Chapter 378. Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 378.— An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, and for other purposes. June 24, 1910.[[H. R. 23311](/us/bill/61/hr/23311).][[Public, No. 261](/us/pl/61/261).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be, Naval service appropriations. and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the naval service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, and for other purposes. pay of the navy.
Pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on sea duty and Pay of Navy. other duty; officers on waiting orders; officers on the retired list; clerks to paymasters at yards and stations, general storekeepers and receiving ships, and other vessels; two clerks to general inspectors of Pay Corps; one clerk to pay officer in charge of deserters’ rolls; commutation of quarters for officers on shore not occupying public quarters, including boatswains, gunners, carpenters, sailmakers, 606 machinists, pharmacists, and mates, and also naval constructors and assistant naval constructors; for hire of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them, or commutation of quarters not to exceed the amount which an officer would receive were he not serving with troops; pay of enlisted men on the retired list; extra pay to men reenlisting under honorable discharge; interest on deposits by men; pay of petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and apprentice seamen, including men in the engineers’ force and men detailed for duty with Naval Militia, and for the Fish Commission, forty-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 Machinists. of such confinement; and as many machinists 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-three million six hundred and sixty-five thousand five hundred and thirty-six dollars.
Paymasters’ clerks. Vol. 35, p. 128, amended. The provision of the Act approved May thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine,” relating to the pay of paymasters’ clerks, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: " Pay and allowances. Retired pay, etc. “All paymasters’ clerks shall, while holding appointment in accordance with law, receive the same pay and allowances and have the same rights of retirement as warrant officers of like length of service in the navy.
” " Nurse corps (female). Commutation of quarters. Payments allowed. The Secretary of the Navy is authorized, in his discretion, to allow members of the Nurse Corps (female) of the navy fifteen dollars per month in lieu of quarters when government quarters are not available, and that the accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow in the accounts of disbursing officers of the navy all payments heretofore made by them in accordance with orders of the Secretary of the Navy for commutation of quarters to members of the Nurse Corps (female) of the navy at the rate herein specified.
Pay, miscellaneous. pay, miscellaneous. Schedule of, and allowances, to be sent to Congress. The Secretary of the Navy shall send to Congress at the beginning of its next regular session a complete schedule or list showing the amount in money of all pay under the provisions of this Act and for all allowances for each grade of officers in the Navy, including retired officers, and for all officers included in this Act and for all enlisted men so included. 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, 607 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 of drinking water onshore (except at naval hospitals), telephone rentals and tolls, telegrams, cablegrams, and postage, foreign and domestic, and post-office box rentals; and other necessary and incidental expenses: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, *Proviso*.
Allowance for clerical, etc., service. under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, inspection, and messenger service in navy-yards, naval stations, and purchasing pay offices for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, shall not exceed two hundred and fifty-four thousand six hundred and fifty-four dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, eight hundred and sixty-eight thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. Contingent, navy: For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, Contingent. exclusive of personal services in the Navy Department, or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at Washington, District of Columbia, arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, to be expended on the approval and authority of the Secretary of the Navy, and for such purposes as he may deem proper, seventy-six thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the accounting officers *Provisos*.
Civilian employees. of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow, in the settlement of accounts of disbursing officers involved, payments made under the appropriation “Contingent, navy,” to civilian employees appointed by the Navy Department for duty in and serving at naval stations maintained in the island possessions during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven: *Provided further*, That thirty thousand Establishing accounting and cost of work offices. dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary of this appropriation, shall be used for the hire of expert accountants for establishing accounting and cost of work offices at navy-yards and stations according to the plan and methods established at the Boston Navy-Yard: *Provided further*, That in fixing the cost of work under the various naval appropriations, the direct and indirect charges incident thereto shall be included in such cost: *And provided further*, That the Bureau Accounts to show cost, etc. of Supplies and Accounts shall keep the money accounts of the naval establishment in such manner as to show such charges and shall report the same annually for the information of Congress, and for no other purposes.
The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to consider, ascertain, Collisions with naval vessels. Adjustment of claims for damages. adjust and determine the amounts due on all claims for damages, where the amount of the claim does not exceed the sum of five hundred dollars, hereafter occasioned by collision, for which collisions vessels of the navy shall be found to be responsible, and report the amounts so ascertained and determined to be due the claimants to Congress at each session thereof through the Treasury Department for payment as legal claims out of appropriations that may be made by Congress therefor.
The pay and allowances of chiefs of bureaus of the Navy Department Chiefs of bureaus. Pay, etc. Rank, etc., after 30 years’ service. shall be the highest shore-duty pay and allowances of the rear-admiral of the lower nine; and all officers of the navy who are now serving or shall hereafter serve as chief of bureau in the Navy Department and are eligible for retirement after thirty years’ service, shall have, while on the active list, the rank, title, and emoluments of 608 a chief of bureau, in the same manner as is already provided by statute law for such officers upon retirement by reason of age or length of service, and such officers, after thirty years’ service, shall be Commissions. entitled to and shall receive new commissions in accordance with the rank and title hereby conferred.
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 enroute, or cash in lieu thereof, transportation of sick or insane enlisted men and apprentice seamen to hospitals, with subsistence and transfers enroute, or cash in lieu thereof; apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, and for railway guides and other expenses incident to transportation, eight hundred and seventy-three thousand and ninety-five 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 *Proviso*. Certificate of age required. parties, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars: *Provided*, 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 birth or a verified written statement by the parents, or either of them, or in case of their death a verified written statement by the legal guardian, be first furnished to the recruiting officer, showing applicant to be of age, required by naval regulations, which shall be Oath, of applicant. 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 applicant as to age is Discharge, etc., of minors. 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 time 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 for training apprentice seamen and landsmen; maintenance of gunnery and other training classes; packing boxes and materials, and other contingent expenses and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation, unforeseen and impossible to classify, fifteen thousand dollars.
Gunnery exercises. Gunnery exercises: Prizes, trophies, 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 thirty 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, ten thousand dollars. 609 Outfits on first enlistment:
Outfits for all enlisted men and Outfits. apprentice seamen of the navy on first enlistment, at not to exceed sixty dollars each, one million ninety-six thousand two hundred and eighty dollars. Maintenance of naval auxiliaries: Pay, transportation, shipping, Maintenance of auxiliaries. and subsistence of civilian officers and crews of naval auxiliaries and all expenses connected with naval auxiliaries employed in emergencies, which can not be paid from other appropriations, seven hundred and fifty-four thousand and forty-eight dollars.
