tailed as gun pointers, mess sergeants, cooks, messmen, signalmen, or holding good-conduct medals, pins, or bars, including interests on deposits by enlisted men, and the authorized travel allowance of discharged enlisted men and for prizes for excellence in gunnery exercise and target practice, both afloat and ashore, two million seven hundred and fifty-nine thousand one hundred and sixty-nine dollars. For pay and allowances prescribed by law of enlisted men on the retired list: For three sergeant-majors, one drum-major, twelve gunnery-sergeants, nineteen quartermaster-sergeants, seventeen first sergeants, forty-four sergeants, seven corporals, fourteen first-class musicians, two drummers, two trumpeters, and twenty-five privates, and for those who may be retired during the fiscal year, ninety-four thousand three hundred and fifty-six dollars. Retired enlisted men. Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged soldiers for clothing Undrawn clothing. undrawn, one hundred and twenty-eight thousand one hundred and thirty-five dollars and twenty-two cents. Mileage: For mileage to officers traveling under orders without troops, fifty-five thousand dollars. Mileage to officers. For commutation of quarters of officers on duty without troops quarters, officers withwhere there are no public quarters, thirty-three thousand five hun- out troops. dred dollars. PAY OF CIVIL FORCE: In the office of the Major-General Commandant: One chief clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one 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 hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars. For each assistant paymaster, one clerk who shall hereafter be available where his services are required and who shall receive the same pay, allowances, and other benefits as are now or may hereafter be provided for paymasters' clerks of corresponding length of service in the United States Army (five clerks in all), seven thousand dollars. In the office of the adjutant and inspector: One chief clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand five hundred 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; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one draftsman, at one thousand six 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; one clerk, for duty in the Philippine Islands in the Quartermaster's Department, at one thousand four hundred dollars. 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; in the Quartermaster's Department, for duty where their services are required, two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each. In all, for pay of civil force, thirty-five 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, four million one hundred and seventysix thousand one hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents. PROVISIONS, MARINE CORPS: For noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates serving ashore, for subsistence of enlisted men Civil force. Assistant paymasters' clerks. Pay, allowances, etc. Disbursements. Provisions. Proviso. Navy ration or commutation. Clothing. Fuel. Military stores. Springfield rifles. when traveling on duty, or cash in lieu thereof, 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, seven hundred and twentythree thousand five hundred and forty-three dollars; and no law shall be construed to entitle marines on shore duty to any rations, or commutation 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, seven hundred and twentyfive thousand nine hundred and twenty 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, one hundred and thirty-seven thousand dollars. MILITARY STORES, MARINE CORPS: Pay of chief armorer, at four dollars per day; one mechanic, at three dollars per day; two mechanics, at two dollars and fifty cents each per day; one chief electrician, at four dollars per day, and one assistant electrician, at three dollars and fifty cents per day; per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor for a period of not less than ten days; for purchase of military equipments, such as rifles, revolvers, cartridge boxes, bayonet scabbards, haversacks, blanket bags, knapsacks, canteens, musket slings, swords, drums, trumpets, flags, waist belts, waist plates, cartridge belts, sashes for officers 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; and medals awarded to officers and enlisted men by the Government for conspicuous, gallant, and special service; 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, and the purchase and repair of all articles of field sports for enlisted men; purchase and repair of signal equipment and stores; for the purchase of one site at a cost not to exceed two thousand dollars; 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; in all, two hundred and ninety-seven thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven dollars. For the purchase of Springfield rifles from the United States Army, Purchase from fifty thousand dollars. Army. Transportation and recruiting. Repairs of barracks. TRANSPORTATION AND RECRUITING, MARINE CORPS: For transportation of troops, including ferriage and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof, toilet kits for issue to recruits upon their first enlistment and the expense of the recruiting service, two hundred and eighty-two thousand 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; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Annapolis, Maryland; headquarters and navy-yard, District of Columbia; Norfolk, Virginia; Port Royal and Charleston, South Carolina; Pensacola, Florida; Dry Tortugas, Florida; New Orleans, Louisiana; Mare Island and San Francisco, California; Bremerton, Washington; Sitka, Alaska; and Isthmus of Panama; for the renting, leasing, improvement, and erection of buildings in Porto Rico, the Territory of Hawaii, the Philippine Islands, at Guam, the District of Columbia, 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, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. FORAGE, MARINE CORPS: For forage in kind and stabling for horses of the Quartermaster's Department and the authorized number of officers' horses, twenty-four thousand two hundred dollars. Forage. Commutation of quarters, officers with COMMUTATION OF QUARTERS, MARINE CORPS: For commutation of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public troops, etc. quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them; for commutation 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, eighty thousand five hundred dollars. CONTINGENT, MARINE CORPS: For freight, tolls, cartage, advertising, Contingent. washing of bed sacks, mattress covers, pillowcases, towels, and sheets, funeral expenses of officers and marines, including the transportation of bodies and their arms and wearing apparel from the place of demise to the homes of the deceased in the United States, stationery and other paper, printing and binding, 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, motor wagons, for carrying supplies and freight only, carts, and drays, purchase and repair of public harness, purchase of public horses, services of veterinary surgeons, and medicines for public horses; purchase of mounts and horse equipment for all officers below the grade of major required to be mounted; shoeing for authorized number of officers' 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, packing and crating officers' allowance of baggage on change of station; and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but impossible to anticipate or classify, four hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Total under quartermaster, Marine Corps, two million eight hundred and fifty thousand nine hundred dollars. Total Marine Corps, exclusive of public works, seven million twentyseven thousand and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents. Increase of the Navy. Two first-class bat tle ships. Vol. 35, p. 158. Two fleet colliers. Construction. Vol. 24, p. 215. 