Chapter 202. Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 202.— An Act Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, and for other purposes. May 27, 1908.[[[H. R. 19355.]](/us/bill/70/hr/19355)[[[Public. No. 148.]](/us/pl/70/148) *Be it enacted by the Senate and, House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the sums of moneyFortillcationsappro-priations. herein provided for be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be available until expended, namely :
FORTIFICATIONS AND OTHER WORKS OF DEFENSE. under the engineer department. For construction of gun and mortar batteries, three hundred thousandGun and mortar batteries. dollars. 393For modernizing Older emplacements, the Secretary of War is authorizedModernizing older emplacements. to apply the sum of twenty-two thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars and eighteen cents, remaining unexpended from theUnexpended balances. appropriation for pneumatic dynamite battery at San Francisco Harbor, California, contained in the deficiency appropriation Act approvedVol. 30, p. 704.
July seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and the sum of one hundred and forty-two thousand four hundred and four dollars and eighteen cents remaining unexpended from the appropriation for pneumatic dynamite batteries, contained in the fortification appropriatonVol. 31, p. 184. Act approved May twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred. For construction of fire-control stations and accessories, includingFire-control stations, etc. purchase of lands and rights of way, and for the purchase and installation of necessary Iinesandmeansof electrical communication, including telephones, dial and other telegraphs, wiring and all special instruments, apparatus, and materials, Coastsignal apparatus, and salaries of electrical experts, engineers, and other necessary employees connected with the use of coast artillery: for the purchase, manufacture,Range finders, etc. and test of range finders and other instruments for tire control at the fortifications, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, two hundred and seventy thousand two hundred and fifty-six dollars.
For supplying current for power and lighting at seacoast fortifications,Electriccurrent supply. three hundred and forty-eight thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight dollars. For the procurement or reclamation of land, or right pertainingSites for coast defenses, etc. thereto, needed for the site, location, construction, or prosecution of works for fortifications and coast defenses, one hundred and twenty-one thousand and forty-eight dollars: *Provided*, That not more than*Provisos.*Fort Armistead, Md.Maximum. twenty-one thousand and forty-eight dollars of said amount shall be paid to any person for property at, near, or adjoining Fort Armistead, Anne Arundel County, Maryland: *And provided further*, That noReceipts. part thereof shall be so paid until such person receipts in full for all claims of every kind against the United States.
The Secretary of War is directed, by a suitable board, to investigateSan Pedro, Cal.Seacoast fortifications.Report on necessity of, etc. and report fully to Congress as to the advisability and necessity of seacoast fortifications for the protection of the harbor at San Pedro, California, and the cities in that vicinity, and if such fortifications are deemed advisable or necessary furnish an estimate of the cost of sites and fortifications separately. For purchase and installation of searchlights for the defenses of ourSearchlights. most important harbors, two hundred and ten thousand dollars.
For the protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications forPreservation, etc. which there may be no special appropriation available, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. To complete the construction of about four thousand eight hundredFort Moultrie, S. C.Protecting wall. linear feet of wall necessary for the protection of Fort Moultrie, Sullivans Island, South Carolina, from the effects of storms, one hundred and twenty-five thousand six hundred dollars. To complete the repair and restoration of batteries and other structuresPensacola, Fla.Protection to batteries. etc. appurtenant to the defenses of Pensacola and retaining walls to protect the batteries from floods, fifty-nine thousand three hundred and fifty-five dollars.
For the installation of machinery and for changes in buildings toAugusta, Ga.Machinery for arsenal. receive it at the Augusta Arsenal, Augusta, Georgia, six thousand dollars. To complete the repair and restoration of batteries and other structuresMobile, Ala.Repair of defenses. appurtenant to the defenses of Mobile, Alabama, and rebuilding sea walls and groins for protection of the sites of the fortifications and of the garrison posts, five hundred and eighty-nine thousand five hundred dollars. 394 For preparation of plans for fortifications, five thousand dollars.Plans.Electric plants.
For tools, electrical and engine supplies and appliances, to be furnished by the Engineer Department, for the use of the troops for maintaining and operating electric light and power plants in gun and mortar batteries, forty-four thousand five hundred dollars. For construction of sea walls and embankments, fifty thousandSea walls. dollars. For preservation and repair of structures erected for the torpedoTorpedo structures. defense of the United States, fifteen thousand dollars.
