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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 41 STAT. · June 30, 1920 · Chapter 9

Chapter 9. Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 9.— An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes. July 11, 1919. [[H. R. 5608](/us/bill/66/hr/5608).] [[Public, No. 8](/us/pl/66/8).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be, Naval service appropriations.*Post,* p. 272.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, 1920, and for other purposes: general expenses.
General expenses. The Secretary of the Navy shall send to Congress at the beginning Schedule of all pay and allowances to be sent to Congress.of its next regular session a complete schedule or list showing the amount of money of all pay and for all allowances for each grade of officers in the Navy, including retired officers, and for all officers included in this Act and for all enlisted men so included pay, miscellaneous. Pay, miscellaneous. For commissions and interest; transportation of funds; exchange;
Expenses designated.mileage to officers while traveling under orders in the United States, and for actual personal expenses of officers while traveling abroad under orders, and for traveling expenses of civilian employees, and for mileage, at 5 cents per mile, to midshipmen entering the Naval Academy subsequent to June 1, 1919, while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment as midshipmen; for actual traveling expenses of female nurses; actual expenses of officers while on shore patrol duty; mileage to officers of the Naval Reserve Force traveling under orders of the Secretary of 132the Navy; hire of launches or other small boats in Asiatic waters; for rent of buildings and offices not in navy yards, including the rental of offices in the District of Columbia; expenses of courts-martial, prisoners and prisons, and courts of inquiry, boards of inspection, examining boards, with clerks, and witnesses’ fees, and traveling expenses and costs; expenses of naval defense districts; stationery and recording; religious books; newspapers and periodicals for the naval service; all advertising for the Navy Department and its bureaus (except advertising for recruits for the Bureau of Navigation); copying; ferriage; tolls; costs of suits; commissions, warrants, diplomas, and discharges; relief of vessels in distress; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; reports; professional investigation;
Special instruction. *Provisos.*Special allowances for unusual conditions.cost of special instruction at home and abroad, including maintenance of students and attachés: *Provided,* That this appropriation and the appropriation “Pay, Marine Corps,” shall be available for special allowances for maintenance to officers and enlisted Information from abroad, etc.men of the Navy and Marine Corps serving under unusual conditions; information from abroad and at home, and the collection and classification thereof; all charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus for ice for the cooling of drinking water on shore (except at naval hospitals), telephone rentals and tolls, telegrams, cablegrams, and postage, foreign and domestic, and post-office box rentals;
Clerical, etc., services at yards and stations.and other necessary and incidental expenses: *Provided further,* That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, for the fiscal year ending June Interned persons and prisoners of war.30, 1920, shall not exceed $450,000, and for necessary expenses for the interned persons and prisoners of war under the jurisdiction of the Navy Department, including funeral expenses for such interned persons or prisoners of war as may die while under such jurisdiction;
Payment for damages to private property, etc.in all, $5,100,000: *Provided,* That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to consider, ascertain, adjust, determine, and pay the amounts due in all claims for damages (other than such as are occasioned by vessels of the Navy), to and loss of privately owned property, occurring subsequent to April 6, 1917, where the amount of the claim does not exceed $500, for which damage or loss men in the naval service or Marine Corps are found to be responsible, all payments in settlement of said claims to be made out of the appropriation “Pay, Report of adjusted claims.miscellaneous”: *Provided further,* That all claims adjusted under this authority during any fiscal year shall be reported in detail to the Congress by the Secretary of the Navy.
Disbursing officers relieved from losses, etc., without fault. The accounting officers of the Treasury shall relieve any disbursing officer of the Navy charged with responsibility on account of loss or deficiency while in the line of his duty, of Government funds, vouchers, records, or papers, in his charge, where such loss or deficiency occurred *Provisos.*Determination by Secretary.without fault or negligence on the part of said officer: *Provided,* That the Secretary of the Navy shall have determined that the officer was in the line of his duty, and the loss or deficiency occurred without Effect of decision conclusive.fault or negligence on his part: *Provided further,* That the determination by the Secretary of the Navy of the aforesaid questions shall be conclusive upon the accounting officers of the Treasury: *Provided further,* Report of cases.That all cases of relief granted under this authority during any fiscal year shall be reported in detail to the Congress by the Secretary of the Navy.
Interchange of supplies, equipment, etc., with Army, authorized. The interchange without compensation therefor, of military stores, supplies, and equipment of every character, including real estate owned by the Government, is hereby authorized between the Army and the Navy upon the request of the head of one service and with the approval of the head of the other service. 133 Contingent, Navy: For all emergencies and extraordinary Contingent.expenses, exclusive of personal services in the Navy Department, or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at Washington, District of Columbia, arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, to be expended on the approval and authority of the Secretary of the Navy, and for such purposes as he may deem proper, $150,000.
Temporary government for West Indian Islands: For Virgin Islands.Expenses, temporary government in.Vol. 39, p. 1132.expenses incident to the occupation of the Virgin Islands and to the execution of the provisions of the act providing a temporary government for the West Indian Islands acquired by the United States from Denmark, and for other purposes, approved March 3, 1917, to be applied under the direction of the President, §200,000. Investigation of fuel oil: For an investigation of fuel oil and Fuel oil and gasoline.Investigation, etc., of, for naval uses.gasoline 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 the extension of the naval fuel-oil Testing plant.testing plant at the navy yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the temporary employment of civilian experts and assistants, $30,000.
Expenses, civilian naval consulting board: For actual Civilian consulting board.expenses incurred by and in connection with the civilian Naval Consulting Board, $25,000. Aviation, Navy: For aviation, to be expended under the direction Aviation.General expenses.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, $25,000,000 to be expended as follows:
For necessary aircraft and equipment for fleet use, Items designated.$3,027,250; for the purchase abroad of five special type planes, $100,000; for the erection on Government-owned land of two hangars for two large dirigibles, $3,700,000; for the construction of one rigid dirigible, $1,500,000; for the purchase abroad of one dirigible of the latest type, $2,500,000; for the conversion of the United States steamship Jupiter into an aeroplane carrier, $500,000; for the conversion of two merchant vessels into aircraft tenders, $700,000; for the maintenance and operation of aircraft factory, helium plant and aircraft stations, $3,008,007; for continuing experiments and development work for all types of aircraft, $6,700,000; for flying equipment for Marine Corps advanced base units, $618,000; for general and miscellaneous contingencies, $2,646,743; and the money herein Accounting, etc.specifically appropriated for “Aviation” shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law as “Aviation” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund: *Provided,* That the sum to be *Provisos.*Technical, etc., services.paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for drafting, clerical, inspection, and messenger service for aircraft stations shall not exceed $300,000: *Provided further,* That Paying damages by aircraft.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 does not exceed the sum of $500: *Provided further,* Report of adjusted claims.That all claims adjusted under this authority during any fiscal year shall be reported in detail to the Congress by the Secretary of the Navy: *Provided further,* That no part of this appropriation shall be Shore stations limited.expended for maintenance of more than six heavier-than-air stations 134Use for aeroplane factory forbidden.Joint report to be submitted on Army, Navy, and postal aircraft.on the coasts of 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: *Provided further,* That the Secretary of War, the Postmaster General, and the Secretary of the Navy shall submit to Congress on the first day of the next regular session a joint report of aircraft under their respective jurisdiction on Details required.November 1, 1919, showing the number, type, and cost of all aircraft built, building, and under contract to be built, the number and type of aircraft to be constructed in Government plants for which material has been delivered, is in course of delivery, or is on order, and showing in detail what facilities of every kind are maintained wholly or in part by each, and where, for procuring, producing, constructing, inflating, operating, supplying, preserving, storing, and handling aircraft, indicating as to such as occupy rented property the area and annual rental.
State marine schools.Payment to New York, Massachusetts, and Washington.Vol. 36, p. 1353. State marine schools: To reimburse the State of New York $25,000, the State of Massachusetts $25,000, and the State of Washington $25,000, for expenses incurred in the maintenance and support of marine schools in those States in accordance with section 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 enlistment at home and abroad, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation to their homes, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentice seamen discharged on medical survey, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation of sick or insane enlisted men and apprentice seamen to hospitals, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu Naval Reserve Force, etc.thereof; transportation of enlisted men of the Naval Reserve Force to and from duty, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation of civilian officers and crews of naval auxiliaries; apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, and for Recruiting.railway guides and other expenses incident to transportation; expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent of rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; rental, maintenance, operation, exchange, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentice seamen; actual and necessary expenses in lieu of mileage to officers on duty with traveling recruiting parties, $9,000,000.
