PAY, MARINE CORPS: For pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on the active list, five hundred and forty-five thousand nine hundred dollars;

Pay of officers on the retired list: For one major-general, four colonels, four lieutenant-colonels, one adjutant and inspector, one quartermaster, one assistant quartermaster, two majors, nine captains, three first lieutenants, and four second lieutenants, seventy thousand two hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents;

Pay.
Officers.

Retired list.

Enlisted men.

Pay of noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, as prescribed by law; 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 for the expenses of clerks of the United States Marine Corps traveling under orders; including additional compensation for enlisted men of the Additional: Marine Corps regularly detailed as gun pointers, messmen, signalmen, or holding good conduct medals, pins or bars, fifteen thousand dollars; one million three hundred and eighty thousand six hundred and twentyeight dollars;

Retired enlisted

Pay and allowance of retired enlisted men: For two sergeants- men. major, one drum-major, four gunnery-sergeants, one quartermastersergeant, twelve first sergeants, thirty-four sergeants, seven corporals, eight first-class musicians, one drummer, one trumpeter, and forty-two privates, and for those who may be retired during the year, thirtyeight thousand dollars;

Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged soldiers for clothing undrawn, thirty-six thousand dollars;

Mileage: For mileage of officers traveling under orders without troops, twenty thousand dollars;

For commutation of quarters of officers on duty without troops where there are no public quarters, eight thousand dollars;

Undrawn clothing.

Mileage.

Commutation of

quarters.

Commandant's of

PAY OF CIVIL FORCE: In the office of the Brigadier-General Com- Civil force. mandant: One chief clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one fice. clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, at nine hundred and seventy-one dollars and twenty-eight cents;

In the office of the paymaster: One chief clerk, at one thousand six Paymaster's office. hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars;

In the office of the assistant paymaster: One clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars;

Adjutant and in

In the office of the adjutant and inspector: One chief clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand five hundred spector's office. dollars;

In the office of the assistant adjutant and inspector: One clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars;

In the office of the quartermaster: One chief clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one draftsman, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars;

In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Washington, District of Columbia, or San Francisco, California: Two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; two clerks, additional, for duty in the Philippines-one in Pay and one in Quartermaster's Department-at one thousand four hundred dollars each;

In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: One clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one messenger, at eight hundred and forty dollars;

Quartermaster's of

fices.

Disbursements.

Provisions, etc.

Proviso.

Navy ration or commutation.

Clothing.

Fuel.

Military stores.

Magazine rifles from Army.

Transportation, etc.

Repairs of barracks.

In all, for pay of civil force, twenty-eight thousand nine hundred and eleven dollars and twenty-eight cents, and the money herein specifically appropriated for pay of the Marine Corps shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law as pay of the Marine Corps, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund;

In all, pay Marine Corps, two million one hundred and twenty-seven thousand six hundred and seventy-six dollars and seventy-eight cents. PROVISIONS, MARINE CORPS: For noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates serving ashore, for commutation of rations to enlisted men regularly detailed as clerks and messengers, for payment of board and lodging of recruiting parties, transportation of provisions, and the employment of necessary labor connected therewith, and for ice for preservation of rations, four hundred and ninety-two thousand and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents; and no law shall be construed to entitle marines on shore duty to any rations, or commution thereof, other than such as now are or may hereafter be allowed to enlisted men in the Army: Provided, however, That when it is impracticable or the expense is found greater to supply marines serving on shore duty in the island possessions and on foreign stations with the army ration, such marines may be allowed the navy ration or commutation therefor.

CLOTHING, MARINE CORPS: For noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates authorized by law, four hundred and twenty-two thousand three hundred and seventy dollars.

FUEL, MARINE CORPS: For heating barracks and quarters, for ranges and stoves for cooking, fuel for enlisted men, for sales to officers, maintaining electric lights, and for hot-air closets, sixty thousand dollars. MILITARY STORES, MARINE CORPS: For pay of chief armorer, at three dollars per day; three mechanics; at two dollars and fifty cents each per day; for purchase of military equipments, such as rifles, revolvers, cartridge boxes, bayonet scabbards, haversacks, blanket bags, napsacks, canteens, musket slings, swords, drums, trumpets, flags, waist belts, waist plates, cartridge belts, sashes for officer of the day, spare parts for repairing muskets, purchase and repair of tents and field ovens, purchase and repair of instruments for band, purchase of music and musical accessories, purchase and marking of prizes for excellence in gunnery and rifle practice, good-conduct badges; for incidental expenses of the school of application; for the construction, equipment, and maintenance of school, library, and amusement rooms and gymnasiums for enlisted men; purchase and repair of signal equipment and stores; for the establishment and maintenance of targets and ranges, and renting ranges, and for entrance fees in competitions; and for procuring, preserving, and handling ammunition, and other necessary military supplies, one hundred and ten thousand eight hundred and ninety-five dollars.

