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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 42 STAT. · June 30, 1924 · Chapter 28

Chapter 28. Making appropriations for the Navy Department and the Naval Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 28.— An Act Making appropriations for the Navy Department and the Naval Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and for other purposes. January 22, 1923.[[H. R. 13374](/us/bill/67/hr/13374).][[Public, No. 384](/us/pl/67/384).] *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 or any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Navy Department and the Naval Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, namely:
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.Secretary’s Office. salaries, navy department. Secretary, Assistant, chief clerk, etc.Secretary of the Navy, $12,000; Assistant Secretary, $5,000; and for chief clerk and such other employees as the Secretary of the *Proviso.*Pay restriction.Navy may deem necessary, $108,000; in all, $125,000; *Provided*, That, other than the Secretary and the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum, except the following:
One $4,000, two at $3,000 each, one $2,500, six at $2,400 each, two at $2,250 each, and three at $2,000 each. conringent expenses, navy department.Department contingent expenses. Library.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. Stationery, furniture, etc.For stationery, furniture, newspapers, plans, drawings, and drawing 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; street1133car fares not exceeding $500; freight, expressage, postage, type-writers and computing machines; necessary traveling expenses for collection of records not exceeding $100; and other absolutely necessary expenses of the Navy Department and its various bureaus and offices, $75,000; it shall not be lawful to expend, unless otherwise Naval service appropriations not to be used for Department purposes.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 and the Printing and binding.Naval Establishment executed at the Government Printing Office, $550,000, including not exceeding $90,000 for the Hydrographic Hydrographic Office.Office. pay, miscellaneous.Navy pay, miscellaneous. For commissions and interest; transportation of funds; exchange, Expenses designated.mileage and actual and necessary expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence as authorized by law to officers of the Navy and Naval Reserve Force while traveling under orders, and for traveling expenses of civilian employees, and for mileage, at 5 cents per mile, to midshipmen entering the Naval Academy while proceeding from Mileage, midshipmen entering Naval Academy.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 Information from abroad, etc.and at home, and the collection and classification thereof; all charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus for ice for the cooling of drinking water on shore (except at naval hospitals), and not to exceed $225,000 for telephone rentals and tolls, telegrams and cablegrams; postage, foreign and domestic, and post-office box rentals; for necessary expenses for interned persons and prisoners Interned prisoners of war, etc.of war under the jurisdiction of the Navy Department, including funeral expenses for such interned persons or prisoners of war as may die while under such jurisdiction, and for payment of claims Damages claims.Vol. 41, p. 132.for damages under Naval Act approved July 11, 1919; and other necessary and incidental expenses; in all, $2,730,000: *Provided*, That *Provisos.*Restriction on use in naval districts.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 operating base: *Provided further*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, Clerical, etc., service at yards and stations.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, 1924, shall not exceed $625,000. 1134 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, $40,000. temporary government for west indian islands.Virgin 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, $324,000. state marine schools.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. care of leperes, and so forth, island of guam.Lepers, etc.
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. experimental and research laboratory.Experimental and research laboratory. Equipment, operation, etc., of.Vol. 39, p. 570.For laboratory and research work and other necessary work of the experimental and research laboratory for the benefit of the naval service, as authorized in the Naval Appropriation Act approved August 29, 1916, including operation and maintenance of a laboratory, additions to equipment necessary properly to carry on work in hand, maintenance of buildings and grounds, and the temporary employment of such scientific civilian assistants as may become necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the *Provisos.*Temporary scientists, etc.Navy, $100,000: *Provided*, That $25,000 of this appropriation shall be available for the temporary employment of civilian scientists and technicists required on special problems: *Provided further*, That Technical, etc., services.the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for technical, drafting, clerical, and messenger service shall not exceed $20,000 in addition to the amount authorized by the preceding proviso.
OFFICE OF NAVAL RECORDS AND LIBRARY.Office of Naval Records and Library. salaries, navy department. Civilian employees.*Proviso.*Pay restriction.For employees in the office of Naval Records and Library, $20,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except one person (chief clerk) at $2,000. 1135 naval war records.Naval Records of World War. Toward the collection or copying and classification, with a view Expenses of collecting, etc.to 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*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a *Proviso.*Pay restriction.rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum.
OFFICE OF JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL.Judge Advocate General. salaries, navy department. For officers and employees in the office of the Judge Advocate General, Civilian employees in office of.*Proviso.*Pay restriction.$78,720: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following: Solicitor, $4,000; attorneys—three at $3,000 each, three at $2,500 each, three at $2,400 each; law clerks—two at $2,250 each, one $2,200, three at $2,000 each.
