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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 46 STAT. · June 30, 1932 · Chapter 326

Chapter 326. Making appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 326.— An Act Making appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, and for other purposes. February 28, 1931.[[H. R. 16969](/us/bill/71/hr/16969).][[Public, No. 745](/us/pl/71/745).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following Navy Department and naval service appropriations, fiscal year 1932.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, 1932, namely:
NAVAL ESTABLISHMENTNaval Establishment. office of the secretarySecretary’s Office pay, miscellaneousPay, miscellaneous. For commissions and interest; transportation of funds, including Expenses designated.the cost of insurance on shipments of money by registered mail when necessary; exchange; for traveling expenses of civilian employees, including not to exceed $3,000 for the expenses of attendance, at Attendance at meetings.home and abroad, upon meetings of technical, professional, scientific, and other similar organizations when, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy, such attendance would be of benefit in the conduct of the work of the Navy Department; 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 Experts.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, including the hire of automobiles when necessary for the use of shore-patrol detachments; 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; for promoting accident prevention and safety for civilian employees in shore establishments of the Navy; stationery and recording; religious books; newspapers and periodicals for the naval service; all advertising of the Navy Department and its bureaus Advertising, etc.(except advertising for recruits for the Bureau of Navigation); copying; ferriage; tolls; cost of suits; relief of vessels in distress; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; reports; professional investigation; cost of special instruction at home and abroad, including maintenance of students and attachés and not to exceed $9,750 for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel,Living quarters, etc.*Ante*, p. 818. and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (46 1432Information from abroad, etc.Stat., p. 818); 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 $175,000 for telephone rentals and tolls, telegrams and cablegrams; postage, foreign and domestic, and post-office box rentals; for necessary Interned prisoners of war, etc.expenses for interned persons and prisoners of war under the jurisdiction of Navy Department, including funeral expenses for such interned persons or prisoners of war as may die while under such Damage claims.Vol. 41, p. 132.[U.
S. C., p. 1127](/us/usc/1127).jurisdiction, and for payment of claims for damages as provided in the Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year 1920, approved July 11, 1919 (U. S. C., title 34, sec. 600); and *Provisos.*Restriction on use in naval district.other necessary and incidental expenses; in all, $1,555,500: *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 ward, naval training station, or naval operating Clerical, etc., services at yards and stations.base: *Provided further*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards and naval stations, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, shall not exceed $530,000. contingent, navy Contingent, Navy.For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, exclusive of personal services in the Navy Department or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at Washington, District of Columbia, arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, to be expended on the approval and authority of the Secretary of the Navy, and for such purposes as he may deem proper, and for examination of estimates for appropriations and of naval activities in the field for any branch of the naval service, $30,000. state marine schools, act march 4, 1911State Marine Schools.
Reimbursing California, Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania for, expenses.Vol. 36, p. 1353.[U. S. C., p. 1150](/us/usc/1150).To reimburse the State of California, $25,000; the State of Massachusetts, $25,000; the State of New York, $25,000; and the State of Pennsylvania, $25,000, for expenses incurred in the maintenance and support of marine schools in such States as provided in the Act authorizing the establishment of marine schools, and so forth, approved March 4, 1911 (U.
S. C., title 34, sec. 1121); in all, $100,000. care of lepers, and so forthm island of guamLepers, etc Care, etc., Culion, P. I.Naval station, island of Guam: For maintenance and care of lepers, special patients, and for other purposes, including cost of transfer of lepers from Guam to the island of Culion, in the Philip-pines, and their maintenance, $22,000; for educational purposes, $16,000; in all, $38,000. naval research laboratoryResearch laboratory. Work of, for naval service.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, temporary employment of such scientific civilian assistants as may become necessary, and subscriptions to technical periodicals, to be expended under the direction of the Sec1433retary of the Navy, $229,765: *Provided*, That $15,000 of this appropriation *Provisos.*Temporary scientists, etc.Technical services, etc.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 this appropriation for technical, drafting, clerical, and messenger service shall not exceed $100,000 in addition to the amount authorized by the preceding proviso. operation and conservation of the naval petroleum reservesNaval petroleum reserves.
To enable the Secretary of the Navy to carry out the provisions Conservation, etc.Vol. 41, p. 813.[U. S. C., p. 1122](/us/usc/1122).contained in the Act approved June 4, 1920 (U. S. C., title 34, sec. 524), requiring him to conserve, develop, use, and operate the naval petroleum reserves, $160,000, of which amount not to exceed $15,000 shall be available for clerical, technical, and custodial services of field employees, and of which $60,000 shall be available exclusively to complete repairs to shut-in wells, Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 1: *Provided*, That out of any sums appropriated for naval *Provisos.*Work on Reserve No. 1.purposes by this Act any portion thereof, not to exceed $10,000,000, shall be available to enable the Secretary of the Navy to protect Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 1, established by Executive order of September 2, 1912, pursuant to the Act of June 25, 1910 Vol. 36, p. 847.[U.
S. C., p. 1333](/us/usc/1333).(U. S. C., title 43, secs. 141–143), by drilling wells and performing any work incident thereto, of which amount not to exceed $100,000 shall be available for clerical, technical, and custodial services of field employees: *Provided further*, That no part of the sum made Subject to agreement of adjoining owner not to drill offset wells.available for the protection of this property shall be expended if a satisfactory agreement can be made with adjoining landowners to not drill offset wells for the purpose of producing oil.
BUREAU OF NAVIGATIONBureau of Navigation. recreation for enlisted men, navy For the recreation, amusement, comfort, contentment, and health Recreation tor enlist ed men.of the Navy, including subscriptions to newspapers, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, under such regulations as he may prescribe, $400,000: *Provided*, That the amount paid *Proviso.*Pay restriction.from this appropriation for personal services of field employees, exclusive of temporary services, shall not exceed $36,000. contingent, bureau of navigation For continuous-service certificates, commissions, warrants, diplomas, Contingent.discharges, good-conduct badges, and medals for men and boys; purchase of gymnastic apparatus; transportation of effects of deceased officers, 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 exercies, bureau of navigationGunnery and engineering exercises.
