building, including storerooms, office, tailor shops, and shoe repairing shops, three hundred dollars; For materials and labor for repairs, alterations, and additions needed at the soldiers' hospital, as follows: Purchase of suitable incandescent lights, droplights, tubing, mantles, and so forth; for paraffin and turpentine for waxing floors; for brushes, paints, glass, putty, and for general repairs; for materials for rebronzing radiators; and for purchase of flowers, fruit trees, shrubs, plants, and so forth, for hospital grounds, one hundred and sixty-five dollars: For material and labor for repairing exterior woodwork, porches, and roofs, passageways, gutters, and leaders of soldiers' hospital, three hundred and seventy-five dollars. For waterworks: Renewal of material in filter beds; improving ventilation of filter house and water house; hose for use in cleaning filter beds and water house, and for use in fire service at same; tools, implements, and materials for use of the two keepers and for repairs of siphon house, filter house and of four and one-half miles of supply pipe; for shed for tools and storage of fuel for keeper of Round Pond, and for tool house at filter; for gauges at and for stairs for access to same, and all other necessary work of maintenance and repairs, one thousand two hundred dollars. For repairs and necessary alterations and additions to the cadet hospital, as follows: For erection of two fire escapes, one thousand four hundred dollars; For one standpipe to connect with water supply in basement and extending to third floor in administration building, with necessary couplings, canvas-covered hose, brass nozzles, and hose racks, eight hundred dollars; For installing one dumb-waiter, two hundred and fifty dollars; For seventy storm sash, with ventilating panes, for the four wards in the north and south extensions, seven hundred dollars; For materials for rebronzing radiators and piping; material for waxing and polishing floors; suitable incandescent lights, droplights, mantles, tubes; for carpets, furniture, and appliances; for repairs of damaged articles, and for miscellaneous expenses, one hundred and twenty dollars; For purchase of flowers and shrubs for hospital grounds, one hundred dollars; For repairs, alterations, and additions to the quarters of first sergeant at the cadet hospital, two hundred and eighty-three dollars. Repairs to cadet barracks: For repairing and renewing plastering, painting, and calcimining, repairs to woodwork, reflooring, rearranging rooms, increasing sinks, baths, and other incidental repairs to the building, five thousand dollars; For maintaining and improving the grounds of the post cemetery, one thousand five hundred dollars; For continuing the construction of breast-high wall in dangerous places, five hundred dollars; For broken stone and gravel for roads, and for repairing sidewalks, roads, paths, and bridges on the reservation, five thousand dollars; For painting and repairing interior walls and woodwork of cadet mess building, five hundred dollars; For tile or terazzo floor and tile wainscoting in the north serving room, the north scullery and adjoining hall, and butcher shop of the cadet mess, four thousand dollars; For painting exterior walls, woodwork, and roofs of quarters numbered forty-three, forty-five, forty-seven, forty-nine, and fifty-one; and exterior walls and woodwork of frame quarters numbered fifty three, sixty-one, and sixty-three; and exterior walls, woodwork, and roofs of additions to quarters numbered thirty-three, thirty-five, thirtyseven, thirty-nine, and forty-one, two thousand dollars; For repairing and painting walls, ceiling, and woodwork of the officers' mess building and quarters, two thousand two hundred dollars; For material and labor for repairing and reshingling roofs of eight sets of quarters for enlisted men, one thousand two hundred dollars; For repairing set of quarters at cavalry garden, one thousand five hundred dollars; For continuing work in connection with the restoration of Fort Putnam, on the United States Military Academy Reservation at West Point, New York, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, five thousand dollars; For continuing the work of increasing the efficiency of the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York; and to provide for the enlargement of buildings, and for other necessary work of improvement in connection therewith, authorized in Acts of Congress approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two (Public One hundred and eighty-one), April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four (Public One hundred and ninety-two), and March third, nineteen hundred and five (Public One hundred and thirty-seven), in accordance with the general plan approved by the Secretary of War, January twentyseventh, nineteen hundred and four, to remain available until expended, one million dollars; Total buildings and grounds, one million thirty-four thousand nine hundred and forty-three dollars For completing the necessary improvements at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in accordance with the general plan approved by the Secretary of War, the limit of the total expenditure for this work fixed in the Act of Congress approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, is extended one million seven hundred thousand dollars, and the Secretary of War is authorized to proceed with the work under the conditions already prescribed for it by law: Provided, That all limitations and restrictions in the Act approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, shall apply to this increased authorization. Approved, June 28, 1906. Total, Military Academy Act [In addition to the appropriations for the Military Academy made in the foregoing Act, contracts are authorized thereby to be entered into, subject to future appropriations by Congress, aggregating $1,700,000. For details, see p. 766.] $1,034, 943. 00 1,664, 707. 67 NAVAL APPROPRIATION ACT. [PUBLIC-No. 336.] By the Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending 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 seven, and for other purposes. PAY OF THE NAVY. 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; clerks to commandants of yards and stations; clerks to paymasters at yards and stations, general storekeepers, receiving ships, and other vessels; commutation of quarters for officers on shore not occupying public quarters, including boatswains, gunners, carpenters, sailmakers, warrant machinists, pharmacists, and mates, and also naval constructors and assistant naval constructors; pay of enlisted men on the retired list; extra pay to men reenlisting under honorable discharge; interest on deposits by men; pay of petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and apprentice seamen, including men in the engineers' force, and men detailed for duty with Naval Militia, and for the Fish Commission, thirty-four thousand five hundred men; and the number of enlisted men shall be exclusive of those undergoing imprisonment with sentence of dishonorable discharge from the service at expiration of such confinement; and as many warrant machinists as the President may from time to time deem necessary to appoint, not to exceed twenty in any one year; and two thousand five hundred apprentice seamen under training at training stations and on board training ships, at the pay prescribed by law, twenty million two hundred and sixty-nine thousand six hundred and thirty-seven dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of the Navy may, in his discretion, require the whole or a part of the bounty allowed upon enlistment to be refunded in cases where men are discharged during the first year of enlistment, by request, for inaptitude, as undesirable, or for disability not incurred in line of duty. $20, 269, 637. 