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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 41 STAT. · June 30, 1921 · Chapter 228

Chapter 228. Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 228.— An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and for other purposes. June 4, 1920. [[H. R. 13108](/us/bill/66/hr/13108).] [[Public, No. 243](/us/pl/66/243).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Naval service appropriations. That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the naval service of the Government for the year ending June 30, 1921, and for other purposes:
General expenses.general expenses. Schedule of all pay and allowances to be sent to Congress.The Secretary of the Navy shall send to Congress at the beginning of its next regular session a complete schedule or list showing the amount of money of all pay and for all allowances for each grade of officers in the Navy, including retired officers, and for all officers included in this Act and for all enlisted men so included. Pay, miscellaneous.pay, miscellaneous. Expenses designated.For commissions and interest; transportation of funds; exchange; mileage to officers of the Navy and Naval Reserve Force while traveling under orders in the United States, and for actual personal expenses of officers of the Navy and Naval Reserve Force while traveling abroad under orders, and for traveling expenses of civilian employees, and for mileage, at 5 cents per mile, to midshipmen entering the Naval Academy while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment as midshipmen; for actual traveling expenses of female nurses; actual expenses of officers while on shore patrol duty; hire of launches or other small boats in Asiatic waters; for rent of buildings and offices not in navy yards; 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;
Special instruction.reports; professional investigation; cost of special instruction at home and abroad, including maintenance of students and attachés:813*Provided*, That this appropriation and the appropriation “Pay,*Provisos*.Special allowances for unusual conditions. Marine Corps,” shall be available for special allowances for maintenance to officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps serving under unusual conditions; information from abroad and atInformation from abroad, etc. 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 further*, That the sum to be paid outClerical etc., services at yards and stations. of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards and naval stations, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, shall not exceed $1,000,000, and for necessary expenses for the interned personsInterned persons and prisoners of war. 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, and for payment ofPayment for damages to private property, etc.*Ante*, p. 132. claims for damages under Naval Act approved July 11, 1919; in all, $3,550,000.
Contingent, Navy: For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses,Contingent. exclusive of personal services in the Navy Department, or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at Washington, District of Columbia, arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, to be expended on the approval and authority of the Secretary of the Navy, and for such purposes as he may deem proper, $75,000. Temporary government for West Indian Islands: For expensesVirgin Islands.Expenses, temporary government in.Vol. 39, p. 1132. incident to the occupation of the Virgin Islands and to the execution of the provisions of the Act providing a temporary government for the West Indian Islands acquired by the United States from Denmark, and for other purposes, approved March 3, 1917, to be applied under the direction of the President, $343,440.
Investigation of fuel oil and other fuel: For an investigationFuel oil, gasoline, etc.Investigation, etc., of, for naval uses. of fuel oil, gasoline, and other fuel adapted to naval requirements, including the question of supply and storage and the availability economically and otherwise of such supply as may be allowed by the naval reserves on the public domain, and for such other expenses for transportation and hire of vehicles in connection with naval petroleum reserves, as the Secretary of the Navy may deem appropriate, for the purchase of necessary instruments and appliances, for theTesting plant. extension of the naval fuel-oil testing plant at the navy yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the temporary employment of civilian experts and assistants, $30,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the*Provisos*.Petroleum reserves.Operation, etc.
Navy is directed to take possession of all properties within the naval petroleum reserves as are or may become subject to the control and use by the United States for naval purposes, and on which there are no pending claims or applications for permits or leases under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved February 25, 1920, entitled*Ante*, p. 444. “An Act to provide for the mining of coal, phosphate, oil, oil shale, gas, and sodium on the public domain,” or pending applications for United States patent under any law; to conserve, develop, use, and operate the same in his discretion, directly or by contract, lease, or otherwise, and to use, store, exchange, or sell the oil and gas productsDisposal of products. thereof, and those from all royalty oil from lands in the naval reserves, for the benefit of the United States: *And provided further*, That theRights of claimants protected. rights of any claimant under said Act of February 25, 1920, are not affected adversely thereby: *And provided further*, That such sums asUse of royalties. have been or may be turned into the Treasury of the United States from royalties on lands within the naval petroleum reserves prior to July 1, 1921, not to exceed $500,000, are hereby made available for814Reimbursement for products used by the Government.this purpose until July 1, 1922: *Provided further*, That this appropriation shall be reimbursed from the proper appropriations on account of the oil and gas products from said properties used by the United States at such rate, not in excess of the market value of the oil, as the Secretary of the Navy may direct.
Civilian consulting board.Expenses, civilian naval consulting board: For actual expenses incurred by and in connection with the civilian Naval Consulting Board, including the services of one clerk, at $1,400 per annum, for duty in connection with the board at Washington, District of Columbia, $15,000. Aviation.General expenses.Aviation, Navy: For aviation, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for procuring, producing, constructing, operating, preserving, storing, and handling aircraft, establishment and maintenance of aircraft stations, for experimental work in development of aviation for naval purposes, and for the purchase or manufacture and issue of special clothing, wearing apparel, and similar equipment for aviation purposes, $20,000,000, to be expended as follows:
Items designated.For necessary aircraft, $3,883,400; for necessary equipment for heavier than air and lighter than air craft, $300,000; to continue authorized construction of one rigid airship, $1,500,000; for new construction at stations, $4,962,000; for new equipment for training, $100,000; for maintenance and operation of aircraft factory, helium plant, air stations, fleet activities, and conversion of tenders, testing laboratories, and for overhauling of planes, $6,044,600; for continuing experiments and development work on all types of aircraft, $2,935,000;
Accounting, etc.for pay of classified force, $275,000, and the money herein specifically appropriated for “Aviation” shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law as ‘‘Aviation” and for that purpose shall *Provisos*.Technical, etc., services.constitute one fund: *Provided*, 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 Paying damages by aircraft.shall not exceed $275,000: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to consider, ascertain, adjust, determine, and pay out of this appropriation the amounts due on claims for damages which have occurred or may occur to private property growing out of the operations of naval aircraft, where such claim Report of adjusted claims.does not exceed the sum of $500: *Provided further*, That all claims adjusted under this authority during any fiscal year shall be reported Shore stations limited.in detail to the Congress by the Secretary of the Navy: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for maintenance of more than six heavier-than-air stations on the coasts of the Use for aeroplane factory forbidden.continental United States: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the construction of a factory for the manufacture of aeroplanes.
State marine schools.Payment to New York, Massachusetts, and Washington.State marine schools: To reimburse the State of New York, $25,000, the State of Massachusetts, $25,000, and the State of Washington, $25,000, for expenses incurred in the maintenance and support Vol. 36, p. 1353.of marine schools in those States in accordance with section 2 of the Act entitled “An Act for the establishment of marine schools, and for other purposes,” approved March 4, 1911; in all, $75,000.
Lepers.Care, etc., Culion, P. I.Care of lepers, etc., island of Guam: Naval station, island of Guam: Maintenance and care of lepers, special patients, and for other purposes, including cost of transfer of lepers from Guam to the island of Culion, in the Philippines, and their maintenance, $20,000. Bureau of Navigation.bureau of navigation. Transportation.Transportation and recruiting: For travel allowance of enlisted men discharged on account of expiration of enlistment; transportation of enlisted men and apprentice seamen and applicants for enlist-815ment at home and abroad, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation to their homes, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentice seamen discharged on medical survey, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation of sick or insane enlisted men and apprentice seamen to hospitals, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation of enlisted men of the NavalNaval Reserve Force, etc.
Reserve Force to and from duty, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation of civilian officers and crews of naval auxiliaries; apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, and for railway guides and other expenses incident to transportation; expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent ofRecruiting. rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentice seamen; actual and necessary expenses in lieu of mileage to officers on duty with traveling recruiting parties, $3,500,000.
The Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department, is hereby directedNaval service during World War.Statements to States, etc., of, by persons therefrom. to furnish to the proper officers in the several States, Territories, insular possessions, and the District of Columbia of the United States, on or before June 30, 1921, statements of the services of all persons from those several places who served in the Navy during the War with Germany, and for that purpose a sum not to exceed $200,000 is hereby appropriated for obtaining the necessary material and the employment of the necessary clerical force, and the further sum ofAdditional clerical force in Department.*Ante*, p. 664. $100,000 shall be allotted of the appropriation of $404,140 for temporary employees, Bureau of Navigation, contained in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921: *Provided*, That no part of the said appropriation of $404,140, or of*Proviso*.Restriction on use. the appropriation of $200,000 herein made, shall be used for the pay of any employee who is engaged on other than work of the Bureau of Navigation.
