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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 37 STAT. · March 4, 1913 · Chapter 148

Chapter 148. Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 148.— An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for other purposes.March 4, 1913. [[H. R. 28812](/us/bill/62/hr/28812).] [[Public, No. 433](/us/pl/62/433).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Naval service appropriations. That the following sums be, 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 fourteen, and for other purposes: pay of the navy.Pay of Navy.
Pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on sea duty and other duty; officers on waiting orders; officers on the retired list; clerks to paymasters at yards and stations, general storekeepers ashore and afloat, and receiving ships and other vessels; two clerks to general inspectors of the Pay Corps; one clerk to pay officer in charge of deserters’ rolls; not exceeding ten clerks to accounting officers at yards and stations; dental surgeon at Naval Academy: *Provided*, That the President is hereby authorized, by and with the*Provisos*.Dental surgeon at Naval Academy, rank, etc. advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint the dentist now at the United States Naval Academy a dental surgeon in the Navy for duty at the United States Naval Academy, to have the corresponding rank, pay, and allowances as the senior dental surgeon now at the United States Military Academy: *And provided further*, That he shall notRetirement. be eligible for retirement before he has reached the age of seventy years except for physical disability incurred in the line of duty; com-mutation of quarters for officers on shore not occupying public quarters, including boatswains, gunners, carpenters, sailmakers, machinists, pharmacists, and mates, naval constructors and assistant naval constructors; and also members of Nurse Corps (female); for hire of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public Quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them, or commutation of quarters not to exceed the amount which an officer would receive were be 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-eight thousand men; and the number of enlisted men shall be exclusive of those undergoing imprisonment with sentence of dishonorable discharge from the service at expiration of such confinement; and as many machinists as the President may from time to time deem necessary to appoint, not to exceed twenty many one year; and three thousand five hundred apprentice seamen under training at training stations and on board training ships, at the pay prescribed bylaw; pay of the Nurse Corps; rent of quarters for members of the Nurse Corps; $39,264,662.00.
Hereafter the service of a midshipman at the United States NavalNaval and Military Academy service.Longevity restrictions as to, in Navy and Marine Corps. Academy, or that of a cadet at the United States Military Academy, who may hereafter be appointed to the United States Naval Academy, or to the United States Military Academy, shall not be counted in computing for any purpose the length of service of any officer in the Navy or in the Marine Corps. That so much of an Act entitled “An Act to reorganize and increaseLongevity credit to appointments from civil life repealed.Vol. 30, p. 1007 the efficiency of the personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, which reads as follows:
“and that all officers, including warrant officers, who have been or may be appointed to the Navy from civil life shall, on the date of appointment, be credited for computing their pay, with five years’ service,” shall not apply to any person entering the 892*Proviso*.Precedence of staff officers.[R. S., sec. 1486, p. 258](/us/rs/s1486/p258).Navy from and after the passage of this Act: *Provided*, That section fourteen hundred and eighty-six of the Revised Statutes shall not apply in the case of officers who enter the Navy after the passage of this Act and all such officer shall take precedence when of the same grade according to their respective dates of commission in that grade.
Aviation duty.Pay increased for details on.That from and after the passage and approval of this Act the pay and allowances that are now or may be hereafter fixed by law for officers of the Navy and Marine Corps shall be increased thirty-five per centum for such officers as are now or may hereafter be detailed *Provisos*.Restriction.by the Secretary of the Navy on aviation duty: *Provided*, That this increase of pay and allowances shall be given to such officers only as are actual flyers of heavier-than-air craft, and while so detailed:
Details limited.*Provided further*, That no more than thirty officers of the Navy and Marine Corps shall be detailed to aviation service: *Provided further, *Rank.That no officer above the rank of lieutenant commander in the Navy or major in the Marine Corps shall be detailed for actual flying:No increase of total. *Provided further*, That nothing in this provision shall be construed to increase the total number of officers now in the Navy or Marine Corps. Nurse Corps.Payment is of computation to, allowed.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 or regulations of the Secretary of the Navy for commutation of subsistence to members of the Nurse Corps of the Navy at the rate therein specified.
Officers to receive pay, etc., from dates of commissions.That all officers of the Navy who, since the third day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, have been advanced or may here-after be advanced in grade or rank pursuant to law shall be allowed the pay and allowances of the higher grade or rank from the dates stated in their commissions. Pay, miscellaneous.pay, miscellaneous. Schedules of all pay 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 of 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 hi 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; including the rental of offices in the District of Columbia; 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 clerics, 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, 893and the collection and classification thereof; all charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus for ice for the cooling of drinking water on shore (except at naval hospitals), telephone rentals and tolls, telegrams, cablegrams, and postage, foreign and domestic, and post-office box rentals; and other necessary and incidental expenses: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation,*Provisos*.Allowance for clerical, etc., services at yards. 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 fourteen, shall not exceed $280,000; in all, $1,000,000: *Provided further*, That employees while taking their leavesAdditional pay to employees while on leave not allowed. of absence shall not receive compensation for services rendered during the period of such leave of absence in addition to leave pay.
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorizedPaymaster John W. Morse.Credit in accounts. and directed to credit in the accounts of Paymaster John W. Morse, United States Navy, the sum of $17,838.28, being the amount stolen from United States funds by Pay Clerk Edward V. Lee, United States Navy, and charged against the accounts of the said John W. Morse, paymaster, on the books of the Treasury Department. The Auditor for the Navy Department is hereby authorized andPay Director John N.
Speel.Credit in accounts. directed to credit to the account of Pay Director John N. Speel, United States Navy, the sum of $263.54, now standing charged against him on the books of the Treasury Department, on account of an advance made by him to Paymaster’s Clerk Edward V. Lee, United States Navy, who deserted from the service before the amount could be deducted from his salary. 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, $46,000: *Provided*, That the accounting officers of the Treasury are*Proviso*.Civilian employees in island possessions. 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 fourteen.
Care of lepers, islands of Guam and Culion: Naval station,Lepers.Care, etc., Culion, P. L. island of Guam: Maintenance and care of lepers, special patients, and for other purposes, including cost of transfer of lepers from Guam to the island of Culion, in the Philippines, and their maintenance, $14,000. 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, $825,000.
Recruiting: Expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent ofRecruiting. rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentice seamen; actual and necessary 894expenses in lieu of mileage to officers on duty with traveling recruiting*Provisos*.Certificate of age required. parties, $130,000: *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 presented with the Under oath of applicant.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 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 Discharge of minors.years of age at the time of enlistment, he shall, upon request of either parent, or, in case of their death, by the legal guardian, 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 Advertising agency authorized.recruit of such payment: *Provided*, That authority is hereby granted to employ the services of an advertising agency in advertising for recruits under such terms and conditions as are most advantageous to the Government.
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 sea-men 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, $15,000.
