Chapter 656. Making appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and for other purposes
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Chap. 656: Making appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and for other purposes. Chapter 656 45 Stat. 624 1928-05-21 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 1 public 624 Chapter 656.— An Act Making appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and for other purposes.
May 21, 1928.[[H. R. 12286](/us/bill/70/hr/12286).][[Public, No. 454](/us/pl/70/454).] *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 for fiscal year, 1929.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, 1929, namely: NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT Naval Establishment.Secretary’s Office. office of the secretary 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 at meetings.attendance of two 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 one representative of the Navy Department who may be designated as a delegate of the United States to attend the International Hydrographic Conference; not to exceed $2,000 for the part time or intermittent employment in the District of Columbia or elsewhere of such experts and at such rates of compensation as may be contracted for by and in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy; actual expenses of officers and midshipmen 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;
Advertising, etc.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, abroad, Information from abroad, etc.including 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 $177,000 for telephone rentals and tolls, Interned prisoners of war, etc.telegrams and cablegrams; postage, foreign and domestic, and post-office box rentals; for necessary expenses for interned persons and prisoners of war under the jurisdiction of the Navy Department, including funeral expenses for such interned persons or prisoners of Damages claims.Vol. 41, p. 132.Of 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, $1,510,000: *Provided,* That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the expense of any naval district unless the commandant thereof shall be also the commandant of a navy yard, naval training station, or naval Clerical, etc., services at yards and stations.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, 1929, shall not exceed $495,000. 625 contingent, navy For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, exclusive of personal Contingent, Navy.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 held for any branch of the naval service, $40,000. temporary government for west indian islands Virgin Islands.
For expenses incident to the occupation of the Virgin Islands and Temporary government in.Vol. 39, p. 1132.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, $260,000, and Additional, from unexpended balancee.Vol. 44, p. 1277.in addition thereto such an amount (not in excess of $20,000) as may be equivalent to
(a)the total of the unobligated balances of the revenues collected and paid into the treasuries of such islands during the fiscal year 1928, and of the appropriation “Temporary Government for West Indian Islands, 1928,” plus
(b)the sum by which From insular revenue.the revenues collected and paid into the treasuries of such islands during the fiscal year 1929 exceed the sum of $260,000: *Provided,* *Provisos.*Officials holding allegiances to any other country, excluded pay herefrom.That no part of the $260,000 shall be paid to anyone 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, 1911 Marine schools. To reimburse the State of New York, $25,000; the State of Massachusetts, Reimbursing New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania, for.Vol. 36, p. 1353.$25,000; and the State of Pennsylvania, $25,000, for expenses incurred in the maintenance and support of marine schools in those States in accordance with section 2 of the Act entitled “An Act for the establishment of marine schools, and for other purposes,” approved March 4, 1911; in all, $75,000. care of lepers, and so forth, island of guam Lepers, 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, $22,000; for educational purposes, $13,000; in all, $35,000. naval research laboratory Research laboratory. For laboratory and research work and other necessary work of the Work of, for naval service.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, the temporary employment of such scientific civilian assistants as may become necessary, and subscriptions to technical periodicals, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, $200,400: *Provided,* That $15,000 of this *Provisos.*Temporary scientists.appropriation shall be available for the temporary employment of civilian scientists and technicists required on special problems: Technical, etc., services.*Provided further,* That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for technical, drafting, clerical, and messenger service shall not exceed $85,400 in addition to the amount authorized by the preceding proviso. 626 BUREAU OF NAVIGATION Bureau of Navigation. recreation for enlisted men, navy Recreation for enlisted men. For the recreation, amusement, comfort, contentment, and health of the Navy, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, under such regulations as he may prescribe, $400,000: *Proviso.*Pay restriction.*Provided,* That the amount paid from this appropriation for personal services of held 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, nurses, 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, $10,000. gunnery and engineering exercises, bureau of navigation Gunnery and engineering exercises.Badges, ranges, 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; entrance fees in matches for the rifle team, and special equipment therefor, $50,650. instruments and supplies, bureau of navigation Equipment supplies, etc. For supplies for seamen’s quarters; and for the purchase of all other articles of equipage at home and abroad; and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith and manufacture of such articles in the several navy yards; all pilotage and towage of ships of war; canal tolls, wharfage, dock and port charges, and other necessary incidental expenses of a similar nature; services and materials in repairing, correcting, adjusting, and testing compasses on shore and on board ship; nautical and astronomical instruments and repairs to same, and pay of chronometer caretakers; libraries for ships of war, professional books, schoolbooks, and papers; maintenance of gunnery and other training classes; compasses, compass fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ship’s compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship’s way and leads and other appliances for sounding; photographs, photographic instruments and materials, printing outfit and materials; and for the necessary civilian electricians for gyrocompass testing and inspection; in all, $580,000. ocean and lake surveys, bureau of navigation 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, $80,000. 