Chapter 44. Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 44.— An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, and for other purposes. July 12, 1921. [[H. R. 4803](/us/bill/67/hr/4803).] [[Public, No. 35](/us/pl/67/35).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Naval service appropriations. *Ante*, p. 121 That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the naval service of the Government for the year ending June 30, 1922, and for other purposes:
General expenses.general expenses. Schedule of all pay and allowances to be sent to Congress.The Secretary of the Navy shall send to Congress at the beginning of its next regular session a complete schedule or list showing the amount of money of all pay and for all allowances for each grade of officers in the Navy, including retired officers, and for all officers included in this Act and for all enlisted men so included. pay, miscellaneous.Pay, miscellaneous. Expenses designated.For commissions and interest; transportation of funds; exchange; mileage to officers of the Navy and Naval Reserve Force while traveling under orders in the United States, and for actual personal expenses of officers of the Naw and Naval Reserve Force while traveling abroad under orders, and for traveling expenses of Mileage to midshipmen entering Naval Academy.civilian employees; and for mileage, at 5 cents per mile, to midshipmen entering the Naval Academy while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment as midshipmen; for actual traveling expenses of female nurses; actual expenses of officers while on shore patrol duty; hire of launches or other small boats in Asiatic waters; for rent of buildings and offices not in navy yards; expenses of courts-martial, prisoners and prisons, and courts of inquiry, boards of inspection, examining boards, with clerks, and witnesses’ fees, and traveling expenses and costs; expenses of naval defense districts; stationery and recording; religious books; newspapers and periodicals for the naval service; all advertising for the Navy Department and its bureaus (except advertising for recruits for the Bureau of Navigation); copying; ferriage; tolls; costs of suits; commissions, warrants, diplomas, and discharges; relief of vessels in distress; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; reports; professional investigation; cost of special instruction at home and abroad, including maintenance of students and attaches;
Information from abroad, etc.information from abroad and at home, and the collection and classification thereof; all charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus for ice for the cooling of drinking water on shore (except at naval hospitals), and not to exceed $250,000 for telephone rentals *Post*, p. 450.and tolls, telegrams and cablegrams; postage, foreign and domestic, and post-office box rentals; and other necessary and incidental *Provisos.* Restriction on use in naval districts.expenses: *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 123station, or naval operating base: *Provided further*, That the sum toClerical, etc,, services at yards and stations. 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, 1922, shall not exceed $750,000, and for necessary expenses for the internedInterned persons and prisoners of war. persons and prisoners of war under the jurisdiction of the Navy Department, including funeral expenses for such interned persons or prisoners of war as may die while under such jurisdiction, and forPrivate damages claims.
Vol. 41, p. 132. payment of claims for damages under Naval Act approved July 11, 1919; in all, $3,500,000. Contingent, Navy: For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses,Contingent. exclusive of personal services in the Navy Department or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at Washington, District of Columbia, arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, to be expended on the approval and authority of theAuthority of the Secretary. Secretary of the Navy, and for such purposes as he may deem proper, $50,000.
Temporary government for West Indian Islands: For expensesVirgin Islands. Temporary government in. Vol. 39, p. 1132. incident to the occupation of the Virgin Islands and to the execution of the provisions of the Act providing a temporary government for the West Indian Islands acquired by the United States from Denmark, and for other purposes, approved March 3, 1917, to be applied under the direction of the President, 3343,440: *Provided*,*Provisos.* Citizenship requirements for office in.
That no person owing allegiance to any country other than the United States of America shall be eligible to hold office as a member of the colonial councils of the Virgin Islands of the United States nor to hold any public office under the government of said islands: *Provided further*, That the income tax laws now in force in theUnited States income tax laws applicable. Use of proceeds. *Post*, p. 271. United States of America and those which may hereafter be enacted shall be held to be likewise in force in the Virgin Islands of the United States, except that the proceeds of such taxes shall be paid into the treasuries of said islands.
Expenses, civilian naval consulting board: For actual expensesCivilian consulting board. incurred by and in connection with the civilian naval consulting board, including the services of one clerk, at 31,400 per annum, for duty in connection with the board at Washington, District of Columbia, 35,000. Aviation, Navy: For aviation, to be expended under the directionAviation. Expenses designated. *Post*, p. 141. of the Secretary of the Navy, as follows: For aircraft and accessories in course of construction or manufacture on June 30, 1921, $440,000; for new construction and procurement of aircraft and equipment, $5,323,000; for navigational, photographic, and aerological equipment, including repairs thereto, for use with aircraft built or building on June 30, 1921, $49,250; for maintenance, repair, and operation of aircraft factory, helium plant, air stations, fleet activities, testing laboratories, and for overhauling of planes, $4,534,181; for continuingHelium plant, etc. experiments and development work on all types of aircraft, $1,615,000; for drafting, clerical, inspection, and messenger service for aircraft stations, $275,000; new construction, buildings, andAir station buildings, etc. improvements at air stations at a total cost not to exceed $1,177,000, as follows:
Coco Solo, $392,000; Hampton Roads, $70,000; Lakehurst, $280,000; Pearl Harbor, $185,000; Pensacola, $100,000; SanAccounting and disbursement. Diego, $150,000; in all, $13,413,431, 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 one fund: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the*Provisos*. Damages from air-craft. 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 8250: *Provided further*, That all claimsReport of adjusted claims. 124adjusted under this authority during any fiscal year shall be reported in detail to the Congress by the Secretary of the Navy: *Provided*, Shore stations limited to six.That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for maintenance of more than six heavier-than-air stations on the coasts of the Airplane factory forbidden.continental United States: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the construction of a factory for the manufacture of airplanes.