Naval training station, California: Maintenance of naval Training stations. Yerba Buena Island, Cal. training station, Yerba Buena Island, California, namely: Labor and material; buildings and wharves; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and wharves; wharfage, ferriage, and street-car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same; fire engines and extinguishers; boats and gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating and lighting; stationery, books, and periodicals; fresh water, 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 Coasters Harbor Island, R. I. training station, Coasters Harbor Island, Rhode Island, namely: Labor and material; building and wharves; dredging channels; extending sea wall; repairs to causeway and sea wall; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and wharves; wharfage, ferriage, and street-car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same; fire engines and extinguishers; boats and gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating and lighting; stationery, books, and periodicals; fresh water, and washing; packing boxes and materials; and all other contingent expenses; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen; in all, eighty-five thousand one hundred and eighty-three dollars and twenty-eight cents: *Provided*, *Proviso*.
Clerical, etc., 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 for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, shall not exceed five thousand seven hundred and one dollars and sixty cents. Naval training station, Great Lakes: Maintenance of naval Great Lakes. training station: Labor and material; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and piers; street-car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same; fire extinguishers; heating and lighting; stationery, books, and periodicals; washing; packing boxes and materials; and all other contingent expenses: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation *Proviso*.
Clerical, etc., services. under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, shall not exceed forty-nine thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine 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 College, Rhode Island.
Naval War College on Coasters Harbor Island, and care of grounds for same, twenty thousand and seventy-five dollars and seventy-six 610 cents; services of a lecturer on international law, one thousand 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, *Proviso*. Clerical, etc., services. eight hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, drafting, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, shall not exceed seven thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars and seventy-six cents; in all, Naval War College, Rhode Island, twenty-two thousand four hundred and seventy-five dollars and seventy-six cents.
Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pa. Pay. Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 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 dollars; one assistant cook, at two hundred and forty dollars; one chief laundress, at one hundred and ninety-two dollars; five laundresses, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; four scrubbers, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; one head waitress, at one hundred and ninety-two dollars; eight waitresses, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; one kitchen servant, at two hundred and forty dollars; eight laborers, at two hundred and forty dollars each; one stable keeper and driver, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one master at arms, at four hundred and eighty dollars; two house corporals, at three hundred dollars each; one barber, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one carpenter, at eight hundred and forty-five dollars; one painter, at eight hundred and forty-five dollars; one engineer for elevator and machinery, seven hundred and twenty dollars; three laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; three laborers, at three hundred dollars each; total for employees, fifteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Miscellaneous. 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, 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.
Pay to beneficiaries for extra services. Supplemental, Naval Home: To pay beneficiaries for extra duties performed by them at the home from March first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, in established ratings, one thousand two hundred and five dollars and sixty-six cents; to pay the following-named men for services rendered to the home during the second half of March, nineteen hundred and six: John T. Foley, mechanic, fourteen days, at four dollars per diem, fifty-six dollars;
Joseph S. Trainer, carpenter, fourteen days, at two dollars and eighty cents per diem, thirty-nine dollars and twenty cents; Alonzo Hersh, plasterer, five days, at two dollars and eighty cents per diem, fourteen dollars; Frank W. Mohler, store laborer, one-half month, at forty dollars per month, twenty dollars. In all, supplemental, Naval Home, one thousand three hundred and thirty-four dollars and eighty-six cents. In all, for Naval Home, seventy thousand six hundred and five dollars and eighty-six cents, which sum shall be paid out of the income *Proviso*. from the naval pension fund: *Provided*, That for the perform-611ance of such additional services in and about the Naval Home as Employing beneficiaries. may be necessary, the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to employ, on the recommendation of the governor, beneficiaries in said home, whose compensation shall be fixed by the Secretary and paid from the appropriation for the support of the home. bureau of ordnance.
Bureau of Ordnance. Ordnance and ordnance stores: For procuring, producing, preserving, Ordnance and ordnance stores. and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the general work of the Ordnance Department; for furniture at naval magazines, torpedo stations, and proving ground; for maintenance of the proving ground and powder factory, and for target practice, and for pay of chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy-yards, naval stations, and naval magazines: *Provided*, That the sum to be *Provisos*.
Chemical, clerical, etc., service. paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, watchmen, and messenger service in navy-yards, naval stations, and naval magazines for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, shall not exceed four hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. In all, five million four hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended Purchase of projectiles restricted. for the purchase of shells or projectiles except for shells or projectiles purchased in accordance with the terms and conditions of proposals submitted by the Secretary of the Navy to all of the manufacturers of shells and projectiles and upon bids received in accordance with the terms and requirements of such proposals.
Purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, one million one Smokeless powder. hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For Naval Gun Factory, Washington, District of Columbia: New and improved machinery for existing shops, one hundred and Naval Gun Factory, Washington, D. C. fifty thousand dollars. New batteries for ships of the navy: For new sights for New batteries. five-inch, six-inch, and seven-inch guns and modifying their mounts, two hundred and forty-five thousand dollars.
For lining and hooping to the muzzle eight-inch Mark V guns, sixty thousand dollars. For fire-control instruments for ships of the navy, one hundred Fire-control instruments. thousand dollars. Ammunition for ships of the navy: For procuring, producing, Ammunition. preserving, and handling ammunition for issue to ships, two million five hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation *Proviso*. Purchase of projectiles restricted. shall be expended for the purchase of shells or projectiles except for shells or projectiles purchased in accordance with the terms and conditions of proposals submitted by the Secretary of the Navy to all of the manufacturers of shells and projectiles and upon bids received in accordance with the terms and requirements of such proposals.
Modernizing turrets of ships of the navy: For range dials, Modernizing turrets. azimuth drums, new range, time of flight and azimuth scales for all turret pointer’s sights of all turret vessels previous to the Michigan class, but excluding the Amphitrite, Miantonomoh, Puritan, Terror, and Texas, sixty-four thousand dollars. For equipments for turret ammunition hoists and rammers to Equipments for ammunition supply, etc. increase the rapidity, safety, and reliability of the ammunition supply and to increase the efficiency and rapidity of loading the guns of all turret vessels authorized previous to the Michigan class, but excluding the Amphitrite, Miantonomoh, Puritan, Terror, and Texas, five hundred thousand dollars.
In all, modernizing turrets of ships of the navy, five hundred and sixty-four thousand dollars. 612 Small arms and machine guns. Small arms and machine guns: For new rifles and machine guns for ships, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Torpedoes and appliances. Torpedoes and appliances: For the purchase and manufacture of torpedoes and appliances, five hundred thousand dollars. Remodeling. Remodeling torpedoes, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. In all, “Torpedoes and appliances,” six hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Naval-defense mines. Mines and mine appliances: For naval-defense mines, appliances, and accessories for mine ships, one hundred thousand dollars. Torpedo station, Newport, R. I. Torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: 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. New machinery and tools for torpedo factory, fifty thousand dollars.