627 naval training stations, bureau of navigation Training stations. For maintenance, including labor and material, heat, light, water, Maintenance, etc.general care, repairs, and improvements; schoolbooks; and all other incidental expenses for the naval training stations that follow: California. San Diego, California, $170,000; Rhode Island. Newport, Rhode Island, $245,000; Illinois. Great Lakes, Illinois, $270,000; Virginia. Hampton Roads, Virginia, $245,000; *Provided,* That the amount to be paid out of each of the foregoing*Proviso.*Clerical, etc., services.sums under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, shall not exceed $12,600, except for Great Lakes, which shall not exceed $13,750. naval reserve Naval Reserve. For expenses of organizing, administering, and recruiting the Organizing, recruiting, etc., expenses.Pay, etc., on active duty.Naval Reserve and Naval Militia; pay and allowances of officers and enrolled and enlisted 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 enrolled and enlisted men during the actual period of training duty; subsistence Fleet Naval Reserve, subsistence.Pay, etc.of officers and enrolled and enlisted men of the Fleet Naval Reserve while performing authorized training or other duty without pay; pay, mileage, 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, $4,075,820, of which Armories, wharfage, etc.amount not more than $180,000 shall be available for maintenance and rental of armories, including pay of necessary janitors, and for wharfage, not more than $73,531 shall be available for clerical and messenger services for Naval Reserve administration in naval stations and districts for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, not more Aviation expenses.than $609,555 shall be available, in addition to other appropriations, for aviation material, equipment, fuel, and rental of hangars, and not more than $790,000 shall be available in addition to other appropriations, for fuel and the transportation thereof, and for all other Fuel, etc.expenses in connection with the maintenance, operation, repair, and upkeep of vessels assigned for training the Naval Reserve. naval reserve officers’ training corps Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. For the procurement, maintenance, and issue, under such regulations Procuring supplies, etc., for units of.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 Expenses of instruction camps and ship schools.from place of issue to the several institutions, training camps, and ships and return of same to place of issue when necessary; for 628the 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 Commutation of travel allowance.while remaining therein so far as appropriations will 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 men of Subsistence commutation.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.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 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 vehicles *Provisos.*Uniforms, etc., from Navy stock.$89,200, to remain available until December 31, 1929: *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 incurred in Price current to govern payments.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 of the price current at the time the issue is made. naval war college, bureau of navigation War College.Maintenance. For maintenance of the Naval War College on Coasters Harbor Island, including care of grounds, $101,400; 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 *Proviso.*Clerical, etc., services.and periodicals, $5,000; in all, $110,400: *Provided,* That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, inspection, drafting, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, shall not exceed $68,518. naval home, philadelphia, pennsylvania Naval Home.Pay of employees. For pay of employees at rates of pay to be fixed by the Secretary of the Navy, $73,425. Maintenance. Maintenance: For water rent, heating, and lighting; cemetery, burial expenses, and headstones; general care and improvements of grounds, buildings, walls, and fences; repairs to power-plant equipment, implements, tools, and furniture, and purchase of the same; music in chapel and entertainments for beneficiaries; stationery, books, and periodicals; transportation of indigent and destitute 629beneficiaries 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 two motor-propelled vehicles, and one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, to be used only for official purposes, $101,575; In all, Naval Home, $175,000, which sum shall be paid out of From naval pension fund.the income from the naval pension fund. BUREAU OF ENGINEERING Bureau 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 Equipment 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; payment of part time or intermittent employment in the District of Columbia or elsewhere of such scientists and technicists as may be contracted for by the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, at a rate of pay not exceeding $20 per diem for *Proviso.*Clerical, etc., services.any person so employed; in all, $19,421,700: *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 naval material for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, shall not exceed $1,596,700. engineering experimental station, annapolis, maryland Engineering experiment station. For original investigation and extended experimentation of naval Experimental work, etc.appliances, testing implements and apparatus; purchase and installation of such machines and auxiliaries considered applicable for test and use in the naval service; and for maintenance and equipment of buildings and grounds, $175,000. BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR Bureau of Construction and Repair. construction and repair, bureau of construction and repair Construction and repair of vessels: For preservation and completion Construction 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 wind-630lasses, and all other auxiliaries; labor in navy yards and on foreign stations; purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops; carrying on work of experimental model tank and wind tunnel; designing naval vessels; construction and repair of yard craft, lighters, and barges; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat; general care and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; incidental expenses for vessels and navy yards, inspectors’ offices, such as photographing, books, professional magazines, plans, stationery, and instruments for drafting room, and for pay of classified field force under the bureau; services, instruments and apparatus, supplies, and technical books and periodicals necessary to carry on experimental and research work; for payment of part time or intermittent employment in the District of Columbia, or elsewhere, of such scientists and technicists as may be contracted for by the Secretary Equipment supplies.of the Navy, in his discretion, at a rate of pay not exceeding $20 per diem for any person so employed; 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 vessels, $17,228,000, of which *Proviso.