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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 38 STAT. · March 3, 1915 · Chapter 83

Chapter 83. Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 83.— An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and for other purposes.March 3, 1915.[[H. R. 20975](/us/bill/63/hr/20975).][[Public, No. 271](/us/pl/63/271).] *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 sixteen, 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 the amount 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. 929 For commissions and interests; 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 (hereafter subscriptions Subscriptions to papers may be paid in advance.may be paid for in advance); 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 appropriation, *Provisos*.Allowance for clerical, etc., services at yards, etc.under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and purchasing pay offices for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, shall not exceed $290,000; in all, $1,000,000.
There shall be a Chief of Naval Operations, who shall be an officer Chief of Naval Operations.Appointment and authority.on the active list of the Navy appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, from among the officers of the line of the Navy not below the grade of captain for a period of four years, who shall, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, be charged with the operations of the fleet, and with the preparation and readiness of plans for its use in war: *Provided*, That *Proviso*.Rank, etc.if an officer of the grade of captain be appointed Chief of Naval Operations, he shall have the rank, title, and emoluments of a rear admiral while holding that position.
During the temporary absence of the Secretary and the Assistant To act as Secretary in temporary absence of Secretary and Assistant.Secretary of the Navy, the Chief of Naval Operations shall be next in succession to act as Secretary of the Navy. Contingent, Navy: For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, Contingent.exclusive of personal services in the Navy Department, or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at Washington, District of Columbia, arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, to be expended on the approval and authority of the Secretary of the Navy, and for such purposes as he may deem proper, $46,000: *Provided*, That the Act “To authorize and provide *Proviso*.Disposal of useless papers at yards.Vol. 25, p. 672.disposal of useless papers in the executive departments,” approved February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, is hereby amended so that accumulations in the files of navy yards and naval stations that, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy, are not needed or useful in the transaction of current business and 930have no permanent value or historical interest may be disposed of by the Secretary of the Navy by sale, after advertisement for proposals as waste paper if practicable, or if not practicable then otherwise as may appear best for the interests of the Government, the said Secretary to make detailed report to the Congress in every case of the Restriction.papers destroyed; provided always that no papers less than two years old from the date of the last indorsement thereon shall be destroyed or disposed of by the Secretary of the Navy, except in the manner provided in said act of February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.
Additional shore duty for officers of Engineering and Construction Corps.Hereafter 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. Aeronautics.Balances of appropriations available for all expanses of.Aeronautics: The sum of $1,000,000 is hereby reappropriated out of the unobligated balances of the appropriations “Construction and repair of vessels and steam machinery” for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and made available for aeronautics, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for procuring, producing, constructing, operating, preserving, storing, and handling aircraft and appurtenances, maintenance of aircraft stations and experimental work in development of aviation for naval purposes.
Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.Composition of.An Advisory Committee for Aeronautics is hereby established, and the President is authorized to appoint not to exceed twelve members, to consist of two members from the War Department, from the office in charge of military aeronautics; two members from the Navy Department, from the office in charge of naval aeronautics; a representative each of the Smithsonian Institution, of the United States Weather Bureau, and of the United States Bureau of Standards; together with not more than five additional persons who shall be acquainted with the needs of aeronautical science, either civil or military, or skilled in aeronautical engineering or its allied sciences: *Provisos*.No compensation.Duty to supervise research, etc.*Provided*, That the members of the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, as such, shall serve without compensation: *Provided further*, That it shall be the duty of the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution, and to determine the problems which should be experimentally attacked, and to discuss their solution and their application to practical questions.
In the event of a laboratory or laboratories, either in whole or in part, being placed under the direction of the committee, the committee may direct and conduct research and experiment in aeronautics in such laboratory Rules of conduct.or laboratories: *And provided further*, That rules and regulations for the conduct of the work of the committee shall be formulated by the committee and approved by the President. Appropriation for experimental work, etc.That the sum of $5,000 a year, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for five years is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available, for experimental work and investigations undertaken by the committee, clerical expenses and supplies, and necessary expenses of members of the committee in going to, returning from, and while *Provisos*.Annual report, etc.attending, meetings of the committee: *Provided*, That an annual report to the Congress shall be submitted through the President, including an itemized statement of expenditures.
Naval Militia.Arming, equipping, pay, etc.*Ante*, p. 286.Arming and equipping Naval Militia: For the pay, subsistence, and transportation of such portion of the Naval Militia as shall engage in actual service or instruction afloat or on shore, and for pay, transportation, and subsistence of any part of the Naval Militia as shall participate in any cruise, maneuvers, field instruction, or encamp931ment of any part of the Regular Navy afloat or on shore; for the purpose of providing for issue to the Naval Militia any stores and supplies or publications which are supplied to the Navy by any department; for the actual and necessary traveling expenses, together with a per diem not to exceed $4 to be established by the Secretary of the Navy, of the Naval Militia Board appointed by the Secretary of the Navy; and for the necessary clerical and office expenses of the Division *Post*, p. 1029.of Naval Militia Affairs in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, $250,000.
The President of the United States is hereby empowered to prepare Medal of honor.Issue to officers of Navy. Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, authorized.a suitable medal of honor to be awarded to any officer of the Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard who shall have distinguished himself in battle or displayed extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession. Care of lepers, islands of Guam and Culion: Naval station, Lepers.Care, etc., Culion, P. I.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.
Hurricane damages, American Samoa: For the relief of the Samoa Hurricane.Relief of sufferers by.inhabitants of American Samoa, to be immediately available, $10,000. bureau of navigation. Transportation: For travel allowance of enlisted men discharged Bureau of Navigation.Transportation.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 m lieu thereof; transportation of sick or insane enlisted men and apprentice seamen to hospitals, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, and for railway guides and other expenses incident to transportation, $750,000.
Recruiting: Expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent of Recruiting.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 hereafter no part of any appropriation *Proviso*.Certificate of age required.for the naval service 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 Under oath of applicant.such certificate is unobtainable, enlistment may be made when the recruiting officer is convinced that oath of applicant as to age is credible; but when it is afterwards found, upon evidence satisfactory to the Navy Department, that recruit has sworn falsely as to age, and is under eighteen years of age at the time of enlistment, he shall, upon Discharge of minors.request of either’ parent, or, in case of their death, by the legal guardian, be released from service in the Navy, upon payment of full cost of first outfit, unless, in any given case, the Secretary, in his discretion, shall relieve said recruit of such payment.
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 932and 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, $10,000.
Gunnery exercises.Gunnery exercises: Prizes, trophies, and badges for excellence in gunnery exercises and target practice; for the establishment and maintenance of shooting galleries, target houses, targets, and ranges; for hiring established ranges, and for transportation of civilian assistants and equipment to and from ranges, $99,800. 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 com-petition, $3,000.
