STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDING. For the installation of an additional boiler in the State, War, and AVIATION. State, etc., Department Building. Additional boiler. Navy. Aviation. General expenses. Aircraft stations. For aviation, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for procuring, producing, constructing, operating, preserving, storing, and handling aircraft; maintenance of aircraft stations; including not to exceed $315,000 for the acquisition of land by purchase or condemnation; and for experimental work in the development of aviation for naval purposes, $45,000,000: Provided, That Technical, etc., servthe sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of ices. the Secretary of the Navy for drafting, clerical, inspection, and messenger service for aircraft stations shall not exceed $175,000. Proviso. Advisory Committee Completion of labora- National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics: Such portion of the for Aeronautics. appropriation "National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics" car- tory. ried in the Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, as may be necessary, not to exceed $40,000, is made available for the completion of the committee's research laboratory now under construction, and for the construction of additional buildings necessary in connection therewith. NAVAL EMERGENCY FUND. Naval emergency fund. At discretion of the To enable the President to secure the more economical and expe- President. ditious delivery of materials, equipment, and munitions, and secure the more expeditious construction of ships authorized, and for the purchase or construction of such additional torpedo boat destroyers, submarine chasers, and such other naval small craft, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, as the President may direct, to be expended at the direction and in the discretion of the President, $100,000,000. CIVILIAN NAVAL CONSULTING BOARD. Civilian Consulting Board. For actual expenses incurred by and in connection with the civilian Expenses. Naval Consulting Board, $75,000. BUREAU OF NAVIGATION. Bureau of Navigation. Recreation for en Proviso. Recreation for enlisted men: For the recreation, amusement, com- listed men. fort, and contentment of enlisted men of the Navy afloat and under training ashore, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, under such regulations as he may prescribe, $150,000: Provided, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum. Transportation: For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, includ- Transportation. ing the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $700,000. BUREAU OF ORDNANCE. Bureau of Ordnance. Ordnance and ord,nance stores. ORDNANCE AND ORDNANCE STORES: For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the general work Ammunition for ships. Proviso. Additional contracts. Batteries and outfits. Proviso. of the Ordnance Department; for necessary improvements at the naval proving ground, naval torpedo stations, Naval Gun Factory, and naval ammunition depots, $12,446,480. Ammunition for vessels: For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ammunition for vessels, $40,146,120: Provided, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $15,146,120 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made. Batteries and outfits for vessels: For batteries and outfits for naval vessels, auxiliaries, patrols, aircraft, naval stations, and merchantAdditional contracts. men, $50,059,523.50: Provided, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $28,059,523.50 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made. Reserve supplies. Reserve ordnance supplies: For reserve and miscellaneous ordnance Additional contracts. Supplies, $47,500,000: Provided, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $17,500,000 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made. Naval Gun Factory, D. C. Armor and projectile plant, W. Va." Washington, District of Columbia, Naval Gun Factory: For tools and machinery plant, $2,500,000. Fuel lands for armor and projectile plants: For the investigation Option for fuel lands. and acquisition of options to mineral rights on about twenty-six thousand acres of gas and oil lands in the State of West Virginia, located within reasonable distance of the Government armor plant, $25,000. Bureau of Yards and Docks. Maintenance. Contingent. Public works. Temporary hospitals, etc. marine base. BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS. Maintenance: For general maintenance of yards and docks, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $1,500,000. Contingent: For contingent expenses and minor extensions and improvements of public works at navy yards and stations, $1,000,000. PUBLIC WORKS, BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS. Hospital construction: For temporary hospital construction and repairs, as may be necessary, at points not provided with suitable hospital facilities, and for buildings for naval medical supplies, $2,000,000. New London sub- New London, Connecticut, submarine base: For the acquisition, by Additional lands for. purchase or condemnation, of the tract of land, comprising approximately twenty-six and eighty-eight one-hundredths acres, owned by the C. M. Shay Fertilizer Company, in