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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 37 STAT. · August 22, 1912 · Chapter 335

Chapter 335. Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 335.— An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for other purposes.August 22, 1912.[[H. R. 24565](/us/bill/62/hr/24565).][[Public, No. 290](/us/pl/62/290).] *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 thirteen, 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; commutation 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 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-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 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-seven million two hundred and eighty thousand nine hundred and seventy-one dollars and twenty-five cents.
Pay Corps increased.[R. S., sec. 1876. p. 247, amended](/us/rs/s1876/p247).Vo!. 82, p. 1197.The grades of the active list of the Pay Corps of the Navy are hereby increased by ten additional paymasters, in all eighty-six paymasters, and by twenty additional passed assistant and assistant paymasters, in all one hundred and sixteen passed assistant and assistant *Proviso*.Limit for fiscal year.paymasters: *Provided*, That the total increase of the Pay Corps of the Navy shall not exceed twenty during the first fiscal year.
Hospital stewards.Payments allowed.Vol. 30, p. 475; Vol. 85. p. 146.The Auditor for the Navy Department is directed to allow payments made to hospital stewards who were granted permanent appointments as of date of May thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, which have heretofore been disallowed by reason of a decision of the Assistant Comptroller of the Treasury dated December twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and ten, and to pay them out of the appropriations for “Pay of the Navy.
” Officers retired to make vacancies.Rank and pay. Vol. 30. p. 1006.That hereafter any officer retired under the provisions of sections eight and nine of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, an Act to reorganize and increase the efficiency of the personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps of the United States, shall be retired with the rank and three-fourths the sea pay of the grade from which he is retired. 329 That the Act approved May thirteenth, nineteen hundred andAllowances for death in service.Vol. 35, p. 128, amended. eight, making appropriations for the naval sendee for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes, in so far as it relates to the payment of six months’ pay to the widow of an officer or enlisted man and so forth, be amended to read as follows:
" “That hereafter immediately upon official notification of the death,Cause of death restricted. from wounds or disease not the result of his own misconduct, of any officer or enlisted man on the active list of the Navy and Marine Corps the Paymaster General of the Navy shall cause to be paid to the widow, and, if no widow, to the children, and, if there be noChildren added to beneficiaries. children, to any other dependent relative of such officer or enlisted man previously designated by him, an amount equal to six months’ pay at the rate received by such officer or enlisted man at the date of his death, less seventy-five dollars in the case of an officer and thirty-five dollars in the case of an enlisted man, to defray expenses of interment, and the residue, if any, of the amount reserved shall be paid subsequently to the designated person.
” " That the portion of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriationsPay of chiefs of bureau.Vol. 36, p. 607, amended. for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, and for other purposes, approved June twentyfourth, nineteen hundred and ten, which reads as follows: " “The pay and allowances of chiefs of bureaus of the Navy DepartmentIncreased pay for service, etc., repealed. 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 who 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 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 entitled to and shall receive new commissions in accordance with the rank and title hereby conferred,” be, and the same is hereby, repealed: *Provided*, That no officer who has received his commission*Proviso*.Present commissions not affected. under the provisions of said Act shall be deprived of said commission or the rank, title, and emoluments thereof by virtue of this repeal.
" Hereafter any naval officer on the retired list may, with his consent,Retired officers.Pay for performing active duty.Vol. 31, p. 703. in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, be ordered to such duty as he may be able to perform at sea or on shore, and while so employed in time of peace shall receive the pay and allowances of an officer of the active list of the same rank: *Provided*, That no such*Provisos*.Limitation in time of peace. retired officer so employed on active duty shall receive, in time of peace, any greater pay and allowances than the pay and allowances which are now or may hereafter be provided by law for a lieutenant senior grade on the active fist of like length of service: *And provided further*, That any such officer whose retired pay exceeds the highestWhen retired pay exceeds that of lieutenant senior grade. pay and allowances of the grade of lieutenant senior grade, shall, while so employed in time of peace, receive his retired pay only, in lieu of all other pay and allowances.
The Act “to authorize and provide for the disposal of useless papersDisposal of useless papers on vessels.Vol. 25, p. 672. in executive departments,” approved February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, is hereby amended so that accumulations in the files of vessels of the Navy of papers that, in the judgment of the commander in chief of the fleet, are not needed or useful in the transaction of current business and have no permanent value or historical interest may be disposed of by the commander in chief of the fleet by sale, after advertisement for proposals, as waste papers if practicable, or if not practicable, then otherwise, as may appear best for the interests of the Government, the commander in chief of theRestriction. fleet to make report thereon to the Secretary of the Navy; provided 330 always that no papers less than two years old from the date of the last indorsement thereon and no correspondence, or the related papers, with officers or representatives of a foreign government shall be destroyed or disposed of by such commander in chief of the fleet. 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 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 or inquiry, boards of inspection, examining boards, with clerks’ and witnesses’ fees, and traveling expenses and costs; stationery and recording; expenses of purchasing paymasters’ offices of the various cities, including clerks, furniture, fuel, stationery, and incidental expenses; newspapers; all advertising for the Navy Department and its bureaus (except advertising for recruits for the Bureau of Navigation); copying; care of library, including the purchase of books, photographs, prints, manuscripts, and periodicals; ferriage; tolls; costs of suits; commissions, warrants, diplomas, and discharges; relief of vessels in distress; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; reports; professional investigation; cost or special instruction at home and abroad, in maintenance of students and attaches; information from abroad, and the collection and classification thereof; all charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus for ice for the cooling of drinking water on shore (except at naval hospitals), telephone rentals and tolls, telegrams, cable-grams, and postage, foreign and domestic, and post-office box rentals; *Proviso*.Allowance for clerical, etc., services at yards, etc.and other necessary and incidental expenses: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and purchasing pay offices for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, shall not exceed two hundred and eighty thousand dollars; in all, one million dollars.
“Georgia.”Payment to enlisted men of deposits stolen by paymaster’s clerk of.That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to the several enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps then attached to the United States ship Georgia the respective sums of money placed by said enlisted men on deposit for safe-keeping with the pay officer of said ship as permitted by article thirteen hundred and thirty-one of the Navy Regulations, which said sums were stolen on February tenth or eleventh, nineteen hundred and eleven, by one Edward V.
Lee, clerk of said pay officer; and the sum of four thousand three hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry out the provisions of this Act. Enlistment term made four years.[R. S., sec. 1418, p. 250, amended](/us/rs/s1418/p250).Vol. 30, p. 1008.That the term of enlistment of all enlisted men of the United States Navy other than those who are enlisted during minority shall be four years. 331 That the term of enlistment of any enlisted man in the Navy may,Voluntary extensions permitted. by his voluntary written agreement, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy with the approval of the President, be extended for a period of either one, two, three, or four full years from the date of expiration of the then existing four-year-term of enlistment, and subsequent to said date such emisted menPay and allowances at end of existing term. as extend the term of enlistment as authorized in this section shall be entitled to and shall receive the same pay and allowances in all respects as though regularly discharged and reenlisted immediately upon expiration of their term of enlistment, and such extension shall not operate to deprive them upon discharge at the termination thereof of any right, privilege, or benefit to which they would be entitled at the expiration of a four-year term of enlistment.
That section fifteen hundred and seventy-three of the RevisedReenlistments.[R. S., sec. 1573, p. 269, amended](/us/rs/s1573/p269). Vol. 30, p. 1008. Statutes of the United States as amended by section sixteen of an Act entitled “An Act to reorganize and increase the efficiency of the personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps of the United States,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: “If any enlisted man or apprentice,Bounty to be given. being honorably discharged, shall reenlist for four years within four months thereafter, he shall, on presenting his honorable discharge or on accounting in a satisfactory maimer for its loss, be entitled to a gratuity of four months’ pay equal in amount to that which he would have received if he had been employed in actual service: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Payment at end of four years if term extended.
