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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 39 STAT. · August 29, 1916 · Chapter 417

Chapter 417. Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 417.— An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes. August 29, 1916[[H. R. 15947](/us/bill/64/hr/15947)][[Public, No. 241](/us/pl/64/241)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Naval service appropriations. That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the naval service of 557the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes: pay, miscellaneous.Pay, miscellaneous.
The Secretary of the Navy shall send to Congress at the beginningSchedule of all pay and allowances to be sent to Congress. 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. For commissions and interests; transportation of funds; exchange;Miscellaneous expenses. mileage to officers while traveling under orders in the United States, and for actual personal expenses of officers while traveling abroad under orders, and for traveling expenses of civilian employees, and for actual and necessary traveling expenses of midshipmen while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment as midshipmen; for actual traveling expenses of female nurses; actual expenses of officers while on shore patrol duty; 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 Navigation); copying; ferriage; tolls; costs of suits; commissions, warrants, diplomas, and discharges; relief of vessels in distress; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; reports; professional investigation; cost of special instruction at home and abroad, including maintenance of students and attaches; information from abroad andInformation from abroad, etc. at home, not exceeding $50,000, 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*Provisos*.Allowance for clerical, etc., services at yards, etc. out of the appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and purchasing pay offices for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall not exceed $190,000, and for necessary expenses for the interned persons andInterned persons, etc. 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, $915,000: *Provided*, That hereafter expenditures from the appropriation for obtainingAccounting without vouchers for information from abroad. information from abroad and at home shall be accounted for specifically, if, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy, they may be made public, and he shall make a certificate of the amount of such expenditures as he may think it advisable not to specify, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended: *Provided further*, ThatLeaves of absence to civilian employees outside continental limits. hereafter any civilian employee of the Navy Department who is a citizen of the United States and employed at any station outside the continental limits of the United States may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, after at least two years’ continuous, faithful, and satisfactory service abroad, and subject to the interests of the public service, be granted accrued leave of absence, with pay, for each year of service, and if an employee should elect to postpone theCumulation permitted. taking of any or all of the leave to which he may be entitled in pur-558suance hereof such leave may be allowed to accumulate for a period of not exceeding four years, the rate of pay for accrued leave to be the rate obtaining at the time the leave is granted.
Treatment of interned insane.Hereafter interned persons and prisoners of war, under the jurisdiction of the Navy Department, who are or may become insane, shall be entitled to admission for treatment to the Government Hospital for the Insane. Chief of Naval Operations.To rank as admiral.Hereafter the Chief of Naval Operations, while so serving as such Chief of Naval Operations, shall have the rank and title of admiral, to take rank next after The Admiral of the Navy, and shall, while so serving as Chief of Naval Operations, receive the pay of $10,000 per Effect of orders from.annum and no allowances.
All orders issued by the Chief of Naval Operations in performing the duties assigned him shall be performed under the authority of the Secretary of the Navy, and his orders shall be considered as emanating from the Secretary, and shall have full Details for duty with.force and effect as such. To assist the Chief of Naval Operations in performing the duties of his office there shall be assigned for this exclusive duty not less than fifteen officers of and above the rank of lieutenant commander of the Navy or major of the Marine Corps: *Provisos*.Rank if appointed from captain.Retirement.*Provided*, That if an officer of the grade of captain be appointed Chief of Naval Operations he shall have the rank and title of admiral, as above provided, while holding that position: *Provided further*, That should an officer, while serving as Chief of Naval Operations, be retired from active service he shall be retired with the lineal rank and the retired pay to which he would be entitled had he not been serving as Chief of Naval Operations.
Assistant chiefs for specified bureaus.Hereafter an officer of the Corps of Civil Engineers may be detailed as assistant to the Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks and an officer of the Corps of Naval Constructors as assistant to the Chief of Bureau of Construction and Repair; and, in case of death, resignation, Other designation by the President.[R. S., sec. 179, p. 28](/us/rs/s179/p28).absence, or sickness of the chief of bureau, shall, unless otherwise directed by the President, as provided by section one hundred and seventy-nine of the Revised Statutes, perform the duties of such chief until his successor is appointed or such absence or sickness shall Assistant to Judge Advocate General.cease; and hereafter an officer of the line of the Navy or Marine Corps may be detailed as assistant to the Judge Advocate General of the Navy, who shall, under similar conditions, perform the duties of the Judge Advocate General.
Drafting, technical and inspection force.Hereafter such amount may be expended annually for pay of drafting, technical, and inspection force from the several lump sum appropriations Allowances from lump sum appropriations.in which specific authority for such expenditure is given, as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary within the limitation of appropriation provided for such service in said lump sum appropriations at such rates of compensation as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe; and the Secretary of the Navy shall each year, in the annual estimates, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.
Contingent.Contingent, Navy: For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, exclusive of personal services in the Navy Department, or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at Washington, District of Columbia, arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, to be expended on the approval and authority of the Secretary of the Navy, and for such purposes as he may deem proper, $46,000. Civilian Naval Consulting Board.For actual expenses incurred by and in connection with the civilian Naval Consulting Board, $25,000.
Fuel oil and gasoline.Investigation and adaptation of.Fuel oil: For an investigation of fuel oil and 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 the purchase of necessary instruments and appliances and the extension 559of the naval fuel-oil equipment plant at the navy yard, Philadelphia,Equipment plant, etc.
Pennsylvania, and the temporary employment of civilian fuel-oil experts and assistants, $60,000. Aviation: For aviation, to be expended under the direction of theAviation.General expenses. Secretary of the Navy for procuring, producing, constructing, operating, preserving, storing, and handling aircraft, including rigid dirigibles, and appurtenances, maintenance of aircraft stations and experimental work in development of aviation for naval purposes, $3,500,000: *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 $25,000.
Advisory committee for aeronautics: For traveling expenses ofAdvisory committee for aeronautics.Expenses, employees, etc.*Post*, p. 1170. members and employees, $2,000; two technical assistants, at $2,500 each; one clerk, at $1,500; one clerk, at $1,000; one draftsman, at $2,000; one draftsman, at $1,000; two laborers, at $660 each; three mechanics, at $1,200 each; rent of office, $1,200; supplies, $7,800; special reports, $5,000; movable combination field office, machine shop, dynamometer shed, hangar, and power plant, $15,000; dynamometer carriage and truck, $18,000; aeroplane, including motor, $10,000; transmission dynamometer, $1,000; ripograph, $1,000; stabilizer, $1,500; anemometers, barographs, inclinometers, incidence indicators, $1,500; miscellaneous supplies, spare parts for operation of field plant, $5,580; in all, $85,000.
Arming and equipping Naval Militia: For the pay, subsistence,Naval Militia.Arming, equipping; pay, etc.Vol. 38, p. 286.*Post*, p. 595. and transportation of such portion of the Naval Militia as shall engage in actual service or instruction afloat or on shore, and for pay, transportation, and subsistence of any part of the Naval Militia as shall participate in any cruise, maneuvers, field instruction, or encampment of any part of the Regular Navy afloat or on shore; for*Post*, p. 600. 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 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 theNaval Militia Board.Naval Militia Affairs Division.*Ante*, p. 98.Retainer pay.*Post*, p. 593.
Naval Militia Board appointed by the Secretary of the Navy; and for the necessary clerical and office expenses of the Division of Naval Militia Affairs in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, and for retainer pay of officers and enlisted men, and traveling and other necessary expenses of the Naval Militia and National Naval Volunteers herein authorized, $1,270,737.73. For the purchase, repair, and alteration of a ship for the NavalShips for Illinois and Minnesota. Militia of Illinois, $125,000; for the repair of the United States ship Topeka for the Naval Militia of Minnesota, $165,000; in all, $290,000.
State marine schools: To reimburse the State and the city ofState marine schools. Reimbursing New York and Massachusetts.Vol. 36, p. 1353. New York, $125,000, and the State of Massachusetts, $125,000, for expenses incurred in 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, $250,000.
Care of lepers, islands of Guam and Culion: Naval station,Lepers.Care, etc., Culion, P. I. island of Guam: Maintenance and care of lepers, special patients, and for other purposes, including cost of transfer of lepers from Guam to the island of Culion, in the Philippines, and their maintenance, $14,000. Lease of naval lands: That authority be, and is hereby, givenNaval lands.Leases of unused, authorized. to the Secretary of the Navy, when in his discretion it will be for the public good, to lease for periods not exceeding five years and revocable at any time, such property of the United States under his control as may not for the time being be required for public use and for the 560leasing of which there is no authority under existing law, and such *Provisos*.Oil, etc., lands excluded.leases shall be reported annually to Congress: *Provided*, That the authority herein granted shall not be held to apply to oil, mineral, Deposit of receipts.or phosphate lands: *Provided further*, That all moneys received from such leases shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.
Bureau of Navigation.bureau of navigation. Transportation.Transportation: For travel allowance of enlisted men discharged on account of expiration of enlistment; transportation of enlisted men and apprentice seamen and applicants for enlistment at home and abroad, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation to their homes, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentice seamen discharged on medical survey, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation of sick or insane enlisted men and apprentice seamen to hospitals, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, and for railway guides and other expenses incident to transportation, $1,010,524.
Recruiting.Recruiting: Expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent of rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentice seamen; actual and necessary expenses in lieu of mileage to officers on duty with traveling recruiting *Provisos*.Discharge after one year’s sea service.*Post*, p. 1171.parties, $244,228.84: *Provided*, That any person who may hereafter enlist in the Navy 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 Personal status.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 Condition.discharge granted upon completion of an enlistment: *And provided further*, That, at the time, he is not under charges, or undergoing Postmasters paid for enlisting recruits.punishment, or in debt to the Government: Provided further, That the President is authorized in his discretion to utilize the services of postmasters of the second, third, and fourth classes in procuring the enlistment of recruits for the Navy and the Marine Corps, and for each recruit accepted for enlistment in the Navy or the Marine Corps, the postmaster procuring his enlistment shall receive the sum of $5.
Contingent.Contingent: Ferriage, continuous-service certificates, discharges, good-conduct badges, and medals for men and boys; purchase of gymnastic apparatus; transportation of effects of deceased officers and enlisted men of the Navy; books for training apprentice seamen and landsmen; maintenance of gunnery and other training classes, packing boxes and materials; books and models; stationery; and other contingent expenses and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation, unforeseen and impossible to classify, $10,000.
Gunnery and engineering exercises.Gunnery and engineering exercises: Prizes, trophies, and 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 galleries, target houses, targets and ranges; for hiring established ranges, and for transporting the civilian assistants and equipment to and from ranges, $135,000.
Outfits.Outfits on first enlistment: Outfits for all enlisted men and apprentice seamen of the Navy on first enlistment, at not to exceed $60 each, $2,065,920. 561 Maintenance of naval auxiliaries: Pay, transportation, shipping,Naval auxiliaries. and subsistence of civilian officers and crews of naval auxiliaries, and all expenses connected with naval auxiliaries employed in emergencies which can not be paid from other appropriations, $1,069,460. Instruments and supplies: Supplies for seamen’s quarters; and forEquipment supplies, instruments, etc. 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, $350,000.
Ocean and lake surveys: Hydrographic surveys, including theOcean and lake surveys 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*Proviso*.Details to Hydrographic Office. Secretary of the Navy is authorized to detail such naval officers not exceeding four as may be necessary to the Hydrographic Office. Naval training station, California:
Maintenance of navalTraining 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 live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle to be used only for official purposes; fire engines and extinguishers; gymnastic implements, models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating and lighting; stationery, books, schoolbooks, and periodicals; fresh water, and washing; packing boxes and materials; and all other contingent expenses; maintenance of dispensary building; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen; in all, $70,000.
Naval training station, Rhode Island: Maintenance of navalCoasters 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 live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of two horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes; fire engines and extinguishers; gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating and lighting; stationery, books, schoolbooks, and periodicals; fresh water, and washing; packing boxes and materials; and all other contingent expenses; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen; in all, $85,000: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation*Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services. 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 seventeen, shall not exceed $5,701.60. 562 Great Lakes.Naval training station, Great Lakes:
Maintenance of naval 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: *Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services.Provided, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall not exceed $1,500; in all, naval training station, Great Lakes, $80,000.
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, $25,000. 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, and *Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services.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 seventeen, 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, $1,600; one foreman mechanic, $1,500; one superintendent of grounds, at $720; one steward, at $720; one store laborer, at $480; one matron, at $420; one beneficiaries’ attendant, at $300; one chief cook, at $480; one assistant cook, at $360; one assistant cook, at $300; one chief laundress, at $240; five laundresses, at $192 each; four scrubbers, at $192 each; one head waitress, at $300; eight waitresses, at $192 each; one kitchen servant, at $360; eight laborers, at $360 each; one stable keeper and driver, at $480; one master-at-arms, at $720; two house corporals, at $300 each; one barber, at $360; one carpenter, at $846; one painter, at $846; one painter, at $720; one engineer for elevator and machinery, $720; five laborers, at $540 each; one laborer, at $420; one laborer, at $360; total for employees, $22,696.
Maintenance.Maintenance: Water rent, heating, and lighting; cemetery, burial expenses and headstones; general care and improvements of grounds, 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, 563and all other contingent expenses, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of three horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes, $54,421; in all, for Naval Home,Payable from naval pension fund. $77,117, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund: *Provided*, That all moneys derived from the sale of*Proviso*.Return to fund of moneys received, etc. material at the Naval Home, which was originally purchased from moneys appropriated from the income from the naval pension fund, and all moneys derived from the rental of Naval Home property, shall be turned into the naval pension fund. bureau of ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance.
Ordnance and ordnance stores: For procuring, producing,Ordnance and Ordnance stores. preserving, and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the general work of the Ordnance Department; for furniture at naval magazines, torpedo stations, and proving grounds; for maintenance of the proving ground and powder factory and for target practice; for the maintenance,Passenger vehicles, etc. 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*Proviso*.Chemical, etc., services. the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, watchmen, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and naval magazines for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall not exceed $505,000; in all, $6,402,485.
Purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, $1,800,000:Smokeless powder. *Provided*, That no part of any money appropriated by this Act shall*Provisos*.Price limited. be expended for the purchase of powder other than small arms powder at a price in excess of 53 cents a pound: *Provided further*, That in expenditures of this appropriation, or any part thereof, for powder, no powder shall at any time be purchased unless the powder factoryPurchasse subject to full operation of Indianhead 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. New and improved machinery for existing shops, $150,000. Naval Magazine, Puget Sound, Washington: For the purchasePuget Sound, Wash., magazine. of a light automobile for carrying passengers, to be used only for official purposes, $600. Projectile plant: Toward the erection and equipment of a plantProjectile plant.Erection and equipment of.*Post*, p. 1175. 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 (to cost when completed not exceeding $1,411,222), $705,611, to be available until expended.
Armor plant: The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized andArmor plant.Erection or purchase authorized. directed to provide, either by the erection of a factory or by the purchase of a factory, or both, for the manufacture of armor for the vessels of the Navy; said factory or factories to have an annual capacity of not less than 20,000 tons of armor; to be located at a placeLocation. or places approved by the General Board of the Navy, with especial reference to considerations of safety in time of war; and the sum ofAppropriation. $11,000,000 is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available, for the purposes of this paragraph.
And if the United States owns no suitableAcquirement of site. site or sites, authority is hereby given to acquire by purchase, condemnation, or gift such site or sites as may be necessary. TheTechnical, etc., services. expenditures for drafting, technical, expert, and clerical assistance necessary shall be paid from the appropriation herein made. 564 Cost per ton of product to be reported.The Secretary of the Navy shall keep accurate and itemized account of the cost per ton of the product of such factory or factories and report the same to Congress in his annual report.
Liners for eroded guns.New batteries for ships of the Navy: For liners for eroded guns, to be available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, $100,000. Batteries for merchant auxiliaries.Batteries for merchant auxiliaries: For batteries for merchant auxiliaries (to cost not exceeding $3,300,000), to be available until expended, $1,650,000. Ammunition for ships.Ammunition for ships of the Navy: For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ammunition for issue to ships, $13,720,000, to be available until expended.
Torpedoes and appliances.Torpedoes and appliances: For the purchase and manufacture of torpedoes and appliances, to be available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, $800,000. Air compressors for destroyers.Air compressors for destroyers: For the purchase and manufacture of air compressors and equipment for destroyers, $195,000. Torpedo nets for battleships.Torpedo nets for battleships: For the purchase and manufacture of torpedo nets and equipment, $480,000. Reserve ordnance supplies.Reserve ordnance supplies:
For a reserve of ordnance supplies to be available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, $4,503,524. 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, etc.For new and improved machinery and tools for torpedo factory, $100,000. 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.
Bureau of Yards and Docks.bureau of yards and docks. Maintenance.Maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For general maintenance of yards and docks, namely: For books, maps, models, and Vehicles.drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines; fire apparatus and plants; machinery; operation or repair, purchase, maintenance of horses and driving teams; carts, timber wheels, and all vehicles, including motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes, and including motor-propelled vehicles for freight-carrying purposes only for use in the navy yards; tools and repair of the same; stationery; furniture for Government houses and offices in navy yards and naval stations; coal and other fuel; candles, oil, and gas; attendance on light and power plants; cleaning and clearing up yards and care of buildings; attendance on 565fires, lights, fire engines, and fire apparatus and plants: incidental labor at navy yards; water tax, tolls, and ferriage; pay of watchmen in navy yards; awnings and packing boxes; and for pay of employees on leave, $1,774,000: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this*Provisos*.Clerical, etc., services. appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, inspection, drafting, messenger, and other classified work in the navy yards and naval stations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall not exceed $625,000: *Provided further*, That hereafter worn-out motor-propelled vehiclesExchange of worn-out motor vehicles. for the Naval Establishment may be exchanged as a part of the purchase price of new ones.
Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For contingentContingent. expenses and minor extensions and improvements of public works at navy yards and stations, $50,000. public works, bureau of yards and docks.Public works. Navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Toilet and lockerPortsmouth, N. H. facilities, $3,000. Navy yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Additional air-compressorBoston, Mass. plant, $37,500; dredging, to continue, $10,000; ventilating system, $5,000; toilet and locker facilities, $12,000; in all, $64,500.
Navy yard, New York, New York: Dredging, to continue,New York, N. Y. $50,000; general distributing systems, $15,000; paving to continue, $10,000; ventilating system, $11,000; toilet and locker facilities, $7,000; improvements to heating system, $8,000; improvements to brass foundry, $7,900; in all, $108,900. Navy yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Ventilating system,Philadelphia, Pa. $9,000; toilet and locker facilities, $4,000; dredging, to continue, $25,000; dry dock (limit of cost, not exceeding $3,500,000), $500,000; in all, $538,000.
For the purchase of ground adjoining Quartermaster’s Depot,*Post*, p. 1177. Marine Corps, Philadelphia, Pennsyslvania, and the erection thereon of an addition to said depot, to cost, ground and building, not to exceed $175,000. Navy yard, Washington, District of Columbia: Additional gunWashington, D. C. shop (to cost exclusive of equipment not exceeding $600,000), $200,000; fireproof model storage, $65,000; fuel-oil storage, $18,000; toilet and locker facilities, $2,000; in all, $285,000.
For the acquisition by purchase or condemnation of such lands inAdditional lands for navy yard.Purchase, etc. the vicinity of the navy yard, Washington, District of Columbia, as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy it shall be deemed necessary or expedient to acquire for additions to said navy yard, $331,000, and in addition to said sum the unexpended balances ofBalances reappropriated, the appropriation in the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and seven (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page eleven hundred and eighty-seven),Vol. 34, p. 1187. for a railroad bridge and track at the Washington Navy Yard, and of the appropriation in the Act of June twenty-fourth, nineteenVol. 36, p. 615. hundred and ten (Thirty-sixth Statutes, pages six hundred and fifteen to six hundred and sixteen), authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to enter into an agreement with the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company for the construction of a track connection to the Washington Navy Yard, and the acquisition of land or property necessary in connection therewith, are hereby reappropriated and made available for the acquisition of such additional lands, and the several provisions of said Act of June twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and ten, so authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to enter into said agreement, are hereby amended to read as follows:
“The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to enter into anRailroad siding to navy yard.Vol. 36, p. 615, amended.Location. agreement or agreements with such railroad company or companies as he may deem proper for the purpose of establishing, maintaining, and operating a sufficient and satisfactory track connection or con-566nections with the railroad track system of the Washington Navy *Provisos*.Right of way.Yard as said system is now or may be hereafter established: Provided, That so much of said track connection or connections as can not be constructed over any right of way or property now or hereafter owned or occupied by such railroad company or companies shall be constructed wholly upon a suitable and satisfactory right of way to be Title.Location over pub lie grounds.provided by the United States, the title to which at all times remain in the United States: *Provided further*, That so far as may be consistent with the public interests said track connection or connections, with appurtenant turnouts and sidings, may be located and constructed in, upon, over, and through public grounds, space, and streets of the United States as the same are now or may be hereafter Purchase or condemnation of right of way.ascertained and established: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to acquire any part of the land or property necessary for said right of way by purchase or condemnation, and to secure the construction of the connections, sidetracks, turnouts, switches, and so forth, necessary to the proper operation of the yard system in connection with the said track connection or Use of appropriations.connections, and for the purpose of acquiring said right of way such part of the sums herein appropriated for additions to said navy yard Construction of bridge across Anacostia River.as may be necessary are hereby made available: *Provided further*, That authority is hereby granted to the railroad company or companies, and its or their successors and assigns, entering into the agreement aforesaid, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto for such track connection across the Anacostia River, District of Columbia, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation to an available point within or in the vicinity of the said Vol. 34, p. 84.navy yard, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,’ Use of present track during construction of new.approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six: *Provided further*, That pending the completion of the track connection hereinbefore authorized and provided for the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company is hereby authorized to maintain its track connection with the said navy yard as at present existing and to continue the operation thereof under such rules and regulations as may be established by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia Removal after completion.for the governance thereof: *Provided*, That within thirty days after the completion of the new track connection with the said navy yard here in before authorized and provided for said Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company shall, at its own expense, remove said existing track connection east of the west building line of Second Street east and restore and make the surface of the streets over and through which the same is laid satisfactory to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia: *Provided further*, Right to amend, etc.That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act”: *Provided further*, That in the event that the Secretary of the Condemnation proceedings if necessary.Navy shall be unable to acquire the land or lands, or any parcel or parcels thereof, necessary or expedient in his judgment for the purposes aforesaid at a price deemed by him to be reasonable, then and in that event he is hereby authorized and directed to acquire the same by condemnation proceedings in the Superme Court of the District of Columbia, to be instituted upon his request by the Attorney General of the United States, and to be conducted in substantial Vol. 26, p. 412.accord with the provisions of the Act of Congress approved August twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety (Twenty-sixth Statutes, pages four hundred and twelve to four hundred and thirteen), providing a site for the enlargement of the Government Printing Office, which provisions are hereby made applicable to the proceedings for this purpose, and jurisdiction to hear and determine the same is hereby conferred upon the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia:
Wharves, structures, etc., of present occupants included.*Provided further*, That the power and authority to acquire by purchase or condemnation, as the case may be, lands for the purposes 567aforesaid shall include the power and authority to purchase, condemn, or compensate for any wharves, bulkheads, structures, or other improvements upon any land, as well as any outstanding privately owned interests in the same, in the vicinity of the said navy yard deemed expedient for said additions within the area designated by the Secretary of the Navy that, though owned or claimed by the United States, is in the occupancy of private individuals, and the sums herein appropriated for are hereby made available for such purposes: *Provided further*, That upon the acquisition of the additionalClosing of streets, etc., within area acquired. lands hereby authorized to be acquired all portions of public streets on which any squares acquired so abut and lying between the same, and all public alleys within said squares, together with such portions of streets and public alleys as lie between the present navy yard and the lands, or any part thereof, so acquired, are hereby abandonedReserved for naval purposes. and closed, and said portions of said streets and public alleys, together with the Government-owned land lying south of the north line of Potomac Avenue between the west boundary of the navy yard and the east line of Second Street east prolonged in a southerly direction, and such other Government-owned land along the water front of the Anacostia River lying between the east line of the said navy yard and the west line of Eleventh Street east prolonged in a southerly direction, shall be regarded as set apart and reserved for naval purposes:Use of balances. *Provided further*, That any balance not expended in said purchase or condemnation may be used toward improving the lands so added to the said navy yard and toward the extending of the railroad-track system thereof and connections thereto: *ProvidedLease of water front to Lewis E.