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, $750,000: *Provided*, That hereafter 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,, ship-ping, and subsistence of civilian officers and crews of naval auxiliaries, and all expenses connected with naval auxiliaries employed in emergencies which can not be paid from other appropriations, $800,000. Equipment sup-plies, instruments, etc.Instruments and supplies: Supplies for seamen’s quarters; and for the purchase of all other articles of equipage at home and aboard; 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 com-passes 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, $270,000.
Ocean and lake surveys.Ocean and lake surveys: Hydrographic surveys, including the pay of the necessary hydrographic surveyors, cartographic drafts-men and recorders, and for the purchase and printing of nautical *Proviso*.Details allowed.books, charts, and sailing directions, $105,000: *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 five stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle to be used only for official purposes; fire engines and extinguishers; gymnastic implements, models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; 933printing 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.
Naval training station, Rhode Island: Maintenance of naval Coasters 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, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of two horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes; 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 sum *Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services.to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, shall not exceed $5,701.60.
Naval training station, Great Lakes: Maintenance of naval Great Lakes.training station: Labor and material; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and piers; street car fare; purchase and maintenance of Uve stock, and attendance on same; motor-propelled vehicles, wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, and one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle to be used only for official purposes; 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 appropriation under the *Proviso.*Clerical, etc., services.direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, shall not exceed $1,500; in all, naval training station, Great Lakes, $80,000.
Naval training station, Saint Helena: Maintenance of naval Saint 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 of the Naval War College, R. I.Naval War College on Coasters Harbor Island, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle to be used only for official purposes; and care of grounds for same, $25,250; services of a lecturer on international law, $2,000; services of civilian lecturers, rendered at the War College, $300; care and preservation of the library, including the purchase, binding, and repair of books of reference and periodicals, $1,300: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services.That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, inspection, drafting, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, shall not exceed $12,500; in all, Naval War College, Rhode Island, $28,850. 934 Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pa.Pay of employees.Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 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; one painter, 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, buddings, 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, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of three horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes, $54,421; in all, for Naval Home, $77,117, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund: *Provided*, That all moneys derived from the sale of *Proviso*.Money from sales, etc., to be returned to naval fund.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.
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 grounds; for maintenance of the proving ground and powder factory and for target practice; for the maintenance, repair, Passenger vehicles.or operation of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes at naval magazines, the naval proving ground, Indianhead, Maryland, and naval torpedo stations, and for pay of chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service *Proviso.*Chemical, clerical, etc., services.in navy yards, naval stations, and naval magazines: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, watchmen, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and naval magazines for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, shall not exceed $468,000; in all, $5,795,420.
Smokeless powder.*Provisos*.Price limited.Purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, $1,150,000: *Provided*, That no part of any. money appropriated by this Act shall be expended for the purchase of powder other than small-arms powder at a price in excess of 53 cents a pound: *Provided further*, That in Purchases subject to full operation of Indianhead factory.expenditures of this appropriation, or any part thereof, for powder, no powder shall at any time be purchased unless the powder factory at Indian head, Maryland, shall be operated on a basis of not less than its full maximum capacity. 935 Fok Naval Gun Factory, Washington, District of Columbia::
Naval Gun Factory Washington, D. C.Machinery.New and improved machinery for existing shops, $75,000. Naval Proving Ground, Indianhead, Maryland: For machinery Indianhead, Md.Powder factory.for extension of powder factory, to be available until expended, $141,620. New batteries for ships of the Navy: For liners for eroded Liners for eroded guns.guns, to be available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $100,000. Ammunition for ships of the Navy: For procuring, producing, Ammunition for ships.preserving, and handling ammunition for issue to ships, $3,000,000, to be available until expended.
Torpedoes and appliances: For the purchase and manufacture of Torpedoes and appliances.torpedoes and appliances, to be available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, $1,000,000. Torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: For labor and material; Torpedo station, Newport, R. I.general care of and repairs to grounds, buildings, and wharves; boats, instruction, instruments, tools, experiments, and general torpedo outfits, $80,000. For the construction of a building for the storage of torpedoes, Storage building.$20,000.
For new and improved machinery and tools for torpedo factory, Machinery, etc.$30,000. Experiments, Bureau of Ordnance: For experimental work in Experimental work.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, $100,000.
Repairs, Bureau of Ordnance: For necessary repairs to ordnance Repairs.buildings, magazines, wharves, machinery, and other items of like character, $30,000. Contingent, Bureau of Ordnance: For miscellaneous items, Contingent.namely: Cartage, expenses of light and water at magazines and stations, tolls, ferriage, technical books, and incidental expenses attending inspection of ordnance material, $9,500. bureau of 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; operation or repair, purchase, maintenance of horses and driving teams; carts, timber wheels, and all vehicles, including motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes, and 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 navy yards; water tax, tolls, and ferriage; pay of watchmen in navy yards; awnings and packing boxes; and for pay of employees on leave, $1,595,496: *Provided*, That the sum to be *Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services.paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, inspection, drafting, messenger, and other classified work in the navy yards and naval stations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, shall not exceed $425,000. 936 Contingent.Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks:
For contingent expenses and minor extensions and improvements of public works at navy yards and stations, $50,000. Public works.public works, bureau of yards and docks. Boston, Mass.Navy yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Paving, to continue, $5,000; hot-water supply system, $10,000; electric distributing system, extensions, $10,000; in all, $25,000. New York, N. Y.Navy yard, New York, New York: Yard railroad, extension and equipment, $10,000; to complete construction of Pier C (cost not to exceed $150,000), $85,000; distributing system, extensions, $15,000; dredging, to continue, $25,000; in all, $135,000.
Philadelphia, Pa.Navy yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Railroad system, ex-tensions, $10,000; distribution systems, extensions, $10,000; dredging, to continue, $25,000; paving, to continue, $10,000; in all, $55,000. Washington, D. C.Navy yard, Washington, District of Columbia: Fireproof general storehouse (cost not to exceed $225,000), to complete, $125,000; railroad system, improvements and extensions, $10,000; electric system, extensions, $10,000; in all, $145,000. Norfolk, Va.Navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia:
Building for school, $50,000; railroad system, extensions, $15,000; disinfecting plant, $15,000; for the construction of a building slip and equipment, $50,000; in all, $130,000. Charleston, S. C.Navy yard, Charleston, South Carolina: Dredging, to continue, $20,000; paving and grading, to continue, $10,000; to make dry and wet borings to determine water-front conditions for locating suitable piers, and slips, $15,000; for the construction of building ways for constructing tugs, lighters, barges, and small naval auxiliary craft, $50,000; in all, $95,000.
