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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 40 STAT. · June 15, 1917 · Chapter 29

Chapter 29. Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the Military and Naval Establishments on account of war expenses for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 29.— An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the Military and Naval Establishments on account of war expenses for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes. June 15, 1917.[[H. R. 3971](/us/bill/65/hr/3971).][[Public, No. 23](/us/pl/65/23).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Deficiencies appropriations for war expenses, etc.*Post*, p. 345.
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the Military and Naval Establishments on account of war expenses for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; and for other purposes, namely: Council of National Defense.COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE. Expenses of work, etc., under.Vol. 39, p.649.Clerks, etc.[R. S., sec. 167, p. 27](/us/rs/s167/p27).For expenses of experimental work and investigations undertaken by the Council of National Defense, employment of experts, and at rates of compensation authorized by section one hundred and sixty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States of clerical and other assistance, supplies, including books of reference and periodicals, and for necessary expenses of members of the council, of the advisory commission, or subordinate bodies going to and attending*Provisos*.Rent in District of Columbia. meetings of the commission or subordinate bodies, $500,000: *Provided*, That of the appropriations herein and heretofore made for the Council of National Defense there may be expended for rental of quarters in the District of Columbia not to exceed $25,000 in the aggregate for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen and not to exceed $50,000 for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen:Powers, etc., unchanged.Vol. 39, p. 650. *Provided further*, That in the expenditure of said moneys the existence of a state of war shall not be construed as enlarging the powers or duties of the Council of National Defense, but that such powers and*Ante*, p. 70. duties shall remain as prescribed by the Act creating said council, approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen.
Emergency Shipping Fund.EMERGENCY SHIPPING FUND. Powers conferred on the President.*Post*, pp. 720, 1022.To order shim, etc,, for Government use.The President is hereby authorized and empowered, within the limits of the amounts herein authorized—
(a)To place an order with any person for such ships or material as the necessities of the Government, to be determined by the President, may require during the period of the war and which are of the nature, kind and quantity usually produced or capable of being produced by such person.
(b)Modify, etc., contracts therefor.*Post*, pp. 535, 720. To modify, suspend, cancel, or requisition any existing or future contract for the building, production, or purchase of ships or material.
(c)Take the product of shipbuilding plants, etc. To require the owner or occupier of any plant in which ships or materials are built or produced to place at the disposal of the United States the whole or any part of the output of such plant, to deliver such output or part thereof in such quantities and at such times as may be specified in the order.
(d)Possession of plants.*Post*, p. 1022. To requisition and take over for use or operation by the United States any plant, or any part thereof without taking possession of the entire plant, whether the United States has or has not any contract or agreement with the owner or occupier of such plant.
(e)Acquire ships under construction, etc. To purchase, requisition, or take over the title to, or the possession of, for use or operation by the United States any ship now constructed or in the process of construction or hereafter constructed, or any part thereof, or charter of such ship. Compliance compulsory.Compliance with all orders issued hereunder shall be obligatory on any person to whom such order is given, and such order shall take precedence over all other orders and contracts placed with such per183 son. If any person owning any ship, charter, or material, or owning,Possession of ships, plants, etc., on refusal of owner. leasing, or operating any plant equipped for the building or production of ships or material shall refuse or fail to comply therewith or to give to the United States such preference in the execution of such order, or shall refuse to build, supply, furnish, or manufacture the kind, quantities or qualities of the ships or material so ordered, at such reasonable price as shall be determined by the President, the President may take immediate possession of any ship, charter, material or plant of such person, or any part thereof without taking possession of the entire plant, and may use the same at such times and in such manner as he may consider necessary or expedient. Whenever the United States shall cancel, modify, suspend or requisitionCompensation to be determined by the President. any contract, make use of, assume, occupy, requisition, acquire or take over any plant or part thereof, or any ship, charter, or material, in accordance with the provisions hereof, it shall make just compensation therefor, to be determined by the President; and if theSuit, etc., if amount unsatisfactory.Procedure. 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, will make up such amount as will be just compensation therefor, in the manner provided for by section twenty-four, paragraph twenty, and sectionVol. 36, pp, 1093, 1136. one hundred and forty-five of the Judicial Code. The President may exercise the power and authority hereby vestedExecution of powers etc. in him, and expend the money herein and hereafter appropriated through such agency or agencies as he shall determine from time to time: *Provided*, That all money turned over to the United States*Proviso*.Expenses of Emergency Fleet Corpora. Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation may be expended as other moneys of said corporation are now expended. All ships constructed, purchased, or requisitioned under authority herein, or heretofore or hereafter acquired by the United States, shall be managed, operated, and disposed of as the President may direct. The word “person” as used herein, shall include any individual,Terms construed.“Person.” trustee, firm, association, company, corporation, or contractor. The word “ship” shall include any boat, vessel, or submarine and“Ship.” the parts thereof. The word “material” shall include stores, supplies, and equipment“Material.” for ships, and everything required for or in connection with the production thereof. The word “plant” shall include any factory, workshop, warehouse,“Plant.” engine works; buildings used for manufacture, assembling, construction, or any process; any shipyard or dockyard and discharging terminal or other facilities connected therewith. The words “United States” shall include all lands and waters“United States.” subject to the jurisdiction of the United States of America. All authority granted to the President herein, or by him delegated,Termination of authority. shall cease six months after a final treaty of peace is proclaimed between this Government and the German Empire. The cost of purchasing, requisitioning, or otherwise acquiring plants,Limitation of expenditures.*Post*, p. 345. material, charters, or ships now constructed or in the course of construction and the expediting of construction of ships thus under construction shall not exceed the sum of $250,000,000, exclusive of the cost of ships turned over to the Army and Navy, the expenditure of which is hereby authorized, and in executing the authority granted by this Act for such purpose the President shall not expend or obligate the United States to expend more than the said sum; and there is hereby appropriated for said purpose, $150,000,000; *Provided*, ThatAppropriation.*Proviso*.Reimbursements from Army and Navy funds. this appropriation shall be reimbursed from available funds under the War and Navy Departments for vessels turned over for the exclusive use of those departments or either of them. 184 Cost of ship construc ti on restricted.*Post*, p. 345.The cost of construction of ships authorized herein shall not exceed the sum of $500,000,000, the expenditure of which is hereby authorized, and in executing the authority granted herein for such purpose the President shall not expend or obligate the United States to expendAppropriation. more than said sum; and there is hereby appropriated for said purpose, $250,000,000. Operation of ships.For the operation of the ships herein authorized or in any way acquired by the United States, except those acquired for the Army or Navy, and for every expenditure incident thereto, $5,000,000. Efficiency Bureau.BUREAU OF EFFICIENCY. Rent.*Proviso*.Restriction repealed.Vol. 39, p. 802.For rent of quarters in the District of Columbia, $5,000: *Provided*, That so much of the general deficiency appropriation Act, approved September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, which reads as follows: “Until otherwise provided by law the Bureau of Efficiency shall continue to occupy its present quarters in the Winder Building,” is repealed. Civil Service Commission.CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. Additional expenses.For necessary additional employees, printing, stationery, travel, contingent and other necessary expenses, $20,000. Treasury Department.TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Auditor for War Department.Additional employees, May 1 to June 30, 1917.Office of Auditor for War Department: For additional employees from May first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation as follows: Clerks—four of class four, four of class three, four of class two, eight of class one, eight at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; messenger, $840; in all, $7,023.34. For fiscal year 1918.For additional employees in the Office of Auditor for the War Department for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, at annual rates of compensation as follows: Clerks—ten of class four, ten of class three, twenty of class two, fifty of class one, ten at $1,000 each; three assistant messengers at $720 each; three laborers, at $660 each; in all, $136,140. Auditor for Navy Department.Additional employees, 1918.Office of Auditor for Navy Department: For the following additional employees during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen: Assistant chief of division, $2,000; clerks—eight of class four and fourteen of class three; in all, $38,800. Independent Treasury.INDEPENDENT TREASURY. Assis tant treasurers.Additional guards for.For additional guards from May first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation as follows: New York.Office of assistant treasurer at New York: Three guards at $1,000 each, $3,500; San Francisco.Office of assistant treasurer at San Francisco: Two guards at $720 each, $1,680; New Orleans.Office of assistant treasurer at New Orleans: Four guards at $720 each, $3,360; In all, $8,540. War Department.WAR DEPARTMENT. Additional temporary clerks, etc.*Post*, pp. 351, 473, 59S, 783.For the temporary employment of such additional force of clerks and other employees as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be proper and necessary to the prompt, efficient, and accurate dis185 patch of official business in the War Department and its bureaus, to be allotted by the Secretary of War to such bureaus and offices as the exigencies of the existing situation may demand, $900,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War shall submit to Congress on the*Proviso*.Statement to be submitted in detail. first day of its next regular session a statement showing by bureaus or offices the number and designation of the persons employed hereunder and the annual rate of compensation paid to each. contingent expenses. For purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, includingContingent expenses. their exchange; books of reference, blank books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, maps; typewriters and adding machines; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, gas, and heating apparatus for and repairs to buildings (outside of the State, War, and Navy Department Building) occupied by The Adjutant General’s Office and other offices of the War Department and its bureaus located in the Lemon Building; freight and express charges; street car tickets not exceeding $300; and other absolutely necessary expenses, including a per diem allowance not to exceed $4 in lieu of subsistence, $415,000. For stationery for the department and its bureaus and offices,Stationery. $230,000. For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia, $75,000.Rent. For printing and binding for the War Department, to be executedPrinting and bind ing. under the Public Printer, $630,000. armories and arsenals.Armories and arsenals. The appropriation of $7,500 made in the sundry civil appropriationPicatinny, N. J.Additional land.Vol. 39, p. 283. Act, approved July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, for the purchase of land in connection with the Picatinny Arsenal, is made available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen. Repairs of arsenals: For repairs and improvement at arsenals,Repairs, etc. and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, including $160,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for machineryMachinery. for manufacturing purposes in the arsenals, $400,000. MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.Army. contingencies of the army. For all contingent expenses of the Army not otherwise provided forContingencies. and embracing all branches of the military service, including the officeEmergencies. of the Chief of Staff; for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, including the employment of translators and exclusive of all other personal services m the War Department, or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at Washington, District of Columbia, or in the Army at large, but impossible to be anticipated or classified; to be expended on the approval and authority of the Secretary of War, and for suchPer diem subsistence. purposes as he may deem proper, including the payment of a per diem allowance not to exceed $4, in lieu of subsistence, to employees of the War Department traveling on official business outside of the District of Columbia and away from their designated posts, $50,000. Registration and selection for military service: For all expensesRegistration for draft.Expenses. necessary in the registration of persons available for military service and in the selection of certain such persons and their draft into military*Ante*,p. 79.