That any enlisted man in the Navy whose term of enlistment has been extended for an aggregate of four years shall, after the expiration of the preceding four-year term of enlistment upon which the extension is made and if otherwise entitled to an honorable discharge, be paid the gratuity above provided: *And provided*, That any man who hasIncreased pay for reenlistment. received an honorable discharge from his last term of enlistment, or who has received a recommendation for reenlistment upon the expiration of his last term of enlistment, who reenlists for a term of four years within four months from the date of his discharge, shall receive an increase of one dollar and thirty-six cents per month to the pay prescribed for the rating in which he serves for each successive reenlistment: *And provided further*, That an extension of the period ofExtension equivalent to continuous service. enlistment as hereinbefore authorized, aggregating four years, shall be held and considered as equivalent to continuous service with respect to all rights, privileges, and benefits granted for such service pursuant to law. ” That under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy mayDischarges within three months of expiration of term. prescribe, with the approval of the President, any enlisted man may be discharged at any time within three months before the expiration of his term of enlistment or extended enlistment without prejudice to any right, privilege, or benefit that he would have received, except pay and allowances for the unexpired period not served, or to which he would thereafter become entitled, had he served his full term of enlistment or extended enlistment: *Provided*, That nothing in this Act*Proviso*.No reduction or increase of pay, etc. shall be held to reduce or increase the pay and allowances of enlisted men of the Navy now authorized pursuant to law.
Contingent, Navy: For all emergencies and extraordinaryContingent. expenses, exclusive of personal services in the Navy Department, or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at Washington, District of Columbia, arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, to be expended on the approval and authority of the Secretary of the Navy, and for such purposes as be may deem proper, forty-six thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the accounting officers*Proviso*.Civilian employees in island possessions. 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 332 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 thirteen.
Lepers.Care of lepers, island of Guam: Naval station, island of Guam: Maintenance and care of lepers, special patients, and for other *Proviso*.Transfer from Guam to Culion in the Philippines.purposes, fourteen thousand dollars: *Prowled*, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to transfer all the lepers of Guam now segregated, and other cases that may later appear, to the island of Cuhon, in the Philippines, and to pay the cost of their transfer and maintenance from this appropriation. bureau of navigation.Bureau of Navigation.
Transportation.Transportation: For travel allowance of enlisted men discharged on account of expiration of enlistment; transportation of enlisted men and apprentice seamen at home and abroad, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation to their homes, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentice seamen discharged on medical survey, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation of sick or insane enlisted men and apprentice seamen to hospitals, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, and for railway guides and other expenses incident to transportation, eight hundred thousand 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 *Provisos*.Certificate of age required.parties, one hundred and forty-five 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, Under oath of applicant.showing applicant to be of age required by naval regulations, which shall be presented with the application for enlistment; except in cases where such certificate is unobtainable, enlistment may be made Discharge of minors.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 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 recruit of such payment: *Provided*, Advertising agency authorized.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 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 assist 333 ants and equipment to and from ranges, one hundred and sixty-seven thousand dollars. Steaming exercises: Prizes, trophies, and badges for excellence inSteaming exercises. steaming exercises to be awarded to the ships in commission for general efficiency and for economy in coal consumption, under such rules as the Secretary of the Navy may formulate, and for the purpose of classifying, compiling, and publishing the results of the competition, fifteen thousand dollars.
Aviation experiments: For experimental work in the developmentAviation experiments. of aviation for naval purposes, ten thousand dollars. Outfits on first enlistment: Outfits for all enlisted men andOutfits. apprentice seamen of the Navy on first enlistment, at not to exceed sixty dollars each, nine hundred thousand 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 sixty-eight thousand three hundred and seventy-three dollars.
Naval training station, California: Maintenance of navalTraining stations.Yerba Buena Island, Cal. training station, Yerba Buena Island, California, namely: Labor and material; buildings and wharves; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and wharves; wharfage, ferriage, and street carfare; purchase and maintenanceof livestock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same: fire engines and extinguish ere; gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating ana 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 dollars.
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 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; gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating ana 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 dollars: *Provided*, That the sum*Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services. 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 thirteen, shall not exceed five thousand seven hundred and one dollars and sixty cents.
Naval training station, Great Lakes: Maintenance of navalGreat Lakes. training station: Labor and material; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and piers; street car fare; purchase and maintenance of livestock, and attendance on same; 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 mams, tunnel, and conduits; stationery, books, and periodicals; washing; packing boxes and materials; lec 334 tures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen; and all other *Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services.contingent expenses: *Provided*, 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 thirteen, shall not exceed fortyfour thousand five hundred and fifty-three dollars and thirty-six cents; in all, naval training station, Great Lakes, one hundred and six thousand five hundred dollars.
Naval War College, R. I.Naval War College, Rhode Island: For maintenance of the Naval War College on Coasters Harbor Island, and care of grounds for same, twenty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; repairs to building and improvement in electric light system, three thousand dollars; services of a lecturer on international law, one thousand five hundred dollars; services of civilian lecturers, rendered at the War College, three hundred dollars; care and preservation of the library, including the purchase, binding, and repair of books of reference and *Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services.periodicals, one thousand three hundred 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, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, shall not exceed ten thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
In all, Naval War College, Rhode Island, twenty-nine thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pa.Pay of employees.Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pay of employees: One secretary, one thousand six hundred dollars; one foreman mechanic, one thousand five hundred dollars; one superintendent of grounds, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one steward, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one store laborer, at four hundred and eighty dollars; one matron, at four hundred and twenty dollars; one beneficiaries’ attendant, at two hundred and forty dollars; one chief cook, at four hundred and eighty dollars; one assistant cook, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one assistant cook, at two hundred and forty dollars; one chief laundress, at two hundred and sixteen dollars; five laundresses, at one hundred and ninety-two dollars each; four scrubbers, at one hundred and ninety-two dollars each; one head waitress, at two hundred and sixteen dollars; eight waitresses, at one hundred and ninety-two dollars each; one kitchen servant, at two hundred and forty 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 seven hundred and twenty dollars; two house corporals, at three hundred dollars each; one barber, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one carpenter, at eight hundred and forty-six dollars; one painter, at eight hundred and forty-six dollars; one engineer for elevator and machinery, seven hundred and twenty dollars; three laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; three laborers, at three hundred dollars each; total for employees, nineteen thousand and forty-eight dollars.
Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous: Water rent and lighting, two thousand dollars; cemetery, burial expenses and headstones, one thousand dollars; improvement of grounds, one thousand dollars; repairs to buildings, repairs to and purchase of boilers, furnaces, and furniture, six thousand seven hundred and forty-eight dollars; music in chapel and entertainments for beneficiaries, one thousand 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, fiftyfour thousand four hundred and twenty-one dollars.
In all, for Naval Home, seventy-three thousand four hundred and *Proviso*.Employing beneficiaries.sixty-nine dollars, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund: *Provided*, That for the performance of such addi 335 tional services in and about the Naval Home as may be necessary the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to employ, on the recommendation of the governor, beneficiaries in said home, whose compensation shall be fixed by the Secretary and paid from the appropriation for the support of the home.