Smoot. further*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to lease, for periods not exceeding ten years, such portions of Potomac Avenue and P Street between One-half Street and First Street, southeast, together with public reservation numbered two hundred and forty-seven, and such portion of First Street, southeast, as may in their judgment be not needed for public use, together with a water frontage of Potomac Avenue and said portion of First Street, east, as abuts the Anacostia River and all the land of the United States in the area lying between said streets and avenue and the Anacostia River, to Lewis E.
Smoot, of Washington, District of Columbia, at a rental to be fixed by said commissioners: *ProvidedSurrender by him of present lease. further*, That the said Lewis E. Smoot shall surrender to the Government of the United States his present leasehold on wharf property now held by him which is included in the land proposed to be added to the navy yard under the provisions of this Act. Navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Ventilating system, $15,000;Norfolk, Va. toilet and locker facilities, $12,000; to complete one hundred and fifty ton crane, $265,000; dry dock (limit of cost, not exceeding $3,500,000), $500,000; one structural shop (cost not to exceed $1,000,000), $400,000; salvage and tools, $50,000; in all, $1,242,000.
The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to lease for a period not toLease for storage. exceed three years storage facilities in the vicinity of the navy yard, Norfolk, at an annual rental of not exceeding $16,000, to be paid out of the appropriation “Pay, miscellaneous.” Buildings and grounds, Naval Academy: Sea wall, $70,000.Naval Academy. Marine Recruiting Station, Port Royal, South Carolina:Port Royal, S. C. For a new building for the naval hospital and for necessary changes in existing buildings and equipment, $15,000.
Navy yard, Charleston, South Carolina: Dredging, to continue,Charleston, S. C. $12,000; toilet and locker facilities, $8,000; in all, $20,000. Dredging Cooper River, approach to navy yard, Charleston, South Carolina, $175,000. Navy Aeronautic Station, Pensacola, Florida: To repair andPensacola, Fla.Repairs, aeronautic station. reconstruct, where necessary, public works damaged by storm of July, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $420,000. 568 New Orleans, La.Repairing hurricane damages.Naval station, New Orleans, Louisiana:
To repair and reconstruct where necessary public works damaged in September, nineteen hundred and fifteen, by hurricane, $150,000, and the accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized to transfer from this appropriation to the appropriation “Naval station, New Orleans, Vol. 38, p. 770.Louisiana,” made by joint resolution approved April twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, the amount heretofore expended therefrom for such repairs and reconstruction. Mare Island, Cal.Navy yard, Mare Island, California:
Maintenance of dikes and dredging, $50,000; erecting shop, $25,000; toilet and locker facilities, $9,000; floating crane, revolving type (to cost not exceeding $600,- 000), $300,000; in all, $384,000. Land for aviation base, etc., San Diego County, Cal.The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to purchase two hundred and thirty-two acres of land on or near the Bay of San Diego, San Diego County, California, to be used for advance base, expeditionary *Proviso*.Donation from San Diego.and aviation purposes, to cost not exceeding $250,000: *Provided*, That at the same time the city of San Diego, San Diego County, California, donates, free of encumbrance, to the United States Government a parcel of five hundred acres of adjoining tide lands of the Bay of San Diego, known as Dutch Flat, without cost to the United States Government for the purpose of establishing a naval base thereon.
Puget Sound, Wash.Navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington: Dredging, to continue, $15,000; toilet and locker facilities, $3,000; in all, $18,000. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.Naval station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Dry dock, to continue, $700,000. Cayey, P. R.Part of Army barracks, transferred to Navy.The following-described part of the military reservation of Henry Barracks, at Cayey, Porto Rico, is hereby transferred to and placed under the control and jurisdiction of the Navy Department for use for naval purposes:
Description.That part of the military reservation of Henry Barracks known as Magazine Hill, comprising that portion of said reservation lying westerly of Las Lleras (quebrada) and south and east of the Caguas and Guayama Roads, excepting a rectangular area in the northern extremity of said tract marked “Board Public Work” on the map of Henry Barracks prepared under the direction of Major H. C. Price, Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry, by Lieutenant Carlos M. Lopez, Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry, April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and fifteen, which land transferred to the Navy Department is shown in red on photostat copy of map bearing the legend “Henry Barracks, Cayey, Porto Rico.
Map showing boundary lines of the original Spanish reservation and the present reservation as described in General Order Numbered Ninety-seven, War Department, July seventh, nineteen hundred and three, and General Order Numbered Thirty-one, War Department, February twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and five. Compiled and corrected from existing maps under direction of Major H. C. Price, Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry, by Lieutenant Carlos M. Lopez, Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry, April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and fifteen,” on file in the Navy Department; containing approximately fifty-nine acres, more or less.
Oahu, Hawaii.Naval reservation on Fords Island transferred to Army, in part.The following-described part of the naval reservation on Fords (Mokuumeume) Island, island of Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, as shown on brown print bearing the legend “Military and Naval Reservations adjacent to Honolulu Harbor, Office Quartermaster General, December, nineteen hundred and fifteen,” on file in the Navy Department, is hereby transferred to and placed under the control and jurisdiction of the War Department for use for military purposes:
Description.Beginning at a point marked by a concrete monument at the southeast corner of the land acquired by the United States from the John Ii estate through condemnation proceedings, which point has the 569coordinates two hundred and thirty and one-tenth feet south and eighty-seven and two-tenths feet west from “Ford No. 5” (Ford No. 5 being marked by a galvanized pipe in a concrete monument stamped “U. S. 1911,” established by the United States district engineer office, and having coordinates eight thousand five hundred and seventy and ninety-nine hundredths feet south and ten thousand and eighty-seven and sixty-four hundredths feet east from the Ewa Territorial trigonometric station); thence north twenty-three degrees twelve minutes east one hundred and seventy-seven feet, more or less; thence north sixteen degrees no minutes east sixty-six feet, more or less, to a point on the shore line at high-water mark; thence southerly along high-water mark to a point marked by a concrete monument that is, with reference to the point of beginning, south fifty-one degrees no minutes east seventy feet, more or less, the southwesterly boundary of the said tract being formed by the line joining said last-mentioned point on the high-water line with the point of beginning: *Provided*, That this transfer is in no manner to interfere with the right*Provisos*.Naval rights reserved. of the Navy Department to make such use of the shoals and islets extending in a northeasterly direction from Fords Island as the needs of the naval service may require: *Provided further*, That there mayRight of way to reservation. be established over said military reservation, at such place as may be agreed upon by the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of War, a right of way for the use of the Navy from the remaining portion of the naval reservation on Fords Island to the said shoals and islets.
Naval station, Tutuila, Samoa: Officers’ quarters, $4,000.Tutuila, Samoa. Naval station, Guam: Water-front improvements, $1,000.Guam. Guns and munitions storage: For the storage of munitions ofGuns and munitions storage at designated yards, etc. war at naval magazines, navy yards, and stations; Navy Yard, Washington, District of Columbia, gun storage, $23,000; Naval Magazine, Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania, one magazine building, $25,000; mine storage, $25,000; Naval Magazine, Hingham, Massachusetts, one magazine building, $21,600; one shell house, $21,600;
Naval Magazine, Iona Island, New York, detonating fuze house, $2,000; two subsurface magazines, $4,000; Naval Powder Depot, Lake Denmark, New Jersey, four subsurface magazines, $6,000; naval magazine, Kuahua, Hawaii, magazine for explosive “D,” $3,000; naval magazine, Mare Island, California, shell house, $19,200; naval magazine, Puget Sound, Washington, extension of fuze and primer house, $2,500; Naval Magazine, Saint Juliens Creek, Virginia, storehouse, $16,000; Naval Proving Ground, Indianhead, Maryland, soda storehouses, $69,000; sulphur storehouses, $18,500; cotton storehouses, $19,000;
Pacific Coast Torpedo Station, Keyport, Washington, magazine for war heads, $5,000; in all, $280,400. Naval magazine, Hingham, Massachusetts: Smokeless powderHingham, Mass., naval magazine. test building, $1,300; quarters for guards, $5,000; in all, $6,300. Naval Proving Ground, Indianhead, Maryland: Three powderIndianhead, Md., proving ground.Passenger bridge. dry houses, $15,000; fire protection, $38,000; for the construction of a foot-passenger bridge over Mattawoman Creek, Charles County, Maryland, for the exclusive use of the Government of the United*Proviso*.Construction.
States under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy, $25,000: *Provided*, That the said bridge shall be so constructed as not to interfere with the navigation of the said creek; fence around powder factory, $28,000; in all, $106,000. Naval magazine, Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania: Office building,Fort Mifflin, Pa., naval magazine. $5,000. Naval magazine, Iona Island, New York: Quarters for guards,Iona Island, N. Y., naval magazine. $5,000. Naval magazine, Lake Denmark, New Jersey:
Quarters forLake Denmark, N. J., naval magazine. guards, $10,000. 570 Keyport, Wash., naval magazine.Naval torpedo station, Keyport, Washington: Railroad system, $5,000; one officer’s quarters, $6,000; in all, $11,000 Kuahua, Hawaii, naval magazine.Naval magazine, Kuahua, Hawaii: Surveillance test house, $3,000; filling house for explosive D, $2,000; in all, $5,000. Mare Island, Cal., naval magazine.Naval magazine, Mare Island, California: Laboratory and testing building, $3,000.
Newport, R. I., torpedo station.Naval torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: Seaman gunners’ quarters, $105,000; sea wall and filling, $36,000; in all, $141,000. Saint Juliens Creek, Va., naval magazine.Naval magazine, Saint Juliens Creek, Virginia: Filling house, $2,000; railroad system, $12,500; locomotive house, $3,500; for eighty-eight acres of additional land to be secured by purchase or condemnation or otherwise, as the Secretary of the Navy may direct, $60,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary; in all, $78,000.
Puget Sound, Wash., naval magazine.Naval magazine, Puget Sound, Washington: Two filling houses, $3,000; guardhouse, $4,000; in all, $7,000. Fuel depots.Depots for coal and other fuel: For fuel storage at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and Guam, $460,000; for custody and care of naval petroleum reserves, $10,000; contingent, $30,000; in all, $500,000. Melville, R. I., coaling station.Naval coaling station, Melville, Rhode Island: Improvements to water supply, including purchase of land, $15,000.
Torpedo storage.Former appropriation available.Vol. 38, p. 935.The appropriation contained in the naval appropriation Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and fifteen, of $20,000 for the construction of a building for the storage of torpedoes at the naval torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island, is hereby made available for expenditure for a like purpose at the naval coaling station, Melville, Rhode Island. Naval hospitals.Canacao, P. I.Naval Hospital, Canacao, Philippine Islands:
Six contagious-disease units, $3,600. Chelsa, Mass.Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Massachusetts: Sea wall, $14,700. Mare Island, Cal.Naval Hospital, Mare Island, California: Mess hall, extension, $15,000. Newport, R. I.Naval Hospital, Newport, Rhode Island: Three contagious wards, $18,000. Guam, marine barracks.Marine Barracks, Guam: Three officers’ quarters, $10,000. Experimental and research laboratory.Equipment, operation, etc.Experimental and research laboratory: For laboratory and research work on the subject of gun erosion, torpedo motive power, the gyroscope, submarine guns, protection against submarine, torpedo and mine attack, improvement in submarine attachments, improvement and development in submarine engines, storage batteries and propulsion, aeroplanes and aircraft, improvement in radio installations, and such other necessary work for the benefit of the Government service, including the construction, equipment, and operation of a laboratory, the employment of scientific civilian assistants as may become necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy (limit of cost not to exceed $1,500,000), *Provisos*.Continuance of other experiments.$1,000,000: *Provided*, That nothing herein 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 seventeen, as heretofore conducted under other Statement of expenditures.appropriations: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Navy shall make detailed reports to the Congress not later than June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and annually thereafter, showing the manner in which all expenditures hereunder have been made.
California training station.Naval training station, San Francisco, California: Water supply improvements, to be immediately available, $32,475. New York naval hospital.Naval Hospital, New York, New York: Remodeling house numbered four, $10,000. Repairs and preservation.Repairs and preservation at navy yards and stations: For repairs and preservation at navy yards, coaling depots, coaling plants, and stations, $1,100,000. 571 Total public works, $8,350,875, and the amounts herein appropriatedAmounts available until expended. therefor, except for repairs and preservation at navy yards and stations, shall be available until expended.
The President is hereby authorized to appoint a commission of fiveCommission to report on necessity, etc., for additional yard on Pacific coast. officers of the Navy not below the rank of commander to investigate and report at the beginning of the next regular session of Congress if practicable, and if not, as soon thereafter as practicable, as to the necessity, desirability, and advisability of establishing an additional navy yard or naval station on the Pacific coast of the United States.
And if such a navy yard or naval station be recommended as necessaryDesignation of site, etc. and advisable, said report shall designate the most suitable site and the estimated cost thereof, together with a detailed statement of the reasons for such designation and the nature and scope of the activities for naval purposes of such yard or station. In arriving at suchBasis of consideration. designation the commission shall take into consideration all strategical and other military considerations as well as all industrial elements necessary for the economical and successful operation of such a yard or station, including local conditions as to labor and material.
SaidEstimates, etc. report shall also contain an estimated cost of the necessary buildings, shops, piers, sea walls, and equipment of said yard or station together with the estimated annual cost of maintenance thereof. Said commission shall also investigate and report upon the necessity,Necessity for additional yards on Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea coasts. desirability, and advisability of improving existing or establishing an additional navy yard or naval station on the Atlantic coast south of Cape Hatteras or on or near the United States coast of the Gulf of Mexico or in the Caribbean Sea of a character adequate for the proper naval defense of that portion of the country.
Said report shall contain all the information of like character as directed in the preceding paragraph relating to the investigation and report as to the Pacific coast. Said commission shall also investigate and report as to the necessity,Submarine and aviation bases. desirability, and advisability of establishing submarine and aviation bases on the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Pacific coasts and other possessions of the United States, and as to the cost and location thereof: *Provided*, That the sum of $10,000 is hereby appropriated to defrayAmount for expenses. the expenses of said commission, including drafting, technical and clerical assistance in the Navy Department or elsewhere.
Said commission shall also investigate and report as to the necessity,Advisability of abolishing present yards, etc. desirability, and advisability of abolishing any existing navy yard or naval station, and if such action is recommended, to report fully the reasons therefor and the advantages to be obtained thereby. bureau of medicine and surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Medical Department: For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels inSurgeons’ necessaries. Civil establishment. commission, navy yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy yards, naval medical supply depots, Naval Medical School, Washington, and Naval Academy, and toward the accumulation of a reserve supply of medical stores, $921,740.
Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For tolls andContingent. ferriages; care, transportation, and burial of the dead; purchase of books and stationery, binding of medical records, unbound books, and pamphlets; hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration; sanitary and hygienic instruction; purchase and repairs of nonpassenger-carrying wagons, automobile ambulances, and harness; purchase of and feed for horses and cows; purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of two passenger-carrying motor vehicles for naval dispensary, Washington, District of Columbia, to be used only for official purposes; trees, plants, care of grounds, garden tools, and 572seeds; incidental articles for the Naval Medical School and naval dispensary, Washington; naval medical supply depots, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks; washing for medical department at Naval Medical School and naval dispensary, Washington; naval medical supply depots, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, dispensaries at navy yards and naval stations, and ships; and for minor repairs on buildings and grounds of the United States Naval Medical School and naval medical supply depots; rent of rooms for naval dispensary, Washington, District of Columbia, not to exceed $1,200; for the care, maintenance, and treatment of the insane of the Navy and Marine Corps on the Pacific coast, including supernumeraries held for transfer to the Government Dental outfits.Hospital for the Insane; for dental outfits and dental material, not to exceed $38,000, and all other necessary contingent expenses; in all, *Proviso*.Dairy herd, Las Animas, Colo., hospital.$241,080: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, may expend $25,000 of said appropriation for the purchase of a dairy herd, land for pasturage, and erection of necessary buildings for the naval hospital at Las Animas, Colorado.
Transferring remains of officers, etc.Transportation of remains: To enable the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transferred to their homes the remains of officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps who die or are killed in action ashore or afloat, and also to enable the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of civilian employees who die outside of the *Provisos*.Not deducted from gratuity pay.Vol. 37, p. 329.continental limits of the United States, $24,908: *Provided*, That no deduction shall hereafter be made from the six months’ gratuity pay allowed under the naval Act of August twenty-second, nineteen hundred and twelve, on account of expenses for funeral, interment, or for expenses of preparation and transportation of the remains:
Application of fund.*Provided further*, That the sum herein appropriated shall be available for payment for transportation of the remains of officers and men who have died while on duty at any time since April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and shall be available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen. In all, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $1,187,728. Hospital Corps.hospital corps. Authorized strength of.Hereafter the authorized strength of the Hospital Corps of the Navy shall equal three and one-half per centum of the authorized enlisted strength of the Navy and Marine Corps, and shall be in addition thereto, and as soon as the necessary transfers or appointments may be effected the Hospital Corps of the United States Grades and ratings.Navy shall consist of the following grades and ratings:
Chief pharmacists, pharmacists, and enlisted men classified as chief pharmacists’ mates; pharmacists’ mates, first class; pharmacists’ mates, second class; pharmacists’ mates, third class; hospital apprentices, first class; and hospital apprentices, second class; such classifications in enlisted ratings to correspond respectively to the enlisted ratings, seamen branch, of chief petty officers; petty officers, first class; petty officers, second class; petty officers, third class; seamen, *Proviso*.Transfers allowed to and from.first class; and seamen, second class: *Provided*, That enlisted men of other ratings in the Navy and in the Marine Corps shall be eligible for transfer to the Hospital Corps, and men of that corps to other ratings in the Navy and the Marine Corps.
Pharmacists.Examination, etc., for rating.The President may hereafter, from time to time, appoint as many pharmacists as may be deemed necessary, from the rating of chief pharmacist’s mate, subject to such moral, physical, and professional examinations and requirements as to length of service as the Secretary *Proviso*.Rank, pay, etc.of the Navy may prescribe: Provided, That the pharmacists now in the Hospital Corps of the United States Navy or hereafter 573appointed therein in accordance with the provisions of this Act shall have the same rank, pay, and allowances as are now or may hereafter be allowed other warrant officers.
Pharmacists shall, after six years from the date of warrant, beChief pharmacists.Rank, pay, etc. commissioned chief pharmacists after passing satisfactorily such examinations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, and shall, when so commissioned, have the same rank, pay, and allowances as now or may hereafter be allowed other commissioned warrant officers: *Provided*, That the pharmacists at present in the service who have*Proviso*.Promotions from pharmacists. served or may hereafter serve six or more years in that grade shall be eligible for promotion to the grade of chief pharmacist upon satisfactorily passing the examinations provided for in this Act.
The Secretary of the Navy is hereby empowered to limit and fix the numbers in the various ratings.Limit. Section three of an Act entitled “An Act to organize a HospitalFormer ratings, etc., repealed.Vol. 30, p. 475. Corps of the Navy of the United States; to define its duties and regulate its pay,” approved June seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and the pay, allowances, and emoluments of the enlisted men of the Hospital Corps shall be the same as are now, or may hereafter be, allowed for respective corresponding ratings, except the rating of turret captain of the first class in the seaman branch of the Navy: *Provided*, That the pay of*Proviso*.Chief pharmacist’s mate. the rating of the chief pharmacist’s mate shall be the same as that now allowed for the existing rating of hospital steward.
Hospital and ambulance service with such commands and at suchHospital and ambulance service. places as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy, shall be performed by members of said corps, and the corps shall be a constituentStatus. part of the Medical Department of the Navy: and the enlisted men thereof shall be a part of the enlisted force provided by law for the Navy. Officers and enlisted men of the Medical Department of the Navy,Service when attached to Army with marines.[R.
S., sec. 1621, p. 274](/us/rs/s1621/p274). serving with a body of marines detached for service with the Army in accordance with the provisions of section sixteen hundred and twenty-one of the Revised Statutes, shall, while so serving, be subject to the rules and articles of war prescribed for the government of the Army in the same manner as the officers and men of the Marine Corps while so serving. naval dental corps.Naval Dental Corps. That the President of the United States is hereby authorized toDental surgeons.Appointments authorized. appoint and commission, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, dental surgeons in the Navy at the rate of one for each one thousand of the authorized enlisted strength of the Navy and Marine Corps, who shall constitute the Naval Dental Corps, and shall be a part of the Medical Department of the Navy.