For trophies and badges for excellence in gunnery, target practice, Badges, ranges, etc.engineering exercises, and for economy in fuel consumption to be awarded under such rules as the Secretary of the Navy may formulate; for the purpose of recording, classifying, compiling, and publishing the rules and results; for the establishment and maintenance of shooting galleries, target houses, targets, and ranges; for hiring1434 established ranges, and for transporting equipment to and from ranges; entrance fees in matches for the rifle team, and special equipment therefor, $50,000. 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; libraries for ships of war, professional books, schoolbooks, and papers; maintenance of gunnery and other training classes; com-passes, 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; music and musical instruments; and tor the necessary civilian electricians for gyrocompass testing and inspection; *Proviso.*Clerical, etc., services.in all, $776,091: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, drafting, inspection, caretaker (chronometer), and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, shall not exceed $33,820. 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, $86,600. naval training stations, bureau of navigationTraining stations.
Maintenance, etc.For maintenance, including labor and material, heat, light, water, general care, repairs, and improvements; school books; and all other incidental expenses for the naval training stations that follow: California.San Diego, California, $190,000; Rhode Island.Newport, Rhode Island, $271,000; Illinois.Great Lakes, Illinois, $275,000; Virginia.Hampton Roads, Virginia, $235,000: *Proviso.*Clerical, etc., services. *Provided*, That the amount to be paid out of each of the fore-going sums under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, shall not exceed for San Diego, $7,500; for Newport, $10,000; for Great Lakes, $14,500; and for Hampton Roads, $5,500. naval reserveNaval Reserve.
Organizing, recruiting, etc., expenses of, and Militia.For expenses of organizing, administering, and recruiting the Naval Reserve and Naval Militia; pay and allowances of officern 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 enlisted men to and from training duty, and subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; subsistence of enlisted men during the actual period 1435of training duty; subsistence of officers and enlisted men of the Fleet Naval Reserve, subsistence.Fleet Naval Reserve while performing authorized training or other duty without pay; pay, mileage, and allowances of officers of the Pay, etc.Naval Reserve and pay, allowances, and subsistence of 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 enlisted men of the Fleet Naval Reserve for the performance of drills or other equivalent instruction or duty, or appropriate duties, and administrative duties, exclusive, however, of pay, allowances, or other expenses on account of members of any class of Flight training.the Naval Reserve incident to their being given flight training unless, as a condition precedent, they shall have been found by such agency as the Secretary of the Navy may designate physically and psychologically qualified to serve as pilots of naval aircraft, $4,620,835, of which amount not more than $160,000 shall be available for maintenance Armories, wharfage, etc.and rental of armories, including pay of necessary janitors, and for wharfage, not more than $81,000 shall be available for clerical and messenger services for Naval Reserve administration in naval station, and districts for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, not less than $906,156 shall be available, in addition to other appropriations, for aviation material, equipment, fuel, and rental of hangars, Aviation.and not more than $575,839 shall be available, in addition to other appropriations, for fuel and the transportation thereof, and for all Fuel, etc.other expenses in connection with the maintenance, operation, repair, and upkeep of vessels assigned for training the Naval Reserve. naval reserve officers’ training corpsNaval 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 Beser ve 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 necessary; for Expenses of training camps and ship schools.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 camps, ships, or other designated places of instruction, and to subsist them while traveling to and from such camps or ships and while remaining therein so far as appropriations will permit or, in lieu of transporting them to and Commutation of travel allowance.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 of students attending advanced camps or advanced schools on ships at the rate prescribed for enlisted men of the seventh pay grade; for the payment of commutation Subsistence commutation to senior division.of subsistence to members of the senior division of the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, at a rate not exceeding the cost of the commuted ration of the Navy; for medical and hospital Medical, etc., treatment.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 1436camps of instruction or on ships; and for the cost of preparation and Burial expenses, etc.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 tor the Motor vehicles.cost of maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying *Provisos.*Uniforms, etc., from Navy stocks.vehicles, $130,000: *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 the manufacture or issue:Price current to govern payments. *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 navigationNaval War College.
Maintenance.For maintenance of the Naval War College on Coasters Harbor Island, including care of grounds, $106,958; 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, including subscriptions to newspapers, $5,000; for contingencies of the president of the Naval War College, to be expended in his discretion, not exceeding $1,000; in all, $116,958: *Proviso.*Clerical, etc., services. *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, 1932, shall not exceed $73,000. naval home, philadelphia, pennsylvainaNaval Home.
