distribution in the yard, one thousand five hundred dollars; laying pipes, three thousand two hundred dollars; temporary reservoir, forty by forty by ten feet, capacity one hundred thousand gallons, five thousand dollars; one pier for use in landing and receiving stores for immedate use, one hundred thousand dollars; toward coaling plant, five hundred thousand dollars; in all, eight hundred and sixty-two thousand three hundred and ninety-five dollars.

Power plants.
Consolidation

and

The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to consolidate the several power plants in any or all of the several navy- transfer to Bureau of yards and stations at each navy-yard and station under the Bureau of Yards and Docks. Yards and Docks for the generation and distribution of light, heat, and power for all the purposes of the Navy. To the above end all such plants may be transferred from other bureaus to the Bureau of Yards and Docks, and all appropriations heretofore made for power houses and power plants for bureaus other than Yards and Docks are hereby reappropriated and made available under the Bureau of Yards and Docks for the consolidations herein provided for; and to further carry out the purposes of this provision there is hereby appropriated the sum of three hundred thousand dollars.

REPAIRS AND PRESERVATION AT NAVY-YARDS AND STATIONS: For repairs and preservation at navy-yards and stations, five hundred. thousand dollars.

Repairs and preser vation.

Plans, etc.

PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS FOR PUBLIC WORKS: For the preparation of plans and specifications for public works, and for plans and estimates required by section thirty-six hundred and sixty-three, R. S., sec. 3663, p. 720. Revised Statutes, for public works, forty-five thousand dollars.

In all, public works, seven million two hundred and eighty-four thousand and seventy-one dollars.

UNDER THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY.

Naval Academy.
New buildings.

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BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS, NAVAL ACADEMY: Toward the construction and furnishing of buildings, and for other necessary improvements, at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, as authorized by the Acts of Congress approved June seventh, nineteen hundred, and March 32, p. 118," third, nineteen hundred and three, three million dollars.

In order to further improve the grounds at the Naval Academy and secure the best site for the naval hospital heretofore authorized and appropriated for, the removal of the cemetery from its present site to another to be selected is authorized, if the Secretary, in his discretion, shall deem advisable, and to this end the sum of thirty thousand dollars, or so much as is necessary, to be immediately available, is authorized to be expended out of the three million dollars above appropriated.

PUBLIC WORKS UNDER BUREAU OF NAVIGATION.

NAVAL TRAINING STATION, CALIFORNIA (BUILDINGS): Salt-water fire-protection system, fourteen thousand dollars; ventilation and sanitary improvement of barracks for increased cleanliness and to prevent spread of contagious diseases, five thousand dollars; in all, nineteen thousand dollars.

Removal etery.

of cem

Public works.
Bureau of Naviga-

tion.

Training stations.
California.

NAVAL TRAINING STATION, RHODE Island (BUILDINGS): Continuing Rhode Island. sea wall on west side of island, and completing breakwater, ten thousand dollars; moving and rebuilding stables and farmer's house to clear site for officers' quarters, four thousand dollars; in all, naval training station, Rhode Island, fourteen thousand dollars.

Great Lakes.
Establishment of

authorized.

NAVAL TRAINING STATION, GREAT LAKES: The purchase of land and the establishment of a naval training station on the Great Lakes, two board to select site. hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The President is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint a board consisting of not less than three members, none of whom shall be a resident of any State border

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Naval War College, R. I.

Public works.

Bureau ofOrdnance.

New England coast magazine.

Establishment of.

ing on the Great Lakes, whose duty it shall be to select the most available site for such naval training station on the Great Lakes, and having selected such site, to ascertain and report its probable cost and the probable expenditure which will be necessary for improving the same, including lake shore protection and construction of necessary harbor facilities; and to make a detailed report of their findings and proceedings to the President who, upon approval of such report, shall authorize the purchase of such site and the establishment of such naval training station. And to defray the expenses of said board, the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

NAVAL WAR COLLEGE, RHODE ISLAND (BUILDINGS): Altering the building formerly belonging to training station and fitting the same for occupancy by officers of the war college, six thousand five hundred dollars.

Furniture for the extension of the Naval War College now nearing completion, one thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars.

In all, public works, Bureau of Navigation, two hundred and ninetysix thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars.

PUBLIC WORKS, BUREAU OF ORDNANCE.

