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Contingent, Navy (no change): For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, exclusive of personal services in the Navy Department, or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at Washington, D. C., 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, $46,000: Provided, That the accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow, in the settlement of accounts of disbursing officers involved, payments made under the appropriation "Contingent, Navy," to civilian employees appointed by the Navy Department for duty in and serving at naval stations maintained in the island possessions during the fiscal year 1914.

Care of lepers, island of Guam (no change): Naval station, island of Guam: 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 Philippines. and their maintenance, $14,000.

BUREAU OF NAVIGATION.

Transportation (no change): For travel allowance of enlisted men discharged on account of expiration of enlistment; transportation of enlisted men and apprentice seamen at home and abroad, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation to their homes, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentice seamen discharged on medical survey, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation of sick or insane enlisted men and apprentice seamen to hospitals, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, and for railway guides and other expenses incident to transportation, $850,000.

Recruiting (no change): Expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent of rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentice seamen; actual and necessary expenses in lieu of mileage to officers on duty with traveling recruiting parties, $130,000: Provided. That no part of this appropriation shall be expended in recruiting seamen, ordinary seamen, or apprentice seamen unless, in case of minors, a certificate of birth or a verified written statement by the parents, or either of them, or in case of their death a verified written statement by the legal guardian, be first furnished to the recruiting officer, showing applicant to be of age required by naval regulations, which shall be presented with the application for enlistment; except in cases where such certificate is unobtainable, enlistment may be made when the recruiting officer is convinced that oath of applicant as to age is credible; but when it is afterwards found, upon evidence satisfactory to the Navy Department, that recruit has sworn falsely as to age, and is under 18 years of age at the time of enlistment, he shall, upon request of either parent, or, in case of their death, by the legal guardian, be released from service in the Navy, upon payment of full cost of first outfit, unless, in any given case, the Secretary, in his discretion. shall relieve said recruit of such payment: Provided, That authority is hereby granted to employ hereafter the services of an advertising agency in advertising for recruits under such terms and conditions as are most advantageous to the Government.

Contingent (no change): Ferriage, continuous-service certificates, discharges, goodconduct badges, and medals for men and boys; purchase of gymnastic apparatus; transportation of effects of deceased officers and enlisted men of the Navy; books for training apprentice seamen and landsmen; maintenance of gunnery and other training classes; packing boxes and materials; and other contingent expenses and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation, unforeseen and impossible to classify, $15,000.

Gunnery exercises (no change): Prizes, trophies, and badges for excellence in gunnery exercises and target practice; for the establishment and maintenance of shooting galleries, target houses, targets, and ranges; for hiring established ranges, and for transportation of civilian assistants and equipment to and from ranges, $110,000. Steaming exercises (no change): Prizes, trophies, and badges for excellence in steaming exercises to be awarded to the ships in commission for general efficiency and for economy in coal consumption, under such rules as the Secretary of the Navy may formulate, and for the purpose of classifying, compiling, and publishing the results of the competition, $6,500.

Aviation experiments (no change): For experimental work in the development of aviation for naval purposes, $10,000.

Outfits on first enlistment (no change): Outfits for all enlisted men and apprentice seamen of the Navy on first enlistment, at not to exceed $60 each, $882,070.

Maintenance of naval auxiliaries (no change): Pay, transportation, shipping, and subsistence of civilian officers and crews of naval auxiliaries, and all expenses con

nected with naval auxiliaries employed in emergencies which can not be paid from other appropriations, $850,000.

Naval training station, California (no change): Maintenance of naval training station, Yerba Buena Island, Cal., namely: Labor and material; buildings and wharves; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and wharves; wharfage, ferriage, and street-car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same; fire engines and extinguishers; gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating and lighting; stationery, books, and periodicals; fresh water, and washing; packing boxes and materials; and all other contingent expenses; maintenance of dispensary building; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen; in all, $70,000.