*Clerical, etc., services.sum $200,000 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, watchmen (ship keepers), and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and offices of superintending naval constructors for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, shall not exceed $1,828,000. BUREAU OF ORDNANCE Bureau of Ordnance. ordnance and ordnance stores, bureau of ordnance Procuring, etc., ordnance and ordnance stores. For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ordnance material, for the armament of ships; for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the general work under the cognizance of the Bureau of Ordnance; for furniture at naval ammunition depots, torpedo stations, naval ordnance plants, and proving grounds; for technical Plant appliances.Experimental work.books; plant appliances as now defined by the “Navy Classification of Accounts”; for machinery and machine tools; for experimental work in connection with the development of ordnance material for the Navy; for maintenance of proving grounds, powder factory, torpedo stations, gun factory, ammunition depots, and naval ordnance plants, and for target practice; not to exceed $15,000 for minor improvements to buildings, grounds, and appurtenances of a character which can be performed by regular station labor; for payment of part time or intermittent employment in the District of Columbia, or elsewhere, of such scientists and technicists as may be contracted for by the Secretary of the Navy in his discretion at a rate of pay Vehicles, etc.not exceeding $20 per diem for any person so employed; for the maintenance, repair, and operation of horse-drawn and motor-631propelled 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 ordnance plants, and naval ammunition depots, and for care and operation of schools during the Schools at designated stations.fiscal year 1929 at ordnance stations at Indianhead, Maryland, Dahlgren, Virginia, and South Charleston, West Virginia, $11,952,050: *Proviso.*Chemical, etc., services.*Provided,* That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, watchmen, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, naval ordnance plants, and naval ammunition depots for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, shall not exceed $960,800. For purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, $1,000,000. Smokeless powder.Torpedoes, etc. Torpedoes and appliances, Bureau of Ordnance: For the purchase and manufacture of torpedoes and appliances, to be available until expended, $450,000. BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. pay, subsistence, and transportation of naval personnel Pay of naval personnel: For pay and allowances prescribed by Pay, etc., of the Navy.Officers.Pay, rental, subsistence allowance.Retired.Hire of quarters.law of officers on sea duty and other duty, and officers on waiting orders—pay, $28,748,197; rental allowance, $6,073,789; subsistence allowance, $3,631,327; in all, $38,453,313; officers on the retired list, $5,239,000; for hire of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them, 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, $3,000; pay of enlisted men on the retired list, Enlisted men.$2,011,017; extra pay to men reenlisting after being honorably discharged, $1,596,175; interest on deposits by men, $1,800; 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, $66,596,350; outfits for all enlisted men and apprentice Outfits, etc.seamen of the Navy on first enlistment at not to exceed $100 each, civilian clothing not to exceed $15 per man to men given discharges for bad conduct or undesirability or inaptitude, reimbursement in Clothing reimbursements, etc.kind of clothing to persons in the Navy for losses in cases of marine or aircraft disasters or in the operation of water or airborne craft, and the authorized issue of clothing and equipment to the members of the Nurse Corps, $1,889,160; pay of enlisted men undergoing Machinists, apprentice seamen under training.sentence of court-martial, $213,000, and as many machinists as the President may from time to time deem necessary to appoint; and apprentice seamen under training at training stations and on board training ships, at the pay prescribed by law, $1,530,000; pay and allowances of the Nurse Corps, including assistant superintendents, Nurse Corps.directors, and assistant directors—pay $675,220, rental allowance $24,000, subsistence allowance $20,805, pay retired list $10,803; in all, $730,828; rent of quarters for members of the Nurse Corps; pay and Fleet Naval Reservists.Vol. 43, pp. 1086, 1087.Property losses.Death gratuity.allowances of Fleet Naval Reservists of the classes defined in sections 22, 23, 24, and 26 of the Act of February 28, 1925, $9,232,572; reimbursement for losses of property under Act of October 6, 1917, $5,000; payment of six months’ death gratuity, $150,000; in all, $127,651,215; 632 Subsistence.Provisions, commuted rations, etc. Subsistence of naval personnel: 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 comanding officers, at 50 cents per diem, and midshipmen at 80 cents per diem, and commuted rations stopped on account of sick Subsistence while absent from duty.in hospital and credited at the rate of 75 cents per ration to the naval hospital fund; subsistence of men unavoidably detained or absent from vessels to which attached under orders (during which subsistence rations to be stopped on board ship and no credit for commutation therefor to be given); quarters and subsistence of men on Naval Reserve, etc.detached duty; subsistence of members of the Naval Reserve during period of active service; 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, $18,845,502. Transportation. Transportation and recruiting of naval personnel: For mileage and actual and necessary expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence as authorized by law to officers of the Navy while traveling under orders; for mileage, at 5 cents per mile, to midshipmen entering the Naval Academy while proceding 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 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 and insane supernumerary patients 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 transportation; Recruiting.