Enlistment period for 1920.Vol. 40, p. 85. Until June 30, 1920, enlistments in the Navy 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. Recreation, enlisted men. Recreation for enlisted men: For the recreation, amusement, comfort, contentment, and health of the Navy, and for such other purposes of like character as the Secretary of the Navy may deem advisable, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, under such *Proviso.*Pay restriction.regulations as he may prescribe: *Provided,* That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum, $400,000. 135 Contingent:
Ferriage, continuous-service certificates, discharges, Contingent.good-conduct badges, and medals for men and boys, including civilian employees who render conspicuous service by putting their life in jeopardy to save life or property; purchase of gymnastic apparatus; transportation of effects of deceased officers and enlisted men of the Navy, and of officers and enrolled men of the Naval Reserve Force who die while on duty; books for training apprentice seamen and landsmen; maintenance of gunnery and other training classes; packing boxes and materials; books and models; stationery; and other contingent expenses and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation, unforeseen and impossible to classify, $20,000.
Gunnery and engineering exercises: Prizes, trophies, and Gunnery and engineering exercises.badges for excellence in gunnery, target practice, engineering exercises, and for economy in coal consumption, to be awarded under such rules as the Secretary of the Navy may formulate; for the purpose of printing, recording, classifying, compiling, and publishing the rules and results; for the establishment and maintenance of shooting Target ranges, etc.galleries, target houses, targets, and ranges; for hiring established ranges, and for transporting the civilian assistants and equipment to and from ranges, $350,000.
Outfits on first enlistment: Outfits for all enlisted men and Outfits on first enlistments.apprentice seamen of the Navy on first enlistment at not to exceed $100 each; for civilian clothing not to exceed $15 per man to men given discharges for bad conduct, undesirability, or inaptitude; in all, $9,000,000. Officers of the United States Naval Reserve Force who were Naval Volunteers.Uniform gratuity to officers transferred from.Vol. 40, p. 708.*Proviso.*Condition.transferred from the National Naval Volunteers under the provisions of the Act of July 1, 1918, shall be paid the same uniform gratuity as other officers of the Naval Reserve Force: *Provided,* That they shall not have received from any State such gratuity.
Instruments and supplies: Supplies for seamen’s quarters; and for Instruments, supplies, etc.the purchase of all other articles of equipage at home and abroad; and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith and manufacture of such articles in the several navy yards; all pilotage and towage of ships of war; canal tolls, wharfage, dock and port charges, and other necessary incidental expenses of a similar nature; services and materials in repairing, correcting, adjusting, and testing compasses on shore and on board ship; nautical and astronomical instruments and repairs to same; libraries for ships of war, professional books, schoolbooks, and papers; maintenance of gunnery and other training classes; compasses, compass fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ship’s compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship’s way, and leads and other appliances for sounding; photographs, photographic instruments and materials, printing outfit and materials; and for the necessary civilian electricians for gyrocompass testing and inspection, $1,500,000.
Ocean and lake surveys: Hydrographic surveys, including the Ocean and lake surveys.pay of the necessary hydrographic surveyor, cartographic draftsmen, and recorders, and for the purchase and printing of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, $155,000: *Provided,* That the Secretary *Proviso.*Hydrographic Office details.of the Navy is authorized to detail such naval officers as may be necessary to the Hydrographic Office. Schools or camps of instruction: Naval Reserve Force:
That of Naval Reserve Force.Payment of incurred obligations, etc., for instruction schools, etc., from balances remaining.Vol. 40, p. 713.the unexpended and unobligated balance remaining of all money heretofore appropriated and of the appropriation authorized in Public Numbered 182, Sixty-fifth Congress, approved July 1, 1918, under the heading “Schools or Camps of Instruction, Naval Reserve Force, for assembling, training, and instructing recruits and reserves of all classes, including the crews of section patrols, submarines and submarine chasers, and beach patrol, and for all purposes connected therewith,” $500,000 is hereby reappropriated for the purpose of 136paying all obligations or claims incurred at the instance of the Navy Department in carrying out the provisions of said Acts and for the purpose of paying all expenses incident to the closing of the schools maintained and operated in pursuance of said Acts.
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; motor-propelled vehicles, wagons, carts, implements, tools, and repairs to same, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, to be used only for official purposes; fire engines and extinguishers; gymnastic implements, models, and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating and lighting; stationery, books, schoolbooks, and periodicals, fresh water, and washing; packing boxes and materials; and all other contingent expenses; maintenance of dispensary building; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen; in all, $225,000.
Coasters Harbor Island, R. I. Naval training station, Rhode Island: Maintenance of naval training station, Coasters Harbor Island, Rhode Island: Labor and material, buildings and wharves; dredging channels; extending sea walls; repairs to causeway and sea wall; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and wharves; wharfage, ferriage, and street car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; motor-propelled vehicles, wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of two horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes; fire engines and extinguishers; gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating and lighting; stationery, books, schoolbooks, and periodicals; fresh water, and washing; packing boxes and materials; and all other contingent expenses; lectures and suitable *Proviso.*Clerical, etc., services.entertainments for apprentice seamen; in all, $350,000: *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, 1920, shall not exceed $15,701.60.
Great Lakes, Ill. Naval training station, Great Lakes: Maintenance of naval training station: Labor and material; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and piers; street car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; motor-propelled vehicles, wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, and one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle to be used only for official purposes; fire apparatus and extinguishers; gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; printing outfit and material, and maintenance of same; heating and lighting, and repairs to power-plant equipment, distributing mains, tunnel, and conduits; stationery, books, schoolbooks, and periodicals; washing; packing boxes and materials; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen; and all other contingent expenses: *Proviso.*Clerical, etc., services.*Provided,* That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, shall not exceed $6,000; in all, naval training station, Great Lakes, $850,000. 137 Naval training station, Saint Helena, and naval operating Saint Helena, etc., Va.base, Hampton Roads, Virginia:
Maintenance of naval training stations at Saint Helena and at naval operating base, Virginia, labor and material, general care, repairs, and improvements; schoolbooks; and all other incidental expenses, $310,000. Naval Reserve Force: For expenses of organizing, administering, Naval Reserve Force.Organizing, etc.Receiving barracks.Temporary maintenance.and recruiting the Naval Reserve Force, $50,000. Receiving barracks: Maintenance of receiving barracks, for a period not exceeding six months, $100,000.
Naval War College, Rhode Island: For maintenance of the Naval War College, Rhode Island.Naval War College on Coasters Harbor Island, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle to be used only for official purposes; and care of grounds for same, $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 repair of books of reference and periodicals, $5,000: *Provided,* *Proviso.*Clerical, etc., services.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, 1920, shall not exceed $50,000; in all, Naval War College, Rhode Island, $90,950.
Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pay of employees: Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pa.Pay of employees.One secretary, $1,800; one foreman mechanic, $1,800; one superintendent of grounds, at $900; one steward, at $900; one store laborer, at $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; two laundresses, at $360 each; three laundresses, at $300 each; one chief scrubber, at $420; three scrubbers, at $360 each; one head waitress, at $480; four waitresses, at $360 each; four waitresses, at $300 each; one kitchen attendant, at $540; seven 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; three laborers, at $840 each; one laborer, at $600; one chauffeur, coal truck, at $960; one chauffeur, small truck, at $840; one chauffeur, governor’s car, $840; total for employees, $39,540.
Maintenance: Water rent, heating, and lighting; cemetery, burial Maintenance.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 Nayy, 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 Payable from naval pension fund.vehicle, to be used only for official purposes, $105,366; in all, Naval Home, $144,906, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund.
The total authorized enlisted strength of the active fist of the Enlisted strength of Navy.Temporary increase to June 30, 1920.Vol. 40, p. 714.Navy is hereby temporarily increased from 131,485 during the period from July 1, 1919, to September 30, 1919, to 241,000 men, and from October 1, 1919, to December 31, 1919, to 191,000 men, and from January 1, 1920, to June 30, 1920, to 170,000 men and the President 138 Emergency increase.is hereby authorized, whenever in his judgment a sufficient national emergency exists, to increase the authorized enlisted strength of the Naval Reserve Force.Male members and nurses in active naval service, authorized.Navy to 191,000 men, and the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to call to or continue on active service on strictly naval duties, with their consent, such numbers of the male members and nurses of the Naval Reserve Force in enlisted ratings as may be necessary to supply deficiencies to maintain the total authorized strength for the periods herein authorized.
The foregoing total authorized strength shall include the hospital corps, apprentice seamen, those sentenced by court-martial to discharge, enlisted men of the Flying Corps, those under instruction in trade schools, and Active duty of reservists restricted.members of the Naval Reserve Force so serving. That during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, no member of the Naval Reserve Force shall be recalled to active duty for training or any other purpose *Provisos.*Average commissioned personnel limited.except as hereinbefore provided: *Provided,* That the average number of commissioned officers of the line, permanent, temporary, and reserves on active duty, shall not exceed during the periods aforesaid, 4 per centum of the total temporary authorized enlisted strength of the Regular and Temporary Navy, and members of the Naval Reserve Force in enlisted ratings on active duty, and the Permanent strength not affected.number of staff officers shall be in the same proportion as provided under existing law: *Provided further,* That nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the permanent, commissioned, or enlisted strength of the Regular Navy as authorized by existing law.