OFFICE OF CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS.Chief of Naval Operations. salaries, navy department. For employees in the office of Chief of Naval Operations, $55,000:Civilian employees in office of.*Proviso.*Pay restriction. *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following: One (chief clerk) $2,250, and four at $2,000 each. office of director of naval communications.Director of Naval Communications. Salaries, Navy Department:
For employees in the office of the Civilian employees in office of.*Proviso.*Pay restriction.Director of Naval Communications, $125,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following: One at $4,000, one at $3,000, one at $2,500, and three at $1,900 each. office of naval intelligence.Naval Intelligence Office. For employees in the Office of Naval Intelligence, $30,000: *Provided*, Civilian employees.*Proviso.*Pay restriction.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. For travel allowance or for transportation and subsistence as Transportation, etc.authorized by law of enlisted men upon discharge; 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; transportation of enlisted 1136Naval Reserve Force.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 Recruiting.other expenses incident to transportation; 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 Dependents of enlisted men.on duty with traveling recruiting parties; transportation of dependents of enlisted men; in all, $4,000,000. 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 Navy, under such regulations as he may prescribe, $555,000:*Proviso.*Pay restriction. *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 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, $15,000. gunnery and engineering exercises.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, to be awarded under such rules as the Secretary of the Navy may formulate; for the purpose of printing, recording, classifying, compiling, and publishing the rules and results; for the establishment and maintenance of shooting galleries, target houses, targets, and ranges; for hiring established ranges, and for transporting equipment to and from ranges, $83,000. instruments and supplies.
Equipment supplies, etc.For supplies for seamen’s quarters; and for the purchase of all other articles of equipage at home and abroad; and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith and manufacture of such articles in the several navy yards; all pilotage and 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, $640,000. 1137 ocean and lake surveys.
For hydrographic surveys, including the pay of the necessary Ocean and lake surveys.hydrographic surveyors, cartographic draftsmen, and recorders, and for the purchase of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, $75,000. naval training stations.Training stations. For maintenance, including labor and material, heat, light, waterMaintenance, etc., general care, repairs, and improvement; school books; and all other incidental expenses for the naval training stations that follow:
Yerba Buena Island and San Diego, California, $125,000;California. Newport; Rhode Island, $225,000;Rhode Island. Great Lakes, Illinois, $250,000;Great Lakes. Naval operating base, Hampton Roads. Virginia, $260,000:Virginia. *Provided*, That the amount to be paid out of each of the foregoing *Proviso.*Clerical, etc., services.sums under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, shall not exceed $12,600. naval reserve force.Naval Reserve Force.
For expenses of organizing, administering, and recruiting the Organizing, recruiting, etc., expenses.Naval Reserve Force and Naval Militia; for the maintenance and rental of armories, including the pay of necessary janitors, and for wharfage, $194,000; for pay and allowances of officers and enrolled Pay, etc., on active training duty.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 Reserve Force; and retainer Retainer pay.pay of officers and enrolled men of the Naval Reserve Force, other than class one, $3,400,000; in all, $3,594,000, which amount shall be available, in addition to other appropriations, for fuel and the Additional to other appropriations for vessels.transportation thereof and for all other expenses in connection with the maintenance, operation, repair, and upkeep of vessels assigned for training the Naval Reserve Force: *Provided*, That members of *Provisos.*Uniforms to Volunteer Naval Reserve.the Volunteer Naval Reserve may, in the 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 Consent to training necessary.part of the money appropriated in this Act shall be used for the training of any member of the Naval Reserve Force except with his own consent.
That, until June 30, 1924, of Naval Militia.Constituted from State, etc., Organized Mililia.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, 1924, such of Until June 30, 1924, made part of Naval Reserve Force.the Naval Militia as now is in existence, and as now organized and prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy under authority of the Act of Congress approved February 16, 1914, shall be a part of the Vol. 38, p. 285.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 the Naval Reserve Benefits, etc., on enrollment.Force, and not otherwise until June 30, 1924, the members of 1138said Naval Militia shall have all the benefits, gratuities, privileges, and emoluments provided by law for other members of the Naval Credit for duty in Militia.Reserve Force; and that, with the approval of the Secretary of the Navy, duty performed in the Naval Militia may be counted as active service for the maintenance of efficiency required by law for members of the Naval Reserve Force: *Provided further*, No retainer pay if failing to train.That retainer pay provided by existing law shall not be paid to any member of the Naval Reserve Force who fails to train as provided by law during the year for which he fails to train. naval war college, rhode island.Naval War College.
Maintenance, etc.For maintenance of the Naval War College on Coasters Harbor Island, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle to be used only for official purposes; and care of ground for same $81,250; 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 *Proviso.*Clerical, etc., services.reference and periodicals, $5,000; in all, $89.450: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, inspection, drafting, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, shall not exceed $50,000. naval home, philadelphia, pnnsylvania.Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pa.
Pay of employees.Pay of employees: Secretary. $2,200; foreman mechanic, $2,200; 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, $900; 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.Maintenance: For water rent, heating, and lighting; cemetery, burial expenses, and headstones; general care and improvements of grounds, buildings, walls, and fences; repairs to power-plant equipment, implements, tools, and furniture, and purchase of the same: music in chapel and entertainments for beneficiaries; stationery, books, and periodicals; transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, and of sick and insane beneficiaries, their attendants and necessary subsistence for both, to and from other Government hospitals; employment of such beneficiaries in and about the Naval Home as may be authorized by the Secretary of the Navy, on the recommendation of the governor; support of beneficiaries and all other contingent expenses, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle, two motor-propelled vehicles, and one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, to be used only for official purposes. $104,690;
In all, Naval Home, $154,800, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund. 1139 salaries, navy department. For employees in the Bureau of Navigation, $345,000: *Provided*, Department Bureau employees.*Proviso.*Pay restriction.That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following: One (chief clerk) $2,250, one 2,200, and six at $2,000 each. HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE.Hydrographic Office. salaries, navy department.
