rooms, library, store, chapel, and offices, at three hundred dollars each; one band-master, five hundred and twenty-eight dollars; twenty-one first-class musicians, at three hundred and forty-eight dollars each; seven second-class musicians, at three hundred dollars each; in all, fifty-two thousand one hundred and nineteen dollars.

For special course of study and training of naval cadets, as authorized by act of Congress approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, five thousand dollars.

For pay of watchmen, mechanics, and others: For captain of the watch and weigher, at two dollars and fifty cents per day; four watchmen, at two dollars per day each; foreman of the gas and steamheating works of Academy, at five dollars per day; ten attendants at gas and steam-heating works, one at three dollars, one at two dollars and fifty cents, and eight at two dollars per day each; four laborers at gas and steam-heating works, at one dollar and fifty cents per day each; one yeoman, six hundred dollars; one foreman of joiners, one foreman of painters, and one foreman of masons, at three dollars and fifty cents per day each; one mason, at three dollars per day; two joiners and one painter, at two dollars and fifty cents per day each; one tinner, one gas-fitter, and one blacksmith, at two dollars and fifty cents per day each; one mechanic at workshop, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per day; one master-laborer, to keep public grounds in order, at two dollars and twenty-eight cents per day; twenty-two laborers, to assist in same, three at two dollars per diem each, eleven at one dollar and fifty cents per diem each, and eight at one dollar and twenty-five cents per diem each; one laborer to superintend and keep in order upper quarters of naval cadets, at two dollars per diem; twenty servants to keep in order and attend to quarters of naval cadets and public buildings, at twenty-five dollars per month each; in all, forty-four thousand one hundred and twenty-two dollars and forty-five cents.

For pay of the employees in the department of steam-engineering, Naval Academy: For one master-machinist, at four dollars per day; one boiler-maker and one pattern-maker, at three dollars and fifty cents per day each; two machinists and one blacksmith, at two dollars and fifty cents per day each; four laborers, at one dollar and fifty cents per day each; in all, seven thousand eight hundred and fifty-one dollars.

For necessary repairs of public buildings, pavements, wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, and for improvements, repairs, and furniture and fixtures, twenty-one thousand dollars.

For fuel and for heating and lighting the Academy and schoolships, seventeen thousand dollars.

For contingent expenses, Naval Academy: For purchase of books for the library, two thousand dollars.

For stationery, blank-books, models, maps, and for text books for use of instructors, two thousand dollars.

For expenses of the Board of Visitors to the Naval Academy, one thousand five hundred dollars, being for mileage and five dollars per diem for each member for expenses during actual attendance at the Academy.

For purchase of chemicals, apparatus, and instruments in the department of physics and chemistry, and for repairs of the same, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For purchase of gas and steam machinery, steam-pipe and fittings, rent of building for the use of the Academy, freight, cartage, water, music, musical and astronomical instruments, uniforms for the bandsmen, telegraphing, for feed and maintenance of teams, for current expenses and repairs of all kinds, and for incidental labor and expenses not applicable to any other appropriation, thirty-two thousand dollars.

For stores in the department of steam-engineering,, eight hundred dollars.

For materials for repairs in steam-machinery, one thousand dollars. For head-stones for the graves of sixty sailors and marines buried in the naval cemetery at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, who lost their lives by being wrecked in the United States steamer Huron, five hundred dollars.

For commencing the erection of the new Naval Observatory on the site purchased under the act of Congress approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty, fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That the construction of no building shall be commenced except an observatory proper, with necessary offices for observers and computers.

MARINE CORPS.

For pay of officers on the active list, as follows: For one colonel commandant, one colonel, two lieutenant-colonels, one adjutant and inspector, one paymaster, one quartermaster, four majors, two assistant quartermasters, one judge-advocate-general United States Navy, nineteen captains, thirty first lieutenants, and nineteen second lieutenants, one hundred and eighty-one thousand two hundred and sixtyfive dollars.

For pay of officers on the retired list: For one colonel, one quartermaster, three majors, two assistant quartermasters, four captains, one first lieutenant, and three second lieutenants, thirty-one thousand two hundred and ninety dollars.

For pay of non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates: For one sergeant-major, one quartermaster-sergeant, one leader of the band, one drum-major, fifty first sergeants, one hundred and forty sergeants, one hundred and eighty corporals, thirty musicians, ninetysix drummers and fifers, and one thousand five hundred privates, three hundred and eighty-nine thousand and fifty-two dollars.

