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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1912 - United States
Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.

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Page 242 - ... 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...
Page 242 - 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...
Page 242 - For preservation and completion of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds...
Page 137 - Government property," and shall not be withdrawn or applied, except in consequence of a subsequent appropriation made by law.
Page 246 - An act relating to' the limitation of the hours of daily service of laborers and mechanics employed upon the public works of the United States and of the District of Columbia...
Page 245 - That no part of any sum herein appropriated shall be expended for the purchase of structural steel, ship plates, armor, armament, or machinery...
Page 243 - That no part of this sum shall be applied to the repairs of any wooden 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...
Page 245 - ... thereof, bidding for the construction of any of said vessels have entered into any combination, agreement, or understanding the effect, object, or purpose of which is to deprive the Government of fair, open, and unrestricted competition in letting contracts for the construction of any of said vessels: Provided, That the limit of cost, exclusive of armor and armament, of each of the...
Page 242 - ... and for the purchase of all other articles of equipage at home and abroad ; and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith and manufacture of such articles in the several navy yards...
Page 246 - Two fleet colliers, of fourteen knots trial speed, when carrying not less than twelve thousand five hundred tons of cargo and bunker coal. One of said colliers to be built in such government yard on the Pacific coast as the Secretary of the Navy shall direct.

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