For employees in the Hydrographic Office, $215,000: *Provided*, Civilian employees.*Proviso.*Pay restriction.That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following: One (hydrographic engineer) $3,000, one $2,750, one $2,400, four at $2200 each, ten at $2,000 each, and one $1,900. Contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Hydrographic Office: Contingent and miscellaneous expenses.For purchase and printing of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions. copperplates, steel plates, chart paper, packing boxes, chart portfolios, electrotyping copperplates, cleaning copperplates, tools, instruments, power, and materials for drawing, engraving, and printing; materials for and mounting charts; reduction of charts by photography; photolithographing charts for immediate use; transfer of photolithographic and other charts to copper; 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 their supplements, Pilot charts.and printing and mailing same; purchase of data for charts and sailing directions and other nautical publications; books of reference and works and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, and to other professional and technical subjects connected with the work of the Hydrographic Office. $78,300. 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, Sault 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, $13,000.
For services of necessary employees at branch offices, $23,700.Employees. naval observatory.Naval Observatory. salaries, navy department. For employees at the Naval Observatory, $55,000: *Provided*, That Civilian employees.*Proviso.*Pay restriction.no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following: Astronomers—one $3,200, one $2,800; assistant astronomers—one $2,400, one $2,000; chief clerk, $2,000. 1140 contingent and miscellaneous expenses, naval observatory.
Computations.For miscellaneous computations, $5,000. Library, etc.For professional and scientific books, books of reference, periodicals, engravings, photographs, and fixtures for the library, $1,000. Apparatus, etc.For apparatus and instruments, and for repairs of the same, $2,500. Repair to buildings, etc.For repairs to buildings, fixtures, and fences; furniture, gas, 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.
Miscellaneous supplies, etc.For fuel, oil, grease, pipe, wire, and other materials needed for 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 transportation; paints, telegraph and telephone service, and incidental labor, $12,000.
Grounds and roads.For cleaning, repair, and upkeep of grounds and roads, $5,000. salaries, nautical almanac office.Nautical Almanac Office. Civilian employees.For employees necessary for preparing for publication the American *Proviso.*Pay restriction.Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, $18,420: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except one assistant at $2,500 and one assistant at $2,000. 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 Equipment supplies.and 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, Radiotelegraphy.and instruments; instruments and apparatus, supplies, and technical books and periodicals necessary to carry on experimental and research work in radiotelegraphy at the naval radio laboratory; in *Proviso.*Clerical etc., services.all,$14,440,000: *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, 1141naval stations, and offices of United States inspectors of machinery and engineering material for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, shall not exceed $1,475,000. engineering experiment station, united states naval academy, annapolis, maryland.Engineering experiment Station.
For original investigation and extended experimentation of naval Experimental work, etc.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; $175,000. salaroes, navy department. For nontechnical employees in the Bureau of Engineering, $104,000:Department Bureau employees.*Proviso.*Pay restriction. *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following:
One (chief clerk) $2,250, two at $2,100 each, and two at $2,000 each. For services of draftsmen and such other technical services Draftsmen, etc.required to carry into effect the various appropriations for “Increase of the Navy,” and the appropriation “Engineering,” $150,000. 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 in Construction 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 instillments for drafting room, and for pay of classified force under the bureau; for hemp,Equipment supplies. wire, iron, and other materials for the manufacture of cordage, anchors, cables, galleys, and chains; specifications for purchase thereof shall be so prepared as shall give fair and free competition; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, hammocks, and other work; interior appliances and tools for manufacturing purposes in navy yards and naval stations; and for the purchase of all other articles of equipage at home and abroad; and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith and manufacture of such articles in the several navy yards; naval signals and apparatus, other than electric, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, running lights, and lamps and their appendages for general use on board ship for 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, $15,785,000: *Provided*, That *Proviso.*Clerical, etc., services.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, 1924, shall not exceed $1,600,000. 1142 salaries, navy department.
Department Bureau employees.*Proviso.*Pay restriction.For nontechnical employees in the Bureau of Construction and Repair, $109,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following: Two (one of whom shall be chief clerk) at $2,250 each, and three at $2,000 each. Draftsmen, etc.For services of draftsmen and such other technical services required to carry into effect the various appropriations for “Increase of the Navy,” and the appropriation “Construction and Repair,” $180,000.
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 machinery and machine tools; 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, and operation of horse-drawn and motor-propel led 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 ammunition depots; in all, $9,903,000, of which sum an amount not exceeding $903,000 shall be available for the purchase, Antiaircraft guns, etc., on “Maryland.”manufacture, and installation of antiaircraft guns for the United States ship Maryland, and ammunition and fire-control *Proviso.*Chemical, etc., services.instruments required for such guns: *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 Slants, and naval ammunition depots for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, shall not exceed $900,000.
