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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 38 STAT. · June 30, 1914 · Chapter 130

Chapter 130. Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 130.— An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and for other purposes. June 30, 1914.[[H. R. 14034](/us/bill/63/hr/14034).][[Public, No. 121](/us/63/pl/121).] *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 fifteen, and for other purposes:
Pay, miscellaneous.pay, miscellaneous. Schedule 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 the393amount of money of all pay 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. For commissions and interest; transportation of funds; exchange;Miscellaneous expenses. 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; actual expenses of officers while on shore patrol duty: for rent of buildings and offices not in navy yards, including the rental of offices in the District of Columbia; expenses of courts-martial, prisoners and prisons, and courts of inquiry, boards of inspection, examining boards, with clerks’ and witnesses’ fees, and traveling expenses and costs; stationery and recording; religious books; expenses of purchasing paymasters’ offices of the various cities, including clerks, furniture, fuel, stationery, and incidental expenses; newspapers and periodicals for the naval service; all advertising for the Navy Department and its bureaus (except advertising for recruits for the Bureau of Navigation); copying; care of library, including the purchase of books, photographs, prints, manuscripts, and periodicals; ferriage; tolls; costs of suits; commissions, warrants, diplomas, and discharges; relief of vessels in distress; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; reports; professional investigation; cost of special instruction at home and abroad, including maintenance of students and attachés; information from abroad, and the collection and classification thereof; all charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus for ice for the cooling of drinking water on shore (except at naval hospitals), telephone rentals and tolls, telegrams, cablegrams, and postage, foreign and domestic, and post-office box rentals; and other necessary and incidental expenses: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this*Provisos*.Allowance for clerical services, etc., at yards, etc. 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, nine-teen hundred and fifteen, shall not exceed $280,000; in all, $1,000,000: *Provided*, That hereafter no mileage shall be paid to any officer whereNo mileage if transportation furnished Government transportation is furnished such officer.
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 he may deem proper, $150,000: *Provided*, That the accounting officers of the*Provisos*.Civilian employees in island possessions.
Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow, in the settlement of accounts of disbursing officers involved, payments made under the appropriation “Contingent, Navy,” to civilian employees appointed by the Navy Department for duty in and serving at naval stations maintained in the island possessions during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen: *Provided further*, That the sum ofEntertainment of foreign fleets, Panama-Pacific Exposition. $104,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be expended, on the approval and authority of the Secretary of the Navy, for entertaining the officers and crews of foreign fleets which may be sent to attend and participate in the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in consequence of the invitation of the President of the United States, extended in pursuance of the authority contained in the jointVol. 36, p. 1454. resolution of Congress approved February fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eleven, and of the authority contained in the Act makingVol. 36, p. 1289. appropria394tions for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and for other purposes, approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven, and for defraying such other expenses incident to the visit of the said foreign fleets as the Secretary of the Navy may deem proper, and the said sum shall be available until November fifteenth, nineteen hundred and fifteen.
Exemption of tolls from foreign war vessels attending Exposition.That the tolls that have been or may be prescribed by the President, in pursuance of the authority contained in the Panama Canal Act, approved August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, to be levied by the Government of the United States for the use of the Panama Canal shall not be assessed against nor collected from any war vessel of any foreign nation which may pass through. the Panama Canal en route to or in returning from the Panama-Pacific *Proviso*.Limited to official representatives of foreign Governments.International Exposition: *Provided*, That such vessel has been sent by its Government to attend and participate in the said exposition in consequence of the invitation of the President of the United Vol. 36, p. 1454.States, extended in pursuance of the authority contained in the joint resolution of Congress approved February fifteenth, nineteen hundred Vol. 36, p. 1289.and eleven, and of the authority contained in the Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and for other purposes, approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven.
Hampton Roads, Va.Anchorage grounds in, for rendezvous of fleets proceeding to Exposition.The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized and empowered to define and establish suitable anchorage grounds in Hampton Roads, Virginia, and the adjacent waters for the combined fleets of the United States and foreign Governments which may rendezvous there prior to proceeding to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, to be held at the city and county of San Francisco, California, in the year nineteen hundred and fifteen, as well as to define and establish Anchorage grounds in San Francisco Bay during Exposition.Authority of Secretary of the Navy.suitable anchorage grounds in the Bay of San Francisco and the approaches and waters adjacent thereto during the continuance of the said Panama-Pacific International Exposition, and the Secretary of the Navy is hereby further authorized to make such rules and regulations regarding the movements of all vessels in all of the waters named as may be necessary in order to insure the proper and orderly conduct of such features as may be planned for the combined fleets and to provide for the safety of the vessels participating therein; and such rules and regulations when so issued and published shall have the force and effect of law.
Additional shore duty for officers of engineering and Construction Corps.That officers who now perform engineering duty on shore only and officers of the Construction Corps shall be eligible for any shore duty compatible with their rank and grade to which the Secretary of the Navy may assign them. Lepers. Care, etc., Culion, P. I.Case of lepers, islands of Guam and Culion: Naval station, island of Guam: Maintenance and care of lepers, special patients, and for other purposes, including cost of transfer of lepers from Guam to the island of Culion, in the Philippines, and their maintenance, $14,000.
Bureau of Navigation.bureau of navigation. Transportation.Transportation: For travel allowance of enlisted men discharged on account of expiration of enlistment; transportation of enlisted men and apprentice seamen and applicants for enlistment 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 lieu395thereof; apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, and for railway guides and other expenses incident to transportation, $850,000.
Recruiting: Expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent ofRecruiting. rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentice seamen; actual and necessary expenses in lieu of mileage to officers on duty with traveling recruiting parties, $130,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation*Provisos*.Certificate of age required. shall be expended in recruiting seamen, ordinary seamen, or apprentice seamen unless, in case of minors, a certificate of birth or a verified written statement by the parents, or either of them, or in case of their death a verified written statement by the legal guardian, be first furnished to the recruiting officer, showing applicant to be of age required by naval regulations, which shall be presented with the application for enlistment; except in cases where such certificate isUnder oath of applicant. unobtainable, enlistment may be made when the recruiting officer is convinced that oath of applicant as to age is credible; but when it isDischarge of minors. 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 rom 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*, That authority is herebyAdvertising agencies. granted to employ the services of an advertising agency or agencies in advertising for recruits under such terms and conditions as are most advantageous to the Government.
Any alien of the ago of twenty-one years and upward who may,Alien seamen.Naturalization of. without previous declaration of intention. under existing law, become a citizen of the United States, who has served or may hereafter serve for one enlistment of not less than four years in the United States Navy or Marine Corps, and who has received therefrom an honorable discharge or an ordinary discharge, with recommendation for reenlistment, or who has completed four years in the Revenue-Cutter Service and received therefrom an honorable discharge or an ordinary discharge with recommendation for reenlistment, or who has completed four years of honorable service in the naval auxiliary service, shall be admitted to become a citizen of the United States upon his petition without any previous declaration of his intention to become such, and without proof of residence on shore, and the court admitting such alien shall, in addition to proof of good moral character, be satisfied by competent proof from naval or revenue-cutter sources of such service: *Provided*, That an*Provisos*.Acceptance of honorable discharge, as proof of character. honorable discharge from the Navy, Marine Corps, Revenue-Cutter Service, or the naval auxiliary service, or an ordinary discharge with recommendation for reenlistment, shall be accepted as proof of good moral character: *Provided further*, That any court which now has orIssue of certificate. may hereafter be given jurisdiction to naturalize aliens as citizens of the United States may immediately naturalize any alien applying under and furnishing the proof prescribed by the foregoing provisions.