All moneys belonging to a deceased inmate of the Naval HomeDeposit of moneys, etc., of deceased inmates. or derived from the sale of his personal effects, and which are not claimed by his next of kin, shall be deposited in the Treasury by the governor of the home, as agent, and if any sum so deposited has been or shall hereafter be unclaimed for a period of five years from the death of such inmate it shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: *Provided*, That the governor of the Naval Home is hereby*Provisos*.Inquiries for next of kin. authorized and directed, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy, to make diligent inquiry in every instance after the death of an inmate to ascertain the whereabouts of his next of kin: *And provided further*, That claims may be presentedPayment of claims. hereunder at any tune, and when supported by competent proof in any case more than five years after the death of an inmate shall be certified to Congress for consideration. bureau of ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance.
Ordnance and ordnance stores: For procuring, producing,Ordnance and ordnance stores. 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 navy yards, naval stations, and naval magazines: *Provided*, That the sum to be*Provisos*.Chemical, clerical, etc., services. 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 thirteen, shall not exceed four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
In all, five million four hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part ofPurchases of projectiles restricted. this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of shells or projectiles except for shells or projectiles purchased in accordance with the terms and comfitions 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: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the NavyPurchases abroad. is hereby authorized to make emergency purchases of war material abroad: *And provided further*, That when such purchases are madeFree entry authorized. abroad, this material shall be admitted free of duty.
Purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, one million oneSmokeless powder. hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to exchange suchExchange of chemicals authorized. quantities of potassium nitrate now in store as may not be needed in re manufacture of black powder for sodium nitrate of equal value for use in the manufacture of smokeless powder. For Naval Gun Factory, Washington, District of Columbia:Naval Gun Factory, Washington, D.
C. New and improved machinery for existing shops, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Machinery, cupolas, furnaces, and foundry equipment for newNew foundry. foundry, one hundred thousand dollars. New batteries for ships of the Navy: For new sights for five-inch,New batteries.Sights and mounts. six-inch, and seven-inch guns and modifying their mounts, one hundred thousand dollars. 336 Breech mechanisms.For modifying or renewing breech mechanisms of three-inch, four-inch, five-inch, and six-inch guns, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Modernizing guns.>For replacing Mark VI six-inch guns with Mark VIII guns and repairing and modernizing the Mark VI guns for issue, one hundred thousand dollars. Lining, etc., guns.For lining and hooping to the muzzle eight-inch forty-caliber Mark V guns, sixty thousand dollars. For liners for eroded guns, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For modifying five-inch fifty-caliber Mark V guns, seventy-five thousand dollars. Ammunition for Issue.Ammunition for ships of the Navy:
For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ammunition for issue to ships, three million eight *Proviso*.Purchases of projectiles restrictedhundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation 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.Modernizing turrets of ships of the Navy: For equipments for turret ammunition hoists and rammers to 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, and Terror, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Small armsand machine guns.Small arms and machine guns:
For new small arms and machine guns for ships, two hundred and three thousand dollars. Torpedoes and appliances.Torpedoes and appliances: For the purchase and manufacture of torpedoes and appliances, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Modernizing projectiles.Modernizing projectiles: For rebanding projectiles and fitting long points, and other changes as required, three 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, eighty thousand dollars.
For new machinery and tools for torpedo factory, fifty thousand dollars. Experimental work.Experiments, Bureau of Ordnance: For experimental work in the development of armor-piercing and other projectiles, fuses, powders, and high explosives, in connection with problems of the attack of armor with direct and inclined fire at various ranges, including the purchase of armor, powder, projectiles, and fuses for the above purposes, and of all necessary material and labor in connection therewith; and for other experimental work under the cognizance of the Bureau of Ordnance in connection with the development of ordnance material for the Navy, one hundred thousand dollars.
Naval Militia.Arming and equipping.*Post*, p. 394.Arming and equipping Naval Militia: For arms, accouterment, ammunition, medical outfits, fuel, water for steaming purposes, ana clothing, and the printing or purchase of necessary books of instruction, expenses in connection with the organizing and training of the Naval Militia of the various States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, under such regulations as the 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. 337 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, nine thousand five hundred dollars. That the balances of appropriations unobligated on JanuaryBalances of specified appropriations continued through fiscal year. eleventh, nineteen hundred and twelve, made for the naval service under the headings “Ammunition for ships of the Navy,” “Fire control instruments tor ships of the Navy,” “Small arms and machine guns,” “Torpedoes and appliances,” “Experiments, Bureau of Ordnance,” “New batteries for ships of the Navy,” “Arming and equipping the Naval Militia,” “ Modernizing projectiles,” “Modernizing turrets of ships of the Navy,” “Naval Gun Factory, Washington, District of Columbia,” and ‘‘Battle compasses,” are hereby reappropriated and shall be available for obligation until the close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen. 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 shore and on board ship; nautical and astronomical instruments and repairs to same; libraries for ships of war, professional books and papers, and drawingsandengravingsforsignal 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 therewith; sendee and supplies for coast signal service, including the purchase of land asRadio telegraph. necessary for sites for radio shore stations; 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, 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 338 fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, shall not exceed two hundred and nine thousand and ninety-three dollars Radio shore stations.and sixty cents: *Provided further*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for the purchase of land for sites for radio shore stations Radio laboratory.shall not exceed fifty thousand dollars: *Provided further*, That the total expenditures under this appropriation at the naval radio laboratory shall not exceed five thousand dollars.
Arlington Military Reservation, Va.Fart of, transferred for naval use.The following-described part of the Government land in Alexandria County, State of Virginia, known as the Arlington estate,. is hereby transferred to, and placed under the control and jurisdiction of, the Description.Navy Department for use for naval purposes: Beginning with the stone monument at the southwestern corner of the Arlington Military Reservation, Virginia, and extending thence north four degrees five minutes west six hundred and thirty-three and thirty-four one-hundredths feet to a stake; thence south eighty-nine degrees five minutes east one thousand one hundred and ten and twenty-three one-hundredths feet to a stake; thence south ten degrees forty-four minutes east four hundred and four and eighty-nine one-hundredths feet to a stone in the southern boundary of said reservation; thence south seventy-nine degrees sixteen minutes west one thousand one hundred and sixty and seven-tenths feet to the place of beginning, containing thirteen and four-tenths acres more or less.
All bearings refer to the magnetic north. Battle Compasses.For the purchase of battle compasses for ships of the Navy hereto-fore completed, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. 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 transportation and storage of the same, four million dollars.
Depots for coal.[R. S., see. 1552, p. 264](/us/rs/s1552/p264).Depots for coal: To enable the Secretary of the Navy to execute the provisions of section fifteen hundred and fifty-two of the Revised Statutes, authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to establish, at such places as he may deem necessary, suitable depots for coal and other fuel for the supply of steamships of war, five hundred thousand Test, etc., of coal in Alaska and elsewhere.dollars. That seventy-five thousand dollars of said sura, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be used for the survey and investigation by experimental test 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 the ships of the Pearl Harbor coaling station.United States Navy or any vessel of the United States, and three hundred and forty-five thousand dollars of said sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be used for the coaling station and fuel station at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Contingent.Contingent, 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, ten thousand dollars. Ocean and lake surveys.Ocean and lake surveys: Hydrographic surveys, including the 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.
