Chapter 203. Making appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 203.— An Act Making appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, and for other purposes. May 28, 1924.[[H. R. 6820](/us/bill/68/hr/6820).][[Public, No. 152](/us/pl/68/152).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Navy Department and naval service appropriations. That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, namely:
Secretary’s Office.OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY. salaries, secretary’s office, navy department. Secretary, Assistant, and civilian personnel.Secretary of the Navy, $12,000; Assistant Secretary, and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the*Provisos*.Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act.Vol. 42, p. 1488. Classification Act of 1923, $136,080; in all, $148,080: *Provided*, That in expending appropriations or portions of appropriations contained in this Act for the payment for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade or class thereof in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of theNot applicable to clericalmechanical service.Fixed salaries not reduced. compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act: *Provided*, That this restriction shall not apply
(1)to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or
(2)to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation is fixed as of July 1, 1924,Payments at higher rates permitted. in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act, or
(3)to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923 and is specifically authorized by other law. General Board.general board. Civilian personnel.Salaries, Navy Department: For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $9,720. 183 naval examining and retiring boards.Examining and Retiring Boards. Salaries, Navy Department: For personal services in the DistrictCivilian personnel. of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $9,720. compensation board.Compensation Board. Salaries, Navy Department: For personal services in the DistrictCivilian personnel. of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $32,940. contingent expenses, navy department.Department contingent expenses. For professional and technical books and periodicals, law books,Library. and necessary reference books, including city directories, railway guides, freight, passenger, and express tariff books, for department library, $2,000. For stationery, furniture, newspapers, plans, drawings, andStationery, furniture, vehicles, etc. 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; street-car fares not exceeding $500; freight, expressage, postage, typewriters, and computing machines; and other absolutely necessary expenses of the Navy Department and its various bureaus and offices, $78,000; it shall not be lawful to expend, unless otherwiseNaval 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 NavalPrinting and binding. Establishment executed at the Government Printing Office, $475,000,Hydrographic Office. including not exceeding $85,000 for the Hydrographic Office. pay, miscellaneous.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, toMileage to midshipmen entering Naval Academy. 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, including law and reference books, 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 theAdvertising, etc. Navy Department and its bureaus (except advertising for recruits for the Bureau of Navigation); copying; ferriage; tolls; costs of suits; 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 and atInformation from abroad, etc.184 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 $200,000 for telephone rentals and tolls, telegrams andInterned prisoners of war, etc. cablegrams; postage, foreign and domestic, and post-office box rentals; for necessary expenses for interned persons and prisoners of war under the jurisdiction of the Navy Department, including funeral expenses tor such interned persons or prisoners of war as mayDamage claims. die while under such jurisdiction, and for payment of claims forVol. 41, p. 132. damages under Naval Act approved July 11, 1919; and other necessary*Provisos*.Restriction on use in naval districts. and incidental expenses; in all, $2,550,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the expense of any naval district unless the commandant thereof shall be also the commandant of a navy yard, naval training station, or naval operatingClerical, etc., services at yards and stations. base: *Provided further*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical inspection, and messenger service in navy yards and naval stations, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, shall not exceed $560,000. contingent, navy. Contingent, Navy.For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, exclusive of personal services in the Navy Department or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at Washington, District of Columbia, arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, to be expended on the approval and authority of the Secretary of the Navy, and for such purposes as he may deem proper, $40,000. Virgin Islands.temporary government for west indian islands. Temporary government in.Vol. 39, p. 1132.For expenses incident to the occupation of the Virgin Islands and to the execution of the provisions of the Act providing a temporary government for the West Indian Islands acquired by the United States from Denmark, and for other purposes, approved March 3, 1917, to be applied under the direction of the President, $270,150,Additional from insular revenues. plus so much of $53,850 additional as may equal the sum of revenue collected and paid into the treasuries of said islands in excess of $270,150. Marine schools.state marine schools. Reimbursing New York. Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania for.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 inVol. 36, p. 1353. those States in accordance with section 2 of the Act entitled “An Act for the establishment of marine schools, and for other purposes,” approved March 4, 1911; in all, $75,000. Lepers, etc.care of lepers, and so forth, island of guam. Care, etc., Culion, P. I.Naval station, island of Guam: For maintenance and care of lepers, special patients, and for other purposes, including cost of transfer of lepers from Guam to the island of Culion, in the Philippines, and their maintenance, $18,000; for educational purposes, $12,000; in all, $30,000. Experimental and research laboratory.experimental and research laboratory. Experiments, operation, etc.