Key West, Fla.Naval station, Key West, Florida: Dredging, to continue. $5,000. Pensacola, Fla.Sick quarters for aeronautic station.Vol. 34, p. 1191.Naval station, Pensacola, Florida: For remodeling building fifty-two to fit it as a sick quarters and dispensary for use of United States Navy Aeronautic Station, $15,000, reappropriated from unexpended appropriation Act of March second, nineteen hundred and seven, for renewal of present naval hospital buildings, Pensacola, Florida.
Mare island, Cal.Navy yard, Mare Island, California: Dredging and diking, to continue, $20,000; railroad system, extensions, $10,000; garbage crematory, $7,500; improvements and extensions to distributing systems, $15,000; oil storage, $12,500; in all, $65,000. Puget Sound, Wash.Navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington: Dredging, to continue, $15,000; railroad system, extensions, $25,000; building slip for sub-marines, $20,000; in all, $60,000. Indianhead, Md.Powder factory.Naval Proving Ground, Indianhead, Maryland:
Toward extension of powder factory (cost not to exceed $500,000), to complete public work features, $158,380. Fort Mifflin, Pa., naval magazine.Naval magazine, Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania: One shell house, $25,000; fixed ammunition storehouse, $13,000; one magazine, $13,000; reforming plant extension, $7,000; railroad system, extensions, $6,000; in all, $64,000. Saint Juliens Creek, Va., naval magazine.Naval magazine, Saint Juliens Creek, Virginia: One shell house, $20,000. Puget Sound.
Wash., naval magazine.Naval magazine, Puget Sound, Washington: Shell house, $15,000; two magazines, $30,000; storage sheds, $4,000; house on pier, $2,000; pier extension, $4,000; lightning protection, $3.000: in all, $58,000. 937 Depots for coal and other fuel: For additional fuel-oil storage Fuel depots.at Melville, Rhode Island, $40,000; additional fuel-oil storage at Norfolk, Virginia, $90,000; fuel-oil storage at San Diego, California, $40,000; fuel-oil storage at Puget Sound, Washington, $80,000; fuel-oil storage at Mare Island, California, $80,000; fuel-oil storage at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, $50,000; fuel-oil storage at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, $80,000; custody and care of naval petroleum reserves, $10,000; contingent, $30,000; in all, $500,000.
Naval training station, San Francisco, California: DredgingCalifornia training station. and extension of wharf for receiving ship, $15,000. Naval Hospital, New York, New York: Three contagious-disease New York, naval hospital.units, $15,000. That the appropriation of $400,000 for erection on the Isthmus of Marine barracks at Mare Island, and Norfolk.Vol. 37, p. 902.Reappropriation.Panama of barracks, quarters, and other buildings for accommodation of marines, contained in the Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, is hereby reappropriated, and $200,000 thereof made available for the erection of marine barracks at Mare Island, California and $200,000 thereof made available for the erection of marine barracks at Norfolk, Virginia.
Repairs and preservation at navy yards and stations: For Repairs and preservation.repairs and preservation at navy yards, coaling depots, coaling plants, and stations, $1,097,436. Total public works, navy yards, naval stations, naval proving Amounts available until expended.grounds, and magazines, naval training station, San Francisco, naval ospitai, New York, and depots for coal and other fuel, $2,642,816, and the amounts herein appropriated for public works, except for repairs and preservation at navy yards and stations, shall be available until expended. bureau of medicine and surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
Medical Department: For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in Surgeons’ necessaries.Civil establishment.commission, navy yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy yards, naval medical supply depots, Naval Medical School, Washington, and Naval Academy, $525,000. Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For tolls and Contingent.ferriages; care, transportation, and burial of the dead; purchase of books and stationery, binding of medical records, unbound books, and pamphlets; hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration; sanitary and hygienic instruction; purchase and repairs of nonpassenger-canying wagons, automobile ambulances, and harness: purchase of and feed for horses and cows; maintenance, repair and operation of two passenger-carrying vehicles for naval dispensary, Washington, District of Columbia, to be used only for official purposes; trees, plants, garden tools, and seeds; incidental articles for the Naval Medical School and naval dispensary, Washington; 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; rent of rooms for naval dispensary, Washington, District of Columbia, not to exceed $1,200; for the care, maintenance, and treatment of the insane of the Navy and Marine Corps on the Pacific coast; for dental outfits and dental material, Dental outfits.not to exceed $38,000, and all other necessary contingent expenses; in all, $142,000. 938 Transferring remains of officers, etc.Transportation op 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 *Provisos*.Not deducted from gratuity pay.the continental limits of the United States, $15,000: *Provided*, That no deduction shall hereafter be made from the six months’ gratuity VoL 37, p. 329.pay allowed under the naval Act of August twenty-second, nineteen hundred and twelve, on account of expenses for preparation and Application of fund.transportation of the remains: *Provided further*, 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, nineteen hundred and seventeen.
In all, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $682,000. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.bureau of supplies and accounts. Pay of the Navy.Allotment of amounts.Pay of the Navy: Pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on sea duty and other duty, $10,598,933; officers on waiting orders, $500,000; officers on the retired list, $3,070,230; 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, $550,000; and also members of Nurse Corps (female), $1,000; for hire of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them, or commutation of quarters not to exceed the amount which an officer would receive were he not serving with troops, $1,000; pay of enlisted men on the retired list, $340,000; extra pay to men reenlisting under honorable discharge, $927,000; interest on deposits by men, $15,520; pay of petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and apprentice seamen, including men in the engineers’ force and men detailed for duty with the Fish Commission, forty-eight thousand men, and for the pay of enlisted men detailed for duty with the Naval Militia, $23,616,000, and the number of enlisted men shall be exclusive of those undergoing imprisonment with sentence of dishonorable discharge from the service at expiration of such confinement, $200,000; and as many machinists as the President 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 proscribed by law, $742,560; pay of the Nurse Corps, $116,940; rent of quarters for members of the Nurse Corps, $15,480; in all, $41,240,563; and the money herein specifically 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.
Involuntary retirement of officers repealed.Vol. 30, p. 1006.Section nine of the naval personnel Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled, “An Act to reorganize and in-crease the efficiency of the personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps of the United States,” be, and the same is hereby, repealed. 939 That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized, within two Officers involuntarily retired may be transferred to active list.years of the date of the approval of this Act, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to transfer to the active list of the Navy or Marine Corps any officer who may have been transferred from the active to the retired list of the Navy under the provisions of section nine of said personnel Act: *Provided*, That such officer shall be transferred *Provisos*.Status when transferred.to the place on the active list which he would have held if ho had not been retired and shall be carried as an additional number in the grade to which he may be transferred or at any time thereafter promoted: *Provided further*, That such officer shall stand a satisfactory Examinations required.physical and professional examination as now prescribed by law: *And provided further*, That any officer transferred to the active No back pay. etc.list shall not by the passage of this Act be entitled to back pay or allowances of any kind.