Radio stations.Purchase of sites, apparatus, etc., for high power.Toward the purchase and preparation of necessary sites, purchase and erection of towers and buildings, and the purchase and installation of machinery and apparatus of high-power radio stations (cost not to Location.exceed one million dollars), to be located as follows: One in the Isthmian Canal Zone, one on the California coast, one in the Hawaiian Islands, one in American Samoa, one on the island of Guam, and one in the Philippine Islands, four hundred thousand dollars, to be available until expended. 339 Distribution of duties:
That duties assigned by law 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 thirteen, 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 or the bureau as are authorized by law, and when such distributionDiscontinuance of Bureau on completion. of duties, funds, and employees shall have been completed, the 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 fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, except in accordance with the order and arrangement of the naval appropriation Act for the year nineteen hundred and twelve: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the NavyReport to Congress of distribution, etc. shall report to Congress at the beginning of its next ensuing session the distribution of the duties of the Bureau of Equipment made by him under the authorization herein granted, with full statement in relation to said distribution and the performance of navy-yard work therein involved. 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-pro-pelled vehicles for freight-carrying purposes only for use in 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, one million five hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services. 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 Juno thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, 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. Navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Crane track and rail-roadPortsmouth, N. H. extension, twenty thousand dollars; tool house for naval prison, two thousand dollars; quarters for commanding officer, naval prison, twelve thousand dollars; improvement and additions to power plant, ten thousand dollars; in all, fortyfour thousand dollars.
The sum of fifty thousand dollars appropriated by the naval ActFoundry.Reappropriation for extension, etc.Vol. 35, p. 762. approved March third, nineteen hundred and nine, for foundry building (to cost two hundred and fifty thousand dollars) is hereby reappropriated and made available for the extension and improvement of the existing foundry. 340 Boston, Mass.Navy yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Toward one hundred and fifty ton floating crane (cost not to exceed three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars), one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; paving. ten thousand dollars; electrical system, extension, five thousand dollars; reconstruction building numbered twentyfour, sixty-five thousand dollars; railroad system, extension, ten thousand dollars; in all, navy yard, Boston, two hundred and forty thousand dollars.
New York, N. Y.Navy yard, New York, New York: One fifty-ton locomotive crane, fifty thousand dollars; paving and grading, fifteen thousand dollars; yard railroad, extension, ten thousand dollars; dredging, fifty thousand dollars; in all, navy yard, New York, New York, one hundred and twenty-five thousand’ dollars. Philadelphia, Pa.Navy yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Sanitation system, reserve basin, to complete, forty-five thousand dollars; Pier Numbered Five, to extend, seventy-five thousand dollars; water-closets and laundry, ten thousand dollars; in all, navy yard, Philadelphia, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
Washington, D. C.Navy yard, Washington, District of Columbia: New foundry (cost not to exceed two hundred thousand dollars), to complete, one hundred thousand dollars; water-front improvements, fifty thousand dollars; renewal of floors hi gun shops and other buildings, twenty-five thousand dollars; electric plant, extensions, twenty-one thousand dollars; storage for power vehicles, four thousand dollars; in all, two hundred thousand dollars. Norfolk, Va.Navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia:
Railroad tracks, extensions, five thousand dollars; electric plant, extensions, twenty thousand dollars; repairs, buildings, Saint Helena, twenty-five thousand dollars; improvements to water front, fifty thousand dollars; paving and grading, ten thousand dollars; heating system, extension, fifteen thousand dollars; water-closets and lavatories for ships in dock, fifteen thousand dollars: incinerator, Saint Helena, five thousand dollars; in all, navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia, one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars.
Charleston, S. C.Navy yard. Charleston, South Carolina: Paving and grading, to continue, five thousand dollars; railroad system, extensions and improvements, five thousand dollars; conduit system extension, five thousand dollars; bathroom and lavatories for enlisted men, four thousand dollars; storehouse for oil, twenty thousand dollars; in all, thirty-nine thousand dollars. Key West, Fla.Naval station, Key West, Florida: Power plant, twenty-five thousand dollars; grading and paving, five thousand dollars; paving and grading on Whitehead, Front, and Green Streets where abutting on naval station, five thousand five hundred dollars, or so much *Proviso*.Paving streets.thereof as may be necessary: *Provided, however*, That the cost of the United States Government’s share for paving and grading said streets shall not exceed one-fourth of the total cost thereof; in all, thirty-five thousand five hundred dollars.
Officers’ guarters.Use of balances.Vol. 84, p. 1191.The unexpended balance of the appropriation made in the naval Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, “For construction of two officers’ quarters, navy yard, Pensacola, Florida, Vol. 85, p. 145.ten thousand dollars,” and the naval Act approved May thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, “To complete officers’ quarters, marine barracks, navy yard, Pensacola, Florida, five thousand dollars,” is hereby reappropriated and made available for the erection of officers’ quarters and improving grounds at the naval station, Key West, Florida.
Mare Island, Cal.Navy yard, Mare Island, California: Grading and paving, fifteen thousand dollars; railway system, extensions, ten thousand dollars; repairs to buildings numbered one hundred and six and one hundred and eighteen, fortvfive thousand dollars; sewer system, extensions, ten thousand dollars; in all, eighty thousand dollars. 341 Navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington: Railroad extension, tenPuget Sound, Wash. thousand dollars; Pier Numbered Four, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars; new foundry equipment, twenty thousand dollars; electric crane, four thousand dollars; two officers’ quarters, eighteen thousand dollars; in all, navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington, two hundred and twenty-seven thousand dollars.
The appropriation made by the naval Act approved June twenty-fourth,Torpedo station. nineteen hundred and ten, for a torpedo station near theReappropriation.Vol. 36, p. 618. Pacific coast of the United States, is hereby reappropriated and such part as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary is made available for expenditure for the same purposes at the naval station, Puget Sound, Washington. Naval station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Dry dock (limit of costPearl Harbor, Hawaii.Dry dock, limit of cost increased. is hereby increased to three million four hundred and eighty-six thousand five hundred dollars), to continue, one million and fifty thousand dollars; water-front development, one hundred thousand dollars; street paving, twenty-five thousand dollars; water system, seventeen thousand dollars; power distribution, mains and conduits, seventy-five thousand dollars; metal and lumber storehouse, twenty-five thousand dollars; paint and rigging loft, twenty-five thousand dollars; pattern shop, sixty thousand dollars; storehouses, one hundred thousand dollars; latrines, ten thousand dollars; railroad equipment, forty-five thousand dollars; floating crane, to complete, two hundred and ten thousand dollars; in all, one million seven hundred and forty-two thousand dollars.
For the proper control, protection, and defense of the naval station,Regulations governing harbor waters to be made. harbor, and entrance channel at Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized, empowered, and directed to adopt and prescribe suitable rules and regulations governing the navigation, movement, and anchorage of vessels of whatsoever character in the waters of Pearl Harbor, island of Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, and in the entrance channel to said harbor, and to take all necessary measures for the proper enforcement of such rules and regidations.
The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to purchase,Fresh-water system.Purchase of lands for wells.Vol. 36, p. 1276. from the appropriation “Naval station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, fresh-water system,” made by the Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven, one acre, more or less, of land in the island of Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, for the location of wells for supplying fresh water to the Naval Station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, at a cost not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars, and to acquire a right of way for a pipe lino from such wells to the naval station.
Buildings and grounds, Naval Academy: For removing over-headNaval Academy. wires, providing underground conduits, sixty thousand dollars; reenforced concrete bridge across Dorsey Creek (to cost fifty thousand dollars), twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, eighty-five thousand dollars. The appropriation of twenty-five thousand dollars, made by theBridge across Dorsey Creek.Vol. 36, p. 1276. Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and for other purposes,” for a new drawbridge across Dorsey Creek, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the reenforced concrete bridge herein authorized.
Naval training station, Rhode Island, buildings: Repairs toTraining stations.Rhode Island. barracks “B” and “C,” ten thousand dollars; underground conduit and lighting system, to extend, five thousand dollars; in all, fifteen thousand dollars. Naval training station, California, buildings: Buildings inCalifornia. connection with dispensary, one thousand five hundred dollars. 342 Naval Observatory.Naval Observatory: For cleaning, repair, and upkeep of grounds and roads, five thousand dollars.