Smokeless powder.For purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, $850,000. Torpedoes, etc.Balance from proceeds of sales, to purchase, etc., of.The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transfer from the balance under the special fund entitled “Ordnance material, proceeds of sales, Navy,” on June 30, 1923, to the appropriation, “Ordnance and ordnance stores,” an amount not exceeding $450,000, which shall be available exclusively for the purchase and *Proviso.*Limitation on remaining balance.manufacture of torpedoes and appliances: *Provided*, That the balance in such special fund after such transfer shall have been made shall not be available for expenditure after June 30, 1923, except to meet legal obligations incurred prior to December 13, 1922, and any unobligated balance then remaining shall be carried to the surplus fund, and thereafter the net proceeds of sales of useless ordnance material by the Navy Department shall be covered into the Treasury as “Miscellaneous receipts.” 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 1143and 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, $195,000. contingent, bureau of ordnance.
For miscellaneous items, namely, cartage, expenses of light and Contingentwater at ammunition depots and stations, tolls, ferriage, technical books, and incidental expenses attending inspection of ordnance material, $18,000. salaries, navy department. For nontechnical employees in the Bureau of Ordnance, $64,000:Department Bureau employees.*Proviso.*Pay restriction. *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following:
One (chief clerk) $2,250, one $2,200, one $2,000. For services of draftsmen and such other technical services required Draftsmen, etc.to carry into effect the various appropriations for “Increase of the Navy,” and the appropriation “Ordnance and ordnance stores,” $60,000. BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. pay of the navy.Pay of the Navy. For pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on sea duty and Officers.Pay, rental, and subsistence allowances.other duty, and officers on waiting orders—pay, $26,029,247, rental allowance, $6,071,049, subsistence allowance, $3,327,593; in all, $35,- 427,889; officers on the retired list, $3,752,510; for hire or quarters for Hire of quarters.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 ley 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, $1,162,089; extra pay Enlisted men.to men reenlisting after being honorably discharged, $1,839,525; interest on deposits 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, $70,617,419; pay of enlisted men undergoing sentence of court-martial, $549,120; and as many machinists as the President may from time to time deem Machinists, apprentice seamen.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 the Nurse Corps, including assistant Nurse Corps.superintendents, directors, and assistant directors—pay $637,720, rental allowance $28,800, subsistence allowance $22,140. in all $688,660; rent of quarters for members of the Nurse Corps, $7,680; retainer pay and active-service pay and allowances of members of the Naval Reserve Force class 1 (Fleet Naval Reserve), $5,700,000;
Fleet Naval Reserve.reimbursement for losses of property under Act of October 6, 1917, Property losses.Vol. 40, p. 389.$10,000; payment of six months’ death gratuity, $150,000; in all, $121,446,892; and the money herein specifically appropriated for “Pay of the Navy,” shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordanceAccounting, etc. with existing law as “Pay of the Navy,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund: *Provided*, That additional commissioned, *Provisos.*Additional medical personnel for Veterans’ Bureau patients at Navy hospitals.warranted, appointed, enlisted and civilian personnel of the medical department of the Navy, required for the care of patients of the 1144United States Veterans’ Bureau in naval hospitals, may be employed in addition to the numbers appropriated for in this Act: *Provided further*, Restriction hereafter on admissions to Naval Academy.Vol. 40, p. 430.[R.
S., sec. 1513, p. 260, amended](/us/rs/s/1513/p260).That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the pay of any midshipman whose admission, subsequent to the class entering the Naval Academy next after the approval of this Act, would result in exceeding at any time an allowance of three midshipmen for each Senator, Representative, and Delegate in Congress; of one midshipman for Porto Rico, a native of the island, appointed on nomination of the governor, and of one midshipman from Porto Rico, appointed on nomination of the Resident Commissioner; and of two midshipmen for the District of Columbia: *Provided further*, Appointments at large and from enlisted personnel not affected.That nothing herein shall be construed to repeal or modify in any way existing laws relative to the appointment of midshipmen at large or from the enlisted personnel of the naval service. provisions, navy.Provisions.
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.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, etc.officers and men of the naval auxiliary service; subsistence of members of the Naval Reserve Force during period of active service; expenses of handling provisions and tor subsistence in kind at hospitals and on board ship 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, $16,424,000, to be available until the close of the fiscal year ending *Proviso.*Commuted rations tor prisoners.June 30, 1925: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to commute rations for such general courts-martial prisoners in such amounts as seem to him proper, which may vary in accordance with the location of the naval prison, but which shall in no case exceed 30 cents per diem for each ration so commuted;
Army emergency rations.and for the purchase of United States Army emergency rations as required. maintenance. Maintenance.For fuel; the removal and transportation of ashes and garbage from ships of war; books, blanks, and stationery, including stationery for commanding and navigating officers of ships, chaplains on shore and afloat, and for the use of courts-martial on board ships; purchase, repair, and exchange of typewriters for ships; packing boxes and materials; interior fittings for general storehouses, pay offices, and accounting offices in navy yards; expenses of disbursing officers; coffee mills and repair thereto; expenses of naval clothing Equipment supplies, etc.factory and machinery for the same; laboratory equipment; purchase of articles of equipage at home and abroad under the cognizance of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith, and the manufacture of such articles in the several navy yards; musical instruments and music; mess outfits; soap on board naval vessels; tolls, ferriages, yeomen’s stores, safes, and other incidental expenses; labor in general store-houses, paymasters’ offices, and accounting offices in navy yards and 1145naval 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 Meat inspection, etc.Department of Agriculture of cost of inspection of meats and meat-food products for the Navy Department; in all, $6,865,000: *Provided*, *Proviso.*Chemical, etc., services.That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for chemists and for clerical, inspection, 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, 1924, shall not exceed $2,750,000.