00 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 civilian employees, and for actual and necessary traveling expenses of midshipmen while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment as midshipmen; 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 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; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; reports; professional investigation; cost of special instruction at home and abroad, in maintenance of students and attachés and information from abroad, and the collection and classification thereof, and other necessary and incidental expenses, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars. To reimburse officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps who were on duty under orders in San Francisco during the recent fire in that city for losses of clothing and other personal effects sustained by them through said fire, seven thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: Provided, That such reimbursement shall be made under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy and upon vouchers to be approved by him in each case That any officer of the Navy not above the grade of captain who served with credit as an officer or as an enlisted man in the regular or volunteer forces during the civil war prior to April ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, otherwise than as a cadet, and whose name is borne on the official register of the 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' service, may, in the discretion of the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, be placed on the retired list of the Navy with the rank and retired pay of one grade above that actually held by him at the time of retirement: Provided, That this Act shall not apply to any officer who received an advance of grade at or since the date of his retirement or who has been restored to the Navy and placed on the retired list by virtue of the provisions of a special Act of Congress. That any officer of the Marine Corps below the grade of brigadiergeneral who served with credit as an officer or as an enlisted man in the regular or volunteer forces during the civil war prior to April ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, otherwise than as a cadet, and whose name is borne on the official register of the Marine Corps, 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' service, may, in the discretion of the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, be placed on the retired list of the Marine Corps with the rank and retired pay of one grade above that actually held by him at the time of retirement: Provided, That this Act shall not apply to any officer who received an advance of grade since the date of his retirement or who has been restored to the Marine Corps and placed on the retired list by virtue of the provisions of a special Act of Congress. That the provision contained in section thirteen of an Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled "An Act to reorganize and increase the efficiency of the personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps of the United States," reading as follows: "Prorided, That such officers when on shore shall receive the allowances, but fifteen per centum less pay than when on sea duty; but this provision shall not apply to warrant officers commissioned under section twelve of this Act," be, and the same is hereby, repealed. That all chaplains now in the Navy above the grade of lieutenant shall receive the pay and allowances of lieutenant-commander in the Navy according to length of service under the provisions of law for that rank, and all chaplains now in the Navy in the grade of lieutenant shall receive their present sea pay when on shore duty: Provided, That naval chaplains hereafter appointed shall have the rank, pay, and $650,000.00 7,000.00 allowances of lieutenant (junior grade) in the Navy until they shall That from and after the passage of this Act the allowances of civil engineers and professors of mathematics in the Navy shall be the same as are or may be provided by or in pursuance of law for naval constructors, and the allowances of assistant civil engineers the same as for assistant naval constructors. CONTINGENT, NAVY: For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, exclusive of personal services in the Navy Department, or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at Washington, District of Columbia, arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, to be expended on the approval and authority of the Secretary of the Navy, and for such purposes as he may deem proper, sixty-five thousand dollars: Provided, 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," to civilian employees appointed by the Navy Department for duty in and serving at naval stations maintained in the island possessions during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven The Solicitor in the office of the Judge-Advocate-General of the Navy shall hereafter receive an annual salary of four thousand dollars during the services of the present incumbent. [See also Deficiency Act, p. 368.] [Total amount for Pay and Contingent of the Navy, $20,991,637.] BUREAU OF NAVIGATION. TRANSPORTATION, RECRUITING, AND CONTINGENT: Transportation: For the transportation of enlisted men and apprentice seamen at home and abroad, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof, transportation to their homes, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentice seamen discharged on medical survey, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation of sick or insane enlisted men and apprentice seamen to hospitals, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, and for railway guides and other expenses incident to transportation, three hundred and eighty thousand dollars: Provided, That hereafter enlisted men, discharged on account of expiration of enlistment, shall receive in lieu of transportation and subsistence, travel allowance of four cents per mile from the place of discharge to the place of enlistment, for travel in the United States. Recruiting: Expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent of rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentice seamen; actual and necessary expenses in lieu of mileage to officers on duty with traveling recruiting parties, one hundred and twenty-one thousand three hundred and forty dollars: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended in recruiting seamen, ordinary seamen, or apprentice seamen, unless a certificate of birth or written evidence, other than his own statement, satisfactory to the recruiting officer, showing the applicant to be of $65,000.00 380,000.00 |