That the President of the United States bo, and he is hereby, Constantine Marrast Perkins.Restored to Marine Corps as colonel on active list.authorized to restore Constantine Marrast Perkins, now a lieutenant colonel on the retired list, to the active list of the Marine Corps, in the grade of colonel, to take rank in said grade next after George Barnett, who was the officer immediately above the said Constantine Marrast Perkins in the list of lieutenant colonels at the date said Constantine Marrast Perkins was retired from active service with the rank of lieutenant colonel: *Provided*, That the said Constantine Marrast *Provisos*.Examinations required.Perkins shall establish to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Navy, by examination pursuant to law, his physical, mental, moral, and professional fitness to perform the duties of colonel: *Provided further*, That the said Constantine Marrast Perkins shall be carried, while on To be carried as additional number.the active list, as additional to the number in the grade to which ho may be advanced pursuant to this Act until such time as a vacancy occurs in said grade: *And provided further*, That the said Constantine No back pay, etc.Marrast Perkins shall not, by the passage of this Act, be entitled to any back pay or allowances.
Hereafter officers of the Navy and Marine Corps appointed student Aviation service.Additional pay to officers detailed for.Vol. 37, p. 892.naval aviators, while lawfully detailed for duty involving actual flying in air craft, including balloons, dirigibles, and aeroplanes, shall receive the pay and allowances of their rank and service plus thirty-five per centum increase thereof; and those officers who have hereto-fore qualified, or may hereafter qualify, as naval aviators, under such rules and regulations as have been or may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy, shall, while lawfully detailed for duty involving actual flying in air craft, receive the pay and allowances of their rank and service plus fifty per centum increase thereof.
Hereafter Additional pay to enlisted men.enlisted men of the Navy or Marine Corps, while detailed for duty involving actual flying in air craft, shall receive the pay, and the permanent additions thereto, including allowances, of their rating and service, or rank and service, as the case may be, plus fifty per centum increase thereof: *Provided*, That not more than a yearly *Proviso*.Yearly average of details allowed.average of forty-eight officers and ninety-six enlisted men of the Navy, and twelve officers and twenty-four enlisted men of the Marine Corps, detailed for duty involving actual flying in air craft, shall receive any increase in pay while on duty involving actual flying in air craft, nor shall any officer in the Navy senior in rank to commander, nor Restriction on grades of details.any officer in the Marine Corps senior in rank to major, receive any increase in pay or allowances by reason of such detail or duty.
In the event of the death of an officer or enlisted man of the Navy Gratuity for death from aviation accident.or Marine Corps from wounds or disease, the result of an aviation accident, not the result of his own misconduct, received while engaged in actual flying in or in handling air craft, the gratuity to be paid under the provisions of the Act approved August twenty-second, Vol. 37, p.329.nineteen hundred and twelve, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen 940hundred and thirteen, and for other purposes,” shall be an amount equal to one year’s pay at the rate received by such officer or enlisted Double pension for disability from aviation duty.man at the tune of the accident resulting in his death.
In all cases where an officer or enlisted man of the Navy or Marine Corps dies, or where an enlisted man of the Navy or Manne Corps is disabled by reason of any injury received or disease contracted in line of duty, the result of an aviation accident, received while employed in actual flying in or in handling air craft, the amount of pension allowed shall be double that authorized to be paid should death or the disability have occurred by reason of an injury received or disease contracted in line of duty, not the result of an aviation accident.
All Acts or parts of Acts in so far as they are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. Mrs. Connie B BilingsPayment to.The Paymaster General of the Navy shall cause to be paid to Mrs. Connie Billingsley, mother of the late William D. Billingsley, ensign, United States Navy, an amount equal to six months’ pay at the rate received by that officer at the date of his death, less not exceeding $75, expenses of interment. Naval reserve established.Admission from discharged enlisted men.There is hereby established a United States naval reserve, which shall consist of citizens of the United States who have been or may be entitled to be honorably discharged from the Navy after not less than one four-year term of enlistment or after a term of enlistment Organization.during minority.
The naval reserve shall be organized under the Bureau of Navigation and shall be governed by the Articles for the Government of the Navy and by the Naval Regulations and Status when actively employed with Navy.Instructions. Whenever actively employed with the Navy, or whenever employed in authorized travel to and from prescribed active duty with the Navy, its members shall be employed as members of the naval reserve and shall while so employed be held and considered to be in all respects in the same status as enlisted men of the Navy on active duty, except that they shall not be advanced in rating in When not actively employed.time of peace.
When not actively employed with the Navy, members of the naval reserve shall not be entitled to any pay, bounty, gratuity, or pension except the pay expressly provided for members of the naval reserve by the provisions of this Act, nor shall they be entitled to retirement by reason of such service in the naval reserve. Enlistment rating.Enlistments in the naval reserve shall be made in the rating in which last honorably discharged from the Navy for a period of four Time for first enlistment, etc.years unless sooner discharged by competent authority.
No man shall be first enlisted in the naval reserve after eight years from the date of his last discharge from the Navy nor unless he be found to be physically fit to perform the duties of the rating in which last discharged, nor shall any man whose last service in the Navy was terminated by any means other than by an honorable discharge be Reenlistments.eligible for enlistment in the naval reserve. Reenlistments in the naval reserve shall be made under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy.
Classification of enlistments.Enlistments in the naval reserve shall be made in two classes. Class one shall consist of those men who enlist in the naval reserve within four months from the date of their last honorable discharge from the Navy. Class two shall consist of those men who enlist in the naval reserve after four months and within eight years from the date of their last honorable discharge from the Navy. Transfers of enlisted men to naval reserve from Navy.In addition to the enlistments in the naval reserve above provided, the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to transfer to the naval reserve at the expiration of an enlistment any enlisted man of the Navy who may, alter two years from the date of approval of this Act, complete service in the Navy of sixteen, or twenty or more years and be entitled at the expiration of his enlistment to an honorable Voluntary application for.discharge.
Such transfers shall only be made upon voluntary application and in the rating in which then serving, and the men so 941transferred shall be continued in the naval reserve until discharged by competent authority. Members of the naval reserve of class one and men transferred Retention of uniform, etc.to the naval reserve shall be required to keep on hand such part of the uniform clothing outfit as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy, and all members of the naval reserve shall be issued a Badge or button to issue.distinctive badge or button which may be worn with civilian dress.
Members of mass one who have served less than eight years in the Pay.Class one.Navy shall be paid at the rate of $30 per annum, and those who have served eight or more years and less than twelve years in the Navy shall be paid at the rate of $60 per annum and those who have served twelve or more years in the Navy, $100 per annum. All Class two.members of the naval reserve of class two shall be paid at the rate of $12 per annum, and when first called into active service on board Outfit for active service.a vessel of the Navy shall receive an allowance for an outfit of clothing not exceeding $30 in value, to be expended under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy.