Original appointmentsOriginal probationary periods. to the Naval Dental Corps shall be probationary for a period of two years and may be revoked at any time during the probationary period by the President: *Provided*, That the rank of such officers of*Provisos*.Rank among themselves. the same date of appointment among themselves at the end of said probationary period shall be determined by the recommendations of an examining board appointed by the Secretary of the Navy, which board shall conduct a competitive examination, based upon both service record and professional attainments, in accordance with such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy, and the rank of such officers so determined shall be as of date of original appointment with reference to other appointments to the naval service: *Provided further*, That all appointees to the grade of dentalQualifications. surgeon shall be citizens of the United States between twenty-four and thirty years of age, and shall be graduates of standard medical or dental colleges and trained in the several branches of dentistry, and who shall, before appointment, have successfully passed moral, 574physical, and professional examinations before medical and professional examining boards appointed by the Secretary of the Navy, and have been recommended for appointment by such boards.
Rank, pay, and allowances.Dental surgeons shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of lieutenants (junior grade) until they shall have completed five years’ service. Dental surgeons of more than five but less than twenty years’ service shall, subject to such examinations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, have the rank, pay, and allowances of lieutenant. Dental surgeons of more than twenty years’ service shall, subject to such examinations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, have the rank, pay, and allowances of lieutenant commander: *Proviso*.Limitation.*Provided*, That the total number of dental surgeons with the rank, pay, and allowances of lieutenant commander shall not at any time exceed ten.
Present officers may be appointed without examination, etc.Vol. 37, pp. 344, 903.All officers now in the Dental Corps (including the officers appointed for temporary service) appointed under the provisions of the Act of August twenty-second, nineteen hundred and twelve, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the Naval Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for other purposes,” and all officers now in active service appointed under the provisions of the Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, who were eligible for appointment to the Dental Corps under the provisions of said Act, shall be appointed dental surgeons in the Dental Corps without further examination and without regard to the *Provisos*.Not subject to probationary service.age qualifications herein prescribed: *Provided*, That the officers so appointed shall not be subject to the provisions herein prescribed for To rank from original appointment.probationary service for a period of two years: *Provided further*, That such officers shall, after appointment as herein prescribed, rank from date of commission and take seniority among themselves in the order of their original appointment by the Secretary of the Navy as Retirement restricted.shown on the Navy list on the date of approval of this Act: *And provided further*, That no dental surgeon appointed in accordance with the provisions of this Act who on original appointment to the Dental Corps was over forty years of age shall be eligible for retirement before he has reached the age of seventy years, except for physical disability incurred in the line of duty.
Loss of numbers on Navy list to affect longevity.Dental surgeons who shall have lost numbers on the Navy list by sentence of court-martial or by failure upon examination for promotion shall be considered to have lost service accordingly for purposes of advancement in rank with increased pay and allowances. Dental Reserve Corps.dental reserve corps. Organized as part of Medical Department.Vol. 37, p. 344.That a Navy Dental Reserve Corps is hereby authorized to be organized and operated under the provisions of the Act approved August twenty-second, nineteen hundred and twelve, providing for the organization and operation of a Navy Medical Reserve Corps, Qualifications, etc.and differing therefrom in no respect other than that the qualification requirements of the appointees shall be dental surgeons and graduates of reputable schools of medicine or dentistry instead of “reputable schools of medicine,” and so many of said appointees Temporary active service.may be ordered to temporary active service as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary to the health and efficiency of the personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps, provided the whole number of both Naval Dental Corps and Naval Dental Reserve Corps officers in active service shall not exceed in time of peace one to one thousand of the officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps: *Proviso*.Recommissions of present officers.*Post*, p. 1182.*Provided*, That all officers now in the Navy Dental Reserve Corps shall be recommissioned in the Navy Dental Reserve Corps provided in this Act, in the order of their original appointment in said Corps, and hereafter when ordered to active duty officers of the Medical 575Reserve Corps and officers of the Dental Reserve Corps shall receive promotion in rank in the respective Reserve Corps under the samePromotions. relative conditions and provisions of active service as is provided in this Act for the Naval Dental Corps. bureau of supplies and accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.
Pay of the Navy: Pay and allowances prescribed by law of officersPay of the Navy.Allotment of amounts. on sea duty and other duty, $12,927,735.36; officers on waiting orders, $175,000; officers on the retired list, $3,124,527; commutation of quarters for officers on shore not occupying public quarters, including boatswains, gunners, carpenters, sailmakers, machinists, pharmacists, pay clerks, and mates, naval constructors, and assistant naval constructors, $510,000; and also members of Nurse Corps (female), $1,000; for hire of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them, or commutation of quarters not to exceed the amount which an officer would receive were he not serving with troops, 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 ship due to repairs or other conditions which may render them uninhabitable, $3,000; pay of enlisted men on the retired list, $443,134;Enlisted men. extra pay to men reenlisting under honorable discharge, $1,016,000; 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 the President is hereafterIncrease authorized. authorized, whenever in his judgment a sufficient national emergency exists, to increase the authorized enlisted strength of theMaximum strength.
Navy to eighty-seven thousand men; and pay of enlisted men of the Hospital Corps, and for the pay of enlisted men detailed for duty with the Naval Militia, $30,655,704.29; pay of enlisted men undergoing sentence of court-martial, $225,000, and hereafter the number of enlisted men of the Navy shall be exclusive of those sentenced by court-martial to discharge; and as many machinists as the President may from time to time deem necessary to appoint; and sixAdditional apprentice seamen. thousand apprentice seamen under training at training stations, and on board training ships, at the pay prescribed by law, $999,630; pay of the Nurse Corps, $119,182; rent of quarters for members of the Nurse Corps, $15,000; in all $50,226,912.65; 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: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Enlistments during calendar year.
That the enlisted strength of the Navy authorized in this Act shall be deemed to include all enlistments heretofore made during this calendar year which may have been in excess of the number authorized by law at the time: *Provided further*, That the designation of theRatings changed. rating of coal passer be changed to fireman, third class, and that of ordinary seaman to seaman, second class, without change of pay; and that the Bureau of Navigation be authorized under rules established for the advancement of other enlisted men, to advance printers to the ratings of printer, first class, and chief printer, which ratings are hereby authorized with same pay and increases allowed to yeomen, first class, and chief yeomen, respectively: *And provided further*,Storekeepers, artificer’s branch.Ratings for.
That the rating of storekeeper is hereby established in the artificer branch with the following rates of pay per month: Chief petty officer, $50; petty officer, first class, $40; petty officer, second class, $35; petty officer, third class, $30, subject to such increases of pay and allowances as are or may hereafter be authorized by law for the enlisted men of the Navy. 576 Midshipmen.Additional appointments.By the President.By Secretary of the Navy from enlisted men.*Ante*, p. 9.*Post*, p. 1182.Hereafter in addition to the appointment of midshipmen to the United States Naval Academy, as now prescribed by law, the President is hereby allowed fifteen appointments annually instead of ten as now prescribed by law, and the Secretary of the Navy is allowed twenty-five appointments annually, instead of fifteen as now prescribed by law, the latter 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 year as enlisted men on the date *Proviso*.Competitive examinations required.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 examinations required before entrance under existing laws.
Admission of Filipinos.That hereafter the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to permit not exceeding four Filipinos, to be designated, one for each class, by Designation by Governor General.the Governor General of the Philippine Islands, to receive instruction at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland: *Proviso*.Pay, allowances, etc.*Provided*, That the Filipinos undergoing instruction, as herein authorized, shall receive the same pay, allowances, and emoluments, to be paid out of the same appropriations, and shall be subject to the same rules and regulations governing admission, attendance, discipline, resignation, discharge, dismissal, and graduation as are authorized by law and regulation for midshipmen appointed from Not entitled to appointment in Navy.the United States, but the Filipino midshipmen herein authorized shall not be entitled to appointment to any commissioned office in the United States Navy by reason of their graduation from the Naval Academy.
Commissioned personnel.commissioned personnel. Percentage of officers of the line.Hereafter the total number of commissioned officers of the active fist of the line of the Navy, exclusive of commissioned warrant officers, shall be four per centum of the total authorized enlisted strength of the active list, exclusive of the Hospital Corps, prisoners undergoing sentence of discharge, enlisted men detailed for duty *Provisos*.Distribution of grades.with the Naval Militia, and the Flying Corps: *Provided*, That the total number of commissioned line officers on the active list at any one time, exclusive of commissioned warrant officers, shall be distributed in the proportion of one of the grade of rear admiral to four in the grade of captain, to seven in the grade of commander, to fourteen in the grade of lieutenant commander, to thirty-two and onehalf in the grade of lieutenant, to forty-one and one-half in the Service of lieutenants (junior grade).grades of lieutenant (junior grade) and ensign, inclusive: *Provided further*, That lieutenants (junior grade) shall have had not less than three years’ service in that grade before being eligible for promotion to the grade of lieutenant.
Staff corps.The total authorized number of commissioned officers of the active list of the following staff corps, exclusive of commissioned warrant officers, shall be based on percentages of the total number of commissioned officers of the active list of the line of the Navy as follows: Percentages.Pay Corps, twelve per centum; Construction Corps, five per centum; Corps of Civil Engineers, two per centum; and that the total authorized number of commissioned officers of the Medical Corps shall be sixty-five one hundredths of one per centum of the total authorized number of the officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps, including midshipmen, Hospital Corps, prisoners undergoing sentence of discharge, enlisted men detailed for duty with Promotions.the Naval Militia, and the Flying Corps.
Officers of the lower grades of the Medical Corps, Pay Corps, Construction Corps, and Corps of Civil Engineers shall be advanced in rank up to and including the rank of lieutenant commander with the officers of the line with whom 577or next after whom they take precedence under existing Jaw; *Provided**Provisos*.Assistant surgeons. That all assistant surgeons shall from date of their original appointment take rank and precedence with lieutenants (junior grade): *Provided further*, That to determine the authorized numberSemiannual computation of. of officers in the various grades and ranks of the fine and of the staff corps as herein provided, computations shall be made by the Secretary of the Navy semiannually, as of July first and January first of each year, and the resulting numbers in the various grades and ranks,Authorized number in grades. as so computed, shall be held and considered for all purposes as the authorized number of officers in such various grades and ranks and shall not be varied between such dates.
The total number of commissioned officers of the active fist of theGrades distributed. following mentioned staff corps at any one time, exclusive of commissioned warrant officers, shall be distributed in the various grades of the respective corps as follows: Medical Corps: One-half medical directors with the rank of rearMedical Corps. admiral to four medical directors with the rank of captain, to eight medical inspectors with rank of commander, to eighty-seven and onehalf in the grades below medical inspector: *Provided*, That hereafter*Proviso*.Age of appointees. appointees to the grade of assistant surgeon shall be between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-two at the time of appointment.
Pay Corps: One-half pay directors with the rank of rear admiralPay Corps. to four pay directors with the rank of captain, to eight pay inspectors with the rank of commander, to eighty-seven and one-half in the grades below pay inspector. Construction Corps: One-half naval constructors with the rankConstruction Corps. of rear admiral to eight and one-half naval constructors with the rank of captain, to fourteen naval constructors with the rank of commander, to seventy-seven naval constructors and assistant naval constructors with rank below commander: *Provided*, That vacancies*Provisos*.Original vacancies. in the Construction Corps shall be filled in the manner now prescribed by law, at such annual rate as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe: *Provided further*, That hereafter ensigns of not less than oneTransfers of ensigns. year’s service as such shall be eligible for transfer to the Construction Corps.
Corps of Civil Engineers: One-half civil engineers with the rankCivil Engineer Corps. of rear admiral to five and one-half civil engineers with the rank of captain, to fourteen civil engineers with the rank of commander, to eighty civil engineers and assistant civil engineers with the rank below commander. Hereafter no further appointments shall be made to the Corps ofProfessors of mathematics to cease.[R. S., sec. 1480, p. 257](/us/rs/s1480/p257). Professors of Mathematics, and that corps shall cease to exist upon the death, resignation, or dismissal of the officers now carried in that corps on the active and retired lists of the Navy.
When there is an odd number of officers in the grade or rank of rearProvision for odd numbers. admiral in the line or in each corps, the lower division thereof shall include the excess in number, except where there is but one. Whenever a final fraction occurs in computing the authorized numberFractional number. of any corps, grade or rank in the naval service, the nearest whole number shall be regarded as the authorized number: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Minimum. at least one officer shall be allowed in each grade or rank.
For the purpose of determining the authorized number of officersAdditional numbers excluded from authorized strength. in any grade or rank of the line or of the staff corps, there shall be excluded from consideration those officers carried by law as additional numbers, including staff officers heretofore permanently commissioned with the rank of rear admiral, and nothing contained herein shall be held to reduce below that, heretofore authorized by law the number of officers in any grade or rank in the staff corps.
Hereafter pay and allowances of officers in the upper half of theRear admirals.Pay and allowances. grade or rank of rear admiral, including the staff corps and including staff officers heretofore permanently commissioned with the rank of 578rear admiral, shall be that now allowed by law for the first nine rear admirals, and the pay and allowances of officers in the lower half of the grade or rank of rear admiral, including the staff corps, shall be *Proviso*.Rank in staff corps.that now allowed by law for the second nine rear admirals: *Provided*, That officers shall take rank in each staff corps according to the dates of commission in the several grades, excepting in cases where they have gained or lost numbers.
Chief warrant officers.Pay, etc., after six years.Hereafter chief boatswains, chief gunners, chief machinists, chief carpenters, chief sail makers, chief pharmacists, and chief pay clerks, on the active list with creditable records, shall, after six years from date of commission, receive the pay and allowances that are now or may hereafter be allowed a lieutenant (junior grade), United States *Proviso*.After twelve years.Navy: *Provided*, That chief boatswains, chief gunners, chief machinists, chief carpenters, chief sail makers, chief pharmacists, and chief pay clerks, on the active list with creditable records, shall, after twelve years from date of commission, receive the pay and allowances that are now or may hereafter be allowed a lieutenant, United States Navy.
Heat and light allowances.Warrant officers shall receive the same allowances of heat and light as are now or may hereafter be allowed an ensign, United States Navy. Leaves of absence.Warrant officers shall be allowed such leave of absence, with full pay, as is now or may hereafter be allowed other officers of the United States Navy. Promotions to commander, and above, to be by selection only.*Post*, p. 1182.Hereafter all promotions to the grades of commander, captain, and rear admiral of the line of the Navy, including the promotion of those captains, commanders, and lieutenant commanders who are, or may be, carried on the Navy list as additional to the numbers of such grades, shall be by selection only from the next lower respective grade upon the recommendation of a board of naval officers as herein provided.
Board for recommending.Composition.The board shall consist of nine rear admirals on the active list of the line of the Navy not restricted by law to the performance of shore duty only, and shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Navy and convened during the month of December of each year and as soon after the first day of the month as practicable. Oath required.Each member of said board shall swear, or affirm, that he will, without prejudice or partiality, and having in view solely the special fitness of officers and the efficiency of the naval service, perform the duties imposed upon him as herein provided.
List of vacancies and eligibles to be submitted to.The board shall be furnished by the Secretary of the Navy with the number of vacancies in the grades of rear admiral, captain, and commander to be filled during the following calendar year, including the vacancies existing at the time of the convening of the board and those that will occur by operation of law from the date of convening until the end of the next calendar year, and with the names of all officers who are eligible for consideration for selection as herein *Provisos*.Communication t o board allowed from eligibles.authorized, together with the record of each officer: *Provided*, That any officer eligible for consideration for selection shall have the right to forward through official channels at any time not later than ten days after the convening of said board a written communication inviting attention to any matter of record in the Navy Department concerning himself which he deems important in the consideration Restriction.of his case: *Provided*, That such communication shall not contain any reflection upon the character, conduct, or motives of or criticism Service in grade required.of any officer: *Provided further*, That no captains, commanders, or lieutenant commanders who shall have had less than four years’ service in the grade in which he is serving on November the thirtieth of the year of the convening of the board shall be eligible for consideration Recommendations for shore and engineering duty only.by the board: *Provided further*, That the recommendation of the board in the case of officers of the former Engineer Corps 579who are restricted by law to the performance of shore duty only and in that of officers who may hereafter be assigned to engineering duty only shall be based upon their comparative fitness for the duties prescribed for them by law.
Upon promotion they shall be carriedStatus. as additional numbers in grade. The board shall recommend for promotion a number of officers inRecommendations for next calendar year. each grade equal to the number of vacancies to be filled in the next higher grade during the following calendar year: *Provided*, That no*Provisos*.Concurrence required. officer shall be recommended for promotion unless he shall have received the recommendation of not less than six members of said board: *Provided further*, That the increase in the number of captainsCaptains limited. herein authorized shall be made at the rate of not more than ten captains in any one year.
The report of the board shall be in writing signed by all of theReport. members and shall certify that the board has carefully considered the case of every officer eligible for consideration under the provisions of this law, and that in the opinion of at least six of the members,Recommendations to be stated. the officers therein recommended are the best fitted of all those under consideration to assume the duties of the next higher grade, except that the recommendation of the board in the case of officers of the former Engineer Corps who are restricted by law to the performance of shore duty only, and in that of officers who may hereafter be assigned to engineering duty only, shall be based upon their comparative fitness for the duties prescribed for them by law.
The report of the board shall be submitted to the President forSubmission to the President.Substitution for unacceptables. approval or disapproval. In case any officer or officers recommended by the board are not acceptable to the President, the board shall be informed of the name of such officer or officers, and shall recommend a number of officers equal to the number of those found not acceptable to the President and if necessary shall be reconvened for this purpose. When the report of the board shall have been approved by the President,Eligible after approval, to promotions. the officers recommended therein shall be deemed eligible for selection, and if promoted shall take rank with one another in accordance with their seniority in the grade from which promoted: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Examinations required, etc.Effect.
That any officers so selected shall prior to promotion be subject in all respects to the examinations prescribed by law for officers promoted by seniority, and in case of failure to pass the required professional examination such officer shall thereafter be ineligible for selection and promotion. And should any such officer fail to pass the required physical examination he shall not be considered, in the event of retirement, entitled to the rank of the next higher grade. On and after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty, noActual sea service required after June 30, 1920. captain, commander, or lieutenant commander shall be promoted unless he has had not less than two years’ actual sea service on seagoing ships in the grade in which serving or who is more than fifty-six,Age limit.*Provisos*.Engineering duty not included.Officers ineligible foe promotion on account of age to be retired. fifty, or forty-five years of age, respectively: *Provided*, That the qualification of sea service shall not apply to officers restricted to the performance of engineering duty only: *Provided further*, That captains, commanders, and lieutenant commanders who become ineligible for promotion on account of age shall be retired on a percentage of pay equal to two and one-half per centum of their shore-duty pay for each year of service: *Provided further*, That the total retiredPay restricted. pay shall not exceed seventy-five per centum of the shore-duty pay they were entitled to receive while on the active list.
Except as herein otherwise provided, hereafter the age for retirementRetiring age, 64.[R. S., sec. 1444, p. 253, amended](/us/rs/s1444/p253). of all officers of the Navy shall be sixty-four years instead of sixty-two years as now prescribed by law. Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to reduce theNo reduction of present rank, etc. rank, pay, or allowances of any officer of the Navy or Marine Corps as now provided by law. 580 Officers for engineering duty only.officers for engineering duty only.
Assignments from the line on application.Officers of the line of the Navy not below the grade of lieutenant may, upon application, and with the approval of the Secretary of the Navy, be assigned to engineering duty only, and that when so assigned Duties.Vol. 30, p. 1005.and until they reach the grade of commander, they shall perform duty as prescribed in section four of the Personnel Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and thereafter shore duty only as now prescribed for officers transferred to the line from the former engineer corps, except that commanders may be assigned *Provisos*.Status in line retained.to duty as fleet and squadron engineers: *Provided*, That when so assigned they shall retain their place with respect to other line officers in the grades they now or may hereafter occupy, and also the right to succession to command on shore in accordance with their seniority, and shall be promoted as vacancies occur subject to physical examination and to such examination in engineering as the Secretary of Number of assignments in any year.the Navy may prescribe: *Provided further*, That the number of officers so assigned in any one year shall be in accordance with the requirements of the service as determined by the Secretary of the Navy:
Acting ensigns for engineering duty only, authorized from civil life.*And provided further*, That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to appoint annually in the line of the Navy for a period of ten years following the passage of this Act, in the order of merit determined by such competitive, examination as he may prescribe, thirty Qualifications, etc.acting ensigns for the performance of engineering duties only. Persons so appointed must have received a degree of mechanical or electrical engineer from a college or university of high standing or be graduates of technical schools approved by the Secretary of the Navy, must have been found physically qualified by a board of medical officers of the Navy for the performance of the duties required, and must at the time of appointment be not less than twenty nor more Probationary period.than twenty-six years of age.
Such appointments shall be for a probationary period of three years, and may be revoked at any time by the Secretary of the Navy. Service required.Such acting ensigns shall, upon the completion of the probationary period of three years, of which two years shall have been spent on board cruising vessels and one year pursuing a course of instruction at the Naval Academy, prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy, be Commission on termination.commissioned in the grade of lieutenant of the junior grade after satisfactorily passing such examination as may be prescribed by the Examination, etc.Secretary of the Navy, and having been recommended for promotion by the examining board and found physically qualified by a board of medical officers of the Navy.
Duties restricted.Such officers shall thereafter be required to perform engineering duties only, and shall be eligible for advancement to the higher grades in the manner herein provided for line officers assigned to engineering duty only. No pay if absent on account of personal misconduct.Hereafter no officer or enlisted man in the Navy or Marine Corps in active service who shall be absent from duty on account of sickness or disease resulting from his own intemperate use of drugs or alcoholic liquors, or other misconduct, shall receive pay for the period of such absence, the time so absent and the cause thereof to be ascertained under such procedure and regulations as may be prescribed *Proviso*.Enlistment period continued until absence made good.by the Secretary of the Navy: *Provided*, That an enlistment shall not be regarded as complete until the enlisted man shall have made good any time in excess of one day lost on account of sickness or disease resulting from his own intemperate use of drugs or alcoholic liquors, or other misconduct.
Furloughs for unexpired enlistment.The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to grant furlough without pay to enlisted men for a period covering the unexpired portion *Proviso*.Conditions.of their enlistment: *Provided*, That such furlough be granted under the same conditions and in lieu of discharge by purchase or by 581special order of the department. Enlisted men so furloughed shallRecall in time of war. be subject to recall in time of war or national emergency to complete the unexpired portion of their enlistment, and shall be in addition to the authorized number of enlisted men of the Navy.
Hereafter the authorized number of surgeons in the United StatesSurgeons increased by one.Detail for Red Cross service. Navy be, and it is hereby, increased by one; and that hereafter the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to detail one or more officers of the Medical Corps of the United States Navy for duty with the Military Relief Division of the American National Red Cross. The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to cause to be paidSophia Gompers.Payment to. to Mrs.
