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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 42 STAT. · June 30, 1923 · Chapter 259

Chapter 259. Making appropriations for the Navy Department and the Naval Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 259.— An Act Making appropriations for the Navy Department and the Naval Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, and for other purposes. July 1, 1922.[[H. R. 11228](/us/bill/67/hr/11228).][[Public, No. 264](/us/pl/67/264).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Navy Department appropriations. That the following sums are appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Navy Department and the Naval Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, namely:
Secretary’s Office.OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY. salaries, navy department. Secretary, Assistant, chief clerk, etc.Secretary of the Navy, $12,000; Assistant Secretary, $5,000; chief clerk, $3,000; private secretary to Secretary, $2,500; clerk to Secretary, $2,250; private secretary to Assistant Secretary, $2,400; clerk to Assistant Secretary, $2,000; appointment clerk, $2,250; printing clerk, $2,000; stenographer, $1,200; clerks—one $1,800, six at $1,600 each, three at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each, one $1,100, seven at $1,000 each; carpenter, $1,000; four messengers, at $840 each; three assistant messengers, at $720 each; laborer, $660; messenger boys—three at $600 each; in all, $72,080. temporary employees, navy department.
Temporary employees. *Proviso.* Pay restriction.For temporary employees in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, $58,340: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $1,800 per annum except the following: Two at $3,000 each, five at $2,400 each, and one $2,000. 787 contingent expenses, navy department. Contingent expenses. For professional and technical books and periodicals, law books, and necessary reference books, including city directories, railway guides, freight, passenger, and express tariff books, for department library, $2,000.
For stationery, furniture, newspapers, plans, drawings, and drawingStationery, furniture. etc. Vehicles. materials; purchase and exchange of motor trucks or motor delivery wagons; maintenance, repair, and operation of motor trucks or motor delivery wagons, and one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, to be used only For official purposes; garage rent; street-car fares not exceeding $500; freight, expressage, postage, typewriters and computing machines; necessary traveling expenses for collection of records not exceeding $100; and other absolutely necessary expenses of the NavyNaval service appropriations not to be used for Department purposes.
Department and its various bureaus and offices, $85,000; it shall not be lawful to expend, unless otherwise specifically provided herein, for any of the offices or bureaus of the Navy Department in the District of Columbia, any sum out of appropriations made for the Naval Service for any of the purposes mentioned or authorized in this paragraph. Printing and Binding. For printing and binding for the Navy Department, $212,250,Printing and binding. Hydrographic Office. including not exceeding $50,000 for the Hydrographic Office.
That portion of the appropriation for the Government Printing Reappropriation for orders placed during fiscal year 1922. Vol. 41, p. 1429.Office for the fiscal year 1922 which may be necessary to execute printing and binding for the Navy Department under orders placed with the Public Printer during the fiscal year 1922, within the total allotment to the Navy Department for that fiscal year, is hereby reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year 1923 for that purpose. pay, miscellaneous.Navy pay, miscellaneous.
For commissions and interest; transportation of funds; exchange;Expenses designated. mileage to officers of the Navy and Naval Reserve Force while traveling under orders in the United States, and for actual personal expenses of officers of the Navy and Naval Reserve Force while traveling abroad under orders, and for traveling expenses of civilian employees, and for mileage, at 5 cents per mile, to midshipmenMileage, midshipmen entering Naval Academy. entering the Naval Academy while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment as midshipmen; for actual traveling expenses of female nurses; actual expenses of officers while on shore patrol duty; hire of launches or other small boats in Asiatic waters; for rent of buildings and offices not in navy yards; expenses of courts-martial, prisoners and prisons, and courts of inquiry, boards of inspection, examining Boards, with clerks, and witnesses’ fees, and traveling expenses and costs; expenses of naval defense districts; stationery and recording; religious books; newspapers and periodicals for the naval service; all advertising for the Navy Department and its bureaus (except advertising for recruits for the Bureau of Navigation); copying; ferriage; tolls; costs of suits; commissions, warrants, diplomas, and discharges; relief of vessels in distress; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; reports; professional investigation; cost of special instruction at home and abroad, including maintenance of students and attachés; information from abroad and at home,Information from abroad, etc. and the collection and classification thereof; all charges pertaining 788to the Navy Department and its bureaus for Ice for the cooling of drinking water on shore (except at naval hospitals), and not to exceed $250,000 for telephone rentals and tolls, telegrams and Interned prisoners of war, etc.cablegrams; postage, foreign and domestic, and post-office box rentals; for necessary expenses for interned persons and prisoners of war under the jurisdiction of the Navy Department, including Private damages claims.
Vol. 41, p. 132. *Provisos.* Restriction on use in naval districts.funeral expenses for such interned persons or prisoners of war as may die while under such jurisdiction, and for payment of claims for damages under Naval Act approved July 11, 1919; and other necessary and incidental expenses; in all, $3,200,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the expense of any naval district unless the commandant thereof shall be also the commandant of a navy yard, naval training station, or naval Clerical, etc., services at yards and stations.operating base: *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 and naval stations, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, shall not exceed $700,000. contingent, navy.
Contingent, Navy.For all emergencies and extraordinary 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, $45,000. Virgin Islands.temporary government for west indian islands. Temporary government in.
Vol. 39, p. 1132.For expenses incident to the occupation of the Virgin Islands and to the execution of the provisions of the Act providing a temporary government for the West Indian Islands acquired by the United States from Denmark, and for other purposes, approved March 3, 1917, to be applied under the direction of the President, *Proviso*. Fees to be paid into treasuries of.$343,440: *Provided*, That quarantine and passport fees collected in the Virgin Islands shall Hereafter be paid into the treasuries of said islands.
State marine schools.state marine schools. Reimbursing New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania for. Vol. 36, p. 1353.To reimburse the State of New York, $25,000, the State of Massachusetts, $25,000, and the State of Pennsylvania, $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, etc.care of lepers, and so forth, island of guam. Care, etc., Culion, P.I.Naval station, island of Guam: For 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, $18,000. Solicitor’s Office.OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR. salaries, navy department. Solicitor, law clerks, etc.Solicitor, $4,000; law clerks—one $2,500, one $2,400, one $2,250, two at $2,000 each; clerks—one $1,800, two at $1,600 each, one $1,400, one $840; messenger, $600; in all, $22,990. 789 For temporary employees in the Office of the Solicitor for the NavyTemporary employees. *Proviso.* Pay restriction.
Department, $19,920: *Provided*, That no person shall be hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following: One $3,000, and two at $2,400 each. OFFICE OF NAVAL RECORDS AND LIBRARY.Office of Naval Records and Library. salaries, navy department. Chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—two at $1,800 each, four at $1,400Civilian employees. each, four at $1,200 each, one $1,000; copyist, $900; copyist, $720; assistant messenger, $720; laborer, $660; in all, $20,000. naval war records.Naval Records of World War.
Toward the collection or copying and classification, with a view toExpenses of collecting, etc. publication, of the naval records of the war with the Central Powers of Europe, including the purchase of books, periodicals, photographs, maps, and other publications, documents, and pictorial records of the Navy in said war, clerical services in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, and other necessary incidental expenses, $19,000: *Provided*,*Proviso.* Pay restriction. That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum.
For completion, with the exception of the index, of the publicationNaval Records, War of the Rebellion. Completing. of eleven thousand copies of the official records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion, $4,500. OFFICE OF JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL.Judge Advocate General. salaries, navy department. Two attorneys, at $2,500 each; chief law clerk, $2,250; law clerks—Civilian employees in office of. one $2,200, one $2,000; clerks—one $1,800, one $1,400, one $1,300, seven at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each, one $900; messenger, $840; assistant messenger, $720; in all, $29,810.
For temporary employees in the office of the Judge Advocate Temporary attorneys.General, as follows: Two attorneys at $3,000 each, $6,000. To pay George Melling for compiling the laws and decisions relatingGeorge Melling. Compiling Navy laws, etc. to the Navy, Navy Department, and Marine Corps made prior to July 1, 1922, including an index thereto, and in accordance with Senate resolution of March 30, 1914, $3,000, to be available upon completion of said work. OFFICE OF CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS.Chief of Naval Operations. salaries, navy department.
Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—one $1,800, two at $1,600 each, three atCivilian employees in office of. $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each, one $900; photographer, $1,800; two draftsmen, at $1,200 each; two assistant messengers, at $720 each; messenger boys—one $600, one $400; laborer, $660; in all, $27,450. For temporary employees in the office of the Chief of Naval Operations,Temporary employees. *Proviso.* Pay restriction. $33,720 *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except four persons at $2,000 each. office of director of naval communications.Director of Naval Communications.
Salaries, Navy Department: For employees in the office of theCivilian employees in office of. *Proviso.* Director of Naval Communications, $134,300: *Provided*, That no 790Pay restriction.person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following: One at $4,000, two at $3,000 each, one at $2,500, and three at $1,900 each. Naval Intelligence Office.office of naval intelligence. Civilian employees.Salaries, Navy Department: Stenographer, $1,800; clerks—one $1,800, one $1,400, one $1,300, five at $1,000 each; three translators, at $1,400 each; draftsman, $1,200; in all, $16,700.
Temporary employees. *Proviso*. Pay restriction.For temporary employees in the Office of Naval Intelligence, $13,380: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except two persons at $2,000 each. Bureau of Navigation.BUREAU OF NAVIGATION. transportation and recruiting. Transportation, etc.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 thereof;
Naval Reserve Force.transportation of enlisted men of the Naval Reserve Force to and from duty, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, and for railway guides and other expenses incident to transportation; Recruiting.expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent of rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentice seamen; actual and necessary expenses in lieu of mileage to officers on duty with traveling recruiting parties;
Dependents of enlisted men.transportation of dependents of enlisted men; in all, $4,151,775. recreation for enlisted men. Recreation, enlisted men.For the recreation, amusement, comfort, contentment, and health of the Navy, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the *Proviso.* Pay restriction.Navy, under such regulations as he may prescribe, $520,000: *Provided*, That not more than two persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum.
Contingent.contingent. For ferriage, continuous-service certificates, discharges, good-conduct badges, and medals for men and boys; purchase of gymnastic apparatus; transportation of effects of deceased officers and enlisted men of the Navy, and of officers and enrolled men of the Naval Reserve Force who die while on duty; books for training apprentice seamen and landsmen; 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, $16,000.
Gunnery and engineering exercises, etc.gunnery and engineering exercises. Prizes, badges, etc.For prizes, trophies, and badges for excellence in gunnery, target practice, engineering exercises, and for economy in fuel consumption, 791to 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 establishmentShooting galleries, ranges, etc. and maintenance of shooting galleries, target houses, targets, and ranges; for hiring established ranges, and for transporting equipment to and from ranges, $93,200. instruments and supplies.
For supplies for seamen’s quarters; and for the purchase of all otherEquipment supplies, etc. 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; in all, $990,112. ocean and lake surveys.
For hydrographic surveys, including the pay of the necessaryOcean and lake surveys. hydrographic surveyors, cartographic draftsmen, and recorders, and for the purchase and printing of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, $90,000. naval training station, california.Training stations. Maintenance of naval training station, Yerba Buena Island andYerba Buena Island and San Diego, Calif. San Diego, California: For labor and material; buildings and wharves; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and wharves; wharfage, ferriage, and street-car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, tools, and repairs to same; fire engines and extinguishers; gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating and lighting; stationery, books, school-books, and periodicals; fresh water, and washing; packing boxes and materials; and all other contingent expenses; maintenance of dispensary building; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen; in all, $125,000. naval training station, rhode island.Rhode Island.
Maintenance of naval training station, Rhode Island (exclusive ofCoddington Point excluded. Coddington Point): For labor and material, buildings and wharves; dredging channels; extending sea walls; repairs to causeway and sea wall; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and wharves; wharfage, ferriage, and street car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, repairs to same, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of two horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes; fire engines and extinguishers; gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; printing outfit and materials, 792and 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 *Proviso.* Clerical, etc., services.suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen; in all, $225,000: *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, 1923, shall not exceed $15,701.60. naval training station, great lakes.
Great Lakes, Ill.Maintenance of Naval Training Station: For labor and material; general care, repairs, and improvement of grounds, buildings, and piers; street car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle to be used only for official purposes; fire apparatus and extinguishers; gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; printing outfit and material, and maintenance of same; heating and lighting, and repairs to power-plant equipment, distributing mains, tunnel, and commits; 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.in all, $200,000: *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, 1923, shall not exceed $45,000. naval training station, naval operating base, hampton roads, virginia.
Naval Operating Base, Hampton Roads, Va.Maintenance of Naval Training Station at Naval Operating Base, Virginia: For labor and material, general care, repairs, and improvements; schoolbooks; and all other incidental expenses; m all, *Proviso.* Clerical, etc., services.$260,000: *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, 1923, shall not exceed $25,000.
Naval Reserve Force.naval reserve force. Organizing, recruiting, etc., expenses.For expenses of organizing, administering, and recruiting the Naval Reserve Force and Naval Militia; for the maintenance and rental of armories, including the pay of necessary janitors, and for wharfage, Pay, etc., on active training duty.$200,000; for pay and allowances of officers and enrolled men of the Naval Reserve Force, other than class one, while on active duty for training; mileage for officers while traveling under orders to and from active duty for training; transportation of enrolled men to and from active duty for training, and subsistence and transfers en route or cash in lieu thereof; subsistence of enrolled men during the actual period of active duty for training; pay and allowances of officers of the Naval Reserve Force and pay, allowances, and subsistence of enrolled men of the Naval Reserve Force when ordered to active duty in connection with the instruction, training, and drilling of the Naval Retainer pay.Reserve Force; and retainer pay of officers and enrolled men of the Naval Reserve Force, other than class one, $2,800,000; in all, Additional to other appropriations for vessels.$3,000,000, which amount shall be available, in addition to other appropriations, for fuel and the transportation thereof and for all other expenses in connection with the maintenance, operation, repair, and 793upkeep of vessels assigned for training the Naval Reserve Force: *Provided*, That members of the Volunteer Naval Reserve may, in the*Provisos*.
Uniforms to Volunteer Naval Reserves. discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, be issued such articles of uniform as may be required for their drills and training, the value thereof not to exceed that authorized to be issued to other classes of the Naval Reserve Force and to be charged against the clothing and small stores fund: *Provided further*, That no part of the money appropriatedConsent to training necessary. in this Act shall be used for the training of any member of the Naval Reserve Force except with his own consent.
That, untilNaval Militia. Constituted from State, etc., Organized Militia. Until June 30, 1923, made part of Naval Reserve Force. June 30, 1923, of the Organized Militia as provided by law, such part as may be duly prescribed in any State, Territory, or for the District of Columbia shall constitute a Naval Militia; and, until June 30, 1923, such of the Naval Militia as now is in existence, and as now organized and prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy under authorityVol. 38, p. 285. of the Act of Congress approved February 16, 1914, shall be a part of the Naval Reserve Force, and the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to maintain and provide for said Naval Militia as provided in said Act: *Provided*, That upon their enrollment in theBenefits, etc., upon enrollment.
Naval Reserve Force, and not otherwise until June 30, 1923, the members of said Naval Militia shall have all the benefits gratuities, privileges, and emoluments provided by law for other members of the Naval Reserve Force; and that, with the approval of the SecretaryCredit for duty in Militia. of the Navy, duty performed in the Naval Militia may be counted as active service for the maintenance of efficiency required by law for members of the Naval Reserve Force. naval war college, rhode island.Naval War College.
For maintenance of the Naval War College on Coasters HarborMaintenance, etc. Island, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle to be used only for official purposes; and care of ground for same, $82,750; services of a professor of international law, $2,000; services of civilian lecturers, rendered at the War College, $1,200; care and preservation of the library, including the purchase, binding, and repair of books of reference and periodicals, $5,000; in all, $90,950: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of*Proviso*.
