Ordnance Office. em The Chief of Ordnance of the United States Army is authorized to employ in the District of Columbia, out of the appropriations made ployees authorized in. in this Act for designing, procuring, caring for, and supplying ordnance and ordnance stores to the Army, such services, other than clerical, as are necessary for carrying out these purposes. FORTIFICATIONS AND OTHER WORKS OF DEFENSE. ENGINEER DEPARTMENT. For construction of gun and mortar batteries, $2,500,000. For construction and protection of fire-control stations and accessories, including purchase of lands and rights of way, purchase and installation of necessary lines and means of electrical communication, including telephones, dial and other telegraphs, wiring and all special instruments, apparatus, and materials, coast signal apparatus, and salaries of electrical experts, engineers, and other necessary employees connected with the use of coast artillery; purchase, manufacture, and test of range finders and other instruments for fire control at the fortifications, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $3,147,225. For installation and replacement of electric light and power plants at seacoast fortifications, $1,700,000. Fortifications. Engineer Depart ment. Gun and mortar bat teries. Fire-control stations. Range finders. Electric plants. For purchase and installation of searchlights for seacoast defenses, Searchlights. including searchlights for antiaircraft defense and accessories therefor, $5,900,000. For construction of mining casemates, cable galleries, torpedo etorpedo structures, storehouses, cable tanks, and other structures necessary for the operation, preservation, and care of submarine mines and their accessories, and for providing channels for access to torpedo wharves, $500,000. Land defenses, con For the construction of land defenses in the United States, includ- struction, etc. ing the procurement of equipment and materials required therefor, the construction and repair of roads required for military purposes, and the procurement and installation of searchlights, $2,000,000. For contingent expenses incident to the construction of seacoast fortifications and their accessories, $1,000,000. ARMAMENT OF FORTIFICATIONS. Contingent expenses. Armament. Mountain, field, and Proviso. For purchase, manufacture, and test of mountain, field, and siege siege cannon. cannon, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $155,000,000: Provided, That the Chief of Ordnance, United States Contracts authorized. Army, is authorized to enter into contracts, or otherwise incur obligations, for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $40,000,000, in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made. For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for mountain, field, and siege cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, $367,000,000. Ammunition. Seacoast cannon. Proviso. For purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon for coast defense, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $7,950,000: Provided, That the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is authorized to enter into contracts, or otherwise incur obligations, for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $8,000,000, in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made. For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast ernizing projectiles, etc. cannon, and for modernizing projectiles on hand, including the 100768°-65-1-14 Ammunition, mod Proviso. necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery Contracts authorized. necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, $12,255,000: Provided, That the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is authorized to enter into contracts, or otherwise incur obligations, for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $6,000,000, in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made. Ammunition, etc., for practice. Altering, etc., mobile artillery. Ammunition, etc., for field, etc., artillery practice. Altering, etc., seacoast artillery. Proving grounds. Current expenses, etc. For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition, subcaliber guns, and other accessories for seacoast artillery practice, including the machinery necessary for the manufacture at the arsenals, $2,000,000. For alteration and maintenance of the mobile artillery, including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and material necessary for the work and the expenses of the mechanics engaged thereon, $25,000,000. For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition, subcaliber guns, and other accessories for mountain, field, and siege artillery practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $9,000,000. For alteration and maintenance of seacoast artillery, including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, materials necessary for the work, and expenses of civilian mechanics and extra-duty pay of enlisted men engaged thereon, $3,000,000. PROVING GROUNDS. For current expenses of the ordnance proving grounds, comprising the maintenance of rail and water transportation, repairs, alterations, accessories, and service of employees incidental to testing and proving ordnance material, hire of assistants for the Ordnance Board, purchase of instruments and articles required for testing and experimental work, building and repairing butts and targets, clearing and Temporary employ. grading ranges, $600,000. ment, etc. Submarine