Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1909

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Page 439 - 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...
Page 439 - ... 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...
Page 847 - I have the honor to submit a report of the operations of this bureau for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909, beginning with estimates for the regular annual appropriations for the fiscal year 191 1.
Page 1030 - Barracks and quarters, Marine Corps: To extend the marine barracks, by the erection of a wing thereto, at a cost not to exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, navyyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. To complete the quartermaster's depot, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the purchase of ground adjoining such depot, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Page 439 - 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 439 - 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 thirteen, shall not exceed eight hundred and sixty-seven thousand and thirty-nine dollars.
Page 247 - SIR: I have the honor to submit a report of the operations of the Weather Bureau during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1910.
Page 95 - ... board appointed for such purpose, shall have authority to administer an oath to any witness attending to testify or depose in the course of such investigation.
Page 440 - Estimated amount which will be required for each detailed object of expenditure.
Page 1030 - Hawaii, one marine barracks, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars; and to complete six officers' quarters, fifty thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. For the purchase of land adjoining the navy-yard, Charleston. South Carolina, as a reservation for the Marine Corps, six thousand five hundred dollars; in all, six thousand five hundred dollars. To complete the marine garrison, navy-yard, Bremerton, Washington, one marine barracks, one hundred and fifty thousand...

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