Chapter 355. Making appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 355.— An Act Making appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, and for other purposes.May 21, 1926.[[H. R. 7554](/us/bill/69/hr/7554).][[Public, No. 264](/us/pl/69/264).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Navy Department appropriations. That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, namely:
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARYSecretary’s Office. salaries, office of secretary of the navy Secretary of the Navy, $15,000; Assistant Secretary, and otherSecretary, Assistant, and office personnel. personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the 592 *Provisos*.Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act.Classification Act of 1923, $146,400; in all, $161,400: *Provided*, That in expending appropriations or portions of appropriations, contained in this Act, for the payment for personal services in the Vol. 42, p. 1488.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 If only one position in a grade.specified for the grade by such Act, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the Allowance in unusually meritorious cases.average of the compensation rates for the grade except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade but not more often than once in any fiscal year Restriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.and then only to the next higher rate: *Provided*, That this restriction shall not apply
(1)to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical mechanical No reduction of fixed salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1490.Transfer to another position without reduction.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 Payments under higher rates permitted.bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, or
(4)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. salaries, general board, navy departmentGeneral Board. Civilian personnel.Salaries, Navy Department: For personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $10,340. salaries, naval examining and retiring boardsExamining and Retiring Board. Civilian personnel.Salaries, Navy Department: For personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $10,120. Compensation Board.salaries, compensation board, navy department Civilian personnel.Salaries, Navy Department: For personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $21,480. contingent expenses, navy departmentDepartment contingent expenses. Library, etc.For professional and technical books and periodicals, law books, and necessary reference books, including city directories, railway guides, freight, passenger, and express tariff books and photostating, for department library; for purchase of photographs, maps, documents. and pictorial records of the Navy, photostating and other necessary incidental expenses in connection with the preparation for publication of the naval records of the war with the Central Powers Stationery, furniture, vehicles, etc.of Europe; 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 $506; freight, expressage, postage, typewriters, and computing machines and other absolutely necessary 593expenses of the Navy Department and its various bureaus and offices,Naval service appropriations not to be used for department purposes. $80,000; 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, Navy Department For printing and binding for the Navy Department and the NavalPrinting and binding. Establishment executed at the Government Printing Office, $542,000, including not exceeding $85,000 for the Hydrographic Office, $27,000 for drill books for issue to officers and men, and $5,000 for the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. pay, miscellaneousPay, miscellaneous. For commissions and interest; transportation of funds; exchange;Expenses designated. 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; for the expenses for the attendance of representatives of the Navy Department who may be designated as delegates of the United States to attend the International Hydrographic Conference; 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 maintenanceInformation from abroad. 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 $185,000 for telephone rentals and tolls, telegrams and cablegrams; postage, foreign and domestic, and post-office box rentals; for necessary expenses for interned persons and prisonersInterned prisoners of war, etc. of war under the jurisdiction of the Navy Department, including funeral expenses for such interned persons or prisoners of war as may die while under such jurisdiction, and for payment of claimsDamages claims.Vol. 41, p. 132. for damages under Naval Act approved July 11, 1919; and other necessary and incidental expenses; in all, $1,550,000: *Provided*, That*Provisos*.Restriction on use in naval districts. no part of this appropriation shall be available for the expense of any naval district unless the commandant thereof shall be also the commandant of a navy yard, naval training station, or naval operating base: *Provided further*, That the sum to be paid out of thisClerical, etc., service in yards and stations. 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, 1927, shall not exceed $464,000. 594 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, and for examination of estimates for appropriations in the field for any branch of the naval service, $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, $280,000, Additional from insular revenues.plus so much of $20,000 additional as may equal the sum of revenue collected and paid into the treasuries of said islands in excess of Officials holding allegiance to any other country excluded pay herefrom.$280,000, provided no part of the $280,000 be paid to any one holding office in the Colonial Councils of the Virgin Islands or other public office under the government of said islands who owes allegiance to any country other than the United States of America. state marine schools, act march 4, 1911Marine 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 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. Care, etc., Culion, P. I.Naval station, island of Guam: For maintenance and care of leper’s, 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. Work of, for naval service.Vol. 39, p. 570.For laboratory’ and research work and other necessary work of the naval research laboratory for the benefit of the naval service, 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 *Provisos*.Temporary scientists, etc.under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, $175,000: *Provided*, That $10,000 of this appropriation shall be available for the temporary employment of civilian scientists and technicists required on special problems: *Provided further*, That the sum to be paid out of Technical, etc., services.this appropriation for technical, drafting, clerical, and messenger service shall not exceed $75,000 in addition to the amount authorized by the preceding proviso. 