on or near the coast of the Gulf of Mexico or the waters connecting therewith and two of them on or near the coast of the Atlantic Ocean jor or the waters connecting therewith, and at such places on or near such coasts or waters as the Secretary of the Navy shall approve: Provided, That if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the President of the United States, from the biddings for said contracts, when the same are opened and examined by him, that said vessels can not be constructed at a fair cost on or near the coast of the Pacific Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico, he shall authorize the construction of said vessels, or either of them, elsewhere in the United States; and if the Secretary of the Navy shall be unable to contract at reasonable prices for the construction of any of said vessels, then he may build such vessel or vessels in such navy-yards as he may designate.

UNDER THE BUREAU OF ORDNANCE.

ARMAMENT: Towards the armament and armor of domestic manufacture, for the vessels authorized by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five; of the vessels authorized by sections one and two of the act of August third, eighteen hundred and eighty six; of the unfinished monitors mentioned in section three of the same act; of the Miantonomoh; of the vessels authorized by the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty seven; of the vessels authorized by the act approved September seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and of those authorized by the act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the armament with modern batteries of a gunnery training ship, two million five hundred thousand dollars.

GUN PLANT, NAVY YARD, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: For completion of the gun factory, one hundred and forty five thousand dollars.

CONSTRUCTION AND STEAM MACHINERY: Towards the construction and completion of the new vessels heretofore and herein authorized by Congress, with their engines, boilers and machinery, and for the payment of premiums for increased speed or horse-power under contracts now existing and to be made under this and other acts for increase of the Navy, five million four hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.

Total for increase of the Navy, eight million one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

Approved, June 30, 1890.

FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION-MARCH 2, 1891.

[PUBLIC NO. 110.]

AN ACT Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, 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, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and for other purposes:

PAY OF THE NAVY.

For the pay of officers on sea duty; officers on shore and other duty; officers on waiting orders; officers on the retired list; Admiral's secretary; clerks to commandants of yards and stations; clerks to paymasters at yards and stations; general storekeepers; receiving ships and other vessels; extra pay to men re-enlisting under honorable discharge; pay of petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and boys, including men in the engineers' force and for the Coast Survey Service and Fish Commission, seven thousand five hundred men and seven hundred and fifty boys at the pay prescribed by law; in all, seven million three hundred thousand 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 apothecaries, yeomen, and civilian employees, and for actual and necessary traveling expenses of naval cadets while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment as cadets; 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 investigation, 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 purchase of books, photographs, prints, manuscripts, and periodicals; ferriage, tolls, and express fees; costs of suits; commissions, warrants, diplomas, and discharges; relief of vessels in distress; canal tolls and pilotage; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; reports, professional investigations: cost of special instruction, at

home or abroad, in maintenance of students and attaches and information from abroad, and the collection and classification thereof, and other necessary incidental expenses; in all, two hundred and forty thousand dollars.

CONTINGENT, NAVY: For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, exclusive of personal services in the Navy Department or any of its subordinate Bureaus or offices, at Washington, District of Columbia, seven thousand dollars.

BUREAU OF NAVIGATION.

GUNNERY EXERCISES: For prizes for excellence in gunnery exercises and target practice; for the establishment and maintenance of targets and ranges; for hiring established ranges, and for transportation to and from ranges, six thousand dollars.

OCEAN AND LAKE SURVEYS: For ocean and lake surveys, the publication and care of the results thereof; the purchase of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, and freight and express charges on same; preparing and engraving on copper plates the surveys of the Mexican coasts, and the publication of a series of charts of the coasts of Central and South America, fourteen thousand dollars.

TELEGRAPHIC CABLE SURVEYS: To enable the President to cause careful soundings to be made between San Francisco, California, and Honolulu, in the Kingdom of the Hawaiian Islands, for the purpose of determining the practicability of the laying of a telegraphic cable between those points, twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and the President is hereby authorized to direct the use of any vessel or vessels belonging to United States in making such survey.

BOUNTIES FOR OUTFITS FOR NAVAL APPRENTICES: For bounties for outfits of seven hundred and fifty naval apprentices, thirty thousand dollars.

RECRUITING, TRANSPORTATION, AND CONTINGENT, BUREAU OF NAVIGATION: For expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent of rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for men and boys, and all other expenses attending the recruiting for the naval service, and for the transportation of enlisted men and boys at home and abroad; for heating apparatus for receiving and training ships, and extra expenses thereof; for freight, telegraphing on public business, postage on letters sent abroad, ferriage, ice, apprehension of deserters and stragglers, continuous-service certificates, good-conduct badges and medals for boys; school books for training ships; packing boxes and materials, and other contingent expenses and emergencies arizing under cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation, unforeseen and impossible to classify, forty-five thousand dollars.

