Hearings Before Committee on Naval Affairs of the House of Representatives, Estimates Submitted by the Secretary of the Navy, 1906-1907U.S. Government Printing Office, 1907 - 641 pages |
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ACTING CHAIRMAN additional Admiral CAPPS Admiral CONVERSE Admiral CowLES Admiral ENDICOTT Admiral MASON Admiral RAE Admiral ROGERS Admiral SANDS ammunition amount appropriation armored cruisers Army asked Attorney-General BONAPARTE battle ship bids bill building Bureau of Navigation Bureau of Ordnance Captain Ross Carnegie Steel Company Cavite cents Chairman Committee civil establishment clerk coal Colonel DENNY Commander SIMS Committee on Naval Congress construction contract cost cruisers duty ELLIOTT enlisted equipment estimates expenses fiscal furnish GEORGE EDMUND Foss Government Guantanamo House of Representatives inches increase KITCHIN League Island LOUDENSLAGER manufacture Marine Corps ment Midvale Midvale Steel Company Naval Affairs naval hospital naval station Navy Department navy-yard necessary officers plant pounds present Professor DODGE proposed purchase quarters recommended repairs respectfully ROBERTS Secretary shell smokeless powder Steel Company Surgeon-General RIXEY thousand dollars tion tons torpedoes Total vessels Washington Yards and Docks
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Page 602 - ... 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...
Page 404 - No Act of Congress hereafter passed shall be construed to make an appropriation out of the Treasury of the United States, or to authorize the execution of a contract involving the payment of money in excess of appropriations made by law, unless such Act shall in specific terms declare an appropriation to be made or that a contract may be executed.
Page 595 - Department, and the authorized number of officers' horses, and for stabling of public horses, nineteen thousand two hundred dollars. COMMUTATION OF QUARTERS, MARINE CORPS: For commutation 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...
Page 595 - That the accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow, in the settlement of accounts of disbursing officers involved, payments made under the appropriation "Contingent, Navy...
Page 621 - ... dollars; purchase of gas and steam machinery, steam pipes and fittings, rent of buildings for the use of the Academy, freight, cartage, water, music, musical and astronomical instruments, uniforms for the bandsmen, telegraphing, feed and maintenance of teams, current expenses, and repairs of all kinds, and for incidental labor and expenses not applicable to any other appropriation...
Page 616 - ... of any wooden ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed ten per centum of the estimated cost, appraised In like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material...
Page 84 - PROVISIONS, NAVY: For provisions and commuted rations for the seamen and marines, which commuted rations may be paid to caterers of messes, in case of death or desertion, upon orders of the commanding officers...
Page 592 - An act to increase the Naval Establishment," as to materials for said vessels, their engines, boilers, and machinery, the contracts under which they are built...
Page 549 - That for the purpose of further increasing the Naval Establishment of the United States the President is hereby authorized to have constructed...
Page 565 - Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of shells or projectiles except for shells or projectiles purchased in accordance with the terms and conditions of proposals submitted by the Secretary of the Navy...