595 OFFICE OF NAVAL RECORDS AND LIBRARYNaval Records and Library. salaries, office of naval records and library Salaries, Navy Department: For personal services in the DistrictCivilian personnel. of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, including employees engaged in the collection or copying and classification,Collecting, etc., naval records of World War. with a view to publication, of the naval records of the war with the Central Powers of Europe, $40,000. OFFICE OF JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERALJudge Advocate General. salaries, office of judge advocate general Salaries, Navy Department: For personal services in the DistrictCivilian personnel, office of. of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $102,000. OFFICE OF CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONSChief of Naval Operations. salaries, office of chief of naval operations Salaries, Navy Department: For personal services in the DistrictCivilian personnel, office of. of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $68,000. Salaries, board of inspection and surveyInspection and Survey Board. Salaries, Navy Department: For personal services in the DistrictCivilian personnel. of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $20,460. salaries, office of director of naval communicationsDirector 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, $128,000. salaries, office of naval intelligenceNaval Intelligence Office. Salaries, Navy Department: For personal services in the DistrictCivilian personnel. of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $36,000. BUREAU OF NAVIGATIONBureau of Navigation. transportation, bureau of navigation Transportation and recruiting: For mileage and actual andTransportation, etc. necessary expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence as authorized by law to officers of the Navy and Naval Reserve while traveling under orders, and hereafter 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; for mileage, at 5 cents per mile, to midshipmen entering the Naval Academy while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment as midshipmen, and not more than $2,500 shall be available for transportation of midshipmen, including reimbursement of traveling expenses, while traveling under orders after appointment as midshipmen; for actual traveling expenses of female nurses; for travel 596allowance or for transportation and subsistence as authorized by-law of enlisted men upon discharge; transportation of enlisted men and apprentice seamen and applicant for enlistment at home and abroad, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation to their homes, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentice seamen discharged on medical survey, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation of sick or insane enlisted men and apprentice seamen to hospitals, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof: apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, and for railway guides and other expenses incident to Recruiting.transportation; expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent of rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentice seamen; actual and necessary expenses in lieu of mileage to officers on duty with traveling Dependents of officers and enlisted men.recruiting parties; transportation of dependents of officers and enlisted men, in all, $4,664,000. recreation for enlisted men, navy Recreation for enlisted men.For the recreation, amusement, comfort, contentment, and health of the Navy, to lie expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, under such regulations as he may prescribe, $425,000:*Proviso*.Pay restriction. *Provided*, That the amount paid from this appropriation for personal services of field employees, exclusive of temporary services, shall not exceed $35,000. contingent, bureau of navigation 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 who die while on duty; books for training apprentice seamen and landsmen; packing boxes and materials; books and models; stationery; and other contingent expenses and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation, unforeseen and impossible to classify, $15,000. gunnery and engineering exercises, bureau of navigationGunnery and engineering exercises. Prizes badges, etc.For 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, $37,850. instruments and supplies, bureau of navigation Equipment supplies.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; ail 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 597and 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 snip’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, $600,000. ocean and lake surveys, bureau of navigation For hydrographic surveys, including the pay of the necessary Ocean and Lake surveys.hydrographic surveyors, cartographic draftsmen, and recorders, and for the purchase of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, $85,000. naval training stations, bureau of navigationTraining stations. For maintenance, including labor and material, heat, light, water,Maintenance, etc. general care, repairs, and improvement; schoolbooks; and all other incidental expenses for the naval training stations that follow: San Diego, California, $150,000:California. Newport, Rhode Island, $245,000: *Provided*, That the SecretaryRhode Island.*Proviso*.Plans, etc., for fresh water supply. of the Navy shall submit to Congress at its next regular session detailed plans and estimates for constructing a freshwater supply system at Melville, Rhode Island, including pumping plant and distributing mains, adequate to supply all naval activities at or in the vicinity of Newport, Rhode Island; Great Lakes, Illinois, $245,000;Illinois. Hampton Roads. Virginia, $245,000: *Provided*, That the amount toVirginia.*Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services. 