State marine schools. Reimbursement for, to designated States.State marine schools: To reimburse the State of New York, $25,000, the State of Massachusetts, $25,000, the State of Washington, $25,000, and the State of Pennsylvania, for the period from April 1, 1920, to June 30, 1921, $31,250, for expenses incurred in the maintenance and support of marine schools in those States in Vol. 36, p. 1353.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, $100,250.
Lepers, etc. Care, etc., at Culion, P. I.Care of lepers, etc., island of Guam: Naval station, island of Guam: Maintenance and care of lepers, special patients, and for other purposes, including cost of transfer of lepers from Guam to the island of Culion, in the Philippines, and their maintenance, $20,000. Bureau of Navigation.bureau of navigation. Transportation, etc.Transportation and recruiting: For travel allowance of enlisted men discharged on account of expiration of enlistment; transportation of enlisted men and apprentice seamen and applicants for enlistment at home and abroad, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation to their homes, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentice seamen discharged on medical survey, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation of sick or insane enlisted men and apprentice seamen to hospitals, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation of enlisted men of Naval Reserve Force, etc.the Naval Reserve Force to and from duty, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation of civilian officers and crews of naval auxiliaries; apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, and for railway guides and other expenses Recruiting.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 on duty with traveling Dependents of enlisted men.recruiting parties; transportation of dependents of enlisted men, $3,500,000.
Naval service in World War. Statements to States, etc., of, by persons therefrom.The Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department, is hereby directed to furnish to the proper officers in the several States, Territories, insular possessions, and the District of Columbia, on or before October 31, 1921, statements of the services of all persons from those several places who served in the Navy during the War with Germany, and for that purpose exclusively an additional sum not to exceed $25,000 is hereby appropriated for obtaining the necessary material and the employment of the necessary clerical force.
Recreation, enlisted men.Recreation for 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 *Proviso*. Pay restriction.as he may prescribe: *Provided*, That not more than two persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum, $800,000. Contingent.Contingent: 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 125apprentice seamen and landsmen; packing boxes and materials: books and models; stationery; and other contingent expenses and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation, unforeseen and impossible to classify, $20,000.
Gunnery and engineering exercises: Prizes, trophies, andGunnery and engineering exercises. Prizes, etc. 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 shootingShooting galleries, targets, etc. galleries, target houses, targets, and ranges; for hiring established ranges, and for transporting equipment to and from ranges, $100,000.
Instruments and supplies: Supplies for seamen’s quarters; andEquipment supplies, etc. 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, $750,000.
Ocean and lake surveys: Hydrographic surveys, including theOcean and lake surveys. pay of the necessary hydrographic surveyors, cartographic draftsmen, and recorders, and for the purchase and printing of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, $105,000. Naval training station, California: Maintenance of navalTraining stations. Yerba Buena Island, Calif. training station, Yerba Buena Island, California: Labor and material; buildings and wharves; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and wharves; wharfage, ferriage, and street car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, tools, and repairs to same; fire engines and extinguishers; gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating and lighting; stationery, books, schoolbooks, and periodicals; fresh water, and washing; packing boxes and materials; and all other contingent expenses; maintenance of dispensary building; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen: in all, $125,000.
Naval training station, Rhode Island: Maintenance of navalRhode Island. training station, Rhode Island, labor and material, buildings and wharves; dredging channels; extending sea walls; repairs to cause-way and sea wall; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and wharves; wharfage, ferriage, and street car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, repairs to same, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of two horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes; fire engines and extinguishers; gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating and lighting; stationery, books, schoolbooks, and periodicals; fresh water, and washing; flacking boxes and materials; and all other contingent expenses; ectures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen; in all, 126*Proviso*.
Clerical, etc., services.$185,000: *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, 1922, shall not exceed $15,701.60. Great Lakes, III.Naval training station, Great Lakes: Maintenance of naval training station: Labor and material; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and piers; street car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; 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 conduits; stationery, books, schoolbooks, and periodicals; washing; flacking boxes and materials; lectures and suitable entertainments *Proviso.* Clerical, etc., services.for apprentice seamen; and all other contingent expenses: *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, 1922, shall not exceed $45,000; in all, naval training station, Great Lakes, $400,000.
Compensation for land added to Great Lakes station. Vol. 40, p. 1875.To make just compensation for land, title to which was taken over under proclamation of the President, dated November 4, 1918, as an addition to the naval training station, Great Lakes, Illinois, and for damages occasioned by delay in the payment for such land, or for the use and occupancy thereof by the United States, $546,805, or Provisos. Disposal of designated lands no longer needed.so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized, in his discretion, to dispose of, at public or private sale, at a price to be approved by him, any land in the vicinity of the Navy Mine Depot, Yorktown, Virginia, and the naval training station, Great Lakes, Illinois, and East Camp, Hampton Roads, Virginia, or interest therein, title to, or interest in which has been acquired by the United States subsequent to April 6, 1917, also any improvements that have been placed thereon by the United States that are deemed by him to be no longer needed for naval Restored to owners if not yet paid for.purposes: *Provided further*, That in cases where compensation has not as yet been made by the United States in accordance with the provisions of law, then, and in that event, the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to restore such lands to former owners, and is further authorized to ascertain, determine, adjust, and pay the just Compensation for use.compensation that such former owners are entitled to receive for the use and occupancy of such lands by the United States, such compensation to be paid from appropriations made for payments for such Sale of improvements.lands: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Navy, in determining the compensation for the use and occupancy of such lands, is authorized, in his discretion, to sell and convey, under such terms and conditions as he may deem appropriate, to the parties entitled to receive the land such improvements or any part thereof as may Conveyances, etc.have been placed in or on said lands by the United States: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to execute all necessary instruments to accomplish the purposes of aforesaid, and all moneys received from the disposition of such lands shall be covered into the Treasury as “miscellaneous receipts.
