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CHAP. 239.— AN ACT Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and for other purposes. March 4, 1911.[[H. R. 32212](/us/bill/36/hr/32212).][[Public, No. 479](/us/bill/36/pl/479).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, Naval service appropriations.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 twelve, 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 and not exceeding ten clerks to accounting officers at yards and stations, general storekeepers ashore and afloat not exceeding ten clerks, 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, 1266carpenters, sailmakers, machinists, pharmacists, and mates, naval constructors and assistant naval constructors; and also members of Nurse Corps (female); 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-four 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 machinistsMachinists.as the President may from time to time deem necessary to appoint, not to exceed twenty in any one year; and three 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; thirty-five million sixty-nine thousand and twenty-six dollars.
That the accounting officersVolunteer officers, War with Spain.of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to open and resettle, upon application, the accounts of volunteerAccounts to be reopened. etc.officers of the Navy who served in the War with Spain, and to resettle such accounts in accordance with the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of the United States against John M. Hite, reported in Two hundred and fourth United States Reports, page three hundred and forty-three.
PAY, MISCELLANEOUS.Pay, miscellaneous. The Secretary of the Navy shall send to Congress at the beginning of its next regular session a complete, scheduleSchedule of, and allowances, to be sent to Congress.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 m the Navy, including retired officers, and for all officers included in tills Act and for all enlisted men so included. Miscellaneous expenses.For commissions and interest; transportation of funds; exchange; mileage to officers while traveling under orders in the United States, and for actual personal expenses of officers while traveling abroad under orders, and for traveling expenses of civilian employees, and for actual and necessary traveling expenses of midshipmen while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment as midshipmen ; for 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, including 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 attachés; information from abroad, and the collection and classification thereof; all charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus for ice for the cooling 1267of drinking water on shore (except at naval hospitals), telephone rentals and tolls, telegrams, cablegrams, and postage, foreign and domestic, and post-office box rent als ; and other necessary and incidental expenses: *Provided,**Proviso.*That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, Allowance for clerical, etc., service in yards, etc.naval stations, and purchasing pay offices for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, shall not exceed two hundred and fifty- four thousand six hundred and fifty-four dolíais and twenty-five cents; in all, one million dollars.
Contingent, Navy:Contingent.For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, 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 dollars: *Provided,**Proviso*.That the accounting 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 employeesCivilian 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 twelve: *Provided further,* That hereafter, in fixing the cost of work under the various naval appropriations, the direct and indirect chargesDirect and indirect charges included in cost.incident thereto shall be included in such cost : *And provided further,.* That the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts shall keep the money accountsMoney accounts to show charges.of the Naval Establishment in such manner as to show such charges and shall report the same annually for the information of Congress. *And provided further,* That the Secretare of the Navy be, and he hereby is, authorized, in his discretion, to make partial paymentsPartial payments allowed on contracts.from time to time during the progress of the work under existing contracts and all contracts hereafter made under the Navy Department for public purposes, but not in excess of ninety per centum of the value of work already done; and the contracts hereafter made shall provide for such insuranceInsurance to be provided for.as the Secretary of the Navy may deem sufficient, and for a lien in favor of the Government, which lien is hereby made paramount to all other hens, upon the articles or thing contracted for on account of all payments so made, provided that partial payments shall not be made under such contracts except where stipulated for and then only in accordance with contract provisions.
That officers on the active list of the lineOfficers performing engineering duty on shore only, made additional numbers.of the United States Navy who, under authority of law, now perform engineering duty on shore only are hereby made additional to the numbers in the grades in which they are now serving, and shall be carried as additional to the numbers of each grade to which they may hereafter be promoted: *Provided,**Proviso.*That said officers shall be entitled to all the benefits of retirementRetirement.under existing or future laws equally with other officers of like rank and service.
Hereafter, if any officer of the United States Navy shall fail in his physical examinationOfficers failing physical examination for promotion to be retired.for promotion and be found incapacitated for service by reason of physical disability contracted in the line of duty, he shall be retired with the rank to which his seniority entitled him to be promoted. Care of lepers, island of Guam;Guam.Naval station, island of Guam: Maintenance and care of lepers, Care of lepers, etc.special patients, and for other purposes, fourteen thousand dollars. 1268 BUREAU OF NAVIGATION.Bureau of Navigation.
Transportation: Transportation.For travel allowance of enlisted men discharged on account of expiration of enlistment; transportation of enlisted men and apprentice seamen at home and abroad, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation to their homes, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentice seamen discharged on medical survey, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof, transportation of sick or insane enlisted men and apprentice seamen to hospitals, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, and for railway guides and other expenses incident to transportation, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand four hundred dollars.
Recruiting:Recruiting.Expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent of 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,**Proviso/*That no part of this appropriation shall be expended in recruiting seamen, ordinary seamen, or apprentice seamen, unless in case of minors a certificate of birthCertificate of age required.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; except in cases where such certificate is unobtainable, enlistment may be made when the recruiting officer is convinced that oath of applicantOath of applicant.as to age is credible; but when it is afterwards found upon evidence satisfactory to the Navy Department that recruit has sworn falsely as to age, and is under eighteen years of age at the timeDischarge, etc., of minors.of enlistment, he shall, upon request of either parent, be released from service in the Navy, upon payment of full cost of first outfit, unless, in any given case, the Secretary, in his discretion, shall relieve said recruit of such payment.
Contingent: Contingent.Ferriage, continuous-service certificates, discharges, good-conduct badges, and medals for men and boys; purchase of gymnastic apparatus; transportation of effects of deceased officers and enlisted men of the Navy; books fortraining 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: Gunnery exercises.Prizes, tropines, and badges for excellence in gunnery exercises and target practice; for the establishment and maintenance of shooting galleries, target houses, targets, and ranges; for hiring established ranges, and for transportation of civilian assistants and equipment to and from ranges, one hundred and sixty-seven thousand dollars. Steaming exercises: Steaming exercises.Prizes, trophies, and badges for excellence in steaming exercises to be awarded to the ships in commission for general efficiency and for economy in coal consumption, under such rules as the Secretary of the Navy may formulate; and for the purpose of classifying, compiling, and publishing the results of the competition, fifteen thousand dollars.
For experimental work in the development of aviationAviation experiments.for naval purposes, twenty-five thousand dollars. Outfits on first enlistment:Outfits.Outfits for all enlisted men and apprentice seamen of the Navy on first enlistment, at not to exceed sixty dollars each, nine hundred and thirty-one thousand eight hundred dollars. 1269 Maintenance of naval auxiliaries:Maintenance of auxiliaries.Pay, transportation, ship- ping, and subsistence of civilian officers and crews of naval auxiliaries and all expenses connected with naval auxiliaries employed in emer gencies, which can not be paid from other appropriations, seven hundred and sixty thousand two hundred and six dollars.
Naval training station, California: Maintenance of naval training station, Training stations.Yerba Buena Island, California, Yerba Buena Island, Cal.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, and washing; packing boxes and materials; and all other contingent expenses; maintenance of dispensary building; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen; in all, seventy thousand one hundred and sixty-seven dollars and sixty-five cents.
Naval training station, Rhode Island: Maintenance of naval training station, Coasters Harbor Island, Rhode Island, Coasters Harbor Is land, R. I.namely: Labor and material; buildings and wharves; dredging channels; extending sea wall; repairs to causeway and sea wall; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and wharves; wharfage, ferriage, and street-car fare; purchase and maintenance of five 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.*That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, Clerical, etc., services.drafting, inspection, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, shall not exceed five thousand seven hundred and one dollars and sixty cents.