Naval training station, Rhode Island (no change): Maintenance of naval training station, Coasters Harbor Island, R. I., namely: Labor and material, buildings and wharves; dredging channels; extending sea wall; repairs to causeway and sea wall; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and wharves; wharfage, ferryage, and street-car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same; fire engines and extinguishers; gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating and lighting; stationery, books, and periodicals; fresh water, and washing; packing boxes and materials; and all other contingent expenses; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen; in all, $85,000: Provided, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, shall not exceed $5,701.60.

Naval training station, Great Lakes (no change): Maintenance of naval training station: Labor and material; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and piers; street-car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; motor-propelled vehicles, wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same; fire apparatus and extinguishers; gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; printing outfit and material, and maintenance of same; heating and lighting, and repairs to power-plant equipment, distributing mains, tunnel, and conduits; stationery, books, and periodicals; washing; packing boxes and materials; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen; and all other contingent expenses: 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 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, shall not exceed $44,553.36; in all, naval training station, Great Lakes, $98,457. Naval training station, St. Helena (no change): Maintenance of naval training station: Labor and material, general care, repairs, and improvements; and all other incidental expenses, $25,000.

Naval War College, Rhode Island (no change): For maintenance of the Naval War College on Coasters Harbor Island, and care of grounds for same, $25,250; services of a lecturer on international law, $2,000; services of civilian lecturers, rendered at the War College, $300; care and preservation of the library, including the purchase, binding, and repair of books of reference and periodicals, $1,300: 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, 1914, shall not exceed $10,250; in all, Naval War College, Rhode Island, $28,850.

Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pa., pay of employees (no change): One secretary, $1,600; 1 foreman mechanic, $1,500; 1 superintendent of grounds, at $720; 1 steward, at $720; 1 store laborer, at $480; 1 matron, at $420; one beneficiaries' attendant, at $240; 1 chief cook, at $480; 1 assistant cook, at $360; 1 assistant cook, at $240; 1 chief laundress, at $216; 5 laundresses, at $192 each; 4 scrubbers, at $192 each; 1 head waitress, at $216; 8 waitresses, at $192 each; 1 kitchen servant, at $240; 8 laborers, at $360 each; 1 stable keeper and driver, at $480; 1 master at arms, at $720; 2 house corporals, at $300 each; 1 barber, at $360; 1 carpenter, at $846; 1 painter, at $846; 1 painter, at $720; 1 engineer, for elevator and machinery, $720; 4 laborers, at $540 each; 2 laborers, at $360 each; total for employees, $22,288.

Maintenance (no change): 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 sub

sistence 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, $54,421; rebuilding river bulkhead, $5,500; total, maintenance, $59,921; in all, for Naval Home, $82,209, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund.

BUREAU OF ORDNANCE.

Ordnance and ordnance stores, 1914: For the maintenance of the Ordnance Department of the Navy; for procuring, producing, preserving, inspecting, and handling ordnance material and all other materials for use in the general work of the Bureau of Ordnance; for furniture at naval magazines, torpedo stations, and proving grounds; for maintenance of the proving ground, powder factory, torpedo stations, and naval magazines, and for target practice, and for pay of chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and naval magazines: 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, and naval magazines for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, shall not exceed $458,000; for new and improved machinery and tools for ordnance work; for incidental and contingent expenses, including the purchase of books and periodicals; for instruction and for experimental work incident, to the development of ordnance material, in all, $6,259,500. The amount of this appropriation is made up as follows:

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New and improved ordnance: For new and improved ordnance and for renewing or modernizing armaments for ships of the Navy, as required to keep them in a condition of highest efficiency; in all, $1,565,000, to be available until expended: Provided, That the unexpended balance of all moneys heretofore appropriated under the appropriations "New batteries for ships of the Navy," "Modernizing batteries, Massachusetts and Oregon," "Modernizing turrets, ships of the Navy,' Reserve guns, ships of the Navy,' ""Reserve guns for auxiliary cruisers," "Fire control," "Small arms and machine guns, “Torpedoes and appliances, "Reserve torpedoes and appli ances," "Torpedoes and converting torpedo boats," and "Mines and mine appliances" are hereby transferred to this appropriation.

