred and fifty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; the Kearsarge, six hundred and seventy-three thousand five hundred dollars; the Kentucky, six hundred and seventy-three thousand five hundred dollars; the Maine, two hundred thousand dollars; the Adder, forty-six thousand five hundred dollars; the Bennington, one hundred and ninety-five thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; the Grampus, fifty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; the Moccasin, forty-six thousand five hundred dollars; the Pike, fifty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; the Paul Jones, seventy-seven thousand dollars; the Nicholson, fifty-five thousand dollars; the O’Brien, fifty-five thousand dollars; the Narkeeta, nineteen thousand dollars; the Holland, thirty-two thousand dollars and eighty-eight cents; in all, five million seven hundred and eighty-eight thousand three hundred dollars and eighty-eight cents, as per the report of the Secretary of the Navy, House Document Numbered Six hundred and fifty-six, Sixtieth Congress and letters of the Secretary of the Navy of April twentieth, nineteen hundred and eight, concerning general repairs to the Maine.
Improvement of Construction Plants: Construction plant, navy-yard,Construction plants.Portsmouth, N. H. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Repairs to, and improvements of, plant at navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, fifteen thousand dollars. Construction plant, navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Repairs to,Boston, Mass. and improvement of, plant at navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts, twenty thousand dollars. Construction plant, navy-yard, New York, New York: Repairs to,New York, N. Y. and improvement of, plant at navy-yard, New York, New York, twenty thousand dollars.
Construction plant, navy-yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: RepairsPhiladelphia, Pa. to, and improvement of, plant at navy-yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, fifteen thousand dollars. Construction plant, navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Repairs to, andNorfolk, Va. improvement of, plant at navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia, twelve thousand dollars. Construction plant, navy-yard, Charleston, South Carolina: RepairsCharleston, S. C. to, and improvement of, plant at naval station, Charleston, South Carolina, twenty thousand dollars.
Construction plant, navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: Repairs to, andPensacola, Fla. improvement of, plant at navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida, fifteen thousand dollars. Construction plant, naval station, New Orleans, Louisiana: RepairsNew Orleans, La. to, and improvement of, plant at naval station, New Orleans, Louisiana, ten thousand dollars.150 Construction plant, navy-yard, Mare Island, California: Repairs to,Mare Island, Cal. and improvement of, plant at navy-yard, Mare Island, California, fifteen thousand dollars.
Construction plant, navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: RepairsPuget Sound, Wash. to, and improvement of, plant at navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington, twenty thousand dollars. Civil, Establishment, Bureau of Construction and Repair:Civil establishment.Portsmouth, N. H. Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: One clerk to naval constructor, at one thousand four hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each: in all, three thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents.
Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: One clerk to naval constructor,Boston, Mass. at one thousand four hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; in all, three thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents. Navy-yard, New York, New York: One clerk to naval constructor,New York, N. Y. at one thousand four hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; three writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; in all, eleven thousand three hundred and fifty-one dollars and seventy-five cents.
Navy-yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: One clerk to naval constructor,Philadelphia, Pa. at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, two thousand four hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents. Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: One clerk to navalWashington, D. C. constructor, at one thousand four hundred dollars. Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: One clerk to naval constructor, atNorfolk, Va. one thousand four hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; in all, three thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents.
Navy-yard, Charleston, South Carolina: One clerk to naval constructor,Charleston, S. C. one thousand four hundred dollars. Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: One clerk to naval constructor, atPensacola, Fla. 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. Naval station, New Orleans, Louisiana: One clerk to naval constructor,New Orleans, La. one thousand two hundred dollars.
Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: One clerk to naval constructor,Mare Island, Cal. at one thousand four hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; in all, three thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents. Navy-yard, 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, 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. Bureau of Steam Engineering.Bureau of Steam Engineering. Steam Machinery: For completion, repairing, and preservation ofSteam machinery. machinery and boilers of naval vessels, including cost of new boilers; distilling, refrigerating, and auxiliary machinery; preservation of and small repairs to machinery and boilers in vessels in ordinary, receiving, 151 and training vessels; repair and care of machinery of yard tugs and launches, three million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That so much of the foregoing appropriation and of the current*Proviso.*Tugs “Patapsco” and “Patuxent.” appropriation for steam machinery, as may be necessary, may be used to complete the machinery of the seagoing tugs Patapseo and Patuxent, now building at the navy-yards at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. and Norfolk.