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, 1927, shall not exceed $12,600, except for Great Lakes, which shall not exceed $13,500. naval reserveNaval Reserve. For expenses of organizing, administering, and recruiting theOrganizing, recruiting, etc., expenses.Vol. 43, p. 1080. Naval Reserve and Naval Militia, for maintenance and rental of armories, including pay of necessary janitors, and for wharfage, $160,000; for pay and allowances of officers and enrolled and enlistedPay, etc., on active training duty. men of the Naval Reserve when employed on authorized training duty; mileage for officers while traveling under orders to and from training duty; transportation of enrolled and enlisted men to and from training duty, and subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; subsistence of enrolledFleet Naval Reserve. and enlisted men during the actual period of training duty; subsistence of officers and enrolled and enlisted men of the Fleet Naval Reserve while performing authorized training or other duty without pay; pay and allowances of officers of the Naval Reserve and pay, allowances, and subsistence of enrolled and enlisted men of the Naval Reserve when ordered to active duty in connection with the instruction, training, and drilling of the Naval Reserve; pay of officers and enrolled and enlisted men of the Fleet Naval Reserve for the performance of drills or other equivalent instruction or duty, or appropriate duties, and administrative duties, $3,660,860; in all, $3,820,860, of which amount notAviation material, etc. more than $520,720 shall be available, in addition to other appropriations, for aviation material, equipment, fuel, and rental of hangars, and not more than $1,124,252 shall be available in addition to other appropriations, for fuel and the transportation thereof, andAdditional to other appropriations for vessels and aircraft. 598for all other expenses in connection with the maintenance, operation, repair, and upkeep) of vessels and aircraft assigned for training the *Provisos*.Procuring aircraft and equipment.Vol. 43, p. 866.Naval Reserve: *Provided*, That of the total amount of $3,900,000 appropriated by the Act of February II, 1925, for the Naval Reserve Force for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926 (Forty-third Statutes, page 866), not to exceed $75,000 in addition to the amount of $320,180 specified in such Act, is hereby made available for the Clerical, etc., services.procurement of aircraft and equipment: *Provided further*, That the sum to be paid from this appropriation for clerical and messenger services for Naval Reserve administration in naval stations and districts for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, shall not exceed $72,286. naval reserve officers’ training coresNaval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. Procuring supplies, etc., for units of.For the procurement, maintenance, and issue, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy, to institutions at which one or more units of the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps are established, of such means of transportation, books, supplies, tentage, equipment, and uniforms as he may deem necessary, and all other miscellaneous items, including cleaning and laundering of uniforms and clothing at camps or on board ship; and to pay commutation in lieu of uniforms at a rate to be fixed annually by the Secretary of the Navy; for transporting supplies and equipment from place of issue to the several institutions, training camps and ships and return of same to place of issue when Expenses of instruction camps and schools.necessary; for the establishment and maintenance of camps of instruction, and schools on ships for the further practical instruction of members of the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, and for transporting members of such corps to and from such camps or ships and to subsist them while traveling to and from such camps or ships and while remaining therein so far as appropriations will Commutation of travel allowance.permit or, in lieu of transporting them to and from such camps or ships and subsisting them while en route, to pay them travel allowance at the rate of 5 cents per mile for the distance by the shortest usually traveled route from the places from which they are authorized to proceed to the camp or ship and for the return journey thereto, and to pay the return travel pay in advance of the actual performance of the, travel; for pay for students attending advanced camps or advanced schools on ships at the rate prescribed for enlisted Subsistence commutation.men of the seventh pay grade; for the payment of commutation of subsistence to members of the senior division of the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, at a rate not exceeding the cost of the Medical, etc., treatment, if injured in line of duty.commuted ration of the Navy; for medical and hospital treatment, subsistence until furnished transportation, and transportation when fit for travel to their homes of members of the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps injured in line of duty while at camps of instruction or on ships; and for the cost of preparation and transportation to Burial expenses, etc.their homes and burial expenses of the remains of the members of the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps who die while attending camps of instruction or on ships; and for the cost of maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying *Provisos*.Uniforms, etc., from Navy service stocks.vehicles, $40,000, to remain available until December 31, 1927: *Provided*, That uniforms and other equipment or material issued to the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps in accordance with law may be furnished from surplus or reserve stocks of the Navy without payment from this appropriation, except for actual expenses Prices current to govern payments.incurred in the manufacture or issue: *Provided further*, That in no case shall the amount paid from this appropriation for uniforms, equipment, or material furnished to the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps from stocks under the control of the Navy be in excess or the price current at the time the issue is made. 599 naval war college, bureau of navigationNaval War College. For maintenance of the Naval War College on Coasters HarborMaintenance. 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, $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, 1927, shall not exceed $64,000. naval home, philadelphia, pennsylvaniaNaval Home. For pay of employees at rates of pay to be fixed by the SecretaryPay of employees. of the Navy, $66,850. 