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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 35 STAT. · March 3, 1909 · Chapter 255

Chapter 255. Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 255.— An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes. March 3, 1909.[[[H. R. 26394](/us/bill/70/hr/26394).][[[Public, No. 308](/us/pl/70/308).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives 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 ten, and for other purposes. pay of the navy.Pay of Navy.
Pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on sea duty and other duty; officers on waiting orders; officers on the retired list; clerks to paymasters at yards and stations, general storekeepers and receiving ships, and other vessels; two clerks to general inspectors of pay corps; one clerk to pay officer in charge of deserters’ rolls; commutation of quarters for officers on shore not occupying public quarters, including boatswains, gunners, carpenters, sailmakers, warrant machinists, pharmacists, and mates, and also naval constructors and assistant naval constructors; for hire of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them, or commutation of quarters not to exceed the amount which an officer would receive were he not serving with troops; 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; and the number of enlisted men shall be exclusive of those undergoing imprisonment with sentence of dishonorable discharge from the service at expiration of such confinement; and as many warrant machinists as the President may fromWarrant machinists.*Post*, p. 771. 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; pay of the Nurse Corps; rent of quarters for members of the Nurse Corps; prizes to be awarded to the engineerPrizes to engineer division. divisions of the ships in commission for general efficiency and for economy in coal consumption under such rules as the Secretary of the Navy may formulate, thirty-two million eight hundred and three thousand four hundred and eighty-six dollars and seventy-two cents.
The provisions of the Act approved June twenty-ninth, nineteenIncreased grade for eivil-war service.Effect of.Vol. 34. p. 554. hundred anti six, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, and for other purposes,” providing for the retirement in the next higher grade of officers of the navy who served during the civil war. shall not operate to deprive any officer of the navy who has been, or may be, retired, since the passage of that Act, of the right to increased rank and pay to which, but for the passage of said Act, he would have been entitled. 754 The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized andPayment to officers on temporary leaves. directed to allow, in the settlement of accounts of disbursing officers involved, payments made to officers of the navy while on temporary leaves of absence since March third, eighteen hundred and ninety- nine, not involving detachment from duty, and not in excess of leaves of absence allowed by law to officers of the army without reduction in pay. pay, miscellaneous.Pay, miscellaneous.
The Secretary of the Navy shall send to Congress at the beginningSchedule 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 pav 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, ami 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 actual traveling expenses of female nurses; for rent 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, inchiding clerks, furniture, fuel, stationery, and incidental expenses; newspapers; all advertising for the Navy Department and its bureaus (except advertising for recruits for the Bureau of Navigation); copying; care of library, including the purchase of books, photographs, prints, manuscripts, and periodicals; ferriage; tolls; 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; 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, and post-office box rentals; and other necessary and incidental expenses: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this*Provisos.*Allowance for clerical. etc., services. appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, inspection, and messenger service in navy-yards, naval stations, and purchasing pay offices for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, shall not exceed two hundred and forty-nine thousand and fifty-four dollars and twenty-five cents: *Provided further*, That hereafter the rates of pay of the clerical, drafting,Secretary of Navy to fix. etc., pay of clerical, drafting, etc., force. inspection, and messenger force at navy-yards and naval stations and other stations and offices under the Navy Department shall be 755 paid from lump appropriations and shall be fixed by the Secretary of the Navy on a per annum or per diem basis as he may elect; that the number may be increased or decreased at his option and shall be distributed at the various navy-yards and naval stations by the Secretary of the Navy to meet the needs of the naval service, and that such perLeaves for per diem employees. diem employees may hereafter, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, be granted leave of absence not to exceed fifteen days in any one year, which leave may, in exceptional and meritorious cases, where such an employee is ill, be extended, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, not to exceed fifteen days additional in any one year; that the total amount expended annually for pay for suchRestriction. clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger force shall not exceed the amounts specifically allowed by Congress under the several lump appropriations, and that the Secretary of the Navy shall each year, in the annual estimates, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each: *Provided*Schedule of rates of pay to be submitted to Congress. *further*, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Navy to submit to Congress at its next session, and for its consideration, a schedule of rates of compensation, annual or per diem, that should, in his judgment, be permanently fixed by law for clerical, inspection, and messenger service in navy-yards, naval stations, and purchasing pay offices, superintending construction offices, and inspection of engineering material; and in fixing such rates of compensation he shall haveService included. due regard for the rates usually paid for like services in the respective localities by employers other than the United States, and he shall not recommend any rate exceeding that being paid by the United States at any such yards, stations, or offices prior to January first, nineteen hundred and nine: *Provided further*, That persons employed in thePreference for reinstatements. clerical, drafting, and inspection force at navy-yards and stations discharged for lack of work or insufficiency of funds shall for one year thereafter be preferred for employment in such navy-yards and stations in the clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger forces; that section fifteen hundred and forty-five, Revised Statutes, and soR.
S., sec. 1545, p. 263, repealed.R. S., sec.1556, p. 267, amended much of section fifteen hundred and fifty-six of the Revised Statutes as relates to pay of clerks to commandants of navy-yards and naval stations, are hereby repealed: hi all, eight hundred and sixty-eight thousand five hundred and fifty 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, forty-six thousand and eighty-six dollars: *Provided*, That the accounting*Proviso.*Civilian employees. officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow, in the settlement of accounts of disbursing officers involved, payments made under the appropriation “Contingent, navy,” to civilian employees appointed by the Navy Department for duty in and serving at naval stations maintained in the island possessions during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, bureau of navigation.Bureau of Navigation.
Transportation: For travel allowance of enlisted men dischargedTransportation. on account of expiration of enlistment; transportation of enlisted men and apprentice, seamen at home and abroad, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation to their homes, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentice seamen discharged on medical survey, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof, transportation of sick or 756 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, eight hundred and eighteen thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy is hereafter*Provisos.*Discharged prisoners. authorized to transport to their homes or places of enlistment, as he may designate, all discharged naval prisoners; the expense of such transportation shall be paid out of any money that may be to the credit of prisoners when discharged; where there is no such money, the expense shall be paid out of money received from fines and forfeitures imposed by naval courts-martial: *Provided further*, That theCivilian clothing.
Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to furnish naval prisoners upon discharge suitable civilian clothing in case, and only where, said discharged prisoners would otherwise be unprovided with suitable clothing to meet their immediate needs. 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*Proviso.*Certificate of age required. part of this appropriation shall be expended in recruiting seamen, ordinary seamen, or apprentice seamen, unless in case of minors a certificate of birth or a verified written statement by the parents, or either of them, or in case of their death a verified written statement by the legal guardian, be first furnished to the recruiting officer, showing applicant to be of age, required by naval regulations, which shall be presented with the application for enlistment.