Recreation for enlisted men: For the recreation, amusement,Recreation, enlisted men. comfort, contentment, and health of the Navy, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, under such regulations as he may prescribe: *Provided*, That not more than two persons shall be*Proviso*.Pay restriction. employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum, $800,000. Contingent: Ferriage, continuous-service certificates, discharges,Contingent. good-conduct badges, and medals for men and boys, including civilian employees who render conspicuous service by putting their fives in jeopardy to save fife or property; purchase of gymnastic apparatus; transportation of effects of deceased officers and enlisted men of the Navy, and of officers and enrolled men of the Naval Reserve Force who die while on duty; books for training apprentice seamen and landsmen; packing boxes and materials; books and models; stationery; and other contingent expenses and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation, unforeseen and impossible to classify, $20,000.
Gunnery and engineering exercises: Prizes, trophies, andGunnery and engineering exercises. badges for excellence in gunnery, target practice, engineering exercises, and for economy in fuel consumption, to be awarded under such rules as the Secretary of the Navy may formulate; for the purpose of printing, recording, classifying, compiling, and publishing the rules and results; for the establishment and maintenance ofTarget ranges, etc. shooting galleries, target houses, targets, and ranges; for hiring established ranges, and for transporting equipment to and from ranges, $100,000.
Outfits on first enlistment: During the fiscal year ending JuneOutfits on first enlistments 30, 1921, the clothing and small stores fund shall be charged with the value of all issues of clothing and small stores made to enlisted men and apprentice seamen required as outfits on first enlistment.816not to exceed $100 each, and for civilian clothing not to exceed $15 Naval Reserve gratuity.per man to men given discharges for bad conduct, undesirability, or inaptitude, and the uniform gratuity paid to officers of the Naval Reserve Force.
Instruments, supplies, etc.Instruments and supplies: Supplies for seamen’s quarters; and for the purchase of all other articles of equipage at home and abroad; and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith and manufacture of such articles in the several navy yards; all pilotage and towages of ships of war; canal tolls, wharfage, dock and port charges, and other necessary incidental expenses of a similar nature; services and materials in repairing, correcting, adjusting, and testing compasses on shore and on board ship; nautical and astronomical instruments and repairs to same; libraries for ships of war, professional books, schoolbooks, and papers; maintenance of gunnery and other training classes; compasses, compass fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ship’s compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship’s way, and leads and other appliances for sounding; photographs, photographic instruments and materials, printing outfit and materials; and for the necessary civilian electricians for gyrocompass testing and inspection, $850,000.
Ocean and lake surveys.Ocean and lake surveys: Hydrographic surveys, including the pay of the necessary hydrographic surveyor, cartographic draftsmen, and recorders, and for the purchase and printing of nautical *Proviso*.Hydrographic Office details.books, charts, and sailing directions, $105,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to detail such naval officers as may be necessary to the Hydrographic Office. Training stations.Yerba Buena Island, Calif.Naval training station, California:
Maintenance of naval training station, Yerba Buena Island, California: Labor and material; buildings and wharves; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and wharves; wharfage, ferriage, and street car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, tools, and repairs to same; 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, $125,000.
Coasters Harbor Island, R. I.Naval training station, Rhode Island: Maintenance of naval training station, 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, 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; *Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services.in all, $275,000: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, shall not exceed $15,701.60. 817 Naval training station, Great Lakes:
Maintenance of navalGreat Lakes, Ill training station: Labor and material; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and piers; street car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; 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 apparatus and extinguishers; gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; printing outfit and material, and maintenance of same; heating and lighting, and repairs to powerplant equipment, distributing mains, tunnel, and conduits; stationery, books, schoolbooks, and periodicals; washing; packing boxes and materials; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen; and all other contingent expenses: *Provided*, That the sum to*Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services. be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, shall not exceed $45,000; in all, naval training station, Great Lakes, $575,000.
Naval training station, naval operating base, HamptonHampton Roads, Va. Roads, Virginia: Maintenance of naval training station at naval operating base, Virginia: Labor and material, general care, repairs, and improvements; schoolbooks; and all other incidental expenses: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the*Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services. direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, shall not exceed $25,000; in all, $375,000.
The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized, in his direction,Summer schools for boys.Establishing, at two training stations. to establish at two of the permanent naval training stations experimental summer schools for boys between the ages of sixteen and twenty years. For this purpose he is authorized to use such buildings, or other accommodations, at such training stations; to loan any naval equipment necessary for such purposes, and to give instructions which will fit them for service in the Navy of the United States.
He is empowered to establish and enforce such rules within the camp as may be necessary and to detail such members of the naval personnel as may be required in order to encourage and execute the spirit of this Act. The Secretary of the Navy is further authorized to loan the necessary naval uniforms during the period of training and to furnishUniforms, subsistence, etc. subsistence, medical attendance, and other necessary incidental expenses for those attending these schools: *Provided*, That those*Proviso*.Temporary enrollment in Naval Reserve. under instruction, with the consent of their parents or their guardians, shall enroll in the Naval Reserve Force for not less than three months, and no person not so enrolled shall be admitted to said training schools.
For carrying out the provisions of this paragraph the sum of $200,000 is appropriated. Naval Reserve Force: For expenses of organizing, administering,Amount authorized. and recruiting the Naval Reserve Force and Naval Militia; for the maintenance and rental of armories, including the pay of necessary janitors, and for wharfage, $50,000: *Provided*, That no part ofNaval Reserve Force.Organizing, recruiting, etc.*Provisos*.Limitation. the money appropriated in this Act shall be used for the training of any member of the Naval Reserve Force except with his own consent: *Provided further*, That, until June 30, 1922, of the Organized MilitiaNaval Militia.Part of Organized Militia to constitute. as provided by law, such part as may be duly prescribed in any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia shall constitute a Naval Militia; and, until June 30, 1922, such of the Naval Militia as now is in existence,Made part of Naval Reserve Force.Vol. 38, p. 283. and as now organized and prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy under authority of the Act of Congress approved February 16, 1914, shall be a part of the Naval Reserve Force, and the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to maintain and provide for said Naval Militia as provided in said Act: *Provided further*, That upon their enrollmentBenefits, etc., on enrollment.818in the Naval Reserve Force, and not otherwise, until June 30, 1922, the members of said Naval Militia shall have all the benefits, gratuities, privileges, and emoluments provided by law for other members Service credits.of the Naval Reserve Force; and that, with the approval of the Secretary of the Navy, duty performed in the Naval Militia may be counted as active service for the maintenance of efficiency required by law for Moneys available.members of the Naval Reserve Force: *And provided further*, That all moneys appropriated for the Naval Reserve Force or for the Naval Militia shall constitute one fund and hereby are made available, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for both.
Receiving barracks.Receiving barracks: Maintenance of receiving barracks, $100,000. Naval War College, Rhode Island.Naval War College, Rhode Island: For maintenance of the Naval War College on Coasters Harbor Island, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle to be used only for official purposes; and care of ground for same, $82,750; services of a professor of international law, $2,000; services of civilian lecturers, rendered at the War College, $1,200; care and preservation of the library, including the purchase, binding, and *Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services.repair of books of reference and periodicals, $5,000: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, inspection, drafting, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, shall not exceed $50,000; in all, Naval War College, Rhode Island, $90,950.
Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pa.Pay of employees.Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pay of employees: One secretary, $2,200; one foreman mechanic, $2,200; one superintendent of grounds, at $1,080; one steward, at $1,200; one store laborer, at $660; one matron and office assistant, at $720; one beneficiaries’ attendant, at $480; one chief cook, at $660; one assistant cook, at $540; one assistant cook, at $480; one chief laundress, at $420; five laundresses, at $360 each; one chief scrubber, at $420; three scrubbers, at $360 each; one head waitress, at $480; ten waitresses, at $360 each; one kitchen attendant, at $540; five laborers, at $600 each; five laborers, at $540 each; one stable keeper and driver, at $660; one master at arms, at $900; two house corporals, at $600 each; one barber, at $600; one carpenter, at $1,200; one painter, at $1,200; one painter, at $1,020; one engineer, $1,080; four laborers, at $720 each; two laborers, at $840 each; one laborer, at $660; one chauffeur, coal truck, at $960; one chauffeur, small truck, at $840; one chauffeur, governor’s car, $840; one electrician, $1,400; two stenographers and typewriters, at $1,400 each; one stenographer and typewriter, $1,200; one stenographer and typewriter, $1,000; one telephone operator, $900; total for employees, $47,280.
Maintenance.Maintenance: Water rent, heating, and lighting; cemetery, burial expenses and headstones; general care and improvements of grounds, buildings, walls, and fences; repairs to power-plant equipment, implements, tools, and furniture, and purchase of the same; music in chapel and entertainments for beneficiaries; stationery, books, and periodicals; transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, and of sick and insane beneficiaries, their attendants and necessary subsistence for both, to and from other Government hospitals; employment of such beneficiaries in and about the Naval Home, as may be authorized by the Secretary of the Navy, on the recommendation of the governor; support of beneficiaries, and all other contingent expenses, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle, two motor-propelled vehicles, and one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, to be used only for official purposes, $110,366; in all, Naval Payable from naval pension fund.Home, $157,646, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund. 819 bureau of ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance.
