Chapter 209. Making appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 209.— An Act Making appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, and for other purposes. February 11, 1925.[[H. R. 10724](/us/bill/68/hr/10724).][[Public, No. 398](/us/pl/68/398).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the following Navy Department appropriations.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, 1926, namely:
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARYSecretary’s Office. salaries, secretary’s office, navy department Secretary of the Navy, $12,000; Assistant Secretary, and other Secretary, Assistant, and office personnel.personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $146,400; in all, $158,400: *Provided*, That *Provisos*.Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act.Vol. 42, p. 1488.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 in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act, and in grades in which only one If only one position in a grade.position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade: *Provided*, That this Restriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.No reduction of fixed salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1490.Transfers to another position without reduction.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 was fixed as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act,
(3)to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, or
(4)to prevent Payments under rates permitted. higher 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 boardGeneral Board. Salaries, Navy Department: For personal services in the District Civilian personnel.of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $9,920. naval examining and retiring boardsExamining and Rering Boards. Salaries, Navy Department: For personal services in the Civilian personnel.District of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $9,880. compensation boardCompensensation Board Salaries, Navy Department: For personal services in the District Civilian personnel.of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $22,000. 862 Department contingent expenses.contigent expenses, navy department Library.For professional and technical books and periodicals, law books, and necessary reference books, including city directories, railway guides, freight, passenger, and express tariff books, for department library, $3,000. Stationery, furniture, vehicles, etc.For stationery, furniture, newspapers, plans, drawings, and drawing materials; purchase and exchange of motor trucks or motor delivery wagons, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor trucks or motor delivery wagons, and one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, to be used only for official purposes; garage rent; 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, Naval service appropriations not to be used lor Department purposes.$77,000; it shall not be lawful to expend, unless otherwise specifically provided herein, for any of the offices or bureaus of the Navy Department in the District of Columbia, any sum out of appropriations made for the naval service for any of the purposes mentioned or authorized in this paragraph. Printing and Binding Printing and binding.For printing and binding for the Navy Department and the Naval Establishment executed at the Government Printing Office, $500,000, including not exceeding $85,000 for the Hydrographic Office. Pay, miscellaneous.pay, miscellaneous Expenses designated.For commissions and interest; transportation of funds; exchange; for traveling expenses of civilian employees; for the expenses of the attendance of representatives of the Navy Department who may be designated as delegates from the United States to attend the meetings of the International Research Council or of its branches; 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; news-papersAdvertising, etc. 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; relief of vessels in distress; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; reports; professional investigation; cost of special instruction at home and abroad, including Information from abroad.maintenance of students and attachés; 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 $200,000 for telephone rentals and tolls, telegrams and cablegrams; postage, foreign and domestic, and Interned prisoners of war, etc.post-office box rentals; for necessary expenses for interned persons and prisoners of war under the jurisdiction of the Navy Department, including funeral expenses for such interned persons or prisoners of Damages claims.Vol. 41, p. 132.war as may die while under such jurisdiction, and for payment of claims for damages under Naval Act approved July 11, 1919; and *Provisos*.Restriction on use in naval districts.other necessary and incidental expenses; in all, $1,725,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the expense of any naval district unless the commandant thereof shall be also 863the commandant of a navy yard, navalClerical, etc., service in yards and stations.training station, or naval operating base: *Provided further*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards and naval stations, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, shall not exceed $560,000. contingent, navyContingent, Navy. For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, exclusive of personal services in the Navy Department or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at Washington, District of Columbia, arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, to be expended on the approval and authority of the Secretary of the Navy, and for such purposes as he may deem proper, $40,000. temporary government for west indian islandsVirgin 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, plus so much of $29,850 additional as may equal the sum of revenue Additional from insular revenues.collected and paid into the treasuries of said islands in excess of $270,150; toward the construction of permanent water-supply Water supply for designated towns.system for the towns of Saint Thomas, Christiansted, and Fredericksted, $125,000; in all, $395,150. state marine schoolsMarine schools. To reimburse the State of New York, $25,000; the State of Massachusetts, Reimbursing New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania for.$25,000; and the State of Pennsylvania, $25,000, for expenses incurred in the maintenance and support of marine schools Vol. 36, p. 1353.in those States in accordance with section 2 of the Act entitled “An Act for the establishment of marine schools, and for other purposes,” approved March 4, 1911; in all, $75,000. care of lepers, and so forth, island of guamLepers, etc. Naval station, island of Guam: For maintenance and care of Care, etc., Culion, P. I.