the immediate vicinity of the property now owned and occupied by the United States as a submarine base at New London, Connecticut, including all easements, rights of way, riparian and other rights appurtenant thereto, $90,000. Washington, District of Columbia, Navy Yard: For yard improvements, $5,000,000. Washington, D. C. Training camps. Marine railways. Ordnance stations. Handling appliances: For three fifty-ton cranes for use at navy yards, $450,000. Training camps: For construction and equipment of training camps, including the rental of land, $6,000,000. Marine railways: For marine railways at navy yards and stations, $375,000. Ordnance stations: For improvements at stations under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Ordnance, $2,250,000. The appropriation of $10,000 for expenses of a commission of naval officers to investigate the question of navy yards and naval stations, contained in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, is continued and made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen. Naval Operating Base, Hampton Roads, Virginia: For cold Hampton Roads, Va. storage, $300,000. Temporary storage: For temporary storage, $1,000,000. BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS. Maintenance: For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $4,500,000. BUREAU OF STEAM ENGINEERING. Temporary storage. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. Bureau of Steam Engineering. Engineering repairs, ENGINEERING: For repairs, preservation, and renewal of ma- machinery, etc. chinery, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, and the deficiency appropriation Act approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $10,000,000. For additional amount for the establishment of a high-power radio station on the island of Porto Rico, $200,000. NAVAL ACADEMY. For pay of professors and instructors, including one professor as librarian, $18,900. MARINE CORPS. QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT. Clothing: For noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, authorized by law, $2,650,000. Repairs of barracks: For repairs of barracks, Marine Corps, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $500,000. INCREASE OF THE NAVY. Porto Rico radio station. Naval Academy. Professors, etc. Marine Corps. Quartermaster's De partment. Clothing. Repairs of barracks. Increase of the Navy. Torpedo-boat de- For acquiring and providing facilities for the expeditious construc- stroyers. tion of additional torpedo-boat destroyers, and for each and every tious construction of purpose connected therewith, and toward their construction, to cost additional. in all not more than $350,000,000, $225,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended at the direction and in the discretion of the President. Acquisition of lands Vol. 39, p. 1193. The President is hereby authorized and empowered, within the etc., for construction. amount hereinbefore authorized, to acquire or provide facilities additional to those now in existence for the construction of torpedoboat destroyers, their hulls, machinery, and appurtenances, including the immediate taking over for the United States of the possession of and title to land, its appurtenances and improvements, which he may find necessary in this connection. That if said lands and appurtenances and improvements shall be taken over as aforesaid, the United States shall make just compensation therefor, to be determined by the President, and if the amount thereof, so determined by the President, is unsatisfactory to the person entitled to receive the same, such person shall be paid seventyfive per centum of the amount so determined by the President and Compensation. Suit, etc., if amount unsatisfactory. shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum as added to said seventy-five per centum will make up such amount as will be just compensation therefor, in the manner provided for by Vol. 36, pp. 1093, 1136. section twenty-four, paragraph twenty, section one hundred and forty-five of the Judicial Code. Procedure. Title to vest immediately. Interior Department. Contingent expenses. Rent. Public buildings. New Department Building. ees, Upon the taking over of said property by the President as aforesaid the title to all property so taken over shall immediately vest in the United States. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. CONTINGENT EXPENSES. For rent of quarters for department trucks, and for the accommodation of the Patent Office models now stored on reservation thirteen in the District of Columbia and for necessary expenses, including labor of removal of the models and their storage, $2,300. PUBLIC BUILDINGS. Interior Department Building (New): For additional employees Additional employ- from October first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, 1918. Courthouse, D. C. Repairs to temporary quarters. nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation as follows: For three substation operators at $1,200 each and three assistant substation operators at $900 each, $4,725. Courthouse, Washington, District of Columbia: For general repairs to the temporary quarters (known as the Emery Building) occupied by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia during the reconstruction of the