For the construction of mining casemates, cable galleries, torpedoSubmarine mines. storehouses, cable tanks, and other structures necessary for the operation, preservation, and care of submarine mines and their accessories, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, to be expended by the Engineer Department. under the chief signal officer.Signal office. For operation and maintenance of fire-control installations at seacoastFire-control installations.Maintenance, etc. defenses, one hundred and forty-five thousand five hundred and seventy-eight dollars. armament of fortifications.Armament.
For the purchase, manufacture, and test of machine and automaticMachine guns, etc. guns, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, forty thousand dollars. For the purchase, manufacture, and test of mountain, field, andMountain, field,and siege cannon. siege cannon, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, three hundred thousand dollars.
For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for machineAmmunition. and automatic guns, and for mountain, field, and siege cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For the purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon for coastSeacoast cannon. defense, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, two hundred and seventy-three thousand dollars.
The unexpended balances of the one hundred and sixty-five thousandBalances available.Vol. 32, pp. 307, 1025. dollars appropriated by the Act of June sixth, nineteen hundred and two, and the sixty-one thousand dollars appropriated by the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and three, for oil-tempered and annealed steel for seacoast defense guns of eight-inch, ten-inch, and twelve-inch caliber, also the unexpended balance of the eighty thousand dollars appropriated by the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and three, for finishing and assembling eight-inch, ten-inch, and twelve-inch guns at the Army Gun Factory, including new tiring attachments for guns now in service, and any new tools or machinery necessary for their manufacture, being sixty-five thousand six hundred and fifty-six dol Iars and ninety-five cents and thirty-one thousand two hundred and thirty dollars and four cents, respectively, are hereby made available for the purposes named in the foregoing paragraph.
For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoastAmmunition. cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition, subcaliberArtillery practice. tubes, and other accessories for seacoast artillery practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 395 For the alteration and maintenance of the mobile artillery, includingAltering mobile artillery. the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work and the expenses of the mechanics engaged thereon, fifty thousand dollars.
For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition, subcaliberAmmunition for practice. tubes, and other accessories for mountain, field, and siege artillery practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture atIssue to institutions. the arsenals, and ammunition of older model than current may be. issued for the instruction and target practice of students at the institutions to which the issue of artillery Isauthorized, ninety thousand dollars. For the alteration and maintenance of the seacoast artillery, includingMachinery, tools, etc. the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, materials necessary for the work, and expenses of the civilian mechanics and extra-duty pay of enlisted men engaged thereon, four hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
For the alteration of three and two-tenths inch material to rapid-fireAltering rapid-fire material, etc. field material, including sights, implements, equipments, and the materials and machinery necessary for alteration and manufacture at the arsenals, sixty thousand dollars. PROVING GROUND, SANDY HOOK, NEW JERSEY.Sandy Hook proving ground. For current expenses and maintenance of the ordnance provingExpenses, etc. ground, Sandy Hook. New Jersey, including expenses incident to the transportation of men and material therefor,general repairsand alterations and accessories incidental to testing and proving ordnance, including hireof assistants for the Ordnance Board, skilled mechanical labor, purchase of instruments and other supplies, building and repairing butts and targets, clearing and grading ranges, fifty thousand two hundred dollars.
For repairs of railroad tracks connecting the proving ground withRepair of railroad tracks. the Central Railroad of New Jersey, six thousand dollars. For the necessary expenses of officers while temporarily employedTemporary employment.Per diem. on ordnance duties at the proving ground and absent from their proper station, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per diem e so employed, and the compensation of draftsmen while employed in the Army Ordnance Bureau on ordnance construction, eighteen thousand seven hundred dollars.
SUBMARINE MINES.Submarine mines. For the purchase of submarine mines and necessary appliances toPurchases, etc. operate them for closing the channels leading to our principal seaports, and continuing torpedo experiments; for the purchase of the necessaryFort Totten, N. Y.Torpedo depot. machinery, tools, and implements for the repair shop of the torpedo depot at Fort Totten. New York, and for extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days on work in connection with the issue, receipt, and care of submarine mining material at the torpedo depot, three hundred and ten thousand dollars.
For the procurement of one torpedo planter, for use on the PacificPacific coast.Torpedo planter. coast, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. FORTIFICATIONS IN INSULAR POSSESSIONS.Insular possessions. engineer department.Engineer Department. For construction of seacoast batteries, as follows:Seacoast batteries.Hawaiian Islands.Philippine Islands. In the Hawaiian Islands, four hundred thousand dollars; In the Philippine Islands, nine hundred and fifty-four thousand dollars;
In all, one million three hundred and fifty-four thousand dollars. 396 For installation of electric plants at the defenses of the following localitiesElectric plants. ; In the Hawaiian Islands, twenty thousand dollarsHawaiian Islands.Philippine Islands. ; In the Philippine Islands, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars; In all. one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. For construction of fire-control stations and accessories, includingFire-control stations, etc. purchase of lands and rights of way, and for the purchase and installation of necessary lines and means of electrical Coniinunieations. including telephones, dial and other telegraphs, wiring and all special instruments, apparatus and materials, coast signal apparatus, and salaries of electrical experts, engineers, and other necessary employees connected with the use of coast artillery; for the purchase, manufacture, and test of range finders and other instruments for tire controlRange finders, etc. at the fortifications, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, two hundred and forty-three thousand dollars.
