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FREIGHT, BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS: All freight and express charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus, except the transportation of coal for the Bureau of Equipment, $425,000.

NAVAL ACADEMY DAIRY: For the purchase of the necessary land for the location of the Naval Academy dairy, at some point in the vicinity of Annapolis, Maryland, 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 the 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 the establishment of a dairy on such land, $100,000: Provided, That the cost of said land shall not exceed $75,000: Provided further, That the amount appropriated for this purpose shall be treated as an advance to the midshipmen's store fund at the Naval Academy, to be ultimately repaid to the United States: And provided further, That expenditures hereunder shall be reported by the Chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts to the Secretary of the Navy in the same manner as now prescribed by law for the midshipmen's store fund.

BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR.

CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR OF VESSELS: 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, $8,250,000: 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 ten per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material: Provided further, 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 twenty per centum 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: North Dakota, $250,000; Minnesota, $250,000; submarine C-1, $100,000; submarine C-2, $100,000; submarine C-3, $100,000; submarine C-4, $100,000; sub

marine C-5, $100,000; submarine D-1, $100,000; submarine D-2, $100,000; submarine D-3, $100,000; Hannibal, $75,000; Leonidas, $100,000; Justin, $50,000; Nanshan, $75,000; Prometheus, to convert to a repair ship, $350,000; in all, $1,950,000, as per letter of the Secretary of the Navy dated November nineteenth, nineteen hundred and twelve: 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 thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, shall not exceed $858,039.

Wrecking pontoon: For construction or purchase of a testing and wrecking pontoon for submarines, to be available until expended, $300,000.

IMPROVEMENT OF CONSTRUCTION PLANTS: For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at plant at navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, $10,000.

For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at plant at navy yard, Boston, Massachusetts, $20,000.

For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at plant at navy yard, New York, New York, $20,000.

For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at plant at navy yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, $15,000.

For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at plant at navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia, $15,000.

For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at plant at navy yard, Charleston, South Carolina, $10,000.

For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at plant at navy yard, Mare Island, California, $15,000.

For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at plant at navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington, $10,000.

BUREAU OF STEAM ENGINEERING.

STEAM MACHINERY: 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, $4,125,000.

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, $1,875,000.

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 thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, shall not exceed $450,000. In all, steam machinery, $6,006,000.

Pub. No. 433-2

That the unobligated balances under the appropriation "Steam machinery" for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, not exceeding $250,000, are hereby reappropriated and made available for the development of a type of heavy-oil engine suitable for use in one of the fuel ships authorized by the Act approved August twenty-second, nineteen hundred and twelve, and the expenditure thus incurred shall not be a charge against the limit of cost of such vessel.

Engineering experiment station, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland Experimental and research work: 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: For extension of steam, air, and water lines, and electric circuits; for foundations for machinery; for alternating current generating set; for purchase and installation of additional condensing apparatus for steam turbines, $26,000.

NAVAL ACADEMY.

PAY OF PROFESSORS AND OTHERS, NAVAL ACADEMY: One professor as head of the department of physics, $3,600.

One professor of mathematics, one of mechanical drawing, one of English, one of French, and one of Spanish, at $3,000 each.

Three professors, namely, one of English, one of French, and one

of Spanish, at $2,640 each.

Five instructors, at $2,400 each.

Four instructors, at $2,160 each.

Ten instructors, at $1,800 each.

That no part of any sum in this Act appropriated shall be expended in the pay or allowances of any commissioned officer of the Navy detailed for duty as an instructor at the United States Naval Academy to perform duties which were performed by civilian instructors on January first, nineteen hundred and thirteen.

The President is hereby authorized, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint Nathaniel Matson Terry and William Woolsey Johnson professors in the corps of professors of mathematics in the Navy with the rank of lieutenant as extra numbers not in the line of promotion: Provided, That for pay and other purposes their service as instructors or professors at the United States Naval Academy previous to being commissioned shall count as service in the Navy: Provided further, That for the purpose of this Act limitations as to age at the time of appointment shall not apply nor shall age constitute a claim for retirement, and nothing in this Act shall operate to create a claim for back pay.

The President is hereby authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, A. J. Corbesier, a swordmaster at the United States Naval Academy, to be a first lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps as an extra number, not in the line of promotion.