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, $100,000. 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, $6,500.
Aviation experiments.Aviation experiments: For experimental work in the development of aviation for naval purposes, $10,000. Outfits.Outfits on first enlistment: Outfits for all enlisted men and apprentice seamen of the Navy on first enlistment, at not to exceed $60 each, $800,000. Maintenance of auxiliaries.Maintenance of naval auxiliaries: Pay, transportation, ship-ping, 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, $800,000.
Training stations.Yerba Buena Island, Cal.Naval training station, California: Maintenance of naval 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; 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; 895maintenance of dispensary building; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen; in all. $70,000.
Naval training station, Rhode Island: Maintenance of navalCoasters Harbor Island, R. I. training station, Coasters Harbor Island, Rhode Island, namely: Labor and material; buildings and wharves; dredging channel; 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; 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 sea-men; in all, $85,000: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this*Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services. 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 fourteen, shall not exceed $5,701.60.
Naval training station, Great Lakes: Maintenance of navalGreat Lakes. training station: Labor and material; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and piers; street car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; motor-propelled vehicles, wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same; fire apparatus and extinguishers; gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; printing outfit and material, and maintenance of same; heating and lighting, and repairs to power-plant equipment, distributing mains, tunnel, and conduits; stationery, books, and periodicals; washing; packing boxes and materials; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen; and all other contingent expenses: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Clerical, etc., servicesThat 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 fourteen, shall not exceed $44,553.36; in all, naval training station.
Great Lakes, $98,457. Naval training station, Saint Helena: Maintenance of navalSaint Helena. training station; labor and material, general care, repairs, and improvements; and all other incidental expenses, $25,000. Naval Was College, Rhode Island: For maintenance of theNaval War College, R. I. Naval War College on Coasters Harbor Island, and care of grounds for same, $25,250; services of a lecturer on international law, $2,000; services of civilian lecturers, rendered at the War College, $300; care and preservation of the library, including the purchase, binding, and repair of books of reference and periodicals, $1,300: *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, inspection, drafting, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, shall not exceed $10,250. In all, Naval War College, Rhode Island, $28,850. Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pay of employees:Naval Home Philadelphia, Pa.Pay of employees. One secretary, $1,600; one foreman mechanic, $1,500; one superintendent of grounds, at $720; one steward, at $720; one store laborer, at $480; one matron, at $420; one beneficiaries’ attendant, at $240; one chief cook, at $480; one assistant cook, at $360; one assistant cook, at $240; one chief laundress, at $216; five laundresses, at $192 each; four scrubbers, at $192 each; one head waitress, at $216; eight waitresses, at $192 each; one kitchen servant, at $240; eight laborers, at $360 each; one stable keeper and driver, at $480; one master-at-arms, at $720; two house corporals, at $300 each; one barber, at 896$360; one carpenter, at $846; one painter, at $846: one painter, at $720; one engineer for elevator and machinery, $720; five laborers, at $540 each; two laborers, at $360 each; total for employees, $22,288.
Maintenance.Maintenance: Water rent, heating, and lighting; cemetery, burial expenses and headstones; general care and improvements of grounds, buildings, walls, and fences; repairs to power plant equipment, implements, tools, and furniture, and purchase of the same; music in chapel and entertainments for beneficiaries; stationery, books, and periodicals; 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; employment of such beneficiaries in and about the Naval Home as may be authorized by the Secretary of the Navy, on the recommendation of the governor; support of beneficiaries, and all other contingent expenses, $54,421; rebuilding river bulkhead, $5,500; total, maintenance, $59,921; in all, for Naval Home, $82,209, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund.
Bureau of Ordnance.bureau of ordnance. Ordnance and ordnance stores.Ordnance and ordnance stores: For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the general work 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 *Provisos*.Chemical clerical, etc., services.navy yards, naval stations, and naval magazines: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, watchmen, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and naval magazines for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, shall not exceed $458,000.
In all, $5,800,000: Purchase of projectiles restricted.*Provided*, That hereafter no part of any appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of shells or projectiles for the Navy except for shells or projectiles purchased in accordance with the terms and conditions of proposals submitted by the Secretary of the Navy to all the manufacturers of shells and projectiles and upon bids received in accordance with the terms and requirements of such proposals: For experiments excepted.*Provided*, That this restriction shall not apply to purchases or shells or projectiles of an experimental nature or to be used for experimental purposes and paid for from the appropriation “Experiments, Purchases abroad.Bureau of Ordnance”: *Provided*, That hereafter the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to make emergency purchases of war Free entry authorized.material abroad: *And provided further*, That when such purchases are made abroad, this material snail be admitted free of duty.
Smokeless powder.Purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, $1,150,000: *Provisos*.Price of powder restricted.*Provided*, That no part of any money appropriated by this Act shall be expended for the purchase of powder other than small-arms powder Full operation of Indian Head factory required.at a price in excess of 53 cents a pound: *Provided further*, That in expenditures of this appropriation, or any part thereof, for powder, no powder shall at any time be purchased unless the powder factory at Indian Head, Maryland, shall be operated on a basis of not less than its full maximum capacity.
Naval Gun Factory, Washington, D. C.For Naval Gun Factory, Washington, District of Columbia: New and improved machinery for existing shops, $125,000. Breech mechanisms.For modifying or renewing breech mechanisms of three-inch, four-inch, five-inch, and six-inch guns, $75,000. Modernizing guns.For replacing Mark VI six-inch guns with Mark VIII guns and repairing and modernizing the Mark VI guns for issue, $150,000. 897 For lining and hooping to the muzzle eight-inch forty-caliber MarkLining, etc., guns.
V guns, $24,000. For liners for eroded guns, $100,000. For modifying five-inch fifty-caliber Mark V guns, $65,000. Ammunition for ships of the Navy: For procuring, producing, preserving,Ammunition for issue. and handling ammunition for issue to ships, $3,850,000 to be available until expended. Torpedoes and appliances: For the purchase and manufactureTorpedoes and appliances. of torpedoes and appliances, $750,000. Modernizing projectiles: For rebanding projectiles and fittingModernizing projectiles. long points, and other changes as required, $150,000.
Torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: For labor and material;Torpedo station, Newport, R. I. general care of and repairs to grounds, buildings, and wharves; boats, instruction, instruments, tools, experiments, and general torpedo outfits, 380,000. For new and improved machinery and tools for torpedo factory,$15,000. Experiments, Bureau of Ordnance: For experimental work inExperimental work. the development of armor-piercing and other projectiles, fuses, powders, and high explosives, in connection with problems of the attack of armor with direct and inclined fire at various ranges, including the purchase of armor, powder, projectiles, and fuses for the above purposes, and of all necessary material and labor in connection there-with; and for other experimental work under the cognizance of the Bureau of Ordnance in connection with the development of ordnance material for the Navy, $200,000.