Personal services.For pay of employees at rates of pay to be fixed by the Secretary of the Navy, $86,525; 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 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 purchase and exchange of one five-ton dump truck, and the maintenance, repair, and operation of two motor-propelled vehicles, and one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, to be used only for official purposes, $109,435;
From naval pension fund.In all, Naval Home, $195,960, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund. BUREAU OF ENGINEERINGBureau of Engineering. engineering Engineering repairs, machinery.For repairs, preservation, and renewal of machinery, auxiliary machinery, and boilers of naval vessels, yard craft, and ships’ boats, distilling and refrigerating apparatus; repairs, preservation, and renewals of electric interior and exterior signal communications and 1437all 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 Equipment supplies.and operation of coast signal service; equipage supplies, and materials under the cognizance of the bureau required for the maintenance and operation of naval vessels, yard craft, and ships’ boats; purchase, installation, repair, and preservation of machinery, tools, and appliances in navy yards and stations, accident prevention, 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, machines and auxiliaries, apparatus, and supplies, and technical books and periodicals necessary to carry on experimental and research work; maintenance and equipment of buildings and grounds at the engineering Annapolis, Md., engineering experiment station.experiment station, Annapolis, Maryland; 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; in all, $19,243,040, of which $750,000 shall be available exclusively for the New tools and machinery for shops, by transfers from naval supply account.procurement and installation of new tools and machinery for shops under the cognizance of the Bureaus of Engineering and Construction and Repair: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, *Provisos.*Clerical, etc. services.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, 1932, shall not exceed $1,644,340: *Provided further*, That in order to convert the Disposition of certain vessels in accordance with Loudon Naval Conference.*Post*, p. 2858.United States ship Wyoming into a training ship and the United States ship Utah into a target ship and to permit the President to dispose of other vessels of the Navy in such manner as in his judgment may be advisable in accordance with the terms of the treaty for the limitation and reduction of naval armament, signed at London on April 22, 1930, there shall be available $779,000 of appropriations Appropriations available.for the fiscal year 1931, as follows:
Engineering, Bureau of Engineering, 1931, $210,000; Construction and Repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, 1931, $535,000; and Ordnance and Ordnance Stores, Bureau of Ordnance, 1931, $34,000. BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIRBureau of Construction anti Repair. For preservation and completion of vessels on the stocks and in Construction and repair of vessels.ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; steam steerers, steam capstans, steam windlasses, and all other auxiliaries; labor in navy yards and on foreign stations; accident prevention; 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 1438employment 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 New tools and machinery for shops.material for making and repairing flags of all kinds; for all permanent galley fittings and equipage; rugs, carpets, curtains, and hangings on board naval vessels, $18,057,500, of which $750,000 shall be available exclusively for the procurement and installation of new tools and machinery for shops under the cognizance of the *Proviso.*Clerical, etc., services.Bureaus of Construction and Repair and Engineering: *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 superintending naval constructors for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, shall not exceed $1,820,000.
BUREAU OF ORDNANCEBureau 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 the purchase and manufacture of torpedoes and appliances; for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the general work under the cognizance of the Bureau of Ordnance; for furniture at naval ammunition depots, torpedo stations, naval ordnance plants, and proving grounds; for technical books; plant appliances as now defined by the “Navy Classification of Accounts”; for machinery and machine tools; for accident prevention; 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 tor 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 not exceeding $20 per diem Vehicles, etc.for any person so employed; for the maintenance, repair, and operation of horse-drawn and motor-propelled freight and passengercarrying 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, Schools at designated stations.naval ordnance plants, and naval ammunition depots, and for care and operation of schools during the fiscal year 1932 at ordnance stations at Indianhead, Maryland, Dahlgren, Virginia, and South 1439Charleston, West Virginia, $11,930,585: *Provided*, That the sum *Proviso.*Chemical, etc., services.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, 1932, shall not exceed $1,028,000.
For purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, $1,000,000.Smokeless powder. BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTSBureau 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 allowances.Retired.law of officers on sea duty and other duty, and officers on waiting orders, pay—$30,886,052; rental allowance, $6,081,474; subsistence allowance, $3,727,648; in all, $40,695,174; officers on the retired list, $5,597,360; for hire of quarters for officers serving with troops where Hire of quarters.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 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, $3,580,110; extra pay to men reenlisting after being honorably discharged, $2,566,370; interest on deposits by men, $3,000; pay of petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and apprentice seamen, including men in the engineer’s force and men detailed for duty with the Fish Commission, enlisted men, men in trade schools, pay of enlisted men of the Hospital Corps, extra pay to men for diving, and cash prizes (not to exceed $73,300) for men of excellence in gunnery, target Outfits, etc.practice, and engineering competitions, $66,600,000; outfits for all enlisted men and apprentice seamen of the Navy on first enlistment Clothing.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 kind of clothing to persons in the Navy Reimbursements, etc.for losses in cases of marine or aircraft disasters or in the operation of water or air borne craft, and the authorized issue of clothing and equipment to the members of the Nurse Corps, $1,422,728; pay of enlisted men undergoing sentence of court-martial, $162,932, and as many machinists as the President may from time to time deem necessary Machinists, apprentice seamen under training, etc.to appoint; and apprentice seamen under training at training stations and on board training ships, at the pay prescribed by law, $1,199,520; pay and allowances of the Nurse Corps, including assistant superintendents, directors, and assistant Nurse Corps.directors—pay $687,880, rental allowance $18,240, subsistence allowance $21,960; pay retired list $22,510; in all, $750,590; rent of quarters for members of the Nurse Corps; pay and allowances of transferred and assigned men Fleet Naval Reserve.Property losses.Vol. 40, p. 389.[U.
S. C., p. 1144](/us/usc/1144).Vol, 44, p. 1368.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 504](/us/usc/504).of the Fleet Naval Reserve, $10,264,216; reimbursement for losses of property as provided in the Act approved October 6, 1917 (U. S. C., title 34, secs. 981, 982), as amended by the Act of March 3, 1927 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 34, sec. 983), $5,000; payment of six months’ death gratuity, $150,000; in all, $133,000,000; 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 commanding officers, at 50 cents per diem, and midsnipmen at 80 cents per diem, and commuted Subsistence.Provisions, commutation of rations, etc.rations stopped on account of sick in hospital and credited at the rate of 75 cents per ration to the Subsistence while absent from duty.naval hospital fund; subsistence of men unavoidably detained or 1440absent 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 Naval Reserve, etc.on 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, $16,502,216;
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, including not to exceed $2,000 for the expenses of attendance at home and abroad, upon meetings of technical, professional, scientific, and other similar organizations, when, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy, such attendance would be of benefit in the conduct of the work of the Navy Department; 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 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 Recruiting.expenses incident to transportation; expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent of rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentice seamen; actual and necessary expenses in lieu of mileage to officers on duty Transporting de pendents, etc.with traveling recruiting parties; transportation of dependents of officers and enlisted men; expenses of funeral escorts of naval personnel; in all, $4,538,654;
Aggregate amount.In all, for pay, subsistence, and transportation of naval personnel, $154,040,870, of which sum $1,000,000 shall be immediately available, 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 *Provisos.*Availability.one fund: *Provided*, That the appropriation “Pay, subsistence, and transportation, Navy, 1931,” shall be available for the pay and allowances of all officers commissioned in accordance with law, and shall be Sea pay to Academy surplus graduates.available to pay one year’s sea pay to surplus graduates of the Naval Academy, as provided by law: *Provided, further*, That the President Graduates of 1931 to receive commissions.of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, is hereby authorized to appoint as ensigns in the line of the Navy all midshipmen who graduate from the Naval Academy in the year Excess carried in en sign grade.*Post*, p. 1482.1931, but if the number so commissioned should exceed the total number of officers of the line of the Navy authorized by existing law, Retirement provisions.[U.
