Dental outfits. ment Hospital for the Insane; for dental outfits and dental material, and all other necessary contingent expenses; in all, $1,500,000.

Transporting remains of offi

serve Force.

Re

TRANSPORTATION OF REMAINS: To enable the Secrecers, etc. tary of the Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transferred to their homes the remains of officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps, of members of the Nurse Corps, of civilian officers and crews of naval auriliaries, and of officers and enlisted men of the Naval Militia, Volun- Militia and National Naval Volunteers and the Naval teers, and Reserve Force when on active service with the Navy, who die or are killed in action ashore or afloat, and also to enable the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of civilian employees who die outside of the continental limits of the United States, $350,000: Provided, That the sum herein appropriated shall be available for payment for transportation of the remains of officers and men who have died while on duty at any time since April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and shall be available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty.

Proviso.

Application und.

of

Care of hospital patients.

CARE OF HOSPITAL PATIENTS: For the care, maintenance, and treatment of patients in naval and in other than Additional naval hospitals, for the rental and purchase of land, at Key West, Florida, and at the Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, $4,000,000.

lands.

Colo., naval hospital.

Fort Lyons, UNITED STATES NAVAL HOSPITAL, FORT LYONS, COLORADO: For the purchase of about four hundred and twenty Additional acres of land for the enlargement and development of the Naval Hospital, Fort Lyons, Colorado, $19,600.

land.

Bureau of Supplies and Ac

counts.

Pay of the Navy.

Officers.

of quarters, etc.

BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS.

PAY OF THE NAVY: Pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on sea duty and other duty, and officers on waiting orders, $33,234,498; officers on the retired list, Commutation $3,374,391; commutation of quarters for officers, including boatswains, gunners, carpenters, sailmakers, machinists, pharmacists, pay clerks, and mates, naval constructors, and assistant naval constructors, $2,821,248, and also members of Nurse Corps (female), $44,200; 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, or commutation of quarters not to exceed the amount which an officer would receive were he not serving with troops and hire of quarters for officers and Enlisted men. enlisted men on sea duty at such times as they may be deprived of their quarters on board ship due to repairs or other conditions which may render them uninhabitable, $25,000; pay of enlisted men on the retired list, $540,255; extra pay to men reenlisting under honorable discharge, $1,400,000; interest on deposit by men, $15,000; of pay

petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and apprentice seamen, including men in the engineers' force and men detailed for duty with the Fish Commission, one hundred and eighty-one thousand four hundred and eighty-five men, plus ten thousand men for aviation service, plus fourteen thousand men in trade schools; and pay of enlisted men of the Hospital Corps, and for the pay of enlisted men detailed for duty with the Naval Militia, $121,630,172; pay of enlisted men undergoing sentence of court-martial, $540,000, and as many machinists as the President may from time to time deem necessary to appoint; and twenty-four thousand apprentice seamen under training at Apprentice seaat training stations and on board training ships, at the pay prescribed by law, $8,019,600; pay of the Nurse Corps, $670,800; rent of quarters for members of the Nurse Corps, $55,800; retainer pay and active-service pay of members of the Naval Reserve Force, $55,001,982; in all, Naval Reserve $227,372,946; and the money herein specifically appropriated for "Pay of the Navy" shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law as "Pay Accounting. of the Navy," and for that purpose shall constitute one

men.

fund: Provided, That during the war, in such cases as may Proviso.

be approved by the Secretary of the Navy, this appropriation Shore quarters shall be available for the hire of quarters for officers attached cers. to submarines when they are required to be on shore and Government quarters are not available.

PROVISIONS, NAVY: For provisions and commuted Provisions. 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, commuted rations for officers on sea duty (other than commissioned officers of the line, Medical and Pay Corps, chaplains, chief boatswains, chief gunners, chief carpenters, chief machinists, chief pay clerks, and chief sailmakers) and midshipmen, and commuted rations stopped on account of sick in hospital and credited at the rate of 50 cents per ration to the naval hospital fund; subsistence of officers and men unavoidably detained or absent from vessels to which attached under orders (during which subsistence rations to be stopped on board ship and no credit for communtation therefor to be given); subsistence of men on detached duty; subsistence of officers and men of the Coast Guard and Lighthouse Services while cooperating with the Navy in so far as the regular appropriations for these services are insufficient therefor; subsistence of officers and men of the naval auxiliary service; subsistence of members of the Naval Reserve Force during period of active service; and for subsistence of female nurses and Navy and Marine Corps general courts-martial prisoners undergoing imprisonment with sentences of dishonorable discharge from the service at the expiration of such confinement: Provided, That the Secretary of the Proviso. Navy is authorized to commute rations for such general Commutation courts-martial prisoners in such amounts as seem to him proper, which may vary in accordance with the location

of rations to pris

oners.

Army emergency ration.

Clothing and

small stores fund.

Maintenance.

Equipment,

of the naval prison, but which shall in no case exceed 30 cents per diem for each ration so commuted; and for the purchase of United States Army emergency rations as required; in all, $75,520,216, to be available until the close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty.

CLOTHING AND SMALL STORES FUND: For purchase of alothing and small stores for issue to the naval service, to be added to the "Clothing and small stores fund," $27,000,000.

