tents and field ovens, purchase and repair of instruments for band, purchase of music and musical accessories, purchase and marking of medals for excellence in gunnery and riffe practice, good-conduct badges; for incidental expenses of the school of application, purchase of signal equipment and stores, for the establishment and maintenance of targets and ranges, and renting ranges, and for procuring, preserving, and handling ammunition and other necessary military supplies, fifty thousand two hundred and ninety-seven dollars.

TRANSPORTATION AND RECRUITING, MARINE CORPS: For transportation of troops, including ferriage, and the expense of the recruiting service, one hundred and ten thousand dollars.

FOR REPAIRS OF BARRACKS, MARINE CORPS: Repairs and improvements to barracks and quarters at Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Boston, Massachusetts; Newport, Rhode Island; New York, New York; League Island, Pennsylvania; Annapolis, Maryland; headquarters and navy-yard, District of Columbia; Norfolk, Virginia; Port Royal, South Carolina; Pensacola, Florida; Dry Tortugas, Florida; Mare Island, California; Bremerton, Washington; and Sitka, Alaska; for the renting, leasing, improvement, and erection of buildings in Porto Rico, the Philippine Islands, at Guam, and at such other places as the public exigencies require; and for per diem to enlisted men employed under the direction of the Quartermaster's Department on the repair of barracks, quarters, and other public buildings, forty-five thousand dollars.

For rent of building used for manufacture of clothing, storing of supplies, and office of assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, five thousand five hundred dollars.

FORAGE, MARINE CORPS: For forage in kind for horses of the quartermasters' department, and the authorized number of officers' horses, eleven thousand dollars.

HIRE OF QUARTERS, MARINE CORPS: For hire 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 accommodate them; for hire of quarters for enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in the offices of the commandant, adjutant and inspector, paymaster, and quartermaster, and the offices of the assistant adjutant and inspector, the assistant paymaster, and the assistant quartermasters, at twenty-one dollars each per monh, and for enlisted men employed as messengers in said offices, at ten dollars each per month, twenty thousand seven hundred and forty-eight dollars.

CONTINGENT, MARINE CORPS: For freight, tolls, cartage, advertising, washing of bed sacks, mattress covers, pillowcases, towels, and sheets, funeral expenses of marines, stationery and other paper, telegraphing, rent of telephones, purchase and repair of typewriters, apprehension of stragglers and deserters, per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor for a period of not less than ten days, employment of civilian labor, repair of gas and water fixtures, office and barracks furniture, camp and garrison equipage and implements, mess utensils for enlisted men, such as bowls, plates, spoons, knives, and forks, tin cups, pans, and pots, and so forth; packing boxes, wrapping paper, oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, quarantine fees, camphor and carbolized paper, carpenters' tools, tools for police purposes, iron 17118°-S. Doc. 112, 62-2-27

safes, purchase and repair of public wagons, purchase and repair of public harness, purchase of public horses, services of veterinary surgeons and medicines for public horses, purchase and repair of hose, purchase and repair of fire extinguishers, purchase of fire hand grenades, purchase and repair of carts, wheelbarrows, and lawn mowers; purchase and repair of cooking stoves, ranges, stoves, and furnaces where there are no grates; purchase of ice, towels, soap, combs, and brushes for offices; postage stamps for foreign postage; purchase of books, newspapers, and periodicals; improving parade grounds, repair of pumps and wharves, laying drain, water, and gas pipes, water, introducing gas, and for gas, gas oil, and introduction and maintenance of electric lights; straw for bedding, mattresses, mattress covers, pillows, sheets; wire bunk bottoms for enlisted men at various posts; furniture for Government quarters and repair of same, and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but impossible to anticipate or classify, one hundred and three thousand seven hundred dollars.

PUBLIC WORKS-MARINE CORPS.

Barracks and Quarters, Marine Corps: Construction of a fireproof marine barracks, navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia, and necessary sewerage and grading, one hundred thousand dollars; construction of a veranda on enlisted men's quarters, navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida, three thousand five hundred dollars; installation of an electric lighting plant, marine barracks, navy-yard, New York, New York, three thousand five hundred dollars; installation of electric lights, marine barracks, navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, one thousand dollars; improvements, sewers, plumbing, and so forth, marine barracks, navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts, one thousand five hundred dollars; construction of a marine barracks, naval training station, San Francisco, California, thirty thousand dollars; officers' quarters, Sitka, Alaska, erection of officers' quarters at Sitka, Alaska, two thousand five hundred dollars, and the unexpended appropriations of two thousand five hundred dollars authorized in Act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and one thousand dollars authorized in Act of June seventh, nineteen hundred, respectively, are hereby reappropriated for the erection of officers' quarters at Sitka, Alaska, two thousand five hundred dollars; for the erection of light frame buildings for the accommodation and protection of officers and enlisted men of the Marine Corps stationed on the island of Culebra, Porto Rico, five thousand dollars; in all, public works under Marine Corps, one hundred and forty-seven thousand dollars.

All contracts of the Carnegie Steel Company, Limited, heretofore made between it and the United States, shall be completed by its successor, the Carnegie Steel Company, or its lawful successor, which has acquired and assumed, or may acquire and assume, all of its assets and all of its liabilities under the said contracts. And the said Carnegie Steel Company, or its lawful successor, upon giving security in proper form and amount, conditioned for the performance by it of the said contracts according to the true intent and meaning thereof, shall be substituted therein for the said Carnegie Steel Company, Limited, and be entitled to exercise all rights thereunder which the

said Carnegie Steel Company, Limited, had or would have had if it had continued in existence.