Arming and equipping Naval Militia: For arms, accouterments,Naval Militia.Arming and equipments.*Ante*, p. 771. ammunition, medical outfits, fuel, water for steaming purposes, and clothing, and the printing or purchase of necessary books of instruction, expenses in connect ion with the organizing and training of the Naval Militia of the various States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, $125,000. Repairs, Bureau of Ordnance:
For necessary repairs to ordnanceRepairs. buildings, magazines, wharves, machinery, and other items of like character, $30,000. Contingent, Bureau of Ordnance: For miscellaneous items,Contingent. namely: Cartage, expenses of light and water at magazines and stations, tolls, ferriage, technical books, and incidental expenses attending inspection of ordnance material, $9,500. bureau of equipment.Bureau of Equipment. Equipment of vessels: For hemp, wire, iron, and other materialsEquipment of vessels. 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; purchase, repair, and exchange of typewriters for ships; 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; aviation outfits; and for the purchase of all other articles of equipment at home and abroad, and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels and manufacture of equipment articles in the several navy yards; all pilotage and towage of ships of war; canal tolls, wharfage, dock and port charges, and other necessary incidental expenses of a similar nature; services and materials in repairing, correcting, adjusting, and testing compasses on 898shore 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 ship’s 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 Radioshore stations.therewith; service and supplies for coast signal service, including the purchase of land as necessary sites for radio shore stations: *Provided*, *Provisos*.Purchase of sites limited.That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for the purchase of land for sites for radio shore stations shall not exceed $50,000 ; instruments and apparatus, supplies, and technical books and periodicals required to carry on experimental and research work in radio telegraphy at the naval radio laboratory; 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 machinery belonging to other bureaus, $4,550,000: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under Clerical, etc., services.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 fourteen, shall not exceed $260,000:Radio laboratory. *Provided further*, That the total expenditures tinder this appropriation at the naval radio laboratory shall not exceed $5,000.
Battle compasses.Battle compasses: For the purchase of battle compasses for ships of the Navy heretofore completed, $120,000. Coal, etc.Coal and transportation: Coal and other fuel for steamers’ and ships’ use, and other equipment purposes, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same and for the general maintenance of naval coaling depots and coaling plants, water for all purposes on board naval vessels, including the expenses of Tests, etc., of coal in Alaska and elsewhere.transportation and storage of the same, $5,000,000, $75,000 of said sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may he used for the survey and investigation by experimental tests of coal in Alaska for use on board ships of the United States Navy, and for report upon coal and coal fields available for the production of coal for the use of ships of the United States Navy or any vessel of the United States.
Establishing coal depots repealed.[R. S., sec., 1552, p. 264](/us/rs/s1552/p264), repealed.Section fifteen hundred and fifty-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States, 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, is hereby repealed. Depots for coal, etc.Depots for coal and other fuel: To complete coaling plant at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, $306,250; heater coils in fuel oil tanks, $43,500: additional fuel oil tank at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, $30,000; fuel oil tank at Boston, Massachusetts, $57,700: contingent for repairs and additions to existing depots for coal and other fuel, $62,550; in all, $500,000, to be available until expended.
ContingentContingent, Bureau of Equipment: Packing boxes and materials, books, and models; stationery; ferriage and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Equipment unforeseen and impossible to classify, $10,000. Ocean and lake surveys.Ocean and lake surveys: Hydrographic surveys, including the pay of the necessary hydrographic surveyors, cartographic drafts-men and recorders, and for the purchase of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, $90,000. 899 Distribution of duties:
That duties assigned by late to theDistribution of duties, etc., directed. 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 fourteen, and the Secretary of the Navy, with the approval of the President, is hereby 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, theDiscontinuance of Bureau on completion.
Bureau of Equipment shall be discontinued as hereinbefore provided: *Provided*, That nothing herein shall be so construed as to authorize*Provisos*.Use of appropriations restricted. 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 fiscalEstimates. year nineteen hundred and fifteen, except in accordance with the order and arrangement of the naval appropriation Act for the year nineteen hundred and thirteen: *Provided farther*, That the SecretaryReport to Congress of distribution, etc. 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 of navy-yard work therein involved. bureau of yards and docks.Bureau of Yards and Docks.
Maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For general maintenanceMaintenance. of yards and docks, namely: For books, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines; fire apparatus and plants; machinery; purchase and maintenance of horses and driving teams; carts, timber wheels, and all vehicles, including motor-propelled vehicles for freight-carrying purposes only for use hi the navy yards; tools and repair 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 pay of employees on leave, $1 ,500,000: *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, inspection, drafting, messenger, and other classified work in the navy yards and naval stations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, shall not exceed $425,000.
Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For contingentContingent. expenses that may arise at navy yards and stations, $30,000. public works, bureau of yards and docks.Public works. Navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Fitting up room forPortsmouth, N. H. storage of cranes, $9,000; garbage crematory, $6,000; central administration building, $20,000; hi all, $35,000. Navy yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Paving, to continue,Boston, Mass. $15,000; electrical system, extension, $5,000; railroad system, extension and equipment, $10,000; fireproofing of pattern shop, $22,000; remodeling building numbered forty, $12,000; remodeling building numbered seventy-seven for boat storage, $15,000; power-plant improvements, $3,900; dredging, to continue, $10,000; sewers and drains, $3,600; moving boiler shop from building numbered forty-two to building numbered one hundred and six, including necessary 900modifications in buildings, $25,000; additional oil storage, $5,000; extension to yard dispensary, $2,800; in all, navy yard, Boston, $129,300.
New York, N. Y.Navy yard, New York, New York: Paving and grading, to continue, $15,000; yard railroad, extension and equipment, $25,000; dredging, to continue, $100,000, to be immediately available; improvement of water front, to continue, $100,000; raising freeboard of floating crane Hercules, $30,000; in all, navy yard, New York, New York, $270,000. Philadelphia, Pa.Navy yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: To complete rebuilding building numbered seven for central offices, $50,000; electric system, extensions, $15,000; sea-wall protection, $12,000; water system, extensions, $15,000; sower system, extensions, $5,000; gasoline storage plant, $10,000; paving, to continue, $10,000; railroad system, extensions and equipment, $5,000; quay wall and piers, $50,000; dredging, to continue, $40,000; runway for crane, building numbered ten, $10,000; in all, navy yard, Philadelphia, $222,000.
Washington, D. C.Navy yard, Washington, District of Columbia: Water-front improvements, to complete, $35,000; paving, to continue, $2,500; sewerage, to extend, $5,000; railroad, extension, $2,500; heavy gun scales, $8,000; in all, $53,000. Norfolk, Va.Navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Railroad tracks, extensions, $10,000; repairs, buildings, Saint Helena, $25,000; improvements to water front, to continue, $50,000; paving and grading, to continue, $10,000; heating system, extension, $5,000; one hundred and fifty ton crane (limit of cost not exceeding $300,000), $100,000; dredging, to continue, $40,000; water system, extensions, $7,500; sewer system, extension, $5,000; lavatories and toilet facilities, $5,000; compressed-air system, extensions, $5,000; in all, navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia, $262,500.