Contingent: Ferriage, continuous-service certificates, discharges,Contingent. good-conduct badges, and medals for men and boys; purchase of gynmastic 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, fifteen thousand 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 and apprenticeOutfits. seamen of the navy on first enlistment, at not to exceed sixty dollars each, one million two hundred and ninety-one thousand six hundred and twenty 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, six hundred and sixty-one thousand dollars. Naval Training Station, California: Maintenance of navalTraining stations.Yerba Buena Island, Cal. training station, Yerba Buena Island, California, namely:
Labor and material: buildings and wharves; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and wharves; wharfage, ferriage, and street-car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same; fire engines and extinguishers; boats and gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen: printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating and lighting; stationery, books, and periodicals; fresh water, 757 and washing; packing boxes and materials; and all other contingent expenses; maintenance of dispensary building; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen; in all, sixty-nine thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars and sixty-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 and lighting; 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, eighty-five thousand one hundred and eighty-three dollars and twenty-eight cents: *Provided*,*Proviso.*Clerical, etc., service.
That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, shall not exceed five thousand seven hundred and one dollars and sixty cents. 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 and lighting; stationery, books, and periodicals; washing; packing boxes and materials; and all other contingent expenses: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation*Proviso.*Clerical, etc., service. under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, shall not exceed forty-eight thousand one hundred and thirty-nine dollars and thirty-six cents; in all, naval training station, Great Lakes, one hundred and two thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine dollars and thirty-six cents.
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; services of a lecturer on international law, one thousand dollars; services of civilian lecturers, rendered at the War College, six hundred dollars; purchase of books of reference, eight hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the*Proviso.*Clerical.etc.,service. sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, shall not exceed six thousand three hundred and seventy- five dollars and seventy-six cents; in all.
Naval War College, Rhode Island, fourteen thousand seven hundred dollars. Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: One superintendentNaval Home. Philadelphia. of grounds, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one steward, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one store laborer, at four hundred and eighty dollars; one matron, at four hundred and twenty dollars; one beneficiaries’ attendant, at two hundred and forty dollars: one chief cook, at 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 758 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, seven hundred and twenty dollars; three laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each: three laborers, at three hundred dollars each; total for employees, fifteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Miscellaneous: Water rent and lighting, two thousand one hundred dollars; cemetery, burial expenses, and headstones, one thousand dollars; improvement of grounds, seven hundred and eighty dollars; repairs to buildings, boilers, furnaces, and furniture, six thousand seven hundred and forty-eight dollars: repaving roadways, seven thousand dollars; music in chapel, six hundred dollars: transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, and of sick and msane beneficiaries, their attendants, and necessary subsistence for both, to and from other government hospitals, three hundred dollars: support of beneficiaries, forty-four thousand three hundred and seventy-three dollars; total miscellaneous, sixty-two thousand nine hundred and one dollars.
In all, for Naval Home, seventy-eight thousand one hundred and fifty-one dollars, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the*Proviso.*Employing beneficiaries. naval pension fund: *Provided*, That for the performance of such additional services in and about the Naval Home as may be necessary, the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to employ, on the recommendation of the governor, beneficiaries in said home, whose compensation shall be fixed by the Secretary and paid from the appropriation for the support of the home.
For badges and ribbons, to be distributed by the Secretary of theBadges, etc. Navy to officers and men, now or formerly of the Volunteer and Regular Navy and Marine Corps, who have participated in engagements and campaigns deemed worthy of such commemoration, two thousand five hundred dollars. 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 furniture, at naval magazines, torpedo stations, and proving ground; for maintenance of the proving ground and maintenance and enlargement of powder factory, and for target practice, and for pay of chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy-yards, naval stations, and naval magazines:*Provisos.*Chemical, clerical, etc., services. *“Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, watchmen, and messenger service in navy-yards, naval stations, and naval magazines for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, shall not exceed three hundred and ninety-eight thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars and twenty-eight cents.
” In all, five million five hundred and twentyeight thousand one hundred and seventy-one dollars and ninety-nine cents, of which not less than two hundred and fifty thousand dollars shall be expended for the enlargement of the Government powder factory: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall bePurchase of shells restricted. 759 expended for the purchase of shells or projectiles except for shells or projectiles purchased in accordance with the terms and conditions of proposals submitted by the Secretary of the Navy to all of the manufacturers of shells and projectiles and upon bids received in accordance with the terms and requirements of such proposals: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for powder otherMaximum price. than small-arms powder at a price in excess of sixty-four cents a pound.
All shells and projectiles shall conform to the standard prescribed by the Secret ary of the Navy: *Provided*, That no part of anyPayments to trusts, etc., forbidden. appropriation made in this Act for the purchase of powder shall be paid to any trust or combination in restraint of trade nor to any corporation having a monopoly of the manufacture and supply of gunpowder in the United States, except in the event of extraordinary emergency. Purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for powder other than small-arms powder at a price in excess of sixty-four cents a pound.
Machine tools, navy-yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, nineteen thousand three hundred and ninety dollars. Machine tools, navy-vard, Boston, Massachusetts, nineteen thousand three hundred dollars. Electric traveling crane for gun shed, navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington, six thousand dollars. Air compressor with storage tank and pipe line, naval magazine, Mare Island, California, six thousand dollars. For Naval Gun Factory, Washington, District of Columbia:Smokeless powder.*Proviso.*Limit.
New and improved machinery for existing shops, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Remodeling one hundred and ten ton crane in north gun shop, thirty thousand dollars. New eighty-ton crane over shrinkage pit, north gun shop, twenty- five thousand dollars. New Batteries for Ships of the Navy: For completing the workMachine tools. of modifying four-inch forty-caliber mounts, and five-inch forty-caliber mounts, and providing new sights for same, seventy-five thousand dollars.
For replacing eight-inch Mark V guns with eight-inch Mark AT guns on United States ship “Maryland” and class, two hundred and fifty- two thousand dollars. For continuing the relining and conversion of twelve-inch Mark III guns to Mark IV guns, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For new sights for five-inch, six-inch, and seven-inch guns and modifying their mounts, two hundred and forty-five thousand dollars. For tire-control instruments for ships of the navy, one hundred andNaval Gun Factory, D.
C. fifty thousand dollars. Ammunition for ships. For procuring, producing, preserving, andNew batteries. handling ammunition for issue to ships, three million dollars: *Provided*,Fire-control instruments. 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 theAmmunition. 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: *Provided*, That no part of*Provisos.*Present supply utilized. this appropriation shall be expended for powder other than small-arms 760 powder at a price in excess of sixty-four cents a pound.
All shells and projectiles shall conform to the standards prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy. Reserve Guns for Ships of the Navy: For the purchase and manufacturePurchase of shells, etc., restricted. of reserve guns for ships of the navy, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Modernizing Turrets: For new and improved gun elevatingPrice restricted. control for turret guns having electric elevating motors, two hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Hand purchases for eight-inch turrets, twenty-eight thousand dollars.
Torpedoes and Appliances: For the purchase and manufactureReserve guns. of torpedoes and appliances, six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this amount shall De expended forModernising turrets. the purchase of torpedoes or appliances or rights pertaining thereto, where the rights to such torpedoes or appliances are the subject of legal controversy now pending. Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island: For labor and material;Torpedoes and appliances. general care of and repairs to grounds, buildings, and wharves; boats, instinct ion, instruments, tools, experiments, and general torpedo outfits, seventy thousand dollars.