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 Dependents.to officers on duty with traveling recruiting parties; transportation of dependents of officers and enlisted men; in all, $4,400,240; Aggregate amount. In all, for pay, subsistence, and transportation of naval personnel, $150,896,957, of which sum $500,000 shall be available immediately; Accounting, etc.and the money herein specifically appropriated for “Pay, subsistence, and transportation of naval personnel,” shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law and shall constitute one *Provisos.*Additional medical, etc., personnel for Veterans’ Bureau patients at naval hospitals.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 Restriction on admissions to Naval Academy.the numbers 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 March 21, 1928, would result in exceeding at any time an allowance of four 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 four midshpmen from Porto Rico, appointed on nomination of the Resident Commissioner; and 633of two midshipmen for the District of Columbia: *Provided further,* Appointments at large or from enlisted men not affected.That nothing herein shall be construed to repeal or modify in any way existing laws relative to the appointment of midshipmen at large, from the enlisted personnel of the naval service or from the Naval Reserve. maintenance, bureau of supplies and accounts For equipage, supplies, and services under the cognizance of the Maintenance.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, including stationery for commanding, executive, and navigating officers of ships, boards and courts on ships, and chaplains; services of civilian employees under the cognizance of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts; freight, Freight, etc., Department and Bureaus.express, and parcel-post charges pertaining to the Navy Department and Naval Establishment, $9,647,000: *Provided,* That the sum to be *Provisos.*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, naval stations, and disbursing offices for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, shall not exceed $2,975,000: *Provided further,* That hereafter Cost of transporting material purchased free on board cars, etc., added to cost.the cost of transporting material purchased free on board cars or on wharf or free alongside vessels at points specified in contracts to the activities to which initial delivery is to be made shall be charged to the naval supply account fund, and after June 30, 1929, the cost of such transportation shall be added to the cost of material. The clothing and small-stores fund shall be charged with the value Clothing and small-stores fund.Issues to Naval Reserve.of all issues of clothing and small stores made to enlisted men of the Naval Reserve and the uniform gratuity paid to officers of the Naval Reserve. The Paymaster General of the Navy is authorized to enter into Clothing.Agreements for manufacture of, from Government materials.agreements with the proprietors of the piecework shops carried on the rolls of the Naval Clothing Factory during the calendar year 1927 for the manufacture of clothing from materials furnished by the Government, at such prices as may be approved by the Secretary of the Navy. fuel and transportation, bureau of supplies and accounts For coal and other fuel for submarine bases and steamers’ and Fuel, transportation of, etc.ships’ use, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same and the removal of fuel refuse from ships; 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, $10,319,656: *Provided,* That fuel *Provisos.*Issue of, charged to appropriation applicable.Prices for fuel on hand.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,* 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. BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. medical department For surgeon’s necessaries for vessels in commission, navy yards, Surgeons’ necessaries.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 634Academy; for tolls and ferriages; purchase of books and stationery; hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration; sanitary, hygienic, administrative, and special instruction, including the Vehicles, etc.issuing of naval medical bulletins and supplements; purchase and repairs of nonpassenger-carrying wagons, automobile ambulances, and harness; purchase of and feed for 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 to exceed $1,200; Care of insane on Pacific coast.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 *Proviso.*Clerical, etc., services.expenses; in all, $2,032,250: *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, 1929, shall not exceed $150,000. care of the dead Care of the dead.Expenses of interment 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 members Civilian employees dying abroad.of the Nurse Corps, reservists on active or training duty, and accepted applicants tor enlistment, civilian employees of the Navy Department and Naval Establishment who die outside of the 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, $60,000: *Proviso.*Retired officers, etc., on active duty, included.*Provided,* That the above provision shall apply in the case of officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps on the retired list who die while on active duty. BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS Bureau of Yards and Docks. maintenance, bureau of yards and docks General maintenance. For the labor, materials, and supplies necessary, as determined by the Secretary of the Navy, for the general maintenance of the activities and properties now or hereafter under the cognizance of the Vehicles.Bureau of Yards and Docks, including the purchase, exchange (including parts), maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-635carrying vehicles for the Navy Department (not to exceed nine in number) and the Naval Establishment not otherwise provided for, and including not to exceed $1,008,800 for clerical, inspection, drafting, Clerical, etc., services.