Naval Reserve Force, and Marine Corps Reserve.Female members to be placed on inactive duty.No civilian shore duty hereafter by Naval Reserve Force. Female members, except nurses, of the Naval Reserve Force and the Marine Corps Reserve shall, as soon as practicable and in no event later than thirty days after the date of approval of this Act, be placed on inactive duty. Members of the Naval Reserve Force shall not hereafter be ordered to perform active duty on shore of a kind which is ordinarily performed by civilians, and all reservists now performing such duty shall be relieved from such duty within thirty days after the date of approval of this Act.
Temporary civil appointments of efficient members authorized. Members of the Naval Reserve Force and Marine Corps Reserve whose conduct, services and efficiency have demonstrated the desirability of their retention may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, be given temporary civil appointments in the Navy Department or Naval Establishment at the ordinary and usual rates of pay accorded employees performing a similar character of work, provided such services are necessary.
May take civil service examination to fill occurring vacancies. Members of the Naval Reserve Force and Marine Corps Reserve who accept such temporary civil appointments shall be given an opportunity to qualify by a civil service examination for certification in accordance with civil service rules to fill such vacancies as may occur, in cases where they are not already eligible for appointment Term.Appropriation for reservists transferred, etc.or reinstatement. All temporary appointments made hereunder shall terminate not later than June 30, 1920.
For pay of reservists so transferred to the civil establishment, or civil service employees appointed in lieu thereof, $8,613,220, their pay prior to transfer to be charged to the appropriation “Pay of the Navy,” and the Secretary of the Navy shall submit to Congress on the first day of the next regular session a statement showing the number and designation of the persons employed hereunder and the rate of compensation *Provisos.*Pay restriction for Department service.paid to each: *Provided,* That no employee paid under the provisions of this paragraph, except expert technicists, shall receive annual compensation in excess of $2,000 for services rendered in the Navy Department, Washington, District of Columbia: *Provided further,* Limit on compensation exceeding $2,000.That not more than twenty-four employees shall be so appointed at a compensation exceeding $2,000 per annum, and that in no case shall the compensation exceed $4,000 per annum. 139 The provision of existing law which requires the Secretary of the Promotion selection board to meet annually.Vol. 39, p. 578;
Vol. 40, p. 86.Navy to make computations semiannually as of July 1 and January 1 of each year and to convene the boards to select officers of the line and of the staff corps for promotion is hereby amended so that said computations shall be made and said boards shall be convened at least once each year and at such times as the Secretary of the Navy may direct, and the boards shall recommend for promotion such number of officers as may be necessary to fill vacancies then existing and which may occur during the next period of time.
That nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to reduce No reduction in pay, etc., in Regular Navy.the pay or allowances of any commissioned, warrant, or appointed officer or any enlisted man as authorized by law for such officer or enlisted man in his present permanent status in the Regular Navy. Enrolled men of the Naval Reserve Force and of the Marine Corps Reservists.In active duty during the war may serve time of enrollment in reguar Navy, etc.Reserve, other than commissioned and warrant officers, who have performed active duty during the war, may, upon their own application, be transferred to the regular Navy and Marine Corps, respectively, to serve the unexpired term of their enrollment in such rating or rank as they may be found qualified under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe: *Provided,* That men so transferred *Provisos.*Condition.shall have at least one year to serve in the regular Navy or the Marine Corps before the expiration of their current enlistment: *Provided further,* That such transfers may not be made in excess of Not to exceed authorized strength.the authorized enlisted strength of the Navy or Marine Corps: *Provided further,* That enrolled men so transferred shall be entitled Pay, etc.to and receive the same pay, rights, privileges, and allowances in all respects as now provided by existing law for men regularly discharged and reenlisted immediately upon expiration of their full four-year enlistment in the Regular Navy or Marine Corps.
All enlisted men of the Navy and Coast Guard who have served Travel allowance to enlisted men discharged before end of full term.in the war with the German Government and who may hereafter be discharged or who have been discharged from the service since November 11, 1918, and before the expiration of their full enlistment shall receive, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, an honorable discharge and shall receive 5 cents per mile from the place of his discharge to his actual bona fide home or residence, or original muster into the service at his option: *Provided,* *Provisos.*Sea travel allowance.That for sea travel on discharge, transportation and subsistence only shall be furnished to enlisted men: *Provided,* That the Condition.records of such men warrant such honorable discharge.
Any enlisted man of the Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard, who, Men enlisting for four years since February 3, 1917, may be granted honorable discharge, etc.since February 3, 1917, and before November 11, 1918, enlisted for the period of four years shall upon his application made to the Secretary of the Navy on or before September 1, 1919, be held and construed to have enlisted for the duration of the war and shall when discharged be granted an honorable discharge, and upon the taking effect of this Act shall be notified by the Secretary of the Navy of his right to file such application: *Provided,* That said enlisted man is *Provisos.*Condition.Not to delay return of forces.otherwise entitled to an honorable discharge: *Provided further,* That the return home of the American Expeditionary Forces shall not be thereby delayed: *Provided further,* That any enlisted man who takes Gratuity pay if reenlisting for four years.advantage of the provisions of this paragraph to secure a discharge from the Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard, and thereafter reenlists within four months in the Navy or in the Marine Corps, under conditions as now prescribed by law, for a period of four years, shall be entitled to receive the benefits of the gratuity pay provided by existing law for reenlistments.
Enlisted men of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, who Enlistment periods may be extended, etc.enlisted for the period of the war or enlisted for a period of four years between February 3, 1917, and November 11, 1918, and have their 140status changed to that of men who enlisted for the period of the war if otherwise entitled to an honorable discharge, may, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, extend their Pay, allowances, etc.enlistments for a period of one, two, three, or four full years, and shall be entitled to and receive the same rights, privileges, pay, and allowances in all respects as now provided by law for men who extend enlistment on completion of terms of enlistment, except as to *Proviso.*Gratuity pay for extensions.gratuity pay: *Provided,* That as, to gratuity pay, such enlisted men who extend their enlistment as before provided shall be entitled to receive an allowance of one month’s pay for extending their enlistment for one year, two months’ pay for extending their enlistment for two years, three months’ pay for extending their enlistment for three years, and in the Navy four months’ pay for extending their enlistment for four years.
Quarters, etc., to families of officers limited to period of war.Vol. 40, p. 530.*Post,* p. 384. The Act of April 16, 1918 (Public, Numbered 129), granting under certain conditions, to every commissioned officer of the Army the right to quarters in kind for their dependents or the authorized commutation therefor, including the allowances for heat and light, shall hereafter be construed to apply to officers of the Navy and Marine Corps only during the period of the war and in no event beyond October 1, 1919.
Enlisted men.Increased rate of pay for.Vol. 40, p. 87. The rates of pay prescribed in section 15 of an Act entitled “An Act to temporarily increase the commissioned and warrant and enlisted strength of the Navy and Marine Corps, and for other purposes,” approved May 22, 1917, are hereby made the permanent rates of pay of the enlisted men of the Navy during their present current enlistment and for those who enlist or reenlist prior to July 1, 1920, for the term of such enlistment or reenlistment.
Officers.In temporary grade during the war eligible for permanent promotion, etc. That 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 provision of existing law for selection for promotion and for promotion to the same permanent grade or rank until July 1, 1920, without regard to statutory requirements *Proviso.*Age, etc., of commander.Vol. 39, p. 579.other than professional and physical examinations: *Provided,* That the age and grade requirement prescribed by the Act approved August 29, 1916, in the rank of commander, is hereby extended from June 30, 1920, to June 30, 1921.
Precedence of rear admiral as chief of bureau.[R. S., sec. 1486, p. 258](/us/rs/s1486/p258). Any officer with the permanent rank of rear admiral who has heretofore served a full term and is now serving as chief of any bureau of the Navy Department shall be credited with service for all purposes as provided by section 1486 of the Revised Statutes, and nothing herein contained shall operate to increase the rank or pay of any such officer as now authorized by law. Naval Academy.Allowance of midshipmen.[R.
S., sec. 1513, p. 260](/us/rs/s1513/p260), amended.Vol. 40, p. 430. Section 1 of the Act entitled “An Act to increase the number of midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy,” approved December 20, 1917, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: That hereafter there shall be allowed at the United States Naval Academy five midshipmen for each Senator, Representative, Delegate Porto Rico and District of Columbia increased.in Congress, and Resident Commissioner from Porto Rico, and five for the District of Columbia, fifteen appointed each year at large, and one hundred appointed annually from enlisted men of the Naval Reserve Force added.Navy, and members of the Naval Reserve Force on active duty, as now authorized by law.
