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pressed-air system, extensions, $5,000; telephone system, extensions, $5,000; record vault, administration building, $5,000; in all, navy yard, Norfolk, Va., $389,500.

Navy yard, Charleston, S. C. (no change): Paving and grading, to continue, $5,000; two sets officers' quarters, $18,000; locomotive and crane shed, $5,000; remodeling dispensary building No. 19, $3,000; lumber and boat shed, $8,000; torpedo slips (to cost $300,000), $150,000; in all, $189,000.

Naval station, Key West, Fla. (no change): Toward construction of breakwater, limit of contract, $600,000, $100,000.

Navy yard, Mare Island, Cal. (no change): Grading and paving, $10,000; railway system, extensions, $5,000; salt-water flushing and fire-protection system, $25,000; reconstructing quay wall, $20,000; modernizing electric-power and light-distributing systems, $20,000; water-system extensions, to continue, $10,000; in all, $90,000.

Navy yard, Puget Sound, Wash. (no change): Main gate and gate house, $35,000; ship fitters' shop, mold loft, and structural-steel storage, to cost $275,000, $120,000; power-plant extensions, $75,000; Pier No. 8, to extend, $10,000; paving and walks, $15,000; linseed-oil storage tanks, $4,000; sewer system, extensions, $35,000; telephone system, extensions and renewals, $10,000; heating system, extensions and renewals, $10,000; berthing space for Pacific Reserve Fleet, $75,000; rebuilding Pier No. 1, $10,000; in all, navy yard, Puget Sound, Wash., $399,000.

Naval station, Guantanamo, Cuba (no change): Recreation building for enlisted men, $30,000.

Naval station, Olongapo, P. I. (no change): Steel pontoons for approach to Dewey, $30,000.

Naval station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (no change): Water-front development, $100,000; water system, $30,000; power distribution, mains and conduits, $65,000; railroad equipment, $30,000; boat landings, etc., $5,000; two officers' quarters, $24,000; torpedo-boat slips, $50,000; ice plant and miscellaneous improvements, $50,000; one dry-dock crane, $100,000; marine railway, $100,000; in all, $554,000. Buildings and grounds, Naval Academy (no change): For the purchase of the necessary land for the location of the Naval Academy dairy at some point in the vicinity of Annapolis, Md., convenient for communication and for the transportation of dairy products from the location of the dairy to the Naval Academy, and for the transfer to new dairy site, and reerection thereon, of buildings belonging to present dairy, the repair and alteration of such buildings as may be found on the land to be purchased, and for all other necessary purposes connected with establishment of dairy on such land, $100,000; sea wall, complete, around power house, $50,000; wharf and approach (to cost $125,000), $50,000; in all, $200,000.

Naval training station, Rhode Island, buildings (no change): Repairs to barracks A, B, and C, $6,000; power plant and distributing systems, extension, $10,000; improvement to water front, to continue, and ferry slip, $10,000; in all, $26,000.

Naval training station, California, buildings (no change): Water pipe, $10,000. Naval Observatory (no change): For cleaning, repair, and upkeep of grounds and roads, $16,000.

Naval proving ground, Indian Head, Md. (no change): Addition to facilities, $29,000; storehouse for nitrate of soda, $15,000; purchase of additional land, $200,000; in all, naval proving ground, Indian Head, $244,000.

Government landing, Narragansett Bay, R. I. (no change): Water-front improvements, $2,000.

Naval coal depot, Melville Station, R. I. (no change): Extension of wharf, $10,000; sea wall, $10,000; quarters for machinist, $5,000; paint and oil house, $1,000; in all $26,000.

Naval magazine, New York Harbor (Iona Island) (no change): Lunch room and lockers, $2,000; blacksmith shop, $2,500; quarters for gunner, $6,000; in all $10,500. Naval magazine, Fort Lafayette, N. Y. (no change): Extension of wharf, $6,000; auxiliary pump house for fire protection, $1,000; dredging channel, $15,000; in all, $22.000.