High-pressure air plant, including air compressors and air storage, ten thousand dollars. Experimental work. Experiments, Bureau of Ordnance: For experimental work in the development of armor-piercing 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; and for other experimental work under the cognizance of the Bureau of Ordnance in connection with the development of ordnance material *Proviso*.
Restriction. for the navy, one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended in experiments unless, in the development of armor-piercing projectiles and high explosives, an attack on heavy turret armor and heavy belt armor is made by armor-piercing projectiles at a battle range not less than eight thousand yards and by explosive gelatine in quantity not less than two hundred pounds exploded against the heavy belt armor and heavy turret armor of an actual vessel.
Naval Militia. Arming and equipping Naval Militia: For arms, accouterments, ammunition, signal and medical outfits, boats and their equipment and maintenance, fuel and clothing, and the printing or purchase of necessary books of instruction for the Naval Militia of the various States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Repairs. Repairs, Bureau of Ordnance: For necessary repairs to ordnance buildings, magazines, wharves, machinery, and other items of like character, thirty thousand dollars.
Miscellaneous. Miscellaneous, Bureau of Ordnance: For miscellaneous items, namely: Cartage, expenses of light and water at magazines and stations; tolls, ferriage, technical books, and incidental expenses attending inspection of ordnance material, nine thousand five hundred dollars. Bureau of Equipment. bureau of equipment. Equipment of vessels. *Post*, p. 613. 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, awnings, 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 613 the payment of labor in equipping vessels and manufacture of equipment articles in the several navy-yards; all pilotage and towage of ships of war; canal tolls, wharfage, dock and port charges, and other necessary incidental expenses of a similar nature; services and materials in repairing, correcting, adjusting, and testing compasses on shore and on board ship; nautical and astronomical instruments and repairs to same; libraries for ships of war, professional books and papers, and drawings and engravings for signal books; naval signals and apparatus, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, rockets, and running lights; compass fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ships’ compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship’s way, and leads and other appliances for sounding; lanterns and lamps and their appendages for general use on board ship for illuminating purposes, and oil and candles used in connection therewith; service and supplies for coast-signal service; bunting and other materials for making and repairing flags of all kinds; photographs, photographic instruments, and materials; musical instruments and music; installing, maintaining, and repairing interior and exterior signal communications and all electrical appliances of whatsoever nature on board naval vessels, except range finders, battle order and range transmitters and indicators, and motors and their controlling apparatus used to operate the machinery belonging to other bureaus, three million eight hundred and forty-three thousand three hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the sum to be *Proviso*.
Clerical, etc., services. paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service at the several navy-yards, naval stations, and coaling stations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, shall not exceed two hundred and nine thousand and ninety-three dollars and sixty cents. That the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Equipments to military schools.
Required number of pupils, reduced. Vol. 31, p. 1440, amended. Navy to loan naval equipment to certain military schools,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, be amended by striking out the words “one hundred and forty cadets” and inserting in lieu thereof the words “seventy-five cadets over fifteen years of age.” Coal and transportation: Coal and other fuel for steamers’ and Coal, etc. 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: Packing boxes and materials, Contingent books, and models; stationery; ferriage and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Equipment unforeseen and impossible to classify, ten thousand dollars. Ocean and lake surveys: Hydrographic surveys, including the Ocean and lake surveys. pay of the necessary hydrographic surveyors, cartographic draftsmen and recorders, and for the purchase of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, seventy-five thousand dollars.
Depots for coal: To enable the Secretary of the Navy to execute Depots for coal. [R. S., sec. 1552, p. 264](/us/rs/s1552/p264). 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, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. Distribution of duties: The duties assigned by law to the Discontinuance of Bureau.
Bureau of Equipment 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 eleven, and the 614 Secretary of the Navy, with the approval of the President, is hereby Transfer of funds, etc., to other bureaus. authorized and directed to assign and transfer 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 bureau 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: *Provisos*.
Use of appropriations restricted. *Provided*, That nothing herein shall be so construed as to authorize the expenditure 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 twelve, except in accordance with the order and arrangement of the naval appropriation Act for the Report of distribution. year nineteen hundred and ten: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Navy 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 Detail of line under staff officers. of navy-yard work therein involved: *And provided further*, That line officers may be detailed for duty under staff officers in the manufacturing and repair departments of the navy-yards and naval stations, and all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
Bureau of Yards and Docks. bureau of yards and docks. Maintenance. Maintenance of yard and docks: For general maintenance 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 oxen, horses, and driving teams; carts, timber wheels, and all vehicles for use in the navy-yards; tools and repairs of the same; stationery; furniture for government houses and offices in navy-yards 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 two hundred and ninety thousand *Proviso*.
Clerical, etc., services. dollars: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, inspection, drafting, messenger, and other classified work in the navy-yards and naval stations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, shall not exceed four hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Contingent. Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For contingent expenses that may arise at navy-yards and stations, thirty thousand dollars.
Public works. Bureau of Yards and Docks. public works, bureau of yards and docks. Portsmouth, N. H. Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Quay wall, to continue, forty-eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. To repair the old highway bridge connecting the navy-yard with the mainland, seven thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Boston, Mass. Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Dredging, five thousand dollars; improvements to water front, sixty-five thousand dollars; improvements to yard buildings, fifteen thousand dollars; railroad 615 extension, ten thousand dollars; paving and grading, ten thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Boston, one hundred and five thousand dollars.
Navy-yard, New York, New York: Dry dock numbered four New York, N. Y. (limit of cost is hereby increased to two million five hundred thousand dollars), to continue, five hundred thousand dollars; improvement of water front, two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars; to complete cement shed, one thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, New York, New York, seven hundred and sixteen thousand dollars. Navy-yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dredging, to complete, Philadelphia, Pa. two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Philadelphia, two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.
Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: Dredging, ten Washington, D. C. thousand dollars. The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized and directed to Railroad siding to navy-yard. enter into an agreement with the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company, for the construction, maintenance and operation, by and at the sole expense of said company, of a sufficient and satisfactory track connection, with such turn-outs and sidings as may be deemed necessary or convenient, to be established and operated from a point on the main running tracks of said Philadelphia, Location.
Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company at or in the general vicinity of square south of square one thousand and eighty in the District of Columbia and extending generally along the water front of the Anacostia River at such distance north of the present north bulk-head line of said river as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may indicate and approve, to a connection with the track system of the United States navy-yard, at or in the vicinity of the east line of Ninth street, southeast, as said system is now or may be hereafter established: *Provided*, That such track connection, so far as the same *Provisos*.