Clerical, etc., services. this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, inspection, drafting, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, shall not exceed $50,000. naval home, philadelphia, pennsylvania.Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pa. Pay of employees: Secretary, $2,200; foreman mechanic, $2,200;Pay of employees. superintendent of grounds, $1,080; steward, $1,200; store laborer, $660;matron and office assistant, $720; beneficiaries’ attendant, $480; baker, $720; chief cook, $660; assistant cooks—one $540, one $480; laundresses—chief $420, five at $360 each; scrubbers—chief $420, three at $360 each; waitresses—head $480, eleven at $360 each; kitchen attendant, $540; laborers—five at $600 each, eight at $540 each; firemen—one $840, three at $720 each; gardener, $840 helper, pipe fitter, $975; helper, woodworker, $975; stable keeper and driver, $660; master at arms, 8900; two house corporals, at $600 each; barber, $600; carpenter, $1,200; painters—one $1,200, one $1,020; engineer, $1,080; chauffeurs—one for coal truck $960, one for small truck, $840; electrician, $1,400; stenographers and typewriters—one $1,800, one $1,400, one $1,200, one $1,000; telephone operator, $900; total for employees, $50,110;
Maintenance: For water rent, heating, and lighting; cemetery,Maintenance. burial expenses, and headstones; general care and improvements of grounds, buildings, walls, and fences; repairs to power-plant equipment, implements, tools, and furniture, and purchase of the same; 794music in chapel and entertainments for beneficiaries; stationery, books, and periodicals; transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, and of sick and insane beneficiaries, their attendants and necessary subsistence for both, to and from other Government hospitals; employment of such beneficiaries in and about the Naval Home, as may be authorized by the Secretary of the Navy, on the recommendation of the governor; support of beneficiaries and all other contingent expenses, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle, two motor-propelled vehicles, and one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, to be used only for official purposes, $108,512;
Payable from naval pension fund.In all, Naval Home, $158,622, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund. salaries, bureau of navigation, navy department. Civilian employees of Bureau in the Department.Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—one $2,200, two at $2,000 each, six at $1,800 each, five at $1,600 each, ten at $1,400 each, fourteen at $1,200 each, four at $1,100 each, twenty-one at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; four copyists, at $900 each; two copyists, at $840 each; messenger, $840; two assistant messengers, at $720 each; two messenger boys, at $600 each; five laborers, at $660 each; in all, $100,010.
Temporary employees. *Proviso.* Pay restriction.For temporary employees in the Bureau of Navigation, $248,600: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except four persons at $2,000 each. Hydrographic Office.hydrographic office. salaries, navy department. Salaries of civilian employees.Hydrographic engineer, $3,000; assistants—one $2,200, one $2,000; chief clerk, $1,800; nautical experts—one $1,800, one $1,600, one $1,400, three at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each; clerks—one $1,400, one $1,200; custodian of archives, $1,200; three copyists, at $900 each; compiler, $1,400; editor of Notice to Mariners, $1,800; computer, $1,400; draftsmen—four at $1,800 each, four at $1,600 each, four at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each, seven at $1,000 each; three apprentice draftsmen, at $700 each; engravers—chief $2,000, two at $1,800 each, three at $1,600 each, one $1,400, six at $1,200 each; apprentice engravers—one $800, one $700; plate printers—chief, $1,400, one $1,200, one $1,000; apprentice plate printers—one $700, one $600: lithographers—chief $1,800, apprentice $700; process photographer, $1,600; lithographic transferer, $1,400; lithographic pressman, $1,400; photographic printer, $1,200; two negative cutters, at $1,000 each; electrotyper and chart plate maker, $1,400; assistant messenger, $720; six laborers, at $660 each; helpers—two at $720 each, two at $660 each, one $600; in all, $109,540.
Temporary employees. *Proviso.* Pay restriction.For temporary employees in Hydrographic Office, $109,490: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following: One at $2,750, one at $2,400, three at $2,200 each, eight at $2,000 each, and one at $1,900. Contingent and miscellaneous expenses.Contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Hydrographic Office: For purchase and printing of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, copperplates, steel plates, chart paper, packing boxes, chart portfolios, electrotyping copperplates, cleaning copper-plates; tools, instruments, power, and materials for drawing, engraving, and printing; materials for and mounting charts; reduction of charts by photography; photolithographing charts for immediate 795use; transfer of photolithographic and other charts to copper; purchase of equipment for the storage of plates used in making charts and for the storage of Hydrographic Office charts and publications; care and repairs to printing presses, furniture, instruments, and tools; extra drawing and engraving; translating from foreign languages; telegrams on public business; preparation of pilot charts and theirPilot charts. supplements, and printing anti mailing same; purchase of data for charts and sailing directions and other nautical publications; books of reference and works and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, and to other professional and technical subjects connected with the work of the Hydrographic Office, $110,000. contingent expenses, branch hydrographic offices.Branch offices.
For contingent expenses of branch hydrographic offices at Boston,Contingent expenses of. New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Savannah, New Orleans, San Francisco, Portland (Oregon), Portland (Maine), Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo, Duluth, Saint Sainte Marie, Seattle, Panama, and Galveston, including furniture, fuel, lights, works, and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, stationery, miscellaneous articles, rent, and care of offices, care of time balls, car fare and ferriage in visiting merchant vessels, freight and express charges, telegrams, and other necessary expenses incurred in collecting the latest information for pilot charts, and for other purposes for which the offices were established, $15,000.
For services of necessary employees at branch offices, $23,700.Branch offices, employees. naval observatory.Naval Observatory. salaries, navy department. Astronomers—one $3,200, one $2,800; assistant astronomers—oneSalaries of civilian employees. $2,400, one $2,000, one $1,800; assistant in department of nautical instruments, $1,600; clerks—chief $2,000, one $1,800, one $1,600, two at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each; instrument maker, $1,500; electrician, $1,500; librarian, $1,800; assistants—three at $1,600 each, three at $1,400 each; stenographer and typewriter, $900; foreman and captain of the watch, $1,000; carpenter, $1,000; engineer, $1,200; four firemen, at $720 each; seven watchmen, at $720 each; mechanic, $900; eight laborers, at $660 each; in all, $56,400. contingent and miscellaneous expenses, naval observatory.Contingent, etc., expenses.
For miscellaneous computations, $5,000.Computations. For professional and scientific books, books of reference, periodicals,Library. engravings, photographs, and fixtures for the library, $1,000. For apparatus and instruments, and for repairs of the same, $2,500.Apparatus, etc. For repairs to buildings, fixtures, and fences; furniture, gas, Repairs to buildings, etc.chemicals, and stationery; freight (including transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange), foreign postage, and expressage; plants, fertilizers, and all contingent expenses; $3,500.
For fuel, oil, grease, pipe, wire, and other materials needed for Miscellaneous items.the maintenance and repair of boilers, engines, heating apparatus, electric lighting and power plant, and water-supply system; purchase and maintenance of teams; maintenance, repair, or operation of motor truck and passenger automobile and of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles; material for boxing nautical instruments for 796transportation; paints, telegraph and telephone service, and incidental labor; $12,000.
Grounds and roads.For cleaning, repair, and upkeep of grounds and roads, $5,000. Nautical Almanac Office.salaries, nautical almanac office. Civilian assistants, etc.For assistants in preparing for publication the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac—one $2,500, one $2,000, two at $1,800 each, two at $1,600 each, two at $1,400 each, three at $1,200 each; assistant messenger, $720; in all, $18,420. Computers.For pay of computers on piecework in preparing for publication the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac and in improving the tables of the planets, moon, and stars, $1,500.
