one dentist, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one baker, at six hundred dollars; one mechanic in department of physics and chemistry, at seven hundred and thirty dollars; one cook, at three hundred and twenty-five dollars and fifty cents; one messenger to superinvendent, at six hundred dollars; one armorer, at five hundred and. twenty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one gunner's mate, at four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one quarter-gunner, at four hundred and nine dollars and fifty cents; one cockswain, at four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one seaman in department of seamanship, at three hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one attendant in the department of astronomy and one in the department of physics and chemistry, at three hundred dollars each, six hundred dollars; six attendants at recitation-rooms, library, store, chapel, and offices, at three hundred dollars each, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one band-master, at five hundred and twenty-eight dollars; twenty-one first class musicians, at three hundred and forty-eight dollars each, seven thousand three hundred and eight dollars; seven second class musicians, at three hundred dollars each, two thousand one hundred dollars; in all, fifty-two thousand one hundred and nineteen dollars.

For special course of study and training of naval cadets as authorized by act of Congress approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, five thousand dollars.

PAY OF WATCHMEN, MECHANICS, AND OTHERS, NAVAL ACADEMY: For captain of the watch and weigher, at two dollars and fifty cents per diem; four watchmen, at two dollars per diem each; foreman of gas and steam-heating works of the Academy, at five dollars per diem; labor at gas-works and steam-buildings; for masons, carpenters, and other mechanics, and laborers for care of buildings, grounds, wharves, and boats, thirty-seven thousand eight hundred and sixty-four dollars and ninety-five cents; one attendant in the purifying-house of the gas-house, at one dollar and fifty cents per diem, five hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty cents; in all, forty-four thousand: and sixty-nine dollars and ninety-five cents.

PAY OF STEAM-EMPLOYEES, NAVAL ACADEMY: For pay of mechanics and others in department of steam-engineering, seven thousand eight hundred and twenty-four dollars and fifty cents.

Total pay Naval Academy, one hundred and nine thousand and thirteen dollars and forty-five cents.

REPAIRS AND IMPROVEMENTS, NAVAL ACADEMY: Necessary repairs of public buildings, pavements, wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, and for improvements, repairs, and furniture and fixtures, twenty-one thousand dollars.

HEATING AND LIGHTING, NAVAL ACADEMY: Fuel and for heating and lighting the Academy and schoolships, seventeen thousand dollars.

CONTINGENT, NAVAL ACADEMY: Purchase of books for the library, two thousand dollars; stationery, blank-books, models, maps, and for text-books for use of instructors, two thousand dollars; expenses of the Board of Visitors to the Naval Academy, being for mileage, and five dollars per diem for each member for expenses during actual attendance at the Academy, one thousand five hundred dollars; purchase of chemicals, apparatus, and instruments in the department of physics and chemistry, and for repairs of the same, two thousand five hundred dollars; purchase of gas and steam-machinery, steampipe and fittings, rent of buildings for the use of the Academy,

freight, cartage, water, music, musical and astronomical instruments, uniforms for the bandsmen, telegraphing, for feed and maintenance of teams, for current expenses, and repairs of all kinds, and for incidental labor and expenses not applicable to any other appropriation, thirty-two thousand dollars; stores in the department of steamengineering, eight hundred dollars; materials for repairs in steammachinery, one thousand dollars; to complete boat-house for steamlaunches, twenty-five thousand dollars, in addition to the five thousand dollars heretofore appropriated, which is hereby re-appropriated; in all, seventy-one thousand eight hundred dollars.

Total for the Naval Academy, two hundred and eighteen thousand eight hundred and thirteen dollars and forty-five cents.

MARINE CORPS.

PAY, MARINE CORPS: For pay of officers on the active-list: For one colonel commandant, one colonel, two lieutenant-colonels, one adjutant and inspector, one paymaster, one quartermaster, four majors, two assistant quartermasters, one judge-advocate-general United States Navy, nineteen captains, thirty first lieutenants, and fifteen second lieutenants, one hundred and eighty-one thousand five hundred and thirty dollars.