Right of way. may project or extend beyond the right of way or property now owned or occupied by said railroad company, shall be constructed wholly upon a suitable and satisfactory right of way to be provided for such purposes by the United States, the title to which shall at all Title. times remain in the United States: *Provided further*, That, so far as Location over public grounds, etc. may be consistent with the public interests, said track connection with its appurtenant turn-outs and sidings shall be located and constructed in, upon, over and through public grounds, space and streets of the United States, as the same are now, or may be hereafter, ascertained and established.
Upon the execution of the agreement above provided for, the Secretary Purchase or condemnation of right of way. of the Navy is hereby authorized and directed to acquire any part of the land or property necessary for yardage or right of way, by purchase or condemnation, and to construct the connections, side-tracks, turn-outs and switches necessary to the proper operation of the yard system in connection with said branch track, and for such Appropriation. purpose the sum of one hundred and thirty-six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated.
The work of constructing the track connection between the points Time of construction. above specified shall be begun by the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company within two months after the right of way necessary therefor shall have been acquired and provided, and the track connection shall be completed and put in operation within fifteen months from the beginning of its construction, provided that said Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company shall not be required to expend in the construction of said track connection Limit of expense. any sum in excess of ninety-two thousand five hundred dollars, being the present estimated cost of such construction. 616 Continuance of present connection.
Pending the completion of the track connection above provided for, the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company is hereby authorized to maintain its track connection with the United States navy-yard as at present existing, and to continue the operation thereof under such rules and regulations as may be established by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for the governance thereof, Removal, etc., on completion of new track. provided that within thirty days after the completion of the new track connection with the United States navy-yard, hereinbefore authorized and provided for, said Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company shall, at its own expense, remove said existing track connection and restore and make the surface of the streets over and through which the same is laid satisfactory to the *Proviso*.
Amendment, etc. Commissioners of the District of Columbia: *Provided further*, That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act. Norfolk, Va. Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Railroad tracks, extensions, ten thousand dollars; electric-light plant, extensions twenty-five thousand dollars; repairs, buildings, Saint Helena, twenty-five thousand dollars; dredging, to continue, twenty-five thousand dollars; compressed-air system, extensions, ten thousand dollars; improvements to water front, one hundred thousand dollars; to enlarge dry dock numbered three, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars; crane track *Post*, p. 1275. around dry dock numbered three, to continue, twenty thousand dollars; paving and grading, thirty thousand dollars; power plant, coal storage, twenty-five thousand dollars; electric motors for pumping plants, dry docks one and two, thirty-five thousand dollars; water-closets and lavatories in yard shops, twenty-five thousand dollars; heating system, extension, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia, eight hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars.
Pensacola, Fla. Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: For elevator for building numbered one (to complete), two thousand dollars. New Orleans, La. Naval station, New Orleans, Louisiana: For power house and plant, sixty-four thousand six hundred and seventy-seven dollars and seventy-one cents, previously appropriated and erroneously transferred to the appropriation “Consolidation of power plants.” Mare Island, Cal. Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: To continue improvement of channel, one hundred thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Mare Island, one hundred thousand dollars.
For purchase of a shed belonging to the dry dock contractors, navy-yard, Mare Island, California, two thousand dollars. Puget Sound, Wash. Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: Dry dock (limit of cost is hereby increased to two million three hundred thousand dollars), to continue, six hundred thousand dollars; storehouse, to complete, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars; foundry, to complete, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington, eight hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars.
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Naval station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Dredging, one million five hundred thousand dollars; dry dock (limit of cost is hereby increased to two million seven hundred thousand dollars), to continue, one million dollars; in all, two million five hundred thousand dollars. The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to utilize toward yard development of the naval station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the Vol. 34, p. 566. sum of thirty-five thousand dollars appropriated by the Act of June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, for the reclamation of that portion of the naval station, Honolulu, Hawaii, known as “The Reef.
” Floating crane. *Post*, p. 1275. Floating crane: One one-hundred-ton floating crane (to cost not exceeding two hundred and fifty thousand dollars), one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, for use at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. 617 Repairs and preservation at navy-yards: For repairs and Repairs and preservation. preservation at navy-yards and stations, seven hundred thousand dollars. Total public works, navy-yards and stations, six million four hundred and forty-six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. public works under the secretary of the navy.
Secretary of Navy. Buildings and grounds, Naval Academy: For one wooden pier Naval Academy. with creosoted piles, forty thousand dollars. For transfer of power plant from temporary location to new building; Transfer, etc., of power plant. provide new equipment when necessary; connect heating, lighting, and other mains to new power house; complete grading about building; repair coal-handling apparatus, one hundred and eight thousand two hundred dollars. Buildings for lepers, island of Guam:
Naval station, island of Guam. Care, etc., of lepers. Guam: Maintenance and care of lepers and other special patients, fourteen thousand dollars; in all, fourteen thousand dollars. For the purchase of land in the vicinity of the naval trial course, Naval trial course, Maine. Monroe Island, Penobscot Bay, Maine, for the establishment of permanent signals to mark each end of the measured course, three thousand four hundred dollars. Total public works under Secretary’s office, one hundred and sixty-five thousand six hundred dollars. public works under bureau of navigation.
Bureau of Navigation. Naval training station, Rhode Island, buildings: Repairs to Rhode Island training station. Barracks “C,” to continue, two thousand dollars; repairs to Barracks “B,” five thousand dollars; underground conduit system, to continue, nine thousand three hundred dollars; in all, naval training station, Rhode Island, sixteen thousand three hundred dollars. In all, public works, Bureau of Navigation, sixteen thousand three hundred dollars. public works, bureau of ordnance.
Bureau of Ordnance. Naval proving ground, Indian Head, Maryland: One additional Indian Head proving ground, Md. emplacement for new Mark twelve-inch or fourteen-inch guns, ten thousand dollars; in all, naval proving ground, Indian Head, ten thousand dollars. Naval magazine, Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania: Electric connection Fort Mifflin, Pa. Naval magazine. to navy-yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with transformer, street lamps, connections to buildings, and wiring quarters for electric lights, eight thousand five hundred dollars.
Naval magazine, Mare Island, California: Salt-water system for fire Mare Island, Cal. Naval magazine. protection, eight thousand dollars; lightning rods for all buildings not equipped with same, six hundred dollars; in all, eight thousand six hundred dollars. For naval magazine, navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: One Puget Sound, Wash. Naval magazine. magazine building, seven thousand dollars; one filling house, one thousand one hundred dollars; one small arms ammunition house, seven thousand dollars; one latrine for workmen, five hundred dollars; fire-protection system, to include installation of sprinkling system in buildings already constructed and under construction, three thousand dollars; sewerage system for all inhabited buildings and for workmen’s latrine, three thousand dollars; in all, twenty-one thousand six hundred dollars.