Naval magazine, Lake Denmark, N. J. (no change): Fire and boundary wall, to continue, $2,500; pump house, $1,000; in all, $3,500.

Naval magazine, St. Juliens Creek, Va. (no change): Wharf and approaches, $40,000; extending buildings 17 and 18, $12,000; fire-protection system, extensions, $2,500; railroad system, extensions, $4,000; shed for repairing damaged powder tanks, $2,000; in all, $60,500.

Engineering experiment station, Annapolis, Md. (no change): Concrete sea wall and pavements, $65,000.

Naval magazine, Mare Island, Cal. (no change): One magazine building, $15,000; two filling houses, $2,400; extension of sea wall, $2,500; in all, $19,900.

For naval magazine, navy yard, Puget Sound, Wash. (no change): One building for storehouse and cartridge-bag factory, $15,000; clearing and grading ground, $3,000;

quay wall, $15,000; one filling house, $1,500; one set of quarters for gunner, $6,000; one magazine building, $15,000; in all, $55,500.

Naval torpedo station, Newport, R. I. (no change): Repairs to old machine shop, $8,000; seamen gunners' quarters, $60,000; railroad, Rose Island, $20,000; improvement water front, $10,000; in all, $98,000.

Naval magazine, Hingham, Mass. (no change): One magazine, high explosives, with railroad approach, $12,000; magazine for smokeless powder, with railroad approach and extended fire main, $16,555; railroad track to filling house, $1,890; one detonator house, $1,250; one gun-cotton house, $1,250; one filling house, $1,500; in all, $34,445.

Naval magazine, Olongapo, P. I. (no change): Two sets of quarters; chemist and subinspector, $6,000; extension magazine, $1,300; filling house, $4,000; renewal of dock, $4,000; in all, $15,300.

Naval magazine, Kuahua, Hawaii (no change): Two magazines, $50,000; railroad tracks and scales, $15,000; one gunners' quarters, $7,000; machinery and tools, $20,000; one shipping house, $60,000; building for torpedoes and mines, $50,000; two filling houses, $16,000; one segregation house, $10,000; one bombproof, $1,500; one unfusing roof, $500; building for marine guard, $2,500; compressed-air locomotive plant, $18,000; in all, $250,500.

Marine barracks, Boston, Mass. (no change): Barracks, $100,000; officers' quarters, $48,000; in all, $148,000.

Marine barracks, Philadelphia, Pa. (no change): One set double quarters for officers, including foundation piling, $20,000; one set quarters for eight bachelor officers, $35,000; central heating plant for Marine Corps establishment, $35,000; roads, walks, sewers, and distributing systems, extensions, $15,000; in all, $105,000.

Marine barracks, Mare Island, Cal. (no change): One fire-proof barracks, $200,000; officers' quarters, $75,000; in all, $275,000.

Marine barracks, Puget Sound, Wash. (no change): Improvements of disciplinary barracks, $6,000; shooting gallery, $2,500; one set bachelor quarters, for eight officers, $35,000; in all, $43,500.

Marine barracks, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (no change): One set double quarters for officers, $18,000; one set bachelor quarters for eight officers, $35,000; administration building, $20,000; quartermaster's storehouse, $25,000; post exchange, gymnasium, $20,000; in all, $118,000.

Marine barracks, Isthmus of Panama (no change): Erection of barracks, quarters, and other buildings for accommodation of marines, $400,000.

Depot of supplies, Philadelphia, Pa. (no change): Additional building, including purchase of site, $175,000.

Total public works, navy yards, naval stations, naval proving grounds and magazines, Naval Academy, Naval Observatory, and Marine Corps, $5,526,445, and the amounts herein appropriated for public works, except for the Naval Observatory and for repairs and preservation at navy yards and stations, shall be available until expended.

BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

Medical Department, 1914: For surgeons' necessaries for vessels in commission, navy yards, naval stations, and Marine Corps; and for the pay of the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy yards, naval medical supply depots, naval medical school, and Naval Academy; tolls and ferriage; care, transportation, and burial of dead; books and stationery; binding medical records, unbound books, and pamphlets; printing, hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration; sanitary and hygienic instruction; purchase and repairs of wagons, automobile ambulances, and harness; purchase of and feed for horses and cows; trees, plants, garden tools, and seeds; laundry service and incidental articles for naval medical school, dispensaries, naval medical supply depots, marine barracks, and ships; rent of rooms for naval dispensary, Washington, D. C., not to exceed $1,200; necessary minor repairs to naval medical supply depots, naval medical school, and appendages; care, maintenance, and treatment of the insane of the Navy and Marine Corps on the Pacific coast; for dental outfits and dental material not to exceed $38,000, and for all other necessary contingent expenses; in all $652,000.

The amount of this appropriation is made up as follows:

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Contingent, medicine and surgery..

$510,000 142,000

652, 000

Bringing home the remains of officers, Navy Department (no change): To enable the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transferred to their homes

the remains of officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps who die or are killed in action ashore or afloat, and also to enable the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of civilian employees who die outside of the continental limits of the United States, $17,000: Provided, That the sum herein appropriated shall be available for payment for transportation of the remains of officers and men who have died while on duty at any time since April 21, 1898.

BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS.

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, commuted rations for officers on sea duty (other than commissioned officers of the line, Medical and Pay Corps, chaplains, chief boatswains, chief gunners, chief carpenters, chief machinists, and chief sailmakers) and midshipmen, and commuted rations stopped on account of sick in hospital and credited to the naval hospital fund; subsistence of officers and men unavoidably detained or absent from vessels to which attached under orders (during which subsistence rations to be stopped on board ship and no credit for commutation therefor to be given); and for subsistence 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: Provided, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to commute rations for such general courts-martial prisoners in such amounts as seem to him proper, which may vary in accordance with the location of the naval prison, but which shall in no case exceed 30 cents per diem for each ration so commuted; and for the purchase of United States Army emergency rations, as required; in all, $7,593,441.75, to be available until the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1915.

Maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: For fuel, books and blanks, stationery, interior fittings for general storehouses, pay offices and accounting offices in navy yards; coffee mills and repairs thereto; expenses of naval clothing factory and machinery for same; modernizing laboratory equipment and bringing same up to date; tolls, ferriages, yeoman's stores, safes, newspapers, and other incidental expenses; labor in general storehouses, paymasters' offices and accounting offices in navy yards, and naval stations, including naval stations maintained in island possessions under the control of the United States, and expenses in handling stores purchased and manufactured under general account of advances: 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' offices of the navy yards and naval stations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, shall not exceed $520,000; in all, $1,475,000.

Freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts (no change): All freight and express charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus, except the transportation of coal for the Bureau of Equipment, $450,000.

BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR.

Construction and repair of vessels (no change): For preservation and completion of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; steam steerers, pneumatic steerers, steam capstans, steam windlasses, aeroplanes, and all other auxiliaries; labor in navy yards and on foreign stations; purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops; carrying on work of experimental model tank; designing naval vessels; construction and repair of yard craft, lighters, and barges; wear. tear, and repair of vessels afloat; general care, increase, 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 force under the bureau, $8,479,144: Provided, That no part of this sum shall be applied to the repair of any wooden ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed 10 per cent of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material: Provided urther, That no part of this sum shall be applied to the repair of any other ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed 20 per cent of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material: Provided further. That nothing herein contained shall deprive the Secretary of the Navy of the authority to order repairs of ships damaged in foreign waters or on the high seas, so far as may be necessary to bring them home. And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to make expenditures from appropriate funds under the various bureaus for repairs and changes

on the vessels herein named, in an amount not to exceed the sum specified for each vessel, respectively, as follows:

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Provided further, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and offices of superintending naval constructors, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, shall not exceed $858,039.

Construction and repair of vessels-wrecking pontoons (no change): For purchase of two testing and wrecking pontoons for submarines, to be available until expended, $600,000.