New machinery and tools for torpedo factory, one hundred thousand*Proviso.*Restriction. dollars. For experimental work in the development of armor-piercing projectiles,Torpedo station. Newport, R. I. fuses, powders and high explosives, in connection with problems of the attack of armor with direct and inclined fire at various ranges, including the purchase of armor, powder, projectiles, and fuses for the above purposes, and of all necessary material and labor in connection therewith; and for other experimental work under the cognizance of the Bureau of Ordnance in connection with the development of ordnance material for the navy, one hundred thousand dollars.
Arming and Equipping Naval Militia: For arms, accouterments,New machinery, etc. ammunition, signal and medical outfits, boats and their equipment and maintenance, fuel and clothing, and the printing or purchase of necessary books of instruction for the Naval Militia of the various States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, one hundred thousand dollars. Repairs, Bureau of Ordnance: For necessary repairs to ordnanceExperimental work. buildings, magazines, wharves, machinery, and other items of like character, thirty thousand dollars.
Miscellaneous, Bureau of Ordnance: For miscellaneous items,Naval militia. namely: Cartage, expenses of light and water at magazines and stations: tolls, ferriage, technical books, and incidental expenses attending inspection of ordnance material, nine thousand five hundred dollars. bureau of equipment.Repairs. Equipment of Vessels: For hemp, wire, iron, and other materialsMiscellaneous. 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; 761 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 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 nine hundred and thirty-five thousand four hundred dollars: *Provided*, That theBureau of Equipment. sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service at the several navy-yards, naval stations, and coaling stations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, shall not exceed two hundred and twenty-six thousand one hundred and ninety-three dollars and sixty cents.Equipment of vessels.
Coal and Transportation: Purchase of coal and other fuel for*Proviso.*Clerical, etc., services. 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,Coal, etc. books, and models; stationery; ferriage and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Equipment unforeseen and impossible to classify, eleven thousand two hundred and eighty-one dollars.
Ocean and Lake Surveys: Hydrographic surveys, and for theContingent. purchase of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, fifty-seven thousand nine hundred dollars. Depots for Coal: To enable the Secretary of the Navy to executeOcean and lake surveys. the provisions of section fifteen hundred and fifty-two of the RevisedDepots for coal. Statutes, authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to establish, at such places as he may deem necessarv, suitable depots for coal and other fuel for the supply of steamships of war, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. bureau of yards and docks.R.
S., sec, 1552, p. 264. Maintenance of Yards and Docks: For general maintenance ofBureau of Yards and Docks. yards and docks, namely: For books, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines; fire apparatus and plants; machinery; purchase and maintenance of oxen, horses, and driving teams; carts, timber wheels, and all vehicles for use hi the navy-yards; tools and repairs of the same; stationery; furniture for government houses and offices in navy-yards and naval stations; coal and other fuel; candles, oil, and gas; attendance on light and power plants; cleaning 762 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 for rent of wharf and storehouse at Erie, Pennsylvania, for use of and accommodation of United States steamer Wolverine, and for pay of employees on leave, oneMaintenance. million five hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, inspection, drafting, messenger, and other classified work in the navy-yards and naval stations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, shall not exceed four hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For contingent*Proviso.*Clerical, etc., services. expenses that may arise at navy-yards and stations, thirty thousand dollars. public works, bureau of yards and docks.Contingent. Navy-Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Rebuilding and fireproofingPublic works. Bureau of Yards and Docks.Portsmouth, N. H. building numbered twenty, forty-three thousand five hundred dollars; electric capstan for quay wall, three thousand dollars; foundry building (to cost two hundred and fifty thousand dollars), fifty thousand dollars; in all, ninety-six thousand five hundred dollars.
Navy-Yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Power plant, to complete,Boston, Mass. one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars; dredging, two thousand five hundred dollars; sewer system, extensions two thousand five hundred dollars; improvements to water front, fifty thousand dollars; ropewalk lire protection, ten thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Boston, two hundred and ten thousand dollars. Navy-Yard, New York, New York: Central power plant, toNew York, N. Y. complete, one hundred and sixteen thousand dollars; granite and concrete dry dock, to continue, two hundred thousand dollars; toward improvement of water front facilities, seventy-six thousand three hundred and thirty dollars; in all, navy-yard, New York, New York, three hundred and ninety-two thousand three hundred and thirty dollars.
Navy-Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Central power plant,Philadelphia, Pa. to complete, one hundred and seventy-two thousand six hundred dollars; dredging, cost not to exceed four hundred and thirty thousand dollars, two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars; crane track, extensions, thirty thousand dollars; paving around piers, fifty thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Philadelphia, four hundred and sixty-seven thousand six hundred dollars. Navy-Yard, Washington, District of Columbia:
ImprovementsWashington, D. C. to storehouse for guns and mounts, seven thousand dollars; concrete roof for foundry buildings, fifteen thousand dollars; improvements to building one hundred and eighteen, three thousand dollars; improvements to building forty-one, twenty thousand dollars; fireproof storehouse for fuses, acids, and oils, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, sixty thousand dollars. Navy-Yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Railroad tracks, extensions, tenNorfolk, Va. thousand dollars; electric plant, extensions, twenty thousand dollars; repairs, buildings, Saint Helena, twenty-five thousand dollars; dredging, to continue, fifty thousand dollars; compressed-air system, extensions, ten thousand dollars; improvements to water front, one hundred thousand dollars; locomotive crane, fifty thousand dollars; crane track, twenty thousand dollars; paving and grading, additional, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia, three hundred thousand dollars. 763 Navy-Yard, Charleston, South Carolina:
Paving and gradingCharleston, S. C. (to continue), twenty thousand dollars; underground conduit system, extension, five thousand dollars; intercepting drain, thirty thousand live hundred dollars; pneumatic system, extension, five thousand dollars; dredging, to continue, twenty-five thousand dollars; increasing and improving torpedo-boat slips, fifty thousand dollars; in all, navyyard, Charleston, South Carolina, one hundred and thirty-five thousand five hundred dollars. Navy-Yard, Pensacola, Florida:
Remodeling building numberedPensacola, Fla. twenty-nine, fifteen thousand dollars; to repair rifle range and wharf, five thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Pensacola, twenty thousand dollars. Naval Station, Key West, Florida : Latrines, five thousand dollars;Key West, Fla. concrete cistern, twenty-five thousand dollars; to complete marine railway, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, forty-five thousand dollars. Navy-Yard, Mare Island, California: Central power plant atMare Island, Cal.
Mare Island Navy-Yard, California, to complete, two hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars; new elevators in buildings numbered sixty-nine and seventy-one, five thousand dollars; sewer system, extension, ten thousand dollars; repairs to building numbered one hundred and sixteen, three thousand five hundred dollars; crane track, extension, seventy-five thousand dollars; to continue improvement of channel, one hundred thousand dollars; ordnance storehouse, one hundred thousand dollars; improvements to building numbered sixty- nine, four thousand dollars; railroad system, extension, twenty thousand dollars: in all, navy-yard, Mare Island, five hundred and seventy- two thousand five hundred dollars.