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, $97,500; In all, Naval Home, $164,350, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund. salaries, bureau of navigation Salaries, Navy Department: For personal services in the DistrictCivilian personnel in Department. of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $423,000. hydrographic officeHydrographic Office. salaries, hydrographic office Salaries, Navy Department: For personal services in the DistrictCivilian personnel. of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $310,000. Contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Hydrographic Office: For purchase and printing of nautical books, charts, and sailingContingent and miscellaneous expenses. 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; pur600chase of equipment for the storage of plates used in making charts and for the storage of Hydrographic Office charts and publications; purchase of one new offset press; modernization, care and repairs to printing presses, furniture, instruments, and tools; extra drawing and engraving; translating from foreign languages; telegrams Pilot charts.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 and miscellaneous 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), Los Angeles, 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, $35,000. Naval Observatory.naval observatory salaries, naval observatory Civilian personnel in Department.Salaries, Navy Department: For personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $85,600. 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, $9,300. Library, apparatus, repairs, miscellaneous supplies, etc.For professional and scientific books, books of reference, periodicals, engravings, photographs, and fixtures for the library; for apparatus and instruments, and for repairs of the same; for repairs to buildings, fixtures, and fences; furniture, gas, chemicals, paints, and stationery, including transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, foreign postage, and all contingent expenses; plants and fertilizers; 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 and operation of motor truck and passenger automobile and of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles; material for boxing nautical instruments for transportation; telegraph and telephone service, and incidental labor, $19,000, of which sum not to exceed $3,058 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Grounds and roads.Grounds and Roads, Naval Observatory: 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, $6,090, of which amount not to exceed $4,980 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. 601 salaries, nautical almanac officeNautical Almanac Office. For personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordanceCivilian personnel. with the Classification Act of 1923, $28,460. For pay of computers on piecework in preparing for publicationComputers on piecework. 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, auxiliaryEngineering 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, andEquipment supplies. 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; services, instruments and apparatus, supplies, and technical books and periodicals necessary to carry on experimental and research work; in all, $19,150,000: *Provided*, That the sum to be*Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services. 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, 1927, shall not exceed $1,575,000. engineering experimental station, annapolis, marylandEngineering Experiment Station. For original investigation and extended experimentation of navalExperimental work, etc. appliances, testing implements and apparatus; purchase and installation of such machines and auxiliaries considered applicable for test and use in the naval service, and for maintenance and equipment of buildings and grounds, $175,000. salaries, bureau of engineering Salaries, Navy Department: For personal services in the DistrictCivilian personnel in Department. of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $270,000. BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIRBureau of Construction and Repair. construction and repair, bureau of construction and repair Construction and repair of vessels: For preservation and completionConstruction and repair of vessels. of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; steam steerers, steam capstans, steam wind602lasses, 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 Equipments supplies.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 hangings on board naval *Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services.vessels, $16,950,000: *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, 1927, shall not exceed $1,800,000. salaries, bureau of construction and repair Civilian personnel in Department.Salaries, Navy Department: For personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $330,000. BUREAU OF ORDNANCEBureau of Ordnance. ordnance and ordnance stores, bureau of ordnance Procuring, etc., ordnance and ordnance stares.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 technical Plant 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 Vehicles, etc.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, Schools at designated stations.inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, naval ordnance plants, and naval ammunition depots, and for care and operation of schools during the fiscal year 1927 at ordnance stations at Indianhead, Maryland, Dahlgren, Virginia, and South Charles603ton, West Virginia, $10,625,000: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid*Proviso*.Chemical, etc., services. 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, 1927, shall not exceed $900,000. For purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, $772,000.Smokeless powder. Torpedoes and appliances, Bureau of Ordnance: For the purchaseTorpedoes, etc. and manufacture of torpedoes and appliances, to be available until expended, $500,000. experiments, bureau of ordnance For experimental work in the development of armor-piercingExperimental 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, bureau of ordnance Salaries, Navy Department: For personal services in the DistrictCivilian personnel in Department. of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $142,500. 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 dutyOfficers.Pay, rental, and subsistence allowances. and other duty, and officers on waiting orders—pay $26,818,377, rental allowance $5,463,032, subsistence allowance $3,422,573, in all $35,703,982; officers on the retired list $4,314,900; for hire of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are noHire of quarters. 