Charleston, S. C.Navy yard, Charleston, South Carolina: Paving and grading, to continue, $1,000; locomotive and crane shed, $5,000; remodeling dispensary, building numbered nineteen, $3,000; toward torpedo boat berths (to cost not exceeding $300,000), $150,000; in all, $159,000. Mare Island, Cal.Navy yard, Mare Island, California: Grading and paving, $10,000; railway system, extensions, $5,000; salt-water flushing and fire-protection system, $25,000; reconstructing quay wall, $20,000; modernizing electric-power and light-distributing systems, $20,000; in all, $80,000.
Puget Sound, Wash.Navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington: Toward ship fitters’ shop, mold loft, and structural steel storage, $120,000; power-plant extensions, $50,000; Pier Numbered Eight, to extend, $10,000; paving and walks, $10,009: linseed-oil storage tanks, $4,000; sewer system, extensions, $30,000; telephone system, extensions and renewals, $2,000; heating system, extensions and renewals, $10,000; rebuilding Pier Numbered One, $10,000; in all, navy yard, Puget *Proviso*.Limit for ship fitters’ shop, etc.Sound, Washington, $246,000: *Provided*, That the ship fitters’ shop, mold loft, and structural steel storage, shall not exceed in cost the sum of $275,000.
Narragansett Bay, R. I.Naval station, Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island: For purchase of land for extension of landing facilities, $40,000. Olongapo, P. I.Naval station, Olongapo, Philippine Islands: Steel pontoons for approach to the floating dry dock Dewey, $30,000. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.Naval station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Water-front development, $100,000; water system, $30,000; power distribution, mains and conduits, $65,000; railroad equipment, $30,000; boat landings, $5,000; two officers’ quarters, $24,000; torpedo-boat slips, $50,000; ice plant and refrigerating system, $25,000; one dry-dock crane, $100,000: marine railway, $100,000; naval hospital, to continue, $100,000; in all, $629,000. 901 Naval station, Guam:
Water system extension, $25,000.Guam. Buildings and Grounds, Naval Academy: Toward the constructionNaval Academy. of wharf and approach, $50,000, and the cost of the same shall not exceed $125,000. Naval training station, Rhode Island, buildings: Repairs toTraining stations.Rhode Island. barracks “A,” “B,” and “C,” $6,000: power plant and distributing systems, extension, $10,000; improvement to water front, to continue, and ferry slip, $10,000; in all, $26,000. Naval training station, California:
Water pipe, $10,000.California. Naval Observatory: For cleaning, repair, and upkeep of groundsNaval Observatory. and roads, $5,000. Naval Proving Ground, Indianhead, Maryland: Addition toIndianhead proving ground, Md. facilities, $29,000; storehouse for nitrate of soda, $15,000; in all, naval proving ground, Indianhead, $44,000. Naval coal depot, Melville Station, Rhode Island: Extension ofMelville, R. I. coal depot. wharf, $10,000; sea wall, $10,000; quarters for machinist, $5,000; paint and oil house, $1,000; in all, $26,000.
Naval magazine, New York Harbor (Iona Island): Lunch room andIona Island, N. Y., naval magazine. lockers,, $2,000; blacksmith shop, $2,500; quarters for gunner, $6,000; in all, $10,500. Naval magazine, Fort Lafayette, New York: Extension of wharf,Fort Lafayette N. Y., naval magazine. $6,000; auxiliary pump house for fire protection, $1,000; dredging channel, $15,000; in all, $22,000. Naval magazine, Lake Denmark, New Jersey: Fire and boundaryLake Denmark, N. J., naval magazine. wall, to complete, $2,500; pump house, $1,000; in all, $3,500.
Naval magazine, Saint Juliens Creek, Virginia: Wharf and approaches,Saint Juliens Creek, Va., naval magazine. $40,000; fire-protection system, extensions, $2,500; railroad system, extensions, $4,000; in all, $46,500. Engineering experiment station, Annapolis, Maryland: ConcreteEngineering Experiment station. sea wall, $50,000. Naval magazine, Mare Island, California: One magazine building,Mare Island, Col., naval magazine. $15,000; two filling houses, $2,400; extension of sea wall, $2,500; in all, $19,900.
For naval magazine, navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington: OnePuget Sound, Wash., naval magazine. building for storehouse, $15,000; clearing and grading ground, $3,000; quay wall, $15,000; one filling house, $1,500; one set of quarters for gunner, $6,000; in all, $40,500. Naval torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: Wharf and railroad,Torpedo station, Newport, R. I. Rose Island, $20,000; improvement water front, $10,000; in all, $30,000. Naval magazine, Hingham, Massachusetts: Magazine for smokelessHingham, Mass., naval magazine. powder, with railroad approach and extended fire main, $16,555; railroad track to filling house, $1,890; one detonator house, $1,250; one gun-cotton house, $1,250; one filling house, $1,500; in all, $22,445.
Naval magazine, Olongapo, Philippine Islands: Two sets of quarters,Olongapo, P. I., naval magazine. chemist and sub-inspector, $6,000; extension magazine, $1,300; filling house, $4,000; renewal of dock, $4,000; in all, $15,300. Naval magazine, Kuahua, Hawaii: Two magazines, $50,000; railroadKuahua, Hawaii, naval magazine. tracks and scales, $15,000; one gunners’ quarters, $7,000; machinery and tools, $20,000; one shipping house, $60,000; building for torpedoes and mines, $50,000; two filling houses, $16,000; one segregation house, $10,000: one bombproof, $1,500; one infusing roof, $500; building for marine guard, $2,500; compressed air locomotive plant, $18,000; in all, $250,500.