MAINTENANCE, BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS: For fuel, the removal and transportation of ashes and garbage, from ships of war; books, blanks, and stationery, including stationery for commanding and navigating officers of ships chaplains on shore and afloat, and for the use of courts-martial on board ships; purchase, repair, and exchange of typewriters for ships; packing boxes and materials; interior fittings for general storehouses, pay offices, and accounting offices in navy yards; expenses of disbursing officers; coffee mills and repair thereto; expenses of naval clothing factory and machinery for the supplies. same; laboratory equipment; purchase of articles of equipage at home and abroad under the cognizance of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith, and the manufacture of such articles in the several navy yards; musical instruments and music; mess outfits; soap on board naval vessels; athletic outfits; tolls, ferriages, yeomen's stores, safes, 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"; and reimbursement to appropriations of the Department of Agriculture of cost Food inspec- of inspection of meats and meat food products for the Navy Department: Provided, That the sum to be paid out Chemical, etc., of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for chemists and for clerical, inspection, storemen, store laborer, and messenger service in the supply and accounting departments of the navy yards and naval stations and disbursing offices for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, shall not exceed $4,000,000; in all, $17,836,625.

tion.

Proviso.

services.

Freight, department and bu

reaus.

Fuel and transportation.

FREIGHT, BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS: All freight and express charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus, except the transportation of coal for the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $4,000,000.

FUEL AND TRANSPORTATION: Coal and other fuel for steamers' and ships' use, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same; maintenance and general operation of machinery of naval fuel depots and fuel plants; water for all purposes on board naval vessels;

etc., in Alaska,

and ice for the cooling of water, including the expense of transportation and storage of both, $49,400,000, $1,000,000 of which, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may in his discretion, be used by the Secretary of the Navy in mining coal, or contracting for the same in Alaska, Mining coal, the transportation of the same, and the construction of coal for naval use. bunkers and the necessary docks for use in supplying ships therewith; and the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to select from the public coal lands in Alaska such areas as may be necessary for use by him for the purposes stated herein: Provided, That when, in the opinion of the Proviso. President, the prices asked for the charter of vessels for the carring fuel. transportation of fuel are excessive, he is authorized to purchase vessels suitable for the purpose, and, if money is not otherwise available, to pay for them from the appropriation "Fuel and transportation."

BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR.

Selection of

areas.

Vessels for

Bureau of construction and repair.

Construction

preserva- and repair of

and Lighthouse

CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR OF VESSELS: For tion and completion of vessels on the stocks and in ordi- vessels. nary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; steam steerers, pneumatic steerers, steam capstans, steam windlasses, and all other auxiliaries; labor in navy yards and on foreign stations; purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops; carrying on work of experimental model tank and wind tunnel; designing naval vessels; construction and repair of yard craft, lighters, and barges; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat; general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; repair and maintenance of vessels of the Coast Guard and Lighthouse Services; submarine chasers, Coast Guard patrol boats; incidental expenses for vessels and navy yards, vessels. inspectors' offices, such as photographing, books, professional magazines, plans, stationery, and instruments for drafting room, and for pay of classified force under the bureau; for hemp, wire, iron, and other materials for the manufacture of cordage, anchors, cables, galleys, and supplies." chains; specifications for purchase thereof shall be so prepared as shall give fair and free competition; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, hammocks, and other work; interior appliances and tools for manufacturing purposes in navy yards and naval stations; 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; naval signals and apparatus, other than electric, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, running lights, lanterns, and lamps and their appendages for general use on board ship for illuminating purposes; and oil and candles used in connection therewith; bunting and other materials for making and repairing flags of all kinds; for all permanent galley fittings and equipage; rugs, carpets, curtains, and hangings on board naval vessels, $60,000,000:

Equipment

Provisos.

Repairs limit

services.

Provided, That the limitations imposed by existing law not applicable. relative to repairs to vessels of the Navy shall not apply to the expenditure of funds made available in this Act: ProCorical, etc., vided further, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, drafting, inspection, watchmen (ship keepers), and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and offices of superintending naval constructors for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, shall not exceed $3,000,000.

Construction

plants.

Bureau of Steam Engineering.

Engineering repairs, machinery, etc.

cations.

Equipment

CONSTRUCTION PLANTS AT NAVY YARDS: For repairs and improvements of machinery and implements at construction plants at navy yards at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, $10,000; Boston, Massachusetts, $25,000; New York, New York, $35,000; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, $25,000; Norfolk, Virginia, $35,000; Charleston, South Carolina, $10,000; Mare Island, California, $35,000; Puget Sound, Washington, $25,000; in all, $200,000.

BUREAU OF STEAM ENGINEERING.

ENGINEERING: For repairs, preservation, and renewal of machinery, auxiliary machinery, and boilers of naval vessels, yard craft, and ships' boats, distilling and refrigerating apparatus; repairs, preservation, and renewals of electric interior and exterior signal communications and all electrical appliances of whatsoever nature on board naval vessels, except range finders, battle order and range transmitters and indicators, and motors and their controlling apparatus used to operate machinery belonging to other bureaus; searchlights and fire-control equipments for antiaircraft defense at shore stations; maintenance and operDirector of ation of coast signal service, including expenses of office Naval Communi- of Director of Naval Communications and the purchase of land as necessary for sites for radio shore stations; equipsupplies. age, supplies, and materials under the cognizance of the bureau required for the maintenance and operation of naval vessels, yard craft, and ships' boats; purchase, installation, repair, and preservation of machinery, tools, and appliances in navy yards and stations, pay of classified force under the bureau; incidental expenses for navy vessels, naval yards, and stations, inspectors' offices, the engineering experiment station, such as photographing, technical books and periodicals, stationery, and instruments; instruments and apparatus, supplies, and technical books and periodicals necessary to carry on experimental and research work in radiotelegraphy at the naval radio laboratory: Provided, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary Clerical, etc., of the Navy, for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and offices of United States inspectors of machinery and engineering material for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, shall not exceed $3,035,000: Pro

Radio work.
Provisos.

services.