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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 40 STAT. · July 1, 1918 · Chapter 114

Chapter 114. Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 114.— An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes.July 1, 1918.[[H. R. 10854](/us/bill/65/hr/10854).][[Public, No. 182](/us/pl/65/182).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Naval service appropriations. That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the naval service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes: general expenses.
Schedule of all pay and allowances to be sent to Congress. The Secretary of the Navy shall send to Congress at the beginning of its next regular session a complete schedule or list showing the amount of money of all pay and for all allowances for each grade of officers in the Navy, including retired officers, and for all officers included in this Act and for all enlisted men so included. Pay, miscellaneous. pay, miscellaneous. Expenses designated. For commissions and interest; transportation of funds; exchange; 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; mileage to officers of the Naval Reserve Force traveling under orders of the Secretary of the Navy; hire of launches or other small boats in Asiatic waters; for rent of buildings and offices not in navy yards, including the rental of offices in the District of Columbia; expenses of courts-martial, prisoners and prisons, and courts of inquiry, boards of inspection, examining boards, with clerks, and witnesses’ fees, and traveling expenses and costs; expenses of naval defense districts; stationery and recording; religious books; newspapers and periodicals for the naval service; all advertising for the Navy Department and its bureaus (except advertising for recruits for the Bureau of 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 Information from abroad, etc.abroad, including maintenance of students and attachés; information from abroad and at home, and the collection and classification 705thereof; 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 *Provisos*.Clerical, etc., services at yards and stations.be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, shall not exceed $500,000, and for necessary Interned persons and prisoners of war.expenses for the interned persons and prisoners of war under the jurisdiction of the Navy Department, including funeral expenses for such interned persons or prisoners of war as may die while under such jurisdiction; in all, $4,350,000: *Provided*, That hereafter the Secretary Claims for damages to private property by naval forces abroad.of the Navy is authorized to consider, ascertain, adjust, determine, and pay the amounts due on all claims for damages to and loss of private property of inhabitants of any European country not an enemy or ally of an enemy when the amount of the claim does not exceed the sum of $1,000, occasioned and caused by men in the naval service during the period of the present war, all payments in settlement of such claims to be made out of “Pay, Miscellaneous.
” The Act entitled “An Act to provide additional protection for the Patents.Vol. 36, p. 851, amended.owners of patents of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, shall be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows, namely: " “That whenever an invention described in and covered by a patent Recovery by owner if invention used or manufactured by the United States.of the United States shall hereafter be used or manufactured by or for the United States without license of the owner thereof or lawful right to use or manufacture the same, such owner’s remedy shall be by suit against the United States in the Court of Claims for the recovery of his reasonable and entire compensation for such use and manufacture: *Provided, however*, That said Court of Claims shall not entertain a suit *Provisos*.Claims barred.or award compensation under the provisions of this Act where the claim for compensation is based on the use or manufacture by or for the United States of any article heretofore owned, leased, used by, or in the possession of the United States: *Provided further*, That in any Defenses allowed.such suit the United States may avail itself of any and all defenses, general or special, that might be pleaded by a defendant in an action for infringement, as set forth in Title Sixty of the Revised Statutes, or Patents by Government employees, etc., not included.otherwise: *And provided further*, That the benefits of this Act shall not inure to any patentee who, when he makes such claim, is in the employment or service of the Government of the United Slates, or the assignee of any such patentee; nor shall this Act apply to any device discovered or invented by such employee during the time of his employment or service.
” " The Secretary of the Navy is authorized in leasing water-front Reversion of improvements on leased State, etc., water fronts.property from any State or municipality where the State law or charter of the municipality requires that the improvements placed upon leased lands shall at the termination of the lease become the property of the State or municipality, to provide, as a part or all of the consideration therefor, that improvements placed thereon by the United States shall become the property of the lessor upon the expiration of the lease or any renewal thereof.
That hereafter the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to cause Salvage by naval vessels.vessels under his control adapted to the purpose, to afford salvage service to public or private vessels in distress: *Provided*, That when *Proviso*.Compensation.such salvage service is rendered by a vessel specially equipped for the purpose or by a tug, the Secretary of the Navy may determine and collect reasonable compensation therefor. Contingent, Navy: For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, Contingent.exclusive of personal services in the Navy Department, or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at Washington, District of 706Columbia, 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, *Proviso*.Allowances for unusual conditions abroad.$150,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for special allowances for maintenance to officers of the Navy serving under unusual conditions outside the United States and its insular possessions.
Virgin Islands.Expenses of temporary government in.Vol. 39, p. 1132. Temporary government for West Indian Islands: For expenses incident to the occupation of the Virgin Islands and to the execution of the provisions of the Act providing a temporary government for the West Indian Islands acquired by the United States from Denmark, and for other purposes, approved March third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to be applied under the direction of the President, $200,000. Civilian Consulting Board.
For actual expenses incurred by and in connection with the civilian Naval Consulting Board, $100,000. Fuel oil and gasoline.Investigation, etc., of. Investigation 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 such other expenses for transportation and hire of vehicles in connection with naval petroleum reserves as the Secretary of the Navy may deem appropriate; for the purchase of necessary instruments Testing plant.and appliances; for the extension of the naval fuel-oil testing plant at the navy yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the temporary employment of civilian experts and assistants, $60,000.
Aviation.General expenses. Aviation: For aviation, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for procuring, producing, constructing, operating, preserving, storing, and handling aircraft, establishment and maintenance of aircraft stations, including the acquisition of land by purchase, donation, or condemnation; and for experimental work in development of aviation for naval purposes, $220,383,119: *Provided*, *Provisos*.Technical, etc., services.That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for drafting, clerical, inspection, and messenger service for aircraft stations shall not exceed $300,000:
Payment of aircraft damages to private property.*Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to consider, ascertain, adjust, determine, and pay out of this appropriation the amounts due on claims for damages which have occurred or may occur to private property growing out of the operations of naval aircraft. State marine schools.Payment to New York, Massachusetts, and Washington.Vol. 36, p. 1353. State marine schools: To reimburse the State of New York, $25,000, the State of Massachusetts, $25,000, and the State of Washington, $25,000, 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, $75,000.
Lepers.Care, etc., Culion, P. I. Care of lepers, Island of Guam: Naval station, island of Guam: Maintenance and care of lepers, special patients, and for other purposes, including cost of transfer of lepers from Guam to the island of Culion, in the Philippines, and their maintenance, $20,000. Bureau of Navigation. bureau of navigation. Transportation. Transportation: For travel allowance of enlisted men discharged on account of expiration of enlistment; transportation of enlisted men and apprentice seamen and applicants for enlistment at home and abroad, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation to their homes, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentice seamen discharged on medical survey, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; trans707portation of sick or insane enlisted men and apprentice seamen to hospitals, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu Naval Reserve force.thereof; transportation of enlisted men of the Naval Reserve Force to and from duty, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation of civilian officers and crews of naval auxiliaries; apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, and for railway guides and other expenses incident to transportation; expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent of rendezvous and Recruiting.expenses of maintaining the same; purchase, rental, maintenance, operation, exchange, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentice seamen; actual and necessary expenses in lieu of mileage to officers on duty with traveling recruiting parties, $12,000,000.
Recreation for enlisted men: For the recreation, amusement, comfort, Recreation for enlisted men.*Post*, p, 1033.and contentment of enlisted men of the Navy afloat and under training ashore, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, under such regulations as he may prescribe: *Provided*, That *Proviso*.Pay restriction.no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum, $150,000. Contingent: Ferriage, continuous-service certificates, discharges, Contingent.good-conduct badges, and medals for men and boys, including civilian employees who render conspicuous service by putting their life in jeopardy to save life or property; purchase of gymnastic apparatus; transportation of effects of deceased officers and enlisted men of the Navy, and of officers and enrolled men of the Naval Reserve Force who die while on duty; books for training apprentice seamen and landsmen; maintenance of gunnery and other training classes: packing boxes and materials; books and models; stationery; and other contingent expenses and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation, unforeseen and impossible to classify, $20,000.
Gunnery and engineering exercises: Prizes, trophies, and Gunnery and engineering exercises.*Post*, p. 1033.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 Targets, ranges, etc.ranges, and for transporting the civilian assistants and equipment to and from ranges, $425,000.
Outfits on first enlistment: Outfits for all enlisted men and Outfits on first enlistments, etc.*Post*, p. 1033.apprentice seamen of the Navy on first enlistment, at not to exceed $100 each; for the clothing gratuity of officers and other members of the Naval Reserve Force, not to exceed $150 each for officers; for civilian clothing not to exceed $15 per man to men given discharges for bad conduct, undesirability, or inaptitude; in all, $9,975,000. Instruments and supplies: Supplies for seamen’s quarters; and for Equipment 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; maintenance of gunnery and other training classes; 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; and for the necessary civilian electricians for gyrocompass testing and inspection, $3,469,800. 708 Ocean and lake surveys.
Ocean and lake surveys: Hydrographic surveys, including the pay of the necessary hydrographic surveyors, cartographic draftsmen and recorders, and for the purchase and printing of nautical *Proviso*.Hydrographic Office details.books, charts, and sailing directions, $155,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to detail such naval officers as may be necessary to the Hydrographic Office. Naval Militia and Volunteers.Laws repealed.Vol. 38, p. 283; Vol. 39, p. 596.Volunteers transferred to Naval Reserve Force or Marine Corps Reserve.
That upon the approval of this Act all laws heretofore enacted by the Congress relating to the Naval Militia and the National Naval Volunteers be, and the same hereby are, repealed: and the President is authorized to transfer as a class all members of the National Naval Volunteers to the class “the Naval Reserve,” “the Naval Reserve Flying Corps,” or “the Marine Corps Reserve” of the Naval Reserve Force or the Marine Corps Reserve, for general service, in the confirmed rank, grade, or rating they now hold in the National Naval Volunteers, regardless of their being members of a State military force, and without examination and the necessity of executing or Status, etc., retained until transferred.filing a new oath and acceptance of office; that until such transfer is effected members of the National Naval Volunteers shall retain their present status and be entitled to receive the same pay, allowances, gratuities, and other benefits as heretofore provided by law, and ail continue subject to the laws prescribed for the government of Reenrollment in Naval Reserve Force.Limitation. the Navy; that all members of the Naval Reserve Force shall be eligible for reenrollment in the rank, grade, or rating held on the termination of their last enrollment; that no enrollments or promotions shall be made in any rank or grade above that of lieutenant commander, except as herein otherwise provided.
Medical and Dental Reserve Corps.Laws repealed.Vol. 37, pp. 344, 574.*Proviso*.Transferred to Naval Reserve Force. That all laws heretofore enacted by Congress relating to the Medical Reserve Corps and Dental Reserve Corps be, and the same hereby are, repealed: *Provided*, That members of the Medical Reserve Corps and Dental Reserve Corps may be enrolled in the Naval Reserve Force in their present grades and ranks. Naval Dental Corps and Reserve.Provisions repealed.Vol. 39, pp. 573, 574.
That the Act approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes” (Statutes at Large, volume thirty-nine, chapter four hundred and seventeen, pages five hundred and seventy-three and five hundred and seventy-four), be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out all of said Act following the caption “Naval Dental Corps” on page five hundred and seventy-three, but preceding the caption “Dental Reserve Corps”, on page five hundred and seventy-four, and by substituting therefor the following:
" Naval Dental Corps.Created as part of Medical Department.Ratio to Navy and Marine Corps strength. “That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to appoint and commission, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, dental officers in the Navy at the rate of one for each thousand of the total authorized number of officers and enlisted men of the Grades.Navy and Marine Corps, in the grades of assistant dental surgeon, passed assistant dental surgeon and dental surgeon, who shall constitute the Naval Dental Corps, and shall be a part of the Medical Original rank.Department of the Navy.
