Chapter 129. Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 129.— An Act Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, and for other purposes. June 27, 1914.[[H. R. 12235](/us/bill/63/hr/12235).][[Public, No. 120](/us/63/pl/120).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Fortifications appropriations. That the sums of money herein provided for be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available and to continue available until expended, namely:
FORTIFICATIONS AND OTHER WORKS OF DEFENSE. Engineer Department.under the engineer department. Gun and mortar batteries.Modernizing emplacements.For construction of gun and mortar batteries, $250,000. For modernizing older emplacements, the sum of $100,000 is reappropriated and made available out of the aggregate unexpended balance of the appropriations for repair and protection of defenses of Vol. 34, p. 1059.Pensacola, Florida, made in the Fortifications Appropriation Acts Vol. 35, p. 729.approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, and March third, nineteen hundred and nine, respectively.
Coast Artillery war Instruction.For the construction and installation of methods of Coast Artillery war instruction at Coast Artillery posts, including necessary material and labor therefor and for extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days, $25,000. 389 For installation and replacement of electric-light and power plantsElectric plants. at seacoast fortifications, $50,000. For purchase and installation of searchlights for the defenses of ourSearch lights. most important harbors, $100,000.
For the protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications forPreservation, etc. which there may be no special appropriation available, the sum of $165,000 is reappropriated and made available out of the aggregate unexpended balance of the appropriations for repair and protection of defenses of Pensacola, Florida, made in the FortificationsVol. 34, p. 1059. Appropriation Acts approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, andVol. 35, p. 729. March third, nineteen hundred and nine, respectively.
For preparation of plans for fortifications and other works ofPlans. defense, $5,000. For the maintenance and repair of searchlights and electric-lightSupplies, etc., for electric plants. and power equipment for seacoast fortifications, and for tools, electrical and other supplies, and appliances to be used in their operation, including the purchase of reserve lights, $40,000. For construction of sea walls and embankments, $25,000.Sea walls, etc. For preservation and repair of structures erected for the torpedoTorpedo structures. defense of the United States, and for maintaining channels for access to torpedo wharves, $20,000. under the chief signal officer.Signal Service.
For operation and maintenance of fire-control installations atFire-control installations. seacoast defenses, $130,000. armament of fortifications.Armament. For the purchase, manufacture, and test of mountain, field, andMountain, field, and siege cannon. siege cannon, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipment’s, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $450,000: *Provided*, That the Chief of Ordnance, United*Proviso*.Additional contracts authorized.
States Army, is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $300,000 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made. For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for Ammunition.mountain, field, and siege cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, $1,200,000. For the purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon forSeacoast cannon. coast defense, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipment’s, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $336,800: *Provided*, That the Chief of Ordnance, United*Proviso*.Additional contracts authorized.
States Army, is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $300,000, in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made. For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoastAmmunition. cannon, and for modernizing projectiles on hand, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, $140,000. For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition, subcaliberAmmunition for seacoast artillery practice. guns, and other accessories for seacoast artillery practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $425,000.
For the alteration and maintenance of the mobile artillery, includingAltering mobile artillery, etc. the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work and the expenses of the mechanics engaged thereon, $45,000. 390 Ammunition for field, etc., artillery practice.For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition, subcaliber guns, and other accessories for mountain, field, and siege artillery practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $130,000.
Altering to rapid-fire batteries, etc.For the alteration of three and two-tenths inch batteries to rapid-fire field batteries, including sights, implements, equipment’s, and the materials and machinery necessary for alteration and manufacture at the arsenals, $175,000. Altering, etc., seacoast artillery.For the alteration and maintenance of seacoast artillery, including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, materials necessary for the work, and expenses of civilian mechanics and extra-duty pay of enlisted men engaged thereon, $300,000.
Sandy Hook proving ground.proving ground, sandy hook, new jersey. Expenses, etc.For current expenses of the ordnance proving ground, Sandy Hook, New Jersey, comprising the maintenance of rail and water transportation, repairs, alterations, accessories, and service of employees incidental to testing and proving ordnance matériel, hire of assistants for the Ordnance Board, purchase of instruments and articles required for testing and experimental work, building and repairing butts and targets, clearing and grading ranges, $56,200.
Temporary employment.For the necessary expenses of officers while temporarily employed on ordnance duties at the proving ground and absent from their proper station, at the rate of $2.50 per diem while so employed, and the compensation of draftsmen while employed in the Army Ordnance Bureau on ordnance construction, $18,700. Submarine mines.submarine mines. Purchase, etc.For the purchase of submarine mines and necessary appliances to operate them for closing the channels leading to our principal sea-ports, and for continuing torpedo experiments, $100,000.
Maintenance of supplies, etc.For the maintenance of the submarine-mine matériel within the limits of continental United States, for the purchase of the necessary machinery, tools, and implements for the repair shop of the torpedo Fort Totten, N. Y., torpedo depot.depot at Fort Totten, New York, for extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days in connection with the issue, receipt, and care of submarine-mining matériel at the torpedo depot, and for torpedo-depot administration, $68,000.