Ordnance and ordnance stores: For procuring, producing, preserving,Ordnance and ordnance stores. and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships, for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the general work of the Ordnance Department; for furniture at naval ammunition depots, torpedo stations, naval ordnance plants, and proving grounds; for maintenance of proving grounds, powder factory, torpedo stations, gun factory, ammunition depots, and naval ordnance plants, and for target practice; for the maintenance, repair, or operation of horse-drawn and motor-propelled freight and passenger-carrying vehicles,Vehicles. to be used only for official purposes at naval ammunition depots, naval proving grounds, naval ordnance plants, and naval torpedo stations, and for the pay of chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, naval ordnance plants, and naval ammunition depots: *Provided*, Quarterly reports on all*Provisos*.Report on gasoline motor vehicles. gasoline passenger and freight automobiles shall be made on Form numbered 124, and one copy of each report shall be filed in the Bureau of Yards and Docks: *Provided further*, That the sum to be paid outChemical, etc., services. 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, naval ordnance plants, and naval ammunition depots for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, shall not exceed $2,000,000; in all, $17,500,000.
Purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, $200,000.Smokeless powder. Experiments, Bureau of Ordnance: For experimental work inExperimental work. the development of armor-piercing and torpedo shell and other projectiles, fuses, powders, and high explosives, in connection with problems of the attack of armor with direct and inclined fire at various ranges, including the purchase of armor, powder, projectiles, and fuses for the above purposes and of all necessary material and labor in connection therewith; and for other experimental work under the cognizance of the Bureau of Ordnance in connection with the development of ordnance material for the Navy, $200,000.
Contingent, Bureau of Ordnance: For miscellaneous items,Contingent. namely, cartage, expenses of light and water at ammunition depots and stations, tolls, ferriage, technical books, and incidental expenses attending inspection of ordnance material, $25,000. 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, repair, purchase, maintenance of horses and driving teams, carts, timber wheels, and all vehicles,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 all navy yards and naval stations; 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 pay for employees on leave, $6,500,000: *Provided*, That*Provisos*.Clerical, etc., services. the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, inspection, drafting, messenger, and other classified work in the navy yards and naval stations,820except similar expenditures in the Bureau of Yards and Docks, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, shall not exceed $1,300,000:
Purchases prohibited.*Provided further*, That no part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used for the purchase of passenger-carrying automobiles: Motor vehicle operators.*Provided further*, That during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, operators of motor vehicles who were carried on the rolls of other bureaus prior to July 1, 1920, shall be continued to be so carried where their employment shall be found necessary. Contingent.Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks:
For contingent expenses and minor extensions and improvements of public works at navy yards and stations, $150,000. Public works.public works, bureau of yards and docks. Portsmouth, N. H.Navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Welding shop, $15,000. New York, N. Y.Navy yard, New York, New York: Storage facilities for gasoline and turpentine, $6,000; additional wood block paving, $50,000; extension, distributing system, $41,000; steel storage crane runway and electric traveling cranes, $200,000; two cranes for building slips, $100,000; in all, $397,000.
Water front improvements suspended.Vol. 40, p. 923.The expenditure of the appropriation of $750,000 for water front improvements, navy yard, New York, New York, contained in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, is hereby suspended until July 1, 1921. Philadelphia, Pa.Dry dock, etc.Navy yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dry dock, to complete, and the limit of cost is increased to $6,300,000, $1,000,000; general dredging, $100,000; two cranes for building slips, $100,000; in all, $1,200,000.
Washington, D. C.Navy yard, Washington, District of Columbia: Forge shop water supply, $7,500. Naval Academy.Buildings and grounds, Naval Academy: Install running water in first and third wings, Bancroft Hall, $69,000; water purification plant, $85,000; improvement of swimming tank, $6,000; in all, $160,000. Norfolk, Va.Navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Steel storage, to complete, $220,000; crane for building slip, $50,000; water front improvements to continue, $250,000; in all, $520,000.
Charleston, S. C.Navy yard, Charleston, South Carolina: Dredging, to continue, $40,000. Key West, Fla.Naval station, Key West, Florida: Distilling plant, $75,000. New Orleans, La.Naval station, New Orleans, Louisiana: Fuel-oil plant, $30,000. Pacific coast naval bases.Special joint committee to investigate, advisability of, etc.That a special joint committee is hereby created, to be composed of five Members of the Senate to be appointed by the President of the Senate, and five Members of the House of Representatives to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
The committee San Francisco Bay, etc.Estimates, etc., to be prepared.shall investigate the advisability of establishing, developing, and maintaining a naval base on San Francisco Bay or the waters tributary thereto. The committee shall prepare comparative estimates of the cost of acquiring, establishing, developing, and maintaining such sites and shall report to the Congress of the United States *Post*, p. 1088.not later than December 31, 1920, the result of its investigation, together with such other recommendations, estimates, and information as it deems proper, including information concerning a deeper Mare Island Channel, etc.channel to Mare Island Navy Yard and a sufficient water basin at Mare Island.
Aviation, etc., bases, in Washington and California.That said committee shall also investigate and report in like manner as to the advisability and cost of establishing an aviation base at Sand Point, King County, Washington; a submarine base at Los821Angeles Harbor (San Pedro), California; and a submarine, destroyer, and aviation base at Port Angeles, Washington. That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed to detail suchDetail of experts to assist. technical experts to assist the committee as the committee may request.
That the expenses of said committee shall be paid, one-half fromExpenses from contingent funds.Technical expenses, etc. the contingent fund of the House of Representatives and one-half from the contingent fund of the Senate, upon vouchers authorized by the committee and signed by the chairman thereof; and for the cost of borings and the procuring and collating of all other technical data in connection with such investigation, there is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of $50,000.
The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to exchange a tractSouth San Francisco, Calif.Exchange of lands, naval radio station, authorized. of land containing ten and four hundred and twenty-seven thousandths acres, more or less, owned by the United States, comprising a portion of the naval radio station, South San Francisco, California, for a tract of land containing ten and four hundred and twenty-seven thousandths acres, more or less, owned by the South San Francisco Land and Improvement Company, to execute the necessary instruments to effect such an exchange, and to make just compensation to said company for dismantling radio mast and terminating existing lease, and the sum of $6,000, or so much thereof as may be required, is hereby appropriated for the foregoing purposes.
The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to accept from theSan Diego, Calif.Acceptance of lands for naval uses from. city of San Diego, California, free from encumbrances and conditions and without cost to the United States Government, a certain tract of land containing one hundred and twenty-seven acres, more or less, for use as a site for naval station uses and purposes, being land now leased to the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. Also a certain other tract of land known as block fourteen in the city of San Diego, California, together with the land lying between said block and the waters of the harbor, and all riparian rights, for use for naval purposes.
Navy yard, Mare Island, California: Maintenance of dikes andMare Island, Calif. dredging, $100,000; underground electrical distributing system, $75,000; in all, $175,000. Navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington: Railroad extensions,Puget Sound, Wash. $25,000; for grading, filling, and sea-wall construction, to continue, $175,000; fire protection, $50,000; locomotive cranes, $30,000; keel blocks for Dry Dock No. 2, $40,000; in all, $320,000. Naval station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Electric connections toPearl Harbor, Hawaii. dry dock, $15,000; central power plant extensions, $200,000; quay wall connecting dry dock and wharf, $330,000; machine shop, to continue, $100,000; electric-system extensions, $30,000; oxy-acetylene building, $15,000; marine railway, to complete, $200,000; in all, $890,000.
The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to exchange a tractPuuloa Rifle Range.Exchange of lands at, authorized. of land containing eighty-one and seven-tenths acres, more or less, being a part of Puuloa Rifle Range Reservation, located at the entrance to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, forming the northeasterly portion of said reservation, for an equal acreage of land free from encumbrances and located adjoining the northwesterly portion of said reservation. The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to exchange certainHonolulu, Hawaii.Exchange of naval station lands at, authorized. land now a part of the naval station property at Honolulu, Hawaii, necessary for the extension of Punchbowl Street, city of Honolulu, through the naval station, for certain land now owned or to be acquired by the Territory of Hawaii, lying to the northeast of the naval station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and containing one hundred and thirty-two acres, more or less, required for naval purposes. 822 Cavite, P.
I.Naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: Fuel-oil storage, $25,000. Olongapo, P. I.Hospital building.The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to construct a hospital building at Olongapo, Philippine Islands, at a cost not *Proviso*.From proceeds of U. S. S. “Repose.”exceeding $75,000: *Provided* , That the proceeds derived from the sale of the U. S. S. Repose are hereby made available, in an amount not to exceed $75,000, for the construction of said building. Naval magazines.Puget Sound, Wash.Naval magazine, Puget Sound, Washington:
Magazine for T. N. T., $25,000. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.Naval ammunition depot, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Shell house, $70,000; roads and walks, $10,000; in all, $80,000. Great Lakes Training Station.Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Illinois, buildings: Toward shore protection and harbor development, to continue, $500,000. Fuel depots.Depots for coal: For depots for coal and other fuel: Contingent, $50,000; care and custody of naval petroleum reserves, $10,000; water system at Yorktown, Virginia, $25,000; in all, $85,000.