Nautical Almanac.Exchange of data with foreign offices.The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to arrange for the exchange of data with such foreign almanac offices as he may from time to time deem desirable with a view to reducing the amount of duplication of work in preparing the different national nautical and astronomical almanacs and increasing the total data which may be of use to navigators and astronomers available for publication in the *Provisos*.Termination.American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac: *Provided*, That any such arrangement shall be terminable on one year’s notice: *Provided further*,Work of office force.
That the work of the Nautical Almanac Office during the continuance of any such arrangement shall be conducted so that in case of emergency the entire portion of the work intended for the use of navigators may be computed by the force employed by that office, and without any foreign cooperation whatsoever: *Provided further*, Use of employees on tables of the planets, etc.That any employee of the Nautical Almanac Office who may be authorized in any annual appropriation bill and whose services in whole or in part can be spared from the duty of preparing for publication the annual volumes of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac may be employed by said office in the duty of improving the tables of the planets, moon, and stars, to be used in preparing for Meridian of Washington.[R.
S., sec. 435, p. 73, repealed](/us/rs/s435/p73).Indian Head proving ground, Md.publication the annual volumes of the office: *Provided further*, That section four hundred and thirty-five, Revised Statutes, is hereby repealed. Fort Mifflin. Pa., naval magazine.Naval proving ground, Indian Head, Maryland: Repairs to wharf and coal-handling plant at powder factory, ten thousand dollars; new surveillance magazine, one thousand five hundred dollars; two dry houses for smokeless powder, seven thousand five hundred dollars: purchase of five acres (more or less) of additional land, two hundred dollars; one set of double quarters for commissioned officers, twelve thousand dollars; in all, naval proving ground, Indian Head, thirty-one thousand two hundred dollars.
Iona Island, N. Y., naval magazine.Naval magazine, Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania: Surveillance test house, two thousand dollars; magazine for explosive “D,” two thousand five hundred dollars; magazine for internal detonating fuses, six hundred dollars; magazine for segregated smokeless powder, three thousand dollars; tanks to hold rain water, two thousand dollars; filling house for explosive “D,” one thousand dollars; in all, eleven thousand one hundred dollars. Lake Denmark, N.
J., naval magazine.Naval magazine, New York Harbor (Iona Island): Two magazine buildings, including clearing, preparing grades of sites, railroad tracks, thirty thousand dollars; extension of shipping house and replanking dock, ten thousand dollars; in all, forty thousand dollars. Saint Juliens Creek, Va., naval magazine.Naval magazine, Lake Denmark, New Jersey: One locomotive house, two thousand five hundred dollars; one magazine building, including clearing, preparing, grading of site, railroad tracks, fifteen thousand dollars; water pipe mains, four thousand dollars; fire and boundary wall, five thousand dollars; in all. twenty-six thousand five hundred dollars.
Naval magazine, Saint Juliens Creek, Virginia: Two magazine buildings, thirty thousand dollars; magazine building for storage of high explosives, one thousand five hundred dollars; two sets of quarters for magazine attendants, seven thousand dollars; in all, thirty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. Mare Island, Cal., naval magazine.Naval magazine, Mare Island, California: One magazine building, twenty thousand dollars; primer house, one thousand five hundred dollars; gunners’ quarters, five thousand dollars; in all, twenty-six thousand five hundred dollars.
Puget Sound, Wash., naval magazine.For naval magazine, navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington: Extension of fire-protection system, one thousand dollars; quarters for inspector of ordnance, nine thousand dollars; extension of rail-road system, three thousand dollars; in all, thirteen thousand dollars. 343 Naval torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: New power house,Torpedo station, Newport, R. I. toward building (cost not to exceed sixty thousand dollars) and equipping (cost not to exceed one hundred and twenty thousand dollars), to complete, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars; paving, five thousand dollars; extension of fresh-water, steamneating, and conduit systems, ten thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars.
Naval magazine, Hingham, Massachusetts: Improvement of channel,Hingham, Mass., naval magazine. forty thousand dollars; one general magazine, thirteen thousand dollars; in all, fifty-three thousand dollars. Naval magazine, Kuahua, Hawaii: Dock, twenty-five thousandKuahua, Hawaii, naval magazine. dollars; primer house, five thousand dollars; one magazine, twenty-five thousand dollars; loaded-shell house, thirty thousand dollars; fixed-ammunition house, twenty-five thousand dollars; high-explosive house, five thousand dollars; railroad tracks and scales, ten thousand dollars; electric power installation, five thousand five hundred dollars; one gunner’s quarters, seven thousand dollars; fresh-water system, ten thousand dollars; machinery and tools, five thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars.
Marine Barracks, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: One additional fire-proofMarine Barracks, Philadelphia, Pa. barracks, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. The Secretary of the Navy is authorized, in his discretion, to grantKitsap County, Wash.Granted right of way across Marine Corps grounds. a permanent right of way for a public road across the Marine Corns reservation in Kitsap County, Washington, in consideration of the permanent closing of the present public road across this reservation and the transferring of all right, title, and interest therein to the United States.
For the purchase of the necessary land required in the developmentPuget Sound, Wash.Rifle range for naval station. of a rifle range in the vicinity of the naval station, Bremerton, Washington, seven thousand dollars. Repairs and preservation at navy yards and stations: ForRepairs and preservation. repairs and preservation at navy yards and stations, eight hundred thousand dollars. Total public works, navy yards, naval stations, naval proving Sounds and magazines, Naval Academy, Naval Observatory, and Marine Corps, four million six hundred twenty-three thousand three hundred dollars. bureau of medicine and surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
Medical Department: For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels inSurgeons’ necessaries.Civil establishment. commission, navy yards, naval stations. Marine Corps, and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy yards, naval medical supply depots, Naval Medical School, Washington, and Naval Academy, four hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For tolls andContingent. 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 navaldispensary, Washington, District of Columbia, not to exceed one thousand two hundred dollars; naval medical supply depots, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks; washing for medical department at Naval Medical School and naval dispensary, Washington; naval medical supply depots, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, dispensaries at navy yards and naval stations, and ships; and for minor repairs on buildings and grounds of the United States Naval Medical School and naval 344 medical supply depots; for the care, maintenance, and treatment of Dental outfits.the insane of the Navy and Marine Corps on the Pacific coast; for dental outfits and dental material, not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars, and all other necessary contingent expenses; in all, ninety-seven thousand dollars.
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 of officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corns who die or are killed in action ashore or afloat, and also to enable the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of civilian employees who die outside of the continental limits of the United States, fifteen thousand dollars: *Proviso*.Application of fund.*Provided*, That the sum herein appropriated shall be available for payment for transportation of the remains of officers and men who have died while on duty at any time since April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.
In all, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, five hundred and forty-two thousand dollars. Medical Reserve Corps.Established as part of Medical Department.Vol. 85, p. 68.That a Medical Reserve Corps, to be a constituent part of the Medical Department of the Navy, is hereby established under the same provisions, in all respects (except as may be necessary to adapt the said provisions to the Navy), as those providing a Medical Reserve Corps for the Army, and as set forth in the Act to increase the efficiency of the Medical Department of the United States Army, approved April twenty-third, nineteen hundred and eight.