Original appointments to the Naval Dental Corps shall be made in the grade of assistant dental surgeon Rank and precedence in Medical Corps.Vol. 37, p. 345.with the rank of lieutenant (junior grade), and all dental officers now in the Dental Corps appointed under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved August twenty-second, nineteen hundred and twelve (Statutes at Large, volume thirty-seven, page three hundred Vol. 39. p. 573.and forty-five), or under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen (Statutes at Large, volume thirty-nine, page five hundred and seventy-three), or who may hereafter be appointed, shall take rank and precedence with officers of the Naval Medical Corps of the same rank according to the dates of their respective commissions or original appointments, 709and all such dental officers shall be eligible for advancement in grade Promotions.and rank in the same maimer and under the same conditions as officers of the Naval Medical Corps with or next after whom they take precedence, and shall receive the same pay and allowances as officers of corresponding rank and length of service in the Naval Medical Corps up to and including the rank of lieutenant commander: *Provided*, *Provisos*.Advance in pay, but not in rank, up to captains.That dental surgeons shall be eligible for advancement in pay and allowances, but not in rank, to and including the pay and allowances of commander and captain, subject to such examinations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, except that the number of dental surgeons with the pay and allowances of captain shall not exceed four and one-half per centum and the number of dental surgeons with the pay and allowances of commander shall not exceed eight per centum of the total authorized number of dental officers: *Provided further*, That dental surgeons shall be eligible for advancement Service pay and allowances.to the pay and allowances of commander and captain when their total active service as dental officers in the Navy is such that if rendered as officers of the Naval Medical Corps, it would place them in the list of medical officers with the pay and allowances of commander or captain, as the case may be: *And provided further*, That Effect of gained or lost numbers.dental officers who shall have gained or lost numbers on the Navy list shall be considered to have gamed or lost service accordingly; and the time served by dental officers on active duty as acting assistant Credit for service under former commissions.dental surgeons and assistant dental surgeons under provisions of law existing prior to the passage of this Act shall be reckoned in computing the increased service pay and service for precedence and promotion of dental officers herein authorized or heretofore appointed.
“All appointees authorized by this Act shall be citizens of the Qualifications.United States between twenty-one and thirty-two years of age, and shall be graduates of standard medical or dental colleges and trained in the several branches of dentistry, and shall, before appointment, have successfully passed mental, moral, physical, and professional examinations before medical and professional examining boards appointed by the Secretary of the Navy, and have been recommended or appointment by such boards: *Provided*, That hereafter no person *Proviso*.College graduation.shall be appointed as assistant dental surgeon in the Navy who is not a graduate of a standard medical or dental college.
“Officers of the Naval Dental Corps shall become eligible for retirement Retirement.in the same manner and under the same conditions as now prescribed by law for officers of the Naval Medical Corps, except that Disability not required.[R. S. sec. 1445, p. 253](/us/rs/s1445/p253).section fourteen hundred and forty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not be applicable to dental officers, and they Limitation.shall not be entitled to rank above lieutenant commander on the retired list, or to retired pay above that of captain.
“All dental officers now serving under probationary appointments Probationary officers eligible.shall become immediately eligible for permanent appointment under the provisions of this Act, subject to the examinations prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy for original appointment as dental officers, and may be appointed assistant dental surgeon with the rank or lieutenant (junior grade) to rank from the date of their probationary appointments: *Provided*, That the senior dental officer now at the *Provisos*.Naval Academy senior dental officer.Rank, etc., for.United States Naval Academy shall not be displaced by the provisions of this Act, and he shall hereafter have the grade of dental surgeon and the rank, pay, and allowances of lieutenant commander, and he shall not be eligible for retirement before he has reached the age of seventy years, except for physical disability incurred in the line of Retirement limitation.duty: *Provided further*, That no dental officer in the Navy who on original appointment as dental officer 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 line of duty. 710 Inconsistent laws repealed.
“All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act relating to the Dental Corps of the Navy are hereby repealed: *Proviso*.No reduction of pay, etc.*Provided*, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to legislate out of the service any officer now in the Medical Department of the Navy or to reduce the rank, pay, or allowances now authorized by law for any officer of the Navy.” " Fleet Naval Reserve.Vol. 39, p. 590, amended. That the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes,” approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, are hereby amended as follows:
" Paragraph repealed. Strike out that part of the fourth paragraph under the subcaption “Fleet Naval Reserve” which reads as follows: “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, 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 emergency,” and substitute therefor the following:
" Retainer pay made same as Naval Reserve. “The retainer pay of the enrolled men of the Fleet Naval Reserve shall be the same as for the enrolled men of the Naval Reserve and *Proviso*.Service credit and retirement not affected.shall be computed in like manner: *Provided*, That nothing herein shall operate to reduce the retainer pay allowed by existing law to enlisted men who, after sixteen years’ or more naval service, are transferred to the Fleet Naval Reserve, nor to deny to such enlisted men their privilege of retirement upon completing thirty years’ naval service as now provided by law.
” " Naval Reserves.Vol. 39, p. 591, amended. Strike out the first paragraph under the subcaption “Naval Reserve,” and substitute the following: " Qualification for enrollment in. “Members of the Naval Reserve Force who have enrolled for general service and are citizens of the United States are eligible for membership in the Naval Reserve. No person shall be enrolled in or transferred to this class unless he establishes satisfactory evidence as to his qualifications for duty on board combatant ships of the Navy.
” "" Age limits, etc., to be prescribed. That the age limits for the several ranks, grades, and ratings on first enrollment in the Naval Reserve shall be as prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy. Active service requirements. That the minimum active service required for maintaining the efficiency of a member of the Naval Reserve shall be two months during each term of enrollment and an attendance at not less than thirty-six drills dining each year, or other equivalent duty. The active service may be in one period or in periods of not less than fifteen days each.
Retainer pay. That the annual retainer pay of members of the Naval Reserve Force, except officers in the Naval Auxiliary Reserve and transferred members of the Fleet Naval Reserve, after confirmation in rank, grade, or rating, shall be the equivalent of two months’ base pay of Limit for officers.the corresponding rank, grade, or rating in the Navy, but the highest base pay upon which the retainer pay of officers of the Naval Reserve Force shall be computed shall not be greater than the base pay of Service credits.a lieutenant commander.
Service in the Navy, Marine Corps, National Naval Volunteers, and Naval Militia shall be counted as continuous service in the Naval Reserve Force, both for the purpose *Provisos*.Retirement limitations.of retirement and of computing retainer pay: *Provided*, That no member of the Naval Reserve Force shall be eligible for retirement Restriction on retainer pay.other than for physical disability incurred in line of duty: *Provided further*, That no retainer pay of any member of the Naval Reserve Force except those enlisted men transferred to the Fleet Naval 711Reserve after sixteen or twenty or more years’ naval service shall be in excess of the amount authorized to members having had sixteen years’ continuous service therein.
That in time of peace the Secretary of the Navy is authorized, in Duty afloat in time of peace.his discretion, to order any member of the Naval Reserve Force, with his consent, who has been confirmed in his rank, grade, or rating, to perform any duty afloat for any period of time for which his services may be required: *Provided*, That such members may be *Proviso*.Termination.relieved from duty by the Secretary of the Navy at any time and shall upon their own application be released from said duty within four months from the date of their application therefor.
That the uniform gratuity for the members, other than officers, Uniform gratuity.of each class of the Naval Reserve Force shall be the same as that prescribed for enlisted men of the Navy, but in time of peace the Secretary of the Navy shall prescribe the portion of the clothing gratuity to be issued to such members, other than officers, of the Naval Reserve Force. That in time of peace no member of any class of the Naval Reserve Pay restriction in time of peace.Force shall be entitled to retainer pay when assigned to active duty for purposes other than training.
That no part of the clothing gratuity credited to members of the Clothing gratuity in time of war.Naval Reserve Force shall be deducted from their accounts where said members accept or have accepted temporary appointments in the Navy in time of war or other national emergency. That members of the Naval Reserve Force shall upon reaching the Age disenrollment.Retention in time of war.age of sixty-four years be disenrolled except that in time of war or other national emergency such members of the Naval Reserve Force, if in active service, may be continued therein during such period as the Secretary of the Navy may determine, but not longer than six months after said war or other national emergency shall cease to exist.
That no officer of any class of the Naval Reserve Force shall in time Promotion of officer in time of peace.In time of war.of peace be promoted above the grade of lieutenant commander, but in time of war or other national emergency officers of the Naval Reserve Force of and above the rank of lieutenant commander in active service shall be eligible for selection for promotion to the next higher grade or rank by the same board of officers that selects officers of the United States Navy for promotion to such higher ranks and grades, under the same rules and regulations as apply to the selection for promotion of officers of the United States Navy.
The promotion At all times below lieutenant commander.of officers of the Naval Reserve Force below the rank of lieutenant commander shall at all times be in accordance with such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe. That when on active duty officers of the Naval Reserve Force shall Precedence of officers on active duty.take precedence among themselves and with other officers of the naval service in their respective grades or ranks according to the dates of their commissions or provisional assignment of rank in the Naval Reserve Force: *Provided*, That all officers of the Naval Reserve Force *Provisos*.Of and above lieutenant commander.of and above the rank of lieutenant commander shall rank with but after officers of the same rank or grade in the United States Navy, except that in time of war or other national emergency such officers of the Naval Reserve Force shall have a date of precedence with officers of the United States Navy as of the date of general mobilization, to be established by the Secretary of the Navy: *Provided further*, For present emergency.That during the present emergency the date of precedence of all officers of the Naval Reserve Force shall be as prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy.
No officer of the Naval Coast Defense Reserve or officer of the Commands restricted.Naval Reserve Flying Corps shall exercise command except within his particular department or service for the due performance of his respective duties. 712 Active service pay, etc., to correspond with Navy. Members of the Naval Reserve Force when employed in active service, ashore or afloat, under the Navy Department shall receive the same pay and allowances as received by the officers and enlisted men of the Regular Navy of the same rank, grades, or ratings and Service credits.of the same length of service, which shall include service in the Navy, Marine Corps, Naval Reserve Force, Naval Militia, National Naval Volunteers, or Marine Corps Reserve.
Naval Reserve Force.Appropriations for Naval Militia and Volunteers available for. That the unexpended and unobligated portion of all moneys heretofore appropriated, and the appropriation authorized by section ten of Public Numbered Fifty-seven, Sixty-third Congress, Vol. 88, pp. 286, 399, 930; Vol. 39, pp. 559, 1172.approved February sixteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, for the training and equipment of the Naval Militia and the National Naval Volunteers, for the clerical force and the office expenses of the Division of Naval Militia Affairs, and the property loaned by the Navy Department for the arming and equipping of the Naval Militia shall be, and hereby are, made available for training and Vol. 39, p. 1172.equipping the Naval Reserve Force and for the purchase, rental, and maintenance of suitable armories therefor, including the acquisition of the necessary land upon which such armories may be located.
Naval Militia Division transferred to Bureau of Navigation. That the clerical force and office expenses provided for the Division of Naval Militia Affairs shall be transferred to the Bureau of Navigation. Naval Reserve Force.Navy Regulations to govern, in active service.Uniform permitted. Enrolled members of the Naval Reserve Force when in active service shall be subject to the laws, regulations, and orders for the government of the Regular Navy, and the Secretary of the Navy may, in his discretion, permit the members of the Naval Reserve Force to wear the uniform of their respective ranks, grades, or Responsibility.ratings while not in active service, and such members shall, for any act committed by them while wearing the uniform of their respective ranks, grades, or ratings, be subject to the laws, regulations, and orders for the government of the Regular Navy.
Training stations.Yerba Buena Island, Cal. Naval training station, California: Maintenance of naval 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, $225,000.
Coasters Harbor Island, R. I. Naval training station, Rhode Island: Maintenance of naval 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 appren713tice seamen; in all, $350,000: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out *Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services.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 nineteen, shall not exceed $15,701.60.
Naval training station, Great Lakes: Maintenance of naval Great Lakes, Ill.training station: Labor and material; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and piers; street car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; motor-propelled vehicles, wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, and one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle to be used only for official purposes; fire apparatus and extinguishers; gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; printing outfit and material, and maintenance of same; heating and lighting, and repairs to power-plant equipment, distributing mains, tunnel, and conduits; stationery, books, schoolbooks, and periodicals; washing; packing boxes and materials; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen; and all other contingent expenses: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the *Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services.direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, shall not exceed $6,000; in all, naval training station, Great Lakes, $725,000.
Naval training station, Saint Helena: Maintenance of naval Saint Helena, Va.training stations at Saint Helena and at naval operating base, Virginia, labor and material, general care, repairs, and improvements; schoolbooks; and all other incidental expenses, $310,000. Organizing the Naval Reserve Force: For expenses of organizing, Naval Reserve Force.Organization, etc., expenses.*Ante*, p. 710.administering, and recruiting the Naval Reserve Force, including clerical and messenger hire, office rent, furniture, stationery, and postage, printing, advertising, and other necessary expenses, $200,000.