*Post*, pp. 335, 474, 851, 1027, 1170. service, $2,658,413.186 Office, Chief of Staff.office of the chief of staff. Contingencies, military information section.Contingencies, Military Information Section, General Staff Corps: For contingent expenses of the military information section, General Staff Corps, including the purchase of law books, professional books of reference; periodicals and newspapers; drafting and messenger service; and of the military attachés at the United States embassies and legations abroad; and of the branch office of the military information section at Manila; the cost of special instruction at home and abroad and in maintenance of students and attachés; and for such other purposes as the Secretary of War may deem proper;*Proviso*.Periodicals.[R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718). to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War: *Provided*, That section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation, $500,000. Observing war operations abroad.Expenses of military observers abroad: For the actual and necessary expenses of officers of the Army on duty abroad for the purpose of observing operations of armies of foreign States at war, to be paid upon certificates of the Secretary of War that the expenditures were necessary for obtaining military information, $85,000. Service schools.Fort Leavenworth, Kans.United States service schools: To provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction at the Army service schools (including the Army Staff College, the Army School of the Line, the Army Field Engineer School, the Army Field Service and Correspondence School for Medical Officers, and the Army Signal School) at FortFort Riley, Kans. Leavenworth, Kansas, the Mounted Service School, at Fort Riley,Fort Sill, Okla. Kansas, and the School of Fire for Field Artillery and for the School of Musketry, at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, by the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, the purchase of modem instruments and material for theoretical and practical instruction, employment of temporary, technical, or special services, and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, to be allotted in such proportion as may, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, be for the best interests of the military service, $25,325. Adjutant General’s Department.adjutant general’s department. Contingencies at headquarters.Contingencies, headquarters of military departments, districts, and tactical commands: For contingent expenses at the headquarters of the several territorial departments, territorial districts, tactical divisions and brigades, including the Staff Corps serving thereat, being for the purchase of the necessary articles of office, toilet, and desk furniture, stationery, ice, and potable water for office use when necessary, binding, maps, technical books of reference, professional and technical newspapers and periodicals, payment for which may be made in advance, and police utensils to be allotted by the Secretary of War, and to be expended in the discretion of the commanding officers of the several military departments, districts, and tactical commands, 87,500. Chief of Coast Artillery.chief of coast artillery. Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va.Books, maps, etc.Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Virginia: For purchase and binding of professional books treating of military and scientific subjects for library, for use of school, and for temporary use in coast defenses, and for purchase and issue of relief maps to coast defenses, 84,000. 187 office of the chief signal officer.Signal Service. Signal Service of the Army: For expenses of the Signal ServiceExpenses.*Post*, p. 285. of the Army, as follows: Purchase, equipment, and repair of field electric telegraphs, radio installations, signal equipments and stores, binocular glasses, telescopes, heliostats, and other necessary instruments, including necessary meteorological instruments for use on target ranges; motorcycles and motor-driven vehicles used for technical and official purposes; professional and scientific books of reference, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, and maps, for use in the office of the Chief Signal Officer; war balloons and airships andWar balloons, airships, etc. accessories, including their maintenance and repair; telephone apparatus (exclusive of exchange service) and maintenance of the same; electrical installations and maintenance at military posts; fire-controlElectric plants, etc. and direction apparatus and material for Field Artillery; maintenance and repair of military fines and cables, including salaries of civilian employees, supplies, general repairs, reserved supplies, and other expenses connected with the duty of collecting and transmitting information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise, $47,267,766: *Provided, however* That not more than $43,450,000 of the foregoing*Provisos*,Aviation Section.Purchases, etc., under. appropriation shall be used for the purchase, manufacture, maintenance, operation, and repair of airships and other aerial machines, buildings for equipment and personnel, and other accessories necessary in the Aviation Section; and for the purchase, maintenance,Motor vehicles. repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger and equipment carrying vehicles which may be necessary for the Aviation Section: *Provided further*, That of the sum last above mentioned so muchPaying reservists in active service. thereof as may be necessary shall be available for paying and otherwise providing for such officers of the Officers’ Reserve Corps of the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps and such enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps of the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps as may be called into active service. *Provided further*, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorizedSites for aviation schools, posts, etc. to acquire, by purchase, donation, or by condemnation, such land sites throughout the United States as are immediately necessary for the permanent establishment of aviation schools, aviation posts, and experimental aviation stations and proving grounds for the United States Army: *Provided further*, That not more than $9,000,000 ofExpenditures speci fied. the sum last above mentioned shall be made available for the purchase of land sites and for the improvement and preparation of land and waters contiguous thereto; for the construction, maintenance,Construction of building, etc. and repair of permanent barracks, quarters, stables, storehouses, magazines, administration buildings, hangars, sheds, shops, garages, and other permanent buildings necessary for the shelter of aviation troops, public animals, stores and equipment, and for administration imposes; for the purchase of all equipment and material necessaryInstallation, equipment, etc. for the installation, operation, and repair of all water, sewer, electric light and electric-power systems; for the construction of roads, walks, and wharves; for the disposal of drainage; for the clearing, grading, rolling, seeding, dredging, and otherwise improving and preparing land and water sites; for rental and lease of grounds for aviationLeases. fields, camp sites, and other military aviation purposes; for rental and lease of buildings or portions of buildings for occupation by aviation troops, and for use as storehouses, offices, shops, garages, and for other military aviation purposes; for the purchase of office furnitureOffice supplies, etc. and office equipment; for the purchase and installation of special equipment, supplies, and accessories necessary for the establishment of experimental stations and proving grounds, aviation schools, and aviation posts; for the purchase of such textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, periodicals and magazines, and the188 purchase of modem instruments and material for theoretical and practical instruction in all experimental stations and proving groundsLand purchases limited. and aviation schools and aviation posts: *Provided further*, That not more than $2,500,000 of the said sum of $9,000,000 shall be used for the purchase of land. Pay of the Army.Pay of the army. Officers.officers of the line. Line, including National Guard staff.For pay of officers of the line, including staff corps of the National Guard, $42,000,000. Longevity.Additional pay to officers for length of service, $96,626.09. Enlisted men.enlisted men of the line. Line, including training for Officers’ Reserve Corps.For pay of enlisted men of all grades, including recruits, and pay at $100 per month for enlisted men in training for officers of the Reserve Corps, $226,882,560. Ordnance Department.ordnance department. Pay of enlisted men, $696,240. Additional pay for length of service, $39,003.84. Quartermaster Corps.quartermaster corps. *Proviso*.Cook instructors for war duty.Pay of enlisted men, $24,890,128: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War is authorized to enlist twelve hundred competent cooks as sergeants, first-class, Quartermaster Corps, for the duration of the war only, to be trained as cook instructors and to be employed as such. Additional pay for length of service, $100,000. Signal Corps.signal corps. Pay of enlisted men, $5,309,896. Additional pay for length of service, $53,519.92. Medical Department.medical department. Pay of enlisted men, $18,748,960. Additional pay for length of service, $100,000. Office, Chief of Staff.clerks, messengers, and laborers, office of the chief of staff. Clerks.Clerks, at $2,000 each per annum, $4,000; Clerks, at $1,800 each per annum, $1,800; Clerks, at $1,600 each per annum, $3,200; Clerks, at $1,400 each per annum, $11,200; Clerks, at $1,200 each per annum, $8,400; Clerks, at $1,000 each per annum, $4,000. In all, $32,600. Headquarters of departments, etc.clerks and messengers at headquarters of the several territorial departments, territorial districts, tactical divisions and brigades, and service schools. Clerks.Clerks, at $2,000 each per annum, $24,000; Clerks, at $1,800 each per annum, $64,800; Clerks, at $1,600 each per annum, $107,200; Clerks, at $1,400 each per annum, $140,000; 189 Clerks, at $1,200 each per annum, $342,000; Clerks, at $1,000 each per annum, $500,000; Messengers at temporary headquarters, at $720 each per annum,Messengers. $72,000; In all, $1,250,000: *Provided*, That no clerk, messenger, or laborer*Proviso*.Duty in Department forbidden. at headquarters of tactical divisions, military departments, brigades, service schools, and office of the Chief of Staff shall be assigned to duty in any bureau in the War Department. general staff corps.Staff officers.General Staff Corps. For pay of officers of the General Staff Corps, $214,350. Additional pay for length of service, $6,520. adjutant general’s department.Adjutant General’s Department. For pay of officers of The Adjutant General’s Department, $231,450. Additional pay for length of service, $12,000. inspector general’s department.Inspector General’s Department. For pay of officers of the Inspector General’s Department, $121,605. Additional pay for length of service, $9,000. corps of engineers.Corps of Engineers. Pay of officers of the Corps of Engineers, $3,024,108. Additional pay for length of service, $28,544.59. ordnance department.Ordnance Department. For pay of officers of the Ordnance Department, $404,600. Additional pay for length of service, $36,481.77. quartermaster corps.Quartermaster Corps. For pay of officers of the Quartermaster Corps, $6,167,800. Additional pay for length of service, $119,556.88. medical department.Medical Department. For pay of officers of the Medical Department, $15,131,752. Additional pay for length of service, $13,956.15. Reserve veterinarians, at $1,700 each per annum, $632,000. Reserve veterinarians.Contract surgeons.Nurses. Contract surgeons, at not exceeding $150 each per month, $51,000. Nurses (female), $591,622. judge advocate general’s department.Judge Advocate General’s Department. For pay of officers in the Judge Advocate General’s Department, $63,280. Additional pay for length of service, $1,580. signal corps.Signal Corps. For pay of officers of the Signal Corps, $1,629,167. Additional pay for length of service, $73,266.66. retired officers.Retired officers. For pay of officers on the retired list, $62,420. Pay. Additional pay for length of service, $19,990. Longevity. 190 Active duty pay.Increased pay to retired officers on active duty, $354,725. Additional pay for length of service, $153,775. Retired enlisted mon.Pay.retired enlisted men. For pay of retired enlisted men, $79,356. On active duty.For pay and allowances of retired enlisted men on active duty, $28,400. Reservists.For pay and allowances of Regular Army reservists on active duty, $54,000. Miscellaneous.miscellaneous. Courts martial, etc.For expenses of courts-martial, courts of inquiry, military commissions, retiring boards, and compensation of reporters and witnesses attending same, and expenses of taking depositions and securing other evidence for use before the same, $190,000. Commutation of quarters, etc.For commutation of quarters and of heat and light to commissioned officers, members of the Nurse Corps, and enlisted men on duty at places where no public quarters are available, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, $400,000. Mileage to officers, etc.For mileage to commissioned officers, members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, contract surgeons, expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, Army field clerks, and field clerks of the Quartermaster Corps, when authorized by law, $510,000. Pay accounts sped fled.All the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the Army and miscellaneous, except the appropriation for mileage to commissioned officers, contract surgeons, expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, Army field clerks, and field clerks of the Quartermaster Corps, when authorized by law, shall be disbursed and accounted for by officers of the Quartermaster Corps as pay of the Army, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. Subsistence.Purchases tor issue.Subsistence of the Army: Purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue as rations to troops, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, civil employees when entitled thereto, hospital matrons, nurses, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, general prisoners of war (including Indians held by the Army as prisoners, but for whose subsistence appropriation is not otherwise made) Indians employed with the Army as guides and scouts, and general prisoners at posts; for the subsistence of the masters, officers, crews, and employees of the vessels of the Army transport service; hot coffee for troops traveling when supplied with cooked or travel rations; meals for recruiting parties and applicants for enlistment while underSales. observation; for sales to officers, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, while on active duty, and enlisted men of the Army:*Provisos*.National rifle match. *Provided*, That the sum of $12,000 is authorized to be expended for supplying meals or furnishing commutation of rations to enlisted men of the Regular Army and the National Guard who may be competitorsRations restriction. in the national rifle match: *Provided further*, That no competitor shall be entitled to commutation of rations in excess of $1.50 per day, and when meals are