The clothing and small-stores fund shall be charged with the value Clothing and small stores fund.Outfits on first enlistment, uniform gratuity, etc., 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 uniform gratuity to enrolled men of the Naval Reserve Force and for civilian clothing not to exceed $15 per man to men given discharge for bad conduct, for undesirability, or inaptitude, the uniform gratuity paid to officers of the Naval Reserve Force, and the authorized issues of clothing and equipment to the members of the Naval Nurse Corps. freight.
For all freight and express charges pertaining to the Navy Department Freight, Department and bureaus.and its bureaus, except the transportation of coal for the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $3,250,000. fuel and transportation. For coal and other fuel for steamers’ and ships’ use, including Fuel, transportation, etc.expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same; maintenance and general operation of machinery of naval fuel depots and fuel plants; water for all purposes on board naval vessels; and ice for the cooling of water, including the expense of transportation and storage of both, $16,000,000. salaries, navy department.
For employees in the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $715,000:Department Bureau employees.*Proviso.*Pay restriction. *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, three at $2,500 each, one $2,400, three at $2,350 each, one $2,300, four at $2,250 each, one $2,200, one $2,150, three at $2,100 each, eleven at $2,000 each, and three at $1,950 each. BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. medical department.
For surgeon’s necessaries for vessels in commission, navy yards, Surgeon’s necessaries.naval stations, and Marine Corps; and for the civil establishment at Civil establishment.the several naval hospitals, navy yards, naval medical supply depots, Naval Medical School and dispensary, Washington, and Naval Academy, $1,760,000: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this *Proviso.*Clerical services.appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical service in naval hospitals, dispensaries, medical supply depots, and Naval Medical School, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, shall not exceed $150,000. 1146 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; purchase and repairs of non-passenger-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 for the Naval Medical School and naval dispensary, Washington, naval medical supply depots, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks; washing for medical department at Naval Medical School and naval dispensary, Washington, naval medical supply depots, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, dispensaries at navy yards and naval stations, and ships; and for minor repairs on buildings and grounds of the United States Naval Medical School and naval medical supply depots; rent of rooms for naval dispensary, Washington, District of Columbia, not to exceed Care of insane on Pacific coast.$1,200; for the care, maintenance, and treatment of the insane of the Navy and Marine Corps on the Pacific coast, including supernumeraries held for transfer to the Government Hospital for the Insane; for dental outfits and dental material, and all other necessary contingent expenses; in all, $365,000. bringing home remains of officers, and so forth.
Transporting remains of officers, etc.To enable the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transferred to their homes the remains of officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps, of members of the Nurse Corps, of civilian officers and crews of naval auxiliaries, and of officers and enlisted men of the Naval Militia and National Naval Volunteers and the Naval Reserve Force, when on active service with the Navy, who die or are killed in action ashore or afloat, and also to enable the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be Civilian employees dying abroad.transported to their homes the remains of civilian employees who die outside of the continental limits of the United States, $40,000: *Proviso.*Application of fund. *Provided*, That the sum herein appropriated shall be available for payment for transportation of the remains of officers and men who have died while on duty at any time since April 21, 1898. care of hospital patients.
Care of hospital patients.For the care, maintenance, and treatment of patients, including supernumeraries, in naval and other than naval hospitals, $100,000. salaries, navy department. Department Bureau employees.*Proviso.*Pay restriction.For employees in the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $60,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following: One (chief clerk) $2,250, and two at $2,000 each. 1147 BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS.Bureau of Yards and Docks. maintenance.
For general maintenance of yards and docks, namely, for books, General maintenance.Vehicles, etc.maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines; fire apparatus and plants; machinery; operation, repair, purchase, maintenance of horses and driving teams, carts, timber wheels, and all vehicles, 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; for repairs and preservation at navy yards, fuel depots, fuel plants, and stations, $5,650,000: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation *Proviso.*Clerical, etc., services.under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, inspection, drafting, messenger, and other classified work in the navy yards and naval stations, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, shall not exceed $950,000: *Provided further*, That no part Purchase of passenger automobiles forbidden.Limit for operating, etc., passenger motor vehicles.of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used for the purchase of 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 exclusive of such vehicles owned and operated by Marine Corps outside continental limits.the Marine Corps in connection with expeditionary duty without the continental limits of the United States: *Provided further*, That Operators for other bureaus continued.during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, 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.
For contingent expenses and minor extensions and improvements Contingent.of public works at navy yards and stations, $125,000. salaries, navy department. For nontechnical employees in the Bureau of Yards and Docks, Department Bureau employees.*Proviso.*Pay restriction.$53,350: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except one (chief clerk) at $2,250. For services of draftsmen and such other technical services to Draftsmen, etc.carry into effect the various appropriations and allotments thereunder, $135,340.