Schools or camps of instruction, Naval Reserve Force: For Instruction schools or camps.assembling, training, and instructing recruits and reserves of all classes, including the crews of section patrols, submarines and submarine chasers, and beach patrols, and for all purposes connected therewith, $2,655,360. Naval War College, Rhode Island: For maintenance of the Naval War College, R. I.Naval War College on Coasters Harbor Island, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle to be used only for official purposes; and care of grounds for same, $35,250; services of a professor of international law, $2,000; services of civilian lecturers, rendered at the War College, $300; care and preservation of the library, including the purchase, binding, and repair of books of reference and periodicals, $1,300: *Provided*, That *Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services.the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, inspection, drafting, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, shall not exceed $22,500; in all, Naval War College, Rhode Island, $38,850.
Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pay of employees: Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pa.Pay of employees.One secretary, $1,800; one foreman mechanic, $1,800; one superintendent of grounds, at $900; one steward, at $900; one store laborer, at $540; one matron and office assistant, at $600; one beneficiaries’ attendant, at $360; one chief cook, at $540; one assistant cook, at $420; one assistant cook, at $360; one chief laundress, at $300; five laundresses, at $240 each; one chief scrubber, at $300; three scrubbers, at $240 each; one head waitress, at $360; eight waitresses, at $240 each; one kitchen attendant, at $420; nine laborers, at $420 714each; one stable keeper and driver, at $540; one master at arms, at $720; two house corporals, at $480 each; one barber, at $480; one carpenter, at $960; one painter, at $960; one painter, at $840; one engineer, $960; four laborers, at $600 each; two laborers, at $660 each; one laborer, at $420; total for employees, $27,840.
Maintenance. Maintenance: Water rent, heating, and lighting; cemetery, burial expenses and headstones; general care and improvements of grounds, buildings, walls, and fences; repairs to power-plant equipment, implements, tools, and furniture, and purchase of the same; music in chapel and entertainments for beneficiaries; stationery, books, and periodicals; transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, and of sick and insane beneficiaries, their attendants and necessary subsistence for both, to and from other Government hospitals; employment of such beneficiaries in and about the Naval Home as may be authorized by the Secretary of the Navy, on the recommendation of the governor; support of beneficiaries, and all other contingent expenses, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of three horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, to be Payable from naval pension fund.used only for official purposes, $87,805; in all, for Naval Home, $115,645, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund.
Enlisted strength of NavyIncrease authorized.Vol. 39, p. 575. That the authorized enlisted strength of the active list of the Navy is hereby increased from eighty-seven thousand to one hundred and thirty-one thousand four hundred and eighty-five. Navy and Marine Corps, temporary Increase. That the Act approved May twenty-second, nineteen hundred and seventeen (Statutes at Large, volume forty, page eighty-five), entitled “An Act to temporarily increase the commissioned and warrant Public Laws, 1st sess., p. 84, amended.and enlisted strength of the Navy and Marine Corps, and for other purposes,” be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out all of the first and second sections of said Act, after the enacting clause, and by substituting therefor the following:
" Navy.Enlisted strength temporarily increased.Distribution. “That the authorized enlisted strength of the active list of the Navy is hereby temporarily increased from one hundred and thirty-one thousand four hundred and eighty-five to one hundred and eighty-one thousand four hundred and eighty-five; the authorized number of apprentice seamen is hereby temporarily increased from six thousand to twenty-four thousand; and the authorized number of enlisted men of the Flying Corps is hereby temporarily increased *Provisos*.Authorized enlisted strength defined.from three hundred and fifty to ten thousand: *Provided*, That the phrase ‘authorized enlisted strength,’ as applied to the personnel of the Navy, shall mean the total number of enlisted men of the Navy authorized by law, exclusive of the Hospital Corps, apprentice seamen, those sentenced by court-martial to discharge, those detailed for duty with Naval Militia, those furloughed without pay, enlisted men of the Flying Corps, and those under instruction in trade schools:
Number at trade schools.*Provided further*, That the number of enlisted men for instruction in trade schools shall not at any time exceed fourteen thousand, which Further increase authorized.number is hereby temporarily authorized: *Provided further*, That the President is authorized, at any time during the period of the present war, when in his judgment it becomes necessary, temporarily to increase the authorized enlisted strength of the Navy, as provided for herein, by the addition of fifty thousand men.
” “Sec. 2. Marine Corps.Enlisted strength increased.Vol. 39, p. 612. That the authorized enlisted strength of the active list of the Marine Corps is hereby temporarily increased from seventeen thousand four hundred to seventy-five thousand five hundred, this authorized strength being distributed in the various grades of the enlisted force in the same proportion as those authorized at the date *Proviso*.Privates, first class, established.of the approval of this Act: *Provided*, That not more than twenty-five per centum of the authorized number of privates in the Marine Corps shall have the rank of private, first class, which rank is hereby established in the Marine Corps.
” " 715 The rank and title of Major General is hereby created in the Marine Major General and temporary Major General authorized.Corps, and the President is authorized to nominate, and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint one Major General, who shall at all times be junior in rank to the Major General Commandant, and also one temporary Major General in the Marine Corps, who shall at all times be junior to the permanent Major General. That the said Act of May twenty-second, nineteen hundred and Temporary increase of commissioned officers.*Ante*, p. 85, amended.seventeen, Statutes at Large, volume forty, page eighty-five, be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out the word “lieutenant” in lines five and fourteen of section four thereof, and substituting therefor the words “lieutenant commander” and adding at the end of section four the following proviso: *Provided further*, Marine Corps.Further increase.That based on the temporary increase of enlisted men of the Marine Corps herein authorized, the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, is authorized, in his discretion, temporarily to appoint not exceeding six brigadier generals, twenty-two colonels, and twenty-two lieutenant colonels in the Marine Corps in addition to the number permanently allowed by law in those grades; saidLimitation of autorization. temporary appointments shall continue in force only until otherwise directed by the President or until Congress shall amend or repeal the same and not later than six months after the termination of the present war; by striking out the words “commissioned warrant Warrant officers.Age limit stricken out.officers, warrant officers, and” in lines fourteen and fifteen of section five thereof; and by inserting after the semicolon in fine thirty-one of section five, the following:
“*Provided further*, That temporary Chief warrant officers added.appointments as chief warrant officers may be made by the President, with the consent of the Senate,” so that said sections, as amended, will read as follows: " “Sec. 4. Additional commissioned officers in the Navy and Marine Officers.Temporary appointments based on increased enlisted strength.Corps, based upon the temporary increases herein authorized in the number of enlisted men, shall be temporarily appointed by the President, in his discretion, with the advice and consent of the Senate, not above the grades and ranks of lieutenant commander Distribution of grades.in the line and staff of the Navy and major in the Marine Corps, Vol. 39, pp. 576, 609.the distribution in said grades and ranks to be made in accordance with the provisions of the Act of August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen: *Provided*, That all temporary original appointments *Provisos*.Original appointments to be in lowest grades.shall be made in the lowest commissioned grades of the line and staff of the Navy and Marine Corps, exclusive of commissioned warrant officers, and that there shall be no permanent or temporary appointments in or permanent or temporary promotions to any To higher grades restricted.grade or rank above that of lieu tenant commander in the Navy or major in the Marine Corps by reason of the temporary appointment of officers authorized by this Act in excess of the total number of officers authorized by existing law or on account of the increase of enlisted men herein authorized: *Provided further*, That, during the Supplying existing vacancies for present war.Vol. 39, pp. 576, 609.period of the present war, the deficiency existing prior to the passage of this Act in the total number of commissioned officers of the Navy and Marine Corps authorized by the Act of August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, may also be supplied by temporary appointments in the lowest grades and by temporary promotions to all other grades until a sufficient number of officers shall be available for regular appointment or promotion in accordance with existing law: *Provided further*, That nothing herein shall be held or construed Use of retired or Reserve officers not abridged.to limit or abridge the use or service of the officers of the Navy and Marine Corps on the retired list or of the officers of the Naval Militia and National Naval Volunteers, Naval Reserve Force, and Marine Corps Reserve, as provided and authorized under existing law: 716Chaplains. *Provided further*, That temporary chaplains and temporary acting Additional appointments.Vol. 38, p. 404.Marine Corps.Additional temporary officers.chaplains in the Navy may be appointed for service during the period of the war in the proportion of the personnel of the Navy as now prescribed by existing law: *Provided further*, That, based on the temporary increase of enlisted men of the Marine Corps herein authorized, the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, is authorized, in his discretion, temporarily to appoint Distribution of grades.not exceeding six brigadier generals, twenty-two colonels, and twenty-two lieutenant colonels in the Marine Corps in addition to the number Duration of commissions.permanently allowed by law in those grades; said temporary appointments shall continue in force only until otherwise directed by the President or until Congress shall amend or repeal the same and not later than six months after the termination of the present war.
“Sec. 5. Eligibility for appointments or promotions to temporary grades or ranks.*Ante*, p. 85. That the additional temporary officers authorized in the various grades and ranks of the Navy and Marine Corps in accordance with the next preceding section may be temporarily appointed to serve in the grades or ranks to which appointed or promoted by the temporary advancement of officers holding permanent and probationary commissions, by temporary appointment of commissioned warrant officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men of the Navy, and warrant officers, noncommissioned officers, and clerks to assistant paymasters of the Marine Corps, commissioned and warrant officers of the United States Coast Guard, citizens of the United States who have had previous naval or military service or training, and other *Provisos*.Chief warrant officers.citizens of the United States specially qualified: *Provided*, That such chief warrant officers as are given the temporary appointments provided herein who were chief warrant officers in the permanent Navy on July first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and were not given Seniority, etc.such temporary appointments as of that date because of age restriction or ill health, shall take rank and precedence with the other chief warrant officers temporarily appointed as of July first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and according to their seniority as chief warrant Maximum age limits.officers in the permanent service: *Provided further*, That in making appointments authorized herein the maximum age limit shall be fifty years for enlisted men to ensign, enlisted men of the Navy to warrant rank, noncommissioned officers of the Marine Corps to commissioned rank, members of the Marine Corps branch of the Naval Militia and National Naval Volunteers, Marine Corps Reserve, and civilians specially qualified to commissioned rank, and temporary chaplains Naval Academy graduates and warrant officers.and temporary acting chaplains: *Provided further*, That graduates of the Naval Academy and warrant officers duly commissioned in the Navy or Marine Corps in accordance with existing law shall not, by virtue of this Act, be required to receive temporary appointments;
Graduates of March 29, 1917.and the class of midshipmen graduated from the Naval Academy on March twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and the classes to be graduated hereafter, may be commissioned effective from date Temporary warrant officers.of graduation: *Provided further*, That temporary appointments as warrant officers of the Navy may be made by the Secretary of the Temporary chief warrant officers.Navy: *Provided further*, That temporary appointments as chief warrant officers may be made by the President with the consent of the Marine gunners and quartermaster clerks.Senate: *Provided further*, That the temporary appointment for the war of seventy-six additional marine gunners, and seventy-six additional Eligibility of lieutenants (junior grade) and ensigns.quartermaster clerks, is authorized: *Provided further*, That lieutenants (junior grade) and ensigns may be considered eligible for temporary promotions to the grades of lieutenant and lieutenant (junior grade), respectively, without regard to length of service in grade.
” " Allowances.Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral and Vice Admiral. That hereafter the Chief of Naval Operations shall receive the allowances which are now or may hereafter be prescribed by or in pursuance of law for the grade of general in the Army, and the 717officers of the Navy holding the rank and title of Admiral and Vice Admiral in the Navy while holding such rank and title shall receive the allowances of a General and Lieutenant General of the Army, respectively. And hereafter chiefs of bureaus of the Navy Department, Chiefs of Navy Department bureaus to correspond in rank, etc., with War Department.including the Judge Advocate General of the Navy, shall, while so serving, have corresponding rank and shall receive the same pay and allowances as are now or may hereafter be prescribed by or m pursuance of law for chiefs of bureaus of the War Department and the Judge Advocate General of the Army.
