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 SIXTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 130. 1914. 413 and maintenance of such harness, wagons, motor wagons, carts, drays and other vehicles as are Irgguired for the transportation of troops and sup)p‘lies and for onicial tary and garrison purposes; purchase of pu `c horses and mules; services of veterinary surgeons, and medicines for public animals, and the authorized number of officers’ horses; purchase of mounts and horse equipment for all onicers below the grade of major reguired to be mounted; shoeing for public animals and the authorize number of onicers’ horses; urchase and re air of hose, nre extinguishers, handgrenades, carts, wheelbarrows, and lawn mowers; (purchase, installation, and relpair of cooking and heating stoves an furnaces; purchase of towe, soap, combs, and brushes for onices; postage stamps for foreign and registered postage; books, newspapers, and periodicals; improving dparade grounds; repair of pumps and wharves; water; straw for be ding, mattresses; mattress covers, pillows, sheets; furniture for Government qbuarters and repair · of same; packing and crating ofncers’ allowance of aggage on change of station; deo orizers, lubricants, disinfectants; an or all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but impossible to anticipate or classify, $460,000. n all, for the maintenance of Quartermaster’ s Department, Marine m§°“&n°$$*,•;¤¤* md Corps, $3,000,000; and the money herein sipecincally appfppriated for ` the maintenance of the Quartermastefs epartment, rine Corps, shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law as maintenance, §uartern1aster’s Department, Marine Corps, and for that purme sha constitute one fund. ` Total rine Corps, exclusive of public works, $7,345,469.%. mcnnasn on ren Navy. !¤¤¤¤¤¤<>f¢¤¤N¤w- That for the gmrpcse of further increasing the Naval Establishment ,,§£“S“'“°“°¤°“°h°" of the United tates, the President is here y authorized to have con- mmgm urswlass structed two nrst-class battleshi carrying as heavy armor and as .1¤os¢,p?il5. powerful armament as any vesselsof their class, to have the highest practicable speed and greatest desirable radius of action, and to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not to exceed $7,800,000 each. One of the battleships herebiy authorized shall be built and constructed °°° °" ““>’ Y*“d· at a Government navy yar. Six torpedo-boat destroyers, to have the highest practicable speed, s,§,‘;,QfP°"°·”°°‘°°‘ to plost, exclusive of armor and armament, not to exceed $925,000 eac . Eight or more submarines, one to be of seagoing type to have a sur- ¤¤¤¢¤¤b¤¤·¤¤¤¤· face speed of not less than twenty knots, seven or more to be of coast and harbor defense type· to cost not exceeding in the a¥regate §‘§’,§:.,,,,,,,t,,,,,_ $4,460,000, ind thelsgpi of gd.,825,00i(:1s heTr]e1by appropriated or (paid U { mm ose to eavaia eun' e n . eappropriationma em =¤¤¤ wvu ¤ lzliginavzil Act approved March fbiiiith, nineteen hundred and thirteen f°irKili+.`i$%ll;¤K£ l°°°' "Wrecking pontoon: For construction or purchase of a testing and wrecking pontoon for submarines to be available until expended, $300,000,’ is hereby made available until expended for the construction of said eight or more submarine boats. · nm mmefm Three of the cout-defense submarine torpedo boats herein author- mtmsgmsmmtunt ized shall be built on the Pacino coast: Provided, That the cost of con- °°,};§§%_f‘,§ °°°·“- struction on the Pacific coast does not exceed the cost of construction Cost r¤s¤·i¤¤¤¤. on the Atlantic coast plus the cost of transportation from the Atlantic Four mm my to the Pacino; and the Secretary of the Navy is requested to consider mmm mr ours coast the advisability of stationing the four small submarine tmgpedo boats "°‘°“’°· herein authorized on the coast of the United States in e Gulf of Mexico as a proper naval defense thereof. _ _ Dismum mm Hereafter there shall be charged ainst the several aapglroprrations me exams at yards for the supgrt of the Naval Estabh;§men' t the overhe urges incl- ‘“" ’““"’“* dent to up ep and to industrial work at navy yards and stations.