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Chapter 180.

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CHAP. 180.— AN ACT Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes. March 4, 1917.[[H. R. 20632](/us/bill/64/hr/20632).][[Public, No. 391](/us/pl/64/391).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be, Naval service appropriations.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 eighteen, and for other purposes: pat, 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. Miscellaneous expenses. For commissions and interests; transportation of funds; exchange; mileage to officers while traveling wider 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; mileage to officers of the Naval Reserve Force traveling under orders of the Secretary of the Navy; hire of launches or other small boats in Asiatic waters; 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; expenses of naval defense districts; stationery and recording; religious books; newspapers and periodicals for the naval service; all advertising for the Navy Department and its bureaus (except advertising for recruits for the Bureau of Naviga-1169tion); copying; ferriage; toils; 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 Information from abroad, etc.from abroad and at home, not exceeding SI 00,000, 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 the appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, shall not exceed $215,000, Interned persons, etc.and for necessary expenses for the interned persons and prisoners of war under the jurisdiction of the Navy Department, including funeral expenses for such interned persons or prisoners of war as may die while under such jurisdiction; in all, $1,134,000: *Provided,* That the Norfolk, Va.
Lease of storage facilities.Secretary of the Navy is authorized to lease for a period not to exceed three years storage facilities in the vicinity of the navy yard, Norfolk, at an annual rental of not exceeding $14,000, to be paid out of the appropriation “Pay, miscellaneous.” 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.
For actual expenses incurred by and in connection with the civilian Civilian consulting board.Naval Consulting Board, $25,000. Investigation of fuel oil: For an investigation of fuel oil and Fuel oil and gasoline. Investigation, etc., of.gasoline adapted to naval requirements, including the question of supply and storage and the availability economically and otherwise of such supply as may be afforded by the naval reserves on the public domain, and for such other expenses for transportation and hire of vehicles in connection with naval petroleum reserves as the Secretary of the Navy may deem appropriate; for the purchase of necessary instruments and appliances; for the extension of the naval fuel-oil Testing plant, etc.testing plant at the navy yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the temporary employment of civilian experts and assistants, 360,000.
Aviation: For aviation, to be expended under the direction of the Aviation. General expenses.Secretary of the Navy for procuring, producing, constructing, operating, preserving, storing, and handling aircraft, including rigid dirigibles, and appurtenances, maintenance of air craft stations and experimental work in development of aviation for naval purposes,$5,133,000: *Provided,* That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation *Proviso.* Technical, etc., services.under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for drafting, clerical, inspection, and messenger service for aircraft stations shall not exceed $75,000.
To enable the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy to Securing basic aircraft patents.secure by purchase, condemnation, donation, or otherwise, such basic patent or patents as they may consider necessary to the manufacture and development of aircraft in the United States and its dependencies, for governmental and civil purposes, under such regulations as the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe,31,000,000. “ *Provided,* That such arrangements may be made in relation to the *Provisos.* Arrangements authorized.purchase of any basic patent connected with the manufacture and development of aircraft m the United States as in the judgment of the 1170Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy will be of the greatest advantage to the Government and to the development of the industry.
Indemnity bond for validity of patents. *Provided further,* That in the event there shall be pending in court litigation involving the validity of said patent or patents, bond, with good and approved security in an amount sufficient to indemnify the United States, shall be required, payable to the United States, conditioned to repay to the United States the amount paid for said patent or patents in the event said patent or patents are finally adjudged invalid. Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
Expenses, employees, etc. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics: For scientific research, technical investigations, and special reports in the field of aeronautics, including the necessary laboratory and technical assistants; traveling expense a of members and employees; rent (office in tins District of Columbia not to exceed SI ,500); office supplies, printing, and other miscellaneous expenses; clerks; draftsmen; personal *Proviso.* Clerical, etc., services.services in the field and in the District of Columbia: *Provided,* That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for clerical, drafting, watchmen, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, shall not exceed $12,000; in all, $107,000.
Use of balances.*Ante,* p. 559. The balances under the several items of the appropriation “National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics,” carried in the Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, are hereby consolidated into a single fund and may be expended by the committee for its purposes as Vol. 38, p. 930.stated in the paragraph of Public Act Numbered Two hundred and seventy-one, Sixty-third Congress, approved March third, nineteen hundred and fifteen, establishing the committee.
State marine schools. Reimbursing New York and Massachusetts. Vol. 36, p. 1353. State marine schools: To reimburse the State of New York, $25,000, and the State of Massachusetts, $25,000, for expenses incurred hi the maintenance and support of marine schools in those States in accordance with section two of the Act entitled “An Act for the establishment of marine schools, and for other purposes,” approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven; in all, $50,000. Lepers. Care, etc., Culion, P.
I. Care of lepers, islands of Guam and Culion: Naval station, island of Guam: Maintenance and care of lepers, special patients, and for other purposes, including cost of transfer of lepers from Guam to the island of Culion, in the Philippines, and their maintenance, $20,000. bureau of navigation. Bureau of Navigation. Transportation. Transportation: For travel allowance of enlisted men discharged on account of expiration of enlistment; transportation of enlisted men and apprentice seamen and applicants for enlistment at home and abroad, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation to their homes, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentice seamen discharged on medical survey, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu Naval Reserve Force.thereof; transportation of sick or insane enlisted men and apprentice seamen to hospitals, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation of enrolled men of the Naval Reserve Force to and from duty, 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, $1,060,524.
Recruiting. Recruiting: Expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent of rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; purchase, rental, maintenance, operation, exchange, and repair of motor-propelled 1171passenger-carrying vehicles for official use; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentice seamen; actual and necessary expenses in lieu of mileage to officers on duty with traveling recruiting parties, 8419,228.84. So much of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the Discharges.*Ante,* p. 560.Naval Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen,” and approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, which reads as follows, is hereby repealed: *“Provided,* That any person who may hereafter enlist in the Navy Discharges after one year’s sea service, etc.
Provision repealed.for the first time shall, in time of peace, if he so elects, receive discharge therefrom without cost to himself during the month of June or December, respectively, following the completion of one year’s service at sea. An honorable discharge may be granted under this provision; but when so granted shall not entitle the holder, in case of reenlistment, to the benefits of an honorable discharge granted upon completion of an enlistment: *And provided further,* That, at the time, Conditions.he is not under charges, or undergoing punishment, or in debt to the Government.” *Provided,* That the provisions of this section shall not apply to Not applicable to enlistments under repealed law.
Administration of oaths. Vol. 28, p. 639. Vol. 31, p. 1086, amended.enlistments under the operation of the Act hereby repealed. The Act entitled “An Act authorizing certain officers of the Navy and Marine Corps to administer oaths,” approved January twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, as amended by the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and one, be, and the same is hereby, further amended so as to read as follows: That judges advocate of naval general courts-martial and courts Officers authorized to administer oaths.of inquiry, and all commanders in chief of naval squadrons, commandants of navy yards and stations, officers commanding vessels of the Navy, and recruiting officers of the Navy, and the adjutant and inspector, assistants adjutant and inspector, commanding officers, recruiting officers of the Marine Corps, and such other officers of the Regular Navy and Marine Corps, of the Naval Reserve Force, of the Reserves and Volunteers added.Marine Corps Reserve, and of the National Naval Volunteers as may be hereafter designated by the Secretary of the Navy, be, and they are hereby, authorized to administer oaths for the purposes of the administration of naval justice and for other purposes of naval administration.
That hereafter the Secretary of the Navy may authorize the senior Examining boards at foreign stations, authorized.officer present, or other commanding officer, on a foreign station to order boards of medical examiners, examining boards, and retiring boards for the examination of such candidates for appointment, promotion, and retirement in the Navy and Marine Corps as may be serving in such officer’s command and may be directed to appear before any such board. 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, and of officers and enrolled men of the Naval Reserve Force who die while on duty; books for training apprentice seamen and landsmen; maintenance of gunnery and other training classes, packing boxes and materials; books and models; stationery; and other contingent expenses and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation, unforseen and impossible to classify, $10,000.
Gunnery and engineering exercises: Prizes, trophies, and Gunnery and engineering exercises.badges for excellence in gunnery, target practice, engineering exercises and for economy in coal consumption, to be awarded under such rules as the Secretary of the Navy may formulate; for the purposes of printing, recording, classifying, compiling, and publishing the rules and results; for the establishment and maintenance of shooting gal-1172leries target houses, targets and ranges; for hiring established ranges, and for transporting the civilian assistants and equipment to and from ranges, $205,000.
Outfits on first enlistment, etc. Outfits ox first enlistment: Outfits for all enlisted men and apprentice seamen of the Navy on first enlistment, at not to exceed $60 each; for the clothing gratuity of officers and men of the Naval Reserve Force, $50 each for officers and $30 each for men; in all, $2,385,920. Naval auxiliaries. Maintenance of naval auxiliaries: Pay, transportation, shipping, and subsistence of civilian officers and crews of naval auxiliaries, and all expenses connected with naval auxiliaries employed in emergencies which can not be paid from other appropriations, $1,144,390.
