six thousand five hundred dollars; in all, thirty-one thousand five hundred dollars.

NAVAL STATION, PORT ROYAL, SOUTH CAROLINA.-For the completion of dry dock at Port Royal, South Carolina, change of location of naval wharf, erection of office building, water-closet, pay of superintendents and inspectors, necessary dredging, incidental expenses, unforeseen emergencies and contingent expenses, and for protection to dry-dock entrance and wharf, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; for officers' quarters, five thousand dollars; telephone line, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, one hundred and fifty-six thousand five hundred dollars.

NAVY-YARD, MARE ISLAND, CALIFORNIA: For one twelveton pillar wharf-crane, three thousand eight hundred dollars; for locomotive for yard use, four thousand dollars; for replanking wharves, three thousand dollars; for oil house for general storekeeper, eight thousand dollars; in all, eighteen thousand eight hundred dollars.

*

Port Royal.

Mare Island.

Naval Ob

For approaches and grounds: Observatory lane: Grading, filling, building culvert and retaining wall, and lay- servatory. ing roadbed from Tennallytown road to new Naval Observatory, two thousand five hundred dollars; for asphalting road and footways, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, four thousand dollars.

New meridian circle: For one six-inch meridian circle, with mounting collimators, reflection apparatus, reversing carriage, personal equation apparatus, illlumination, and alll accessories, complete, ten thousand dollars.

Removing Magnetic Observatory: For removal of magnetic buildings and instruments from the old to the new observatory, and construction of new basements, three thousand five hundred dollars.

Provision for the "Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, hereafter to be called

* * *

cre

"PROVISIONS, NAVY, BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND AC- Bureau of of Supplies and COUNTS: For subsistence of officers and men Accounts ated. when 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 commutation therefor to be given) * *. All laws now in force relating to the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing shall now and hereafter apply to the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.

Officers

"And the provisions of section two of the naval appropriation act approved March third, eighteen hundred and shore duty. eighty-three, shall be so modified that hereafter orders

on

Wellman roller bushings.

Hartford.
Kearsarge.

of the Secretary of the Navy employing officers on shore duty shall state that such employment is required by the public interests, but need not state the duration of such service."

*

BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR.

*

*

*

Four thousand dollars of the appropriation for construction and repair of vessels "may be used to purchase the right to manufacture and use the 'Wellman improved bushings for sheaves,' patented under letters patent numbered three hundred and three thousand seven hundred and seventy of August nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four: *

* * "9

For "the necessary repairs and preservation of the United States ships Hartford and Kearsarge

BUREAU OF STEAM ENGINEERING.

*

League Is

land.

Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For necessary tools and machinery to put the yard in condition to do ordinary repair work

*

*

MARINE CORPS.

Marine barracks.

*

For erection of a building for marine barracks at naval Port Royal. station, Port Royal, South Carolina; appropriation to be immediately available, three thousand dollars; and no part of this appropriation shall be used until a contract shall have been made for the completion of said barracks within the same.

Mare Island.

bian Exposition.

For sanitary improvements at the Marine barracks, navy-yard, Mare Island, California, five thousand two hundred and twelve dollars.

Naval review, INTERNATIONAL NAVAL RENDEZVOUS AND REVIEW: Toward World's Colum- the expenses of the international naval rendezvous and review, as provided in section eight of the act creating the Worlds Columbian Exposition, including pay and drill of seamen temporarily enlisted and used for said review in addition to the regular number of enlisted men and including the construction by the Secretary of the Navy of reproductions in Spain of two of the caravels, the Pinta and the Nina, which composed the fleet of Columbus on his voyage of discovery, to be taken after the review to Chicago as a part of the Government exhibit, fifty thousand dollars.

INCREASE OF THE NAVY.

One armored cruiser.

