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 FIFl`Y—NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 2512. 1907. 1195 receiving clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one shippin clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant clerk, at one thousand dollars; two store men, at nine hundred dollars each; in all, fifteen thousand eight hundred dollars. Navy-yar, Puget Sound, Washington: In general storehouses: One P¤zers¤·md.w¤h. principal clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, two thousand four hundred dollars; one bill clerk, one thousand dollars; one receiving clerk, one thousand dollars; one shi ing clerk, one thousand dollars; in all, six thousand eight hundred didllars; Naval station, Key West, Florida: One clerk one thousand two Key W¤¤¤.F1¤» hundred dollars; in all, one thousand two hundred dollars; In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, one hundred and three thousand nine hundred and seventy-eight dollars and thirty-four cents; and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. BUREAU or CONSTRUCTION AND nmrum. _ ,,£]“[$,‘{{’,g_’,§If_*;{_{¤*’"° CoNs’rnUcr‘r0N AND REPAIR or vEssE1.s: For preservation and com- ssihhigtiiiziligsiig pletion of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; steam steerers, pneumatic steerers, steam capstans, steam windlasses and all other auxiliaries; labor in navy- yards and on foreign stations; purchase of machinery and tools for. use in shops; carrying on work of experimental model tank; designin naval vessels; construction and repair of yard craft, lighters, and barges; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat; general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; incidental expenses for vessels and navy-yards, iuspectors’ offices, such as advertising, foreign postage, telegrams, telephone service, photographing, books, professional magazines, plans, stationery, and instruments for drafting room, seven million nine hundred thousand dollars: _ P1-ovided, That no part of this sum shall be applied to the repair of ,*7,-’g'§d"§,§,mP,_ any wooden ship, when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers shall exceed ten pe1· centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material: Prwided fin·ther, That °"‘°’“*""‘ no part of this sum shall be applied to the repair of any other ship when the estimated cost 0 such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed twenty percentum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material: Provider], That nothing herein duiyvurj <>; =·!;1r·¤ contained shall de rive the Secretary of the Navy of the authority wtléii. " mg" to order repairs ofp ships damaged in foreign waters or on the high seas, so far as may be necessary to bring them home: And prm·z`¢{e¢i ' fm·t}»m·, That the Secretary of the Navy shall hereafter report to Con- ,£jggj**j,g¤P¤¤*°d gress, at the commencement of each regular session. the number of vessels and their names uplon which any repairs or changes are proposed which in any case s all amount to more than two hundred thousand dollars, the extent of such proposed repairs or changes, and the amounts estimated to be needed for the same in each vessel; and expenditures for such repairs or changes so limited shall be made only after appropriations in detail are provided for by Congress. IMPROVEMENT OF CONSTRUCTION PLANTS: Construction plant, navy- ggm§$g”Qj*§f$· yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Repairs to, and improvements of, ` plant at navy-yard, Portsmouth. New Hampshire, nfteen thousand dollars. . Construction plant, navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Repairs to, B°¤°°¤· Mm and improvement of, plant at navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts, twenty thousand dollars. ..