Hearings Before the Committee on Naval Affairs of the House of Representatives, on Estimates Submitted by the Secretary of the Navy, 1906-1907

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1907 - 459 pages

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Page 6 - Navy, either as an enlisted man or petty officer, or both, he shall, by making application to the President, be placed on the retired list hereby created, with the rank held by him at the date of retirement; and he shall thereafter receive seventy-five per centum of the pay and allowances of the rank or rating upon which he was retired: Provided.
Page 313 - Department, and the authorized number of officers' horses, and for stabling of public horses, nineteen thousand two hundred dollars. COMMUTATION OF QUARTERS, MARINE CORPS: For commutation 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...
Page 11 - Navy may formulate; for the purpose of recording, classifying, compiling, and publishing the rules and results; for the establishment and maintenance of shooting galleries, target houses, targets, and ranges; for hiring established ranges, and for transporting equipment to and from ranges; entrance fees in matches for the rifle team, and special equipment therefor, $46,950.
Page 328 - Guard shall be entitled to leave of absence from their respective duties, without loss of pay or time, on all days of any parade or encampment ordered or authorized under the provisions of this act.
Page 283 - That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for armor for vessels except upon contracts for such armor when awarded by the Secretary of the Navy, to the lowest responsible bidder, having in view the best results and most expeditious delivery.
Page 245 - REPLACEMENT OF NAVAL VESSELS Construction and machinery: On account of hulls and outfits of vessels and machinery of vessels heretofore authorized...
Page 32 - That for the performance of such additional services in and about the Naval Home as may be necessary, the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to employ, on the recommendation of the governor, beneficiaries in said Home, whose compensation shall be fixed by the Secretary and paid from the appropriation for the support of the Home.
Page 8 - ... advertising for and obtaining men and apprentice seamen; actual and necessary expenses in lieu of mileage to officers on duty with traveling recruiting parties: transportation of dependents of officers and enlisted men; in all, $4,000,000.
Page 351 - Reserve Corps, shall be ordered to active service by the Secretary of War shall, from the time he shall be required by the terms of his order to obey the same, be subject to the laws and regulations for the government of the Army of the United States, in so far as they are applicable to officers whose permanent retention in the military service is not contemplated.
Page 6 - That if said enlisted man or appointed petty officer had active service in the Navy or in the Army or Marine Corps, either as volunteer or regular, during the civil or Spanish-American war, such war service shall be computed as double time in computing the thirty years necessary to entitle him to be retired...

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