S. C., p. 1115](/us/usc/1115).the excess shall be carried in the grade of ensign: *Provided further*, That any officer, other than commissioned warrant or warrant officers, commissioned in the line of the Navy from sources other than the Naval Academy, may, upon his own application, 1441in the discretion of the President, be retired from active service and placed upon the retired list with retired pay at the rate of 2½ per centum of his active-duty pay multiplied by the number of years of service for which entitled to credit in computation of his pay on the active list, not to exceed a total of 75 per centum of said *Provisos.*Additional medical, etc., personnel for Vet erans Administration patients in naval hospitals.active-duty pay: *Provided further*, 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 this Act: *Provided further*, Allowance of midshipmen decreased.[U.
S. C., p, 1147, amended](/us/usc/1147).That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the pay of any midshipmen whose admission subsequent to January 30, 1931, 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 nomination of the Resident Commissioner; and of two midshipmen for the District of Columbia, except that nothing herein shall deny pay to or prevent the admission of Admissions, under 1931 Appropriation Act not affected.any midshipman admissible within the number of appointments permissible under the provisions of the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1931 who may enter the Naval Academy in the class entering next after the approval of this Act: *Provided further*, That Appointments at large or from enlisted men not affected.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: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall Sea service requirements of appointments from enlisted men.be available for the pay of any midshipman appointed from enlisted men of the Navy for admission to the Naval Academy in the class entering in the calendar year 1932 who has not served aboard a vessel of the Navy in full commission for at least nine months prior to such admission. 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, communication, and navigating officers of ships, boards and courts on ships, and chaplains; accident prevention; services of civilian employees under the cognizance of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts; freight, express, and parcel-post charges Freight, etc., Department and Naval Establishment.*Proviso.*Chemical, etc., services.pertaining to the Navy Department and Naval Establishment, $10,100,000: *Provided*, That the sum to be 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, 1932, shall not exceed $3,250,000.
The clothing and small-stores fund shall be charged with the Clothing and small-stores fund.Issue to Naval Reserves, from.value 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. evacuation of high explosives, navyHigh explosives. Toward the. handling and transportation of high explosives to the Hawthorne, Nev., ammunition depot.Shipping and storing at.naval ammunition depot, Hawthorne, Nevada, and other points, and expenses incident thereto, in accordance with the primary recommendations contained in House Document Numbered 199, Seventieth 1442Vol. 45, p. 908.Congress, first session, as modified by the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1928, approved May 29, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 908), $350,000, of which sum $200,000 shall be available immediately. fuel and transportation, bureau of supplies and accounts Fuel, transportation of, etc.For coal and other fuel for submarine bases and steamers’ and 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 *Proviso.*Issue of, charged to appropriation applicable.storage of both, $8,513,171: *Provided*, That fuel 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 Prices for fuel on hand.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 Limitation on purchases of fuel oil of foreign production.supplying fuel are excessive: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be available, any provision in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding, for the purchase of any kind of fuel oil of foreign production for issue, delivery, or sale to ships at points either in the United States or its possessions where oil of the production of the United States or its possessions may be procurable, not-withstanding that oil of the production of the United States or its possessions may cost more than oil of foreign production, if such excess of cost, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Navy, which shall be conclusive, be not unreasonable, but nothing herein shall apply to fuel oil on hand or on order on July 1, 1931.
BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERYBureau of Medicine and Surgery. meidcal department Surgeon’s necessaries.Civil establishment.For surgeon’s necessaries for vessels in commission, navy yards, naval stations, and Marine Corps; and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy yards, naval medical supply depots, Naval Medical School and dispensary, Washington, and Naval Academy; for tolls and ferriages; purchase of books and stationery; hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration; sanitary, hygienic, administrative, and special instruction, including the issuing of naval medical bulletins and supplements; purchase and repairs of nonpassengercarrying wagons, automobile Vehicles, etc.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; for the care, maintenance, and treatment of the 1443insane of the Navy and Marine Corps on the Pacific coast, including Care, etc., of Insane on Pacific coast.supernumeraries held for transfer to the Government Hospital for the Insane; for dental outfits and dental material; and all other necessary contingent expenses; in all, $2,080,000: *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 service in naval hospitals, dispensaries, medical supply depots, and Naval Medical School, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, shall not exceed $150,000. care of the deadCare of the dead.
For the care of the dead; for funeral expenses and interment or Expenses of interment of officers, etc., dying in service, etc.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 of the Nurse Corps, reservists on active or training duty, and accepted applicants for enlistment, civilian employees of the Navy Civilian employees dying abroad.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, $75,000: *Provided*, That the above provision shall apply in the case of officers *Proviso.*Retired officers, etc., on active duty included.and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps on the retired list who die while on active duty.
BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKSBureau of Yards and Docks. maintenance, bureau of yards and docks For the labor, materials, and supplies necessary, as determined by General maintenance.the Secretary of the Navy, for the general maintenance of the activities and properties now or hereafter under the cognizance of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, including accident prevention; the purchase, Vehicles.exchange (including parts), maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles for the Navy Department (not to exceed ten in number) and the Naval Establishment not otherwise provided for; not to exceed $1,250,000 for clerical, inspection, drafting, Clerical, etc., services.messenger, and other classified work in the field, and part time or intermittent employment in the District of Columbia, or elsewhere, of such engineers and architects as may be contracted for by the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, at a rate of pay not exceeding $25 per diem for any person so employed, $9,014,816: *Provided*, That during the fiscal year 1932, the motor-propelled *Proviso.*Purchase of passenger vehicles limited.passenger-carrying vehicles to be purchased hereunder shall not exceed the following respective numbers and costs:
Fourteen at $1,800 each, and forty-eight at $600 each, ten motor cycles at $400 each, and three motor busses at $4,000 each: *Provided further*, That Limit of operation, etc.expenditures 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 $110,000, exclusive of such vehicles owned and operated by the Marine Corps in connection with expeditionary duty without Marine Corps, outside continental limits excluded.the continental limits of the United States and motor cycles, and on any one vehicle shall not exceed for maintenance, upkeep, and repair, 1444exclusive of garage rent, pay of operators, tires, 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 Contingent.For contingent expenses and minor extensions and improvements of public works at navy yards and stations, $150,000. public works, bureau of yards and docksPublic works.
Completion of authorized projects.For completing the public works and public utilities projects authorized and appropriated for in part by the First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1931, $3,379,000. To enable the Secretary of the Navy to construct or provide, by contract or otherwise, the following-named public works and publicutilities projects, at a limit of cost not to exceed the amount stated for each project enumerated, respectively, $8,785,000. Portsmouth, N. H.Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire:
Replacement of generator, $60,000; improvement of steam, compressed air, and hot water heat distribution systems, $42,000; improvement of electric system, $58,000; in all, $160,000. Boston, Mass.Navy yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Improvement of water front, $100,000. New York, N. Y.Navy yard, New York, New York: Improvement of water front, $100,000; improvement of coaling plant, $150,000; in all, $250,000. Naval Academy.Buildings and grounds, Naval Academy: Improvement of terraces, Bancroft Hall, $110,000.
Mare Island, Calif.Navy yard, Mare Island, California: Extension of service systems and streets, submarine base, $110,000; extension of service systems and streets, water front, $100,000; improvement of old buildings, $100,000; in all, $310,000. Puget Sound, Wash.Navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington: Extension of paving, $50,000. Canal Zone.Naval operating base, Canal Zone: Roads, walks, and service systems, $70,000. Key West, Fla.Naval station, Key West, Florida: Improvement of breakwater, $180,000.
Cavite, P. I.Naval station, Cavite, P. I.: Improvement of roads, $45,000; extensions of shop buildings and replacement of cranes, $70,000; in all, $115,000. Ammunition storage facilities.Vol. 45, p. 928.Ammunition storage facilities, Navy: Ammunition storage facilities authorized by the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1928, $2,000,000, being part of the contractual authorization granted in such Act. Hingham, Mass.Naval ammunition depot, Hingham, Massachusetts: Improvement of lightning protection, $40,000.
Iona Island, N. Y.Naval ammunition depot, Iona Island, New York: Improvement of buildings, $105,000. Lake Denmark, N. J.Naval ammunition depot, Lake Denmark, New Jersey: Improvement of water system, $75,000. Fort Miffin, Pa.Naval ammunition depot, Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania: Improvement of buildings, $50,000. Saint Juliens Creek, Va.Naval ammunition depot, Saint Juliens Creek, Virginia: Extension of railroad, $20,000. Mare Island, Calif.Naval ammunition depot, Mare Island, California:
Platforms for projectiles, $15,000. San Diego, Calif.Naval training station, San Diego, California: Service systems and streets, $120,000. 1445 Marine barracks, Quantico, Virginia: Filling Camp Creek, $40,000.Quantico, Va. Submarine base, New London, Connecticut: Extension of streets New London, Conn.and railroad, $23,000. Submarine base, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Extension of service Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.systems and streets, $40,000. Submarine base, Coco Solo, Canal Zone: Service systems and Coco Solo, C.
Z.streets, $30,000. Naval air station, Lakehurst, New Jersey: Reerection of hangar, Lakehurst, N. J.to be available immediately, $75,000. Naval air station, Hampton Roads, Virginia: Relocation of buildings Hampton Roads, Va.and improvement of field, $150,000. Naval air station, Pensacola, Florida: Improvement of landplane Pensacola, Fla.field, $100,000. Fleet air base, Coco Solo, Canal Zone: Extension of service systems, Coco Solo, C. Z., fleet air base.streets, and railroad, $100,000; extension of sea wall, filling and paving, $80,000; in all, $180,000.
Naval air station, San Diego, California: Improvement of drainage, San Diego, Calif.$40,000; improvement of field and paving, $50,000; in all, $90,000. Naval air station, Sand Point, Washington: Power house, distributing Sand Point, Wash.systems, roads, and walks, $32,000; purchase of land, $50,000; in all, $82,000. Fleet air base, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Engine overhaul shop, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.$110,000; beach and runway, $80,000; aircraft overhaul shop, $110,000; in all, $300,000.
Naval Observatory, Washington, District of Columbia: Astrographic Naval Observatory.laboratory building, $65,000. Naval radio and radio compass stations: Addition to transmitter Radio and radio compass stations.house, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and extension of power house, Klipsan Beach, Washington, $10,000. Naval Research Laboratory, Bellevue, District of Columbia: Bellevue, D. C., Research Laboratory.Extension of laboratory building, $125,000. Public works as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to authorize General construction, etc.*Ante*, p. 329.the Secretary of the Navy to proceed with the construction of certain public works, and for other purposes,” approved May 14, 1930, in addition to contracts heretofore authorized, $3,903,500, of which amount $50,000 shall be available for the employment of classified personal services in the Bureau of Yards and Docks and in the field to be engaged upon such work and to be in addition to employees otherwise provided for.
