Pay accounts. Provisos. Militia expenses. Fifty second lieutenants, seventy-five thousand dollars. Noncommissioned officers and privates, fifty companies, four hundred and ninety-six thousand four hundred and forty dollars. All the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the Army and miscellaneous shall be disbursed and accounted for by officers of the Pay Department as pay of the Army, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund: Provided, That hereafter all payments to the militia under the provisions of section fifteen of the Act of Congress approved January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three, and all allowances for mileage shall be made solely from the sums herein appropriated for such purRecord, etc., poses: And provided further, That all the accounts of Paymaster individual paymasters shall be analyzed under the several General. heads of the appropriation and recorded in detail by the Paymaster-General of the Army before said accounts are forwarded to the Treasury Department for final audit. of accounts by Philippine Is lands. BARRACKS AND QUARTERS, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: ConBuildings, etc. tinuing the work of providing for the proper shelter and protection of officers and enlisted men of the Army of the United States lawfully on duty in the Philippine Islands, including the acquisition of title to building sites when necessary, and including also shelter for the animals and supplies, and all other buildings necessary for post administration purposes, three hundred and sixty-five thousand five hundred and ninety dollars. Sale of transports restrict ed. Alaska. Road, Valdez TRANSPORTATION OF THE ARMY AND ITS SUPPLIES: * * * * For a survey and estimate of cost of a wagon road from to Fort Egbert. Valdez to Fort Egbert on the Yukon River, to be made under the direction of the Secretary of War, twenty-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available; said survey and estimate, herein provided, shall be submitted to Congress at the earliest practicable day. Yukon River Trail between For surveying and locating a military trail, under the and Coldfoot. direction of the Secretary of War, by the shortest and most practicable route, between the Yukon River and Coldfoot, on the Koyukuk River, twenty-five hundred dollars, to be immediately available, and a report and estimate upon said trail to be submitted to Congress at the earliest practicable day. stores trans ippines. All funds received as the value of military stores trans- Funds from ferred by the several staff departments of the Army to ferred to Philthe Insular Department of the Philippines shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States and remain available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five for the procurement of like military stores to replace those so transferred. with Philip ment for The Secretary of War is authorized, if in his judgment Settlement the conclusion be an equitable one, to declare the existing pine governopen accounts between the civil government of the Phil- launches transippine Islands and the Government of the United States ferred. to be settled and satisfied and to direct the transfer of the title of the following launches: The Lexington, Leader, Frankfort, San Antonio, Guy Howard, Ogden, Sultana, Troy, Philadelphia, Johnny, Q. M. D., Julia Suerte, and Pittsburg to the Philippine government, and to direct that the same be dropped from the returns of the Quar termaster's Department. The order of the Secretary of Closing of acWar in this behalf, with respect to the accounts of the counts. Ordnance, the Subsistence, the Quartermaster's, and the Signal Corps shall be taken as a balancing and final adjustment and settlement of such accounts. CHAP. 1622.-An Act Making appropriations for the naval Apr. 27, 1904. service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hun- [H. R. 12220.] dred and five, and for other purposes. [Public, No. Naval service Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- pt. 1, p. 324. tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriations. appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the naval service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, and for other purposes. Naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: One master Cavite, P. I. electrician, at six dollars per diem (in lieu of one electrician, at five dollars and four cents per diem, now appropriated for), one thousand eight hundred and seventy eight dollars; one clerk, one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight dollars; P. R. San Juan, Naval station, San Juan, Porto Rico: One clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; one writer, commandant's office, nine hundred and sixty dollars; one mail messenger, four hundred and twenty dollars; one foreman, one thousand one hundred dollars; in all, three thousand six hundred and eighty dollars; Hawaii. Cavite, P. I. Guam. Naval station, Hawaii: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents per annum; one messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; in all, one thousand seven hundred and forty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents; Naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: One clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; one time clerk, four hundred and eighty dollars; one writer, three hundred and sixty dollars; one messenger, two hundred and forty dollars; one messenger, one hundred and eighty dollars; one clerk, commandant's office, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one messenger, commandant's office, one hundred and