For pay of officers on the retired list: For one colonel, one quartermaster, three majors, two assistant quartermasters, six captains, two first lieutenants, and three second lieutenants, thirty-six thousand four hundred and twenty dollars.

For pay of non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates: For one sergeant-major, one quartermaster-sergeant, one leader of the band, one drum-major, fifty first sergeants, one hundred and forty sergeants, one hundred and eighty corporals, thirty musicians, ninety-six drummers and fifers, and one thousand five hundred privates, three hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars.

For pay of retired enlisted men: For one sergeant-major, one drum-major, one first sergeant, four sergeants, one first-class musician, two drummers, one fifer, and five privates, six thousand six hundred and thirty-six dollars.

For pay of civil force, namely: In the office of the colonel commandant: One chief clerk, at one thousand five hundred and forty dollars and eighty cents; one messenger, at nine hundred and seventyone dollars and twenty-eight cents.

In the office of the adjutant and inspector: One chief clerk, at one thousand five hundred and forty dollars and eighty cents; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars and fifty-two cents. In the office of the paymaster: One chief clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars and fifty-two cents; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twelve cents. In the office of the Quartermaster: One chief clerk, at one thousand five hundred and forty dollars and eighty-cents; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars and fifty-two cents; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twelve cents. In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: One clerk, at one thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twelve cents; one messenger, at one dollar and seventy-five cents per diem. In the office of the assistant quartermaster, San Francisco, California: One clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; in all,

seventeen thousand four hundred and ninety-four dollars and twenty cents.

For undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged soldiers for clothing undrawn, thirty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That no other fund appropriated by this act be used for such purpose;

For transportation: For transportation of officers traveling under orders without troops, eight thousand dollars;

Commutation of quarters: For commutation of quarters for officers on duty without troops where there are no public quarters, four thou-sand dollars; in all, for pay of the Marine Corps, six hundred and seventy-four thousand and eighty dollars and twenty cents.

PROVISIONS, MARINE CORPS: For one thousand non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, and for amount required to be trans-ferred to the paymaster, Marine Corps, on account of rations to retired men, twenty men at fifty-eight dollars and forty cents per annum; in all, sixty two thousand one hundred and eighty-five dollars and five cents.

CLOTHING, MARINE CORPS: For two thousand non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, sixty-five thousand dollars.

FOR FUEL, MARINE CORPS: For heating barracks and quarters, for ranges and stoves for cooking, fuel for enlisted men, and for sales: to officers, eighteen thousand dollars.

MILITARY STORES, MARINE CORPS: For pay of chief armorer, at three dollars per day, nine hundred and thirty-nine dollars; three mechanics, at two dollars and fifty cents each per day, two thousand three hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty cents; in all, three thousand two hundred and eighty-six dollars and fifty cents.

For purchase of military equipments, such as cartridge-boxes, bayonet-scabbards, haversacks, blanket-bags, canteens, musket-slings, swords, drums, trumpets, flags, waist-belts, waist-plates, cartridgebelts, and spare parts for repairing muskets, five thousand dollars. For purchase of ammunition, one thousand dollars.

Purchase and repair of instruments for band, purchase of music and musical accessories, five hundred dollars; purchase of tents and camp-equipage, one thousand dollars; in all, ten thousand seven hundred and eighty-six dollars and fifty cents.

TRANSPORTATION AND RECRUITING, MARINE CORPS: For transportation of troops, and the expense of recruiting service, ten thousand dollars.

FOR REPAIR OF BARRACKS: At Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Boston, Massachusetts; Brooklyn, New York; League Island, Pennsylvania; Annapolis, Maryland; headquarters and navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia; Norfolk, Virginia; Pensacola, Florida; and Mare Island, California; and per diem to enlisted men employed, under the direction of the Quartermaster's Department, on the repair of barracks and other public buildings, nine thousand dollars.