” Report.Report shall be made to the Congress of the final disposition of the lands aforesaid. Hampton Roads, Va., training stationNaval training station, naval operating base, Hampton Roads, Virginia: Maintenance of naval training station at naval operating base, Virginia: Labor and material, general care, repairs, and improvements; schoolbooks; and all other incidental expenses: 127 *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation underProviso. Clerical, etc., services. the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, shall not exceed $25,000; in all, $375,000.
Naval Reserve Force: For expenses of organizing, administering,Naval Reserve Force. Organizing, recruiting, etc. and recruiting the Naval Reserve Force and Naval Militia; for the maintenance and rental of armories, including the pay of necessary janitors, and for wharfage, $50,000: *Provided*, That no part of the*Proviso.* Consent to training required. money appropriated in this Act shall be used for the training of any member of the Naval Reserve Force except with his own consent.
Receiving barracks: Maintenance of receiving barracks, $50,000. Naval War College, Rhode Island: For maintenance of theNaval War College, Coasters Harbor, R. I. Naval War College on Coasters Harbor Island, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle to be used only for official purposes; and care of ground for same, $82,750; services of a professor of international law, $2,000; services of civilian lecturers, rendered at the War College, $1,200; care and preservation of the library, including the purchase, binding, and repair of books of reference and periodicals, $5,000: *Provided*,*Proviso.* Clerical, etc., services.
That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, inspection, drafting, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, shall not exceed $50,000; in all, Naval War College, Rhode Island, $90,950. Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pay of employees:Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pa. Pay of employees, 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; 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, ten at $360 each; kitchen attendant, $540;
Laborers—two at $840 each, four at $720 each, one $660, five at $600 each, five at $540 each; 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, one for governor’s car $840; electrician, $1,400; stenographers and typewriters—two at $1,400 each, one $1,200, one $1,000; telephone operator, $900; total for employees, $47,280;
Maintenance: Water rent, heating, and lighting; cemetery, burialMaintenance. expenses, and headstones; general care and improvements of grounds, buildings, walls, and fences; repairs to power-plant equipment, implements, tools, and furniture, and purchase of the same; music in chapel and entertainments for beneficiaries; stationery, books, and periodicals; transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, and of sick and insane beneficiaries, their attendants, and necessary subsistence for both, to and from other Government hospitals; employment of such beneficiaries in and about the Naval Home, as may be authorized by the Secretary of the Navy, on the recommendation of the governor; support of beneficiaries, and all other contingent expenses, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle, two motor-propelled vehicles, and one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, to be used only for official purposes, $110,366;
In all, Naval Home, $157,646, which sum shall be paid out of the Payable from naval pension fund.income from the naval pension fund. bureau of ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance. Ordnance and ordnance stores: For procuring, producing, preserving,Ordnance and ordinance stores. and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships, 128for 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 *Provisos.* Chemical, etc., services.plants, and naval torpedo stations, and for the pay of chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, naval ordnance plants, and naval ammunition depots: *Provided*, 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, 1922, shall not exceed $2,000,000: in all, $14,000,000.
Smokeless powder.Purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, $200,000. Experimental work.Experiments, Bureau of Ordnance: 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, $250,000.
Contingent.Contingent, Bureau of Ordnance: For miscellaneous items, namely, cartage, expenses of light and water at ammunition depots and stations, tolls, ferriage, technical books, and incidental expenses attending inspection of ordnance material, $20,000. Buildings, etc., for Bureau. Use of appropriations for increase of the Navy, etc., for, restricted.That no part of the appropriations heretofore, herein, or hereafter made for “Increase of the Navy” under the Bureau of Ordnance and no part of allotments of appropriations heretofore or hereafter made to said bureau shall be available for the payment for services or materials used in the construction of any shop, building, living quarters, or other structures, except such temporary structures costing not in excess of $5,000 each as may be incident to current work of said bureau, or for additions and betterments to any existing shore Specific authorization required. *Provisos.* Work in progress, etc., not interfered with.station facilities unless the appropriation shall in terms specifically authorize such construction or additions and betterments: *Provided*, That nothing herein shall be construed as interfering in any way with any existing contract or any work in progress on the date of the Money to be used only for which appropriated.approval of this Act: *Provided further*, That hereafter no money appropriated for ordnance or ordnance material or material purchased therewith shall be used for any other purpose than that for which the Allocation of armor, etc., to service requirements not prevented.appropriation was made: *Provided further*, That nothing herein shall be construed as preventing the allocation of armor, armament, ammunition, ordnance material, equipment, and accessories to ships according to the requirements of the naval service.
Bureau of Yards and Docks.bureau of yards and docks. Maintenance.Maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For general maintenance of yards and docks, namely, for books, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of lire engines; fire apparatus and Vehicles, etc.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 129naval 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, $7,500,000: *Provided*, That the sum*Provisos.* Clerical, etc., services. to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, inspection, drafting, messenger, and other classified work in the navy yards and naval stations, except similar expenditures in the Bureau of Yards and Docks, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, shall not exceed $1,300,000: *Provided further*,Purchase of passenger automobiles forbidden.
That no part 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 thisAllowance for operating motor passenger vehicles, limited. 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 operatedMarine Corps, outside continental limits. the by Marine Corps in connection with expeditionary duty without the continental limits of the United States: *Provided further*,Operators for other bureaus continued.
That during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, 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, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For contingent expensesContingent. and minor extensions and improvements of public works at navy yards and stations, $150,000. public works, bureau of yards and docks.Public works. Navy yard, New York, New York:
Toilet facilities at shipbuildingNew York, N. Y. slips, $40,000; dredging, to continue, $100,000; in all, $140,000. The expenditure of the appropriation of $750,000 for water front Water front improvements suspended.improvements, navy yard, New York, New York, contained in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, is hereby suspendedVol. 40, p. 923. until July 1, 1922. Navy yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dry Dock NumberedPhiladelphia, Pa. 3, to complete, $200,000.
Navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Water-front improvements, toNorfolk, Va. continue, $250,000. Navy yard, Charleston, South Carolina: Dredging, to continue,Charleston, S. C. $40,000. Naval station, Key West, Florida: For the development andKey West, Fla. Restriction. completion of a submarine base, $800,000, no part thereof to be expended unless the Secretary of the Navy shall first ascertain that the breakwater already begun can be successfully completed and made permanent with this amount.
Naval Station, Guantanamo, Cuba: Additional distilling facilities,Guantanamo, Cuba. $75,000. Navy yard, Mare Island, California: Maintenance of dikes andMare Island, Calif. dredging, $175,000; improvements to central power plant, $150,000; in all, $325,000. Navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington: For grading, filling, andPuget Sound, Wash. sea-wall construction, $250,000; keel blocks for Dry Dock Numbered 2, $6,500; extension of building numbered 178, $13,500; roadways and sidewalks, $25,000; pier five, rebuilding and extending, $715,000; telephone improvements, $10,000; pattern shop extension, $90,000; fifty-ton dry-dock crane, $200,000; additional storage facilities, $95,000; in all, $1,405,000. 130 Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.Naval station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii:
Addition to machine shop, $200,000; electric-system extensions, $85,000; water-front development, $450,000; improvements to coaling plant, $75,000; compressed-air system extension, $15,000; additional storage facilities, $200,000; in all, $1,025,000. Ammunition depots. Puget Sound, Wash.Naval ammunition depot, Puget Sound, Washington: Extension, building numbered seven, one hundred and fifty feet, $25,000. Mare Island, Calif.Naval ammunition depot, Mare Island, California: Addition to magazine and shell house, $100,000.
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.Naval ammunition depot, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: For additional storage facilities, $177,000. Fuel depots.Depots for coal: For depots for coal and other fuel: Contingent, $50,000; care and custody of naval petroleum reserves, $10,000; in all, $60,000. Hampton Roads, Va.Naval operating base, Hampton Roads, Virginia: Motor generator set, $20,000. San Diego, Calif. Marine Barracks.Marine Barracks, San Diego, California: Toward the further development of the Marine Corps base, $500,000.
Naval base.Naval Base, San Diego, California: Storehouse at foot of Broadway, to complete, $200,000. Naval hospital. Construction, etc.Naval hospital, San Diego, California: The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized and directed to continue and to enlarge the construction of the naval hospital being erected at San Diego, California, on land donated to the United States and accepted by the Vol. 41, p. 145.Secretary of the Navy under the authority conveyed in the Naval Cost increased.Act of July 11, 1919, at a total cost not to exceed $1,975,000, and $500,000 is hereby appropriated to continue its construction.
Submarine bases. Coco Solo, Canal Zone.Submarine base, Coco Solo, Canal Zone: Grading and drainage, $40,000. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.Submarine base, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Additional piers, $100,000; battery-charging installation, $50,000; in all, $150,000. Training station, San Diego, Calif.Training station, San Diego, California: To complete the development of a permanent training station, San Diego, California, $1,000,000. Amounts available until expended.Total public works, $7,032,000, and the amounts herein appropriate ated therefor shall be available until expended.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.bureau of medicine and surgery. Surgeons’ necessaries. Civil establishmentMedical Department: 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, *Proviso*. Clerical, etc., services.Washington, and Naval Academy, $2,920,000: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical service in naval hospitals, dispensaries, medical supply depots, and Naval Medical School, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, shall not exceed $150,000.
Contingent.Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: 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 Vehicles, etc.issuing of naval medical bulletins and supplements; purchase and repairs of nonpassenger-carrying wagons, automobile ambulances, and harness; purchase of and feed for norses 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 131out-patient medical service at the Naval Academy, and a motor omnibus for the transportation of convalescent patients and attendants at the Naval Hospital at Las Animas, Colorado, to be used only for official purposes; trees, plants, care of grounds, garden tools, and seeds; incidental articles for the Naval Medical School and naval dispensary, Washington, naval medical supply depots, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks; washing for medical department at Naval Medical School and naval dispensary, Washington, naval medical supply depots, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, dispensaries at navy yards and naval stations, and ships; and for minor repairs on buildings and grounds of the United States Naval Medical School and naval medical supply depots; rent of rooms for naval dispensary, Washington, District of Columbia, not to exceed $1,200; for the care, maintenance, andInsane on Pacific coast. 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, andDental outfits. all other necessary contingent expenses; in all, $500,000.
Care of hospital patients: For the care, maintenance, andHospital patients. Care, etc. treatment of patients, including supernumeraries, in naval and other than naval hospitals, $100,000. bureau of supplies and accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. Pay of the Navy: Pay and allowances prescribed by law of officersPay of the Navy. Officers, etc. on sea duty and other duty, and officers on waiting orders, $37,023,859: *Provided*, That hereafter each new midshipman shall,*Provisos.* Midshipmen to be credited with initial issue of clothing, etc. upon admission to the Naval Academy, be credited with the sum of $250 to cover the cost of his initial clothing and equipment issue, to be deducted subsequently from his pay: *Provided further*, That theApplicable to entrants since June 20, 1921. foregoing proviso shall apply to midshipmen who entered the Naval Academy during the period between June 20, 1921, and the date of the approval of this Act; officers on the retired list, $3,113,771; commutationCommutation of quarters. of quarters for officers, including boatswains, gunners, carpenters, sailmakers, machinists, pharmacists, pay clerks, and mates, naval constructors, and assistant naval constructors, $4,254,192,Hire of quarters. and also members of Nurse Corps (female), $1,000; for hire of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them or commutation of quarters not to exceed the amount which an officer would receive were he not serving with troops, and hire of quarters for officers and enlisted men on sea duty at such times as they may be deprived of their quarters on board ship due to repairs or other conditions which may render them uninhabitable, $25,000; pay of enlisted men on the retired list, $620,250;Enlisted men, pay, etc. extra pay to men reenlisting under honorable discharge, $4,390,800; 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, and pay of enlisted men of the Hospital Corps, $77,034,687; pay of enlisted men undergoing sentence of court-martial, $655,000; 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, $2,294,136; pay of the Nurse Corps, $688,608; rent of quarters for members of the Nurse Corps, $29,000; retainer pay and active-service pay of members of the NavalNaval Reserve Force.