Equipment supplies, instruments, etc. Instruments and supplies: Supplies for seamen’s quarters; and for the purchase of all other articles of equipage at home and abroad; and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith and manufacture of such articles in the several navy yards: all pilotage and towage of ships of war; canal tolls, wharfage, dock and port charges, and other necessary incidental expenses of a similar nature; services and materials in repairing, correcting, adjusting, and testing compasses on shore and on board ship: nautical and astronomical instruments and repairs to same; libraries for ships of war, professional books, schoolbooks, and papers: compasses, compass fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ship’s compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship’s way, and leads and other appliances for sounding; photographs, photographic instruments and materials, printing outfit and materials, $450,000.
Ocean and lake surveys. Ocean and lake surveys: Hydrographic surveys, including the pay of the necessary hydrographic surveyors, cartographic draftsmen and recorders, and for the purchase and printing of nautical 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. Naval Militia.Arming, equipping pay, etc.Vol. 38, p. 286.*Ante,* p. 593.
Arming and equipping Naval Militia: For the pay, subsistence, and transportation of such portion of the Naval Militia and National Naval Volunteers 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 or other instruction, or encampment of any part of the Regular Navy afloat, on shore, or in the Office of Naval Militia Affairs; for prizes, trophies, and badges for excellence in gunnery exercises and target practice of the Naval Militia; 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;
Naval Militia Board.for the actual and necessary traveling expenses, together with a per diem not to exceed $10 to be established by the Secretary of the Navy, of the Naval Militia Board appointed by the Secretary of the Naval Militia Affairs Office.Retainer pay.*Ante,* p. 593.Navy; and for the necessary clerical and office expenses of the Office of Naval Militia Affairs in the Bureau of Navigation, and for retainer pay of officers and enlisted men, and traveling and other necessary expenses of the Naval Militia and National Naval Volunteers, $1,527,617.70.
“Topeka,” altering, etc. For the completion of the alteration, installation of machinery, and repair of the United States ship Topeka, $85,500. Volunteer patrol squadrons.*Ante,* p. 600, amended. That so much of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes,” approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, which reads as follows; Sale of lubricating oil and gasoline at cost to.
“The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to sell at cost and issue lubricating oil and gasoline to vessels of the Volunteer Patrol Squadrons duly enrolled in the several naval districts; and 1173that during maneuvers or practice drills, when any of the vessels of said Patrol Boat Squadrons shall be acting singly or as squadrons under the direct command or control of an officer or officers of the United States Navy, gasoline fuel shall be supplied to them free of Fuel free at maneuvers, etc.charge,” be, and the same is hereby, amended as follows:
The word “gasoline” where it first occurs be, and it is hereby, “Gasoline” stricken out and “fuel” substituted.stricken out and the word “fuel” substituted therefor; that the word “gasoline” where it occurs the second time in said paragraph be, and it is hereby, stricken out. Naval training station, California: Maintenance of naval Training stations. Yerba Buena Island, Cal.training station, Yerba Buena Island, California: 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 livestock, 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; printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating and lighting; stationery, books, schoolbooks, and periodicals; fresh water, and washing; packing boxes and materials; and all other contingent expenses; maintenance of dispensary building; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen; in all, $92,000.
Naval training station, Rhode Island: Maintenance of naval Coasters Harbor Island, R. I.training station, Coasters Harbor Island, Rhode Island: Labor and material; buildings and wharves; dredging channels; extending sea walls; 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 five 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 instinct ion 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,$100,000: *Provided,* That the sum to be paid *Proviso.* Clerical, etc., services.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 eighteen, 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 live 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,* *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, drafting, inspection, and 1174messenger service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, shall not exceed 81,500; in all, naval training station, Great Lakes, 896,400.
Saint Helena, Va. Naval training station. Saint Helena: Maintenance of naval training station; labor and material, general care, repairs, and improvements; schoolbooks; and all other incidental expenses, $30,000, Naval Reserve Force.Expenses.*Ante,* p. 587. Naval Reserve Force: For expenses of organizing, administering, and recruiting the Naval Reserve Force, including clerical and messenger hire, office rent, furniture, sationery, and postage; printing, advertising, and other necessary expenses, $130,000.
Naval Reserve. Vol. 38, p. 940. Continuous-service credit for reenlistments prior to May, 1917. Any former member of class one of the United States Naval Reserve, established by the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and fifteen, “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and for other purposes,” who shall have reenlisted in the Navy prior to May first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall be held and considered to have re enlisted within four months from the date of discharge Enrollment if serving August 29, 1916.from the Navy for the purpose of continuous-service pay.
And any such member of the said Naval Reserve who was serving therein on August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, shall upon his Service credit for Naval Reserve Force.application therefor, any time prior to July first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, be enrolled in the Naval Reserve Force, and any such person so enrolled shall, for all purposes, be considered as having served continuously in such Naval Reserve Force since August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, with due credit for previous and continuous service in the Naval Reserve in the same manner and to the same effect as for equal length of service in the *Proviso.* Pay restrictions.Naval Reserve Force: *Provided,* That no such enrolled person shall receive any back pay or allowances for any period during which he shall have received pay or allowances, or either, for service in any other branch of the naval service, regular or reserve.
Instruction camps etc.Expenses.*Ante,* p. 589. Schools or camps of instruction, Naval Reserve Force: For equipment and maintenance of schools and camps established for the purpose of instructing members of and applicants for membership in the Naval Reserve Force, $30,000. Naval War College, R. I. Naval War College, Rhode Island: For maintenance of the 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, $35,250; 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, *Proviso.* Clerical, etc., services.and repair of books of reference and periodicals, $1,300: *Provided,* That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, inspection, drafting, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, shall not exceed $22,500; in all, Naval War College, Rhode Island, $38,850.
Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pa. Pay of employees Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pay of employees: One Secretary, $1,800; one foreman mechanic, $1,800; one superintendent of grounds, at $900; one steward, at $900; one store laborer, at $540; one matron and office assistant, at $600; one beneficiaries’ attendant, at $360; one chief cook, at $540; one assistant cook, at $420; one assistant cook, at $360; one chief laundress, at $300; five laundresses, at $240 each; one chief scrubber, at $300; three scrubbers, at $240 each; one head waitress, at $360; eight waitresses, at $240 each; one kitchen attendant, at $420; nine laborers, at $420 each; one stable keeper and driver, at $540; one master at arms, at $.720; two house corporals, at $480 each; one barber, at $480;. one carpenter, at $960; one painter, at $960; one painter, at $840; one 1175engineer, $960; four laborers, at $600 each; two laborers, at $660 each; one laborer, at $420; total for employees, $27,840, Maintenance:
Water rent, heating, and lighting; cemetery, burial Maintenance.expenses and headstones; general care and improvements of grounds, buildings, walls, and fences; repairs to power-plant equipment, implements, tools, and furniture, and purchase of the same; music in chapel and entertainments for beneficiaries; stationery, books, and periodicals; transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, and of sick and insane beneficiaries, their attendants and necessary subsistence for both, to and from other Government hospitals; employment of such beneficiaries in and about the Naval Home as may be authorized by the Secretary of the Navy, on the recommendation of the governor: support of beneficiaries, and all other contingent expenses, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of three horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes, $87,805; in all, for Naval Home, $115,645, Payable from Naval pension fund.which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund: *Provided,* That all moneys derived from the sale of material at the Naval Horne, which was originally purchased from moneys appropriated *Proviso.* Return to fund of moneys received, etc.from the income from the naval pension fund, and all moneys derived from the rental of Naval Home property, shall hereafter be turned into the naval pension fund. bureau of ordnance.
Bureau of Ordnance. Ordnance and ordnance stores: For procuring, producing, preserving, Ordnance and ordnance stores.and handling ordnance material; for the armament of slups; 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 Passenger vehicles, etc.and powder factory and for target practice; for the maintenance, repair, or operation of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, 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 in navy yards, naval stations, and naval magazines: *Provided,* That the *Proviso.* Chemical, etc., services.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 eighteen, shall not exceed $750,000; in all, $8,488,333.
Purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, $1,800,000: *Provided,* Smokeless powder.*Provisos.* Price limited.That no part of any money appropriated by this Act shall be expended for the purchase of powder other than small arms powder Purchases subject to full operation of Indianhead plant.at a price in excess of 53 cents a pound: *Provided further,* That in expenditures of this appropriation, or any part thereof, for powder, no powder shall at any time be purchased unless the powder factory at Indianhead, Maryland, shall be operated on a basis of not less than its full maximum capacity.