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The amount of this appropriation is made up as follows:

New batteries for ships of the Navy:

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For modifying or renewing breech mechanisms of 3, 4, 5, and 6 inch guns....

$75,000

For replacing Mark VI 6-inch guns with Mark VIII guns, and repairing and modernizing the Mark VI guns for issue...

150, 000

For lining and hooping to the muzzle 8-inch .45-caliber Mark V guns..
For liners for eroded guns...

40,000

125,000

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Ammunition for ships of the Navy: For procuring, producing, testing, inspecting, and handling ammunition for issue to ships, to be available until expended; in all, $5,000,000: Provided, That the unexpended balances of all moneys heretofore appropriated under the appropriations "Ammunition for ships of the Navy, ammunition," and "Reserve powder and shell" are hereby transferred to this appropriation.

"Reserve

The amount of this appropriation is made up as follows:

Ammunition for ships of the Navy......

Purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder..

$3,850,000

1, 150. 000

5, 000, 000

Arming and equipping Naval Militia (no change): For arms, accouterments, ammunition, medical outfits, fuel, water for steaming purposes, and clothing, and the printing or purchase of necessary books of instruction, expenses in connection with the organizing and training of the Naval Militia of the various States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, $125,000.

BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT.

Equipment of vessels (no change): 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 fairand free competition; canvas for the manufac ture of sails, awnings, hammocks, and other work; stationery for chaplains and for commanding and navigating officers of ships, equipment officers on shore and afloat, and for the use of courts-martial on board ship; purchase, repair, and exchange of typewriters for ships; the removal and transportation of ashes from ships of war; interior appliances and tools for equipment buildings in navy yards and stations; supplies for seamen's quarters; aviation outfits; and for the purchase of all other articles of equipment at home and abroad, and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels and manufacture of equipment 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 and papers, and drawings and engravings for signal books; naval signals and apparatus, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, rockets, and running lights; 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; lanterns and lamps and their appendages for general use on board ship for illuminating purposes, and oil and candles used in connection therewith; service and supplies for coast signal service, including the purchase of land as necessary for sites for radio shore stations; instruments and apparatus, supplies, and technical books and periodicals required to carry on experimental and research work in radiotelegraphy at the naval radio laboratory; bunting and other materials for making and repairing flags of all kinds; photographs, photographic instruments, and materials; musical instruments and music; installing, maintaining, and repairing 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, $5,210,000: Provided, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service at the several navy yards, naval stations, and coaling stations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, shall not exceed $260,000: Provided further, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for the purchase of land for sites for radio shore stations shall not exceed $50,000: Provided further, That the total expenditures under this appropriation at the naval radio laboratory shall not exceed $5,000.

Battle compasses (no change): For the purchase of battle compasses for ships of the Navy heretofore completed, $120,000.

Coal and transportation (no change): Coal and other fuel for steamers' and ships' use, and other equipment purposes, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same, and for the general maintenance of naval coaling depots and coaling plants; water for all purposes on board naval vessels, including the expenses of transportation and storage of the same ($75,000 of said sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be used for the survey and investigation by experimental tests of coal in Alaska for use on board ships of the United States Navy); and for report upon coal and coal fields available for the production of coal for the use of ships of the United States Navy or any vessel of the United States, $5,000,000.

Depots for coal and other fuel (no change): To enable the Secretary of the Navy to execute the provisions of section 1552 of the Revised Statutes, authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to establish, at such places as he may deem necessary, suitable depots for coal and other fuel for the supply of steamships of war, $500,000, which sum shall be available until expended.

Contingent, Bureau of Equipment (no change): Packing boxes and materials, books, and models; stationery; ferriage and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Equipment unforeseen and impossible to classify, $10,000.

