Chapter 361. Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 361.— An Act Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, and for other purposes. June 23, 1910.[[H. R. 17500](/us/bill/61/hr/17500).][[Public, No. 247](/us/pl/61/247).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Fortifications appropriations. That the sums of money herein provided for be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be available until expended, namely:
FORTIFICATIONS AND OTHER WORKS OF DEFENSE. Engineer Department. under the engineer department. Fire-control stations. For construction of fire-control stations and accessories, including purchase of lands and rights of way, and for the purchase and installation of necessary lines and means of electrical communication, including telephones, dial and other telegraphs, wiring and all special instruments, apparatus, and materials, coast signal apparatus, and salaries of electrical experts, engineers, and other necessary employees connected Range finders, etc. with the use of coast artillery; for the purchase, manufacture, and test of range finders and other instruments for fire control at the fortifications, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, two hundred thousand dollars.
Searchlights. For purchase and installation of searchlights for the defenses of our most important harbors, fifty thousand dollars. Preservation, etc. For the protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications for which there may be no special appropriation available three hundred thousand dollars. Plans. For preparation of plans for fortifications, five thousand dollars. Electric plants. For tools, electrical and engine supplies and appliances, to be furnished by the Engineer Department, for the use of the troops for maintaining and operating electric light and power plants in gun and mortar batteries, forty-five thousand dollars.
Torpedo structures. For preservation and repair of structures erected for the torpedo defense of the United States, twenty thousand dollars. 597 under the chief signal officer. Signal Service. For operation and maintenance of fire-control installations at Fire-control installations. seacoast defenses, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. armament of fortifications. Armament. For the purchase, manufacture, and test of mountain, field, and Mountain, field, and siege cannon. siege cannon, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, six hundred thousand dollars.
For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for mountain, Ammunition. field, and siege cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast Ammunition for seacoast cannon. cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, one hundred and forty thousand dollars.
For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition, subcaliber Ammunition for seacoast artillery practice. guns, and other accessories for seacoast artillery practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, four hundred and forty thousand dollars. For the alteration and maintenance of the mobile artillery, including Altering mobile artillery, etc. the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work and the expenses of the mechanics engaged thereon, sixty thousand dollars.
For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition, subcaliber Ammunition for field, etc., artillery practice. guns, and other accessories for mountain, field, and siege artillery practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. For the alteration of three and two-tenths inch batteries to rapid-fire Altering to rapid-fire batteries, etc. field batteries, including sights, implements, equipments, and the materials and machinery necessary for alteration and manufacture at the arsenals, one hundred thousand dollars.
For the alteration and maintenance of the seacoast artillery, Altering, etc., seacoast artillery. including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, materials necessary for the work, and expenses of the civilian mechanics and extra-duty pay of enlisted men engaged thereon, three hundred and seventy thousand dollars. proving ground, sandy hook, new jersey. Sandy Hook proving ground. For current expenses of the ordnance proving ground, Sandy Hook, Expenses, etc. New Jersey, comprising the maintenance of rail and water transportation, repairs, alterations, accessories, and service of employees incidental to testing and proving ordnance material, hire of assistants for the Ordnance Board, purchase of instruments and articles required for testing and experimental work, building and repairing butts and targets, clearing and grading ranges, fifty-six thousand two hundred dollars.
For the necessary expenses of officers while temporarily employed on Temporary employment. Per diem, etc. ordnance duties at the proving ground and absent from their proper station, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per diem while so employed, and the compensation of draftsmen while employed in the Army Ordnance Bureau on ordnance construction, eighteen thousand seven hundred dollars. submarine mines. Submarine mines. For the purchase of submarine mines and necessary appliances to Purchases, etc. operate them for closing the channels leading to our principal sea-598ports, Fort Totten, N.Y.
Repair shop, torpedo depot. and continuing torpedo experiments; for the purchase of the necessary machinery, tools, and implements for the repair shop of the torpedo depot at Fort Totten, New York, and for extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days on work in connection with the issue, receipt, and care of submarine mining material at the torpedo depot, fifty-eight thousand dollars. Insular possessions. FORTIFICATIONS IN INSULAR POSSESSIONS.