For Naval Gun Factory, Washington, District of Columbia: Naval Gun Factory, D. C. Machinery, etc.New and improved machinery for existing shops, $307,036; repairs and betterments to present facilities, $395,200; machinery and equipment for new gun shop, $1,798,500; in all, $2,500,736. Projectile plant: To complete the erection and equipment of a Projectile plant. Erection and equipment.plant for the manufacture of projectiles, on a site to be selected by the President, including the employment of all necessary expert, drafting, and clerical assistance, $1,375,345, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, and the limit of cost Cost increased.*Ante,* p. 563.fixed in the Naval Appropriation Act, approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is hereby increased to $2,080,956. 1176 New batteries for ships.
New batteries for ships of the Navy: For liners for eroded guns, to be available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, $100,000; for one twelve-inch, forty-five-caliber gun, to be available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, $60,000; Anti-aircraft, machine, and boat guns.for anti-aircraft guns and mounts complete, to be available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, $629,000; for machine guns and equipment, $1,250,000; for one-pounder boat guns and mounts complete, to be available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, $162,000; in all, $2,201,000.
Batteries for merchant auxiliaries. Batteries for merchant auxiliaries: For batteries for merchant auxiliaries (to cost not exceeding $6,381,174), to be immediately available and to continue available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty, $4,731,174. Ammunition. Ammunition for merchant auxiliaries: For ammunition for merchant auxiliaries, to be immediately available and to continue available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty, $7,731,941. Anti-aircraft guns for stations.
Naval stations: To provide anti-aircraft guns and ammunition at naval stations, $3,800,000. Ammunition for ships. Ammunition for ships of the Navy: For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ammunition for issue to ships, $3,500,000, to be available until expended. Coast Guard cutters, armament, etc. Armament and ammunition for Coast Guard cutters: Toward the armament and ammunition for two Coast Guard cutters, to be available until expended, $159,590. Torpedoes and appliances.
Torpedoes and appliances: For the purchase and manufacture of torpedoes and appliances, to be available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty, $1,049,280. Reserve ordnance supplies. Reserve ordnance supplies: For a reserve of ordnance supplies to be available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, $4,657,460. Torpedo station, Newport, R. I. General expenses. Torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: For labor and material; general care of and repairs to grounds, buildings, and wharves; boats, instruction, instruments, tools, experiments, and general torpedo outfits, $100,000.
Machinery. For new and improved machinery and tools for torpedo factory, $100,000. Submarine base, New London, Conn. Establishing. For the further development of the submarine base at Now London, Connecticut, including the erection and equipment of repair shops, the provision of additional berthing space, and the erection of quarters and barracks for officers and men $1,250,000. Experimental work. Experiments, Bureau of Ordnance: For experimental work in the development of armor-piercing and torpedo shell and other projectiles, fuses, powders, and high explosives, in connection with problems of the attack of armor with direct and inclined fire at various ranges, including the purchase of armor, powder, projectiles and fuses for the above purposes and of all necessary material and labor in connection therewith; and for other experimental work under the cognizance of the Bureau of Ordnance in connection with the development of ordnance material for the Navy, $100,000.
Contingent building fund. Contingent building fund: For minor extensions and improvements of public works under the cognizance of the Bureau of Ordnance, $10,000. Repairs. Repairs, Bureau of Ordnance: For necessary repairs to ordnance buildings, magazines, wharves, machinery, and other items of like character, $30,000. Contingent. Contingent, Bureau of Ordnance: For miscellaneous items, namely, cartage, expenses of light and water at magazines and stations, tolls, ferriage, technical books, and incidental expenses attending inspection of ordnance material, $9,500. 1177 bureau of yards and docks.
Bureau of Yards and Docks. Maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For general maintenance 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 pare 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 yarns; awnings and packing boxes; and for pay of employees on leave, $2,709,000: *Provided,* That the sum to be paid *Proviso.* Clerical, etc., services.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 eighteen, shall not exceed $780,000.
Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For contingent Contingent.expenses and minor extensions and improvements of public works at navy yards and stations, $75,000. public works, bureau of yards and docks. Public works. Navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Crane-track Portsmouth, N. H.extension, $11,000; distributing-system extensions, $18,000; power-plant improvements, $105,000; in all, $134,000. Navy yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Sterilizing and disinfecting Boston, Mass.plant, $9,000; improved drainage and filling arrangements, Dry Dock Numbered Two, $17,500; locomotive and crane shed, $20,000; for improvement of the central power plant, $150,000; for extension of chain shop, $60,000; in all, $256,500.
Navy yard, New York, New York: Dredging, to continue, New York, N. Y.$125,000, to be immediately available; central power-plant improvements, $160,000; remodeling building numbered one hundred and thirty-two for pattern storage, $34,000; storage facilities, $500,000; machine-shop extension, $400,000; in all, $1,219,000. Navy yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dry dock, to continue, Philadelphia, Pa. Dry dock, etc.$1,000,000; central power-plant improvements, $120,000; fifty-ton locomotive crane, $100,000; in all, $1,220,000.
The limit of cost for the purchase of ground adjoining quartermaster’s Marine Corps depot.*Ante,* p. 565.depot, Marine Corps, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the erection of an addition to said depot thereon, is hereby increased not to exceed in all $375,000, and for that purpose $200,000 additional is hereby appropriated. Navy yard, Washington, District of Columbia: Gun shop, to Washington, D. C.complete, $900,000, and the limit of cost is hereby increased to $1,100,000; extending sight shop $40,000; improving lighting facilities, $16,000; improvements, central power plant and distributing systems, $772,000; in all, $1,728,000.
The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized Land transferred to navy yard.and directed to execute such deed or deeds or other instruments as the Attorney General may deem necessary and appropriate to transfer to the Untied States, for use for naval purposes, title to lots thirteen and fourteen in square eight hundred and one, District of Columbia, at a price to be mutually agreed upon between the said 1178 *Proviso.* Immediate control, etc.commissioners and the Secretary of the Navy: *Provided,* That pending the transfer of title the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to assume control and jurisdiction over said lots and to make use of them for naval purposes.
Norfolk, Va. Dry dock, etc. Navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Dry dock, to continue, $1,000,000; one structural shop, to complete, $600,000; water-front improvements, $500,000; improvements central power plant and distributing systems, $300,000; in all, $2,400,000. Naval Academy. Bancroft Hall, etc. Buildings and Grounds, Naval Academy: Extension of Bancroft Hall (to cost not to exceed $2,270,000) $1,000,000; improvements central power plant and distributing systems, $300,000; two freight elevators, Bancroft Hall, $15,000; in all, $1,315,000.
Port Royal, S. C., Marine recruiting station. Marine Recruiting Station, Port Royal, South Carolina: Two bungalows for officers’ quarters, $6,000; station improvements, $20,500; twelve sets of noncommissioned officers’ quarters, including not to exceed $5,000 for the purchase of a strip of land along the south boundary of the station, $23,000; in all, $49,500. Charleston, S. C. Navy yard, Charleston, South Carolina: Dredging to continue, $15,000; new superstructure for Pier Numbered Three hundred and fourteen, $50,000; improvements central power plant and distributing systems, $130,000; addition to dispensary, $12,000; storage facilities, $50,000; in all, $257,000.
Pensacola, Fla., aeronautic station. Navy Aeronautic Station, Pensacola, Florida: Improvements, central power plant, $50,000; water system, $40,000; repair and resurfacing roads, $10,000; quarters for enlisted men, $20,000; two magazines and one building for the storage of torpedoes, $125,000; in all, $245,000. New Orleans, La. Naval station, New Orleans, Louisiana: Extension of wharf, $30,000; floating crane, $30,000; in all, $60,000. Mare Island, Cal. Navy yard, Mare Island, California:
Floating crane, revolving type, to complete, $450,000, and the limit of cost is hereby increased to $750,000; maintenance of dikes and dredging, $50,000; improvements central power plant and distributing system, $105,000; in all, $605,000. Puget Sound, Wash. Navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington: Improvements, central power plant and distributing systems, $150,000; purchase of land and fitting up trial course (Vashon Island), $5,000; improved drainage in dry docks, $12,000; storage facilities, $500,000; in all, $667,000.
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Naval Station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Dry dock, to complete, $936,500; storehouse, $100,000; in all, $1,036,500. Tutuila, Samoa. Naval station, Tutuila, Samoa: Additional water supply, $30,000; enlisted men’s quarters, $10,000; in all, $40,000. Guam. Naval station, Guam: Roads, $10,000; storage facilities, $5,000; purchase of land, $15,000; water supply and power plant improvements, $30,000; in all, $60,000. Guantanamo, Cuba. Naval station, Guantanamo, Cuba:
Dredging and fill (to cost not exceeding $25,000), $9,000; water supply, $25,000; in all, $34,000. Hingham, Mass., naval magazine. Naval magazine, Hingham, Massachusetts: Storehouse, $35,000; two magazines, $70,000; in all, $105,000. Indianhead, Md., proving ground. Naval Proving Ground, Indianhead, Maryland: Improvements to powder factory, $150,000. Fort Mifflin, Pa., naval magazine. Naval magazine, Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania: One magazine building, $35,000; shell house, $35,000; railroad track extension, $11,400; concrete fence, $46,800; one set of quarters for chief gunner, or gunner, $7,000; fire-protection system, extension, $7,500; in all, $142,700.
