BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS.

Provisions, PROVISIONS, NAVY: * * * Provided *

contracts for

individual

items.

That

to be made by from and after the passage of this act all awards of contracts for provisions for the Navy shall be made by individual items; the contract for each item being awarded to the lowest responsible bidder.

Incidental

expenses.

Naval Academy dairy, es

MAINTENANCE, BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS: For fuel, books and blanks, stationery, interior fittings for general storehouses, pay offices and accounting offices in navy yards; coffee mills and repairs thereto; expenses of naval clothing factory and machinery for same; modernizing laboratory equipment and bringing same up to date; tolls, ferriages, yeomen's stores, safes, newspapers, and other incidental expenses; labor in general storehouses, paymasters' offices, and accounting offices in navy yards and naval stations, including naval stations maintained in island possessions under the control of the United States, and expenses in handling stores purchased and manufactured under general account of advances: Provided, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for chemists and for clerical, inspection, and messenger service in the general storehouses, and paymasters' offices of the navy yards and naval stations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, shall not exceed $520,000; * * *

NAVAL ACADEMY DAIRY: For the purchase of the necestablishment of. sary land for the location of the Naval Academy dairy, at some point in the vicinity of Annapolis, Maryland, convenient for communication and for the transportation of dairy products from the location of the dairy to the Naval Academy, and for the transfer to new dairy site, and reerection thereon, of buildings belonging to the present dairy, the repair and alteration of such buildings as may be found on the land to be purchased, and for all other necessary purposes connected with the establishment of a dairy on such land, $100,000: Provided, That the cost of said land shall not exceed $75,000: Provided further, That the amount appropriated for this purpose shall be treated as an advance to the midshipmen's store fund at the Naval Academy, to be ultimately repaid to the United States: And provided further, That expenditures hereunder shall be reported by the Chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts to the Secretary of the Navy in the same manner as now prescribed by law for the midshipmen's store fund.

of

Repair Vessels

BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR.

CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR OF VESSELS:

The

(named). Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to make expenditures from appropriate funds under the various

bureaus for repairs and changes on the vessels herein named, in an amount not to exceed the sum specified for each vessel, respectively, as follows: North Dakota, $250,000; Minnesota, $250,000; submarine C-1, $100,000; submarine C-2, $100,000; submarine C-3, $100,000; submarine C-4, $100,000; submarine C-5, $100,000; submarine D-1, $100,000; submarine D-2, $100,000; submarine D-3, $100,000; Hannibal, $75,000; Leonidas, $100,000; Justin, $50,000; Nanshan, $75,000; Prometheus, to convert to a repair ship, $350,000; in all, $1,950,000, as per letter of the Secretary of the Navy dated November nineteenth, nineteen hundred and twelve:

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Wrecking

Wrecking pontoon: For construction or purchase of a testing and wrecking pontoon for submarines, to be avail- pontoon. able until expended, $300,000.

plants.

Portsmouth.

IMPROVEMENT OF CONSTRUCTION PLANTS: For repairs Construction and improvement of machinery and implements at plant at navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, $10,000. For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at plant at navy yard, Boston, Massachusetts, $20,000.

For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at plant at navy yard, New York, New York, $20,000.

For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at plant at navy yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, $15,000.

For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at plant at navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia, $15,000.

For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at plant at navy yard, Charleston, South Carolina, $10,000.

For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at plant at navy yard, Mare Island, California, $15,000.

For repairs and improvement of machinery and implements at plant at navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington, $10,000.

BUREAU OF STEAM ENGINEERING.

Boston.

New York.

Philadelphia.

Norfolk.

Charleston.

Mare Island.

Puget Sound.

Heavy-oll en

Provides that the unobligated balances under the appropriation "Steam machinery" for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, not exceeding $250,000, are hereby reappropriated and made gine, developavailable for the development of a type of heavy-oil ment of. engine suitable for use in one of the fuel ships author ized by the act approved August twenty-second, nineteen hundred and twelve, and the expenditure thus incurred shall not be a charge against the limit of cost of such vessel.

Engineering experiment sta

Engineering experiment station, United States Naval

tion, Annap- Academy, Annapolis, Maryland

olis.

Officers instructors.

N. M. and W.

pointment of,

tics.

Equipment of building: For extension of steam, air, and water lines, and electric circuits; for foundations for machinery; for alternating current generating set; for purchase and installation of additional condensing apparatus for steam turbines, $26,000.

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NAVAL ACADEMY.

PAY OF PROFESSORS AND OTHERS, NAVAL ACADEMY:

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That no part of any sum in this act appropriated shall be expended in the pay or allowances of any commissioned officer of the Navy detailed for duty as an instructor at the United States Naval Academy to perform duties which were performed by civilian instructors on January first, nineteen hundred and thirteen.

NM Terry The President is hereby authorized, by and with the Johnson, a p advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint Nathaniel as professors Matson Terry and William Woolsey Johnson professors of mathema- in the corps of professors of mathematics in the Navy with the rank of lieutenant as extra numbers not in the line of promotion: Provided, That for pay and other purposes their service as instructors or professors at the United States Naval Academy previous to being commissioned shall count as service in the Navy: Provided further, That for the purpose of this act limitations as to age at the time of appointment shall not apply nor shall age constitute a claim for retirement, and nothing in this act shall operate to create a claim for back pay.