For pay of civil force, namely: For ten clerks and two messengers, sixteen thousand and thirty-five dollars; payments to discharged soldiers for clothing undrawn, twenty thousand dollars; transportation of officers traveling under orders without troops, eight thousand dollars; commutation of quarters for officers on duty where there are no public quarters, four thousand dollars; in all, forty-eight thousand and thirty-five dollars.

For provisions for the Marine Corps, and for difference between cost of rations and commutation thereof for detailed men, sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars.

For clothing, fifty thousand dollars.

For fuel, eighteen thousand dollars.

For military stores, namely: For pay of one chief armorer, at three dollars per day; three mechanics, at two dollars and fifty cents each per day; purchase of military equipments, such as cartridge-boxes, bayonet-scabbards, haversacks, blanket-bags, canteens, musket-slings,

swords, drums, bugles, flags, and spare parts for repairing muskets. and other necessary incidental articles, five thousand dollars; purchase of ammunition, one thousand dollars; purchase and repair of instruments for band, and purchase of music and musical accessories, five hundred dollars; in all, nine thousand seven hundred and eightysix dollars and fifty cents.

For transportation of troops and for expenses of recruiting, ten thousand dollars.

For repairs of barracks at Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Boston, Massachusetts; Brooklyn, New York; League Island, Pennsylvania; Annapolis, Maryland; headquarters and navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia; Gosport, Virginia; and Mare Island, California, nine thousand dollars; for the erection of a building for marine barracks at navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida, to take the place of one destroyed on account of yellow fever, two thousand dollars; placing tin roof on marine barracks and officers' quarters at Washington, District of Columbia, one thousand two hundred dollars; rent of building used for manufacture of clothing, stowing supplies, and offices of assistant quartermasters, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and San Francisco, California, two thousand two hundred and sixty dollars; in all, fourteen thousand four hundred and sixty dollars.

For forage in kind for four horses of the Quartermaster's Department, and the authorized number of officers' horses, four thousand four hundred dollars.

For contingencies, namely: For gas and oil at marine barracks, Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Boston, Massachusetts; Brooklyn, New York; League Island, Pennsylvania; assistant quartermasters' offices, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and San Francisco, California; Annapolis, Maryland; headquarters and navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia; Gosport, Virginia; Pensacola, Florida; and Mare Island, California; straw for bedding for enlisted men at the various posts; water at marine barracks, Boston, Massachusetts; Brooklyn, New York; Annapolis, Maryland; and Mare Island, California; furniture for government houses; freight; ferriage; toll; cartage; funeral expenses of marines; stationery; telegraphing; rent of telephones; apprehension of deserters; per diem to enlisted men employed on constant labor; repairs of gas and water fixtures; office and barrack furniture; mess utensils for enlisted men, such as bowls, plates, spoons, knives, and forks; packing boxes; wrapping paper; oilcloth; crash; rope; twine; carpenter's tools; tools for police purposes; purchase and repair of hose; repairs to public wagons; purchase and repair of harness; repair of fire extinguishers; purchase of hand grenades; purchase and repair of handcarts and wheelbarrows; purchase and repair of cooking stoves, ranges, and so forth; stoves where there are no grates; purchase of ice, towels, and soap for offices; improving parade grounds; repair of pumps and wharves; laying drain and water pipes; introducing gas; and for other purposes; in all, twentysix thousand dollars.

For hire of quarters for officers where there are no public quarters, four thousand five hundred dollars.

SEC. 2. All balances of moneys appropriated for the pay of the Navy or pay of the Marine Corps, for any year existing after the accounts for said year shall have been settled shall be covered into the Treasury.

Approved, July 26, 1886.

FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION-AUGUST 3, 1886.

[PUBLIC-NO. 167.]

AN ACT To increase the Naval establishment.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President is hereby authorized to have constructed, as hereinafter provided

First. Two sea-going double-bottomed armored vessels of about six thousand tons displacement, designed for a speed of at least sixteen knots an hour, with engines having all necessary appliances for working under forced draught, and costing, including engines and machinery and excluding armament, not more than two million five hundred thousand dollars each. Said vessels shall have each a complete torpedo outfit and be armed in the most effective manner.

