Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 36 Part 1.djvu/1311

 SIXTY-FIRSIT CONGRESS. sms. III. cs. 239. 1911. 1287 barrows, 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; post stam s for foreign postage; purchase of books, newspapers, aridgperiodicals improving parade grounds; repair of pumps and wharves· laying dram, water, and gas pipes; water, introducing gas, and for gas gas orl, and introduction and maintenance of electric lights; straw for beddmg, 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 oF:icers’ allowance of baggage on c ange of station; and for all emergencies and extraordmary expenses arising at home and abroad, but impossible to anticipate or classify, four hundred and fort —five thousand dollars. Provided, That the accounting officers of the Treasury are herebv Pfmwauthorized and directed to remove any disallowances or suspensions iiiiiiii¤$iu¤g' °ig} in the accounts of Disbursipg Assistant Quartermasters, United States §"$§’d“°· °‘°·· '°‘ Marine Corps, for the iisc years of nineteen hundred and ten and it mneteen hundred and eleven, for the urchase, maintenance, repair and operation of motor and other vehiclbs, including the purchase and repair of harness, stable equipment and accessories of the Quartermaster’s Department, United States Marine Corps, when approved by the Secretary of the Navy as necessary for the public service. Total under uartermaster, Marine Co s three million ninety-two thousand threeqhundred and fifty-seven dldllars. Total Marine Corps, exclusive of public works, seven millionthree hundred and seventy-two thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight dollars and twenty-eight cents. _ _ HCREASE gp THE NAvY_ IncreaseoftbeN¤vy. That, for the pu ose of further increasing the Naval Establish- ago ¤*M1¤¤ Mr ment of the United States, the President is hereby authorized to have p8` constructed two iirst-class battleships, each carrying as heav armor and as powerful armament as any vessel of its class, to have the highest practicable s d and the greatest practicable radius of action, and to cost, exciiigive of armor and armament, not to exceed six million dollars each. Two fleet colliers, of fourteen knots trial s eed when c ing not Two ¤eencc11ms. less than twelve thousand five hundred tons ol) cargo and btiiiilier coal, to cost not to exceed one million dollars each. Eivht torpedo—boat destroyers, to have the highest practicable d£t¤¤_gg¤¢e tvrpvdvbvst speed), and to cost not to exceed eight hundred and twenty-five thou- Y "` sand dollars each. _ _ Four submarine torpedo boats, rn an amount not exceeding in the ,,0*§‘,‘{l;’“°’*¤° ‘°¤>°"<> egate two million dollars, and the sum of eight hundred thousand Appropriation. dollars is hereby appropriated for said punpose: Promded, That no rxguetbumcrxaay part of this appropriation shall be expende for the construction of "°“"*°“°¤- any boat by any person, firm or corporation which has not at the time of the commencement and construction of said vessels established an eight·hour workday for all employees, laborers and mechanics engaged, or to be engaged in the construction of the vessels named herein. One submarine tender, to cost not to exceed five hundred thousand ggglpggggzgxdsfdollars, and the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated toward said purpose. One Eunboat, to cost, exclusive o armor and armament, not to G¤¤*>°¤¤· exceed ve hundred thousand dollars. _ One river gunboat, to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not R“’°‘ g¤¤'>°•*~ to exceed two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. _ Two seagoing tugs, to cost not to exceed two hundred and fifteen S°’*¤°m¤*“8*· thousand ollars each. `