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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... CHAIRMAN . The medical directors have the rank of captain ? Dr. STOKES . Yes , sir . They have not the title . The CHAIRMAN . Are they not designated as captains , Medical Corps ? Dr. STOKES . No , sir . Mr. BUTLER . Just director or ...
... CHAIRMAN . The medical directors have the rank of captain ? Dr. STOKES . Yes , sir . They have not the title . The CHAIRMAN . Are they not designated as captains , Medical Corps ? Dr. STOKES . No , sir . Mr. BUTLER . Just director or ...
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... ( chairman ) presiding . STATEMENT OF REAR ADMIRAL H. R. STANFORD , CHIEF BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS . The CHAIRMAN . Gentlemen , we have with us this morning Ad- miral Stanford , Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks . The first item is ...
... ( chairman ) presiding . STATEMENT OF REAR ADMIRAL H. R. STANFORD , CHIEF BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS . The CHAIRMAN . Gentlemen , we have with us this morning Ad- miral Stanford , Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks . The first item is ...
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... CHAIRMAN . It is to make them roadworthy ? Admiral STANFORD . Yes , sir . The CHAIRMAN . This is practically for the construction of streets instead of paving them , is it not ? Admiral STANFORD . It is for the surfacing of the streets ...
... CHAIRMAN . It is to make them roadworthy ? Admiral STANFORD . Yes , sir . The CHAIRMAN . This is practically for the construction of streets instead of paving them , is it not ? Admiral STANFORD . It is for the surfacing of the streets ...
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... CHAIRMAN . The next item is , " Dredging , to continue , $ 10,000 . " Admiral STANFORD . That is for removal of deposits in the slips to maintain them at necessary depth . The CHAIRMAN . The next item is , " Sewers and drains , $ 3,600 ...
... CHAIRMAN . The next item is , " Dredging , to continue , $ 10,000 . " Admiral STANFORD . That is for removal of deposits in the slips to maintain them at necessary depth . The CHAIRMAN . The next item is , " Sewers and drains , $ 3,600 ...
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... CHAIRMAN . Can you ascertain and put in the hearings a state- ment as to whether or not it has been approved by the hull division ? Admiral STANFORD . Yes , sir . It has been approved by the con- struction officer . The CHAIRMAN . The ...
... CHAIRMAN . Can you ascertain and put in the hearings a state- ment as to whether or not it has been approved by the hull division ? Admiral STANFORD . Yes , sir . It has been approved by the con- struction officer . The CHAIRMAN . The ...
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additional Admiral ANDREWS Admiral CONE Admiral CowIE Admiral STANFORD Admiral TWINING Admiral WATT amount appropriation Armor and armament authorized barracks BATHRICK battleships bill building Bureau of Equipment Bureau of Navigation Bureau of Ordnance BUTLER canal Capt cent CHAIRMAN CHAMBERS chief civilian clerks coal coast command commission Congress Construction and Repair contract cost crane cruisers destroyers dredging duty engine enlisted equipment estimates expenditures expenses explain that item feet fiscal fleet Foss GIBBONS GOETHALS Government GREGG guns HOBSON increase instructors labor land machinery maintenance Mare Island Marine Corps material MCCAWLEY MCKENZIE ment Naval Academy naval stations Navy Department navy yards necessary officers Ordnance Pearl Harbor Philadelphia plant present purchase purpose quarters recommended ROBERTS Secretary MEYER ships statement steam STOKES submarines supply tion tons torpedo boats Total transportation United States Navy vessels WINTERHALTER Yards and Docks
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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.