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. naval research laboratoryResearch Laboratory. For laboratory and research work and other necessary work Work of, for naval service.of the naval research laboratory for the benefit of the naval service, as authorized in the Naval Appropriation Act approved August 29, Vol. 39, p. 570.1916, including operation and maintenance of a laboratory, additions to equipment necessary properly to carry on work in hand, maintenance of buildings and grounds, and the temporary employment of such scientific civilian assistants as may become necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, $150,000: *Provided*, That $10,000 of this appropriation shall be available *Provisos*.Temporary scientists, etc.for the temporary employment of civilian scientists and technicists required on special problems: *Provided further*, That the sum Technical, etc., services.to be paid out of this appropriation for technical, drafting, clerical, and messenger service shall not exceed $40,000 in addition to the amount authorized by the preceding proviso. 864 Naval Records and Library.OFFICE OF NAVAL RECORDS AND LIBRARY salaries, navy department Civilian personnel.For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $25,160. Naval records of World War.naval war records Expenses of collecting, etc.Toward the collection or copying and classification, with a view to 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, not to exceed $19,320, 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, $19,720. Judge Advocate General.OFFICE OF JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL salaries, navy department Civilian personnel, office of.For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $102,000. Chief of Naval Operations.OFFICE OF CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS salaries, navy department Civilian personnel, office of.For personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $68,000. Inspection and Survey Board.board of inspection and survey Civilian personnel.Salaries, Navy Department: For personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $22,000. Director of Naval Communications.office of director of naval communications Civilian personnel.Salaries, Navy Department: For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $130,000. Naval Intelligence Office.office of naval intelligence Civilian personnel.Salaries, Navy Department: For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $36,520. Bureau of Navigation.BUREAU OF NAVIGATION transportation and recruiting Transportation, etc.For 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 officers performing travel by Government-owned vessels for which no transportation fare is charged, shall only be entitled to reimbursement of Mileage to midshipmen entering Naval Academy.actual and necessary expenses incurred; 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 865appointment as midshipmen; for actual traveling expenses of female nurses; 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 seamen to hospitals, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lien thereof; apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, and for railway guides and other expenses incident to transportation; expenses of recruiting for the Recruiting.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; transportation of dependents of Dependents of officers and enlisted men.officers and enlisted men; in all, $4,000,000. recreation for enlisted men For the recreation, amusement, comfort, contentment, and health Recreation for enlisted men.of the Navy, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, under such regulations as he may prescribe, $500,000: *Proviso*.Pay restriction.*Provided*, That the amount paid from this appropriation for personal services of field employees, exclusive of temporary services, shall not exceed $64,000. contingent For continuous-service certificates, commissions, warrants, diplomas, Contingent.discharges, good-conduct badges, and medals for men and boys; purchase of gymnastic apparatus; transportation of effects of deceased officers and enlisted men of the Navy, and of officers and men of the Naval Reserve Force who die while on duty; books for training apprentice seamen and landsmen; packing boxes and materials; books and models; stationery; and other contingent expenses and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation, unforeseen and impossible to classify, $15,000. gunnery and engineering exercisesGunnery and engineering exercises. For trophies and badges for excellence in gunnery, target practice, Prizes, badges, etc.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, $45,850. instruments and supplies For supplies for seamen’s quarters; and for the purchase of all Equipment supplies.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, and pay of chronometer caretakers; libraries 866for ships of war, professional books, schoolbooks, and papers; maintenance of gunnery and other training classes; compasses, compass fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ship’s compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship’s way and leads and other appliances for sounding; photographs, photographic instruments and materials, printing outfit and materials; and for the necessary civilian electricians for gyrocompass testing and inspection; in all, $640,000. ocean and lake surveys Ocean and lake surveys.For hydrographic surveys, including the pay of the necessary hydrographic surveyors, cartographic draftsmen, and recorders, and for the purchase of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, $95,000. Training stations.naval thaining stations Maintenance, etc.For maintenance, including labor and material, heat, light, water, general care, repairs, and improvement; school books; and all other incidental expenses for the naval training stations that follow: California.San Diego, California, $160,000; Rhode Island.Newport, Rhode Island, $250,000; Illinois.Great Lakes, Illinois, $250,000; Virginia.Hampton Roads, Virginia, $260,000. *Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services.*Provided*, That the amount to be paid out of each of the foregoing sums under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, shall not exceed $12,600, except for Great Lakes, which shall not exceed $13,500. Naval Reserve Force.naval reserve force Organizing, recruiting. etc., expenses.