Virginia. 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 two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For incidental expenses for navy vessels, yards, such as advertising,Incidentals. photographing, books, stationery, office furnishings, and instruments, six thousand dollars. In all, steam machinery, six million and six thousand dollars.
Machinery plant, navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: To outfitMachinery plants.Portsmouth, N. H. new shops, authorized and completed or nearly completed, especially the new boiler and pattern-shops, with new power tools, and with the necessary fixtures and motors, and to replace obsolete and worn-out machine tools, thirty thousand dollars: in all. thirty thousand dollars. Machinery plant, navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For additionalBoston, Mass. machine tools for boiler shop extension and the coppersmith shop, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Machinery plant, navy-yard. New York, New York: For additionalNew York. N. Y. machine tools for copper, boiler, machine and pattern shops, and foundry, forty thousand dollars. Machinery plant. Philadelphia. Pennsylvania: For additional machinePhiladelphia, Pa. tools for machine and boiler shops, twenty-five thousand dollars. Machinery plant, navy-yard, Norfolk. Virginia: For additionalNorfolk, Va. machine tools to equip machine and boiler shop, and for the new blacksmith and coppersmith shops, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Machinery plant, navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: For purchase ofPensacola, Fla. modern tools for use in repair of naval vessels, to replace others worn out, ten thousand dollars. Machinery plant, naval station. New Orleans, Louisiana: To continueNew Orleans, La. purchase and installation of new machine tools to equip shops for repair of naval vessels, ten thousand dollars. Machinery plant, navy-yard. Mare Island, California: For additionalMare Island, Cal. new machine tools required in new and repair work of naval vessels, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Machinery plant, navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: For additionalPuget Sound, Wash. new machine tools required in repair work of naval vessels, twenty-five thousand dollars. Machinery plant, naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: ForCavite, P. I. additional machine tools, fifteen thousand dollars. Machinery plant, naval station. Olongapo, Philippine Islands: ForOlongapo, P. I. ‘machine tools required for equipment of shops for repair work, twenty-live 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.
Experimental and research work: For original investigation andResearch work, etc. extended experimentation of naval appliances; and tor the purchase of such machines and auxiliaries considered applicable for test and use in the naval service, twenty-five thousand dollars.152 Civil Establishment. Bureau of Steam Engineering: Navy-yard,Civil establishment.Portsmouth, N, H. 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.
Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: One clerk to department, oneBoston, Mass. thousand tour hundred dollars. Navy-yard, New York. New York: One clerk to department, at oneNew York, N. Y. thousand four hundred dollars: one writer, at one thousand dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all. three thousand dollars. Navy-yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: One clerk to department,Philadelphia, Pa. at one thousand two hundred dollars. Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia:
One clerk to departmentWashington, D. C. one thousand two hundred dollars. Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: One clerk to department, at oneNorfolk, Va. thousand three hundred dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all, one thousand nine hundred dollars. Navy-yard, Charleston, South Carolina: One clerk to department,Charleston, S. C. one thousand two hundred dollars. Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: One writer, onePensacola, Fla. thousand dollars. Navy-yard, Mare Island, California:
One clerk to department, atMare Island, Cal. one thousand tour hundred dollars; one writer, atone thousand dollars; One messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand dollars. Navy-yard, Puget. Sound, Washington: One clerk to department,Puget Sound, Wash. one thousand two hundred dollars; one writer, one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand two hundred dollars. In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Steam Engineering, seventeen thousand nine hundred dollars. Naval Academy.Naval Academy.
Pay of Professors and Others, Naval Academy: One professorPay of professors, etc.Increase. as head of the department of physics, three thousand six hundred dollars. One professor of mathematics, one of mechanical drawing, one of English, one of French, and one of Spanish, at three thousand dollars each. Three professors, namely, one of English, one of French, and one of Spanish, at two thousand six hundred and forty dollars each. Five instructors, at two thousand four hundred dollars each.