Warrant officers.Sea duty pay to, for shore duty abroad. Warrant officers of the Navy on shore duty beyond the continental limits of the United States shall, while so serving and from the time of departure from and until the time of return to said limits under orders to or from such foreign-shore duty, receive the same pay as is now or may be authorized by law for warrant officers on sea duty: *Proviso.*From April 6, 1917.*Provided,* That this paragraph shall be effective from April 6, 1917. 141 Any enlisted man of the Navy or Marine Corps who has been or Enlisted men.Credited for all service if discharged to be commissioned in Reserves, and reenlisting.may be discharged to enable him to accept appointment as a commissioned or warrant officer in the Naval Reserve Force or Marine Corps Reserve, and who reenlists in the Navy or Marine Corps after the termination of his reserve service, shall be entitled, in computing service for retirement, to credit for all active reserve service; and if Restored to former grade, etc.he reenlists in the Navy or Marine Corps within four or three months, respectively, from the date of the termination of his service as an officer of the Reserve he shall be restored to the grade or rank held by him before being discharged to accept such commission or warrant, and his service in the Regular Navy or Marine Corps, including Continuous service pay.his active service in the Naval Reserve Force or Marine Corps Reserve, shall be regarded as continuous for purposes of continuous-service pay: *Provided,* That any warrant officer in the Navy or Marine Corps *Provisos.*Warrant officers and pay clerks to have similar credit.and any pay clerk in the Marine Corps who has accepted or who may hereafter accept appointment as a commissioned officer in the Naval Reserve Force or Marine Corps Reserve shall be entitled, upon the termination of his appointment as a commissioned officer in the Reserve, to revert to his former status as a warrant officer in the Navy or Marine Corps, or as a pay clerk in the Marine Corps, and shall be entitled to count all active reserve .service for purposes of longevity pay and retirement: *Provided,* That no part or parts of any existing Naval Militia.Transfers to Naval Reserve Force, not a discharge from.laws shall be construed as having discharged from the Naval Militia of any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, those members of the National Naval Volunteers who were transferred to the Naval Reserve Force by authority of the Act of Congress making appropriations for the Naval Service which became a law on July 1, 1918; nor to prevent members of the Naval Reserve Force from being or Reservists may join.becoming members of the Naval Militia of any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia: *Provided,* That such membership in the Naval Condition.Militia shall not interfere with the discharge of duties by such members thereof who are in the Naval Reserve Force.
That hereafter Assistant Paymaster John Flynn, United States Assistant Paymaster John Flynn.Date of appointment established.Navy, shall be regarded as having been appointed as an assistant paymaster in the United States Navy on the 20th day of June, 1917, with rank as such immediately after Assistant Paymaster Henry Guilmette, United States Navy: *Provided,* That nothing herein *Proviso.*No back pay, etc.shall be construed to entitle Assistant Paymaster John Flynn, United States Navy, to any back pay, allowances, or other emoluments on this permanent rank.
George E. Maynard, Arthur B. McCrary, Axel Lindblad, Seldon Date of appointment of designated ensigns established.L. Almon, and William E. O’Connor shall be regarded as having been appointed ensigns in the United States Navy on the 28th day of June, 1917: *Provided,* That nothing herein shall be construed to *Proviso.*No back pay, etc.entitle the said officers to any back pay, allowances, or other emoluments. That the President is hereby authorized to appoint, by and with the Edgar Hayes.May be appointed first lieutenant, Marine Corps.advice and consent of the Senate, as a first lieutenant in the permanent establishment of the United States Marine Corps, First Sergeant Edgar Hayes, United States Marine Corps, to be an extra number in that grade and in any grade to which he may hereafter be promoted: *Provided,* That the said Edgar Hayes shall establish to the satisfaction *Provisos.*Qualifications required.of the Secretary of the Navy, his mental, moral, physical, and professional qualifications to perform all the duties of said grade: *Provided further,* That nothing herein shall be construed to entitle No back pay, etc.the said Edgar Hayes to any back pay, allowances, or other emoluments by reason of the passage of this Act. 142 bureau of ordnance.
Bureau of Ordnance.Ordnance and ordnance stores. Ordnance and ordnance stores: For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships, for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the 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 Passenger vehicles.target practice; for the maintenance, repair, or operation of horsedrawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying 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 *Provisos.*Chemical, etc., services.service in navy yards, naval stations, naval ordnance plants, and naval ammunition depots: *Provided,* That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, watchmen, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, naval ordnance plants, and naval ammunition depots for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, Reinstatement of Government employees who entered armed service during the war.shall not exceed $2,900,000; in all, $25,000,000: *Provided,* That all former Government employees who have entered the military or naval service of the United States in the war with the German Government shall be reinstated on application to their former positions if they have received an honorable discharge and are qualified to perform the duties of the position.
Smokeless powder. Purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, $2,500,000. Naval gun factory, D.C. Naval Gun Factory, Washington, D. C.: New and improved machinery for existing shops, $500,000. Torpedoes, etc. Torpedoes and appliances: For the purchase and manufacture of torpedoes and appliances, to be available until June 30, 1922, $1,000,000. Torpedo Station, Newport, R. I. Torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: For labor and material; general care of and repairs to grounds, buildings, and wharves; boats, instruction, instruments, tools, experiments, and general torpedo outfits, $200,000.
Machinery, etc. For new and improved machinery and tools for torpedo factory, $200,000. Experimental work. Experiments, Bureau of Ordnance: For experimental work in the development of armor-piercing and torpedo shell and other projectiles, fuses, powders, and high explosives, in connection with problems of the attack of armor with direct and inclined fire at various ranges, including the purchase of armor, powder, projectiles, and fuses for the above purposes and of all necessary material and labor in connection therewith; and for other experimental work under the cognizance of the Bureau of Ordnance in connection with the development of ordnance material for the Navy, $200,000.
Contingent. Contingent, Bureau of Ordnance: For miscellaneous items, namely, cartage, expenses of light and water at ammunition depots and stations, tolls, ferriage, technical books, and incidental expenses attending inspection of ordnance material, $25,000. bureau of yards and docks. Bureau of Yards and Docks.Maintenance. Maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For general maintenance of yards and docks, including not exceeding four naval barracks abroad, namely, for books, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines; fire apparatus and plants; machinery, Vehicles.operation or repair, purchase; maintenance of horses and driving teams; carts, timber wheels, and all vehicles, including motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles to be used 143only for official purposes, and including motor-propelled vehicles for freight-carrying purposes only for use in the navy yards; tools and repair of the same; stationery; furniture for Government houses and offices in navy yards and naval stations; coal and other fuel; candles, oil, and gas; attendance on light and power plants; cleaning and clearing up yards and care of buildings; attendance on fires, lights, fire engines, and fire apparatus and plants; incidental labor at navy yards; water tax, tolls, and ferriage; pay of watchmen in navy yards; awnings and packing boxes; and pay for employees on leave, $7,500,000: *Provided,* That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation *Provisos.*Clerical, etc., services.*Post,* p. 511.under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, inspection, drafting, messenger, and other classified work in the navy yards and naval stations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, shall not exceed $1,500,000: *Provided further,* That no part of any Purchase of passenger automobiles herefrom, forbidden.appropriation contained in this Act shall be used for the purchase of passenger-carrying automobiles.
Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For contingent expenses Contingent.and minor extensions and improvements of public works at navy yards and stations, $150,000. public works, bureau of yards and docks. Public works. Hospital construction: Naval hospital, Fort Lyon, Colorado, Hospital construction.Fort Lyon, Colo.Portsmouth, N. H.$275,000; contingent, $225,000; in all, $500,000. Navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: New boiler for power plant, $65,000; lumber yard and storage, $30,000; in all, $95,000.
The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to advance to the Kittery Kittery Water District.Advance to, for extending water supply to navy yard.Vol. 40, p. 723.Water District, a corporation of the State of Maine, from the unexpended balance of the appropriation made by the Act of July 1, 1918, making appropriations for the naval service, under the title “Emergency expenses, Bureau of Yards and Docks,” the sum of $150,000, to be expended for the extension and improvement, under the supervision of the Navy Department, of the water system owned and operated by said Kittery Water District and supplying water to the navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: *Provided,* That the said *Provisos.*Refund from water bills.Kittery Water District shall, by contract, with bond equal to the amount advanced, undertake to refund to the United States the said sum of $150,000 in an installment each month of an amount equal to 50 per centum of the amount of the bill rendered against said navy yard for water received during the preceding month, until the end of the month following the declaration of peace, and thereafter in such installments as the Secretary of the Navy may approve: *Provided further,* Interest on deferred payments.That all deferred refund payments shall bear interest at the rate of 5 per centum per annum, payable semiannually, and that all refunds of the principal and payments of interest shall be deposited in the Treasury as “Miscellaneous receipts.