Marine barracks, Boston, Massachusetts: Barracks, $100,000; officers’Marine Barracks.Boston, Mass. quarters, $48,000: in all, $148,000. Marine barracks, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Central heating plantPhiladelphia, Pa. for Marine Corps establishment, $35,000; roads, walks, sewers, and distributing systems, extensions, $15,000; in all, $50,000. Marine barracks, Puget Sound, Washington: One set bachelorPuget Sound, Wash. quarters, for eight officers, $35,000. 902 Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.Marine barracks, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii:
One set double quarters for officers, $18,000; quartermaster’s storehouse, $25,000; post exchange, gymnasium, $20,000: in all, $63,000. Canal Zone, Panama.Marine barracks, Isthmus of Panama: Erection of barracks, quarters, and other buildings for accommodation of marines, $400,000. Repairs and preservation.Repairs and preservation at navy yards and stations: For repairs and preservation at navy yards and stations, $800,000. Total public works, navy yards, naval stations, naval proving Sounds and magazines, Naval Academy, Naval Observatory, and Amounts available until expended.Marine Corps, $4,348,945, and the amounts herein appropriated for public works, except for the Naval Observatory and for repairs and preservation at navy yards and stations, shall be available until expended.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.bureau of medicine and surgery. Surgeons’ necessaries.Medical Department: For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in commission, navy yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and for the Civil establishment.civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy yards, naval medical supply depots, Naval Medical School, Washington, and Naval Academy, $510,000. Section four thousand eight hundred and ten of the Revised Statutes of the United States is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
" “Sec. 4810. Naval hospitals established.[R. S., sec. 4810, p. 934](/us/rs/s4810/p934), amended.The Secretary of the Navy shall procure at suitable places proper sites for Navy hospitals, and if the necessary buildings are not procured with the site, shall cause such to be erected, having due regard to economy, and giving preference to such plans as with most convenience and least cost will admit of subsequent additions, when the funds permit and circumstances require; and shall provide, at one of the establishments, a permanent asylum for disabled *Proviso*.Authority of Congress required.and decrepit Navy officers, seamen, and marines: *Provided*, That hereafter no sites shall be procured or hospital buildings erected or extensions to existing hospitals made unless hereafter authorized by Congress: *Provided*, That the sum of $70,000 is appropriated, Chelsea, Mass.New power plant at hospital.Vol. 34, p. 568.to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriation, for the building of a new power plant at the Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Massachusetts, said sum of money to be paid into the Treasury from the proceeds of sale of land authorized by the naval Act of June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six.
” " Contingent.Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For tolls and ferriages; care, transportation, and burial of the dead; purchase of books and stationery, binding of medical records, unbound books, and pamphlets; hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration; sanitary and hygienic instruction; purchase and repairs of wagons, automobile ambulances, and harness; purchase of and feed for horses and cows; trees, plants, garden tools, and seeds; incidental articles for the Naval Medical School and naval dispensary, Washington; rent of rooms for naval dispensary, Washington, District of Columbia, not to exceed $1,200; naval medical supply depots, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks; washing for medical department at Naval Medical School and naval dispensary, Washing-ton; naval medical supply depots, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, dispensaries at navy yards and naval stations, and ships; and for minor repairs on buildings and grounds of the United States Naval Medical School and naval medical supply depots; for the care, maintenance, and treatment of the insane of the Navy Dental outfits.and Marine Corps on the Pacific coast; for dental outfits and dental material, not to exceed $38,000, and all other necessary contingent expenses; in all, $142,000.
Transfer of remains of officers, etc.Transportation of remains: To enable the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transferred to their homes the remains 903of 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, $15,000: *Provided*, That the sum*Provisos*.Application of fund. 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. *Provided*, That a Navy Dental Reserve Corps is hereby authorizedDental Reserve Corps, Organized as part of Medical Department.*Ante*, p. 344.Requirements. to be organized and operated under the provisions of the Act approved August twenty-second, nineteen hundred and twelve, providing for the organization and operation of a Navy Medical Reserve Corps, and differing therefrom in no respect other than that the qualification requirements of the appointees shall be dental surgeons and graduates of reputable schools of medicine or dentistry instead of “graduates of reputable schools of medicine,” and so many of said appointees may beDetails for temporary service. ordered to temporary active service as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary to the health and efficiency of the personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps, providing the whole number of both regular corps and reserve corps dental surgeons in active service shall not exceed, in time of peace, one to each one thousand five hundred of the said personnel, and no dental surgeon shall render service other than temporary service until his appointment shall have been confirmed by the Senate: *Provided further*, That Dental Corps officers of permanentAppointments for permanent service. tenure shall be appointed from the Dental Reserve Corps membership in accordance with the said provisions of the said Act, and all such appointees shall be citizens of the United States between twenty-two and thirty years of age, of good moral character, of unquestionable professional repute, and before appointment shall pass satisfactory physical and professional examinations, and when appointed shall take rank and precedence in the same manner in allRank, pay, etc. respects as in the case of appointees to the Medical Corps of the Navy and shall receive corresponding pay and allowances and, when they reach the age of sixty-four years, be entitled to retired pay.
In all, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $737,000. bureau of supplies and accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. Provisions, Navy: For provisions and commuted rations for theProvisions, etc. seamen and marines, which commuted rations may be paid to caterers of messes, in case of death or desertion, upon orders of the commanding officers, commuted rations for officers on sea duty (other than commissioned officers of the line, Medical and Pay Corps, chaplains, chief boatswains, chief gunners, chief carpenters, 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*Provisos*.Commutation of rations to prisoners. the Navy is authorized to commute rations for such general courts-martial prisoners in such amounts as seem to him proper, which may vary in accordance with the location of the naval prison, but which shall in no case exceed 30 cents per diem for each ration so commuted; and for the purchase of United States Army emergency rations as required; in all, $7,593,441.75, to be available until the close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen: *Pro-*904*vided*Contracts to be awarded by items.* further*, That from and after the passage of this Act all awards of contracts for provisions for the Navy shall be made by individual items; the contract for each item being awarded to the lowest responsible bidder.
Maintenance.Maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: For fuel, books and blanks, stationery, interior fittings for general storehouses, pay offices and accounting offices in navy yards; coffee mills and repairs thereto; expenses of naval clothing factory and machinery for same; modernizing laboratory equipment and bringing same up to date; tolls, ferriages, yeomen’s stores, safes, newspapers, and other incidental expenses; labor in general storehouses, paymasters’ offices, and accounting offices in navy yards and naval stations, including naval stations maintained in island possessions under the control of the United States, and expenses in handling stores *Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services.purchased and manufactured under general account of advances: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for chemists and for clerical, inspection, and messenger service in the general storehouses, and pay-masters’ offices of the navy yards and naval stations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, shall not exceed $520,000; in all, $1,470,000.
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, $425,000. Naval Academy.Purchase of land for dairy.Naval Academy dairy: For the purchase of the necessary land for the location of the Naval Academy dairy, at some point in the vicinity of Annapolis, Maryland, convenient for communication and for the transportation of dairy products from the location of the daily to the Buildings, etc.Naval Academy, and for the transfer to new dairy site, and re-erection thereon, of buildings belonging to the present dairy, the repair and alteration of such buildings as may be found on the land to be purchased, and for all other necessary purposes connected with the *Provisos*.Cost of land.establishment of a daily on such land, $100,000: *Provided*, That the cost of said land shall not exceed $75,000: *Provided further*, That the Advance from midhipmen’s store fund.amount appropriated for this purpose shall be treated as an advance to the midshipmen’s store fund at the Naval Academy, to be Accounting.ultimately repaid to the United States: *And provided further*, That expenditures hereunder shall be reported by the Chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts to the Secretary of the Navy in the same manner as now prescribed by law for the midshipmen’s store fund.
