extension and equipment, $10,000; fireproofing of pattern shop, $22,000; remodeling building numbered forty, $12,000; remodeling building numbered seventy-seven for boat storage, $15,000; powerplant improvements, $3,900; dredging, to continue, $10,000; sewers and drains, $3,600; moving boiler shop from building numbered forty-two to building numbered one hundred and six, including necessary modifications in buildings, $25,000; additional oil storage, $5,000; extension to yard dispensary, $2,800; in all, navy yard, Boston, $129,300.

NAVY YARD, NEW YORK, NEW YORK: Paving and grading, to continue, $15,000; yard railroad, extension and equipment, $25,000; dredging, to continue, $100,000, to be immediately available; improvement of water front, to continue, $100,000; raising freeboard of floating crane Hercules, $30,000; in all, navy yard, New York, New York, $270,000.

NAVY YARD, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA: To complete rebuilding building numbered seven for central offices, $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; quay wall and piers, $50,000; dredging, to continue, $40,000; runway for crane, building numbered ten, $10,000; in all, navy yard, Philadelphia, $222,000.

NAVY YARD, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Water-front improvements, to complete, $35,000; paving, to continue, $2,500; sewerage, to extend, $5,000; railroad, extension, $2,500; heavy gun scales, $8,000; in all, $53,000.

NAVY YARD, NORFOLK, VIRGINIA: Railroad tracks, extensions, $10,000; repairs, buildings, Saint Helena, $25,000; improvements to water front, to continue, $50,000; paving and grading, to continue, $10,000; heating system, extension, $5,000; one hundred and fifty ton crane (limit of cost not exceeding $300,000), $100,000; dredging, to continue, $40,000; water system, extensions, $7,500; sewer system, extension, $5,000; lavatories and toilet facilities, $5,000; compressedair system, extensions, $5,000; in all, navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia, $262,500.

NAVY YARD, CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA: Paving and grading, to continue, $1,000; locomotive and crane shed, $5,000; remodeling dispensary, building numbered nineteen, $3,000; toward torpedo boat berths (to cost not exceeding $300,000), $150,000; in all, $159,000.

NAVY YARD, MARE ISLAND, CALIFORNIA: 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; in all, $80,000.

NAVY YARD, PUGET SOUND, WASHINGTON: Toward ship fitters' shop, mold loft, and structural steel storage, $120,000; power-plant extensions, $50,000; Pier Numbered Eight, to extend, $10,000; paving and walks, $10,000; linseed-oil storage tanks, $4,000; sewer system, extensions, $30,000; telephone system, extensions and renewals, $2,000; heating system, extensions and renewals, $10,000; rebuilding Pier Numbered One, $10,000; in all, navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington, $246,000: Provided, That the ship fitters' shop, mold loft, and structural steel storage, shall not exceed in cost the sum of $275,000.

NAVAL STATION, NARRAGANSETT BAY, RHODE ISLAND: For purchase of and for extension of landing facilities, $40,000.

NAVAL STATION, OLONGAPO, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: Steel pontoons for approach to the floating dry dock Dewey, $30,000.

NAVAL STATION, PEARL HARBOR, HAWAII: Water-front development, $100,000; water system, $30,000; power distribution, mains and conduits, $65,000; railroad equipment, $30,000; boat landings, $5,000; two officers' quarters, $24,000; torpedo-boat slips, $50,000; ice plant and refrigerating system, $25,000; one dry-dock crane, $100,000; marine railway, $100,000; naval hospital, to continue, $100,000; in all, $629,000.

NAVAL STATION, GUAM: Water system extension, $25,000.

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS, NAVAL ACADEMY: Toward the construction of wharf and approach, $50,000, and the cost of the same shall not exceed $125,000.

NAVAL TRAINING STATION, RHODE ISLAND, BUILDINGS: 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: Water pipe, $10,000.

NAVAL OBSERVATORY: For cleaning, repair, and upkeep of grounds and roads, $5,000.

NAVAL PROVING GROUND, INDIANHEAD, MARYLAND: Addition to facilities, $29,000; storehouse for nitrate of soda, $15,000; in all, naval proving ground, Indianhead, $44,000.

Naval coal depot, Melville Station, Rhode Island: 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): Lunch room and lockers, $2,000; blacksmith shop, $2,500; quarters for gunner, $6,000; in all, $10,500.

Naval magazine, Fort Lafayette, New York: 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, New Jersey: Fire and boundary wall, to complete, $2,500; pump house, $1,000; in all, $3,500.

Naval magazine, Saint Juliens Creek, Virginia: Wharf and approaches, $40,000; fire-protection system, extensions, $2,500; railroad system, extensions, $4,000; in all, $46,500

Engineering experiment station, Annapolis, Maryland: Concrete sea wall, $50,000.