Navy-Yard, Puget Sound, Washington: Stone and concrete dryPuget Sound. Wash. dock, to continue(to cost two million dollars), four hundred thousand dollars; sewer system, extensions, eight thousand dollars; railroad and equipment, extensions, ten thousand dollars; general storehouse (to cost two hundred and sixty thousand dollars), one hundred thousand dollars; pier numbered eight, seventy-five thousand dollars; pattern shop, forty thousand dollars; two officers’ quarters, eighteen thousand dollars; warrant officers’ quarters, four thousand miliars; in all, navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington, six hundred and fifty- five thousand dollars.
Naval Station, Island of Guam: Dredging, three thousand dollars;Guam. extension of naval-station roads, eleven thousand dollars; watersupply system, thirty thousand dollars; in all, forty-four thousand dollars. Naval Station. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Toward dredging anPearl Harbor. Hawaii. entrance channel of a depth of thirty-five feet, six hundred thousand dollars; toward construction of dry dock, to cost two million dollars, two hundred thousand dollars; toward yard development, one hundred thousand dollars; in all, nine hundred thousand dollars.
Naval Station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: Improvements toCavite, P. I. building twenty-five, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars; improvements to building twenty-one, two thousand four hundred dollars; in all, fifteen thousand nine hundred dollars. Naval Station, Tutuila: Two officers’ quarters, three thousandTutuila. five hundred dollars; preservation of grounds, two thousand dollars; in all, five thousand five hundred dollars. Naval Station, New Orleans, Louisiana: Levee improvementsNew Orleans, La. and grading, forty-five thousand dollars; in all, forty-five thousand dollars.
Plans and Specifications for Public Works: Navy Department:Plans, etc.R. S., see. 8663 p. 720. Plans and estimates required by section thirty-six hundred and sixty-three, Revised Statutes,and plansand specifications for pub-lie 764 works, thirty thousand dollars: *Prowled*, That the pay of the clerical*Proviso.*Clerical, etc., services. and drafting service for plans and specifications for public works, Bureau of Yards and Docks, shall be paid from this appropriation. Repairs and Preservation At Navy-Yards:
For repairs and preservationRepairs and preservation. at navy-yards and stations, seven hundred thousand dollars. Floating Derricks: One one-hundred ton floating derrick, toFloating derricks. complete, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Total public works, navy-yards and stations, four million eight hundred and forty-four thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars. public works under the secretary of the navy.Secretary of Navy. Buildings and Grounds, Naval Academy: For the purchase ofNaval Academy.Rifle range. land for the extension of the present rifle range near Annapolis for the use of the midshipmen at the Naval Academy, seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Buildings for Lepers, Island of Guam: Naval station, island ofGuam.Care, etc., of lepers. Guam: Maintenance and care of lepers and other special patients, fourteen thousand dollars; in all, fourteen thousand dollars. Total public works under Secretary’s office, eighty-nine thousand dollars. public works under bureau of navigation.Bureau of Navigation. Naval Training Station, California, Buildings: Roads, grounds,Training stations.California. and planting of trees, two thousand dollars; oiling parade grounds and roads adjacent, two thousand and fifty dollars; shacks for the detention camp, four thousand three hundred and seventy dollars; salt water flushing system, two thousand eight hundred and twenty-five dollars and fifty-two cents; dredging the north side of island, seven thousand two hundred dollars; in all, eighteen thousand four hundred and forty-five dollars and fifty-two cents.
Naval Training Station, Rhode Island, Buildings: ImprovingRhode Island. and grading grounds and roads, one thousand nine hundred dollars; dredging channel and basin, two thousand eight hundred and sixteen dollars and seventy-two cents; increase of heating and lighting plant, to complete, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars; walks at detention barracks, two thousand dollars: water-closets, one thousand five hundred dollars; for bakery and cold-storage plant, to complete, twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars; repairs to Barracks “C,” three thousand four hundred dollars; improvements in rifle galleries and ranges, one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars; paving and grading peninsula, four thousand five hundred dollars; enlarging boathouse, seven thousand four hundred and fifty dollars; improvements to assembly, lecture, and reading room, thirteen thousand one hundred dollars; fire-alarm system, three thousand five hundred dollars; in all, naval training station, Rhode Island, seventy- nine thousand seven hundred and sixteen dollars and seventy-two cents.
Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Buildings: Roads, sidewalks,Great Lakes. inner basin sea wall, entrance piers and dredging, arch bridge, wagon bridge to power house, walls and fences, garbage crematory, and grading, three hundred and fourteen thousand dollars; railroad scales, scale house, and spur, nine thousand two hundred dollars; electric fixtures, interior and exterior arcs, and incandescent lamps, thirty-three thousand five hundred dollars; cooking equipment, disinfecting equipment, and cold-storage installation, ten thousand dollars; fire apparatus, four thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; elevators and dumb waiter, six thousand four hundred and fifty dollars; storage balconies and trolleys in boat house, eleven thousand five hundred dollars; tower clock, electric clocks, and wiring, one 765 thousand six hundred dollars; furniture, filing apparatus, shelving, cupboards, fittings, lockers, and interior equipment for buildings, twenty-three thousand dollars.
In all, to complete naval training station, Great Lakes, four hundred and thirteen thousand four hundred dollars. In all, public works, Bureau of Navigation, five hundred and eleven thousand five hundred and sixty-two dollars and twenty-four cents. public works, bureau of ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance. Naval Proving Ground, Indian Head, Maryland: BlacksmithIndian Head proving ground, Md. and pipe shop, three thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars; lime and cement shed, four thousand five hundred dollars; new emplacement, twelve-inch gun, two new steel circles and vamping ten- inch emplacement, sixteen thousand dollars; railroad extensions, eight thousand dollars; in all, naval proving ground, Indian Head, thirty-two thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Naval magazine, Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania: Storehouse and offices,Fort Mifflin.Naval magazine. with railroad track through center of building and continuation of railroad trestle to connect therewith, thirty thousand dollars; powder magazine, with railroad track connections, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, forty-five thousand dollars. Naval magazine, Mare Island, California: One office building, includingMare Island.Naval magazine. permanent furnishings and fixtures, eight thousand dollars: two filling houses, two thousand dollars; extension of sewerage system through magazine grounds, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, eleven thousand five hundred dollars.
Naval magazine, New York Harbor: For naval magazine, NewIona Island, N. Y.Naval magazine. York Harbor (Iona Island): One ammunition house, twenty thousand dollars; extension of sewerage system, five thousand dollars; condenser in boiler room of power house, three thousand dollars; in all, twenty-eight thousand dollars. For naval magazine, navy-yard, Puget Sound. Washington: OnePuget Sound, Wash.Naval magazine. gib crane on magazine wharf, one thousand dollars: telephone line from navy-yard to magazine, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; watchman’s clock system at magazine, two thousand dollars.
In all, four thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Naval torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: New water main,Newport, R. I.Torpedo station. two thousand three hundred dollars; converting one of powder factory buildings into brasss foundry, five thousand three hundred dollars; repairing and extending wharves, eight thousand eight hundred dollars; new sewerage and drainage system, two thousand seven hundred dollars: coal shed and coal-handling apparatus, including elevated car tracks, elevator, fourteen thousand dollars; repairs to sea walls, six thousand four hundred dollars; in all, thirty-nine thousand five hundred dollars.
