Chapter 128. Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, and for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 128.— An Act Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, and for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, and for other purposes. March 3, 1921. [[H. R. 16100](/us/bill/66/hr/16100).] [[Public, No. 368](/us/pl/66/368).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums are Fortifications appropriations.appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for fortifications and other works of defense, for the arma-1348ment thereof, and for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, and for other purposes, namely:
FORTIFICATIONS AND OTHER WORKS OF DEFENSE. engineer department. Engineer Department.Gun and mortar batteries.*Ante,* p. 608. For construction of gun and mortar batteries, $300,000, together with not to exceed $300,000 of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1921. Emplacements. For modernizing older emplacements, $13,900. Preservation, etc. For protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications for which there may be no special appropriation available, and of structures for the submarine-mine defense of the United States and for maintaining channels for access to submarine-mine wharves, $300,000.
Plans. For preparation of plans for fortifications and other works of defense, $25,000. Supplies, etc., for electric plants. For maintenance and repair of searchlights and electric light and power equipment for seacoast fortifications, and for tools, electrical and other supplies, and appliances to be used in their operation, including the purchase of reserve lights, $160,000. Submarine mine structures, etc. For construction of mining casemates, cable galleries, submarine-mine storehouses, cable tanks, and other structures necessary for the operation, preservation, and care of submarine mines and their *Ante,* p. 608.accessories, and for providing channels for access to submarine-mine wharves, a sum not exceeding $50,000 of the appropriation for this Installing electric plants, searchlights, etc.purpose for the fiscal year 1921 is made available.
For the installation and replacement of electric light and power plants at seacoast fortifications in the United States, and the purchase and installation of searchlights for seacoast defenses in the United States, $65,000. Sea walls. Construction expenses. For construction of sea walls and embankments, $8,500. For contingent expenses incident to the construction of seacoast fortifications and their accessories, under the Engineer Department, $25,000. under the chief of coast artillery.
Coast Artillery.Constructing fire-control stations, etc. For construction 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, subaqueous, sound and flash ranging apparatus, including their development, and Range finders.salaries of electrical experts, engineers, and other necessary employees connected with the use of coast artillery; purchase, manufacture, and Range finders.test of range finders and other instruments for fire control at the fortifications, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $175,000.
War-instruction supplies. For maintenance of Coast Artillery war-instruction matériel at Coast Artillery posts, including necessary material and labor therefor, $1,200. Accessories for submarine-mine practice. For purchase, manufacture, and test of submarine-mine materiel, and other accessories for submarine-mine practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture, $9,000. Submarine-mine supplies. For maintenance of submarine-mine materiel within the limits of continental United States; purchase of necessary machinery, tools, Fort Totten, N.
Y., depot.and implements for the repair shop of the torpedo depot at Fort Totten, New York, and for torpedo depot administration, $50,000. 1349 armament of fortifications. Armament. For purchase, manufacture, and test of mountain, field, and siege Mountain, field, and siege cannon.cannon, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture, $750,000. For purchase, manufacture, maintenance, and test of ammunition Ammunition.for mountain, field, and siege cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, the machinery necessary for its manufacture, and necessary storage facilities, $454,000.
For purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon for coast Seacoast cannon.defense, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture, $1,500,000. For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast Ammunition.Modernizing projectiles.cannon, and for modernizing projectiles on hand, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture, $500,000. For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition, subcaliber Ammunition, etc., for seacoast artillery practice.guns, and other accessories for seacoast artillery practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture, $200,000.
For alteration and maintenance of seacoast artillery, including the Altering seacoast artillery.purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, materials necessary for the work, and expenses of civilian mechanics, $500,000. For alteration and maintenance of the mobile artillery, including Altering mobile artillery.the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work and the expenses of the mechanics engaged thereon, $580,000: *Provided further,* That the Secretary of War is *Proviso.*Transfer of 1,250 Army tractors to State highway departments.*Ante,* p. 1155.hereby authorized and directed to transfer and deliver to the Secretary of Agriculture for distribution among the highway departments of the several States for use on roads constructed in whole or in part by Federal aid one thousand two hundred and fifty tractors owned by the War Department.
For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition, subcaliber Ammunition, etc., for field, etc., artillery practice.guns, and other accessories for mountain, field, and siege artillery practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture, $145,000. proving grounds. Proving grounds. For current expenses of the ordnance proving grounds, comprising Current expenses.the maintenance of rail and water transportation, repairs, alterations, accessories, and service of employees incidental to testing and proving ordnance and ordnance matériel, 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, $300,000. under the chief signal officer.
Signal service. For operation and maintenance of fire-control installations at seacoast Fire-control installations.defenses, $150,000. barracks and quarters. Barracks and quarters. Barracks and quarters, seacoast defenses: For minor structures in Minor structures for seacoast defenses.connection with the adopted project for seacoast defenses, including the installation therein of plumbing and of heating and lighting apparatus, to be expended as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary, $40,000. 1350 air service.