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 approved185 August 29, 1916, including operation and maintenance of 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 Navy, $125,000: *Provided*, That $25,000 of this appropriation shall be*Provisos*.Temporary scientists, etc. available for the temporary employment of civilian scientists and technicists required on special problems: *Provided further*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for technical, drafting,Technical, etc., services. clerical, and messenger service shall not exceed $25,000 in addition to the amount authorized by the preceding proviso. OFFICE OF NAVAL RECORDS AND LIBRARY.Naval Records and Library. salaries, navy department. For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordanceCivilian personnel. with the Classification Act of 1923, $24,840. naval war records.Naval Records of World War. Toward the collection or copying and classification, with a view toExpenses of collecting, etc. publication, of the naval records of the war with the Central Powers of Europe, including personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923 and including the purchase of books, periodicals, photographs, maps, and other publications, documents, and pictorial records of the Navy in said war and other necessary incidental expenses, $20,800. OFFICE OF JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL.Judge Advocate General. salaries, navy department. For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordanceCivilian personnel, office of. with the Classification Act of 1923, $99,220. OFFICE OF CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS.Chief of Naval Operations. salaries, navy department. For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordanceCivilian personnel, office of. with the Classification Act of 1923. $66,840. board of inspection and survey.Board of Inspection and Survey. Salaries, Navy Department: For personal services in the DistrictCivilian personnel. of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $22,260. office of director of naval communications.Director of Naval Communications. Salaries, Navy Department: For personal services in the DistrictCivilian personnel, office of. of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $133,240. office of naval intelligence.Naval Intelligence Office. Salaries, Navy Department: For personal services in the DistrictCivilian personnel. of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $42,820. 186 Bureau of Navigation.BUREAU OF NAVIGATION. transportation and recruiting. Transportation, etc.For travel allowance or for transportation and subsistence as 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 seaman to hospitals, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers,Recruiting. and for railway guides and 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 on duty with traveling recruiting parties;Dependents of enlisted men. transportation of dependents of enlisted men; in all, $3,600,000. recreation for 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*Proviso*.Pay restriction. Navy, under such regulations as he may prescribe, $500,000: *Provided*, That not more than two persons shall be employed here-under at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum. contingent. Contingent.For continuous-service certificates, commissions, warrants, diplomas, 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, $18,000. 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 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, $95,000. 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 and187 materials in repairing, correcting, adjusting, and testing compasses on shore and on board ship; nautical and astronomical instruments and repairs to same, and pay of chronometer caretakers; 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, photograhic instruments and materials, printing outfit and materials; and for the necessary civilian electricians for gyrocompass testing and inspection; in all, $640,000. ocean and lake surveys. For hydrographic surveys, including the pay of the necessaryOcean and lake surveys. hydrographic surveyors, cartographic draftsmen, and recorders, and for the purchase of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, $85,000. naval training stations.Training stations. For maintenance, including labor and material, heat, light, water,Maintenance, etc. general care, repairs, and improvement; school books; and all other incidental expenses for the naval training stations that follow: San Diego, California, $150,000; California. Newport, Rhode Island, $250,000; Rhode Island. Great Lakes, Illinois, $250,000; Illinois. 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, 1925, shall not exceed $12,600, except for Great Lakes, which shall not exceed $13,500. naval reserve force.Naval Reserve Force. For expenses of organizing, administering, and recruiting theOrganizing, 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, $170,000; for pay and allowances of officers and enrolledPay, 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 retainerRetainer pay. pay of officers and enrolled men of the Naval Reserve Force, other than class one, $3,409,826; for aviation material, equipment,Aviation material, etc. fuel, and rental of hangars, $320,174; in all, $3,900,000, not more than $1,242,289 of which amount shall be available, in addition toAdditional to other appropriations for vessels, etc. other appropriations, for fuel and the transportation thereof and for all other expenses in connection with the maintenance, operation, repair, and upkeep of vessels and aircraft assigned for training the Naval Reserve Force: *Provided*, That no part of the money*Provisos*.Consent to training required. appropriated in this Act shall be used for the training of any member of the Naval Reserve Force except with his own consent:188Uniforms to Volunteer Naval Reserve.*Provided further*, That until June 30, 1925, members of 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:Naval Militia.Constituted from State, etc., Organized Militia.Until June 30, 1925, made part of Naval Reserve Force.Vol. 38, p. 285. *Provided further*, That until June 30, 1925, of the Organized Militia as provided by law, such part as may be duly prescribed in any State, Territory, or for the District of Columbia shall constitute a Naval Militia; and Until June 30, 1925, such of 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 Naval Reserve Force, and the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to maintain and provide for said Naval Militia as provided in said Act: *Provided further*,Benefits to enrolled men. That upon their enrollment in the Naval Reserve Force, and not otherwise until June 30, 1925, the members of said Naval Militia shall have all the benefits, gratuities, privileges, and emoluments provided by law for other members of the Naval ReserveCredit for militia duty. 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 forNo retainer pay if failing to train. members of the Naval Reserve Force: *Provided further*, 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.naval war college, rhode island. Maintenance.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, $91,800: 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*Provisos*.Clerical, etc., services. reference and periodicals, $5,000; in all, $100,000: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, inspection, drafting, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, shall not exceed $62,500. Naval Home.naval home, philadelphia, pennsylvania. Pay of employees.Pay of employees: Secretary, $2,200; foreman mechanic, $2,200; superintendent of grounds. $1,200; steward, $1,600; seamstress, $360; beneficiaries’ attendant, $480; baker, $720; chief cook, $660; assistant cooks—one $600, one $540; laundresses—chief $480, five at $360 each; scrubbers—chief $420, three at $360 each; waitresses— head $600, twelve at $360 each; kitchen attendant, $540; laborers— four at $600 each, seven at $540 each; firemen—one $840, four at $720 each; gardener, $840; helper, pipe fitter, $975; helper, wood-worker, $975; stable keeper and driver, $660; master at arms, $900; two house corporals, at $600 each; barber, $600; carpenter, $1,400; painters—one $1,400, 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, two at $1,200 each; telephone operator, $900; total for employees, $50,450; Maintenance.Maintenance: For water rent, heating, and lighting; cemetery, burial expenses, and headstones; general care and improvements of189 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, $127,100; In all, Naval Home, $177,550, which sum shall be paid out of theFrom naval pension fund. income from the naval pension fund. salaries, navy department. For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordanceCivilian personnel in Department. with the Classification Act of 1923, $425,000. HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE.Hydrographic Office. salaries, navy department. For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordanceCivilian personnel. with the Classification of 1923, $300,000. 