Bureau of Engineering.BUREAU OF ENGINEERING. engineering. Engineering repairs, machinery, etc.For repairs, preservation, and renewal of machinery, auxiliary machinery, and boilers of naval vessels, yard craft, and ships’ boats, distilling and refrigerating apparatus; repairs, preservation, and renewals of electric interior and exterior signal communications and all electrical appliances of whatsoever nature on board naval vessels, except range finders, battle order and range transmitters and indicators, and motors and their controlling apparatus used to operate machinery belonging to other bureaus; searchlights and fire-control equipments for antiaircraft defense at shore stations; maintenance and Equipment supplies.operation of coast signal service; equipage, supplies, and materials under the cognizance of the bureau required for the maintenance and operation of naval vessels, yard craft, and ships’ boats; care, custody, and operation of the naval petroleum reserves; purchase, installation, repair, and preservation of machinery, tools, and appliances in navy yards and stations, pay of classified force under the bureau; incidental expenses for naval vessels, navy yards, and stations, inspectors’ offices, the engineering experiment station, such as photographing, technical books and periodicals, stationery, and Radiotelegraphy.instruments; instruments and apparatus, supplies, and technical books and periodicals necessary to carry on experimental and research work in radiotelegraphy at the naval radio laboratory; in all, *Proviso*.
Clerical, etc., services.$14,795,000: *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 in navy yards, naval stations, and offices of United States inspectors of machinery and engineering material for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, shall not exceed $1,675,000. Engineering experiment station.engineering experiment station, united states naval academy, annapolis, maryland.
Experimental work, etc.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. salaries, navy department. Civilian employees of Bureau in the Department.Chief clerk, $2,250; bookkeeper and accountant, $1,800; clerks— one $1,800, four at $1,600 each, six at $1,400 each, two at $1,300 each, five at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each; four assistant messengers at $720 each; laborer, $660; messenger boy, $600; in all, $35,390. 797 For additional personal services in the Bureau of Engineering,Additional employees. as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary, to be employed only in the Bureau of Engineering, as follows:
Nontechnical services, $80,000;Nontechnical. Services of draftsmen and such other technical services required Draftsmen, etc.to carry into effect the various appropriations for “Increase of the Navy,” in this Act constituted as one fund, and the appropriation “Engineering,” $175,000; In all, $255,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed*Proviso*. Pay restriction. hereunder, other than as a draftsman or such other technical capacity, at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following:
Two at $2,100 each and two at $2,000 each. BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR.Bureau of Construction and Repair. construction and repair of vessels. For preservation and completion of vessels on the stocks and inConstruction and repair of vessels, etc. ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; steam steerers, steam capstans, steam windlasses, and all other auxiliaries; labor in navy yards and on foreign stations; purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops; carrying on work of experimental model tank and wind tunnel; designing naval vessels; construction and repair of yard craft, lighters, and barges; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat; general care and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; incidental expenses for vessels and navy yards, inspectors’ offices, such as photographing, books, professional magazines, plans, stationery, and instruments for drafting room, and for pay of classified force under the bureau: for hemp, wire, iron, andEquipment supplies. other materials for the manufacture of cordage, anchors, cables, galleys, and chains; specifications for purchase thereof shall be so prepared as shall give fair and free competition; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, hammocks, and other work; interior appliances and tools for manufacturing purposes in navy yards and naval stations; and for the purchase of all other articles of equipage at home and abroad; and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith and manufacture of such articles in the several navy yards; naval signals and apparatus, other than electric, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, running lights, and lamps and their appendages for general use on board ship for 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,*Proviso*.
Clerical, etc., services. $16,000,000: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, drafting, inspection, watchmen (ship keepers), and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and offices of superintending naval constructors for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, shall not exceed $1,800,000. salaries, navy department. Chief clerk, $2,250; chief of section, $2,000; clerks—four at $1,800Civilian employees of Bureau in the Department. each, four at $1,600 each, five at $1,400 each, five at $1,300 each, six at $1,200 each, eight at $1,100 each, six at $1,000 each; nine assistant messengers, at $720 each; in all, $59, 830.
For additional personal services in the Bureau of Construction andAdditional employees. Repair, as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary, to be employed only in the Bureau of Construction and Repair, as follows: Nontechnical services, $56,630;Nontechnical. Services of draftsmen and such other technical services requiredDraftsmen, etc. to carry into effect the various appropriations for “Increase of the 798Navy,” in this Act constituted as one fund, and the appropriation “Construction and Repair,” $200,000; *Proviso.* Pay restriction.In all, $256,630: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder, other than as a draftsman or such other technical capacity, at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following:
One at $2,250 and two at $2,000 each. Bureau of Ordnance.BUREAU OF ORDNANCE. ordnance and ordnance stores. Procuring, etc., 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 target practice; for the maintenance, repair, or operation of horse-drawn and motor-propelled freight and 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 service in navy yards, naval stations, naval ordnance plants, and naval *Proviso.* Chemical, etc., services.ammunition depots; in all, $9,500,000: *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, 1923, shall not exceed $935,000.
Smokeless powder.For purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, $167,000. experiments, bureau of ordnance. Experimental work.For experimental work in the development of armor-piercing 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, $205,000. contingent, bureau of ordnance.
Contingent.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, $18,000. salaries, navy department. Civilian employees of Bureau in the Department.Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—two at $1,800 each, two at $1,600 each, four at $1,400 each, one $1,300, four at $1,200 each, one $1,100, seven at $1,000 each; assistant messenger, $720; messenger boys— two at $600 each, one $400; laborer, $660; in all, $31,830.
Additional employees.For additional personal services in the Bureau of Ordnance, as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary, to be employed only in the Bureau of Ordnance, as follows: Nontechnical.Nontechnical services, $36,400; Draftsmen, etc.Services of draftsmen and such other technical services required to carry into effect the various appropriations for “Increase of the799Navy,” in this Act constituted as one fund, and the appropriation “Ordnance and Ordnance Stores,” $65,000;
In all, $101,400: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed*Proviso.* Pay restriction. hereunder, other than as a draftsman or such other technical capacity, at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum, except the following: One at $2,200, one at $2,000. BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. pay of the navy.Pay of the Navy. *Ante*, p. 625. For pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on sea dutyOfficers. Pay, rental, and subsistence allowances.
Hire of quarters. and other duty, and officers on waiting orders—pay, $25,586,102, rental allowance $5,712,771, subsistence allowance, $3,218,643, in all $34,517,516; officers on the retired list, $3,623,715; 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, and hire of quarters for officers and enlisted men on sea duty at such times as they may be deprived of their quarters on board ship due to repairs or other conditions which may render them uninhabitable, $20,000; pay of enlisted men on the retired list, $944,689;Enlisted men.
Pay, etc. extra pay to men reenlisting under honorable discharge, $2,809,675; interest on deposit by men, $10,000; pay of petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and apprentice seamen, including men in the engineer’s force and men detailed for duty with the Fish Commission, enlisted men, men in trade schools, pay of enlisted men of the Hospital Corps, $70,902,478; pay of enlisted men undergoing sentence of court-martial, $858,000; 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 board training ships, at the pay prescribed by law, $1,512,000; pay and allowances of theNurse Corps.
Nurse Corps—pay, $631,180, rental allowance, $28,800, subsistence allowance, $13,140, in all $673,120; rent of quarters for members of the Nurse Corps, $25,000; retainer pay and active-service pay ofFleet Naval Reserve. members of the Naval Reserve Force Class 1 (Fleet Naval Reserve), $5,689,233; reimbursement for losses of property under act ofProperty losses, etc. Vol. 40, p. 389. Death gratuity. October 6, 1917, $10,000; payment of six months’ death gratuity, $150,000; in all, $121,745,426; and the money herein specifically Accounting, etc.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*, That retainer pay*Provisos*.
Reenlistment permitted for age retirement. provided by existing law shall not be paid to any member of the Naval Reserve Force who fails to train as provided by law during the year for which he fails to train. The authorization contained in section 2 of the Naval AppropriationEmploying reserve officers in aviation, etc., repealed. Vol. 41, p. 834. Act for the fiscal year 1921 for the employment of five hundred reserve officers in the aviation and auxiliary service is hereby repealed.