Naval magazine, Lake Denmark, New Jersey: One magazine, includingLake Denmark, N.J.Naval magazine. necessary clearing, grading, railroad track, water mains, electric lights, hose houses, and watchmen’s clocks, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. One high explosive house for storage of explosive “D,” including necessary clearing, grading, railroad track, water mains, electric lights, hose houses, and watchmen’s clocks, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Extension of administration building to provide office for general storekeeper, for dispensary, and laboratory for testing powder, three thousand dollars.
In all, twenty-eight thousand dollars. Naval Magazine, New England Coast (Hingham, Massachusetts):Hingham, Mass.Naval magazine. Toward the erection of the necessary buildings on ground, the purchase of which is now under negotiation, as authorized by the Act approved April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four, for a new 766 naval magazine on the New England coast: also toward inclosing said grounds, grading and filling in, building roads and walks, improvement of the water front, necessary wharves and cranes, railroad tracks and rolling stock for local service, fire and water service, and equipment of the establishment, one hundred thousand dollars.
In all, one hundred thousand dollars. Naval Magazine, Saint Juliens Creek, Virginia: Gravity blendingVol. 33, p. 338. house for smokeless powder, five thousand dollars; electrical apparatus for lighting magazine grounds, barracks, quarters, and offices; motor for running reforming plant: and a small lathe, eight thousand dollars. In all, thirteen thousand dollars. Total public works under Bureau of Ordnance, three hundred and one t housand three hundred and seventy-five dollars. public works under bureau of equipment.Saint Juliens Creek, VaNaval magazine.
Naval Observatory: Grounds and roads: Continuing grading, extendingBureau of Equipment. roads and paths, clearing and improving grounds, ten thousand dollars. public works under bureau of supplies and accounts.Naval Observatory. Naval Training Station, Great Lakes: Building Equipment:Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. To install cold-storage and refrigerating plant and all necessary equipment, twelve thousand dollars; to fit general storehouse with interior fittings, shelving, scales, and all office and other equipment, four thousand dollars; in all, sixteen thousand dollars.
Total public works under Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, sixteen thousand dollars. public works, marine corps.Great Lakes Training Station. Barracks and quarters, Marine Corps:Marine Corps. To extend the marine barracks, by the erection of a wing thereto, atBarracks and quarters.Philadelphia. a cost not to exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, navy-yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. To complete the quartermaster’s depot, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the purchase of ground adjoining such depot, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Toward the completion of the marine garrison, naval station, PearlPearl Harbor, Hawaii. Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, one marine barracks, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars; and to complete six officers’ quarters, fifty thousand dollars; in all. one hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. For the purchase of land adjoining the navy-yard, Charleston,Charleston, S. C. South Carolina, as a reservation for the Marine Corps, six thousand five hundred dollars; in all, six thousand five hundred dollars.
To complete the marine garrison, navy-yard, Bremerton. Washington,Puget Sound, Wash. one marine barracks, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and for officers’ quarters, sixty thousand dollars; in all, two hundred and ten thousand dollars. In all, public works, Marine Corps, five hundred and seventy-six thousand five hundred dollars. bureau of medicine and surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Medical Department: For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in commission,Surgeons’ necessaries. navy-yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy-yards, naval laboratory. museum of hygiene, and department of instruction, and Naval Academy, three hundred thousand dollars. 767 Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery:
For tolls andContingent. ferriages; care, transportation, anil burial of the dead; 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; incidental articles for the museum of hygiene and department of instruction, naval dispensary, Washington, naval laboratory, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks; 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-nine thousand seven hundred dollars.
Transportation of Remains: To enable the Secretary of theTransferring home remains of officers, etc. Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transferred to their homes the remains of officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corns 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 sum herein appropriated shall be*Proviso.*Application of fund. 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 necessaryRepairs. repairs of naval laboratory, naval hospitals, and appendages, including roads, wharves, outhouses, sidewalks, fences, gardens, farms, and cemeteries, forty-five thousand dollars. In all, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, four hundred and twenty- four thousand seven hundred dollars. bureau of supplies and accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. Provisions, Navy: For provisions and commuted rations for theProvisions, etc. seamen and marines, which commuted rations may be paid to caterers of messes, in case of death or desertion, upon orders of the commanding officers, commuted rations for officers on sea duty (other than commissioned officers of the line, Medical and Pay Corps, chaplains, chief boatswains, chief gunners, and chief sailmakers) 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); and for subsistence of female nurses and navy and marine corps general courts-martial prisoners undergoing imprisonment with sentences of dishonorable discharge from the service at the expiration of such confinement: *Provided*, That the Secretary of*Provisos.*Commutation, prisoners. the Navy is authorized to commute rations for such general courts- martial prisoners in such amounts as seem to him proper, which may vary in accordance with the location of the naval prison, but which shall in no case exceed thirty cents per diem for each ration so commuted; labor in general storehouses and paymasters’ offices in navyyards, including naval stat ions maintained in island possessions under the control of the United States, and expenses in handling stores 768 purchased under the naval supply fund; and for the purchase of United States Army emergency rations, as required: *Provided*, ThatSales to civilians. hereafter such stores as the Secretary of the Navy may designate may be procured and sold to officers anti 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, underClerical, etc., services. such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe: *And provided further*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for chemists and for clerical, inspection, and messenger service in the general storehouses and paymasters’ offices of the navy-yards and naval stations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, shall not exceed four hundred and forty-seven thousand five hundred and forty-four dollars and eighty-eight cents.
In all, seven million one hundred and ten thousand two hundred and eighty-four dollars anil thirty-one cents. Contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: For fuel, booksContingent. and blanks, stationery, interior fittings for general storehouses and pay offices in navy-yards; coffee miffs and repairs thereto; expenses of naval clothing factory anil machinery for same, tolls, ferriages, yeoman’s store-safes, newspapers, and other incidental expenses, one hundred and fifty-nine thousand dollars.
Freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: All freight and expressFreight, Departmen and bureaus. charges pertaining to t he Navy Department and its bureaus, except the transportation of coal for the Bureau of Equipment, five hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. bureau of construction and repair.Bureau of Construction and Repair. Construction and Repair 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 navyyards 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 photographing, books, professional magazines, plans, stationery, anil instruments for drafting room, and for pay of classified force under the bureau, eight million nine hundred and seventy-nine thousand one hundred and forty-four dollars: *Provided*, That no part*Provisos.*Wooden ships. of this sum shall be applied to the repair of any wooden ship, when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed ten per centum or the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material: *Provided further*, That no part of this sum shall be appliedOther ships. 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: *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 necessary to bring them home.