Contingent: Ferriage, continuous-service certificates, discharges,Contingent. 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; books and models; stationery; and other contingent expenses and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation, unforeseen and impossible to classify, $15,000.
Gunnery exercises: Prizes, trophies, and badges for excellence inGunnery exercises. gunnery exercises and target practice; for the establishment and396maintenance of shooting galleries, target houses, targets, and ranges; for hiring established ranges, and for transportation of civilian assistants and equipment to and from ranges, $115,000. Steaming exercises.Steaming exercises: Prizes, trophies, and badges for excellence in steaming exercises, to be awarded to the ships in commission for general efficiency and for economy in coal consumption, under such rules as the Secretary of the Navy may formulate, and for the purpose of classifying, compiling, and publishing the results of the competition, $6,500.
Aviation experiments.Aviation experiments: For experimental work in the development of aviation for naval purposes, $10,000. Outfits.Outfits on first enlistment: Outfits for all enlisted men and apprentice seamen of the Navy on first enlistment, at not to exceed *Provisos*.Additional issue on second enlistment.$60 each, $800,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to issue a clothing outfit to all enlisted men serving in their second enlistment who failed to receive an outfit of the value authorized by law on their first enlistment, or who, having received such outfit, were required to refund its value on account of discharge Limit of cost.prior to expiration of enlistment: *Provided further*, That the net cost to the Government of clothing outfits furnished any one enlisted man shall not exceed $60.
Naval auxiliaries, maintenance.Maintenance of naval auxiliaries: Pay, transportation, shipping, and subsistence of civilian officers and crews of naval auxiliaries, and all expenses connected with naval auxiliaries employed in emergencies which can not be paid from other appropriations, $800,000. Equipment supplies, instruments, etc.Instruments and supplies: Supplies for seamen’s quarters; aviation outfits; and for the purchase of all other articles of equipage at home and abroad, and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith and manufacture of such 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, schoolbooks, and papers; compasses, 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; photographs, photographic instruments and materials, printing outfit and materials, $305,000.
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 *Proviso*.Details allowed.sailing directions, $90,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to detail such naval officers not exceeding four as may be necessary to the Hydrographic Office. Training stations.Yerba Buena Island Cal.Naval training station, California:
Maintenance of naval ’ training station, Yerba Buena Island, California, namely: Labor and material; buildings and wharves; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and wharves; wharfage, ferriage, and street car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same; fire engines and extinguishers; gymnastic implements, models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating and lighting; stationery, books, schoolbooks, 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, $70,000. 397 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 and lighting; stationery, books, schoolbooks, and periodicals; fresh water, and washing; packing boxes and materials; and all other contingent expenses; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen; in all, $85,000: *Provided*, That the*Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services. 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 fifteen, shall not exceed $5,701.60.
Naval training station, Great Lakes: Maintenance of navalGreat Lakes. training station: Labor and material; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and piers; street car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; motor-propelled vehicles, wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same; fire apparatus and extinguishers; gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; printing outfit and material, and maintenance of same; heating and lighting, and repairs to power-plant equipment, distributing mains, tunnel, and conduits; stationery, books, schoolbooks, and periodicals; washing; packing boxes and materials; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen; and all other contingent expenses: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this*Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services. appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, shall not exceed $1,500; in all, naval training station, Great Lakes, $98,457.
Naval training station, Saint Helena: Maintenance of navalSaint Helena, Va. training station; labor and material, general care, repairs, and improvements; schoolbooks; and all other incidental expenses, $25,000. Naval War College, Rhode Island: For maintenance ofNaval War College, R. I. the Naval War College on Coasters Harbor Island, and care of grounds for same, $25,250; services of a lecturer on international law, $2,000; services of civilian lecturers, rendered at the War College, $300; care and preservation of the library, including the purchase, binding, and repair of books of reference and periodicals, $1,300: *Provided*, 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, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, shall not exceed $12,500.
In all, Naval War College, Rhode Island, $28,850. Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pay of employees:Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pa.Pay of employees. One secretary, $1,600; one foreman mechanic, $1,500; one superintendent of grounds, at $720; one steward, at $720; one store laborer, at $480; one matron, at $420; one beneficiaries’ attendant, at $300; one chief cook, at $480; one assistant cook, at $360; one assistant cook, at $300; one chief laundress, at $240; five laundresses, at $192 each; four scrubbers, at $192 each; one head waitress, at $300; eight waitresses, at $192 each; one kitchen servant, at $360; eight laborers, at $360 each; one stable keeper and driver, at $480; one master-at-arms, at $720; two house corporals, at $300 each; one barber, at $360; one carpenter, at $846; one painter, at $846; one398painter, at $720; one engineer for elevator and machinery, $720; five laborers, at $540 each; one laborer, at $420; one laborer, at $360; total for employees, $22,696.
Maintenance.Maintenance: Water rent, heating, and lighting; cemetery, burial expenses and headstones; general care and improvements of grounds, buildings, walls, and fences; repairs to power plant equipment, implements, tools, and furniture, and purchase of the same; music in chapel and entertainments for beneficiaries; stationery, books, and periodicals; transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, and of sick and insane beneficiaries, their attendants and necessary subsistence for both, to and from other Government hospitals; employment of such beneficiaries in and about the Naval Home as may be authorized by the Secretary of the Navy, on the recommendation of the governor; support of beneficiaries, and all other contingent expenses, $54,421; in all, for Naval Home, $77,117, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the *Provisos*.Moneys from sales to be returned to naval pension fund.naval pension fund: *Provided*, That all moneys derived from the sale of material at the Naval Home, which was originally purchased from moneys appropriated from the income from the naval pension fund, and all moneys derived from the rental of Naval Home property, shall be turned into the naval pension fund: *And provided further*, Unclaimed moneys of deceased inmates.That hereafter all moneys belonging to a deceased beneficiary of the Naval Home or derived from the sale of his personal effects, not claimed by his legal heirs or next of kin, shall be deposited with the pay officer of the Naval Home, and if any sum so deposited has been or shall hereafter be unclaimed for a period of two years from the death of such beneficiary it shall be deposited in the Treasury Inquiry for heirs.to the credit of the naval pension fund: *And provided further*, That the governor of the Naval Home is hereby 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 heirs or Presentation of claims.next of kin: *And provided further*, That claims may be presented hereunder at any time within five years after moneys have been so deposited in the Treasury, and, when supported by competent proof in any case after such deposit in the Treasury, shall be certified to Pensions of inmates.Disposal of.Vol. 22, p. 564.Congress for consideration: *And provided further*, That the pensions of beneficiaries of the Naval Home shall be disposed of in the same maimer as prescribed for inmates of the Soldiers’ Home, as provided for in section four of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, except that in the case of death of any beneficiary leaving no heirs at law nor next of kin any pension due him shall, subject to the foregoing provisions, escheat to the naval pension fund.
Bureau of Ordnance.bureau of ordnance. Ordnance and ordnance stores.Ordnance and ordnance stores: For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the general work of the Ordnance Department; for furniture at naval magazines, torpedo stations, and proving ground; for maintenance of the proving ground and powder factory and for target practice, and for pay of chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, *Provisos*.Chemical, clerical, etc., services.naval stations, and naval magazines: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, watchmen, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and naval magazines for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and Purchase of projectiles restricted.fifteen, shall not exceed $468,000.