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; modernization, care and repairs to printing presses, furniture, instruments, and tools; extra drawing and engraving; translating from foreign languages; telegrams on public business; preparation ofPilot charts. pilot charts and their supplements, 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, $75,300. contingent expenses, branch hydrographic offices.Branch offices. For contingent expenses of branch hydrographic offices at Boston,Contingent expenses of designated. New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Savannah, New Orleans, San Francisco, Portland (Oregon), Portland (Maine), Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo. Duluth, Sault Sainte Marie, Seattle, Panama, San Juan (Porto Rico), 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 ves190 sels, 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, $14,670. Employees.For services of necessary employees at branch offices, $25,380. Naval Observatory.naval observatory. salaries, navy department. Civilian personnel in Department.For personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $79,260. contingent and miscellaneous expenses, naval observatory. Computations.Miscellaneous computations: For personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $7,500. Library.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. Repairs to buildings, etc.For repairs to buildings, fixtures, and fences; furniture, gas, chemicals, and stationery, including transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, foreign postage; 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, including personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $7,410. Nautical Almanac Office.salaries, nautical almanac office. Civilian personnel.For personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $28,460. Computers on piecework.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, $2,500. Bureau of Engineering.BUREAU OF ENGINEERING. engineering. Engineering, repairs of 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;Equipment supplies. maintenance and operation of coast signal service; equipage, sup191 plies, 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 field force under the bureau; incidental expenses for naval vessels, navy yards, and stations, inspectors’ offices, the engineering experiment station, such as photographing, technical books and periodicals, stationery, and instruments; instruments and apparatus,Radiotelegraphy, etc. supplies, and technical books and periodicals necessary to carry on experimental and research work in radiotelegraphy at the naval radio laboratory; in all, $17,550,000, of which $2,100,000 shallSubmarine motive power tests. be available immediately, and not less than $600,000 of the amount last named shall be available for developing and testing submarine motive power under actual service conditions: *Provided*, That the*Provisos*.Clerical, etc., services. 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, 1925, shall not exceed $1,475,000: *Provided further*,Restriction on maintaining designated types of ships. That no part of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for maintaining in commission, exclusive of vessels of other types, more than four cargo ships, two transports, and one ammunition ship, unless, in case of emergency, the President should otherwise direct. Nothing in this proviso shallReturn to port allowed for decommissioning. be construed to hinder the return of any vessel to the port where it will be decommissioned. engineering experiment station, united states naval academy,Engineering Experiment Station. annapolis, maryland. For original investigation and extended experimentation of navalExperimental work 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. salaries, navy department. For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordanceCivilian personnel in Department. with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $283,800. BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR.Bureau of Construction and Repair. construction and repair of vessels. For preservation and completion of vessels on the stocks and inConstruction and repair of vessels, etc. ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; steam steerers, steam capstans, steam windlasses, and all other auxiliaries; labor in navy yards and on foreign stations; purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops; carrying on work of experimental model tank and wind tunnel: designing naval vessels; construction and repair of yard craft, lighters, and barges; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat; general care and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; incidental expenses for vessels and navy yards, inspectors’ offices, such as photographing, books, professional magazines, plans, stationery, and instruments for drafting room, and for pay of classified field force under the bureau; for hemp, wire,Equipment supplies. iron, and other materials for the manufacture of cordage, anchors,192 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*Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services. hangings on board naval vessels, $15,605,000: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, drafting, inspection, watchmen (ship keepers), and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and offices of superintending naval constructors for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, and shall not exceed $1,630,000. salaries, navy department. Civilian personnel in Department.For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $313,000. 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 under the cognizance of the Bureau of Ordnance; for furniture at naval ammunition depots, torpedo stations, naval ordnance plants, and proving grounds; for technicalPlant appliances, etc. books; plant appliances as now defined by the “Navy Classification of Accounts”; 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; not to exceed $10,000 for minor improvements to buildings, grounds, and appurtenances, and at a cost not to exceed $750 for any single project; for the maintenance, repair, and operation of horse-drawn and motor-propelled freight and passenger carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes at naval am-munition depots, naval proving grounds, naval ordnance plants, and naval torpedo stations; for the pay of chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, navalSchools at designated stations. ordnance plants, and naval ammunition depots, and for care and operation of schools during the fiscal year 1925 at ordnance stations at Indianhead, Maryland, Dahlgren, Virginia, and South Charleston,*Proviso*.Chemical, etc., services. West Virginia, $9,025,000: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, watchmen, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, naval ordnance plants, and naval ammunition depots for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, shall not exceed $900,000. Smokeless powder.For purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, $772,000. Torpedoes, etc.For the purchase and manufacture of torpedoes and appliances, to be available until expended, $850,000.193 experiments, bureau of ordnance. For experimental work in the development of armor-piercing andExperimental work. other projectiles, fuses, powders, and high explosives, in connection with problems of the attack of armor with direct and inclined lire 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, $195,000. salaries, navy department. For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordanceCivilian personnel in Department. with the Classification Act of 1923, $142,600. 