Naval torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: One general storehouse Newport, R. I. Torpedo station. for the stowage of materials for manufacturing purposes and 618 uses of the station, fifty thousand dollars; three latrines, two thousand one hundred dollars; electric conduits, wires and fittings, for lighting, telephone, and watchmen clock systems of the station, cable to Rose Island and extra cable to Newport, five thousand dollars; in all, fifty-seven thousand one hundred dollars.
Pacific coast torpedo station. Purchase of land, etc. Pacific Coast Torpedo Station: For torpedo station, near Pacific coast of the United States: For the purchase of land for a torpedo station near the Pacific coast of the United States; and toward the clearing and grading of the land; protection to water front; wharf; firing and observation stations; with all necessary buildings and equipment for the station; and the employment of such clerical and expert assistance as may be required for the prosecution of the work, one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars.
Olongapo, P. I. Naval magazine. Naval magazine, Olongapo, Philippine Islands: For naval magazine, Olongapo, Philippine Islands: One storehouse, one magazine, and one fuse house, eight thousand eight hundred dollars. Total public works, under Bureau of Ordnance, two hundred and fifty-nine thousand six hundred dollars. Bureau of Equipment. public works under bureau of equipment. Naval Observatory. Naval Observatory: Grounds and roads: Continuing grading, extending roads and paths, clearing and improving grounds, ten thousand dollars.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. public works under bureau of medicine and surgery. Great Lakes hospital. Naval hospital, Great Lakes: For the completion of naval hospital buildings, to cost not to exceed two hundred and fifty Vol. 35, p. 144. thousand dollars, as authorized by the Act of Congress approved May thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Total public works under Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Marine Corps. public works, marine corps. Barracks and quarters. Barracks and quarters, Marine Corps: Philadelphia, Pa. For the extension of marine officers’ quarters and the improvement of ground, navy-yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, seventy thousand dollars. Norfolk, Va. For the extension of marine officers’ quarters, navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia, forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. In all, public works, Marine Corps, one hundred and seventeen *Proviso*. Limit for officers. thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That no part of said sum shall be expended for the construction of quarters for marine officers 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 sum of fifteen thousand dollars; of a colonel or an officer above the rank of captain, twelve thousand dollars; and of an officer of and below the rank of captain, nine thousand dollars.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. bureau of medicine and surgery. Surgeons’ necessaries. Civil establishment. Medical department: For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in commission, navy-yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy-yards, naval medical supply depots, museum of hygiene and department of instruction, and Naval Academy, three hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. 619 Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery:
For tolls and Contingent. 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 museum of hygiene and department of instruction, naval dispensary, Washington, naval medical supply depots, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks; washing, for medical department at museum of hygiene and department of instruction, 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 Museum of Hygiene and Department of Instruction; for the care, maintenance, and treatment of the insane of the Navy and Marine Corps on the Pacific coast, and all other necessary contingent expenses; in all, seventy-six thousand five hundred dollars.
Transportation of remains: To enable the Secretary of the Navy, Transferring home remains of officers, etc. in his discretion, to cause to be transferred to their homes the remains of officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps who die or are killed in action ashore or afloat, and also to enable the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of civilian employees who die outside of the continental limits of the United States, ten thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the *Proviso*.
Application of fund. sum herein appropriated shall be available for payment for transportation of the remains of officers and men who have died while on duty at any time since April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. In all, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, four hundred and one thousand five hundred dollars. bureau of supplies and accounts. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. Provisions, Navy: For provisions and commuted rations for the Provisions, etc. seamen and marines, which commuted rations may be paid to caterers of messes, in case of death or desertion, upon orders of the commanding officers, commuted rations for officers on sea duty (other than commissioned officers of the line, Medical and Pay Corps, chaplains, chief boatswains, chief gunners, 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 to which attached under orders (during which subsistence rations to be stopped on board ship and no credit for commutation therefor to be given); and for subsistence of female nurses, and navy and marine corps general courts-martial prisoners undergoing imprisonment with sentences of dishonorable discharge from the service at the expiration of such confinement: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy is *Provisos*.
Commutation, prisoners. authorized to commute rations for such general courts-martial prisoners in such amounts as seem to him proper, which may vary in accordance with the location of the naval prison, but which shall in no case exceed thirty cents per diem for each ration so commuted; labor in general storehouses and paymasters’ offices in navy-yards, including naval stations maintained in island possessions under the control of the United States, and expenses in handling stores purchased under the naval supply fund; and for the purchase of United States Army emergency rations, as required: *Provided*, That hereafter Use of profits on sales. a profit not to exceed fifteen per centum may be charged on sales 620 from ships’ stores, such profit to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, under such regulations as he may prescribe, for the amusement, comfort, and contentment of the enlisted force, and to be accounted for to the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Clerical, etc., services.
Navy Department: *Provided further*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary or the Navy, for chemists and for clerical, inspection, and messenger service in the general storehouses and paymasters’ offices of the navy-yards and naval stations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, 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 seventy-one thousand and seventy dollars and ninety-seven cents.
Contingent. Contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: For 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 store-safes, newspapers, and other incidental expenses, one hundred and fifty-nine thousand dollars. Freight, Department and bureaus. Freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: 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.
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 nine hundred and seventy-nine *Provisos*.
Wooden ships. thousand one hundred and forty-four dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be applied to the repair of any wooden ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed ten per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like Other ships. material: *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: *Provided Repairs of ships in foreign waters. 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 Repairs to specified vessels. home.