Hampton Roads, Va.Naval base improvements.Naval operating base, Hampton Roads, Virginia: Hot water returns to boiler house, $100,000; additional railroad track, $25,000; comfort stations, $36,000; sanitation, $10,000, which sum is hereby made immediately available for the control of malaria and mosquito breeding; in all, $171,000. Norfolk, Va., hospital.Naval Hospital, Norfolk, Virginia: Purchase of land for spur track, $450. Philadelphia, Pa., hospital.Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:
Operating pavilion, $30,000. San Diego, Calif.Marine Corps base.Marine Barracks, San Diego, California: Toward the further development of the Marine Corps base, $500,000. Fuel depot.Naval fuel depot, San Diego, California: Increase capacity of marine railway to two thousand five hundred tons and transfer of same to naval station site on San Diego Bay, California, and to provide additional shore facilities at said station, $750,000; toward the construction of a storehouse and fleet landing at the foot of Broadway, San Diego, California, $400,000; in all, $1,150,000.
New London, Conn., submarine base.Submarine base, New London, Connecticut: Toward the completion of a submarine base, at New London, Connecticut, $50,000. Columbia River, Oreg., submarine and destroyer base.Acceptance of lands from Astoria, for.Submarine and destroyer base, Columbia River: Toward the development of a submarine and destroyer base, and the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to accept from the city of Astoria, Oregon, free from encumbrances and conditions and without cost to the United States Government, a certain tract of land at Tongue Point, Columbia River, for use as a site for a naval submarine and destroyer base, and containing one hundred and fifteen acres, more or less, of hard land and two hundred and fifty-six acres of submerged land, $250,000.
San Diego, Calif.Training station.Training station, San Diego, California: Toward the development of a permanent training station, San Diego, California, $1,000,000. Repairs and preservation.Repairs and preservation at navy yards: For repairs and preservation at navy yards, fuel depots, fuel plants, and stations, $3,000,000. Amounts available until expended.Total public works, $10,751,950, and the amounts herein appropriated therefor, except for repairs and preservation at navy yards and stations, shall be available until expended.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.bureau of medicine and surgery. Surgeons’ necessaries.Medical Department: For surgeon’s necessaries for vessels in commission, navy yards, naval stations, and Marine Corps; and for Civil establishment.the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy yards,823naval medical supply depots, Naval Medical School and Dispensary, Washington, and Naval Academy, including one bookkeeper at $1,600 and one clerk at $1,400 at the naval medical supply depot, Brooklyn, $2,500,000: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of*Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services. this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical service in naval hospitals, dispensaries, medical supply depots, and Naval Medical School, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, shall not exceed $150,000.
Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For tolls andContingent. ferriages; care, transportation, and burial of the dead, including officers who die within the United States, and supernumerary patients who die in naval hospitals; purchase of cemetery lots; purchase of books and stationery, binding of medical records, unbound books, and pamphlets; hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration; sanitary, hygienic, and special instruction, including the printing and issuing of naval medical bulletins and supplements; purchase and repairs of nonpassenger-carrying wagons, automobile ambulances,Vehicles. and harness; purchase of and feed for horses and cows; maintenance, repair, and operation of two passenger-carrying motor vehicles for naval dispensary, Washington, District of Columbia, and of one motor-propelled vehicle for official use only for the medical officer on out-patient medical service at the Naval Academy, and a motor omnibus for the transportation of convalescent patients and attendants at the Naval Hospital at Las Animas, Colorado, to be used only for official purposes; trees, plants, care of grounds, garden tools, and seeds; incidental articles for the Naval Medical School and naval dispensary, Washington, naval medical supply depots, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks; washing for medical department at Naval Medical School and naval dispensary, Washington, naval medical supply depots, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, dispensaries at navy yards and naval stations, and ships; and for minor repairs on buildings and grounds of the United States Naval Medical School and naval medical supply depots; rent of rooms for naval dispensary, Washington, District of Columbia, not to exceed $1,200; for the care, maintenance, and treatment of the insane of the Navy and Marine Corps on the Pacific coast, including supernumeraries held for transfer to the Government Hospital for the Insane; for dental outfits andDental outfits. dental material, and all other necessary contingent expenses; in all, $500,000.
Bringing home remains of officers, and so forth, NavyTransporting remains of officers, etc. Department: To enable the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transferred to their homes the remains of officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps, of members of the Nurse Corps, of civilian officers and crews of naval auxiliaries, and of officers and enlisted men of the Naval Militia and 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*Proviso*.Application of fund. the sum herein appropriated shall be available for payment for transportation of the remains of officers and men who have died while on duty at any time since April 21, 1898, and shall be available until June 30, 1922.
Care of hospital patients: For the care, maintenance, andCare of hospital patients treatment of patients, including supernumeraries, in naval and in other than naval hospitals, $100,000. 824 Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.bureau of supplies and accounts. Pay of the Navy.Officers, etc.Pay of the Navy: Pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on sea duty and other duty, and officers on waiting orders, $33,655,372; officers on the retired list, $3,157,700; commutation of quarters for officers, including boatswains, gunners, carpenters, sailmakers, machinists, pharmacists, pay clerks, and mates, naval constructor, and assistant naval constructors, $3,895,776, and also members of Nurse Corps (female), $1,000; for hire of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters Commutation of quarters, etc.possessed by the United States to accommodate them or commutation of quarters not to exceed the amount which an officer would receive were he not serving with troops, and hire of quarters for officers and enlisted men on sea duty at such times as they may be deprived of their quarters on board ship due to repairs or other Enlisted men.conditions which may render them uninhabitable, $25,000; pay of enlisted men on the retired list, $1,067,950; extra pay to men reenlisting under honorable discharge, $1,175,000; interest on deposit by men, $30,000; pay of petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and apprentice seamen, including men in the engineers’ force and men detailed for duty with the Fish Commission, enlisted men, men in trade schools, and pay of enlisted men of the Hospital Corps, $61,603,059; pay of enlisted men undergoing sentence of court-martial, Machinists, apprentice seamen, etc.$431,280, 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, $1,357,200; pay of the Nurse Corps, $628,200;
Naval Reserve Force.rent of quarters for members of the Nurse Corps, $39,000; retainer pay and active-service pay of members of the Naval Reserve Force, Reimbursement for loss of property.Vol. 40, p. 389.$12,000,000; payment of $60 discharge gratuity, $1,800,000; reimbursement for losses of property under Act of October 6, 1917, $10,000; in all, $120,876,537; and the money herein specifically appropriated Accounting.for “Pay of the Navy” shall be disbursed and accounted tor in accordance with existing law as “Pay of the Navy,” and for *Proviso*.Retainer pay restriction.that purpose shall constitute one fund: *Provided*, That retainer pay provided by existing law shall not be paid to any member of the Naval Reserve Force who fails to train as provided by law during the year for which he fails to train.
Allowance for death in service.Vol. 37, p. 329, amended.Nurses and retired list on active duty added.That hereafter, immediately upon official notification of the death from wounds or disease, not the result of his or her own misconduct, of any officer, enlisted man, or nurse on the active list of the Regular Navy or Regular Marine Corps, or on the retired list when on active duty, the Paymaster General of the Navy shall cause to be paid to the widow, and if there be no widow to the child or children, and if there be no widow or child, to any other dependent relative of such Beneficiary to be designated.officer, enlisted man, or nurse previously designated by him or her, an amount equal to six months’ pay at the rate received by such officer, enlisted man, or nurse at the date of his or her death.
The Secretary of the Navy shall establish regulations requiring each officer and enlisted man or nurse having no wife or child to designate the proper dependent relative to whom this amount shall be paid in case Funds available.*Provisos*.of his or her death. Said amount shall be paid from funds appropriated for the pay of the Navy and pay of the Marine Corps, respectively: Applicable only to regular Navy and Marine Corps.*Provided*, That nothing in this section or in other existing legislation-shall be construed as making the provisions of this section applicable to officers, enlisted men, or nurses of any forces of the Navy of the United States other than those of the regular Navy and Marine Corps, and nothing in this section shall be construed to apply in commissioned grades to any officers except those holding permanent825or probationary appointments in the Regular Navy or Marine Corps: *Provided*, That the provisions of this section shall apply to the officersProvisions applicable to Coast Guard. and enlisted men of the Coast Guard, and the Secretary of the Treasury will cause payment to be made accordingly.
That the Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey shallSuperintendent Coast and Geodetic Survey.Rank, pay, etc., designated.*Post*, p. 029. have the relative rank, pay, and allowances of a captain in the Navy, and that hereafter he shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, from the list of commissioned officers of the Coast and Geodetic Survey not below the rank of commander for a term of four years, and may be reappointed for further periods of four years each.