Improvement of construction plants (no change): For repairs and improvements of plant at navy yard, Portsmouth, N. H., $10,000; for repairs and improvements of plant at navy yard, Boston, Mass., $20,000; for repairs and improvements of plant at navy yard, New York, N. Y., $20,000; for repairs and improvements of plant at navy yard, Philadelphia, Pa., $15,000; for repairs and improvements of plant at navy yard, Norfolk, Va., $15,000; for repairs and improvements of plant at navy yard, Charleston, S. C., $10,000; for repairs and improvements of plant at navy yard, Mare Island, Cal., $15,000; for repairs and improvements of plant at navy yard, Puget Sound, Wash., $10,000.

BUREAU OF STEAM ENGINEERING.

Steam machinery (no change): For completion, repairing, and preservation of machinery and boilers of naval vessels, including cost of new boilers; distilling, refrigerating, aeroplane, and auxiliary machinery; preservation of and small repairs to machinery and boilers in vessels in ordinary, receiving and training vessels; repair and care of machinery of yard tugs and launches and for pay of classified force under the bureau, $4,250,000. For purchase, handling, and preservation of all material and stores; purchase, fitting, repair, and preservation of machinery and tools in navy yards and stations, and running yard engines, $2,000,000. For incidental expenses for Navy vessels, yards, the engineering experiment station, such as photographing, books, stationery, technical books, periodicals, engineering indices, and instruments, $6,000: Provided, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, "Steam machinery," 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 of engineering material, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, shall not exceed $450,000. In all, steam machinery, $6,256,000. Engineering experiment station, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.(1) Experimental and research work (no change): For original investigation and extended experimentation of naval appliances; and for the purchase of such machines and auxiliaries considered applicable for test and use in the naval service, and for maintenance of buildings and grounds, $60,000.

Equipment of building (no change): For extension of steam, air, and water lines, and electric circuits; for foundations for machinery, etc.; for Diesel type alternatingcurrent generating set; for purchase and installation of additional condensing apparatus for steam turbines, $26,000.

NAVAL ACADEMY.

Pay of professors and others, Naval Academy (no change): One professor as head of the department of physics, $3,600; 1 professor of mathematics, 1 of mechanical drawing, 1 of English, 1 of French, and 1 of Spanish, at $3,000 each; 3 professors, namely, 1 of English, 1 of French, and 1 of Spanish, at $2,640 each; 5 instructors, at $2,400 each; 4 instructors, at $2,160 each; 4 instructors, at $1,800 each; 1 sword master, $1,600, 1 assistant, $1,200, and two assistants, at $1,000 each; 2 instructors in physical training, at $1,500 each, and 1 assistant instructor in physical training, at $1,000; 1 instructor in gymnastics, $1,200; 1 assistant librarian, $2,160; 1 cataloguer, $1,200; 2 shelf assistants, at $900 each; 1 secretary of the Naval Academy, $2,400; 3 clerks, $1,500 each; 4 clerks, at $1,200 each; 4 clerks, at $1,000 each; 4 clerks, at $900 each; 3 clerks, at $840 each; 1 draftsman, $1,500; 1 surveyor, $1,500; services of organist at chapel, $300; 1 captain of the watch, $924; 1 second captain of the watch, $828; 22 watchmen, at $732 each; 3 telephone-switchboard operators, at $600 each; in all, pay of professors and others, Naval Academy, $114,296.

Department of ordnance and gunnery (no change): One mechanic, $960, and 1 at $750; 1 armorer, $660; 1 chief gunner's mate, $540; 3 quarter gunners, at $480 each; in all, $4,350.

Department of electrical engineering and physics (no change): Two electrical machinists, at $1,000 each; 1 mechanic, $730, and 1 at $720; in all, $3,450.

Department of seamanship (no change): One coxswain, $480; 3 seamen, at $420 each; in all, $1,740.

