Hearings Before Committee on Naval Affairs of the House of Representatives on Estimates Submitted by the Secretary of the Navy, 1913U.S. Government Printing Office, 1913 - 874 pages |
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... Admiral . Admiral TWINING . My reason for asking for that appropriation is that we have about 137 people employed there . Iona Island is an island , as a matter of fact . Of course , it is very close to the west shore of the Hudson ...
... Admiral . Admiral TWINING . My reason for asking for that appropriation is that we have about 137 people employed there . Iona Island is an island , as a matter of fact . Of course , it is very close to the west shore of the Hudson ...
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... Admiral . Admiral TWINING . As I have already explained , this magazine is located at a considerable distance from any large town and it is very desirable to have the officers in charge and some of the principal employees live on the ...
... Admiral . Admiral TWINING . As I have already explained , this magazine is located at a considerable distance from any large town and it is very desirable to have the officers in charge and some of the principal employees live on the ...
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... Admiral TWINING . I can not tell you . I will have to inquire . This would be a spasmodic service and I do not know whether we would have to pay if we did not use it or not . We might have this apparatus installed for a whole year and ...
... Admiral TWINING . I can not tell you . I will have to inquire . This would be a spasmodic service and I do not know whether we would have to pay if we did not use it or not . We might have this apparatus installed for a whole year and ...
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... Admiral TWINING . I do not know where Admiral Hollyday got his figures , but when the matter was up last year we asked the War Department to have a careful survey of the channel made to see exactly what the conditions were , and the ...
... Admiral TWINING . I do not know where Admiral Hollyday got his figures , but when the matter was up last year we asked the War Department to have a careful survey of the channel made to see exactly what the conditions were , and the ...
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... Admiral TWINING . Yes , sir . The CHAIRMAN . The item reads , " To continue , $ 2,500 . " If the $ 2,500 will complete the wall , why can not the item be made to read , " To complete , $ 2,500 " ? Admiral TWINING . I am satisfied to ...
... Admiral TWINING . Yes , sir . The CHAIRMAN . The item reads , " To continue , $ 2,500 . " If the $ 2,500 will complete the wall , why can not the item be made to read , " To complete , $ 2,500 " ? Admiral TWINING . I am satisfied to ...
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Page 33 - 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 47 - That the accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow, in the settlement of accounts of disbursing officers involved, payments made under the appropriation u Contingent, Navy...
Page 34 - For travel allowance of enlisted men discharged on account of expiration of enlistment; transportation of enlisted men and apprentice seamen at home and abroad, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof...
Page 47 - Provided, That no part of this sum shall be applied to the repair of any wooden ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed ten per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material...
Page 37 - ... services and materials in repairing, correcting, adjusting, and testing compasses on shore and on board ship; nautical and astronomical instruments and repairs to same...
Page 50 - ... stationery, books, and periodicals; transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, and of sick and insane beneficiaries, their attendants and necessary subsistence for both, to and from other Government hospitals; employment of such beneficiaries in and about the Naval Home as may...
Page 47 - That no part of this sum shall be applied to the repair of any other ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed twenty per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material: Provided further, That nothing herein contained shall deprive the Secretary of the Navy of the authority to order repairs of ships damaged in foreign waters or on the high seas, so far as may be necessary...
Page 11 - ... vegetables, three gills of beans or pease; in lieu of the weekly allowance of one-quarter pound of macaroni, four ounces of cheese, one-half pint of vinegar or sauce, one-quarter pint of pickles, one-quarter pint of molasses, and one-eighth ounce of spices, three pounds of sugar, or one and a...
Page 41 - PROVISIONS, NAVY: For provisions and commuted 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...
Page 425 - An act to establish the flag of the United States, ' approved on the 4th of April, 1818, reading as follows: "SECTION 1. Be it enacted, etc., That from and after the fourth day of July next the flag of the United States be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white; that the union have twenty stars, white in a blue field.