Immediately upon the approval of this Act the Secretary of the Enlisted men.Navy shall begin to reduce the enlisted strength of the Navy, byReduction of, to 86,000. furlough without pay (and no refunds shall be required of men so furloughed), discharge, or otherwise, under such regulations as he may prescribe, without regard to the provisions of existing law governing discharges, so that the average number of enlisted men, including 6,000 apprentice seamen, shall not exceed 86,000 during the fiscal year 1923: *Provided*, That enlisted men who have served*Proviso.* Retainer pay restriction, Naval Reserve force. not less than twenty-five years shall, unless sooner discharged by sentence of court-martial, be permitted to reenlist and continue serving until they are eligible for retirement after thirty years’ service as now provided by law: *Provided further*, That enlisted menTransfers to Fleet Naval Reserve after 16 years’ service. of the Navy who would be eligible under existing law for transfer to 800the Fleet Naval Reserve after sixteen years’ service at the expiration of the current enlistment in which serving, or who have completed sixteen years’ service, may be transferred to the Fleet Naval Reserve at any time after the passage of this Act in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, and shall, upon such transfer, receive the same pay and allowances as now authorized by law for men transferred to the Fleet Naval Reserve at the expiration of enlistment after After 18 years, with pay, etc., as of 20 years’ service.sixteen years’ service: *Provided further*, That enlisted men of the Navy, who have completed eighteen years’ service, may be transferred to the Fleet Naval Reserve at any time after the passage of this Act in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, and shall, upon such transfer, receive the same pay and allowances as now authorized by law for men transferred to the Fleet Naval Reserve Serving more than 12, allowed to continue until 16 years for transfer.after twenty years’ service: *Provided further*, That enlisted men who have served for more than twelve but less than sixteen years shall be permitted to reenlist and continue serving, unless sooner discharged by sentence of a court-martial, until they have completed sixteen years’ service, whereupon they shall, upon their own application, be Transfers restricted after enlisted strength reduced, etc.permitted to transfer to the Fleet Naval Reserve: *Provided further*, That no enlisted men of the Navy shall be transferred to the Fleet Naval Reserve unless they have completed sixteen or twenty years’ service after the Navy is reduced to the number of enlisted men appropriated for in this Act, and in no event after January 1, 1923:
Discharge or furlough if serving less than 12 years.*Provided further*, That the enlisted men who have served less than twelve years found to be in excess of the total number herein appropriated for, after all other deductions have been made by way of retirement or transfer, shall be discharged or furloughed without pay for the convenience of the Government, and all recruiting shall be discontinued until the total number of enlisted men has been reduced Travel allowance on separation.to the number herein appropriated for: *Provided further*, That enlisted men of the Navy who may be separated from the service by furlough or discharge under the requirements of this Act shall receive travel Allowances, etc., if reenlisting.allowance now authorized by law for men honorably discharged, and shall, upon reenlistment in the Navy at any time hereafter, receive the then current pay of the rating held at the time of discharge plus all permanent additions to such pay authorized by law at time of reenlistment for service equal to that which they had at time of discharge, and, if allowed to reenlist, shall be required to serve under such reenlistment only for a period equal to the unexpired term of the enlistment in which serving when furloughed or discharged:
Additional medical personnel authorized or Veterans’ Bureau patients in naval hospitals.*Provided further*, That additional commissioned, warranted, appointed, enlisted and civilian personnel of the medical department of the Navy, required for the care of patients of the United States Veterans Bureau in naval hospitals, may be employed in addition to the numbers authorized or appropriated for in this Act. Provisions.provisions, navy. Commuted rations, etc.For provisions and commuted rations for the seamen and marines, which commuted rations may be paid to caterers of messes in case of death or desertion upon orders of the commanding officers, at 50 cents per diem, and midshipmen at 80 cents per diem, and commuted rations stopped on account of sick in hospital and credited at the Subsistence, etc.rate of 75 cents per ration to the naval hospital fund; subsistence of 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); quarters and subsistence of men on detached duty; subsistence of Naval Reserve Force.officers and men of the naval auxiliary service; subsistence of members of the Naval Reserve Force during period of active service; 801expenses in handling provisions and for subsistence in kind at hospitals and on board snip in lieu of subsistence allowance 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; in all, $19,499,355, to be available until the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized*Proviso*.
Commuted rations for prisoners. 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 ofArmy emergency ration. United States Army emergency rations as required. maintenance. For fuel; the removal and transportation of ashes and garbageMaintenance. from ships of war; books, blanks, and stationery, including stationery for commanding and navigating officers of ships, chaplains on shore and afloat, and for the use of courts-martial on board snips; purchase, repair, and exchange of typewriters for ships; packing boxes and materials; interior fittings for general storehouses, pay offices, and accounting offices in navy yards; expenses of disbursing officers; coffee mills and repair thereto; expenses of naval clothing factory and machinery for the same; laboratory equipment; purchase ofEquipment supplies. 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 in handling stores purchased and manufactured under “the naval supply account fund”; and reimbursement to appropriations of the Department of Agriculture of cost of inspection of meats andMeat, etc., inspection. meat food products for the Navy Department; in all, $7,054,260: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the*Proviso*.
Chemical, etc., services. direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for chemists and for clerical, inspection, and messenger service in the supply and accounting departments of the navy yards and naval stations and disbursing offices for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, shall not exceed $3,069,260. The clothing and small-stores fund shall be charged with the valueClothing and small-stores fund. Outfits on first enlistments charged thereto. of all issues of clothing and small stores made to enlisted men and apprentice seamen required as outfits on first enlistment, not to exceed $100 each, and for civilian clothing not to exceed $15 per man to men given discharge for bad conduct, for undesirability, or inaptitude, and the uniform gratuity paid to officers of the Naval ReserveUniform gratuity.
Force. freight. For all freight and express charges pertaining to the Navy DepartmentFreight, Department and Bureaus. and its bureaus, except the transportation of coal for the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $4,000,000. fuel and transportation. For coal and other fuel for steamers’ and ships’ use, includingFuel, transportation, etc. expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same; main-802tenance and general operation of machinery of naval fuel depots and fuel plants; water for all purposes on board naval vessels; and ice for the cooling of water, including the expense of transportation and storage of both, $16,000,000. salaries, navy department.
Civilian employees of Bureau in the Department.Civilian assistant, $2,500; principal clerk, $2,250; two chief book-keepers, at $2,000 each; clerks—seven at $1,800 each, seven at $1,600 each, ten at $1,400 each, eighteen at $1,200 each, eight at $1,100 each; five assistant messengers, at $720 each; messenger boys—four at $600 each; in all $82,950. Additional employees.For additional personal services in the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary, to be employed only in the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, including the Navy Allotment Office, the Navy Disbursing Office, and the Navy *Proviso*.
Pay restriction.Property Accounting Office, $676,160: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following: One $5,000, two at $4,500 each, one $3,000, two at $2,500 each, one $2,400, three at $2,350 each, one $2,300, three at $2,250 each, one $2,200, one $2,150, three at $2,100 each, nine at $2,000 each, and three at $1,950 each. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY. medical department.
Surgeons’ necessaries. Civil establishment.For surgeon’s necessaries for vessels in commission, navy yards, naval stations, and Marine Corps; and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy yards, naval medical supply depots, Naval Medical School and Dispensary, Washington, and Naval *Proviso.* Clerical services.Academy; $2,400,000: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical service m naval hospitals, dispensaries, medical supply depots, and Naval Medical School, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, shall not exceed $150,000. contingent, bureau of medicine and surgery.
Contingent expenses.For tolls and ferriages; care, transportation, and burial of the dead, including officers who die within the United States, and supernumerary patients who die in naval hospitals; purchase of cemetery lots; purchase of books and stationery, binding of medical records, unbound books, and pamphlets; hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration; sanitary, hygienic, and special instruction, including the printing and issuing of naval medical bulletins and supplements;
Vehicles, etc.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; trees, plants, care of grounds, garden tools, and seeds; incidental articles or 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 dis-803pensary, Washington, District of Columbia, not to exceed $1,200; or the care, maintenance, and treatment of the insane of the NavyCare of insane on Pacific coast. and Marine Corps on the Pacific coast, including supernumeraries held for transfer to the Government Hospital for the Insane; for dental outfits and dental material, and all other necessary contingent expenses; in all, $435,000. bringing home remains of officers, and so forth.