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, aeroplanes, 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, fighters, 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 *Provisos*.Wooden ships.force under the bureau, $8,250,000: *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, ap 905raised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like 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 appraisedOther ships. by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed twenty per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material: *Provided further*, That nothingRepairs in foreign waters. herein contained shall deprive the Secretary of the Navy of the authority to order repairs of ships damaged in foreign waters or on the high seas so far as may be necessary to bring them home.
And theRepairs to specified vessels. 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: North Dakota, $250,000; Minnesota, $250,000; submarine C-1, $100,000; submarine C-2, $100,000; submarine C-3, $100,000; submarine C-4, $100,000; submarine C-5, $100,000; submarine D-1, $100,000; submarine D-2, $100,000; submarine D-3, $100,000;
Hannibal, $75,000; Leonidas, $100,000; Justin, $50,000; Nanshan, $75,000; Prometheus, to convert to a repair ship, $350,000; in all, $1,950,000, as per letter of the Secretary of the Navy dated November nineteenth, nineteen hundred and twelve: *Provided further*, That the sum to be paidClerical, etc., services. out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and offices of superintending naval constructors, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, shall not exceed $858,039.
Wrecking pontoon: For construction or purchase of a testing andWrecking pontoon.Purchase. wrecking pontoon for submarines, to be available until expended, $300,000. Improvement of construction plants: For repairs and improvementImprovement of construction plants.Portsmouth, N. H. of machinery and implements at plant at navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, $10,000. For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements atBoston, Mass. plant at navy yard, Boston, Massachusetts, $20,000.
For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at New York, N. Y.plant at navy yard, New York, New York, $20,000. For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at Philadelphia, Pa.plant at navy yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, $15,000. For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at Norfolk, Va.plant at navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia, $15,000. For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at Charleston, S. C.plant at navy yard, Charleston, South Carolina, $10,000.
For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements atMare Island, Cal. plant at navy yard, Mare Island, California, $15,000. For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements atPuget Sound, Wash. plant at navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington, $10,000. bureau of steam engineering.Bureau of Steam Engineering. Steam machinery: For completion, repairing, and preservation ofSteam machinery. machinery and boilers of naval vessels, including cost of new boilers; distilling, refrigerating, aeroplane 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, $4,125,000.
For purchase, handling, and preservation of all material and stores;Materials, etc. purchase, fitting, repair, and preservation of machinery and tools in navy yards and stations, and running yard engines, $1,875,000. 906 Incidental expenses.For incidental expenses for Navy vessels, yards, the engineering experiment station, such as photographing, books, stationery, technical books, periodicals, engineering indices, and instruments, $6,000. *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 fourteen, shall not exceed $450,000.
In all, steam machinery, $6,006,000. Heavy-oil engine.Balances available to build, for fuel ship.That the unobligated balances under the appropriation “Steam machinery” for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, not exceeding $250,000, are hereby reappropriated and made *Ante*, p. 354.available for the development of a type of heavy-oil engine suitable for use in one of the fuel ships authorized by the Act approved August twenty-second, nineteen hundred and twelve, and the expenditure thus incurred shall not be a charge against the limit of cost of such vessel.
Engineering experiment station.Experimental, etc., work.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, $60,000. Equipping building.Equipment of building: For extension of steam, air, and water lines, and electric circuits; for foundations for machinery; for alternating-current generating set; for purchase and installation of additional condensing apparatus for steam turbines, $26,000.
Naval Academy.naval academy. Pay of professors, etc.Pay of professors and others, Naval Academy: One professor as head of the department of physics, $3,600. One professor of mathematics, one of mechanical drawing, one of English, one of French, and one of Spanish, at $3,000 each. Three professors, namely, one of English, one of French, and one of Spanish, at $2,640 each. Five instructors, at $2,400 each. Four instructors, at $2,160 each. Ten instructors, at $1,800 each. No pay for officers performing duties of civilian instructors.That no part of any sum in this Act appropriated shall be expended in the pay or allowances of any commissioned officer of the Navy detailed for duty as an instructor at the United States Naval Academy to perform duties which were performed by civilian instructors on January first, nineteen hundred and thirteen.
Nathaniel Matson Terry and William Woolsey Johnson.Appointment as professors of mathematics.The President is hereby authorized, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint Nathaniel Matson Terry and William Woolsey Johnson professors in the corps of professors of mathematics in the Navy with the rank of lieutenant as extra numbers not in the line *Provisos*.Longevity service.of promotion: *Provided*, That for pay and other purposes their service as instructors or professors at the United States Naval Academy previous to being commissioned shall count as service in the Navy:
No back pay, etc.*Provided further*, That for the purpose of this Act limitations as to age at the time of appointment shall not apply nor shall age constitute a claim for retirement, and nothing in this Act shall operate to create a claim for back pay. A. J. Corbesier, may be appointed in Marine Corps.The President is hereby authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, A. J. Corbesier, a sword master at the United States Naval Academy, to be a first lieutenant in the 907United States Marine Corps as an extra number, not in the line of promotion.
One sword master, $1,600; one assistant, $1,200; and two assistants,Instructors, etc. at $1,000 each; two instructors in physical training, at $1,500 each, and one assistant instructor in physical training, at $1,000; and one instructor in gymnastics, $1,200; one assistant librarian, $2,160; one cataloguer, $1,200; and two shelf assistants, at $900 each; one secretary of the Naval Academy, $2,400; two clerks at $1,500 each; four clerics, at $1,200 each; four clerks, at $1,000 each; four clerics, at $900 each; two clerks, at $840 each; one draftsman, $1,200; one surveyor, $1,200; service of organist at chapel, $300; one captain of the watch, $924; one second captain of the watch, $828; twenty-two watchmen, at $732 each; three telephone switchboard operators, at $600 each.
In all, pay of professors and others, Naval Academy, $122,156. Department of ordnance and gunnery: One mechanic, $960,Department of Ordnance and Gunnery. and one at $750; one armorer, $660; one chief gunner’s mate, $540; three quarter gunners, at $480 each; in all, $4,350. Departments of electrical engineering and physics: TwoDepartments of Electrical Engineering and Physics. electrical machinists, at $1,000 each; two mechanics, at $1,000 each; in all, $4,000. Department of seamanship:
One cockswain, $480; three seamen,Department of Seamanship. at $420 each; in all, $1,740. Department of marine engineering and naval construction:Department of Marine Engineering and Naval Construction. One master machinist, $1,800, and one assistant, $1,200; one pattern maker, $1,200; one boiler maker, one blacksmith, three machinists, one molder, and one coppersmith, at $1,080 each; one draftsman, $2,000; machinists and other employees, $6,768; in all, $20,528. Commissary department:
One chief cook, $1,200; four cooks, atCommissary department. $600 each, and eight assistants, at $300 each; one steward, $1,200, and one assistant, $600; one head waiter, $720, and two assistants, at $480 each; two pantry men, at $420 each; one chief baker, $1,200; one baker, $600 ; two assistants, at $540 each, and one assistant, $420; necessary waiters, at $16 per month each, $13,440; one messenger to the superintendent, $600; twenty-seven attendants, at $300 each; in all, $35,760: *Provided*, That hereafter such additional payments*Proviso*.Payment to servants. from the midshipmen’s commissary fund as the superintendent of the Naval Academy may deem necessary may be made to the servants authorized in the commissary department.
