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448 448 (3) supplies and services, including overhauling, repairs, alterations, and installation of equipment, if funds to cover the estimated cost thereof have been made available in advance, (b) Payments for the supplies and services furnished under clauses (1) and (2) of subsection (a) may be credited to current appropriations so as to be available for the same purposes as the appropriation initially charged. § 7228. Merchant vessels: supplies (a) The Secretary of the Navy, under such regulations as he prescribes, may sell to a merchant ship such fuel and other supplies as may be required to meet its necessities if the ship is unable— (1) to procure the supplies from other sources at its present location; and (2) to proceed to the nearest port where they may be obtained without endangering the safety of the ship, the health and comfort of its personnel, or the safe condition of the property carried on e; it. (b) Sales under this section shall be at such prices as the Secretary considers reasonable. Payment shall be made on a cash basis or on such other basis as will reasonably assure prompt payment. Amounts received from such a sale shall, unless otherwise directed by another provision of law, be credited to the current appropriation concerned and are available for the same purposes as that appropriation. §7229. Purchase of fuel I n buying fuel, the Secretary of the Navy may, in any manner he considers proper, buy the kind of fuel that is best adapted to the purpose for which it is to be used. CHAPTER 633.—NAVAL VESSELS Sec.

7291. 7292. 7293. 7294. 7295. 7296. 7297. 7298. 7299. 7300. 7301. 7302. 7303. 7304. 7305. 7306. 7307. 7308.

Classification. Naming. Number in service in time of peace. Suspension of construction in case of treaty. Vessels: under-age. Appropriations: available for other purposes. Changing category or type: limitations. Conversion of combatants and auxiliaries. Contracts: application of Public Contracts Act. Contracts for construction: profit limitation. Bids on construction: estimates required. Construction on Pacific Coast. Model basin; investigation of hull designs. Examination by board: unfit vessel stricken from Naval Vessel Register. Sale of vessel stricken from Naval Vessel Register. Use for experimental purposes. Restriction on disposal. Transfer or gift of obsolete, condemned, or captured vessels.

§ 7291. Classification The President may establish, and from time to time modify, as the needs of the service require, a classification of naval vessels. § 7292. Naming (a) Not more than one vessel of the Navy may have the same name. (b) Each battleship shall be named for a State. However, if the

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