Annual Report of the Secretary of the NavyU.S. Government Printing Office, 1916 |
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Amount of appropria appropriation ledger balance of allotment balance of appropria battleships bered balance building BUREAU OF YARDS cent certified claims Charleston Class XX coast completed Congress construction contract cost cruisers destroyers duty encum ended June 30 enlisted equipment estimates expendi expenditures fleet Fore River Shipbuilding fuel ships FUNDS-Continued Government gunboats guns gunshot Haiti hand July Harbor Hydrographic Office increase Indirect divided Inter June 30 Key West machinery manufacture Mare Island Marine Corps material ment Miscellaneous Naval Academy naval hospital Naval magazine Naval Militia Naval Radio Naval station navigation Navy Department Navy yard Norfolk Olongapo Ordnance Port Portsmouth powder Puget Sound Radio Service radio stations recommended repair Sept Statement 2.-APPROPRIATIONS Receipts submarines Supplies and Accounts SY H tion torpedo station Total Trial balance Tuckerton tures Unaudited Unencum United States Navy Unliqui vessels Wound York
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Page 326 - ... designing naval vessels; construction and repair of yard craft, lighters, and barges; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat ; general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair ; incidental expenses for vessels and navy yards, inspectors...
Page 327 - Provided, That no part of this sum shall be applied to the repair of any wooden ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed ten per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material...
Page 9 - ... the advice and assistance of the various bureaus, boards, and offices of the department, including the Marine Corps headquarters. In matters coming under their cognizance. After the approval of any given war plans by the Secretary it...
Page 327 - For hemp, wire, iron, and other materials for the manufacture of cordage, anchors, cables, galleys, and chains, specifications for purchase thereof shall be so prepared as shall give fair and free competition; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, hammocks, and other work...
Page 144 - Forms of procedure for courts and -boards in the Navy and Marine corps.
Page 327 - Provided further, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and offices of superintending naval constructors...
Page 287 - August 5, 1914, deflaring that all radio stations within the jurisdiction of the United States of America were prohibited from transmitting or receiving for delivery messages of an unneutral nature and from in any way rendering to any one of the belligerents any unneutral service...
Page 287 - ... jurisdiction of the United States of America are hereby prohibited from transmitting or receiving for delivery messages of an unneutral nature, and from in any way rendering to any one of the belligerents any unneutral service, during the continuance of hostilities. The enforcement of this order is hereby delegated to the Secretary of the Navy, who is authorized and directed to take such action in the premises as to him may appear necessary. This order to take effect from and after this date....
Page 327 - ... and for the purchase of all other articles of equipage at home and abroad; and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith and manufacture of such articles in the several navy yards; naval signals and apparatus, other than electric, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, rockets, running lights...
Page 264 - ... communication; Now THEREFORE it is ordered by virtue of authority vested in me by the radio Act of August 13, 1912, that one or more of the high-powered radio stations within the jurisdiction of the United States and capable of trans-Atlantic communication shall be taken over by the Government of the United States and used or controlled by it to the exclusion of any other control or use for the purpose of carrying on communication with land stations in Europe, including code and cipher messages....