mines. Mines, nets for closing channels, etc. For necessary expenses of officers not occupying public quarters at the proving grounds, while employed on ordnance duty thereat, at the rate of $2.50 per diem while so employed, and the compensation of draftsmen while employed in the Army Ordnance Bureau on ordnance construction work, $100,000. SUBMARINE MINES. For purchase of submarine mines and nets and necessary appliances to operate them for closing the channels leading to our principal seaMaintenance of sup- ports, and for continuing torpedo experiments, $2,926,330. plies, etc. torpedo depot. For maintenance of submarine mine matériel within the limits of Fort Totten, N. Y., Continental United States; purchase of necessary machinery, tools, and implements for the repair shop of the torpedo depot at Fort Totten, New York; extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods of not less than ten days in connection with the issue, receipt, and care of submarine mining matériel at the torpedo depot; and for torpedo-depot administration, $500,000. Insular possessions. Ordnance Depart ment. Seacoast cannon. Ammunition. FORTIFICATIONS IN INSULAR POSSESSIONS. ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT. For purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon for coast defenses, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $1,060,000. For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, $5,100,000: Provided, That the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $2,550,000 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made. Contracts authorized. Altering, etc., sea For alteration and maintenance of the seacoast artillery, including coast cannon. the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work, and expenses of the civilian mechanics, and extra-duty pay of enlisted men engaged thereon, $700,000. etc. Submarine mines, For purchase of submarine mines and nets and necessary appliances nets to close channels, to operate them for closing the channels leading to seaports in the insular possessions, $23,000. For maintenance of the submarine-mine matériel in the insular possessions, $50,000. Maintenance of mine supplies. Material to be of American manufac All material purchased under the appropriations in this Act for the Ordnance Department of the United States Army shall be of American ture." manufacture, except in cases when, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, it is to the manifest interest of the United States to make purchases in limited quantities abroad, which material shall be admitted free of duty. PANAMA CANAL FORTIFICATIONS. Panama Canal. For fortifications and armament thereof for the Panama Canal, Fortifications, etc. namely: Seacoast batteries. For the construction of seacoast batteries on the Canal Zone, $5,000; For land defenses, Panama Canal, including the procurement and Land defensos. installation of searchlights, purchase of armored cars and locomotives, construction of roads and surveys incidental thereto, $29,500; For the purchase and installation of electric light and power plants Electric plants. for the seacoast fortifications on the Canal Zone, $55,000; For the purchase and installation of searchlights for the seacoast fortifications on the Canal Zone, $78,774; Searchlights. For the purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon for Seacoast cannon. coast defense, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $1,775,000; For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast and land-defense cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, $1,415,000; Ammunition. etc., seacoast artillery. For alteration, maintenance, and installation of the seacoast artil- Altering, installing, lery, including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work, and expenses of civilian mechanics, and extra-duty pay of enlisted men engaged thereon, $665,000; Submarine mines, For purchase of submarine mines and nets and the necessary nets to close channels, appliances to operate them for closing the channels leading to the etc. Panama Canal, $250,000; For alteration, maintenance, and repair of submarine mine Mine supplies. matériel, $47,500; Ordnance depot, Panama Canal: For an additional amount for a building for storing lumber, targets, and so forth, $200; In all, specifically for fortifications and armament thereof for the Panama Canal, $4,320,974. STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDINGS. Ordnance depot. State, War, and Navy Department Buildings. Additional watch For thirty-two additional watchmen at the rate of $720 each per men, 1917 and 1918. annum, from May first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, $26,880. Distribution. Proviso. ployees, etc. For additional employees during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, at annual rates of compensation, as follows: Assistant superintendent, $2,000, in lieu of a clerk of class three, provided for in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen; ten elevator conductors, at $720 each; eight laborers, at $660 each; six firemen, at $720 each; two skilled laborers, at $840 each; in all, $20,480. Navy Department Annex (New York Avenue near Seventeenth Street): For additional employees during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, at annual rates of compensation as follows: Two firemen at $720 each; two elevator conductors at $720 each; skilled laborer at $840; in all, $3,720. NAVY DEPARTMENT. For the employment of such additional temporary