Members of the naval reserve who have, when transferred to the Longevity allowances.naval reserve, completed service in the Navy of sixteen, or twenty or more years shall be paid at the rate of one-third, and one-half, respectively, of the base pay, plus permanent additions thereto, which they were receiving at the close of their last service in the Navy. ... . Members of the naval reserve may, in time of peace, be required Active service in time of peace.to perform not less than one month’s active service on board a vessel of the Navy, during each year of service in the naval reserve, and such active service shall not exceed two months in any one year: *Proviso*.Time of service.Service in time of war.*Provided*, That the aforesaid active service with the Navy may be required at any time after entrance in the naval reserve.
In time of war they may be required to perform active service with the Navy throughout the war, not to exceed the term of enlistment in the case of those enlisted in the naval reserve. Any pay which may be due Failure to report.any member of the naval reserve shall be forfeited when so ordered by the Secretary of the Navy upon the failure, under such conditions as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy, of such man to report for muster and inspection. Those members of the naval reserve of class one, and those members No gratuity for re-enlistment in Navy.who have been transferred to the naval reserve, who reenlist in the Navy within four months from the date of their discharge from the naval reserve, shall not be entitled to a gratuity of four months’ pay, but their reenlistment in the Navy shall be held and considered to Continuous service allowance.have been made within four months from the date of discharge from the Navy for the purpose of continuous-service pay.
The period of Longevity.time during which members of the naval reserve were actively employed with the Navy while enlisted in the naval reserve shall, for the purposes of retirement, be counted as active service in the Navy in the case of those who reenlist in the Navy after service in the naval reserve. The Secretary of the Navy is authorized in time of war, or when, Retired enlisted men.Call to active service in time of war, etc.in the opinion of the President, war is threatened, to call any enlisted man on the retired list into active service for such duty as he may be able to perform.
While so employed such enlisted men shall receive the same pay and allowances they were receiving when placed on the retired list: *Provided*, That enlisted men on the retired list shall not *Proviso*.Not eligible to naval reserve.be eligible for enlistment in or transfer to the naval reserve. The sum of $130,000 is hereby appropriated to carry into effect Appropriation for expenses.the foregoing provisions relating to a naval reserve. That hereafter the commander in chief of the United States Atlantic Fleet commanders in chief.Rank and pay of admiral while serving.Fleet, the commander in chief of the United States Pacific Fleet, and the commander in chief of the Asiatic Fleet, respectively, shall each, 942after being designated as such commander in chief by the President, and from the date of assuming command of such fleet until his relinquishment, of such command, have the rank and pay of an Second in command as vice admiral.admiral; and in each of the above-named fleets the officer serving as second in command thereof shall each, after being designated as such second in command by the President, and from the date of assuming duty as such second in command until his relinquishment Grades reestablished.of such duty, nave the rank and pay of a vice admiral; and the grades of admiral and vice admiral in the Navy are hereby reestablished Pay.and authorized for the purposes of this section.
The annual pay of *Provisos*.To be designated from rear admirals.an admiral shall be $10,000, and of a vice admiral $9,000: *Provided*, That in time of peace officers to serve as commander in chief and as second in command of the three said fleets shall be designated from among the rear admirals on the active list of the Navy: No vacancies, etc., created.*Provided further*, That nothing herein contained shall create any vacancy in any grade in the Navy nor increase the total number of officers allowed by existing law, and that when an officer is detached from duty as such commander in chief or as such second in command, as above provided, he shall return to his regular rank in the list of rear admirals and shall thereafter receive only the pay and allowances of such regular rank.
Navy pay clerks.Title of paymasters’ clerks changed to.Appointments from enlisted men.The title of paymaster’s clerk in the United States Navy is hereby changed to pay clerk, and hereafter all pay clerks shall be warranted from acting pay clerks, who shall be appointed from enlisted men in the Navy holding acting or permanent appointments as chief petty officers who have served at least three years as enlisted men, at least two years of which service must have been on board a cruising vessel Citizenship required.of the Navy.
All appointments as acting pay clerks shall be made by the Secretary of the Navy, and all such appointees, in addition to the qualifications above set forth, must be citizens of the United Regulations.States. All acting appointments herein provided for shall be made permanent under regulations established by the Secretary of the *Provisos*.Appointment of acting pay clerks.Navy: *Provided*, That paymasters’ clerks now in the Navy whose total service as such is less than one year and who are citizens of the United States may, upon the passage of this Act, be given appointments as acting pay clerks without previous service as enlisted men:
Pay clerks.*Provided further*, That paymasters’ clerks now in the service and former paymasters’ clerks whose appointments have been revoked within six months next preceding the passage of this Act, who have had not less than one year’s actual service as such, and who are citizens of the United States, may, upon the passage of this Act, be Pay, allowances, etc.warranted as pay clerks without previous service as enlisted men or as acting pay clerks: *And provided further*, That pay clerks and acting pay clerks shall have the same pay, allowances, and other benefits as are now or may hereafter be allowed other warrant officers and acting warrant officers, respectively.
Chief pay clerks.Rank, etc.That all pay clerks shall, after six years’ service as such, be commissioned chief pay clerks and shall on promotion have the rank, *Provisos.*Credit for previous service.pay, and allowances of chief boatswain: *Provided*, That in computing the six years’ service herein provided for credit shall be given or all service in the Navy as pay clerk, acting pay clerk, and Eligibility for present appointment.paymaster’s clerk: *Provided further*, That paymasters’ clerks now m the Navy and former paymasters’ clerks whose appointments have been revoked within six months next preceding the passage of this Act, who have had not less than six years’ actual service as such, and who are citizens of the United States, may, upon the passage of this Act, be commissioned as chief pay clerks without previous service as enlisted men, acting pay clerks, or pay clerks.
Number authorized.That the total number of chief pay clerks, pay clerks, and acting pay clerks allowed by this Act shall not exceed one for each two hundred 943and fifty enlisted men in the United States Navy now or hereafter allowed by law, and such chief pay clerks, pay clerks, and acting pay clerks shall be assigned to duty with pay officers under such rules as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe: *Provided*, That no person *Provisos*.Examinations required.shall be appointed a chief pay clerk, pay clerk, or acting pay clerk under any provisions contained in this Act until his physical, mental, moral, and professional qualifications have been satisfactorily established by examination before a board of examining officers appointed by the Secretary of the Navy, from officers of the pay corps when practicable and according to such regulations as he may prescribe: *Provided further*, Age limitation.That no person shall be appointed a chief pay clerk, pay clerk, or acting pay clerk unless his accumulated previous service in the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, together with his possible future service prior to attaining the age of sixty-two years, will amount to at least thirty years, except that this proviso shall not apply to such persons as were serving in the Navy as paymasters’ clerks during the period from September first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, to October thirty-first, nineteen hundred and thirteen.