That nothing contained in the preceding amendments of the Act No reduction of present pay and allowances.of May twenty-second, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall be construed to reduce the pay or allowances now authorized by law for any commissioned, warrant, or appointed officer or any enlisted man of the active or retired lists of the Navy. That the paragraph in the naval appropriation Act of August Loss of pay on account of personal misconduct.Vol. 39, p. 530, amended.twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, five hundred and eighty), relative to the loss of pay by officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps who are absent from duty on account of sickness or disease resulting from their own misconduct, and the making good, by enlisted men, of time so lost, be, and the same is hereby, amended by inserting after the words “on account of,” in the second line, the word “injury,” “Injury” added.followed by a comma, and by inserting after the words “on account of,” in the ninth line, the word “injury,” followed by a comma.
That hereafter, during the existence of war or of a national emergency Retired officers.May be ordered to active duty during war.declared by the President to exist, any commissioned or warrant officer of the Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard of the United States on the retired list may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, be ordered to active duty at sea or on shore; and any retired officer performing such active duty in time of war or national emergency, declared as aforesaid, shall be entitled to promotion on Promotions allowed.the retired fist to the grade or rank, not above that of lieutenant commander in the Navy or major in the Marine Corps or captain in the Coast Guard, and shall thereafter receive the pay and allowances thereof, which his total active service as an officer both prior and subsequent to retirement, in the manner rendered by him, would have enabled him to attain in due course of promotion had such service been rendered continuously on the active list during the period of time last past.
That during the existence of war or of a national emergency, Temporary advances while on active duty.declared as aforesaid, any commissioned or warrant officer of the Navy, Marine Corps or Coast Guard of the United States on the retired list, while on active duty, may be temporarily advanced to and commissioned in such higher grade or rank on the retired list, not above that of lieutenant commander in the Navy or major in the Marine Corps or captain in the Coast Guard, as the President may determine, and any officer so advanced shall, while on active duty, be entitled to the same pay and allowances as officers of like grade or rank on the active list: *Provided*, That any such commissioned or *Provisos*.Reversion to former status when active duty ceases, etc.warrant officer who has been so temporarily advanced in grade or rank shall, upon his relief from active duty, or in any case not later than six months after the termination of the war or of the national emergency, declared as aforesaid, revert to the grade or rank on the retired list and to the pay and allowance status which he would have held had he not been so temporarily advanced: *Provided further*, No pay, etc., reduced.That nothing in this Act shall operate to reduce the pay and allowances now allowed by law to retired officers.
That the naval appropriation Act of August twenty-ninth, nineteen Promotions.Sea service requirements.Vol. 39, p. 579, amended.hundred and sixteen (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page five hundred and seventy-nine), be, and the same is hereby, amended by the insertion of a new proviso immediately after the clause that “On and after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty, no captain, 718commander, or lieutenant commander shall be promoted unless he has had not less than two years’ actual sea service on sea-going ships in the grade in which serving, or who is more than fifty-six, fifty, or Exceptions in cases specifically designated by the President, during war, etc.forty-five years of age, respectively,” the proviso reading as follows:
“*Provided*, That in exceptional cases where officers are specifically designated during war or national emergency declared by the President by the Secretary of the Navy as performing, or as having performed, such highly important duties on shore that their services can not be or could not have been spared from such assignment without serious prejudice to the successful prosecution of the war, the qualification of sea service in the cases of those officers so specifically designated shall not apply while the United States is at war, or during a national emergency declared by the President, or within two and one-half years subsequent to the ending of such war or national emergency.
” Promotions by selection extended to Staff Corps.Vol. 39. p. 578. The provisions of existing laws with reference to promotion by selection in the line of the Navy are hereby extended to include and authorize advancement to the ranks of commander, captain, and rear admiral in the Staff Corps of the Navy under the same conditions in all respects except as may be necessary to adapt the said provisions to *Provisos*.Composition of boards.such Staff Corps: *Provided*, That boards of selection shall in each case be composed, when practicable, of not less than five members of the corps concerned and promotions shall be made on the basis of fitness alone by selection from among the officers of the rank next below:
Sea service not required.*Provided further*, That the requirements for sea service in grade, length of service in grade and maximum age in grade for promotion shall not apply. No increased allowances for aviation duty.Vol. 38, p. 939. That hereafter the allowances of officers, enlisted men, and student flyers of the naval service shall in no case be increased by reason of the performance of aviation duty. Naval mail clerks.Shore stations designations.Vol. 35, p. 417.Vol. 37, p. 560.
That the provisions of the Act of May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight (Thirty-fifth Statutes, pages four hundred and seventeen and four hundred and eighteen), as amended by the Act of August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve (Thirty-seventh Statutes, page five hundred and sixty), and as amended by Vol. 39, p. 1188.the Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen (Thirty-ninth Statutes, page eleven hundred and eighty-eight), are hereby extended to authorize the designation of enlisted men of the Navy or Marine Corps as Navy mail clerks and assistant Navy mail clerks for duty at stations and shore establishments under the jurisdiction of the Navy Department where the services of such mail clerks and assistant mail clerks are necessary.
Commutation of quarters.Determination by Secretary of the Navy to govern. That hereafter the Secretary of the Navy may determine where and when there are no public quarters available for persons in the Navy and Marine Corps, or serving therewith, within the meaning of any Acts or parts of Acts relating to the assignment of quarters or commutation therefor. Cash rewards for suggested improvements by civilians, etc. That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized, in his discretion and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to pay cash rewards to civilian employees of the Navy Department or the Naval Establishment or other persons in civil life when due to a suggestion or series of suggestions by them there results an *Provisos*.Payment from current appropriations.improvement or economy in manufacturing process or plant or naval material: *Provided*, That such sums as may be awarded to employees or other persons in civil life in accordance with this Act shall be paid them out of current naval appropriations in addition to their Agreement required.usual compensation: *Provided further*, That no employee or other person in civil life shall be paid a reward under this Act until he has properly executed an agreement to the effect that the use by the United States of the suggestion or series of suggestions made by him shall not form the basis of a further claim of any nature from the United States by him, his heirs, or assigns. 719 That the Comptroller of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized Alvin Hovey-King.Reopening of disallowed accounts.to consider appeals from settlements of the Auditor for the Navy Department under date of April twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, in which settlements certain disallowances were made in the accounts of Paymaster Alvin Hovey-King, United States Navy, and in which cases the time within which appeal may lawfully be made to the comptroller has expired.
That any enlisted man of the Navy or Marine Corps upon the Retired enlisted men.Promotion of, in active service.retired list who has been ordered into active service since April sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, or who may hereafter be ordered into active service, shall be eligible for promotion and he shall be entitled to the pay and benefits of continuous service of such rank Service credits allowed.and for such length of time as he is or has been employed in active service, and when relieved of active service shall retain upon the retired list the rank and service held by him at the time of such relief, with the pay and allowances of such rank on the retired list; and the Pay, etc., to be allowed by accounting officers.accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby directed to allow in the accounts of any enlisted man of the Navy or Marine Corps who resigned from the retired list in order to reenlist for appointment in a higher grade, the same continuous service pay and the benefits of such rank to which he may have been appointed upon reenlistment, as if his service had been continuous, and any difference in pay from the date of reenlistment shall be credited to his account.
The Lighthouse Depot at Saint Joseph, Michigan, described as follows, Saint Joseph, Mich.Lighthouse depot transferred to Navy.is hereby transferred to and placed under the control and jurisdiction of the Navy Department for use for naval purposes, namely: Beginning at a four-by-four pine post, marked “U. S. L. H. E.,” Description.at the northwest angle of the United States Life Saving Station situated in section twenty-three, township four south, range nineteen west, in the county of Berrien and State of Michigan; thence south fifty-four degrees and thirty minutes east one hundred and ninety-three feet to a four-by-four pine post, marked “U.
S. L. H. E,,” at shore line; thence north seventy-four degrees and eleven minutes east three hundred feet to a four-by-four pine post, marked “U. S. L. H. E.,” following the line of the shore; thence north fifteen degrees and forty-nine minutes west one hundred and fifty feet to a four-by-four pine post, marked “U. S. L. H. E.”; thence north eighty-seven degrees and eleven minutes west three hundred and thirteen feet to a four-by-four pine post, marked “U.S. L. H. E.”; thence south thirty-five degrees and thirty minutes west one hundred and fifty-nine feet to the place of beginning, containing approximately one and seven hundred and twenty-four one-thousandths acres, more or less, together with all buildings and improvements thereon: which property is shown on drawing number seventeen thousand three hundred and twenty-one, bearing the legend, “Office of the Lighthouse Inspector, Twelfth District, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Lighthouse Depot, Saint Joseph, Michigan. General Plan of Depot. Scale as noted. Approved July thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seventeen. N. M. Works, Superintendent. Lewis M. Stoddard, Inspector,” on file in the Navy Department.
(a)That the word “person” as used in paragraph (b), (c), next Emergency ship construction.Vol. 39, p. 1192.Meaning of terms used.hereafter shall include any individual, trustee, firm, association, company, or corporation. The word “ship” shall include any boat, vessel, submarine, or any form of aircraft, and the parts thereof. The words “war material” shall include arms, armament, ammunition, stores, supplies, and equipment for ships and airplanes, and everything required for or in connection with the production thereof. The word “factory” shall include any factory, workshop, engine works, building used for manufacture, assembling, construction, or any process, and any shipyard or dockyard. The words “United States” shall include the Canal Zone and all territory and waters, 720continental and insular, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
(b)Authority vested in the President. The President is hereby authorized and empowered, within the limits of the amounts appropriated therefor: First. To order ships or war material from any person. To place an order with any person for such ships or war material as the necessities of the Government, to be determined by the President, may require and which are of the nature, kind, and quantity usually produced or capable of being produced by such Compliance obligatory. person. Compliance with all such orders shall be obligatory on any person to whom such order is given, and such order shall take precedence over all other orders and contracts theretofore placed with such person. If any person owning, leasing, or operating any factory equipped for the building or production of ships or war material for the Navy shall refuse or fail to give to the United States such preference in the execution of such an order, or shall refuse to build, supply, furnish, or manufacture the kind, quantity, or quality of ships of war materials so ordered at such reasonable price as shall be determined by the President, the President may take immediate possession of any factory of such person, or of any part thereof without taking possession of the entire factory, and may use the same at such times and in such manner as he may consider necessary or expedient. Second. To modify existing contracts. Within the limit of the amounts appropriated therefor, to modify or cancel any existing contract for the building, production, Possession of factory if order refused, etc.or purchase of ships or war material; and if any contractor shall refuse or fail to comply with the contract as so modified, the President may take immediate possession of any factory of such contractor, or any part thereof without taking possession of the entire factory, and may use the same at such times and in such manner as he may consider necessary or expedient. Third. To require whole output of factory etc. To require the owner or occupier of any factory in which ships or war material are built or produced to place at the disposal of the United States the whole or any part of the output of such factory, and within the limit of the amounts appropriated therefor, to deliver such output or parts thereof in such quantities and at such times as may be specified in the order at such reasonable price as shall be determined by the President. Fourth. To take over factory for Government use. To requisition and take over for use or operation by the Government any factory, or any part thereof, without taking possession of the entire factory, whether the United States has or has not any contract with the owner or occupier of such factory. Authority to cease at end of the war. That all authority granted to the President herein or by him delegated shall cease six months after a final treaty of peace shall be proclaimed between this Government and the German Empire.