*Provisos.*Purchase of passenger vehicles limited.messenger, and other classified work in the field, $7,500,000: *Provided,* That during the fiscal year 1929, the motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles to be purchased hereunder shall not exceed the following respective numbers and costs: Six at $2,000 each, six at $1,500 each, seventeen at $650 each, and twelve at $450 each: *Provided further,* That the Secretary of the Navy shall sell, Sale or exchange of vehicles now in use for new ones.or exchange in part payment for such new vehicles to cost $1,200 or more, the following respective numbers of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles in use and of makes which now cost in excess of the following respective prices per vehicle to replace: Ten at $2,000 each and two at $1,200 each: *Provided further,* That expenditures Limit for operation, etc.from appropriations contained in this Act for the maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, including the compensation of operators, shall not exceed in the aggregate $100,000, exclusive of such vehicles owned and operated Marine Corps, outside continental limits, excluded.by the Marine Corps 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. contingent, bureau of yards and docks For contingent expenses and minor extensions and improvements Contingent.of public works at navy yards and stations, $125,000. PUBLIC WORKS, BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS Public works. Navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Improvement of power Portsmouth N. H.plant, $75,000. Navy yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Improvement of water front, Boston, Mass.$77,000; improvement of power plant, $90,000; improvement of electric system for Dry Dock Numbered 3, $30,000; in all, $197,000. Navy yard, New York, New York: Improvement of electric systems, New York, N. Y.$75,000; dredging, to continue, $60,000; reconstruction of Dry Dock Numbered 3, $200,000; in all, $335,000. Navy yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dredging, to continue, Philadelphia, Pa.$100,000. Engineering Experiment Station, Annapolis. Maryland: Replacement Annapolis, Md.of boiler house, boiler and auxiliaries, $157,000. Navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Improvement of electric system, Norfolk, Va.$75.000; improvement of blocking, Dry Docks Numbered 3 and 4, $55,000; lean-to addition to building numbered 171, $15,000; toilet facilities, Dry Docks Numbered 6 and 7, $8,000; in all, $153,000. Navy yard, Charleston, South Carolina: Dredging, to continue, Charleston, S. C.$36,000. Navy yard, Mare Island, California: Dredging, to continue, Mare Island, Calif.$100,000; improvement of old buildings, $75,000; improvement of shipbuilding facilities, $75,000; improvement of power plant and distributing systems, $95,000; in all, $345,000. Navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington: Dredging, to continue, Puget Sound, Wash.$100,000; improvement of washing and toilet facilities, $20,000; improvement of electric system, $83,000; in all, $203,000. Naval Operating Base, Hampton Roads, Virginia: Rebuilding Hampton Roads, Va.pier numbered 7 and west breakwater, $210,000; dredging, to continue, $130,000; in all, $340,000. 636 Guantanamo, Cuba. Naval Station, Guantanamo, Cuba: Dredging, $30,000. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Naval Station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Improvements to channel and harbor, to continue, $1,250,000; improvement of water front, Acquiring private fishery rights.Vol. 42, p. 67.$300,000; for additional necessary costs and expenses of condemnation proceedings authorized by the Act approved June 28, 1921, entitled “An Act to provide for the acquisition by the United States of private rights of fishery in and about Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii,” to be available immediately, $20,000; in all, $1,570,000. Newport, R. I. Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island: Replacement of fresh-water mains, $12,000. Lake Denmark, N. J. Naval Ammunition Depot, Lake Denmark, New Jersey: Replacement of two magazine buildings, $66,000; improvement of fence, $9,500; in all, $75,500. Fort Mifflin, Pa. Naval Ammunition Depot, Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania: Improvement of lightning protection, $35,000; replacement of cables under Schuylkill River, $6,000; in all, $41,000. Saint Juliens Creek, Va. Naval Ammunition Depot, Saint Juliens Creek, Virginia: Improvement of lightning protection, $55,000. Mare Island, Calif. Naval Ammunition Depot, Mare Island, California: Improvement to lightning protection and electric system, $70,000. Dahlgren, Va. Naval Proving Ground, Dahlgren, Virginia: Improvement of water system $23,500. Yorktown, Va. Navy Mine Depot, Yorktown, Virginia: Improvement of lightning protection, $17,750. San Diego, Calif. Naval Training Station, San Diego, California: Improvement of mess hall unit, $65,000. Melville, R. I. Naval Fuel Depot, Melville, Rhode Island: Toward replacement of boiler plant (limit of cost $150,000), $65,000. Coco Solo, Canal Zone. Submarine Base, Coco Solo, Canal Zone: Improvement to water front, $200,000. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, submarine base. Submarine Base, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Improvement of distributing system, $20,000; improvement of water front, $275,000; improvement of streets, grounds, and tracks, $50,000; in all, $350,000. Pensacola, Fla., Air Station.Bridge at air station.Amount immediately available.Vol. 44, p. 1253. Naval Station, Pensacola, Florida: Of the appropriation of $800,000 for repairs due to hurricane damage, Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, contained in the First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1927, an amount not exceeding $165,000 shall be available immediately and remain available until June 30, 1929, for the erection of a concrete bridge at such Naval Air Station. Cooo Solo, Canal Zone, Air Station. Naval Air Station, Coco Solo, Canal Zone: Hangar, $185,000; barracks and mess hall, $400,000; water-front development, $15,000; distributing system, $20,000; in all, $620,000. Sand Point, Wash., Air Station. Naval Air Station, Sand Point, Washington: Barracks and mess hall, $227,000; distributing system, $18,000; flying-field development, $30,000; in all, $275,000. BUREAU OF AERONAUTICS Bureau of Aeronautics. aviation, navy Designated aviation expenses. For aviation, as follows: For navigational, photographic, aerological, radio, and miscellaneous equipment, including repairs thereto, for use with aircraft built or building on June 30, 1928, Aircraft factory, etc.