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A RÉSUMÉ OF ANNUAL NAVAL APPROPRIATION
LAWS FROM 1883 TO 1917, INCLUSIVE

WITH TABLES SHOWING PRESENT NAVAL
STRENGTH, IN SHIPS AND PERSONNEL,
AND COST OF MAINTAINING THE NAVY
OF THE UNITED STATES

ALSO

STATISTICS OF FOREIGN NAVIES

COMPILED BY

B. R. TILLMAN, JR.

WASHINGTON
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

1916

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and hereafter said Navy Yearbook shall be prepared and published for each calendar year and distributed as other public documents; and six thousand additional copies shall be printed and bound in cloth and distributed as follows: One thousand five hundred for the Senate, three thousand for the House of Representatives, one thousand for the Navy Department, and five hundred for the Committees on Naval Affairs of Senate and House.

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PREFATORY NOTE.

Thirty-three appropriation acts plus the personnel law and the usual statistical tables were all that could well be printed in one volume.

So that, in order to save space for additional information while at the same time making all of the contents more readily accessible, routine language repeated from year to year in successive appropriation acts is entirely omitted from the Yearbook for 1916.

The appropriation act of March 3, 1883, the temporary act of July 7, 1884, the special increase of Navy act of August 3, 1886, and the appropriation act of August 29, 1916, are printed in fullall new language in the last-named act being in italics.

A separate chapter is devoted to the personnel act of March 3, 1899, and changes authorized by various subsequent acts.

Of the appropriation acts from 1884 to 1915, inclusive, only so much is printed as is needed to show the changes from year to year. To supplement this abbreviated text and to facilitate comparison of any particular year with any other as well as to give the total cost of the new Navy, there is appended a tabulated statement showing by individual appropriations under each bureau of the Navy Department all amounts carried by the regular naval acts and also by the several deficiency acts from March 3, 1883, to date.

B. R. TILLMAN, Jr.

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