And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to make expenditures from appropriate funds under the various bureaus for repairs and changes on the vessels herein named, in an amount not to exceed the sum specified for each vessel, respectively, as follows: New Jersey, eight hundred and ten thousand dollars; Rhode Island, eight hundred and ten thousand dollars; Brooklyn (additional to four hundred and fifty-three thousand five hundred dollars, authorized by the appropriation Act approved May thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight), seventy thousand dollars;
Colorado, six hundred and 621 eighty thousand dollars; Maryland, six hundred and thirty thousand dollars; Pennsylvania, six hundred and eighty thousand dollars; West Virginia, six hundred and thirty thousand dollars; Boston, two hundred and fifty-six thousand dollars; Charleston, five hundred and forty thousand dollars; San Francisco (additional to six hundred thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, authorized by the appropriation Act approved May thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight), forty thousand dollars;
Detroit, three hundred and fifty-one thousand dollars; Iris, two hundred and five thousand dollars; Annapolis, one hundred and one thousand dollars; Arayat, thirty-four thousand five hundred dollars; Iroquois, fifty-one thousand five hundred dollars; Potomac, forty-one thousand five hundred dollars; Sebago, twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars; Waban, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; Nero, one hundred and five thousand dollars; Ingalls, one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars;
Essex, sixty thousand dollars; Gopher, twenty-eight thousand dollars; in all, six million three hundred and forty-four thousand five hundred dollars, as per the letter of the Secretary of the Navy, contained in House Document Numbered Four hundred and seventy-one, Sixty-first Congress, second session, concerning repairs to certain naval vessels: *Provided further*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, Clerical, etc., services. under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy-yards, naval stations, and offices of superintending naval constructors, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, shall not exceed eight hundred and eight thousand and thirty-nine dollars.
Improvement of construction plants: Construction plant, Construction plants. Portsmouth, N. H. navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Repairs to and improvements of plant at navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, fifteen thousand dollars. Construction plant, navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Repairs to Boston, Mass. and improvement of plant at navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts, twenty thousand dollars. Construction plant, navy-yard, New York, New York: Repairs to New York, N. Y. and improvement of plant at navy-yard, New York, New York, twenty thousand dollars.
Construction plant, navy-yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Repairs Philadelphia, Pa. to and improvement of plant at navy-yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, fifteen thousand dollars. Construction plant, navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Repairs to and Norfolk, Va. improvement of plant at navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia, twelve thousand dollars. Construction plant, navy-yard, Charleston, South Carolina: Repairs Charleston, S. C. to and improvement of plant at naval station, Charleston, South Carolina, twenty thousand dollars.
Construction plant, navy-yard, Mare Island, California: Repairs to Mare Island, Cal. and improvement of plant at navy-yard, Mare Island, California, fifteen thousand dollars. Construction plant, navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: Repairs Puget Sound, Wash to and improvement of plant at navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington, fifteen thousand dollars. bureau of steam engineering. Bureau of Steam Engineering. Steam machinery: For completion, repairing, and preservation of Steam machinery. machinery and boilers of naval vessels, including cost of new boilers; distilling, refrigerating, and auxiliary machinery; preservation of and small repairs to machinery and boilers in vessels in ordinary receiving 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. 622 Materials, etc.
For purchase, handling, and preservation of all material and stores; purchase, fitting, repair, and preservation of machinery and tools in navy-yards and stations, and running yard engines, two million dollars. Incidentals. For incidental expenses for navy vessels, yards, the engineering experiment station, such as photographing, books, stationery, technical books, periodicals, engineering indices, and instruments, six thousand dollars. *Proviso*. Clerical, etc., services. *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation “Steam machinery,” under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy-yards, naval stations, and offices of United States inspectors of machinery, and of engineering material, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, shall not exceed three hundred and fifty thousand and sixty-three dollars and two cents.
In all, steam machinery, six million two hundred and fifty-six thousand dollars. Engineering experiment station, Naval Academy. Engineering experiment station, 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 applicable for test and use in the naval service, and for maintenance of buildings and grounds, twenty thousand dollars.
Reappropriation for equipment. Vol. 32, p. 1194. So much of the appropriation made by the naval appropriation Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, for the complete equipment of the buildings at the engineering experiment station, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, as has been carried to the surplus fund and covered into the Treasury pursuant to Vol. 35, p. 1027. section ten of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, is hereby reappropriated for the equipment of said building.
Dredging basin, etc. Buildings, engineering experiment station, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland: Dredging in basin and coal dock, five thousand dollars. Naval Academy. naval academy. Pay of professors, etc. Pay of professors and others, Naval Academy: 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 five hundred dollars; one assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; and two assistants, at one thousand dollars each, four thousand seven hundred dollars; 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 in gymnastics, one thousand two hundred dollars, five thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant librarian, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; one cataloguer, one thousand one hundred dollars; and two shelf assistants, at nine hundred dollars each, five thousand and sixty dollars; one secretary of the Naval Academy, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; five clerks, at one thou-623sand two hundred dollars each; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; and two writers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; eighteen thousand two hundred and eighty dollars; one draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; and one surveyor, one thousand two hundred dollars, two thousand four hundred dollars; one dentist, two thousand five hundred and twenty dollars; and 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; and twenty-two watchmen, at seven hundred and thirty-two dollars each, seventeen thousand eight hundred and fifty-six dollars.
Department of ordnance and gunnery: One mechanic, nine Department of ordnance and gunnery. 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; and three quarter gunners, at four hundred and eighty dollars each, four thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. Departments of electrical engineering and physics: Two Departments of electrical engineering and physics. electrical machinists, at one thousand dollars each; one mechanic, seven hundred and thirty dollars; and one at seven hundred and twenty dollars, three thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
Department of seamanship: One coxswain, four hundred and Department of seamanship. eighty dollars; three seamen, at four hundred and twenty dollars each, 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; and for draftsman, two thousand dollars; machinists, and other employees, six thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight dollars, twenty thousand five hundred and twenty-eight dollars.
Commissary department: One chief cook, one thousand two Commissary department. 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, twenty-seven thousand and sixty dollars; one messenger to the superintendent, six hundred dollars, and twenty-five attendants, at three hundred dollars each, eight thousand one hundred dollars; in all, thirty-five thousand one hundred and sixty dollars.
In all, civil establishment, one hundred and eighty-six thousand seven hundred and four dollars. Current and miscellaneous expenses, Naval Academy: Text Contingent expenses. 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, philosophical apparatus and instruments, stores, machinery, tools, fittings, apparatus, and materials for instruction purposes, thirty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. 624 Library.
Purchase, binding, and repair of books for the library (to be purchased in the open market on the written order of the superintendent), two thousand dollars. Board of Visitors. Expenses of the Board 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, two thousand dollars. Superintendent. For contingencies for the superintendent of the academy, to be expended in his discretion, two thousand dollars.
In all, current and miscellaneous expenses, forty-four thousand five hundred dollars. Maintenance. Maintenance, Naval Academy: For general maintenance 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, etc. Rent of buildings for the use of the academy and commutation of rent for bandsmen at eight dollars per month each, two thousand nine hundred and sixty-four dollars. Repairs, etc. Repairs, Naval Academy: Necessary repairs of public buildings, wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, improvements, repairs, furniture, and fixtures, sixty-five thousand dollars. In all, maintenance, two hundred and seventy-seven thousand nine hundred and sixty-four dollars.