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, $1,000; pay of enlisted men on theEnlisted men. retired list, $1,465,326; extra pay to men reenlisting after being honorably discharged, $2,474,100; interest on deposits by men, $4,500; 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, $66,436,727; pay of enlisted men undergoing sentence of court-martial, $231,000, and as many machinists as the President may from time to time deemMachinists, apprentice seamen, under training. necessary to appoint; and apprentice seamen under training at training stations and on board training ships, at the pay prescribed by law, $1,512,000; pay and allowances of the Nurse Corps, includingNurse Corps. assistant superintendents, directors, and assistant directors—pay $737,500, rental allowance $24,000, subsistence allowance $20,805, in all $782,305; rent of quarters for members of the Nurse Corps; 604Fleet Naval Reserve.Vol. 43, pp. 1086, 1087.pay and allowances of Fleet Naval Reservists of the classes defined in sections 22, 23, 24, and 26 of the Act of February 28, 1925, Property losses.Vol. 40, p. 389.Death gratuity.$6,807,660; reimbursement for losses of property under Act of October 6, 1917, $5,000; payment of six months’ death gratuity, $125,000; in all, $119,863,500, of which sum $500,000 shall be Accounting, etc.available immediately; and the money herein specifically appropriated for “ Pay of the Navy,” shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law as “Pay of the Navy,” and for that *Provisos*.Additional medical personnel for Veterans’ Bureau patients at naval hospitals.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 appropriated for in Restrictions on admissions to Naval Academy hereafter.Vol. 42, p. 1144.this Act: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the pay of any midshipmen whose admission subsequent to January 13, 1926, 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 three midshipmen from Porto Rico, appointed on Appointments at large or from enlisted men not affected.nomination of the Resident Commissioner; and 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, from the enlisted personnel of the naval service or from the Naval Reserve:Longevity not allowed officers for time at Naval or Military Academy after March 4, 1913. *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, navy, bureau of supplies and accountsProvisions. 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 officer’s, at 50 cents per diem, and midshipmen at 80 cents per diem, and commuted rations stopped on account of sick in hospital and credited at the rate of 75 cents per ration to the naval hospital fund; Subsistence, if absent from ships.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.subsistence of members of the Naval Reserve 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; *Proviso*.Commuted rations for prisoners.in all, $19,207,000: *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, but which shall in no case exceed 30 cents per diem for each ration so commuted; and Army emergency rations.for the purchase of United States Army emergency rations as required. maintenance, bureau of supplies and accounts Maintenance.For fuel; the removal and transportation of ashes and garbage from ships of war; books, blanks, and stationery, including 605stationery 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 generalEquipment supplies. 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 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, and other incidental expenses; all freight and express charges pertaining to theFreight, Department, and bureaus. 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, $9,500,000: *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, 1927, shall not exceed $2,800,000. The clothing and small-stores fund shall be charged with theClothing and small stores fund.Outfits on first enlistments, uniform gratuities, 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 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, and the authorized issues of clothing and equipment toNurse Corps. the members of the Naval Nurse Corps, and hereafter the clothing and small-stores fund shall be credited with the net proceeds of all sales (including sales of surplus materials) of clothing and small stores. Naval working fund: Hereafter any executive department orNaval working fund.Payment by departments, etc., ordering materials. independent establishment of the Government ordering materials or services from the Navy shall pay promptly by check upon written request from the Paymaster General of the Navy, either in advance or upon completion of the work, all or part of the estimated or actual cost thereof, as the case may be, and bills rendered in accordance herewith shall not be subject to audit or certification in advance of payment: *Provided*, That proper adjustments*Proviso*.Adjustment of cost. on the basis of the actual cost of delivery of work paid for in advance shall be made. fuel and transportation, bureau of supplies and accounts 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, $13,950,000: *Provided*, That fuel*Provisos*.Issues charged to appropriations applicable. acquired other 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*,Prices for fuel on hand. That the President may direct the use, wholly or in part, 606of 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, bureau of supplies and accounts Civilian personnel in Department.Salaries, Navy Department: For personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $810,000. BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERYBureau of Medicine and Surgery. medical department 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 Academy; for tolls and ferriages; purchase of books and stationery; hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration; Vehicles, etc.sanitary, hygienic, administrative, 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 at Naval Medical School and naval dispensary, Washington, naval medical supply depots, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, dispensaries at navy yards and naval stations, and ships; and for minor repairs on buildings and grounds of the United States Naval Medical School and naval medical supply depots; rent of rooms for naval dispensary, Washington, District of Columbia, not Care of insane on Pacific coast.