*Post*, p. 1080.For expenses of organizing, administering, and recruiting the Naval Reserve Force and Naval Militia; for the maintenance and Pay, etc., on active training duty.rental of armories, including the pay of necessary janitors, and for wharfage, $170,000; for pay and allowances of officers and enrolled men of the Naval Reserve Force, other than class one, while on active duty for training; mileage for officers while traveling under orders to and from active duty for training; transportation of enrolled men to and from active duty for training, and subsistence and transfers en route or cash in lieu thereof; subsistence of enrolled men during the actual period of active duty for training; pay and allowances of officers of the Naval Reserve Force and pay, allowances, and subsistence of enrolled men of the Naval Reserve Force when ordered to active duty in connection with the Retainer pay.instruction, training, and drilling of the Naval Reserve Force; and retainer pay of officers and enrolled men of the Naval Reserve Force, other than class one, $3,409,820; for aviation material, equipment, fuel, and rental of hangars, $320,180; in all, $3,900,000, notAdditional to other appropriations for vessels. more than $1,232,060 of which amount shall be available, in addition to other appropriations, for fuel and the transportation thereof and for all other expenses in connection with the maintenance, operation, repair, and upkeep of vessels and aircraft assigned for training the *Provisos*.Consent to training required.Naval Reserve Force: *Provided*, That no part of the money appropriated in this Act shall be used for the training of any member of the Naval Reserve Force except with his own consent: *ProvidedUniforms to Volunteer Naval Reserve. further*, That until June 30, 1926, 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 867issued to other classes of the Naval Reserve Force and to be charged against the clothing and small stores fund: *Provided further*, That Naval Militia.Constituted from State, etc., Organized Militia.until June 30, 1926, 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 Until June 30, 1926, made part of Naval Reserve Force.June 30, 1926, 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 Vol. 38, p. 285.Secretary of the Navy is authorized to maintain and provide for said Naval Militia as provided in said Act: *Provided further*, That upon theirBenefits to enrolled men. enrollment in the Naval Reserve Force, and not otherwise until June 30, 1926, the members of said Naval Militia shall have all the benefits, gratuities, privileges, and emoluments provided by law Credit for militia duty.for other members of the Naval Reserve Force; and that, with the approval of the Secretary of the Navy, duty performed in the Naval Militia may be counted as active service for the maintenance of efficiency required by law for members of the Naval Reserve Force: *Provided further*, That retainer pay provided by existing No retainer pay If failing to drill.law shall not be paid to any member of the Naval Reserve Force who fails to train as provided by law during the year for which he fails to train. naval war college, rhode islandNaval War College. For maintenance of the Naval War College on Coasters Harbor Maintenance.Island, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle to lie used only for official purposes; and care of ground for same, $96,000; services of a professor of international law, $2,000; services of civilian lecturers, rendered at the War College, $2,000; care and preservation of the library, including the purchase, binding, and repair of books of reference and periodicals, $5,000; in all, $105,000: *Provided*, That *Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services.the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, inspection, drafting, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, shall not exceed $64,000. naval home, philadelphia, pennsylavaniaNaval Home. For pay of employees at rates of pay to be fixed by the Secretary Pay of employees.*Proviso*.Prevailing rates not increased.of the Navy, $66,971: *Provided*, That the rates of pay prevailing on the date of approval of this Act for inmates of the home employed in various capacities shall not be increased during the fiscal year 1926. Maintenance: For water rent, heating, and lighting; cemetery, Maintenance.burial expenses, and headstones; general care and improvements of grounds, buildings, walls, and fences; repairs to power-plant equipment, implements, tools, and furniture, and purchase of the same; 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, $123,029; 868 In all, Naval Home, $190,000, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund. salaries, navy department Civilian personnel in Department.For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $423,000. Hydrographic Office.HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE salaries, navy department Civilian personnel.For personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $310,000. Contingent and miscellaneous expenses.Contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Hydrographic Office:For purchase and printing of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, copperplates, steel plates, chart paper, packing boxes, chart portfolios, electrotyping copperplates, cleaning 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; Pilot charts.telegrams on public business; preparation of 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, $68,800. Branch offices.contingent expenses, branch hydrographic offices Contingent expenses of designated.For contingent expenses of branch hydrographic offices at Boston, 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 vessels, freight and express charges, telegrams, and other necessary expenses incurred in collecting the latest information for pilot charts, and for other purposes for which the offices were established, $13,620. Employees.For services of necessary employees at branch offices, $32,580. 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, $82,000. 869 contingent and miscellaneous expenses, naval observatory Miscellaneous computations: For personal services in the District Computations.of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $9,300. For professional and scientific books, books of reference, periodicals, Library.engravings, photographs, and fixtures for the library, $1,000. For apparatus and instruments, and for repairs of the same, Apparatus, etc.$2,500. For repairs to buildings, fixtures, and fences; furniture, gas, Repairs to buildings, etc., chemicals, and stationery, including transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, foreign postage; plants, fertilizers, and all contingent expenses, $3,500. For fuel, oil, grease, pipe, wire, and other materials needed for Miscellaneous supplies.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, of which amount not to exceed $3,058 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. For cleaning, repair, and upkeep of grounds and roads, including Grounds and roads.personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $6,030, of which amount not to exceed $4,920 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. For expenses in preparing for and conducting observations of Observing total solar eclipse 1926.total solar eclipse of January 14, 1926, $3,670. salaries, nautical almanac office For personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance Civilian personnel.with the Classification Act of 1923, $28,460. For pay of computers on piecework in preparing for publication Computers on piece work.the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac and in improving the tables of the planets, moon, and stars, $2,500. BUREAU OF ENGINEERINGBureau of Engineering. engineering For repairs, preservation, and renewal of machinery, auxiliary Engineering repairs, machinery, etc.machinery, and boilers of naval vessels, yard craft, and ships’ boats, distilling and refrigerating apparatus; repairs, preservation, and renewals of electric interior and exterior signal communications and all electrical appliances of whatsoever nature on board naval vessels, except range finders, battle order and range transmitters and indicators, and motors and their controlling apparatus used to operate machinery belonging to other bureaus; searchlights and fire-control equipments for antiaircraft defense at shore stations; maintenance and operation of coast signal service; equipage, supplies, and materials Equipment supplies.