Air Service.Payment of incurred obligations.Vol. 39, p. 910. The sum of $688,277.60 of the appropriation for “Aviation, Seacoast Defenses,” contained in the Fortification Appropriation Act approved February 14, 1917, shall remain available until June 30, 1922, for the payment of obligations incurred under contracts executed prior to June 30, 1920. FORTIFICATIONS IN INSULAR POSSESSIONS. Insular possessions. engineer department. Engineer Department.Preservation, repair, etc. For protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications, including structures for submarine-mine defense, for which there may be no special appropriation available, and for maintaining channels for access to submarine-mine wharves, at the following localities:
Hawaiian Islands. Hawaiian Islands, $15,000; Philippine Islands. Philippine Islands, $50,000. Searchlights, Philippine Islands. For the purchase and installation of searchlights for the defenses of most important harbors in the Philippine Islands, $3,000. Electric plants, etc. For maintenance and repair of searchlights and electric light and power equipment for seacoast fortifications and for tools, electrical and other supplies, and appliances to be used in their operation at the following localities:
Hawaiian Islands. Hawaiian Islands, $25,534; Philippine Islands. Philippine Islands, $65,967. Plans. For preparation of plans for fortifications and other works of defense at the following localities: Hawaiian Islands. Hawaiian Islands, $3,000; Philippine Islands. Philippine Islands, $3,000. Fort Mills, Philippine Islands. For the construction of engineer wharf, Fort Mills, Philippine Islands, $3,000. Seacoast batteries, Hawaiian Islands.*Ante,* p. 610. For construction of seacoast batteries in the Hawaiian Islands, $100,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1921. under the chief signal officer.
Signal Service.Fire-control installations. For operation and maintenance of fire-control installations at seacoast defenses, $43,666. 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, $408,000. Ammunition. For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture, $250,000.
Altering, etc., seacoast artillery. For alteration and maintenance of the seacoast artillery, including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work, and expenses of the civilian mechanics, $94,000. barracks and quarters. Barracks and quarters.Construction in Philippine Islands. For continuing construction of the necessary accommodations for the Seacoast Artillery and for temporary cantonments for oversea garrisons in the Philippine Islands, $75,000. 1351 under the chief of coast artillery.
Coast Artillery. For construction of fire-control stations and accessories, including Constructing fire-control stations, etc.purchase of lands and rights of way, purchase and installations 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, subaqueous, sound and flash ranging apparatus, including their development, and salaries of electrical experts, engineers, and other necessary employees connected with the use of coast artillery; purchase, manufacture, and Range finders.test of range finders and other instruments for fire control at the fortifications, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture, at the following localities:
In the Philippine Islands, $12,000; Philippine Islands. In the Hawaiian Islands, $2,500. Hawaiian Islands. For maintenance of the submarine mine material in the insular Submarine mine supplies.possessions, $13,500. air service. Air Service. The unobligated balance of the appropriation for the fiscal year Aviation stations, Hawaiian Islands.Balance available for construction, etc.*Ante,* p. 611.1921, for the establishment, construction, enlargement, or improvement of aviation stations for use in connection with the seacoast defenses of the Hawaiian Islands, including the acquisition of land or any interest in land by purchase, lease, condemnation, or otherwise, and the preparation necessary to make the same suitable for the purpose intended, is continued and made available for the same purposes until June 30, 1922.
PANAMA CANAL FORTIFICATIONS. Panama Canal. For fortifications and armament thereof for the Panama Canal: Fortifications, etc. engineer department. Engineer Department. For protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications of the Preservation, etc.Panama Canal, for which there may be no special appropriation available, including structures erected for submarine-mine defense, and for maintaining channels for access to submarine-mine wharves, $25,000; For maintenance and repair of searchlights and electric light and Electric plants, etc.power equipment for fortifications, and for tools, electrical and other supplies, and appliances to be used in their operation, $30,000;
For preparation of plans for fortifications and other works of Plans.defense, including surveys for roads, Canal Zone, $3,000; For the purchase and installation of searchlights for the seacoast Searchlights.fortifications on the Canal Zone, $6,250; For the purchase or reclamation of land required for the defenses of Land for defenses.the Panama Canal, $80,000; chief of coast artillery. Coast Artillery. For the construction of fire-control stations, the purchase and installation Constructing fire-control stations.of accessories therefor, and for subaqueous, sound and flash ranging apparatus, including their development, $25,000;
For alteration, maintenance, and repair of submarine mine matériel, $10,000; Submarine mine supplies. chief signal officer. Signal Service. For operation and maintenance of fire-control installations at seacoast defenses, $15,000; Fire-control installations. 1352 armament of fortifications. Armament.Ammunition for seacoast, etc., cannon. For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast and land defense cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture, $250,000;
Altering, etc., seacoast artillery. For the alteration and maintenance and installation of the seacoast artillery, including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work, and expenses of civilian mechanics, $75,000; barracks and quarters. Barracks and quarters.Continuing construction. For continuing the construction of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and other buildings necessary for accommodating the Coast Artillery troops to be stationed in the vicinity of the Panama Canal, including water, sewer, and electrical systems, roads, walks, and so forth, $100,000:
Purchases directed from Army surplus stock. The Governor of the Panama Canal, so far as the expenditure of appropriations contained in this Act may be under his direction, shall purchase needed materials, supplies, and equipment from available surplus or reserve stocks of the War Department; In all, specifically for fortifications and armament thereof for the Panama Canal, $619,250. Material to be of American manufacture. Sec. 2. That all material purchased under the provisions of this Act 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 abroad, which material shall be admitted free of duty.