Iona Island, N. Y., naval magazine. Naval magazine, Iona Island, New York: One mine and projectile house, $38,000; water front improvements, $12,000; in all, $50,000. 1179 Naval magazine, Lake Denmark, New Jersey: Two shell houses, Lake Denmark, N. J., naval magazine. $70,000; one magazine, $30,000; in all, $100,000. Naval torpedo station, Keyport, Washington: Freight wharf, Keyport, Wash., torpedo station.$8,000; one sot of quarters for commissioned officers, $8,000; in all, $16,000.
Naval magazine, Mare Island, California: Ono explosive D Mare Island, Cal., naval magazine.loading House and equipment, $8,000; building for mine storage, $8,000; in all, $16,000. Naval torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: Pilmer filling Newport, R. I., torpedo station.house, $30,000; extension of fire protection system, $8,000; budding for mine storage, Rose Island, $9,000; in all, $47,000. Naval magazine, Saint Juliens Creek, Virginia: Extension of Saint Juliens Creek, Va., naval magazine.small arms ammunition building, $8,000; one mine storage building, including track extension, $9,000; one magazine, $30,000; two shell houses, $70,000; in all, $117,000.
Naval magazine, Charleston, South Carolina: Two buildings Charleston, S. C., naval magazine.for ammunition storage, $70,000; one building, with necessary equipment, for the storage of torpedoes, $50,000; in all, $120,000. Naval magazine, Puget Sound, Washington: Shop for loading Puget Sound, Wash., naval magazine.shells, $7,000; extension of water system, $30,000; one fuse and detonator house, $3,600; one mine storage budding, $9,000; in all, $49,600. Depots for coal and other fuel:
For fuel storage at Guantanamo Fuel depots.Bay, Cuba, $140,000; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, $200,000; Puget Sound, $300,000; San Diego, California, $150,000; Melville, Rhode Island, $140,000; contingent, $60,000; and the custody and care of naval petroleum reserves, $10,000; in all, $1,000,000. Naval Training Station, San Francisco: Three contagious Training station, Cal.wards, $25,000. Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Three contagious Portsmouth, N. H., hospital.wards, $20,000.
Naval Hospital, Great Lakes, Illinois: Three contagious Great Lakes, Ill., naval hospital.wards, $20,000. Marine Guard, American Legation, Peking, China: Barracks Peking, China. Marine barracks.Building, $50,000; laundry, including machinery, $12,000; in all, $62,000. Marine Barracks, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Advance base Philadelphia, Pa., marine barracks.storage, $80,000; additional barracks, $200,000; in all, $280,000. Marine Corps Rifle Range, Winthrop, Maryland: Range Winthrop, Md., rifle range.improvements, $10,000.
Marine Barracks, Norfolk, Virginia: Station improvements, Norfolk, Va., marine barracks.$12,700, to be immediately available; housing for artillery, $4,000; housing for trucks for artillery, $2,500; stable, $3,000; shops and storeroom, $3,500; in all, $25,700. Naval Training Station, Newport, Rhode Island: Improvements to power plant, $33,000. Training station, R.I. Marine Barracks, Mare Island, California: Remodeling old Mare Island, Cal., marine barracks.barracks, $35,000; extension of roads and walks, $20,000; in all, $55,000.
Marine Barracks, San Diego, California: Toward the establishment San Diego, Cal. Marine Corps base.of a Marine Corps base, $600,000. Experimental and research laboratory: To complete experimental Research laboratory.*Proviso.* Regular experiments, etc., not interfered with.and research laboratory, $500,000: *Provided,* That nothing in this or any other Act shall be construed as preventing or interfering with the continuation or undertaking of necessary experimental work during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, as heretofore conducted under other appropriations for the Naval Establishment.
Reimbursement for property damaged, Indianhead, Maryland: Indianhead, Md. Damages reimbursed.To reimburse the owner of the property damaged by the 1180firing of a sixteen-inch shell at the naval proving ground, Indianhead, Maryland, $755.01. Lighting facilities for night work. Lighting facilities, navy yards and stations: Improvements, lighting facilities to facilitate night work, at navy yards and naval stations, $200,000. Repairs and preservation. Repairs and preservation at navy yards and stations:
For repairs and preservation at navy yards, fuel depots, fuel plants, and stations, $1,705,000. Available until expended. Total public works, $16,976,255.01, and the amounts herein appropriated therefor, except for repairs and preservation at navy yards and stations, shall be available until expended. Boston, Mass. Contract authorized for use of dry dock at. The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to enter into contract for the use by the United States Government of a dry dock at Boston, Massachusetts, which shall be capable of docking the largest vessel that can be passed through the locks of the Panama Canal, for a period of not to exceed six years from completion of such dock, at a compensation of $50,000 per annum during said period of six *Provisos.* Immediate construction.years, the right of the United States Government to the use of said dock in time of war to be prior and paramount: *Provided,* That the construction of said dock shall be undertaken immediately upon entering into this contract and shall be completed within thirty months thereafter: *And provided further,* That said contract shall Commercial rates.provide for docking rates not in excess of commercial rates and for such other conditions as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy Provision for extra docking. prior to entering into said contract: *And provided further,* That in the event, during the said contract period of six years, the necessities of the fleet require the docking of vessels which will necessitate a charge greater than $50,000 per annum, the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to have vessels docked therein at a rate of charge not greater than the price stipulated in said contract. bureau of medicine and surgery.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Surgeons’ necessaries. Civil establishment. Medical Department: For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in commission, navy yards, naval stations Marine Corps, and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy yards, naval medical supply depots, Naval Medical School, Washington, and Naval Academy, and toward the accumulation of a reserve supply of medical stores, $1,121,740. Contingent. Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery:
For tolls and ferriages; care, transportation, and burial of the dead: purchase of books and stationery, binding of medical records, unbound books, and pamphlets; hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration; sanitary and hygienic instruction; purchase and repairs of nonpassenger-carrying wagons, automobile ambulances, and harness; purchase of and feed for horses and cows; maintenance, repair, and operation of two passenger-carrying motor vehicles for naval dispensary, Washington, District of Columbia; purchase of one motor-propelled vehicle for official use only for the medical officer on outpatient medical service at the Naval Academy, and of a motor omnibus for the transportation of convalescent patients and attendants at the Naval Hospital at Las Animas, Colorado, to be used only for official purposes; trees, plants, care of grounds 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 tor 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 1181States Naval Medical School and naval medical supply depots; rent of rooms for naval dispensary, Washington, District of Columbia, not to exceed 31,200; for the care, ma in ten a nee, and treatment of the insane of the Navy and Marine Corps on the Pacific coast, including supernumeraries held for transfer to the Government Hospital for the Insane; for dental outfits and dental material, not to exceed Dental outfits, etc.$38,000, and all other necessary contingent expenses; in all, $291,080.
Transportation of remains: To enable the Secretary of the Transporting remains of officers, etc.Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transferred to their homes the remains of officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marino Corps, of members of the Nurse Corps, and of officers and enlisted men of the Naval Militia and National Naval Volunteers and the Naval Reserve Militia, Volunteers, and Reserve Force added.Force when on active service with the Navy, who die or are killed in action ashore or afloat, and also to enable the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of civilian employees who die outside of the continental limits of the United States, $32,658: *Provided,* That the sum herein *Proviso.* Application of fund.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 nineteen. bureau of supplies and accounts.
Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. Pay of the Navy: Pay and allowances prescribed by law of Pay of the Navy. Allotment of amounts. Officers, etc.officers on sea duty and other duty, and officers on waiting orders, $15,333,156.42; officers on the retired list, $2,940,368.72; commutation of quarters for officers on shore not occupying public quartern, including boatswains, gunners, carpenters, sailmakers, machinists, pharmacists, pay clerks, and mates, naval constructors, and assistant naval constructors, $675,679; and also members of Nurse Corps (female), $1,000; for hire of quartern for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them, or commutation of quarters not to exceed the amount which an officer would receive ware he not serving with troops, and hire of quarters for officers and enlisted men on sea duty at such times as they may be deprived of their quarters on board snip due to repairs or other conditions which may render them uninhabitable, $4,000; pay of enlisted men on the retired list, Enlisted men.$492,657.34; extra pay to men reenlisting under honorable discharge, 31,400,000; interest on deposits by men, $12,000; pay of petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and apprentice seamen, including men in the engineers’ force and men detailed for duty with the Fish Commission, sixty-eight thousand seven hundred men; and pay of enlisted men of the Hospital Corps, and for the pay of enlisted men detailed for duty with the Naval Militia, $26,835,914.67; pay of enlisted men undergoing sentence of court-martial, $225,000, and as many machinists as the President may from time to time deem necessary to appoint; and hereafter the pay of warrant officers while on shore duty during the fourth throe years’ service shall be $1,750 per annum; and six Shore pay for warrant officers.