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, 1931, $1,079,300; for maintenance, repair, and operation of aircraft factory, Aircraft factory, etc.air stations, fleet air bases, fleet, and all other aviation activities, accident prevention, testing laboratories, for overhauling of planes, and for the purchase for aviation purposes only of special clothing, wearing apparel, and special equipment, $13,377,531, including $259,000 for the equipment of vessels with catapults and including not to exceed $192,000 for the procurement of helium, and such sum Helium.shall be transferred to and made available to the Bureau of Mines on July 1, 1931; for continuing experiments and development work on all types of aircraft, including the payment of part-time or Aircraft types.intermittent employment in the District of Columbia or elsewhere of such scientists and technicists as may be contracted for by the 1446Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, at a rate of pay not exceeding $20 per diem for any person so employed, $2,295,000, of which $75,000 shall be available for experimental and research work in cooperation with other Federal agencies in connection with the development of a metal-clad airship, and in connection with such work the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to contract for such outside engineering services as may be deemed necessary and desirable;
Drafting, clerical, etc., services.for drafting, clerical, inspection, and messenger service, $918,169; for new construction and procurement of aircraft and equipment, including not to exceed $807,400 for the Naval Reserve, $11,800,000, of which amount not to exceed $8,000,000 shall be available for the payment of obligations incurred under the contract Incurred obligations.authorization for these purposes carried in the Navy Appropriation *Ante*, p. 572.Rigid airships.Vol 44, p. 1465.[U.
S. C., Supp. IV, p. 501](/us/usc/501).Act for the fiscal year 1931; toward the construction of the rigid air-ships as provided in the Act authorizing construction of aircraft, and so forth, approved June 24, 1926 (U. S. C-, Supp, III, title 34, sec. 749a), and subject to the contractural conditions stipulated as to such rigid airships in the Act making appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year 1929, $1,675,000; in all, Accounting, as one fund.$31,145,000; and the money herein specifically appropriated for “Aviation” shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with *Provisos.*Contracts for new airplanes.existing law and shall constitute one fund: *Provided*, That in 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, 1933, 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 Shore stations limited.$7,700,000: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for maintenance of more than six heavier-than-air Airplane factory construction forbidden.stations on the coast of the continental United States: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the construction of a factory for the manufacture of airplanes: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to Determination of damage claims.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 $500.
NAVAL ACADEMYNaval Academy.Pay of Professors, etc. Pay, Naval Academy: Pay for professors and others, Naval *Proviso.*Pay restriction.Academy: Pay of professors and instructors, including one professor as librarian, $290,000: *Provided*, That not more than $36,500 shall be paid for masters and instructors in swordsmanship and physical Employees.training; For pay of employees at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Current, etc., expenses.Navy, $629,154. 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, Library.stores, machinery, tools, fittings, apparatus, and materials for instruction purposes, $77,800; for purchase, binding, and repair of books for the library (to be purchased in the open market on the Board of Visitors.Superintendent.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 discretion, not exceeding $4,000; for contingencies for the commandant 1447of midshipmen, to be expended in his discretion, not exceeding $1,800; in all, $90,000, to be accounted for as one fund.
Maintenance and repairs, Naval Academy: For necessary repairs General maintenance and repairs.of public buildings, wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, accident prevention, improvements, repairs, and fixtures; for books, periodicals, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines; fire apparatus and plants, machinery; purchase and maintenance of all horses and horse-drawn Horses, horse drawn vehicles, etc.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, $1,000,000.
MARINE CORPSMarine Corps. pay, marine corps Pay of officers, active list: For pay and allowances prescribed by Pay, etc., officers, etc., on active list.law for all officers on the active list—pay and allowances, $3,778,944; subsistence allowance, $518,811; rental allowance, $693,272; in all, $4,991,027. For pay of officers prescribed by law on the retired list, $649,862;Retired list.Enlisted men, active list. Pay of enlisted men, active list: For pay and allowances of noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, as prescribed by law, and for the expenses of clerks of the United States Marine Corps traveling under orders, and including additional compensation for enlisted men of the Marine Corps qualified as expert riflemen, sharpshooters, marksmen, or regularly detailed as gun captains, gun pointers, cooks, messmen, 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 and assistant Navy mail clerks both afloat and ashore, and for gratuities to enlisted men discharged not under honorable conditions—pay and Pay and allowances.allowances, $8,486,894; allowance for lodging and subsistence, $802,747; in all, $9,289,641;
For pay and allowances prescribed by law of enlisted men on the Retired enlisted men.retired list, $469,559; Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged enlisted men for Undrawn clothing.clothing undrawn, $265,230; For pay and allowances of the Marine Corps Reserve
(a)excluding Marine Corps Reserve.transferred and assigned men, $265,200;
(b)transferred men, $341,606;
(c)assigned men, $74,000; in all, $680,806; For mileage and actual and necessary expenses and per diem in Mileage, etc.lieu of subsistence as authorized by law to officers traveling under orders without troops, $125,000; 1448 Disbursing and accounting.In all, $16,471,125, and the money herein specifically appropriated 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 Civil force at beadquarters.Pay of civil force: For personal services in the District of Columbia, as follows: *Provisos.*No increase of enlisted men at headquarters.Vacancies to be filled by civilians.Pay rates according to Classification Act.*Ante*, p. 1005.Applicable appropriations.Offices of the Major General Commandant and adjutant inspector, $127,590; Office of paymaster, $50,880; Office of the quartermaster, $127,097; in all, $305,567: *Provided*, That the total number of enlisted men on duty at Marine Corps headquarters on May 7, 1930, 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, 1932, their places may be filled by civilians, for the pay of whom, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, either or both the appropriations “Pay, Marine Corps,” and “General expenses, Marine Corps,” shall be *Proviso.*Restitution restrictions.