In all, Naval Academy, five hundred and nine thousand one hundred and sixty-eight dollars. Marine Corps. marine corps. Pay. Officers. Pay, Marine Corps: For pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on the active list, nine hundred and eleven thousand two hundred and sixty-three dollars. Retired list. For pay of officers prescribed by law, on the retired list: For one major-general, eight brigadier-generals, three colonels, seven lieutenant-colonels, nine majors, seven captains, eleven first lieutenants, and four second lieutenants, and for officers who may be placed thereon during the year, including such increased pay as is now or may hereafter be provided for retired officers regularly assigned to active duty, one hundred and fifty-eight thousand eight hundred dollars.
Enlisted men. Pay of enlisted 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 de- 625 tailed as gun pointers, mess sergeants, cooks, messmen, signalmen, or holding good-conduct medals, pins, or bars, including interests on deposits by enlisted men, and the authorized travel allowance of discharged enlisted men and for prizes for excellence in gunnery exercise and target practice, both afloat and ashore, two million seven hundred and fifty-nine thousand one hundred and sixty-nine dollars.
For pay and allowances prescribed by law of enlisted men on the Retired enlisted men. retired list: For three sergeant-majors, one drum-major, twelve gunnery-sergeants, nineteen quartermaster-sergeants, seventeen first sergeants, forty-four sergeants, seven corporals, fourteen first-class musicians, two drummers, two trumpeters, and twenty-five privates, and for those who may be retired during the fiscal year, ninety-four thousand three hundred and fifty-six dollars. Undrawn clothing:
For payment to discharged soldiers for clothing Undrawn clothing. undrawn, one hundred and twenty-eight thousand one hundred and thirty-five dollars and twenty-two cents. Mileage: For mileage to officers traveling under orders without Mileage to officers. troops, fifty-five thousand dollars. For commutation of quarters of officers on duty without troops Commutation of quarters, officers without troops. where there are no public quarters, thirty-three thousand five hundred dollars.
Pay of civil force: In the office of the Major-General Commandant: Civil force. One chief clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, at nine hundred and seventy-one dollars and twenty-eight cents. In the office of the paymaster: One chief clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars. For each assistant paymaster, one clerk who shall hereafter be Assistant paymasters’ clerks.
Pay, allowances, etc. available where his services are required and who shall receive the same pay, allowances, and other benefits as are now or may hereafter be provided for paymasters’ clerks of corresponding length of service in the United States Army (five clerks in all), seven thousand dollars. In the office of the adjutant and inspector: One chief clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars. In the office of the assistant adjutant and inspector:
One clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars. In the office of the quartermaster: One chief clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one draftsman, at one thousand six hundred dollars. In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Washington, District of Columbia, or San Francisco, California: Two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; 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, thirty-five thousand nine hundred and Disbursements. 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 one hundred and seventy-six thousand one hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents. Provisions, Marine Corps: For noncommissioned officers, musicians, Provisions. and privates serving ashore, for subsistence of enlisted men 626 when traveling on duty, or cash in lieu thereof, for commutation of rations to enlisted men regularly detailed as clerks and messengers, for payment of board and lodging of recruiting parties, transportation of provisions, and the employment of necessary labor connected therewith, and for ice for preservation of rations, seven hundred and twenty-three thousand five hundred and forty-three dollars; and no law shall be construed to entitle marines on shore duty to any rations, or commutation thereof, other than such as now are or may hereafter be *Proviso*.
Navy ration or commutation. allowed to enlisted men in the army: *Provided, however*, That when it is impracticable or the expense is found greater to supply marines serving on shore duty in the island possessions and on foreign stations with the army ration, such marines may be allowed the navy ration or commutation therefor. Clothing. Clothing, Marine Corps: For noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates authorized by law, seven hundred and twenty-five thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars.
Fuel. Fuel, Marine Corps: 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 thirty-seven thousand dollars. Military stores. Military stores, Marine Corps: 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 muskets, purchase and repair of tents and field ovens, purchase and repair of instruments for band, purchase of music and musical accessories, purchase and marking of prizes for excellence in gunnery and rifle practice, good-conduct badges; and medals awarded to officers and enlisted men by the Government for conspicuous, gallant, and special service; for incidental expenses of the School of Application; for the construction, equipment, and maintenance of school, library, and amusement rooms and gymnasiums for enlisted men, and the purchase and repair of all articles of field sports for enlisted men; purchase and repair of signal equipment and stores; for the purchase of one site at a cost not to exceed two thousand dollars; for the establishment and maintenance of targets and ranges, and renting ranges, and for entrance fees in competitions; and for procuring, preserving, and handling ammunition and other necessary military supplies; in all, two hundred and ninety-seven thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven dollars.
Springfield rifles. Purchase from Army. For the purchase of Springfield rifles from the United States Army, fifty thousand dollars. Transportation and recruiting. Transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps: 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. Repairs of barracks. For repairs of barracks, Marine Corps:
Repairs and improvements to barracks and quarters at Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Boston, Massachusetts; Narragansett Station, Rhode Island; New York, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Annapolis, Maryland; headquarters and navy-yard, District of Columbia; Norfolk, Virginia; Port Royal and Charleston, South Carolina; Pensacola, Florida; Dry Tortugas, Florida; New Orleans, Louisiana; Mare Island and San 627 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 forage in kind and stabling for horses Forage. of the Quartermaster’s Department and the authorized number of officers’ horses, twenty-four thousand two hundred dollars. Commutation of quarters, Marine Corps: For commutation of Commutation of quarters, officers with troops, etc. 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 quarter-masters, 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: For freight, tolls, cartage, advertising, Contingent. washing of bed sacks, mattress covers, pillowcases, towels, and sheets, funeral expenses of officers and marines, including the transportation of bodies and their arms and wearing apparel from the place of demise to the homes of the deceased in the United States, stationery and other paper, printing and binding, telegraphing, rent of telephones, purchase and repair of typewriters, apprehension of stragglers and deserters, per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor for a period of not less than ten days, employment of civilian labor, repair of gas and water fixtures, office and barracks furniture, camp and garrison equipage and implements, mess utensils for enlisted men, such as bowls, plates, spoons, knives and forks, tin cups, pans, pots, and so forth; packing boxes, wrapping paper, oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, quarantine fees, camphor and carbolized paper, carpenters’ tools, tools for police purposes, iron safes, purchase and repair of public wagons, motor wagons, for carrying supplies and freight only, carts, and drays, purchase and repair of public harness, purchase of public horses, services of veterinary surgeons, and medicines for public horses; purchase of mounts and horse equipment for all officers below the grade of major required to be mounted; shoeing for 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, wheelbarrows, and lawn mowers; purchase and repair of cooking stoves, ranges, stoves, and furnaces where there are no grates; purchase of ice, towels, soap, combs, and brushes for offices; postage stamps for foreign postage; purchase of books, newspapers, and periodicals; improving parade grounds; repair of pumps and wharves; laying drain, water, and gas pipes; water, introducing gas, and for gas, gas oil, and introduction and maintenance of electric lights; straw for bedding, mattresses, mattress covers, pillows, sheets; wire bunk bottoms for enlisted men at various posts; furniture for government quarters and repair of same, packing and crating officers’ allowance of baggage on change of station; and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but impossible to anticipate or classify, four hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
Total under quartermaster, Marine Corps, two million eight hundred and fifty thousand nine hundred dollars. Total Marine Corps, exclusive of public works, seven million twenty-seven thousand and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents. 628 Increase of the Navy. increase of the navy. Two first-class battle ships. That, for the purpose of further increasing the naval establishment of the United States, the President is hereby authorized to have constructed two first-class battle ships to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not exceeding six million dollars each, similar to the battle Vol. 35, p. 158. ship authorized by the Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.