Reserve Force, $7,000,000; payment of $60 discharge gratuity, $465,000; reimbursement for losses of property under Act of OctoberProperty losses, etc. Vol. 40, p. 389.1326, 1917, $10,000; payment of six months’ death gratuity, $200,000: Accounting, etc.in all, $137,815,303; and the money herein specifically appropriated for “Pay of the Navy,” shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law as “Pay of the Navy,” and for that *Proviso.* Retainer pay restriction, Naval Reserve Force.purpose shall constitute one fund: *Provided*, That retainer pay provided by existing law shall not be paid to any member of the Naval Reserve Force who fails to train as provided by law during the year for which he fails to train.
Provisions. Commuted rations, etc.Provisions, Navy: 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, commuted rations for officers on sea duty (other than commissioned officers of the line, Medical and Supply Corps, chaplains, chief boatswains, chief gunners, chief carpenters, chief machinists, chief pay clerks, and chief sailmakers) and midshipmen, and commuted rations stopped on account of sick in hospital and Subsistence, etc.credited to the naval hospital fund; subsistence of officers and men unavoidably detained or absent from vessels to which attached under orders (during which subsistence rations to be stopped on board ship and no credit for commutation therefor to be given); subsistence of men on detached duty; subsistence of officers and men of the naval auxiliary service; subsistence of members of the Naval Reserve Force during period of active service; expenses in handling provisions and for subsistence of female nurses and Navy and Marine Corps general courts-martial prisoners undergoing imprisonment with sentences of dishonorable discharge from the service *Proviso*.
Commuted rations to prisoners.at the expiration of such confinement: *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 Army emergency rations.so commuted; and for the purchase of United States Army emergency rations as required; in all, $21,925,922.50, to be available until the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923.
Maintenance.Maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: 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 factory and Equipment supplies.machinery for the same; laboratory equipment; purchase of articles of equipage at home and abroad under the cognizance of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith, and the manufacture of such articles in the several navy yards; musical instruments and music; mess outfits; soap on board naval vessels; athletic outfits; tolls, ferriages, yeomen’s stores, safes, and other incidental expenses; labor in general storehouses, paymasters’ offices, and accounting offices in navy yards and naval stations, including naval stations maintained in island possessions under the control of the United States, and expenses in handling stores purchased and manufactured under “General account of Credit tor losses in disposing of excess stocks.advances” and the accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to credit “General account of advances” with the amount of the net losses which may be certified by the Paymaster General of the Navy as having been incurred in disposing of excess stocks in the naval supply account; and reimbursement to Meat inspection.appropriations for the Department of Agriculture of cost of inspection of 133meats and meat-food products for the Navy Department: *Provided*,*Proviso*.
Chemical, etc., services. That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, tor chemists and for clerical, inspection, and messenger service in the supply and accounting departments of the navy yards and naval stations and disbursing offices for the fiscal year ending Juno 30, 1922, shall not exceed $3,500,000; in all, $9,000,000. The clothing and small-stores fund shall be charged with the value Clothing and small stores fund.
Outfits on first enlistment, 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 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, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: All freight andFreight, Department and bureaus. express charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus, except the transportation of coal for the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $4,000,000.
Fuel and transportation: Coal and other fuel for steamers’Fuel, transportation, etc. and ships’ use, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same; maintenance and general operation of machinery of naval fuel depots and fuel plants; water for all purposes on board naval vessels; and ice for the cooling of water, including the expense of transportation and storage of both, $17,500,000: *Provided*, That Proviso. Mining coal in Alaska.$1,000,000 of this appropriation shall be available for use, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, in mining coal or contracting for the same in Alaska, the transportation of the same and the construction of coal bunkers and the necessary docks for use in supplying ships therewith; and the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to select from the public coal lands in Alaska such areasSection of coal areas.
Vol. 41, p. 1797. as may be necessary for use by him for the purposes stated herein. bureau of construction and repair.Bureau of Construction and Repair. Construction and repair of vessels: For preservation andConstruction and repair of vessels. completion of vessels on the stocks and in 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, and other materialsEquipment supplies. 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 134*Provisos.* Preservation of brig “Niagara”vessels, $22,500,000; *Provided*, That the amount of money to be expended from the appropriation “Construction and repair of vessels,” for the restoration, preservation, and maintenance of the naval brig Niagara in the city of Erie, Pennsylvania, including the construction of suitable facilities for anchoring said vessel and properly preserving it for historical purposes shall not exceed $10,000:
Clerical, etc., services.*Provided further*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, drafting, inspection, watchmen (ship keepers), and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and offices of superintending naval constructors for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, shall not exceed $3,450,000. Bureau of Engineering.bureau of engineering. Engineering repairs, machinery, etc.Engineering: 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 Coast signal service, radio stations.fire-control equipments for antiaircraft defense at shore stations; maintenance and operation of coast signal service, including not to exceed $2,500 for the purchase of land necessary for radio shore stations;
Equipment supplies.equipage, supplies, and materials under the cognizance of the bureau required for the maintenance and operation of naval vessels, yard craft, ana ships’ boats; purchase, installation, repair, and preservation of machinery, tools, and appliances in navy yards and stations, pay of classified force under the bureau; incidental expenses for naval vessels, navy yards, and stations, inspectors’ offices, the engineering experimentstation, such as photographing, technical books and periodicals, stationery, and instruments; instruments and apparatus, supplies, and technical books and periodicals necessary to carry on experimental and *Proviso.* Clerical, etc., services.research work in radiotelegraphy at the naval radio laboratory: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and offices of United States inspectors of machinery and engineering material for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, shall not exceed $2,500,000; in all, engineering, $20,500,000.