In all, $5,800,000: *Provided*, That hereafter no part of any appropriation shall be expended for399the purchase of shells or projectiles for the Navy except for shells or projectiles purchased in accordance, with the terms and conditions of proposals submitted by the Secretary of the Navy to all the manufacturers of shells and projectiles and upon bids received in accordance with the terms and requirements of such proposals: *Provided*,Experiments excepted. That this restriction shall not apply to purchases of shells or projectiles of an experimental nature or to be used for experimental purposes and paid for from the appropriation “Experiments, Bureau of Ordnance”: *Provided*, That hereafter 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, $1,150,000: Smokeless powder.*Provided*, That no part of any money appropriated by this Act shall*Provisos*.Price limited. be expended for the purchase of powder other than small-arms powder at a price in excess of 53 cents a pound: *Provided further*,Purchases subject to full operation of Indianhead factory. That in expenditures of this appropriation, or any part thereof, for powder, no powder shall at any time be purchased unless the powder factory at Indianhead, Maryland, shall be operated on a basis of not less than its full maximum capacity.
For Naval Gun Factory, Washington, District ofNaval Gun Factory, D. C.Machinery.Breech mechanism. Columbia: New and improved machinery for existing shops, $75,000. For modifying or renewing breech mechanisms of three-inch, four-inch, five-inch, and six-inch guns, to be available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $75,000. For replacing Mark VI six-inch guns with Mark VIII guns andReplacing and modernizing guns. repairing and modernizing the Mark VI guns for issue, to be available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $150,000.
For liners for eroded guns, to be available until June thirtieth,Lining eroded guns. nineteen hundred and sixteen, $100,000. For modifying five-inch fifty-caliber Mark V guns, $65,000.Modifying guns. Ammunition for ships of the Navy: For procuring, producing,Ammunition for ships. preserving, and handling ammunition for issue to ships, $3,178,890, to be available until expended. Torpedoes and appliances: For the purchase and manufactureTorpedoes and appliances. of torpedoes and appliances, to be available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,000,000.
Torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: For labor andTorpedo station, Newport, R. I. material; general care of and repairs to grounds, buildings, and wharves; boats, instruction, instruments, tools, experiments, and general torpedo outfits, $80,000. For new and improved machinery and tools for torpedo factory, $15,000. Experiments, Bureau of Ordnance: For experimental workExperimental work. in the development of armor-piercing and torpedo shell 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, $150,000.
Arming and equipping Naval Militia: For arms, accouterments,Naval Militia.Arming and equipping.*Ante*, p. 286.*Post*, p. 487. ammunition, medical outfits, fuel, water for steaming purposes, and 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, $125,000. 400 Repairs.Repairs, Bureau of Ordnance:
For necessary repairs to ordnance buildings, magazines, wharves, machinery, and other items of like character, $30,000. Contingent.Contingent, Bureau of Ordnance: For miscellaneous items, namely: Cartage, expenses of light and water at magazines and stations, tolls, ferriage, technical books, and incidental expenses attending inspection of ordnance material, $9,500. Bureau of Yards and Docks.bureau of yards and docks. Maintenance.Maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For general maintenance of yards and docks, namely.
For books, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines; fire apparatus and plants; machinery; purchase and maintenance of horses and driving teams; carts, timber wheels, and all vehicles, including motor-propelled 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 nay yards; water tax, tolls, and ferriage; pay of watchmen in navy yards; awnings and packing boxes; and for *Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services.pay of employees on leave, $1,600,000: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, inspection, drafting, messenger, and other classified work in the nay yards and naval stations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, shall not exceed $425,000.
Contingent.Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For contingent expenses and minor extensions and improvements of public works at nay yards and stations, $50,000. Public works.public works, bureau of yards and docks. Boston, Mass.Navy yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Improvement of sanitation system, including wash rooms, lockers, and water-closets, $12,000; additional transportation facilities, $10,000; in all, nay yard, Boston, $22,000. Building slip.Use of balance for.Vol. 37, p. 901.That the unobligated balance under the appropriation, Marine Barracks, Boston, Massachusetts, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, not exceeding $148,000, is hereby made available for building slip and equipment.
New York, N. Y.Navy yard, New York, New York: Paving and grading, to continue, $15,000: yard railroad, extension and equipment, $15,000; to complete Pier D, $25,000; toward construction of Pier C (cost not to exceed $150,000), $65,000; distributing system, extensions, to continue, including separator receivers, $15,000; extend second floor mold loft, $8,500; in all, nay yard, New York, New York, $143,500. Philadelphia, Pa.Navy yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Quay walls and piers, $50,000; power plant improvement (to install rotary converters), $15,000; building slip and equipment, $200,000; in all, navy yard, Philadelphia, $265,000.
Washington, D. C.Navy Yard, Washington, District of Columbia: Fireproof general storehouse (cost not to exceed $225,000), $100,000. Norfolk, Va.Cost of floating crane increased.Vol. 37, p. 900.Navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Repairs, buildings, Saint Helena, $25,000; the one hundred and fifty ton crane authorized by the Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, shall be of the floating revolving type, and the limit of cost is hereby increased to $450,000. 401 Navy yard, Charleston, South Carolina:
To complote torpedoCharleston, S. C. boat berths (to cost not exceeding $300,000), $150,000; dredging, to continue, $20,000; sewer system, extensions, $5,000; conduit system, extensions, to continue, $5,000; in all, $180,000. The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to pay, fromVilter Manufacturing Company.Payment for ice plant. appropriation “Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, voucher in favor of The Vilter Manufacturing Company for $4,937 for an ice-making and refrigerating plant for the naval disciplinary barracks, Port Royal, South Carolina, furnished by said company under contract dated April twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, with the Secretary of the Navy: and the accounting officers of the Treasury are herebyD.
W. Rose.Allowance in accounts. authorized and directed to allow in the accounts of Passed Assistant Paymaster D. W. Rose credit for payments amounting to $1,184 made by him to said company under contract dated November fifth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, from appropriation “Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, on account of said ice-making and refrigerating plant. Navy yard, Mare Island, California: To complete quay wall,Mare Island, Cal.Improvement of hydraulics, Mare Island Straits.*Ante*, p. 216. $20,000; modernizing electric-power and light-distributing systems, $10,000; improvement of hydraulics, Mare Island Straits, in accordance with report submitted in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and three, Sixtieth Congress, second session, and such modifications as may be made therein in pursuance of the authority contained in the Act making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for other purposes, approved October twenty-second, nineteen hundred and thirteen (limit of cost $507,000), to complete, $207,000; dredging and diking, to continue, $20,000; in all, $257,000.
Navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington: To complete ship fitters’Puget Sound, Wash. shop, mold loft, and structural steel storage, $155,000. Naval station, Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island: Water-frontNarragansett Bay, R. I. improvements, $10,000. Naval station, Guantanamo, Cuba: Quarters for civilianGuantanamo, Cuba. employees, $8,000; recreation building for enlisted men, $30,000; in all, $38,000. Naval station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Four officers’ quarters,Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. $20,000; to complete torpedo-boat slips, $50,000; in all, $70,000.