INCREASE OF THE NAVY.

That for the purpose of further increasing the naval establishment of the United States, the President is hereby authorized to have constructed by contract two first-class battle ships carrying the heaviest armor and most powerful ordnance for vessels of their class upon a trial displacement of not more than sixteen thousand tons, and to have the highest practicable speed and great radius of action, and to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not exceeding four million two hundred and twelve thousand dollars each; two first-class armored cruisers of not more than fourteen thousand five hundred tons trial displacement, carrying the heaviest armor and most powerful armament for vessels of their class, and to have the highest practicable speed and great radius of action, and to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not exceeding four million six hundred and fifty-nine thousand dollars each; two gunboats of about one thousand tons trial displacement, to cost, when built, exclusive of armament, not exceeding three hundred and eighty-two thousand dollars each, and the contract for the construction of each of said vessels shall be awarded, by the Secretary of the Navy, to the lowest best responsible bidder, having in view the best results and most expeditious delivery; and in the construction of all of said vessels the provisions of the Act of August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled "An Act to increase the naval establishment," as to materials for said vessels, their engines, boilers, and machinery, the contracts under which they are built, the notice of any proposals for the same, the plans, drawings, specifications therefor, and the method of executing said contracts shall be observed and followed, and, subject to the provisions of this Act, all said vessels shall be built in compliance with the terms of said Act, and in all their parts shall be of domestic machinery; and the steel material shall be of domestic manufacture and of the quality and characteristics best adapted to the various purposes for which it may be used, in accordance with specifications approved by the Secretary of the Navy; and not more than two of the six battle ships, armored cruisers, and gunboats provided for in this Act shall be built by one contracting party.

One battle ship or one armored cruiser herein provided for shall be built on or near the coast of the Pacific Ocean or the waters connecting therewith; but if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the President from the bidding for such contracts that said vessel can not be constructed on or near the coast of the Pacific Ocean at a cost not exceeding four per centum above the lowest accepted bid for the corresponding vessel provided for in this Act, he shall authorize the construction of said vessel elsewhere in the United States, subject to the limitations as to cost hereinbefore provided: Provided, That the Secretary of the Navy shall build one of the battle ships authorized by this Act in such navy-yard as he may designate: Provided, further, That the Secretary of the Navy shall build all the vessels herein authorized in such navy-yards as he may designate, should it reasonably appear that the persons, firms or corporations

or the agents thereof, bidding for the construction of any of said. vessels, have entered into any combination, agreement or understanding, the effect, object or purpose of which is to deprive the Government of fair, open and unrestricted competition in letting contracts for the construction of any of said vessels.

The Secretary of the Navy is hereby instructed to keep an accurate account of the cost of inspection and construction of vessels provided for in this Act, whether built in Government yards or by contract, and report thereon to Congress, at each session, the progress of work and cost thereof, including the inspection of all the material going into the construction of said vessels, and, upon the completion thereof, to report a full and detailed statement showing the relative cost of inspection and construction in Government yards and by contract. And for the purpose of preparing and equipping such navy-yard or navy-yards as may be so designated for the construction of any such vessels, the sum of one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for each of the navy-yards in which the Secretary of the Navy may direct any such vessels to be built.

CONSTRUCTION AND MACHINERY: On account of the hulls and outfits of vessels and steam machinery of vessels heretofore authorized, thirteen million three hundred and three thousand and ten dollars.

ARMOR AND ARMAMENT: Toward the armament and armor of domestic manufacture for the vessels heretofore authorized, nine million dollars.

EQUIPMENT: Toward the completion of the equipment outfit of the new vessels authorized, four hundred thousand dollars.

Approved, July 1, 1902.

FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION-MARCH 3, 1903.

[PUBLIC-No. 160.]

AN ACT Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the naval service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, and for other purposes.

PAY OF THE NAVY.

Pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on sea duty; officers on shore and other duty; officers on waiting orders; officers on the retired list; clerks to commandants of yards and stations; clerks to paymasters at yards and stations; general storekeepers; receiving ships and other vessels; commutation of quarters for officers on shore not occupying public quarters, including boatswains, gunners, carpenters, sailmakers, warrant machinists, pharmacists, and mates, and also naval constructors and assistant naval constructors; pay of enlisted men on the retired list; extra pay to men reenlisting under honorable discharge; interest on deposits by men; pay of petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and apprentices, including men in the engineers' force, and men detailed for duty with Naval Militia, and for the Fish Commission, twenty-eight thousand five hundred men, the three thousand additional men herein authorized may be recruited upon the passage of this Act, and two thousand five hundred apprentices under training at training stations and on board training ships, at the pay prescribed by law, seventeen million seven hundred and six thousand and ninety-nine dollars.

PAY, MISCELLANEOUS.

For commissions and interest; transportation of funds; exchange; mileage to officers while traveling under orders in the United States, and for actual personal expenses of officers while traveling abroad under orders, and for traveling expenses of civilian employees, and for actual and necessary traveling expenses of midshipmen while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination. and appointment as midshipmen; for rent and furniture of buildings and offices not in navy-yards; expenses of courts-martial, prisoners and prisons, and courts of inquiry, boards of inspection, examining boards, with clerks' and witnesses' fees, and traveling expenses and costs; stationery and recording; expenses of purchasing-paymasters' offices of the various cities, including clerks, furniture, fuel, stationery, and incidental expenses; newspapers and advertising; foreign postage; telegraphing, foreign and domestic; telephones; copying; care of library, including the purchase of books, photographs, prints,