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, 870stationery, and instruments; services, instruments and apparatus, supplies, and technical books and periodicals necessary to carry on experimental and research work; in all, $19,500,000, of which *Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services.$1,100,000 shall be available immediately: *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, 1926, shall not exceed $1,475,000. Engineering Experiment Station.engineering experiment station, united states naval academy annapolis, maryland Experimental work, etc.For original investigation and extended experimentation of naval appliances, testing implements and apparatus; purchase and installation of such machines and auxiliaries considered applicable for test and use in the naval service, and for maintenance and equipment of buildings and grounds, $175,000. salaries, navy department Civilian personnel in Department.For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $286,000. Bureau of Construction and Repair.BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR construction and repair of vessels Construction and repair of vessels.For preservation and completion of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; steam steerers, 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 Equipment supplies.for pay of classified field force under the bureau; for hemp, wire, iron, and other materials for the manufacture of cordage, anchors, cables, galleys, and chains; specifications for purchase thereof shall be so prepared as shall give fair and free competition; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, hammocks, and other work; interior appliances and tools for manufacturing purposes in navy yards and naval stations; and for the purchase of all other articles of equipage at home and abroad; and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith and manufacture of such articles in the several navy yards; naval signals and apparatus, other than electric, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, running lights, 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., vices.hangings on board naval vessels, $17,000,000: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, drafting, inspection, watchmen (ship keepers), and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and offices of superintending naval constructors for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, shall not exceed $1,700,000. 871 salaries, navy department For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance Civilian personnel in Department.with the Classification Act of 1923, $315,000. BUREAU OF ORDNANCEBureau of Ordnance. ordnance and ordnance stores For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ordnance Procuring, etc., ordnance and ordnance stores.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 technical books; plant appliances as now defined by the “Navy Classification Plant appliances, etc.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 ammunition 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, naval ordinance plants, and naval ammunition depots, and for care and operation Schools at designated stations.of schools during the fiscal year 1926 at ordnance stations at Indianhead, Maryland, Dahlgren, Virginia, and South Charleston, West Virginia, $10,375,250: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out *Proviso*.Chemical, etc., services.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, 1926, shall not exceed $900,000. For purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, $772,000.Smokeless powder. For the purchase and manufacture of torpedoes and appliances, to Torpedoes, etc.be available until expended, $500,000. experiments, bureau of ordnance For experimental work in the development of armor-piercing Experimental work.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, $190,000. salaries, navy department For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance Civilian personnel in Department.with the Classification Act of 1923, $145,000. BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTSBureau of Supplies and Accounts. pay of the navyPay of the Navy. For pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on sea duty and other duty, Officers.and officers on waiting orders—pay $25,796,006,Pay, rental, and subsistence allowances. 872rental allowance $5,339,920, subsistence allowance $3,316,720, in all Hire of quarters.$34,452,646; officers on the retired list, $4,145,766; for hire of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them, and hire of quarters for officers and enlisted men on sea duty at such times as they may be deprived of their quarters on board ship due to repairs or other conditions which may render them uninhabitable,Enlisted men. $1,000; pay of enlisted men on the retired list, $1,433,012; extra pay to men reenlisting after being honorably discharged, $1,459,775; 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 and cash prizes for men for excellence in gunnery, target practice, and engineering competitions, $66,588,000; pay of enlisted men undergoing sentence of Machinists, apprentice seamen.court-martial, $198,000; 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 Nurse Corps.ships, at the pay prescribed by law, $1,512,000; pay and allowances of the Nurse Corps, including assistant superintendents, directors, and assistant directors—pay $718,000, rental allowance $24,000, subsistence allowance $20,805, in all $762,805; rent of quarters for Fleet Naval Reserve.members of the Nurse Corps, $2,000; retainer pay and active-service pay and allowances of members of the Naval Reserve Force class 1 Property losses.Vol. 40, p. 339.(Fleet Naval Reserve), $6,277,496; reimbursement for losses of Death gratuity.property under Act of October 6, 1917, $10,000; payment of six months’ death gratuity, $150,000; in all, $117,000,000; and the money Accounting, etc.herein specifically appropriated for “Pay of the Navy,” shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law as *Provisos*.Additional medical personnel for Veterans Bureau patients at naval hospitals.