Four instructors, at two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars each. Ten instructors, at one thousand eight, hundred dollars each. One sword master, at one thousand live hundred dollars; one assistant. at one thousand two hundred dollars, and two assistants, at one thousand dollars each; one instructor in gymnastics, atone thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant librarian, at. one thousand eight hundred dollars; one cataloguer, at one thousand one hundred dollars; two shelf assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; one secretary of the Naval Academy, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks to the superintendent, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one clerk to the superintendent, at one thousand dollars; one clerk to the commandant of midshipmen, at one, thousand two hundred dollars; one writer to the commandant of midshipmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one clerk to the paymaster, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; one clerk to the paymaster, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one dentist, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one baker, at six hundred dollars; one mechanic in department of physics, at seven hundred and thirty dollars; one mechanic in the department of ordnance, at nine hundred and fifty-one dollars and fifty-two cents; one mechanic in the department of ordnance, at seven hundred and fifty-one 153 dollars and twenty cents; one cook, at three hundred and twenty-five dollars and fifty cents; one messenger to the superintendent, at six hundred dollars; one armorer, at six hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one chief gunner’s mate, at five hundred and twenty-nine dollars and fifty cents; three quarter gunners, at four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and sixty-eight cents each; one coxswain, at four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents; three seamen in the department of seamanship, at three hundred and ninety-seven dollars and fifty cents each: twenty attendants at recitation rooms, library, store, chapel, armory, gymnasium, and offices, at three hundred dollars each; one bandmaster, at one thousand two hundred dollars; twenty-one first-class musicians, at four hundred and twenty dollars each; seven second-class musicians, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; services of organist at chapel, three hundred dollars; one assistant instructor in gymnastics, one thousand dollars; one clerk to the superintendent, nine hundred dollars; one assistant baker, live handled and forty dollars; one mechanic in department of physics, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one cook, six hundred dollars; two instructors in physical training, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; one clerk to the commandant of midshipmen, one thousand dollars; one electrical machinist in department of physics, one thousand dollars; one chief cook, one thousand two hundred dollars; two cooks, at six hundred dollars each, one thousand two hundred dollars; one steward, one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant steward six hundred dollars; one head waiter, seven hundred and twenty dollars: two assistant head waiters, at four hundred and eighty dollars each, nine hundred and sixty dollars; two pantry men, at four hundred and twenty dollars each, eight hundred and forty dollars; one assistant baker, four hundred and twenty dollars; eight assistant cooks, at three hundred dollars each, two thousand four hundred dollars; necessary waiters, at sixteen dollars per month each, thirteen thousand four hundred and forty dollars; in all, one hundred and forty-five thousand nine hundred and eight dollars and twenty-six cents.
The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed toMidshipmen’s store fund.Account closed. close and balance as expended the sum of twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars now standing on the books of the Treasury under the appropriation “Pay of the Navy,” which was advanced by direction of the Secretary of the Navy in eighteen hundred and sixty-seven and eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and has heretofore been used as a midshipmen’s store fund at the Naval Academy: *Provided*, That hereafter*Provisos.*Returns by storekeeper.R.
S., sec. 1527 p. 251 the storekeeper at the Naval Academy, authorized by section fifteen hundred and twenty-seven of the Revised Statutes, shall render quarterly returns of property to the Chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe. A full report shall be made annually of receipt! arid expenditures by the Chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts to the Secretary of the Navy: *And provided further*, Thai an inspectionInspection. of the storekeeper’s accounts shall be made quarterly by the general inspector of the Pay Corps, with such recommendation as he may deem necessary, to the Chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.