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 dutyOfficers.Pay, rental, and subsistence allowance. and other duty, and officers on waiting orders—pay $26,431,298, rental allowance $5,438,284, subsistence allowance $3,331,700, in all $35,201,282; officers on the retired list, $3,804,292; for hire of quartersHire of quarters, etc. for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them, and hire of quarters for officers and enlisted men on sea duty at such times as they may be deprived of their quarters on board ship due to repairs or other conditions which may render them uninhabitable, $20,000; pay of enlisted men on the retired list, $1,554,489; extra payEnlisted men. to men reenlisting after being honorably discharged, $1,527,225; interest on deposits by men, $7,500; 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, extra pay to men for diving, $66,961,412; pay of enlisted men undergoing sentence of court-martial, $198,000; and as many machinistsMachinists, apprentice seamen. as the President may from time to time deem necessary to appoint; and apprentice seamen under training at training stations and on board training ships, at the pay prescribed by law, $1,512,000; payNurse Corps. and allowances of the Nurse Corps, including assistant superintendents, directors, and assistant directors—pay $713,680, rental allowance $31,200, subsistence allowance $22,740, in all $767,620; rent of quarters for members of the Nurse Corps, $2,000; retainer pay and active-service pay and allowances of members of the Naval ReserveFleet Naval Reserve. Force class 1 (Fleet Naval Reserve), $5,309,180; reimbursement forProperty losses.Vol. 40, p. 389. losses of property under Act of October 6, 1917, $10,000; payment of six months’ death gratuity, $125,000; in all, $117,000,000; and theAccounting, etc. 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 purpose shall constitute one fund: *Provided*, That additional commissioned, warranted, appointed, enlisted,*Provisos*.Additional medical personnel for Veterans’ Bureau patients at naval hospitals. and civilian personnel of the medical department of the Navy, required for the care of patients of the United States Veterans’ Bureau in naval hospitals, may be employed in addition to the numbers appropriated for in this Act: *Provided further*, That no part ofRestriction on admissions to Naval Academy hereafter. this appropriation shall be available for the pay of any midshipmen whose admission subsequent to February 9, 1924, would result in exceeding at any time an allowance of three midshipmen for each194 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 two midshipmen from Porto Rico, appointed on nomination of the Resident Commissioner; and of twoAppointments at large and from enlisted personnel, not affected. midshipmen for the District of Columbia: *Provided further*, That nothing herein shall be construed to repeal or modify in any way existing laws relative to the appointment of midshipmen at large orDischarge permitted of minors enlisting without consent of parent. from the enlisted personnel of the naval service: *Provided further*, That hereafter upon the presentation of satisfactory evidence as to his age and upon application for discharge by his parent or guardian presented to the Secretary of the Navy within sixty days after the date of his enlistment, any man enlisted after July 1, 1924, in the naval service or Marine Corps under twenty-one years of age who was enlisted without the written consent of his parent or guardian,Longevity not allowed officers for time at Naval or Military Academy after March 4, 1913. if any, shall be discharged for his own convenience: *And provided further*, That in computing for any purpose the length of service of any officer of the Navy, of the Marine Corps, of the Coast Guard, of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, or of the Public Health Service, who was appointed to the United States Naval Academy or to the United States Military Academy after March 4, 1913, the time spent at either academy shall not be counted. Provisions.provisions, navy. Commuted rations, etc.For provisions and commuted rations for enlisted men of the Navy, 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 creditedSubsistence, if absent from ships. at the 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;Naval Reserve Force. subsistence of members of the Naval Reserve Force during period of active service; expenses of handling provisions and for 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;*Provisos*.Commuted rations for prisoners. in all, $9,590,000: *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, butArmy emergency ration. which shall in no case exceed 30 cents per diem for each ration so commuted; and for the purchase of United States Army emergencyUnexpended balance available.Vol. 42, p. 1144. rations as required: *Provided further*, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation “Provisions, Navy,” carried in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1924, shall be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for the fiscal year 1925. 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 disbursing195 officers; coffee mills and repair thereto; expenses of naval clothing factory and machinery for the same; laboratory equipment; purchase of articles of equipage at home and abroad under the cognizanceEquipment supplies. 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, ferriage, yeomen’s stores, safes, and other incidental expenses; all freightFreight, Department and bureaus. and express charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus; labor in general storehouses, paymasters’ offices, and accounting offices in navy yards and naval stations, including naval stations maintained in island possessions under the control of the United States, and expenses in handling stores purchased and manufactured under “the naval supply account fund”; in all, $9,800,000: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under*Proviso*.Chemical, etc., services. 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, 1925, shall not exceed $2,850,000. The clothing and small-stores fund shall be charged with theClothing and small stores fund.Outfits on first enlistments, uniform gratuity, etc., charged thereto. value 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 andNaval Nurse Corps. equipment to the members of the Naval Nurse Corps. fuel and transportation. For coal and other fuel for steamers’ and ships’ use, includingFuel, 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, $14,500,000: *Provided*, That fuel acquired other*Provisos*.Issues charged to appropriation applicable. than by purchase shall not be issued without charging the applicable appropriation with the cost of such fuel at the rate current at the time of issue for fuel purchased: *Provided further*, That the PresidentPrice for fuel on hand. may direct the use, wholly or in part, of fuel on hand, however acquired, to be charged at the last-issue rate for fuel acquired by purchase, when, in his judgment, prices quoted for supplying fuel are excessive. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transferPermanent special working fund.Transfer from supply account for establishment of. from the naval supply account fund an amount not exceeding $100,000 for the establishment of a permanent special working fund, which shall be charged with the net proceeds of all sales of surplusFunctions specified. and condemned stores; with refunds to bidders at sales and to special depositors; and with all labor, overhead, material, and services incident to work done not chargeable to naval appropriations; and which shall be credited with all funds received as payment or advances for surplus stores, for condemned stores, and for all expenses incident to work not chargeable to naval appropriations. Japanese earthquake.Issues made for relief of sufferers by, authorized from naval supply account. The Paymaster General of the Navy is hereby authorized and directed to expend from the naval supply account, without reimbursement to the naval supply account fund, issues made by order of the Secretary of the Navy, pursuant to the directions of the President, for the relief of sufferers in Japan following the earthquake which occurred September 1, 1923. 196 salaries, navy department. Civilian personnel in Department.For personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $840,000. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY. medical department. Surgeon’s necessaries. Civil establishment.For surgeon’s necessaries for vessels in commission, navy yards, naval stations, and Marine Corps; and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy yards, naval medical supply depots, Naval Medical School and Dispensary, Washington, and*Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services. Naval Academy, $1,840,000: *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, 1925, shall not exceed $150,000. contingent, bureau of medicine and surgery. Contingent expenses.For tolls and ferriages; purchase of books and stationery; hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration; sanitary, hygienic, and special instruction, including the issuing of naval medical bulletins and supplements; purchase and repairs of nonpassengercarrying wagons, automobile ambulances, and harness: purchase of and feed for horses and cows; maintenance, repair, and operation of three 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,Care of insane on Pacific coast. District of Columbia, not to exceed $1,200; for the care, maintenance, and treatment of the insane of the Navy and Marine Corps on the Pacific, coast, including supernumeraries held for transfer to the Government Hospital for the Insane; for dental outfits and dental material, and all other necessary contingent expenses;*Proviso*.Repairs, etc., at designated hospitals. in all, $395,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to replace the present old frame buildings at the naval hospitals, Canacao, Philippine Islands, and Mare Island, California, with modern reinforced concrete buildings, and to construct necessary additional buildings at the naval hospitals at San Diego, California, Pearl Harbor. Hawaii, and Mare Island, California, at a total cost not to exceed $2,257,500, whichFrom naval hospital fund. total expenditure for the purposes aforesaid shall be made from the naval hospital fund. Care of the dead.care of the dead. Expenses interring remains of officers, etc., dying in service.For care of the dead: for purchase of cemetery lots; for funeral expenses and interment or transportation to their homes or to designated cemeteries of the remains of officers (including officers who die within the United States and supernumerary patients who die197 in naval hospitals) and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps, of members of the Nurse Corps, and of officers and enlisted men of the Naval Reserve Force, when on active service with the Navy, who die or are killed in action ashore or afloat, and also to enable the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of civilian employees ofCivilian employees dying abroad. the Navy Department and Naval Establishment who die while employed outside of the continental limits of the United States, $40,000: *Provided*, That the sum herein appropriated shall be*Proviso*.Application of fund. 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. salaries, navy department. For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordanceCivilian personnel in Department. with the Classification Act of 1923, $72,620. BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS.Bureau of Yards and Docks. maintenance. For the labor, materials, and supplies necessary, as determinedGeneral maintenance. by the Secretary of the Navy, for the general maintenance of the activities and properties now, or hereafter, under the cognizance of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, including the purchase, maintenance,Vehicles, etc. repair, and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles for the Naval Establishment not otherwise provided tor, and includingClerical, etc., services. not to exceed $950,000 for clerical, inspection, drafting, messenger, and other classified work in the field, $6,217,500: *Provided*, That*Provisos*.Purchase of passenger vehicles limited. during the fiscal year 1925 the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to purchase not more than five passenger-carrying motor-propelled vehicles, to cost not to exceed $1,500 each, twenty passenger-carrying motor-propelled vehicles, to cost not to exceed $500 each, and fifteen motor cycles with passenger-carrying side cars, to cost not to exceed $300 each: *Provide further*, That expenditures from appropriationsLimit for operating, etc. 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 the Marine Corps in connectionMarine Corps, outside continental limits. with expeditionary duty without the continental limits of the United States. contingent. For contingent expenses and minor extensions and improvementsContingent. of public works at navy yards and stations. $125,000. salaries, navy department. For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordanceCivilian personnel in Department. with the Classification Act of 1923, $237,480. PUBLIC WORKS, BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS.Public works. Navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Electric capstans forPortsmouth, N. H. dry dock, $10,000; repairs to quay wall, $20,000; circulating pumps for heating system, $10,000; in all $40,000. Navy yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Additional facilities, DryBoston, Mass. Dock No. 3, $175,000; for the renewal of the roof of foundry building No. 42-C. $45,000, in all, $220,000. 198 New York, N. Y.Navy yard, New York, New York: Sprinkler system, building No. 4, $13,500; repairs and extensions to steam-heating distributing system, $17,500; central power plant improvements, $40,000; in all, $71,000. Philadelphia, Pa.Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Toilet facilities, Dry Dock No. 3, $25,000; dredging, to continue, $25,000; in all, $50,000. Washington, D. C.Navy yard, Washington, District of Columbia: Repairs to steam distributing system, $50,000. Norfolk, Va.Navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Replace caisson, Dry Dock No. 1, $50,000. Charleston, S. C.Navy yard, Charleston, South Carolina: Dredging, to continue, $30,000. Mare Island, Calif.Navy yard, Mare Island, California: Rebuilding dikes, wharves, and quay walls, and maintenance dredging (limit of cost, $2,800,000), to complete, $550,000; dredging equipment, $150,000; mooring dolphins, replacement, $28,000; plant renewals, naval coal depot, Tiburon, California, $57,500; in all, $785,500. Puget Sound, Wash.Navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington: Central power plant and distributing systems, improvements, $100,000; repair and fitting out pier (limit of cost, $1,190,000), $250,000; in all, $350,000. Guantanamo, Cuba.Naval station, Guantanamo, Cuba: Fresh-water tank, $14,000. Saint Thomas, V. I.Naval station, Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands: Refrigerating plant, extension, $3,500. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.Naval station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Harbor moorings, $45,000; power plant extension, $100,000; boundary fence, $23,000; water system, extension, $10,000; marine railway accessories house, $20,000; in all, $198,000. Tutuila, Samoa.Naval station, Tutuila, Samoa: Fire protection, $10,000; rebuilding power and refrigerating plant, $65,000; rebuilding station wharf, $12,000; in all, $87,000. Guam.Naval station, Guam: Sanitary improvements, $12,000; fire protection, $9,000; replacing timber dock with concrete quay wall, coaling station, $12,000; in all, $33,000. Cavite, P. I.Naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: Rebuilding pontoon for twenty-ton derrick, $45,000; moving power plant equipment from Olongapo and replacing worn out equipment at Cavite (limit of cost $120,000), $66,000; coaling plant renewals, $30,000; in all, $141,000. Keyport, Wash., torpedo station.Naval torpedo station, Keyport, Washington: Pier Numbered 1, extension, $15,000; torpedo storehouse, extension, $42,000; power plant, extension, $10,000; fresh-water system, extension, $13,000; sewer system, extension, $5,000; in all, $85,000. San Diego, Calif., training station.Naval training station, San Diego, California: Roads, walks, and distributing system, $40,000. Great Lakes training station, III.Naval training station, Great Lakes, Illinois, buildings: Water intake, extension, $75,000; railroad system, improvements (limit of cost $50,000), $15,000; sewerage system, improvements, $20,000; railroad trestle, replacement, $5,000: in all, $115,000. San Diego, Calif., fuel depot.Naval fuel depot, San Diego, California: Storage for war heads, $60,000. Pearl Harbor submarine base.Submarine base, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Distributing systems, extension, $50,000. San Diego, Calif., naval station.Naval station, San Diego, California: Floating pile driver, with sand pump. $15.000; storage for torpedoes, $140,000; in all, $155,000. San Francisco, Calif., Marine Corps supply depot.Condition.Supply Depot, Marine Corps, San Francisco, California: Construction of extensible building, including grading of site, $500,000, no part of such sum to be obligated until the Secretary of the Navy shall have determined that it is adequate completely to construct, equip, and otherwise make said building ready for occupancy and199 use, including the preparation and final conditioning of site: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Transfer from Treasury Department of land for site. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to transfer to the Navy Department a tract of land situated in the city of San Francisco, California, consisting of four fiftyvara lots fronting two hundred and seventy-five feet on the north side of Harrison Street, and extending back, bounded by Spear and Main Streets two hundred and seventy-five feet, for use as a site for the building herein authorized. BUREAU OF AERONAUTICS.Bureau of Aeronautics. aviation, navy. For aviation, as follows: For navigational, photographic, aerological,Designated aviation expenses. radio, and miscellaneous equipment, including repairs thereto, for use with aircraft built or building on June 30, 1924, $325,000; for maintenance, repair, and operation of aircraft factory,Aircraft factory, helium plant, etc. helium plant, air stations, fleet activities, testing laboratories, and for overhauling of planes, $6,716,950, including $300,000 for theCatapults, etc. equipment of vessels with catapults; for continuing experiments and development work on all types of aircraft, $1,573,224; forNew construction, aircraft, etc. drafting, clerical, inspection, and messenger service, $710,000; for new construction and procurement of aircraft and equipment, $5,264,826; for new construction, buildings, and improvements atBuildings, etc., at designated stations. air stations at a total cost not to exceed $560,000, as follows: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. $173,000; Coco Solo, Canal Zone, $237,000; Pensacola,Accounting. Florida, $150,000; in all, $15,150,000; 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*Provisos*.Shore stations limited. shall constitute one fund: *Provided*, 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 United States: *Provided further*,Airplane factory forbidden. That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the construction of a factory for the manufacture of airplanes: *Provided further*,Adjustment of damage claims. 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 sum of $250: *Provided further*, That all claims adjusted under this authorityReport to Congress. during the fiscal year shall be reported in detail to the Congress by the Secretary of the Navy. The Secretary of the Navy is authorized, when directed by thePensacola, Fla.Acceptance of land, etc., for air station water supply. President, to accept on behalf of the United States, free from encumbrances and without cost to the United States, the title to such lands as he may deem necessary or desirable in the vicinity of Pensacola, Florida, for use as a site and right of way for the construction and maintenance of a pumping station, wells, and pipe line to provide a suitable water supply for the United States Naval Air Station, Pensacola. Florida; and such additional water supply is hereby authorized: *Provided*, That the sum of $150,000 hereinbefore appropriated*Proviso*.Condition on use of appropriation for. for new construction, buildings and improvements, at Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, shall not be available until the Secretary of the Navy shall determine that in his judgment a water system capable of furnishing an adequate supply of water for such station can be completed within the limits of the funds herein provided, and until the Secretary of the Navy, at the direction of the President, has accepted the conveyance of lands and rights of way as herein authorized. 200 salaries, navy department. Civilian personnel in Department.For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $178,500. 