“Pay of the Navy,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund: *Provided*, That additional commissioned, warranted, appointed, enlisted, and civilian personnel of the medical department of the Navy, required for the care of patients of the United States Veterans’ Bureau in naval hospitals, may be employed in addition to the numbers Restriction on admissions to Naval Academy hereafter.appropriated for in this Act: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the pay of any midshipmen whose admission subsequent to December 13, 1924, would result in exceeding at any time an allowance of three midshipmen for each Senator, Representative, and Delegate in Congress; of one midshipman for Porto Rico, a native of the island, appointed on nomination of the governor, and of two midshipmen from Porto Rico, appointed on nomination of the Resident Commissioner; and Appointments at large or from enlisted men not affected.of two 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 or from the enlisted personnel of the naval service: *And providedLongevity not allowed officers for time at Naval or Military Academy after March 4, 1913. 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 or the commanding officers, at 87350 cents per diem, and midshipmen at 80 cents per diem, and commuted rations stopped on account of sick in hospital and credited at the rate of 75 cents per ration to the naval hospital fund; subsistence Subsistence, if absent from ships.of men unavoidably detained or absent from vessels to which attached under orders (during which subsistence rations to be stopped on board ship and no credit for commutation therefor to be given); quarters and subsistence of men on detached duty; subsistence ofNaval Reserve Force. 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; in all, $19,800,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized *Proviso*.Commuted rations for prisoners.to commute rations for such general courts-martial prisoners in such amounts as seem to him proper, which may vary in accordance with the location of the naval prison, but which shall in no case exceed 30 cents per diem for each ration so commuted; and for the purchase Army emergency rations.of United States Army emergency rations as required. maintenance For fuel; the removal and transportation of ashes and garbage Maintenance.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 machinery for the same; laboratory equipment; purchase Equipment supplies.of articles of equipage at home and abroad under the cognizance of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith, and the manufacture of such articles in the several navy yards; musical instruments and music; mess outfits; soap on board naval vessels; tolls, ferriage, yeomen’s stores, safes, Freight, Department and bureaus.and other incidental expenses; all freight 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 *Proviso*.Chemical, etc., services.paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for chemists and for clerical, inspection, and messenger service in the supply and accounting departments of the navy yards and naval stations and disbursing offices for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, shall not exceed $2,850,000. The clothing and small-stores fund shall be charged with the value Clothing and small-stores fund.Outfits on first enlistments, uniform gratuities, etc., charged thereto.of all issues of clothing and small stores made to enlisted men and apprentice seamen required as outfits on first enlistment, not to exceed $100 each, and for uniform gratuity to enrolled men of the Naval Reserve Force and for civilian clothing not to exceed $15 per man to men given discharge for bad conduct, for undesirability, or inaptitude, the uniform gratuity paid to officers of the Naval Reserve Force, and the authorized issues of clothing and equipment to the Nurse Corps.members of the Naval Nurse Corps. 874 fuel and transportation Fuel, transportation, etc.For coal and other fuel for steamers’ and ships’ use, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same; maintenance and general operation of machinery of naval fuel depots and fuel plants; water for all purposes on board naval vessels, and ice for the cooling of water, including the expense of transportation and *Provisos*.Issues charged to appropriations applicablestorage of both, $15,460,000: *Provided*, That fuel acquired other than by purchase shall not be issued without charging the applicable appropriation Prices for fuel on hand.with the cost of such fuel at the rate current at the time of issue for fuel purchased: *Provided further*, That the President 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. salaries, navy department Civilian personnel in Department.For personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $830,000. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY Surgeon’s necessaries.For surgeon’s necessaries for vessels in commission, navy yards, Civil establishment.naval stations, and Marine Corps; and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy yards, naval medical supply depots, Naval Medical School and Dispensary, Washington, and Naval *Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services.Academy, $1,730,000: *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, 1926, shall not exceed $150,000. contingent, bureau of medicine and surgery Contingent.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 nonpassenger-carrying 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 and 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 Care of insane on Pacific coast.supply depots; rent of rooms for naval dispensary, Washington, District of Columbia, not to exceed $1,200; for the care, maintenance, and treatment of the insane of the Navy and Marine Corps on the Pacific coast, including supernumeraries held for transfer to the Government Hospital for the Insane; for dental outfits and dental material; and all other necessary contingent expenses; in all, $375,000: 875*Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to *Proviso*.Additions to designated hospitals.construct necessary additional buildings at the naval hospitals at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Chelsea, Massachusetts; Newport, Rhode Island; New York, New York; League Island, Pennsylvania; Norfolk, Virginia; Great Lakes, Illinois; Puget Sound, Washington; Guam; and Canacao, Philippine Islands, at a total cost not to exceed $715,500, which total expenditure for the purposes aforesaid shall be made from the naval hospital fund. cake of the deadCare of the dead. For care of the dead; for purchase of cemetery lots; for funeral Expenses interring remains of officers, etc., dying in the service.