PUBLIC WORKS, BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS.Public works The appropriation of $750,000 for water-front improvements, New York, N. Y.Water-front improvements repealed.Vol. 40, p. 923.navy yard, New York, New York, contained in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919 is hereby repealed. Navy Yard, Washington, District of Columbia: Dredging, $1,500; Washington, D. C.repairs to marine railway, $17,300; in all, $18,800. Navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Fire protection for oil and gasoline Norfolk, Va.tanks, Saint Helena, $30,000. 1148 Charleston, S.C.Navy yard, Charleston, South Carolina:
Dredging, to continue, $20,000. Mare Island, Calif.Navy yard, Mare Island, California: Rebuilding dikes, wharves, and quay walls, and maintenance dredging (limit of cost, $2,800,000), $1,500,000, to be available immediately. Puget Sound, Wash.Navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington: Roadways and sidewalks, $25,000; improvement to dry docks, $50,000; in all, $75,000. Hampton Roads, Va.Naval operating base, Hampton Roads, Virginia: Dredging, to continue, $25,000. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.Naval station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii:
Water supply extension, $153,000; addition to machine shop, to complete, $100,000; addition to storage building, $200,000; in all, $453,000. Guam.Naval station, Guam: Repairing dredge, $40,000. Cavite, P. I.Naval station, Cavite, P. I.: Moving buildings from Olongapo to Cavite, $50,000; repairs to central wharf, $48,000; in all, $98,000. Ammunition depots.Lake Denmark, N.J.Naval ammunition depot, Lake Denmark, New Jersey: Steam heating plants for six officers’ quarters, $4,200.
Puget Sound, Wash.Naval ammunition depot, Puget Sound, Washington: Subsurface black powder magazine, $5,000. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.Naval ammunition depot, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Salt water fire-protection system, $20,000; additional storage unit for ammunition details, $50,000; additional unit for filling case ammunition, $70,000; in all, $140,000. Training stations.San Diego, Calif.Naval training station. San Diego, California: To complete, $330,000. Great Lakes, Ill.Naval training station, Great Lakes, Illinois, buildings:
Sewer outfall extension, $20,000. Marine Barracks, San Diego, Calif.Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, submarine base.Marine Barracks, San Diego, California: Purchase of land, $7,500. Submarine base, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Additional pier, $70,000; wharf, $25,000; dredging, $5,000; in all, $100,000. BUREAU OF AERONAUTICS.Bureau of Aeronautics. aviation, navy. Designated aviation expenses.For aviation, as follows: For navigational, photographic, aerological, radio, and miscellaneous equipment, including repairs Aircraft factory, helium plant, etc.thereto, for use with aircraft built or building on June 30, 1923, $275,000; for maintenance, repair, and operation of aircraft factory, helium plant, air stations, fleet activities, testing laboratories, and for overhauling of planes, $6,290,000, including $350,000 for the equipment Catapults, etc.of vessels with catapults; for continuing experiments and development work on all types of aircraft, $1,573,224; for drafting, New construction, aircraft, etc.clerical, inspection, and messenger service, $710,000; for new construction and procurement of aircraft and equipment, $5,798,950;
Accounting, etc.in all, $14,647,174, and the money herein specifically appropriated for “Aviation” shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing laws as “Aviation” and for that purpose shall constitute*Proviso.*Damages from aircraft. one fund: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to consider, ascertain, adjust, determine, and pay out of this appropriation the amounts due on claims for damages which have occurred or may occur to private property growing out of the operations of naval aircraft, where such claim does not exceed the Report of adjusted claims.sum of $250: *Provided further*, That all claims adjusted under this authority during any fiscal year shall be reported in detail to the Shore stations limited.Congress by the Secretary of the Navy: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for maintenance of more than six heavier-than-air stations on the coasts of the continental Airplane factory forbidden.United States: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the construction of a factory for the manufacture of airplanes. 1149 salaries, navy department.
For employees in the Bureau of Aeronautics, $64,610: *Provided*, Department Bureau employees.*Proviso.*Pay restriction.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. For the sendees of draftsmen and such other technical services as Draftsmen, etc.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,” $81,776.
NAVAL ACADEMY.Naval Academy. Pay, Naval Academy: Pay of professors and others, Naval Academy: Pay of professors, etc.Pay of professors and instructors, including one professor as librarian, $325,000: *Provided*, That not more than $36,500 shall *Proviso.*Pay restriction.be paid for masters and instructors in swordsmanship and physical training; No part of any sum in this Act appropriated shall be expended in Details of commissioned officers as professors, etc., restricted.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 duties shall be less than eighty: *Provided*, That in reducing the number of civilian *Provisos.*No violation of civil contracts.Dismissal of civilian professors, etc., without six months notice forbidden.professors no existing contract shall be violated: *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 sen ices will be no longer needed.
Assistant librarian, $2,500; cataloguer, $1,800; two shelf assistants, Civilian employees.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.
Department of Ordnance and Gunnery: For leading ordnance men, ordnance Department of ordnance and gunnery.men, ordnance helpers, electricians, and other employees, $19,888. Departments of Electrical Engineering and Physics: For electrical Departments of electrical engineering and physics.machinists, mechanics, laboratorians, and other employees, $17,963. Department of seamanship: Three coxswains, at $1,176.88 each; Department of seamanship.three seamen, at $1,001.60 each; two seamen, at $826.78 each; in all, $8,189.