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*Proviso*.Pay restriction. librarian, $275,000: *Provided*, That not more than $36,500 shall be paid for masters and instructors in swordsmanship and physical training. If number of civilian professors, etc., reduced, no detail of naval officers allowed to teach subjects taught by displaced professors.Until June 30, 1925, if for any cause the number of civilian professors or instructors employed in the United States Naval Academy on January 1, 1924, shall be reduced after such latter date, no commissioned officer of the Navy shall be detailed or allowed to teach the subject or subjects theretofore taught by such civilian*Provisos*.No violation of civil contracts. professors or instructors whose service connection with the Academy may have been so terminated: *Provided*, That in reducing the number of civilian professors no existing contract shall be violated:Dismissal of civilian professors, etc., without six months’ notice, forbidden. *Provided further*, That no civilian professor, associate or assistant professor, or instructor shall be dismissed, except for sufficient cause, without six months’ notice to him that his services will be no longer needed. Civilian employees.Assistant librarian, $2,500; cataloguer, $1,800; two shelf assistants, at $1,400 each; secretary of the Naval Academy, $3,000; clerks—two at $2,100 each, two at $1,900 each, two at $1,800 each, nine at $1,600 each, four at $1,400 each, twenty-three at $1,300 each, seven at $1,200 each; repair man or seamstress, $1,000; surveyor, $1,700; services of choirmaster and organist at chapel, $1,700; captain of the. watch, $1,600; second captain of the watch. $1,500; thirty watchmen, at $1,400 each; five telephone switchboard operators, at $840 each; mail messenger, $1,200; in all, $134,900. Department of ordnance and gunnery.Department of Ordnance and Gunnery: For leading ordnancemen, ordnancemen, ordnance helpers, electricians, and other employees, $16,952. Department of electrical engineering and physics.Departments of Electrical Engineering and Physics: For electrical machinists, mechanics, laboratorians, and other employees, $17,727. Department of seamanship.Department of seamanship: Three coxswains, at $1,176.88 each; three seamen, at $1,001.60 each; seaman, $826.56; in all, $7,362. 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, $47,922. Commissary department.Commissary department: For chief clerk and purchasing agent, chief cook and cooks, steward and assistant stewards, stenographers, typists, head waiters and assistant head waiters, head pantrymen, chief baker and bakers, butchers, truck chauffeurs, mechanicians for repair of trucks, firemen, seamstresses, and necessary pantrymen, butcher’s helpers, baker’s helpers, waiters, coffeemen,’ dish pantrymen, utility men, 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,*Proviso*.Pay restriction. $190,000: *Provided*, That no employee paid under the provisions of 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, $131,794. 201 Current and miscellaneous expenses, Naval Academy: For 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, $81,300. For purchase, binding, and repair of books for the library (to beLibrary. purchased in the open market on the written order of the superintendent), $2,500. For expenses of the Board of Visitors to the Naval Academy,Board of Visitors. $3,000. For contingencies for the superintendent of the academy, to beSuperintendent. expended in his discretion, $3,000. For contingencies for the commandant of midshipmen, to be expendedCommandant. in his discretion, $1,200. Maintenance and repairs, Naval Academy: For necessary repairsGeneral maintenance and 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, 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 midshipmens 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, $1,050,000. For commutation of rent for bandsmen, at $15 per month, each,Rent commutation. $13,500. Any money that may not be required under any of the foregoingMoney appropriated but not required owing to decommissioning of ships, etc., may be applied for repairs, etc. appropriations for the objects for which provided as the result of decommissioning, or placing in reduced commission, or in reserve, any capital ship or other types of vessels, may be applied, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, to the repair, exclusive of changes and alterations, of vessels and/or to supplement the appropriation “Maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks.” Prior to theTransfer of credits, etc. obligation of such sums as may be diverted in pursuance of this authority the Secretary of the Navy shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury the sum or sums to be diverted and the appropriation to be debited and credited. MARINE CORPS.Marine Corps. pay, marine corps.Pay, etc. Pay of officers, active and class 1, Fleet Marine Corps reserve list:Officers, active and reserve. For pay and allowances prescribed by law for all officers on the active and class 1, Fleet Marine Corps reserve list—pay and allowances, $3,422,809; subsistence allowance, $484,823; rental allowance, $715,428; in all, $4,623,060. 202 Retired officers.For pay of officers prescribed by law on the retired list, $451,157. Enlisted men, active and reserve.Pay 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 bare, including interest on deposits by enlisted men, post exchange debts of deserters, under such rules as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, and the authorized travel allowance of discharged enlisted men, and for prizes for excellence in gunnery exercises and target practice, and for pay of enlisted men designated as Navy mail clerks and assistant Navy mail clerks, both afloat and ashore—pay and allowances, $9,791,751; allowance for lodging and subsistence, $817,782; in all, $10,609,533. Retired enlisted men.For pay and allowances prescribed by law of enlisted men on the retired list, $345,864. Undrawn clothing.Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged enlisted men for clothing undrawn. $250,000. Reserve Force.For pay and allowances of Reserve Force, excepting class 1, Fleet Marine Corps Reserve, $78,025. mileage. Mileage, etc.For mileage and actual and necessary expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence as authorized by law to officers traveling under orders without troops, $125,000. Disbursing and accounting.In all, $16,482,639, and the money herein specifically appropriated for pay of the Marine Corps shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law as pay of the Marine Corps, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. Transportation in foreign vessels restricted.No money appropriated by this Act shall be expended for transportation on foreign vessels of officers, enlisted men, or employees under the jurisdiction of the Navy Department without a certificate from the Secretary of the Navy or other official authority designated by him that there are no American vessels then available for the transportation of such officers, enlisted men, or employees. Restriction on pay, etc., of officers of Navy or Marine Corps on leave, if engaged in other service.No officer of the Navy or Marine Corps, while on leave of absence engaged in a service other than that of the Government of the United States, shall be entitled to any pay or allowances for a period in excess of that for which he is entitled to full pay, unless the President otherwise directs. Civil force.pay of civil force. Civilian personnel at headquarters.For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” as follows: Offices of the major general commandant and adjutant and inspector, $61,420; Office of the paymaster, $23,320; Office of the quartermaster, $72,520; in all. $157,260. Elsewhere.For personal services in Marine Corps offices located elsewhere than at Marine Corps Headquarters, $13,601. General expenses.general expenses, marine corps. Authorized objects.For every expenditure requisite for, and incident to, the authorized work of the Marine Corps, other than as appropriated for under the headings