Limit on prices paid for purchases. Sec. 3. That except as expressly otherwise authorized herein, no part of the sums appropriated by this Act shall be expended in the purchase from private manufacturers of any material at a price in excess of 25 per centum more than the cost of manufacturing such material by the Government, or, where such material is not or has not been manufactured by the Government, at a price in excess of 25 per centum more than the estimated cost of manufacture by the Government.
Arsenal operations not to be restricted. Sec. 4. That expenditures for carrying out the provisions of this Act shall not be made in such manner as to prevent the operation of the Government arsenals at their most economical rate of production, *Proviso.*No pay to officer, etc., using time-measuring device on work of employees.except when a special exigency requires the operation of a portion of an arsenal’s equipment at a different rate: *Provided,* That no part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be available for the salary or pay of any officer, manager, superintendent, foreman, or other person having charge of the work of any employee of the United States Government while making or causing to be made with a stop watch or other time-measuring device a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such work.
Restriction on purchases at other than arsenals. Sec. 5. That no part of the moneys appropriated in each or any section of this Act shall be used or expended for the purchase or acquirement of any article or articles that at the time of the proposed acquirement can be manufactured or produced in each or any of the Government arsenals of the United States for a sum less than it can be purchased or procured otherwise. Installation of guns and howitzers directed. Sec. 6. That the Secretary of War is authorized to proceed with the installation of guns and howitzers in such order of priority as he may deem expedient, at places for which appropriations have been, or hereafter may be, made for emplacements for such guns and howitzers.
Board to test rifled cannon abolished.Vol. 23, p. 159. Sec. 7. That so much of the Fortification Appropriation Act approved July 5, 1884, as pertains to the appointment of a board for the purpose of testing rifled cannon is hereby rescinded. 1353 Sec. 8. That the following unexpended balances, or portions of the Unexpended balances covered into the Treasury.unexpended balances, or combined unexpended balances, or portions of combined unexpended balances of appropriations, as set forth in this section, shall be carried to the surplus fund and covered into the Treasury immediately upon the approval of this Act, namely:
Casemates, galleries, and so forth, for submarine mines, 1921, $30,000. Submarine mine structures. Aviation stations, seacoast defenses, $3,141,408.52. Aviation stations. Aviation, seacoast defenses, $71,604.73. Aviation. Fortifications in insular possessions, 1921, $25,760. Fortifications, insular possessions. Ordnance material, proceeds of sales (war), $6,331,364.88. Proceeds of ordnance material. Automatic rifles, 1919, $24,000,000. Automatic rifles. Armored motor cars, 1919 and 1920, $18,700,000.
Armored motor cars. Ammunition for antiaircraft guns, Army, 1917-1919, $200,000. Antiaircraft ammunition. Arms, uniforms, equipment, and so forth, field service, National Guard, National Guard, arms, etc.1919, $1,500,000. Ordnance stores and equipment, civilian military training camps, 1919, $250,000. Civilian training camps. Ordnance stores, equipment, and so forth, Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, 1919, $500,000. Reserve Officers’ Training Corps ordnance. Ordnance stores, ammunition, 1917 to 1919, (Act of June 15, 1917) $9,800,000.
Ammunition. Ordnance stores, ammunition, 1919 and 1920, $36,300,000. Ordnance stores and supplies. Ordnance stores and supplies, 1918 and 1919, $9,000,000. Ordnance stores and supplies, 1919 and 1920, $40,200,000. Manufacture of arms, 1917-1919, (Act of June 15, 1917) $475,000. Manufacture of arms. Manufacture of arms, 1918 and 1919, $300,000. Manufacture of arms, 1919 and 1920, $19,000,000. Small-arms target practice, 1917–1919, (Act of June 15, 1917) $1,500,000. Small-arms target practice.
Small-arms target practice, 1918 and 1919, $11,300,000. Small-arm target practice, 1919 and 1920, $3,500,000. Engineer field operations. Engineer operations in the field, 1919, $55,500,000. Engineer equipment of troops, 1919, $2,500,000. Engineer equipment. Inland and port storage and shipping facilities, 1918 and 1919, $4,000,000. Inland, etc., facilities. Inland and port storage and shipping facilities, $2,682,490.15. Total appropriations to be covered into the Treasury, $250,807,628.28.
Approved, March 3, 1921.