Engineer Department. engineer department. Philippine Islands. For construction of seacoast batteries, as follows: Seacoast batteries. *Proviso*. Contracts. In the Philippine Islands, eight hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That contracts may be entered into, under the direction of the Secretary of War, for materials and work for construction of seacoast batteries in the Philippine Islands, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, for an additional sum not to exceed four hundred and nineteen thousand dollars.
Electric plants. For installation of light and power plants at the defenses of the following localities: In the Philippine Islands, forty-five thousand dollars. Searchlights. For purchase and installation of searchlights for the defenses of most important harbors, as follows: In the Philippine Islands, one hundred and thirty-nine thousand dollars. Preservation, etc. For protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications at the following localities: In the Philippine Islands, seven thousand dollars.
Torpedo structures. For preservation and repair of structures erected for torpedo defense at the following localities: In the Philippine Islands, one thousand dollars. Operating power plants. For tools, electrical and other supplies and appliances, to be furnished by the Engineer Department for the use of the troops for maintaining and operating gun and mortar batteries— In the Philippine Islands, two thousand five hundred dollars. Signal Service. under the chief signal officer.
Fire-control installations. For operation and maintenance of fire-control installations at seacoast defenses, twenty thousand dollars. Armament. ordnance department. Seacoast cannon. For the purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon for coast defense, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, to cost ultimately not more than seven hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, five hundred thousand dollars.
Ammunition. For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, three hundred thousand dollars. Altering, etc., seacoast artillery. For the alteration and maintenance of the seacoast artillery, including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work, and expenses of the civilian mechanics and extra-duty pay of enlisted men engaged thereon, forty-one thousand eight hundred dollars.
Installing seacoast artillery. For the mechanical supervision of the installation of seacoast artillery, including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work, and expenses of civilian 599 mechanics and extra-duty pay of enlisted men engaged thereon, eight thousand two hundred dollars. For the purchase, manufacture, and test of land turrets for coast Land turrets for coast defense. defense, including their armor, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, six hundred and twenty-four thousand eight hundred dollars.
That all material purchased under the provisions of this Act shall Materials to be of American manufacture. be of American manufacture, except in cases when, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, it is to the manifest interest of the United States to make purchases in limited quantities abroad, which material shall be admitted free of duty. office of chief of artillery. Chief of Artillery. For construction of fire-control stations and accessories, including Fire-control stations, etc. purchase of lands and rights of way, and for the purchase and installation of necessary lines and means of electrical communications, including telephones, dial and other telegraphs, wiring and all special instruments, apparatus and materials, coast signal apparatus, and salaries of electrical experts, engineers, and other necessary employees connected with the use of coast artillery; for the purchase, manufacture, Range finders. and test of range finders and other instruments for fire control at the fortifications, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, two hundred thousand dollars.
BOARD OF ORDNANCE AND FORTIFICATION. Board of Ordnance and Fortification. To enable the board to make all needful and proper purchases, Purchases, etc. experiments, and tests to ascertain, with a view to their utilization by the Government, the most effective guns, small arms, cartridges, projectiles, fuses, explosives, torpedoes, armor plates, and other implements and engines of war, and to purchase or cause to be manufactured, under authority of the Secretary of War, such guns, carriages, armor plates, and other war material as may, in the judgment of the board, be necessary in the proper discharge of the duty devolved upon it by the Act approved September twenty-second, Vol. 25, p. 489. eighteen hundred and eighty-eight; to pay the salary of the civilian Civilian member.
Salary. Vol. 26, p. 769. member of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification provided by the Act of February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for the necessary traveling expenses of said member when traveling on duty as contemplated in said Act; for the payment of the Per diem, etc. necessary expenses of the board, including a per diem allowance to each officer detailed to serve thereon, when employed on duty away from his permanent station, of two dollars and fifty cents a day; and for the test of experimental guns, carriages, and other devices procured in accordance with the recommendation of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification, twenty-five thousand dollars, the expenditure of which shall be made by the several bureaus of the War Department heretofore having jurisdiction of the same, or by the board itself, as the Secretary of War may direct: *Provided*, That *Proviso*.
Right to use inventions. before any money shall be expended in the construction or test of any gun, gun carriage, ammunition, or implements under the supervision of the said board, the board shall be satisfied, after due inquiry, that the Government of the United States has a lawful right to use the inventions involved in the construction of such gun, gun carriage, ammunition, or implements, or that the construction or test is made at the request of a person either having such lawful right or authorized to convey the same to the Government.
Approved, June 23, 1910.