$1,250,000; for maintenance, repair, and operation of aircraft factory, air stations, fleet, and all other aviation activities, testing laboratories, for overhauling of planes, and for the purchase for aviation purposes only of special clothing, wearing apparel, and special equipment, $9,675,000, including $400,000 for the equipment of Catapults, etc.Helium.vessels with catapults and including not to exceed $300,000 for the procurement of helium of which such amounts as may be required 637may be transferred in advance to the Bureau of Mines; for continuing New types of aircraft.experiments and development work on all types of aircraft, including the payment of part time or intermittent employment in the District of Columbia or elsewhere of such scientists and technicists as may be contracted for by the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, at a rate of pay not exceeding $20 per diem for any person so employed, $2,000,000; for drafting, clerical, inspection, and messenger service, $731,000; for new construction and procurement of aircraft New construction, etc.and equipment, $16,500,000, including not to exceed $635,000 for the Naval Reserve, of which amount not to exceed $9,480,000 shall be Incurred obligations.available for the payment of obligations incurred under the contract authorization for these purposes carried in the Navy Appropriation Vol. 44, p. 1291.Act for the fiscal year 1928, approved March 2, 1927; toward the Rigid airships.Vol. 44, p. 765.construction of the rigid airships authorized in Public Act Numbered 422, Sixty-ninth Congress, approved June 24, 1926 (total limit of cost $8,000,000), irrespective of the date fixed in said Act for the beginning of the construction of one of such airships, $1,800,000, Vol. 44, p. 1291.and the sum of $200,000 of the appropriation, “Aviation, Navy, 1928,” toward the construction of one of such airships is hereby made available until June 30, 1929, toward the construction of two such rigid airships: *Provided,* That the contract for such rigid *Provisos.*Contract reservations.airships shall
(a)reserve to the Government the right of cancellation of the construction of the second airship if changed circumstances, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy, shall suggest that course as being in the best interests of the Government, such right of cancellation to continue until the first airship shall have been tested in flight and accepted, and
(b)provide that in the event of such cancellation, the total cost of the first airship, and all payments under, and expenses incident to the cancellation of, the contract for the second airship, shall not exceed $5,500,000; in all, $31,956,000; and the money herein specifically appropriated for Accounting.“Aviation” shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law and shall constitute one fund: *Provided,* That in Contracts authorized for new airplanes, etc.addition to the amount herein appropriated and specified for expenditure for new construction and procurement of aircraft and equipment, the Secretary of the Navy may, prior to July 1, 1930, 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 $10,000,000: *Provided further,* That no part of this appropriation Shore stations limited.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 shall be used Airplane factory construction forbidden.for the construction of a factory for the manufacture of airplanes: *Provided further,* That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized Determination of damages claims.to consider, ascertain, adjust, determine, and pay out of this appropriation the amounts due on claims for damages which have occurred or may occur to private property growing out of the operations of naval aircraft, where such claim does not exceed the sum of $250: *Provided further,* That all claims adjusted under this Report to Congress.authority during the fiscal year shall be reported in detail to the Congress by the Secretary of the Navy. NAVAL ACADEMY Naval Academy. Pay, Naval Academy: Pay for professors and others, Naval Academy: Pay of professors, etc.Pay of professors and instructors, including one professor as librarian, $259,000: *Provided,* That not more than $36,500 shall *Proviso.*Pay restriction.be paid for masters and instructors in swordsmanship and physical training; 638 Employees. For pay of employees at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Navy, $586,483. 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 Library.for instruction purposes, $72,800; for purchase, binding, and repair of books for the library (to be purchased in the open market on Board of Visitors.Superintendent.the written order of the superintendent), $5,000; for expenses of the Board of Visitors to the Naval Academy, $1,400; for contingencies for the Superintendent of the Academy, to be expended in his Commandant.discretion, not exceeding $4,000; for contingencies for the commandant of midshipmen, to be expended in his discretion, not exceeding $1,800; in all, $85,000, to be accounted for as one fund. 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, $1,075,000. Boathouse construction. Construction of boathouse (limit of cost $250,000), $250,000. MARINE CORPS Marine Corps. pay, marine corps Pay, 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, $3,618,043; subsistence allowance, $486,618; rental allowance, $658,246; in all, $4,762,907. Retired list. For pay of officers prescribed by law on the retired list, $591,273. 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, sharpshooters, marksmen, or regularly detailed as gun captains, gun pointers, cooks, messmen, including interest on deposits by enlisted men, post exchange debts of deserters and of men discharged or sentenced to terms of imprisonment while in debt to the United States, 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 639and assistant Navy mail clerks, both afloat and ashore, and for gratuities to enlisted men discharged not under honorable conditions—pay and allowances, $8,250,557; allowance for lodging and subsistence, $793,875; in all, $9,044,432. For pay and allowances prescribed by law of enlisted men on Retired enlisted men.the retired list, $451,177. Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged enlisted men for Undrawn clothing.clothing undrawn, $200,495. For pay and allowances of the Marine Corps Reserve
(a)excluding Marine Corps Reserve.transferred and assigned men, $182,000;
(b)transferred men, $243,532;