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 die 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 Civilian employees dying abroad.also to enable the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of civilian employees of the Navy Department and Naval Establishment who die while employed out-side of the continental limits of the United States, $90,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Application of fund. That the sum herein appropriated shall be available for payment for transportation of the remains of officers and men who have died while on duty at any time since April 21, 1898. salaries, navy department For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordanceCivilian personnel in Department. with the Classification Act of 1923, $73,400. BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKSBureau of Yards and Docks. maintenance For the labor, materials, and supplies necessary, as determined General 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 for, and including not to exceed $950,000 for clerical, inspection, drafting, messenger, and Clerical, etc., services.*Provisos*.Purchase of passenger vehicles limited.other classified work in the field, $6,750,000: *Provided*, That during the fiscal year 1926 the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to purchase not more than two passenger-carrying motor-propelled vehicles, to cost not to exceed $2,500 each, fifteen passenger-carrying motor-propelled vehicles, to cost not to exceed $1,500 each, and thirty passenger-carrying motor-propelled vehicles, to cost not to exceed $500 each, and the Secretary of the Navy shall sell, or exchange in part payment for such new vehicles, not less than a corresponding number of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles in use and of makes which now cost in excess of $2,000 per vehicle to replace for each new car purchased costing $1,500 or more: *Provided further*, That expenditures from appropriations contained in this Act Limit for operation, etc.for the maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, including the compensation of operators, shall not exceed in the aggregate $100,000, exclusive of such vehicles Marino Corps out-do continental limits.owned and operated by the Marine Corps in connection with expeditionary duty without the continental limits of the United States, and 876on any one vehicle shall not exceed for maintenance, upkeep, and repair, exclusive of garage rent, pay of operator, fuel, and lubricants, one-third of the market price of a new vehicle of the same make or class, and in any case more than $500. contingent Contingent.For contingent expenses and minor extensions and improvements of public works at navy yards and stations, $125,000. salaries navy department Civilian personnel in Department.For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $238,000. Public works.PUBLIC WORKS, BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS Portsmouth, N. H.Navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Repairs to coaling plant, $25,000; for improvements to building numbered 138, $20,000; in all, $45,000. Boston, Mass.Navy yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For improvements to water front, $150,000; replacement of circulating loop, $125,000; in all, $275,000. New York, N. Y.Navy yard, New York, New York: For gas plant improvements, $25,000; improvements to distributing system, $15,000; replacement of high tension electric cable, $25,000; improvements to sanitary facilities, Dry Dock Numbered 4, $20,000; in all, $85,000. Philadelphia, Pa.Navy yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For paving, to continue, $30,000; improvements to Pier Numbered 3, $70,000; dredging, to continue, $150,000; in all, $250,000. Norfolk, Va.Navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For improvements to fire protection, $21,000; replacement of hull of one hundred and twenty ton derrick, $90,000; in all, $111,000, Charleston, S. C.Navy yard, Charleston, South Carolina: Dredging, to continue, $36,000. Mare Island, Calif.Navy yard, Mare Island, California: For dredging, to continue, $70,000. Puget Sound, Wash.Navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington: Repair and fitting out pier (limit of cost. $1,190,000), to continue, $400,000 Guantanamo, Cuba.Naval station, Guantanamo, Cuba: For replacement of magazine wharf, $50,000: improvements to fuel-oil plant, $28,000; in all, $78,000. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.Naval station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: For additional moorings, $45,000; improvement to waterfront, industrial section, $200,000; extension of administration building, $100,000; in all, $345,000. Tutuila, Samoa.Naval station, Tutuila, Samoa: For improvements to wharf, $28,000. Cavite, P. I.Naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: For moving officers’ quarters from Olongapo, $30,000; moving power plant equipment from Olongapo and replacing worn out equipment at Cavite, to complete, $54,000; moving dry dock Dewey from Olongapo, $400,000; moving water tank from Olongapo, $7,500; in all, $491,500. Fort Lafayette, N. Y., ammunition depot.Naval Ammunition Depot, Fort Lafayette, New York: For dredging, to continue. $20,000. Puget Sound, Wash., ammunition depot.Naval Ammunition Depot, Puget Sound, Washington: For additional storage, $35,000. Washington, D. C., hospital.Naval Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia: Extension of nurses’ quarters, $75,000, which sum shall be paid out of the Naval Hospital Fund. Great Lakes training station.Naval training station, Great Lakes, Illinois, buildings: For improvements to power plant, $30,000. 877 Submarine base, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: For extension of motor Pearl Harbor submarine base.generator building and equipment, $55,000. Submarine base, Coco Solo, Canal Zone: For improvements to Coco Solo, Canal Zone, submarine base.refrigeration plant, $36,000; dredging, to continue, $90,000; in all, $126,000. Submarine base, Key West, Florida: Toward completion of piers,Key West, Fla., submarine base. $100,000. Naval station, San Diego, California: For extension of shop San Diego, Calif.and storage facilities, $70,000. Naval Aeronautic station, Pensacola, Florida: For fuel-oil Pensacola, Fla., aeronautic station.storage, $35,000. Naval Fuel Depot, Yorktown, Virginia: For foam fire-protection Yorktown, Va., fuel depot.system, $60,000. The unobligated balance of the appropriation of $500,000 contained San Francisco, Calif., Marine Corps Supply Depot.Use of balances for additions.*Ante*, p. 198.in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1925 on account of the construction of an extensible building for the Supply Depot. Marine Corps, San Francisco, California, is made available for adding two additional floors to said building, such addition to be of permanent construction and made ready for occupancy in all respects within the amount hereby made available. BUREAU OF AERONAUTICSBureau 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, 1925, $375,000; for maintenance, repair, and operation of aircraft factory, helium Aircraft factory, helium plant, etc.plant, air stations, fleet activities, testing laboratories, and for over-hauling of planes, $6,921,625, including $300,000 for the equipment of vessels with catapults; for continuing experiments and development Catapults, etc.work on all types of aircraft, $1,550,000; for drafting, clerical, inspection, and messenger service, $700,000; for new construction Aircraft, new construction, etc.and procurement of aircraft and equipment, $5,243,375; in all, $14,790,000; and the money herein specifically appropriated for Accounting.