Naval training station, Great Lakes: Great Lakes.Maintenance of naval training station: Labor and material; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and piers; street-car fare; purchase and maintenance of five stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same; fire apparatus and extinguishers; boats and gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; printing outfit and material, and maintenance of same; heating and lighting, and repairs to power-plant equipment, distributing mains, tunnel, and conduits; stationery, books, and periodicals; washing; packing boxes and materials; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen; and all other contingent expenses: *Provided,**Proviso.*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 serviceClerical, etc., services.for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, shall not exceed forty-four thousand five hundred and fifty-three dollars and thirty-six cents; in all, naval training station, Great Lakes, one hundred and six thousand five hundred and ninety-nine dollars and thirty-six cents.
Naval War College, Rhode Island: For maintenance of the Naval War CollegeNaval War College, R.I.on Coasters Harbor Island, and care of grounds1270for same, twenty-two thousand four hundred and eighty dollars; services of a lecturer on international law, one thousand live hundred dollars; services of civilian lecturers, rendered at the War College, six hundred dollars; care and preservation of the library, including the purchase, binding, and repair of books of reference, and periodicals, one thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided,**Proviso.*That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, inspection, drafting, and messenger serviceClerical, etc., services.for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, shall not exceed eight thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars; in all, Naval War College, Rhode Island, twenty-six thousand and eighty dollars.
Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pa.One secretary, one thousand six hundred dollars; Pay.one foreman mechanic, one thousand five hundred dollars; one superintendent 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 dolíais; one assistant cook, at two hundred and forty dollars; one chief laundress, at two hundred and sixteen dollars; five laundresses, at one hundred and ninety-two dollars each; four scrubbers, at one hundred and ninety-two dollars each; one head waitress, at two hundred and sixteen dollars; eight waitresses, at one hundred and ninety-two dollars each; one kitchen servant, at two hundred and forty dolíais; 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-six dollars; one painter, at eight hundred and forty-six dollars; one engineer for elevator and machinery, seven hundred and twenty dolíais; three laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each ; three laborers, at three hundred dollars each ; total for employees, eighteen thousand eight hundred and eight dollars.
Miscellaneous: Miscellaneous.Water rent and lighting, two thousand dollars; cemetery, burial expenses and headstones, one thousand dollars; improvement of grounds, one thousand dollars; repairs to buildings, repairs to and purchase of boilers, furnaces, and furniture, six thousand seven hundred and forty-eight dollars; music in chapel, six hundred dollars; transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, and of sick and insane beneficiaries, their attendants, and necessary subsistence for both, to and from other Government hospitals, three hundred dollars ; support of beneficiaries, forty-two thousand three hundred and seventy-three dollars; total miscellaneous, fifty-four thousand and twenty-one dollars.
In all, for Naval Home, seventy-two thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine dollars, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund: *Provided,**Proviso.*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, Employing beneficiaries.on the recommendation of the governor, beneficiaries in said home, whose compensation shall be fixed by the Secretary and paid from the appropriation for the support of the home.
BUREAU OF ORDNANCE.Bureau of Ordnance. Ordnance and ordnance stores: Ordnance and ordnance stores.For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the general work of1271the Ordnance Department; for furniture at naval magazines, torpedo stations, and proving ground; for maintenance of the proving ground and powder factory, and for target practice, and for pay of chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger sendee in navy yards, naval stations, and naval magazines: *Provided,**Provisos.*That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary or the Navy for Chemical, clerical, etc., service.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 twelve, shall not exceed four hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
In all, five million five hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchasePurchase of projectiles restricted.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 the manufacturers of shells and projectiles and upon bids received in accordance with the terms and requirements of such proposals. Purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, Smokeless powder.one million one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For Naval Gun Factory, Washington, District of Columbia:Naval Gun Factory, Washington, D. C.New and improved machinery for existing shops, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. New batteries for ships of the Navy: New batteries.For new sights for five- inch, six-inch, and seven-inch guns and modifying their mounts, two hundred and forty-five thousand dollars. For fire-control instrumentsFire-control instruments.for ships of the Navy, eighty thousand dollars. • For fitting new breech mechanisms New breech mechanisms.to three-inch, fifty-caliber, Mark III guns, one hundred thousand dollars.
Modifying breechModernizing guns.mechanisms of three-inch, four-inch, five-inch, and six-inch guns, one hundred thousand dollars. For replacing Mark VI six-inch guns with Mark VIII guns, and repairing and modernizing the Mark VI guns for issue, two hundred thousand dollars. For landing guns and appurtenances, two hundred thousand dollars.Landing guns, etc. AmmunitionAmmunition.for ships of the Navy: For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ammunition for issue to ships, two million eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided,**Proviso.*That no part of this appropriation shall be. expended for the purchase of shells or projectilesPurchase of projectiles restricted.except for shells or projectiles purchased in accordance with the terms and conditions of proposals submitted by the Secretary of the Navy to all of the manufacturers of shells and projectiles and upon bids received in accordance with the terms and requirements of such proposals.
Small arms and machine guns:Small arms and machine guns.For new rifles and machine guns for ships, four hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Torpedoes and appliances: Torpedoes and appliances.For the purchase and manufacture of torpedoes and appliances, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island :Torpedo station, Newport, R.I.For labor and material; general care of and repairs to grounds, buildings, and wharves; boats, instruction, instruments, tools, experiments, and general torpedo outfits, seventy thousand dollars.
Experiments, Bureau of Ordnance: For experimental workExperimental work.in the development of armor-piercing and other projectiles, 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; anil 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. 1272 Arming and equipping Naval Militia:
Naval Militia.For arms, accouterments, ammunition, medical outfits, fuel, water for steaming purposes, and clothing, and the printing or purchase of necessary books of instruction, expenses in connection with the organizing and training of the Naval Militia of the various States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, under such regulations as the Secretare of the Navy may prescribe, including salaries of the necessary clerical force and office expenses in the Navy Department, at Washington, District of Columbia, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: *Prowled,**Proviso.*That immediately upon the approval of this Act the necessary employees Employees in Department authorizedin the Navy Department, at Washington, District of Columbia, may be appointed, and their salaries and office expenses for the remainder of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, paid from the unexpended balance of appropriations heretofore inaile for “Arming and equipping Naval Militia.
” That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to loan, at his discretion, to the city of Detroit, Michigan,Detroit, Mich.for exhibition in the Detroit Museum of Art, the silver service presented to the United States ship DetroitLoan of service presented to U. 8. 8. “Detroit.”by the city of Detroit: *Provided,**Provisos.*That should another vessel be hereafter named after the city of Detroit the said silver service shall be returned Return, etc.by the city of Detroit to such vessel: *And provided further,* That no expenseNo expense.shall be caused the United States Government by the delivery of the said service, the same to be delivered at such time and under such conditions as may be agreed upon between the Secretary of the Navy and A.
II. Griffith, the director of the Detroit Museum of Art. Repairs, Bureau of Ordnance: For necessary repairsRepairs.to ordnance buildings, magazines, wharves, machinery, and other items of like character, thirty thousand dollars. Contingent, Bureau of Ordnance:Contingent.For miscellaneous items, namely: Cartage, expenses of light and water at magazines anil stations, tolls, ferriage, technical books, and incidental expenses attending inspection of ordnance material, nine thousand five hundred dollars.
BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT.Bureau of Equipment. Equipment of vessels:Equipment of vessels.For hemp, wire, iron, and other materials 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, awn ings, hammocks, and other work; stationery for chaplains and for commanding and navigating officers of ships, equipment officers on shore and afloat, and for the use of courts-martial on board ship; the removal and transportation of ashes from ships of war; interior appliances and tools for equipment buildings in navy yards and naval stations; supplies for seamen’s quarters; and for the purchase of all other articles of equipment at home and abroad, and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels and manufacture of equipment articles in the several navy yards; all pilotage and towage of ships of war; canal tolls, wharfage, dock and port charges, and other necessary incidental expenses of a similar nature; services and materials in repairing, correcting, adjusting, and testing compasses on shore and on board ship; nautical and astronomical instruments and repairs to same; libraries for ships of war, professional books and papers, and drawings and engravings for signal books; naval signals and apparatus, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, rockets, and running lights; compass fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ships’ compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship’s way, and leads and other appliances for sounding; lanterns and lamps and their appendages for general use on board ship for illuminating1273purposes, 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 eight hundred and forty-three thousand three hundred dollars: *Provided,**Proviso.*That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, Clerical, etc., services.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 twelve, shall not exceed two hundred and nine thousand and ninety-three dollars and sixty cents.
Coal and transportation: CoalCoal, etc.and other fuel for steamers’ and ships’ use, and other equipment purposes, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same, and for the general maintenance of naval coaling depots and coaling plants, water for all purposes on board naval vessels, including the expenses of transportation and storage of the same, four million dollars. Contingent, Bureau of Equipment:Contingent.Packing boxes and materials, books, and models ; stationery ; ferriage and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Equipment unforseen and impossible to classify, ten thousand dollars.
Ocean and lake surveys:Ocean and lake surveys.Hydrographic surveys, including the pay of the necessary hydrographic surveyors, cartograpliic draftsmen and recordera, and for the purchase of nautical books, charts and sailing directions, seventy-five thousand dollars. Depots for coal:Depots for coakTo enable the Secretary of the Navy to execute the provisions of section fifteen hundred and fifty-two of the Revised Statutes, authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to establish, at such places as he may deem necessary, suitable depots for coal and other fuel for the supply of steamships of war, five hundred thousand dollars.
Distribution of duties: The duties assigned by law to the Bureau of EquipmentDiscontinuance of bureau.shall be distributed among the other bureaus and offices of the Navy Department in such manner as the Secretary of the Navy shall consider expedient and proper during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and the Secretary of the Navy, with the approval of the President, is hereby authorized and directed to assign and transferTransfer of funds, etc., to other bureaus.to said other bureaus and offices, respectively, all available funds heretofore and hereby appropriated for the Bureau of Equipment and such civil employees of the jureau as are authorized by law, and when such distribution of duties, funds, and employees shall have been completed, the Bureau of Equipment shall be discontinued as hereinbefore provided: *Provided,**Provisos.*That nothing herein shall be so construed as to authorize the expenditure Use of appropriations restricted.of any appropriation for purposes other than those specifically provided by the terms of the appropriations, or the submission of estimates for the Naval Establishment for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, except in accordance with the order and arrangement of the naval appropriation Act for the year nineteen hundred and eleven: *Provided further,* That the Secretary of the Navy Report of distribution of duties, etc.shall report to Congress at the beginning of its next ensuing session the distribution of the duties of the Bureau of Equipment made by him under the authorization herein granted, with full statement in relation to said distribution and the performance of navy yard work therein involved. 1274 BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS.Bureau of Yards and Docks.
Maintenance of yards and docks: For general maintenanceMaintenance.of 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 horses and driving teams; carts, timber wheels, and all vehicles, including motor-propelled vehicles for freight-carrying purposes only for use in 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 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, one million five hundred and forty thousand dollars: *Provided,**Proviso.*That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary or the Navy for Clerical, etc., services.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 twelve, shall not exceed four hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided further,* That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized, in his discretion, to furnish hereafter, without charge, Heat, etc., to Young Men’s Christian Association buildings at yards.heat and light for the Young Men’s Christian Association buildings in navy yards and stations.
Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For contingentContingent.expenses that may arise at navy yards and stations, thirty thousand dollars. PUBLIC WORKS, BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS.Public works. Navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire:Portsmouth, N. H. Combined railway and highway bridge, with approach and appurtenances (cost not to exceed one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars), one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; railroad rolling stock, additional, four thousand dollars; for continuing the extension of the quay wall, one hundred thousand dollars; in all, two hundred and twenty-nine thousand dollars.
Navy yard, Boston, Massachusetts:Boston, Mass.Dredging, five thousand dollars ; toward one hundred ami fifty ton floating crane (cost not to exceed three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars), one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ; improvements to water front, fifty thousand dollars ; improvements to yard buildings, ten thousand dollars ; paving, ten thousand dollars; electrical system, extension, five thousand dollars; one officer’s quarters, twelve thousand dollars; improvement of central power plant, twenty thousand dollars; enlargement of Dry Dock Numbered Two, fifteen thousand dollars, to be immediately available; in all, navy yard, Boston, two hundred and seventy-seven thousand dollars.
Navy Yard, New York, New York:New York, N.Y.Dry Dock Numbered Four, to complete, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars; improvement of water front, to continue, one hundred thousand dollars; bollards and capstans for Dry Dock Numbered Four, forty-two thousand five hundred dollars; crane track and extension of railroad track around Dry Dock Numbered Four, forty-three thousand dollars; supply pipes around Dry Dock Numbered Four, fifteen thousand dollars; paving around Dry Dock Numbered Four, twenty-four thousand dollars; condenser system, forty-five thousand dollars; distributing systems, extensions, fifty thousand dollars; railroad equipment, extensions, five thousand dollars; yard dispensary, extension, four 1275thousand five hundred dollars; in all, navy yard, New York, New York, eight hundred and seventy-nine thousand dollars.
Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :Philadelphia, Pa.Rebuilding Pier Numbered Five, seventy-five thousand dollars; reserve basin, extension, fifty thousand dollars; railroad track and equipment, five thousand dollars; sanitation system, reserve basin (to cost not to exceed seventy-five thousand dollars), thirty thousand dollars; in all, navy yard, Philadelphia, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Navy Yard, Washington, District of Columbia:Washington, D. C.Dredging, to continue, five thousand dollars; new foundry (cost not to exceed two hundred thousand dollars), one hundred thousand dollars; railroad tracks, extension, two thousand dollars; paving, to continue, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, one hundred and nine thousand five hundred dollars.
Naval Station, Guantanamo, Cuba:Guantanamo, Cuba.For emergency repair installation, three hundred and seventy-eight thousand five hundred dollars. Navy Yard, Norfolk, Virginia:Norfolk, Va.Railroad tracks, extensions, five thousand dollars; electric-light plant, extensions, twenty-five thousand dollars; repairs, buildings, Saint Helena, twenty-five thousand dollars; dredging, to continue, twenty thousand dollars; compressed- air system, extensions, five thousand dollars; improvements to water front, one hundred thousand dollars; paving and grading, ten thousand dollars; heating system, extension, fifteen thousand dollars; sewer system, extensions, six thousand dollars; water system, extension, five thousand dollars; garbage crematory, ten thousand dollars; fire-protection system, extensions, five thousand dollars; renewals and additions to one hundred and twenty-ton floating derrick, five thousand dollars; renewal of Richmonds Dock, twelve thousand dollars; natatorium, Saint Helena, four thousand five hundred dollars; purchase of land and widening of channel, Crane track, reappropriation.eighty thousand dollars; the sum of twenty thousand dollars appropriated by the *Ante,* p. 616.Act of June twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and ten, for crane track around Dry Dock Numbered Three is hereby reappropriated and made available for renewal of locomotive crane tracks; in all, navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia, three hundred and thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars.