Engineering experimentation. Experimental work, etc.Engineering Experiment Station, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland: For original investigation and extended experimentation of naval appliances, testing implements and apparatus; purchase and installation of such machines and auxiliaries considered applicable for test and use in the naval service, and for maintenance and equipment of buildings and grounds, $225,000. Naval Academy.naval academy. Pay of professors, etc.Pay, Naval Academy:
Pay of professors and others, Naval Academy: Pay of professors and instructors, including one professor as librarian, $385,000; Instructors, etc.One swordmaster, $1,900; assistants—one $1,700, one $1,500; head master in physical training, $2,200; instructors in physical training—one $2,100, two at $2,000 each, seven at $1,900 each; assistant librarian, $2,500; cataloguer, $1,800; 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 men or seamstress, $1,000; surveyor, $1,700; 135services 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; m all, $161,600;
In all, pay of professors and others, Naval Academy, $546,600. Department of ordnance and gunnery: For leading ordinance,Department of ordnance and gunnery. ordnance men, ordnance helpers, electricians, and other employees, $20,658. Departments of electrical engineering and physics: For electricalDepartments of electrical engineering and physics. machinists, mechanics, laboratorians, and other employees, $19,431.04. Department of seamanship: Three coxswains, at $1,176.88 each;Department of seamanship. three seamen, at $1,001.60 each; two seamen, at $826.32 each; in all, $8,188.08.
Department of marine engineering and naval construction:Department of marine engineering and naval construction. For master machinists, assistants, pattern makers, boiler makers, blacksmiths, machinists, molders, coppersmiths, who shall be considered practical instructors of midshipmen, and other employees, $55,914.32. 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, $238,415.99: *Provided*, That no employee paid under the provisions of this paragraph*Proviso*.
Pay restriction. shall receive a salary in excess of $2,000. Department of buildings and grounds: One messenger toDepartment of buildings and grounds. superintendent, $1,001.60; necessary building attendants, $145,436.80; in all, $146,438.40. In all, civil establishment, $1,035,645.83. Current and miscellaneous expenses, Naval Academy: TextContingent expenses. and reference books for use of instructors; stationery, blank books and forms, models, maps, and periodicals; apparatus and materials for instruction in physical training and athletics; expenses of lectures and entertainments not exceeding $1,000, including pay and expenses of lecturer; chemicals, philosophical apparatus and instruments, stores, machinery, tools, fittings, apparatus, and materials for instruction purposes, $110,000.
Purchase, binding, and repair of books for the library (to be purchasedLibrary. in the open market on the written order of the superintendent), $2,500. For expenses of the Board of Visitors to the Naval Academy, Board of visitors.$3,000. For contingencies for the superintendent of the academy, to be expendedSuperintendent. in his discretion, $3,000. For contingencies for the commandant of midshipmen, to be expendedCommandant. in his discretion, $1,200. In all, current and miscellaneous expenses, $119,700.
Maintenance and repairs, Naval Academy: For general maintenanceGeneral maintenance and repairs. and repairs at the Naval Academy, namely: For necessary repairs of public buildings, wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, improvements, repairs, and fixtures; for books, periodicals, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines; fire apparatus and plants; machinery; purchase and maintenanceHorse drawn vehicles, etc. of all horses and horse-drawn vehicles for use at the academy, 136including 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 dealing up station and care of buildings; attendance on fires, fights, 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.Commutation of rent for bandsmen, at $15 per month each, $13,500. In all, maintenance and repairs, $1,118,500. In all, Naval Academy, exclusive of public works, $2,273,845.83. Marine Corps.marine corps. Pay. Officers, active and reserve.Pay, Marine Corps: Pay of officers, active and reserve list: For pay and allowances prescribed by law for all officers on the active and reserve list, $4,386,196.01. Retired.For pay of officers prescribed by-law, on the retired list;
For three major generals, four brigadier generals, eight colonels, six lieutenant colonels, twenty-six majors, forty-four captains, twenty-two first lieutenants, nine second lieutenants, two marine gunners, one quartermaster clerk, two pay clerks, and for officers who may be placed thereon during the year, including such increased pay as is now or may hereafter be provided for retired officers regularly assigned to active duty, $353,761.25. Enlisted men, active and reserve.Pay of enlisted men, active and reserve list:
Pay and allowances of noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, as prescribed by law, and for the expenses of clerks of the United States Marine Corps traveling under orders, and including additional compensation for enlisted men of the Marine Corps qualified as expert riflemen, sharp-shooters, 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 exercise and target practice, and for pay of enlisted men designated as Navy mail clerks and assistant Navy mail clerks, both afloat and ashore, $12,060,300.76.