Sophia Gompers, mother of the late William Gompers, seaman, United States Navy, $176.40, being the amount equal to six months’ pay at the rate received by that seaman at the date of his death, less expenses of interment. That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized and directedEliza Orr.Payment to. to cause to be paid to Mrs. Eliza Orr, mother of the late William Orr, fireman, United States Navy, an amount equal to six months’ pay at the rate received by him at the date of his death, less expenses of interment.
No officer who, after having commanded a fleet in active commission,General Board.Pay, etc., of officer serving as chair man of executive committee when retired. has been retired for age and whom, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy, the public interests make it necessary to retain for a time after said retirement and who is performing active duty as chairman of the executive committee of the General Board, shall, for the period so retained, suffer any reduction in the emoluments he was receiving at the time of his retirement: *Provided*, That*Provisos*.Pay, etc., of retired officers detailed for active duty. hereafter any retired officer of the naval service who shall be detailed on active duty shall, while so serving, receive the active duty pay and allowances of the grade, not above that of lieutenant commander in the Navy or of major in the Marine Corps, that he would have attained in due course of promotion if he had remained on the active list for a period beyond the date of his retirement equal to the total amount of time during which he has been detailed on active duty since his retirement: *Provided*, That nothing herein shall be construedNo reduction of pay. to reduce the pay of any retired officer on active duty whose retired pay exceeds the active duty pay and allowances for the grade of lieutenant commander.
Hereafter all commissioned officers of the active list of the NavyPay of officers on active list. shall receive the same pay and allowances according to rank and length of service: *Provided*, That this provision shall not be construed*Proviso*.Commissioned warrant officers. to reduce the pay and allowances of commissioned warrant officers as herein authorized. That the accounting officers of the United States Treasury areTelephones in government quarters.Accounts for, allowed. hereby authorized and directed to allow in the accounts of disbursing officers of the Navy all payments for telephones in Government quarters which have been disallowed under section seven of the Act of August twenty-third, nineteen hundred and twelve (Thirty-seventh Statutes, pages one and four hundred and fourteen), by decision of the Comptroller.
That the accounting officers of the United States Treasury arePaymaster George R. Crapo.Credit in accounts. hereby authorized to credit to the account of Paymaster George R. Crapo, United States Navy, the sum of $360, which amount was paid by the said Paymaster Crapo for a passenger-carrying vehicle for official use at the Naval Station, Key West, Florida, on September twenty-second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, under a mistake of law. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed toPassed Assistant Paymaster James C.
Hilton.Credit in accounts. credit in the accounts of Passed Assistant Paymaster James C. Hilton, United States Navy, the sum of $6,033.61, being the amount stolen from United States funds by a person or persons unknown 582and charged against the accounts of the said James C. Hilton, passed assistant paymaster, on the books of the Treasury Department. Paymaster T. D. Harris.Credit in accounts.The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow in the accounts of Paymaster T.
D. Harris, United States Navy, credit for the full payment of the contract price made by him to James Morrow under contract of May twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and nine, and to Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company, James Corse, N. H. Dow Manufacturing Company, The Snead and Company Iron Works, and Original Cabinet Company under contracts of March, nineteen hundred and eleven, pertaining to the naval training station, Great Lakes, Illinois. Ensign Harold Harrison Little.Promotion authorized.That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to cause Ensign Harold Harrison Little, United States Navy, to be examined for promotion to the grade of lieutenant (junior grade), United States Navy, and subject to his successfully passing such reexamination to promote him to the grade of lieutenant (junior grade), to take place on the Navy list in such grade next after Lieutenant (Junior Grade) William G.
Greenman, United States Navy, who was the officer immediately above the said Harold Harrison Little in the list of lieutenants (junior grade) at the date said Harold Harrison Little became due for promotion to the grade of lieutenant (junior *Proviso*.No back pay, etc.grade), United States Navy: *Provided* That no back pay, allowances, or emoluments shall accrue by reason of the passage of this Act. Assistant Paymaster John D. P. Hodapp.Date of appointment established.Hereafter Assistant Paymaster John D.
P. Hodapp, United States Navy, shall be regarded as having been appointed as an assistant paymaster in the United States Navy on the same date as the officer *Proviso*.No back pay, etc.now next above him in grade: *Provided*, That nothing herein shall be construed to entitle the said Assistant Paymaster John D. P. Hodapp, United States Navy, to any back pay, allowances, or other emoluments. Double pay prohibitions modified.*Ante*, p. 120, amended.Section six of an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, namely:” approved May tenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
" “Sec. 6. Double salaries restricted. That unless otherwise specially authorized by law, no money appropriated by this or any other Act shall be available for payment to any person receiving more than one salary when the combined amount of said salaries exceeds the sum of $2,000 per Exceptions extended.annum, but this shall not apply to retired officers or enlisted men of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard, or to officers and enlisted men of the Organized Militia and Naval Militia in the several *Proviso*.Excepted classes not deprived of salary, etc.States, Territories, and the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That no such retired officer, officer, or enlisted man shall be denied or deprived of any of his pay, salary, or compensation as such, or of any other salary or compensation for services heretofore rendered, by reason of any decision or construction of said section six.
” " Naval Flying Corps.naval flying corps. Composition of.The Naval Flying Corps shall be composed of one hundred and fifty officers and three hundred and fifty enlisted men, detailed, appointed, commissioned, enlisted, and distributed in the various grades, ranks, and ratings of the Navy and Marine Corps as hereafter Additional to naval strength.provided. The said number of officers, student flyers, and enlisted men shall be in addition to the total number of officers and enlisted men which is now or may hereafter be provided by law for the other branches of the naval service.
Yearly detail of officers.The number of officers detailed to duty in aircraft involving actual flying in any one year shall be in accordance with the requirements of *Provisos*.Maximum.the Air Service as determined by the Secretary of the Navy: *Provided*, That the officers so detailed from the line of the Navy and from the 583Marine Corps shall not exceed the total number herein prescribed for the Naval Flying Corps: *Provided further*, That the proportion of lineProportion of line officers. officers of the Navy and of the Marine Corps thus detailed shall be the same as the proportion established for the regular services: *And providedStudent flyers in addition. further*, That the student flyers hereinafter provided for shall be in addition to the officers and enlisted men comprising the Naval Flying Corps.
The officers detailed and the enlisted men of the Naval Flying CorpsPay and allowances. shall receive the same pay and allowances that are now provided by law for officers and enlisted men of the same grade or rank and rating in the Navy and Marine Corps detailed to duty with aircraft involving actual flying. The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to appoint annuallyActing ensigns or second lieutenants for aeronautic duty only. in the line of the Navy and the Marine Corps for a period of two years following the passage of this Act, in order of merit as determined by such competitive examinations as he may prescribe, fifteen acting ensigns or acting second lieutenants for the performance of aeronautic duties only.
Persons so appointed must be citizens of the UnitedQualifications. States, and may be appointed from warrant officers or enlisted men of the naval service or from civil life, and must, at the time of appointment, be not less than eighteen or more than twenty-four years of age: *Provided*, That no person shall be so appointed until he has been found*Proviso*.Medical examinations.Proportion. physically qualified by a board of medical officers of the Navy for the performance of the duties required: *Provided further*, That the number of such appointments to the line of the Navy and of the Marine Corps shall be in the proportion decided for the regular services.
SuchProbationary period. appointments shall be for a probationary period of three years and may be revoked at any time by the Secretary of the Navy. Such acting ensigns and acting second lieutenants shall be detailedDetails for actual flying. to duty in the Naval Flying Corps in aircraft involving actual flying. Such acting ensigns of the Navy and acting second lieutenants ofPromotions on completing probation. the Marine Corps shall, upon completion of the probationary period of three years, be appointed acting lieutenants of the junior grade, or acting first lieutenants, respectively, by the Secretary of the NavyExaminations, etc. for the performance of aeronautic duties only, after satisfactorily passing such examinations as he may prescribe, and after having been recommended for promotion by the examining board and found physically qualified by a board of medical officers of the Navy.
SuchAdditional probation. appointments shall be for a probationary period of four years and may be revoked at any time by the Secretary of the Navy. Such acting lieutenants (junior grade) and acting first lieutenantsChoice of duties. may elect to qualify for aeronautic duty only or to qualify for all the duties of officers of the same grade in the Navy and in the MarineDuty with Flying Corps. Corps, respectively. Those officers who elect to qualify for aeronautic duty only shall be detailed to duty in the Naval Flying Corps involving actual flying in aircraft.
Those officers who elect to qualify for theRegular service duty. regular duties of their grade shall be detailed to duty in the regular service for at least two years to allow them to prepare for such qualification. Such acting lieutenants (junior grade) and acting first lieutenantsCommissions for aeronautic duty only.Grade in Navy or Marine Corps. who have elected to qualify for aeronautic duty only shall, upon completion of the probationary period of four years, be commissioned in the grade of lieutenant of the line of the Navy or captain of the Marine Corps for aeronautic duties only, after satisfactorily passing such competitive examination as maybe precribed by the Secretary of the Navy to determine their moral, physical, and professional qualifications for such commissions and the order of rank in which they shall be commissioned.
Such lieutenants for aeronautic duty onlyTo be extra numbers. shall be borne on the list as extra numbers, taking rank with and next after officers of the same date of commission. 584 Commissions for line duty.Such acting lieutenants (junior grade) and acting first lieutenants who have elected to qualify for the regular duties of the line of the Navy and of the Marine Corps, respectively, shall, upon completion of the probationary period of four years, two years of which shall have been on such regular duties, be commissioned in the grade of the line of the Navy or Marine Corps according to his length of service, after Examinations, etc.passing satisfactorily such competitive examinations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy to determine their moral, physical, and professional qualifications for such commissions and to determine the order of rank in which they shall be commissioned.
To be extra numbers.Such officers of the line of the Navy and Marine Corps will be borne upon the lists of their respective corps as extra numbers, taking rank with and next after officers of the regular services of the same date of commissions. Transfers to Reserve Flying Corps.Acting lieutenants (junior grade) of the line of the Navy for aeronautic duties only and acting first lieutenants of the Marine Corps for aeronautic duty only who have completed the probationary period of Commissions.four years may, upon examination for commissions to the next higher grade, if recommended by the board of examination, be transferred to the Naval Reserve Flying Corps and commissioned in the same grade or the next higher grade as may be recommended in accordance *Proviso*.Transfers during probation.with their qualifications as determined by the examination: *Provided*, That at any time during such probationary period any such officer can, upon his own request, if his record warrants it, be transferred to the Naval Reserve Flying Corps and commissioned in the acting grade he Discharge if found not qualified.then holds.
Any officer of the Naval Flying Corps holding an appointment of student flyer or acting ensign, second lieutenant, lieutenant (junior grade), or first lieutenant, who, upon examination for promotion, is found not qualified shall, if not recommended by the examining board for transfer to the Naval Reserve Flying Corps, be honorably discharged from the naval service. Promotions of officers for aeronautic duty only.Grade limited, etc.Officers commissioned for aeronautic duty only shall be eligible for advancement to the higher grades, not above captain in the Navy or colonel in the Marine Corps, in the same manner as other officers whose employment is not so restricted, except that they shall be eligible to promotion without restriction as to sea duty, and their professional examinations shall be restricted to the duty to which *Proviso*.Service required.personally assigned: *Provided*, That any such officer must serve at least three years in any grade before being eligible to promotion to the next higher grade.
Detail from other branches as student aviators or airmen.Nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to prevent the detail of officers and enlisted men of other branches of the Navy as student aviators or student airmen in such numbers as the needs of the service may require. Pay and allowances.Such officers and enlisted men, while detailed as student aviators and student airmen involving actually flying in aircraft, shall receive the same pay and allowances that are now provided by law for officers and enlisted men of the same grade or rank and rating in the Navy detailed for duty with aircraft.
Student flyers from enlisted men or civil life.The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to appoint annually for a period of four years, from enlisted men of the naval service, or from citizens of the United States in civil life, not to exceed thirty student flyers for instruction and training in aeronautics who shall Pay, etc.*Provisos*.Age.receive the same pay and allowances as midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy: *Provided*, That persons so appointed must, at the time of appointment, be not less than seventeen or more than Examinations.twenty-one years of age: *Provided further*, That no person shall be appointed a student flyer until he shall have qualified therefor by such examination as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy. 585 The appointment of student flyers shall continue in force for twoTerm of appointment. years, unless sooner revoked by the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, and at the end of such period student flyers shall be examined for qualification as qualified aviators: *Provided*, That if*Proviso*.Revocation or transfer to Reserve Corps. such student flyers are not qualified, their appointment will be revoked, or, if recommended by the examining board, they shall be transferred to the Naval Reserve Flying Corps and commissioned as ensigns therein.
Student flyers shall, after receiving a certificate of qualificationQualified aviators. as an aviator for actual flying in aircraft, rank with midshipmen and shall receive the same pay and allowances as midshipmen, plusRank and pay.*Provisos*.Promotion after three years. fifty per centum thereof: *Provided*, That student flyers who have qualified as aviators under the provisions of this Act shall be commissioned acting ensigns for aeronautic duties only, after three years’ service: *Provided further*, That they shall have been examinedExaminations. by a board of officers of the Naval Flying Corps to determine by a competitive examination prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy their moral, physical, and professional fitness and the order of rank in which they shall be commissioned: *And provided further*, ThatTransfer on request to Reserve Corps. any student flyer qualified as an aviator may at any time, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, if his record warrants it, at his own request, be transferred to the Naval Reserve FlyingCommissions.
Corps and be commissioned as ensign therein: *And provided further*, That student flyers not considered qualified for commissions asOther transfers. acting ensigns for aeronautic duties only may, upon recommendation of the examining board, be transferred to the Naval Reserve Flying Corps and be commissioned as ensigns therein. The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to establish aeronauticAeronautic training schools authorized. schools for the instruction and training of student flyers and prescribe the course of instruction and qualifications for certificate of graduation as a qualified aviator.
Nothing in this or any other Act shall be so construed as to preventTemporary details for aircraft duty allowed. the temporary detail of officers and enlisted men of any branch of the Navy for duty with aircraft. In the event of the death of an officer or enlisted man or studentAviation accidents. Gratuity for death from. fiyer of the Naval Flying Corps from wounds or disease, the result of an aviation accident, not the result of his own misconduct, received while engaged in actual flying in or in handling aircraft, the gratuity to be paid under the provisions of the Act approved August twenty-second, nineteen hundred and twelve, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year endingVol. 38, p. 539, amended.Vol. 37, p. 326.
June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for other purposes,” shall be an amount equal to one year’s pay at the rate received by such officer or enlisted man or student flyer at the time of the accident resulting in his death. In all cases where an officerDouble pension for death or disability. or enlisted man or student flyer of the Navy or Marine Corps dies, or where a student flyer or an enlisted man of the Navy or Marine Corps is disabled by reason of any injury received or disease contracted in line of duty, the result of an aviation accident, received while employed in actual flying in or in handling aircraft, the amount of pension allowed shall be double that authorized to be paid should death or the disability have occurred by reason of an injury received or disease contracted in line of duty not the result of an aviation accident.
Student flyers and the acting ensigns and acting lieutenantsNavy laws, etc., applicable. (junior grade) and acting second and first lieutenants for aeronautic duties only provided for herein shall be subject to the laws and regutions and orders for the government of the Navy, but shall not be entitled to retirement or retired pay. The enlisted personnel of the Naval Flying Corps shall be distributedRatings of enlisted men. by the Secretary of the Navy in the various ratings as 586now obtain in the Navy in so far as such ratings are applicable to duties connected with aircraft.
Transfers of enlisted men within two years.Within the first two years after the approval of this Act enlisted men may be transferred from other branches of the Naval Service to the Naval Flying Corps, under regulations established by the Secretary of the Navy governing such transfer and the qualifications *Proviso*.Limit.for this corps: *Provided*, That the number so transferred shall not exceed one-half the total number of enlisted men allowed by this Act. Regulations to be mad.The Secretary of the Navy shall establish regulations governing the term of enlistment, the qualifications, and advancement of the enlisted men of the Flying Corps.
Enlisted men may become student flyers.Any enlisted man who passes satisfactorily the prescribed examination and is recommended by a board of officers may be appointed a student flyer as herein provided. Administration of justice.administration of justice. Officers who may order deck courts.[R. S., sec. 1624, pp. 281–284](/us/rs/s1624/p281–284).Vol. 35, p. 621, amended.Hereafter all officers of the Navy and Marine Corps who are authorized to order either general or summary courts-martial may order deck courts upon enlisted men under their command, and shall have the same authority to inflict minor punishments as is conferred by law upon the commander of a naval vessel.
Summary courts-martial.Summary courts-martial may be ordered upon enlisted men in the naval service under his command by the commanding officer of any brigade, regiment, or separate or detached battalion, or other separate or detached command, and, when empowered by the Secretary of the Navy, by the commanding officer or officer in charge of any *Proviso*.Naval hospitals or ships.command not specifically mentioned in the foregoing: *Provided*, That when so empowered by the Secretary of the Navy to order summary courts-martial, the commanding officer of a naval hospital or hospital ship shall be empowered to order such courts and deck courts, and inflict the punishments which the commander of a naval vessel is authorized by law to inflict, upon all enlisted men of the naval service attached thereto, whether for duty or as patients.
Approval of sentence.No sentence of a summary court-martial shall be carried into execution until the proceedings and sentence have been approved by the officer ordering the court, or his successor in office, and by his *Proviso*.By officer ordering court.immediate superior in command: *Provided*, That if the officer ordering the court, or his successor in office, be the senior officer present, such General courts-martial.sentence may be carried into execution upon his approval thereof.
Officers who may convene.When empowered by the Secretary of the Navy, general courts-martial may be convened by the commanding officer of a squadron, of a division, of a flotilla, or of a larger naval force afloat, and of a brigade or larger force of the naval service on shore beyond the *Proviso*.In time of war at yards, etc.continental limits of the United States: *Provided*, That in time of war, if then so empowered by the Secretary of the Navy, general courts-martial may be convened by the commandant of any navy yard or naval station, and by the commanding officer of a brigade or larger force of the Navy or Marine Corps on shore not attached to a navy yard or naval station.
Courts of inquiry.Courts of inquiry may be convened by any officer of the naval service authorized by law to convene general courts-martial. Marines as a separate organization.When a force of marines is embarked on a naval vessel, or vessels, as a separate organization, not a part of the authorized complement thereof, the authority and powers of the officers of such separate organization of marines shall be the same as though such organization Authority of commander of vessel not impaired.were serving at a navy yard on shore, but nothing herein shall be construed as impairing the paramount authority of the commanding officer of any naval vessel over the vessel under his command and all persons embarked thereon. 587 NAVAL RESERVE FORCE.Naval Reserve Force.
There is hereby established, under the Department of the Navy,Established. a Naval Reserve Force, to consist of six classes, designated as follows and as hereinafter described: First. The Fleet Naval Reserve.Classes. Second. The Naval Reserve. Third. The Naval Auxiliary Reserve. Fourth. The Naval Coast Defense Reserve. Fifth. The Volunteer Naval Reserve. Sixth. Naval Reserve Flying Corps. The Naval Reserve Force shall be composed of citizens of theComposition.For service in time of war, etc.
United States who, by enrolling under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy or by transfer thereto as in this Act provided, obligate themselves to serve in the Navy in time of war or during the existence of a national emergency, declared by the President: *Provided*, That citizens of the insular possessions of the United States*Proviso*.Insular citizens. may enroll in the Naval Auxiliary Reserve. The Secretary of the Navy shall make all necessary and properRegulations to be made. regulations not inconsistent with law for the administration of the provisions of this Act which relate to the Naval Reserve Force.
Members of the Naval Reserve Force may be ordered into activeOrder for active service. service in the Navy by the President in time of war or when, in his opinion, a national emergency exists. There shall be allowed in the Naval Reserve Force the variousRanks, grades, etc. ratings, grades, and ranks, not above the rank of lieutenant commander, corresponding to those in the Navy. Officers of the line mayDeck or engineering duties. be appointed for deck or engineering duties, as they may elect.
Members of the Naval Reserve Force appointed to commissionedCommissions by President alone. grades shall be commissioned by the President alone, and members of such force appointed to warrant grades shall be warranted byWarrant grades.*Proviso*.Retainer pay. the Secretary of the Navy: *Provided*, That officers so warranted or commissioned shall not be deprived of the retainer pay, allowances, or gratuities to which they would otherwise be entitled. Officers ofRank of officers. the Naval Reserve Force shall rank with but after officers of corresponding rank in the Navy.
Enrollment and reenrollment shall be for terms of four years, butTerm of service. members shall in time of peace, when no national emergency exists, be discharged upon their own request upon reimbursing the Government for any clothing gratuity that may have been furnished them during their current enrollment. Persons enrolling shall be required to take the oath of allegianceOath of allegiance. to the United States. When first enrolled members of the Naval Reserve Force, exceptProvisional grade, etc. those in the Fleet Naval Reserve, shall be given a provisional grade, rank or rating in accordance with their qualifications determined by examination.
They may thereafter, upon application, be assignedInstruction service on application. to active service in the Navy for such periods of instruction and training as may enable them to qualify for and be confirmed in such grade, rank or rating. No member shall be confirmed in his provisional grade, rank orService for confirmation of grade, etc. rating until he shall have performed the minimum amount of active service required for the class in which he is enrolled, nor until he has duly qualified by examination for such rank or rating under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy.
No person shall be appointed or commissioned as an officer in anyExaminations, etc., of officers. rank in any class of the Naval Reserve Force, or promoted to a higher rank therein, unless he shall have been examined and recommended for such appointment, commission, or promotion by a board of three naval officers not below the rank of lieutenant commander, nor until he shall have been found physically qualified by a board of 588medical officers to perform the duties required in time of war, except Former officers and midshipmen excepted.that former officers and midshipmen of the Navy, who shall have left the service under honorable conditions and who shall have enrolled in the Naval Reserve Force, may be appointed in the grade and rank last held by them without examination other than the physical examination above prescribed.
Retainer pay.On enrollment.The retainer pay of all members of the Naval Reserve Force, except the Volunteer Naval Reserve, while enrolled in a provisional rank or rating, and until such time as they shall have been confirmed in such rank or rating, shall be $12 per annum. Thereafter, the retainer pay shall be that prescribed for members in the various classes. Additional to active Pay.Retainer pay shall be in addition to any pay to which a member may be entitled by reason of active service.