Apprentice seamen, etc.thousand apprentice seamen under training at training stations, and on board training ships, at the pay prescribed by law, $950,400; pay of the Nurse Corps, $141,600; rent or quarters for members of the Nurse Corps, $12,000; retainer pay and active-service pay of members of Retainer pay, etc., Reserve Force. Accounting.the Naval Reserve Force, $2,000,000; in all, $51,023,776.15; 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;
Advances to officers, duty beyond the sea, etc.and hereafter advances of pay not to exceed three months’ pay in 1182any one case may be made to officers ordered to and from sea duty and to and from shore duty beyond the seas, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe. Naval Academy. Additional appointments from enlisted men authorized. Vol. 38, p. 410. Hereafter, in addition to the appointment of midshipmen to the United States Naval Academy, as now prescribed by law, the Secretary of the Navy is allowed one hundred appointments annually, instead of twenty-five as now prescribed by law, to be appointed from the enlisted men of the Navy who are citizens of the United States, and not more than twenty years of age on the date of entrance to the Naval Academy, and who shall have served not less than one *Proviso.* Competitive examinations.year as enlisted men on the date of entrance: *Provided,* That such appointments shall be made in the order of merit from candidates who have, in competition with each other, passed the mental examination now or hereafter required by law for entrance to the Naval Academy, and who passed the physical examination before entrance under existing laws.
Course of instruction reduced for two years. Vol. 37, p. 73. The President, in his discretion, is authorized to reduce the course of instruction at the Naval Academy from four to three years for a period of two years from the date of the approval of this Act, and may during said two years graduate classes which have completed a three-year course. Examinations for promotions applicable to staff officers.*Ante,* p. 578. Hereafter alt laws relating to the examination of officers of the Navy for promotion shall be construed to apply to the regular advancement of staff officers to higher ranks on the active list, the same as though such advancements in rank were promotions to higher *Proviso.* Dental Corps not affected.*Ante,* p. 573.grades: *Provided,* That nothing in this paragraph shall be construed as in any way affecting the original appointment of officers to the Dental Corps as provided in the Act approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, making appropriations for the naval Time allowance for service pay.service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes, and the time served by dental surgeons as acting or acting assistant dental surgeons shall be reckoned in computing the increased service pay and service for promotion of such as are commissioned under said Act.
Punishment for forging, etc., discharge certificates. Whoever shall forge, counterfeit, or falsely alter any certificate of discharge from the military or naval service of the United States, or shall in any manner aid or assist in forging, counterfeiting, or falsely altering any such certificate, or shall use, unlawfully have in his possession, exhibit, or cause to be used or exhibited, any such forged, counterfeited, or falsely altered certificate, knowing the same to be forged, counterfeited, or falsely altered, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both, in the discretion of the court.
Provisions. Provisions, Navy: For provisions and commuted rations for the seamen and marines, which commuted rations may be paid to caterers of messes, in case of death or desertion, upon orders of the commanding officers, commuted rations for officers on sea duty (other than commissioned officers of the lino, Medical and Pay Corps, chaplains, chief boatswains, chief gunners, chief carpenters, chief machinists, chief pay clerks, 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); subsistence of men on detached duty; subsistence of members of the Naval Reserve Force during period of active service; and for subsistence of female nurses and Navy and Marina Corps general courts-martial prisoners undergoing imprisonment with sentences of dishonorable discharge from the service at the 1183expiration of such confinement: *Provided,* That the Secretary of the *Proviso.* Commutation of rations of prisoners.Navy is authorized to commute rations for such general courts martial prisoners in such amounts as seem to him proper, which may vary in accordance with the location of the naval prison, but which shall in no case exceed 30 cents per diem for each ration so commuted; and for the purchase of United States Army emergency rations as Army emergency rations.required; in all, $10,144,943.40, to be available until the close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen.
Clothing and small-stores fund: For purchase of clothing and Clothing and small stores fund.small-stores for issue to the naval service, to be added to the “Clothing and small-stores fund,” $1,500,000. Reserve material, Navy: For procuring apparatus and materials (other than ordnance materials Reserve material for emergency uses.and medical stores), as a war reserve necessary to be carried in the supply derailments for the purpose of fitting out vessels of the fleet and merchant auxiliaries in time of war or when, in the opinion of the President, a national emergency exists, to be immediately available and to continue available until expended, $3,000,000: *Provided,* That, to prevent deterioration such materials *Proviso.* Current use; reimbursement.shall be used as required in time of peace, and when so used reimbursement shall be made to this appropriation from current naval appropriations in order that additional stocks may be procured.
Maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: For fuel: the Maintenance.removal and transportation of ashes and garbage 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 ships; purchase, repair, and exchange of typewriters for ships; packing boxes and materials; interior fittings for general storehouses, pay offices, and accounting offices in navy yards; expenses of disbursing officers; coffee mills and repair’s thereto; expenses of naval clothing factory and machinery for the same; laboratory equipment; purchase of articles of equipage Equipment supplies.at home and abroad under the cognizance of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith, and the manufacture of such articles in the several navy yards; musical instruments and music; mess outfits; soap on board naval vessels; athletic outfits; tolls, ferriages, yeomen’s stores, safes, 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 account of advances”; and reimbursement to appropriations of the Department of Agriculture of cost of inspection of meats and meat food products Food inspection. *Proviso.* Chemical, etc., services.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, storeman, store laborer, and messenger service in the supply and accounting departments of the navy yards and naval stations and disbursing offices for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, shall not exceed $1,650,000; in all, $3,250,000.
Freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: All freight and Freight, Department and bureaus.express charges per taming to the Navy Department and its bureaus, except the transportation of coal for the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $850,000. Fuel and transportation: Coal and other fuel for steamers’ Fuel and transportation.and ships’ use, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same; maintenance and general operation of machinery of naval fuel depots and fuel plants; water for all purposes on board naval vessels; and ice for the Cooling of water, including the expense of transportation and storage of both, $6,500,000. 1184 Civil Engineers.
Rank of original appointments. Officers of the Corps of Civil Engineers hereafter appointed shall, from the date of their original appointment, take rank and precedence with Lieutenants (junior grade). Leonard. G. Hoffman. Appointment as assistant paymaster, authorized. That the President of the United States is authorized, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint Leonard G. Hoffman, secretary to the late Admiral of the Navy, an assistant paymaster in the United States Navy, as an additional number in said grade *Proviso.* Service credit.or to any grade to which he may hereafter be promoted: *Provided,* That the services of the said Leonard G.
Hoffman as secretary to the late Admiral of the Navy shall, for purposes of pay be credited to him as service in the Navy. bureau of construction and repair. Bureau of Construction and Repair. Construction and repair of vessels. Construction and repair of vessels: For preservation and completion of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; steam steerers, pneumatic steerers, steam capstans, steam windlasses, and all other auxiliaries; labor hi 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, Equipment supplies.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 fair and free competition; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, hammocks, and other work; interior appliances and tools for manufacturing purposes in navy yards and naval stations; and for the purchase of all other articles of equipage at home and abroad; and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith and manufacture of such articles in the several navy yards; naval signals and apparatus, other than electric, namely, signals, fights, 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 *Provisos.* Repairs.Wooden ships.board naval vessels, $12,850,000: *Provided,* That no part of this sum shall lie applied to the repair of any wooden ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed ten per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material:
Other ships.*Provided further,* That no part of this sum shall be applied to the repair of any other ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed twenty In foreign waters, etc.per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material: *Provided further,* That nothing herein contained shall deprive the 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: *Provided further,* Clerical, etc., services.That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, drafting, inspection, watchmen (ship keepers), and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and officers of superintending naval Constructors for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, shall not exceed $1,650,000. 1185 Improvement of construction plants:
For repairs and improvements of machinery and implements at construction plants at navy yards at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, $10,000; Boston, Massachusetts, $25,000; New York, New York, $35,000; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, $25,000; Norfolk, Virginia, $35,000; Charleston, South Carolina, $10,000; Mare Island, California, $35,000; Puget Sound, Washington, $25,000; in all, $200,000. Construction of Coast Guard cutters: The limit of cost of two Coast Guard cutters.Limit of cost increased.*Ante,* p. 601, amended.Pacific and Alaskan waters.steam Coast Guard cutters for service on the Pacific coast and in Alaskan waters, authorized by the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes,” approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to be, and hereby is, increased from $700,000 to $900,000.