” To aid in construction of bridge connecting city of Portsmouth, Bridge to navy yard.New Hampshire, with navy yard at Kittery, Maine, $500,000, of which $250,000 is hereby appropriated: *Provided,* That an equal *Proviso.*Concurrence of Maine and New Hampshire in expense.amount shall be expended concurrently for the same purpose severally by the States of Maine and New Hampshire, the location to be approved by the Secretary of the Navy for convenient access to the Portsmouth Navy Yard.
Navy yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Two twenty-five-ton floating Boston, Mass.Shore facilities for dry dock. etc.derricks, $40,000; shore facilities for Commonwealth Dry Dock, South Boston, $500,000; in all, $540,000. Navy yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dry dock, to complete, Philadelphia, Pa.Dry dock, etc.and the limit of cost is increased to $4,700,000, $1,200,000; paving, railroad tracks, sewers, water pipes, and general yard devel-144opments, $200,000; kapok mattress and life preserver factory, $100,000; pattern shop and storage, $400,000; in all, $1,900,000.
Washington, D. C.Yard improvements, etc. Navy yard, Washington, District of Columbia: West extension development, $43,000; power plant extension, $214,000; extra ducts and manholes, $36,500; fireproofing storehouse numbered ten, $15,000; sewer, water, and paving extensions in eastern addition, $50,000; railroad classification yard, $36,500; dispensary, $75,000; raising roof of open-hearth shop and additional crane, $40,000; proof shop, $250,000; outside distribution system, $20,000; outside oil distribution system, $20,000; in all, $800,000.
Naval Academy. Buildings and grounds, Naval Academy: Repair of roads, $25,000; addition to power plant, $200,000; in all, $225,000. Norfolk, Va. Navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Water-front improvements, $500,000; tracks, streets, and sewers, $100,000; auxiliary fitting-out cranes, $100,000; grading Schmoele tract, $25,000; dispensary, $25,000; paint and oil storehouse, $75,000; pattern shop and storage, $400,000; in all, $1,225,000. Charleston, S. C. Navy yard, Charleston, South Carolina:
Dredging, to continue, $30,000; air compressors and auxiliaries, $118,000; oxyacetylene plant, $25,000; fire protection, $50,000; in all, $223,000. Key West, Fla. Naval station, Key West, Florida: Station improvements, $25,000. New Orleans, La. Naval station, New Orleans, Louisiana: Shell house, $16,000; sewer extensions, $850; mine storage building, $32,000; fire station and equipment, $18,000; in all, $66,850. Mare Island, Calif. Navy yard, Mare Island, California: Maintenance of dikes and dredging, $100,000.
Railroad connection. For purchase of right of way and for construction of railroad connection between causeway now crossing Mare Island Straits and the South Vallejo railroad yards, not exceeding $165,000. Puget Sound, Wash. Navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington: Railroad extensions, $50,000; twenty-ton floating crane, $50,000; for grading, filling, and sea wall construction, to complete, $350,000; in all, $450,000. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.Dry dock, etc. Naval station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii:
Electric connections to dry dock, $21,000; substation near dry dock, $68,000; salt-water fire protection, $35,000; fresh-water connections to dry dock, $11,500; air connections to dry dock, $8,000; toilet facilities for ships in dock, $25,000; in all, $168,500. Tutuila, Samoa. Naval station, Tutuila, Samoa: Lumber storage, $5,000; additional quarters for hospital apprentices, $2,000; in all, $7,000. Guam. Naval station, Guam: Quarters for hospital, $16,000; extension of shop buildings, $5,000; lumber shed, $5,000; in all, $26,000.
Naval magazines.Fort Mifflin, Pa. Naval magazine, Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania: Dredging, $10,000. Lake Denmark, N. J. Naval magazine, Lake Denmark, New Jersey: Fire protection, $30,000; purchase and installing two one hundred kilowatt generator sets, direct connected, and boiler feed pump, $15,000; in all, $45,000. Charleston, S. C. Naval magazine, Charleston, South Carolina: Railroad track and equipment, $5,000; fuse and primer house, $3,000; in all, $8,000. Puget Sound, Wash.
Naval magazine, Puget Sound, Washington: Additional storage building, $40,000; power plant (cost not to exceed $15,000), $15,000; in all, $55,000. Mare Island, Calif. Naval magazine, Mare Island, California: Mechanic shop, $25,000; filling house, $5,000; one magazine building, $35,000; one shell house, $45,000; in all, $110,000. Torpedo station, R.I. Torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island, buildings: Oil storehouse, $10,000; new piers, $75,000; in all, $85,000. Great Lakes training station.Shore protection, etc.
Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Illinois, buildings: Toward shore protection and harbor development (to cost not to exceed $1,500,000), $200,000. 145 Depots for coal: For depots for coal and other fuel, Yorktown, Fuel depots.Virginia, wharf, $50,000; oil proofing reservoirs, $150,000; in all, $200,000. Contingent, $35,000; care and custody of naval petroleum reserves, $10,000; in all, $245,000. Naval operating base, Hampton Roads, Virginia: Toward Hampton, Va.Naval base improvements.water-front improvements and permanent improvements to station, including piers, bulkheads, filling, grading, and so forth, $1,000,000.
Naval Hospital, Puget Sound, Washington: Quarters for Puget Sound, Wash.Hospital.nurses (female), $40,000. Marine barracks, Quantico, Virginia: Incinerator plant, Marine barracks, Quantico, Va.$67,790. Repairs and preservation at navy yards: For repairs and Repairs and preservation.preservation at navy yards, fuel depots, fuel plants, and stations, $4,000,000. Total public works, $12,632,140, and the amounts herein appropriated Amounts available until expended.therefor, except for repairs and preservation at navy yards and stations, shall be available until expended.
The appropriations “Maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks,” Naval training stations.Use of appropriations for maintenance.and “Repairs and Preservation” shall be available for the maintenance of naval training stations where the regular appropriations for the maintenance thereof are found to be insufficient. The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to accept from the San Diego, Calif.Acceptance of land for training station from.San Diego Chamber of Commerce, San Diego, California, free of all encumbrance and without cost to the United States Government, one hundred and thirty-five acres of land situate on the Bay of San Diego, San Diego County, California, for the purpose of establishing a naval training station thereon, providing that the city of San Condition.Diego will donate to the United States Government free of charge the tide lands in the Bay of San Diego adjoining said lands to the bulkhead line, and also a site for a naval hospital in Balboa Park.
The Secretary of the Navy is directed to have prepared and submit Plans, etc., to be submitted to Congress.detailed plans and specifications for the construction of a suitable naval framing station on said land and to report at the next regular session of Congress the total estimated cost of said station with an itemized cost of all necessary buildings and improvements thereon and the estimated annual cost of maintenance of said station. The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to exchange a Exchange of tract for Marine Corps base.tract of land, containing one and twenty-nine hundredths acres, being a part of the Marine Corps base reservation, San Diego, California, and bordering on the northerly line of said reservation approximately one thousand five hundred feet from the extreme northeasterly angle thereof for so much of lot three hundred and twenty shown on the plan of the city of San Diego, California, as lies between the Point Loma Boulevard and the property of the United States. bureau of medicine and surgery.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Medical Department: For surgeon’s necessaries for vessels in Surgeons’ necessaries.commission, navy yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy yards, naval Civil establishment.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, and toward the accumulation of a reserve supply of medical stores, $7,500,000.
Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For tolls and Contingent.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, 146unbound books, and pamphlets; hygienic and sanitary investigation Vehicles, etc.and illustration; sanitary and hygienic instruction; including the printing and issuing of naval medical bulletins and supplements; purchase and repairs of nonpassenger-carrying wagons, automobile ambulances, 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 Dental outfits.to the Government Hospital for the Insane; for dental outfits and dental material, and all other necessary contingent expenses; in all, $1,000,000.
Transporting remains of officers, etc. Bringing home remains of officers, and so forth, Navy 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 Militia, Reserve Force, etc.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, *Proviso.*Application of fund.$700,000: *Provided,* That the sum herein appropriated shall be available for payment for transportation of the remains of officers and men who have died while on duty at any time since April 21, 1898, and shall be available until June 30, 1921.
