FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION-MAY 4, 1898.

[PUBLIC NO. 76.]

AN ACT Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, 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-nine, 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; 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 reenlisting under honorable discharge; interest on deposits by men; pay of twelve thousand seven hundred and fifty petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and boys, including men in the engineers' force and for the Coast Survey Service and Fish Commission, and of one thousand boys under training at training stations and on board training ships, and for men detailed for duty with naval militia at the pay prescribed by law, nine million one hundred and twentyfive thousand four hundred and sixty dollars. And whenever, within the next twelve months, an exigency may exist which, in the judgment of the President, renders their services necessary, he is hereby authorized to appoint from civil life and commission such officers of the line and staff, not above the rank or relative rank of commander, and warrant officers including warrant machinists, and such officers of the Marine Corps not above the rank of captain, to be appointed from the non-commissioned officers of the Corps and from civil life, as may be requisite: Provided, That such officers shall serve only during the continuance of the exigency under which their services are required in the existing war: And provided further, That such officers so appointed shall be assigned to duty with rank and pay of the grades established by existing law; and warrant machinists shall be paid at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum.

To enable the Secretary of the Navy to enlist, at any time after the passage of this Act, as many additional seamen, landsmen, and boys as he may deem necessary to man the ships of the Navy, or in use by the Navy, as a temporary force therefor during the existing war, and for pay of the same and of the temporary additional officers and warrant machinists hereinbefore authorized, eight million eight hundred and thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; and to enable the Secretary of the Navy to enlist, at any time after

the passage of this Act, the following additional force for the Marine Corps as a temporary force during the existing war, namely, not more than sixty gunnery sergeants with rank of first sergeants, not more than eighty corporals, and not more than one thousand five hundred privates, and for pay of the same, including the temporary additional officers hereinbefore authorized, and for provisions, clothing, fuel, military stores, transportation and recruiting, and for contingent expenses, on account of said additional force, five hundred and sixtyseven thousand nine hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be

necessary.

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 courtsmartial, 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, 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 investigation; cost of special instruction, at home or abroad, in maintenance of students and attachés and information from abroad, and the collection and classification thereof, and other necessary and incidental expenses, three hundred 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.

TRANSPORTATION, RECRUITING, AND CONTINGENT: 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, discharges, good-conduct badges, and medals for boys, schoolbooks for training ships, packing boxes and materials, and other contingent expenses and emergencies arising

under cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation, unforeseen, and impossible to classify, forty-five thousand dollars.

GUNNERY EXERCISES: For prizes for excellence in gunnery exercises and target practice; diagrams and reports of target practice; for the establishment and maintenance of targets and ranges, for hiring established ranges, and for transporting 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.

OUTFITS FOR NAVAL APPRENTICES: For bounties for outfits of seven hundred and fifty naval apprentices, at forty-five dollars each, thirtythree thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

NAVAL STATION, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND: For maintenance of office of commandant; fuel, stationary, books, furniture, freight, and other contingent expenses, one thousand dollars.

NAVAL TRAINING STATION, COASTERS 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 to wharf and sea wall; for repairs and improvements to buildings, heating, lighting, and furniture for same; books and stationery, freight and other contingent expenses; purchase of food and maintenance of live stock, and mail wagon, and attendance on same; and purchase of fresh water, thirty thousand dollars.

NAVAL TRAINING STATION, YERBA BUENA ISLAND, CALIFORNIA (FOR APPRENTICES): Toward the erection of buildings for the naval training station and for the construction of a wharf and bulkhead for approach to the same on Yerba Buena Island (Goat Island), California, fifty thousand dollars, said improvements to cost complete not more than one hundred thousand dollars.

NAVAL WAR COLLEGE AND TORPEDO SCHOOL, COASTERS HARBOR ISLAND, RHODE ISLAND: For maintenance of the Naval War College and Torpedo School on Coasters Harbor Island, and care of grounds. for same, including one draftsman, at one thousand two hundred dollars per year, nine thousand two hundred dollars.

To continue strengthening of walls already begun and to build partition walls through building, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That prior to the expenditure of any part of this appropriation for the repairs stated, the Secretary of the Navy shall cause a thorough examination of the present condition of the War College building by competent professional experts in architecture and building, who shall report to him their opinion of the adequacy of the original designs and of the fulfillment of the terms of the contract, and their recommendations as to the work necessary to insure the safety and usefulness of the building; and the necessary expense of such examination shall be paid out of this appropriation:

In all, Naval War College and Torpedo School, nineteen thousand two hundred dollars.

BUREAU OF ORDNANCE.

ORDNANCE AND ORDNANCE STORES: For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the general work of the Ordnance Department; for watchmen at magazines; for furniture at magazines, at the ordnance dock, New York, and at the naval proving ground; for the maintenance of the proving ground, and for target practice, three hundred thousand dollars.

For repairing and improving the telephone line connecting the Navy Department and Washington Navy-Yard with the naval proving ground at Indian Head, to be immediately available, ten thousand dollars.

Reserve supply of ammunition, five hundred thousand dollars.

Purchase and erection of new and improved machinery for the shops of the gun plant at the Washington Navy-Yard, thirty-six thousand dollars.

Capping, filling, and fusing armor-piercing shell now on hand, forty-five thousand dollars.

Conversion of ordinary six-inch guns to rapid fire, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Modern battery for the Chicago, fifty thousand dollars.

SMOKELESS POWDER: For the purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

RESERVE GUNS FOR AUXILIARY CRUISERS: Toward the armament of modern guns for auxiliary cruisers mentioned in the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and in section four of the Act approved May tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of the Navy may, in his discretion, purchase by contract all or any part of such guns.

SMOKELESS-POWDER FACTORY: For the erection of buildings on Government ground for the manufacture of smokeless powder, with the necessary machinery and equipment, ninety-three thousand seven hundred and twenty-seven dollars.

TORPEDO STATION, 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-five thousand dollars:

Enlarging storehouse, improvements and repairs to seaman gunners' quarters, and providing more adequate accommodations for the increasing number of torpedo boats sent to the station for outfits and torpedo work, ten thousand five hundred dollars; in all, torpedo station, ninety-seven thousand five hundred dollars.

FITTING FORT LAFAYETTE AS MAGAZINE: For the necessary improvements and fittings at Fort Lafayette, New York Harbor, to render same suitable for the storage, handling, and distribution of ammunition for the naval service, fifteen thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized and directed to appoint a board of officers to ascertain whether a suitable site for a naval magazine can be obtained at or near the port of New York, and to make report thereon to the next session of Congress.