Navy bands or members thereof, other than the United States NavalNavy bands not to compete with civilian.Naval Academy excepted. Academy band at Annapolis, Maryland, shall not receive remuneration for furnishing music outside the limits of military posts, when the furnishing of such music places them in competition with local civilian musicians. Pay of Watchmen, Mechanics, and Others, Naval Academy:Pay of watchmen, mechanics, etc. Captain of the watch, and weigher, at two dollars and fifty cents per diem; second captain of the watch, at two dollars and twenty-four cents per diem; twenty-two watchmen, at two dollars per diem each; foreman of steam heating works of the academy, at five dollars per diem: labor at power house for masons, carpenters, and other mechan 154 ics, laborers, and attendants; and for care of buildings and grounds, wharves, and boats; in all, one hundred and twenty-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, Naval Academy: Purchase of apparatus and materialsPhysical training, etc. for instruction of midshipmen in physical training and athletics, and for all expenses of’ lectures, including the pay of the lecturer, live thousand dollars. Repairs, Naval Academy:
Necessary repairs of public buildings,Repairs. wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, improvements, repairs, furniture, and fixtures, thirty thousand dollars. Heating and Lighting. Naval Academy: Fuel, oil, waste, andHeating, etc. other materials for the operation, repair, and maintenance of the plant; heating and lighting apparatus and tools; and for heating and lighting the academy and bandsmen’s quarters, sixty thousand dollars. Contingent. Naval Academy:
Purchase, binding, and repair ofContingent. books for the library and text-books for the use of instructors (to be purchased in open market on the written order of the superintendent), two thousand five hundred dollars; stationery, blank books, models, and maps, two thousand five hundred dollars; expenses of the BoardBoard of Visitors. 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, cartage, water, music, musical and astronomical instruments, uniforms for the bandsmen, feed and maintenance of teams, current expenses, and repairs of all kinds, and for incidental labor and expenses not applicable to any other appropriation, sixty thousand dollars; stores, stationery, periodicals, materials, apparatus, machinery, tools, and fittings; for use in the department of marine engineering and naval construction, for purposes of instruction, repairs of apparatus, tools, and machinery, care and cleaning of building and its equipment, and for all other necessary purposes, twelve 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 various academic departments, fifteen thousand dollars; for care of rifle range, one thousand two hundred and seventy-seven dollars and four cents; in all, one hundred thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven dollars arid four cents.
In all, Naval Academy, four hundred and eighty-seven thousand and twenty-eight dollars and thirty-six cents. Marine Corps.Marine Corps. Pay, MArine Corps: For pay and allowances prescribed by law ofPay.Officers. officers on the active list, seven hundred and twenty-one thousand seven hundred and thirteen dollars: *Provided*, That so much of the*Proviso.*For increased force immediately available. foregoing appropriation as is needed to pay the additional officers of the Marine Corps provided for in this Act shall be immediately available.
For pay of officers prescribed by law, on the retired list: For oneRetired list. major-general, seven brigadier-generals, two colonels, eight lieutenant-colonels. five majors, seven captains, nine first lieutenants, and four second lieutenants, and for officers who may be placed thereon during 155 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 enlisted men, active list:
Pav of noncommissioned officers,Enlisted men. musicians, and privates, as prescribed by law; and the number of enlisted men shall be exclusive of those undergoing imprisonment with sentence of dishonorable discharge from the service at expiration of such confinement, and for the expenses of clerks of the United States Marine Corps traveling under orders, and including additional compensation for enlisted men of the Marine Corps regularly detailed as gun pointers, cooks, messmen. signalmen, or holding good-conduct medals, pins, or bars, including interests on deposits by enlisted men, and the authorized travel allowance of discharged enlisted men and for prizes for excellence in gunnery exercise and target practice, both afloat and ashore, two million one hundred and two thousand six hundred and eight dollars: *Provided*, That so much of the foregoing appropriation*Proviso.*For increased force immediately available. as is needed to pay the additional enlisted men of the Marine Corps provided for in this Act shall be immediately available.
For pay and allowances prescribed by law of enlisted men on theRetired enlisted men. retired list: For three sergeant-majors, one drum-major, seventeen gunnery-sergeants, seventeen quartermaster-sergeants, fourteen first, sergeants, forty-nine sergeants, eleven corporals, seventeen first-class musicians, one drummer, one trumpeter, and forty-three privates, and for those, who may be retired during the fiscal year, eighty-four thousand four hundred and sixty-nine dollars. That from and after the passage of this Act, and in order to furtherOfficers and enlisted men increased.R.