Department of marine engineering and naval construction (no change): One master machinist, $1,800, and 1 assistant, $1,200; 1 pattern maker, $1,200; 1 boiler maker, 1 blacksmith, 3 machinists, 1 molder, and 1 coppersmith, at $1,080 each; 1 draftsman, $2,000; machinists and other employees, $6,768; in all, $20,528.

Commissary department (no change): One chief cook, $1,200; 4 cooks, at $600 each, and 8 assistants, at $300 each; 1 steward, $1,200, and 1 assistant, $600; 1 head waiter, $720, and 2 assistants, at $480 each; 2 pantrymen, at $420 each; 1 chief baker, $1,200; 1 baker, $600; 2 assistants, at $540 each, and 1 assistant, $420; necessary waiters, at $16 per month each, $13,440; 1 messenger to the superintendent, $600; 27 attendants, at $300 each; in all, $35,760. In all, civil establishment, $180,124.

Current and miscellaneous expenses, Naval Academy (no change): 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, including pay and expenses of lecturer; chemicals, philosophical apparatus and instruments, stores, machinery, tools, fittings, apparatus, and materials for instruction purposes, $38,500. Purchase, binding, and repair of books for the library (to be purchased in the open market on the written order of the superintendent), $2,500: Provided, That section 3648, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and domestic periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation. Expenses of the Board of Visitors of the Naval Academy, being mileage and $5 per diem for each member for expenses during actual attendance at the academy, and for clerk hire, carriages, and other incidental and necessary expenses of the board, $3.000. For contingencies for the superintendent of the academy, to be expended in his discretion, $2,000. In all, current and miscellaneous expenses, $46.000.

Maintenance, Naval Academy (no change): For general maintenance at the Naval Academy, namely: 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 vehicles for use at the academy; seeds and plants; tools and repairs of the same; stationery; furniture for Government buildings and offices at the academy; coal and other fuel; candles, oil, and gas; attendance on light and power plants: cleaning and clearing up station and care of buildings; attendance on fires, fights, 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, musical and astronomical instruments; and for the pay of employees on leave, $225,000. Rent of buildings for the use of the academy, and commutation of rent for bandsmen, at $8 per month each, $4,116.

Repairs, Naval Academy (no change): Necessary repairs of public buildings, wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, improvements, repairs. furniture, and fixtures, $140,000.

In all, maintenance, $369,116.

In all, Naval Academy, $595,240.

MARINE CORPS.

Pay, Marine Corps (no change): For pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on the active list, including clerks for assistant paymasters, 5 in all, and for the following additional officers hereby authorized: One colonel, 1 major, 5 captains, 1 captain assistant quartermaster, 6 first lieutenants, and 4 second lieutenants: Provided, That the increased compensation as now fixed by law for the Marine Corps for foreign-shore service shall hereafter be paid to the officers and enlisted men of that corps while on sea duty, in the same manner and under the same conditions as is provided by the act approved May 13, 1908, for officers of the Navy, $1,014,058.

For pay of officers prescribed by law, on the retired list: For 2 major generals, 6 brigadier generals, 6 colonels, 7 lieutenant colonels, 10 majors, 16 captains, 12 first lieutenants, 4 second lieutenants, and 1 paymaster's clerk, and for officers who may be placed thereon during the year, including such increased pay as is now or may hereafter be provided for retired officers regularly assigned to active duty, $181,677.50. Pay of enlisted men, active list: Pay of noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, as prescribed by law, and for the following additional enlisted men hereby authorized: One sergeant major, 4 first sergeants, 4 quartermaster sergeants, 4 gunnery sergeants, 20 sergeants, 40 corporals, 327 privates; and the number of enlisted men shall be exclusive of those undergoing imprisonment with sentence of dishonorable discharge from the service at expiration of such confinement, and for the expenses of clerks of the United States Marine Corps traveling under orders, and including additional compensation for enlisted men of the Marire Corps regularly detailed as gun captains, gun pointers, mess sergeants, cooks, messmen, signalmen, or holding good85873-13- 4

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