Assistant dental surgeons.Authorized as part of Medical Department.That the appointment of not more than thirty assistant dental surgeons be, and the same is hereby, authorized, said assistant dental surgeons to be a part of the Medical Department of the United States Navy, to serve professionally the personnel of the naval service, and to perform such other duties as may be prescribed by competent authority. Original appointments.Acting assistant dental surgeons.Qualifications, etc.That all original appointments herein authorized shall be made by the Secretary of the Navy in the grade of acting assistant dental surgeon, and all appointees to such grade shall be citizens of the United States, between twentyfour and thirty-two years of age. and shall be graduates of standard medical or dental colleges trained in the several branches of dentistry, of good moral character, of unquestionable professional repute, and before appointment shall pass satisfactory physical and professional examinations, including tests of skill in practical dentistry, of proficiency in the several usual subjects in a standard dental college course, and in such other subjects of general education as are now or may hereafter be required for admission to the Medical Corps of the Navy.
Promotions to assista nt dental surgeons.Examinations, etc., for, at the end of three Years.That at the end of three years from the passage of this Act all acting assistant dental surgeons who have han two or more years’ service under their original appointment, as heroin provided, shall undergo such physical and competitive professional examinations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe to determine their fitness to receive commissions in the Navy, and if found qualified they shall be appointed assistant dental surgeons, with the rank of lieutenant (junior grade), in the order of standing as determined by the professional examinations provided for in this Act.
Probationary term of service.That after the competitive examinations provided for in section three of this Act have been held, acting assistant dental surgeons thereafter appointed shall serve a probationary period of three years, and upon the completion of such period shall undergo such examinations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe to determine their fitness to receive commissions in the Navy, and, if found qualified, they shall be appointed assistant dental surgeons, with the rank of lieutenant (junior grade). 345 That if any acting assistant dental surgeon shall fail upon the examinationsDischarge on failure at examinations, etc. prescribed in this Act ho shall be honorably discharged from the naval service, and the appointment of an acting dental surgeon may be revoked at any time in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy.
That all appointees authorized by this Act shall take rank andRank and precedence. precedence in the same maimer in all respects as in the case of appointees to the Medical Corps of the Navy, and shall not exercise command over persons in the Navy other than dental surgeons and such enlisted men as may be detailed to assist them by competent authority. That all officers of the dental corps authorized by this Act shallPay and allowances. receive the same pay and allowances as officers of corresponding rank and length of service in the Medical Corps of the Navy.
That all officers of the dental corps authorized by this Act shall beRetirement. eligible to retirement in the same manner and under the same conditions as officers of the Medical Corps of the Navy: *Provided*, That*Provisos*.Disability not required.[R. S., sec. 1445, p. 253](/us/rs/s1445/p253). section fourteen hundred and forty-live of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not be applicable to the officers herein authorized: *And provided further*, That the dentist now employed atStatus of Naval Academy dentist.*Post*, p. 349. the Naval Academy shall not be displaced by the operation of this Act and he shall have the same official status, pay, and allowances as may be provided for the senior dental surgeon at the Military Academy.
That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to appoint,Temporary acting dental surgeons authorized. for temporary service, suitably qualified acting dental surgeons when necessary to the health and efficiency of the personnel of the Naval Service: *Provided*, That the total strength of the dental corps, including*Provisos*.Number of corps allowed. those appointed for temporary service under this Act, shall not exceed the proportion of one to each thousand of the authorized enlisted strength of the Navy and Marine Corps: *Provided further*,Effect of appointments.
That appointments issued under authority of this Act may be revoked at any time, shall have no legal force or effect except for the time the temporary appointee is in active service, and shall include no right of retirement. That all appointments authorized by this Act, except the appointmentAppointments by President, etc. of acting dental surgeons, shall be made by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. That all laws and parts of laws inconsistent with the provisionsInconsistent laws repealed.*Provisos*.Tests of qualifications. of this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed: *Provided*, That the tests of qualifications for appointment to the said reserve corps and to the dental corps may be varied to suit the subjects of such branch of the healing art or specialty of surgery of which specialists may be required and in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy such specialists may be grouped separately: *Provided further*, That of theLimitation of appointments to be made. dental surgeons hereby authorized to be appointed to said Medical Reserve Corps and to the said Dental Corps, the whole number ordered to active duty shall not exceed the number the Secretaiy of the Navy may deem actually necessary to the health and efficiency of the personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps and, in time of peace, the number shall not exceed the proportion of one dental officer to one thousand of said personnel.
That pharmacists shall, after six years from date of warrant, beChief pharmacists.Commission, pay, etc.Vol. 80, p. 475. commissioned chief pharmacists after passing satisfactorily such examination as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, and shall, on promotion, have the rank, pay, and allowances of chief boat-swains. 346 bureau of supplies and accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. Provisions, etc.Provisions, Navy: For provisions and commuted rations for the seamen and marines, which commuted rations may be paid to caterers of messes, in case of death or desertion, upon orders of the commanding officers, commuted rations for officers on sea duty (other than commissioned officers of the line, Medical and Pay Corps, chaplains, chief boatswains, chief gunners, chief carpenters, chief machinists, and chief sailmakers) and midshipmen, and commuted rations stopped on account of sick in hospital ana 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 *Provisos*.Commutation of rations to prisoners.the expiration of such confinement: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to commute rations for such general courts-martial prisoners in such amounts as seem to him proper, which may vary in accordance with the location of the naval prison, but which shall in no case exceed thirty cents per diem for each ration so commuted; labor in general storehouses and paymasters’ offices in navy yards, including naval stations maintained in island possessions under the control of the United States, and expenses in handling stores purchased and manufactured under the general account of Clerical, etc., services.advances; and for the purchase of United States Army emergency rations, as required: *Provided further*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for 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 thirteen, shall not exceed five hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
In all, eight million five hundred and forty-two thousand three hundred and twenty-eight dollars and twenty-five 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 stores, safes, newspapers, and other incidental *Proviso*.Exchange of typewriters, etc.expenses, two hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter worn-out typewriting and computing machines for the naval establishment may be exchanged as a part or the purchase price of new ones.
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, four hundred and fifty 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, aeroplanes (not to exceed thirty-five thousand dollars), 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; 347 incidental expenses for vessels and navy yards, inspectors’ offices, such as photographing, books, professional magazines, plans, stationery, and instruments for drafting room, and for pay of classified force under the bureau, eight million four hundred and seventy-nine thousand one hundred and forty-four dollars: *Provided*, That no part*Provisos*.Wooden ships. of this sum shall be applied to the repair of any wooden ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed ten per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material: *Provided further*, That no part of this sum shall beOther ships. 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 further*, That nothing herein contained shall deprive the SecretaryRepairs in foreign waters. of the Navy of the authority to order repairs of ships damaged in foreign waters or on the high seas, so far as may be necessary to bring them home.
And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorizedRepairs to specified vessels. 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: Connecticut, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Vermont, three hundred thousand dollars; Albany, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars; New Orleans, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars;
Minneapolis, two hundred and eightyfour thousand dollars; Columbia, two hundred and ninety-two thousand dollars; Sylvia, fourteen thousand dollars; Solace, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars; Panther, one hundred thousand dollars; Piscataqua, forty-five thousand dollars; Active, thirty-eight thousand dollars; Unadilla, forty-three thousand dollars; Uncas, thirty-three thousand dollars; Penacook, twenty-three thousand dollars; Samoset, twenty-three thousand dollars; Pompey, thirty-eight thousand dollars;
Yantic, thirty-eight thousand dollars; Prometheus, or Vestal, to convert to a repair ship, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars; in all, two million six hundred and forty-one thousand dollars: *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 thirteen, shall not exceed eight hundred and eight thousand and thirty-nine dollars.