Provisions, Navy: For provisions and commuted rations forProvisions.Commutation of rations increased.[R. S., sec. 1585, p. 271, amended](/us/rs/s1585/p271). 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 Supply Corps, chaplains, chief boatswains, chief gunners, chief carpenters, chief machinists, chief pay clerks, and chief sailmakers) at 68 cents per diem, and midshipmen at $1.08 per diem, and commuted rations stopped on account of sick in hospital and credited at the rate of 68 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 naval auxiliary service; subsistence of members of the Naval Reserve Force during period of active service; expenses in handling provisions and for subsistence of female nurses and Navy and Marine Corps general courts-martial prisoners undergoing imprisonment with sentences of dishonorable discharge from the service at the expiration of such confinement: *Provided*, That the*Proviso*.Commuted ration to prisoners.
Secretary of the Navy is authorized to commute rations for such general courts-martial prisoners in such amounts as seem to him proper, which may vary in accordance with the location of the naval prison, but which shall in no case exceed 30 cents per diem for eachArmy emergency ration. ration so commuted; and for the purchase of United States Army emergency rations as required; in all, $26,000,000, to be available until the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922. Maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts:
For fuel;Maintenance. the removal and transportation of ashes and garbage from ships of war; books, blanks, and stationery, including stationery for commanding and navigating officers of ships, chaplains on shore and afloat, and for the use of courts-martial on board ships; purchase, repair, and exchange of typewriters for ships; packing boxes and materials; interior fittings for general storehouses, pay offices, and accounting offices in navy yards; expenses of disbursing officers; coffee mills and repair thereto; expenses of naval clothing factory and machinery for the same; laboratory equipment; purchase of articlesEquipment supplies. 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 navy yards; musical instruments and music; mess outfits; soap on board naval vessels; athletic outfits; tolls, ferriages, yeomen’s stores, safes, and other incidental expenses; labor in general storehouses, paymasters’ offices, and accounting offices in navy yards and naval stations, including naval stations maintained in island possessions under the control of the United States, and expenses in handling stores purchased and manufactured under “General account of advances,” and the accounting officers of the Treasury are authorizedCredit for losses in disposing of excess stocks. and directed to credit “General account of advances” with the826amount of the net losses which may be certified by the Paymaster General of the Navy as having been incurred in disposing of excess Food inspection.stocks in the naval supply account; and reimbursement to appropriations of the Department of Agriculture of cost of inspection of *Proviso*.Chemical, etc., services.*Post*, p. 1169.meats and meat food products for the Navy Department: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, tor chemists and for clerical, inspection, and messenger service in the supply and accounting departments of the navy yards and naval stations and disbursing offices for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, shall not exceed $3,500,000; in all, $10,500,000.
Freight, Department and bureaus.Freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: All freight and express charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus, except the transportation of coal for the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $2,000,000. Fuel and transportation.Fuel and transportation: Coal and other fuel for steamers’ and ships’ use, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same; maintenance and general operation of machinery of naval fuel depots and fuel plants; water for all purposes on board naval vessels; and ice for the cooling of water, including the expense of *Provisos*.No charter hire for Government-owned vessels.transportation and storage of both, $10,000,000: *Provided*, That the United States Shipping Board shall not require payment from the Navy Department for the charter hire of vessels furnished or to be furnished from July 1, 1918, to June 30, 1921, inclusive, for the use Mining coal, etc., for naval use in Alaska.of that department when such vessels are owned by the United States Government: *Provided further*, That $1,000,000 of this appropriation shall be available for use, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, in mining coal or contracting for the same in Alaska, the transportation of the same, and the construction of coal bunkers and the Selection of coal areas.*Post*, p. 1797.necessary docks for use in supplying ships therewith; and the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to select from the public coal lands in Alaska such areas as may be necessary for use by him for the purposes stated herein.
Bureau of Construction and Repair.bureau of construction and repair. Construction and repair of vessels.Construction and repair of vessels: For preservation and completion of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; steam steerers, pneumatic steerers, steam capstans, steam windlasses, and all other auxiliaries; labor in navy yards and on foreign stations; purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops; carrying on work of experimental model tank and wind tunnel; designing naval vessels; construction and repair of yard craft, lighters, and barges; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat; general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; submarine chasers, patrol boats; incidental expenses Equipment supplies.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 the bureau; for hemp, wire, iron, and other materials for the manufacture of cordage, anchors, cables, galleys, and chains; specifications for purchase thereof shall be so prepared as shall give fair and free competition; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, hammocks, and other work; interior appliances and tools for manufacturing purposes in navy yards and naval stations; and for the purchase of all other articles of equipage at home and abroad; and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith and manufacture of such articles in the several navy yards ; naval signals and apparatus, other than electric, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, running lights, and lamps and their appendages for general use on board ship for illumi-827nating purposes; and oil and candles used in connection therewith; bunting and other materials for making and repairing flags of all kinds; for all permanent galley fittings and equipage; rugs, carpets, curtains, and hangings on board naval vessels, $31,000,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to make*Provisos*.Repairs of “Kearsarge” or “Kentucky”*Post*, p. 883. expenditures from the appropriation “Increase of the Navy, Construction and Machinery” for repairs and changes on either the Kearsarge or Kentucky in an amount not to exceed $2,000,000: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorizedBrig “Niagara.”Acceptance of, from Erie, Pa. to accept, on behalf of the United States of America, from the city of Erie, Pennsylvania, free from all encumbrances and conditions and without cost to the United States Government, title to the naval brig Niagara; and, upon delivery of said vessel to the United States, to make expenditures from the appropriation “Construction and repair of vessels,” for the restoration, preservation, and maintenanceRestoration, etc. of said vessel in the city of Erie, Pennsylvania, including the construction of suitable facilities for anchoring said vessel and properly preserving it for historical purposes: *Provided*, That the amount ofLimit.Clerical, etc., services. money to be expended shall not exceed $5,000: *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 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, shall not exceed $3,500,000.
Improvement of construction plants: For repairs and improvementsConstruction plants. of machinery and implements at construction plants at navy yards at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, $8,000; Boston, Massachusetts, $20,000; New York, New York, $28,000; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, $20,000; Norfolk, Virginia, $28,000; Charleston, South Carolina, $8,000; Mare Island, California, $35,000; Puget Sound, Washington, $25,000; in all, $172,000. bureau of steam engineering.Bureau of Steam Engineering.
Engineering: For repairs, preservation, and renewal of machinery,Engineering repairs, machinery, etc. auxiliary machinery, and boilers of naval vessels, yard craft, and ships’ boats, distilling and refrigerating apparatus; repairs, preservation, and renewals of electric interior and exterior signal communications and all electrical appliances of whatsoever nature on board naval vessels, except range finders, battle order and range transmitters and indicators, and motors and their controlling apparatus used to operate machinery belonging to other bureaus; searchlights and fire-control equipments for antiaircraft defense at shore stations; maintenance and operation of coast signal service, including not toCoast signal service. exceed $20,000 for the purchase of land necessary for radio shore stations; equipage, supplies, and materials under the cognizance ofEquipment supplies. the bureau required for the maintenance and operation of naval vessels, yard craft, and ship’s boats; purchase, installation, repair, and preservation of machinery, tools, and appliances in navy yards and stations, pay of classified force under the bureau; incidental expenses for naval vessels, navy yards, and stations, inspectors’ offices, the engineering experiment station, such as photographing, technical books and periodicals, stationery, and instruments; instruments and apparatus, supplies, and technical books and periodicals necessary to carry on experimental and research work in radiotelegraphy at the naval radio laboratory: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this*Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services. appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and offices of United States inspectors of machinery and engineering material for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921,828Name changed to “Bureau of Engineering.”shall not exceed $2,500,000; in all, engineering, $29,050,000, and the Bureau of Steam Engineering hereafter shall be designated the “Bureau of Engineering.
” Engineering experiment station.Experimental work.Engineering experiment station, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland: For original investigation and extended experimentation of naval appliances, testing implements and apparatus; purchase and installation of such machines and auxiliaries considered applicable for test and use in the naval service, and for maintenance and equipment of buildings and grounds, $225,000. Naval Academy.naval academy. Pay of professors, etc.Pay, Naval Academy:
Pay of professors and others, Naval Academy: Pay of professors and instructors, including one professor as librarian, $385,000. Instructors, etc.One swordmaster, $1,900—assistants: one $1,700, one $1,500; head master in physical training, $2,200; instructors in physical training—one $2,100, two at $2,000 each, seven at $1,900 each; assistant librarian, $2,500; cataloguer, $1,800; shelf assistants, two at $1,400 each; secretary of the Naval Academy, $2,750; clerks—two at $2,100 each; two at $1,900 each; two at $1,800 each; nine at $1,600 each; four at $1,400 each, twenty-three at $1,300 each; seven at $1,200 each; repair man or seamstress, $1,000; surveyor, $1,700; services of choirmaster and organist at chapel, $1,700; captain of the watch, $1,600; second captain of the watch, $1,500; thirty watchmen, at $1,400 each; five telephone switchboard operators, at $840 each; mail messenger, $1,200; in all, pay of professors and others, Naval Academy, $436,350.