Conditions of payment.Retainer pay shall only be paid to members of the Naval Reserve Force upon their making such reports concerning their movements and occupations as may be required by the Secretary of the Navy. Reenrollment.Increased pay, etc., for.Members of the Naval Reserve Force who reenroll for a term of four years within four months from the date of the termination of their last term of enrollment, and who shall have performed the minimum amount of active service required during the preceding term of enrollment, shall, for each such reenrollment, receive an *Proviso*.Retirement after twenty years.increase of twenty-five per centum of their base retainer pay: *Provided*, That enrolled members who shall have completed twenty years of service in the Naval Reserve Force, and who shall have performed the minimum amount of active service required in their class for maintaining efficiency during each term of enrollment, shall, upon their own application, be retired with the rank or rating held by Cash gratuity in lieu of pay.them at the time, and shall receive in lieu of any pay, a cash gratuity equal to the total amount of their retainer pay during the last term of their enrollment.
Payment of retainer Pay.Retainer pay shall be paid annually or at shorter intervals, as the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, may direct. Other public service than military allowed.No existing law shall be construed to prevent any member of the Naval Reserve Force from accepting employment in any branch of the public service, except as an officer or enlisted man in any branch of the military service of the United States or any State thereof, nor from receiving the pay and allowances incident to such employment in addition to his retainer pay.
Naval laws applicable when in active service.Enrolled members of the Naval Reserve Force shall be subject to the laws, regulations, and orders for the government of the Regular Navy only during such time as they may by law be required to serve in the Navy, in accordance with their obligations, and when on active service at their own request as herein provided, and when employed in authorized travel to and from such active service in the Navy. Badge or button, to issue.Punishment for unauthorized use.Members of the Naval Reserve Force shall be issued a distinctive badge or button which may be worn with civilian dress, and whoever, not being a member of the Naval Reserve Force of the United States and not entitled under the law to wear the same, willfully wears or uses the badge or button or who uses or wears the same to obtain aid or assistance thereby, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $20 or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Pay, etc., for active service.All members of the Naval Reserve Force shall, when actively employed as set forth in this Act, be entitled to the same pay, allowances, gratuities, and other emoluments as officers and enlisted men of the naval service on active duty of corresponding rank or rating At other times.and of the same length of service. When not actively employed in the Navy, members of the Naval Reserve Force shall not be entitled to any pay, bounty, gratuity, or pension except as expressly provided for members of the Naval Reserve Force by the provisions of this Act.
Service in time of war, etc.Enrolled members of the Naval Reserve Force may, in time of war or national emergency, be required to perform active service in the 589Navy throughout the war or until the national emergency ceases to exist. Members of the Naval Reserve Force shall, upon first reportingUniform gratuity for training. for active service for training during each period of enrollment, be credited with a uniform gratuity of $50 for officers and of $30 for men. Upon reporting for active service in time of war or national emergencyFor service in time of war. the uniform gratuity shall be $150 for officers and $60 for men, or the difference between these amounts and any amounts that may have been credited as a uniform gratuity during the current enrollment: *Provided*, That should any member of the Naval Reserve*Proviso*.Deduction on voluntary withdrawal.
Force sever his connection with the service without compulsion on part of the Government before the expiration of his term of enrollment, the amount so credited shall be deducted from any money that may be or may become due him. Hereafter, in shipping officers and men for service on board UnitedAuxiliary vessels.Preference to Reserve Force.Restricted to, after two years. States auxiliary vessels, preference shall be given to members of the Naval Reserve Force, and, after two years from the date of approval of this Act, no person shall be shipped for such service who is not a member of the Naval Reserve Force herein provided.
Members of the Naval Reserve Force may, upon application, beTransfers to other classes permitted. transferred from one class to another class for which qualified under the provisions of this Act; and may in time of war volunteer for and be assigned to duties prescribed for any class which they may be deemed competent to perform. The Secretary of the Navy shall prescribes suitable flag, or pennant,Flag or pennant to be prescribed. that may be flown as an insignia on private vessels or vessels of the merchant service commanded by officers of the Naval Reserve Force: *Provided*, That it shall not be flown in lieu of the National*Proviso*.Condition. ensign.
The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to establish schoolsSchools of instruction, etc. or camps of instruction at such times and in such localities as he may deem advisable for the purpose of instructing members and applicantsAdmissions. for membership in the Naval Reserve Force. No applicant shall be accepted for instruction unless he agrees to abide by the regulations of the school and pursue the course prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy. Persons who satisfactorily complete the course will be givenCertificates on completing course. certificates of qualification for the rank or rating for which duly qualified, and may be permitted to enroll in the proper class of the reserve in such rank or rating.
For the purpose of carrying intoAppropriation for expenses. effect this paragraph of the Act there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $30,000, which is hereby made available to be expended as the Secretary of the Navy may direct in the necessary equipment and maintenance of such schools and camps. fleet naval reserve.Fleet Naval Reserve. All former officers of the United States naval service, includingFormer naval officers, etc., eligible for. midshipmen, who have left that service under honorable conditions, and those citizens of the United States who have been, or may be entitled to be, honorably discharged from the naval service after not less than one four-year term of enlistment or after a term of enlistment during minority, and who shall have enrolled in the Naval Reserve Force shall be eligible for membership in the Fleet Naval Reserve.
In addition to the enrollments in the Fleet Naval Reserve aboveTransfers of enlisted men to. provided, the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to transfer to the Fleet Naval Reserve at any time within his discretion any enlisted man of the naval service with twenty or more years’ naval service,Service required. and any enlisted man, at the expiration of a term of enlistment who 590may be then entitled to an honorable discharge, after sixteen years’ *Proviso*.On voluntary application, etc.naval service: *Provided*, That such transfers shall only be made upon voluntary application and in the rating in which then serving, and the men so transferred shall be continued in the Fleet Naval Reserve until discharged by competent authority.
Training on shipboard.The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to assign any member of the Fleet Naval Reserve to active duty for training on board ship, upon the application of such member, but any member who has failed to perform three months’ active service with the Navy in any term of enrollment shall, on the next reenrollment, receive retainer pay at the rate of $12 per annum until such time as he shall have completed three months’ active service. The three months’ active service with the Navy may be taken in one or more periods, at the *Proviso*.Travel allowance limited.election of the member: *Provided*, That no member shall be entitled to travel allowance unless the period of such active service is for not less than one month, or unless specifically provided for by such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy.
Retainer pay.Ratings.Men enrolled in the Fleet Naval Reserve with less than eight years naval service shall be paid at the rate of $50 per annum; those with eight or more years and less than twelve years’ naval service shall be paid at the rate of $72 per annum; and those with twelve or more years’ naval service shall be paid at the rate of $100 per annum, Obligation incurred by.such pay to be considered as retainer pay for the obligation on the part of such members to serve in the Navy in time of war or national *Proviso*.Enlistment period.emergency: *Provided*, That for all purposes of this Act a complete enlistment during minority and any enlistment terminated within three months prior to the expiration of the term of enlistment by special order of the Secretary of the Navy shall be considered as four Officers’ retainer pay.years’ service.
The annual retainer pay of officers of the Fleet Naval Reserve shall be two months’ base pay of the corresponding rank in the Navy. Reenrollments.Retainer pay increased.Reenrollments in the Fleet Naval Reserve shall be for four years. Officers and men enrolling in the Fleet Naval Reserve within four months of the date of the termination of their last naval service or reenrolling within four months of the date of the termination of their last term of enrollment shall receive an increase of twenty-five per *Proviso*.Additional pay if reenlisting in regular service.centum of their retainer pay for each such enrollment: *Provided*, That men who have enrolled in the Fleet Naval Reserve within four months of the date of their discharge from the regular naval service shall, upon reenlistment in the regular naval service within four months of the date of discharge from the Fleet Naval Reserve, be entitled to the same gratuity and additional pay as if they had reenlisted in the regular naval service within four months of discharge therefrom.
Longevity increase of retainer pay.Members of the Fleet Naval Reserve who have, when transferred to the Fleet Naval Reserve, completed naval service of sixteen or twenty or more years shall be paid a retainer at the rate of one-third and one-half, respectively, of the base pay they were receiving at the close of their last naval service plus all permanent additions thereto: *Proviso*.Credit for heroism or good conduct.*Provided*, That the pay authorized in this paragraph as a retainer shall be increased ten per centum for all men who may be credited with extraordinary heroism in the fine of duty or whose average marks in conduct for twenty years or more shall not be less than ninety-five per centum of the maximum.
Forfeiture if not reporting for inspection.Any pay which may be due any member of the Fleet Naval Reserve shall be forfeited when so ordered by the Secretary of the Navy upon the failure, under such conditions as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy, of such man to report for inspection. Issue of warrants or commissions on examination, etc.Members of the Fleet Naval Reserve who have established their qualifications by examination to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Navy may be given warrants or commissions in the Fleet Naval Reserve in the grades of boatswain, gunner, carpenter, machinist, 591pharmacist, pay clerk, ensign for deck or engineering duties, or in the lowest grades of the staff corps: *Provided further*, That those*Proviso*.Retainer pay, etc., not affected. so warranted or commissioned shall not be deprived of the retainer pay, allowances, or gratuities to which they would be otherwise entitled.
Men transferred to the Fleet Naval Reserve shall be governed by theDischarges restricted. laws and regulations for the government of the Navy and shall not be discharged from the Naval Reserve Force without their consent, except by sentence of a court-martial. They may, upon their ownVoluntary retirement after specified service. request, upon completing thirty years’ service, including naval and fleet naval reserve service, be placed on the retired list of the Navy with the pay they were then receiving plus the allowances to which enlisted men of the same rating are entitled on retirement after thirty years’ naval service.
They shall be required to keep on handUniform to be kept. such part of the uniform-clothing outfit as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy. The Secretary of the Navy is authorized in time of war or when aActive service in time of war. national emergency exists to call any enlisted man on the retired list into active service for such duty as he may be able to perform. While so employed such enlisted men shall receive the same pay andPay, etc. allowances they were receiving when placed on the retired list. naval reserve.Naval Reserve.
Members of the Naval Reserve Force who have been or may beQualifications for enrollment in. engaged in the seagoing profession, and who have enrolled for general service, shall be eligible for membership in the Naval Reserve. No person shall be first enrolled in this class who is less than eighteen or more than thirty-five years of age, nor unless he furnishes satisfactory evidence as to his ability and character; nor shall any person be appointed an officer in this class unless he shall have had not less than two years’ experience as an officer on board of lake or ocean going vessels.
The minimum active service required of members to qualify forActive service for rank, etc. confirmation in their rank or rating in this class shall be three months. The minimum active service required for maintaining the efficiencyService during term. of a member of this class is three months during each term of enrollment. This active service may be in one period or in periods of not less than three weeks each year. The annual retainer pay of members in this class after confirmationRetainer pay. in rank or rating shall be two months’ base pay of the corresponding rank or rating in the Navy. naval auxiliary reserve.Naval Auxiliary Reserve.
Members of the Naval Reserve Force of the seagoing professionEligibility for membership in. who shall have been or may be employed on American vessels of the merchant marine of suitable type for use as naval auxiliaries and which shall have been listed as such by the Navy Department for use in war, shall be eligible for membership in the Naval Auxiliary Reserve. In time of war or during the existence of a national emergency,To serve on merchant type of ships in time of war. persons in this class shall be required to serve only in vessels of the merchant ship type, except in cases of emergency, to be determined by the senior officer present, when said officer may, in his discretion, detail them for temporary duty elsewhere as the exigencies of the service may require.
The requirement as to qualifications of officers and men for confirmationQualifications limited to merchant service, etc. in rank or rating, and as to the maintenance of efficiency in rank or rating, shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy and shall be limited to the requirements for the proper organization, 592discipline, maneuvering, navigation, and operation of vessels of the merchant ship type while performing auxiliary service to the fleet in time of war, and length of time of employment on board such vessels in the merchant service.
Command of officers.Officers in the Naval Auxiliary Reserve shall exercise military command only on board the ships to which they are attached and in the naval auxiliary service. Retainer pay.The annual retainer pay of members in this class after confirmation in rank or rating shall be for officers, one month’s base pay of the corresponding rank in the Navy, and for men, two months’ base pay of the corresponding rating in the Navy. Naval Coast Defense Reserve.naval coast defense reserve.
Eligibility for membership in.Members of the Naval Reserve Force who may be capable of performing special useful service in the Navy or in connection with the Navy in defense of the coast, shall be eligible for membership in the Naval Coast Defense Reserve. Classes of service to be enrolled for.Persons may enroll in this class for service in connection with the naval defense of the coast, such as service with coast-defense vessels, torpedo craft, mining vessels, patrol vessels or as radio operators, in various ranks or ratings corresponding to those of the Navy for which they shall have qualified under regulations prescribed by the *Proviso*.Owners of yachts and motor boats.Secretary of the Navy: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy may permit the enrollment in this class of owners and operators of yachts and motor power boats suitable for naval purposes in the naval Contracts for using boats, etc.defense of the coast; and is hereby authorized to enter into contract with the owners of such power boats and other craft suitable for war purposes to take over the same in time of war or national emergency upon payment of a reasonable indemnity.
Service for rank and rating.The amount of active service required for confirmation in rank and rating and for maintaining efficiency in rank and rating shall be the same as that required for members of the Naval Reserve. Retainer pay.The annual retainer pay of members of this class shall be the same as that of members of the Naval Reserve. Volunteer Naval Reserve.volunteer naval reserve. Gratuitous offers of service to constitute.The Volunteer Naval Reserve shall be composed of those members of the Naval Reserve Force who are eligible for membership in any one of the other classes of the Naval Reserve Force, and who obligate themselves to serve in the Navy in any one of said classes without retainer pay and uniform gratuity in time of peace.
Naval Reserve Flying Corps.naval reserve flying corps. Composed of transfers from Flying Corps.The Naval Reserve Flying Corps shall be composed of officers and student flyers who have been transferred from the Naval Flying Corps to the Naval Reserve Flying Corps and of enlisted men who shall have been so transferred under the same conditions as those provided by law for enlisted men of the Navy transferred to the Fleet *Proviso*.Surplus graduates of aeronautic school.Naval Reserve: *Provided*, That surplus graduates of the aeronautic school may be commissioned as ensigns in the Naval Reserve Flying Corps and promoted therein under such regulations as may be prescribed Skilled operators, designers, etc., of aircraft.by the President.
Members of the Naval Reserve Force skilled in the flying of aircraft or in their design, building, or operation, shall be eligible for membership in the Naval Reserve Flying Service required.Corps. The amount of active service required for confirmation in grade, rank, or rating, and for maintaining efficiency therein, shall Retainer pay.be the same as that required for members of the Naval Reserve. The retainer pay of members of the Naval Reserve Flying Corps shall be the same as that of members of the Naval Reserve. 593 marine corps reserve.Marine Corps Reserve.
A United States Marine Corps Reserve, to be a constituent part ofEstablished as part of Marine Corps. the Marine Corps and in addition to the authorized strength thereof, is hereby established under the same provisions in all respects (except as may be necessary to adapt the said provisions to the Marine Corps) as those providing for the Naval Reserve Force in this Act: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Classes. That the Marine Corps Reserve may consist of not more than five classes, corresponding, as near as may be, to the Fleet Naval Reserve, the Naval Reserve, the Naval Coast Defense Reserve, the Volunteer Naval Reserve, and the Naval Reserve Flying Corps, respectively.
All Acts or parts of Acts relating to the Naval Reserve which areInconsistent laws repealed. inconsistent with the provisions of this Act relating to the Naval Reserve Force are hereby repealed. Naval Reserve Force: For the authorized expenses of organizingAppropriation for organizing Naval Reserve Force.Use of balances.Vol. 38, p. 941. the Naval Reserve Force, $130,000, and the unexpended balance of the appropriation for carrying into effect the provisions of the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and fifteen, relating to a Naval Reserve, be, and it is hereby, made immediately available to carry into effect the foregoing provisions relating to a Naval Reserve Force.
TheRetainer pay.*Ante*, p. 575.*Post*, p. 611. retainer pay and active service pay of members of the Naval Reserve Force shall be paid from the appropriation “Pay—the Navy,” and the retainer pay and active service pay of the Marine Corps Reserve shall be paid from the appropriation “Pay, Marine Corps.” naval militia and national naval volunteers.Naval Militia and Volunteers. Each commissioned and warrant officer on the active list of theNaval Militia.Retainer pay of officers.
Naval Militia shall receive compensation for his services, referred to hereinafter as retainer pay, except during periods of service for which he may become lawfully entitled to the same pay as an officer of corresponding grade of the United States Navy or Marine Corps, at the following rates per annum, namely: To officers of or above the naval rank or equivalent rank of lieutenant,Ratings. $500; To officers of the naval rank or equivalent rank of lieutenant (junior grade), $240;
To officers of the naval rank or equivalent rank of ensign, $200; To warrant officers, $120; *Provided*, That no commissioned or warrant officer of the Naval*Proviso*.Attendance at drills required.Vol. 38, p. 288. Militia shall be entitled to any retainer pay for any period during which he has not attended the minimum number of drills prescribed in section fifteen of an Act entitled “An Act to promote the efficiency of the Naval Militia, and for other purposes,” approved February sixteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, or equivalent official dutyEquivalent duty. duly authorized in lieu thereof in accordance with such regulations as may be issued by the Secretary of the Navy.
That each enlisted man on the active list of the Naval Militia shallEnlisted men.Retainer pay. receive compensation for his services, referred to hereinafter as retainer pay, except during periods of service for which he may become lawfully entitled to the same pay as an enlisted man of corresponding rate or rank of the United States Navy or Marine Corps, at a rate equal to twenty-five per centum of the base pay now, or as may be hereafter, provided by law for an enlisted man of corresponding rate or rank in the United States Navy or Marine Corps, but not to exceed $120 per annum: *Provided*, That such enlisted man shall*Proviso*.Attendance at drills, etc., required. receive the full retainer pay represented by said twenty-five per centum of said base pay only if he shall have attended, during any one year, the maximum number of assemblies for drill, instruction, and target practice, but for the purpose of computing pay not to exceed forty-eight (or equivalent official duty), which he shall have been duly 594required to attend, and a proportionate amount for attendance at a lesser number of the same, being in no case less than fifty per centum of said maximum, nor less than the minimum total number of assemblies for drill, instruction, and target practice provided for by section Vol. 38, p. 288.fifteen of an Act entitled “An Act to promote the efficiency of the Naval Militia, and for other purposes,” approved February sixteenth, Equivalent duty.nineteen hundred and fourteen, or duly authorized equivalent official duty.
Qualifications.That no member of the Naval Militia shall be entitled to the retainer pay herein provided for until he has been found qualified, both physically and professionally, in accordance with the standard Enrollment in Volunteers.*Post*, p. 595.prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy, and until he has enrolled in the National Naval Volunteers hereinafter provided for. Quarterly computation of payments.That the compensation provided for herein shall be computed for quarterly periods under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, beginning the first days of January, April, July, and October, respectively, of each year, in proportion to the Attendance required.number of said assemblies attended, and no compensation shall be paid to any enlisted man during the first semiannual period of any year unless he shall have attended during said period at least fifty per centum of said minimum of assemblies; but attendance at any lesser number of said assemblies during said period shall be reckoned with the said assemblies attended during the second, third, and fourth quarterly periods in computing the compensation, if any, *Provisos*.Payment for part of first year.due him for that year:
Provided, That when any enlisted man enters into an enlistment he shall be entitled to proportional compensation for that year if during the remainder of the year he shall attend a number of said assemblies whose ratio to said minimum is not less than the ratio of the part of the year so served to the whole year; and when the enlistment of any man shall expire the compensation, if any, to which he may be entitled shall be determined Other service in place of drills.in like manner: *And provided further*, That periods of any actual military duty equivalent to the assemblies hereinabove particularly referred to, except those periods of service for which, under existing or future laws, members of the Naval Militia may become entitled to the same pay as officers and enlisted men of the corresponding ranks, grades, or rates in the United States Navy and Marine Corps, may be accepted as service in lieu of such drills, when approved by the Secretary of the Navy.
Government employees.Pay continued while attending drills, etc.Whenever a member of the Naval Militia who is employed under a department of the Government of the United States attends drills, cruises, or other ordered duty of the Naval Militia, he shall receive the amount of the salary or wages he would have earned when so employed, in addition to the amount provided for by law as a member Efficiency ratings, etc., not affected.of the said Naval Militia: *Provided, however*, That such attendance shall not affect his efficiency rating in said department, nor shall he suffer demotion or loss of position during or at the termination of any naval or military service when ordered upon special or active duty of any kind.
Payments to be made through State, etc., disbursing officers.Vol. 38, p. 288.That the retainer pay provided above shall be paid quarterly, except as otherwise above provided, to officers and enlisted men of the Naval Militia through the disbursing officer provided for under section eleven of an Act to promote the efficiency of the Naval Militia, and for other purposes, approved February sixteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, who shall be an officer of the pay corps Amount to disbursing officer.of the Naval Militia.
The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to pay to such disbursing officer so much of the amount appropriated to carry out the provisions of this Act as shall be necessary for the Travel allowance.above purposes. When disbursing officers are traveling in the performance of their official duties under orders issued by the Secretary of the Navy they shall be reimbursed for their actual and necessary 595traveling expenses, the same to be made a charge against the appropriationFrom general fund.*Ante*, p. 559.
“Arming and equipping Naval Militia.” The governor of each State and Territory, and the commandingAppointment of disbursing officers. general of the District of Columbia Militia, shall appoint either the above-described disbursing officer or such other officer of the pay corps of the Naval Militia as he may elect as accounting officer for each battalion thereof, or, at his option, for each larger unit or combination of units of the same, who shall be responsible for the proper accounting for all property belonging to the United States issued to and for the use of such battalion, or larger unit or combination of units.
Accounting officers shall render accounts as prescribed by theAccounting officers.Bond. Secretary of the Navy and shall be required to give good and sufficient bonds to the United States in such sums as the Secretary of the Navy may direct, conditioned upon the faithful accounting for all property belonging to the United States and for the safekeeping of such part thereof as may be in the personal custody of such officer. Accounting officers may issue any or all such property to otherIssue of property by. officers or enlisted men of the Naval Militia under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed: *And provided further*, That the*Proviso*.Yearly inspection.
Secretary of the Navy shall cause an inspection of the accounts and records of the accounting officers to be made by an officer of the Navy at least once each year. When accounting officers are traveling in the performance of theirTravel expenses. official duties under orders issued by the Secretary of the Navy they shall be reimbursed for their actual and necessary traveling expenses, the same to be made a charge against the appropriationFrom general fund.*Ante*, p. 559. “Arming and equipping Naval Militia.