Care of hospital patients. Care of hospital patients: For the care, maintenance, and treatment of patients in naval and in other than naval hospitals, $1,000,000. 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, and the pay of midshipmen shall hereafter be $780 per annum, $35,863,989; Commutation quarters, etc.officers on the retired list, $3,442,918; commutation of quarters for officers, including boatswains, gunners, carpenters, sailmakers, machinists, pharmacists, pay clerks, and mates, naval constructor, and assistant naval constructors, $2,875,656, and also members of Nurse Corps (female), $44,200; for hire of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them or commutation of quarters not to exceed the amount which an officer would receive were he not serving with troops and hire of quarters for officers and 147enlisted men on sea duty at such times as they may be deprived of their quarters on board ship due to repairs or other conditions which Enlisted men.may render them uninhabitable, $25,000; pay of enlisted men on the retired list, $585,000; extra pay to men reenlisting under honorable discharge, $525,570; 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, $87,507,405; pay of enlisted men undergoing sentence of court-martial, $1,836,000, 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 Apprentice seamen.board training ships, at the pay prescribed by law, $4,694,400; pay of the Nurse Corps, $1,392,600; rent of quarters for members of the Nurse Corps, $55,800; retainer pay and active-service pay of members Naval Reserve Force.Accounting.of the Naval Reserve Force, $15,371,176; payment of $60 discharge gratuity, $9,953,780; in all, $164,203,494; and the money herein Accounting.specifically appropriated for “Pay of the Navy” shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law as “Pay of the Navy,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund: *Provided,* *Proviso.*Pay Corps to be Supply Corps hereafter.Captains.Promotions of, if wounded in line of duty.Vol. 39, p. 574.That hereafter the Pay Corps shall be called the Supply Corps.
That the provisions of the Act of August 29, 1916, regarding the promotion of captains in the line of the permanent Navy shall not restrict the promotion of such captains as may have been wounded in line of duty and who are now on the active list, and such captains shall be entitled to the benefits of the provisions of section 1494, R.S., sec. 1494, p. 258.Revised Statutes of the United States, and also to the Vol. 36, p. 1267.benefits of the Act of March 4, 1911. Provisions, Navy:
For provisions and commuted rations for the Provisions.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 Commutation of rations increased.than commissioned officers of the line, Medical and Pay Corps, chaplains, chief boatswains, chief gunners, chief carpenters, chief machinists, chief pay clerks, and chief sailmakers) and midshipmen [R.
S., sec. 1585, p. 271](/us/rs/s1585/p271), amended.at 68 cents per diem, and commuted rations stopped on account of sick in hospital and credited at the rate of 50 cents per ration to the naval hospital fund; subsistence of officers and men unavoidably detained or absent from vessels to which attached under orders (during which subsistence rations to be stopped on board ship and no credit for commutation therefor to be given); subsistence of men on detached duty; subsistence of officers and men of the Coast Guard and Lighthouse Services while cooperating with the Navy in so far as the regular appropriations for these services are insufficient therefor; subsistence of officers and men of the naval auxiliary service; subsistence of members of the Naval Reserve Force during period of active service; and for subsistence of female nurses and Navy and Marine Corps general courts-martial prisoners undergoing imprisonment with sentences of dishonorable discharge from the service at the expiration of such confinement: *Provided,* That the Secretary of *Proviso.*Commuted ration to prisoners.the Navy is authorized to commute rations for such general courts-martial prisoners in such amounts as seem to him proper, which may vary in accordance with the location of the naval prison, but which shall in no case exceed 30 cents per diem for each ration so commuted; and for the purchase of United States Army emergency rations as Army emergency ration.required; in all, $42,664,500, to be available until the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921.
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 com-148manding 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 Equipment supplies.and machinery for the same; laboratory equipment; purchase of articles of equipage at home and abroad under the cognizance of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith, and the manufacture of such articles in the several 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 m handling stores purchased and manufactured under “General Food inspection.account of advances”; and reimbursement to appropriations of the Department of Agriculture of cost of inspection of meats and *Proviso.*Chemical, etc., services.*Post,* p. 334.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, for chemists and for clerical, inspection, storemen, store laborer, and messenger service in the supply and accounting departments of the navy yards and naval stations and disbursing offices for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, shall not exceed $5,700,000; in all, $15,500,000.
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, $3,000,000. 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 *Provisos.*No charter hire for Government owned vessels.of transportation and storage of both, $12,000,000: *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, 1920, inclusive, for the use of that department when such vessels are owned by the United Mining coal, etc., for naval use, in Alaska.Reappropriation.Vol. 40, p. 730.States Government: *Provided further,* That $1,000,000 of the appropriation “Fuel and transportation, 1919,” or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby continued and made 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 necessary docks for Selection of coal areas.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.
Government fuel yard, D. C.Purchases for Navy from, not required.Vol. 40, p. 672. Hereafter the provisions of the Sundry Civil Act, approved July 1, 1918, providing for the establishment of a Government fuel yard in the District of Columbia, shall not apply to the fuel required for the Naval Establishment, except the naval hospital, in the District of Columbia. 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 149navy yards and on foreign stations; purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops; carrying on work of experimental model tank and wind tunnel; designing naval vessels; construction and repair of yard craft, lighters, and barges; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat; general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; repair and maintenance of vessels Coast Guard and Lighthouse vessels.of the Coast Guard and Lighthouse Services; submarine chasers, patrol boats; incidental expenses for vessels and navy yards, inspectors’ offices, such as photographing, books, professional magazines, plans, stationery, and instruments for drafting room, and for Equipment supplies.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, lanterns, and lamps and their appendages for general use on board ship for illuminating purposes; and oil and candles used in connection therewith; bunting and other materials for making and repairing flags of all kinds; for all permanent galley fittings and equipage; rugs, carpets, curtains, and hangings on board naval vessels, $31,000,000: *Provided,* That the *Provisos.*Repairs limit not applicable.limitations imposed by existing law relative to repairs to vessels of the Navy shall not apply to the expenditure of funds made available in this Act: *Provided further,* That the sum to be paid out of this Clerical, etc., services.*Post,* p. 334.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, 1920, shall not exceed $3,750,000.
Improvement of construction plants: For repairs and improvements Construction plants.of machinery and implements at construction plants at navy yards at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, $10,000; Boston, Massachusetts, $25,000; New York, New York, $35,000; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, $25,000; Norfolk, Virginia, $35,000; Charleston, South Carolina, $10,000; Mare Island, California, $35,000; Puget Sound, Washington, $25,000; in all, $200,000. bureau of steam engineering. Bureau of Steam Engineering.
Engineering: For repairs, preservation, and renewal of machinery, Engineering repairs, machinery, etc.auxiliary machinery, and boilers of naval vessels, yard craft, and ships’ boats, distilling and refrigerating apparatus; repairs, preservation, and renewals of electric interior and exterior signal communications and all electrical appliances of whatsoever nature on board naval vessels, except range finders, battle order and range transmitters and indicators, and motors and their controlling apparatus used to operate machinery belonging to other bureaus; searchlights and fire-control equipments for antiaircraft defense at shore stations: maintenance Director of Naval Communications.and operation of coast signal service, including expenses of office of Director of Naval Communications and the purchase of land Equipment supplies.as necessary for sites for radio shore stations; equipage, supplies, and materials under the cognizance of the bureau required for the maintenance and operation of naval vessels, yard craft, and ship’s boats; purchase, installation, repair, and preservation of machinery, tools, and appliances in navy yards and stations, pay of classified force 150under 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, Radio work.and instruments; instruments and apparatus, supplies, and technical books and periodicals necessary to carry on experimental and research *Provisos.*Clerical, etc., services.work in radiotelegraphy at the naval radio laboratory: *Provided,* That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and offices of United States inspectors of machinery and engineering material for the fiscal Otter Cliffs, Me.Radio station.year ending June 30, 1920, shall not exceed $3,000,000: *Provided further,* That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for the purchase of land for a site for a radio shore station at Otter Cliffs, Restriction on commercial service.Maine, shall not exceed $32,500: *Provided further,* That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the acquisition of radio stations in whole or in part used for the transmission or reception of commercial messages; in all, engineering, $30,000,000.
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, $200,000. Coast Guard and Lighthouse Services.Naval appropriations available for, while operating with Navy.
The foregoing appropriations for the Naval Establishment shall be available for similar expenses of the Coast Guard and Lighthouse Services while cooperating with the Navy in so far as the regular appropriations for these services are insufficient therefor; and, when expenditures are thus made, naval appropriations need not be reimbursed from the appropriations of the Coast Guard and Lighthouse Services. Transfer of credits. So much of the naval appropriations for the fiscal year 1920 as is necessary for the foregoing purpose may be transferred on the books of the Treasury to the credit of the regular appropriations of the Coast Guard and Lighthouse Services.