Department of marine engineering and naval construction: For Department of engineering and naval construction.master machinists, assistants, pattern makers, boiler makers, black-smiths, machinists, molders, coppersmiths, who shall be considered practical instructors of midshipmen, and other employees, $49,755. Commissary department: For chief clerk and purchasing agent, Commissary department.chief cook and cooks, steward and assistant stewards, stenographers, typists, head waiters and assistant head waiters, head pantrymen, chief baker and bakers, butchers, truck chauffeurs, mechanicians for repair of trucks, firemen, seamstresses, and necessary pantrymen, butcher’s helpers, baker’s helpers, waiters, coffeemen, dish pantry-men, utility men, linen men, 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: 1150*Proviso.*Pay restriction. *Provided*, That no employee paid under the provisions of this paragraph shall receive a salary in excess of $2,000.
Department of buildings and grounds.Department of buildings and grounds: Necessary building attendants and messengers, $146,438. Contingent expenses.Current and miscellaneous expenses, Naval Academy: For text and reference books for use of instructors; stationery, blank books and forms, models, maps, and periodicals; apparatus and materials for instruction in physical training and athletics; expenses of lectures and entertainments not exceeding $1,000, including pay and expenses of lecturer; chemicals, philosophical apparatus and instruments, stores, machinery, tools, fittings, apparatus, and materials for instruction purposes, $90,300.
Library.For purchase, binding, and repair of books for the library (to be purchased in the open market on the written order of the superintendent), $2,500. Board of Visitors.For expenses of the Board of Visitors to the Naval Academy, $3,000. Superintendent.For contingencies for the superintendent of the academy, to be expended in his discretion, $3,000. Commandant of midshipmen.For contingencies for the commandant of midshipmen, to be expended in his discretion, $1,200. General maintenance and repairs.Maintenance and repairs, Naval Academy:
For necessary repairs of public buildings, wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, improvements, repairs, and fixtures; for books, periodicals, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire Horse-drawn vehicles, etc.engines; fire apparatus and plants, machinery; purchase and maintenance of all horses and horse-drawn vehicles for use at the academy, including the maintenance, operation, and repair of three horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes; seeds and plants; tools and repairs of the same; stationery; furniture for Government buildings and offices at the academy, including furniture for midshipmen’s rooms; coal and other fuels; candles, oil, and gas; attendance on light and power plants; cleaning and clearing up station and care of buildings; attendance on fires, lights, fire engines, fire apparatus, and plants, and telephone, telegraph, and clock systems; incidental labor; advertising, water tax, postage, telephones, telegrams, tolls, and ferriage; flags and awnings; packing boxes; fuel for heating and lighting bandsmen’s quarters; pay of inspectors and draftsmen; music and astronomical instruments; and for pay of employees on leave, $1,105,000.
Rent commutation.For commutation of rent for bandsmen, at $15 per month, each, $13,500. MARINE CORPS.Marine Corps. pay, marine corps.Pay, etc. Officers, active and reserve.Pay of officers, active and class 1, Fleet Marine Corps reserve list: For pay and allowances prescribed by law for all officers on the active list and class 1, Fleet Marine Corps reserve list—pay, including Subsistence and rent al allowance.uniform gratuity as authorized by law, $3,404,401; subsistence allowance, $483,533; rental allowance, $753,360; in all, $4,641,294.
Retired list.For pay of officers prescribed by law on the retired list, $419,323. Enlisted men, active and reserve.Pay, allowances, etcPay of enlisted men, active and class 1, Fleet Marine Corps 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 1151on 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, $9,957,188, allowance for lodging and subsistence, $900,000; in all, $10,857,188.
For pay and allowances prescribed by law of enlisted men on the Retired list.retired list, $366,060. Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged enlisted men for Undrawn clothing.clothing undrawn. $250,000. For pay and allowances of Reserve Force, excepting Class 1, Fleet Reserve Force.Marine Corps Reserve, $85,528. mileage. For mileage and actual and necessary expenses and per diem in Mileage, etc.lieu of subsistence as authorized by law to officers traveling under orders without troops, $125,000. pay of civil force.Civil force.
Office of the Major General Commandant: Special assistant to Employees in designated offices.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; For additional employees in offices at Marine Corps Headquarters Additional, at headquarters, etc.*Proviso.*Pay restriction.and at Marine Corps posts, $100,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $2,000 per annum; In all, for pay of civil force, $146,612, and the money herein Disbursing and accounting.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, $16,891,005. maintenance, quartermaster’s department.Maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department. marine corps. provisions, marine corps. For enlisted men serving ashore; subsistence and lodging of enlisted Provisions.men when traveling on duty, or cash in lieu thereof; payment 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; $3,299,943. 1152 clothing, marine corps.
Clothing.For enlisted men authorized by law, $1,200,000. fuel, marine corps. Fuel.For heat and light for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers and enlisted men, and other buildings and grounds pertaining to the Marine Corps; fuel, electricity, and oil for cooking, power, Sales to officers.and other purposes; and sales to officers, $600,000. military stores, marine corps.Military stores. Purchase, repairs, etc.For purchase and repair of military equipment, such as rifles, 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 tor 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 Ammunition.of target ranges and entrance fees in competitions; procuring, preserving, and handling ammunition and other necessary military supplies; in all, $400,000. transportation and recruiting, marine corps.