The limit of cost of the dry dock at the naval station, Pearl Harbor,Cost of dry dock increased.Vol. 37, p. 341.Indianhead, Md.Powder factory extension Hawaii, is hereby increased to $4,986,500. Naval Proving Ground, Indianhead, Maryland: Toward extension of powder factory (cost not to exceed $500,000), $200,000. Buildings and grounds, Naval Academy: To complete, theNaval Academy. construction of wharf and approach, $75,000. Depots for coal and other fuel: For additional fuel-oil storageFuel depots. at Melville, Rhode Island, $20,000; additional fuel-oil storage at Norfolk, Virginia, $150,000; fuel-oil storage at San Diego, California, $50,000; steel coaling tower at San Diego, California, $45,000; fuel-oil storage at Puget Sound, Washington, $105,000; fuel-oil storage, San Francisco Bay, California, $100,000; contingent, $30,000; in. all, $500,000.
Naval disciplinary barracks: for the extension andDisciplinary barracks.Extension, etc. development of the detention system of reforming and disciplining enlisted men of the Navy and Marino Corps convicted by general courts-martial to be used as the Secretary of the Navy may direct at navalPort Royal, S. C. disciplinary barracks, Port Royal, South Carolina, and naval disciplinary Carracks, navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington, $75,000.Puget Sound, Wash. 402 Torpedo station, Newport, R.
I.Naval torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: One assembly shop, $100,000; one torpedo storehouse, $85,000; one machine shop, $75,000; in all, $260,000. Repairs and preservation.Repairs and preservation at navy yards and stations: For repairs and preservation at navy yards, coaling depots, coaling plants, and stations, $1,100,000. Amounts available until expended.Total public works, navy yards, naval stations, naval proving grounds, depots for coal and other fuel, Naval Academy, Naval Observatory, and Marine Corps, $3,475,500, and the amounts herein appropriated for public works, except for the Naval Observatory and for repairs and preservation at navy yards and stations, shall be available until expended.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.bureau of medicine and surgery. Surgeons’ necessaries.Civil establishment.Medical Department: For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in commission, navy yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy yards, naval medical supply depots, Naval Medical School, Washington, and Naval Academy, $510,000. Contingent.Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For tolls and ferriages; care, transportation, and burial of the dead; purchase of books and stationery, binding of medical records, unbound books, and pamphlets; hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration; sanitary and hygienic instruction; purchase and repairs of wagons, automobile ambulances, and harness; purchase of and feed for horses and cows; trees, plants, garden tools, and seeds; incidental articles for the Naval Medical School and naval dispensary, Washington; rent of rooms for naval dispensary, Washington, District of Columbia, not to exceed $1,200; naval medical supply depots, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks; washing for medical department at Naval Medical School and naval dispensary, 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 medical supply depots; for the care, maintenance, and treatment of the insane of the Navy Dental outfits.and Marine Corps on the Pacific coast; for dental outfits and dental material, not to exceed $38,000, and all other necessary contingent *Proviso*.Temporary structures, etc., Panama-Pacific Exposition.expenses; in all $142,000: *Provided*, That the expenditure of $40,000 is hereby authorized from the naval hospital fund for such temporary structures and equipment of the naval hospitals at Mare Island and Puget Sound as may be necessary to make especial preparation for the sick of the Navy and visiting fleets at the time of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, and to relieve the present crowded condition of those institutions.
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 Corps who die or are killed in action ashore or afloat, and also to enable the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of civilian employees who die outside of *Proviso*.Application of fund.the continental limits of the United States, $15,000: *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, and shall be available until June thirtieth, nine-teen hundred and sixteen.
In all, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $667,000. 403 bureau of supplies and accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. Pay of the Navy: Pay and allowances prescribed by law ofPay of the Navy.Allotment of amounts. officers on sea duty and other duty, $10,287,744; officers on waiting orders, $500,000; officers on the retired list, $3,099,433; clerks to paymasters at yards and stations, general storekeepers ashore and afloat, and receiving ships and other vessels, $320,520; two clerks to general inspectors of the Pay Corps, $3,625; one clerk to pay officer in charge of deserters’ rolls, $2,000; not exceeding ten clerks to accounting officers at yards and stations, $17,355; dental surgeon at Naval Academy, $2,400;. 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, $499,000; and also members of Nurse Corps (female), $14,120; for hire of quartern 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, $1,000; pay of enlisted men on the retired list, $359,127;. extra pay to men reenlisting under honorable discharge, $964,812; interest on deposits by men, $34,568; 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, $23,027,777.40; and the number of enlisted menNumber of enlisted men. shall be exclusive of those undergoing imprisonment with sentence of dishonorable discharge from the service at expiration of such confinement, $283,854.60; and as many machinists as the President Machinists.may from time to time deem necessary to appoint, not to exceed twenty in any one year, $200,000; and three thousand five hundred apprentice seamen under training at training stations, and on board training ships, at the pay prescribed by law, $275,808; pay of the Nurse Corps, $116,580; rent of quarters for members of the Nurse Corps, $1,000; in all, $40,010,724; and the money herein specificallyAccounting. appropriated for “Pay of the Navy” shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law as “Pay of the Navy,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Enlisted strength construed. hereafter the number of enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps provided for shall be construed to mean the daily average number of enlisted men in the naval service during the fiscal year.
The grade of acting chaplain in the Navy is hereby authorizedActing chaplains.Grade created.Original appointments. and created, and hereafter original appointments shall be made by the Secretary of the Navy, not to exceed the number hereinafter provided, in the grade of acting chaplains in the Navy after such examination as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy, and while so serving acting chaplains shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of lieutenant, junior grade, in the Navy.
After threePromotion of chaplains. years’ sea service on board ship each acting chaplain before receiving a commission in the Navy shall establish to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Navy by examination by a board of chaplains and medical officers of the Navy his physical, mental, moral, and professional fitness to perform the duties of chaplain in the Navy, and if found so qualified, shall be commissioned a chaplain in the Navy with the rank of lieutenant, junior grade.
If any acting chap-lain shall fail on the examinations herein prescribed he shall be honorably discharged from the naval service, and the appointment of any acting chaplain may be revoked at any time in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy. 404 Proportion of chaplains and acting chaplains fixed.[R, S., sec. 1395. p. 248, amended](/us/rs/s1395/p248).Vol. 34, p. 554. Number in grade.Hereafter the total number of chaplains and acting chaplains in the Navy shall be one to each twelve hundred and fifty of the total personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps as fixed by law, including midshipmen, apprentice seamen, and naval prisoners, and of the total number of chaplains and acting chaplains herein authorized ten per centum thereof shall have the rank of captain in the Navy, twenty per centum the rank of commander, twenty per centum the rank of lieutenant commander, and the remainder to have the rank of lieu-tenants and lieutenants, junior grade.
Rank and pay of promoted acting chaplains.Naval chaplains hereafter commissioned from acting chaplains shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of lieutenant, junior grade, in the Navy until they shall have completed four years’ service in that grade, when, subject to examination as above prescribed, they shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of lieutenant in the Navy, and chaplains with the rank of lieutenant shall have at least four years’ service in that grade before promotion to the grade of lieutenant commander, after which service, chaplains shall be promoted as vacancies occur to the grades of lieutenant commander, commander, *Proviso*.Limit of commissions.No reduction of present pay, etc.and captain: *Provided*, That not more than seven acting chaplains shall be commissioned chaplains in any one year: *And provided further*, That no provision of this section shall operate to reduce the rank, pay, or allowances that would have been received by any person Inconsistent laws repealed.in the Navy except for the passage of this section, and that all laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions of this section be, and the same are hereby, repealed.