courthouse, $2,000, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds and Half from District to be payable one-half out of the Treasury of the United States and one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. revenues. General Land Office. Filing cases. Public lands. Oregon and California railroad land suits. Bay Road lands. GENERAL LAND OFFICE. For the purchase or construction, including necessary labor, of filing cases for photolithographic copies of township plats, $10,600. PUBLIC LAND SERVICE. The appropriation of $25,000 for the protection of lands involved Protection of Coos in the Oregon and California forfeiture suit, contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, is also made available for the protection of the lands known as the Coos Bay Wagon Road lands involved in the case of Southern Oregon Company versus United States, together with the additional sum of $10,000. Patent Office. Additional employees, 1918. Alaska. Alaska Engineering Commission. PATENT OFFICE. For additional employees from October first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation as follows: Examiner of interferences, $2,700; examiners-two principals at $2,700 each, four first assistants at $2,400 each, four second assistants at $2,100 each, four third assistants at $1,800 each, four fourth assistants at $1,500 each, five clerks of class one; two laborers at $600 each; in all, $34,875. TERRITORY OF ALASKA. Alaska Engineering Commission: For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March twelfth, nineteen hundred and fourteen . Constructing rail roads, etc. (Thirty-eighth Statutes, page three hundred and five) entitled "An Act to authorize the President of the United States to locate, construct, and operate railroads in the Territory of Alaska, and for other. purposes," $4,000,000, to continue available until expended. Authority is granted to expend from the appropriations for the Motor vehicle. construction and operation of railroads in Alaska, not exceeding $750, for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled, passenger-carrying vehicle for official use of the Alaskan Engineering Commission at Seattle, Washington. Care and custody of insane, Alaska: For care and custody of persons legally adjudged insane in Alaska, including transportation and other expenses, $29,000. SAINT ELIZABETHS HOSPITAL. Care of insane. Saint Elizabeths Hospital, D. C. Additional build For the construction, equipment, and furnishing of such semi- ings. permanent buildings at Saint Elizabeths Hospital as may be required to provide additional accommodations for patients, $200,000. Transfers to other The Secretary of War is authorized, during the existing emergency, hospitals. to transfer to the various public hospitals for the care of the insane, patients of every class entitled to treatment in Saint Elizabeths Hospital and that are admitted on order of the Secretary of War. Transfer of insane tals. The Secretary of War is authorized to transfer from any military patients from military hospital to the nearest available public hospital for the care of the to other public hospiinsane any insane patient who is in need of treatment, preference being given to the hospital nearest to the place of the patient's enlistment. The superintendent of such public hospital shall possess intendents. the right to retain the aforementioned class of patients in his hospital in the same manner and to the same extent as now possessed by the Superintendent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital. Authority of super beths. appropria The Superintendent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital, with the approval Payment from Conof the Secretary of the Interior, shall transfer to the various public tions for Saint Elizahospitals out of the various appropriations made by Congress for the support and treatment of patients in Saint Elizabeths Hospital a sum sufficient to pay for the support and treatment of patients sent to public hospitals as herein provided, based upon the per capita cost of maintenance in Saint Elizabeths Hospital, said payment not to exceed at any time the exact cost of support and treatment of such patients. The Secretary of War is authorized to grant a revocable permit to claimed, Anacostia the Saint Elizabeths Hospital for the use of such portions of land as are at present not under lease and such other portions thereof as leases thereof expire, of that portion of land lying along Anacostia Flats which has been reclaimed by the War Department and is valuable for farming purposes. Permit to use reFlats lands. Admission of insane Interned persons and prisoners of war, under the jurisdiction of prisoners of war, etc. the War Department, who are or may become insane hereafter shall be entitled to admission for treatment to Saint Elizabeths Hospital. COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF. For additional amount for the removal of the college women's dormitory, and the construction, equipment, and furnishing of a new dormitory, necessary repairs, or replacement of walks and grading of grounds adjacent to said dormitory, including all material, personal and other services, and for each and every purpose in connection therewith, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, $21,000. Columbia Institution for the Deaf. New dormitory, etc. |