Ocean and lake surveys (no change): 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, $90,000.

High-power radio shore stations (no change): Toward the purchase and preparation of necessary sites, purchase and erection of towers and buildings, and the purchase and installation of machinery and apparatus of high-power radio stations (cost not to exceed $1,000,000), to be located as follows: One in the Isthmian Canal Zone, one on the California coast, one in the Hawaiian Islands, one in American Samoa, one on the island of Guam, and one in the Philippine Islands, $400,000, to be available until expended.

BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS.

Maintenance and repairs of yards and docks: For general maintenance of and repairs to real estate and chattels and improvements, including floating and stationary docks, power plants, distributing systems, and other public works at navy yards and other shore establishments, and for contingencies arising under the Bureau of Yards and Docks; in all, $2,630,000: Provided, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, inspection, drafting, messenger, and other classified work in the navy yards and naval stations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, shall not exceed $425,000. The amount of this appropriation is made up as follows:

Maintenance, Yards and Docks..

Repairs and preservation.....
Contingent, Yards and Docks.

PUBLIC WORKS, BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS.

$1,600,000 1, 000, 000 30,000

2, 630, 000

Navy yard, Portsmouth, N. H. (no change): Fitting up room for storage of cranes, $9,000; garbage crematory, $6,000; central administration building, rebuilding building No. 86 (to be immediately available), $20,000; roadway to hospital, $7,000; in all, $42,000.

Navy yard, Boston, Mass. (no change): Paving, to continue, $15,000; electrical system, extension, $5,000; railroad system, extension and equipment, $10,000; fireproofing of pattern shop, $22,000; remodeling building No. 40, $12,000; remodeling building No. 77 for boat storage, $15,000; improvement of coaling plant, $65,000; power plant improvements, $3,900; dredging, to continue, $10,000; sewers and drains, $3,600; enlargement, buildings Nos. 42 and 43, $75,000; additional oil storage, $5,000; extension to yard dispensary, $2,800; air compressor, power plant, $35,000; in all, navy yard, Boston, $279,300.

Navy yard, New York, N. Y. (no change): Paving and grading, to continue, $25,000; yard railroad, extension and equipment, $40,000; dredging, to continue, $100,000; improvement of water front, to continue, $125,000; raising freeboard of floating crane Hercules, $30,000; centralizing offices, to be immediately available, $55,000; in all, navy yard, New York, N. Y., $375,000.

Navy yard, Philadelphia, Pa. (no change): One hundred and fifty ton crane (to cost $350,000), $100,000; complete rebuilding building No. 7 for central offices (immediately available), $50,000; electric system, extensions, $15,000; sea-wall protection, $12,000; water system, extensions, $15,000; sewer system, extensions, $5,000; gasoline storage plant, $10,000; paving, to continue, $10,000; railroad system, extensions and equipment, $5,000; dredging plant, to build, $40,000; quay wall and piers, $50,000; dredging, to continue, $50,000; pattern storage building, $50,000; runway for crane, building No. 10, $10,000; in all, navy yard, Philadelphia, $422,000.

Navy yard, Washington, D. C. (no change): Water-front improvements, to complete, $35,000; fireproof general storehouse (to cost $225,000), $150,000; paving, to continue, $2,500; sewerage, to extend, $5,000; railroad, extension, $2,500; heavy-gun scales, $8,000; in all, $203,000.

Navy yard, Norfolk, Va. (no change): Railroad tracks, extensions and equipment, $10,000; repairs, buildings, St. Helena, $25,000; improvements to water front, to continue, $50,000; paving and grading, to continue, $15,000; heating system, extension, $5,000; 150-ton crane (limit of cost, $350,000), $150,000; yard wall, extension, $12,000; remodeling buildings Nos. 28 and 29 for boat shop and shed, $30,000; dredging, to continue, $40,000; remodeling building No. 36, $20,000; water system, extensions, $7,500; sewer system, extension, $5,000; lavatories and toilet facilities, $5,000; com

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