To reimburse the Ordnance Department, United States Army, for two thousand magazine rifles, caliber thirty, latest model, delivered to the assistant quartermaster, United States Marine Corps, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on August seventeenth, nineteen hundred and three, twenty-eight thousand five hundred and forty dollars, to remain available not to exceed two years, to replace like ordnance stores.

TRANSPORTATION AND RECRUITING, MARINE CORPS: For transportation of troops, including ferriage, and the expense of the recruiting service, one hundred and twenty-one thousand six hundred and twenty

dollars.

FOR REPAIRS OF BARRACKS, MARINE CORPS: Repairs and improvements to barracks and quarters at Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Boston, Massachusetts; Narragansett Station, Rhode Island; New York, New York; League Island, Pennsylvania; Annapolis, Maryland; headquarters and navy-yard, District of Columbia; Norfolk, Virginia; Port

Royal, South Carolina; Pensacola, Florida; Dry Tortugas, Florida; New Orleans, Louisiana; Mare Island and San Francisco, California; Bremerton, Washington; and Sitka, Alaska; for the renting, leasing, improvement, and erection of buildings in Porto Rico, the Philippine Islands, at Guam, and at such other places as the public exigencies require; and for per diem to enlisted men employed under the direction of the Quartermaster's Department on the repair of barracks, quarters, and the other public buildings, sixty-six thousand three hundred and thirty-six dollars.

For rent of building used for manufacture of clothing, storing of supplies, and office of assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, six thousand dollars.

Philadelphia, Pa.
Rent.

FORAGE, MARINE CORPS: For forage in kind for horses of the Quar- Forage. termaster's Department, and the authorized number of officers' horses, seventeen thousand seven hundred dollars.

HIRE OF QUARTERS, MARINE CORPS: 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; for hire of quarters for enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in the offices of the commandant, adjutant and inspector, paymaster, and quartermaster, and the offices of the assistant adjutant and inspectors, the assistant paymasters, and the assistant quartermasters, at twenty-one dollars each per month, and for enlisted men employed as messengers in said offices, at ten dollars each per month, thirty-five thousand seven hundred and forty-eight dollars.

Hire of quarters.

CONTINGENT, MARINE CORPS: For freight, tolls, cartage, advertis- Contingent. ing, washing of bed sacks, mattress covers, pillowcases, towels, and sheets, funeral expenses of marines, including the transportation of bodies from the place of demise to the homes of the deceased in the United States, stationery and other paper, telegraphing, rent of telephones, purchase and repair of typewriters, apprehension of stragglers and deserters, per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor for a period of not less than ten days, employment of civilian labor, repair of gas and water fixtures, office and barracks furniture, camp and garrison equipage and implements, mess utensils for enlisted men, such as bowls, plates, spoons, knives and forks, tin cups, pans, pots, and so forth; packing boxes, wrapping paper, oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, quarantine fees, camphor and carbolized paper, carpenters' tools, tools for police purposes, iron safes, purchase and repair of public wagons, purchase and repair of public harness, purchase of public horses, services of veterinary surgeons, and medicines for public horses; purchase and repair of hose, purchase and repair of fire extinguishers, purchase of fire hand grenades; purchase and repair of carts, wheelbarrows, and lawn mowers; purchase and repair of cooking stoves, ranges, stoves, and furnaces where there are no grates; purchase of ice, towels, soap, combs, and brushes for offices; postage stamps for foreign postage; purchase of books, newspapers, and periodicals; improving parade grounds, repair of pumps and wharves; laying drain, water, and gas pipes; water, introducing gas, and for gas, gas oil, and introduction and maintenance of electric lights; straw for bedding, mattresses, mattress covers, pillows, sheets; wire bunk bottoms 'for enlisted men at various posts; furniture for Government quarters and repair of same, and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but impossible to anticipate or classify, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars.

That officers of the Marine Corps with creditable records who served during the civil war shall, when retired, be retired in like manner and under the same conditions às provided for officers of the Navy who served during the civil war.

Credit for civil war service on retirement. Vol. 30, p. 1007.

Public works.

Barracks and quar

ters.

New Orleans, La.

Vol. 31, p. 1132.

Increase of the Navy.

One first-class battle ship, 16,000 tons.

Two first-class armored cruisers, 14,000 tons.

Three scout cruisers, 3,750 tons.

Post, p. 1116.

Two colliers, to be built at navy-yards.

Contracts.

Construction.

Vol. 24, p. 215.

PUBLIC WORKS, MARINE CORPS.