furnished no greater expense than that sum per man per day for the period the contest is in progress shall be incurred.Payments.Commutation of rations. For payments: Of commutation of rations to the cadets of the United States Military Academy in lieu of the regular established ration, at the rate of 40 cents per ration; of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough, enlisted men and male and female nurses when stationed at places where rations in kind can not be economically issued, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to191 active duty, and when traveling on detached duty where it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind, enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in departments and Army rifle competitions while traveling to and from places of contest, male and female nurses on leaves of absence, applicants for enlistment, and general prisoners while traveling under orders; of commutation of rations in lieu of the regular established ration for members of the Nurse Corps (female) while on duty in hospital, at 40 cents per ration, and for enlisted men, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, and general prisoners sick therein, at the rate of 40 cents per ration (except that at the general hospital at Fort Bayard, New Mexico, 50 cents per ration and at other general hospitals 40 cents per ration are authorized for enlisted patients therein), to be paid to the surgeon in charge; advertising; for providing prizes to be established by thePrizes for bakers and cooks. Secretary of War for enlisted men of the Army who graduate from the Army schools for bakers and cooks, the total amount of such prizes at the various schools not to exceed $900 per annum; for otherPreservation, accounting, etc. necessary expenses incident to the purchase, testing, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army; in all, $133,000,000. Regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps: Regular supplies ofRegular supplies, Quartermaster Corps. the Quartermaster Corps, including their care and protection; construction and repair of military reservation fences; stoves and heating apparatus required for heating offices, hospitals, barracks and quarters, and recruiting stations, and United States disciplinary barracks; also ranges, stoves, coffee roasters, and appliances for cooking and serving food at posts, in the field, and when traveling, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances; and the necessary power for the operation of moving-picture machines: authorized issues of candles and matches; for furnishing heat andHeat, light, etc. light for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, and enlisted men, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty; contract surgeons when stationed at and occupying public quarters at military posts; for officers of the National Guard attending service and garrison schools, and for recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, offices, the buildings erected at private cost, in theRecreation buildings.Vol. 32, p. 282. operation of the Act approved May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and two; for sale to officers, and including also fuel and engine supplies required in the operation of modern batteries at established posts; for post bakeries, including bake ovens and apparatus pertaining thereto, and the repair thereof; for ice machines and their maintenance where required for the health and comfort of the troops and for cold storage; ice for issue to organizations of enlisted men and offices at such places as the Secretary of War may determine, and for preservation of stores; for the construction, operation, and maintenance of laundries at military posts in the United States and its island possessions; for the authorized issues of laundry materials for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances, and for applicants for enlistment while held under observation; authorized issues of soap; for hire of employees; for the necessary furniture, textbooks, paper, and equipmentSchool supplies, etc. for the post schools and libraries and for textbooks for noncommissioned officers’ schools, including subscriptions for newspapers, periodicals, and magazines for use of enlisted men as may be authorized by the Secretary of War; for the purchase and issue of instruments, office furniture, stationery, and other authorized articles for the use of officers’ schools at the several military posts; for purchase of relief maps for issue to organizations, commercial newspapers,192 market reports, and so forth; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and all for the enlisted men, includingForage, etc., for animals. recruits; of forage, salt, and vinegar for the horses, mules, oxen, and other draft and riding animals of the Quartermaster Corps at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, and for the horses of the several regiments of Cavalry, and batteries of Artillery, and such companies of Infantry and Scouts as may be mounted; for remounts and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; for seeds and implements required for the raising of forage at remount depots and on military reservations in the Hawaiian and Philippine Islands and for labor and expenses incident thereto, including, when specifically authorized by the Secretary of War, the cost of irrigation; for straw for soldiers’ bedding, stationery, typewriters and exchange of same, including blank books and blank forms for the Quartermaster Corps, certificatesPrinting. for discharged soldiers, and for printing department orders and reports, $101,800,114.23. *Proviso*.Restriction.*Provided*, That no part of the appropriations for the Quartermaster Corps shall be expended on printing unless the same shall be done at the Government Printing Office, or by contract after due notice and competition, except in such cases as the emergency will not admit of the giving notice of competition, and in cases where it is impracticable to have the necessary printing done by contract the same may be done, with the approval of the Secretary of War, by the purchase of material and hire of the necessary labor for the purpose. Incidental expenses.Incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps: Postage; cost of telegrams on official business received and sent by officers of the Army, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when orderedExtra duty pay, etc. to active duty; extra pay to soldiers employed on extra duty, under the direction of the Quartermaster Corps, in the erection of barracks, quarters, and storehouses, in the construction of roads, and other constant labor for periods of not less than ten days; as additional school-teachers during the school term at post schools, and as clerks for post quartermasters at military posts, and for overseers of general prisoners at posts designated by the War Department for the confinement of general prisoners, and for the United States disciplinary barracks guard; of extra-duty pay at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of War for mess stewards and cooks at recruit depots, who are graduates of the schools for bakers and cooks, and instructor cooks at the schools for bakers and cooks; for expenses of expresses to and from frontier posts and armies in the field; of escorts to officers or agents of the Quartermaster Corps to trains where military escorts can not be furnished; authorized-office furniture, authorized issues of towels; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster Corps, including the care of officer’s mounts when the same are furnished by the Government, and the hire of interpreters, spies, or guides for the Army; compensation of clerks and other employees to the officers of the Quartermaster Corps, and clerks, foremen, watchmen, and organist for the United States disciplinary barracks, and incidental expenses of recruiting; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of deserters, including escaped military prisoners, and the expenses incident to their pursuit, and no greater sum than $50 for each deserter or escaped military prisoner shall, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be paid to any civil officer or citizen for such services and expenses; for a donation of $5 to each dishonorably discharged prisoner upon his release from confinement under court-martialHorse expenditures. sentence involving dishonorable discharge; for the following expenditures required for the several regiments of Cavalry, the batteries of Field Artillery, and such companies of Infantry and Scouts as may be mounted, the authorized number of officers’ horses, and for the trains, to wit, purchase of picket ropes, blacksmith’s tools193 and materials, horseshoes and blacksmith’s tools for the Cavalry service, and for the shoeing of horses and mules; chests and issue outfits; and such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movements and operations of the Army, and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other department, $8,000,000. Transportation of the Army and its supplies: For transportationTransportation. of the Army and its supplies, including transportation of the troops when moving either by land or water, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps, and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, and of their baggage, including the cost of packing and crating; for transportation of recruits and recruiting parties; of applicants for enlistment between recruiting stations and recruiting depots; for travelTravel allowances, etc., on discharge.Vol. 39, p. 217. allowance to officers and enlisted men on discharge; for payment of travel allowance as provided in section one hundred and twenty-six of the Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to enlisted men of the National Guard on their discharge from the service of the United States, and to members of the National Guard who have been mustered into the service of the United States and discharged on account of physical disability; for payment of travel payNational Guard officers on discharge.Vol. 31, p. 903. to officers of the National Guard on their discharge from the service of the United States, as prescribed in the Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and one; for travel allowance to persons on their discharge from the United States disciplinary barracks or from any place in which they have been held under a sentence of dishonorable discharge and confinement for more than six months, or from the Government Hospital for the Insane after transfer thereto from such barracks or place, to their homes (or elsewhere as they may elect), provided the cost in each case shall not be greater than to the place of last enlistment; of the necessary agents and other employees, including per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4Perdiera subsistence. for those authorized to receive the per diem allowance; of clothing and equipage and other quartermaster stores from Army depots or places of purchase or delivery to the several posts and Army depots and from those depots to the troops in the field; of horse equipment; of ordnance and ordnance stores, and small arms from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and Army depots; for payment of wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; for transportation of funds of the Army; for the hire of employees; for the paymentPayment to land grant roads. of Army transportation lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land-grant Acts), but in no case shall more than fifty per centum of full amount of service be paid: *Provided*, That such compensation*Provisos*.Basis of computation. shall be computed upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: *Provided further*, That in expending the money appropriated by thisFifty per cent to roads not bond aided. Act a railroad company which has not received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition that such railroad should be a post route and military road, subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and other Government services, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charge for such Government transportation, having claims against the United States for transportation of troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property over such aided railroads, shall be paid out of the moneys appropriated by the foregoing provision only on the basis of such rate tor the transportation of such troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property as the Sec194 retary of War shall deem just and reasonable under the foregoing provision, such rate not to exceed fifty per centum of the compensation for such Government transportation as shall at that time be charged to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and similar transportation; and the amount so fixed to be paid shallFull pay to excepted roads. be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: *And provided further*, That nothing in the preceding provisos shall be construed to prevent the accounting officers of the Government from making full payment to land-grant railroads for transportation of property or persons where the courts of the United States have held that such property or persons do not come within the scope of the deductions provided for in the land-grant Acts; for the purchase and hire ofDraft and pack animals, etc. draft and pack animals in such numbers as are actually required for the service, including reasonable provision for replacing unserviceable animals; for the purchase, hire, operation, maintenance, and repairVehicles. of such harness, wagons, carts, drays, other vehicles, and motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, as are required for the transportation of troops and supplies, and for official, military, and garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several depots;Ships, boats, etc. for the hire of teamsters and other employees; for the purchase and repair of ships, boats, and other vessels required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for official, military, and garrison purposes;Transports. for expenses of sailing public transports and other vessels on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, $221,963,745.42. Water, sewers, etc.Water and sewers at military posts: For procuring and introducing water to buildings and premises at such military posts and stations as from their situations require it to be brought from a distance; for the installation and extension of plumbing within buildings where the same is not specifically provided for m other appropriations; for the purchase and repair of fire apparatus, including fire-alarm systems; for the disposal of sewage, and expenses incident thereto, including the authorized issue of toilet paper; for repairs to water and sewer systems and plumbing within buildings; for hire of employees, $10,546,169. Clothing, and camp and garrison equipage.Clothing and camp and garrison equipage: For cloth, woolens, materials, and for the purchase and manufacture of clothing for the Army, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, for issue and for sale at cost price according to the Army Regulations; for payment for clothing not