Coast Guard cutters.Construction.Vol. 40, p. 488. Construction of Coast Guard vessels: For the completion of five Coast Guard cutters within the limit of cost, namely, $3,500,000, fixed by the Act of March 28, 1918, $2,850,000. 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, $269,700. Instructors, etc. One swordmaster, $1,700—assistants: one $1,500, one $1,300; head master in physical training, $2,000; instructors in physical training—one $1,800, two at $1,600 each, seven at $1,500 each; assistant librarian, $2,400; cataloguer, $1,600; shelf assistants, two at $1,200 each; secretary of the Naval Academy, $2,500; clerks—two at $1,900 each, two at $1,700 each, two at $1,600 each, four at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each, fourteen at $1,100 each, seven at $1,000 each; draftsman, $1,700; surveyor, $1,500; services of choirmaster and organist at chapel, $1,700; captain of the watch, $1,460; second captain of the watch, $1,300; thirty watchmen, at $1,160 each; four telephone switchboard operators, at $660 each; mail messenger, $1,100.
In all, pay of professors and others, Naval Academy, $390,000. Department of ordnance and gunnery. Department of ordnance and gunnery: For leading ordnancemen, ordnancemen, ordnance helpers, and electricians, $16,776.80. Departments of electrical engineering and physics. Departments of electrical engineering and physics: For electrical machinists, mechanics, and laboratorians, $15,549.84. 151 Department of seamanship: Three coxswains, $1,152 each; three Department of seamanship.seamen, at $1,001 each; two seamen, at $826 each; in all, $8,111.
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, $52,694.16. Commissary department: For chief clerk and purchasing agent, Commissary department.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, 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 month in cases of unskilled and unclassified employees, $250,200: *Provided,* That no employee paid under the provisions of this paragraph *Proviso.*Pay restriction.shall receive a salary in excess of $2,000.
Department of buildings and grounds: One messenger to Department of buildings and grounds.superintendent, $750; necessary building attendants, $40,564.80; in all, $41,314.80. For the employment of such additional temporary force of Emergency temporary employees.employees in the various departments of the Naval Academy as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy may be necessary to the transaction of official business on account of the existing emergency, $150,000. In all, civil establishment, $924,646.60.
Current and miscellaneous expenses, Naval Academy: Text Contingent expenses.and reference books for use of instructors; stationery, blank books and forms, models, maps, and periodicals; apparatus and materials for instruction in physical training and athletics; expenses of lectures and entertainments not exceeding $1,000, including pay and expenses of lecturer; chemicals, philosophical apparatus and instruments, stores, machinery, tools, fittings, apparatus, and materials for instruction purposes, $110,000.
Purchase, binding, and repair of books for the library (to be purchased Library.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 be Superintendent.expended in his discretion, $3,000. For contingencies for the commandant of midshipmen, to be Commandant.expended in his discretion, $1,000. In all, current and miscellaneous expenses, $119,500.
Maintenance and repairs, Naval Academy: For general maintenance Maintenance and repairs.and repairs at the Naval Academy, namely: For necessary repairs of public buildings, wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, improvements, repairs, and fixtures; for books, periodicals, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines; fire apparatus and plants; machinery; purchase Vehicles, etc.and maintenance of all horses and vehicles for use at the academy, including the maintenance, operation, and repair of three horsedrawn passenger-carrying vehicles and two motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes; seeds and plants; tools and repairs of the same; stationery; furniture for Government buildings and offices at the academy; coal and other fuels; candles, oil, and gas; attendance on light and power plants; cleaning and clearing up station and care of buildings; attendance on fires, 152lights, fire engines, fire apparatus, and plants, and telephone, telegraph, and clock systems; incidental labor; advertising, water tax, postage, telephones, telegrams, tolls, and ferriage; flags and awnings; packing boxes; fuel for heating and lighting bandsmen’s quarters; pay of inspectors and draftsmen; music, musical and astronomical instruments; and for the pay of employees on leave, $950,000.
Rent. Rent of buildings for the use of the academy, and commutation of rent for bandsmen, at $15 per month each, $13,500. Naval Academy Band.Composition, pay, etc., of.Vol. 36, p. 297. Naval Academy Band: The Naval Academy Band shall hereafter consist of one leader, with pay and allowances of first lieutenant in the Marine Corps; one second leader, with a base pay of $81 per month; forty-five musicians, first class, with a base pay of $51 per month; twenty-seven musicians, second class, with a base pay of $44 per month; one drum major, with a base pay of $57.20 per month; and the said leader of the band, second leader of the band, drum major of the band, and the enlisted musicians of the band shall be entitled to the same benefits in respect to pay, emoluments, and retirement arising from longevity, reenlistment, and length of service as are or may hereafter become applicable to other officers or enlisted men of the Navy.
In all, maintenance and repairs, $963,500. In all, Naval Academy, exclusive of public works, $2,007,646.60. marine corps. Marine Corps.Pay.Officers. Pay, Marine Corps: Pay of officers, active and reserve list: For pay and allowances prescribed by law for all officers on the active and reserve list, $3,463,383. Retired officers. For pay of officers prescribed by law, on the retired list: For two major generals, three brigadier generals, five colonels, three lieutenant colonels, forty majors, four captains, one first lieutenant, two second lieutenants, 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, $277,756.
Enlisted men.Active and reserve list. Pay of enlisted men, active and reserve list: Pay and allowances 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, gun pointers, mess sergeants, cooks, messmen, signalmen, or holding good-conduct medals, pins, or bars, including interest on deposits by enlisted men, post-exchange debts of deserters, under such rules as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, and the authorized travel allowance of discharged enlisted men and for prizes for excellence in gunnery exercise and target practice and for pay of enlisted men designated as Navy mail clerks and assistant Navy mail clerks, both *Proviso.*Pay, etc., to women.afloat and ashore, $14,893,848: *Provided,* That the words “enlisted men,” as contained in prior appropriation Acts, shall not be construed to deprive women, enlisted or enrolled in the naval service, of the pay, allowances, gratuities, and other benefits granted by law to the enlisted personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps.
Authorized enlisted strength.*Post,* p. 830. The authorized enlisted strength of the active list of the Marine Corps is hereby temporarily increased to 27,400, plus such number of men as may be serving with the American Expeditionary Forces *Proviso.*Average on active duty, restricted.abroad: *Provided,* That the average number of enlisted men of the Marine Corps on active duty during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, shall not exceed 27,400, distribution in the various grades to be made in the same proportion as provided under existing law. 153 That in making reductions required by this Act, officers holding Officers may be appointed to temporary lower grades.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.
That so much of the Act of July 1, 1918 (Public Numbered 182), as Retired enlisted men.Promotions to active warrant grades legalized.Vol. 40, p. 719.authorizes the promotion of retired enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps ordered to active duty shall not be so construed as to make illegal promotions of such men as have heretofore been made to warrant grades or as to deprive them of any of the pay, allowances, or other benefits accruing under such promotion. That the accounting officers of the Treasury Department are hereby Navy and Marine Corps accounts.Emergency war payments by disbursing officers, allowed.authorized and directed to allow, in the settlement of the accounts of disbursing officers of the Navy and Marine Corps covering the period of the present emergency, such credits for payments to officers and enlisted men not ordinarily allowable under the statutes, as are certified to them by the Secretary of the Navy as having been incurred under military necessity, or as having been occasioned by accidental circumstances or conditions over which such disbursing officers had no control and for which they were not justly responsible: *Provided,* *Proviso.*Emergency period designated.That the period of the present emergency as contemplated by this paragraph shall be regarded as beginning on the 6th day of April, 1917, and as terminating six months after the expiration of the quarter in which peace is declared.
And that nothing herein shall be construed Supplies and services contracts excepted.Retired enlisted men.to include payments under contracts for supplies or services. For pay and allowances prescribed by law of enlisted men on the retired list: For eleven sergeants major, one drum major, twenty-five gunnery sergeants, twenty-five quartermaster sergeants, forty first sergeants, fifty-two sergeants, eleven corporals, two 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, $164,862.
Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged enlisted men for Undrawn clothing.clothing undrawn, $100,000. Mileage: For mileage to officers traveling under orders without Mileage.troops, $162,500. For commutation of quarters of officers on duty without troops Commutation 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 $2,000. In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: One chief clerk, at $2,000; one messenger, at $840. In all, for pay of civil force, $45,711.28, and the money herein Accountingspecifically 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, $19,320,560.28. 154 maintenance, quartermaster’s department, marine corps. Quartermaster’s Department.Provisions. Provisions, Marine Corps: For enlisted men serving ashore; subsistence and lodging of enlisted men when traveling on duty, or cash in lieu thereof; commutation of rations to enlisted men regularly detailed as clerks and messengers; payments of board and lodging of applicants for enlistment while held under observation, recruits, recruiting parties, and enlisted men where it is impracticable to otherwise furnish subsistence, or in lieu of board, commutation of rations to recruiting parties, and enlisted men traveling on special duty at such rate as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe; ice machines and their maintenance where required for the health and comfort of *Proviso.*Navy ration, except when serving with Army.rations, $4,526,964: *Provided,* That hereafter, except when detached by the President of the United States for duty with the Army, enlisted men of the Marine Corps shall be entitled to the same allowance for rations as are enlisted men of the Navy, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy.