To enable the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to cause toTransporting remains of officers, etc. be transferred to their homes the remains of officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps, of members of the Nurse Corps, of civilian officers and crews of naval auxiliaries, and of officers and enlisted men of the Naval Militia and National Naval Volunteers and the Naval Reserve Force when on active service with the Navy, who die or are killed in action ashore or afloat, and also to enable theCivilian employees dying abroad.
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, $65,000: *Provided*, That *Proviso*. Application of fund.the sum herein appropriated shall be available for payment for transportation of the remains of officers and men who have died while on duty at any time since April 21, 1898. care of hospital patients. For the care, maintenance, and treatment of patients, includingCare of hospital patients. supernumeraries, in naval and other than naval hospitals, $85,000. salaries, navy department.
Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—two at $1,800 each, two at $1,600 each,Civilian employees of Bureau in the Department. three at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each, two at $1,100 each, three at $1,000 each; messenger, $840; assistant messenger, $720; laborer, $660; naval dispensary—driver $600, laborer $480; in all, $24,150. For temporary employees in the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,Temporary employees. *Proviso.* Pay restriction. $37,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except two persons at $2,000 each.
BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS.Bureau of Yards and Docks. maintenance. For general maintenance of yards and docks, namely, for books,General maintenance. maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines; fire apparatus and plants; machinery; operation, repair, purchase,Vehicles, etc. maintenance of horses and driving teams, carts, timber wheels, and all vehicles, including motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes, and including motor-propelled vehicles for freight-carrying purposes only for use in all navy yards and naval stations; tools and repair of the same; stationery; furniture for Government houses and offices in navy yards and naval stations; coal and other fuel; candles, oil, and gas, attendance on light and power plants; cleaning and clearing up yards and care of buildings; attendance on fires, lights, fire engines, and fire apparatus and plants; incidental labor at navy yards; water tax, tolls, and ferriage; pay of watchmen in navy yards; awnings and packing boxes; pay for employees on leave, and for repairs and preservation at navy yards, fuel depots, fuel plants, and stations; $5,800,000: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation*Provisos.* Clerical, etc., services. under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, 804inspection, drafting, messenger, and other classified work in the navy yards and naval stations, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, Purchase of passenger automobiles forbidden.shall not exceed $950,000: *Provided further*, That no part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used for the purchase of Limit for operating, etc., motor passenger vehicles.passenger-carrying automobiles: *Provided further*, That expenditures from appropriations contained in this Act for the maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, including the compensation of operators, shall not exceed $175,000, Marine Corps outside continental limits.exclusive of such vehicles owned and operated by the Marine Corps in connection with expeditionary duty without the continental Operators for other bureaus continued.limits of the United States: *Provided further*, That during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, operators of motor vehicles who were carried on the rolls of other bureaus prior to July 1, 1920, shall be continued to be so carried where their employment shall be found necessary. contingent.
Contingent.For contingent expenses and minor extensions and improvements of public works at navy yards and stations, $150,000. salaries, navy department. Civilian employees of Bureau in the Department.Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—two at $1,800 each, one $1,700, one $1,600, two at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each, one $1,100, two at $1,000 each; assistant messenger, $720; three messenger boys, at $600 each; two laborers, at $660 each; in all, $23,690. Additional employees.For additional personal services in the Bureau of Yards and Docks, as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary, to be employed only in the Bureau of Yards and Docks, as follows:
Nontechnical.Nontechnical services, $30,660; Draftsmen, etc.Services of draftsmen and such other technical services to carry into effect the various appropriations and allotments thereunder, $160,000; *Proviso*. Pay restriction.In all, $190,660: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder, other than as a draftsman or such other technical capacity, at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum. Public works.PUBLIC WORKS, BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS. Portsmouth, N.
H. Bridge to Kittery, Me.Navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: To aid in construction of bridge connecting city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with navy yard at Kittery, Maine, to complete, $250,000. New York, N. Y. Water-front improvements suspended. Vol. 40, p. 923.The expenditure of the appropriation of $750,000 for water-front improvements, navy yard, New York, New York, contained in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, is hereby suspended until July 1, 1923.
Philadelphia, Pa.Navy yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dredging, $75,000. Norfolk, Va.Navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Water-front improvements, to continue, $75,000. Charleston, S.C.Navy yard, Charleston, South Carolina; Dredging, to continue, $36,000. Mare Island, Calif.Navy yard, Mare Island, California: Rebuilding dikes, wharves, and quay walls, and maintenance dredging (limit of cost $2,800,000), 8750,000, to be available immediately. Puget Sound, Wash.Navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington:
Central power-plant improvements, $40,000; pier numbered four, extension, $500,000; dredging, $50,000; in all, $590,000. Hampton Roads operating base, Va.Naval operating base, Hampton Roads, Virginia: Repairs to north breakwater, $200,000, to be immediately available. 805 Naval station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Extension of existing paintPearl Harbor, Hawaii. and oil storehouse, $65,000; blocking for Dry Dock Numbered One, $25,000; paving, grading, and railroad extension, $38,000; addition to machine shops, $100,000; in all, $228,000.
Naval ammunition depot, Iona Island, New York: Repairs toAmmunition depots. Iona Island, N. Y. south dock, $15,000. Naval ammunition depot, Lake Denmark, New Jersey: AdditionLake Denmark, N. J. to water main, $5,000; standpipe, $21,000; in all, $26,000. Naval ammunition depot, Fort Lafayette, New York: MagazineFort Lafayette, N. Y roof, $10,000. Naval ammunition depot, Charleston, South Carolina: MagazineCharleston, S. C. for warheads, $36,000. Naval ammunition depot, Puget Sound, Washington:
Fuse and Puget Sound, Wash.detonator house, $8,000. Naval ammunition depot, Mare Island, California: Magazine andMare Island, Calif. shell house, to complete, $100,000. Naval ammunition depot, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Lighting andPearl Harbor, Hawaii. power extension, $15,000; additional storage facilities, $80,000; in all, $95,000. Naval torpedo station, Keyport, Washington: Extension of existingKeyport, Wash., torpedo depot. building for torpedo storage, $45,000. Naval training station, Great Lakes, Illinois, buildings:
Shore protectionGreat Lakes training station, Ill. and harbor improvement, $425,000. Marine Barracks, San Diego, California: To complete the developmentSan Diego, Calif. Marine Barracks. of the Marine Corps base, $482,000. Naval hospital, San Diego, California: To complete, $500,000.Naval hospital. Submarine base, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Extension of existing Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Submarine base.building for battery storage and overhaul, $64,000; grading and railroad extension, $7,500; in all, $71,500.
BUREAU OF AERONAUTICS.Bureau of Aeronautics. aviation, navy. For aviation, to be expended under the direction of the SecretaryAviation, under Secretary of the Navy. Expenses designated. of the Navy, as follows: For aircraft and accessories in course of construction or manufacture on June 30, 1922, $400,000; for navigational, photographic, aerological, radio, and miscellaneous equipment, including repairs thereto, for use with aircraft built or building on June 30, 1922, $165,000; for maintenance, repair, and operationAircraft factory, helium plant, etc. of aircraft factory, helium plant, air stations, fleet activities, testing laboratories, and for overhauling of planes, $5,475,000, including $475,000 for the equipment of vessels with catapults; for continuingCatapults. experiments and development work on all types of aircraft, $1,116,950; for drafting, clerical, inspection, and messenger service, $710,000; for new construction and procurement of aircraft and equipment,New construction, aircraft, etc. $6,537,000: for new construction, buildings and improvements at air stations at a total cost not to exceed 8280,000, as follows:
Anacostia, District of Columbia, $50,000; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, $150,000; Quantico, Virginia, S80,000; in all, $14,683,590, and the money hereinAccounting, etc. specifically appropriated for “Aviation” shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing laws as “Aviation” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund: *Provided*, That the Secretary*Provisos.* Damages from aircraft. 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 $250: *Provided further*, That allReport of adjusted claims. 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 the sum of $400,000 of this appropriation shallHelium plant.806Shore stations limited.be expended for maintenance, repair, and operation of helium plant: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended Airplane factory forbidden.for maintenance of more than six heavier-than-air stations on the coasts of the continental United States: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the construction of a factory for the manufacture of airplanes. salaries, navy department.