Second. One protected double-bottomed cruiser of not less than three thousand five hundred nor more than five thousand tons displacement, designed to have the highest practicable speed and furnished with the best type of modern engines, furnished with necessary appliances for working under forced draught. Said vessel shall cost, including engines and machinery and excluding armament, not exceeding one million five hundred thousand dollars.

Third. One first class torpedo-boat, costing in the aggregate not more than one hundred thousand dollars.

SEC. 2. That the vessels hereinbefore authorized to be constructed shall be built of steel of domestic manufacture, having a tensile strength of not less than sixty thousand pounds per square inch, and an elongation in eight inches of not less than twenty-five per centum. SEC. 3. That the President is hereby authorized to direct the completion, as hereinafter provided, of the double-turreted monitors Puritan, Amphitrite, Monadnock, and Terror, at a total cost, exclusive of armament, not to exceed three million one hundred and seventy-eight thousand and forty-six dollars.

SEC. 4. That the armor used in constructing said armored vessels and for completing said monitors shall be of the best obtainable quality and of domestic manufacture, provided contracts for furnishing the same in a reasonable time, at a reasonable price, and of the required quality can be made with responsible parties. Such armor shall be accepted only after passing such tests as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy and inserted in the contracts. SEC. 5. That the Secretary of the Navy shall cause one or more of the new vessels hereinbefore provided for to be constructed and one or more of the said monitors to be completed in one or more of the navy-yards of the United States; and if he shall be unable to contract with responsible parties to construct or complete, at reasonable prices, all or any of the vessels hereinbefore provided for, he shall cause the same to be constructed or completed in such of the navyyards of the United States as may be best adapted thereto.

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SEC. 6. That the engines, boilers, and machinery of all the new vessels provided for by this act shall be of domestic manufacture and procured by contract, unless the Secretary of the Navy shall be unable to obtain the same at fair prices, in which case he may construct the same, or any portion thereof, in the navy-yards of the United States: Provided, That the Secretary of the Navy may purchase abroad only such shafting as it may be impossible to obtain in the United States in time for use in the construction of the vessels herein provided for. SEC. 7. That the Secretary of the Navy shall not contract for the construction or completion of any of said vessels, or of their engines, machinery, or boilers, until drawings and specifications of the same shall have been provided or adopted by him; and after said drawings and specifications shall have been provided, adopted, and approved as aforesaid, and work shall have been commenced on any contract made therefor, such plans and specifications shall not be changed in any respect when the cost of such change in the execution of the work exceeds five hundred dollars, except upon the written order of the Secretary or Acting Secretary of the Navy; and if changes are thus made, the actual cost thereof and the damage caused thereby shall be ascertained, estimated, and determined by a board of naval officers to be provided for in the contract; and in any contract made pursuant to this act it shall be provided in the terms thereof that the contractor shall be bound by the determination of said board, or a majority thereof, as to the amount of increase or diminished compensation said contractor shall be entitled to receive, if any, in consequence of such change or changes. In every contract to be made under this act there shall be prescribed a period within which the work provided for in said contract, or specified portions thereof, shall be completed, and the completion of such work within the periods prescribed shall be insured by penal provisions. For the construction or completion of such vessels hereinbefore provided for as the Secretary of the Navy shall propose to have constructed or completed by contract, as well as also for the engines, boilers, and machinery hereinbefore provided for, he shall invite proposals from every American shipbuilder and other person who shall show to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Navy that within three months from the date of the contract he will be possessed of the necessary plant for the performance of the work in the United States which he shall offer to undertake, and such contract shall be let to the lowest and best responsible bidder or bidders, after at least sixty days' advertisement, published in five leading papers of the United States, inviting proposals for the work proposed, which work shall be subject to all such rules, regulations, superintendence by naval officers during construction, and provisions as to bonds and security for the quality and due completion of the work as the Secretary of the Navy shall prescribe; and no vessel, boiler, engine, machinery, or portion thereof shall be accepted unless completed in strict conformity with the contract; and the authority given hereby shall take effect at once. The Secretary of the Navy shall have the power to reject any or all bids made under the provisions of this act. SEC. 8. That the sum of one million dollars is hereby appropriated towards the armament of the vessels authorized by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, of the vessels authorized by section one of this act, and of the unfinished monitors hereinbefore