S., sec. 1596, p. 272, amended. increase the efficiency of the United States Marine Corps, the following additional officers, noncommissioned officers, drummers, trumpeters, and privates to those now provided by law for said corps are hereby authorized and directed, namely: One major-general comCommandant.R. S., sec. 1601, p. 278, amended. mandant, in lieu of the. present brigadier-general commandant; one colonel; one lieutenant-colonel; two majors; eighteen captains; seven first, lieutenants; fourteen second lieutenants; one assistant adjutant and inspector, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel; one assistant quartermaster, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel; one assistant quartermaster, with the rank of major; and three assistant quartermasters, with the rank of captain; one assistant paymaster, with the rank of major; one assistant paymaster, with the rank of captain; two sergeant-majors; fifteen quarter master-sergeants, live of whom are to serve in the pay department; twenty first sergeants; fifty sergeants; one hundred and twenty-five corporals; ten drummers; ten trumpeters: and five hundred and eighteen privates: *Provided*, That hereafter the*Proviso.*Number of enlisted men. number of enlisted men in the United States Marine Corps shall be such as the Congress may from time to time authorize.
That the vacancies now existing in the line and staff departments ofFilling vacancies. the United States Marine Corps and those created by this Act shall be filled in the manner provided by law. To meet the increase in pay of the Marine Corps provided in theAdditional for increase in pay.*Ante*, p. 108.R. S., see. 1612, p. 278. Act making appropriation for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and in section sixteen hundred and twelve of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for officers on the active list, officers on the retired list, enlisted men on the active list, and enlisted men on the retired list, eight hundred and two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars and fifty-five cents is hereby appropriated: *Provided*, That so much of the*Proviso.*Amount for present year immediately available. foregoing appropriation as is needed to pay the increase for the remainder of the fiscal year ending dime thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, shall be immediately available.156 Undrawn clothing:
For payment to discharged soldiers for clothingUndrawn clothing. undrawn, one hundred and two thousand seven hundred and seven dollars and eighty cents. Mileage: For mileage to officers traveling under orders withoutMileage to officers. troops, fifty thousand dollars. For commutation of quarters of officers on duty without troopsCommutation of quarters. where there are no public quarters, thirty-three thousand five hundred dollars. Pay of Civil Force: du the office of the Brigadier-General Commandant:Civil force.Commandant’s office.
One chief clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, at nine hundred and seventy-one dollars and twenty-eight cents. In the office of the paymaster: One chief clerk, at one thousand sixPaymaster’s office. hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars. In the office of each assistant paymaster: One clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars. In the office of the adjutant and inspector:
One chief clerk, at oneAdjutant and inspector’s office. thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars. In the office of the assistant adjutant and inspector; One clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars. In the office of the quartermaster; One chief clerk, at one thousandQuarter master’s office. six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one draftsman, at one thousand six hundred dollars.
In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Washington, District of Columbia, or San Francisco. California: Two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; two clerks, for duty in the Philippine Islands, one in Pay and one in Quartermaster’s Department, at one thousand four hundred dollars each. In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: One clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars: one messenger, at eight hundred and forty dollars; in the Quartermaster’s Department, for duty where their services are required, two clerks at one thousand four hundred dollars each.