NAVAL MAGAZINE, NEW ENGLAND: For the purchase of land for a site for a naval magazine on or near the New England coast, north of Cape Cod, and toward the erection thereon of the necessary buildings, of inclosing said grounds, of grading and filling in, of building roads and walks, of the improvement of the water front, of the necessary wharves and cranes, of railroad tracks and rolling stock for local service, of fire and water service, and of the equipment of the establishment, seventy thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary; and the Secretary of the Navy may employ, and pay out of the appropriation hereby authorized, such additional expert aids, surveyors, architects, superintendents of construction, or draftsmen as may be necessary for the preparation of the plans and specifications and prosecution of the work authorized, to an amount not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars: Provided, That the total cost of the establishment, complete in all respects, shall not exceed the sum of five hundred thousand dollars: And provided further. That should the Secretary of the Navy be unable to purchase the land for the site from the owners thereof, at a fair and reasonable valuation, he is hereby authorized and directed to institute proceedings for the condemnation of such part or parts thereof as may be necessary: And provided further, Chelsea, Mass, mag- That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized and directed to discontinue the magazine now in the city of Chelsea not later than the time when the new magazine for the New England coast is ready to be occupied.

Provisos.
Limit of cost.

Condemnation of

land.

azine to be discontinued

Dover, N. J.

Naval powderdepot.

Norfolk, Va.
Naval magazine.

Newport, R. I.
Torpedo station.

NAVAL POWDER DEPOT, LAKE DENMARK, NEW JERSEY: Improvements to present water system, new water mains, hydrants, and so forth, six thousand dollars; additional filling house, two thousand dollars; lengthening railroad switch, two thousand dollars; in all, naval magazine, Dover, Lake Denmark, New Jersey, ten thousand dollars.

NAVAL MAGAZINE, SAINT JULIENS CREEK, NORFOLK, VIRGINIA: One magazine building, including lightning protection, track connections, and so forth, ten thousand dollars; extension of gun-cotton magazine, one thousand one hundred dollars; in all, eleven thousand one hundred dollars.

NAVAL TORPEDO STATION, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND: Addition to chemical laboratory, one thousand dollars; addition to seamen's quarters and central latrine for employees, one thousand six hundred

dollars; coal shed and shed for fire hose and fire apparatus, one thousand five hundred dollars; fireproof storehouse for torpedo-boat supplies, thirty thousand dollars; in all, Newport, Rhode Island, thirtyfour thousand one hundred dollars.

ing ground, Md.

NAVAL PROVING GROUND, INDIAN HEAD, MARYLAND: Concreting Indian Head provrange battery, three thousand five hundred dollars; improvements to wharves and slips, eight thousand dollars; sulphuric-acid plant, consisting of the necessary buildings and apparatus for making sulphuric acid, fifty-five thousand dollars; coal-storage and coal-handling facilities, ten thousand dollars; additional powder magazines, twenty thousand dollars; extension of boiler plant, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, naval proving ground, Indian Head, one hundred and twentyone thousand five hundred dollars.

Naval magazine.

NAVAL MAGAZINE, FORT MIFFLIN, PENNSYLVANIA: New powder Fort Mifflin, Pa. magazine, including lightning protection, track connections, and so forth, twenty thousand dollars; "

NAVAL MAGAZINE, MARE ISLAND, CALIFORNIA: One observation magazine for suspected powders, five hundred dollars; one filling house, one thousand seven hundred dollars;

Mare Island, Cal.
Naval magazine.

NAVAL MAGAZINES, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: Powder magazines, shell Philippines. and filling houses, and so forth, fifty thousand dollars;

In all, public works, Bureau of Ordnance, three hundred and eighteen thousand nine hundred dollars.

UNDER BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT.

NAVAL OBSERVATORY.

Naval magazine.

Naval Observatory.

NAVAL OBSERVATORY: For grounds and roads; continuing grading, Grounds and roads. extending roads and paths, clearing and improving grounds, five thousand dollars;

Fence: Materials for fence to inclose the whole of the Observatory grounds, two thousand eight hundred dollars.

BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

Bureau of Medicine

and Surgery.

Surgeons'

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT: For surgeons' necessaries for vessels in ries. commission, navy-yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy-yards, naval laboratory, museum of hygiene and department of instruction, and Naval Academy, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

NAVAL HOSPITAL FUND: For maintenance of the naval hospitals at the various navy-yards and stations, and for care and maintenance of patients in other hospitals at home and abroad, forty thousand dollars. CONTINGENT, BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY: For freight, expressage on medical stores, tolls, ferriages, transportation of sick enlisted persons to hospital; transportation of insane patients; care, transportation, and burial of the dead; advertising, telegraphing, rent of telephones, purchase of books and stationery, binding of medical records, unbound books, and pamphlets; postage and purchase of stamps for foreign service; hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration; sanitary and hygienic instruction; purchase and repairs of wagons and harness; purchase of and feed for horses and cows; trees, plants, garden tools and seeds; furniture and incidental articles for the museum of hygiene and department of instruction, naval dispensary, Washington; naval laboratory, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, surgeons' officers and dispensaries at navy yards and naval stations, surgeons? quarters at naval hospitals; washing for medical department at museum of hygiene, and department of instruction, naval dispensary, Washington; naval laboratory

necessa

Hospital fund.