Navy yard, Charleston, South Carolina: Charleston, S. C.Paving and grading, to continue, five thousand dollars; railroad system, extensions and improvements, five thousand dollars; toward permanently securing deep water at the entrance of the dry dock at the navy yard, sixty thousand dollars; in all, seventy thousand dollars. Naval station, Key West, Florida:Key West, Fla.Approach to Pier B, ten thousand dollars; repairs, coal shed and coal convoyers “A,” twenty- three thousand dollars; sewers, two thousand dolíais; water system, five thousand dollars ; machinery house, marine railway, two thousand dollars; repairs and foundations, Shed B, six thousand dollars; to restore dike and fill, nine thousand dollars; quay wall extension, fifty thousand dolíais; in all, one hundred and seven thousand dollars.
Navy yard, Mare Island, California:Mare Island, Cal.Improvement of hydraulics, Mare Island straits, Improving hydraulics.and so forth, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and three, Sixtieth Congress, second session, three hundred thousand dolíais: *Provided,**Proviso.*That the Secretary of the Navy may enter into a contract or contracts Contracts authorized.for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete the project, to be paid for as appropriations may, from time to time, be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate five hundred and seven thousand dollars; grading and paving, fifteen thousand dollars; railway system, extensions, ten thousand dollars; water system, extensions, five thousand dollars; electric plant, exten1276sions, five thousand dollars; pneumatic system, extensions, five thousand dollars; improvement of Quarters “1,” five thousand dollars; in all, three hundred and forty-five thousand dollars.
Navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington:Puget Sound, Wash.Dry dock, to complete, nine hundred thousand dollars; Pier Six, renewals and improvements, twenty-five thousand dollars; heating system, renewals and extensions, ten thousand dollars; water-closets for yard workmen, twelve thousand dollars; paving and walks to commence, ten thousand dollars; garbage incinerator, six thousand dollars; railroad equipment and extensions, five thousand dollars; fresh-water system, extensions, five thousand dollars; fire-protection system, extensions, ten thousand dollars; dredging, five thousand dollars; walk on Burwell Avenue, one thousand dollars; in all, navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington, nine hundred and eighty-nine thousand dollars.
Naval station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.Dredging channel, to complete, five hundred and forty-five thousand dollars; dry dock, to continue, eight hundred thousand dollars; administration building, fifty thousand dollars; power plant, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; six officers’ quarters, sixty-nine thousand dollars; fresh-water system, twenty-three thousand dollars; foundry, seventy-five thou- sand dollars; forge shop, fifty thousand dollars; combined ship fitters, metal workers, and boiler shop, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars; pipe and plumber shop, thirty-five thousand dollars; combined wood-working shop, seventy thousand dollars; water-front development, one hundred thousand dollars; naval hospital (total cost not to exceed three hundred thousand dollars), including surgeons’ quarters (cost not to exceed twenty-one thousand dollars), quarters for female nurses (cost not to exceed ten thousand dollars), stables (cost not to exceed five thousand dollars); improvement of grounds (cost not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars), seventy-five thousand dollars; in all, two million two hundred and sixty-two thousand dollars.
The Floating crane.capacity of the one hundred and ten ton floating crane authorized by the Act of Capacity increased. *Ante,* p. 616.June twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and ten, for use of Pearl Harbor, is hereby increased to one hundred and fifty tons capacity, and the limit of cost is hereby increased to three hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. Naval station, Island of Guam: Guam.Sewer system, fifteen thousand dollars; extension of naval station roads, ten thousand dollars; coal shed, Piti, one thousand dollars; wharf, Piti, three thousand dolíais; ice plant, three thousand dolíais; in all, thirty-two thousand dolíais.
Naval station, Tutuila, Samoa:Tutulla, Samoa.For the purchase of five and eleven-hundredths acres of land, more or less, at Steps Point, owned by natives, on which are located range lights, three hundred dollars. Buildings and grounds, Naval Academy:Naval Academy.For a new draw bridge across Dorsey Creek, twenty-five thousand dollars.New draw bridge. Naval training station, Rhode Island, buildings:Rhode Island training station.Repairs to Barracks *“C,” two* thousand dollars; renewals and repairs to administration building, twenty thousand dollars; additional water supply, eighteen thousand dollars; extension and renewal of water, steam, sewer, and CO, pipes and heating conduit, seven thousand five hundred dollars; additional roads, walks, and pavements in the vicinity of Barracks “C,” two thousand dollars; for moving boat- house from its present location near detention barracks to a point on the Peninsula, and preparing site for same, three thousand five hundred dollars; in all, naval training station, Rhode Island, fifty- three thousand dollars.
Naval training station, California, buildings:California training station.Garbage crematory, one thousand five hundred dollars; house for master of tugs, two thousand six hundred dollars ; in all, four thousand one hundred dollars. 1277 Naval Observatory:Naval Observatory.Grounds and roads: Continuing grading, extending roads and paths, clearing and improving grounds, five thousand dollars. Naval proving ground, Indian Head, Maryland:Indian Head proving ground, Md.For turntable, traverse table, and track, north battery, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars; rebuilding river wharf, ten thousand dollars; in all, naval proving ground, Indian Head, twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars.
Naval magazine, Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania: Fort Mifflin, Pa., naval magazine.Building for re-forming plant, six thousand dollars; installation of electric power, lighting, and telephone system, twelve thousand dollars; in all, eighteen thousand dollars. Naval magazine, New York Harbor (Iona Island): Iona Island, N. Y., naval magazine.Extension of sea (river) wall, five thousand dollars; one shell house, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, thirty thousand dollars. Naval magazine, Fort Lafayette, New York:
Fort Lafayette, N.Y., naval magazine.Construction of additional floors, making two stories in fixed-ammunition house, shell house, and shell-filling house, and extension of iron balcony on same, five thousand three hundred dollars. Naval magazine, Lake Denmark, New Jersey: Lake Denmark, N. J., naval magazine.One magazine, fifteen thousand dollars. Naval magazine, Saint Juliens Creek, Viriginia: Saint Juliens Creek, Va., naval magazine.One magazine building, fifteen thousand dollars; one shell house, twenty thousand dollars; acquiring fresh-water supply and additional fire protection, ten thousand dollars; in all, forty-five thousand dollars.
Naval magazine, Mare Island, California:Mare Island, Cal., naval magazine.For one magazine attendant’s quarters, three thousand dollars; one shell house, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, eighteen thousand dollars. For naval magazine, navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington: Puget Sound, Wash, naval magazine.One office building and laboratory, nine thousand dollars; one magazine, fifteen thousand dollars; one fixed ammunition storehouse, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, thirty-nine thousand dollars.
Naval torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: Torpedo station, Newport, R. I.Garbage crematory, three thousand dollars; fire station for hook and ladder and hose reels, two thousand dollars; stable for horses, wagons, trucks, and yard locomotive trains, five thousand dollars; water-supply pipe across harbor, six thousand dollars; new power house, toward building (cost not to exceed sixty thousand dollars) and equipping (cost not to exceed one hundred and twenty thousand dollars), sixty thousand dollars; extension of fire mains, six thousand two hundred dollars; paving, additional, five thousand dollars: in all, eighty-seven thousand two hundred dollars.