Provisions.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 and credited at the rate of 50 cents per ration 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 dis-honorable discharge from the service at the expiration of such confinement: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Commutation of rations to prisoners.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 30 cents per diem for each ration so commuted; and for the purchase Army emergency rations.of United States Army emergency rations as required; in all, $7,713,954.50, to be available until the close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen.
Allowance of subsistence to Nurse Corps.Provisions, Navy: The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow members of the Navy Nurse Corps the amounts which as commutation of subsistence have been at any time checked against their accounts or withheld from them as the result of the decisions of the comptroller dated December twenty-first, nineteen hundred and twelve, and April twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and to pay said sums out of any appropriation for provisions, Navy.
Maintenance.Equipment supplies, etc.Maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: For fuel; the removal and transportation of ashes from ships of war; books, blanks, and stationery, including stationery for commanding and navigating officers of ships, chaplains on shore and afloat, and for405the use of courts-martial on board ship; purchase, repair, and exchange of typewriters for ships; packing boxes and materials; interior fittings for general storehouses, pay offices, and accounting offices in navy yards; coffee mills and repairs thereto; expenses of naval clothing factory and machinery for the same; modernizing laboratory equipment and bringing the same up to date; purchase of articles of equipage at home and abroad under the cognizance of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith, and the manufacture of such articles in the several navy yards; musical instruments and music; mess outfits; soap on board naval vessels; athletic outfits; tolls, ferriages, yeomen’s stores, safes, newspapers, and other incidental expenses; labor in generalLabor. storehouses, paymasters’ offices, and accounting offices in navy yards and naval stations, including naval stations maintained in island possessions under the control of the United States, and expenses in handling stores purchased and manufactured under ”General account of advances”; and reimbursement to appropriations of the Food inspection.Department of Agriculture of cost of inspection of meats and meat food products for the Navy Department: *Provided*, That the sum to be*Proviso*.Chemical, clerical, etc., services. 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, paymasters’ offices, and accounting offices of the navy yards and naval stations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, shall not exceed $643,000; in all, $2,031,487.25.
Freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: All freight andFreight, Department and bureaus. express charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus, except the transportation of coal for the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $525,000. Coal and transportation: Coal and other fuel for steamers’ andCoal, etc. ships’ use, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same; maintenance and general operation of machinery of naval coaling depots and coaling plants; water for all purposes on board naval vessels; and ice for the cooling of water, including the expense of transportation and storage of both, $4,800,000.
Those portions of the Acts of June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundredNaval supply account.Current appropriation to be credited with appraised value of stores turned in.Vol. 36, pp, 702, 1299. and ten, and March fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven, which create the “Naval supply account ” under the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, are hereby so modified and amended that hereafter the appraised value of all stores, equipage, and supplies turned in from ships, and ships’ equipage turned in from yards or stations (except salvage), shall be credited to the current appropriations concerned, and the amounts so credited shall be available for expenditures forAvailable for expenses. the same purposes as the appropriations credited; and all Acts or parts of Acts in so far as they conflict with this provision are hereby repealed. bureau of construction and repair.Bureau of Construction and Repair.
Construction and repair of vessels: For preservation andConstruction and repair of vessels 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, air craft, and all other auxiliaries; labor in navy yards and on foreign stations; purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops; carrying on work of experimental model tank; designing naval vessels; construction and repair of yard craft, lighters, and barges; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat; general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; incidental expenses for vessels and navy yards, inspectors’ offices, such as photographing, books, professional magazines, plans, stationery, and instruments for drafting room, and for pay of classified406Equipment supplies.force under the bureau; for hemp, wire, iron, and other materials for the manufacture of cordage, anchors, cables, galleys, and chains; specifications for purchase thereof shall be so prepared as shall give fair and free competition; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, hammocks, and other work; interior appliances and tools for manufacturing purposes in navy yards and naval stations; and for the purchase of all other articles of equipage at home and abroad; and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith and manufacture of such articles in the several navy yards; naval signals and apparatus, other than electric, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, rockets, running lights, lanterns and lamps and their appendages for general use on board ship for illuminating purposes, and oil and candles used in connection therewith; bunting and other materials for making and repairing flags of all kinds; for all permanent galley fittings and equipage; rugs, carpets, curtains, and hangings on board naval vessels, *Provisos*.Loans of flags for draping remains.$9,788,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy be authorized at his discretion to issue free of cost the national flag (United States national ensign No. 7) used for draping the coffin of any officer or enlisted man of the Navy or Marine Corps whose death occurs while in the service of the United States Navy or Marine Corps, upon request, to the relatives of the deceased officer or enlisted man or upon request, to a school, patriotic order, or society to which the Repairs.Wooden ships.deceased officer or man belonged: *Provided further*, That no part of this sum shall be applied to the repair of any wooden ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed ten per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material: *Provided further*, Other ships.That no part of this sum shall be applied to the repair of any other ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed twenty per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of Repairs in foreign waters, etc.a new snip of the same size and like material: *Provided further*, That nothing herein contained shall deprive the Secretary of the Navy of the authority to order repairs of ships damaged in foreign waters or on the high seas, so far as may be necessary to bring them home.
Repairs to “Constellation.”And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to make expenditures from appropriate funds under the various bureaus for repairs and changes on the vessel herein named in an amount not to exceed Clerical, etc., services.the sum specified for said vessel, Constellation, $50,000: *Provided further*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, drafting, inspection, watchmen (ship keepers), and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and offices of superintending naval constructors for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, shall not Hunters Point, Cal.Contract for using dry docks authorized.exceed $958,100: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to enter into contract for the use by the Government of drydocks at Hunters Point, San Francisco, California, one of which docks shall be capable of docking the largest vessel that can be passed through the locks of the Panama Canal, for a period not to exceed six years from completion of such dock, at a compensation of $50,000 per annum during said period of six years, the right of the Government to the use of said docks in time of war to be prior and Construction required.paramount: *Provided*, That the construction of the large dock shall be undertaken immediately upon entering into this contract and shall Docking rates.be completed within twenty-four months thereafter: *And provided further*, That said contract shall provide for docking rates not in excess of commercial rates, and for such other conditions as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy, prior to entering into such Extra charges.contract: *And provided further*, That in the event, during the said contract period of six years, the necessities of the fleet require the407docking of vessels which will necessitate a charge greater than $50,000 per annum, the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to have said vessel docked at a rate of charge not greater than price stipulated in said contract.
Improvement of construction plants: For repairs andImproving construction plants.Portsmouth, N. H. improvement of machinery and implements at plant at navy yard, Ports-mouth, New Hampshire, $10,000. For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements atBoston, Mass. plant at navy yard, Boston, Massachusetts, $10,000. For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements atNew York, N. Y. plant at navy yard, New York, New York, $20,000. For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements atPhiladelphia, Pa. plant at navy yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, $15,000.
For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements atNorfolk, Va. plant at navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia, $15,000. For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at Charleston, S. C.plant at navy yard, Charleston, South Carolina, $15,000. For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at Mare Island, Cal.plant at navy yard, Mare Island, California, $15,000. For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements atPuget Sound, Wash. plant at navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington, $10,000. bureau of steam engineering.Bureau of Steam Engineering.