That for the purpose of further increasing the Naval Establishment of the United States, the President is hereby authorized to have constructed, by contract, one armored cruiser of about eight thousand tons displacement of the general type of armored cruiser numbered two (New York), to cost, exclusive of armament, not more than three million five hundred thousand dollars, excluding any premium that may be paid for increased speed and the cost of armament. The contract for the construction of said cruiser shall contain provisions to the effect that the contractor guarantees that when com pleted and tested for speed, under conditions to be prescribed by the Navy Department, it shall exhibit a speed Speed. of at least twenty knots per hour; and for every quarter knot of speed so exhibited above said guaranteed speed the contractor shall receive a premium over and above the contract price of fifty-thousand dollars; and for every quarter knot that such vessel fails of reaching said guaranteed speed there shall be deducted from the contract price the sum of fifty thousand dollars; In the construction of said vessel all the provisions of the act of August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled "An act to increase the Naval Establishment," as to material for said vessel, its engines, boilers, and machinery, the contract under which it is built, the notice of and proposals for the same, the plans, drawings, specifications therefor, and the method of executing said contract, shall be observed and followed, and said vessel shall be built in compliance with the terms of said act, save that in all its parts said vessel shall be of domestic manufacture. If the Secretary of the Navy shall be unable to contract at reasonable prices for the building of said vessel, then he may build such vessel in such navyyard as he may designate.

Also one sea-going coast-line battle ship, designed to carry the heaviest armor and most powerful ordnance, with a displacement of about nine thousand tons, to have the highest practicable speed for vessels of its class, and to cost, exclusive of armament and of any premiums that may be paid for increased speed, not exceeding four million dollars.

And in the construction of said battle ship, the provisions of the act of August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled "An act to increase the Naval Establishment," shall be observed and followed in the same manner that the provisions of said act are applied to the construction of the armored cruiser herein authorized; and in the contracts for the construction of said battle ship, such provisions for minimum speed and for premiums for increased speed and penalties for deficient

One battle

ship.

speed may be made, subject to the terms of this act, as in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy may be deemed advisable.

Armor and armament.

Equipment.

of vessels.

UNDER THE BUREAU OF ORDNANCE.

ARMAMENT AND ARMOR: Toward the armament and armor of domestic manufacture for the vessels authorized by the act of August third, eighteen hundred and eightysix; of the vessels authorized by section three of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eightyseven; of the vessels authorized by the act approved September seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight; of the vessels authorized by the act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine; of those authorized by the acts of June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and this act, including the purchase and installation of new machinery for the breech-mechanism shop at the navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia, and torpedo outfits for the Atlanta, Boston, and Chicago, two million dollars.

UNDER THE BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT.

EQUIPMENT OF NEW VESSELS OF THE NAVY: Toward the completion of the equipment outfit of the new vessels heretofore authorized by Congress, four hundred thousand dollars.

UNDER THE BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS.

TRAVELING CRANES: For one traveling crane of forty tons capacity, for dry docks at Mare Island, California, navy-yard, sixty thousand dollars.

CONSTRUCTION AND STEAM MACHINERY: Toward the Completion construction and completion of the new vessels heretofore and herein authorized by Congress, with their engines, boilers and machinery, and for the payment of premiums for increased speed or horse power under contracts now existing and to be made under this and other acts for inContracts crease of the Navy, seven million dollars: Provided, That after public no contract for the purchase of gun steel or armor for the Navy shall hereafter be made until the subject-matter of the same shall have been submitted to public competition by the Department by advertisement.

competition.

Approved, July 19, 1892.

FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION-MARCH 3, 1893.

[PUBLIC-No. 128.]

AN ACT Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and for other purposes. [Provision is made for the Naval Establishment, and under the headings-]

reau Construc

Re

Provision for any naval constructor having the rank Chief of Buof captain, commander, or lieutenant commander to be tion and eligible as chief of the Bureau of Construction and pair, eligibility Repair.

for.

ance to.

"Hereafter the accounting officers of the Treasury are London fiscal hereby authorized to credit appropriation Pay miscel- agents; allowlaneous,' with all receipts for interest on the account of the Navy Department with the London fiscal agents, premiums arising from sales of bills of exchange, and from any appreciation in the value of foreign coin. And fraudulent enlistment, and the receipt of any pay or allowance thereunder, is hereby declared an offense against naval discipline and made punishable by general court-martial, under article twenty-two of the articles for the government of the Navy; but this provision shall not take effect until sixty days after the passage of this act."

Fraudulent enlistment.

Assistant to Chief of Bureau

That an officer of the Navy not below the rank of commander may be detailed as assistant to the Chief of the of Navigation. Bureau of Navigation in the Navy Department, and such officer shall receive the highest pay of his grade, and, in case of the death, resignation, absence, or sickness of the Chief of the Bureau, chall, unless otherwise directed by the President, as provided by section one hundred and seventy-nine of the Revised Statutes, perform the duties of such Chief until his successor is appointed or such absence or sickness shall cease.