The limit of cost of one steam Coast Guard cutter for service as New York Harbor anchorage patrol.anchorage patrol boat in New York Harbor, authorized by the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes,” approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to be, and hereby is, increased from $125,000 to $185,000. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed Three additional cutters, for designated service.to construct and equip one Coast Guard cutter for duty on the Atlantic coast, with headquarters at Beaufort, North Carolina; one Coast Guard cutter for service on the Great Lakes, with headquarters at Detroit, Michigan, to replace the old cutter Morrill; and one Coast Guard cutter for service on the Pacific Ocean, with headquarters at Honolulu, Hawaii, to replace the condemned cutter Thetis, at a limit Cost limit.of cost not to exceed, for the three cutters, a total of $1,350,000.
On account of Coast Guard cutters herein authorized, to be available until expended, $675,000. bureau of steam engineering. Bureau of Steam Engineering. Engineering: For repairs, preservation, and renewal of machinery, auxiliary machinery, Engineering repairs, machinery, etc.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 and operation of coast signal service, including expenses of office of Director of Naval Director of Naval Communications.
Equipment supplies.Communications and the purchase of land as necessary 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, including $50,000 for the purchase and installation of tools in the electrical shop at the navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire;
Electrical shop, Portsmouth.pay of classified force under the bureau; incidental expenses for naval vessels, navy yards and stations, inspectors’ offices, the engineering experiment station, such as photographing, technical books, and periodicals, stationery, and instruments; instruments and Radiotelegraphic work.apparatus, supplies, and technical books and periodicals necessary to carry on experimental and research work in radiotelegraphy at the naval radio laboratory: *Provided,* That the sum to be paid out of this 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, 1186 Radio shore station sites.nineteen hundred and eighteen, shall not exceed $1,035,000: *Provided further,* That the sura to be paid out of this appropriation for the purchase of land for sites for radio shore stations shall not exceed Radio laboratory. $10,000: *Provided further,* That the total expenditures under this appropriation at the naval radio laboratory shall not exceed $5,000:
Vehicle, etc., Philippine Islands high-power station. *Provided further,* That an expenditure under this appropriation of not exceeding $350 for the purchase and maintenance of a native pony and a two-wheeled rig for the use of the commanding officer of the high-power radio station, Sangley Point, Philippine Islands, is hereby authorized; in all, engineering, $12,270,000. Porto Rico. High-power radio station. High-power radio stations: For the establishment of a high power radio station on the island of Porto Rico, $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, $85,000. 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.
Machinery plants. Machinery plants: For repairs and improvements of machinery plants at navy yards at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, $20,000; Boston, Massachusetts, $25,000; New York, New York, $30,000; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, $25,000; Norfolk, Virginia, $25,000; Charleston, South Carolina, $20,000; Mare Island, California, $25,000; and Puget Sound, Washington, $20,000; in all, $190,000. naval academy. Naval Academy. Pay of professors, etc. Pay of professors and others, Naval Academy:
Pay of professors and instructors, including one professor as librarian, $175,000. No pay to officer performing duty of civilian. No part of any sum in this Act appropriated shall be expended in the pay or allowances of any commissioned officer of the Navy detailed for duty as an instructor at the United States Naval Academy to perform duties which were performed by civilian instructors on January first, nineteen hundred and thirteen. Instructors, etc. One swordmaster, $1,600; one assistant, $1,400; and one assistant, $1,200; one headmaster in physical training, $1,700; one instructor in physical training, $ 1,700; and two instructors in physical training, at $1,400 each; three instructors in physical training, at $1,200 each; one assistant librarian, $2,400; one cataloguer, $1,500; and one shelf assistant, $1,100, one shelf assistant, $900; one secretary of the Naval Academy, $2,400; two clerks, at $1,700 each; four clerks, at $1,400 each; four clerks, at $1,100 each; four clerks, at $1,000 each; seven clerks, at $1,000 each; one clerk, $900; six clerks, at $840 each; one draftsman, $1,400; one surveyor, $1,400; services of organist at chapel, $300; one captain of the watch, $1,100; one second captain of the watch, $1,000: twenty-two watchmen, at $900 each; three telephone switchboard operators, at $600 each; one mail messenger, $1,000.
In all, pay of professors and others, Naval Academy, $255,440. Department of ordnance and gunnery. Department of ordnance and gunnery: One leading ordnanceman, $1,100; one electrician, $1,248; one ordnanceman, $950; one ordnanceman, $840; one ordnanceman, $720; two ordnance helpers, at $600 each; in all, $6,058. Departments of electrical engineering and physics. Departments of electrical engineering and physics: Three electrical machinists, at $1,180 each; two mechanics, at $1,180 each; one laboratorian, $1,000; in all, $6,900. 1187 Department of seamanship:
Two coxswains, at $480 each; three seamen, at $420 each; in all, $2,220. Department of seamanship. Department of marine engineering and naval construction: Department of marine engineering and naval construction.One master machinist, $1,900, and one assistant, $1,400; one pattern maker, $1,400; one boiler maker, one blacksmith, three machinists, one molder, and one coppersmith, at $1,280 each; one pattern maker and one blacksmith at $1,080 each; one instructor in mechanical drawing, $2,000; machinists and other employees, $9,515.20; in all, $27,335.20.
Commissary department: One chief cook, $1,200; one cook, $900, Commissary department.nine cooks, at $600 each, and twelve assistants, at $360 each; one steward, $1,200, and two assistants, $1,080 each; one head waiter, $840, one assistant head waiter, $720, and three assistants, at $600 each; one pantryman, $520, four pantrymen, at $420 each; one chief baker, at $1,200; five bakers, $600 each; two assistants, at $540 each, and three assistants, $480; one head butcher, at $900; two assistant butchers, at $720 each, and one butcher’s helper, at $480; four baker helpers, at $300 each ; sixty-five waiters, at $20 per month each, and sixty-five waiters, at $16 per month each, $28,080; two coffeemen, at $540 each, four coffeemen, at $300 each; four dish pantrymen, at $300 each; one fireman, $600, four firemen, at $300 each; four utility men, at $300 each; one lineman, $540, two linemen, at $300 each; two seamstresses, at $420 each; four clerks, at $360 each; one driver, $600; scullions and other unskilled labor (wages in no case to exceed $40 per month), $1,380; in all, $71,440.
Department of buildings and grounds: One messenger to Department of buildings and grounds.superintendent, $600; forty-five building attendants, at $400 each, $18,000; in all, $18,600. In all, civil establishment, $387,993.20. Current and miscellaneous expenses, Naval Academy: Text Contingent expenses.and reference books for use of instructors; stationery, blank books and forms, models, maps, and periodicals: apparatus and materials for instruction in physical training and athletics ; expenses of lectures 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, $43,500.
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. For expenses of the Board of Visitors to the Naval Academy, $3,000. Board of Visitors. For contingencies for the superintendent of the academy, to be expended in his discretion, $3,000. Superintendent. In all, current and miscellaneous expenses, $52,000. Maintenance and repairs, Naval Academy: For general maintenance Maintenance and repairs.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 Vehicles.of all horses and vehicles for use at the academy, including 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; 1188pay of inspectors and draftsmen; music, musical and astronomical instruments; and for the pay of employees on leave, $465,120: *Provided,* *Proviso.* Temporary quarters for midshipmen.That $75,000 of this appropriation, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is made immediately available for altering, furnishing, lighting, and equipping the marine barracks at Annapolis, Maryland, as temporary quarters for housing and messing midshipmen.
Rent. Rent of buildings for the use of the academy, and commutation of rent for bandsmen, at $8 per month each, $3,936. In all, maintenance and repairs, $469,056. In all, Naval Academy, exclusive of public works, $909,049.20. marine coups. Marine Corps. Pay. Officers, active list. Pat, Marine Corps: Pay of officers, active and reserve list: For pay and allowances prescribed by law for all officers on the active and reserve list, including clerks for assistant paymasters, nine, $1,690,666.
Officers, retired list. For pay of officers prescribed by law, on the retired list: For two major generals, four brigadier generals, six colonels, five lieutenant colonels, eleven majors, nineteen captains, thirteen first lieutenants, two 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, $198,307.50.
Enlisted men, active list. Pay of enlisted men, active and reserve list: Pay and allowances of noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, as prescribed by law, and for the expenses of clerks of the United States Marine Corps traveling under orders, and including additional compensation for enlisted men of the Marine Corps regularly detailed as gun captains, gun pointers, mess sergeants, cooks, messmen, signalmen, or holding good-conduct medals, pins, or bars, including interest on deposits by enlisted men, post-exchange debts of deserters, under such rules as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, and the authorized travel allowance of discharged enlisted men and for prizes for excellence in gunnery exercise and target practice and for pay of enlisted men designated as Navy mail clerks and assistant Navy mail clerks, *Provisos.* Mail clerks with expeditionary forces on shore.Vol. 37, p. 560.both afloat and ashore: *Provided,* That the provisons of the Act of May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight (Thirty-fifth Statutes, pages four hundred and seventeen and four hundred and eighteen), as amended by the Act of August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve (Thirty-seventh Statutes, page five hundred and sixty), are hereby extended to authorize the designation of enlisted men of the Navy or Marine Corps as Navy mail clerks and Gunners and quartermaster clerks.