That the limitation as to age contained in section thirteen hundred Assistant pay masters.Appointment of pay clerks as.[R. S., sec. 1379, p. 247](/us/rs/s1379/p247).and seventy-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to appointment of assistant paymasters in the United States Navy, shall not apply to chief pay clerks and pay clerks appointed under the provisions of this Act, who must be between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-five years at the time of appointment as assistant paymasters in the United States Navy: *Provided*, That this shall not be construed *Proviso*.Only age preference given.as giving any preference in said appointment of assistant pay-masters to said chief pay clerks and pay clerks except as to the limitation of age.
That sections thirteen hundred and eighty-six, thirteen hundred and Paymasters’ clerks.[R. S., secs. 1386–1388, p. 248, repealed](/us/rs/s1386–1388/p248).eighty-seven, and thirteen hundred and eighty-eight of the Revised Statutes, and all Acts and parts of Acts, so far as they are in conflict with the provisions of this Act, be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Provisions, Navy: For provisions and commuted rations for the Provisions.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 dishonorable 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 of United States Army Army emergency rations.emergency rations as required; in all, $7,601,014 to be available until the close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.
Maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: For fuel; Maintenance.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 for the use of courts-martial on board ship; purchase, repair, and exchange 944of typewriters for ships; packing boxes and materials; interior fit-tings 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 Equipment supplies, etc.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, Labor.safes, newspapers, and other incidental expenses; labor in general storehouses, paymasters’ offices, and accounting offices in navy yards and naval stations, including naval stations maintained in island possessions under the control of the United States, and expenses in handling stores purchased and manufactured under “General Food inspection.account of advances”; and reimbursement to appropriations of the Department of Agriculture of cost of inspection of meats and meat *Proviso*.Chemical, clerical, etc., services.food products for the Navy Department: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for chemists and for clerical, inspection, and messenger service in the general storehouses, paymasters’ offices, and accounting offices of the navy yards and naval stations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, shall not exceed $643,000; in all, $1,829,400.55.
Freight, Department and bureaus.Freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: All freight and express charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus, except the transportation of coal for the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $625,000. Fuel, etc.Fuel and transportation: Coal and other fuel for steamers’ and ships’ use, including expenses of transportation, storage, and hand-ling 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 *Provisos*.Use for expenses of naval auxiliaries.expense of transportation and storage of both, $4,500,000: *Provided*, That hereafter, when the lowest obtainable cost of transportation of fuel between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States by merchant carriers is considered excessive, the appropriation “ Fuel and transportation” may be charged with the expense of pay, transportation, shipping, and subsistence of civilian officers and crews, and such other incidental expenses as can not be paid from other appropriations, of naval auxiliaries engaged in the transportation of Condition.fuel: *Provided*, That the appropriation “Maintenance of naval auxiliaries” is insufficient therefor.
Bureau of Construction and Repair.bureau of construction and repair. Construction and repair of vessels.Construction and repair of vessels: For preservation and completion of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of mate-rials and stores of all kinds; steam steerers, pneumatic steerers, steam capstans, steam windlasses, and all other auxiliaries; labor in navy yards and on foreign stations; purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops; carrying on work of experimental model tank and wind tunnel; designing naval vessels; construction and repair of yard craft, lighters, and barges; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat; general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; incidental expenses for vessels and navy yards, inspectors’ offices, such as photographing, books, professional magazines, plans, stationery, and instruments for drafting room, and for pay of classified force under the bureau; 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 945fair 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 Equipment supplies.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, $9,106,127: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be applied *Proviso.*Repairs.Wooden ships.to the repair of any wooden ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed ten per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material: *Provided further*, That Other ships.no part of this sum shall be applied to the repair of any other ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed twenty per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material: *Provided further*, That nothing herein contained In foreign waters, etc.shall deprive the Secretary of the Navy of the authority to order repairs of ships damaged in foreign waters or on the high seas, so far as may be necessary to bring them home.
And the Secretary Submarine torpedoof the Navy is hereby authorized to make expenditures from appropriate funds under the various bureaus for repairs and changes on a submarine torpedo boat of the “E” type in a sum not to exceed $100,000: *Provided further*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, Clerical, etc., servicesunder 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 sixteen, shall not exceed $958,100.
Improvement of construction plants: For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements Improving construction plants.Portsmouth, N. H.at plant at navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, $10,000. For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at Boston, Mass.plant at navy yard, Boston, Massachusetts, $10,000. For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at New York, N. Y.plant at navy yard, New York, New York, $20,000. For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at Philadelphia, Pa.plant at navy yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, $15,000.
For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at Norfolk, Va.plant at navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia, $15,000. For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at Charleston, S. C.plant at navy yard, Charleston, South Carolina, $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 at Puget Sound Wash.plant at navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington, $10,000.
Officers of the line of the Navy who have had not less than three Assistant naval constructors.Transfers from ensigns.years’ service in the grade of ensign and have taken or are taking satisfactorily a post-graduate course in naval architecture under orders from the Secretary of the Navy shall be eligible for transfer to the grade of assistant naval constructor: *Provided*, That there shall not be *Proviso*.Number limited.Vol. 32, p. 1197.more than five such transfers in any one calendar year and that the total increase in the number of naval constructors and assistant naval constructors by reason of such transfers shall not exceed twenty-four. 946 Bureau of Steam Engineering.bureau of steam engineering.
Engineering repairs, machinery. etc.Engineering: For repairs, preservation, and renewal of machinery, auxiliary machinery, and boilers of naval vessels, yard craft, and ships’ boats; 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 controlling apparatus used to operate machinery belonging to other bureaus; maintenance of coast signal service, including the purchase of land as necessary Engineering equipment supplies, etc.for sites for radio shore stations; equipage, supplies, and materials under the cognizance of the bureau required for the maintenance and operation of naval vessels, yard craft, and ships’ boats; 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 Radio telegraph work.instruments; instruments and apparatus, supplies, and technical books and periodicals necessary to carry on experimental and research *Provisos*.Clerical, etc., services.work in radiotelegraphy at the naval radio laboratory: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service 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 sixteen, Radio shore stations.shall not exceed $650,000: *Provided further*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for the purchase of land for sites for radio Radio laboratory.shore stations shall not exceed $10,000: *Provided further*, That the total expenditures under this appropriation at the naval radio laboratory shall not exceed $5,000; in all, engineering, $7,742,973.
High power radio stations.Sites, construction, etc.High-power radio stations: Toward the purchase and preparation of necessary sites, purchase and erection of towers and buddings, and the purchase and installation of machinery and apparatus of high-power radio stations (cost not to exceed $1,500,000), to be located as follows: One in the Isthmian Canal Zone, one on the California coast, one in the Hawaiian Islands, one in American Samoa, one on the island of Guam, and one in the Philippine Islands, $400,000, to be available until expended.