Naval magazine, Guantanamo, Cuba: Guantanamo, Cuba, naval magazine.One magazine, fifteen thousand dollars; one shell bouse, fifteen thousand dollars; one set quarters and office, eight thousand five hundred dollars; wharf, including clearing, grading, and equipment, twelve thousand five hundred dollars; in all, fifty-one thousand dollars. Naval magazine, Olongapo, Philippine Islands: Olongapo, P. I., naval magazine.One shell house, one observation magazine, one stowage shed, one marine barracks, extensions to gun-cotton house, railway track and dock, one electric generator, and for lighting grounds and quarters, twenty thousand five hundred and seventy-seven dollars.
For the extension of existing quarters, buildings, mess hall, increasing rifle-range facilities, and the improvement of target butts, Marine Corps Rifle Range, Winthrop, Md.Marine Corps Rifle Range, Winthrop, Maryland, twenty thousand dollars: *Provided,**Proviso.*That no part of said sum shall be expended for the construction of quarters for marine officersLimit for officers’ quarters.the total cost of which, exclusive of cost of piling and including the heating and plumbing apparatus, wiring, and fixtures, shall exceed in the case of quarters of a general officer the sura of fifteen thousand dollars; of a colonel or an officer1278above the rank of captain, twelve thousand dollars; and of an officer of and below the rank of captain, nine thousand dollars.
Repairs and preservation at navy yards: For repairs and preservationRepairs and preservation.at navy yards and stations, eight hundred thousand dollars. Total public works, navy yards, naval stations, naval proving grounds and magazines, Naval Academy, Naval Observatory, and Marine Corps, seven million four hundred and thirty-one thousand four hundred and seventy-seven dollars. bureau of medicine and surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Medical department: For surgeons’ necessariesSurgeons' necessaries.for vessels in commission, navy yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and for the civil establishmentCivil establishment.at the several naval hospitals, navy yards, naval medical supply depots, naval medical school, Washington, and Naval Academy, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery:Contingent.For tolls and ferriages; care, transportation, and 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 naval medical school and naval dispensary, Washington; naval medical supply depots, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks; washing for medical department at naval medical school and naval dispensary, Washington; naval medical supply depots, 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 Medical School and naval medical supply depots; 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, seventy-nine thousand dollars.
Transportation of remains: To enable the Transferring home remains of officers, etc.Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transferred to their homes the remains of officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps who die or are killed in action ashore or afloat, and also to enable the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of civilian employees who die outside of the continental limits of the United States, thirteen thousand dollars: *Provided,**Proviso.*That the sum herein appropriated shall be available for payment for transportation of the remains of officers and men who have died while on duty at any time Application of fund.since April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.
In all, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, four hundred and forty-two thousand dollars. bureau of supplies and accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. Provisions, Navy:Provisions, etc.For provisions and commuted rations for the seamen and marines, which commuted rations may be paid to caterers of messes, in case of death or desertion, upon orders of the commanding officers, commuted rations for officers on sea duty (other than commissioned officers of the line, Medical and Pay Corps, chaplains, chief boatswains, chief gunners, chief machinists, 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 to1279 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,**Provisos.*That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to commute rations for such general courts-martial prisoners in such amounts as seem to him proper, Commutation, prisoners.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 navy yards, including naval stations maintained in island possessions under the control of the United States, and expenses in handling stores purchased and manufactured under the general account of advances; and for the purchase of United States Army emergency rations, as required: *Provided further,* That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for Chemical, clerical etc., services.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 twelve, shall not exceed four hundred and forty-seven thousand five hundred and forty-four dollars and eighty-eight cents.
In all, seven million four hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts : ContingentFor fuel, books and blanks, stationery, interior fittings for general storehouses and pay offices in navy yards; coffee mills and repairs thereto; expenses of naval clothing factory and machinery for same, tolls, ferriages, yeoman's stores, safes, newspapers, and other incidental expenses, one hundred and fifty-nine thousand dollars. Freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts:Freight, Department and bureaus.All freight and express charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus, except the transportation of coal for the Bureau of Equipment, five hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars.
The permanent Naval Supply Fund Naval supply fund abolished.created by the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, Vol. 27, p. 723.as modified by the Acts of June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven,Vol. 29, pp. 370, 658.and further increased by the Acts of January fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, Vol. 30, p. 781.and February fourteenth, nineteen hundred and two, is hereby abolished, Vol. 32, p. 17.and of the sum remaining on the books of the Treasury to the credit of the said fund after the adjustment of all liabilities, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to cause the sum of one million five hundred thousand dollars transferred to the credit of said fund from the General Account of Advances to be returned to General Account of Advances, and the remainder to be covered into the Treasury; and hereafter the Naval supply account to govern disposition of stores.Naval Supply Account for the Naval Establishment, as created by the Act of June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, *Ante,* p. 792.under the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, shall govern the charging, crediting, receipt, purchase, transfer, manufacture, repair, issue, and consumption of all stores for the Naval Establishment, excepting the materials named in that Act and such other materials as the Secretary of the Navy may designate: *Provided,**Proviso.*That the amount expended under General Account of Advances for the purchase and manufacture of stores and materials for the Naval Establishment shall not exceedLimitation.the amount available for such purposes. 1280 BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR.Bureau of Construction and Repair.
Construction and repair of vessels:Construction and repair of vessels.For preservation and completion of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; steam steerers, pneumatic steerers, steam capstans, steam windlasses, and all other auxiliaries; labor in navy yards and on foreign stations; purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops; carrying on work of experimental model tank; designing naval vessels ; construction and repair of yard craft, lighters, and barges; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat; general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; incidental expenses for vessels and navy yards, inspectors’ offices, such as photographing, books, professional magazines, plans, stationery, and instruments for drafting room, and for pay of classified force under the bureau, eight million four hundred and seventy- nine thousand one hundred and forty-four dollars: *Provided,**Provisos.*That no part of this sum shall be applied to the repair of any wooden shipWooden ships.when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed ten per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material:
Other ships.*Provided further,* That no part of this sum shall be applied to the repair of any other ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed twenty per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material: Repairs of ships in foreign waters.*Provided further,* That nothing herein contained shall deprive the Secretary of the Navy of the authority to order repairs of ships damaged in foreign waters or on the high seas, so far as may be necessary to bring them home.
And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to make expenditures from appropriate funds under the various bureaus for repairs and changesRepairs to specified vessels.on the vessels herein named, in an amount not to exceed the sum specified for each vessel, respectively, as follows: Georgia, five hundred thousand dollars; Virginia, five hundred thousand dollars; Arethusa, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars; Iroquois, twenty-five thousand dollars; Nero, forty-five thousand dollars;
Nanshan, fifty-five thousand dollars; in all, one million two hundred and forty-five thousand dollars, as per the letter of the Acting Secretary of the Navy contained in House Document Numbered One thousand two hundred and twenty-one, Sixty-first Congress, third session, concerning repairs to certain naval vessels: *Provided further,* Clerical, etc., services.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 constructora, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, shall not exceed eight hundred and eight thousand and thirty-nine dollars.