(d)Compensation for modified contracts, etc. That whenever the United States shall cancel or modify any contract, make use of, assume, occupy, requisition, or take over any factory or part thereof, or any ships or war material, in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (b), it shall make just compensation Part payment if unsatisfactory and suit allowed for remainder.therefor, to be determined by the President, and if the amount thereof so determined by the President is unsatisfactory to the person entitled to receive the same, such person shall be paid seventy-five per centum of the amount so determined by the President and shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum as added to said seventy-five per centum shall make up such amount Procedure.Vol. 36, pp. 1093, 1136.as will be just compensation therefor, in the manner provided for by section twenty-four, paragraph twenty, and section one hundred and forty-five of the Judicial Code. Cape May air station.*Ante*, p. 344, amended. That the Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to provide for the acquisition of an air station site for the United States Navy at Cape May, New Jersey, be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding the following at the end thereof: 721 " *“And provided further*, That in the event the Secretary of the Immediate possession authorized if no satisfactory agreement made.*Post*, p. 1912.Navy is unable satisfactorily to consummate the negotiations for the purchase thereof under the provisions of said Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, the President is hereby authorized and empowered to take over for and in behalf of the United States the immediate possession of and title to such land, including all easements, rights of way, riparian and other rights appurtenant or appertaining thereto deemed by him to be necessary for the purposes aforesaid, and to make compensation therefor under the terms and provisions of the legislation contained in this Act; and the appropriation of $150,000 appropriated in said Act, approved Appropriation available.October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby made available for the payment of compensation for said property so taken over by the President.”" 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 ammunition depots, torpedo stations, and proving grounds; for necessary improvements at and maintenance of proving grounds, powder factory, torpedo stations, gun factory, ammunition depots, and armor and projectile plant, and for target practice; for the maintenance, repair, or Passenger vehicles.operation of horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes at naval ammunition depots, naval proving grounds, and naval torpedo stations, and for pay of chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service m navy yards, naval stations, and naval ammunition depots: *Provided*, *Provisos*.Chemical, etc., services.*Post*, p. 1033.That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, watchmen, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and naval ammunition depots for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, shall not exceed $2,950,000; in all, $30,522,279: *Provided further*, That ordnance Use of materials to meet general needs.materials procured under the various Ordnance appropriations shall hereafter be available for issue, to meet the general needs of the naval service, under the appropriation from which procured. Purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, $2,400,000. Smokeless powder. New batteries for ships of the Navy: For batteries and outfits New batteries for ships.*Post*, p. 1034.*Provisos*.Additional contracts authorized.for naval vessels, auxiliaries, patrols, aircraft, naval stations, and merchantmen, $85,014,110.50: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $20,000,000 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made: *Provided further*, That $41,259,523.50 of this amount shall be Existing obligations.*Ante*, pp. 370, 487.*Post*, p. 1173.available to meet obligations authorized under this heading in the Act of October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and the Act of March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eighteen. Ammunition for vessels: For procuring, producing, preserving, Ammunition for vessels.*Proviso*.Additional contracts authorized.*Post*, p. 1034.and handling ammunition for vessels, $73,289,530: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $11,000,000 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made: *Provided further*, That $23,210,120 of this Existing obligations.*Ante*, pp. 370, 487.*Post*, p. 1173.amount shall be available to meet obligations authorized under this heading in the Act of October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and the Act of March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eighteen. Torpedoes and appliances: Tor the purchase and manufacture of Torpedoes and appliances.torpedoes and appliances, to be available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, $10,000,000. 722 Reserve supplies. Reserve ordnance supplies: For reserve and miscellaneous *Proviso*.Existing obligations.*Ante*, pp. 370, 487.ordnance supplies, $63,000,000: *Provided*, That $30,500,000 of this amount shall be available to meet obligations authorized under this heading in the Act of October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and the Act of March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and seventeen. Torpedo station, Newport, R. I. 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, $200,000. Machinery, etc. For new and improved machinery and tools for torpedo factory, $200,000. 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, $385,000. Contingent. Contingent, Bureau of Ordnance: For miscellaneous items, namely, cartage, expenses of light and water at ammunition depots and stations, tolls, ferriage, technical books, and incidental expenses attending inspection of ordnance material, $50,000. Navy mine depot.Erecting and equipping.*Post*, pp. 1827, 1869. Navy mine depot: For the erection and equipment of a depot for the storage of high explosives and the loading of mines, on a site to be selected and acquired by the President, $3,000,000. Navy nitrate plant.Erecting, equipping and operating. Navy nitrate plant: For the erection, equipment, and operation of a plant for the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen, production of synthetic ammonia, its oxidation to nitric acid, and the manufacture of ammonium nitrate, for each and every expense connected therewith, including the employment of all necessary expert, drafting, and clerical assistance, $9,150,000, to be available until expended. Bureau of Yards and Docks. bureau of yards and docks. Maintenance. Maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For general maintenance of yards and docks, namely, for books, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines; fire apparatus and plants; machinery, operation or repair, purchase; maintenance of horses and driving teams; carts, timber wheels, and all vehicles, including motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes, and including motor-propelled vehicles for freight-carrying purposes only for use in the navy yards; tools and repair of the same; stationery; furniture for Government houses and offices in navy yards and naval stations; coal and other fuel; candles, oil, and gas; attendance on light and power plants; cleaning and clearing up yards and care of buildings; attendance on fires, lights, fire engines, and fire apparatus and plants; incidental labor at navy yards; water tax, tolls, and ferriage; pay of watchmen *Provisos*.Clerical, etc., services.in navy yards; awnings and packing boxes; and for pay for employees on leave, $10,500,000: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, inspection, drafting, messenger, and other classified work in the navy yards and naval stations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, shall not exceed $2,000,000: *Provided further*, That no part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used for Purchase of passenger automobileslimited.the purchase of more than one hundred and fifteen passenger-carrying automobiles for official use within the Price restriction.United States and its insular possessions: *And provided further*, That no part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used for 723the purchase of more than one hundred such passenger-carrying automobiles at a greater cost than $500 each and fifteen at a greater cost than $2,000 each: *And provided further*, That the Secretary of the Distribution of high-powered cars.Navy is authorized to distribute the high-powered automobiles now owned and in use in the United States and its insular possessions to such places and service as they may be required. Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For contingent expenses Contingent.and minor extensions and improvements of public works at navy yards and stations, 4250,000. Emergency expenses, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For emergency Emergency expenses, etc.expenses and extensions of public works at navy yards and naval stations, 44,750,000. public works, bureau of yards and docks. Public works. Hospital construction: For additional temporary hospital construction Additional temporary hospitals.Designated places.and repairs as may be necessary at the points named herein and to provide same with suitable hospital facilities, Chelsea, Massachusetts, $350,000; Newport, Rhode Island, $500,000; New London, Connecticut, $150,000; Brooklyn, New York, $1,400,000; Wards Island, New York, $1,250,000; Pelham, New York, 3900,000; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, $355,000; League Island, Pennsylvania, 3800,000; Norfolk, Virginia, 41,250,000; Hampton Roads, Virginia, 4500,000; Charleston, South Carolina, 3850,000; Parris Island, South Carolina, 4175,000; Great Lakes, Illinois, $65,000; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, $150,000; overseas, $1,000,000; contingent, $600,000; in all, $10,295,000. Temporary storage: For temporary storage, $1,000,000. Temporary storage. Navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Addition to machine Portsmouth, N. H.shop, $200,000; addition to foundry, $130,000; power-plant improvements, $150,000; in all, $480,000. Submarine base, New London, Connecticut: For the further New London, Conn., submarine base.development of the submarine base at New London, Connecticut, including the erection and equipment of repair shops, the provision of additional berthing space, and the erection of quarters and barracks for officers and men, $750,000. Navy yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Improvement of central Boston, Mass.power plant, $425,000; water front improvements, $400,000; machine shop and foundry, $900,000; in all, $1,725,000. Navy yard, New York, New York: Water front improvements, New York, N. Y.$750,000; central power-plant improvements, $500,000; in all, $1,250,000. Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dry dock, to complete, Philadelphia, Pa.Dry dock, etc.$2,000,000; central power-plant improvements, $300,000; tracks, streets and sewers, $100,000; in all, $2,400,000. Depot of supplies, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For the erection Marine Corps supplies depot.of a lumber shed and necessary railroad sidings on land now owned by the Government and occupied as a portion of the Depot of Supplies, $35,000. The unexpended balance of $40,434.23 of appropriation of $200,000 Additional lands, etc.Use of unexpended balance.*Ante*, p. 215.in the Act approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, making appropriations to supply deficiencies, for the purchase of additional land, Depot of Supplies, Marine Corps, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is hereby made available for the purchase of all necessary land lying between Alter Street, Ellsworth Street, and Fifteenth Street, in the city of Philadelphia, including all buildings thereon and for adapting said buildings for uses connected with said depot. Navy Yard, Washington, District of Columbia: Fuse and Washington, D. C.Naval magazine.primer loading house, Bellevue magazine, $25,000; boundary fence, Bellevue magazine, $20,600; cranes for buildings, $375,000; central power plant and distributing systems, extensions, $85,000; seven 724Additional land for Gun Factory. ordnance storehouses, Bellevue magazine, $440,000; for the acquisition of additional land on the east side of the Naval Gun Factory lying south of M Street and west of Eleventh Street and for the removal of buildings thereon and the grading of the ground and construction of walls enclosing said land and equipping same for use, *Proviso*.Closing of streets, etc.$488,000: *Provided*, That upon the acquisition of the land hereby authorized, all portions of public streets on which any squares so taken over shall 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 land so acquired, are hereby abandoned and closed and said portions of said streets and public alleys shall be regarded as set apart and reserved for naval purposes; in all, $1,433,600. Other lands reserved for naval purposes. That portion of Eleventh Street southeast lying south of the south Description.line of O Street southeast and west of the west face of the new Anacostia bridge is hereby abandoned and closed, and said portion of said street, together with such land owned by the United States as is bounded on the north by the south line of O Street; on the east by the west face of the new Anacostia bridge; on the south by the waters of the Anacostia River; and on the west by the west line of Eleventh Street, extending in a southerly direction from its point of intersection with the south line of O Street and prolonged to its intersection with the waters of the Anacostia River, is hereby set apart and reserved for naval purposes and placed under the *Provisos*.Access to Anacostia Bridge.control and jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Navy: *Provided*, That at all times the proper authorities of the District of Columbia shall be permitted to have access to the area above described for the purpose of making examinations of, and repairs to, the said Present leases terminated.bridge: *And provided further*, That all leases heretofore granted by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to parties occupying said above described area are hereby, in accordance with the terms of such leases, terminated. Quantico, Va.Lands to be acquired for Marine Corps post.*Post*, p. 1880. Marine Barracks, Quantico, Virginia: The President is authorized to acquire under the authority and provisions of this Act all of the land specified in the report of the board appointed by the Major General Commandant, Marine Corps, dated January twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, at Quantico, Virginia, as a permanent Marine Corps post, and the sum of $475,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for this purpose. Norfolk, Va.Dry dock, etc. Navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Dry dock, to complete, $2,000,000; water-front improvements, $500,000; improvements central power plant and distributing systems, $300,000; tracks, streets, and sewers, $150,000; galvanizing shop, $100,000; toward steel and lumber storage (limit of cost, $850,000), $400,000; in all, $3,450,000. Naval Academy.Additional buildings. Buildings and grounds, Naval Academy: Extension of Bancroft Hall, to complete, $1,850,000; and the limit of cost is increased to $2,850,000; improvements central power plant and distributing systems, $325,000; general store building, $100,000; building for seamanship and navigation, and other instruction purposes, $1,000,000: *Proviso*.Additional contracts authorized.*Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for this purpose not to exceed $1,500,000 in addition to the appropriation herein made; garage, $30,000; in all, $3,305,000. Port Royal, S. C.Marine recruiting station. Marine Recruiting Station, Port Royal, South Carolina: For twelve additional barracks buildings, four lavatories, and six mess halls, $60,000; dredging and reclaiming marsh land, $35,000; sea wall, $25,000; lining dry dock with concrete, $25,000; street paving, $7,000; cement sidewalks, $7,000; trees and shrubbery, $1,000; medical officers’ quarters, $10,000; in all, $170,000. Parris Island.Entire island to enlarge station. The President is authorized to acquire under the authority and provisions of this Act all of the remaining portion of Parris Island for 725the enlargement of the Marine Recruiting Station, Port Royal, South Carolina; and the sum of $150,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for this purpose. Navy yard, Charleston, South Carolina: For the construction Charleston, S. C.Dry dock, etc.of a large dry dock (limit of cost, $4,000,000), $1,150,000; dredging, to continue, $25,000; railroad system extension, $15,000; toward water-front improvements, $200,000; boat storage, $10,000; central power plant improvements, $250,009; in all, $1,650,000. Naval station, Key West, Florida: Station improvements, Key West, Fla.Submarine base, etc.*Proviso*.Additional contracts authorized.$25,000; for the development of a submarine base, $1,000,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for this purpose not to exceed $1,500,000 in addition to the appropriations herein made; in all, $1,025,000. Naval aeronautic station, Pensacola, Florida: Improvements Pensacola, Fla.Aeronautic station.central power plant and distributing systems, $100,000. Naval station, New Orleans, Louisiana: Floating crane, New Orleans, La.$30,000; improvements, central power plant and distributing systems, $280,000; water-front improvements, $100,000; shell house, $40,000; in all, $450,000. Navy yard, Mare Island, California: Maintenance of dikes and Mare Island, Cal.dredging, $100,000; improvements central power plant and distributing system, $250,000: structural shop and auxiliary improvements, $1,000,000; in all, $1,350,000. The buildings and improvements in connection with and appurtenant Light station transferred to Navy.to the Mare Island Light Station, California, are hereby transferred from the control and jurisdiction of the Department of Commerce to the control and jurisdiction of the Navy Department for naval purposes. Navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington: Improvements, central Puget Sound, Wash.power plant and distributing systems, $325,000; purchase of additional land adjoining the navy yard, $300,000; for grading, filling, and sea-wall construction (limit of cost to be $750,000), $400,000; in all, $1,025,000. Naval station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Auxiliary water supply, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.$41,275. Naval station, Tutuila, Samoa: Construction of quarters, Tutuila, Samoa.$9,000; additional water-supply system, including not to exceed $500 for the purchase of land, $15,000; storehouse, $15,000; sea wall, $5,000; miscellaneous, $6,000; in all, $50,000. Naval station, Guam: Repair and extension of roads, $30,000; Guam.cold storage, $40,000; boathouse, $20,000; miscellaneous and extensions, $10,000; in all, $100,000. Naval station, Guantanamo, Cuba: Concrete pier, $140,000; Guantanamo, Cuba.telephone and transmission system, $25,000; road construction, $15,000; storage facilities, $20,000; in all, $200,000. Naval magazine, New England Coast: Dredging, $30,000. Naval magazines, New England coast.Indianhead, Md.Powder factory. Naval Proving Ground, Indianhead, Maryland: Improvements to powder factory, $140,000; pyro storage, $20,000; m all, $160,000. For the building of or providing for the construction of a railroad Connecting railroad.to connect the Naval Proving Ground and the Naval Smokeless Powder Factory at Indianhead, Maryland, with existing or contemplated railway lines, under terms and conditions satisfactory to the Secretary of the Navy, authority being granted for the immediate Right of way.condemnation or acquisition of the necessary right of way, $850,000. Naval magazine, Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania: The President Fort Mifflin, Pa.Additional land.is authorized to acquire under the authority and provisions of this Act additional land for increasing ordnance facilities in the vicinity of the naval magazine, Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania; and for this pur726pose $360,000 is hereby appropriated or so much thereof as may be necessary. New York Harbor. Naval magazine, New York Harbor: Quarters for marine officer and medical officer, $18,000. Fort Lafayette, N.Y. Naval magazine, Fort Lafayette, New York: Dredging channel, $26,000. Lake Denmark, N. J.Additional land. Naval magazine, Lake Denmark, New Jersey: The President is authorized to acquire under the authority and provisions of this Act additional land for increasing ordnance facilities in the vicinity of the naval magazine, Lake Denmark, New Jersey; and for this purpose $18,000 is hereby appropriated or so much thereof as may be necessary. Newport, R. I.Torpedo station. Torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island, buildings: Boathouse and diving school, $100,000; emergency torpedo repair shop, $100,000; extension of industrial roads, $20,000; extension of sea wall, $5,000: rebuilding carpenter shop, $25,000; improvements central power plant systems, including quay wall and fill at power house, $800,000; in all, $1,050,000. Additional land. The President is authorized to acquire under the authority and provisions of this Act additional land for increasing ordnance facilities in the vicinity of the naval torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island; and for this purpose $100,000 is hereby appropriated or so much thereof as may be necessary. Torpedo storage. Torpedo storage: For additional storage for torpedoes at ordnance stations, $250,000. Fuel depots. Depots for coal: For depots for coal and other fuel, Guantanamo, Cuba, $90,000; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, $40,000; Puget Sound, Washington, $60,000; San Diego, California, $70,000; Mare Island, California; $270,000; Melville, Rhode Island, $160,000; contingent, $50,000; care and custody of naval petroleum reserves, $10,000; in all, $750,000. California training station. Naval training station, California, buildings: Water supply, $65,000; roads and streets, $10,000; in all, $75,000. Peking, China.Marine barracks. Marine Barracks, Peking, China: Power plant, $25,000; barrack buildings, to complete, $85,000; in all, $110,000. Rhode Island training station. Naval Training Station, Rhode Island, Buildings: Sea-wall improvements, $225,000; remodeling boathouse, $20,000; officers’ quarters, $15,000; fire apparatus house and garage, $30,000; in all, $290,000. Additional land. The President is authorized to acquire under the authority and provisions of this Act additional land for the enlargement of the Naval Training Station, Narragansett Bay, Newport, Rhode Island, and for this purpose $100,000 is hereby appropriated or so much thereof as may be necessary. Great Lakes training station. Naval Training Station, Illinois, Buildings: Dredging harbor, $35,000. Additional land. The President is authorized to acquire under the authority and provisions of this Act additional land for the enlargement of the Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Illinois, and for this purpose $887,500 is hereby appropriated or so much thereof as may be necessary. San Diego, Cal.Marine Corps base. Marine Barracks, San Diego, California: Toward the establishment of a Marine Corps base, $1,500,000. Fuel depot. Naval Fuel Depot, San Diego, California: Marine railway, $175,000. Hampton Roads, Va.Naval base.*Ante*, p. 207. Naval Operating Base, Hampton Roads, Virginia: Toward water-front improvements and permanent improvements to station, including piers, bulkheads, filling, grading, and so forth, $3,000,000. Repairs and preservation. Repairs and preservation at navy yards: For repairs and preservation at navy yards, fuel depots, fuel plants, and stations, $4,000,000. 727 Total public works, $46,694,375, and the amounts herein appropriated Amounts available until expended.therefor, except for repairs and preservation at navy yards and stations, shall be available until expended. The unexpended balance of $4,300 of the appropriation of $10,000 Commission on navy yards, etc.Balance tor expenses continued.for expenses of a commission of naval officers to investigate the question of navy yards and naval stations contained in the Act making appropriations for the Naval Service, approved August *Ante*, p. 371.twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is further continued and made available until expended. The Paymaster General of the Navy shall cause to be paid to Susie A. Van Kirk.Payment to, for death of son.Mrs. Susie A. Van Kirk, mother of the late Dean R. Van Kirk, ensign, National Naval Volunteers, an amount equal to one year’s pay at the rate received by that officer at the date of his death, May first, nineteen hundred and seventeen. bureau of medicine and surgery. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Medical Department: For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in Surgeons’ necessariesCivil 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, including one bookkeeper at $1,600 and one clerk at $1,400 at the naval medical supply depot, Brooklyn, and toward Reserve supply.the accumulation of a reserve supply of medical stores, $5,000,000. Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For tolls and Contingent.ferriages; care, transportation, and burial of the dead, including officers and enlisted men who die within the United States; 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 non-passenger-carrying Vehicles, etc.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, and of one motor-propelled vehicle for official use only for the medical officer on out-patient medical service at the Naval Academy, and of a motor omnibus for the transportation of convalescent patients and attendants at the Naval Hospital at Las Animas, Colorado, to be used only for official purposes; trees, plants, care of grounds, garden tools, and seeds; incidental articles for the Naval Medical School and naval dispensary, Washington, naval medical supply depots, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks; washing 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 Hospital for the Insane; for dental outfits and dental material, and all other Dental outfits.necessary contingent expenses; in all, $1,500,000. Transportation of remains: To enable the Secretary of the Transporting remains of officers, etc.Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transferred to their homes the remains of officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps, of members of the Nurse Corps, of civilian officers and crews of naval auxiliaries, and of officers and enlisted men of the Naval Militia and Militia, Volunteers and Reserve Force.National Naval Volunteers and the Naval Reserve Force when on active service with the Navy, who die or are killed in action ashore or afloat, and also to enable the Secretary of the Navy, in his dis728cretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of civilian employees who die outside of the continental limits of the *Proviso*.Application of fund.United States, $350,000: *Provided*, That the sum herein appropriated shall be available for payment for transportation of the remains of officers and men who have died while on duty at any time since April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and shall be available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty. Care of hospital patients. Care of hospital patients: For the care, maintenance, and treatment of patients in naval and in other than naval hospitals, for Additional lands.the rental and purchase of land, at Key West, Florida, and at the Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, $4,000,000. Fort Lyons, Colo., naval hospital.Additional land. United States Naval Hospital, Fort Lyons, Colorado: For the purchase of about four hundred and twenty acres of land for the enlargement and development of the Naval Hospital, Fort Lyons, Colorado, $19,600. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. bureau of supplies and accounts. Pay of the Navy.Officers. Pay of the Navy: Pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on sea duty and other duty, and officers on waiting orders, Commutation of quarters, etc.$33,234,498; officers on the retired list, $3,374,391; commutation of quarters for officers, including boatswains, gunners, carpenters, sailmakers, machinists, pharmacists, pay clerks, and mates, naval constructors, and assistant naval constructors, $2,821,248, and also members of Nurse Corps (female), $44,200; 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 Enlisted men.conditions which may render them uninhabitable, $25,000; pay of enlisted men on the retired list, $540,255; extra pay to men reenlisting under honorable discharge, $1,400,000; interest on deposit by *Ante*, p. 714.men, $15,000; pay of petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and apprentice seamen, inducting men in the engineers’ force and men detailed for duty with the Fish Commission, one hundred and eighty-one thousand four hundred and eighty-five men, plus ten thousand men for aviation service, plus fourteen thousand men in trade schools; and pay of enlisted men of the Hospital Corps, and for the pay of enlisted men detailed for duty with the Naval Militia, $121,630,172; pay of enlisted men undergoing sentence of court-martial, $540,000, and as many machinists as the President may from time to time Apprentice seamen.deem necessary to appoint; and twenty-four thousand apprentice seamen under training at training stations and on board training ships, at the pay prescribed by law, $8,019,600; pay of the Nurse Corps, $670,800; rent of quarters for members of the Nurse Corps, Naval Reserve Force. $55,800; retainer pay and active-service pay of members of the Naval Reserve Force, $55,001,982; in all, $227,372,946; and the money herein Accounting.specifically appropriated for “Pay of the Navy ’ shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law as “Pay of the Navy,” *Proviso*.Shore quarters for submarine officers.and for that purpose shall constitute one fund: *Provided*, That during the war, in such cases as may be approved by the Secretary of the Navy, this appropriation shall be available for the hire of quarters for officers attached to submarines when they are required to be on shore and Government quarters are not available. Provisions. Provisions, Navy: For provisions and commuted rations for the seamen and marines, which commuted rations may be paid to caterers of messes, in case of death or desertion, upon orders of the commanding officers, commuted rations for officers on sea duty (other than com729missioned 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); subsistence of men on detached duty; subsistence of officers and men of the Coast Guard and Lighthouse Services while cooperating with the Navy in so far as the regular appropriations for these services are insufficient therefor; subsistence of officers and men of the naval auxiliary service; subsistence of members of the Naval Reserve Force during period of active service; 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 *Proviso*.Commutation of rations to prisoners.Secretary of the Navy is authorized to commute rations for such general courts-martial prisoners in such amounts as seem to him proper, which may vary in accordance with the location of the naval prison, but which shall in no case exceed 30 cents per diem for each ration so commuted; and for the purchase of United States Army Army emergency ration.emergency rations as required; in all, $75,520,216, to be available until the close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty. Clothing and small stores fund: For purchase of clothing Clothing and small stores fund.and small stores for issue to the naval service, to be added to the “Clothing and small stores fund,” $27,000,000. Maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: For fuel; Maintenance.the removal and transportation of ashes and garbage, from ships of war; books, blanks, and stationery, including stationery for commanding and navigating officers of ships chaplains on shore and afloat, and for the use of courts-martial on board ships; purchase, repair, and exchange of typewriters for ships; packing boxes and materials; interior fittings for general storehouses, pay offices, and accounting offices in navy yards; expenses of disbursing officers; coffee mills and repairs thereto; expenses of naval clothing factory and machinery for the same; laboratory equipment; purchase of articles of equipage at Equipment supplies.home and abroad under the cognizance of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith, and the manufacture of such articles in the several navy yards: musical instruments and music; mess outfits; soap on board naval vessels; athletic outfits; tolls, ferriages, yeomen’s stores, safes, and other incidental expenses; labor in general storehouses, paymasters’ offices, and accounting offices in navy yards and naval stations, including naval stations maintained in island possessions under the control of the United States, and expenses in handling stores purchased and manufactured under “General account of advances”; Food inspection,and reimbursement to appropriations of the Department of Agriculture of cost of inspection of meats and meat food products for the Navy Department: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this *Proviso*.Chemical, etc., services.appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for chemists and for clerical, inspection, storemen, store laborer, and messenger service in the supply and accounting departments of the navy yards and naval stations and disbursing offices for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, shall not exceed $4,000,000; in all, $17,836,625. Freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: All freight and Freight, Department and bureaus.express charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus, except the transportation of coal for the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $4,000,000. 