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 thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, shall not exceed $44,553.36; in all, naval training station, Great Lakes, $98,457.

NAVAL TRAINING STATION, SAINT HELENA: 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: 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 thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, shall not exceed $10,250. In all, Naval War College, Rhode Island, $28,850.

NAVAL HOME, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, PAY OF EMPLOYEES: One secretary, $1,600; one foreman mechanic, $1,500; one superintendent of grounds, at $720; one steward, at $720; one store laborer, at $480; one matron, at $420; one beneficiaries' attendant, at $240; one chief cook, at $480; one assistant cook, at $360; one assistant cook, at $240; one chief laundress, at $216; five laundresses, at $192 each; four scrubbers, at $192 each; one head waitress, at $216; eight waitresses, at $192 each; one kitchen servant, at $240; eight laborers, at $360 each; one stable keeper and driver, at $480; one master-atarms, at $720; two house corporals, at $300 each; one barber, at $360; one carpenter, at $846; one painter, at $846; one painter, at $720; one engineer for elevator and machinery, $720; five laborers, at $540 each; two laborers, at $360 each; total for employees, $22,288. MAINTENANCE: 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 subsistence 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: For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the general work of the Ordnance Department; for furniture at naval magazines, torpedo stations, and proving ground; for maintenance of the proving ground and powder factory 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 thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, shall not exceed $458,000. In all, $5,800,000: Provided, That hereafter no part of any appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of shells or projectiles for the Navy except for shells or projectiles purchased in accordance with the terms and conditions of proposals submitted by the Secretary of the Navy to all the manufacturers of shells and projectiles and upon bids received in accordance with the terms and requirements of such proposals: Provided, That this restriction shall not apply to purchases of shells or projectiles of an experimental nature or to be used for experimental purposes and paid for from the appropriation "Experiments, Bureau of Ordnance": Provided, That hereafter the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to make emergency purchases of war material abroad: And provided further, That when such purchases are made abroad, this material shall be admitted free of duty.

Purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, $1,150,000: Provided, That no part of any money appropriated by this Act shall be expended for the purchase of powder other than small-arms powder at a price in excess of 53 cents a pound: Provided further, That in expenditures of this appropriation, or any part thereof, for powder, no powder shall at any time be purchased unless the powder factory at Indian Head, Maryland, shall be operated on a basis of not less than its full maximum capacity.

FOR NAVAL GUN FACTORY, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: New and improved machinery for existing shops, $125,000.

For modifying or renewing breech mechanisms of three-inch, fourinch, five-inch, and six-inch guns, $75,000.

For replacing Mark VI six-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 eight-inch forty-caliber Mark V guns, $24,000.

For liners for eroded guns, $100,000.

For modifying five-inch fifty-caliber Mark V guns, $65,000.

Ammunition for ships of the Navy: For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ammunition for issue to ships, $3,850,000 to be available until expended.

TORPEDOES AND APPLIANCES: For the purchase and manufacture of torpedoes and appliances, $750,000.

MODERNIZING PROJECTILES: For rebanding projectiles and fitting long points, and other changes as required, $150,000.

TORPEDO STATION, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND: For labor and material; general care of and repairs to grounds, buildings, and wharves;

boats, instruction, instruments, tools, experiments, and general torpedo outfits, $80,000.

For new and improved machinery and tools for torpedo factory, $15,000.

EXPERIMENTS, BUREAU OF ORDNANCE: For experimental work in the development of armor-piercing and other projectiles, fuses, powders, and high explosives, in connection with problems of the attack of armor with direct and inclined fire at various ranges, including the purchase of armor, powder, projectiles, and fuses for the above purposes, and of all necessary material and labor in connection therewith; and for other experimental work under the cognizance of the Bureau of Ordnance in connection with the development of ordnance material for the Navy, $200,000.

ARMING AND EQUIPPING NAVAL MILITIA: 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.

REPAIRS, BUREAU OF ORDNANCE: For necessary repairs to ordnance buildings, magazines, wharves, machinery, and other items of like character, $30,000.

CONTINGENT, BUREAU OF ORDNANCE: For miscellaneous items, namely: Cartage, expenses of light and water at magazines and stations, tolls, ferriage, technical books, and incidental expenses attending inspection of ordnance material, $9,500.

BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT.

EQUIPMENT OF VESSELS: 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 fair and free competition; canvas for the manufacture 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 naval 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 sites for radio shore stations: Provided, 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; 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, $4,550,000: 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 thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, shall not exceed $260,000: Provided further, That the total expenditures under this appropriation at the naval radio laboratory shall not exceed $5,000.

BATTLE COMPASSES: For the purchase of battle compasses for ships of the Navy heretofore completed, $120,000.

COAL AND TRANSPORTATION: 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, $5,000,000, $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.

Section fifteen hundred and fifty-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States, 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, is hereby repealed.

DEPOTS FOR COAL AND OTHER FUEL: To complete coaling plant at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, $306,250; heater coils in fuel oil tanks, $43,500; additional fuel oil tank at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, $30,000; fuel oil tank at Boston, Massachusetts, $57,700; contingent for repairs and additions to existing depots for coal and other fuel, $62,550; in all, $500,000, to be available until expended.

CONTINGENT, BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT: 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: 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.

DISTRIBUTION OF DUTIES: That duties assigned by law to the Bureau of Equipment shall be distributed among the other bureaus and offices of the Navy Department in such manner as the Secretary of the Navy shall consider expedient and proper during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and the Secretary of the Navy, with the approval of the President, is hereby authorized and directed to assign and transfer to said other bureaus and offices, respectively, all available funds heretofore and hereby appropriated for the Bureau of Equipment and such civil employees of the bureau as are authorized by law, and when such distribution of duties, funds, and employees shall have been completed, the Bureau of Equipment shall be discontinued as hereinbefore provided: Provided, That nothing herein shall be so construed as to authorize the expenditure of any appropriation for purposes other than those specifically provided by the terms of the appropriations, or the submission of estimates for the Naval Establishment for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, except in accordance with the order and arrangement of the naval appropriation Act for the year nineteen hundred and thirteen: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Navy shall report to Congress at the beginning of its next ensuing session the distribution of the duties of the Bureau of Equipment made by him under the authorization herein granted, with full statement in relation to said distribution and the performance of navy-yard work therein involved.

BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS.

MAINTENANCE, BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS: For general maintenance of yards and docks, namely: For books, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines; fire apparatus and plants; machinery; purchase and maintenance of horses and driving teams; carts, timber wheels, and all vehicles, including motor-propelled vehicles for freight-carrying purposes only for use in the navy yards; tools and repair of the same; stationery; furniture for Government houses and offices in navy yards and naval stations; coal and other fuel; candles, oil, and gas; attendance on light and power plants; cleaning and clearing up yards and care of buildings; attendance on fires, lights, fire engines, and fire apparatus and plants; incidental labor at navy yards; water tax, tolls, and ferriage; pay of watchmen in navy yards; awnings and packing boxes; and for pay of employees on leave, $1,500,000: 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 thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, shall not exceed $425,000.

CONTINGENT, BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS: For contingent expenses that may arise at navy yards and stations, $30,000.

PUBLIC WORKS, BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS.

NAVY YARD, PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Fitting up room for storage of cranes, $9,000; garbage crematory, $6,000; central administration building, $20,000; in all, $35,000.

NAVY YARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS: Paving, to continue, $15,000; electrical system, extension, $5,000; railroad system,