Engineering: For repairs, preservation, and renewal ofEngineering repairs, machinery, etc. machinery, auxiliary machinery, and boilers of naval vessels, yard craft, ships’ boats, and air craft; distilling and refrigerating apparatus; repairs, preservation, and renewal of electric 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 con-trolling apparatus used to operate machinery belonging to other bureaus; maintenance of coast signal service, including the purchase of land as necessary for sites for radio snore stations; equipage,Engineering equipment supplies, etc. supplies, and materials under the cognizance of the bureau required for the maintenance and operation of naval vessels, yard craft, ships’ boats, and air craft; purchase, installation, repair, and preservation of machinery, tools, and appliances in navy yards and stations; pay of classified force under the bureau; incidental expenses for naval vessels, navy yards and stations, inspectors’ offices, the engineering experiment station, such as photographing, technical books and periodicals, stationery, and instruments; instruments and apparatus,Radiotelegraph work. supplies, and technical books and periodicals necessary to carry on experimental and research work in radiotelegraphy at the naval radio laboratory: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this*Provisos*.Clerical, etc., services. appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and offices of United States inspectors of machinery and engineering material for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, shall not exceed $650,000:Radio shore stations. *Provided further*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for the purchase of land for sites for radio shore stations shall not exceed $50,000: *Provided further*, That the total expenditures under this appropriationRadio laboratory. at the naval radio laboratory shall not exceed $5,000.
In all, engineering, $8,080,000. Toward the purchase and preparation of necessary sites, purchaseHigh power radio stations.Sites, construction, etc. and erection of towers and buildings, and the purchase and installation of machinery and apparatus of high power radio stations (cost not to exceed $1,000,000), to be located as follows: One in the Isthmian Canal Zone, one on the California coast, one in the Hawaiian Islands,408one in American Samoa, one on the island of Guam, and one in the Philippine Islands, $400,000, to be available until expended.
Heavy-oil engine.Balance continued, for fuel ships.The unobligated and unexpended balances of appropriation “Steam machinery” for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and twelve and nineteen hundred and thirteen, not exceeding in amount $250,000, Vol. 37, p. 906.which were made available by the Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, for the development of a heavy-oil engine for one of the fuel ships provided by that Act, shall be considered avail-able for that purpose until Juno thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen.
Engineering experiment station.Experimental, etc., work.Engineering experiment station, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland—Experimental and research work: For original investigation and extended experimentation of naval appliances; and for the purchase of such machines and auxiliaries considered applicable for test and use in the naval service, and for maintenance of buildings and grounds, $60,000. Equipping building.Equipment of building: For extension of steam, air, and water lines, and electric circuits; for foundations for machinery; for purchase and installation of additional testing instruments and apparatus, $20,000.
Bureau of Equipment abolished.[R. S., secs. 416, 419, 422, pp. 70, 71, amended](/us/rs/s416/s419/s422/p70/p71).The Bureau of Equipment of the Navy Department is hereby abolished, and the duties assigned by law to that bureau shall be distributed among the other bureaus and offices of the Navy Department Distribution of funds and employees.as herein provided, and all available funds heretofore appropriated for that bureau and such civil employees of that bureau as were heretofore authorized by law are hereby assigned and transferred *Proviso*.Expenditures restricted to specified purposes.to the other bureaus and offices as herein provided: *Provided*, That nothing herein shall be so construed as to authorize the expenditure of any appropriation for purposes other than those specifically provided by the terms of the appropriations heretofore and herein made.
Naval Academy.naval academy. Pay of professors, etc.Pay of professors and others. Naval Academy: One professor of mathematics, one of mechanical drawing, one of English, one of French, and one of Spanish, at $3,000 each. Three professors, namely, one of English, one of French, and one of Spanish, at $2,640 each. Five instructors, at $2,400 each. Four instructors, at $2,160 each. Ten instructors, at $1,800 each. No pay to officers performing duties of civilians.That no part of any sum in this Act appropriated shall be expended in the pay or allowances of any commissioned officer of the Navy detailed for duty as an instructor at the United States Naval Academy to perform duties which were performed by civilian instructors on January first, nineteen hundred and thirteen.
Instructors, etc.One swordmaster, $1,600; one assistant, $1,200; and two assistants, at $1,000 each; two instructors in physical training, at $1,500 each; and one assistant instructor in physical training, at $1,000; and one instructor in gymnastics, $1,200; one assistant librarian, $2,160; one cataloguer, $1,200; and two shelf assistants, at $900 each; one secretary of the Naval Academy, $2,400; two clerks, at $1,500 each; four clerks, at $1,200 each; four clerks, at $1,000 each; four clerks, at $900 each; two clerks, at $840 each; one draftsman, $1,200; one surveyor, $1,200; services of organist at chapel, $300; one captain of the watch, $924; one second captain of the watch, $828; twenty-two watchmen, at $732 each; three telephone switch-board operators, at $600 each.
In all, pay of professors and others, Naval Academy, $118,556. 409 Department of ordnance and gunnery: One mechanic, $960,Department of ordnance and gunnery. and one at $750; one armorer, $660; one chief gunner’s mate, $540; three quarter gunners, at $480 each; in all, $4,350. Departments of electrical engineering and physics: OneDepartments of electrical engineering and physics. electrical machinist, at $1,100; one electrical machinist, at $1,000; two mechanics, at $1,000 each; in all, $4,100.
Department of seamanship: One cockswain, $480; threeDepartment of seamanship. seamen, at $420 each; in all, $1,740. Department of marine engineering and naval construction:Department of marine engineering and naval construction. One master machinist, $1,900, and one assistant, $1,300; one pattern maker, $1,300; one boiler maker, one blacksmith, three machinists, one molder, and one coppersmith, at $1,180 each; one draftsman, $2,000; machinists and other employees, $6,768; in all, $21,528.
Commissary department: One chief cook, $1,200; four cooks, atCommissary department. $600 each, and eight assistants, at $300 each; one steward, $1,200, and one assistant, $600; one head waiter, $720, and two assistants, at $480 each; two pantry men, at $420 each; one chief baker, at $1,200; one baker, $600; two assistants, at $540 each, and one assistant, $420; necessary waiters, at $16 per month each, $13,440; one messenger to the superintendent, $600; twenty-seven attendants, at $300 each; in all, $35,760.
In all, civil establishment, $186,034. The unexpended balance of the appropriation for dairy, NavalDairy.Balance continued available.Vol. 377, p. 904. Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, contained in the naval appropriation Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, is hereby made available for expenditure during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen. Current and miscellaneous expenses, Naval Academy: TextContingent expenses. and reference books for use of instructors; stationery, blank books and forms, models, maps, and periodicals; apparatus and materials for instruction in physical training and athletics; expenses of lectures, including pay and expenses of lecturer; chemicals, philosophical apparatus and instruments, stores, machinery, tools, fittings, apparatus, and materials for instruction purposes, $28,500.
Purchase, binding, and repair of books for the library (to beLibrary. purchased in the open market on the written order of the superintendent), $2,500: *Provided*, That section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight,*Proviso*.Periodicals.[R. S. sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718). Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and domestic periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation. Expenses of the Board of Visitors of the Naval Academy, beingBoard of Visitors. actual expenses while engaged upon duties as members of the board not to exceed $5 a day and actual expenses of travel by the shortestExpenses. mail routes, and for clerk hire, and other incidental and necessary expenses of the board, $500.