eighty dollars; in all, three thousand three hundred and sixty dollars; Naval station, Guam: One clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; one foreman machinist, one thousand six hundred dollars; one messenger and janitor, six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand eight hundred dollars; PURLIC WORKS, BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS, NAVY-YARDS SERVATORY. Guantanamo, Cuba. Tutuila. Cavite, P. I. NAVAL STATION, GUANTANAMO, CUBA: Dry dock, two hundred thousand dollars; dredging at Toro Key, forty thousand dollars; sea wall at Toro Key, seventy-five thousand dollars; reservoir and water system, fifty thousand dollars; clearing and grading, twenty thousand dollars; in all, three hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. NAVAL STATION, TUTUILA: New deck for wharf, five thousand dollars; in all, naval station, Tutuila, five thousand dollars. NAVAL STATION, CAVITE, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: Floating steel dry dock, to continue, seven hundred and twentyfive thousand dollars; for improving and enlarging naval prison, ten thousand dollars; in all, seven hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. P. I. NAVAL STATION, OLONGAPO, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: To Olongapo, complete survey of reservation, twenty thousand dollars; Establishing for repairing buildings erected by the Spaniards for tem- naval station. porary use as shops, storehouses, offices, and so forth, twenty-five thousand dollars; toward building one thousand seven hundred and fifty feet of quay wall, at one hundred and forty-four dollars per foot (one-fourth), sixty-three thousand dollars; commandant's quarters, nine thousand dollars; three officers' quarters, eighteen thousand dollars; toward constructing Marine barracks and outbuildings, fifty thousand dollars; Marine officers' quarters, six thousand dollars; dredging entrance to basin-channel four hundred by thirty-five feet deep, about twenty-five thousand cubic yards, at thirty cents, seven thousand five hundred dollars; dredging in basin in front of quay walls, one hundred and sixty thousand cubic yards, at thirty cents, for floating dock, forty-eight thousand dollars; water supply from brick-yard springs (capacity fifty thousand gallons in ten hours), eleven thousand feet four-inch galvanized-iron pipe, forty-seven and one-half cents per foot, five thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars; valves and fittings, two hundred and fifty dollars; freight and transportation, seven hundred and twenty dollars; distribution in the yard, one thousand five hundred dollars; laying pipes, three thousand two hundred dollars; temporary reservoir, forty by forty by ten feet, capacity one hundred thousand gallons, five thousand dollars; one pier for use in landing and receiving stores for immediate use, one hundred thousand dollars; toward coaling plant, five hundred thousand dollars; in all, eight hundred and sixty-two thousand three hundred and ninety-five dollars. Consolidation Yards and The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized, in his Power plants. discretion, to consolidate the several power plants in any and transfer to or all of the several navy-yards and stations at each Bureau of navy-yard and station under the Bureau of Yards and Docks. Docks for the generation and distribution of light, heat, and power for all the purposes of the Navy. To the above end all such plants may be transferred from other bureaus to the Bureau of Yards and Docks, and all appropriations heretofore made for power houses and power plants for bureaus other than Yards and Docks are hereby reappropriated and made available under the Bureau of Yards and Docks for the consolidations herein provided for; and to further carry out the purposes of this provision there is hereby appropriated the sum of three hundred thousand dollars. Philippines. Naval magazine. NAVAL MAGAZINES, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: Powder magazines, shell and filling houses, and so forth, fifty thousand dollars; hospital. Canacao, P.I., NAVAL HOSPITAL, CANACAO, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: Naval hospital at Canacao, Philippine Islands, to complete, sev enty thousand dollars. SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS. Proviso. ian employees. PROVISIONS, NAVY: For provisions and commuted rations for the seamen and marines, * * *Provided, Sale to civil That pay department stores may be sold to civilian employees at naval stations beyond the continental limits of the United States and in Alaska, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe. Cavite, P. I. Naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: In general storehouses: One clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one bookkeeper, at one thousand four hundred dollars; three assistant bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars; one shipping and bill clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; three storekeepers, at one thousand dollars each, three thousand dollars; one receiving clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one shipping 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; Cavite, P. I. BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR. * * * * Naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: One clerk to naval constructor, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, two thousand four hundred dollars; In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Washington, District of Columbia, or San Francisco, California: Two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; two |