Hearings Before Committee on Naval Affairs of the House of Representatives on Estimates Submitted by the Secretary of the Navy, 1913U.S. Government Printing Office, 1913 - 874 pages |
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... matter that has been talked of for some time and I believe the more we consolidate appropriations the more it is going to simplify matters . The CHAIRMAN . In a report it is suggested that there are two methods of consolidation . Will ...
... matter that has been talked of for some time and I believe the more we consolidate appropriations the more it is going to simplify matters . The CHAIRMAN . In a report it is suggested that there are two methods of consolidation . Will ...
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... matter which I would like to speak of , if I may , along the line of preventive medicine . I would like to ask later on for a dietician , such a person to be a part of the Nurse Corps , female , who is trained in the preparation of ...
... matter which I would like to speak of , if I may , along the line of preventive medicine . I would like to ask later on for a dietician , such a person to be a part of the Nurse Corps , female , who is trained in the preparation of ...
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... matter over to another bureau to perform the work ? Mr. ROBERTS . The same reason that when you appropriate for a post - office building to be utilized and occupied by the Post Office Department the Treasury Department builds it and ...
... matter over to another bureau to perform the work ? Mr. ROBERTS . The same reason that when you appropriate for a post - office building to be utilized and occupied by the Post Office Department the Treasury Department builds it and ...
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... matter being cast up on the beach to the hardship of the people who have water - front property . The CHAIRMAN . You mean that decaying and filthy matter would be cast up by the sea and that that would be a nuisance to residents along ...
... matter being cast up on the beach to the hardship of the people who have water - front property . The CHAIRMAN . You mean that decaying and filthy matter would be cast up by the sea and that that would be a nuisance to residents along ...
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... matter , showing the total amount that has been appro- priated and what amount will be necessary to complete the work ? Admiral STANFORD . I will do so . Mr. ROBERTS . I remember that there was some discussion over this matter last year ...
... matter , showing the total amount that has been appro- priated and what amount will be necessary to complete the work ? Admiral STANFORD . I will do so . Mr. ROBERTS . I remember that there was some discussion over this matter last year ...
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Page 33 - Department, and the authorized number of officers' horses, and for stabling of public horses, nineteen thousand two hundred dollars. COMMUTATION OF QUARTERS, MARINE CORPS: For commutation of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to...
Page 47 - 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 u Contingent, Navy...
Page 34 - 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...
Page 47 - 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...
Page 37 - ... services and materials in repairing, correcting, adjusting, and testing compasses on shore and on board ship; nautical and astronomical instruments and repairs to same...
Page 50 - ... 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...
Page 47 - 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...
Page 11 - ... vegetables, three gills of beans or pease; in lieu of the weekly allowance of one-quarter pound of macaroni, four ounces of cheese, one-half pint of vinegar or sauce, one-quarter pint of pickles, one-quarter pint of molasses, and one-eighth ounce of spices, three pounds of sugar, or one and a...
Page 41 - 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...
Page 425 - An act to establish the flag of the United States, ' approved on the 4th of April, 1818, reading as follows: "SECTION 1. Be it enacted, etc., That from and after the fourth day of July next the flag of the United States be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white; that the union have twenty stars, white in a blue field.