NAVAL TRAINING STATION, COASTER'S HARBOR ISLAND, RHODE ISLAND (FOR APPRENTICES): For dredging channels, repairs to main causeway, roads, and grounds, extending sea-wall, and the employment of such labor as may be necessary for the proper care and preservation of the same; for repairs and improvements on buildings, heating, lighting, and furniture for same; books and stationery, freight, and other contingent expenses; purchase of food and main

tenance of live-stock, and mail wagon and attendance on same, eighteen thousand dollars.

NAVAL WAR COLLEGE AND TORPEDO SCHOOL ON COASTER'S HARBOR ISLAND: For maintenance of the Naval War College and Torpedo school on Coaster's Harbor Island, ten thousand dollars.

BUREAU OF ORDNANCE.

ORDNANCE AND ORDNANCE STORES: For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; for fuel, tools, and material, and labor to be used in the general work of the Ordnance Department; for furniture at magazines, at the ordnance dock, New York, and at the naval ordnance and proving ground, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars; proof of naval armament, ten thousand dollars; expenses of target practice, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars. NEW MAGAZINE: For new magazine for naval purposes at Sitka or Juneau, Alaska, ten thousand dollars.

CRANEY ISLAND MAGAZINE: For dredging on the channel to Craney Island Magazine, Norfolk Harbor, and for repairs to the wharves and buildings, fifteen thousand dollars.

PURCHASE OF FLOATING OR TUG CRANE: For the purchase of a floating or tug crane for use in the transportation of material at the New York navy yard, thirty thousand dollars.

RESERVE SUPPLY OF PROJECTILES: For reserve supply of projectiles for vessels in commission, thirty thousand dollars.

REPAIRS, BUREAU OF ORDNANCE: For necessary repairs to ordnance buildings, magazines, gun parks, boats, lighters, wharves, machinery, and other objects of the like character, thirty thousand dollars.

TORPEDO STATION, BUREAU OF ORDNANCE, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND: For labor, material, freight, and express charges; general care of and repairs to grounds, buildings, and wharves; boats, instruction, instruments, tools, furniture, experiments and general torpedo outfits, sixty thousand dollars.

ARMOR TESTS: For the purpose of making ballistic tests and experiments in the development of American armor the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to use one hundred thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary out of the appropriation of one million dollars appropriated by joint resolution of September twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety, for the purchase of nickel ore or nickel matte.

NAVAL MILITIA: For arms and equipment connected therewith for naval militia of various States under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, twenty-five thousand dollars.

CONTINGENT, BUREAU OF ORDNANCE: For miscellaneous items, namely: Freight to foreign and home stations; advertising; cartage and express charges; repairs to fire engines; gas and water pipes; gas and water tax at magazines; toll, ferriage, foreign postage, and telegrams to and from the Bureau, eight thousand dollars.

CIVIL ESTABLISHMENT, BUREAU OF ORDNANCE: For the civil establishment under the Bureau of Ordnance, namely:

Navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one writer, when required, five hundred dollars.

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Navy yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one writer, when required, five hundred dollars.

Navy yard, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars.

Navy yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one clerk at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at twelve hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twentyfive cents each; one draughtsman, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; three draughtsmen, at one thousand and eighty-one dollars each; one assistant draughtsman, at seven hundred and seventy-two dollars; two foremen, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; two copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one telegraph operator and copyist, at nine hundred dollars;

Navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars;

Navy yard, Mare Island, California: For one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents;

Naval ordnance proving-ground: For one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents;

Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island: For one chemist, at two thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one draughtsman, at one thousand five hundred dollars.

In all, twenty-six thousand eight hundred and twenty-four dollars, and no other fund appropriated by this act shall be used in payment for such service.

BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT.

EQUIPMENT OF VESSELS: For purchase of coal for steamers' and ships' use, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same; hemp, wire, iron, and other materials for the manufacture of cordage, anchors, cables, galleys, and chains; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, hammocks, and other canvas work; water for steam launches; stationery for commanding and navigating officers of ships, equipment officers, on shore and afloat, and for the use of courts-martial on board ship, and for the purchase of all other articles of equipment at home and abroad and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels and manufacture of equipment articles in the several navy yards; foreign and local pilotage and towage of ships of war; services and materials in repairing, correcting, adjusting, and testing compasses on shore and on board ship; nautical and astronomical instruments, and repairs to same; libraries for ships of war; professional books and papers, and drawings and engravings for signal books; naval signals and apparatus, namely: signals lights, lanterns, rockets, running lights, compass-fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ships' compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship's way, and leads and other appliances for sounding; lanterns and lamps, and their appendages for general use on board ship, for illuminating purposes, and oil and candles used in connection therewith; bunting and other materials for making and repairing flags of all kinds; photographic instruments and materials; musical instruments and music; and for introducing and maintaining electric lights and interior sig