Clothing.*Proviso.*Uniforms, etc., for sale to officers.Vol. 40, p. 1054. Clothing, Marine Corps: For enlisted men authorized by law, $8,438,624: *Provided,* That hereafter this appropriation shall be available for the purchase of uniforms, accouterments, and equipment for sale at cost price to officers under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe. Fuel, light, etc. Fuel, Marine Corps: For heat, light, and commutation thereof for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers and enlisted men, and other buildings and grounds pertaining to the Marine Corps 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, $390,078.
Military stores. Military stores, Marine Corps: Pay of chief armorer, at $4 per diem; purchase and repair of military equipments, such as rifles, revolvers, cartridge boxes, bayonet scabbards, haversacks, blanket bags, canteens, rifle slings, swords, drums, trumpets, flags, waistbelts, waist plates, cartridge belts, spare parts for repairing rifles, machetes; tents, field cots, field ovens, and stoves for tents, instruments for bands; purchase of music and musical accessories, articles of field sports for enlisted men, signal equipment and stores; purchase and marking of prizes for excellence in gunnery and rifle practice; good-conduct badges; medals and buttons awarded to officers and enlisted men by the Government for conspicuous, gallant, and special service; incidental expenses of schools of application; construction, equipment, and maintenance of school, library, and amusement rooms and Instruction camps, etc.Ammunition, etc.gymnasiums for enlisted men, establishment, rental, and maintenance of camps of instruction, target ranges, and entrance fees in competitions; procuring, preserving, and handling ammunition and other necessary military supplies; in all, $5,158,412.
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, $852,414. Repairs to barracks, etc. Repairs to barracks, Repairs of barracks, Marine Corps: Repairs and improvements to barracks, quarters, and other public buildings at posts and stations; for the renting, leasing, 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 require and the erection of temporary buildings upon the approval of the Secretary 155of the Navy; such temporary buildings as may be erected in pursuance Temporary buildings.hereof at a total cost not to exceed 810,000 during the year, $660,898.
Forage, Marine Corps: For forage in kind and stabling for public Forage.animals of the Quartermaster’s Department and the authorized number of officers’ horses, $113,616. Commutation of quarters, Marine Corps: Commutation of Commutation of quarters with troops.quarters for enlisted men on recruiting duty, for officers and enlisted men serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them, for enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in the offices of the commandant, adjutant and inspector, paymaster, and quartermaster, and the offices of the assistant adjutant and inspectors, assistant paymasters, assistant quartermasters, at $21 each per month, and for enlisted men employed as messengers in said offices, at $10 each per month, $548,000.
Contingent, Marine Corps: For freight, expressage, tolls, cartage, Contingent.advertising, washing of bed sacks, mattress covers, pillowcases, towels, and sheets, funeral expenses of officers and enlisted men, and retired officers on active duty during the war, and retired enlisted men of the Marine Corps, including the transportation of bodies and their arms and wearing apparel from the place of demise to the homes of the deceased in the United States; stationery and other paper, printing and binding; telegraphing, rent of telephones; purchase, repair, and exchange of typewriters; apprehension of stragglers and deserters; per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor for periods of not less than ten days; employment of civilian labor; purchase, repair, and installation and maintenance of gas, electric, sewer, and water pipes and fixtures; office and barracks furniture, vacuum cleaners, camp and garrison equipage and implements; mess utensils for enlisted men; 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 for official purposes, and other vehicles as are required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for official military and garrison purposes; purchase of public horses and mules; services of veterinary surgeons, and medicines for public animals, and the authorized number of officers’ horses; purchase of mounts and horse equipment for all officers below the grade of major required to be mounted; shoeing for public animals and the authorized number of officers’ horses; purchase and repair of hose, fire extinguishers, hand grenades, carts, wheelbarrows, and lawn mowers, purchase, installation, and repair of cooking and heating stoves and furnaces; purchase of towels, soap, combs, and brushes for offices; postage stamps for foreign and registered postage; books, newspapers, and periodicals; improving parade grounds; 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 or station; deodorizing, lubricants, disinfectants; for the construction, operation, and maintenance of laundries; and Laundries.for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but impossible to anticipate or classify, $2,740,322: *Provided,* *Proviso.*Use of laundry receipts.That hereafter the funds received in payment for laundry work performed by post laundries shall be used to defray the cost of operation of said laundries and the receipts and expenditures shall be accounted for in accordance with the methods prescribed by law and any sums remaining at the end of the fiscal year after such cost of 156maintenance and operation have been defrayed shall be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the appropriation from which the cost of operation of such plants is paid.
Disbursing and accounting. In all, for the maintenance of Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, $23,429,328; 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, $42,749,888.28. increase of the navy.
Increase of the Navy.Construction and machinery. Increase of the Navy, construction and machinery: On account of hulls and outfits of vessels and machinery of vessels heretofore authorized, to be available until expended, $80,000,000. Submarine torpedo boats. Increase of the Navy, torpedo boats: On account of submarine torpedo boats heretofore authorized, to be available until expended, $17,000,000. Armor and armament. Increase of the Navy, armor and armament: Toward the armor and armament for vessels heretofore authorized, to be available until expended, $26,000,000.
Ammunition. Increase of the Navy, ammunition: On account of ammunition for vessels heretofore authorized, to be available until expended, $10,000,000. Total increase of the Navy heretofore authorized, $133,000,000. Time limit for construction repealed.Vol. 40, p. 738. The provision in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the Naval Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, and for other purposes,” approved July 1, 1918, under the increase of the Navy, which reads as follows:
“but not later than June 30, 1919,” is hereby repealed. Limits of cost increased.*Post,* p. 833.Battleships. The limits of cost of the vessels heretofore authorized and herein below enumerated are increased as follows: Battleships numbered 43 and 44 from $7,800,000 to $11,250,000. Battleships numbered 45, 46, 47, and 48 from $13,800,000 to $15,000,000. Battleships numbered 49, 50, and 51 from $18,000,000 to $21,000,000. Battle cruisers. Battle cruisers numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 from $19,800,000 to $23,000,000.
Scout cruisers. Scout cruisers numbered 4, 5, 6, and 7 from $6,000,000 to $7,500,000. Scout cruisers numbered 8, 9, and 10 from $7,200,000 to $7,500,000. Gunboat. Gunboat numbered 21 from $1,032,000 to $1,100,000. Ammunition ship. Ammunition ship numbered 1 from $2,820,000 to $3,250,000. Submarines. Submarines
(R)numbered 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, and 27 from $700,000 to $875,000. Submarines
(S)numbered 1, 2, and 3 from $1,200,000 to $1,500,000. Submarines
(S)from number 4 to number 41, both inclusive, from $1,300,000 to $1,750,000. Fuel ship. Fuel ship numbered 16 from $1,800,000 to $2,550,000. Hospital ship. Hospital ship numbered 1 from $2,820,000 to $3,250,000. Destroyer tender. Destroyer Tender numbered 3 from $2,760,000 to $3,400,000. Submarine tender. Submarine Tender numbered 3 from $2,280,000 to $3,400,000. naval emergency fund. Naval emergency fund.To restore to owners property taken, etc., for naval war uses. To enable the Secretary of the Navy to restore to the owners, donors, or lessors such boats, vessels, land, or other property as has been donated, commandeered, chartered, or leased prior to the passage of this Act in connection with the prosecution of the war in the 157condition as required in the agreements, charters, contracts, or leases applying to said boats, vessels, land, or other property, $15,000,000, to be available for obligations heretofore and hereafter incurred on this account. That except for emergency requirements no part of the moneys Articles not to be acquired abroad which can be made at reasonable price in United States.appropriated in each or any section of this Act shall be used or expended for the purchase or acquirement in any foreign country of any article or articles or materials that, at the time of the proposed acquirement, can be manufactured or produced at reasonable prices in the United States unless the efficient operation of the Navy necessitates purchase or acquirement elsewhere. That no part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be available No pay to officers, etc., using time measuring device on work of employees.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 Cash rewards, etc., limited.work; nor shall any part of the appropriations made in 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 Restriction on purchasing articles which can be produced at navy yards.or any section of this Act shall be used or expended for the purchase or acquirement of any article or articles that, at the time of the proposed acquirement, can be manufactured or produced in each or any of the Government navy yards of the United States, when time and facilities permit, for a sum less than it can be purchased or acquired otherwise. Approved, July 11, 1919.
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