“Aviation ” shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing laws as “Aviation ” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund: *Provided*, That in addition to the amount herein appropriated *Provisos*.Additional contracts for production, etc., authorized.and specified for expenditure for new construction and procurement of aircraft and equipment, the Secretary of the Navy may enter into contracts for the production and purchase of new air-planes and their equipment, spare parts and accessories, to an amount not in excess of $4,100,000: *Provided further*, That no part Shore stations limited.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*, That no part of this appropriation Airplane factory forbidden.shall be used for the construction of a factory for the manufacture of airplanes: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Navy Determination of damages claims.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 Report to Congress.this authority during the fiscal year shall be reported in detail to the Congress by the Secretary of the Navy. salaries, navy department For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance Civilian personnel in Department.with the Classification Act of 1923, $191,000. 878 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, $236,900: *Provided*, That not more than $36,500 shall be paid for masters and instructors in swordmanship and physical training; *Proviso*.Pay of administration and departments employees.Rates to be fixed by Secretary.Pay restriction.For pay of employees at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Navy, as follows: Administration, $155,020; department of ordnance and gunnery, $16,952; departments of electrical engineering and physics, $17,727; department of seamanship, $8,880; department of marine engineering and naval construction, $47,922; commissary department, $188,993; department of buildings and grounds, $131,574; in all, $567,068. Current expenses.Current and miscellaneous expenses, Naval Academy: For text and reference books for use of instructors; stationery, blank books and forms, models, maps, and periodicals; apparatus and materials for instruction in physical training and athletics; expenses of lectures and entertainments, not exceeding $1,000, including pay and expenses of lecturer; chemicals, philosophical apparatus and instruments, stores, machinery, tools, fittings, apparatus, and materials for instruction purposes, $77,800. Library.For purchase, binding, and repair of books for the library (to be purchased in the open market on the written order of the superintendent), $5,000. Board of Visitors.For expenses of the Board of Visitors to the Naval Academy, $3,000. Superintendent.For contingencies for the superintendent of the academy, to be expended in his discretion, $3,000. Commandant.For contingencies for the commandant of midshipmen, to be expended in his discretion, $1,200. General maintenance and repairs.Maintenance and repairs, Naval Academy: For necessary repairs of public buildings, wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, improvements, repairs, and fixtures; for books, periodicals, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of Horse-drawn vehicles, etc.fire engines; fire apparatus and plants, machinery; purchase and maintenance of all horses and horse-drawn vehicles for use at the academy, including the maintenance, operation, and repair of three horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes; seeds and plants; tools and repairs of the same; stationery; furniture for Government buildings and offices at the academy, including furniture for midshipmen’s rooms; coal and other fuels; candles, oil, and gas; attendance on light and power plants; cleaning and clearing up station and care of buildings; attendance on fires, lights, fire engines, fire apparatus, and plants, and telephone, telegraph, and clock systems; incidental labor; advertising, water tax, postage, telephones, telegrams, tolls, and ferriage; flags and awnings; packing boxes, fuel for heating and lighting bandsmen’s quarters; pay of inspectors and draftsmen; music and astronomical instruments; and for pay of employees on leave, $1,026,500. Rent commutation.For commutation of rent for bandsmen, at $15 per month each, $13,500. Marine Corps.MARINE CORPS Pay, etc.pay, marine corps Officers, active and reserve.Pay of officers, active and class 1, Fleet Marine Corps reserve list: For pay and allowances prescribed by law for all officers on the active and class 1, Fleet Marine Corps reserve list—pay and 879allowances, $3,453,174; subsistence allowance, $486,399; rental allowance, $703,506; in all, $4,643,079. For pay of officers prescribed by law on the retired list, $493,180.Retired list. Pay of enlisted men, active and class 1, Fleet Marine Corps Enlisted men, active and reserve.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, marks-men, or regularly detailed as gun captains, gun pointers, cooks, messmen, or holding good-conduct medals, pins, or bars, including interest on deposits by enlisted men, post exchange debts of deserters, under such rules as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, and the authorized travel allowance of discharged enlisted men, and for prizes for excellence in gunnery exercises and target practice, and for pay of enlisted men designated as Navy mail clerks and assistant Navy mail clerics, both afloat and ashore—pay and allowances, $8,669,431; allowance for lodging and subsistence. $759,711; in all, $9,429,142. For pay and allowances prescribed by law of enlisted men on the Retired enlisted men.retired list, $383,656. Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged enlisted men for Undrawn clothing.clothing undrawn, $250,000. For pay and allowances of Reserve Force, excepting class 1, Fleet Reserve Force.Marine Corps Reserve, $75,943. mileage For mileage and actual and necessary expenses and per diem in Mileage.lieu of subsistence as authorized by law to officers traveling under *Proviso*.Travel allowance on Government-owned vessels not charging fare.orders without troops, $125,000: *Provided*, That officers performing travel by Government-owned vessels for which no transportation fare is charged, shall only be entitled to reimbursement of actual and necessary expenses incurred. In all, $15,400,000, and the money herein specifically appropriated Disbursing and accounting.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. No officer of the Navy or Marine Corps, while on leave of absence Restriction on pay of Navy or Marine Corps officer, engaged in other service, while on leave.