Improvement of construction plants:Construction plants.For repairs and improvement of plant at navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Portsmouth, N. H.fifteen thousand dollars. For repairs and improvement of plant at navy yard, Boston, Massachusetts, Boston, Mass.twenty thousand dollars. For repairs and improvement of plant at navy yard, New York, New York, New York, N.Y.twenty thousand dollars. For repairs and improvement of plant at navy yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.fifteen thousand dollars.
For repairs and improvement of plant at navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia, Norfolk, Va.twelve thousand dollars. For repairs and improvement of plant at navy yard, Charleston, South Carolina, Charleston, S. C.twenty thousand dollars. For repaira and improvement of plant at navy yard, Mare Island, California, Mare Island. Cal.fifteen thousand dollars. 1281 BUREAU OF STEAM ENGINEERING.Bureau of Steam Engineering. Steam machinery:Steam machinery.For completion, repairing, and preservation . of 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 and for pay of classified force under the bureau, four million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For purchase, handling, and preservation of all materialMaterials, etc.and stores; purchase, fitting, repair, and preservation of machinery and tools in navy yards and stations, and running yard engines, two million dollars. For incidental Incidentals.expenses for navy vessels, yards, the engineering experiment station, such as photographing, books, stationery, technical books, periodicals, engineering indices, and instruments, six thousand dollars. *Provided,**Proviso.*That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation “Steam machinery,” under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for Clerical, etc., services.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 twelve, shall not exceed four hundred thousand dollars.
In all, steam machinery, six million two hundred and fifty-six thousand dollars. Engineering experiment station, Engineering experiment station, Naval Academy.United States Naval Academy, Annapolis. Maryland—Experimental and research work: For original investigation and extended experimentation of naval appliances; and for the purchase of such machines and auxiliaries considered applica ble for test and use in the naval service, and for maintenance of buildings and grounds, forty thousand dollars.
EquipmentEquipment.of building: To complete the installation of steam, air, and water lines and electric circuit; for modification of trenches, foundations for machinery; for purchase and installation of additional boiler, forty-two thousand dollars. Completion of boiler house, Boiler house.fifty thousand dollars. Six cottages for firemen, Cottages for fire men.one thousand dollars each, six thousand dolíais. In all, engineering experiment station, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, one hundred and thirty-eight thousand dollars.
NAVAL ACADEMY.Naval Academy. Pay of professors and others, Naval Academy:Pay of professors, etc.One professor as head of the department of physics, three thousand six hundred dollars. One professor of mathematics, one of mechanical drawing, one of English, one of French, and one of Spanish, at three thousand dollars each. Three professors, namely, one of English, one of French, and one of Spanish, at two thousand six hundred and forty dollars each. Five instructors, at two thousand four hundred dollars each.
Four instructors, at two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars each. Ten instructors, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each. One swordmaster, one thousand six hundred dollars; one assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; and two assistants, at one thousand dollars each: two instructors in physical training, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, and one assistant instructor in physical training, at one thousand dollars; and one instructor in1282gymnastics, one thousand two hundred dollars: one assistant librarian, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; one cataloguer, one thousand two hundred dollars; and two shelf assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; one secretary of the Naval Academy, two thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, one thousand five hundred dollars each; four clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two writers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one draftsman, one thousand two hundred dolíais; one surveyor, one thousand two hundred dollars; one dentist, two thousand five hundred and twenty dollars; services of organist at chapel, three hundred dollars; one captain of the watch, nine hundred and twenty- four dollars; one second captain of the watch, eight hundred and twenty-eight dollars; twenty-two watchmen, at seven hundred and thirty-two dollars each.
In all, pay of professors and others, Naval Academy, one hundred and twenty-two thousand eight hundred and seventy-six dollars. Department of ordnance and gunnery:Department of ordnance and gunnery.One mechanic, nine hundred and sixty dollars, and one at seven hundred and fifty dollars; one armorer, six hundred and sixty dollars: one chief gunner’s mate, five hundred and forty dollars; three quarter gunners, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, four thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
Departments of electrical engineering and physics: Departments of electrical engineering and physics.Two electrical machinists, at one thousand dollars each; one mechanic, seven hundred and thirty dollars, and one at seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, three thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. Department of seamanship: Department of seamanship.One coxswain, four hundred and eighty dollars; three seamen, at four hundred and twenty dollars each ; in all, one thousand seven hundred and forty dollars.
Department of marine engineering and naval construction:Department of marine engineering and naval construction.One master machinist, one thousand eight hundred dollars, and one assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars: one pattern maker, one thousand two hundred dollars; one boiler maker, one blacksmith, three machinists, one molder, and one coppersmith, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; one draftsman, two thousand dollars; machinists and other employees, six thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight dollars; in all, twenty thousand five hundred and twentyeight dollars.
Commissary department: Commissary department.One chief cook, one thousand two hundred dollars; four cooks, at six hundred dollars each, and eight assistants, at three hundred dollars each; one steward, one thousand two hundred dollars, and one assistant, six hundred dollars; one head waiter, seven hundred and twenty dollars, and two assistants, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; two pantry men, at four hundred and twenty dollars each; one chief baker, one thousand two hundred dollars; one baker, six hundred dollars; two assistants, at five hundred and forty dollars each, and one assistant, four hundred and twenty dollars; necessary waiters, at sixteen dollars per month each, thirteen thousand four hundred and forty dollars; one messenger to the superintendent, six hundred dollars; twenty-five attendants, at three hundred dollars each; in all, thirty-five thousand one hundred and sixty dolíais.
In all, civil establishment, one hundred and eighty-eight thousand one hundred and four dolíais. Current and miscellaneous expenses, Naval Academy:Contingent expenses.Text and reference books for use of instructors; stationery, blank books and forms, models, maps, and periodicals; apparatus and materials for instruction in physical training and athletics; expenses of lectures, including pay and expenses of lecturer; chemicals, philo1283sophical apparatus and instruments, stores, machinery, tools, fittings, apparatus, and materials for instruction purposes, thirty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.
Purchase, binding, and repair of books for the libraryLibrary.(to be purchased in the open market on the written order of the superintendent), two thousand dollars. Expenses of the Board of VisitorsBoard 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 clerk hire, carriages, and other incidental and necessary expenses of the board, three thousand dollars. For contingencies for the superintendent Superintendent.of the academy, to be expended in his discretion, two thousand dollars.
In all, current and miscellaneous expenses, forty-five thousand five hundred dollars. Maintenance, Naval Academy: For general maintenanceMaintenance.at the Naval Academy, namely: For books, periodicals, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines; fire apparatus and plants machinery; purchase and maintenance of all horses and vehicles for use at the academy; seeds and plants; tools and repairs of the same; stationery; furniture for Government buildings and offices at the academy; coal and other fuel; candles, oil, and gas; attendance on light and power plants; cleaning and clearing up station and care of buildings; attendance on fires, lights, fire engines, fire apparatus, and plants, and telephone, telegraph, and clock systems; incidental labor; advertising, water tax, postage, telephones, telegrams, tolls, and ferriage; flags and awnings; packing boxes; fuel for heating and lighting bandsmen’s quarters; pay of inspectors and draftsmen; music, musical and astronomical instruments; and for the pay of employees on leave, two hundred and ten thousand dollars.