Increased pay, foreign shore service.assistant Navy mail clerks with expeditionary forces on shore: *Provided further,* That marine gunners and quartermaster clerks of the Marine Corps assigned to foreign shore service shall hereafter be entitled to the same increased compensation and under the same conditions as is now or hereafter allowed by law to commissioned officers of the Enlisted men, retired list.Marine Corps. In all, $4,800,532. For pay and allowances prescribed by law of enlisted men on the retired list:
For nine sergeants major, one drum major, twenty- three gunnery sergeants, thirty-seven quartermaster sergeants, forty-three first sergeants, sixty-six sergeants, twenty-one corporals, twenty first-class musicians, one drummer, and twenty-four privates , and for those who may be retired during the fiscal year, $175,986. Undrawn clothing. Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged enlisted men for clothing undrawn, $100,000. Mileage. Mileage: For mileage to officers traveling under orders without troops, $58,000.
Commutation of quarters. For commutation of quarters of officers on duty without troops where there are no public quarters, $75,000. 1189 Pay of civil force: In the office of the major general commandant: Civil force.One chief clerk, at $2,000; one clerk, at $1,800; 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 $1,800; one clerk, at $1,500; one clerk, at $1,400; one clerk, at $1,200.
In the office of the quartermaster: Ono chief clerk, at $2,000; one clerk, at $1,800; one clerk, at $1,500; two clerks, at $1,400 each; two clerks, at $1,200 each; one draftsman, at $2,000. 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 all, for pay of civil force, $34,511.28, and the money herein 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 due fund.
In all, pay, Marine Corps, $7,132,802,78. 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, recruiting parties, and enlisted men where it is impracticable to otherwise furnish subsistence, or in lieu of board, commutation of rations to 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, $1,676,000.
Hereafter no Shore duty rations.law shall be construed to entitle enlisted men on shore duty to any rations or commutation therefor other than such as are now or may hereafter be allowed enlisted men in the Army: *Provided,* That when *Proviso.* Navy ration instead of Army.it is impracticable or the expense is found greater to supply marines serving on shore duty in the island possessions and on foreign stations with the Army ration, such marines may be allowed the Navy ration or commutation therefor.
Clothing, Marine Corps: For noncommissioned officers, musicians, Clothing.*Proviso.* Exchanges allowed.and privates, authorized by law, $1,580,000: *Provided,* That hereafter worn-out sewing machines, machinery, rubber tires, and band instruments may be exchanged in part payment for the purchase of like articles. Fuel, Marine Corps: For heat, light, and commutation thereof Fuel, light, etc.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, $260,000.
Military stores, Marine Corps: Pay of chief armorer, at $4 per Military stores. Pay.diem; one mechanic, at $3 per diem; two mechanics, at $2.50 each per diem; one chief electrician, at $4 per diem, and one assistant electrician, at $3.50 per diem; per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor for periods of not less than ten days; purchase of Equipments, etc.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 1190cots, field ovens, and stoves for tents; purchase and repair of instruments for hands; purchase of music and musical accessories; purchase and marking of prizes for excellence in gunnery and rifle practice; good-conduct badges; medals awarded to officers and enlisted men by the Government for conspicuous, gallant, and special service; incidental expenses of schools of application; construction, equipment, and maintenance of school, library, and amusement rooms and gymnasiums for enlisted men, and the purchase and repair of all articles of field sports for enlisted men; purchase and repair of signal equipment and stores; establishment and maintenance of targets and ranges, renting ranges, construction of buildings for temporary shelter Ammunition.and preservation of stores, and entrance fees in competitions; procuring, preserving, and handling ammunition and other necessary military supplies; in all, $852,000.
Instruction camps.Maintenance.*Ante,* p. 614. Camps of instruction: For the establishment and maintenance of camps of instruction as authorized in the naval approprition Act, approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $31,000. 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, *Proviso.* Advertising.$500,000: *Provided,* That authority is hereby granted to employ the services of advertising agencies in advertising for recruits under such terms and conditions as are most advantageous to the Government.
Repairs of barracks, etc. Repairs of barracks, Marine Corps: Repairs and improvements to barracks, quarters, and other public buildings at posts and stations ; for the renting, leasing, improvement, and erection of buildings in the District of Columbia, and at such other places as the public exigencies require; and for per diem to enlisted men employed under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department on the repair of barracks, quarters, and other public buildings on constant labor for periods of not less than ten days, $220,000.
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, $68,000. Commutation of quarters. Commutation of quarters, Marine Corps: Commutation of quartern for enlisted men on recruiting duty, for officers and enlisted men serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quartern possessed by the United States to accommodate them; commutation of quarters for enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in the offices of the commandant, adjutant and inspector, paymaster, and quartermaster, and the offices of the assistant adjutant and inspectors, assistant paymasters, assistant quartermasters, at $21 each per month, and for enlisted men employed as messengers in said offices, at $10 each per month, $167,000.
Contingent. Contingent, Marine Corps: For freight, expressage, tolls, cartage, advertising, washing of bed sacks, mattress covers, pillowcases, towels, and sheets, funeral expenses of officers and enlisted men and retired enlisted men of the Marine Corps, including the transportation of bodies and their arms and wearing apparel from the place of demise to the homes of the deceased in the United States; stationery and other paper, printing and binding; telegraphing, rent of telephones; purchase, repair, and exchange of typewriters; apprehension of stragglers and deserters ; per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor for periods of not less than ten days; employment of civilian labor; purchase, repair, and installation and maintenance of gas, electric, sewer, and water pipes and fixtures; office and bar-1191racks 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, hire, repair, and maintenance of such harness, wagons, motor wagons, armored automobiles, 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, $846,385: *Provided,* *Proviso.* Leaves of absence with pay to detailed enlisted men.That hereafter no part of the pay and allowances authorized for enlisted men detailed as clerks and messengers in the office of the Major General Commandant and the several staff offices shall be forfeited when granted furlough for not exceeding thirty days in each calendar year.
In all, for the maintenance of Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, $6,200,385; 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. For the authorized expenses of the Marine Corps Reserve, $25,000. Marine Corps Reserve. Disbursing and accounting.
Total Marine Corps, including Marine Corps Reserve, exclusive of public works, $13,358,187.78. increase of the navy. Increase of the Navy. Of the vessels authorized in the “Act making appropriations for Additional early construction directed of specified vessels.*Ante,* p. 616.the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes,” approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, the construction of the Cost increased.following vessels shall be begun as soon as practicable at a cost exclusive of armor and armament not to exceed the following amounts:
Three battleships, $15,500,000 each; one battle cruiser, $19,000,000; three scout cruisers, $6,000,000 each; fifteen destroyers, $1,300,000 each; one destroyer tender, $2,300,000; one submarine tender, $1,900,000; eighteen coast submarines to have a surface displacement of about Previously authorized vessels.eight hundred tons each, $1,300,000 each, and the limits of cost for the four battle cruisers and for three scout cruisers authorized and appropriated for in said Act but not yet contracted for, are increased to not to exceed $19,000,000 each for the battle cruisers and $6,000,000 each for the scout cruisers, exclusive of armor and armament, and the construction of said vessels shall be begun as soon as practicable.
Construction and machinery: On account of hulls and outfits New vessels. Construction and machinery.and machinery of three battleships, one battle cruiser, three scout 1192cruisers, fifteen destroyers, one submarine tender, one destroyer tender, and other vessels heretofore authorized, to be available until expended, $93,123,000, Torpedo boats. Increase of the Navy, torpedo boats: On account of submarine torpedo boats heretofore authorized $16,816,110, and on account of the eighteen additional coast submarine torpedo boats herein appropriated for $6,115,170; in all, submarine torpedo boats, $22,931,280, to be available until expended.
Armor and armament. Increase of the Navy, armor and armament: Toward the armor and armament for vessels heretofore authorized and the additional vessels herein appropriated for, to be available until expended, $44,180,000. Ammunition. Increase of the Navy, ammunition: Toward the ammunition for the vessels heretofore authorized and for the additional vessels herein appropriated for, to be available until expended, $14,528,043. Emergency suspension of eight-hour law on Government contracts.
Total increase of the Navy heretofore authorized and herein appropriated for, $174,762,323. That in case of national emergency the President is authorized to suspend provisions of law prohibiting more than eight hours labor in any one day of persons engaged upon work covered by contracts *Proviso.* Overtime wages.with the United States: *Provided further,* That the wages of persons employed upon such contracts shall be computed on a basic day rate of eight hours work, with overtime rates to be paid for at not less than time and one-half for all hours work in excess of eight hours. naval emergency fund.
Naval emergency fund. Amount made immediately available for specified objects. To enable the President to secure the more economical and expeditious delivery of materials, equipment, and munitions and secure the more expeditious construction of ships authorized and for the purchase or construction of such additional torpedo boat destroyers, submarine chasers and such other naval small craft, including aircraft, guns and ammunition for all of said vessels and aircraft and for each and every purpose connected therewith, as the President may direct, to be expended at the direction and in the discretion of the President, $115,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and to be immediately available.