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 *Provisos*.Clerical, etc., services.necessary contingent expenses; in all, $1,980,000: *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, 1927, shall not exceed $150,000:Naval hospital, New York.Removal of cemetery. *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to remove the cemetery at the naval hospital, New York, New York, at a total cost not to exceed $15,000, chargeable to the naval hospital fund. care of the deadCare of the dead. Expenses, interring remains of officers, etc., dying in the service.For the care of the dead; 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 enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps, of Civilian employees dying abroad, etc.members of the Nurse Corps, reservists on active or training duty, and accepted applicants for enlistment, civilian employees of the Navy Department and Naval Establishment who die outside of 607the continental limits of the United States, and former enlisted men who are discharged while in naval hospitals and are inmates of said hospitals on the date of their death; for funeral expenses and interment of the remains of pensioners and destitute patients who die in naval hospitals; for purchase and care of cemetery lots; for removal of remains from abandoned cemeteries to naval or national cemeteries, or to their homes, including remains interred in isolated graves at home and abroad, and remains temporarily interred, $90,000: *Provided*, That the above provision shall*Proviso*.Retired officers, etc., on active duty. apply in the ease of officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps on the retired list who die while on active duty. salaries, bureau of medicine and surgery Salaries, Navy Department: For personal services in the DistrictCivilian personnel in Department. of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $73,400. BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKSBureau of Yards and Docks. maintenance, bureau of yards and docks For the labor, materials, and supplies necessary, as determinedGeneral maintenance. by the Secretary of the Navy, for the genera] 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 Navy Department not to exceed eight in number and the Naval Establishment not otherwise provided for, and including not to exceed $950,000 for clerical, inspection, drafting, messenger, and other classified work in the field, $7,000,000: *Provided*, That theClerical, etc., services.*Proviso*.Comprehensive plan for improving yards, to be submitted. Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized and directed to submit to the Congress at its next regular session a comprehensive plan for necessary improvements and permanent construction at navy yards, naval stations, naval training stations, and Marine Corps bases,Funds to be employed. founded on using funds received from the sale of such property now owned by the Navy Department as, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Navy, is no longer needed for naval purposes: *Provided further*,Purchase of passenger vehicles limited. That during the fiscal year 1927 the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to purchase not more than eighteen passenger-carrying motor-propelled vehicles, to cost not to exceed $2,000 each, fifteen passenger-carrying motor-propelled vehicles, to cost not to exceed $1,500 each, and fifteen passenger-carrying motor-propelled vehicles, to cost not to exceed $650 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 $1,200 or more: *Provided further*, That expenditures from appropriationsLimit for operation, 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 in the aggregate $100,000, exclusive of such vehicles owned and operated by the Marine CorpsMarine Corps, outside continental limits. in connection with expeditionary duty without the continental limits of the United States, and on 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. 608 contingent, bureau of yards and docks Contingent.For contingent expenses and minor extensions and improvements of public works at navy yards and stations, $125,000. salaries, bureau of yards and docks Civilian personnel in Department.Salaries, Navy Department: For personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $238,000. public works, bureau of yards and docksPublic works. Boston, Mass.Navy yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Improvements to water front, $150,000. New York, N. Y.Navy yard, New York, New York: Dredging, to continue, $40,000. Philadelphia, Pa.Navy yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dredging, to continue, $150,000; improvements to distributing systems, $25,000; in all, $175,000. Norfolk, Va.Navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Improvements to pumping plant, dry dock numbered 3, $24,000; improvements to distributing systems, $86,000; in all, $110,000. Charleston, S. C.Navy yard, Charleston, South Carolina: Dredging, to continue, $36,000. Mare Island, Calif.Navy yard, Mare Island, California: Dredging, to continue, $100,000; replace distributing systems and paving along water front, $150,000; in all, $250,000. San Diego, Calif.Naval base, San Diego, California: Construction of complete section of extensible pier (limit of cost, $250,000), $100,000. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.Naval station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Improvements to channel and harbor, $1,000,000, and the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to enter into contract or contracts for such improvements at a cost in the aggregate not to exceed $5,982,000. Cavite, P. I.Use of former Act for officers’ quarters.Naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: Improvements to water system, $13,000; dredging, $17,000; in all, $30,000. The Vol. 43, p. 876.amount of $30,000 appropriated by the Act approved February 11, 1925 (Forty-third Statutes, page 876), for moving officers’ quarters from Olongapo, is hereby made available for the construction of three sets of officers’ quarters at the naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands, to replace three sets of officers’ quarters to be abandoned at Olongapo. Newport, R. I.Naval torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: Dredging. $7,500. Keyport, Wash.Naval torpedo station, Keyport/Washington: Improvements to fire-protection system, $4,800. Fort Lafayette, N. Y., ammunition depot.Naval ammunition depot, Fort Lafayette, New York: Improvements to wharf, $12,000. Fort Mifflin, Pa., ammunition depot.Naval ammunition depot, Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania: Improvements to Pier Numbered 2, $25,000. Great Lakes training station.Naval training station, Great Lakes, Illinois, buildings: For improvements to prison, $15,000. Pearl Harbor, submarine base.Submarine base, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Improvements toward general development, $430,000. Coco Solo, Canal Zone, submarine base.Submarine base, Coco Solo, Canal Zone: Improvements to telephone system, $20,000. Brooklyn, N. Y. naval supply depot.Vol. 43, p. 1276.Naval supply depot, Brooklyn, New York: Purchase of land known as the third Bush lot, as authorized by law, $330,000. 