Civilian employees of Bureau in the Department. *Proviso.* Pay restriction.For employees in the Bureau of Aeronautics, $54,610: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following: Chief clerk, $2,250, and three clerks at $2,000 each. Technical services.For the services of draftsmen and such other technical services as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary, to be employed only in the Bureau of Aeronautics to carry into effect the appropriation “Aviation,Navy,” $65,000.
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 *Proviso*. Pay restriction.as librarian, $421,500: *Provided*, That not more than $36,500 shall be paid for masters and instructors in swordsmanship and physical training; Restriction on details of commissioned officers as professors, etc.No part of any sum in this Act appropriated shall be expended in the pay or allowances of any commissioned officer of the Navy detailed for duty as professor or instructor at the United States Naval Academy to perform the duties which were performed by civilian professors or instructors on January 1, 1922, whenever the number of civilian professors or instructors employed in such *Provisos.* No civilian contracts to be violated.duties shall be less than eighty: *Provided*, That in reducing the number of civilian professors no existing contract shall be violated:
No dismissal of civilian professors, etc., without six months notice.*Provided further*, That no civilian professor, associate or assistant professor, or instructor shall be dismissed, except for sufficient cause, without six months’ notice to him that his services will be no longer needed. Civilian employees, etc.Assistant librarian, $2,500; cataloguer, $1,800; two shelf assistants, at $1,400 each; secretary of the Naval Academy, $3,000; clerks— two at $2,100 each, two at $1,900 each, two at $1,800 each, nine at $1,600 each, four at $1,400 each, twenty-three at $1,300 each, seven at $1,200 each; repair man or seamstress, $1,000; surveyor, $1,700; services of choirmaster and organist at chapel, $1,700; captain of the watch, $1,600; second captain of the watch, $1,500; thirty watchmen, at $1,400 each; five telephone switchboard operators, at $840 each; mail messenger, $1,200; in all, $134,900.
In all, pay of professors and others, Naval Academy, $556,400. Department of ordnance and gunnery.Department of Ordnance and Gunnery: For leading ordnancemen, ordnancemen, ordnance helpers, electricians, and other employees, $19,301. Departments of electrical engineering and physics.Departments of Electrical Engineering and Physics: For electrical machinists, mechanics, laboratorians, and other employees, $17,963. Department of seamanship.Department of seamanship: Three coxswains, at $1,176.88 each; three seamen, at $1,001.60 each; two seamen, at $826.78 each: in all, $8,189.
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, $49,755. Commissary department.Commissary department: For chief clerk and purchasing agent, chief cook and cooks, steward and assistant stewards, stenographers, 807typists, head waiters and assistant head waiters, head pantrymen, chief baker and bakers, butchers, truck chauffeurs, mechanicians for repair of trucks, firemen, seamstresses, and necessary pantrymen, butcher’s helpers, baker’s helpers, waiters, coffeemen, dish pantrymen, utility men, linenmen, laundrymen, scullions, and other unskilled and unclassified occupations, wages to be determined by the Superintendent of the Naval Academy, and in no case to exceed $75 per month in case of unskilled and unclassified employees, $203,215: *Provided*,*Proviso*.
Pay restriction. That no employee paid under the provisions of this paragraph shall receive a salary in excess of $2,000. Department of buildings and grounds: One messenger to superintendent,Department of buildings and grounds. $1,001.60; necessary building attendants, $145,436.40; in all, $146,438. In all, civil establishment, $1,001,251. Current and miscellaneous expenses, Naval Academy: For text and Contingent expenses.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, $100,000.
For purchase, binding, and repair of books for the library (to beLibrary. purchased in the open market on the written order of the superintendent), $2,500. For expenses of the Board of Visitors to the Naval Academy, Board of Visitors.$3,000. For contingencies for the superintendent of the academy, to beSuperintendent. expended in his discretion, $3,000. For contingencies for the commandant of midshipmen, to beCommandant of midshipmen. expended in his discretion, $1,200. In all, current and miscellaneous expenses, $109,700.
Maintenance and repairs, Naval Academy: For necessary repairs ofGeneral maintenance and repairs. public buildings, wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, improvements, repairs, and fixtures; for books, periodicals, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines; fire apparatus and plants; machinery; purchase and maintenance of all horses and horse-drawn vehicles for use at the academy,Horse-drawn vehicles, etc. including the maintenance, operation, and repair of three horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes; seeds and plants; tools and repairs of the same; stationery; furniture for Government buildings and offices at the academy, including furniture for midshipmen’s rooms; coal and other fuels; candles, oil, and gas; attendance on light and power plants; cleaning and clearing up station and care of buildings; attendance on fires, lights, fire engines, fire apparatus, and plants, and telephone, telegraph, and clock systems; incidental labor; advertising, water tax, postage, telephones, telegrams, tolls, and ferriage; flags and awnings; packing boxes; fuel for heating and lighting bandsmen’s quarters; pay of inspectors and draftsmen; music and astronomical instruments; and for pay of employees on leave, $1,105,000.
For commutation of rent for bandsmen, at $15 per month, each,Rent commutation. $13,500. In all, maintenance and repairs, $1,118,500. In all, Naval Academy, exclusive of public works, $2,229,461. 808 Marine Corps.MARINE CORPS. Pay. etc. *Ante*, p. 625.pay, marine corps. Officers, active and reserve. Pay, subsistence, and rental allowances.Pay of officers, active and reserve list: For pay and allowances prescribed by law for all officers on the active and reserve list—pay, $3,367.630, subsistence allowance, $482,000, rental allowance, $750,000; in all, $4,599,630.
Retired list.For pay of officers prescribed by law on the retired list, $379,047. Enlisted men, active and reserve. Pay, allowances, etc.Pay of enlisted men, active and reserve list: For 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, 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 exercises and target practice, and for pay of enlisted men designated as Navy mail clerks and assistant Navy mail clerks, both afloat and ashore—pay, $10,817,398, allowance for lodging and subsistence, $1,048,974; in all, $11,866,372.
Retired list.For pay and allowances prescribed by law of enlisted men on the retired list, $305,938. Undrawn clothing.Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged enlisted men for clothing undrawn, $250,000. Mileage.mileage. For mileage to officers traveling under orders without troops, $125,000. Civil force.pay of civil force. Employees in designated offices.Office of the major general commandant: Special assistant to the major general commandant, $2,750; chief clerk, $2,250; clerk, $1,800; messenger, $972; in all, $7,772.
Office of the paymaster: Chief clerk, $2,250; clerk, $1,500; in all, $3,750. Office of the adjutant and inspector: Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks— one $1,800, one $1,600, one $1,500, one $1,400, one $1,200; in all, $9,750. Office of the quartermaster: Special assistant to the quartermaster, $2,750; chief clerk $2,250; clerks—three at $1,800 each, one $1,500, two at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each; in all, $19,500. Office of the assistant quartermaster, San Francisco, California:
Chief clerk, $2,500. Office of the assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Chief clerk, $2,500; messenger, $840; in all, $3,340. Temporary employees at headquarters, etc. *Proviso.* Pay restriction.For temporary employees in offices at Marine Corps Headquarters and at Marine Corps posts, $100,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $2,000 per annum. Disbursing and accounting.In all, for pay of civil force, $146,612, and the money herein specifically appropriated for pay of the Marine Corps shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law as pay of the Marine Corps, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund.