drawn due to enlisted men on discharge; for altering and fitting clothing, and washing and cleaning when necessary; for equipage, including authorized issues of toilet articles, barbers’ and tailors’ materials, for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances and applicants for enlistments while held under observation; issue of toilet kits to recruits upon their first enlistment, and issue of housewives to the Army; for expenses of packing and handling, and similar necessaries; for a suit of citizen’s outer clothing, to cost not exceeding $10, to be issued upon release from confinement to each prisoner who has been confined under aIndemnity for destroyed clothing. court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge; for indemnity to officers and men of the Army for clothing and bedding, and so forth, destroyed since April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, by order of medical officers of the Army for sanitary reasons, $231,538,548.64. Horses.Purchase of, etc.Horses for Cavalry, Artillery, and Engineers: For the purchase of horses of ages, sex, and size as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War for remounts, for officers entitled to public mounts for the Cavalry, Artillery, Signal Corps, and Engineers, the United States Military Academy, service schools, and staff colleges, and for the Indian scouts, and for such Infantry and members of the Medical195 Department in field campaigns as may be required to be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto, and for the hire of employees: *Provided*, That the number of horses purchased under this appropriation,*Provisos*.Limitations. added to the number now on hand, shall be limited to the actual needs of the mounted service, including reasonable provisions for remounts, and, unless otherwise ordered by the Secretary of War, no part of this appropriation shall be paid out for horses not purchased by contract after competition duly invited by the Quartermaster Corps and an inspection under the direction and authority of the Secretary of War. When practicable, horses shall be purchased inOpen market pur chases. open market at all military posts or stations when needed, at a maximum price to be fixed by the Secretary of War: *Provided further*,Standard required. That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of any horse below the standard set by Army Regulations for Cavalry and Artillery horses, except when purchased as remounts or for instruction of cadets at the United States Military Academy: *And provided further*,Polo ponies. That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for polo ponies except for West Point Military Academy, and such ponies shall not be used at any other place, $25,000,000. Barracks and quarters: For barracks, quarters, stables, storehouses,Barracks and quarters. magazines, administration and office buildings, sheds, shops, and other buildings necessary for the shelter of troops, public animals, and stores, and for administration purposes, except those pertaining to the Coast Artillery; for constructing and repairing public buildings at military posts; for hire of employees, for rental of the authorized allowance of quarters for officers, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty on duty with the troops at posts and stations where no public quarters are available; for barracks or authorized allowance of quarters for noncommissioned officers and enlisted men on duty where public quarters are not available, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve, retired enlisted men, and members of the Enlisted Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty; for grounds for cantonments, camp sites, and other military purposes, and for buildings or portions of buildings for occupation by troops, for use as stables, storehouses, and offices, and for other military purposes; for the hire of recruiting stations and lodgings for recruits; for such furniture for the public rooms of officers’ messes and for officers’ quarters at military posts as may be approved by the Secretary of War; for wall lockers in permanent barracks, and refrigerators in barracks and quarters; for screen doors, window screens, storm doors and sash, and window shades for barracks, offices, and quarters, and for flooring and framing for tents, and for the National Guard when called or drafted into the service of the United*Provisos*.Commutation restriction. States, $47,603,314.20: *Provided*, That no part of the moneys so appropriated shall be paid for commutation of fuel or quartern to officers or enlisted men: *And provided further*, That the number of andCivilian employees. total sum paid for civilian employees in the Quartermaster Corps shall be limited to the actual requirements of the service, and that no employee therein shall receive a salary of more than $150 per month, except upon the approval of the Secretary of War. Military post exchanges: For continuing the construction, equipment,Post exchanges. and maintenance of suitable buildings at military posts and stations for the conduct of tho post exchange, school, library, reading, lunch, amusement rooms, and gymnasium, including repairs to buildingsRecreation buildings, etc.Vol. 32, p. 2$. erected at private cost, in the operation of the Act approved May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and two, for the rental of films, purchase of slides, supplies for and making repairs to moving-picture outfits, and for similar and other recreational purposes at training and mobilization camps now established, or which may be hereafter established, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Secre196*Proviso*.Use for personal services forbidden.Roads, walks, wharves, etc.tary of War, $500,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for personal services. Roads, walks, wharves, and drainage: For the construction and repair by the Quartermaster Corps of roads, walks, and wharves: for the pay of employees; for the disposal of drainage; for dredging channels; and for care and improvement of grounds at military posts and stations, $5,539,965. Supplies, services, and transportation.Combination fund constituted of.*Provided further*, That all the money hereinbefore appropriated under the titles Subsistence of the Army; Regular supplies, Quarter-master Corps; Incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps; Transportation of the Army and its supplies; Water and sewers at military posts; and Clothing and camp and garrison equipage, shall be disbursed and accounted for by officers and agents of the Quartermaster Corps as “Supplies, Services, and Transportation, Quartermaster Corps,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. Hospitals.Construction, repair, etc.Construction and repair of hospitals: For construction and repair of hospitals at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, and for the construction and repair of general hospitals and expenses incident thereto, and for additions needed to meet the requirements of increased garrisons, and for temporary hospitals in standing camps and cantonments, $2,115,267. Medical Department.medical department. Supplies, etc.Medical and Hospital Department: For the purchase of medicalGas masks. and hospital supplies, including gas masks, motor ambulances, and motorcycles for medical service, their maintenance, repair, and operation, and disinfectants, and the purchase and exchange of typewriting machines for military posts, camps, hospitals, hospital ships andMosquito destruction. transports, and supplies required for mosquito destruction in and*Provisos*.Motor ambulances. about the military posts in the Canal Zone: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may m his discretion select types and makes of motor ambulances for the Army and authorize their purchase without regard to the laws prescribing advertisement for proposals for supplies and material for the Army; for the purchase of veterinary supplies and hire of veterinary surgeons; for expenses of medical supply depots; for medical care and treatment not otherwise provided for, including care and subsistence in private hospitals, of officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the Army, of applicants for enlistment, and of prisoners of war and other persons in military custody or confinement, when entitled thereto by law, regulation, or contract: *Provided*,Private treatment. That this shall not apply to officers and enlisted men who are treated in private hospitals or by civilian physicians while on furlough; for theContagious diseases expenses. proper care and treatment of epidemic and contagious diseases in the Army or at military posts or stations, including measures to prevent the spread thereof, and the payment of reasonable damages not otherwise provided for, for bedding and clothing injured or destroyed in such prevention; for the pay of male and female nurses, not including the Nurse Corps (female), and of cooks, and other civilians employed for the proper care of sick officers and soldiers, under such regulations fixing their number, qualifications, assignment, pay, and allowances as shall have been or shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War; for the pay of civilian physicians employed to examine physically applicants for enlistment and enlisted men, and to render other professional services from time to time under proper authority; for the pay of other employees of the Medical Department; for the payment of express companies and local transfers employed directly by the Medical Department for the transportation of medical and hospital supplies, including bidders’ samples and water for analysis;197 for supplies for use in teaching the art of cooking to the enlisted force of the Medical Department; for the supply of the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas; for advertising, printing, binding,Hot Springs, Ark., hospital. laundry, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, $29,780,000. engineer department.Engineer Department. Engineer equipment of troops: For pontoon material, tools,Equipment of troops. instruments, supplies, and appliances required for use in the engineer equipment of troops, for military surveys, and for engineer operations in the field, including the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of the necessary motorcycles; the purchase and preparation of engineer manuals and procurement of special paper for same, and for a reserve supply of above equipment, $35,876,000. Engineer operations in the field: For expenses incident toField operations ex penses. military engineer operations in the field, including the purchase of material and a reserve of material for such operations, the construction or rental of storehouses within and outside the District of Columbia, the purchase, operation, maintenance, and repair of horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and such expenses as are ordinarily provided for under appropriations for “Engineer depots,” “Civilian assistants to engineer officers,” and “Maps, War Department,” $94,500,000. ordnance department.Ordnance Depart ment. Ordnance Service: For the current expenses of the OrdnanceCurrent expenses. Department in connection with purchasing, receiving, storing, and issuing ordnance and ordnance stores, comprising police and office duties, rents, tolls, fuel, light, water, and advertising, stationery, typewriters, and adding machines, including their exchange, and office furniture, tools, and instruments of service; for incidental expenses of the Ordnance Service and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small arms, and other ordnance stores; for publications for libraries of the Ordnance Department, including the Odinance Office: subscriptions to periodicals, which may be paid for in advance; and payment for mechanical labor in the office of the Chief of Ordnance; and for purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, $2,650,000. Ordnance stores, ammunition: Manufacture and purchase of ammunitionAmmunition for small arms. for small arms and for hand use for reserve supply, $131,048,000. Small-arms target practice: For manufacture and purchaseSmall arms target practice.Ammunition, targets, etc. of ammunition, targets, and other accessories for small-arms, hand, and machine-gun target practice and instructions; marksmen’s medals, prize arms, and insignia for all arms of the service; andAt educational institutions, etc. ammunition, targets, target materials, and other accessories which may be issued for small-arms target practice and instruction at the educational institutions and State soldiers’ and sailors’ orphans’ homes to which issues of small arms are lawfully made, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, provided the total value of the stores so issued to the educational institutions and homes does not exceed $75,000, $17,500,000. Manufacture of arms: For manufacturing, repairing, procuring,Manufacturing, etc., arms. and issuing arms at the national armories, $55,349,000. Ordnance stores and supplies: For overhauling, cleaning, repairing,Preserving, etc., ordnance. and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of troops and at the arsenals, posts, and depots; for purchase andPurchase, etc.198Equipments. manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requirements of troops; for Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery equipments, including horse equipments for Cavalry and Artillery, $106,550,000. Automatic machine rifles.Automatic machine rifles: For the purchase, manufacture, and test of automatic machine rifles, including their sights and equipments, $65,900,000. Armored motor cars.Armored motor cars: For the purchase and manufacture of armored motor cars, $3,900,000. Antiaircraft guns.Antiaircraft guns: For the procurement and test of antiaircraft guns and devices for use at the arsenals, including their carriages, sights, implements, and equipments, $760,000. Ammunition for antiaircraft guns.Ammunition for antiaircraft guns: For the procurement and test of ammunition for antiaircraft guns and devices, for use at the arsenals, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, $1,640,000. Military training camps.Arms, ammunition, etc.Military training camps: For arms and ordnance equipment, including overhauling and repairing of personal equipments, machine-gun outfits, horse equipment, and so forth; ammunition, targets, and other accessories for target practice, and for overhauling and repairing arms for issue and use in connection with training camps in pursuanceVol. 39, p. 194. of the provisions of section fifty-four of the Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $3,750,000. Civilian military training.civilian military training. Expenses of instruction camps, etc.For the expense of maintaining, upon military reservations or elsewhere, camps for the military instruction and training of such citizens physically capable of bearing arms as may be selected under such terms of enlistment and under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, and for furnishing said citizens, at the expense of the United States, uniforms, subsistence, transportation by the most usual and direct route within said limits as to territory as may be prescribed; for such expenditures as may be deemed necessary for water, fuel, light, temporary structures, not including quarters for officers nor barracks for men, screening, and damages resulting from field exercises, and other expenses incidental to maintaining said camps and the theoretical winter instruction in connectionEquipments, transportation, etc. therewith, including textbooks and stationery; for furnishing such equipments, tentage, field equipage, and transportation belonging to the United States as may be deemed necessary as authorized byVol. 