In all, civil establishment, $188,534. Current and miscellaneous expenses, Naval Academy: TextContingent 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, $38,500.
Purchase, binding, and repair of books for the library (to be purchasedLibrary. in the open market on the written order of the superintendent), $2,500: *Provided*, That section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight,*Proviso*.Periodicals.[R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718). Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and domestic periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation. Hereafter the Board of visitors to the Naval Academy shall consistBoard of Visitors. of seven members of the Committee on Naval Affairs of the UnitedTo consist of members of Naval Affairs Committees of both Houses.
States Senate and seven members of the Committee on Naval Affairs of the House of Representatives, to be appointed by the respective chairmen thereof, and the members so appointed shall visit the Naval Academy annually at such time as the chairman of the Board of Visitors shall appoint, and the members of each House of Congress of said board may visit said academy together or separately as the 908Allowances.said board may elect during the session of Congress. The expenses of the members of the board shall be their actual expenses while engaged upon their duties as members of said board, not to exceed $5 per day and their actual expenses of travel by the shortest mail *Proviso*.Former law repealed.Vol. 20, p. 290, repealed.routes: *Provided*, That so much of chapter sixty-eight, Statutes at Large, volume twenty, page two hundred and ninety, as is inconsistent with the provisions of this Act is hereby repealed.
Expenses.Expenses of the Board of Visitors of the Naval Academy, being actual expenses while engaged upon duties as members of the board not to exceed $5 a day and actual expenses of travel by the shortest mail routes, and for clerk hire, and other incidental and necessary expenses of the board, $500. Superintendent.For contingencies for the superintendent of the academy, to be expended in his discretion, $2,000. In all, current and miscellaneous expenses, $43,500. Maintenance.Maintenance and repairs, Naval Academy:
For general maintenance and repairs at the Naval Academy, namely: For necessary repairs of public buildings, wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, improvements, repairs, and fixtures; 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, lira 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, $350,000.
RentRent of buildings for the use of the academy, and commutation of rent for bandsmen, at $8 per month each, $4,116. In all, Naval Academy, $586,150. Marine Corps.marine corps. Pay.Officers, active list.Pay, Marine Corps: For pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on the active list, including clerks for assistant paymasters, five in all, $956.598. Retired list.For pay of officers prescribed by law, on the retired list: For two major generals, six brigadier generals, six colonels, seven lieutenant colonels, ten majors, sixteen captains, twelve first lieutenants; four second lieutenants, and one paymaster’s clerk, 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, $181,677.50.
Enlisted men.Active list.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 detailed as gun captains, gun pointers, mess sergeants, cooks, messmen, signalmen, or holding good-conduct medals, pins, or bars, including interest on deposits by enlisted men, post-exchange debts of deserters, under such rules as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, and the authorized travel allowance of discharged enlisted men 909and for prizes for excellence in gunnery exercise and target practice, both afloat and ashore.
In all, $2,956,076. For pay and allowances prescribed by law of enlisted men on theRetired list. retired list: For three sergeants major, one drum major, twenty-six gunnery sergeants, twenty-seven quartermaster sergeants, thirty-six first sergeants, sixty-three sergeants, eighteen corporals, twenty first-class musicians, one drummer, one trumpeter, one lifer, and twenty-six privates, and for those who may be retired during the fiscal year, $150,759. Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged soldiers for clothingUndrawn clothing. undrawn, $125,475.
Mileage: For mileage to officers traveling under orders withoutMileage to officers. troops, $55,000. For commutation of quarters of officers on duty without troopsCommutation of quarters,officers without troops.Civil force. where there are no public quarters, $42,000. Pay of civil force: In the office of the major general commandant: One chief clerk, at $2,000; one clerk, at $1,400; one messenger, at $971.28. In the office of the paymaster: One chief clerk, at $2,000; one clerk, at $1,500; one clerk, at $1,200.
In the office of the adjutant and inspector: One chief clerk, at $2,000; one clerk, at $1,500; one clerk, at $1,400; one clerk, $1,200. In the office of the quartermaster: One chief clerk, at $2,000; one clerk, at $1,500; two clerks, $1,400 each; two clerks, at $1,200 each; one draftsman, at $1,800. In the office of the assistant quartermaster, San Francisco, California: One chief clerk, at $1,800. In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: One chief clerk, at $1,800; one messenger, at $840; in the Quartermaster’s Department, for duty where their services are required, four clerks, at $1,400 each.
In all for pay of civil force, $35,711.28, and the money hereinDisbursement. 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, $4,503,296.78. maintenance, quartermaster’s department, marine corps. Provisions, Marine Corps: For noncommissioned officers, musicians,Provisions and privates serving ashore; subsistence and lodging of enlisted men when traveling on duty, or cash in lieu thereof; commutation of rations to enlisted men regularly detailed as clerks and messengers; payment of board and lodging of applicants for enlistment while held under observation, recruits, and recruiting parties; transportation of provisions, and the employment of necessary labor connected therewith; ice for offices and preservation of rations, $890,000.
No law shall be construed to entitle enlisted men on shore duty to any rations or commutation therefor other than such as are now or may hereafter be allowed enlisted men in the Army: *Provided, however*,*Provisos*.Navy ration or commutation.Purchases of articles for sale to officers, etc. 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: *Provided*, That hereafter so much of this appropriation as may be necessary may be applied for the purchase, for sale to officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees, of such articles of subsistence stores as may from time to time be designated and under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy.
Clothing, Marine Corps: For noncommissioned officers, musicians,Clothing. and privates authorized by law, $675,000. 910 Fuel.Fuel, Marine Corps: For heat and light for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers and enlisted men, and other buildings and grounds pertaining to the Marine Corps; fuel, electricity, and oil for cooking, power, and other purposes; and sales to officers, $164,000. Preference to United States production.But in purchasing such articles preference shall be given to those produced in the United States but which can be procured at the same price and quality.