The Secretaries of War and Navy are authorized to cause to be“Maine.”Tablets fordonation as relics to be made from parts of wreck.*Ante*, p. 48. made from any parts of the wreck of the Maine or its equipment that are suitable for the purpose tablets for donation as relics in conformity with the provisions of the Act of December twenty-second, nineteen hundred and eleven, malting appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies: *Provided*, That the cost of such tablets*Proviso*.Cost, etc. may be charged against any unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made for the removal of the wreck of the Maine and that the municipalities and other bodies receiving such tablets shall defray the cost thereof, which cost shall be reimbursed to the proper appropriation.
Improvement of construction plants: For machine tools andPearl Harbor, construction plant. appliances required for the equipment of shops, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, two hundred thousand dollars. 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; preserva 348 tion 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 *Proviso*.Aeroplane machinery.bureau, four million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for aeroplane machinery shall not exceed twenty thousand dollars.
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. 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, 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 thirteen, shall not exceed four hundred thousand dollars.
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, forty thousand dollars.
Pearl Harbor machinery plant.Machinery plant, naval station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: For marchine tools and appliances required for the equipment of shops, three hundred 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. Ono professor of mathematics, one of mechanical drawing, one of English, one of French, and one of Spanish, at three thousand dollars each.
Three, professors, namely, one of English, one of French, and one of Spanish, at two thousand six hundred and forty dollars each. Five instructors, at two thousand four hundred dollars each. Four instructors, at two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars each. Ten instructors, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each. One swordmaster, one thousand six hundred dollars; one assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; and two assistants, at one thousand dollars each; two instructors in physical training, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, and one assistant instructor in physical training, at one thousand dollars; and one instructor in gymnastics, one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant librarian, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; one cataloguer, one thousand two hundred dollars; and two shelf assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; one secretary of the Naval Academy, two thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, one thousand five hundred dollars each; four clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollar’s; one surveyor, one 349 thousand two hundred dollars; one dentist, two thousand five hundred*Ante*, p. 343. and twenty dollars; services of organist at chapel, three hundred dollars; one captain of the watch, nine hundred and twenty-four dollars: one second captain of the watch, eight hundred and twenty-eight dollars; twenty-two watchmen, at seven hundred and thirty-two dollars each; three telephone switchboard operators, at six hundred dollars each.
In all, pay of professors and others, Naval Academy, one hundred and twentyfour thousand six hundred and seventy-six dollars. Department of ordnance and gunnery: One mechanic, nineDepartment 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; three quarter gunners, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, four thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
Departments of electrical engineering and physics: TwoDepartments 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; in all, three thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. Department of seamanship: One cockswain, four hundred andDepartment of seamanship. eighty dollars; three seamen, at four hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, one thousand seven hundred and forty dollars.
Department of marine engineering and naval construction:Department of marine engineering and naval construction. One master machinist, one thousand eight hundred dollars, and one assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; one pattern maker, one thousand two hundred dollars; one boiler maker, one blacksmith, three machinists, one molder, and one coppersmith, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; one draftsman, two thousand dollars; machinists and other employees, six thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight dollars; in all, twenty thousand five hundred and twenty-eight dollars.
Commissary department: One chief cook, one thousand two hundredCommissary department. dollars; four cooks, at six hundred dollars each, and eight assistants, at three hundred dollars each; one steward, one thousand two hundred dollars, and one assistant, six hundred dollars; one head waiter, seven hundred and twenty dollars, and two assistants, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; two pantry men, at four hundred and twenty dollars each; one chief baker, one thousand two hundred dollars; one baker, six hundred dollars; two assistants, at five hundred and forty dollars each, and one assistant, four hundred and twenty dollars; necessary waiters, at sixteen dollars per month each, thirteen thousand four hundred and forty dollars; one messenger to the superintendent, six hundred dollars; twenty-seven attend-ants, at three hundred dollars each; in all, thirty-five thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars: *Provided*, That such additional payments*Proviso*.Payment to waiters. from the midshipmen’s commissary fund, as the Superintendent of the Naval Academy may deem necessary, may be made to the waiters herein authorized.
In all, civil establishment, one hundred and ninety thousand five hundred and four dollars. Current and miscellaneous expenses, Naval Academy: TextContingentexpenses. 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.
Purchase, binding, and repair of books for the library (to be purchasedLibrary. in the open market on the written order of the superintendent), 350 *Proviso*.Periodicals.[R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).two thousand five hundred dollars: *Prowled*, That section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and domestic periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation. 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, three 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-six thousand 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 fifteen 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, four thousand one hundred and sixteen dollars. Repairs.Repairs, Naval Academy: Necessary repairs of public buildings, wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, improvements, repairs, furniture, and fixtures, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. In all, maintenance, three hundred and forty-four thousand one hundred and sixteen dollars.
In all, Naval Academy, five hundred and eighty thousand six hundred and twenty dollars. 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, Additional officers.[R. S., sec. 1596, p. 272, amended](/us/rs/s1596/p272).Vol. 85, p. 155.five in all, and for the following additional officers hereby authorized: One major, four captains, four first lieutenants, and four second lieutenants, nine hundred and thirty-six thousand two hundred and seventy-eight dollars.
Retired list.For pay of officers prescribed by law, on the retired list: For two major generals, six brigadier generals, six colonels, eight lieutenant colonels, nine majors, thirteen 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, one hundred and seventy-seven thousand five hundred and fifty-two dollars and fifty cents.
Enlisted men.Active list.Pay of enlisted men, active list: Pay of noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, as prescribed by law, and for the following additional enlisted men hereby authorized: Four sergeants major, 351 four quartermaster sergeants, twelve first sergeants, four gunnery-sergeants, eighteen sergeants, thirty-five corporals, four drummers, four trumpeters, and three hundred and fifteen privates; 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 and for prizes for excellence in gunnery exercise and target practice, both afloat and ashore: *Provided*, That the gunnery sergeants of the*Proviso*.Gunnery sergeants.
Marine Corps shall hereafter receive the same pay, and be entitled to the allowances, rank, continuous-service pay, and retired pay of a first sergeant in said corps. In all, two million eight hundred and sixty-six thousand three hundred and sixty-two dollars. For pay and allowances prescribed by law of enlisted men on theRetired Hat. retired list: For two sergeants major, one drum major, twenty-five gunnery sergeants, twenty-five quartermaster sergeants, thirty-five first sergeants, fifty-two sergeants, fourteen corporals, twenty first-class musicians, one drummer, one trumpeter, one fifer, and twenty-six privates, and for those who may be retired during the fiscal year, one hundred and thirty-seven thousand seven hundred and eighteen dollars.
Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged soldiers for clothingUndrawn clothing. undrawn, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Mileage: For mileage to officers traveling under orders withoutMileage to officers. troops, fifty-five thousand dollars. For commutation of quarters of officers on duty without troopsCommutation 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 two thousand dollars; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one messenger at nine hundred and seventy-one dollars and twenty-eight cents. In the office of the paymaster: One chief clerk, at two thousand dollars; one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars. In the office of the adjutant and inspector: One chief clerk, at two thousand dollars; one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk (in lieu of one clerk in the office of the assistant adjutant and inspector), one thousand two hundred dollars.
In the office of the quartermaster: One chief clerk, at two thousand dollars; one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk (in lieu of one clerk, Washington, District of Columbia, or San Francisco, California), one thousand four 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, San Francisco, California: One clerk, 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, three clerks (one additional in lieu of one clerk in the Philippine Islands), at one thousand four hundred dollars each. In all, for pay of civil force, thirty thousand seven hundred andDisbursements. eleven dollars and twenty-eight cents; and the money herein specifi 352 cally 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 three hundred and eighty-seven thousand one hundred and twenty-one dollars and seventy-eight cents. Provisions.Provisions, Marine Corps: For noncommissioned officers, musicians, 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, eight hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; and no law shall be construed to entitle marines on shore duty to any rations, or commutation thereof, other than such as now are or may hereafter be allowed *Proviso*.Navy ration or commutation.to enlisted men in the Army: *Provided, however*, That hereafter 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 forty-one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars. 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 puiposes; and sales to officers, Preference toUnited States production.one hundred and sixty-four thousand dollars.
