Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 38 Part 1.djvu/969

 SIXTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. IH. Ch. 83. 1915. 95], the place of demise to the homes of the deceased in the United States; stationery and other paper, printing and binding; telegraphing, rent of telephones; purchase, repair, and exchange of tylpgwriters; apprehension of str lers and deserters; per diem of e ted men employed on constaiiiiabor for periods of not less than ten days; employment of civilian labor; purchase, repair, and installation and maintenance of as, electric, sewer, and water pipes and nxtures; office and barraciis furniture, camp and garrison equipage and implements; mess utensils for enlisted men; packing boxes, wrapping pzper, oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, quarantine fees, camphor and oar o` ed paper, carpenters tools, tools for police purposes, safes; purchase, repair, and maintenance of such ha.rness, wagons, motor wagons, carts, drays, motor- ropelled and horse-drawn passengler-carrying vehicles, to be used only for onicial purposes, and other vehicles as are requiredvfor the transportation of troops and suplplies and for official military and arrison purposes; purchase of plub c horses and mules; services og veterinary surgeons, and me `cines for public animals, and the authorized number of oi·ncers’ horses; {purchase of mounts and horse equipment for all officers below the gra e of major required to be mounted; shoeing for public animals and the authorized number of officers’ horses; purchase and repair of hose, nre extinguishers, hand grenades, carts, wheelbarrows, and lawn mowers· urchase, installation, and repair of cooking and heating stoves and lfurnaces; purchase of towels, soap, combs and brushes for ofnces; postage stamps for foreign and registered postage; books, newspapers, and periodicals; improving parade grounds; repair of pumps and wharves; water; straw for bedding, mattresses; mattress covers, {pillows, sheets; furniture for Government quarters and repair o same; packing and crating oincers’ allowance of baggage on change of station; eodorizers, lubricants, disinfeotants; an or all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but impossible to anticipate or classify, $460,000. In all, for the maintenance of Q\18I't•B1’]I18St»B1" s Department, Marine ,,§,’,,i$’,‘§§§f""‘° "‘° Corps, $3,000,000; and the money herein specincally appro riated for the maintenance of the Quartermasters Department, gdarine Corps, shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law as maintenance, guartermastefs Department, Manne Co, and for that purpose sha constitute one fun. md Marine Corps, exclusive of public works, $7,510,834.33. rucnnasn or rrm rmvr. I“°'°”"°°'“”N‘”· That for the purpose of further increasing the Naval Establishment ,_h§§,';f,‘d'f‘°“°“ "" of the United States the President is hereby authorized to have um ¤r¤t-¢i¤=¤ M- constructed two nrst-class battleships, carrying as heavy armor and Ps' as powerful armament as any vessel of 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. Six torpedo—boat destroyers, to have a speed of not less than thirty m§j;8*l_gfP°d°b°¤* ds knots dper hour and to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not to excee $925,000 each. _ Provided, That three of said torpedo-boat destroyers herein author- @?“$b, bunt 0, ized shall be built on the Pacino coast: Prowkie further, That the Y¤¤c°*§gr9;=§{&t,0n_ cost of construction on the Pacino coast does not exceed the cost of construction on the Atlantic coast plus the cost of transportation from the Atlantic to the Pacino. _ Two submarines to be of seagoing type to have a surface speed of mQfQ§,{’,;°"g°‘”g ‘“"' twenty-nve knots or more if possib e, but not less than twenty