39, p. 194. section fifty-four of the Act of Congress approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $3,440,000. Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.Ordnance stores and equipments for.Ordnance stores and equipment for Reserve Officers’ Training Corps: For arms and ordnance equipment, including overhauling and repairing of personal equipments, machine-gun outfits,Vol. 39, p. 192. and horse equipments, and so forth, for use in connection with the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, established by the Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $524,000. Schoolsand colleges.Ordnance supplies, etc., tor.Ordnance supplies for military equipment of schools and colleges: For arms and ordnance equipment, including overhauling and repairing of personal equipments, machine-gun outfits, and horseVol. 39, p. 197. equipments for issue to schools and colleges in pursuance of the provisions of section fifty-six of the Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $218,000. Returns office, Interior Department.[R. S., sec. 3744, p. 738](/us/rs/s3744/p738), amended.Section thirty-seven hundred and forty-four, Revised Statutes, is hereby amended by adding the following at the end of the last sentence:Time for filing Army and Navy contracts in, extended. “*Provided*, That the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy may extend the time for filing such contracts in the returns office of the Department of the Interior to ninety days whenever in their opinion it would be to the interest of the United States to follow such a course. ” 199 The Chief of Ordnance of the United States Army is authorized toOrdnance Office.Expert, etc., employees authorized in. employ in the District of Columbia, out of the appropriations made in this Act for designing, procuring, caring for, and supplying ordnance and ordnance stores to the Army, such services, other than clerical, as are necessary for carrying out these purposes. fortifications and other works of defense.Fortifications. engineer department.Engineer Department. For construction of gun and mortar batteries, $2,500,000. Gun and mortar batteries.Fire-control stations. For construction and protection of fire-control stations and accessories, including purchase of lands and rights of way, purchase and installation of necessary lines and means of electrical communication, including telephones, dial and other telegraphs, wiring and all special instruments, apparatus, and materials, coast signal apparatus, and salaries of electrical experts, engineers, and other necessary employees connected with the use of coast artillery; purchase, manufacture, andRange finders. test of range finders and other instruments for fire control at the fortifications, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $3,147,225. For installation and replacement of electric light and power plantsElectric plants. at seacoast fortifications, $1,700,000. For purchase and installation of searchlights for seacoast defenses,Searchlights. including searchlights for antiaircraft defense and accessories therefor, $5,900,000. For construction of mining casemates, cable galleries, torpedoTorpedo structures, etc.*Post*, p, 1306. storehouses, cable tanks, and other structures necessary for the operation, preservation, and care of submarine mines and their accessories, and for providing channels for access to torpedo wharves, $500,000. For the construction of land defenses in the United States, includingLand defenses, construction, etc. the procurement of equipment and materials required therefor, the construction and repair of roads required for military purposes, and the procurement and installation of searchlights, $2,000,000. For contingent expenses incident to the construction of seacoastContingent expenses. fortifications and their accessories, $1,000,000. armament of fortifications.Armament. For purchase, manufacture, and test of mountain, field, and siegeMountain, field, and siege cannon. cannon, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $155,000,000: *Provided*, That the Chief of Ordnance, United States*Proviso*.Contracts authorized. Army, is authorized to enter into contracts, or otherwise incur obligations, for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $40,000,000, in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made. For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for mountain,Ammunition. field, and siege cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, $367,000,000. For purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon for coastSeacoast camion. defense, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $7,950,000: *Provided*, That the Chief of Ordnance, United States*Proviso*.Contracts authorized. Army, is authorized to enter into contracts, or otherwise incur obligations, for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $8,000,000, in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made. Ammunition, modernizing projectiles, etc. For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast cannon, and for modernizing projectiles on hand, including the200 necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary*Proviso*.Contracts authorized. for its manufacture at the arsenals, $12,255,000: *Provided*, That the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is authorized to enter into contracts, or otherwise incur obligations, for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $6,000,000, in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made. Ammunition, etc., for practice.For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition, subcaliber guns, and other accessories for seacoast artillery practice, including the machinery necessary for the manufacture at the arsenals, $2,000,000. Altering, etc., mobile artillery.For alteration and maintenance of the mobile artillery, including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and material necessary for the work and the expenses of the mechanics engaged thereon, $25,000,000. Ammunition, etc., for field, etc., artillery practice.For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition, subcaliber guns, and other accessories for mountain, field, and siege artillery practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $9,000,000. Altering, etc., seacoast artillery.For alteration and maintenance of seacoast artillery, including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, materials necessary or the work, and expenses of civilian mechanics and extra-duty pay of enlisted men engaged thereon, $3,000,000. Proving grounds.proving grounds. Current expenses, etc.For current expenses of the ordnance proving grounds, comprising the maintenance of rail and water transportation, repairs, alterations, accessories, and service of employees incidental to testing and proving ordnance material, hire of assistants for the Ordnance Board, purchase of instruments and articles required for testing and experimental work, building and repairing butts and targets, clearing and grading ranges, $600,000. Temporary employment, etc.For necessary expenses of officers not occupying public quarters at the proving grounds, while employed on ordnance duty thereat, at the rate of $2.50 per diem while so employed, and the compensation of draftsmen while employed in the Army Ordnance Bureau on ordnance construction work, $100,000. Submarine mines.submarine mines. Mines, nets for closing channels, etc.For purchase of submarine mines and nets and necessary appliances to operate them for closing the channels leading to our principal seaports, and for continuing torpedo experiments, $2,926,330. Maintenance of supplies, etc.Fort Totten, N. Y., torpedo depot.*Post*, p. 1306.For maintenance of submarine mine matériel within the limits of continental United States; purchase of necessary machinery, tools, and implements for the repair shop of the torpedo depot at Fort Totten, New York; extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods of not less than ten days in connection with the issue, receipt, and care of submarine mining matériel at the torpedo depot; and for torpedo-depot administration, $500,000. Insular possessions.Fortifications in Insular Possessions. Ordnance Department.ordnance department. Seacoast cannon.For purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon for coast defenses, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $1,060,000. Ammunition.For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith,201 and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, $5,100,000: *Provided*, That the Chief of Ordnance, United States*Proviso*.Contracts authorized. Army, is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $2,550,000 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made. For alteration and maintenance of the seacoast artillery, includingAltering, etc., seacoast cannon. the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work, and expenses of the civilian mechanics, and extra-duty pay of enlisted men engaged thereon, $700,000. For purchase of submarine mines and nets and necessary appliancesSubmarine mines, nets to close channels etc. to operate them for closing the channels leading to seaports in the insular possessions, $23,000. For maintenance of the submarine-mine matériel in the insularMaintenance of mine supplies.*Post*, p. 1307.Material to be of American manufacture. possessions, $50,000. All material purchased under the appropriations in this Act for the Ordnance Department of the United States Army shall be of American manufacture, except in cases when, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, it is to the manifest interest of the United States to make purchases in limited quantities abroad, which material shall be admitted free of duty. panama canal fortifications.Panama Canal. For fortifications and armament thereof for the Panama Canal,Fortifications, etc. namely: For the construction of seacoast batteries on the Canal Zone, $5,000; Seacoast batteries. For land defenses, Panama Canal, including the procurement andLand defenses. installation of searchlights, purchase of armored cars and locomotives, construction of roads and surveys incidental thereto, $29,500; For the purchase and installation of electric light and power plantsElectric plants. for the seacoast fortifications on the Canal Zone, $55,000; For the purchase and installation of searchlights for the seacoastSearchlights. fortifications on the Canal Zone, $78,774; For the purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon forSeacoast cannon. coast defense, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $1,775,000; For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoastAmmunition. and land-defense cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, $1,415,000; For alteration, maintenance, and installation of the seacoast artillery,Altering, installing, etc., seacoast artillery. including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work, and expenses of civilian mechanics, and extra-duty pay of enlisted men engaged thereon, $665,000; For purchase of submarine mines and nets and the necessarySubmarine mines, nets to close channels, etc. appliances to operate them for closing the channels leading to the Panama Canal, $250,000; For alteration, maintenance and repair of submarine mineMine supplies.*Post*, p. 1308. matériel, $47,500; Ordnance depot, Panama Canal: For an additional amount for aOrdnance depot. building for storing lumber, targets, and so forth, $200; In all, specifically for fortifications and armament thereof for the Panama Canal, $4,320,974. STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDINGS.State, War, and Navy Department Buildings.Additional watch men, 1917 and 1918. For thirty-two additional watchmen at the rate of $720 each per annum, from May first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, $26,880. 202 Additional employees, 1918.Vol. 39, p. 1098.For additional employees during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, at annual rates of compensation, as follows: Assistant superintendent, $2,000, in lieu of a clerk of class three, provided for in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen; ten elevator conductors, at $720 each; eight laborers, at $660 each; six firemen, at $720 each; two skilled laborers, at $840 each; in all, $20,480. Navy Annex.Additional employees, 1918.Navy Department Annex (New York Avenue near Seventeenth Street): For additional employees during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, at annual rates of compensation as follows: Two firemen at $720 each; two elevator conductors at $720 each; skilled laborer at $840; in all, $3,720. Navy Department.NAVY DEPARTMENT. Additional temporary force.*Post*, pp. 484, 599, 787.For the employment of such additional temporary force of clerks, messengers, laborers, and other assistants as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy may be necessary to the transaction of official business in the Navy Department and its bureaus and offices on account of the existing emergency, as follows: Distribution.Office of the Secretary, $15,000; Office of the Solicitor, $1,804; Office of the Judge Advocate General, $21,500; Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, $100,000; Office of Naval Intelligence, $5,634; Hydrographic Office, $50,000; Naval Observatory, $11,620; Bureau of Steam Engineering, $22,000; Bureau of Construction and Repair, $72,660; Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $12,000; Bureau of Yards and Docks, $40,000; Bureau of Navigation, $70,200; Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $65,120; Marine Corps headquarters, $ 11,500; *Proviso*.Statement of employees, etc.In all, $499,038: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy shall submit to Congress on the first day of its next regular session a statement showing, by bureaus or offices, the number and designation of the persons employed hereunder and the annual rate of compensation paid to each. contingent expenses. Contingent expenses.For stationery, furniture, newspapers plans, drawings, drawing materials, horses and wagons to be used only for official purposes, including rental of stable, street car tickets not exceeding $250, freight, expressage, postage, typewriters and computing machines, and other absolutely necessary expenses of the Navy Department and its various bureaus and offices, $168,300; it shall not be lawful to expend, for any of the offices or bureaus of the Navy Department at Washington any sum out of appropriations made for the Naval Establishment for any of the purposes mentioned or authorized in this paragraph. Additional rant.For rental of additional quarters for the Navy Department, $79,650. Printing and binding.For printing and binding for the Navy Department, including not exceeding $15,000 for the Hydrographic Office, to be executed under the Public Printer, $100,000. Hydrographic Office.hydrographic office. Materials, etc.For purchase and printing of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions; copperplates, steel plates, chart paper, packing boxes, chart portfolios, electrotyping copperplates, cleaning copperplates;203 tools, instruments, power, and materials for drawing, engraving, and printing; materials for and mounting charts; reduction of charts by photography; photolithographing charts for immediate use; transfer of photolithographic and other charts to copper; care and repairs to printing presses, furniture, instruments, and tools, including the purchase of such additional printing presses as may be necessary; extra drawing and engraving; translating from foreign languages; telegrams on public business; preparation of Pilot Charts and their supplements,Pilot Charts, etc. and printing and mailing same; purchase of data for charts and sailing directions and other nautical publications; books of reference and works and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, and to other professional and technical subjects connected with the work of the Hydrographic Office, $30,000. NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.Navy. pay, miscellaneous.Pay, miscellaneous. For commissions and interests; transportation of funds; exchange;Miscellaneous e xpenses. 