Retired.For pay and allowances prescribed by law of enlisted men on the retired list: For nineteen sergeants major, one drum major, forty gunnery sergeants, thirty-six quartermaster sergeants, fifty-four first sergeants, fifty-six sergeants, twelve corporals, five principal musicians, eighteen first-class musicians, one second-class musician, one drummer, and ten privates, and for those who may be retired during the fiscal year, $210,822.60. Undrawn clothing.Undrawn clothing:
For payment to discharged enlisted men for clothing undrawn, $25,000. Mileage, officers without troops.Mileage: For mileage to officers traveling under orders without troops, $150,000. Commutation of quarters.Commutation of quarters for enlisted men on recruiting duty, for officers and enlisted men serving with or without troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them, for enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in the offices of the commandant, adjutant and inspector, paymaster, and quartermaster, and the offices of the assistant adjutant and 137inspectors, assistant paymasters, assistant quartermasters, at $21 each per month, and for enlisted men employed as messengers in said offices, at $10 each per month, $711,100.
Pay of civil force: In the office of the major general commandant:Civil force. Temporary special assistant to the major general commandant, $2,750; chief clerk, $2,250; clerk, $1,800; messenger, $971.28; in all, $7,771.28. In the office of the paymaster: Chief clerk, $2,250; clerk, $1,500; in all, $3,750. In the 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. In the office of the quartermaster:
Temporary special assistant to the quartermaster, $2,750; chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—two at $1,800 each, one $1,500, two at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each, technical engineer, $2,300; draftsman, $2,000; in all, $19,600. In the office of the assistant quartermaster, San Francisco, California: Chief clerk, $2,500. In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Chief clerk, $2,500; messenger, $840; in all, $3,340. For temporary employees in offices at Marine Corps HeadquartersTemporary employees. *Proviso* Pay restriction. and at Marine Corps posts, $100,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $2,000 per annum.
In all, for pay of civil force, $146,711.28, and the money herein Disbursement 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, $18,043,891.90. maintenance, quartermaster’s department, marine corps.Quartermaster’s Department. Provisions, Marine Corps: For enlisted men serving ashore;Provisions. subsistence and lodging of enlisted men when traveling on duty, or cash in lieu thereof; commutation of rations to enlisted men regularly detailed as clerks and messengers; payments of board and lodging of applicants for enlistment while held under observation, recruits, recruiting parties, and enlisted men where it is impracticable to otherwise furnish subsistence, or in lieu of board, commutation of rations to recruiting parties, and enlisted men traveling on special duty, at such rates as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe; ice machines and their maintenance where required for the health and comfort of the troops and for cold storage; ice for offices and preservation of rations, $4,141,450.
Clothing, Marine Corps: For enlisted men authorized by lawClothing. $1,125,000. Fuel, Marine Corps: For heat, fight, and commutation thereofFuel. 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, and other purposes; andSales to officers. sales to officers, $590,000. Military stores, Marine Corps: Purchase and repair of militaryMilitary stores. equipments, such as rifles, revolvers, cartridge boxes, bayonet scab, haversacks, blanket bags, canteens, rifle slings, swords, drums, trumpets, flags, waistbelts, waist plates, cartridge belts, spare parts for repairing rifles, machetes; tents, field cots, field ovens, and stoves for tents; instruments for bands; purchase of music and musical accessories, articles of field sports for enlisted men, signal equipment and stores, purchase and marking of prizes for excellence in gunnery and rifle practice; good-conduct badges; medals and buttons awarded 138to 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 Ammunition.maintenance of target ranges, and entrance fees in competitions; procuring, preserving, and handling ammunition and other necessary military supplies; in all, $500,000.
Transportation and recruiting.Transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps: For transportation of troops, and of applicants for enlistment between recruiting stations and recruiting depots or posts, including ferriage and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; toilet kits for issue to recruits upon their first enlistment and the expense of the recruiting service, $750,000. Repairs to barracks, etc.Repairs of barracks, Marine Corps: Repairs and improvement 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 buddings as may be erected in pursuance hereof at a total cost not to exceed 310,000 during the year, $450,000.
Forage.Forage, Marine Corps: For forage in kind and stabling for public animals of the Quartermaster’s Department and the authorized number of officers’ horses, $100,000. Contingent.Contingent, Marine Corps: 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, Vehicles, etc.tools for police purposes, safes; purchase, hire, repair, and maintenance of such harness, wagons, motor wagons, armored automobiles, carts, drays, motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes, and other vehicles as are required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for official military and garrison purposes; purchase of public horses and mules; services of veterinary surgeons, and medicines for public animals, and the authorized number of officers’ horses; purchase of mounts and horse equipment for all officers below the grade of major required to be mounted; shoeing for public animals and the authorized number of officers’ horses; purchase and repair of hose, fire extinguishers, 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, 139deodorizing, 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, $2,000,000.
In all, for the maintenance of Quartermaster’s Department,Disbursement and accounting. Marine Corps, $9,656,450; and the money herein specifically appropriated for the maintenance of the Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with the existing law as maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. Total, Marine Corps, exclusive of public works, $27,700,341.90. Increase of the Navy, construction and machinery:
OnIncrease of the Navy. Construction and machinery. account of hulls and outfits of vessels and machinery of vessels heretofore authorized, to be available until expended, $53,000,000. Increase of the Navy, torpedo boats: On account of submarineSubmarine torpedo boats. torpedo boats heretofore authorized, to be available until expended, $4,000,000. Increase of the Navy, armor and armament: Toward theArmor and armament. armor and armament for vessels heretofore authorized, to be available until expended, $33,000,000.
Total increase of the Navy heretofore authorized, $90,000,000:*Proviso*. Limited to vessels being constructed. *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation can be expended except on vessels now being constructed. That no part of any sum appropriated by this Act shall be usedUse for Department expenses restricted. for any expense of the Navy Department at Washington, District of Columbia, unless specific authority is given by law for such expenditure. That no part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be No 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 moneysPurchase of articles which can be made at navy yards, restricted. 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.