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. pay of civil force For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance Civilian personnel at headquarters, etc.with “The Classification Act of 1923,” as follows: Offices of the major general commandant and adjutant and inspector, $61,840; Office of the paymaster, $22,860; Office of the quartermaster, $74,300; in all, $159,000. For personal services in Marine Corps offices located elsewhere than at Marine Corps headquarters, $15,650. general expenses, marine corpsGeneral expenses. For personal services in Marine Corps offices located elsewhere than at Marine Corps headquarters, $15,650. For every expenditure requisite for, and incident to, the authorized Authorized objects.work of the Marine Corps, other than as appropriated for under the headings of pay and salaries, as follows: For provisions, subsistence, board and lodging of enlisted men, Provisions, etc.recruits and recruiting parties, and applicants for enlistment, cash 880allowance for lodging and subsistence to enlisted men traveling on duty; ice, ice machines and their maintenance, $3,253,000;Clothing.For clothing for enlisted men, $1,279,000; Fuel, etc.For fuel, heat, light, and power, including sales to officers, $600,000; Military supplies, etc.Purchase, repairs, etc.For military supplies and equipment, including their purchase, 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, $356,000; Transportation and recruiting.For transportation of troops and applicants for enlistment, including cash in lieu of ferriage and transfers en route; toilet kits for issue to recruits upon their first enlistment and other incidental Transporting dependents.expenses of the recruiting service; and transportation for dependents of officers and enlisted men, $562,000; Repairs to barracks, etc.For repairs and improvements to barracks, quarters, and other public buildings at posts and stations; for the renting, leasing, and improvement of buildings in the District of Columbia with the approval of the Public Buildings Commission and at such other places as the public exigencies require, and the erection of temporary buildings upon the approval of the Secretary of the Navy at a total cost of not to exceed $10,000 during the year, $400,000; Forage, etc.For forage and stabling of public animal’s and the authorized number of officers’ horses, $50,000; Contingent.For miscellaneous supplies, material, equipment, personal and 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 Vehicles, etc.furniture 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 Horses, etc.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; 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 deceased Laundries.in the United States; construction, operation, and maintenance of laundries; and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, *Proviso*.Purchase of motor passenger vehicles.$1,875,000: *Provided*, That there may be expended out of this appropriation for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles not more than $12,400, as follows: Two vehicles to cost not more than $1,200 each, ten vehicles to cost not more than $500 each, and twenty motor cycles to cost not more than $250 each; Accounting.In all, $8,375,000, to be accounted for as one fund. Increase of the Navy.INCREASE OF THE NAVY Unexpended balances available.The Secretary of the Navy may use the unexpended balances on the date of the approval of this Act under appropriations heretofore New appropriation.made on account of “Increase of the Navy,” together with the sum of $7,444,000, which is hereby appropriated for the prosecution of Work on vessels under treaty limitations.work on vessels under construction on such date, the construction of which may be proceeded with under the terms of the treaty 881providing for the limitation of naval armament; for continuing the conversion of two battle cruisers into aircraft carriers, including Aircraft carriers.their complete equipment of aircraft and aircraft accessories, in *Post*, p. 882.accordance with the terms of such treaty; toward the construction of two fleet submarines heretofore authorized, to have the highestFleet submarines. practicable speed and greatest desirable radius of action and to cost not to exceed $5,300,000 each for construction and machinery and $850,000 each for armor, armament, and ammunition; for the Payment for vessels already delivered.settlement of contracts on account of vessels already delivered to the Navy Department; for the procurement of gyro compass equipment, Gyro compasses, etc.Fire control instruments.On “Colorado” and“West Virginia.”Armor, etc., for ships under construction.and for the installation of fire-control instruments on destroyers not already supplied; for the installation of fire-control apparatus on the Colorado and West Virginia; and for the completion of armor, armament, ammunition, and torpedoes for the supply and complement of vessels which may be proceeded with as hereinbefore mentioned. No part of any appropriation made for the Navy shall be expended Use for Department expenses restricted.for any of the purposes herein provided for on account of the Navy Department in the District of Columbia, including personal services of civilians and of enlisted men of the Navy, except as herein expressly authorized: *Provided*, That there may be detailed *Provisos*.Details to Bureau of Navigation.to the Bureau of Navigation not to exceed at any one time twenty-four enlisted men of the Navy: *Provided further*, That enlisted Specified service not deemed Department details.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 part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be available No pay to officers, etc., using time measuring devices on work of employees.for the salary or pay of any officer, manager, superintendent, fore-man, 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 appropriations made in this Act be available to pay any premiums or bonus Cash rewards, etc., restricted.or cash reward to any employee in addition to his regular wages, except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the operation of any Government plant; and that no part of the moneys Restriction on repair and equipment of naval vessels, machinery, etc., at other than navy yards or arsenals.herein appropriated for the Naval Establishment or herein made available therefor shall be used or expended under contracts here-after 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. The President is requested to invite the governments with Invitation authorized for international conferences tor reduction of armament by land or sea.which the United States has diplomatic relations to send representatives to a conference to be held in the city of Washington, which shall be charged with the duty of formulating and entering into a general international agreement by which armaments for war, either upon land or sea, shall be effectually reduced and limited in the interest of the peace of the world and the relief of all nations from the burdens of inordinate and unnecessary expenditures for the provision of armaments and the preparation for war. Approved, February 11, 1925.