Rent of buildings for the use of the academy and commutation of rentRent, etc.for bandsmen at eight dollars per month each, four thousand one hundred and sixteen dollars. Repairs, Naval Academy: Necessary repairsRepairs.of public buildings, wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, improvements, repairs, furniture, and fixtures, one hundred thousand dollars. In all, maintenance, three hundred and fourteen thousand one hundred and sixteen dollars. Memorials, Naval Academy:Memorials.To complete the installation, and for the care, preservation, and display of memorials and other objects of historic interestInstallation,etc., of historic.and value at the Naval Academy, three thousand dollars.
That the Secretary of the Navy shall have estimates, plans, and specifications prepared for the completion of the cryptJohn Paul Jones.of the chapel at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, as a permanent resting place for the body of John Paul Jones, Plans, etc., for permanent resting place of remains of, to be submitted.the cost of said crypt and furnishing of same, including architect’s fee and all other expenses of every character connected therewith, not to exceed the sum hereinafter appropriated, said plans and specifications to be approved by the Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy and the Secretary of the Navy.
That the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, Amount for furnishing crypt, etc.or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the completion and furnishing of said crypt in accordance with said plans and specifications. In all, Naval Academy, six hundred and twenty-five thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars. 1284 MARINE CORPS.Marine Corps. Pay, Marine Corps: For payPay.and allowances prescribed by law of officersOfficers.on the active list, including clerks for assistant paymasters, five in all, nine hundred and twenty-two thousand seven hundred and seventy-three dollars.
For pay of officers prescribed by law, on the retired listRetired list.: For two major generals, seven brigadier generals, four colonels, seven lieu- tenant colonels, eight majors, ten 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 sixty-two thousand dollars. Pay of enlisted menEnlisted men., active list:
Pay of noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, as prescribed by law; and the number of enlisted men shall be exclusive of those undergoing imprisonment with sentence of dishonorable discharge from the service at expiration of such confinement, and for the expenses of clerks of the United States Marine Corps traveling under orders, and including additional compensation for enlisted men of the Marine Corps regularly detailed as gun pointers, mess sergeants, cooks, messmen, signalmen, or holding good-conduct medals, pins, or bars, including interests on deposits by enlisted men, post exchange debts of deserters, under such rules as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, 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 seven hundred and fifty-two thousand six hundred and twenty-two dollars.
For pay and allowances prescribed by law of enlisted men on the retired listRetired enlisted men.: For three sergeant majors, one drum major, thirty-four gunnery sergeants, twenty-seven quartermaster sergeants, twenty- five first sergeants, fifty-seven sergeants, eleven corporals, twenty first-class musicians, two drummers, three trumpeters, and twenty- seven privates, and for those who may be retired during the fiscal year, one hundred and thirty-nine thousand and five dollars.
Undrawn clothing:Undrawn clothing.For payment to discharged soldiers for clothing undrawn, one hundred and eighty-five thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars. Mileage: For mileage to officers Mileage to officers.traveling under orders without troops, fifty-five thousand dollars. For commutation of quarters of officersCommutation of quarters, officers without troops.on duty without troops where there are no public quartern, thirty-three thousand five hundred dollars. Pay of civil force:Civil force.In the office of the Major General Commandant:
One chief clerk, at two thousand dollars; one clerk, at one thou- sand four 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 eight hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars. In the office of the adjutant and inspector: One chief clerk, at one thousand eight 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 two thousand 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 thou1285sand four hundred dollars each; one clerk, for duty in the Philippine Islands in the Quartermaster’s Department, at one thousand four hundred dollars.
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, Disbursements.thirty thousand three hundred and eleven dollars and twenty-eight cents; and the money herein specifically appropriated for pay of the Marine Corps shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law as pay of the Marine Corps, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund.
In all, pay, Marine Corps, four million two hundred and eighty- one thousand and one dollars and twenty-eight cents. Provisions, Marine Corps:Provisions.For noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates serving ashore, for subsistence of enlisted men when traveling on duty, or cash in lieu thereof; for commutation of rations to enlisted men regularly detailed as clerks and messengers; for payment of board and lodging of recruiting parties; transportation of provisions, and the employment of necessary labor connected therewith; and for ice for preservation of rations, eight hundred and twenty thousand 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,**Proviso.*That when it is impracticable or the expense is found greater to supply marines servingNavy ration or commutation.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: Clothing.For noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates authorized by law, seven hundred and twenty-five thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars. Fuel, Marine Corps:Fuel.For heating barracks and quarters, for ranges and stoves for cooking, fuel for enlisted men, for sales to officers, maintaining electric lights, one hundred and fifty-seven thousand dollars. Military stores, Marine Corps: Military stores.Pay of chief armorer, at four dollars per day; one mechanic, at three dollars per day; two mechanics, at two dollars and fifty cents each per day; one chief electrician, at four dollars per day, and one assistant electrician, at three dollars and fifty cents per day; per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor for a period of not less than ten days; 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 officers of the day, spare parts for repairing rifles, purchase and repair of tents, field cots, field ovens, and stoves for tents; purchase and repair of instruments for bands, purchase of music and musical accessories; purchase and marking of prizes for excellence in gunnery and rifle practice; good-conduct badges; medals awarded to officers and enlisted men by the Government for conspicuous, gallant, and special service; for incidental expenses of the School of Application; for the construction, equipment, and maintenance of school, library, and amusement rooms and gymnasiums for enlisted men, and the purchase and repair of all articles of field sports for enlisted men; purchase and repair of signal equipment and stores; for the establishment and maintenance of targets and ranges, and renting ranges, and for entrance fees in competitions; 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. 1286 Springfield rifles.For the purchase of Springfield rifles from the United States Army, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.Purchase from Army.
Transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps: Transportation and recruiting.For transportation 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 of barracks, Marine Corps: Repairs and improvements to barracksRepairs of barracks.and quarters at Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Boston, Massachusetts;
Narragansett Station, Rhode Island; New York, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Annapolis, Maryland; Headquarters and navy yard, District of Columbia; Norfolk, Virginia; Port Royal and Charleston, South Carolina; Pensacola, Florida; New Orleans, Louisiana; Mare Island and San Francisco, California; Bremerton, Washington: Sitka, Alaska; and Isthmus of Panama; for the renting, leasing, improvement, and erection of buildings in Porto Rico, the Territory of Hawaii, the Philippine Islands, at Guam, the District of Columbia, and at such other places as the public exigencies require; and for per diem to enlisted men employed under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department on the repair of barracks, quarters, and the other public buildings, one hundred and ten thousand dollars.
Forage, Marine Corps: For forageForage. in kind and stabling for horses of the Quartermaster’s Department and the authorized number of officers’ horses, twenty-four thousand two hundred dollars. Commutation of quarters, Marine Corps:Commutation of quarters, officers with troops, etc. For commutation 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; eighty thousand five hundred dollars.