730 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 fuel depots and fuel plants; water for all purposes on board naval vessels; and ice for the cooling of water, including the expense of Mining coal, etc., in Alaska, for naval use.transportation and storage of both, $49,400,000, $1,000,000 of which, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may in his discretion, be used by the Secretary of the Navy in mining coal, or contracting for the same in Alaska, the transportation of the same, and the construction of coal bunkers and the necessary docks for use in supplying Selection of areas.ships therewith; and the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to select from the public coal lands in Alaska such areas as may *Proviso*.Vessels for carrying fuel.be necessary for use by him for the purposes stated herein: *Provided*, That when, in the opinion of the President, the prices asked for the charter of vessels for the transportation of fuel are excessive, he is authorized to purchase vessels suitable for the purpose, and, if money is not otherwise available, to pay for them from the appropriation “Fuel and transportation.” 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 Coast Guard and Lighthouse vessels.of construction and repair; repair and maintenance of vessels of the Coast Guard and Lighthouse Services; submarine chasers, patrol boats; incidental expenses for vessels and navy yards, inspectors’ offices, such as photographing, books, professional magazines, plans, stationery, and instruments for drafting room, and for pay of classified Equipment supplies.force under the bureau; for hemp, wire, iron, and other materials for the manufacture of cordage, anchors, cables, galleys, and chains; specifications for purchase thereof shall be so prepared as shall give fair and free competition; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, hammocks, and other work; interior appliances and tools for manufacturing purposes in navy yards and naval stations; and for the purchase of all other articles of equipage at home and abroad; and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith and manufacture of such articles in the several navy yards; naval signals and apparatus, other than electric, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, 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 *Provisos*.Repairs limit not applicable.vessels, $60,000,000: *Provided*, That the limitations imposed by existing law relative to repairs to vessels of the Navy shall not apply to the expenditure of funds made available in this Act: *Provided further*, Clerical, etc., services.That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, drafting, inspection, watchmen (ship keepers), and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and offices of superintending naval constructors for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, shall not exceed $3,000,000. Construction plants. Construction plants at navy yards: For repairs and improvements of machinery and implements at construction plants at navy 731yards at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, $10,000; Boston, Massachusetts, $25,000; New York, New York, $35,000; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, $25,000; Norfolk, Virginia, $35,000; Charleston, South Carolina, $10,000; Mare Island, California, $35,000; Puget Sound, Washington, $25,000; in all, $200,000. bureau of steam engineering. Bureau of Steam Engineering. Engineering: For repairs, preservation, and renewal of machinery, Engineering repairs, machinery, etc.auxiliary machinery, and boilers of naval vessels, yard craft, and ships’ boats, distilling and refrigerating apparatus; repairs, preservation, and renewals 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; searchlights and fire-control equipments for antiaircraft defense at shore stations; maintenance and operation of coast signal service, including expenses of office of Director of Naval Communications and Director of Naval Communications.the purchase of land as necessary for sites for radio shore stations; equipage, supplies, and materials under the cognizance of the bureau Equipment supplies.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 navy vessels, naval yards, and stations, inspectors’ offices, the engineering experiment station, such as photographing, technical books and periodicals, stationery, and instruments; instruments and apparatus, Radio work.supplies, and technical books and periodicals necessary to carry on experimental and research work in radiotelegraphy at the naval radio laboratory: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this *Provisos*.Clerical, etc., services.appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and offices of United States inspectors of machinery and engineering material for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, shall not exceed $3,035,000: *Provided further*, Radio shore stations.That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for the purchase of land for sites for radio shore stations shall not exceed $10,000; in all, engineering, $50,000,000. For original investigation and extended experimentation Engineering experimental station.Experimental work.of naval appliances: Testing implements and apparatus; purchase and installation of such machines and auxiliaries considered applicable for test and use in the naval service, and for maintenance and equipment of buildings and grounds, $160,000. The foregoing appropriations for the Naval Establishment shall be Coast Guard and Lighthouse Service.Naval appropriations available for, while cooperating with Navy.available for similar expenses of the Coast Guard and Lighthouse Services while cooperating with the Navy in so far as the regular appropriations for these services are insufficient therefor; and, when expenditures are thus made, naval appropriations need not be reimbursed from the appropriations of the Coast Guard and Lighthouse Services. So much of the naval appropriations for the fiscal years nineteen Transfer of credits.hundred and eighteen and nineteen hundred and nineteen as is necessary may be transferred on the books of the Treasury to the credit of the regular appropriations of the Coast Guard and Lighthouse Services. That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, Coast Guard.Temporary promotion of officers during present war.authorized during the period of the present war to promote temporarily, with the advice and consent of the Senate, commissioned line officers and engineer officers of the United States Coast Guard 732below the rank and grades of captain and captain of engineers to the ranks and grades of the Coast Guard not above captain and captain of engineers, respectively, without regard to number or *Provisos*.Restriction on rank and grade.length of service in rank or grade: *Provided*, That such temporary promotions may be to such rank and grade in the Coast Guard not above captain or captain of engineers as correspond to the rank and grade that may be attained in accordance with law, either permanently or temporarily, by line officers of the regular Navy of the Constructors.same length of total service: *Provided further*, That constructors of the Coast Guard now authorized by much total service in the Coast Guard as the officer of the Construction Corps of the Navy at the foot of the permanent or temporary list of those with the rank of lieutenant commanders may be temporarily Service credit.promoted to the rank of captain of the Coast Guard: *And provided further*, That for the purposes of this Act service in the past Guard to be counted must have been continuous: *And provided further*, Precedence, etc., not disturbed.That nothing contained in this paragraph shall operate to disturb the relative position of officers in the Coast Guard with reference to precedence or promotion, but all such officers otherwise qualified shall be advanced in rank with or ahead of officers in the Coast Guard who were their juniors on the date of this Act. Promotion of captain commandant, and engineer in chief.Relative rank. That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized during the period of the present war to promote temporarily, with the advice and consent of the Senate, the captain commandant of the Coast Guard to the rank of commodore in the Navy and brigadier general in the Army, and the engineer in chief of the Coast Guard to the rank of captain in the Navy and colonel in the Army, officers of the Coast Guard holding permanent commissions above the rank and grade of first lieutenant and first lieutenant of engineers as follows: Bank of captains.Not to exceed two-fifths of the captains authorized by law, and not to exceed one-third of the captains of engineers authorized by law, to have the rank of senior captain in the Coast Guard; and not to exceed one-third the senior captains authorized by law, to have *Proviso*.Promotion by selection.the rank of captain in the Navy and colonel in the Army: *Provided*, That the senior captains, captains, and captains of engineers to be temporarily promoted as herein provided, shall be selected as provided by law for promotion by selection in the Navy. District superintendents.Rank, etc., during the war. That during the period of the present war, the senior district superintendent, the three district superintendents next in order of seniority, the four district superintendents next below these three in order of seniority, and the junior five district superintendents shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of captain, first lieutenant, second lieutenant, and third lieutenant in the Coast Guard, respectively. No present commissions vacated. That the permanent and probationary commissions of officers of the Coast Guard shall not be vacated by reason of the temporary promotions and advancements authorized by this Act, nor shall said officers be prejudiced in their relative lineal rank in regard to their *Provisos*.Pay restriction.promotion as provided for in existing law: *Provided*, That no officer who shall receive a temporary promotion or advancement under this Act shall be entitled to pay or allowances except under such promotion Former status to be resumed.or advancement: *Provided further*, That upon the termination of the temporary promotions and advancements authorized by this Act, the officers so promoted and advanced shall revert to the rank Promotions.and grade from which temporarily promoted or advanced, unless such officers in the meantime, in accordance with law, become entitled to promotion to a higher grade or rank in the permanent Coast Guard, in which case they shall revert to said higher grade or rank, and shall, after passing the prescribed examinations, be commissioned accordingly. 733 That all temporary promotions and advancements authorized by Termination of temporary promotions.this Act shall continue in force only until otherwise directed by the President, and not later than six months after the termination of the present war. That any officer of the Coast Guard temporarily promoted or Grade, etc., of officers retired.advanced in grade or rank in accordance with the provisions of this Act who shall be retired from active service under his permanent commission while holding such temporary grade or rank, except for physical disability incurred in line of duty, shall be placed on the retired list with the grade or rank to which his position in the permanent Coast Guard at the date of his retirement would entitle him. That officers of the United States Coast Guard on sea duty or on Foreign service increased pay applicable.shore duty beyond the continental limits of the United States during the period of the present war shall receive the same increase of pay and allowances in all respects as are now or may hereafter be provided by law for officers of the Navy of corresponding rank. That nothing contained in this Act relating to the Coast Guard No existing pay, etc., reduced.shall operate to reduce the rank, pay, or allowances that would have been received by any person m the Coast Guard except for the passage of this Act. naval academy. Naval Academy. Pay of professors and others, Naval Academy: Pay of professors Pay of professors, etc.and instructors, including one professor as librarian, 8235,000. One swordmaster, $1,700; assistants: one $1,500; one $1,300; Instructors, etc.headmaster in physical training, $2,000; instructors in physical training: one $1,800; two at $1,500 each; three at $1,300 each; assistant librarian, $2,400; cataloguer, $1,600; shelf assistants: two at $1,200 each; secretary of the Naval Academy, $2,500; clerks: two at $1,900 each; two at $1,700 each; two at $1,600 each; four at $1,400 each; four at $1,200 each; seven, $1,100 each; seven, $1,000 each; draftsman, $1,700; surveyor, $1,500; services of organist at chapel, $300; captain of the watch, $1,460; second captain of the watch, $1,300; twenty-two watchmen, at $1,160 each; three telephone switchboard operators, at $660 each: mail messenger, $1,100. In all, pay of professors and others, Naval Academy, $329,460. Department of ordnance and gunnery: Leading ordnanceman, Department of ordnance and gunnery.$1,450; electrician, $1,680; ordnancemen: one, $1,280; one $1,150; one $1,100; ordnance helpers: two $1,030 each; two, $1,000 each; storeroom and record keeper, $840; in all, $11,560. Departments of electrical engineering and physics: One Departments of electrical engineering and physics.instrument maker, $1,800; three electrical machinists, $1,758 each; one mechanic, $1,758; laboratorian, $1,500; in all, $10,332. Department of seamanship: Two coxswains, $500 each; three Department of seamanship.seamen, $450 each; in all, $2,350. Department of marine engineering and naval construction. Department of marine engineering and naval construction; Master machinist, $2,300; assistant, $1,800; pattern maker, $1,800; boiler maker, blacksmith, three machinists, molder, and coppersmith, $1,758 each; one pattern maker and one blacksmith, $1,680 each; one instructor in mechanical drawing, $2,100; machinists and other employees, $9,515.20; in all, $33,181.20. Commissary department: Chief clerk and purchasing agent, Commissary department.