In all, pay, Marine Corps, $17,672,599. 809 maintenance, quartermaster’s department, marine corps.Maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department. provisions, marine corps. For enlisted men serving ashore; subsistence and lodging of enlistedProvisions. men when traveling on duty, or cash in lieu thereof; payments of board and lodging of applicants for enlistment while held under observation, recruits, recruiting parties, and enlisted men where it is impracticable otherwise to furnish subsistence; ice machines and their maintenance where required for the health and comfort of the troops and for cold storage; ice for offices and preservation of rations; $3,011,519. clothing, marine corps.
For enlisted men authorized by law, $1,100,000.Clothing. fuel, marine corps. For heat and light for the authorized allowance of quarters forFuel. officers and enlisted men, and other buildings and grounds pertaining to the Marine Corps; fuel, electricity, and oil for cooking, power, and other purposes; and sales to officers; $700,000.Sales to officers. military stores, marine corps.Military stores. For purchase and repair of military equipments, such as rifles,Purchase, repairs, etc. revolvers, cartridge boxes, bayonet scabbards, haversacks, blanket bags, canteens, rifle slings, swords, drums, trumpets, flags, waist-belts, 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; equipment, and maintenance of school, library, and amusement rooms and gymnasiums for enlisted men; rental and maintenance of target ranges, and entrance fees in competitions; procuring, preserving,Ammunition. and handling ammunition and other necessary military supplies; in all, $100,000. transportation and recruiting, marine corps.
For transportation of troops, and of applicants for enlistmentTransportation and recruiting. 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; $837,630. repairs of barracks, marine corps. For repairs and improvements to barracks, quarters, and otherRepairs to barracks. 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 of the Navy: such temporary buildings as may be erected in pursuance hereof at a total cost not to exceed $10,000 during the year; $350,000. 810 forage, marine corps.
Forage, etc.For forage in kind and stabling for public animals of the Quartermaster’s Department and the authorized number of officers’ horses, $100,000. contingent, marine corps. Contingent.For freight, expressage, tolls, cartage, advertising, washing, bed linen, towels, and other articles of Government property, 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; employment of civilian labor and draftsmen; purchase, repair, and installation and maintenance of gas, electric, sewer, and water pipes and fixtures; office and barracks furniture, vacuum cleaners, camp and garrison equipage and implements; mess utensils for enlisted men and for properly constituted officers’ messes; packing boxes, wrapping paper, oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, quarantine fees, camphor and carbonized paper, carpenters’ tools, tools for police purposes, safes;
Vehicles, etc.purchase, hire, repair, and maintenance of such harness, wagons, motor wagons, armored automobiles, carts, drays, motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vechicles, 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; Horses, etc.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, 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, newspaper’s, and periodicals; improving parade grounds; repairs of pumps and wharves, water; straw for beading, mattresses; mattress covers, pillows, sheets, furniture for Government quarters and repair of same; packing and crating officers’ allowance of baggage on change Laundries.of station; deodorizing, lubricants, disinfectants; for the construction, operation, and maintenance of laundries; and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but impossible to anticipate Declassify; $1,975,000.
Disbursing and counting.In all, for the maintenance of Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, $8,474,149; and the money herein specifically appropriated for the maintenance of the Quartermaster’s Department, Marino Corps, shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with the existing law as maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps; and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. Total, Marine Corps, exclusive of public works, $26,146,748. Increase of the Navy.INCREASE OF THE NAVY.
Unexpended balances, etc., available.The Secretary of the Navy may use interchangeably the unexpended balances on the date of the approval of this Act under appropriations heretofore made on account of “Increase of the Navy,” New appropriation.including any balance then remaining under the appropriation “Increase of the Navy, Torpedo boat destroyers,” together with the 811sum of $7,500,000, which is hereby appropriated, and in additionAssignment from Shipping Board, etc., of amount due from contractors who are creditors of the Department. thereto such amount, not exceeding $8,000,000, as may be realized at face value with accrued interest by the Navy Department, for application upon the obligations of the Navy Department for “Increase of the Navy” from any assignment, such assignment being hereby authorized, by the United States Shipping Board or the Emergency Fleet Corporation to the Navy Department of any obligation or debt or of any note or other securities held as security therefor owing to the United States Shipping Board or the Emergency Fleet Corporation or to the United States by any contractor to whom or to a subcontractor of whom the Navy Department may be obligated on account of supplies furnished or work done on account of “Increase of the Navy,” for the prosecution of work on vessels under construction onFor work on vessels, including “Maryland,” allowed under treaty limitations. *Post*, p, 814. such date, including the United States ship Maryland, the construction of which may be proceeded with under the terms of the treaty providing for the limitation of naval armament, concluded on February 6, 1922, published in Senate Document Numbered 126 of the present session; for the conversion into aircraft carriers, includingConverting battle cruisers “Lexington” and “Saratoga” into aircraft carriers. their complete equipment of aircraft and aircraft accessories, in accordance with the terms of such treaty, two of the battle cruisers, namely, the Lexington and the Saratoga, the construction of which had been heretofore commenced, when the conversion of such battle cruisers shall have been authorized; for the settlement of contractsPayments for vessels already delivered. on account of vessels already delivered to the Navy Department; for the procurement of gyro compass equipments for destroyers notGyro compasses on destroyers.
Armor, etc., for vessels under construction. already supplied; for the completion of armor, armament, ammunition, and torpedoes under manufacture on April 8, 1922, for the supply and complement of vessels which may be proceeded with as hereinbefore mentioned, including not to exceed four hundred torpedoesOther objects. of the destroyer type, and not more than $14,000,000 of the funds herein made available under “Increase of the Navy” shall be applied to objects of expenditure heretofore under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Ordnance; and for the installation of fire controlFire control on completed destroyers. instruments on twelve destroyers heretofore constructed, and such balances shall not be available for any other purposes.
That any officer of the Navy who has heretofore served four yearsRetirement of officer having specified service, etc., with rank, etc., of chief of bureau. as chief of a bureau in the Navy Department and shall be retired subsequent to the completion of such period of service for physical disability due to wounds inflicted by the enemy while in the performance of his duty shall be retired with the rank, pay, and allowances now authorized by law for the retirement of a chief of bureau.
No part of any appropriation made for the naval service shall beUse for Department expenses restricted. expended for any of the purposes herein provided for on account of the Navy Department in the District of Columbia, including personal services, except as herein expressly authorized. That no part of the appropriations made in this Act shall beNo pay to officers, etc., using time-measuring devices on work of employees. available for the salary or pay of any officer, manager, superintendent, foreman, or other person having charge of the work of any employee of the United States Government while making or causing to be made with a stop watch or other time-measuring device a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such work; nor shall any part of the appropriationsCash rewards, etc., restricted. 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 appropriatedPurchase of articles that can he made at navy yards restricted. in each or any section of this Act shall be used or expended or 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, 812when time and facilities permit, for a sum less than it can be *Proviso*.
Order’s for work, etc., at Government establishments to receive same consideration as private contractors.purchased or acquired otherwise: *Provided*, That all orders or contracts for work or material, under authorization of law heretofore or hereafter placed with Government-owned establishments, shall be considered as obligations in the same manner as provided for similar orders or contracts placed with private contractors, and appropriations for such work or material shall remain available for payment therefor as in the case of orders or contracts placed with private contractors.
Chaplain, Naval Reserve Force. Transfer to regular Navy of officer over age. Vol. 41, p. 835.That the Naval Appropriation Act approved June 4, 1920, is hereby amended so that any chaplain in the Naval Reserve Force who was more than fifty years of age on the date of said Act, and who now holds the confirmed rank of commander, may be transferred to and appointed in the same permanent grade and rank in the regular Navy, not in the line of promotion and not eligible for *Provisos*.
Retirement without pay.retirement: *Provided*, That any chaplain transferred to the regular Navy in accordance with this authorization shall be wholly retired without pay upon attaining the age of sixty-four years or becoming Number not increased.physically incapacitated for active duty: *Provided further*, That nothing contained in this Act shall operate to increase the number of chaplains with the rank of commander as now authorized by law. Approved, July 1, 1922.
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