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 exceeding one million dollars each. Construction. Eight-hour labor. Vol. 27, p. 340. And the contract for the construction of said vessels shall contain a provision requiring said vessels to be built in accordance with the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act relating to the limitation of the hours of daily service of laborers and mechanics employed upon the public works of the United States and of the District of Columbia,” Award of contracts. approved August first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and shall be awarded by the Secretary of the Navy to the lowest best responsible bidder, having in view the best results and most expeditious delivery;
Vol. 24, p. 215. and in the construction of all of said vessels the provisions of the Act of August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled “An Act to increase the naval establishment,” as to materials for said vessels, their engines, boilers, and machinery, the contracts under which they are built, the notice of any proposals for the same; the plans, drawings, specifications therefor, and the method of executing said contracts shall be observed and followed, and, subject to the provisions Deposit by contractors in lieu of indemnity bond. of this Act, except that the Secretary of the Navy may accept, in lieu of an indemnity bond, the deposit by contractors of United States Government or State bonds, under such conditions and in such manner as the Secretary may prescribe, having due regard for the rights and protection of the United States, all said vessels shall be built in compliance with the terms of said Act, and in all their parts shall be of domestic manufacture; and the steel material shall be of domestic manufacture, and of the quality and characteristics best adapted to the various purposes for which it may be used, in accordance with specifications approved by the Secretary of the Navy, provided contracts for furnishing the same in a reasonable time, at a reasonable price, and of the required quality can be made with responsible parties: *Provisos*.
Restriction. *Provided*, That not more than one of the battle ships provided for in this Act shall be built by the same contracting party: *Provided One to be built in navy-yard. always*, That one of the battle ships herein authorized shall be constructed in one of the navy-yards. Submarine torpedo boats. Appropriation. For four submarine torpedo boats in an amount not exceeding in the aggregate two million dollars, and the sum of eight hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated toward said purpose.
Torpedo-boat destroyers. Appropriation. For six torpedo-boat destroyers, to have the highest practicable speed, and to cost in all not to exceed seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars each, and toward the construction of said torpedo-boat destroyers the sum of two million two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated. Building in navy-yards if combination of bidders, etc. The Secretary of the Navy may build any or all of the vessels authorized in this Act in such navy-yards as he may designate, and shall build any of the vessels herein authorized in such navy-yards as he may designate, should it reasonably appear that the persons, firms, or corporations, or the agents thereof, bidding for the construction of any of said vessels, have entered into any combination, agreement, or understanding, the effect, object, or purpose of which is to deprive the Government of fair, open, and unrestricted competition in letting contracts for the construction of any of said vessels. 629 Construction and machinery:
On account of hulls and outfits Construction and machinery. of vessels and steam machinery of vessels heretofore and herein authorized, seventeen million one hundred seventy-five thousand seven hundred and fifty three dollars: *Provided*, That no part of the *Proviso*. Limit of cost of colliers. above appropriation shall be used for the payment of the construction of any collier the total cost of which shall exceed one million dollars. Increase of the navy; torpedo boats: On account of submarine Submarine torpedo boats. torpedo boats, heretofore authorized, eight hundred and fifty-nine thousand nine hundred and seventy-one dollars.
Increase of the navy; torpedo boats: On account of torpedo Torpedo boats with vitals below water line. Vol. 35. p. 777. vessels whose vitals are located below the normal load water line, upon condition of compliance with the authorization in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes,” four hundred and forty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, *Provisos*. Smaller vessels.
That the Secretary of the Navy may, in his discretion, expend any part of the amount hereby appropriated, for small vessels of this type having a speed exceeding nineteen knots at a cost not to exceed thirty thousand dollars each: *Provided*, That nothing herein contained Discretion of Secretary. shall be construed as mandatory upon the Secretary of the Navy to purchase said vessels. Increase of the navy; colliers: On account of two fleet colliers, Colliers. heretofore authorized, three hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, *Provisos*.
Construction in Pacific coast yard. Reappropriation. Vol. 35, p. 158. That the unexpended balance of the sum of one million five hundred thousand dollars appropriated toward the construction of two fleet colliers authorized by the naval appropriation Act approved May thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the construction of the collier therein designated to be built on the Pacific coast in such government yard as the Secretary of the Navy shall direct: *Provided further*, That the cost of Limit of cost. said collier shall not exceed the sum of one million dollars.
Armor and armament: Toward the armor and armament of Armor and armament. domestic manufacture for vessels authorized, eleven million five hundred and sixty-five thousand one hundred and twenty-two dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for *Proviso*. Armor contracts. armor for vessels except upon contracts for such armor when awarded by the Secretary of the Navy to the lowest responsible bidders, having in view the best results and most expeditious delivery.
Increase of the navy; equipment: Toward the completion of the Equipment. equipment outfit of the new vessels authorized, three hundred and ninety-nine thousand five hundred dollars. Total increase of the navy, thirty-three million seven hundred and seventy thousand three hundred and forty-six dollars. *Provided*, That no part of any sum hereby appropriated under *Proviso*. Use for department, clerical, etc, force forbidden. “Increase of the navy” shall be used for the payment of any clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service, or for pay of any of the other classified force, under the various bureaus of the Navy Department in Washington, District of Columbia.
That no part of any sum appropriated by this Act shall be used for Specific authority required for. any expense of the Navy Department at Washington unless specific authority is given by law for such expenditure. Approved, June 24, 1910.