Sec. 2. That hereafter no enlisted man in the Navy shall be paidReenlistment grattuities limited. Vol. 40, p. 141. on reenlistment an honorable discharge gratuity, or any proportionate part thereof, in excess of any amount equal to one month’s pay for each year of service in the last expiring enlistment of such enlisted man. Sec. 3. That appropriations herein and hereafter made under theAmounts for public works at yards, etc., available until expended. Bureau of Yards and Docks for public works, exclusive of repairs and preservation, shall remain available until expended.
Sec. 4. That during the fiscal year 1922 the ration for officersCommuted rations. Rates established for 1922. and enlisted men of the Navy entitled thereto shall be commuted at the rate of 50 cents per diem; and the commuted value of the ration for midshipmen shall be $1.08 per diem; and commuted rations stopped on account of sick in hospital shall be credited at the rate of 75 cents per ration to the naval hospital fund. Sec. 5. That as consideration for a suitable site and requisitePorto Rico.
Exchange, etc., of lands for radio station. rights, privileges, and easements for a receiving and distant-control 140radio station in Porto Rico the Secretary of the Navy be, and he hereby is, authorized to exchange or lease for such period as he may deem proper any land under naval control in Porto Rico not otherwise *Proviso*. Use retained for time of war.required for naval purposes: *Provided*, That in time of war or national emergency, if necessary, the Navy Department shall have without cost free and unlimited use of any land so exchanged or leased.
Sec. 6. Naval Reserve Force. Vol. 41, p. 834, amended. That the last paragraph of section 2 of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and for other purposes,” approved June 4, 1920, is hereby amended to read as follows: " Officers of, and temporary Navy officers, disabled in time of war, entitled to retirement.“That all officers of the Naval Reserve Force and temporary officers of the Navy who have heretofore incurred or may hereafter incur physical disability in line of duty in time of war shall be eligible for retirement under the same conditions as now provided by law for officers of the Regular Navy who have incurred physical disability in line of duty: *Provided, however*, That application for such retirement *Proviso*.
Time for applications limited.shall be filed with the Secretary of the Navy not later than October 1, 1921.” " Sec. 7. Solicitor for Navy Department. Vol. 41, p. 1283, amended. That the paragraph in the Act approved March 3, 1921, making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, and for other purposes, providing for temporary employees in the office of the Solicitor for the Navy Department, is hereby amended to read as follows:
" Temporary employees. *Proviso.* Pay restriction modified.“For temporary employees in the office of the Solicitor for the Navy Department, $20,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed nereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following: One at $3,000, one at $2,400, one at $2,250.” " Sec. 8. Bureau of Aeronautics. Created in Navy Department under the Secretary. Duties. That there is hereby created and established in the Department of the Navy a Bureau of Aeronautics, which shall be charged with matters pertaining to naval aeronautics as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy, and all of the duties of said bureau shall be performed under the authority of the Secretary of the Navy, and its orders shall be considered as emanating from him, and shall have full force and effect as such.
Chief of Bureau. Appointment, rank, etc.There shall be a Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, from among the officers of the active list of the Navy or Marine Corps who shall within one year after his appointment qualify as an aircraft pilot or observer, for a period of four years, and who shall, while holding such position, have the corresponding rank and receive the same pay and allowances as are now or may hereafter be prescribed by or in pursuance of law for chiefs of bureaus of the Department of the Navy.
Assistant Chief. Detail from Navy or Marine Corps for. Duties, etc.An officer of the active list of the Navy, or Marine Corps, may be detailed as Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, and such officer shall receive the highest pay of his grade, and, in case of the death, resignation, absence, or sickness of the chief of the bureau shall, until otherwise directed by the President, as provided by [R. S., sec. 170, p. 28](/us/rs/s170/p28).section 179 of the Revised Statutes, perform the duties of such chief until his successor is appointed or such absence or sickness shall cease.
Chief clerk.There shall be a chief clerk at a salary of $2,250 per annum. Personnel, supplies, etc., for, to be transferred from other bureaus.The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to transfer to the Bureau of Aeronautics such number of the civilian, technical, clerical, and messenger personnel, together with such records, equipment, and facilities now assigned for aeronautic work under the various bureaus of the Department of the Navy or Marine Corps as in his judgment Moneys available.may be necessary.
The unexpended and unobligated portion of all moneys heretofore appropriated for any bureau of the Department 141of the Navy or Marine Corps used in connection with aeronautics,*Ante*, p. 123. including the appropriation “Aviation, Navy,” is hereby made available for the use of the Bureau of Aeronautics. The number of officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Details for aircraft duty from Navy and Marine Corps.Corps detailed to duty in aircraft and involving actual flying and to duties in connection with aircraft shall hereafter be in accordance with the requirements of Naval Aviation as determined by the Secretary of the Navy: *Provided*, That not to exceed 30 per centum of theProvisos.
Percentage of officers failing as pilots or observers to remain detailed. officers in each grade below that of rear admiral who fail to qualify as aircraft pilots or as aircraft observers within one year after the date of their detail into the Bureau of Aeronautics shall be permitted to remain detailed in this bureau: *Provided further*, That flyingCommand of dying units, etc. units or detachments, with the exception of aircraft carriers or other vessels, shall in all cases be commanded by flying officers.
Sec. 9. That the President is authorized and requested to inviteNaval expenditures, etc. President to request Great Britain and Japan to a conference for mutual reduction of, for five years. *Post*, p. 192. the Governments of Great Britain and Japan to send representatives to a conference, which shall be charged with the duty of promptly entering into an understanding or agreement by which the naval expenditures and building programs of each of said Governments, to wit, the United States, Great Britain, and Japan, shall be substantially reduced annually during the next five years to such an extent and upon such terms as may be agreed upon, which understandingReport to respective Governments. or agreement is to be reported to the respective Governments for approval.
Approved, July 12, 1921.