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 abroad, including maintenance of students and attachés; informationInformation from abroad. from abroad and at home, and the collection and classification thereof; all charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus for ice for the cooling of drinking water on shore (except at naval hospitals), telephone rentals and tolls, telegrams, cablegrams, and postage, foreign and domestic, and post-office box rentals; and other necessary and incidental expenses: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid*Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services at yards and stations. out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, shall not exceed $150,000, and for necessary expensesInterned prisoners of war, etc. for the interned persons and prisoners of war under the jurisdiction of the Navy Department, including funeral expenses for such interned persons or prisoners of war as may die while under such jurisdiction; in all, $1,801,500. Aviation: For aviation, including not to exceed $150,000 for theAviation.General expenses. purchase of land, and for procuring, producing, constructing, operating, preserving, storing, and handling aircraft, including rigid dirigibles, and appurtenances, maintenance of aircraft stations and experimental work in development of aviation for naval purposes,204*Provisos*,Jamestown site forbidden.*Post*, p. 207.Technical, etc., services. $11,000,000: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be used for the purchase of the Jamestown site or any part thereof: *Provided further*, 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 $150,000. 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 homo 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 cashNaval auxiliaries and Reserves. in lieu thereof; transportation of sick or insane enlisted men and apprentice seamen to hospitals, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation and shipping of civilian officers and crews of naval auxiliaries; transportation of enrolled men of the Naval Reserve Force to and from duty, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, and for railway guides and other expenses incident to transportation, $1,659,324. Recruiting.Recruiting: Expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent of rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; purchase, rental, maintenance, operation, exchange, and repair of motor-propelled 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, $1,000,000. ContingentContingent: Ferriage, continuous-service certificates, discharges, good-conduct badges, and medals for men and boys; purchase of gymnastic apparatus; transportation of effects of deceased officers and enlisted men of the Navy, 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, $10,000. Gunnery and engineering exercises.Gunnery and engineering exercises: Prizes, trophies, and badges for excellence in gunnery, target practice, engineering exercises, and for economy in coal consumption, to be awarded under such rules as the Secretary of the Navy may formulate; for the purposes of printing, recording, classifying, compiling, and publishing the rules and results; for the establishment and maintenance of shooting galleries, target houses, targets, and ranges; for hiring established ranges, and for transporting the civilian assistants and equipment to and from ranges, $20,000. Outfits on first enlistments, etc.Outfits on first enlistment: Outfits for all enlisted men and apprentice seamen of the Navy on first enlistment, at not to exceed $60 each; for the clothing gratuity of officers and men of the Naval Reserve Force, $150 each for officers and $60 each for men; in all, $7,778,000. Naval auxiliaries.Transfer of appropriations.Maintenance of naval auxiliaries: The sum appropriated for “Maintenance of naval auxiliaries” in the naval Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall be transferred to otherVol. 39, pp. 1170, 1181, 1182. appropriations as follows: “Transportation, Bureau of Navigation,” $11,500; “Pay of the Navy,” $846,890, and “Provisions, Navy,” $286,000. 205 Instruments and supplies: Supplies for seamen’s quarters; andEquipment supplies, instrumente, etc. for the purchase of all other articles of equipage at home and abroad; and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith and manufacture of such articles in the several navy yards; all pilotage and towage 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 loads and other appliances for sounding; photographs, photographic instruments and materials, printing outfit and materials; and for the necessary civilianGyrocompass electricians. electricians for gyrocompass testing and inspection, $5,743,440. Ocean and lake surveys: Hydrographic surveys, including theOcean and lake surveys. pay of the necessary hydrographic surveyors, cartographic draftsmen and recorders, and for the purchase and printing of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, $50,000. Ship for Illinois Naval Militia: The limit of cost of $125,000Illinois Naval Militia.Limit of cost increased of ship for.Vol. 39, p. 559. on the purchase, repair, and alteration of a ship for the Naval Militia of Illinois as fixed in the naval appropriation Act approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is increased by $,000, which sum is hereby appropriated. Naval training station, California: Maintenance of naval trainingTraining stations.Yerba Buena Island. Cal. station, Yerba Buena Island, California: Labor and material: buildings and wharves; general care, repairs, and improvements of Sounds, buildings, and wharves; wharfage, ferriage, and street-car re; 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, $100,000. Naval training station, Rhode Island: Maintenance of navalCoasters Harbor Island, R. I. training station, Coasters Harbor Island, Rhode Island: Labor and material; buildings and wharves; dredging channels; extending sea walls; repairs to causeway and sea wall; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and wharves; wharfage, ferriage, and street car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of two horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes; fire engines and extinguishers; gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating and lighting; stationery, books, schoolbooks, and periodicals: fresh water, and washing; packing boxes and materials; and all other contingent expenses; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen; in all, $100,000: *Provided*, That the sum to be*Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services. paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service shall not exceed $10,000. 206 Great Lakes.Naval, training station, Great Lakes: Maintenance of naval training station: Labor and material; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and piers; street car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same: motor-propelled vehicles, wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, and one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle to be used only for official purposes; fire apparatus and extinguishers; gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; printing outfit and material, and maintenance of same; heating and fighting, and repairs to power-plant equipment, distributing mains, tunnel, and conduits; stationery, books, schoolbooks, and periodicals; washing; packing boxes and materials; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen; and all other contingent expenses:*Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services. *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service shall not exceed $4,500; in all, naval training station, Great Lakes, $100,000. Saint Helena.Naval training station, Saint Helena: Maintenance of naval training station; labor and material, general care, repairs, and improvements; schoolbooks; and all other incidental expenses, $50,000. Naval Reserve Force.Naval Reserve Force: For expenses of organizing, 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. Instruction camps for recruits, etc.Expenses.Schools or camps of instruction for recruits and Naval Reserve forces: For rental of necessary land and for providing quarters and the maintenance and equipment thereof, for assembling, training, and instructing recruits and reserves of all classes, including the crews of section patrols, harbor patrols, submarines and submarine chasers, and beach patrols, and for all purposes connected therewith, $2,655,360. Bureau of Ordnance.bureau of ordnance. Ordnance and ordnance stores.Ordnance and ordnance stores: For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the genera! work of the Ordnance Department; for necessary improvements at the naval proving ground, naval torpedo stations, naval gun factory, and naval ammunition depots; and for pay of chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, watchmen, and messenger service in navy yards, naval*Provisos*.Chemical, etc., services. stations, and naval ammunition depots: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, watchmen, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and naval ammunitionAllowance for draftsmen, etc., in Department. depots, shall not exceed $725,000: *Provided further*, That not exceeding $81,500 of this amount may be expended for the services of clerks, draftsmen, and such other technical assistants as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary in the Bureau of Ordnance; in all, $16,905,366. Ammunition for issue.*Provisos*.Price for powder lim ited.For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ammunition for vessels, $68,664,858: *Provided*, That no part of any money appropriated by this Act shall be expended for the purchase of powder other than small-arms powder at a price in excess of 53 cents a pound:Purchases subject to full operation of In dianhead plant. *Provided further*, That in expenditures of this appropriation, or any part thereof, for powder, no powder shall at any time be purchased unless the powder factory at Indianhead, Maryland, shall be operated on a basis of not less than its full maximum capacity. 207 For new batteries for ships of the Navy, $22,333,000. New batteries.Auxiliaries and mer chantmen.Ammunition.Torpedoes, etc. For batteries for auxiliaries and merchantmen, $29,672,000. For ammunition for auxiliaries and merchantmen, $19,988,800. For purchase and manufacture of torpedoes and appliances, $11,242,000. For reserve and miscellaneous ordnance supplies, $29,260,000. Reserve supplies. bureau of yards and docks.Bureau of Yards and Docks. Maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For general maintenanceMaintenance. 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 yard; tools and repair of the same; stationery; furniture for Government houses and offices in navy yards and naval stations; coal and other fuel; candles, oil, and gas; attendance on light and power plants; cleaning and clearing up yards and care of buildings; attendance on fires, lights, fire engines, and fire apparatus and plants; incidental labor at navy yards; water tax, tolls and ferriage; pay of watchmen in navy yards; awnings and packing boxes; and for pay of employees on leave, $2,060,000; *Provided*, That the sum to be paid*Provisos*.Clerical, etc., services. out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, inspection, drafting, messenger, and other classified work in the navy yards and naval stations shall not exceed $800,000: *Provided further*, That not exceeding $100,000 of this amount may beDraftsmen, etc., in Department. expended for the services of draftsmen, and such other technical assistants as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary, in the Bureau of Yards and Docks. Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For contingentContingent. expenses and minor extensions and improvements of public works at navy yards and stations, $750,000. public works, bureau of yards and docks.Public works. Quarters for marine guards: For temporary quarters for marineMarine guard quarters at magazines. guards at naval magazines, $100,000. Submarine facilities; For submarine facilities, navy yards andSubmarine facilities. stations, $1,500,000. Power plants and distributing systems: For improvements, centralPower, etc., plants. power plants and distributing systems, navy yards and stations, $750,000. Depots for coal and other fuel: Toward fuel-oil storage, includingFuel oil storage. not to exceed $100,000 for the purchase of land, $1,500,000. Ordnance storage: For storage of ammunition, mines, torpedoes,Ordnance storage. and other ordnance material, $3,000,000. Naval operating base, Hampton Roads, Virginia: The President isNaval base, Hampton Roads, Va.Immediate possession authorized of Jamestown Exposition site for.*Post*, p. 1674. hereby authorized and empowered to take over for the United States the immediate possession and title, including all easements, rights of way, riparian and other rights appurtenant thereto, and including all the rights and properties of railway, electric light, power, telephone, telegraph, water, and sewer companies, of the tract of land known as the James town Exposition site, on Hampton Roads, Virginia, and of such lands adjacent thereto as lie north of Ninety-ninth Street and Algonquin Street, the entire property being bounded on the north and west by Hampton Roads and Willoughby Bay, on the east by Boush Creek, and on the south by Nintyninth and Algonquin Streets. 208 Compensation.That if said lands and appurtenances and improvements thereof shall be taken over as aforesaid, the United States shall make justSuit to determine if offer unsatisfactory. compensation 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 will make upProcedure.Vol. 36, pp. 1093, 1136. such amount 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. Title to vest at once.