Military stores.Military stores, Marine Corps: Pay of chief armorer, at $4 per diem; one mechanic, at $3 per diem; two mechanics, at $2.50 each per them; one chief electrician, at $4 per diem, and one assistant electrician, at $3.50 per diem; per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor for periods of not loss than ten days; purchase of military equipments, such as rifles, revolvers, cartridge boxes, bayonet scabbards, haversacks, blanket bags, canteens, rifle slings, swords, drums, trumpets, flags, waistbelts, waist plates, cartridge belts, spare parts for repairing rifles, machetes, purchase and repair of tents, field cots, field ovens, and stoves for tents; purchase and repair of instruments for bands, purchase of music and musical accessories; purchase and marking of prizes for excellence in gunnery and rifle practice; good-conduct badges; medals awarded to officers and enlisted men by the Government for conspicuous, gallant, and special service; incidental expenses of schools of application; 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; establishment and maintenance of targets and ranges, renting ranges, construction of buildings for temporary shelter and preservation of stores, and entrance fees in competitions; procuring, preserving, and handling ammunition and other necessary military supplies; in all, $307,737.
Transportation and recruiting.Transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps: For transportation of troops, and of applicants for enlistment between recruiting stations and recruit depots or posts, including ferriage and transfers enroute, or cash in lieu thereof; toilet kits for issue to recruits upon their first enlistment and the expanse of the recruiting service, $317,000. Repairs of barracks, etc.Repairs of barracks, Marine Corps: Repairs and improvements to barracks, quarters, and other public buildings at posts and stations; for the renting, leasing, improvement, and erection of buildings in 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 other public buildings on constant labor for periods of not less than ten days, $140,000.
Forage.Forage, Marine Corps: For forage in kind and stabling for public animals of the Quartermaster’s Department and the authorized number of officers’ horses, $22,200. Commutation of quarters, officers with troops.Commutation of quarters, Marine Corps: Commutation of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them; commutation of quarters for enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers hi the offices of the commandant, adjutant and inspector, paymaster, and quartermaster, and the offices of the assistant adjutant and inspectors, assistant paymasters, 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, $79,000.
Contingent.Contingent, Marine Corps: For freight, expressage, tolls, cartage, advertising, washing of bed sacks, mattress covers, pillow-cases, towels, and sheets, funeral expenses of officers and marines, 911including 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, repair, and exchange of typewriters; apprehension of stragglers and deserters; per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor for periods of not less than ten days; employment of civilian labor; purchase, repair, and installation and maintenance of gas, electric, sewer, and water pipes and fixtures; office and barracks furniture, camp and garrison equipage and implements; mess utensils for enlisted men; packing boxes, wrapping paper, oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, quarantine fees, camphor and carbolized paper, carpenters’ tools, tools for police purposes, safes; purchase, repair, and maintenance of such harness, wagons, motor wagons, carts, drays, and other vehicles as are required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for official military and garrison purposes; purchase of public horses and mules; services of veterinary surgeons, and medicines for public animals, and the authorized number of officers’ horses; purchase of mounts and horse equipment for all officers below the grade of major required to be mounted; shoeing for public animals and the authorized number of officers’ horses; purchase and repair of hose, fire extinguishers, hand grenades, carts, wheelbarrows, and lawn mowers; purchase, installation, and repair of cooking and heating stoves and furnaces; purchase of towels, soap, combs, and brushes for offices; postage stamps for foreign and registered postage; books, newspapers, and periodicals; improving parade grounds; repair of pumps and wharves; water; straw for bedding, mattresses, mattress covers, pillows, sheets; 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, $460,000.
In all, for the maintenance of Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, $3,054,937; and the money herein specifically appropriated for the maintenance of the Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law as maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. Total Marine Corps, exclusive of public works, $7,558,233.78. increase of the navy.Increase of the Navy.
That for the purpose of further increasing the Naval EstablishmentConstruction authorized.One first-class battleship. of the United States the President is hereby authorized to have constructed one first-class battleship, carrying as heavy armor and as powerful armament as any vessel of its class, to have the highest practicable speed and greatest desirable radius of action, and to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not to exceed $7,425,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.To be built in navy yard.
That the battleship herein authorized shall be built in a Government navy yard. Six torpedo-boat destroyers, to have the highest practicable speed,Six torpedo-boat destroyers. to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not to exceed $950,000 each. Four submarine torpedo boats in an amount not exceeding in theFour submarine torpedo boats. aggregate $2,478,936; and the sum of $1,294,912 is hereby appropriated for said purpose. One transport, to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not toOne transport. exceed $1,850,000.
One supply ship, to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not toOne supply ship. exceed $1,425,000. The Secretary of the Navy shall build the battleship authorized inBuilding in navy yards. this Act in such navy yard as he may designate; and shall build any 912Action if bidders combine.of the other 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 “Port smouth” U.
S. S.Transferred to California.Conditions.contracts for the constructions of any of said vessels. That the United States ship Portsmouth be, and hereby is, transferred to the State of California, upon condition that the said State of California, by and through its governor, accept said vessel, United States ship Portsmouth, for said State, after having been first duly authorized by the Legislature of said State of California, and upon the further condition that said vessel remain the property of said State, to be preserved and cared for by the said State of California at its own cost and expense, and the said vessel be turned over to the State authorities of California without any expense to the Government.
Construction and machinery.Construction and machinery: On account of hulls and outfits of vessels and steam machinery of vessels heretofore and herein authorized, to be available until expended, $19,818,228. Torpedo boats.Increase of the Navy; torpedo boats: On account of submarine torpedo boats heretofore authorized, to be available until expended, $2,058,363. EquipmentIncrease of the Navy; equipment: Toward the completion of equipment outfit of the vessels heretofore and herein authorized, to be available until expended, $430,000.
Armor and armamentIncrease of the Navy; armor and armament: Toward the armor and armament for vessels heretofore and herein authorized, to be available until expended, $11,724,192. Total increase of the Navy heretofore and herein authorized, to be available until expended, $35,325,695. Purchases from trusts, combinations, etc., forbidden.That no part of any sum herein appropriated shall be expended for the purchase of structural steel, ship plates, armor, armament, or machinery from any persons, firms, or corporations who have combined or conspired to monopolize the interstate or foreign commerce or trade of the United States, or the commerce or trade between the States and any Territory or the District of Columbia, in any of the Restriction on price.articles aforesaid, and no purchase of structural steel, ship plates, or machinery shall be made at a price in excess of a reasonable profit Not applicable to existing contracts.above the actual cost of manufacture.
But this limitation shall in no case apply to any existing contract. Use of appropriation for clerical services, etc., in Department forbidden.That no part of any sum herein appropriated under “Increase of the Navy” shall be used for the payment of any clerical, drafting, inspection, or messenger service, or for the pay of any of the other classified force under the various bureaus of the Navy Department, Washington, District of Columbia. Specific authority required for use in Department.That no part of any sum appropriated by this Act shall be used for any expense of the Navy Department at Washington, District of Columbia, unless specific authority is given by law for such expenditure.
Approved, March 4, 1913.
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