Department of ordnance and gunnery.Department of ordnance and gunnery: For leading ordnancemen, ordnancemen, ordnance helpers, electricians, and other employees, $19,806.64. Departments of electrical engineering and physics.Departments of electrical engineering and physics: For electrical machinists, mechanics, laboratorians, and other employees, $19,305.84. Department of seamanship.Department of seamanship: Three coxswains, at $1,176.88 each; three seamen, at $1,001.60 each; two seamen, at $826.32 each; in all, $8,188.08.
Department of marine engineering and naval construction.Department of marine engineering and naval construction: For master machinists, assistants, pattern makers, boiler makers, blacksmiths, machinists, molders, coppersmiths, who shall be considered practical instructors of midshipmen, and other employees, $54,712.40. Commissary department.Commissary department: For chief clerk and purchasing agent, chief cook and cooks, steward and assistant stewards, stenographers, typists, head waiters and assistant head waiters, head pantrymen, chief baker and bakers, butchers, truck chauffeurs, mechanicians for repair of trucks, firemen, seamstresses, and necessary pantrymen, butcher’s helpers, baker’s helpers, waiters, coffeemen, dish pantrymen, utility men, linenmen, laundrymen, scullions, and other unskilled and unclassified occupations, wages to be determined by the Superintendent of the Naval Academy, and in no case to exceed $75 per *Proviso*.Pay restriction.month in case of unskilled and unclassified employees, $397,606.16: *Provided*, That no employee paid under the provisions of this paragraph shall receive a salary in excess of $2,000.
Department of buildings and grounds.Department of buildings and grounds: One messenger to superintendent, $1,001.60; necessary building attendants, $145,436.80; in all, $146,438.40. In all, civil establishment, $1,082,407.52. Contingent expenses.Current and miscellaneous expenses, Naval Academy: Text and reference books for use of instructors; stationery, blank829books and forms, models, maps, and periodicals; apparatus and materials for instruction in physical training and athletics; expenses of lectures and entertainments not exceeding $1,000, including pay and expenses of lecturer; chemicals, philosophical apparatus and instruments, stores, machinery, tools, fittings, apparatus, and materials for instruction purposes, $110,000.
Purchase, binding, and repair of books for the library (to be purchasedLibrary. in the open market on the written order of the superintendent), $2,500. For expenses of the Board of Visitors to the Naval Academy,Board of Visitors. $3,000. For contingencies for the superintendent of the academy, to beSuperintendent. expended in his discretion, $3,000. For contingencies for the commandant of midshipmen, to be expendedCommandant. in his discretion, $1,000. In all, current and miscellaneous expenses, $119,500.
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; purchaseHorse-drawn vehicles, etc. and maintenance of all horses and horse-drawn 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, including furniture for midshipmen’s rooms; coal and other fuels; candles, oil, and gas; attendance on light and power plants; cleaning and clearing up station and care of buildings; attendance on fires, lights, fire engines, fire apparatus, and plants, and telephone, telegraph, and clock systems; incidental labor; advertising, water tax, postage, telephones, telegrams, tolls, and ferriage; flags and awnings; packing boxes; fuel for heating and lighting bandsmen’s quarters; pay of inspectors and draftsmen; music and astronomical instruments; and for pay of employees on leave, $1,205,000.
Rent of buildings for the use of the acedemy, and commutation ofRent. rent for bandsmen, at $15 per month each, $13,500. In all, maintenance and repairs, $1,218,500. In all, Naval Academy, exclusive of public works, $2,420,407.52. 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, $3,705,952. For pay of officers prescribed by law, on the retired list:
For twoRetired officers. major generals, four brigadier generals, eight colonels, five lieutenant colonels, twenty-three majors, thirty-nine captains, sixteen first lieutenants, seven second lieutenants, two marine gunners, one quartermaster clerk, two pay clerks, and for officers who may be placed thereon during the year, including such increased pay as is now or may hereafter be provided for retired officers regularly assigned to active duty, $278,740. Pay of enlisted men, active and reserve list:
Pay and allowancesEnlisted men.Active and reserve list. 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 qualified as expert riflemen, sharpshooters, marksmen, or regularly detailed as gun captains, gun830pointers, 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, $10,308,331.20.
Authorized enlisted strength.*Ante*, p. 152.The authorized enlisted strength of the active list of the Marine Corps is hereby permanently established at twenty-seven thousand four hundred, distribution in the various grades to be made in the same *Provisos*.Transfer of temporary officers to fill vacancies in permanent list.proportion as provided under existing law: *Provided*, That all officers serving temporarily in the grades of captain and below upon the date of the passage of this Act shall be eligible to fill existing vacancies and those hereby created in the permanent authorized strength in said grades by transfer to or reappointment in the permanent Marine Age and grade provisions.Corps in the grades not above that of captain.
Transfers so made shall be without regard to age, and if found not qualified for transfer to the same grade as that held by them on the date of transfer then Qualifications, etc.to lower grades after qualification. All officers so transferred shall establish to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Navy, under such rules as he may prescribe, their mental, moral, professional, and physical qualifications to perform the duties of the grade to which transferred or reappointed and shall take precedence with each other and with other officers of the Marine Corps in such order as may be recommended by a board of marine officers and approved by the Secretary Eligibility of officers on active duty since April 6, 1917.of the Navy: *Provided*, That all persons who served honorably as officers in the Marine Corps or Marine Corps Reserve on active duty at any time between April 6, 1917, and the date of the passage of this Act and who have been honorably discharged or assigned to inactive duty shall be eligible for permanent appointment in the same or a lower rank than that held on discharge or assignment to inactive duty, but not above the rank of captain, to fill vacancies existing or hereby created in the permanent authorized strength of the Marine Corps under the same conditions as those above prescribed for officers Appointment as warrant officers if not qualified for commissions.now in the service: *Provided further*, That officers now holding temporary commissions in the Marine Corps and who have had more than ten years’ service therein, if not found qualified for permanent commissions, and who are recommended by the board herein provided for, may be appointed warrant officers in the Marine Corps; and the authorized number of warrant officers is hereby increased by a number not to exceed fifty to provide for the appointment of the aforesaid Time limit for transfers.officers: *Provided further*, That all transfers and appointments made in accordance with the provisions of this section shall be accomplished Retention of temporary, until permanent appoint meats made.by June 30, 1921: *Provided further*, That the officers now holding temporary appointments as commissioned officers in the Marine Corps may retain their temporary commissions until the permanent appointments provided for in the foregoing section shall have been made.
Retired enlisted men.For pay and allowances prescribed by law of enlisted men on the retired list: For twelve sergeants major, one drum major, twenty-nine gunnery sergeants, thirty-one quartermaster sergeants, forty-eight first sergeants, fifty-seven sergeants, ten corporals, four principal musicians, sixteen first-class musicians, one second-class musician, one drummer, and ten privates, and for those who may be retired during the fiscal year, $168,045. Undrawn clothing.Undrawn clothing:
For payment to discharged enlisted men for clothing undrawn, $50,000. Mileage.Mileage: For mileage to officers traveling under orders without troops, $162,500. 831 For commutation, of quarters of officers on duty without troopsCommutation of quarters. where there are no public quarters, $212,500. Pay of civil force: In the office of the major general commandant:Civil force. Temporary special assistant to the major general commandant, $2,750; one chief clerk, at $2,250; one clerk, at $1,800; one messenger, at $971.28.
In the office of the paymaster: One chief clerk, at $2,250; one clerk, at $1,500. In the office of the adjutant and inspector: One chief clerk, at $2,250; one clerk, at $1,800; clerk, at $1,600; one clerk, at $1,500; one clerk, at $1,400; one clerk, at $1,200. In the office of the quartermaster: Temporary special assistant to the quartermaster, $2,750; one chief clerk, at $2,250; two clerks, at $1,800 each; one clerk, at $1,500; two clerks, at $1,400 each; two clerks, at $1,200 each; technical engineer, $2,300; one draftsman, at $2,000.
In the office of the assistant quartermaster, San Francisco, California: One chief clerk, at $2,500. In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: One chief clerk, at $2,500; one messenger, at $840. For temporary employees in offices at Marine Corps HeadquartersTemporary employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction. and at Marine Corps posts, $100,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $2,000 per annum.