Barracks and quarters, Marine Corps: Construction and completion of one brick boiler house and bakery, navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, five thousand dollars;

Installation of electric lights in barracks and officers' quarters, navyyard, Boston, Massachusetts, two thousand five hundred dollars;

Construction and completion of an addition to marine barracks, including the erection and furnishing of a band room, mess hall, men's kitchen, and men's gymnasium, marine barracks, Washington, District of Columbia, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars;

Construction and completion of marine barracks and one set of officers' quarters, six thousand five hundred dollars, which sum shall be in addition to fifteen thousand dollars appropriated for this object in the naval appropriation Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, naval station, New Orleans, Louisiana, six thousand five hundred dollars;

Construction and equipment of a cold-storage and ice plant, Olongapo, Philippine Islands, five thousand dollars;

Total public works under Marine Corps, one hundred and sixty-nine thousand dollars.

INCREASE OF THE NAVY.

That for the purpose of further increasing the Naval Establishment of the United States, the President is hereby authorized to have constructed by contract or in navy-yards as hereinafter provided

One first-class battle ship, carrying the heaviest armor and most powerful armament for a vessel of its class upon a trial displacement of not more than sixteen thousand tons; to have the highest practicable speed and great radius of action, and to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not exceeding four million four hundred thousand dollars.

Two first-class armored cruisers, of not more than fourteen thousand five hundred tons trial displacement, carrying the heaviest armor and most powerful armament for a vessel of its class; to have the highest practicable speed and great radius of action, and to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not exceeding four million four hundred thousand dollars each.

Three scout cruisers, of not more than three thousand seven hundred and fifty tons trial displacement, carrying the most powerful ordnance of vessels of their class; to have the highest speed compatible with good cruising qualities and great radius of action, and to cost exclusive of armament, not exceeding one million eight hundred thousand dollars each.

Two colliers, to be capable of accompanying the battle fleet; to carry five thousand tons of cargo coal, loaded, and to have a trial speed of not less than sixteen knots, to cost not exceeding one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars each. Said colliers shall be built in navy-yards, one on the Pacific and the other on the Atlantic coast, the same to be designated by the Secretary of the Navy.

And the contract for the construction of said vessels shall be awarded by the Secretary of the Navy to the lowest best responsible bidder, having in view the best results and most expeditious delivery; and in the construction of all of said vessels the provisions of the Act of August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled "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, the notice of any proposals for the same, the plans, drawings, specifications therefor, and the method of executing said contracts

er.

Limit for one build-
Proviso.
Construction in

shall be observed and followed, and, subject to the provisions of this Act, all said vessels shall be built in compliance with the terms of said Act, and in all their parts shall be of domestic manufacture; and the steel material shall be of domestic manufacture, and of the quality and characteristics best adapted to the various purposes for which it may be used, in accordance with specifications approved by the Secretary of the Navy; and not more than two of the vessels provided for in this Act shall be built by one contracting party: Provided, That the Secretary of the Navy may build any or all of the vessels herein navy-yards, in case of authorized in such navy-yards as he may designate, and shall build combination, etc., of any of the vessels herein authorized in such 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.

builders.

Submarine, etc..

Provisos.
Competition open to

The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to torpedo boats. contract for or purchase subsurface or submarine torpedo boats in the aggregate of, but not exceeding, eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That prior to said purchase or contract for said boats any American inventor or owner of a subsurface or submarine American inventors. torpedo boat may give reasonable notice and have his, her, or its sub surface or submarine torpedo boat tested by comparison or competition, or both, with a Government subsurface or submarine torpedo boat or any private competitor, provided there be any such, and thereupon the board appointed for conducting such tests shall report the result of said competition or comparison, together with its recommendations, to the Secretary of the Navy, who may purchase or contract for subsurface or submarine torpedo boats in a manner that will best advance the interests of the United States in torpedo or submarine warfare: And provided further, That before any subsurface or submarine torpedo boat is purchased or contracted for it shall be accepted by the Navy Department as fulfilling all reasonable requirements for submarine warfare and shall have been fully tested to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Navy. To carry out the purpose aforesaid the sum of eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated; and to make up said sum of eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars, the sum of five hundred thousand dollars carried, or such parts thereof as may remain unexpended, and authorized in the naval appropriation Act, approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, is hereby reappropriated.

CONSTRUCTION AND MACHINERY: On account of the hulls, outfits, and machinery of vessels, and steam machinery of vessels heretofore authorized, nineteen million eight hundred and twenty-six thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars.

ARMOR AND ARMAMENT: Toward the armament and armor of domes tic manufacture for the vessels authorized, twelve million dollars. The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to procure by contract armor of the best quality for any or all vessels herein authorized at such price as in his judgment is just and reasonable.

Approved, April 27, 1904.

Tests before accept

ance.

Reappropriation.

Vol. 32, p. 1208.

Construction and machinery.

Armor and armament.

Contracts for armor.