[R. S. sec. 1305, p. 225](/us/rs/s1305/p225).Vol. 34, p. 246; Vol. 25, p. 657; Vol. 34, p. 579.available: *Provided*, That no part of section 1305 of the Revised Statutes, as amended by the Act of June 12, 1906 (34 Stat. 246), of the Act of February 9, 1889 (25 Stat. 657), or of the Act of June 29, 1906 (34 Stat. 579), or of any other law, shall be so construed as to authorize the recovery in any manner of any indebtedness to the United States or to any of its instrumentalities from either the amounts deposited with the Government pursuant to law by any depositor in the military or naval service, or from the interest thereon. general expenses, marine corpsGeneral expenses. Authorized work.For every expenditure requisite for, and incident to, the authorized work of the Marine Corps, other than as appropriated for under the headings of pay and salaries, as follows: Provisions, etc.For provisions, subsistence, board and lodging of enlisted men, 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, $3,080,000; Clothing.Fuel, etc.Military supplies, etc.Purchase, repairs, etc.For clothing for enlisted men, $1,057,288; For fuel, heat, light, and power, including sales to officers, $500,000; For military supplies and equipment, including their purchase, repair, preservation, and handling; recreational, school, educational, library, musical, amusement, field sport and gymnasium supplies, equipment, services, and incidental expenses; purchase and marking 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. Transportation and recruiting.For transportation of troops and applicants for enlistment, including cash in lieu of ferriage and transfers en route; toilet kits for issue to recruits upon their first enlistment and other incidental expenses Dependents.of the recruiting service; and transportation for dependents of officers and enlisted men, $549,765; Repairs, etc., to barracks, quarters, 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; 1449 For forage and stabling of public animals and the authorized number Forage, etc.of officers’ horses, $40,000; For miscellaneous supplies, material, equipment, personal and other Contingent.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 and fixtures; purchase, exchange, and repair of motor-propelled and Vehicles.horse-drawn passenger-carrying and other vehicles, including parts; veterinary services and medicines for public animals and the authorized number of officers’ horses; purchase of mounts and horse equipment Horses.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 Funeral expenses.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 Transporting re mains, etc.bodies, arms, and wearing apparel from the place of demise to the homes of the deceased in the United States; construction, operation, Laundries.and maintenance of laundries; and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, $2,061,209: *Provided*, That there may be expended *Provisos.*Motor vehicles.out of this appropriation not to exceed $32,800 (including the exchange value of any vehicles which may be used as part payment) for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, the gross cost of any one vehicle not to be in excess of the respective amounts as follows: One, $1,800; twenty-five, $600 each; twenty motor cycles, $290 each; twenty side cars for motor cycles, $110 each; and two motor busses, $4,000 each: *Provided further*, That the Clerical, etc., field service.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, 1932, shall not exceed $90,000. Marine Corps Reserve: For clothing, subsistence, heat, light, transportation, Marine Corps Reserve.and miscellaneous expenses, $108,173; For participation by the band of the United States Marine Corps Yorktown, Va., celebration.in the celebration to be held at Yorktown, Virginia, October 16, 17, 18, and 19, 1931, permission for said participation being hereby Band attendance.authorized, and for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the band, the sum of $2,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated. In all, $8,598,435, to be accounted for as one fund. INCREASE OF THE NAVYIncrease of the Navy. Construction and machinery: On account of hulls and outfits of Construction and machinery of vessels heretofore authorized.*Proviso.*Technical services, purchase of plans, etc., for new cruisers, etc.vessels and machinery of vessels heretofore authorized, $31,100,000, to remain available until expended: *Provided*, That of the appropriations contained in this Act under the head of “Increase of the Navy,” there shall be available such sums as the Secretary of the Navy may from time to time determine to be necessary for the engagement of technical services, including the purchase of plans, and the employment of additional clerks, draftsmen, technical Vol. 45, p. 1165.employees, and store-laborers (not to exceed $20,000), in the Navy Department and in the field, owing to the construction authorized by the Act of February 13, 1929. Armor, armament, and ammunition: Toward the armor, armament, Armor, etc., for vessels under construction.and ammunition for vessels heretofore authorized, $7,200,000, to remain available until expended. 1450 Navy yards, etc.Improving and equipping navy yards for construction of ships: Additional equipment, etc., for ship construction.Toward providing and reconditioning building ways and providing additional equipment and facilities at navy yards necessary for the construction and equipment of ships, $250,000. Purchase of foreign products, etc., forbidden.That in the expenditure of appropriations in this Act the Secretary of the Navy shall, unless in his discretion the interest of the Government will not permit, purchase or contract for, within the limits of Exceptions.the United States, only articles of the growth, production, or manufacture of the United States, notwithstanding that such articles of the growth, production, or manufacture of the United States may cost more, if such excess of cost be not unreasonable. Purchase of equipment available for letters patent, etc.The appropriations made in this Act for the purchase or manufacture 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. Department uses limited.No part of any appropriation made for the Navy shall be expended for any of the purposes herein provided for on account of the Navy Department in the District of Columbia, including personal 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 six enlisted men of the Navy: *Provided further*, That enlisted men detailed to Designated services not Department detail.the naval dispensary and the radio communication service shall not lie regarded as detailed to the Navy Department in the District of Columbia. No pay to officer, etc. using time measuring device on work of employees.No part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be available for the salary or pay of any officer, manager, superintendent, foreman, or other person or persons having charge of the work of any employee of the United States Government while making or causing to be made with a stop watch or other time-measuring device a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such work; nor shall any part of the appropriations made in this Act be available to pay any premiums or Cash rewards, etc., restricted.bonus or cash reward to any employee in addition to his regular Repair and equipment at other than navy yards, etc., restricted.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 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:*Proviso.*Construction, etc., of first and alternate cruisers, at Government yards, factories, etc., required.Vol. 45, p. 1165. *Provided*, That nothing herein shall be construed as altering or repealing the proviso contained in section 1 of the Act to authorize the construction of certain naval vessels, approved February 13, 1929, which provides that the first and each succeeding alternate cruiser upon which work is undertaken, together with the main engines, armor, and armament shall be constructed or manufactured in the Government navy yards, naval gun factories, naval ordnance plants, or arsenals of the United States, except such material or parte as are not customarily manufactured in such Government plants. 