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 four dollars per diem; one mechanic, at three dollars per diem; two mechanics, at two dollars and fifty cents each per diem; one chief electrician, at four dollars per diem, and one assistant electrician, at three dollars and fifty cents per diem; per diein of enlisted men employed on constant labor for periods of not less 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, waist belts, 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 sendee; 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, and renting ranges, and entrance fees in competitions; procuring, preserving, and handling ammunition and other necessary military supplies; in all, three hundred and seven thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven dollars.
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 353 en route, or cash in lieu thereof; toilet kits for issue to recruits upon their first enlistment and the expense of the recruiting service, three hundred and seventeen thousand dollars. Repairs of barracks, Marine Corps: Repairs and improvementsRepairs of barracks, etc. 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, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
Forage, Marine Corps: For forage in kind and stabling for publicForage. animals of the Quartermaster’s Department and the authorized number of officers’ horses, twentyfour thousand two hundred dollars. Commutation of quarters’, Marine Corps: Commutation ofCommutation of quarters, officers with troops. 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 in the offices of the commandant, adjutant and inspector, paymaster, and quartermaster, and the offices of the assistant adjutant and inspectors, assistant paymasters, assistant quartermasters, at twenty-one dollars each per month, and for enlisted men employed as messengers in said offices, at ten dollars each per month, seventy-nine thousand dollars.
Contingent, Marine Corps: For freight, expressage,Contingent. tolls, cartage, advertising, washing of bed sacks, mattress covers, pillowcases, towels, and sheets, funeral expenses of officers and marines, including the transportation of bodies and their arms and wearing apparel from the place of demise to the homes of the deceased in the United States; stationery and other paper, printing and binding; telegraphing, rent of telephones; purchase, repair, and exchange of type-writers; 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 354 Disallowances removed from certain accounts.abroad, but impossible to anticipate or classify, four hundred and sixty thousand dollars:
That the accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to remove the following-mentioned disallowances on the accounts of the disbursing assistant quartermasters, United States Marine Corns, namely, on account of voucher numbered twenty-four hundred and fifty-nine, in the Lt. Col. T. C. Prince.account of Lieutenant Colonel T. C. Prince, assistant quartermaster, United States Marine Corps, retired, second quarter, nineteen hundred and ten, in favor of A.
Buchannan, eightyfour dollars; on Maj. W. B. Lemly.account of vouchers numbered two and nine, in the account of Major W. B. Lemly, assistant quartermaster, United States Marine Corps, second quarter, nineteen hundred and eleven, in favor of SimonsMayrant Company, one thousand and seventy dollars; on account of voucher numbered two thousand and sixty-eight, third quarter, nineteen hundred and eleven, in favor of James Marcello, one hundred and fifteen dollars; on account of voucher numbered thirty-one hundred and ninety, fourth quarter, nineteen hundred and eleven, in favor of James Marcello, two hundred and forty dollars.
Total under quartermaster, Marine Corps, three million and thirty-eight thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars. Total Marine Corps, exclusive of public works, seven million four hundred and twenty-five thousand nine hundred and seventy-eight dollars and seventy-eight cents. increase of the navy.Increase of the Navy. Construction authorized.That for the purpose of further increasing the Naval Establishment of the United States the President is hereby authorized to have constructed the following vessels:
One first-class battleship.That for the purpose of further increasing the Naval Establishment 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 seven million four hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Two fuel ships.Two fuel ships to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not to exceed one million one hundred and forty thousand dollars each, and which shall be built in navy yards, one to be built in a navy yard on the Pacific coast.
Six torpedo-boat destroyers.Six torpedo-boat destroyers, to have the highest practicable speed, to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not to exceed nine hundred and forty thousand dollars each. Tender to destroyers.One tender to destroyers to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not to exceed one million three hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. Eight submarine torpedo boats.Eight submarine torpedo boats in an amount not exceeding in the aggregate four million four hundred and eighty thousand dollars; and Appropriation.Stations to be considered.the sum of one million six hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for said purpose, and the Secretary of the Navy is directed to consider the advisability of stationing four of said submarine torpedo boats at or near the mouth of the Mississippi River and the United States seaports of the Gulf of Mexico as a proper naval defense thereof and the other four upon the Pacific coast.
Submarine tender.Appropriation.One submarine tender, to cost not to exceed one million dollars, and the sum of four hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated toward said purpose. Building in navy yards.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 Action if bidders combine.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 construc355tion of any of said vessels, have entered into any combination, agreement, or understanding, the effect, object, or purpose of which is to deprive the Government of fair, open, and unrestricted competition in letting contracts for the construction of any of said vessels.
The appropriation made by the Act of May fourth, eighteen hundredGunboat on Great Lakes.Place of construction modified,Vol. 30. p. 389. and ninety-eight, for one gunboat to be built on the Great Lakes and to take the place of the United States ship Michigan (now Wolverine) is hereby made available for the construction of a river gunboat, which may, as advantage may offer, be built elsewhere than on the Great Lakes or their connecting waters. Construction and machinery: On account of hulls and outfitsAppropriations.Construction and machinery. of vessels and steam machinery of vessels heretofore and herein authorized, nine million four hundred and forty-six thousand two hundred and five dollars.
Increase of the Navy; torpedo boats: On account of submarineTorpedo boats. torpedo boats heretofore authorized, nine hundred and twenty-one thousand six hundred and forty-seven dollars. Increase of the Navy; colliers: On account of two fleet colliers Fleet colliers.heretofore authorized, five hundred and eighty-one thousand three hundred and twenty-one dollars and forty-eight cents. Increase of the Navy; equipment: Toward the completion ofEquipment. equipment outfit of the vessels heretofore and herein authorized, three hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars.
Increase of the Navy; armor and armament: Toward theArmor and armament. armor and armament for vessels heretofore and herein authorized, seven million two hundred and sixty-five thousand two hundred dollars. Total increase of the Navy heretofore and herein authorized, twenty million five hundred and sixty-nine thousand three hundred and seventy-three dollars and forty-eight cents. The Act entitled “ An Act limiting the hours of daily service ofContracts authorized, made subject to eight-hour workday law.*Ante*, p. 137. laborers and mechanics employed upon work done for the United States, or for any Territory or for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved June nineteenth, nineteen hundred and twelve, shall be in force as to all contracts authorized by this Act from and after the passage of this Act.
No enlisted men or seamen, not including commissioned andDuties of enlisted men on battleships when docked, etc., limited. warrant officers, on battleships of the Navy, when such battleships are docked or laid up at any navy yard for repairs, shall be ordered or required to perform any duties except such as are or may be performed by the crew while at sea or in a foreign port. That no part of any sum herein appropriated shall be expended forPurchases from trusts, combinations, etc., forbidden. 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 theLimitation on prices for steel, etc.Not applicable to existing contracts. articles aforesaid, and no purchase of structural steel, ship plates, or machinery shall be made at a price in excess of a reasonable profit above the actual cost of manufacture.
But this limitation shall in no case apply to any existing contract. That no part of any sum herein appropriated under “Increase ofUse of appropriation for clerical services, etc., in Department forbidden. 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. That no part of any sum appropriated by this Act shall be used forSpecific authority required for use in Department. any expense of the Navy Department at Washington, District of Columbia, unless specific authority is given by law for such expenditure.
Approved, August 22, 1912.
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