In all, for pay of civil force, thirty-four thousand live hundred andDisbursement. eleven dollars and twenty-eight cents; and the money herein specifially 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, four million forty-seven thousand two hundred and fifty-nine dollars arid sixty-three cents. Provisions, Marine Corps:
For noncommissioned officers, musicians,Provisions, etc. and privates serving ashore, for subsistence of enlisted men when traveling on duty, or cash in lieu thereof, for commutation of rations to enlisted men regularly detailed as clerks and messengers, for payment of board and lodging of recruiting parties, transportation of provisions, and the employment of necessary labor connected therewith, and for ice for preservation of rations, seven hundred and twenty-three thousand five hundred and forty-three dollars; and no law shall be construed to entitle marines on shore duty to any rations, or commutation thereof, other than such as now are or may hereafter be allowed to enlisted mon in the Army: *Provided, however.* That when it is*Proviso.*Navy rations or commutation. 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, Marine Corps: For noncommissioned officers, musicians,Clothing. and privates authorized by law, seven hundred and twenty-five thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars.157 Fuel, Marine Corps: For heating barracks and quarters, forFuel. ranges and stoves for cooking, fuel for enlisted men, for sales to officers, maintaining electric lights, one hundred and twelve thousand dollars. Military Stores. Marine Corps: Pay of chief armorer, at fourMilitary stores. dollars per day; one mechanic, at three dollars per day; two mechanics, at two dollars and fifty cents each per day: for purchase of military equipments, such as rifles, revolvers, cartridge boxes, bayonet scabbards, haversacks, blanket bags, knapsacks, canteens, musket slings, swords, drums, trumpets, flags, waist belts, waist plates, cartridge belts, sashes for officer of the day, spare parts for repairing muskets, purchase and repair of tents and field ovens, purchase and repair of instruments for band, purchase of music and musical accessories, purchase and marking of prizes for excellence in gunnery and rifle practice, good-conduct badges; and medals awarded to officers and enlisted men by the Government for conspicuous, gallant, and special service: for incidental expenses of the School of Application; for the construction, equipment, and maintenance of school, library, and amusement rooms and gymnasiums for enlisted men, and the purchase and repair of all articles of field sports for enlisted men; purchase and repair of signal equipment and stores; for the establishment and maintenance of targets and ranges, and renting ranges, and for entrance fees in competitions; and for procuring, preserving, and handling ammunition, and other necessary military supplies, two hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
Transportation and Recruiting. Marine Corps; For transportationTransportation and recruiting. of troops, including ferriage and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof, and the expense of the recruiting service, two hundred and sixty-one thousand dollars. For Repairs of Barracks. Marine Corps: Repairs and improve-Repairs of barracks. meats to barracks and quarters at Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Boston, Massachusetts; Narragansett Station, Rhode Island; New York, New York; Philadelphia, 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; Sitka. Alaska, and Isthmus of Panama; for the renting, leasing, improvement, and erection of buildings in Porto Rico, the Territory of Hawaii, the Philippine Islands, at Guam, the District of Columbia, and at such other places as the public exigencies require; and for per diem to enlisted men employed under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department on the repair of barracks, quarters, and the other public buildings, ninety-six thousand eight hundred and thirty-six dollars.
Forage, Marine Corps: For forage in kind for horses of theForage. Quartermaster’s Department, and the authorized number of officers’ horses, and for stabling of public horses, nineteen thousand two hundred dollars. Commutation of Quarters. Marine Corps: For commutation ofCommutation of quarters. quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there, are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them; for commutation of quarters for enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in the offices of the commandant, adjutant and inspector, paymaster and quartermaster, and the offices of the assistant adjutant and inspectors, the assistant paymasters, and the assistant quartermasters, at twenty-one dollars each per month, and for enlisted men employed as messengers in said offices, at ten dollars each per month, sixty-eight thousand dollars.158 Contingent, Marine Cobps:
For freight, tolls, cartage, advertising,Contingent. washing of bed sacks, mattress covers, pillowcases, towels, and sheets, funeral expenses of officers and marines, including the transportation of bodies and their arms and wearing apparel from the place of demise to the homes of the deceased in the United States, stationery and other paper, printing and binding, 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, fin 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, motor wagons, carts, and drays, 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 tire extinguishers, purchase of fire hand grenades; purchase and repair of carts, wheelbarrows, and lawn mowers; purchase and repair of cooking stoves, ranges, stoves and furnaces where there are no grates; purchase of ice, towels, soap, combs, and brushes for offices; postage stamps for foreign postage: purchase of books, newspapers, and periodicals; improving parade grounds: repair of pumps and wharves: laying drain, water, and gas pipes; water, introducing gas, and for gas, gas oil. and introduction and maintenance of electric lights; straw for bedding, mattresses, mattress coveys, 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, three hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
Total under quartermaster, Marine Corps, two million six hundred and forty-six thousand four hundred and ninety-nine dollars. Total Marine Corps, exclusive of public works, six million six hundred and ninety-three thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight dollars and. sixty-three cents. Inckease of the Navy.Increase of the Navy. That, for the purpose of further increasing the naval establismentTwo first-class battle ships. of the United States, the President is hereby authorized to have constructed, two first-class battle ships to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not exceeding six million dollars each, similar in all essential characteristics to the battle ship authorized by the Act makingVol. 34, p. 1203. appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight.