Insular possessions.FORTIFICATIONS IN INSULAR POSSESSIONS. Engineer Department.engineer department. Seacoast batteries.For construction of seacoast batteries, as follows: Philippine Islands.In the Philippine Islands, $300,000. Preservation, etc.For protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications at the following localities: Hawaiian Islands.In the Hawaiian Islands, $1,000. Torpedo structures.For preservation and repair of structures erected for torpedo defense, and for maintaining channels for access to torpedo wharves at the following localities:
Hawaiian Islands.In the Hawaiian Islands, $2,000; Philippine Islands.In the Philippine Islands, $1,000; In all, $3,000. Land defenses, Hawaii.For land defenses in the Hawaiian Islands, including the procurement and installation of searchlights, and the acquisition of land and rights of way, $457,000. Reserve equipment.For reserve equipment at the following localities: Hawaiian Islands.In the Hawaiian Islands, $50,000; 391 In the Philippine Islands, $100,000.Philippine Islands.
For tools, electrical and other supplies and appliances, to beTools, etc., electric plants. furnished by the Engineer Department for the use of the troops for maintaining and operating searchlights and electric light and power plants at seacoast fortifications— In the Hawaiian Islands, $1,000;Hawaiian Islands. In the Philippine Islands, $3,000;Philippine Islands. In all, $4,000. under the chief signal officer.Signal Service. For operation and maintenance of fire-control installations atFire-control installations. seacoast defenses, $10,000. ordnance department.Armament.
For the purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon forSeacoast cannon. coast defenses, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipment’s, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $100,000. The transfer of thirty-one six-pounders, eight four and Transfer of guns from continental fortifications.seventy-two one-hundredths inch, two five-inch, and four six-inch guns and mounts having an approximate value of $258,000, and of ammunition therefor having an approximate value of $165,500, from fortifications in the United States to the insular possessions for land-defense purposes is approved.
For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoastAmmunition for seacoast cannon. cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, $400,000. For the alteration and maintenance of the seacoast artillery,Altering, etc., seacoast artillery. including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work, and expenses of the civilian mechanics, and extra-duty pay of enlisted men engaged thereon, $35.000.
For the mechanical supervision of the installation of seacoastInstalling seacoast artillery. artillery, including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work, and expenses of civilian mechanics, and extra-duty pay of enlisted men engaged thereon, $500. For the maintenance of the submarine mine materiel in the insularSubmarine mine supplies. possessions, $7,500. under the chief of artillery.Chief of Artillery. For construction of fire-control stations and accessories, includingFire-control stations, etc. purchase of lands and rights of way, and for the purchase and installation of necessary lines and means of electrical communication, including telephones, dial and other telegraphs, wiring and all special instruments, apparatus and materials, coast signal apparatus, and salaries of electrical experts, engineers, and other necessary employees connected with the use of coast artillery; for the purchase, manufacture, and test of range finders and other instruments for fire controlRange finders. at the fortifications, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $55,000.
All material purchased under the provisions of this Act shall be ofMaterial to be of American manufacture. American manufacture, except in cases when, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, it is to the manifest interest of the United States to make purchases in limited quantities abroad, which material shall be admitted free of duty. 392 Price for powder limited.No part of any money appropriated by this Act shall be expended for powder other than small-arms powder at a price in excess of 53 cents a pound.
Restriction on purchases, if articles can be made at arsenals.Of each of the sums appropriated by this Act, after deducting any amounts required to meet obligations authorized in previous Acts to be entered into by contract, not more than ten per centum may be used to purchase not exceeding ten per centum in quantity or value of any article or material herein appropriated for that can be manufactured at the arsenals of the Ordnance Department, except when contract costs are less than arsenal manufacturing costs.
Board of Ordnance and Fortification.BOARD OF ORDNANCE AND FORTIFICATION. Purchases. tests, etc.To enable the board to make all needful and proper purchases, experiments, and tests to ascertain, with a view to their utilization by the Government, the most effective guns, small arms, cartridges, projectiles, fuses, explosives, torpedoes, armor plates, and other implements and engines of war, and to purchase or cause to be manufactured, under authority of the Secretary of War, such guns, carriages, armor plates, and other war material as may, in the judgment of the board, be necessary in the proper discharge of the duty Vol. 25, p. 489.Civilian member.devolved upon it by the Act approved September twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight; to pay the salary of the civilian member of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification provided by the Vol. 26, p. 769.Act of February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for the necessary traveling expenses of said member when traveling on duty as contemplated in said Act; for the payment of the Per diem, etc.necessary expenses of the board, including a per diem allowance to each officer detailed to serve thereon, when employed on duty away Tests, etc.from his permanent station, of S2.50 a day; and for the test of experimental guns, carriages, and other devices procured in accordance with the recommendation of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification, $15,000, the expenditure of which shall be made by the several bureaus of the War Department heretofore having jurisdiction of the same, or by the board itself, as the Secretary of War may direct: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Right to use inventions.That, before any money shall be expended in the construction or test of any gun, gun carriage, ammunition, or implements under the supervision of the said board, the board shall be satisfied, after due inquiry, that the Government of the United States has a lawful right to use the inventions involved in the construction of such gun, gun carriage, ammunition, or implements, or that the construction or test is made at the request of a person either having such lawful right or authorized to convey the same to the Government.
Approved, June 27, 1914.