$1,800; chief cook, $1,500; cooks: fourteen, $900 each; eighteen, $600 each; stewards: one, $1,800, four assistants, $1,200 each; two head waiters, $900 each; six assistant head waiters, $720 each; head pantrymen: two, $900 each; bakers: chief, $1,500; nine, $960 each; nine, $720 each; butchers: head, at $960; four assistants, $780 each; one butcher’s helper, $600; four baker helpers, $420 each; firemen: six, $600 each; necessary waiters, at not to exceed $25 per month each, $35,100, and the accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized Credits allowed for payments to waiters.and directed to credit in the accounts of the disbursing officer for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred 734and eighteen payments to waiters not in excess of the rate fixed by appropriation Acts and the aggregate amounts appropriated; coffeemen: two, $600 each, four, $420 each; four dish pantrymen, $420 each; four utility men, $420 each; linemen: one, $600; two, $420 each; four seamstresses, $600 each; stenographers: two, $1,080 each: typists: three, $900 each; two drivers, $720 each; scullions and other unskilled labor (wages in no case to exceed $50 per month), $2,000; in all, $121,280. Department of buildings and grounds. Department of buildings and grounds: One messenger to superintendent, $750; necessary building attendants, $34,200; in all, $34,950. Emergency temporary employees. For the employment of such additional temporary force of employees in the various departments of the Naval Academy as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy may be necessary to the transaction of official business on account of the existing emergency, $100,000. In all, civil establishment, $643,113.20. 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, $89,550. 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. 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, $3,000. Commandant. For contingencies for the commandant of midshipmen, to be expended in his discretion, $750. In all, current and miscellaneous expenses, $98,800. Maintenance and repairs. Maintenance and repairs, Naval Academy: For general maintenance and repairs at the Naval Academy, namely: For necessary repairs of public buildings, wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, improvements, repairs, and fixtures; for books, periodicals, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines;Vehicles. fire apparatus and plants; machinery; purchase and maintenance of all horses and vehicles for use at the academy, including the maintenance, operation, and repair of three horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes; seeds and plants; tools and repairs of the same; stationery; furniture for Government buildings and offices at the academy; coal and other fuel;’ candles, oil, and gas; attendance on light and power plants; cleaning and clearing up station and care of buildings; attendance on fires, lights, fire engines, fire apparatus, and plants, and telephone, telegraph, and clock systems; incidental labor; advertising, water tax, postage, telephones, telegrams, tolls, and ferriage; flags and awnings; packing boxes; fuel for heating and lighting bandsmen’s quarters; pay of inspectors and draftsmen; music, musical and astronomical instruments; and for the pay of employees on leave, $507,000. Rent. Rent of buildings for the use of the academy, and commutation of rent for bandsmen, at $8 per month each, $3,936. In all, maintenance and repairs, $510,936. In all, Naval Academy, exclusive of public works, $1,252,849.20. Marine Corps. marine corps. Pay.Officers. Pay, Marine Corps: Pay of officers, active and reserve list: For pay and allowances prescribed by law for all officers on the active and reserve list, $9,891,624.50. 735 The title of clerks for assistant paymasters is hereby changed to Pay clerks.Title and pay established.pay clerk, who shall hereafter receive the same pay, allowances, and other benefits now provided by law for clerks for assistant paymasters; and the total number of pay clerks shall not exceed ten for duty in the office of the paymaster, Marine Corps, fifteen for duty in the paymaster’s department at large, and one for each assistant paymaster: *Provided*, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to reduce *Proviso*.No pay, etc., reduction.the pay, allowances, or other benefits granted by existing law to any clerk for assistant paymaster now in service. For pay of officers prescribed by law, on the retired list: For two Retired officers.major generals, three brigadier generals, six colonels, four lieutenant colonels, eleven majors, twenty-one captains, fourteen first lieutenants, two second lieutenants, and one paymaster’s clerk, and for officers who may be placed thereon during the year, including such increased pay as is now or may hereafter be provided for retired officers regularly assigned to active duty, $218,907.56. Pay of enlisted men, active and reserve list: Pay and allowances of Enlisted men.Active and reserve list.noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, as prescribed by law, and for the expenses of clerks of the United States Marine Corps traveling under orders, and including additional compensation for enlisted men of the Marine Corps regularly detailed as gun captains, gun pointers, mess sergeants, cooks, messmen, signalmen, or holding good-conduct medals, pins, or bars, including interest on deposits by enlisted men, post-exchange debts of deserters, under such rules as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, and the authorized travel allowance of discharged enlisted men and for prizes for excellence in gunnery exercise and target practice and for pay of enlisted men designated as Navy mail clerks and assistant Navy mail clerks, both afloat and ashore, $38,877,795. For pay and allowances prescribed by law of enlisted men on the Retired.retired list: For nine sergeants major, one drum major, twenty-one gunnery sergeants, thirty-four quartermaster sergeants, thirty-eight first sergeants, fifty-nine sergeants, thirteen corporals, one principal musician, sixteen first-class musicians, one second-class musician, one drummer, and thirteen privates, and for those who may be retired during the fiscal year, $168,477. Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged enlisted men for Undrawn clothing.clothing undrawn, $128,358.80. Mileage: For mileage to officers traveling under orders without Mileage.troops, $377,500. For commutation of quarters of officers on duty without troops Commutation of quarters.where there are no public quarters, $427,500. Pay of civil force: In the office of the major general commandant: Civil force.Temporary special assistant to the major general commandant, $2,750; one chief clerk, at $2,250; one clerk, at $1,800; one messenger, at $971.28. In the office of the paymaster: Ono chief clerk, at $2,250; one clerk, at $1,500. In the office of the adjutant and inspector: One chief clerk, at $2,250; one clerk, at $1,800; clerk at $1,600; one clerk, at $1,500; one clerk, at $1,400; one clerk, at $1,200. In the office of the quartermaster: Temporary special assistant to the quartermaster, $2,750; one chief clerk, at $2,250; two clerks, at $1,800 each; one clerk, at $1,500; two clerks, at $1,400 each; two clerks, at $1,200 each; technical engineer, $2,300; one draftsman, at $2,000. In the office of the assistant quartermaster, San Francisco, California: One chief clerk, at $2,000. In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: One chief clerk, at $2,000; one messenger, at $840. 736 Accounting. In all, for pay of civil force, $45,711.28, 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, $50,135,874.14. Quartermaster’s Department. maintenance, quartermaster’s department, marine corps. Provisions. Provisions, Marine Corps: For enlisted men serving ashore; subsistence and lodging of enlisted men when traveling on duty, or cash in lieu thereof; commutation of rations to enlisted men regularly detailed as clerks and messengers; payments of board and lodging of applicants for enlistment while held under observation, recruits, recruiting parties, and enlisted men where it is impracticable to otherwise furnish subsistence, or in lieu of board, commutation of rations to recruiting parties, and enlisted men traveling on special duty at such rate as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe; 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, $15,053,500. Clothing. Clothing, Marine Corps: For enlisted men authorized by law, $32,470,480. Fuel, light, etc. Fuel, Marine Corps: For heat, light, and commutation thereof for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers and enlisted men, and other buildings and grounds pertaining to the Marine Corps; fuel, electricity, and oil for cooking, power, and other purposes; and sales to officers, $1,523,715. Military stores.Purchase of equipments, etc. Military stores, Marine Corps: Pay of chief armorer, at $4 per diem; purchase and repair of military equipments, such as rifles, revolvers, cartridge boxes, bayonet scabbards, haversacks, blanket bags, canteens, rifle slings, swords, drums, trumpets, flags, waistbelts, waist plates, cartridge belts, spare parts for repairing rifles, machetes; tents, field cots, field ovens, and stoves for tents, instruments for bands; purchase of music and musical accessories, articles of field sports for enlisted men, signal equipment and stores; purchase and marking of prizes for excellence in gunnery and rifle practice; good-conduct badges; medals and buttons 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 Instruction camps, etc.gymnasiums for enlisted men, establishment, rental, and maintenance of camps of instruction, target ranges, and entrance fees in Ammunition.competitions; procuring, preserving, and handling ammunition and other necessary military supplies; in all, $25,277,750. 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 authorized hereafter. $2,531,856: *Provided*, That hereafter 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, etc., to barracks. 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, $4,258,204. Forage. Forage, Marine Corps: For forage in kind and stabling for public animals of the Quartermaster’s Department and the authorized number of officers’ horses, $294,930. 737 Commutation of quarters, Marine Corps: Commutation of Commutation of quarters with troops.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, 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, $1,215,467. 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 officers on active duty during the war, 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, oilcoth, 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, $10,577,780. In all, for the maintenance of Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Disbursing and accounting.Corps, $93,203,682; 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 the existing law as maintenance. Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. Reserve supplies, Marine Corps: Toward the procurement of a Reserve supplies.*Post*, p. 1174.reserve stock of clothing, arms, and equipment, and other necessary military supplies, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, $16,677,200. Total Marine Corps, including reserve supplies, Marine Corps, exclusive of public works, $160,016, 756.14. 738 Immediate possession of lands, etc., authorized.*Post*, pp. 1820, 1868, 1874. The President is hereby authorized and empowered, within the amounts herein appropriated therefor, to take over immediately for the United States possession of and title to each and all of the parcels of land, including appurtenances and improvements for the acquisition of which authority is herein granted and for which appropriations *Provisos*.Compensation to be made.are herein made: *Provided*, That if said lands and appurtenances and improvements shall be taken over as aforesaid, the United States shall make just compensation therefor, to be determined by Suit if amount unsatisfactory.the President, and if the amount thereof, so determined by the President, is unsatisfactory to the person entitled to receive the same, such person shall be paid seventy-five per centum of the amount so determined by the President and shall he entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum as added to said seventy-five per Procedure.Vol. 36, pp. 1093, 1136.centum will make up such amount as will be just compensation therefor, in the manner provided for by section twenty-four, paragraph twenty, section one hundred and forty-five, of the Judicial Title to vest immediately.Code: *Provided further*, That upon the taking over of said property by the President as aforesaid the title to all property so taken over shall immediately vest in the United States. Increase of the Navy. increase of the navy. Early construction directed of vessels previously ordered.Vol. 39, p. 616. Of the vessels authorized to be constructed prior to July first, nineteen hundred and nineteen, in the “Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes,” approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, the construction of which has not heretofore specifically been directed to be begun shall be begun as soon as practicable, but not later than June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen. Torpedo boat destroyers. Increase of the Navy, torpedo-boat destroyers: On account of torpedo-boat destroyers heretofore authorized, to be available until expended, $125,000,000. Torpedo boats. Increase of the Navy, torpedo boats: On account of submarine torpedo boats heretofore authorized, to be available until expended, *Proviso*.Cost of coast submarines increased.Vol. 39, p. 616.$32,397,000: *Provided*, That the limit of cost of the coast submarines authorized by the Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is hereby increased by the sum of $25,000 each. Armor and armament. Increase of the Navy, armor and armament: Toward the armor and armament for vessels heretofore authorized, to be available until expended, $20,000,000. Ammunition. Increase of the Navy, ammunition: On account of ammunition for vessels heretofore authorized, to be available until expended, $7,000,000. Total increase of the Navy heretofore authorized, $184,397,000. Naval emergency fund. naval emergency fund. Amount to be expended under the President for specified objects. To enable the President to secure the more economical and expeditious delivery of materials, equipment, and munitions and secure the more expeditious construction of ships authorized and for the purchase or construction of such additional torpedo-boat destroyers, submarine chasers, and other naval craft, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, as the President may direct, to be expended at the direction and in the discretion of the President, $100,000,000. Equipping navy yards for ship building, etc. Improving and equipping navy yards for construction of ships and to meet urgent needs of navy yards, stations, and bases: To enable the Secretary of the Navy to equip the navy yards 739with suitable and necessary machinery, implements, building ways, and equipment for the construction and repair of such vessels as may have been or may be assigned to navy yards and to meet urgent needs of navy yards, stations, and bases, $10,000,000. That no part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be No pay to officers using time-measuring device on work of employee.available for the salary or pay of any officer, manager, superintendent, foreman, or other person having charge of the work of any employee of the United States Government while making or causing to be made with a stop watch or other time-measuring device a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such work; nor shall any part of the appropriations made in this Act be Cash rewards, etc.,available to pay any premiums or bonus or cash reward to any employee *Ante*, p. 718.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 appropriated by this Act shall be usedSpecific authority required for Department use. for any expense of the Navy Department at Washington, District of Columbia, unless specific authority is given by law for such expenditure. All unexpended balances of appropriations made for the Naval Unexpended balances continued, etc.Establishment for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen in the naval appropriation Act and the several Acts making deficiency appropriations are hereby continued and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen. The balances existing, after all payments made prior to the passage of this Act have been charged, shall be transferred to and merged with the corresponding appropriations *Provisos*.Charges allowed against balances.contained in this Act: *Provided*, That prior to the transfer there may be charged against these balances the expenditures prior to July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, on account of the accrued pay of officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps, accrued pay of civilian employees, and supplies issued from the Naval Supply Account. All appropriations contained in this Act are hereby made immediately Immediately available, etc.available, but no appropriation in this Act shall be used for payment of deficiencies. Approved, July 1, 1918.
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