force of clerks, messengers, laborers, and other assistants as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy may be necessary to the transaction of official business in the Navy Department and its bureaus and offices on account of the existing emergency, as follows: Office of the Secretary, $15,000; Office of the Solicitor, $1,804; Office of the Judge Advocate General, $21,500; Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, $100,000; Office of Naval Intelligence, $5,634; Hydrographic Office, $50,000; Naval Observatory, $11,620; Bureau of Steam Engineering, $22,000; Bureau of Construction and Repair, $72,660; Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $12,000; Bureau of Yards and Docks, $40,000; Bureau of Navigation, $70,200; Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $65,120; In all, $499,038: Provided, That the Secretary of the Navy shall Statement of em- submit to Congress on the first day of its next regular session a statement showing, by bureaus or offices, the number and designation of the persons employed hereunder and the annual rate of compensation paid to each. Contingent expenses. Additional rent. Printing and binding. Hydrographic Office. Materials, etc. CONTINGENT EXPENSES. For stationery, furniture, newspapers, plans, drawings, drawing materials, horses and wagons to be used only for official purposes, including rental of stable, street car tickets not exceeding $250, freight, expressage, postage, typewriters and computing machines, and other absolutely necessary expenses of the Navy Department and its various bureaus and offices, $168,300; it shall not be lawful to expend, for any of the offices or bureaus of the Navy Department at Washington any sum out of appropriations made for the Naval Establishment for any of the purposes mentioned or authorized in this peragraph. For rental of additional quarters for the Navy Department, $79,650. For printing and binding for the Navy Department, including not exceeding $15,000 for the Hydrographic Office, to be executed under the Public Printer, $100,000. HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE. For purchase and printing of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions; copperplates, steel plates, chart paper, packing boxes, chart portfolios, electrotyping copperplates, cleaning copperplates; tools, instruments, power, and materials for drawing, engraving, and printing; materials for and mounting charts; reduction of charts by photography; photolithographing charts for immediate use; transfer of photolithographic and other charts to copper; care and repairs to printing presses, furniture, instruments, and tools, including the purchase of such additional printing presses as may be necessary; extra drawing and engraving; translating from foreign languages; telegrams on public business; preparation of Pilot Charts and their supplements, and printing and mailing same; purchase of data for charts and sailing directions and other nautical publications; books of reference and works and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, and to other professional and technical subjects connected with the work of the Hydrographic Office, $30,000. NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT. Pilot Charts, etc. penses. ex For commissions and interests; transportation of funds; exchange; Miscellaneous 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 actual traveling expenses of female nurses; actual expenses of officers while on shore patrol duty; mileage to officers of the Naval Reserve Force traveling under orders of the Secretary of the Navy; hire of launches or other small boats in Asiatic waters; for rent of buildings and offices not in navy yards, including the rental of offices in the District of Columbia; 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; expenses of naval defense districts; stationery and recording; religious books; newspapers and periodicals for the naval service; all advertising for the Navy Department and its bureaus (except advertising for recruits for the Bureau of Navigation); copying; ferriage; tolls; 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, including maintenance of students and attachés; information abroad. from abroad and at home, and the collection and classification thereof; all charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus for ice for the cooling of drinking water on shore (except at naval hospitals), telephone rentals and tolls, telegrams, cablegrams, and postage, foreign and domestic, and post-office box rentals; and other necessary and incidental expenses: Provided, That the sum to be paid Clerical, etc., services out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the at yards and stations. Navy, for clerical, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, Interned prisoners of naval stations, shall not exceed $150,000, and for necessary expenses war, etc. for the interned persons and prisoners of war under the jurisdiction of the Navy Department, including funeral expenses for such interned persons or prisoners of war as may die while under such jurisdiction; in all, $1,801,500. AVIATION: For aviation, including not to exceed $150,000 for the purchase of land, and for procuring, producing, constructing, operating, preserving, storing, and handling aircraft, including rigid dirigibles, and appurtenances, maintenance of aircraft stations and experimental work in development of aviation for naval purposes, Information from Proviso. Aviation. General expenses. |