In all, for pay of civil force, $146,711.28, and the money hereinAccounting. specifically appropriated for pay of the Marine Corps shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law as pay of the Marine Corps, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. In all, pay, Marine Corps, $15,032,779.48. maintenance, quartermaster’s department, marine corps.Quartermaster’s Department. Provisions, Marine Corps: For enlisted men serving ashore;Provisions. subsistence and lodging of enlisted men when traveling on duty, or cash in lieu thereof; commutation of rations to enlisted men regularly detailed as clerks and messengers; payments of board and lodging of applicants for enlistment while held under observation, recruits, recruiting parties, and enlisted men where it is impracticable to otherwise furnish subsistence, or in lieu of board, commutation of rations to recruiting parties, and enlisted men traveling on special duty, at such rate as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe; ice machines and their maintenance where required for the health and comfort of the troops and for cold storage; ice for offices and preservation of rations, $4,244,498.
Clothing, Marine Corps: For enlisted men authorized by law,Clothing. $1,856,690. Fuel, Marine Corps: For heat, light, and commutation thereofFuel, light, etc. for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers and enlisted men, and other buildings and grounds pertaining to the Marine Corps and for buildings erected by authority of the Secretary of the Navy on Marine Corps reservations by welfare organizations at private cost; fuel, electricity, and oil for cooking, power, and other purposes; and sales to officers, $450,000.
Military stores, Marine Corps: Pay of chief armorer, at $4Military stores. per diem; purchase and repair of military equipments, such as rifles, revolvers, cartridge boxes, bayonet scabbards, haversacks, blanket bags, canteens, rifle slings, swords, drums, trumpets, flags, waistbelts, waist plates, cartridge belts, spare parts for repairing rifles, machetes; tents, field cots, field ovens, and stoves for tents, instruments for bands; purchase of music and musical accessories,832articles of field sports for enlisted men, signal equipment and stores; purchase and marking of prizes for excellence in gunnery and rifle practice; good-conduct badges; medals and buttons awarded to officers and enlisted men by the Government for conspicuous, gallant, and special service; incidental expenses of schools of application; construction, equipment, and maintenance of school, library, and amusement rooms and gymnasiums for enlisted men, establishment, Instruction camps, etc.rental, and maintenance of camps of instruction, target ranges, and entrance fees in competitions; procuring, preserving, and handling Ammunition.ammunition and other necessary military supplies; in all, $1,000,000.
Transportation and recruiting.Transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps: For transportation of troops, and of applicants for enlistment between recruiting stations and recruiting depots or posts, including ferriage and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; toilet kits for issue to recruits upon their first enlistment and the expense of the recruiting service, $800,000. Repairs to 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, and improvement of buildings in the District of Columbia, with the approval of the Public Buildings Commission, and at such other places as the public exigencies Temporary buildings.require and the erection of temporary buildings upon the approval of the Secretary of the Navy; such temporary buildings as may be erected in pursuance hereof at a total cost not to exceed $10,000 during the year, $250,000.
Forage.Forage, Marine Corps: For forage in kind and stabling for public animals of the Quartermaster’s Department and the authorized number of officers’ horses, $100,000. Commutation of quarters with troops.Commutation of quarters, Marine Corps: Commutation of quarters for enlisted men on recruiting duty, for officers and enlisted men serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them, for enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in the offices of the commandant, adjutant and inspector, paymaster, and quartermaster, and the offices of the assistant adjutant and inspectors, assistant paymasters, assistant quartermasters, at $21 each per month, and for enlisted men employed as messengers in said offices, at $10 each per month, $250,000.
Contingent.Contingent, Marine Corps: For freight, expressage, tolls, cartage, advertising, washing and cleaning bed linen, towels, and articles of regulation clothing in use by enlisted men, funeral expenses of officers and enlisted men, and retired officers on active duty during the war and retired enlisted men of the Marine Corps, including the transportation of bodies and their arms and wearing apparel from the place of demise to the homes of the deceased in the United States; stationery and other paper, printing and binding; telegraphing, rent of telephones; purchase, repair, and exchange of typewriters; apprehension of stragglers and deserters; per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor for periods of not less than ten days; employment of civilian labor and draftsmen; purchase, repair, and installation and maintenance of gas, electric, sewer, and water pipes and fixtures; office and barracks furniture, vacuum cleaners, camp and garrison equipage and implements; mess utensils for enlisted men and for properly constituted officers’ messes; packing boxes, wrapping paper, oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, quarantine fees, camphor and carbonized paper, carpenters’ tools, tools for police purposes, safes, purchase, hire, repair, and maintenance of such harness, wagons, motor wagons, armored automobiles, carts, drays, motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for833official 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; repairs of pumps and wharves, water; straw for bedding, mattresses; mattress covers, pillows, sheets, furniture for Government quarters and repair of same; packing and crating officers’ allowance of baggage on change of station; deodorizing, lubricants, disinfectants; for the construction, operation, andLaundries. maintenance of laundries; and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but impossible to anticipate or classify, $2,740,322: *Provided*, That not to exceed $318,000 of the*Proviso*.Quantico, Va., water supply.*Ante*, p. 156. unexpended balance on June 30, 1920, of the appropriation “Maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps,” contained in the Naval Appropriation Act for 1920, approved July 11, 1919, is reappropriated and made immediately available until used, for replacing the present wooden stave water pipe with cast-iron pipe at the marine barracks, Quantico, Virginia.
In all, for the maintenance of Quartermaster’s Department, MarineDisbursing and accounting.*Post*, p. 1170. Corps, $11,691,510; and the money herein specifically appropriated for the maintenance of the Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with the existing law as maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. Total, Marine Corps, exclusive of public works, $26,724,289.48. increase of the navy.Increase of the Navy.
Increase of the Navy, construction and machinery: OnConstruction and machinery. account of hulls and outfits of vessels and machinery of vessels heretofore authorized, to be available until expended, $48,000,000. Increase of the Navy, torpedo boats: On account of submarineSubmarine torpedo boats. torpedo boats heretofore authorized, to be available until expended, $11,000,000. Increase of the Navy, armor and armament: Toward the armorArmor and armament. and armament for vessels heretofore authorized, to be available until expended, $45,000,000.
Total increase of the Navy heretofore authorized, $104,000,000. The limits of cost of the vessels heretofore authorized and hereinLimits of cost increased.*Ante*, p. 156. below enumerated are increased as follows: Battleships numbered 43 and 44 from $11,250,000 to $12,750,000.Battleships. Hospital ship No. 1, from $3,250,000 to $4,355,000.Hospital ship. Ammunition ship numbered 1 from $3,250,000 to $3,550,000.Ammunition ship. Gunboat numbered 21 from $1,100,000 to $1,250,000.Gunboat.