And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorizedRepairs *of* ships in foreign waters. 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: Maine (in addition to the two hundred thousand dollars authorized by the naval 769 appropriation Act approved May thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight), five hundred and twenty thousand dollars;
Missouri, five hundred and forty thousand dollars; Ohio, five hundred and forty thousand dollars; Wisconsin, three hundred and eighty thousand dollars; Chattanooga, two hundred and ten thousand dollars; Cleveland, two hundred and ten thousand dollars; Denver, two hundred and ten thousand dollars: Des Moines, two hundred and ten thousand dollars; Galveston, two hundred and ten thousand dollars; Tacoma, two hundred and ten thousand dollars: Concord, one hundred and fifty-two thousand dollars;
Yorktown, one hundred and fifty-two thousand dollars; Elcano, thirty-five thousand dollars; Paragua, twenty thousand dollars; Quiros, thirty thousand five hundred dollars; Rodgers, forty-two thousand dollars; Rainbow, one hundred and forty thousand dollars; Supply, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars; Yankee, one hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars; Apache, twenty-one thousand five hundred dollars; Lincoln, six thousand dollars; in all, four million one hundred and sixty-four thousand dollars as per the let ters of the Secretary of the Navy, I louse Documents Numbered Eleven hundred and fifty-two and Thirteen hundred and six, Sixtieth Congress, concerning repairs of cert ain navalRepairs to specified vessels. vessels: *And provided further*, That hereafter it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Navy to report to Congress at the beginning of each regular session thereof, in addition to the report directed to be made in the Act of March second, nineteen hundred and seven, makingAdditional report on repairs. appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, and for other purposes, a detailed statement showing the amount expended from each of the appropriations for the repair of every ship where such repairs exceed for any one ship the sum of two hundred thousand dollars in any oneVol. 34, p. 1195. fiscal year: *Provided further*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy-yards, naval stations, and offices of superintending naval constructors for the fiscal year ending Juno thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, shall not exceed eight hundred and eight thousand and thirty-nine dollars.
Improvement of Construction Plants: Construction plant,Clerical, etc., services. navy-yard, 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 toConstruction plants.Portsmouth, N. H. and improvement of plant at navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts, twenty thousand dollars. Construction plant, navy-yard, New York. New York: Repairs toBoston, Mass. and improvement of plant at navy-yard, New York, New York, twenty thousand dollars.
Construction plant, navy-yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: RepairsNew York, N. Y. to and improvement of plant at navy-yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, fifteen thousand dollars. ’ Construction plant, navy-yard, Norfolk. Virginia: Repairs to andPhiladelphia, Pa. improvement of plant at navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia, twelve thousand dollars. Construction plant, navy-yard, Charleston, South Carolina: RepairsNorfolk, Va. to and improvement of plant at naval station, Charleston, South Carolina, twenty thousand dollars.
Construction plant, navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: Repairs to andCharleston, S. C. improvement of plant at navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida, twelve thousand dollars. Construction plant, navy-yard, Mare Island. California: RepairsPensacola, Fla. to and improvement of plant at navy-yard, Mare Island, California, fifteen thousand dollars. 770 Construction plant, navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: RepairsMare Island. Cal. to and improvement of plant at navy-yard. Puget Sound, Washington, twenty thousand dollars. bureau of steam engineering.Puget Sound, Wash.
Steam Machinery: For completion, repairing, and preservation ofBureau of Steam Engineering. machinery and boilers of naval vessels, including cost of new boilers: distilling, refrigerating, and auxiliary machinery; preservation of and small repairs to machinery and boilers in vessels in ordinary, receiving and training vessels: repair and care of machinery of yard tugs and launches, four million four hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That so much of the foregoing and current appropriation as may beSteam machinery. necessary may be used to build the machinery of the colliers Vestal and Prometheus, now under construction at the navy-yards.
New York and Mare Island, respectively. For purchase, handling, and preservation of all material and stores;*Proviso.*Colliers “Vestal” and “Prometheus.” 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, the engineeringMaterials, etc. experiment station, such as photographing, books, stationery, technical books, periodicals, engineering indices, and instruments, live thousand seven hundred dollars. *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation “SteamIncidentals. machinery.” under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy-yards, naval stations, and offices of United States inspectors of machinery, and of engineering material, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, shall not exceed three hundred and fifty thousand and sixty-three dollars and two cents.
In all, steam machinery, six million six hundred and fifty-five thousand seven hundred dollars. Machinery plant, navy-yard. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: ForClerical, etc., senvices. additional heavy-power tools for new boiler and machine shops, thirty thousand dollars. Machinery plant, navy-yard, Boston. Massachusetts: For additionalMachinery plants.Portsmouth. N. H. tools for foundry, machine, and coppersmith shops, five thousand dollars. Machinery plant, navy-yard, New York, New York:
For additionalBoston. Mass. machine tools for copper, boiler, machine, and pattern shops, and foundry, twenty-five thousand dollars. Machinery plant, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For additionalNew York, N. Y. machine tools for machine and boiler shops, twenty-five thousand dollars. Machinery plant, navy-yard, Norfork. Virginia: For additionalPhiladelphia, Pa. machine tools to equip machine, boiler, and coppersmith shops, twenty-five thousand dollars. Machinery plant, navy-yard, Mare Island, California:
For additionalNorfork. Va. new machine tools for machine and boiler shops and foundry, fifteen thousand dollars. Machinery plant, navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: ForMare Island. Cal. additional new machine tools required in repair work of naval vessels, twenty-five thousand dollars. Machinery plant, naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: ForPuget Sound. Wash. additional new machine tools, required to facilitate repairs to naval vessels on Asiatic Station, fifteen thousand dollars.
Engineering experiment station, United States Naval Academy,Cavite, P. I. Annapolis, Maryland—Experimental and research work: For original investigation and extended experimentation of naval appliances; 771 and for the purchase of such machines and auxiliaries considered applicable for test and use in the naval service, seventeen thousand four hundred and eighty-eight dollars. Buildings, engineering experiment station, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland: Repairs to wooden bulkhead about experiment station building, one thousand two hundred dollars; extension of wooden bulkhead to surround the ship basin, seven thousand three hundred and seventy dollars; in all, eight thousand live hundred and seventy dollars.
The title of warrant machinist is hereby changed to machinist; andNaval Academy.Engineering expertinent station. all machinists shall, after six years from date of warrant, be commissioned chief machinists, to rank with, but after, ensign, and shall, on promotion, have the same pay and allowances as are allowed chief boatswains, chief gunners, chief carpenters, and chief sailmakers, and no machinist shall be promoted until he shall have passed such examination before a board as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, and no warrant officer, heretofore or hereafter promoted six years from date of warrant, shall suffer a reduction in pay which, but for such promotion, would have been received by him: *Provided*,Machinists.Title of warrant machinists changed to.Promotion to chief machinists.
That chief boatswains, chief gunners, and chief machinists shall be eligible for appointment to the grade of ensign under the restrictions imposed by law upon the appointment of boatswains, gunners, and warrant machinists to that grade. naval academy.*Proviso.*Eligible to grade of ensign. Pay of Professors and Others, Naval Academy : One professor asNaval Academy. 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 five hundred dollars; one assistant, at one thousand two hundred dollars, and two assistants, at one thousand dollars each; one instructor in gymnastics, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant librarian, at one thousand eight hundred dollars;one cataloguer, at one thousand one hundred dollars; two shelf assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; one secretary of the Naval Academy, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; five clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each ; two writers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred and forty 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 dollars and twenty 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 anil 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-five attendants at recitation rooms, library, store, 772 chapel, armory, gymnasium, and oilices, 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; four clerks, nine hundred dollars each; one assistant baker, five hundred and forty dollars; one mechanic in department of physics, seven hundred and twenty dollars; four cooks, at six hundred dollars each: two instructors in physical training, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; two electrical machinists in department of physics, one thousand dollars each; one chief cook, 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 fifty-five thousand three hundred and two dollars and seventy-six cents.