For purchase and installation of searchlights for the defenses ofSearchlights. most important harbors, as follows: In the Hawaiian Islands, forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars;Hawaiian Islands.Philippine Islands. In the Philippine Islands, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars; In all. two hundred and twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. For the construction of mining casemates, cable galleries, torpedoSubmarine mines, Hawaiian Islands. storehouses, cable tanks, and other structures necessary for tne operation, preservation, and care of submarine minesand their accessories at the defenses of the Hawaiian Islands, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand dollars, to be expended by the Engineer Department.
For the procurement of one torpedo planter and two launches forHawaiian Islands.Torpedo planter, etc. the Hawaiian Islands, one hundred and eighty-one thousand dollars. For the procurement of one torpedo planter and six launches for thePhilippine Islands.Torpedo planter,etc. Philippine Islands, one hundred and ninety-three thousand dollars. For procurement or reclamation of land, or right pertaining thereto,Site. needed for the site, location, construction, or prosecution of works foi-fortifications and coast defenses in the Philippine Islands, five thousand dollars. ordnance department.Ordnance Department.
For the purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon for coastSeaeoast cannon. defense, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, seven hundred and four thousand dollars. For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoastAmmunition. cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For the alteration and maintenance of the seacoast artillery and theAltering artillery, etc. mechanical supervision of its installation, including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, materials necessary for the work, and expenses of the civilian mechanics and extra-duty pay of enlisted men engaged thereon, twenty thousand dollars. For the purchase of submarine mines and necessary appliances toHawaiian Islands.Submarine mines. operate them for closing the channels leading to the principal seaports of the Hawaiian Islands, twenty-three thousand dollars.
For the purchase of submarine mines and necessary appliances toPhilippine Islands.Submarine mines. operate them for closing the channels leading to the principal seaports of the Philippine Islands, three hundred and twenty-eight thousand six hundred and twenty dollars. BOARD OF ORDNANCE AND FORTIFICATION.Board of Ordnance and Fortifications. To enable the Board to make all needful and proper purchases,Purchases, etc. experiments, and tests to ascertain, with a view to their utilization by the Government, the most effective guns, small arms, cartridges, projectiles, 397 fuses, explosives, torpedoes, armor plates, and other implements and engines of war, ana to purchase or cause to be manufactured, under authority of the Secretary of War, such guns, carriages, armor plates, and other war material as may, in the judgment of the Board, be necessary in the proper discharge of the duty devolved upon it by the Act approved September twenty-second,Vol. 25, p.489. eighteen hundred and eighty-eight; to pay the salary of the civilianCivilian member.Salary. member of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification provided by the Act of February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one,Vol. 26, p.769. and for the necessary traveling Cxpensesof said member when traveling on duty as contemplated in said Act; for the payment of the necessaryPer diem, tests, etc. expenses of the Board, including a per diem allowance to each officer detailed to serve thereon, when employed on duty away from his permanent station, of two dollars and fifty cents a day; and for the test of experimental guns, carriages, and other devices procured in accordance with the recommendation of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification, fifty thousand dollars, the expenditure of which shall be made by the several bureausof the WarDepartment heretofore having jurisdiction of the same, or by the Board itself, as the Secretary of War may direct: *Provided*, Thiit before any money shall be expended in the construction*Proviso.*Right to use invention. or test of any gun, gun carriage, ammunition, or implements under the supervision of the said Board, the Board shall be satisfied, after due inquiry, that the Government of the United States has a lawful right to use the inventions involved in the construction of such gun, gun carriage, ammunition, or implements, or that the construction or test is made at the request of a person either having such lawful right or authorized to convey the same to the Government.
Thatall material purchased under the provisions of this Act shall beMaterial to be of American manufacture. of American manufacture, except in cases when, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, it is to the manifest interest of the United States to make purchases in limited quantities abroad. Such material purchased in limited quantities shall be admitted free of duty, asshall other similar material furnished without charge. Approved, May 27, 1908.