battle ships, and not more than two of said harbor-defense vessels, and not more than five of said torpedo-boat destroyers, and not more than four of said torpedo boats shall be built in one yard or by one contracting party, and the contracts 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 said vessels all of the provisions of the Act of August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled "An Act to increase the naval establishment," and amendments subsequently made thereto as to materials for said vessels, their engines, boilers, and machinery, the contracts under which they are built, except as to premiums, which are not to be offered, the notice of any proposals for the same, the plans, drawings, and specifications therefor, and the method of executing said contracts, shall be observed and followed, and said vessels shall be built in compliance with the terms of said Act, save that in all their parts said vessels shall be of domestic manufacture except that no proposal for the torpedo vessels shall be considered unless the bidder is already in possession of adequate plant, and that the advertisement relating to the proposals for such vessels may be published for three weeks only; and, subject to the provisions hereinafter made, one and not more than one of the aforesaid seagoing battle ships, and one and not more than one of the aforesaid harbor-defense vessels, shall be built on or near the coast of the Pacific Ocean or in the waters connecting therewith: Provided, That if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the President of the United States, from the biddings for such contracts when the same are opened and examined by him, said vessel, or either of them, 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 other battle ships or harbor-defense vessels provided for in this Act, he shall authorize the construction of said vessel, or either of them, elsewhere in the United States, subject to the limitations as to cost hereinbefore provided.

CONSTRUCTION AND MACHINERY: On account of the hulls and outfits of vessels and steam machinery of vessels heretofore and herein authorized, thirteen million six hundred and forty-eight thousand four hundred and seventy-three dollars: Provided, That section two of the Act entitled "An Act to increase the naval establishment," approved August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:

"SEC. 2. That in the construction of all naval vessels 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."

ARMOR AND ARMAMENT: Toward the armament and armor of domestic manufacture for the vessels authorized by the Act of July twentysixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, of the vessels authorized under the Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, of those authorized by the Act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, of the three torpedo boats authorized by the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and of those authorized by this Act, including the completion of ordnance outfit for the four harbor-defense vessels, the sixteen torpedo-boat destroyers, and twelve

torpedo boats named herein, seven million one hundred and sixty-two thousand eight hundred dollars: Provided, That the total cost of the armor according to the plans and specifications already prepared, for the three battle ships authorized by the Act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, shall not exceed three million two hundred and ten thousand dollars, including all cost of nickel in the same, and exclusive of the cost of transportation, ballistic test plates, and tests, and royalty for steel face-hardening process, not to exceed one-half cent per pound, and which can not be made use of without the payment of royalty, and no contract for armor plate shall be made at an average rate to exceed four hundred dollars per ton of two thousand two hundred and forty pounds, including nickel as aforesaid. That hereafter all first-class battle ships and monitors owned by the United States shall be named for the States, and shall not be named for any city, place, or person until the names of the States, shall have been exhausted: Provided, That nothing herein. contained shall be so construed as to interfere with the names of States already assigned to any such battle ship or monitor.

EQUIPMENT: Toward the completion of the equipment outfit of the new vessels heretofore and herein authorized, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.

For the installation of electric plants in gunboats numbered ten, eleven, twelve, and thirteen, forty thousand dollars.

It is further provided that whenever in the judgment of the President, the public interests may require he is authorized and empowered to make any or all the provisions and appropriations of this Act immediately operative and available.

Approved, May 4, 1898.

FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS, THIRD SESSION-MARCH 3, 1899.

[PUBLIC-No. 185.]

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

PAY OF THE NAVY.

For the 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, including the admiral of the Navy, whose pay and allowances shall be the same as those received by the last General of the United States Army; 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 petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and apprentice boys, including men in the engineers' force and for the Coast Survey Service and Fish Commission, seventeen thousand five hundred men and two thousand five hundred apprentices 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, and for men to be enlisted to fill vacancies, this last item to be immediately available, thirteen million five hundred thousand one hundred and seventy-one dollars.

The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to pay to such officers as were appointed for temporary service in the Navy during the late war with Spain, and who entered upon the performance of duty prior to the date on which they accepted their commissions and executed oaths of office, the pay of their grades for the interval during which they were so employed, such payments to be made from the appropriation "Pay of the Navy."

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 inspection, examining boards, with clerks' and witnesses' fees, and traveling expenses and costs; stationery and recording; expenses of purchasingpaymasters' 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, five 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, ten 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, sixty 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 rarges, twelve thousand dollars.

OUTFITS FOR NAVAL APPRENTICES: For bounties for outfits of two thousand five hundred naval apprentices, at forty-five dollars each, one hundred and twelve thousand five hundred dollars.

NAVAL TRAINING STATION, YERBA BUENA ISLAND, CALIFORNIA (BUILDINGS): 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 APPRENTICE TRAINING STATION, YERBA BUENA ISLAND, CALIFORNIA-Maintenance: Maintenance of naval apprentice training station, Yerba Buena Island, California, namely: Labor and material;

buildings and wharves; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and wharves; wharfage, ferriage, and street-car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same; fire engines and extinguishers; boats and gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentices; printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating, lighting, and furniture; stationery, books, and periodicals; fresh water, ice, and washing; freight and expressage; packing boxes and materials; postage and telegraphing; telephones, and all other contingent expenses, thirty 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. Barracks, mess hall, wash room, and so forth, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available.

NAVAL WAR COLLEGE, COASTERS HARBOR ISLAND, RHODE ISLAND: For maintenance of the Naval War College 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.

NAVAL HOME, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA: For one superintendent of grounds, at six hundred dollars; one steward, at four hundred and eighty dollars; one matron, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one chief cook, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one assistant cook, at two hundred and forty dollars; one assistant cook, at one hundred and eighty dollars; one chief laundress, at one hundred and ninety-two dollars; five laundresses, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; four scrubbers, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; one head waitress, at one hundred and ninety-two dollars; eight waitresses, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; one kitchen servant, at two hundred dollars; eight laborers, at two hundred and forty dollars each; one stable keeper and driver, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one master at arms, at four hundred and eighty dollars; two house corporals, at three hundred dollars each; one barber, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one carpenter, at eight hundred and forty-five dollars; one painter, at six hundred dollars; one engineer to run elevator, six hundred dollars; water rent and lighting, two thousand one hundred dollars; cemetery, burial expenses, and headstones, three hundred and fifty dollars; improvement of grounds, seven hundred dollars; repairs to buildings, boilers, furnaces, furniture, and repairs to the same, eight thousand dollars; music in chapel, six hundred dollars; transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, three hundred dollars; for support of beneficiaries, fifty-two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars; in all, for Naval Home, seventy-six thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension 66693°-S. Doc. 955, 62-3-20