Swordmaster A. J. Corbesier,

The President is hereby authorized to appoint, by and appointment with the advice and consent of the Senate, A. J. Corof, as first lieu- besier, a swordmaster at the United States Naval Academy, to be a first lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps as an extra number, not in the line of promotion.

tenant.

Servants, additional payments to.

Board of Visitors, composition of.

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COMMISSARY DEPARTMENT: Provided, That hereafter such additional payments from the midshipmen's commissary fund as the superintendent of the Naval Academy may deem necessary may be made to the servants authorized in the commissary department.

Hereafter the Board of Visitors of the Naval Academy shall consist of seven members of the Committee on Naval Affairs of the United States Senate and seven members of the Committee on Naval Affairs of the House of Representatives, to be appointed by the respective chairmen thereof, and the members so appointed shall visit the Naval Academy annually at such time as the chairman of the Board of Visitors shall appoint, and the

members of each House of Congress of said board may visit said academy together or separately as the said board may elect during the session of Congress. The expenses of the members of the board shall be their actual expenses while engaged upon their duties as members of said board, not to exceed $5 per day and their actual expenses of travel by the shortest mail routes: Provided, That so much of chapter sixty-eight, Statutes at Large, volume twenty, page two hundred and ninety, as is inconsistent with the provisions of this act is hereby repealed.

Dutics of.

Expenses of the Board of Visitors of the Naval Acad- Expenses of. emy, being actual expenses while engaged upon duties as members of the board not to exceed $5 a day and actual expenses of travel by the shortest mail routes, and for clerk hire, and other incidental and necessary expenses of the board, $500.

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MAINTENANCE,

QUARTERMASTER'S

CORPS.

DEPARTMENT, MARINE

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PROVISIONS, MARINE CORPS: Provided, That hereafter so much of this appropriation as may be necessary may be applied for the purchase, for sale to officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees, of such articles of subsistence stores as may from time to time be designated and under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy.

Subsistence stores, sale of,

INCREASE OF THE NAVY.

That for the purpose of further increasing the Naval Establishment of the United States the President is hereby authorized to have constructed one first-class battleship, carrying as heavy armor and as powerful armament as any vessel of its class, to have the highest practicable speed and greatest desirable radius of action, and to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not to exceed $7,425,000: Provided, That the battleship herein authorized shall be built in a Government navy yard.

Six torpedoboat destroy

Six torpedo-boat destroyers, to have the highest practicable speed, to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, ers. not to exceed $950,000 each.

Four submarine torpedo boats in an amount not exceeding in the aggregate $2,478,936; and the sum of $1,294,912 is hereby appropriated for said purpose.

Four submarines.

One trans

One transport, to cost, exclusive of armor and arma- port. ment, not to exceed $1,850,000.

One supply

One supply ship, to cost, exclusive of armor and arma- ship. ment, not to exceed $1,425,000.

The Secretary of the Navy shall build the battleship authorized in this act in such navy yard as he may designate; and shall build any of the other vessels herein authorized in such navy yards as he may designate, should it reasonably appear that the persons, firms, or corporations, or the agents 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 constructions of any of said vessels. That the United Portsmouth. States ship Portsmouth be, and hereby is, transferred to the State of California, upon condition that the said State of California, by and through its governor, accept said vessel, United States ship Portsmouth, for said State, after having been first duly authorized by the Legislature of said State of California, and upon the further condition that said vessel remain the property of said State, to be preserved and cared for by the said State of California at its own cost and expense, and the said vessel be turned over to the State authorities of California without any expense to the Government.

Construction and machinery.

Torpedo

boats.

Equipment.

Armor and armament.

to monopolize

CONSTRUCTION AND MACHINERY: On account of hulls and outfits of vessels and steam machinery of vessels heretofore and herein authorized, to be available until expended, $19,818,228.

INCREASE OF THE NAVY; TORPEDO BOATS: On account of submarine torpedo boats heretofore authorized, to be available until expended, $2,058,363.

INCREASE OF THE NAVY; EQUIPMENT: Toward the completion of equipment outfit of the vessels heretofore and herein authorized, to be available until expended, $430,000.

INCREASE OF THE NAVY; ARMOR AND ARMAMENT: Toward the armor and armament for vessels heretofore and herein authorized, to be available until expended, $11,724,192. Total increase of the Navy heretofore and herein authorized, to be available until expended, $35,325,695. Combination That no part of any sum herein appropriated shall be interstate expended for the purchase of structural steel, ship plates, trade, prohibition against. armor, armament, or machinery from any persons, firms, or corporations who have combined or conspired to monopolize the interstate or foreign commerce or trade of the United States, or the commerce or trade between the States and any Territory or the District of Columbia, in any of the articles aforesaid, and no purchase of structural steel, ship plates, or machinery shall be made at a price in excess of a reasonable profit above the actual cost of manufacture. But this limitation shall in no case apply to any existing contract.