” That officers and enlisted men of the Naval Militia to whomResponsibility for property received. property has been issued as herein provided for shall be responsible for the safe-keeping and return thereof. Stoppages may be madeStoppages, if lost, etc. against the compensation payable to any officer or enlisted man of the Naval Militia to cover the cost of public property lost or destroyed by and chargeable to such officer or enlisted man. That no part of the Naval Militia which is entitled to compensationDisbandment without President’s consent, forbidden. under the provisions of this Act shall be disbanded without the consent of the President.
That to provide a force for use in any emergency, including thatNational Naval Volunteers.Created for emergency use. of actual or imminent war, requiring the use of naval forces in addition to those of the Regular Navy, of which emergency the President shall be, for the purposes of this Act, the sole judge, there is hereby created a force, to be known as the “National naval Volunteers,”Enrollment from Naval Militia.Without examination. into which the President alone is authorized, under such regulations as he may prescribe, to at any time enroll, by commission, warrant, and enlistment, respectively, and without examination, such number of the officers and men of the various branches of the Naval Militia as he may decide to so enroll from among those of the Naval Militia who have theretofore conformed to the standard of professional andQualifications. physical examination prescribed for such officers and men under section five of an Act entitled “An Act to promote the efficiency ofVol. 38, p. 284. the Naval Militia, and for other purposes,” approved February sixteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and who may volunteer for such enrollment; and may also similarly enroll, immediately upon the occurrence of any such emergency (subject to their first orSubject to examination. subsequently passing examinations satisfactory to him, or may, if he shall think best, enroll without any examination), such further number of the officers and men of the Naval Militia as may so volunteer from among those of the Naval Militia who have not theretofore conformed to said standards.
Such officers and men, so enrolled byLiable for immediate service. commission, warrant, or enlistment, shall be eligible and liable for call for immediate service in the event of any such emergency. 596 Draft authorized of those not volunteering.That the President may also, in the event of such emergency, draft into the naval service of the United States and enroll as members of the said Volunteers as many officers and men of the Naval Militia as he may think best, and with or without examination, as he may decide, from among those of the Naval Militia who shall not theretofore *Provisos*.Rank and grade.have volunteered and been enrolled in said Volunteers:
Provided, That no commissioned or warrant officer drafted or otherwise enrolled shall be compelled to serve in said Volunteers in a lower rank or grade than that which he held in the Naval Militia at the Commissions, etc., authorized.time of being drafted or otherwise enrolled: *Provided further*, That the President may commission, warrant, or rate in said Volunteers any person who shall be so enrolled as above. Subject to Navy 1aws, etc., while in service.That when the National Naval Volunteers are ordered by the President into the active service they will, from the date such orders are issued until such time as they may be discharged from such service, be subject to the laws for the government of the Navy in so far as those laws may properly be applied to persons not in the regular permanent naval service.
Term of service.That all persons so enrolled shall be held to service in said Volunteers during the continuance of any such emergency and during the period of any existing or thereafter ensuing war, unless sooner Age limit.relieved by order of the President or until reaching the age of sixty-two years for those in the naval branch and the age of sixty-four years for those in the Marine Corps branch, upon attaining which ages such persons, respectively, shall be relieved from such enrollment: *Proviso*.Punishment for failure to obey call.*Provided*, That during the continuance of any such emergency or war any enrolled person who shall fail to obey the call to service of the President may be arrested and compelled to serve, and, in addition thereto, may be tried by court-martial as a deserter and punished as such in such manner as said court-martial may lawfully direct.
Resignations, etc.That any person so enrolled may tender his resignation to, or request his discharge from, the President, who may, in his discretion, accept such resignation or grant such discharge and disenroll such person, and any person so enrolled may be disenrolled by the *Proviso*.Service period.President for any cause: *Provided*, That no person so enrolled shall be held against his will to such enrollment for a longer continuous period than three years, except during the pendency or duration of Reenrollment at qualified Naval Militia rating.the emergency or of war hereinabove referred to.
Any person enrolled may subsequently, upon his own application while so enrolled and if still a member of the Naval Militia, be reenrolled in any rank, grade, or rating for which he shall have been found qualified under Vol. 38, p. 284.the provisions of section five of an Act entitled “An Act to promote the efficiency of the Naval Militia, and for other purposes,” approved February sixteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for which he shall also have been duly commissioned, warranted, enlisted, or rated, as the case may be, in the Naval Militia.
Volunteers relieved from Naval Militia duty.That every person enrolled in said Volunteers shall, from the date of the call of the President, and dining the continuance of his active service under said call, stand relieved from all duty as a member of Subject to Navy laws, etc.the Naval Militia, and shall, during said period, have in said Volunteers all the authority and obligations of a person of similar rank, grade, or rate in the United States Navy or Marine Corps, shall be governed by the laws and regulations for the government of the Regular pay, etc.Navy, and shall, during his time of active service, be entitled to the same pay and allowances as are, or may be hereafter, provided by law for a person of similar rank, grade, or rate in the United States Navy and Marine Corps, respectively.
Service with Navy or Marine Corps.That the members of the said Volunteers may be ordered to duty with the Navy or separately, and either within or without the territorial limits of the United States, and when so serving shall 597rank with but after those of corresponding rank, grades, or rates in the United States Navy or Marine Corps, except that for the purposeCommand of combined forces.Volunteer officers. of determining who shall exercise command over a combined force, composed of vessels commanded by officers of said Volunteers, and of vessels commanded by officers of the United States Navy, acting in conjunction, and for the purpose of determining who shall exercise command on shore over a combined force composed of military units commanded by officers of said Volunteers and officers of the United States Navy or Marine Corps, acting in conjunction, all officers of said Volunteers of or above the rank of lieutenantRank and precedence with Navy and Marine Corps. commander (naval branch) or major (Marine Corps branch) will be regarded as junior to lieutenant commanders of the Navy and majors of the United States Marine Corps, respectively, and providedAmong themselves. that as between themselves officers of the said Volunteers shall take rank and precedence as of the dates of the commissions in the Naval Militia under which enrolled in said Volunteers.
That when serving under the call of the President, officers of saidService of officers on courts-martial. Volunteers may serve on courts-martial for the trial of officers and men of the United States naval or Naval Militia service, or of said Volunteers, but in the cases of courts-martial convened for the trial of officers or enlisted men of the United States Navy or Marine Corps, the majority of the members shall be officers of the regular naval service, and officers and enlisted men of the said Volunteers may be tried by courts-martial, the members of which are members of the regular naval service, or of said Volunteers, or any or all of the same.
That when any officer or enlisted man of the said Volunteers isPension laws applicable. disabled by reason of wounds or disabilities received in the active service of the United States, when called to duty under the provisions of this Act, he shall be entitled to all the benefits of the pension laws existing at the time of his service for the benefit of members of the United States Navy or Marine Corps, respectively, and in case such officer or enlisted man dies in the active service of the United States, or in returning to his place of residence after being relieved from such active service, or at any time in consequence of wounds or disabilities received in such active service, his widow and children, or previously designated dependent relative, if any, shall be entitled to all the benefits of such pension laws.
That the President may relieve any and all persons in the NationalTermination of active service. Naval Volunteers from active service when their services are no longer needed. That no distinction shall be made between the regular naval serviceRecognition of distinguished conduct, etc. and the National Naval Volunteers when in active service under the call of the President, in respect to promotions or rewards for valorous conduct, or to the conferring upon officers or enlisted men of brevet rank, medals of honor, or other rewards for distinguished conduct.
That the Naval Militia shall consist of the regularly enlisted militiaNaval Militia.Composition.Age limit, officers.*Ante*, p. 579. between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, organized as prescribed for the Naval Militia by law, and commissioned officers between the ages of twenty-one and sixty-two years (naval branch), and twenty-one and sixty-four years (Marine Corps branch): *Provided,*Proviso*.Continued service of enlisted men. however*, That enlisted men may continue in service after the age of forty-five years, and until the age of sixty-two years (naval branch), or sixty-four years (Marine Corps branch), provided the service is continuous.
That hereafter the period of enlistment in the Naval Militia shallEnlistment period.Reenlistments. be three years. An enlisted man who has served honorably for the full term of his enlistment may reenlist for a term of one, two, or three years, as he may elect. When a man reenlists within thirty days from the date of the expiration of his prior enlistment his term of service shall be considered as continuous, and shall be so dated. 598 Courts-martial.Constitution of.That courts-martial in the Naval Militia of the several States and Territories and in the District of Columbia shall, except when the Naval Militia shall have been called into the service of the United States, consist of general courts-martial, summary courts-martial, and deck courts.
General.That general courts-martial shall consist of not less than three nor more than thirteen officers, and may be convened by order of the governor of a State or Territory, or the commanding general of the District of Columbia Militia. Summary.That summary courts-martial may be ordered by the governor of a State, or Territory or by the commanding general of the District of Columbia Militia, or by the commanding officer of a Naval Militia battalion or brigade. Deck courts.That deck courts may be ordered by the commanding officer of a Naval Militia battalion or brigade, or by a Naval Militia officer in command of Naval Militia forces on shore or on any vessel loaned to a State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, or on any vessel on which said forces may be serving.
Powers, procedure, etc., to conform with, Navy.That the above courts-martial and deck courts herein provided for shall be constituted and have cognizance of the same subjects and possess like powers, except as to punishments, as similar courts provided for in the Navy of the United States, and the proceedings of courts-martial of the Naval Militia shall follow the forms and modes of procedure prescribed for such courts in the Navy of the United States. Place of meeting.That every precept or order for the convening of any such court may authorize said court to sit at any place or places within the territorial limits of the State, Territory, or District where such Naval Militia may be located, or organized, as the convening authority may designate, and may further provide that any such court may be convened and sit on board any such naval or other vessel, wherever the same may from time to time happen to be, or at such place or places ashore, outside the territorial limits referred to above, as, in the judgment of the said convening authority, may be convenient or desirable for the purposes of such courts-martial.
Powers.General.That general courts-martial shall have power to impose fines not exceeding $200, to sentence to forfeiture of pay and allowances, to a reprimand, to dismissal or dishonorable discharge from the service, to reduction in rank or rating; or any two or more of such punishments may be combined in the sentences imposed by such courts. Summary.That summary courts-martial shall have the same powers of punishment as general courts-martial, except that fines imposed by summary courts-martial shall not exceed $100.
Deck courts.That deck courts may impose fines not exceeding $50 for any single offense, may sentence enlisted men to reduction in rank or rating, to forfeiture of pay and allowances, to a reprimand, to discharge with other than dishonorable discharge, or to a fine in addition to any one of the other sentences specified. Confinement in lieu of fines.That all courts-martial of the Naval Militia, including deck courts, shall have the power to sentence to confinement in lieu of fines *Proviso*.Limit.authorized to be imposed: *Provided*, That such sentences shall not exceed one day for each dollar of fine authorized.
Approval of dismissal.That no sentence of dismissal or dishonorable discharge from the Naval Militia shall, except when the Naval Militia shall have been called into the service of the United States, be executed without the approval of the governor of the State or Territory or the commanding general of the District of Columbia Militia. Power for arrests, etc.That presidents of general courts-martial, senior members of summary courts-martial, and deck-court officers of the Naval Militia shall have the power to issue warrants to arrest accused persons and to bring them before the court for trial whenever such persons 599have disobeyed an order in writing from the convening authority to appear before such court, a copy of the charge or charges having been delivered to the accused with such order, and to issue subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum, and to enforce by attachment attendance of witnesses and the production of books and papers, and to sentence for a refusal to be sworn or to answer, all as authorized for similar proceedings for courts-martial in the Navy of the United States.
That all processes and sentences of said courts-martial shall beExecution of process, etc. executed by such civil or other officers as may be prescribed by the laws of the several States and Territories, except as hereinafter alternatively provided, and in any State where no provisions have been made for such action and in the Territories and the District of Columbia the same shall be executed by a United States marshal, or by his duly appointed deputy, and it shall further be the duty in any case of any United States marshal, when so required by the convening authority of any such court-martial, to execute all such processes and sentences and make return thereof to the officer issuing or imposing the same.
That the Naval Militia shall be subject to the system of disciplineSubject to Navy or Marine Corps discipline. prescribed for the United States Navy and Marine Corps, and the commanding officer of a Naval Militia battalion or brigade, and the Naval Militia officer in command of Naval Militia forces on shore or on any vessel of the Navy loaned to the States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, or on any vessel on which such forces are training, shall have the power, without trial by courts-martial, toMinor punishments by commanding officer. impose upon members of the Naval Militia the punishments which the commanding officer of a vessel of the Navy is authorized by law to impose.
That the amount of any fine imposed under sentence of the courtsCollection of fines. heretofore named on any member of the Naval Militia may be collected from him, or may be deducted from any amount due said member as accrued pay or retainer pay under the provisions of this Act, or otherwise. That all fines assessed under the provisions of this Act and collectedDisposal of fines. or withheld shall be paid to the commanding officer of the Naval Militia brigade, battalion, or separate unassigned unit of which the person against whom such fine shall have been assessed is a member, to be used by said commanding officer to replace lost or damaged property or for such other purposes of his Naval Militia organization as he may decide, subject to such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy.
Upon the receipt of a certificate from the authority convening the court as to any fine assessed by it, any United States disbursing officer concerned shall pay over any funds due the said member not exceeding the amount of such fine to said commanding officer upon the sole receipt of said commanding officer. That courts of inquiry in the Naval Militia shall be instituted,Courts of inquiry. Institution, etc., of. constituted, and conducted in the same manner and shall have like powers and duties as similar courts in the Navy of the United States, except that in the Naval Militia courts of inquiry shall be ordered by the governor of the State or Territory, the commanding general of the District of Columbia Militia, or the commanding officer of a Naval Militia brigade or battalion.
That officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps may,Navy and Marine Corps officers may be commissioned in Militia. with the approval of the Secretary of the Navy, be elected or appointed and commissioned as officers of the Naval Militia without prejudice to their position or status in the regular service: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Resignation. That such officers so commissioned shall, when directed by the Secretary of the Navy, tender their resignations of such State com-600Authority of Secretary of the Navy.missions: *And provided further*, That nothing herein contained shall limit the authority of the Secretary of the Navy over such officers so commissioned.
Duties of line officers.That line officers of the Naval Militia may be for line duties only, for engineering duties only, or for aeronautic duties only. Instruction at Navy or Marine Corps service schools.That, under such regulations as the President may prescribe, the Secretary of the Navy may, upon the recommendation of the governor of any State or Territory, or the commanding general of the National Guard of the District of Columbia, authorize a limited number of selected officers or enlisted men of the Naval Militia to attend and pursue a regular course of study at any Navy or Marine Corps service school of the United States, except the United States Travel, etc., allowances.Naval Academy; or to be attached to any Navy or Marine Corps command for routine practical instruction; and such officer or enlisted man shall receive, out of any Naval Militia allotment of funds available for the purpose, the same travel allowances and quarters, or commutation of quarters, and the same pay, allowances, and subsistence to which an officer or enlisted man of the naval service would be entitled for attending such school, college, or practical course of instruction under orders from proper naval authority, while in actual attendance at such school, college, or practical course of *Proviso*.Pay limit.instruction: *Provided*, That in no case shall the pay and allowances authorized by this section exceed those of a lieutenant in the Navy.
Annual estimates to be made.That the Secretary of the Navy shall cause to be estimated annually the amount necessary for carrying out the provisions of this Act, and no money shall be expended under said provisions, except as shall, from time to time, be appropriated for carrying them out. Volunteer Patrol Squadrons.Oil and gasoline issued to.*Post*, p. 1172.That 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 that 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 charge.
Coast Guard.coast guard. Personnel subject to Navy laws, etc., when operating therewith.Vol. 38, p. 800.*Provisos*.Punishment for offenses.Whenever, in time of war, the Coast Guard operates as a part of the Navy in accordance with law, the personnel of that service shall be subject to the laws prescribed for the government of the Navy: *Provided*, That in the initiation, prosecution, and completion of disciplinary action, including remission and mitigation of punishments for any offense committed by any officer or enlisted man of the Coast Guard, the jurisdiction shall hereafter depend upon and be in accordance with the laws and regulations of the department having jurisdiction of the person of such offender at the various stages Limitation.of such action: *Provided further*, That any punishment imposed and executed in accordance with the provisions of this section shall not exceed that to which the offender was liable at the time of the commission of his offense.
Reimbursement of expenses.Hereafter whenever, in accordance with law, the expenses of the Coast Guard are paid by the Navy Department, any naval appropriations from which payments are so made shall be reimbursed from available appropriations made by Congress for the expenses of the Coast Guard. Precedence of officers.Whenever the personnel of the Coast Guard, or any part thereof, is operating with the personnel of the Navy in accordance with law, precedence between commissioned officers of corresponding grades in the two services shall be determined by the date of commissions in those grades. 601 Any commissioned or warrant officer, petty officer, or other enlistedAssignments of personnel to duty. man in the Coast Guard may be assigned to any duty which may be necessary for the proper conduct of the Coast Guard; and the Secretary of the Treasury in time of peace and the Secretary of the Navy in time of war may, in his discretion, man any Coast GuardMaintenance of stations. station during the entire year, or any portion thereof, maintain any house of refuge as a Coast Guard station, and change, establish, and fix the limits of Coast Guard districts and divisions.
That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized andConstruction of cutters authorized.*Post*, p. 1185. directed to construct and equip two steam Coast Guard cutters for service on the Pacific coast and in Alaskan waters, at a total cost not to exceed the sum of $700,000; one steam Coast Guard cutter for service as an anchorage patrol boat in New York Harbor, at a cost not to exceed the sum of $125,000, such vessel to be especially constructed for ice breaking; to purchase or construct and equip two or more cutters for service in harbors and shoal waters, at a total cost not to exceed $50,000; to purchase or construct and equip three light-draftFor river flood service, etc. river steamboats, including lifeboats and such other life-saving appliances and equipment as may be necessary, to be used in rescuing lives and property and in distributing food and clothing to marooned people during flood times on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers and their tributaries, for patrolling said waters for the enforcement of navigation and motor-boat laws, and for rendering aid to vessels in distress, at a total cost not to exceed $240,000.
On account of Coast GuardAppropriation. vessels herein authorized, to be available until expended, $400,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy, at the request of the*Proviso*.Building at navy yards. Secretary of the Treasury, is hereby authorized to build the vessels herein authorized, or any Coast Guard vessels hereafter authorized, at such navy yards as the Secretary of the Navy may designate. That for the purpose of saving life and property along the coastsAviation stations.Establishment and equipment of coast, authorized. of the United States and at sea contiguous thereto, and to assist in the national defense, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to establish, equip, and maintain aviation stations, not exceeding ten in number, at such points on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Great Lakes, as he may deem advisable, andDetails to. to detail for aviation duty in connection therewith officers and enlisted men of the United States Coast Guard.
At one of theseAeronautic school. stations there may be instituted a school for the purpose of special instruction in aeronautics, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to employ one expert instructor in aeronautics, at a salary of $4,000 per annum, and one assistant instructor, also skilled in aeronautics, at a salary of $3,000 per annum. At the request of the Secretary of the Treasury the Secretaries ofInstruction at Army and Navy aviation schools. War and Navy are authorized to receive officers and enlisted men of the Coast Guard for instruction in aviation at any aviation school maintained by the Army and Navy, and such officers and enlisted men shall be subject to the regulations governing such schools.
Hereafter officers and enlisted men of the Coast Guard, whenIncreased pay, etc., for aviation duty. detailed for aviation duty, shall receive the same percentages of increases in pay and allowances as are now or may hereafter be prescribed by law for officers and men of the Navy detailed for aviation duty: *Provided*, That no more than a yearly average of fifteen*Provisos*.Number to be detailed. commissioned officers and a total of forty warrant officers and enlisted men of the Coast Guard detailed for duty involving actual flying in aircraft shall receive any increase in pay or allowances by reason of such detail or duty: *Provided further*, That the number of thirdIncrease in third lieutenants. lieutenants and third lieutenants of engineers now authorized by law for the Coast Guard is hereby increased ten and five, respectively, and such portion of the Act approved August twenty-fourth, nineteenRestriction repealed.Vol. 37, p. 429. hundred and twelve, which provides that no additional appoint-602ments as cadets or cadet engineers shall be made in the Revenue-Cutter Service unless hereafter authorized by Congress is hereby revoked.
Lighthouse Service.lighthouse service. Transfer of vessels, etc., to Army or Navy in emergencies.The President is hereby authorized, whenever in his judgment a sufficient national emergency exists, to transfer to the service and jurisdiction of the Navy Department, or of the War Department, such vessels, equipment, stations, and personnel of the Lighthouse Service as he may deem to the best interest of the country, and after such transfer all expenses connected therewith shall be defrayed out of the appropriations for the department to which transfer is made: *Provisos*.Return on termination.*Provided*, That such vessels, equipment, stations, and personnel shall be returned to the Lighthouse Service when such national emergency ceases in the opinion of the President, and nothing in this Act shall be construed as transferring the Lighthouse Service or any of its functions from the Department of Commerce except in time of national emergency and to the extent herein provided: *Provided Personnel subject to Army or Navy rules during transfer.further*, That any of the personnel of the Lighthouse Service who may be transferred as herein provided shall, while under the jurisdiction of the Navy Department or War Department, be subject to the laws, regulations, and orders for the government of the Navy or Army, as the case may be, in so far as the same may be applicable to persons whose retention permanently in the military service of the United States is not contemplated by law.
Preparation of regulations, etc., for cooperation.The Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of War, and the Secretary of Commerce shall jointly prescribe regulations governing the duties to be performed by the Lighthouse Service in time of war, and for the cooperation of that service with the Navy and War Departments in time of peace in preparation for its duties in war, and this may include arrangements for a direct line of communication between the officers or bureaus of the Navy and War Departments and the Bureau of Lighthouses to provide for immediate action on all communications from these departments.