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 two first-class battle ships to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not exceeding six million dollars each, similar to the battle ship authorized by the Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine. Two fleet colliers of fourteen knots trial speed, when carrying not less than twelve thousand five hundred tons of cargo and bunker coal, to cost not exceeding one million dollars each. And the contract for the construction of said vessels shall contain a provision requiring said vessels to be built in accordance with the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act relating to the limitation of the hours of daily service of laborers and mechanics employed upon the public works of the United States and of the District of Columbia, Award of contracts. approved August first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and 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 shall be observed and followed, and, subject to the provisions Deposit by contract of this Act, except that the Secretary of the Navy may accept, in lieu of an indemnity bond, the deposit by contractors of United States Government or State bonds, under such conditions and in such manner as the Secretary may prescribe, having due regard for the rights and protection of the United States, all said vessels shall be built in compliance with the terms of said Act, and in all their parts shall be ef 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, provided contracts for furnishing the same in a reasonable time, at a reasonable price, and of the required quality can be made with responsible parties: Provided, That not more than one of the battle ships provided for in this Act shall be built by the same contracting party: Provided One to be built in always, That one of the battle ships herein authorized shall be constructed in one of the navy-yards. ors in lieu of indemnity bond. Provisos. navy-yard. boats. Submarine torpedo Torpedo-boat de stroyers. Appropriation. Building in navyyards if combination of bidders, etc. For four submarine torpedo boats in an amount not exceeding in the aggregate two million dollars, and the sum of eight hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated toward said purpose. For six torpedo-boat destroyers, to have the highest practicable speed, and to cost in all not to exceed seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars each, and toward the construction of said torpedo-boat destroyers the sum of two million two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated. The Secretary of the Navy may build any or all of the vessels authorized in this Act in such navy-yards as he may designate, and shall build 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. Construction and machinery. Proviso. CONSTRUCTION AND MACHINERY: On account of hulls and outfits of vessels and steam machinery of vessels heretofore and herein authorized, seventeen million one hundred seventy-five thousand seven hundred and fifty three dollars: Provided, That no part of the above appropriation shall be used for the payment of the construction liers. any collier the total cost of which shall exceed one million dollars. INCREASE OF THE NAVY; TORPEDO BOATS: On account of submarine Submarine torpedo torpedo boats, heretofore authorized, eight hundred and fifty-nine thousand nine hundred and seventy-one dollars. of boats. vitals below water upon line. Vol. 35, p. 777. Provisos, INCREASE OF THE NAVY; TORPEDO BOATS: On account of torpedo Torpedo boats with vessels whose vitals are located below the normal load water line, condition of compliance with the authorization in the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other four hundred and forty-five thousand dollars: Provided, purposes,' That the Secretary of the Navy may, in his discretion, expend any part of the amount hereby appropriated, for small vessels of this type having a speed exceeding nineteen knots at a cost not to exceed thirty thousand dollars each: Provided, That nothing herein con- tary tained shall be construed as mandatory upon the Secretary of the Navy to purchase said vessels. Discretion of Secre Colliers. Provisos. Reappropriation. INCREASE OF THE NAVY; COLLIERS: On account of two fleet colliers, heretofore authorized, three hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That the unexpended balance of the sum of one million five citie coast yard. hundred thousand dollars appropriated toward the construction of two fleet colliers authorized by the naval appropriation Act approved May thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the construction of the collier therein designated to be built on the Pacific coast in such government yard as the Secretary of the Navy shall direct: Provided further, That the cost of said collier shall not exceed the sum of one million dollars. ARMOR AND ARMAMENT: Toward the armor and armament of domestic manufacture for vessels authorized, eleven million five hundred and sixty-five thousand one hundred and twenty-two dollars: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for armor for vessels except upon contracts for such armor when awarded by the Secretary of the Navy to the lowest responsible bidders, having in view the best results and most expeditious delivery. INCREASE OF THE NAVY; EQUIPMENT: Toward the completion of the equipment outfit of the new vessels authorized, three hundred and ninety-nine thousand five hundred dollars. Total increase of the navy, thirty-three million seven hundred and seventy thousand three hundred and forty-six dollars. navy Limit of cost. Armor and armament. Proviso. Armor contracts. Equipment. Proviso. bidden.' Provided, That no part of any sum hereby appropriated under "Increase of the "shall be used for the payment of any clerical, clerical, etc, force fordrafting, inspection, and messenger service, or for pay of any of the other classified force, under the various bureaus of the Navy Department in Washington, District of Columbia. required for. That no part of any sum appropriated by this Act shall be used for Specific authority any expense of the Navy Department at Washington unless specific authority is given by law for such expenditure. Approved, June 24, 1910. CHAP. 379.-An Act To require apparatus and operators for radio-communication on certain ocean steamers. June 24, 1910. [S. 7021.] [Public, No. 262.] Radio-communica Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the first tion. day of July, nineteen hundred and eleven, it shall be unlawful for any going steamers. ocean-going steamer of the United States, or of any foreign country, Required on ocean |