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.
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. 947 No part of any sum in this Act appropriated shall be expended in No pay to officers performing duties of civilians.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.
One swordmaster, $1,600; one assistant, $1,200; and two assistants, Instruction, etc.at $1,000 each; two instructors in physical training, at $1,500 each; and one assistant instructor in physical training, at $1,000; and one instructor in gymnastics, $1,200; one assistant librarian, $2,160; one cataloguer, $1,200; and two shelf assistants, at $900 each; one secretary of the Naval Academy, $2,400; two clerks, at $1,500 each; four 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 switchboard operators, at $600 each.
In all, pay of professors and others, Naval Academy, $118,556. 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: One Department 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; three seamen, Department of seamanship.at $420 each; in all, $1,740. Department of marine engineering and naval construction: Department of marine engineering and naval construction.One master machinist, $1,900, 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, at Commissary 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. Current and miscellaneous expenses, Naval Academy: Contingent expenses.Text 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 and entertainments not exceeding $1,000, including pay and expenses of lecturer; chemicals, philosophical apparatus and instruments, stores, machinery, tools, fittings, apparatus, and materials for instruction purposes, $28,000.
Purchase, binding, and repair of books for the library (to be purchased Library.in the open market on the written order of the superintendent), $2 500. Expenses of the Board of Visitors of the Naval Academy, being Board of Visitors.Expenses.actual expenses while engaged upon duties as members of the board not to exceed $5 a day and actual expenses of travel by the shortest mail routes, and for clerk hire, and other incidental and necessary expenses of the board, $500. For contingencies for the superintendent of the academy, to be Superintendent.expended in his discretion, $2,500.
In all, current and miscellaneous expenses, $33,500. 948 Maintenance.Maintenance and repairs, Naval Academy: For general maintenance and repairs at the Naval Academy, namely: For necessary repairs of public buildings, wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, improvements, repairs, and fixtures; for books, periodicals, maps, models, and drawings: purchase and repair of fire engines; fire apparatus and plants; machinery; purchase and maintenance of all horses and vehicles for use at the academy, including Passenger vehicles.the maintenance, operation, and repair of three horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes; seeds and plants; tools and repairs of the same; stationery; furniture for Government buildings and offices at the academy; coal and other fuel; candles, oil, and gas; attendance on light and power plants; cleaning and clearing up station and care of buildings; attendance on fires, lights, fire engines, fire apparatus, and plants, and telephone, telegraph, and clock systems; incidental labor; advertising, water tax, postage, telephones, telegrams, tolls, and ferriage; flags and awnings; packing boxes; fuel for heating and lighting bandsmen’s quarters: pay of inspectors and draftsmen; music, musical and astronomical instruments; and for the pay of employees on leave, $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. 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, *Proviso*.Increased pay for sea duty.Vol. 35, p. 128.five, $980,799.50: *Provided*, That the increased compensation as now fixed by law for the Marine Corps for foreign shore service shall here-after be paid to the officers and enlisted men of that corps while on sea duty, in the same manner and under the same conditions as is provided by the Act approved May thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, for officers of the Navy.
Retired list.For pay of officers prescribed by law, on the retired list: For three major generals, four brigadier generals, six colonels, five lieutenant colonels, ten majors, nineteen captains, twelve first lieutenants, four second lieutenants, and one paymaster’s clerk, and for officers who may be placed thereon during the year, including such increased pay as is now or may hereafter be provided for retired officers regularly assigned to active duty, $189,702.50. 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 *Proviso*.Increase of sergeants and corporals.practice, both afloat and ashore: *Provided*, That the number of gunnery sergeants heretofore authorized is increased by twenty; that the number of sergeants heretofore authorized is increased by twenty; that the number of corporals heretofore authorized is Privates decreased.increased by seventy; and that the number of privates heretofore authorized is decreased by one hundred and ten.
In all, $2,932,764.05. Retired enlisted men.For pay and allowances prescribed by law of enlisted men on the retired list: For six sergeants major, one drum major, twenty-six 949gunnery sergeants, twenty-nine quartermaster sergeants, thirty-six first sergeants, seventy-one sergeants, twenty corporals, twenty first-class musicians, one drummer, one trumpeter, one fifer, and twenty-six privates, and for those who may be retired during the fiscal year, $160,857. Undrawn clothing:
For payment to discharged enlisted men for Undrawn clothing.clothing undrawn, $120,000. Mileage: For mileage to officers traveling under orders without Mileage to officers.troops, $45,000. For commutation of quarters of officers on duty without Commutation of quarters, officers without troops.Civil force.troops where there are no public quarters, $46,000. Pay of civil force: In the office of the major general commandant: One chief clerk, at $2,000; one clerk, at $1,400; one messenger, at $971.28.
In the office of the paymaster: One chief clerk, at $2,000; one clerk, at $1,500; one clerk, at $1,200. In the office of the adjutant and inspector: One chief clerk, at $2,000; one clerk, at $1,500; one clerk, at $1,400; one clerk, 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 herein Disbursement 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, $4,510,834.33. maintenance, quartermaster’s department, marine corps.Quartermaster’s Department. Provisions, Marine Corps: For noncommissioned officers, musicians, Provisions.and privates serving ashore; subsistence and lodging of enlisted men when traveling on duty, or cash in lieu thereof; commutation of rations to enlisted men regularly detailed as clerks and messengers; 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 shall be construed Shore duty rations.to entitle enlisted men on shore duty to any rations or com-mutation therefor other than such as are now or may hereafter be allowed enlisted men in the Army: *Provided, however*, That when it *Provisos*.Navy ration instead of Army.is impracticable or the expense is found greater to supply marines serving on shore duty in the island possessions and on foreign stations with the Army ration, such marines may be allowed the Navy ration or commutation therefor: *Provided*, That hereafter so much Articles for sale to officers, etc.of this appropriation as may be necessary may be applied for the purchase, for sale to officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees, of such articles of subsistence stores as may from time to time be designated and under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy.
Clothing, Marine Corps: For noncommissioned officers, musicians, Clothing.and privates, authorized by law, $620,063. 950 Fuel and light.Fuel, Marine Corps: For heat and light for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers and enlisted men, and other buildings and grounds pertaining to the Marine Corps; fuel, electricity, and oil for cooking, power, and other purposes; and sales to officers, $164,000. Military stores.Pay.Military stores, Marine Corps: Pay of chief armorer, at $4 per diem; one mechanic, at $3 per diem; two mechanics, at $2,50 each per diem; one chief electrician, at $4 per diem, and one assistant electrician, at $3.50 per diem; per diem of enlisted men employed Purchases.on constant labor for periods of not less than ten days; purchase of military equipments, such as rifles, revolvers, cartridge boxes, bayonet scabbards, haversacks, blanket bags, canteens, rifle slings, swords, drums, trumpets, flags, 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 en-listed 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 Ammunition.fees in competitions; procuring, preserving, and handling ammunition and other necessary military supplies; in all, $307,737.