609 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, 1926, $605,814; for maintenance, repair, and operation of aircraft factory, air stations,Aircraft factory, etc. fleet, and all other aviation activities, testing laboratories, and for overhauling of planes, $6,553,686, including not to exceed $400,000 for the maintenance, operation, and repair, exclusive of classified employees, of the Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, New Jersey, and the aircraft Los Angeles, and including $300,000 for theCatapults, etc. equipment of vessels with catapaults and including not to exceed $300,000 for the procurement of helium from the Bureau of Mines,Helium. which may be transferred in advance, in amounts as required, to that bureau; for continuing experiments and development work*Post*, p. 862. on all types of aircraft, $1,928,000; for drafting, clerical, inspection, and messenger service, $655,288; for the payment of obligationsIncurred obligations for aircraft, etc.Vol. 43, p. 877. incurred under the contract authorization for the procurement of aircraft and equipment carried in the Navy Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1926, approved February 11, 1925. $4,100,000; for new construction and procurement of aircraft and equipment,Aircraft, new construction, etc.Accounting. $4,962,500; in all, $18,805,288; and the money herein specifically appropriated for “Aviation” shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing laws as “Aviation” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation*Proviso*.Shore stations limited. shall be expended for maintenance of more than six heavier-than-air stations on the coasts of the continental United States:Airplane factory forbidden. *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the construction of a factory for the manufacture of airplanes: *Provided further*, That in addition to the amount herein appropriatedAdditional for new airplanes, etc.*Post*, p. 1291. 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 airplanes and their equipment, spare parts and accessories, to an amount not in excess of $4,100,000: *Provided further*, That the Secretary ofDetermination of damages claims. 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 claimsReport to Congress. adjusted under this authority during the fiscal year shall be reported in detail to the Congress by the Secretary of the Navy. salaries, bureau of aeronautics Salaries, Navy Department: For personal services in the DistrictCivilian personnel in Department. of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $191,000. NAVAL ACADEMYNaval Academy. Pay, Naval Academy: Pay of professors and others, Naval Academy:Pay of professors, etc. Pay of professors and instructors, including one professor as librarian, $230,000: *Provided*, That not more than $36,500 shall be*Proviso*.Pay restriction. paid for masters and instructors in swordsmanship and physical training; 610 Pay of administration and departments’ employees.Rates to be Used by Secretary.For pay of employees at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Navy, as follows: Administration, $159,960; department of ordnance and gunnery, $16,764: departments of electrical engineering and physics, $17,811; department of seamanship, $8,880; department of marine engineering and naval construction, $47,687; commissary department, $181,184; department of buildings and grounds, $131,674; in all, $566,860. 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, $2,500. Superintendent.For contingencies for the superintendent of the academy, to be expended in his discretion, $3,500. 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, $1,040,000, of which Bancroft Hall repairs.not to exceed $40,000 shall be available for reconstructing the terrace roof of Bancroft Hall. MARINE CORPSMarine Corps. pay, marine corpsPay, etc. Officers, active list.Pay of officers, active list: For pay and allowances prescribed by law for all officers on the active list—pay and allowances, $3,507,912; subsistence allowance. $487,056; rental allowance, $634,046; in all, $4,629,014. Retired list.For pay of officers prescribed by law on the retired list, $485,328. Enlisted men, active list.Pay of enlisted men, active list: For pay and allowances of non-commissioned 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, sharp611shooters, marksmen, or regularly detailed as gun captains, gun pointers’ cooks, messmen, 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, and for gratuities to enlisted men discharged not under honorable conditions—pay and allowances, $8,066,340; allowance for lodging and subsistence, $782,178; in all, $8,848,518. For pay and allowances prescribed by law of enlisted men onRetired enlisted men. the retired list, $417,007. Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged enlisted men forUndrawn clothing. clothing undrawn, $160,000. For pay and allowances of the Marine Corps Reserve
(a)excludingMarine Corps Reserve.Vol. 43, p. 1080. transferred and assigned men, $55,000;
(b)transferred men, $185,480;
(c)assigned men, $65,000; in all, $305,480. For mileage and actual and necessary expenses and per diem inMileage, etc. lieu of subsistence as authorized by law to officers traveling under orders without troops, $125,000: *Provided*, That hereafter officers*Proviso*.Allowance on Government vessels not charging fare. 