(c)assigned men, $65,000; in all, $490,532. For mileage and actual and necessary expenses and per diem in lieu Mileage, etc.of subsistence as authorized by law to officers traveling under orders without troops, $125,000. In all, $15,665,816, 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 and 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, $61,890; Office of the paymaster, $21,855; Office of the quartermaster, $76,275; in all, $160,020: *Provided,* *Proviso.*Number of enlisted men at headquarters not to be increased, on termination of services, civilians to fill their places.That the total number of enlisted men on duty at Marine Corps headquarters on the date of the approval of this Act shall not be increased, and in lieu of enlisted men whose services at such headquarters shall be terminated for any cause prior to July 1, 1929, their places may be filled by civilians, for the pay of whom, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, either or both the appropriations “Pay, Marine Corps,” and “General Expenses, Marine Corps,” shall be available. general expenses, marine corps General expenses. 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 allowance for lodging and subsistence to enlisted men traveling on duty; ice, ice machines and their maintenance, $3,300,000; For clothing for enlisted men, $800,000; Clothing. For fuel, heat, light, and power, including sales to officers, Fuel, etc.$500,000; 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 Prizes, badges, medals, etc.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, $825,000; For transportation of troops and applicants for enlistment, including Transportation and recruiting.cash in lieu of ferriage and transfers en route; toilet kits for issue to recruits upon their first enlistment and other incidental expenses of the recruiting service; and transportation for dependents of Dependents.officers and enlisted men, $570,000; 640 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, $375,000; 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 furniture Vehicles.and fixtures; purchase, exchange, and repair of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying and other vehicles, including parts; veterinary services and medicines for public animals and the authorized Horses, etc.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 and crating of officers’ allowance of baggage; Funeral expenses.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 Laundries.the homes of the deceased in the United States; construction, operation, and maintenance of laundries; and for all emergencies and *Provisos.*Purchase of motor passenger vehicles.extraordinary expenses, $1,900,000: *Provided,* That there may be expended out of this appropriation not to exceed $17,650 for the purchase of thirteen motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles subject at least to an equal number of such vehicles being sold or exchanged in part payment, the gross cost of any one vehicle not to be in excess of the respective amounts which follow: Three to cost not to exceed $2,000 each; two to cost not to exceed $1,200 each; eight to cost not to exceed $650 each; also fifteen motor cycles, cost Clerical, etc., field service.not exceed $270 each: *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, 1929, shall not exceed $80,000; Marine Corps Reserve. Marine Corps Reserve: For clothing, subsistence, heat, light, transportation, and miscellaneous expenses, $60,000; In all, $8,370,000, to be accounted for as one fund. ALTERATIONS TO NAVAL VESSELS Major alterations to ships.“Oklahoma” and “Nevada.”Modernizing.Vol. 44, p. 1343. Toward the alterations and repairs required for the purpose of modernizing the United States ships Oklahoma and Nevada, as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to authorize an increase in the limit of cost of certain naval vessels, and for other purposes,” *Proviso.*No other appropriation to be used.approved March 2, 1927, $6,575,000: *Provided,* That no part of any other appropriation for the fiscal years 1928 and 1929 shall be available for altering, improving, or repairing such ships. INCREASE OF THE NAVY Increase 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, $31,500,000, to remain available until expended. 641 Armor, armament, and ammunition: Toward the armor, armament, Armor, etc., vessels under construction.and ammunition for vessels heretofore authorized, to remain available until expended, $16,500,000. The cost of the armor, armament, and ammunition of each of the Limitation on cost for light cruisers.light cruisers numbered 29, 30, and 31 shall not exceed $5,650,000. The appropriations made in this Act for the purchase or manufacture Purchase 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 expended Use 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 *Provisos.*Details to Navigation Bureau.expressly authorized: *Provided,* That there may be detailed to the Bureau of Navigation not to exceed at any one time five enlisted men of the Navy: *Provided further,* That enlisted men detailed to the Specified service not a Department detail.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, foreman, or other person having charge of the work of any employee of the United States Government while making or causing to be made with a stop watch or other time-measuring device a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such work; nor shall any part of the appropriations made in Cash rewards, etc., restricted.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 moneys herein appropriated Restriction on repair and equipment of vessels, machinery, etc., at other than navy yards and arsenals.for the Naval Establishment or herein made available therefor shall be used or expended under contracts hereafter made for the repair, purchase, or acquirement, by or from any private contractor, of any naval vessel, machinery, article or articles that at the time of the proposed repair, purchase, or acquirement can be repaired, manufactured, or produced in each or any of the Government navy yards or arsenals of the United States, when time and facilities permit, and when, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy, such repair, purchase, acquirement, or production would not involve an appreciable increase in cost to the Government. NAVY DEPARTMENT Navy Department. salaries Salaries. Secretary of the Navy, $15,000; two Assistant Secretaries of the Secretary, Assistant Secretaries.Navy, at $7,500 each. For compensation for other personal services in the District of Civilian personnel in offices, etc.Vol. 42, p. 1488.Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as follows: Office of the Secretary of the Navy, $146,260. Secretary’s Office. General board, $11,000. General Board. Naval examining and retiring boards, $9,620. Examining and Retiring Boards. Compensation board, $15,760. Compensation Board. Office of Naval Records and Library, including employees engaged Naval Records and Library.in the collection or copying and classification, with a view to publi-642Naval records, war with Central Powers.cation, of the naval records of the war with the Central Powers of Europe, $38,700. Judge Advocate General. Office of Judge Advocate General, $112,280. Chief of Naval Operations. Office of Chief of Naval Operations, $67,460. Board of Inspection and Survey. Board of Inspection and Survey, $19,660. Director of Naval Communications. Office of Director of Naval Communications, $127,760. Naval Intelligence. Office of Naval Intelligence, $38,180. Bureau of Navigation. *Proviso.*Adjusted Compensation Act balances available. Bureau of Navigation, $456,740: *Provided,* That the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $450,000 for administrative expenses, World War Adjusted Compensation Act, fiscal year 1924, approved December 5, 1924, shall remain available until June 30, 1929. Hydrographic Office.Additional employees. Hydrographic Office, including $23,000 for use exclusively for the pay of additional employees, $353,460. Naval Observatory. Naval Observatory, $112,680. Nautical Almanac Office.Computers on piece work. Nautical Almanac Office, $33,280, including $2,500 for pay of computers on piece work in preparing for publication the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac and in improving the tables of the planets, moon, and stars. Bureau of Engineering. Bureau of Engineering, including $10,000 for use exclusively for the pay of additional employees, $290,200. Bureau of Construction and Repair. Bureau of Construction and Repair, $355,850. Bureau of Ordnance. Bureau of Ordnance, $144,440. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $807,330. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $73,860. Bureau of Yards and Docks. Bureau of Yards and Docks, $261,420. Bureau of Aeronautics. Bureau of Aeronautics, $233,560. In all, salaries, Navy Department, $3,739,500. 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 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 average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in Allowance in unusually meritorious cases.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 *Proviso.*Restriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical services.No reduction in fixed salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1490.Transfers to another position without reduction.Payments under higher rates permitted.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 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 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. contingent expenses Department 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, Naval records of he World War.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 643publication of the naval records of the war with the Central Powers of Europe; for stationery, furniture, newspapers (for which payment Stationery, furniture, vehicles, etc.may be made in advance), 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, $81,500; it Naval service appropriations not to be used for Department expenses.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 For printing and binding for the Navy Department and the Naval Printing and binding.Establishment executed at the Government Printing Office, $520,000, including not exceeding $85,000 for the Hydrographic Office and $2,800 for the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. contingent and miscellaneous expenses, hydrographic office Hydrographic Office. For purchase and printing of nautical books, charts, and sailing Contingent and miscellaneous expenses.directions, copperplates, steel plates, chart paper, packing boxes, chart portfolios, electrotyping copperplates, cleaning copperplates; tools, instruments, power, and material for drawing, engraving, and printing; materials for and mounting charts; reduction of charts by photography; photolithographing charts for immediate use; transfer of photolithographic and other charts to copper; purchase of equipment for the storage of plates used in making charts and for the storage of Hydrographic Office charts and publications; modernization, care and repairs to printing presses, furniture, instruments, and tools; extra drawing and engraving; translating from foreign languages; telegrams on public business; preparation of Pilot charts.pilot charts and their supplements, and printing and mailing same; purchase of data for charts and sailing directions and other nautical publications; books of reference and works and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, and to other professional and technical subjects connected with the work of the Hydrographic Office, $70,000. branch hydrographic offices For contingent expenses of branch hydrographic offices at Boston, Branch offices.Contingent expenses of designated.New York, Philadelphia. Baltimore, Norfolk, Savannah, New Orleans, San Francisco, Portland (Oregon), Portland (Maine), Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, 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, $15,700. For services of necessary employees at branch offices, $40,500. Employees. 644 contingent and miscellaneous expenses, naval observatory Naval Observatory.Computations. Miscellaneous computations: For personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $9760. Library, apparatus, repairs, miscellaneous supplies, etc.Grounds and roads. 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 (including quarters), fixtures, and fences; for cleaning, repair, and upkeep of grounds and roads; furniture for offices and officers’ quarters, gas, chemicals, paints, and stationery, including transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, foreign postage, and all contingent expenses; plants, seeds, 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 vehicles; material for boxing nautical instruments for transportation; telegraph and telephone service, and incidental labor, $21,700, of which sum not to exceed $3,058 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Approved, May 21, 1928.
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Making appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and for other purposes
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