At least one of such battle shipsOne to be built at a navy-yard. shall be built and constructed under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy at one of the navy-yards; the other of said battle ships may also be constructed at one of the navy-yards in the discretion of the Secretary of theOther by contract.Ten torpedo-boat destroyers. Navy, or by contract as hereinafter provided. Ten torpedo-boat destroyers, to have the highest practicable speed, and to cost, exclusive of armament, not to exceed eight hundred thousand dollars each, to be built by contract, not more than three by any one contractor.
Two fleet colliers, of fourteen knots trial speed, when carrying notTwo fleet colliers. less than twelve thousand five hundred tons of cargo and bunker coal. One of said colliers to be built in such Government yard on the PacificOne to be built in yard on Pacific coast.Cost. coast as the Secretary of the Navy shall direct. Cost not to exceed one million eight hundred thousand dollars each, and toward the constructionAppropriation. of both, one million five hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated.159 The Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, is hereby authorizedThree colliers of American registry. to purchase three new steam colliers of American registry, having a cargo carrying capacity of approximately seven thousand two hundred Ums dead weight each, at a cost not exceeding five hundred and twenty - live thousand dollars each; and the sum of one million five hundredAppropriation for purchase. and seventy-live thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purchase of the colliers above authorized.
And the contract for the construction of said vessels shall be awardedAward of contracts. by the Secretary of the Navy to the lowest best responsible bidden having in view the best results and most expeditious delivery; and in the construction of all of said vessels the provisions of the Act ofConstruction.Vol. 21, p. 215. August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled “An Act to increase the. naval establishment,” as to materials for said vessels, their engines, boilers, and machinery, the contracts under which they are built, the notice of any proposals for the same; the plans, drawings, specifications therefor, and the method of executing said contracts shall be observed and followed, and, subject to the provisions of this Act, all said vessels shall be built in compliance with the terms of said Act, and in all their parts shall be of domestic manufacture; and the steel material shall be of domestic manufacture, and of the quality and characteristics best adapted to the various purposes for which it may be used, in accordance with specifications approved by the Secretary of the Navy.
For eight submarine torpedo boats, in an amount not exceeding inSubmarine torpedo boats.Appropriation for purchase. the aggregate three million live hundred thousand dollars, and the sum of three million dollars is hereby appropriated toward said purpose and for the completion of submarine boats heretofore authorized. Construction And Machinery: On account of hulls and outfits ofConstruction and machinery. vessels mid steam machinery of vessels heretofore authorized, nine million eight hundred and thirty-two thousand nine hundred and sixty two dollars.
Armor and Armament: Toward the armor and armament of domesticArmor and armament. manufacture for vessels authorized, seven million dollars. Toward the construction and machinery and armor and armamentAppropriation for new vessels.*Proviso.*Armor contracts. of the vessels herein authorized, seven million dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation 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 bidders, having in view the best results and most expeditious delivery.
Increase of the Navy, Equipment: Toward the completion of theEquipment. equipment outfit of the new vessels authorized, four hundred thousand dollars. Total increase of the Navy, thirty million three hundred and seven thousand nine hundred and sixty-two dollars. That no part of any sum appropriated by this Act shall be used forUse of appropriations restricted.*Post*, p. 505. any expense of the Navy Department at Washington unless specific authority is given by law for such expenditure.
So much of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for theMonitors.Restriction on naming, removed.Vol. 30, p. 390. naval service for the fiscal year ending. June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and for other purposes,” approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, as provides that monitors owned by the United States shall be named for the States, and shall not be named for any city, place, or person until the names of the States shall have been exhausted, is hereby repealed, and monitors now owned by the United States or hereafter built may be named as the President may direct.160 Approved, May 13, 1908.
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