Retired officers restored to active list:That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint the following-named officers now on the retired list of the United States Navy to the grade and rank on the active list of the United States Navy, as hereinafter provided: Ten Eyck De Witt Veeder.Commodore Ten Eyck De Witt Veeder, retired, to be a rear admiral on the active list, to take rank next after Rear Admiral Austin M. Templin Morris Potts.Knight, United States Navy;
Captain Templin Morris Potts, retired, to be a rear admiral on the active list, to take rank next after Rear John Henry Gibbons.Admiral William B. Caperton, United States Navy; Captain John Henry Gibbons, retired, to be a captain on the active list, to take rank next after Captain Frank M. Bennett, United States Navy; Frank Kinsey Hill.Captain Frank Kinsey Hill, retired, to be a captain on the active list, to take rank next after Captain Clarence S. Williams, United States Armistead Rust.Navy;
Captain Armistead Bust, retired, to be a captain on the active list, to take rank next after Captain Robert L. Russell, United States John Gardner Quinby.Navy; Captain John Gardner Quinby, retired, to be a rear admiral on the active list, to take rank next after Rear Admiral Thomas S. John Morris Ellicott.Rodgers, United States Navy; Captain John Morris Ellicott, retired, to be a captain on the active fist, to take rank next after Captain Frank W. Kellogg.Robert B. Higgins, United States Navy;
Captain Frank W. Kellogg, retired, to be a captain on the active list to take rank next after Allen M. Cook.Captain Thomas Snowden, United States Navy; Commander Allen M. Cook, retired, to be a commander on the active fist and to take rank next after Commander John R. Brady, United States Navy; Emmet R. Pollock.Commander Emmet R. Pollock, retired, to be a commander on the active list, to take rank next after Commander Andre Morton Procter, Washington Irving Chambers.United States Navy;
Captain Washington Irving Chambers, retired, 603to be a rear admiral on the active list, to take rank next after Rear Admiral Walter McLean, United States Navy; Commander GeorgeGeorge N. Hayward. N. Hayward, retired, to be a captain on the active list to take rank next after Captain Lloyd H. Chandler, United States Navy: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Examinations required. That the aforesaid officers shall establish to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Navy, by the usual examination prescribed by law, their physical, mental, moral, and professional fitness to perform the duties of the grade on the active list to which they are hereby restored: *Provided further*, That the aforesaid officers shall be carried as additionalTo be additional numbers. numbers in the grade to which they may be appointed under this Act, or at any time thereafter promoted: *Provided further*, ThatNo back pay, etc. the aforesaid officers shall not by the passage of this Act be entitled to back pay or allowances of any kind.
Provisions, Navy: For provisions and commuted rations for theProvisions. seamen and marines, which commuted rations may be paid to caterers of messes, in case of death or desertion, upon orders of the commanding officers, commuted rations for officers on sea duty (other than commissioned officers of the line, Medical and Pay Corps, chaplains, chief boatswains, chief gunners, chief carpenters, chief machinists, 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); and for subsistence of female nurses, and Navy and Marine Corps general courts-martial prisoners undergoing imprisonment with sentences of dishonorable discharge from the service at the expiration of such confinement: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the*Provisos*.Commutation of rations to 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 asArmy emergency rations. required; in all, $9,820,900.25, to be available until the close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen.
For the purchase of necessary additional land, cattle, and workNaval Academy dairy farm.Installation, etc. animals, machinery and implements, erection of new buildings, repairs and alterations of buildings now on the farm for clearing and improving the land and for all other purposes necessary for the complete installation of the Naval Academy dairy and farm, located at Gambrills, Maryland, $100,000: *Provided*, That the cost of said land*Provisos*.Limit of cost.Advance to store fund. shall not exceed $15,000: *Provided further*, That the amount appropriated for this purpose shall be treated as an advance to the midshipmen’s store fund at the Naval Academy, to be ultimately returned to the United States:
Provided further, That expenditures hereunderReport, etc. shall be reported by the Chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts to the Secretary of the Navy in the same manner as now prescribed by law for the midshipmen’s store fund. Maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: For fuel; theMaintenance. 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 ship; purchase, repair, and exchange of typewriters for ships; packing boxes and materials; interior fittings for general storehouses, pay offices, and accounting offices in navy yards; expenses of disbursing officers; coffee mills and repairs thereto; expenses of naval clothing factory and machinery for the same; laboratory equipment; purchase of articles of equipageEquipment supplies. at home and abroad under the cognizance of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels 604therewith, 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”;
Food inspection.and reimbursement to appropriations of the Department of Agriculture of cost of inspection of meats and meat food products for the *Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services.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 general storehouses, paymasters’ offices, and accounting offices of the navy yards and naval stations and disbursing offices for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall not exceed $1,183,000; in all, $2,623,640.
Freight, Department and bureaus.Freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: All freight and express charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus, except the transportation of coal for the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $725,000. Interstate commerce. Military transportation in time of war.Vol. 34, p. 587, amended.Section six of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate commerce,” approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as amended March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, which reads:
" Former provision.“That in time of war or threatened war preference and precedence shall, upon demand of the President of the United States, be given over all other traffic for the transportation of troops and material of war, and carriers shall adopt every means within their control to facilitate and expedite the military traffic,” " be amended to read as follows: " Preference to be given troops, etc.“That in time of war or threatened war preference and precedence shall, upon demand of the President of the United States, be given over all other traffic for the transportation of troops and material of war, and carriers shall adopt every means within their control Prompt delivery in time of peace.to facilitate and expedite the military traffic.
And in time of peace shipments consigned to agents of the United States for its use shall be delivered by the carriers as promptly as possible and without Embargoes prohibited.regard to any embargo that may have been declared, and no such embargo shall apply to shipments so consigned.” " Fuel and transportation.Fuel and transportation: Coal and other fuel for steamers’ and ships’ use, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same; maintenance and general operation of machinery of naval coaling depots and coaling plants; water for all purposes on board naval vessels; and ice for the cooling of water, including the expense of transportation and storage of both, $5,000,000.
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 in navy yards and on foreign stations; purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops; carrying on work of experimental model tank and wind tunnel; designing naval vessels; construction and repair of yard craft, lighters, and barges; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat; general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; incidental expenses for vessels and navy yards, inspectors’ offices, such as photographing, books, professional magazines, plans, stationery, and instruments for drafting room, 605and for pay of classified force under the bureau; for hemp, wire, iron,Equipment supplies. and other materials for the manufacture of cordage, anchors, cables, galleys, and chains; specifications for purchase thereof shall be so prepared as shall give fair and free competition; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, hammocks, and other work; interior appliances and tools for manufacturing purposes in navy yards and naval stations; and for the purchase of all other articles of equipage at home and abroad; and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith and manufacture of such articles in the several navy yards; naval signals and apparatus, other than electric, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, rockets, running lights, lanterns, and lamps and their appendages for general use on board ship for illuminating purposes, and oil and candles used in connection therewith; bunting and other materials for making and repairing flags of all kinds; for all permanent galley fittings and equipage; rugs, carpets, curtains, and hangings on board naval vessels, installingColliers “Ulysses” and “Achilles.” gun foundations on Panama Canal colliers Ulysses and Achilles, $10,071,069.16: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be applied*Provisos*.Repairs.Wooden ships. to the repair of any wooden ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed ten per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material: *Provided further*, That no part of this sum shall be applied to the repair of any otherOther ships. ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed twenty per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material: *Provided further*, That nothing hereinIn foreign waters, etc. 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.
And theSpecified vessels. Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to make expenditures from appropriate funds under the various bureaus for repairs and changes on the vessels herein named, in an amount not to exceed the sum specified for each vessel, respectively, as follows: North Dakota, $730,000; Georgia, $525,000; Virginia, $525,000; Salem, $430,000; Cincinnati, $285,000; Saratoga, $335,000; Henley, $150,000; Mayrant, $150,000; F-l, $205,000; F-2, $205,000; F-3, $205,000;
Pontiac, $20,000; Constitution, $150,000; in all, $3,915,000: Provided further, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, underClerical, etc., services. 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 seventeen, shall not exceed $1,300,000. The statutory limit of $200,000 for repairs and changes to capitalLimit of repairs to capital ships increased.Vol. 34, p. 1195, amended. ships of the Navy, as provided in the Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, is hereby changed to $300,000.
The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to sell any or allNaval auxiliaries. Sale of unserviceable. of the auxiliary ships of the Navy classified as colliers, transports, tenders, supply ships, special types, and hospital ships, which are eighteen years and over in age, which he deems unsuited to present needs of the Navy and which can be disposed of at an advantageous price, which shall not be less than fifty per centum of their original cost, the money obtained from such sale to be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.
Improvement of construction plants: For repairs and improvementConstruction plants of machinery and implements at plant at navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, $10,000. 606 For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at plant at navy yard, Boston, Massachusetts, $25,000. For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at plant at navy yard, New York, New York, $35,000. For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at plant at navy yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, $25,000.
For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at plant at navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia, $35,000. For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at plant at navy yard, Charleston, South Carolina, $10,000. For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at plant at navy yard, Mare Island, California, $35,000. For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at plant at navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington, $25,000. Bureau of Steam Engineering.bureau of steam engineering.
Engineering repairs, machinery, etc.Engineering: For repairs, preservation, and renewal of machinery, auxiliary machinery, and boilers of naval vessels, yard craft, and ships’ boats, distilling and refrigerating apparatus; repairs, preservation, and renewal of electric interior and exterior signal communications and all electrical appliances of whatsoever nature on board naval vessels, except range finders, battle order and range transmitters and indicators, and motors and their controlling apparatus used to operate machinery belonging to other bureaus; maintenance and operation of coast signal service, including expenses of office of superintendent of radio service and the purchase of land as necessary Equipment supplies.for sites for radio shore stations; equipage, supplies, and materials under the cognizance of the bureau required for the maintenance and operation of naval vessels, yard craft, and ships’ boats; purchase, installation, repair, and preservation of machinery, tools, and appliances in navy yards and stations; pay of classified force under the bureau; incidental expenses for naval vessels, navy yards and stations, inspectors’ offices, the engineering experiment station, such as photographing, technical books, and periodicals, stationery, and Radio telegraphic work.instruments; instruments and apparatus, supplies, and technical books and periodicals necessary to carry on experimental and research *Provisos*.Clerical, etc., services.work in radiotelegraphy at the naval radio laboratory: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and offices of United States inspectors of machinery and engineering material for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall Radio shore station sites.not exceed $801,876.28: *Provided further*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for the purchase of land for sites for radio Transfer of lands from other departments.shore stations shall not exceed $10,000: *Provided further*, That such land of the United States under the control of a particular department or other branch of the Government that has been or may hereafter be mutually selected as a site for a naval radio station may, by direction of the President, be transferred to and placed under the control and jurisdiction of the Navy Department for use as a naval Radio laboratory.radio station or other naval purposes: *Provided further*, That the total expenditures under this appropriation at the naval radio Machinery for “Maumee.”laboratory shall not exceed $5,000: *Provided further*, That so much of the foregoing and of current appropriations as may be necessary may be used to complete the construction of the machinery of the Radio aerials, State, etc.
Department Building.fuel ship Maumee: *Provided further*, That an expenditure under this appropriation of not exceeding $10,000 for the purchase and construction of antennas and supports for the State, War, and Navy Department Buildings for the use of the naval radio service is hereby authorized; in all, engineering, $9,056,376.28: *Provided further*, 607That an expenditure under this appropriation of not exceedingPneumatic tube from Department to Navy Annex. $4,500 is authorized for the installation of a pneumatic tube between the communication office in the State, War, and Navy Building, and the branch communication office in the Navy annex.
High-power radio stations: For the completion of high-powerHigh-power radio stations.Completion. radio stations (cost not to exceed $1,500,000), to be located as follows: One in the Isthmian Canal Zone, one on the California coast, one in the Hawaiian Islands, one in American Samoa, one on the island of Guam, and one in the Philippine Islands, $300,000, to be available until expended. For the construction of propelling engines for the North Dakota,Engines for specified vessels.
Salem, Mayrant, and Henley, to be available until expended, $1,000,000. Engineering experiment station, United States Naval Academy,Engineering experiment station.Experimental, etc., work. 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.
Equipment of building: For extension of steam, air, and waterEquipping building. lines, and electric circuits; for foundations for machinery; for purchase and installation of additional testing instruments and apparatus, $20,000. Machinery plants: For repairs and improvements of machineryMachinery plants. plants at navy yards at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, $25,000; Boston, Massachusetts, $35,000; New York, New York, $25,000; 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, $200,000. naval academy.Naval Academy. Pay of professors and others, Naval Academy: Pay of professorsPay of professors, etc.*Provisos*.Employment of professors, etc., authorized. and instructors, $175,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to employ at the Naval Academy such number of professors and instructors, including one professor as librarian, as, in his opinion, may be necessary for the proper instruction of the midshipmen; and that professors and instructors so employed shall receive such compensation for their services as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy: *Provided further*, That the total amountTotal pay limited. so paid shall not exceed $175,000 annually: *And provided further*, That the Secretary of the Navy shall report to Congress each yearAnnual report. the number of professors and instructors so employed and the amount of compensation prescribed for each.
No part of any sum in this Act appropriated shall be expended inNo pay to officers performing duty of civilians. the pay or allowances of any commissioned officer of the Navy detailed for duty as an instructor at the United States Naval Academy to perform duties which were performed by civilian instructors on January first, nineteen hundred and thirteen. One swordmaster, $1,600; one assistant, $1,200; and two assistants,Instructors, etc. at $1,000 each; two instructors in physical training, at $1,500 each; and one assistant instructor in physical training, at $1,000; and one instructor in gymnastics, $1,200; one assistant librarian, $2,160; one cataloguer, $1,200; and two shelf assistants, at $900 each; one secretary of the Naval Academy, $2,400; two clerks, at $1,500 each; four clerks, at $1,200 each; four clerks, at $1,000 each; four clerks, at $900 each; four clerks, at $840 each; one stenographer at $840; one draftsman, $1,200; one surveyor, $1,200; 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 608attendant at $300.
In all, pay of professors and others, Naval Academy, $238,860. Department of ordnance and gunnery.Department of ordnance and gunnery: One leading ordnanceman, $960; one ordnanceman at $750; one at $660; one at $540; two ordnance helpers, at $480 each; and one writer, $600; in all, $4,470. Departments of electrical engineering and physics.Departments of electrical engineering and physics: One electrical machinist, at $1,180; one electrical machinist, at $1,180; two mechanics, at $1,180 each; in all, $4,720.
Department of seamanship.Department of seamanship: One clerk at $840; one cockswain, $480; three seamen, at $420 each; in all, $2,580. Department of marine engineering and naval construction.Department of marine engineering and naval construction: One master machinist, $1,900, and one assistant, $1,300; one pattern maker, $1,300; one boiler maker, one blacksmith, three machinists, one molder and one coppersmith, at $1,180 each; one instructor in mechanical drawing, $2,000; machinists and other employees, $7,731.92; in all, $22,491.92.
Commissary department.Commissary department: One chief cook, $1,200; six cooks, at $600 each, and ten assistants, at $360 each; one steward, $1,200, and one assistant, $1,080; one head waiter, $840, and two assistants, at $480 each; four pantry men, at $420 each; one chief baker, at $1,200; five bakers, $600 each; two assistants, at $540 each, and three assistants, $480; four baker helpers, at $300 each; fifty waiters, at $20 per month each, and fifty waiters, at $16 per month each, $21,600; one messenger to the superintendent, $600; twenty-nine attendants, at $400 each, $11,600; three coffeemen, at $300 each; three dish pantrymen, at $300 each; three firemen, at $300 each; two utility men, at $300 each; one lineman, at $300; two seamstresses, at $420 each; three clerks, at $360 each; in all, $61,400.
In all, civil establishment, $334,521.92. Contingent expenses.Current and miscellaneous expenses, Naval Academy: Text and reference books for use of instructors; stationery, blank books and forms, models, maps, and periodicals; apparatus and materials for instruction in physical training and athletics; expenses of lectures and entertainments not exceeding $1,000, including pay and expenses of lecturer; chemicals, philosophical apparatus and instruments, stores, machinery, tools, fittings, apparatus, and materials for instruction purposes, $29,585.
Library.Purchase, binding, and repair of books for the library (to be purchased in the open market on the written order of the superintendent), $2,500. Board of Visitors.Composition of. changed.From and after the passage of this Act there shall be appointed every year, in the following manner, a Board of Visitors, to visit the academy, the date of the annual visit of the board aforesaid to be Appointments.VoL 37, p. 907 amended.fixed by the Secretary of the Navy: Seven persons shall be appointed by the President and four Senators and five Members of the House of Representatives shall be designated as visitors by the Vice President or President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, respectively, in the month of January of each year.
The chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs of the Senate and chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs of the House of Representatives shall be ex officio members of said board. Per diem, etc., allowed.Each member of said board shall receive while engaged upon duties as a member of the board not to exceed $5 a day and actual expenses of travel by the shortest mail routes. Expenses.For expenses of the Board of Visitors to the Naval Academy, $3,000. Superintendent.For contingencies for the superintendent of the academy, to be expended in his discretion, $2,500.
In all, current and miscellaneous expenses, $37,585. 609 Maintenance and repairs, Naval Academy: For general maintenanceMaintenance 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 of all horses and vehicles for use at the academy, includingPassenger vehicles. the maintenance, operation, and repair of three horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes; seeds and plants; tools and repairs of the same; stationery; furniture for Government buildings and offices at the academy; coal and other fuel; candles, oil, and gas; attendance on light and power plants cleaning and clearing up station and care of buildings; attendance on fires, lights, fire engines, fire apparatus, and plants, and telephone, telegraph, and clock systems; incidental labor; advertising, water tax, postage, telephones, telegrams, tolls, and ferriage; flags and awnings; packing boxes; fuel for heating and fighting bandsmen’s quarters; pay of inspectors and draftsmen; music, musical and astronomical instruments; and for the pay of employees on leave, $327,724.
Rent of buildings for the use of the academy, and commutation ofRent. rent for bandsmen, at $8 per month each, $4,116. In all, Naval Academy, $703,946.92. marine corps.Marine Corps. Pay, Marine Corps: Pay of officers, active list: For pay andPay.Officers, active list. allowances prescribed by law of officers on the active list, including clerks for assistant paymasters, nine, and for the following additional officers hereby authorized, $1,421,849. Hereafter the total number of commissioned officers of the activeCommissioned personnel hereafter.Proportionate distribution. list of the line and staff of the Marine Corps, exclusive of officers borne on the Navy list as additional numbers, shall be four per centum of the total authorized enlisted strength of the active list of the Marine Corps, exclusive of the Marine Band, and of men under sentence of discharge by court-martial, distributed in the proportion of one officer with rank senior to colonel to four with the rank of colonel, to five with the rank of lieutenant colonel, to fourteen with the rank of major, to thirty-seven with the rank of captain, to thirty-one with the rank of first lieutenant, to thirty-one with the rank of second lieutenant: *Provided further*, That brigadier generals shall be appointed*Provisos*.Brigadier generals. from officers of the Marine Corps senior in rank to lieutenant colonel: *Provided further*, That the promotion to the grade of brigadier generalPromotion to vacancies. of any officer now or hereafter carried as an additional number in the grade or with the rank of colonel shall be held to fill a vacancy in the grade of brigadier general: *Provided further*, That in determiningSeniority. the officers with rank senior to colonel there shall be included the officer serving as major general commandant: *And provided further*,Major general commandant.Appointments hereafter.Vol. 37, p. 241.
That appointments hereafter made to the position of major general commandant under the provisions of the Act approved December nineteenth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, entitled “An Act to make the tenure of office of the major general commandant of the Marine Corps for a term of four years,” shall be made from officers of the active list of the Marine Corps not below the rank of colonel: *Provided further*, That the officers serving in the senior grade of theSenior staff officers made brigadier generals.
Adjutant and Inspector’s, Quartermaster’s, and Paymaster’s Departments shall, while serving therein, have the rank, pay, and allowances of a brigadier general: *And provided further*, That for the purposeRank as colonels to compute ratio. of determining the number of officers in the various ranks as herein provided such staff officers shall be counted as being of the 610Permanent staff officers ineligible for line brigadier general.rank of colonel: *And provided further*, That officers holding permanent appointments in the staff departments shall not be eligible for appointment to the grade of brigadier general of the line as hereinbefore provided.
Staff officers.Proportionate ratio.The total commissioned personnel of the active list of the staff departments, whether serving therein under permanent appointments or under temporary detail, as herein provided, shall be eight per centum of the authorized commissioned strength of the Marine Division.Corps, and of this total one-fifth shall constitute the adjutant and inspector’s department, one-fifth the paymaster’s department, and three-fifths the quartermaster’s department.
Details hereafter.In lower grade from the line.No further permanent appointments shall be made in any grade in any staff department. Any vacancy hereafter occurring in the lower grade of any staff department shall be filled by the detail of an officer of the line for a period of four years unless sooner relieved; Upper grade.any vacancy hereafter occurring in the upper grade of any staff department shall be filled by the appointment of an officer with the rank of colonel holding a permanent appointment in the staff department in which the vacancy exists, or of some other officer holding a permanent appointment in such staff department in case there be no permanent staff officer with the rank of colonel in that department, or of a colonel of the line in case there be no officer holding a permanent Tour of detail, etc.appointment in such staff department.
Such appointments shall be made by the President and be for a term of four years, and the officer so appointed shall be recommissioned in the grade to which appointed. Permanent staff officers may be reappointed in the line.That prior to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, an officer holding a permanent appointment in any staff department may, upon his own application, with the approval of the President, be reappointed in the line of the Marine Corps in the grade and with the rank he would hold on the date of his reappointment if he had remained *Provisos*.Rank limited.continuously in the fine: *Provided*, That no officer holding a permanent appointment in any staff department shall be recommissioned Probationary line service, etc.in the line with the rank of colonel or lieutenant colonel: *Provided further*, That such staff officer shall, before being reappointed in the fine of the Marine Corps as above provided, perform line duties for one year, at the expiration of which time he shall as a prerequisite to reappointment in the fine be required to establish to the satisfaction of an examining board consisting of fine officers of the Marine Corps his physical, mental, and professional fitness for the performance of fine duty.
Equalization of promotions.That for the purpose of advancement in rank to and including the grade of colonel, all commissioned officers of the fine and staff of the Marine Corps shall be placed on a common fist in the order of seniority Examinations, etc.each would hold had he remained continuously in the fine. All advancements in rank to captain, major, lieutenant colonel, and colonel shall, subject to the usual examinations, be made from officers with the next junior respective rank, whether of the fine or staff, in the order in which their names appear on said fist.
Second lieutenants.Appointments from civil life.Appointees to the grade of second lieutenant, if appointed from civil life, shall be between the ages of twenty and twenty-five years, and before receiving a commission in the Marine Corps, each appointee shall establish to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Navy his mental, physical, moral, and professional qualifications for such commission: *Provisos*.Former officers eligible.*Provided*, The President of the United States be, and hereby is, authorized, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint as second lieutenants on the active list in the United States Marine Qualifications.Corps, to take rank at the foot of the fist of second lieutenants as it stands at the date of reinstatement, former officers of the Marine Corps who resigned from the naval service in good standing: *Provided*, That they shall establish their moral, physical, mental, and profes-611sional qualifications to perform the duties of that grade to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Navy: *Provided further*, That the SecretaryAge limit waived. of the Navy, in his discretion, may waive the age limit in favor of the aforesaid former officers of the Marine Corps: *Provided further*,Service.