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. A mount for property.For the payment of compensation for said property so taken over,Equipment, etc. $1,200,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary; and toward the equipment of the same as a naval operating base, including piers, store houses, oil-fuel storage, training station and recreation grounds*Provisos*.Property acquired. for the fleet and other purposes, $1,600,000, in all, $2,800,000: *Provided*, That the appropriation herein shall be available only for the acquisition of the entire property bounded on the north and west by Hampton Roads and Willoughby Bay, on the east by Boush Creek, and on the south by Ninety-ninth and Algonquin Streets, together with all easements, rights of way, riparian and other rights appurtenant thereto, and all the rights and properties of railway, electric light, power, telephone, telegraph, cable, water, and sewer companies:Jurisdiction restriction waived.[R. S., sec. 355, p. 60](/us/rs/s355/p60). *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to expend public money in the development of said tract of land without reference to the requirements of section three hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes. Temporary hospitals.Hospital construction: For temporary hospital construction,Medical supply depots. $1,000,000; and for the establishment of naval medical supply depots at Brooklyn, New York, and Mare Island, California, by purchase or construction, $350,000; in all, $1,350,000. Saint Juliens Creek, Ya., naval magazine.Naval magazine, Saint Juliens Creek, Virginia: The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to expend public money in the development of the tract of land to be added to the naval reservation at the navalJurisdiction restriction waived. ammunition depot, Saint Juliens Creek, Virginia, without reference to the requirements of section three hundred and fifty-five of the[R. S., sec. 355, p. 60](/us/rs/s355/p60). Revised Statutes, and the provision in the naval appropriation ActAcquiring additional land.Vol. 39. p. 570, amended. approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page five hundred and seventy), authorizing the purchase of additional land under the beading “Naval magazine, Saint Juliens Creek, Virginia,” is hereby amended to read as follows: “For additional land, to be secured by purchase or condemnation or otherwise, as the Secretary of the Navy may direct, $60,000.” Puget Sound, Wash.Telephone line from, navy yard to Keyport radio station.Puget Sound, Washington, Navy Yard: The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to acquire by gift, purchase, or condemnation, easements over private land where necessary for the installation of a telephone, power and distant control line for the radio station at Keyport, Washington, between said station and the navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington, $3,500, which sum is hereby appropriated. Repairs and preservation.Repairs and preservation at navy yards and stations: For repairs and preservation at navy yards, fuel depots, fuel plants, and stations, $900,000. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.bureau of medicine and surgery. Surgeons’ necessaries.Medical Department: For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in commission, navy yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and for the209 civil establishment at the several navalCivil establishment. hospitals, navy yards, naval medical supply depots, Naval Medical School, Washington, and Naval Academy, and toward the accumulation of a reserve supply of medical stores, $3,000,000. Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For tollsContingent. and ferriages; care, transportation, and burial of the dead, including officers 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 nonpassenger-carrying wagons, automobile ambulances, and harness; purchase of and feed for horses and cows; 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 oufits and dental material, and all other necessary contingent expenses; in all, $1,000,000. Transportation of remains: To enable the Secretary of theTransporting re mains 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, and of officers and enlisted men of the Naval Militia and 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 discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of civilian employees who die outside of the continental limits of the United States, $300,000: *Provided*, That the sum herein*Proviso*.Application of fund. appropriated shall be available for payment for transportation of the remains of officers and men who have died while on duty at any time since April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and shall be available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen. Hospital expenses: For the care, maintenance, and treatment ofHospital expenses of patients,etc. patients in naval and in other than naval hospitals, and for the rental of land, $3,000,000. bureau of supplies and accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. Pay of the Navy: Pay and allowances prescribed by law of officersPay of the Navy.Allotment of amounts. on sea duty and other duty, and officers on waiting orders; officers on the retired list; commutation of quarters for officers on shore not occupying public quarters, including boatswains, gunners, carpenters, sailmakers, machinists, pharmacists, pay clerks, and mates, naval constructors, and assistant naval constructors; and also membersCommutation allowed Nurse Corps. of Nurse Corps (female) who shall hereafter be paid the same commutation as is or may be allowed members of the Nurse Corps of the Army; 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 to210 repairs or other conditions which may render them uninhabitable;Enlisted men. pay of enlisted men on the retired list; extra pay to men reenlisting under honorable discharge; interest on deposits by men; pay of petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and apprentice seamen, including men in the engineers’ force and men detailed for duty with the Fish Commission; and pay of enlisted men of the Hospital Corps, and for theCoast Guard and Lighthouse Service act ing with Navy. pay of enlisted men detailed for duty with the Naval Militia; pay 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; pay of officers and men of the naval auxiliary service; pay of enlisted men undergoing sentence of court-martial; and as many machinists as the President may from time to time deem necessary to appoint; and apprentice seamen under training at training stations, and on board training ships, at the pay prescribed by law; pay of the Nurse Corps; rent of quarters for membersNavalReserve Force. of the Nurse Corps; retainer pay and active-service pay of members of the Naval Reserve Force; in all, $75,508,672.42. Provisions.Provisions, Navy: For provisions and commuted rations for the seamen and marines, which commuted rations may be paid to caterers of messes, in case of death or desertion, upon orders of the commanding officers, commuted rations for officers on sea duty (other than commissioned officers of the line, Medical and Pay Corps, chaplains, chief boatswains, chief gunners, chief carpenters, chief machinists, 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*Proviso*.Commutation of rations to prisoners. expiration of such confinement: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to commute rations for such general courts-martial prisoners in such amounts as seem to him proper, which may vary in accordance with the location of the naval prison, but which shall in no case exceed 30 cents per diem for each ration so commuted;Army emergency ration. and for the purchase of United States Army emergency rations as required; in all, $31,740,992.45. Clothing and small stores fund.Clothing and small-stores fund: For purchase of clothing and small-stores for issue to the naval service, to be added to the “Clothing and small-stores fund,” $9,571,000. Maintenance.Maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: For fuel; 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 machineryEquipment supplies. for the same; laboratory equipment; purchase of articles of equipage at home and abroad under the cognizance of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith, and the manufacture of such articles in the several navy211 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 ofFood inspection. advances”; 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*Proviso*.Chemical, etc., services. this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for chemists and for clerical, inspection, storeman, store laborer, and messenger service in the supply and accounting departments of the navy yards naval stations, naval-defense districts, and disbursing offices, shall not exceed $750,000; in all, $3,000,000. Freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: All freight andFreight, Department and bureaus. express charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus, except the transportation of coal for the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $1,750,000. Fuel and transportation: Coal and other fuel for steamers’ andFuel, transportation, etc. ships’ use, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same; maintenance and general operation of machinery of naval fuel depots and fuel plants; water for all purposes on board naval vessels; and ice for the cooling of water, including the expense of transportation and storage of both, $19,362,420: *Provided*, That when,*Proviso*.Vessels for carrying fuel. 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.” Reserve material, Navy: For procuring apparatus and materialsReserve material.For emergency use. (other than ordnance materials and medical stores), as a war reserve necessary to be carried in the supply departments for the purpose of fitting out vessels of the fleet and merchant auxiliaries in time of war or when, in the opinion of the President, a national emergency exists, $2,000,000: *Provided*, That, to prevent deterioration materials*Proviso*.Reimbursement when taken for current use. purchased under the reserve material Navy fund shall be used as required in time of peace, and when so used reimbursement shall be made to this appropriation from current naval appropriations in order that additional stocks may be procured. bureau of construction and repair.Bureau of Construc tion and Repair. Construction and repair of vessels: For preservation and completionConstruction and repair of vessels. of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; steam steerers, pneumatic steerers, steam capstans, steam windlasses, and all other auxiliaries; labor in navy yards and on foreign stations; purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops; carrying on work of experimental model tank and wind tunnel; designing naval vessels; construction and repair of yard craft, lighters, and barges; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat; general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; repair and maintenance of vessels of the Coast Guard andCoast Guard, Lighthouse, etc., vessels. 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 force under theEquipment supplies. 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 com212 petition; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, hammocks, and other work; interior appliances and tools for manufacturing purposes in navy yards and naval stations; and for the purchase of all other articles of equipage at home and abroad; and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith and manufacture of such articles in the several navy yards; naval signals and apparatus, other than electric, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, rockets, running lights, lanterns, and lamps and their appendages for general use on board ship for illuminating purposes; and oil and candles used in connection therewith; bunting and other materials for making and repairing flags of all kinds; for all permanent galley fittings and*Provisos*.limit on repairs not applicable.Vol. 31, p. 1195. equipage; rugs, carpets, curtains, and hangings on board naval vessels, $57,327,340: *Provided*, That the limitations imposed by existing law relative to repairs to vessels of the Navy shall not apply to theTechnical services in Department. expenditure of funds made available in this Act: *Provided further*, That the expenditures under this appropriation for services of draftsmen and such other technical services as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary in the Bureau of Construction and Repair shall notClerical, etc., services. exceed $157,340: *Provided further*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, drafting, inspection, watchmen (ship keepers), and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations; and offices of superintending naval constructors, shall not exceed $1,270,000. Bureau of Steam Engineering.bureau of steam engineering. Engineering repairs, machinery, etc.Engineering: For repairs, preservation, and renewal of machinery, auxiliary machinery, and boilers of naval vessels, yard craft, and ships’ boats, patrol and other vessels that may be utilized for war purposes, distilling and refrigerating apparatus; repairs, preservation, and renewal of electric interior and exterior signal communications and all electrical appliances of whatsoever nature on board naval vessels, except range finders, battle order and range transmitters and indicators, and motors and their controlling apparatus used to operate machinery belonging to other bureaus; maintenance andDirector of Naval Communications. operation of coast signal service, including expenses of office of Director of Naval Communications and the purchase of land as necessaryEquipment supplies. for sites for radio shore stations; equipage, supplies, and materials under the cognizance of the bureau required for the maintenance and operation of naval vessels, yard craft, and ships’ boats and patrol and other vessels that may be utilized for war purposes; purchase, installation, repair, and preservation of machinery, tools, and appliances in navy yards and stations; pay of classified force under the bureau; incidental expenses for naval and other vessels, navy yards and stations, inspectors’ offices, the engineering experiment station, such as photographing, technical books, and periodicals, stationery, and instruments; instruments and apparatus, supplies, and technical books and periodicals necessary to carry on experimental and research work in radio-telegraphy at the naval radio laboratory:*Provisos*.Clerical, etc., services. *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, andTechnical services in Department. offices of United Stated inspectors of machinery and engineering material shall not exceed $2,000,000: *Provided further*, That not exceeding $110,640 of this amount may be expended for the services of draftsmen and such other technical assistants as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary in the Bureau of Steam Engineering; in all, engineering, $34,960,500. Coast Guard and Lighthouse Services.The foregoing appropriations for the Naval Establishment shall be available for similar expenses of the Coast Guard and lighthouse213 Services while cooperating with the Navy in so far as the regularAppropriations avail able for, cooperating with Navy. 