For contingencies for the superintendent of the academy, to beSuperintendent. expended in his discretion, $2,000. In all, current and miscellaneous expenses, $33,500. Maintenance and repairs, Naval Academy: For generalMaintenance. maintenance and repairs at the Naval Academy, namely: For necessary repairs of public buildings, wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, improvements, repairs, and fixtures; for books, periodicals, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines; fire apparatus and plants; machinery; purchase and maintenance of all homes 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,410telegraph, 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, $275,000.
Rent.Rent of buildings for the use of the academy, and commutation of rent for bandsmen, at $8 per month each, $4,116. In all, Naval Academy, $498,650. Midshipmen.Appointments from enlisted men authorized.[R. S., sec. 1513, p. 260, amended](/us/rs/s1513/p260).Vol. 32, p. 1197.Hereafter in addition to the appointments of midshipmen to the United States Naval Academy as now prescribed by law, the Secretary of the Navy is allowed fifteen appointments annually from the enlisted men of the Navy who are citizens of the United States and not more than twenty years of age on the date of entrance to the Naval Academy, and who shall have served not less than one year *Proviso*.Examination requirements.as enlisted men on the date of entrance: *Provided*, That such appointments shall be made in the order of merit from candidates who have in competition with each other passed the mental examination now or hereafter required by law for entrance to the Naval Academy, and who passed the physical examination required before entrance under existing law.
Marine Corps.marine corps. Pay.Officers, active list.Pay, Marine Corps: For pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on the active list, including clerks for assistant paymasters, five in all, $951,640. Retired list.For pay of officers prescribed by law, on the retired list: For three major generals, four brigadier generals, seven colonels, seven lieutenant colonels, ten majors, eighteen captains, thirteen 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, $186,492.50.
Enlisted men.Active list.Pay of enlisted men, active list: Pay of noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, as prescribed by law, and the number of enlisted men shall be exclusive of those undergoing imprisonment with sentence of dishonorable discharge from the service at the 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.
In all, $2,807,215.08. Retired list.For pay and allowances prescribed by law of enlisted men on the retired list: For four sergeants major, one drum major, twenty-seven gunnery sergeants, twenty-eight quartermaster sergeants, thirty-six first sergeants, sixty-three sergeants, fifteen corporals, sixteen first-class musicians, one drummer, one trumpeter, one fifer, and twenty-three privates, and for those who may be retired during the fiscal year, $147,411. Undrawn clothing.Undrawn clothing:
For payment to discharged enlisted men for clothing undrawn, $120,000. Mileage to officers.*Proviso*.None where transportation furnished.Mileage: For mileage to officers traveling under orders without troops, $55,000: *Provided*, That hereafter no mileage shall be paid to any officer where Government transportation is furnished such officer. 411 For commutation of quarters of officers on duty without troopsCommutation of quarters, officers without troops. where there are no public quarters, $42,000.
Pay of civil force: In the office of the major generalCivil force. commandant: One chief clerk, at $2,000; one clerk, at $1,400; one messenger, at $971.28. In the office of the paymaster: One chief clerk, at $2,000; one clerk, at $1,500; one clerk, at $1,200. In the office of the adjutant and inspector; One chief clerk, at $2 000; one clerk, at $1,500; one clerk, at $1,400; one clerk, at $1,200. In the office of the quartermaster: One chief clerk, at $2,000; one clerk, at $1,500; two clerks, at $1,400 each; two clerks, at $1,200 each; one draftsman, at $1,800.
In the office of the assistant quartermaster, San Francisco, California: One chief clerk, at $1,800. In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: One chief clerk, at $1,800; one messenger, at $840; in the (Quartermaster’s Department, for duty where their services are required, four clerks, at $1,400 each. In all, for pay of civil force, $35,711.28, and the money hereinDisbursements and accounting. specifically appropriated for pay of the Marine Corps shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law as pay of the Marine Corps, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund.
In all, pay, Marine Corps, $4,345,469.86. maintenance, quartermaster’s department, marine corps.Quartermaster’s Department. Provisions, Marine Corps: For noncommissioned officers,Provisions. 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; payments 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 machines and their maintenance where required for the health and comfort of the troops and for cold storage; ice for offices and preservation of rations, $890,000.
No law shallShore duty rations. be construed to entitle enlisted men on shore duty to any rations or commutation therefor other than such as are now or may here-after be allowed enlisted men in the Array: *Provided, however*, That*Provisos*.Navy ration instead of Army. when it is impracticable or the expense is found greater to supply marines serving on shore duty in. the island possessions and on foreign stations with the Army ration, such marines may be allowed the Navy ration or commutation therefor: *Provided*, That hereafterPurchase of articles for sale to officers, etc. so much of this appropriation as may be necessary may be applied for the purchase, for sale to officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees, of such articles of subsistence stores as may from time to time be designated and under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy.
Clothing, Marine Corps: For noncommissioned officers,Clothing. musicians, and privates authorized by law, $620,063. Fuel, Marine Corps: For heat and light for the authorizedFuel and light. allowance of quarters for officers and enlisted men, and other buildings and grounds pertaining to the Marine Corps; fuel, electricity, and oil for cooking, power, and other purposes; and sales to officers, $164,000. Military stores, Marine Corps: Pay of chief armorer, at $4Military stores.Pay. per diem; one mechanic, at $3 per diem; two mechanics, at $2.50 each per diem; one chief electrician, at $4 per diem, and one assistant electrician, at $3.50 per diem; per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor for periods of not less than ten days; purchasePurchases, etc. of412military equipments, such as rifles, revolvers, cartridge boxes, bayonet scabbards, haversacks, blanket bags, canteens, rifle slings, swords, drums, trumpets, flags, waistbelts, waist plates, cartridge belts, spare parts for repairing rifles, machetes, purchase and repair of tents, field cots, field ovens, and stoves for tents; purchase and repair of instruments for bands, purchase of music and musical accessories; purchase and marking of prizes for excellence in gunnery and rifle practice; good-conduct badges; medals awarded to officers and enlisted men by the Government for conspicuous, gallant, and special service; incidental expenses of schools of application; construction, equipment, and maintenance of school, library, and amusement rooms and gymnasiums for enlisted men, and the purchase and repair of all articles of field sports for enlisted men; purchase and repair of signal equipment and stores; establishment and maintenance of targets and ranges, renting ranges, construction of buildings for temporary shelter and preservation of stores, and entrance, fees in Ammunition, etc.competitions; procuring, preserving, and handling ammunition and other necessary military supplies; in all, $307,737.
Transportation and recruiting.Transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps: For transportation of troops, and of applicants for enlistment between recruiting stations and recruit depots or posts, including ferriage and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; toilet kits for issue to recruits upon their first enlistment and the expense of the recruiting service, $317,000. Repairs to barracks, etc.Repairs of barracks, Marine Corps: Repairs and improvements to barracks, quarters, and other public buildings at posts and stations; for the renting, leasing, improvement, and erection of buildings in the District of Columbia, and at such other places as the public exigencies require; and for per diem to enlisted men employed under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department on the repair of barracks, quarters, and other public buildings on constant labor for periods of not less than ten days, $140,000.
Forage.Forage, Marine Corps: For forage in kind and stabling for public animals of the Quartermaster’s Department and the authorized number of officers’ horses, $22,200. Commutation of quarters.Officers with troops, etc.Commutation of quarters, Marine Corps: Commutation of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them: commutation of quarters for enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers 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 $21 each per month, and for enlisted men employed as messengers in said offices, at $10 each per month, $79,000.