Submarine
(S)numbered 1 from $1,500,000 to $1,750,000.Submarines. Submarines
(R)numbered 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, and 27, from $875,000 to $975,000. That no part of any sum appropriated by this Act shall be used forUse for Department expenses restricted. any expense of the Navy Department at Washington, District of Columbia, unless specific authority is given by law for such expenditure. 834 No pay to officer, etc., using time measuring device on work of employees.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; nor shall any part of the appropriations made in Cash rewards, etc., restricted.this Act be available to pay any premiums or bonus or cash reward to any employee in addition to his regular wages, except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the operation of any Government plant and that no part of the moneys appropriated in each or Purchases of articles which can be made at navy yards, restricted.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 navy yards of the United States, when time and facilities permit, for a sum less than it can be purchased or acquired otherwise. Sec. 2. Naval Reserve Force.Employment on active duty authorized. That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to employ on active duty, with their own consent, members of the Naval Reserve Force in enlisted ratings, the number so employed not to exceed during any fiscal year the average of twenty thousand *Provisos*.Number limited.men: *Provided*, That the number of naval reservists, so employed on active duty, together with the total number of enlisted men in the Regular Navy, shall not exceed the total enlisted strength of the Term of service.Navy as authorized by law: *Provided further*, That such members of the Naval Reserve Force so employed shall serve on active duty for not less than twelve nor more than eighteen months unless sooner General service restriction.Percentage of commissioned officers, on active duty.released: *Provided further*, That hereafter no person shall be enrolled in the Naval Reserve Force except for general service: *And provided further*, That the number of commissioned officers of the line, permanent, temporary, and reserve on active duty shall not exceed 4 per centum of the total authorized enlisted strength of the Regular Navy, and the number of staff officers on active duty of whatever kind shall be in the same proportions as authorized by existing law: Reserve aviation officers.*Provided further*, That five hundred reserve officers are also authorized to be employed in the aviation and auxiliary service: *And provided Temporary appointments continued until December 31, 1921.further*, That, until December 31, 1921, temporary appointments now existing may be continued in force in any grade or rank, not to exceed the number allowed in any grade or rank based upon the total permanent authorized commissioned strength of the line or of any staff corps; and, within the limitations herein prescribed, Naval Reserve officers.officers of the Naval Reserve Force may, with their own consent, be continued on active duty ashore or afloat, including three on shore duty in the Historical Section of the Office of Naval Intelligence, who may be retained on active duty beyond the age of disenrollment but No reduction of permanent strength of Navy.not beyond June 30, 1922: *And provided further*, That nothing herein shall be construed as reducing the permanent commissioned or enlisted strength of the Regular Navy as authorized by existing law. Disability retirement of Naval Reserve and temporary officers.That all officers of the Naval Reserve Force and temporary officers of the Navy who have heretofore incurred or may hereafter incur physical disability in line of duty shall be eligible for retirement under the same conditions as now provided by law for officers of the Regular Navy who have incurred physical disability in line of duty. Sec. 3. Temporary officers.Transfers to permanent grades and ranks. That officers holding temporary commissioned and warrant ranks in the Navy and members of the Naval Reserve Force of commissioned and warrant ranks shall be eligible for transfer to an appointment in the permanent grades or ranks in the Navy for which they may be found qualified not above that held by them on the date of transfer, but not to exceed a total of one thousand two hundred commissioned officers in the line, of which number five hundred may835be appointed from class five, Naval Reserve Flying Corps, with proportionateFlying Corps.Staff Corps. number in all Staff Corps as now authorized by law, except that the Medical, Dental, and Supply Corps shall be entitled to such additional numbers as are necessary to make up the full quota of officers in those corps, as now authorized by law: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Rank and precedence. officers so appointed to the line of the Navy shall take rank in accordance with their precedence while holding temporary rank, and members of the Naval Reserve Force of commissioned and warrant ranks found qualified for a given rank shall be arranged according to their precedence among themselves and commissioned in the permanent service next after the lowest temporary officer who qualifies for the same rank and is appointed in accordance with the provisions of this Act. *Provided further*, That included in the number of transfers andCoast Guard.Permanent appointments in Navy, if serving therein in World War.Qualifications, etc. appointments hereinbefore allowed, commissioned officers of the Coast Guard, who have served creditably under the Navy Department in the War with the German Government, upon suitable application approved by the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of the Treasury, may be appointed to a permanent rank or grade in the Navy for which found qualified by a board of naval officers under the provisions of existing law, but not above the rank of lieutenant commander, and shall take such precedence therein as the Secretary of the Navy may determine: *Provided further*, That for the purposes*Proviso*.Credit for former service. of computing longevity pay and retirement privileges of officers and enlisted men of the Navy, all creditable service in the Coast Guard and former Revenue-Cutter Service shall be counted. Sec. 4. That in addition to the number of transfers and appointmentsWarrant officers.Service eligibility for permanent commissions in the Navy. hereinbefore allowed, commissioned warrant officers of more than fifteen years’ service since date of warrant or date of first appointment as paymaster’s clerk, pharmacist or mate, who have creditably served in the war with the German Government in temporary commissioned ranks or grades in the regular Navy, shall beRank, etc. appointed to a permanent rank or grade for which they may be qualified as established and shown by their records of service during their term of service not above the temporary rank or grade held by them at the time of transfer: *Provided*, That officers so transferred to*Provisos*.Precedence of transferred line officers.Staff corps precedence. the line of the Navy shall take rank therein in accordance with their precedence while holding temporary rank: *Provided further*, That all officers so transferred in accordance with sections 3 and 4 of this Act to the staff corps of the Navy shall take precedence with each other and with other officers in the Navy in such order as may be recommended by a board of naval officers and approved by the Secretary of the Navy: *Provided further*, That no transfers or appointmentsGrade limitation. made in accordance with sections 3 and 4 of this Act shall be to a higher grade or rank than lieutenant in the Navy: *And provided further*, That officers appointed to the permanentReversion to present status on failure in professional examination for promotion. Navy in accordance with the foregoing sections who now hold permanent warrant or permanent commissioned warrant rank in the United States Navy shall, if they thereafter fail professionally on examination for promotion, revert to such permanent warrant or permanent commissioned warrant status. Sec. 5. That officers appointed under any of the foregoing provisionsAge restrictions for authorized appointments. shall be not more than thirty-five years of age when so appointed to the line of the Navy, Construction Corps, or Supply Corps, and not more than forty-three years of age when so appointed to the Corps of Chaplains, or to the Medical, Dental, or Civil Engineering Corps: *Provided*, That said age limits shall be increased in*Provisos*.Extended for prior warrant, etc., service. the cases of officers who have rendered prior service as paymaster’s clerks, or as mates, or as warrant or commissioned officers in the naval service to the extent of all prior naval service: *Provided further*,836Dental Corps.That officers originally appointed to the Dental Corps above the said age limits shall be eligible for appointment and promotion For promoting line officers appointed from other than Naval Academy.under this Act irrespective of age: *And provided further*, That officers of the line of the Navy who are appointed thereto pursuant to this Act from sources other than the Naval Academy shall not be ineligible for promotion by reason of age as prescribed by the Act of Vol. 39, p. 579.Service in grades required.August 29, 1916 (Thirty-ninth Statutes, page 579), until they have rendered ten years’ service in the grade of lieutenant commander, six years’ service in the grade of commander, or eight years’ service in the grade of captain, respectively, upon the completion of which service such officers, if then ineligible for promotion by reason of age, shall be retired in accordance with said Act: *And provided further*, Lieutenants and lieutenants (junior grade).Promotion of permanent officers serving in temporary grades during World War.That until June 30, 1923, promotions to lieutenant (junior grade) and lieutenant may be made without regard to length of service: *And provided further*, That until June 30, 1923, officers of the permanent Navy who have served satisfactorily during the war with the German Government in a temporary grade or rank shall be eligible under the provisions of existing law for selection for promotion or for promotion to the same permanent grade or rank without regard to statutory requirements other than age and professional and physical Precedence of officers given temporary appointments in lower grades.examination: *And provided further*, That in making reductions in rank as may be required by this Act, officers holding temporary appointments may be given temporary appointments in lower grades, and officers so appointed shall take precedence from the dates of their original appointments in such lower grades. Sec. 6. Bonus of $60 to persons discharged since November 11, 1918, to reenlist in Navy or Marine Corps, etc. That in case any enlisted man or enrolled man who, since the 11th day of November, 1918, has been or hereafter shall be discharged from any branch or class of the naval service for the purpose of reenlisting in the Navy or Marine Corps or heretofore has extended or hereafter shall extend his enlistment therein, he shall be Vol. 40, p. 1151.entitled to the payment of the $60 bonus provided in section 1406 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide revenue, and for other purposes,” Travel pay.Vol. 40, p. 1203.approved February 24, 1919, and to travel pay as authorized in section 3 of the Act entitled “An Act permitting any person who has served in the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps in the present war to retain his uniform and personal equipment and to wear the same under certain conditions,” approved February 28, *Proviso*.Restricted to one bonus.1919: *Provided*, That only one bonus shall be paid to the same person. Sec. 7. Enlistment terms for Navy and Marine Corps. That hereafter enlistments in the Navy and in the Marine Corps may be for terms of two, three, or four years, and all laws now applicable to four-year enlistments shall apply, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy, to enlistments for a shorter period with proportionate benefits upon discharge and reenlistment: *Proviso*.Grades and ratings to be established.*Provided*, That hereafter the Secretary of the Navy is authorized, in his discretion, to establish such grades and ratings as may be necessary for the proper administration of the enlisted personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps. Sec. 8. Uniforms.Prohibition against unauthorized wearing, etc., to be enforced.Vol. 39, p. 216.Vol. 40, p. 1202. That section 125 of the Act entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provisions for the national defense, and for other purposes,” approved June 3, 1916, shall hereafter be. in full force and effect as originally enacted, notwithstanding anything contained in the Act entitled “An Act permitting any person who has served in the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps in the present war to retain his uniform and personal equipment and to wear the same under certain conditions,” approved February 28, 1918: *Proviso*.Authority of Secretary of the Navy.Vol. 39, p. 216, amended.*Provided*, That the words “or the Secretary of the Navy” shall be inserted immediately after the words “the Secretary of War” wherever those words appear in section 125 of the Act approved June 3, 1916, hereinbefore referred to. 837 Sec. 9. That hereafter the Secretary of the Navy may, in his discretion,Naval Reserve Force.Retainer pay withheld on failure to preform duty. withhold any part or all of the retainer pay which may be due a member of the Naval Reserve Force where such members fail to perform such duty as may be prescribed by law for the maintenance of the efficiency of the Naval Reserve Force: *Provided*, That any*Provisos*.Credited to Naval Reserve fund. money so withheld shall be credited to the appropriation for organizing and administering the Naval Reserve Force to be used for any purpose that the Secretary of the Navy may consider proper to increase the efficiency of the Naval Reserve Force: *Provided further*,Fleet Naval Reserve active service required. That hereafter the minimum amount of active service required for the maintenance of the efficiency of the Fleet Naval Reserve shall be the same as for the Naval Reserve. Sec. 10. That the age limits for promotion by selection, which,Promotions.Age limits for, deferred for one year on request. under existing law, will become effective on June 30, 1920, are hereby deferred until June 30, 1921, in the cases only of those officers who may request such deferment. Approved, June 4, 1920.
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