of pay and salaries, as follows: 203 For provisions, subsistence, board, and lodging of enlisted men,Provisions, etc. recruits, and recruiting parties, and applicants for enlistment, cash allowance for lodging and subsistence to enlisted men traveling on duty; ice, ice machines and their maintenance, $3,619,000; For clothing for enlisted men, $1,385,000; Clothing. For fuel, heat, light, and power, including sales to officers,Fuel, etc. $600,000; For military supplies and equipment, including their purchase,Military supplies.Purchase, repairs, etc. repair, preservation, and handling; recreational, school, educational, library, musical, amusement, field sport and gymnasium supplies, equipment, services, and incidental expenses; 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; rental and maintenance of target ranges and entrance fees for competitions, $371,000; For transportation of troops and applicants for enlistment, includingTransportation and recruiting. cash in lieu of ferriage and transfers en route; toilet kits for issue to recruits upon their first enlistment and other incidental expenses of the recruiting service; and transportation for dependentsOf dependents. of officers and enlisted men, $625,000; For repairs and improvements to barracks, quarters, and otherRepairs to barracks, etc. 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 at a total cost of not to exceed $10,000 during the year, $375,000; For forage and stabling of public animals and the authorizedForage, etc. number of officers’ horses, $60,000; For miscellaneous supplies, material, equipment, personal andContingent. other services, and for other incidental expenses for the Marine Corps not otherwise provided for; purchase, repair, and exchange of typewriters and calculating machines; purchase and repair of furnitureVehicles, etc. and fixtures; purchase and repair of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying and other vehicles; veterinary services and medicines for public animals and the authorized number of officers’ horses; purchase of mounts and horse equipment for allHorses, etc. officers below the grade of major required to be mounted; shoeing for public animals and the authorized number of officers’ horses; books, newspapers, and periodicals; printing and binding; packing and crating of officers’ allowance of baggage; funeral expenses of officers and enlisted men and accepted applicants for enlistment and retired officers on active duty and retired enlisted men of the Marine Corps, including the transportation of their bodies, arms, and wearing apparel from the place of demise to the homes of the deceasedLaundries. in the United States; construction, operation, and maintenance of laundries; and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, $1,876,800: *Provided*, That there may be expended out of this appropriation*Proviso*.Purchase of motor passenger vehicles. for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles not more than $33,000, as follows: One vehicle to cost not more than $2,500, four vehicles to cost not more than $1,500 each, ten vehicles to cost not more than $1,200 each, and twenty-five vehicles to cost not more than $500 each; In all, $8,911,800, to be accounted for as one fund. Accounting. INCREASE OF THE NAVY.Increase of the Navy. The Secretary of the Navy may use the unexpended balances onUnexpended balances available. the date of the approval of this Act under appropriations hereto204New appropriation. fore made on account of “Increase of the Navy,” together with the sum of $8,450,000, which is hereby appropriated for the prosecutionWork on vessels under treaty limitation. of work on vessels under construction on such date, the construction of which may be proceeded with under the terms of the treatyAircraft carriers. providing for the limitation of naval armament; for continuing the conversion of two battle cruisers into aircraft carriers, including their complete equipment of aircraft and aircraft accessories,Fleet submarine. in accordance with the terms of such treaty; toward the construction of one fleet submarine (mine-laying type) heretofore authorized, to have the highest practicable speed and greatest desirable radius of action and to cost not to exceed $5,300,000 for construction and machinery and $850,000 for armor, armament, and ammunition, and thePlans, etc., for scouting submarine, etc. Secretary of the Navy shall have prepared plans and estimates of cost of a scouting submarine and a submarine capable of accompanying the fleet, each to have the highest practicable speed and greatest desirable radius of action, such plans and estimates to be in readiness for submission to Congress on the first day of the next regular session;Payment for vessels already delivered, etc. for the settlement of contracts on account of vessels already delivered to the Navy Department; for reimbursement to contractors and subcontractors of carrying charges heretofore 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 vessels the construction of which may beGyro compasses and fire-control instruments.Armor, etc., for ships under construction. continued under the terms of such treaty; for the procurement of gyro compass equipments, and for the installation of fire-control instruments on destroyers not already supplied; and for the completion of armor, armament, ammunition, and torpedoes for the supply*Proviso*.Transfers from naval supply account fund. and complement of vessels which may be proceeded with as hereinbefore mentioned: *Provided*, That in addition to the funds herein-before made available for “Increase of the Navy,” the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to make transfers during the fiscal year 1925 from the naval supply account fund to the appropriation “Increase of the Navy,” of sums aggregating $22,500,000. Negotiations requested with other Governments to limit construction, and number of officers and enlisted men.The President is requested to enter into negotiations with the Governments of Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japan and such other governments as he may deem proper 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, and limiting the number of officers and enlisted men. 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*Provisos*.Details to Bureau of Navigation.Specified service not deemed Department details. services of civilians and of enlisted men of the Navy, except as herein expressly authorized: *Provided*, That there may be detailed to the Bureau of Navigation not to exceed at any one time twenty-four enlisted men of the Navy: *Provided further*, That enlisted men 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 uponCash rewards, etc., restricted. 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 sugges205 tions resulting in improvements or economy in the operation of any Government plant; and that no part of the moneys herein appropriated for the Naval Establishment or herein made available therefor shall be used or expended under contracts hereafter made for the repair, purchase, or acquirement, by or from any private contractor, of any naval vessel, machinery, article or articles that at the time of the proposed repair, purchase, or acquirement, can be repaired, manufactured, or produced in each or any of the Government navy yards or arsenals of the United States, when time and facilities permit, and when, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy, such repair, purchase, acquirement, or production, would not involve an appreciable increase in cost to the Government. Approved, May 28, 1924.