Contingent.Contingent, Marine Corps: For freight, expressage, 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 typewriters; apprehension of stragglers and deserters; per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor for periods of not less than ten days; employment of civilian labor; purchase, repair, and installation and maintenance of gas, electric, sewer, and water pipes and fixtures; office and barracks furniture, camp and garrison equipage and implements; mess utensils for enlisted men; packing boxes, wrapping paper, oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, quarantine fees, camphor and carbolized paper, carpenters’ tools, tools for police purposes, safes; purchase, repair,413and 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 home 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; deodorizers, lubricants, disinfectants; and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but impossible to anticipate or classify, $460,000.
In all, for the maintenance of (Quartermaster’s Department, MarineDisbursement and accounting. Corps, $3,000,000; and the money herein specifically appropriated for the maintenance of the Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law as maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. Total Marine Corps, exclusive of public works, $7,345,469.86. increase of the navy.Increase of the Navy.
That for the purpose of further increasing the Naval EstablishmentConstruction authorized.Two first-class battleships.*Post*, p. 415. of the United States, the President is hereby authorized to have constructed two first-class battleships carrying as heavy armor and as powerful armament as any vessel of their class, to have the highest practicable speed and greatest desirable radius of action, and to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not to exceed $7,800,000 each. One of the battleships hereby authorized shall be built and constructedOne at navy yard. at a Government navy yard.
Six torpedo-boat destroyers, to have the highest practicable speed,Six torpedo-boat destroyers. to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not to exceed $925,000 each. Eight or more submarines, one to be of seagoing type to have aEight submarines. surface speed of not less than twenty knots, seven or more to be of coast and harbor defense type; to cost not exceeding in the aggregateCost.Appropriation. $4,460,000, and the sum of $1,825,000 is hereby appropriated for said purpose, to be available until expended.
The appropriationUse of appropriation for wrecking pontoon.Vol. 37, p. 905. made in the naval Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, “Wrecking pontoon: For construction or purchase of a testing and wrecking pontoon for submarines, to be available until expended, $300,000, is hereby made available until expended for the construction of said eight or more submarine boats. Three of the coast-defense submarine torpedo boats hereinThree coast-defense submarines to be built on Pacific coast.*Proviso*.Cost restriction. authorized shall be built on the Pacific coast: *Provided*, That the cost of construction on the Pacific coast docs not exceed the cost of construction on the Atlantic coast, plus the cost of transportation from the Atlantic to the Pacific; and the Secretary of the Navy is requested to considerFour small submarines for Gulf coast defense. the advisability of stationing the four small submarine torpedo boats herein authorized on the coast of the United States in the Gulf of Mexico as a proper naval defense thereof.
Hereafter there shall be charged against tire several appropriationsDistribution of overhead charges at yards and stations. for the support of the Naval Establishment the overhead charges incident to upkeep and to industrial work at navy yards and stations.414The total sum so charged shall be distributed in accordance with the work done in the various yards and stations in order that the cost of work may be determined. Vessels to be built in navy yards if bidders combine.Except where otherwise directed, the Secretary of the.
Navy shall build any of the vessels herein authorized in such navy yards as he may designate, should it reasonably appear that the persons, firms, or corporations, or the agents thereof, bidding for the construction of any of said vessels have entered into any combination,. agreement, or understanding the effect, object, or purpose of which is to deprive the Government of fair, open, and unrestricted competition in letting contracts for the construction of any of said vessels.
New vessels.Construction and machinery.Construction and machinery: On account of hulls and outfits of vessels and machinery of vessels heretofore and herein authorized, to be available until expended, $17,647,617. Torpedo boats.>Increase of the Navy; torpedo boats: On account of submarine torpedo boats heretofore authorized, to be available until expended, $1,685,617. Equipment.Increase of the Navy; equipment: Toward the completion of equipment outfit of the vessels heretofore and herein authorized, to be available until expended, $421,000.
Armor and armament.Increase of the Navy; armor and armament: Toward the armor and armament for vessels heretofore, and herein authorized, to be available until expended, $14,877,500. Armor plant.Committee created to report on establishing. Scope of inquiry, etc.*Post*, p. 952.A committee is hereby appointed, to consist of the chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs of the Senate and the chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs of the House of Representatives, and one naval officer to be selected by the Secretary of the Navy to investigate and report at the next regular session of Congress upon the cost of erection of an armor plant to enable the United States to manufacture its own armor plate and special treatment steel, capable of standing all ballistic and other necessary tests required for use in vessels of the Navy, at the lowest possible cost to the Government, tailing into consideration all of the elements necessary for the economical and successful operation of such a plant.
Said report shall contain the estimated cost of a plant and site sufficient to accommodate a plant having an annual output capacity of twenty thousand tons, and also a plant having an output of ten thousand tons, and also an itemized statement of the estimated cost of the necessary buildings, machinery, and accessories for each, and the estimated annual cost and maintenance of each, and the estimated cost of the finished product. Power and authority.Said committee is authorized to sit during the recess of Congress, to send for persons and papers, and to administer oaths.
Expenses.The sum of $5,000 is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the expenses of said committee, payable upon vouchers signed by the chairman of said committee. Total increase of the Navy heretofore and herein authorized, $36,456,734. Restriction on purchases which can be supplied by Government plants.Of each of the sums appropriated by this Act, except such amounts as may be required to meet obligations authorized in previous Acts and for which contracts have been made, no part shall be used to procure through purchase or contract any vessels, armament, articles, or materials which the navy yards, gun factories, or other industrial plants operated by the Navy Department are equipped to supply, unless such Government plants are operated approximately at their full capacity for not less than one regular shift each working day, except when contract costs are less than costs in said Government plants, and except when said Government plants are unable to complete the work within the time required, and except in cases of emergency. 415 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 theRestriction on price. articles aforesaid, and no purchase of structural steel, ship plates, or machinery shall be made at a price in excess of a reasonable profit above the actual cost of manufacture.
But this limitation shall in noNot applicable to existing contracts. case apply to any existing contract. That no part of any sum herein appropriated under “Increase of theAppropriations not to be used for clerical, etc., services in Department. 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, Washing-ton, District of Columbia. That no part of any sum appropriated by this Act shall be usedSpecific authority required for use in Department. for any expense of the Navy Department at Washington, District of Columbia, unless specific authority is given by law for such expenditure.
The President may, in his discretion, direct the sale, in such manner,Sale of “Idaho” and ”Mississippi” authorized. at such price not less than the original cost price and upon such terms as he may deem proper, of the two battleships Idaho and Mississippi. All moneys received from the sale of said vessels shall be deposited byDeposit of proceeds. the Secretary of the Navy in the Treasury. After said sale, in additionAdditional first-class battleship authorized. to the two battleships hereinbefore authorized, the President is hereby authorized to have constructed a first-class battleship carrying as heavy armor and as powerful armament as any vessel of its class, to have the highest practicable speed and the greatest desirable radius of action, and to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not to exceed $7,800,000.
Out of the money when so deposited in the TreasuryAppropriation for from moneys received. there is hereby appropriated toward the construction of said battleship on account or “Increase of the Navy”: “Construction and machinery,” $2,000,000; “Armor and armament,” $2,535,000; and “Equipment,” $100,000: *Provided*, That no vessel shall be sold under*Proviso*.Condition of sale. this authorization unless such sale, or the agreement therefor, shall have been made prior to July first, nineteen hundred and fifteen.
Approved, June 30, 1914.
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