That the prior service of such officers and the service after reinstatement shall be not less than thirty years before the age of retirement. That appointments from noncommissioned officers of the Marine CorpsProbationary period of civil life, etc., appointees. and from civil life shall be for a probationary period of two years and may be revoked at any time during that period by the Secretary of the Navy: *Provided further*, That the rank of such officers of the sameDetermination of rank. date of appointment among themselves at the end of said probationary period shall, with the approval of the Secretary of the Navy, be determined by the report of a board of Marine officers who shall conductCompetitive examinations. a competitive professional examination under such rules as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy and the rank of such officers so determined shall be as of date of original appointment with reference to other appointments to the Marine Corps: *Provided further*, That no midshipman at the United States Naval Academy orRestriction as to midshipmen and cadets failing to graduate. cadet at the United States Military Academy who fails to graduate therefrom shall be eligible for appointment as a commissioned officer in the Marine Corps until after the graduation of the class of which he was a member.
That the warrant grades of marine gunner and quartermaster clerkMarine gunner and quartermaster clerk.Warrant grades established. are hereby established, and the appointment as herein prescribed of twenty marine gunners and twenty quartermaster clerks is hereby authorized. Officers in those grades shall have the rank and receiveAppointments, etc. the pay, allowances and privileges of retirement of warrant officers in the Navy. They shall be appointed from the noncommissioned officers of the Marine Corps and clerks to quartermasters now serving as such and who have performed field service.
That officers of the Marine Corps with the rank of colonel who shallRetirement of colonels as brigadier generals.Service. have served faithfully for forty-five years on the active list shall, when retired, have the rank of brigadier general; and such officers who shall hereafter be retired at the age of sixty-four years before having served for forty-five years, but who shall have served faithfully on the active list until retired, shall, on the completion of forty years from their entry in the naval service, have the rank of brigadier general.
The President is hereby authorized, within two years after the approvalRestoration to active list, officers retired by board for physical disability. of this Act, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to transfer to the active list of the Marine Corps or Navy Pay Corps any officer under fifty years of age who may have been transferred from the active list to the retired list of the Marine Corps or Navy Pay Corps by the action of any retiring board for physical disability incurred in the line of duty: *Provided*, That such officer shall be transferred*Provisos*.To be additional number. to the place on the active list which he would have had if he had not been retired, and shall be carried as an additional number in the grade to which he may be transferred or at any time thereafter promoted: *Provided further*, That such officer shall establish to theConditions. satisfaction of the Secretary of the Navy his mental, moral, professional, and physical qualifications to perform the duties on the active list of the grade to which he is transferred.
The provisions of sectionsExaminations required.[R. S., sees. 1493, 1494. p. 258](/us/rs/s1493/s1494/p258). fourteen hundred and ninety-three and fourteen hundred and ninety-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall apply to the Marine Corps. In lieu of suspension from promotion of any officer of the MarineOfficers failing in examinations for promotion.Loss of files in lieu of suspension. Corps who hereafter fails to pass a satisfactory professional examination for promotion, or who is now under suspension from promotion by reason of such failure, such officer shall suffer loss of numbers, upon approval of the recommendation of the examining board, in the respective ranks, as follows:
Lieutenant colonel, one; major, two; cap-612*Provisos*.Reexaminations allowed.tain, three; first lieutenant, five; second lieutenant, eight: *Provided*, That any such officer shall be reexamined as soon as may be expedient after the expiration of six months if he in the meantime again becomes due for promotion, and if he does not in the meantime again become due for promotion he shall be reexamined at such time anterior to again becoming due for promotion as may be for the best interests of Honorable discharge on failure.the service: *Provided further*, That if any such officer fails to pass a satisfactory professional reexamination he shall be honorably discharged with one year’s pay from the Marine Corps.
Pay, officers on retired list.For pay of officers prescribed by law, on the retired list: For two major generals, four brigadier generals, six colonels, four lieutenant colonels, ten majors, nineteen captains, twelve first lieutenants, three 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, $180,872.50.
Pay, enlisted men, active list.Pay of enlisted men, active list: Pay and allowances of noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, as prescribed by law, Increase authorized.and for the following additional enlisted men hereby authorized: Twenty-eight sergeants major, one hundred and seventeen quartermaster sergeants, one hundred and seven first sergeants, one hundred and seven gunnery sergeants, five hundred sergeants, eight hundred and thirty-five corporals, fifty drummers, fifty trumpeters, three thousand two hundred and thirty-five privates; and hereafter the number of enlisted men of the Marine Corps shall be exclusive of those sentenced by court-martial to discharge, and for the expenses of clerks of the United States Marine Corps traveling under orders, and including additional compensation for enlisted men of the Marine Corps regularly detailed as gun captains, gun pointers, mess sergeants, cooks, messmen, signalmen, or holding good-conduct medals, pins, or bars, including interest on deposits by enlisted men, post-exchange debts of deserters, under such rules as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, and the authorized travel allowance of discharged enlisted men and for prizes for excellence in gunnery exercise and target practice, both afloat and ashore.
In all, $3,665,942.52. Further increase authorized.The President is authorized, when, in his judgment, it becomes necessary to place the country in a complete state of preparedness, to further increase the enlisted strength of the Marine Corps to seventeen *Proviso*.Distribution among grades.thousand four hundred: *And provided*, That the distribution in the various grades shall be in the same proportion as that authorized at the time when the President avails himself of the authority herein granted.
Band.Increased pay and allowances.Vol. 30, p. 1009.That the band of the United States Marine Corps shall consist of one leader, whose pay and allowances shall be those of a captain in the Marine Corps; one second leader, whose pay shall be $150 per month and who shall have the allowances of a sergeant major; ten principal musicians, whose pay shall be $125 per month; twenty-five first-class musicians, whose pay shall be $100 per month; twenty second-class musicians, whose pay shall be $85 per month; and ten third-class musicians, whose pay shall be $70 per month; such musicians of the band to have the allowances of a sergeant and to have *Proviso*.Individual engagements restricted.no increase in the rates of pay on account of length of service: *Provided*, That a member of the said band shall not, as an individual, furnish music, or accept an engagement to furnish music, when such furnishing of music places him in competition with any civilian musician or musicians, and shall not accept or receive remuneration for furnishing music except under special circumstances when authorized by the President.
Pay, retired enlisted men.For pay and allowances prescribed by law of enlisted men on the retired fist: For seven sergeants major, one drum major, twenty-three gunnery sergeants, twenty-seven quartermaster sergeants, 613forty first sergeants, sixty-four sergeants, seventeen corporals, nineteen first-class musicians, one drummer, one fifer, and twenty-two privates, and for those who may be retired during the fiscal year, $152,091. Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged enlisted men forUndrawn clothing. clothing undrawn, $100,000.
Mileage: For mileage to officers traveling under orders withoutMileage. troops, $58,000. For commutation of quarters of officers on duty without troopsCommutation of quarters. where there are no public quarters, $61,000. 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: One 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 $1,800. In the office of the assistant quartermaster, San Francisco, California: One chief clerk, at $1,800. In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:
One chief clerk, at $1,800; one messenger, at $840. In all, for pay of civil force, $34,111.28, 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 one fund. In all, pay, Marine Corps, $5,673,866.30. maintenance, quartermaster’s department, marine corps.Quartermaster’s Department. Provisions, Marine Corps: For noncommissioned officers, musicians,Provisions. and privates serving ashore; subsistence and lodging of enlisted men when traveling on duty, or cash in lieu thereof; commutation of rations to enlisted men regularly detailed as clerks and messengers; payments of board and lodging of applicants for enlistment while held under observation, recruits, and recruiting parties, 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, $1,491,621.90.
No law shall be construedShore duty rations. 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 it is impracticable or*Provisos*.Navy ration instead of Army. the expense is found greater to supply marines serving on shore duty in the island possessions and on foreign stations with the Army ration, such marines may be allowed the Navy ration or commutation therefor: *Provided further*, That hereafter so much of thisArticles for sale to officers, etc. appropriation as may be necessary may be applied for the purchase, for sale to officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees, of such articles of subsistence stores as may from time to time be designated and under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy.
Clothing, Marine Corps: For noncommissioned officers, musicians,Clothing. and privates, authorized by law, $1,158,058.50. Fuel, Marine Corps: For heat, light, and commutation thereofFuel, light, etc. for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers and enlisted men, and other buildings and grounds pertaining to the Marine Corps; 614fuel, electricity, and oil for cooking, power, and other purposes; and sales to officers, $243,561.92. Military stores.Pay.Military stores, Marine Corps:
Pay of chief armorer, at $4 per diem; one mechanic, at $3 per diem; two mechanics, at $2.50 each per diem; one chief electrician, at $4 per diem, and one assistant electrician, at $3.50 per diem; per diem of enlisted men employed on Armored automobiles.constant labor for periods of not less than ten days; purchase of two armored automobiles, to cost not exceeding $10,000 each, military Equipments, etc.equipments, such as rifles, revolvers, cartridge boxes, bayonet scabbards, haversacks, blanket bags, canteens, rifle slings, swords, drums, trumpets, flags, waistbelts, waist plates, cartridge belts, spare parts for repairing rifles, machetes; purchase and repair of tents, field cots, field ovens, and stoves for tents; purchase and repair of instruments for bands; purchase of music and musical accessories; purchase and marking of prizes for excellence in gunnery and rifle practice; good-conduct badges; medals awarded to officers and enlisted men by the Government for conspicuous, gallant, and special service; incidental expenses of schools of application; construction, equipment, and maintenance of school, library, and amusement rooms and gymnasiums for enlisted men, and the purchase and repair of all articles of field sports for enlisted men; purchase and repair of signal equipment and stores; establishment and maintenance of targets and ranges, renting ranges, construction of buildings for temporary shelter and preservation of stores, and entrance fees in competitions; procuring, Ammunition, etc.preserving, and handling ammunition and other necessary military supplies, including a reserve supply of small-arms ammunition; in all, $1,657,021.74.
Instruction camps.Regulations for, etc.Camps of instruction: The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to establish and maintain at such places as he may designate, and prescribe regulations for the government thereof, Marine Corps training camps for the instruction of citizens of the United States who make application and are designated for such training; no such camps to be in existence for a period longer than six weeks in each fiscal year, except in time of actual or threatened war; to use Marine Corps and such other Government property as he may deem necessary for the military training of such citizens while in attendance Sale of uniforms to.at such camps.
The Quartermaster’s Department, United States Marine Corps, is authorized to sell such articles of uniform clothing as may be prescribed at cost price to the volunteer citizens who are *Proviso*.Transportation, etc., by citizens.designated to participate in these instructions: *Provided*, That these citizens shall be required to furnish at their own expense transportation and subsistence to and from these camps, and subsistence Appropriation.while undergoing training therein.
The sum of $31,000 is hereby appropriated to carry into effect the foregoing provisions. 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.$549,630.65: *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. 615 Forage, Marine Corps:
For forage in kind and stabling for publicForage. animals of the Quartermaster’s Department and the authorized number of officers’ horses, $80,306. Commutation of quarters, Marine Corps: Commutation ofCommutation of quarters. quarters 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 quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them; commutation of quarters for enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in the offices of the commandant, adjutant and inspector, paymaster, and quartermaster, and the offices of the assistant adjutant and inspectors, assistant paymasters, assistant quartermasters, at $21 each per month, and for enlisted men employed as messengers in said offices, at $10 each per month, $111,928.
Contingent, Marine Corps: For freight, expressage, tolls, cartage,Contingent. 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 barracks furniture, camp and garrison equipage and implements; mess utensils for enlisted men; packing boxes, wrapping paper, oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, quarantine fees, camphor and carbolized paper, carpenters’ tools, tools for police purposes, safes; purchase, 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.
In all, for the maintenance of Quartermaster’s Department,Disbursement and accounting. Marine Corps, $6,389,513.71; 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.*Ante*, p, 593.
Total Marine Corps, exclusive of public works, $12,088,380.01. 616 Increase of the Navy,increase of the navy. Construction authorized prior to July 1, 1919.*Post*, p. 1191.For the purpose of further increasing the Naval Establishment of the United States, the President of the United States is hereby authorized to undertake prior to July first, nineteen hundred and nineteen, the construction of the vessels enumerated below: Ten first-class battleships.Early construction.Ten first-class battleships, carrying as heavy armor and as powerful armanent as any vessels of their class, to have the highest practicable speed and greatest desirable radius of action; four of these at a cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not to exceed $11,500,000 each, to be begun as soon as practicable.
Six battle cruisers.Six battle cruisers, carrying suitable armor and as powerful armament as any vessels of their class, to have the highest practicable Early construction.speed and greatest desirable radius of action; four of these to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not to exceed $16,500,000 each, to be begun as soon practicable. Ten scout cruisers.Ten scout cruisers, carrying suitable protection and armament suited to their size and type, to have the highest practicable speed Early construction.and greatest desirable radius of action; four to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not to exceed $5,000,000 each, to be begun as soon as practicable.
Fifty torpedo-boat destroyers.Fifty torpedo-boat destroyers, to have the highest practicable speed and greatest desirable radius of action; twenty to cost, exclusive Early construction.of armor and armament, not to exceed $1,200,000 each, to be begun as soon as practicable: *Provided*, That not less than four of these *Proviso*.Four on Pacific coast.Cost restriction.shall be built on the Pacific coast: *Provided further*, That the cost of construction on the Pacific coast does not exceed the cost of construction on the Atlantic coast, plus the cost of transportation from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Nine fleet submarines.Nine fleet submarines. Fifty-eight coast submarines.Cost.Fifty-eight coast submarines, of which number three to have a surface displacement of about eight hundred tons each, to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not to exceed $1,200,000 each, Early construction.and twenty-seven, which shall be the best and most desirable and useful type of submarine which can be procured at a cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not to exceed $700,000 each, shall be begun Appropriation.as soon as practicable; and the sum of $8,217,000 is hereby appropriated for the construction of said submarines, to be available until Twelve on Pacific coast.expended.
Not less than twelve of the submarines herein authorized to be begun as soon as practicable shall be built on the Pacific coast: *Proviso*.Cost restriction.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. Neff propulsion submarine.*Provisos*.Construction by owners of system.One submarine, equipped with the Neff system of submarine propulsion, exclusive of armor and armament, $250,000: *Provided*, That the owners of the Neff system of submarine propulsion will construct, in accordance with drawings, plans, and specifications provided by them, one coast-defense submarine of about one hundred and fifty tons displacement when submerged, carrying armor and armament similar and equal to that of the “C” class of submarines, with fittings, equipment, machinery, devices, appliances, and appurtenances of every kind with latest improvements, complete Payment on acceptance.in all respects, and suitable for naval purposes: *Provided further*, That the money appropriated for this purpose shall not be paid to the builders of said boat until the same has been completed, passed satisfactory service tests, and been accepted by the Secretary of the Navy; but upon such completion, tests, and acceptance by the Secretary of the Navy the sum appropriated shall be paid.
Three fuel ships.Three fuel ships, one at a cost not to exceed $1,500,000, to be begun as soon as practicable. Repair ship.One repair ship. 617 One transport.Transport. One hospital ship, at a cost not to exceed $2,350,000, to be begunHospital ship. as soon as practicable. Two destroyer tenders.Two destroyer tenders. One fleet submarine tender.Fleet submarine tender. Two ammunition ships, one at a cost, exclusive of armor and armament,Two ammunition ships. not to exceed $2,350,000, to be begun as soon as practicable.
Two gunboats, one at a cost, exclusive of armor and armament,Two gunboats.*Proviso*.Early construction contracts, etc. not to exceed $860,000, to be begun as soon as practicable: *Provided*, That the sixty-six vessels directed herein to be begun as soon as practicable shall be contracted for or shall be begun in navy yards within six months from the date of the approval of this Act. The Secretary of the Navy shall build any of the vessels hereinVessels to be built at navy yards if bidders combine. authorized in such navy yards as he may designate should it reasonably appear that the persons, firms, or corporations, or the agents thereof, bidding for the construction of any of said vessels have entered into any combination, agreement, or understanding the effect, object, or purpose of which is to deprive the Government of fair, open, and unrestricted competition in letting contracts for the construction of any of said vessels: *Provided*, That the Secretary of*Proviso*.Designation of navy yards. the Navy is hereby authorized to build any of the vessels herein authorized in such navy yards as he may designate.
Construction and machinery: On account of hulls and outfits ofNew vessels.Construction and machinery. vessels and machinery of vessels heretofore and herein authorized, to be available until expended, $59,000,194. Increase of the Navy, torpedo boats: On account of submarineTorpedo boats. torpedo boats heretofore authorized, to be available until expended, $5,282,593. Increase of the Navy, armor and armament: Toward the armorArmor and armament. and armament for vessels heretofore and herein authorized, to be available until expended, $47,110,000.
Increase of the Navy, ammunition: Toward ammunition forAmmunition. the vessels herein authorized, to be available until expended, $19,485,500. Total increase of the Navy heretofore and herein authorized, $139,345,287. To provide for the speedy construction of the vessels herein authorizedIncreased cost allowed for speedy construction.In navy yards. and for the additional cost incident thereto, including the employment of more than one shift of labor per day, overtime work, and the speedy delivery of material, the Secretary of the Navy in his discretion is hereby authorized to increase the total cost of each of said vessels, including armor and armament, not to exceed twenty per centum thereof if any of said vessels be constructed in Government navy yards; and if any of said vessels or the armor or armamentBy private contractors. for same be constructed by private contract, the Secretary of the Navy in his discretion is hereby authorized to prescribe in the contracts for same provisions for the payment of premiums over and above the contract price, not to exceed twenty per centum thereof, for the most expeditious delivery of same, and further provisions for penalties for delays and failure to complete within the contract time: *Provided*, That if, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy, the*Provisos*.Contracts at actual cost plus profit. most rapid and economical construction of the battle cruisers authorized herein can be obtained thereby, he may contract for the construction of any or all of them upon the basis of actual cost, plus a reasonable profit to be determined by him.
That each and everyLeaves of absence to all employees. employee of the navy yards, gun factories, naval stations, and arsenals of the United States Government is hereby granted thirty days’ leave of absence each year, without forfeiture of pay during such leave: *Provided further*, That it shall be lawful to allow pro rata leavePro rata leave. only to those serving twelve consecutive months or more: *And provided further*, That in all cases the heads of divisions shallDiscretion as to time.618have discretion as to the time when the leave can best be allowed:
Limit.*And provided further*, That not more than thirty days’ leave with pay shall be allowed any such employee in one year: *Provided further*, Sick leave and holidays not affected.That this provision shall not be construed to deprive employees of any sick leave or legal holidays to which they may now be entitled under existing law. Equipment of designated navy yards for building new ships.The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to improve and equip the navy yards at Puget Sound, Philadelphia, Norfolk, New York, Boston, Portsmouth, Charleston, and New Orleans for the construction of such ships herein or as may be hereafter authorized as may be assigned to such yards for construction, and the sum of $6,000,000, or so much *Proviso*.For capital ships.thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for this purpose: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to equip the navy yards at Norfolk, Philadelphia, Boston, and Puget Sound for the construction of capital ships.
Harbor defense.Report on.The Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy are authorized and directed to report to Congress at the earliest practicable date: Plans for improving, for fleet operations.First. Specific plans for improvement of the harbors and canals and connecting channels which, in their judgment, will best provide adequate facilities for operations of the fleet for defense of the harbors on the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts of the United States. Extending existing projects.Second.
The feasible extensions requisite to make existing approved projects for improvement of the aforementioned harbors, canals, and channels available for the purposes stated in the foregoing paragraph. Cost.Third. The cost of each such several improvements calculated upon the basis of completion thereof under contract within five years. Policy for peaceful settlement of international disputes declared.It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to adjust and settle its international disputes through mediation or arbitration, to the end that war may be honorably avoided.
It looks with apprehension and disfavor upon a general increase of armament throughout International disarmament, etc.the world, but it realizes that no single nation can disarm, and that without a common agreement upon the subject every considerable power must maintain a relative standing in military strength. Conference invited to plan tribunal for peaceful settlement of disputes.In view of the premises, the President is authorized and requested to invite, at an appropriate time, not later than the close of the war in Europe, all the great Governments of the world to send representatives to a conference which shall be charged with the duty of formulating a plan for a court of arbitration or other tribunal, to which disputed questions between nations shall be referred for adjudication and peaceful settlement, and to consider the question of disarmament and submit their recommendation to their respective Governments United States representatives authorized.for approval.
The President is hereby authorized to appoint nine citizens of the United States, who, in his judgment, shall be qualified for the mission by eminence in the law and by devotion to the cause of peace, to be representatives of the United States in such a conference. The President shall fix the compensation of said representatives, and such secretaries and other employees as may be needed. Appropriation.Two hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated and set aside and placed at the disposal of the President to carry into effect the provisions of this paragraph.
Suspension of new construction if tribunal established, etc.If at any time before the construction authorized by this Act shall have been contracted for there shall have been established, with the cooperation of the United States of America, an international tribunal or tribunals competent to secure peaceful determinations of all international disputes, and which shall render unnecessary the maintenance of competitive armaments, then and in that case such naval expenditures as may be inconsistent with the engagements made in the establishment of such tribunal or tribunals may be suspended, when so ordered by the President of the United States.
Restriction on 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 619procure 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: *Provided*, That no part of the appropriations*Proviso*.No pay to officer, etc., using time-measuring device on work of employee. 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 completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such work; nor shall anyCash rewards, etc., limited. part of the appropriations made 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 expendedPurchases from trust combinations, etc., forbidden. for 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 ofRestriction on prices. structural steel, ship plates, or machinery shah be made at a price in excess of a reasonable profit above the actual cost of manufacture.Present contracts not affected.Battleship.
But this limitation shall in no case apply to any existing contract. The Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed to submit to the CongressReport on construction of the largest practicable. during its next regular session a report on the largest battleship which can be undertaken in the United States in the present state of the shipbuilding and engineering sciences and arts, giving due consideration to the present and prospective depths and other limiting dimensions of the docks and harbors of the United States and its possessions and of the locks of the Panama Canal, and he shall furtherFurther details. report the principal characteristics of such a vessel, giving the displacement, cost, number and size of guns, thickness of armor, speed and cruising radius, and he shall further report on the desirability of building one or more such vessels.
That no part of any sum herein appropriated under “Increase ofAppropriations not to be used for clerical, etc., services in Department. the Navy” shall be used for the payment of any clerical, drafting, inspection, or messenger service, or tor 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 usedSpecific authority for use in Department. for any expense of the Navy Department at Washington, District of Columbia, unless specific authority is given by law for such expenditure.
Approved, August 29, 1916.
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