One swordmaster, $1,600; one assistant, $1,200; and two assistants, at $1,000 each; two instructors in physical training, at $1,500 each,

and one assistant instructor in physical training, at $1,000; and one instructor in gymnastics, $1,200; one assistant librarian, $2,160; one cataloguer, $1,200; and two shelf assistants, at $900 each; one secretary of the Naval Academy, $2,400; two clerks, at $1,500 each; four clerks, at $1,200 each; four clerks, at $1,000 each; four clerks, at $900 each; two clerks, at $840 each; one draftsman, $1,200; one surveyor, $1,200; services of organist. at chapel, $300; one captain of the watch, $924; one second captain of the watch, $828; twenty-two watchmen, at $732 each; three telephone switchboard operators, at $600 each. In all, pay of professors and others, Naval Academy,

$122,156.

DEPARTMENT OF ORDNANCE AND GUNNERY: One mechanic, $960, and one at $750; one armorer, $660; one chief gunner's mate, $540; three quarter gunners, at $480 each; in all, $4,350.

DEPARTMENTS OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND PHYSICS: Two electrical machinists, at $1,000 each; two mechanics, at $1,000 each; in all, $4,000.

DEPARTMENT OF SEAMANSHIP: One cockswain, $480; three seamen, at $420 each; in all, $1 740.

DEPARTMENT OF MARINE ENGINEERING AND NAVAL CONSTRUCTION: One master machinist, $1,800, and one assistant, $1,200; one pattern maker, $1,200; one boiler maker, one blacksmith, three machinists, one molder, and one coppersmith, at $1,080 each; one draftsman, $2,000; machinists and other employees, $6,768; in all, $20,528.

COMMISSARY DEPARTMENT: One chief cook, $1,200; four cooks, at $600 each, and eight assistants, at $300 each; one steward, $1,200, and one assistant, $600; one head waiter, $720, and two assistants, at $480 each; two pantry men, at $420 each; one chief baker, $1,200; one baker, $600; two assistants, at $540 each, and one assistant, $420; necessary waiters, at $16 per month each, $13,440; one messenger to the superintendent, $600; twenty-seven attendants, at $300 each; in all, $35,760: Provided, That hereafter such additional payments from the midshipmen's commissary fund as the superintendent of the Naval Academy may deem necessary may be made to the servants authorized in the commissary department.

In all, civil establishment, $188,534.

CURRENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES, NAVAL ACADEMY: 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 thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and domestic periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation.

Hereafter the Board of Visitors to the Naval Academy shall consist of seven members of the Committee on Naval Affairs of the United States Senate and seven members of the Committee on Naval Affairs of the House of Representatives, to be appointed by the respective chairmen thereof, and the members so appointed shall visit the Naval Academy annually at such time as the chairman of the Board of

Visitors shall appoint, and the members of each House of Congress of said board may visit said academy together or separately as the said board may elect during the session of Congress. The expenses of the members of the board shall be their actual expenses while engaged upon their duties as members of said board, not to exceed $5 per day and their actual expenses of travel by the shortest mail routes: Provided, That so much of chapter sixty-eight, Statutes at Large, volume twenty, page two hundred and ninety, as is inconsistent with the provisions of this Act is hereby repealed.

Expenses of the Board of Visitors of the Naval Academy, being actual expenses while engaged upon duties as members of the board not to exceed $5 a day and actual expenses of travel by the shortest mail routes, and for clerk hire, and other incidental and necessary expenses of the board, $500.

For contingencies for the superintendent of the academy, to be expended in his discretion, $2,000.

In all, current and miscellaneous expenses, $43,500.

MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS, NAVAL ACADEMY: For general maintenance and repairs at the Naval Academy, namely: For necessary repairs of public buildings, wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, 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 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, 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, musical and astronomical instruments; and for the pay of employees on leave, $350,000. Rent of buildings for the use of the academy, and commutation of rent for bandsmen, at $8 per month each, $4,116.

In all, Naval Academy, $586,150.

MARINE CORPS.

PAY, MARINE CORPS: For pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on the active list, including clerks for assistant paymasters, five in all, $956,598.

For pay of officers prescribed by law, on the retired list: For two major generals, six brigadier generals, six colonels, seven lieutenant colonels, ten majors, sixteen captains, twelve first lieutenants; four second lieutenants, and one 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 the number of enlisted men shall be exclusive of those u dergoing imprisonment with sentence of dishonorable discharge from the service at expi

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