Pay of Watchmen, Mechanics, and Others, Naval Academy:Pay of professors, etc. Captain of the watch, 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; in all, pay of watchmen, seventeen thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars and ten cents; foreman of power plant, at five dollars per diem; for labor at power house, for mechanics, laborers, and attendants; and for care of buildings and grounds, wharves, and boats; in all, pay of watchmen, mechanics and others, Naval Academy, one hundred and forty-two thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars and ten cents.
Pay of Department Steam Engineering Employees, Naval Academy:Pay of watchmen, mechanics, etc. Pay of mechanics, attendants, and others in department of steam engineering, twenty thousand four hundred and twenty- three dollars and thirty-two cents. Special course, Naval Academy: Purchase of apparatus and materialsEmployees, steam engineering. for instruction of midshipmen in physical training and athletics, and for all expenses of lectures, including the pay of the lecturer, five thousand dollars.
Repairs, Naval Academy: Necessary repairs of public buildings,Physical training. wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, improvements, repairs, furniture, and fixtures, forty thousand dollars. Heating and Lighting, Naval Academy: Fuel, oil, waste, andRepairs. 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 ofHeating, etc. 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 BoardContingent. 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 773 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 or 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 live 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-sevenBoard of Visitors. dollars and four cents; for the installation, care, preservation, and display of memorial and other objects of historic interest and value at the Naval Academy, ten thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and ten thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven dollars and four cents.
In all, Naval Academy, five hundred and thirty-four thousand two hundred and ninety-three dollars and twenty-two cents. The crypt and window spaces of the United States Naval AcademyCare of memorials, etc. chapel are to be used only for memorials to United States naval officers who have successfully commanded a fleet or squadron in battle, or who have received or may receive the thanks of the Congress of t he United States for conspicuously distinguished services in time of war, and no memorial shall be accepted for or installed in said crypt or window spaces until at least five years after the death of the officer in question: *Provided*, That nothing in this provision shall be consideredUse of crypt and windows of chapel restricted. as invalidating any agreement made by the present or any former superintendent of the Naval Academy, authorizing a memorial window in the old Naval Academy chapel to be transferred to the new Naval Academy chapel. marine corps.Proviso.Transfer of old memorial window.
Pay, Marine Corps: For pay and allowances prescribed by lawMarine Corps. of officers on the active list, nine hundred and fifteen thousand one hundred and twenty-two dollars. For pay of officers prescribed by law, on the retired list: For onePay.Officers. major-general, eight brigadier-generals, two colonels, seven lieutenantcolonels, nine majors, seven captains, eleven first lieutenants, and four second lieutenants, and for officers who may be placed thereon during the year, including such increased pay as is now or may hereafter be provided for retired officers regularly assigned to active duty, one hundred and forty-nine thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.
Pay of enlisted men, active list: Pay of noncommissioned officers,Retired list. 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, mess sergeants, 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 eight hundred and seventy-two thousand two hundred and seventy dollars: *Provided*, That no part of the appropriations herein madeEnlisted men. 774 for the Marine Corps shall be expended for the purposes for which*Proviso.* said appropriations are made unless officers and enlisted men shall serve as heretofore on board all battle ships and armored cruisers, and also upon such other vessels of the navy as the President may direct, in detachments of not less than eight per centum of the strength of the enlisted men of the navy on said vessels.
For pay and allowances prescribed by law of enlisted men on theService on battle shifts. retired list: For two sergeant-majors, one drum-major, twenty-four gunnery-sergeants, twenty-one quartermaster-sergeants, twenty first sergeants, fifty-four sergeants, ten corporals, eighteen first-class musicians, one drummer, one trumpeter, and thirty-seven privates, and for those who may be retired during the fiscal year, one hundred and twenty-one thousand one hundred and twenty-two dollars.
Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged soldiers for clothingRetired enlisted men. undrawn, one hundred and seventy-two thousand three hundred and sixty-five dollars. Mileage: For mileage to officers traveling under orders withoutUndrawn clothing. troops, fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter the settlementMileage to officers. of all traveling expense claims, where the payment of such is authorized by existing law, and the determination of distances and of what constitutes the shortest usually traveled route in the meaning of laws relating to traveling allowances, shall accord to such rules as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe.
For commutation of quarters of officers on duty without troops*Proviso.*Settlement of claims. where there are no public quarters, thirty-three thousand five hundred dollars. Pay of Civil Force: In the office of the Major-General Commandant:Commutation of quarters, officers without troops. One chief clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, at nine hundred and seventy-one dollars and twenty-eight cents. In the office of the paymaster:
One chief clerk, at one thousand six 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 one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars. In the office of the assistant adjutant and inspector: One clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars.
In the office of the quartermaster: One chief clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one draftsman, at one thousand six hundred dollars. In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Washington, District of Columbia, or San Francisco, California: Two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; two clerks, for duty in the 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-five thousand nine hundred andCivil force. eleven dollars and twenty-eight cents; and the money herein specifically appropriated for pay of the Marine Corps shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law as pay of the Marine Corps, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. 775 In all, pay, Marine Corps, four million three hundred and forty-nine thousand nine hundred and ten dollars and twenty-eight cents.
Provisions, Marine Corps: For noncommissioned officers, musicians,Disbursements. 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 anil 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 men in the army: *Provided, however*, That whenProvisions. it is impracticable or the expense is found greater to supply marines serving on shore duty in the island possessions and on foreign stations with the army ration, such marines may be allowed the navy ration or commutation therefor.
Clothing, Marine Corps: For noncommissioned officers, musicians,*Proviso.*Navy ration or commutation. and privates authorized by law, seven hundred anil twenty-five thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars. Fuel, Marine Corps: For heating barracks and quarters, forClothing. 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 fourFuel. dollars per day; one mechanic, at three dollars per day; two mechanics, at two dollars and fifty cents each per day; one chief electrician, at four dollars per day, and one assistant electrician, at three dollars and fifty cents 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-coņduct 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 estab- lishment 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; in all, two hundred and ninety-seven thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven dollars.
Transportation and Recruiting, Marine Corps: For transportationMilitary stores. of troops, including ferriage and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof, toilet kits for issue to recruits upon their first enlistment and the expense of the recruiting service, two hundred and eighty-two thousand dollars. For Repairs Oe Barracks, Marine Corps: Repairs and improvementsTransportation and recruiting. 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, Vir- ginia;Port Royal and Charleston, South Carolina; Pensacola, Florida; Dry Tortugas, Florida; New Orleans, Louisiana; Mare Island and San 776 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, one hundred thousand dollars.