Contingent, Marine Corps: Contingent.For freight, tolls, cartage, advertising, washing of bed sacks, mattress covers, pillowcases, towels, and sheets, funeral expenses of officers and marines, including the transportation of bodies and their arms and wearing apparel from the place of demise to the homes of the deceased in the United States; stationery and other paper, printing and binding; telegraphing, rent of telephones; purchase and repair of typewriters; apprehension of stragglers and deserters; per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor for a period of not less than ten days; employment of civilian labor; repair of gas and water fixtures; office and barracks furniture, camp and garrison equipage and implements; mess utensils for enlisted men, such as bowls, plates, spoons, knives and forks, 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, repair, and maintenance of such harness, wagons, motor wagons, carts, drays, and other vehicles as are required tor the transportation of troops and supplies and for official military and garrison purposes: purchase of public horses and mules; services of veterinary surgeons. and medicines for public animals, and the authorized number of officers’ horses; purchase of mounts and horse equipment for all officers below the grade of major required to be mounted; shoeing for public animals and the authorized number of officers’ horses; purchase and repair of hose, purchase and repair of fire extinguishers, purchase of fire hand grenades; purchase and repair of carts, wheel1287barrows, 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, but impossible to anticipate or classify, four hundred and forty-five thousand dollars. *Provided,**Proviso.*That the accounting officers of the TreasuryMotor vehicles, etc.are hereby authorized and directed to remove any disallowances or suspensions in the accounts of Disbursing Assistant Quartermasters, United States Marine Corps, Disallowances for purchase, etc., removed.for the fiscal years of nineteen hundred and ten and nineteen hundred and eleven, for the purchase, maintenance, repair and operation of motor and other vehicles, including the purchase and repair of harness, stable equipment and accessories of the Quartermaster’s Department, United States Marine Corps, when approved by the Secretary of the Navy as necessary for the public service.
Total under quartermaster, Marine Corps, three million ninety-two thousand three hundred and fifty-seven dollars. Total Marine Corps, exclusive of public works, seven million three hundred and seventy-two thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight dollars and twenty-eight cents. INCREASE OF THE NAVY.Increase of the Navy. That, for the purpose of further increasing the Naval EstablishmentTwo firstclass battleships.of the United States, the President is hereby authorized to have constructed two first-class battleships, each carrying as heavy armor and as powerful armament as any vessel of its class, to have the highest practicable speed and the greatest practicable radius of action, and to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not to exceed six million dollars each.
Two fleet colliers, Two fleet colliers.of fourteen knots trial speed when carrying not less than twelve thousand five hundred tons of cargo and bunker coal, to cost not to exceed one million dollars each. Eight torpedo-boat destroyers, Eight torpedo-boat destroyers.to have the highest practicable speed, and to cost not to exceed eight hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars each. Four submarine torpedo boats, Submarine torpedoboats.in an amount not exceeding in the aggregate two million dollars, and the sum of eight hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriatedAppropriation.for said purpose: *Provided,**Proviso.*That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the construction of any boat by any person, firm or corporation which has not at the time of the commencement and construction of said vessels established an Eight-hour workday restriction.eight-hour workday for all employees, laborers and mechanics engaged, or to be engaged in the construction of the vessels named herein.
One submarine tender,Submarine tender.to cost not to exceed five hundred thousand dollars, and the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated Appropriation. toward said purpose. One gunboat, Gunboat. to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not to exceed five hundred thousand dollars. One river gunboat, River gunboat.to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not to exceed two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. Two seagoing tugs, Seagoing tugs.to cost not to exceed two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars each. 1288 Construction and machinery :
Construction and machinery.On account of hulls and outfits of vessels and steam machinery of vessels heretofore and herein authorized, thirteen million five hundred and thirty-one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five dollars and seventy-nine cents: *Provided,**Provisos.*That no part of this appropriation for the construction and machinery of battleships shall be expended for construction of any battleships by any person, firm or corporation which has not at the time of the commencement and during the construction of said vessels established an eight-hourEight-hour workday restriction on contracts for battleships.workday for all employees, laborers and mechanics engaged, or to be engaged in the construction of the vessels named herein: *Provided,* That this limitationPrior contracts excluded.shall not apply to payments to be made under contracts made prior to the approval of this Act: *Provided,* That the limit of cost of the collierCollier to be built on Pacific coast.authorized and directed by the naval appropriation Limit of cost increased.Act, approved May thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, Vol. 35, p. 158.to be built in such Government yard on the Pacific coast as the Secretary of the Navy *Ante,* p. 629.shall direct, is hereby increased from the modified mdlion dollar limit of cost imposed by the Act of June twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and ten, to one million two hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of indirect charges.
Increase of the Navy; torpedo boats : Torpedo boats.On account of submarine torpedo boats and subsurface destroyers, heretofore authorized, eight hundred and ninety thousand eight hundred and thirty-three dollars and eighty-eight cents: *Provided,**Provisos.*That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the construction of any boat by any person, firm or corporation which has not at the time of the commencement and during the construction of said vessels established an eight-hour workdayEight-hour workday restriction on contracts for torpedo boats, etc.for all employees, laborers, mechanics engaged in doing the work for which this appropriation is made: *Provided,* Not applicable to vessels previously ordered.That this limitation shall not apply to payments to be made upon vessels authorized prior to the approval of this Act.
Armor and armament:Armor and armament.Toward the armor and armament for vessels authorized, ten million five hundred and thirty-two thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight dollars: *Provided,**Provisos.*That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for armorArmor contracts.for vessels except upon contracts tor 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 further,* Purchase from trust combinations, etc., forbidden.That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of armor or armament from any persons, firms or corporations, that have entered into any combination, agreement, conspiracy 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 furnishing of any of said armor or armament.
The limit of cost, exclusive of armor and armament, of the battleship Florida, “Florida.” battleship.authorized by the Limit of cost at navy yard increased.naval appropriation Act approved May thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, Vol. 35, p. 158.to be built in a Government navy yard, is hereby increased from six million dollars to six million four hundred thousand dollars; and the limit of cost, exclusive of armor and armament, of the battleship authorized and directed by the naval appropriation Act approved June twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and ten, to be constructed in one of the naw yards, is hereby increased to six million four hundred thousandLimit increased for battleship to be built at navy yard.dollars, exclusive of indirect charges.*Ante.* p. 628.
Total increase of the Navy, twenty-six million five thousand five hundred and forty-seven dollars and sixty-seven cents. *Provided,* That no part of any sum hereby appropriated Use for Department, clerical, etc., force, forbidden.under “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. 1289That no part of any sum appropriatedSpecific authority required for.by this Act shall be used for any expense of the Navy Department at Washington unless specific authority is given by law for such expenditure. *Provided,**Proviso.*That no part of any sum herein appropriated shall be expended for the purchaseNo pu reliases of steel, armor, etc., from combinations in restraint of trade.of structural steel, ship plates, armor, armament or machinery from any persons, firms or corporations who have combined or conspired to monopolize the interstate or foreign commerce or trade of the United States, or the commerce or trade between the States and any Territory or the District of Columbia, in any of the articles aforesaid, and no purchase of structural steel, ship plates or machinery shall be made at a price in excess of a reasonable profit above the actual cost of manufacture.
Not applicable to existing contracts.But this limitation shall in no case apply to any existing contract. By a joint resolution of San Francisco, Cal., celebration.Congress the President of the United States has been authorized and respectfully requested, by a proclamation or in such maimer as he may deem proper, Invitation to foreign countries to participate in.to invite all foreign countries and nations to attend and participate in an exposition at the city and county of San Francisco, California, on or about the first day of January, *Post,* p. 1454. nineteen hundred and fifteen, to celebrate the completion and opening of the Panama Canal, and also the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of the Pacific Ocean.
The President is further authorized and respectfully requested, in extending his invitation to the foreign nations in pursuance of the Assembling of fleets at Hampton Roads.aforesaid joint resolution of Congress, to invite their representatives and their fleets to assemble at Hampton Roads, Virginia, and from thence come to the city of Washington, there to be formally welcomed by the President; and, at the conclusion of the ceremonies at Washington, the President is requested to proceed to Hampton Roads and there review the assembled fleets as they start on their voyage to the city of San Francisco.
Approved, March 4, 1911.