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. NAVAL ACADEMY.Naval Academy. Commissary department: For equipment for the commissaryCommissary department. department, $30,000. Maintenance and repairs, Naval Academy: For general maintenanceMaintenance and repairs. and repairs at the Naval Academy, namely: For necessary repairs of public buildings, wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, improvements, repairs, and fixtures; for books, periodicals, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines; fire apparatus and plants; machinery; purchase and maintenance of all horses and vehicles for use at the academy, 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 building; 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, $50,000. Buildings: For an addition to Isherwood Hall, $300,000. Isherwood Hall.Addition to. MARINE CORPS.Marine Corps. Pay, Marine Corps: Pay of officers, active and reserve list: ForPay.Officers. pay and allowances prescribed by law for all officers on the active and reserve list, including clerks for assistant paymasters, nine (additional), $1,771,934. Pay of enlisted men, active and reserve list: Pay and allowancesEnlisted men. of noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, as prescribed by law, and for the expenses of clerks of the United States Marine Corps traveling under orders, and including additional compensation for enlisted men of the Marine Corps regularly detailed as gun captains, gun pointers, mess sergeants, cooks, messmen, signalmen, or holding good-conduct medals, pins, or bars, including interest on deposits by enlisted men, post-exchange debts of deserters, under such rules as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, and the authorized travel allowance of discharged enlisted men and for prizes for excellence in gunnery exercise and target practice and for pay of enlisted men designated as Navy mail clerks and assistant Navy mail clerks, both afloat and ashore, $4,459,866. Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged enlisted men forUndrawn clothing. clothing undrawn, $50,000. Mileage: For mileage to officers traveling under orders withoutMileage. troops, $42,000. For commutation of quarters of officers on duty without troopsCommutation of quarters. where there are no public quarters, $75,000. maintenance, quartermaster’s department, marine corps.Quartermaster’s Department. Provisions, Marine Corps: For noncommissioned officers, musicians,Provisions. and privates serving ashore; subsistence and lodging of enlisted214 men when traveling on duty, or cash in lieu thereof; commutation of rations to enlisted men regularly detailed as clerks and messengers; payments of board and lodging of applicants for enlistment while held under observation, recruits, recruiting parties, and enlisted men where it is impracticable to otherwise furnish subsistence, or in lieu of board, commutation of rations to recruiting parties; transportation of provisions, and the employment of necessary labor connected therewith; ice machines and their maintenance where required for the health and comfort of the troops and for cold storage; ice for*Proviso*.Navy ration instead of Army. offices and preservation of rations, $3,445,671: *Provided*, That when it is impracticable or the expense is found greater to supply marines serving on shore duty in the island possessions and on foreign stations with the Army ration, such marines may be allowed the Navy ration or commutation therefor. Clothing.Clothing, Marine Corps: For noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, authorized by law, $.3,848,450. Fuel.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, $402,400. Military stores.Pay.Military stores, Marine Corps: Pay of chief armorer, at $4 per diem; one mechanic, at $3 per diem; two mechanics, at $2,50 each per diem; one chief electrician, at $4 per diem, and one assistant electrician, at $3.50 per diem; per diem of enlisted men employedEquipments, etc. on constant labor for periods of not less than ten days; purchase of military equipments, such as rifles, revolvers, cartridge boxes, bayonet scabbards, haversacks, blanket bags, canteens, rifle slings, swords, drums, trumpets, flags, waistbelts,. waist plates, cartridge belts, spare parts for repairing rifles, machetes; purchase and repair of tents, field cots, field ovens, and stoves for tents; purchase and repair of instruments for bands; purchase of music and musical accessories; purchase and marking of prizes for excellence in gunnery and rifle practice; good-conduct badges; medals awarded to officers and enlisted men by the Government for conspicuous, gallant, and special service; incidental expenses of schools of application; construction, equipment, and maintenance of school, library, and amusement rooms and gymnasiums for enlisted men, and the purchase and repair of all articles of field sports for enlisted men; purchase and repair of signal equipment and stores; establishment and maintenance of targets and ranges, renting ranges, construction of buildings for temporary shelter and preservation of stores, and entrance fees inAmmunition. competitions; procuring, preserving, and handling ammunition and other necessary military supplies: in all, $7,373,408. 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*Proviso*.Advertising agencies. service, $1,731,600: *Provided*, That authority is hereby granted to employ the services of advertising agencies in advertising for recruits under such terms and conditions as are most advantageous to the Government. Repair of barracks, etc.Repairs of barracks, Marine Corps: Repairs and improvements to barracks, quarters, and other public buildings at posts and stations; for the renting, leasing, improvement, and erection of buildings in the District of Columbia, and at such other places as the public exigencies require; and for per diem to enlisted men employed under the direction of the quartermaster’s department on the repair of barracks, quarters, and other public buildings on constant labor for periods of not less than ten days, $1,104,000. 215 Forage, Marine Corps: For forage in kind and stabling for publicForage. animals of the quartermasters department and the authorized number of officers horses, $60,400. Commutation of quarters, Marine Corps: Commutation ofCommutation of quarters. quarters for enlisted men on recruiting duty, for officers and enlisted men serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them; commutation of quarters for enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in the offices of the commandant, adjutant and inspector, paymaster, and quartermaster, and the offices of the assistant adjutant and inspectors, assistant paymasters, assistant quartermasters, at $21 each per month, and for enlisted men employed as messengers in said offices, at $10 each per month, $187,552. Contingent, Marine Corps: For freight, expressage, tolls, cartage,Contingent. advertising, washing of bod sacks, mattress covers, pillowcases, towels, and sheets, funeral expenses of officers and enlisted men and retired enlisted men of the Marine Corps, including the transportation of bodies and their arms and wearing apparel from the placo of demise to the homes of the deceased in the United States; stationery and other paper, printing and binding; telegraphing, rent of telephones: purchase, repair, and exchange of typewriters; apprehension of stragglers and deserters; per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor for periods of not less than ten days; employment of civilian labor; purchase, repair, and installation and maintenance of gas, electric, sewer, and water pipes and fixtures; office and barracks furniture, camp and garrison equipage and implements; mess utensils for enlisted men; packing boxes, wrapping paper, oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, quarantine fees, camphor and carbolized paper, carpenters’ took, 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 beading, 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, $2,054,680. Depot of supplies, Marine Corps, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: ForPhiladelphia, Pa.Supplies depot buildings.*Post*, pp. 723, 1324. the purchase of a strip of land in rear of the depot of supplies, Marine Corps, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, extending about one hundred and forty-two feet on Washington Avenue and about two hundred and twenty-six feet on Fifteenth Street, with all buildings thereon, and for adapting said buildings to uses connected with the depot, $200,000. In all, for the maintenance of Quartermaster’s Department, MarineDisbursing and accounting. Corps, $20,408,161; and the money herein specifically appropriated for the maintenance of the Quartermasters Department, Marine216 Corps, shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law as maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. Increase of the Navy.increase of the navy. Submarines.Cost limit increased.The limit of cost of the forty-six submarines now under contract is increased by the sum of $10,000 each. Interior Department.DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Employees for new Department Building, 1917.Interior Department Building (new): For employees from May first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation, as follows: Assistant superintendent, $2,000; foreman of laborers, $1,000; two assistant foremen of laborers, at $900 each; laborers—twenty-seven at 8660 each, seventeen at $600 each, fourteen at $540 each, one $480; six female laborers at $400 each; two assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; seven firemen, at $720 each; general machinist, $1,500; two wiremen, at $1,000 each; two electricians’helpers, at $720 each; painter, $1,000; plumber, $1,400; two assistant plumbers, at $1,000 each; two plumbers’ helpers, at $840 each; thirteen elevator conductors, at $720 each; eighteen watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $13,940. Department of Commerce.DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. Bureau of Standards.bureau of standards. Standardizing supplies.Cooperative assistance to Army and Navy in.To enable the Bureau of Standards to cooperate with the War and Navy Departments by providing the scientific assistance necessary in the development of instruments, devices, and materials, and the standardization and testing of supplies, including personal services and rental of quarters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; the erection of temporary structures; books of reference and periodicals; and all other necessary items not included in the foregoing, $250,000. Chemical laboratory.Completing equipment of new.To complete the equipment of the new chemical laboratory building, including the construction, purchase, and installation of chemical desks, hoods, cases, special furniture, and other necessary equipment, including personal services in the District of Columbia, $35,000. Standardizing gauges, screw threads, etc., for Army, Navy, etc.To provide by cooperation of the Bureau of Standards, the War Department, the Navy Department, and the Council of National Defense, for the standardization and testing of the standard gauges, screw threads, and standards required in manufacturing throughout the United States, and to calibrate and test such standard gauges, screw threads, and standards, including necessary, equipment, rental in Washington, and elsewhere, erection of temporary structures, office expenses, books of reference and periodicals, personal services in the District of Columbia, and in the field, and all other necessary items not included in the foregoing, $150,000. Department of Labor.DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. Immigration Bureau.bureau of immigration. Interned alien enemies.Expenses of detention.[R. S., sec. 4067–4069, p 784](/us/rs/s4067–4069/p784).Detention of interned aliens: To enable the Secretary of Labor to detain, care for, and guard aliens in custody, pursuant to the requirements of sections four thousand and sixty-seven, four thousand and sixty-eight, and four thousand and sixty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, sections nine and ten of the Executive order of April sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and the regu217 lations made in pursuance thereof, to wit: For maintenance and hospital charges, food, medicines, and supplies, rental of quarters, including repairs and alterations thereto, salaries of officers and employees, furniture, fuel, light, water, and all contingent and miscellaneous expenses incident to the object stated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Labor, $1,000,000. LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. house of representatives.House of Representatives. To pay the widow of Henry T. Helgesen, late a RepresentativeHenry T. Helgesen.Pay to widow. from the State of North Dakota, $7,500. For stationery for the use of the committees and officers ofStationery. the House, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,000. Sec. 2. That the appropriations contained in this Act, unless otherwiseAppropriations available during 1917 and 1918. specified herein, shall be available during the fiscal years nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and eighteen. Sec. 3. That the appropriations contained herein shall be availablePayment of prior emergency obligations. for the payment of obligations on account of the existing emergency incurred prior to the passage of this Act and which are properly chargeable to such appropriations. Sec. 4. That the service of all persons selected by draft and allTerm of service under draft and war enlistments.*Ante*, p. 76. enlistments under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States,” approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall be for the period of the war, unlessCompulsory, to cease four months after peace proclaimed. sooner terminated by discharge or otherwise. Whenever said war shall cease by the conclusion of peace between the United States and its enemies in the present war, the President shall so declare by a public proclamation to that effect, and within four months after the date of said proclamation or as soon thereafter as it may be practicable to transport the forces then serving without the United States to their home station, the provisions of said Act, in so far as they authorize compulsory service by selective draft or otherwise, shall cease to be of force and effect. Detailed statement of all expenditures to Congress. Sec. 5. That, in addition to the reports now required by law, the Secretaries of the Treasury, War, and Navy shall each on the first Monday in December, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and annually thereafter, transmit to the Congress a detailed statement of all expenditures under this Act. Approved, June 15, 1917.
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