Forage, Marine Corps: For forage in kind for horses of theRepairs of barracks. 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 commutationForage. of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them; for commutation of quarters for enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in the offices of the commandant, adjutant and inspector, paymaster and quartermaster, and the offices of the assistant adjutant and inspectors, the assistant paymasters, and the assistant quartermasters, at twenty-one dollars each per month, and for enlisted men employed as messengers in said offices, at ten dollars each per month, sixty-eight thousand dollars.
Contingent, Marine Corps: For freight, tolls, cartage, advertising,Commutation of quarters, officers with troops. 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 or not less than ten days, employment of civilian labor, repair of gas and water fixtures, office and barracks furniture, camp and garrison equipage and implements, mess utensils for enlisted men, such as bowls, plates, spoons, knives and forks, tin cups, pans, pots, and so. forth; packing boxes, wrapping paper, oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, quarantine fees, camphor and carbolized paper, carpenters’ tools, tools for police purposes, iron safes, purchase, and repair of public wagons, 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 fire extinguishers, purchase of lire hand grenades; purchase and repair of carts, wheelbarrows, and lawn mowers; purchase and repair of cooking stoves, ranges, stoves, and furnaces where there are no grates; purchase of ice, towels, soap, combs, and brushes for offices; postage stamps for foreign postage: purchase of books, newspapers, and periodicals; improving parade grounds; repair of pumps and wharves; laying drain, water, and gas pipes; water, introducing gas, and for gas, gas oil, and introduction and maintenance of electric lights; straw for bedding, mattresses, mattress covers, pillows, sheets; wire bunk bottoms for enlisted men at various posts; furniture for government quarters and repair of same, packing and crating officers’ allowance of baggage on change of station: and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, lint impossible to anticipate or classify, three hundred and seventy thousand dollars: *Provided*,Contingent.
That hereafter extra-duty pay will not be allowed to enlisted men of the Marine Corps except when they are regularly detailed thereon by a written order of the commandant of the corps. 777 Total under quartermaster, Marine Corps, two million six hundred and ninety-eight thousand four hundred dollars. Total Marine Corps, exclusive of public works, seven million fortyeight thousand three hundred and ten dollars and twenty-eight cents. increase of the navy.*Proviso.*Restriction on extra-duty pay.
That, for the purpose of further increasing the naval establishmentIncrease of the Navy. of the United States, the President is hereby authorized to have constructed two first-class battle ships to cost, exclusive ofTwo first-class battle ships. armor and armament, not exceeding six million dollars each, similar in all essential characteristics to the battle ship authorized by the Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight.
Five torpedo-boat destroyers, to have the highest practicableVol. 31, p. 1203. speed, and to cost, exclusive of armament, not to exceed eight hundred thousand dollars each. One fleet collier, of fourteen knots trial speed, when carrying notFive torpedo-boat destroyers. less than twelve thousand five hundred tons of cargo and bunker coal, to cost not exceeding nine hundred thousand dollars. And the contract for the construction of said vessels shall beOne collier. awarded by the Secretary of the Navy to the lowest best responsible bidder, having in view the best results and most expeditious delivery; and in the construction of all of said vessels the provisions of the ActAward of contracts. of August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled “An Act to increase the naval establishment,” as to materials for said vessels, their engines, boilers, and machinery, the contracts under which they are built, the notice of any proposals for the same; the plans, drawings, specifications therefor, and the method of executing said contracts shall be observed and followed, and, subject to the provisions of this Act, all said vessels shall be built in compliance with the terms of said Act, and in all their parts shall be of domestic manufacture; anil 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, provided contractsConstruction.Vol. 24, p. 215. for furnishing the same in a reasonable time, at a reasonable price, and of the required quality can be made with responsible parties, and of the two first-class battle ships provided for in this Act, not more than one shall be built by one contracting party.
For four submarine torpedo boats, in an amount not exceeding inRestrictions. the. aggregate two million dollars, and the sum of three million dollars is hereby appropriated toward said purpose and for the completion of submarine boats heretofore authorized: *Provided*, That theSubmarine torpedo boats. Secretary of the Navy may build any or all of the vessels authorized in this Act in such navy-yards as he may designate, anil shall build any of the vessels herein authorized in such navy-yards as he may designate, should it reasonably appear that the persons, firms, or corporations, or the agents thereof, bidding for the construction of any of said vessels, have entered into any combination, agreement, or understanding, the effect, object, or purpose of which is to deprive the Government of fair, open, and unrestricted competition in letting contracts for the construction of any of said vessels.
The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized, in his discretion,*Proviso.*Construction in navy-yards if combination, etc., of bidders. to contract for or purchase one destroyer whose vitals are located below the normal load water line, such vessel to cost not to exceed four hundred thousand dollars and to have a speed not less than twenty-two knots; also two small vessels of similar construction having a speed of not less than sixteen knots and to cost not to exceed twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars each: *Provided*, ThatDestroyers with vitals below water line. 778 before any vessel provided for in this paragraph shall be purchased*Proviso.* or contracted for a vessel of similar construction shall have been constructed complete and of full size for naval warfare and submitted to the Navy Department for such trial and tests as the Secretary of the Navy may, in his discretion, prescribe, and as the result of such tests be demonstrated to have fulfilled all the reasonable requirements of naval warfare for such a vessel.
Construction and Machinery: On account of hulls and outfitsVessels to be tested. of vessels and steam machinery of vessels heretofore authorized, twenty-two million seven hundred and sixty-six thousand eight hundred and twenty-three dollars: *Provided*, That no part of the,Construction and machinery. above appropriation shall be used for the payment of the construction, of any collier the total cost of which shall exceed nine hundred thousand dollars. Armor and Armament: Toward the armor and armament ofProviso.Limit of cost of collier. domestic manufacture for vessels authorized, twelve million four hundred and fifty-two thousand seven hundred and seventy-twoArmor and armament. dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended*Provisos.*Armor contracts. 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: *Provided also*, That contracts for furnishing said armor in a reasonableCondition. time, at a reasonable price, and of the required quality can be made with responsible parties.
Increase of the Navy, Equipment: Toward the completion of theEquipment. equipment outfit of the new vessels authorized, six hundred thousand dollars. Total increase of the navy, thirty-eight million eight hundred and nineteen thousand five hundred and ninety-five dollars. *Provided*, That no part of any sum hereby appropriated under*Proviso.*Payment inNavy Department restricted. “Increase of the navy” shall be used for the payment of any clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service, or for pay of any of the other classified force, under the various bureaus of the Navy Department in Washington, District of Columbia.
That no part of any sum appropriated by this Act shall be used forTechnical, etc., service. Navy Department. any expense of the Navy Department at Washington unless specific authority is given by law for such expenditure, except that draftsmen and other technical employees heretofore paid from “Public works” and “Increase of the navy” and employed in the Navy Department at Washington may be continued in employment in the Navy Department at Washington and paid from appropriations “Maintenance,” “Construction and repair,” “Steam machinery,” “Ordnance and ordnance stores,” and “Equipment of vessels,” respectively.
Approved, March 3, 1909.
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