1451 NAVY DEPARTMENTNavy Department. salariesSalaries. Secretary of the Navy, $15,000.Secretary. For compensation for other personal services in the District of Civilian personnel in offices, etc.Columbia, as follows: Office of the Secretary of the Navy, $200,520.Secretary’s office. General board, $12,880.General Board. Naval examining and retiring boards, $10,600.Examining and Retiring Boards.Compensation Board. Compensation board, $8,700. Office of Naval Records and Library, including employees engaged Naval Records and Library.in the collection or copying and classification, with a view to publication, of the naval records of the war with the Central Powers of Naval records, War with Central Powers.Europe, $39,960. Office of Judge Advocate General, $130,240.Judge Advocate General.Chief of Naval Operations.Board of Inspection and Survey.Director of Naval Communications.Naval Intelligence.Bureau of Navigation.Hydrographic Office.Naval Observatory. Office of Chief of Naval Operations, $73,760. Board of Inspection and Survey, $21,280. Office of Director of Naval Communications, $136,120. Office of Naval Intelligence, $41,620. Bureau of Navigation, $500,540. Hydrographic Office, $431,980. Naval Observatory, including $2,500 for pay of computers on piecework in preparing for publication the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac and in improving the tables of the planets, Nautical Almanac.moon, and stars, $196,300. Bureau of Engineering, $333,040.Bureau of Engineering.Bureau of Construction and Repair.Bureau of Ordnance.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.Bureau of Yards and Docks.Bureau of Aeronautics.Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act. Bureau of Construction and Repair, $393,900. Bureau of Ordnance, $166,020. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $876,220. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $87,560. Bureau of Yards and Docks, $317,300. Bureau of Aeronautics, $290,400. In all, salaries, Navy Department, $4,283,940. 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, as amended, with the exception of the Assistant Secretaries Exception.Vol. 45, p. 776.*Ante*, p. 1003.[U. S. p. 65; Supp. IV, p. 25](/us/usc/65/25).of the Navy the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act, as amended, and in grades in which only one position is allocated, the salary of such position If only one position in a grade.shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a Allowance in unusually meritorious cases.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 and then only to the next higher rate: *Provided*, *Proviso.*Restriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.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 No reduction in fixed salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1490.1, 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 Transfers to another position without reduction.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 Payments under higher rates permitted.at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law. 1452 Transfers allowed between appropriations for any bureau, etc., to meet reallocation increases.When specifically approved by the Secretary of the Navy, transfers may be made between the appropriations in this Act under the respective jurisdiction of any Bureau, office, board, or corps, in order to meet increases in compensation resulting from the reallocation by the Personnel Classification Board of positions under any such organization unit. Any such transfers shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget. contingent expensesDepartment 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 photograpns, maps, documents, and pictorial records of the Navy, photostating and other necessary incidental expenses in connection with the preparation Naval records of World War.*Ante*, p. 1451.Stationery, furniture, vehicles, etc.for publication of the naval records of the war with the Central Powers 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; garage rent; streetcar fares not exceeding $500; freight, expressage, postage, typewriters, and computing machines, and other absolutely necessary expenses of the Navy Department and its various bureaus and offices, Naval service appropriations not to be used for Department expenses.$85,000; 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 *Proviso.*Labor saving devices, may be purchased, etc., from available balance.*Ante*, p. 578.or authorized in this paragraph: *Provided*, That any unexpended or unobligated balances under appropriations for salaries in the Navy Department for the fiscal year 1931 may, with the approval of the Secretary of the Navy, be expended for the purchase, exchange, or rental of labor-saving devices during the fiscal year 1932. Printing and Binding Printing and binding.For printing and binding for the Navy Department and the Naval Establishment executed at the Government Printing Office, $575,000, including not exceeding $107,500 for the Hydrographic Office and $2,800 for the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. cotingnent and miscellaneous expenses, hydrographic officeHydrographic Office. Contingent and miscellaneous expenses.For purchase and printing of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, copperplates, steel plates, chart paper, packing boxes, chart portfolios, electrotyping copperplates, cleaning copperplates; tools, instruments, power, and 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 repair to printing presses, furniture, instruments, and tools; extra drawing and engraving; translating from foreign Pilot Charts.languages; telegrams on public business; preparation of pilot charts and their supplements, and printing and mailing same; purchase of data for charts and sailing directions and other nautical publications; books of reference and works and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, and to other professional and 1453technical subjects connected with the work of the Hydrographic Office, $80,000. branch hydrographic officesBranch offices. For contingent expenses of branch hydrographic offices at Boston, Contingent expenses of, designated.New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Savannah, New Orleans, San Francisco, Portland (Oregon), Portland (Maine), Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Buffalo, Duluth, Sault Sainte Marie, Seattle, Panama, San Juan (Porto Rico), Los Angeles, Honolulu, 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, $19,020. For services of necessary employees at branch offices, $45,480.Employees. contingent and miscellaneous expenses, naval observatoryNaval Observatory. For professional and scientific books, books of reference, periodicals, Library, apparatus, repairs, miscellaneous supplies, etc.engravings, phtographs, 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 unkeep of grounds and roads; furniture and furnishings for offices and quarters, gas, chemicals, paints, and stationery, including transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, foreign postage; 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, and water supply; purchase and maintenance of teams; Vehicles, etc.maintenance, repair, and operation of motor trucks and passenger automobiles, and of horse-drawn vehicles; telegraph and telephone service; and other absolutely necessary expenses, $42,500. For the purchase and installation of equipment, utilities, and Astronomical plant.Modernization, etc.appurtenances for astrographic and research work and modernization of the astronomical plant of the Naval Observatory, as authorized by the Act approved June 11, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 556), $50,000, *Ante*, p. 556.and the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to enter into contracts Contracts authorized.or other obligations for this purpose at a cost in the aggregate not to exceed $160,000. Approved, February 28, 1931.
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