Hearings Before Committee on Naval Affairs of the House of Representatives on Estimates Submitted by the Secretary of the Navy, 1911U.S. Government Printing Office, 1911 - 536 pages |
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account of advances Admiral CONE Admiral HOLLYDAY Admiral MASON Admiral NICHOLSON Admiral WATT amount appropriation armor authorized Bancroft Hall battleship boilers building built Bureau of Construction Bureau of Equipment Bureau of Ordnance Bureau of Supplies BUTLER cent CHAIRMAN charged to Title coal colliers committee Congress Connecticut Construction and Repair contract CowIE division estimated expenditures fiscal fleet Florida foundry Government guns HOBSON hull important items chargeable increase indirect expense inspection job orders labor and material limit of cost LOUDENSLAGER machinery Maintenance Marine Corps MCCAWLEY ment naval supply account naval supply fund Navy Department navy yard necessary officers Olongapo ordnance PADGETT Paymaster Gen power plant purchase ROBERTS Secretary MEYER ship smokeless powder statement station STOKES Supplies and Accounts tion Title G tons torpedo Treasury United States Navy vessels Washington Washington Navy Yard Yards and Docks York York Navy Yard
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Page 304 - Department, as he shall judge to be expedient and proper; and all the duties of the said bureaus shall be performed under the authority of the Secretary of the Navy, and their orders shall be considered as emanating from him, and shall have full force and effect as such.
Page 139 - PROVISIONS, NAVY: For provisions and commuted rations for the seamen and marines, which commuted rations may be paid to caterers of messes, in case of death or desertion, upon orders of the commanding officers...
Page 156 - Except as otherwise provided by law, sums appropriated for the various branches of expenditure in the public service shall be applied solely to the objects for which they are respectively made and for no others.
Page 381 - States, all said vessels shall be built in compliance with the terms of said act, and in all their parts shall be of domestic manufacture; and the steel material shall be of domestic manufacture, and of the quality and characteristics best adapted to the various purposes for which it may be used, in accordance with specifications approved by the Secretary of the Navy...
Page 420 - Government property," and shall not be withdrawn or applied, except in consequence of a subsequent appropriation made by law.
Page 380 - ... specifications therefor, and the method of executing said contracts, shall be observed and followed, and said vessels shall be built in compliance with the terms of said Act, save that in all their parts said vessels shall be of domestic manufacture...
Page 50 - TORPEDO STATION, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND: For labor, material; general care of and repairs to grounds, buildings, and wharves; boats, instruction, instruments, tools, furniture, experiments, and general torpedo outfits, seventy thousand dollars.
Page 139 - 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 general storehouses and paymasters...
Page 158 - No contract or purchase on behalf of the United States shall be made unless the same is authorized by law or is under an appropriation adequate to its fulfillment, except in the War and Navy Departments, for clothing, subsistence, forage, fuel, quarters, or transportation, which, however, shall not exceed the necessities of the current year.
Page 142 - That the accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to reopen...