Naval magazine, Mare Island, California: 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, Washington: One building for storehouse, $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; in all, $40,500.

Naval torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: Wharf and railroad, Rose Island, $20,000; improvement water front, $10,000; in all, $30,000.

Naval magazine, Hingham, Massachusetts: Magazine for smokeless powder, with railroad approach and extended fire main, $16,555; rail

road track to filling house, $1,890; one detonator house, $1,250; one gun-cotton house, $1,250; one filling house, $1,500; in all, $22,445. Naval magazine, Olongapo, Philippine Islands: 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: 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, Massachusetts: Barracks, $100,000; officers' quarters, $48,000; in all, $148,000.

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Marine barracks, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Central heating plant for Marine Corps establishment, $35,000; roads, walks, sewers, distributing systems, extensions, $15,000; in all, $50,000.

Marine barracks, Puget Sound, Washington: One set bachelor quarters, for eight officers, $35,000.

Marine barracks, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: One set double quarters for officers, $18,000; quartermaster's storehouse, $25,000; post exchange, gymnasium, $20,000; in all, $63,000.

Marine barracks, Isthmus of Panama: Erection of barracks, quarters, and other buildings for accommodation of marines, $400,000. REPAIRS AND PRESERVATION AT NAVY YARDS AND STATIONS: For repairs and preservation at navy yards and stations, $800,000.

Total public works, navy yards, naval stations, naval proving grounds and magazines, Naval Academy, Naval Observatory, and Marine Corps, $4,348,945, 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: For surgeons' necessaries for vessels in commission, navy yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy yards, naval medical supply depots, Naval Medical School, Washington, and Naval Academy, $510,000.

Section four thousand eight hundred and ten of the Revised Statutes of the United States is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. 4810. The Secretary of the Navy shall procure at suitable places proper sites for Navy hospitals, and if the necessary buildings are not procured with the site, shall cause such to be erected, having due regard to economy, and giving preference to such plans as with most convenience and least cost will admit of subsequent additions, when the funds permit and circumstances require; and shall provide, at one of the establishments, a permanent asylum for disabled and decrepit Navy officers, seamen, and marines: Provided, That hereafter no sites shall be procured or hospital buildings erected or extensions to existing hospitals made unless hereafter authorized by Congress: Provided, That the sum of $70,000 is appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro

priated, for the building of a new power plant at the Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Massachusetts, said sum of money to be paid into the Treasury from the proceeds of sale of land authorized by the naval Act of June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six.'

CONTINGENT, BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY: For tolls and ferriages; care, transportation, and burial of the dead; purchase of books and stationery, binding of medical records, unbound books, and pamphlets; 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; incidental articles for the Naval Medical School and naval dispensary, Washington; rent of rooms for naval dispensary, Washington, District of Columbia, not to exceed $1,200; naval medical supply depots, sick sat 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; for the 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 all other necessary contingent expenses; in all, $142,000.

TRANSPORTATION OF REMAINS: 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, $15,000: 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 twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. Provided, That a Navy Dental Reserve Corps is hereby authorized to be organized and operated under the provisions of the Act approved August twenty-second, nineteen hundred and twelve, providing for the organization and operation of a Navy Medical Reserve Corps, and differing therefrom in no respect other than that the qualification requirements of the appointees shall be dental surgeons and graduates of reputable schools of medicine or dentistry instead of "graduates of reputable schools of medicine," and so many of said appointees may be ordered to temporary active service as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary to the health and efficiency of the personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps, providing the whole number of both regular corps and reserve corps dental surgeons in active service shall not exceed, in time of peace, one to each one thousand five hundred of the said personnel, and no dental surgeon shall render service other than temporary service until his appointment shall have been confirmed by the Senate: Provided further, That Dental Corps officers of permanent tenure shall be appointed from the Dental Reserve Corps membership in accordance with the said provisions of the said Act, and all such appointees shall be citizens of the United States between twenty-two and thirty years of age, of good moral character, of

unquestionable professional repute, and before appointment shall pass satisfactory physical and professional examinations, and when appointed shall take rank and precedence in the same manner in all respects as in the case of appointees to the Medical Corps of the Navy and shall receive corresponding pay and allowances and, when they reach the age of sixty-four years, be entitled to retired pay. In all, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $737,000.

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 courtsmartial 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 thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen: Provided further, That from and after the passage of this Act all awards of contracts for provisions for the Navy shall be made by individual items; the contract for each item being awarded to the lowest responsible bidder.

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, yeomen'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 thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, shall not exceed $520,000; in all, $1,470,000.