Transportation and recruiting.Transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps: For transportation of troops, and of applicants for enlistment between recruiting stations and recruit depots or posts, including ferriage and transfers 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, quartern, 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 quarter-masters, 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, cart-age, advertising, washing of bed sacks, mattress covers, pillow-cases, towels, and sheets, funeral expenses of officers and enlisted men and retired enlisted men of the Marine Corps, including the transportation of bodies and their arms and wearing apparel from 951the place of demise to the homes of the deceased in the United States; stationery and other paper, printing and binding; telegraphing, rent of telephones; purchase, repair, and exchange of typewriters; apprehension of stragglers and deserters; per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor for periods of not less than ten days; employment of civilian labor; purchase, repair, and installation and maintenance of gas, electric, sewer, and water pipes and fixtures; office and barracks furniture, camp and garrison equipage and implements; mess utensils for enlisted men; packing boxes, wrapping paper, oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, quarantine fees, camphor and carbolized paper, carpenters’ tools, tools for police purposes, safes; purchase, repair, and maintenance of such harness, wagons, motor wagons, carts, drays, motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes, and other vehicles as are required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for official military and garrison purposes; purchase of public horses and mules; services of veterinary surgeons, and medicines for public animals, and the authorized number of officers’ horses; purchase of mounts and horse equipment for all officers below the grade of major required to be mounted; shoeing for public animals and the authorized number of officers’ horses; purchase and repair of hose, fire extinguishers, hand grenades, carts, wheelbarrows, and lawn mowers: purchase, installation, and repair of cooking and heating stoves and furnaces; purchase of towels, soap, combs, and brushes for offices; postage stamps for foreign and registered postage; books, newspapers, and periodicals; improving parade grounds; repair of pumps and wharves; water; straw for bedding, mattresses; mattress covers, pillows, sheets; furniture for Government quarters and repair of same; packing and crating officers’ allowance of baggage on change of station; 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, Marine Disbursement 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, $7,510,834.33. increase of the navy.Increase of the Navy.
That for the purpose of further increasing the Naval Establishment Construction authorized.Two first-class battleships.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. Six torpedo-boat destroyers, to have a speed of not less than thirty Six torpedo-boat destroyers.knots per hour and to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not to exceed $925,000 each. *Provided*, That three of said torpedo-boat destroyers herein authorized *Provisos*.Three to be built on Pacific coast.Cost restriction.shall be built on the Pacific coast: *Provided further*, That the cost of construction on the Pacific coast does not exceed the cost of construction on the Atlantic coast plus the cost of transportation from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Two submarines to be of seagoing type to have a surface speed, of Two seagoing submarines.twenty-five knots or more if possible, but not less than twenty 952Sixteen submarines.knots, to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not exceeding $1,500,000 each, and sixteen submarines to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not exceeding $550,000 each, and the sum of Appropriation.$4,090,000 is hereby appropriated for said purposes to be available until expended. Balances reappropriated.The following sums are hereby reappropriated out of the Vol. 37, pp. 897, 905.unobligated balances of the following appropriations for the Naval Establishment for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen:
“Equipment of vessels,” $625,000; “Steam machinery,” $175,000, and made available for the construction of the submarine torpedo boats herein authorized. Five to be built Pacific coast.*Proviso*.Cost restriction.Five of the submarine torpedo boats herein authorized shall be built on the Pacific coast: *Provided*, That the cost of construction on the Pacific coast does not exceed the cost of construction on the Atlantic coast plus the cost of transportation from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Oil fuel ship.One oil fuel ship, to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not to exceed $1,140,000. Vessels to be built at navy yards, if bidders combine.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 *Proviso*.Designation of navy yard.of any of said vessels: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to build any of the vessels herein authorized in New vessels.such navy yards as he may designate.
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, $20,664,459. Torpedo boats.Increase of the Navy; torpedo boats: On account of submarine torpedo boats heretofore authorized, to be available until expended, $1,341,344. Equipment.Transfer of balances.Increase of the Navy, equipment: The unexpended balance on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, shall be transferred to appropriation “Increase of the Navy, construction and machinery,” and beginning with July first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, equipment outfits shall be charged to appropriation “Increase of the Navy, construction and machinery.
” Armor and armament.Increase of the Navy; armor and armament: Toward the armor and armament for vessels heretofore and herein authorized, to *Proviso*.Committee on armor plant continued.*Ante*, p. 414.be available until expended, $18,957,998: *Provided*, That the committee appointed by the Act of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, (Public, numbered one hundred and twenty-one) is hereby continued to the regular session of Congress convening in December, nineteen hundred and fifteen, for the purpose of making such further investigation and report as may be deemed advisable.
Total increase of the Navy heretofore and herein authorized $45,053,801. Report on warships, aeroplanes, submarines, etc., to be made.The Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed to submit to the next regular session of Congress a report on building four warships of the type, power, and speed which, in his judgment based on the knowledge gamed from the prevailing war in Europe, are best suited for war on the sea; also to report, in the light of that war, the value and uses in naval warfare of aeroplanes, dirigibles, balloons, and submarines.
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, 953or 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: *Provided*, *Proviso.*No pay to officer, etc,, using timing devices on work of employees.That no part of the appropriations made in tliis Act shall be available for the salary or pay of any officer, manager, superintendent, foreman, or other person having charge of the work of any employee of the United States Government while making or causing to be made with a stop watch or other time-measuring device a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such work; nor shall any part of the appropriations made in this Act be Cash rewards, etc., limited.available to pay any premium or bonus or cash reward to any employee in addition to his regular wages, except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the operation of any Government plant.
That no part of any sum herein appropriated shall be expended Purchases from trusts, combinations, etc,, forbidden.for the purchase of structural steel, snip plates, armor, armament, or machinery from any persons, firms, or corporations who have combined or conspired to monopolize the interstate or foreign commerce or trade of the United States, or the commerce or trade between the States and any Territory or the District of Columbia, in any of the articles aforesaid, and no purchase of structural steel, ship plates, or Restriction on price.machinery shall be made at a price in excess of a reasonable profit above the actual cost of manufacture.
But this limitation shall in Not applicable to existing contracts.no case apply to any existing contract. That no part of any sum herein appropriated under “Increase of Appropriations not to be used for clerical, etc., service in Department.the Navy” shall be used for the payment of any clerical, drafting, inspection, or messenger service, or for the pay of any of the other classified force under the various bureaus or the Navy Department, Washington, District of Columbia. That no part of any sum appropriated by this Act shall be used Specific 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.
Approved, March 3, 1915.
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