Additional submarines to be immediately built. In addition to the eighteen submarines hereinbefore appropriated for, the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized and directed to proceed at once to cause to be constructed twenty coast submarines to have a surface displacement of about eight hundred tons each at a cost not to exceed $1,300,000 each, exclusive of armor and armament, on the most approved fines according to plans and specifications Contracts, etc.to be provided or adopted by the Secretary of the Navy.
The same may be let by contract to private builders or constructed by the Government in navy yards, or both, as may be directed by the Pacific coast construction. *Proviso.* Cost condition.Secretary of the Navy. Said twenty submarines shall be constructed 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. Appropriation.Eighteen million dollars is hereby appropriated toward the construction of said submarines.
Emergency ship construction. Meaning of terms used.
(a)That the word “person” as used in paragraphs (b), (c), next hereafter shall include any individual, trustee, firm, association, company, or corporation. The word “ship” shall include any boat, vessel, submarine, or any form of aircraft, and the parts thereof. The words “war material” shall include arms, armament, ammunition, stores, supplies, and equipment for ships and airplanes, and everything required for or in connection with the production thereof. The word “factory” shall include any factory, workshop, engine works, building used for manufacture, assembling, construction, or 1193any process, and any shipyard or dockyard. The words “United States” shall include the Canal Zone and all territory and waters, continental and insular, subject to the jurisduction of the United States.
(b)That in time of war, or of national emergency arising prior Additional authority vested in President prior to March 1, 1918.to March first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, to be determined by the President by proclamation, the President is hereby authorized and empowered, in addition to all other existing provisions of law: First. Within the limits of the amounts appropriated therefor, May order ships or war material from any person.to place an order with any person for such ships or war material as the necessities of the Government, to be determined by the President, may require and which are of the nature, kind, and quantity usually produced or capable of being produced by such person. Compliance Compliance obligatory, etc.with all such orders shall be obligatory on any person to whom such order is given, and such order shall take precedence over all other orders and contracts theretofore placed with such person. If any Possession of factory, etc., if order refused, etc.person owning, leasing, or operating any factory equipped for the building or production of ships or war material for the Navy shall refuse or fail to give to the United States such preference in the execution of such an order, or shall refuse to build, supply, furnish, or manufacture the kind, quantity, or quality of ships or war material so ordered at such reasonable price as shall be determined by the President, the President may take immediate possession of any factory of such person, or of any part thereof without taking possession of the entire factory, and may use the same at such times and in such manner as he may consider necessary or expedient. Second. Within the limit of the amounts appropriated therefor, Cancel, etc., existing contracts, take possession of factory, etc.to modify or cancel any existing contract for the Building, production, or purchase of ships or war material; and if any contractor shall refuse or fail to comply with the contract as so modified the President may take immediate possession of any factory of such contractor, or any part thereof without taking possession of the entire factory, and may use the same at such times and in such manner as he may consider necessary or expedient. Third. To require the owner or occupier of any factory in which Require whole output of any factory, etc.ships or war material are built or produced to place at the disposal of the United States the whole or any part of the output of such factory, and, within the limit of the amounts appropriated therefor, to deliver such output or parts thereof in such quantities and at such times as may be specified in the order at such reasonable price as shall be determined by the President. Fourth. To requisition and take over for use or operation by the Take over any factory for Government, use.Government any factory, or any part thereof without taking possession of the entire factory, whether the United States has or has not any contract or agreement with the owner or occupier of such factory. That all authority granted to the President in this paragraph, to be Authority to cease March 1, 1918. exercised in time of national emergency, shall cease on March first, nineteen hundred and eighteen.
(d)That whenever the United States shall cancel or modify any Compensation for canceled contracts, etc.contract, make use of, assume, occupy, requisition, or take over any factory or part thereof, or any ships or war material, in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (b), it shall make just compensation therefor, to he determined by the President, and if the amount Part payment if unsatisfactory, and suit for remainder.thereof so determined by the President is unsatisfactory to the person entitled to receive the same, such person shall be paid fifty per centum of the amount so determined by the President and shall be entitled to sue tho United States to recover such further sum as added to said fifty per centum shall make up such amount as will be just compensation therefor, in the manner provided for by section twenty-four, Vol. 36, pp. 1093, 1136.paragraph twenty, and section one hundred and forty-five of the Judicial Code. 1194 Vessels to be built at navy yards if bidders combine. The Secretary of the Navy shall build any of the vessels herein appropriated for 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 *Proviso.* Designation of navy yards.construction of any of said vessels: *Provided,* That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to build any of the vessels herein authorized in such navy yards as he may designate. Equipment of navy yards for construction, if speedy contracts not obtainable. In the event the Secretary of the Navy is unable to secure from the private shipbuilders contracts for the expeditious construction of the ships heretofore authorized at a fair and reasonable price, the sum of $12,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to enable the Secretary of the Navy to equip the navy yards with suitable and necessary machinery, implements, building ways, and equipment for the construction of such of said vessels as may be assigned to navy yards for construction. Contract for battle cruiser at cost plus reasonable profit. If, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy, the most rapid and economical construction of the battle cruiser herein appropriated for can be obtained thereby, he may contract for the construction of said battle cruiser upon the basis of actual cost, plus a reasonable profit to be determined by him. Criminal Code amendment. Vol. 35, p. 1097, amended. That section forty-four of the Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States,” approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: Trespassing upon, injuring, etc., military works, unlawful. "“Sec. 44. Whoever shall willfully trespass upon, injure, or destroy any of the works or property or material of any submarine mine or torpedo or fortification or harbor-defense system owned or constructed or in process of construction by the United States, or shall willfully interfere with the operation or use of any such submarine mine, torpedo, fortification, or harbor-defense system, or shall knowingly, Violating regulations within established defensive sea areas.willfully, or wantonly violate any duly authorized and promulgated order or regulation of the President governing persons or vessels within the limits of defensive sea areas, which defensive sea areas are hereby authorized to be established by order of the President from time to time as may be necessary in his discretion for purposes of Punishment for.national defense, shall be punished on conviction thereof in a district or circuit court of appeals of the United States for the district or circuit in which the offense is committed, or into which the offender is first brought, by a fine of not more than $5,000, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding five yearn, or by both, in the discretion of the court.”" Restriction in purchases, etc., which can be supplied by government plants. Of each of the sums appropriated by this Act, except such amounts as may be required to meet obligations authorized in previous Acts and for which contracts have been made, no part shall be used to procure through purchase or contract any vessels, armament, articles, or materials which the navy yards, gun factories, or other industrial plants operated by the Navy Department are equipped to supply, unless such Government plants are operated approximately at their full capacity for not less than one regular shift each working day, except when contract costs are less than costs in said Government plants, and except when said Government plants are unable to complete the work within the time required, and except in cases of emergency: *Proviso.* No pay to officer, etc., using time-measuring device on work of employee.*Provided,* That no part of the appropriations made in this 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 com-1195plotion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such work; nor shall any part of the appropriations made Cash rewards, etc., limited.in this Act be 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 for Purchases from trust combinations, etc., forbidden.the purchase of structural steel, ship plates, armor, armament, or machinery from any persons, firms, or corporations who are parties to any existing combination or conspiracy 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 Restriction on price.structural steel, ship plates, or machinery shall be made at a price in excess of a reasonable profit above the actual cost of manufacture. Present contracts not affected.But this limitation shall in no case apply to any existing contract. That no part of any sum herein appropriated under “Increase Appropriations not to be used for clerical, etc., services in Department.of the Navy” shall be used for the payment of any clerical, drafting, inspection, or messenger service, or for the pay of any of the other classified force under the various bureaus of the Navy Department, Washington, District of Columbia. That no part of any sum appropriated by this Act shall be used for Specific authority for use in Department.any expense of the Navy Department at Washington, District of Columbia, unless specific authority is given by law for such expenditure. That during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen all Increase in pay to civilian employees receiving not more than $1,800 a year.civilian employees in the Naval Establishment, including on the lumpsum rolls only those persons who are carried thereon at the close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall receive increased compensation at the rate of ten per centum per annum to such employees who receive salaries or wages in such establishment at the rate per annum of less than $1,200, and increased compensation at the rate of five per centum per annum to such employees who receive salaries or wages in such establishment at a rate of not more than $1,800 per annum: *And provided,* That so much as *Provisos.* Appropriation.may be necessary for such purpose is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: *Provided further,* Specific increases included.That in computing said ten per centum and five per centum increases of salaries, the specific increases of salaries made in this Act shall be included as a part of such increase. All appropriations contained in this Act are hereby made immediately Appropriations immediately available, not to be used for deficiencies.available, but no appropriation in this Act shall be used for payment of deficiencies. Approved, March 4, 1917.
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