Contingent.

sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, dispensaries at navy-yards and naval stations, and ships and rendezvous; and for minor repairs on buildings and grounds of the United States Naval Museum of Hygiene and Department of Instruction; for the care, maintenance, and treatment of the insane of the Navy and Marine Corps on the Pacific coast, and all other necessary contingent expenses; in all, fifty thousand dollars.

TRANSPORTATION OF REMAINS: To enable the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transferred to their homes the remains of officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps who die or are killed in action ashore or afloat, and also to enable the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of civilian employees who die outside of the continental limits of the United States, fifteen thousand dollars: Provided, That the sum herein appropriated shall be available for payment for transportation of the remains of officers and men who have died while on duty at any time since April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninetyeight, and shall be available until used, and applicable to past as well as future obligations.

REPAIRS, BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY: For necessary repairs of naval laboratory, naval hospitals, and appendages, including roads, wharves, outhouses, sidewalks, fences, gardens, farms, and cemeteries, forty-five thousand dollars."

PUBLIC WORKS UNDER BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

NAVAL HOSPITAL, NORFOLK, VIRGINIA: Changing officers' quarters into wards for enlisted men, and building quarters for officers outside of naval hospital, twenty thousand dollars.

NAVAL HOSPITAL, CANACAO, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: Naval hospital at Canacao, Philippine Islands, to complete, seventy thousand dollars.

SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS.

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, commuted rations for officers on sea duty (other than commissioned officers of the line, Medical and Pay corps and chief boatswains, chief gunners, chief sailmakers, chief carpenters), and midshipmen 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); labor in general storehouses and paymasters' offices in navy-yards, including naval stations maintained in island possessions under the control of the United States, and expenses in handling stores purchased under the navalsupply fund; one chemist, at two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, and two chemists, at two thousand dollars each per annum, four million eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That pay department stores may be sold to civilian employees at naval stations beyond the continental limits of the United States and in Alaska, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe.

CONTINGENT, BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS: For freight and express charges, fuel, books. and blanks, stationery, advertising, furniture for general storehouses and pay offices in navy-yards; expenses of naval clothing factory and machinery for same, postage, telegrams, telephones, tolls, ferriages, yeoman's stores, safes, news papers, ice, transportation of stores purchased under the naval-supply

fund, and other incidental expenses, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Portsmouth, N. H.

CIVIL ESTABLISHMENT, BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS: Navy- Civil establishment. yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: In general storehouses: Two bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one assistant bookkeeper, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one shipping and receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; in all, five thousand eight hundred and forty dollars;

Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: In general storehouses: One bookkeeper, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars; one receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; one bookkeeper, at one thousand two hundred dollars. In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, five thousand two hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents;

Boston, Mass.

Navy-yard, New York, New York: In office of board of inspection: New York, N. Y. One writer, nine hundred dollars. In general storehouses: Three bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one assistant bookkeeper, at one thousand dollars; one assistant bookkeeper, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; two receiving clerks, at four dollars each per diem; one assistant receiving clerk, at one thousand and ninetynine dollars; three shipping clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant bill clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; two leading men, at two dollars and fifty cents each per diem; five pressmen, at two dollars and seventy-six cents each per diem; one box maker, at three dollars per diem; one engine tender, at three dollars and twenty-six cents per diem; one coffee roaster, at two dollars and fifty cents per diem; one fireman, at two dollars per diem; one messenger, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem; one writer, one thousand dollars; one storeman, nine hundred dollars; one principal clerk, provisions and clothing section, one thousand four hundred dollars; one principal clerk, supply fund section, one thousand four hundred dollars; one cloth inspector, one thousand two hundred and fifty-two dollars. In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one messenger, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem; in all, thirty-two thousand one hundred and seventy-three dollars and three cents;

Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: In general storehouse: League Island, Pa. Two bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one assistant bookkeeper, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars. In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twentyfive cents; in all, seven thousand one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents;

Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: In general storehouse: Washington, D. C. One bookkeeper, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars. In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, six thousand four hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents;

Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland: In general storehouse: One Naval Academy. bookkeeper, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one receiving and shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars; in

all, two thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; Naval station, Newport, Rhode Island: In general storehouse (train- Newport, R. I. ing station): One clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars.

In gen