Navy Yearbook: Compilation of Annual Naval Appropriation Laws from ... Including Provisions for the Construction of All Vessels of the "new Navy," with Tables Showing Present Naval Strength in Vessels and Personnel, and Amount of Appropriations for the Naval ServiceU.S. Government Printing Office, 1912 "Embracing all acts authorizing the construction of ships of the "new navy" and a résumé of annual naval appropriation laws from 1883 ... With tables showing present naval strength, in ships and personnel, and cost of maintaining the navy of the United States, also statistics of foreign navies." |
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... Secretary of the authority to order repairs of ships damaged in foreign waters or on the high seas , so far as may be necessary to bring them home . Any portion of said sum not required for the purposes aforesaid may be applied toward ...
... Secretary of the authority to order repairs of ships damaged in foreign waters or on the high seas , so far as may be necessary to bring them home . Any portion of said sum not required for the purposes aforesaid may be applied toward ...
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... Secretary of the Navy ; and after said drawings and specifications have been provided , adopted , and approved as aforesaid , and the work has been commenced or a contract made for it , they shall not be changed in any respect , when ...
... Secretary of the Navy ; and after said drawings and specifications have been provided , adopted , and approved as aforesaid , and the work has been commenced or a contract made for it , they shall not be changed in any respect , when ...
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... Secretary of the Navy of the authority to order repairs of ships damaged in foreign waters or on the high seas , so far as may be neces- sary to bring them home . For the civil establishment , twenty thousand dollars . BUREAU OF STEAM ...
... Secretary of the Navy of the authority to order repairs of ships damaged in foreign waters or on the high seas , so far as may be neces- sary to bring them home . For the civil establishment , twenty thousand dollars . BUREAU OF STEAM ...
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... Secretary of the Navy shall invite proposals from all American ship - builders whose ship - yards are fully equipped for building or repairing iron and steel steamships , and con- structors of marine engines , machinery , and boilers ...
... Secretary of the Navy shall invite proposals from all American ship - builders whose ship - yards are fully equipped for building or repairing iron and steel steamships , and con- structors of marine engines , machinery , and boilers ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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appropriated armor buildings BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT BUREAU OF NAVIGATION BUREAU OF ORDNANCE cents per diem civil establishment clerk to naval Coasters Harbor Island CONTINGENT District of Columbia dollars and fifty dollars and twenty-five dollars per diem eight hundred dollars eighteen hundred engines enlisted ferriage fifteen thousand dollars fifty cents fifty thousand dollars five hundred dollars five thousand dollars forty dollars four dollars four hundred dollars hundred and fifty hundred and twenty hundred thousand dollars lars League Island machinery maintenance Mare Island Marine Corps Naval Academy Naval station Navy-yard nine hundred numbered Pensacola Portsmouth purchase and repair quarters Rhode Island sand dollars Secretary seventeen dollars ships six hundred dollars stationery steam storehouses thou thousand and seventeen thousand eight hundred thousand five hundred thousand four hundred thousand six hundred thousand two hundred three hundred dollars twenty dollars twenty thousand dollars twenty-five cents twenty-five thousand dollars vessels Washington writer YARDS AND DOCKS
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Page 187 - Any alien of the age of twenty-one years and upward who has enlisted or may enlist in the United States Navy or Marine Corps, and has served or may hereafter serve five consecutive years in the United States Navy or one enlistment in the United States Marine Corps, and has been or may hereafter be honorably discharged, shall be admitted to become a citizen of the United States upon his petition, without any previous declaration of his intention to become such ; and the court admitting such alien...
Page 747 - Corps fail in his physical examination and be found incapacitated for service by reason of physical disability contracted in the line of duty, he shall be retired with the rank to which his seniority entitled him to be promoted...
Page 452 - ... 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...
Page 555 - Army; 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, or commutation of quarters not to exceed the amount which an officer would receive were he not serving with troops...
Page 742 - An Act limiting the hours of daily service of laborers and mechanics employed upon work done for the United States, or for any Territory, or for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes...
Page 636 - ... all pilotage and towage of ships of war; canal tolls, wharfage, dock and port charges, and other necessary incidental expenses of a similar nature; 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 books; naval signals and apparatus, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, rockets, and running...
Page 748 - Navy, and who has heretofore been, or may hereafter be, retired on account of. wounds or disability incident to the service or on account of age or after forty years...
Page 751 - That when an enlisted man shall have served thirty years either in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, or in all, he shall, upon making application to the President, be placed upon the retired list, with seventyfive per centum of the pay and allowances he may then be in receipt of, and that said allowances shall be as follows: Nine dollars...
Page 251 - ... clerks, and mates, naval constructors, and assistant naval constructors, $510,000; and also members of Xurse Corps (female), $1,000; 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...
Page 197 - ... and commuted rations stopped on account of sick in hospital and credited to the naval hospital fund, subsistence of officers and men unavoidably detained or absent from vessels to which attached under orders (during which subsistence rations to be stopped on board ship and no credit for commutation therefor to be given), and fresh water for drinking and cooking purposes, one million two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars; labor in general storehouses and paymasters...