Transportation and recruiting.For transportation of troops, and of applicants for enlistment between recruiting stations and recruiting depots or posts, including ferriage and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; toilet kits for issue to recruits upon their first enlistment and the expense of the recruiting service, $725,000. repairs of barracks, marine corps. Repairs to barracks.For repairs and improvements to barracks, quarters, and other public buildings at posts and stations; for the renting, leasing, and improvement of buildings in the District of Columbia, with the approval of the Public Buildings Commission, and at such other places as the public exigencies require and the erection of temporary buildings upon the approval of the Secretary 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.
Forage.forage, marine corps. For forage in kind and stabling for public animals of the Quarter-master’s Department and the authorized number of officers’ horses, $90,000. 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 accepted applicants for enlistment, and retired officers on active duty during the war and retired enlisted men of the Marine Corps, including the transporta1153tion 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; purchase, hire, repair, and mainteness Vehicles, etc.of such harness, wagons, motor wagons, armored automobiles, carts, drays, motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes, and other vehicles as are required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for official military and garrison purposes; purchase of public horses Horses, etc.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, newspapers, and periodicals; improving parade grounds; repairs of pumps and wharves, water; straw for bedding, mattresses; mattress covers, pillows, sheets, furniture for Government quarters and repair of same; packing and crating officers’ allowance of baggage on change of station; deodorizing, lubricants, disinfectants; for the construction, operation, Laundries.and maintenance of laundries; and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but impossible to anticipate or classify, $1,940,000.
In all, for the maintenance of Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps,Disbursing and accounting. $8,604,943; and the money herein specifically appropriated for the maintenance of the Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with the existing law as maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps; and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. INCREASE OF THE NAVY.Increase of the Navy. The Secretary of the Navy may use the unexpended balances on Unexpended balances available.*Post*, p. 1544.New appropriation.the date of the approval of this Act under appropriations heretofore made on account of “Increase of the Navy,” together with the sum of $19,097,000. which is hereby appropriated, for the prosecution of work on vessels under construction Work on vessels under treaty limitation.on such date, 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 second session of the Sixty-seventh Congress; for continuing the conversion Converting battle cruisers into aircraft carriers.of two battle cruisers into aircraft carriers, including their complete equipment of aircraft and aircraft accessories, in accordance with the terms of such treaty; for the settlement of contracts on account Payment for vessels already delivered, etc.of vessels already delivered to the Navy Department; for reimbursement to contractors and subcontractors of carrying charges heretofore and hereafter approved by the Secretary of the Navy to cover additional expenses resulting from the deferring of deliveries or payments under contracts and subcontracts for materials for ves1154sels, the construction of which may be continued under the terms of Gyro compasses.such treaty; for the procurement of gyro compass equipments for Armor, etc., for vessels under construction.destroyers not already supplied; for the completion of armor, armament, ammunition, and torpedoes for the supply and complement of vessels which may be proceeded with as hereinbefore mentioned; and not more than $10,000,000 of the additional funds herein made available under “Increase of the Navy” shall be applied to objects of expenditure under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Ordnance;
Fire control on completed destroyers.and for the installation of fire-control instruments on destroyers not already supplied, and the funds herein made available shall not be *Proviso.*Transfers from designated funds.used for any other purposes: *Provided*, That in addition to the funds hereinbefore made available for “Increase of the Navy,” the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to make transfers during the fiscal year 1924 from the naval supply account fund and the clothing and small stores fund to the appropriation “Increase of the Navy,” of sums aggregating $35,000,000.
Use for Department expenses restricted.No part of any appropriation made for the Navy shall be expended for any of the purposes herein provided for on account of the Navy Department in the District of Columbia, including personal services of civilians and of enlisted men of the Navy, except as herein *Provisos.*Details to Bureau of Navigation.expressly authorized: *Provided*, That there may be detailed to the Bureau of Navigation not to exceed at any one time thirty-four enlisted men of the Navy: *Provided further*, That enlisted men Specified service not regarded as Department details.detailed to the Naval Dispensary and the Radio Communication Service shall not be regarded as detailed to the Navy Department in the District of Columbia.
No pay to officers, etc., using time measuring devices on work of employees.No part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be available for the salary or pay of any officer, manager, superintendent, foreman, or other person having charge of the work of any employee of the United States Government while making or causing to be made with a stop watch or other time-measuring device a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged Cash rewards, etc., restricted.upon such work; nor shall any part of the appropriations made in this Act be available to pay any premiums or bonus or cash reward to any employee in addition to his regular wages, except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the operation Purchase of articles that can be made at navy yards, restricted.of any Government plant; and that no part of the moneys appropriated in each or any section of this Act shall be used or expended for the purchase or acquirement of any article or articles that, at the time of the proposed acquirement, can be manufactured or produced in each or any of the Government navy yards of the United States, when time and facilities permit, for a sum less than it can be purchased or acquired otherwise.
Negotiations requested to limit tonnage construction of vessels and aircraft.The President is requested to enter into negotiations with the Governments of Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japan with the view of reaching an understanding or agreement relative to limiting the construction of all types and sizes of subsurface and surface craft of 10,000 tons standard displacement or less, and of aircraft. Approved, January 22, 1923.
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