Congressional Serial SetU.S. Government Printing Office, 1914 - United States Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. |
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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appropriated assistant authorized boats buildings BUREAU California cents per diem chief clerk complete construction CONTINGENT cost dollars and fifty dollars and twenty-five dollars per diem dred duty engines enlisted equipment expenses fifty cents fifty thousand dollars five hundred dollars five thousand dollars forty dollars four hundred dollars fund furniture grounds hereby hundred and fifty hundred and twenty hundred thousand dollars improvement Island labor lars lights machinery maintenance Marine Corps materials messenger million Naval Academy Naval station Navy Navy-yard necessary nine hundred officers ordnance plant Provided purchase quarters receiving repairs Secretary seven hundred seventeen dollars ships six hundred dollars sixty stationery steam thirty thou thousand and seventeen thousand eight hundred thousand five hundred thousand four hundred thousand two hundred three thousand torpedo TRAINING STATION transportation twenty twenty-five cents United vessels Washington writer yards York
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Page 191 - Any alien of the age of twenty-one years and upward who has enlisted or may enlist in the United States Navy or Marine Corps, and has served or may hereafter serve five consecutive years in the United States Navy or one enlistment in the United States Marine Corps, and has been or may hereafter be honorably discharged, shall be admitted to become a citizen of the United States upon his petition, without any previous declaration of his intention to become such ; and the court admitting such alien...
Page 6 - And all officers of the Navy shall be credited with the actual time they may have served as officers or enlisted men in the regular or volunteer Army or Navy, or both, and shall receive all the benefits of such actual service in all respects in the same manner as if all said service had been continuous and in the regular Navy in the lowest grade having graduated pay held by such officer since last entering the service...
Page 825 - Corps fail in his physical examination and be found incapacitated for service by reason of physical disability contracted in the line of duty, he shall be retired with the rank to which his seniority entitled him to be promoted...
Page 575 - Army; for hire 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 accommodate them...
Page 831 - That when an enlisted man shall have served thirty years either in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, or in all, he shall, upon making application to the President, be placed upon the retired list, with seventyfive per centum of the pay and allowances he may then be in receipt of, and that said allowances shall be as follows: Nine dollars...
Page 544 - ... supplies for seamen's quarters; 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...
Page 798 - For commissions and interest; transportation of funds ; exchange; mileage to officers while traveling under orders in the United States, and for actual personal expenses of officers while traveling abroad under orders, and for traveling expenses of civilian employees, and for actual and necessary traveling expenses of midshipmen while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment as midshipmen...
Page 538 - Army, and who has heretofore been, or may hereafter be, retired on account of wounds or disability incident to the service, or on account of age or after forty years...
Page 379 - ... pilotage and towage of ships of war ; 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...
Page 302 - 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 sto.res of all kinds; steam steerers, pneumatic steerers, steam capstans, steam windlasses and all other auxiliaries; labor in navyyards 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,...