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, $14,970,347, and the money herein specifically appropriatedDisbursing 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. pay of civil employees, marine corps Pay of civil force: For personal services in the District of Columbia,Civilian personnel at headquarters. in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as follows: Offices of the Major General Commandant and adjutant and inspector, $62,640; Office of the paymaster, $22,080; Office of the quartermaster, $75,280; in all, $160,000. general expenses, marine corpsGeneral expenses. For every expenditure requisite for, and incident to, the authorizedAuthorized 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 allowance for lodging and subsistence to enlisted men traveling on duty; ice, ice machines and their maintenance, $3,026,000; For clothing for enlisted men, $1,134,000;Clothing. For fuel, heat, light, and power, including sales to officers,Fuel, etc. $550,000; 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, $500,000; For transportation of troops and applicants for enlistment, includingTransportation and recruiting. cash in lieu of ferriage and transfers en route; toilet kits for 612issue 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, $525,000; 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 animals and the authorized number of officers’ horses, $40,000; 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 Horses, etc.services and medicines for public animals and the authorized number of officers’ horses; purchase of mounts and horse equipment for all officers below the grade of major required to be mounted; shoeing for public animals and the authorized number of officers’ horses; books, newspapers, and periodicals; printing and binding; packing Funeral expenses.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, *Provisos*.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 $20,600, as follows: Five vehicles to cost not more than $1,500 each, ten vehicles to cost not more than $500 each, and thirty motor cycles to cost not more than $270 each:Clerical, etc., services. *Provided further*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, drafting, inspection, watchman, interpreter, and messenger service in the classified field service of the Marine Corps, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, shall not exceed $73,000; Marine Corps Reserve.Marine Corps Reserve: For clothing, subsistence, heat, light, transportation, and miscellaneous expenses, $40,000. In all, $8,090,000, to be accounted for as one fund. alterations to naval vesselsMajor alterations to ships. Additional protection, etc., of designated ships.*Post*, p. 661.Major alterations, naval vessels: Toward the installation of additional protection against submarine attack, the installation of anti-air-attack deck protection. and the conversion to oil burning of the United States ships New York, Utah, Texas, Florida, Arkansas, and Wyoming, and for the purchase, manufacture, and installation of Vol. 43, p. 719.new fire-control systems for the New York and Texas, all as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to authorize alterations to certain naval vessels and to provide for the construction of additional vessels,” approved December 18, 1924, $7,500,000, to be available until expended. INCREASE OF THE NAVYIncrease of the Navy. Construction and machinery of vessels heretofore authorized.Construction and machinery: On account of hulls and outfits of vessels and machinery of vessels heretofore authorized, $20,450,000, 613to which shall be added the unexpended balances remaining onUnexpended balances available. June 30, 1926, under allotments of appropriations heretofore made on account of “Increase of the Navy,” for such purposes, and, in addition, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to make transfers during the fiscal year 1927 from the naval supply account fund to this appropriation of sums aggregating $5,000,000, and the total sum hereby made available shall remain available until expended: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy shall have*Provisos*.Additional fleet submarines. prepared plans and estimates of cost of the remaining three fleet submarines heretofore authorized but not appropriated for, each to have the highest practicable speed and greatest desirable radius of action, such plans and estimates to be in readiness for submissionSubmission of plans, etc. to Congress on the first day of the next regular session, and the appropriations herein made on account of “ Increase of the Navy ” shall be available, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, for the employment of such additional draftsmen and other technicalAdditional technical employees. employees as may be required for the preparation of such plans and estimates, in addition to the regular forces of the bureaus concerned elsewhere provided for in this Act. Armor, armament, and ammunition: Toward the armor, armament,Armor, etc., vessels under construction. and ammunition for vessels heretofore authorized, to remain available until expended, $4,525,000, to which shall be added the unexpended balances remaining on June 30, 1926, under allotmentsUnexpended balances added. of appropriations heretofore made on account of “ Increase of the Navy” for such purposes: *Provided*, That the cost of the armor,*Provisos*.Increased cost limited. armament, and ammunition for each of the submarines V–5 and V–6 shall not exceed $1,020,000, and for each of the light cruisers, numbered 24 to 28, both inclusive, $5,650,000. Aviation: Toward aircraft and aircraft accessories for aircraftAircraft and accessories for carriers.*Post*, p. 766. carriers heretofore authorized, $3,300,000. The appropriations made in this Act for the purchase or manufacturePurchase of equipment patents, etc. of equipment or material or of a particular class of equipment or material shall be available for the purchase of letters patent, applications for letters patent, licenses under letters patent and applications for letters patent that pertain to such equipment or material for which the appropriations are made. No part of any appropriation made for the Navy shall be expendedUse for Department expenses limited. 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 a authorized: *Provided*, That there may be detailed to the*Proviso*.Details to Navigation Bureau.Specified service not deemed details to Department. 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 part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be availableNo pay to officers, etc., using time measuring devices on work of employees. 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 of causing to be made with a stop watch or other time-measuring device a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such work; nor shall any part of the appropriationsCash rewards, etc., restricted. made in this Act be available to pay any premiums or bonus or cash reward to any employee in addition to his regular wages, except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the operation of any Government plant; and that no part of the moneysRestriction on repair and equipment of vessels, machinery, etc., at other than navy yards and arsenals. herein appropriated for the Naval Establishment or herein made available therefor shall be used or expended under contracts here614after 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 21, 1926.