Rent of buildings used for manufacture of clothing, storing supplies, and offices of assistant quartermasters, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and San Francisco, California, one thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars.

FORAGE, MARINE CORPS: For forage in kind for four horses of the Quartermaster's Department, and the authorized number of officers' horses, three thousand five hundred dollars.

CONTINGENT, MARINE CORPS: For freight, ferriage, toll, cartage, funeral expenses of marines, stationery, telegraphing, rent of telephone, purchase and repair of type-writers, apprehension of deserters,

repair of gas and water fixtures, office and barrack furniture, mess utensils for enlisted men, such as bowls, plates, spoons, knives, forks, packing-boxes, wrapping-paper, oil-cloth, crash, rope, twine, camphor and carbolized paper, carpenters' tools, tools for police purposes, iron safe, purchase and repair of public wagons, purchase and repair of harness, purchase of public horses, services of veterinary surgeons and medicine for public horses, purchase and repair of hose, repair of fire extinguishers, purchase of fire hand-grenades, purchase and repair of carts and wheel-barrows, purchase and repair of cooking-stoves, ranges, stoves where there are no grates, purchase of ice, towels, and soap for offices, postage-stamps for foreign postage, purchase of newspapers and periodicals, improving paradegrounds, repair of pumps and wharves, laying drain and water pipes, introducing gas, and for gas and oil for marine barracks maintained at the various navy-yards and stations, water at the marine barracks, Boston, Massachusetts; Brooklyn, New York; Annapolis, Maryland; Mare Island, California; also straw for bedding for enlisted men at the various posts, furniture for Government houses and repair of same, and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but impossible to anticipate or classify; in all, twenty-six thousand three hundred and twenty-two dollars and two

cents.

HIRE OF QUARTERS, MARINE CORPS: For hire of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them, four thousand five hundred dollars.

For hire of quarters for seven enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in commandant's, adjutant and inspector's, paymaster and quartermaster's offices, Washington, District of Columbia, and assistant quartermaster's offices, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and San Francisco, California, twenty-one dollars per month each, one thousand seven hundred dollars.

For hire of quarters for three enlisted men employed as above, at ten dollars each per month, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, six thousand five hundred and sixty dollars.

Towards the erection of barracks at Norfolk, Virginia, thirty thousand dollars.

Total for the Marine Corps: Nine hundred and seventeen thousand two hundred and thirteen dollars and seventy-seven cents.

INCREASE OF THE NAVY.

CONSTRUCTION: That for the purpose of further increasing the naval establishment of the United States, the President is hereby authorized to have constructed, by contract, two steel cruisers of about three thousand tons displacement each, at a cost, exclusive of armament, and excluding any premiums that may be paid for increased speed, of not more than eleven hundred thousand dollars each; one steel cruiser of about five thousand three hundred tons displacement, to cost, exclusive of armament, and excluding any premium that may be paid for increased speed, not more than eighteen hundred thousand dollars; one armored cruiser of about seven thousand five hundred tons displacement, to cost, exclusive of armament, not more than three million five hundred thousand dollars; and three gunboats, or cruisers, neither of which shall exceed two thousand tons

in displacement nor seven hundred thousand dollars in cost, excluding any premium that may be paid for increased speed and the cost of armament; said three gun-boats, or cruisers, to be built either wholly of steel or with steel frames. The contracts for the construction of said first three cruisers shall contain provisions to the effect that the contractor guarantees that when completed and tested for speed, under conditions to be prescribed by the Navy Department, the two vessels first herein before provided for, shall each exhibit a maximum speed of at least nineteen knots per hour; and the vessel of five thousand three hundred tons displacement, a maximum speed of at least twenty knots per hour; and in the case of each vessel, for every quarter knot of speed so exhibited above said guarantee the contractor shall receive a premium over and above the contract price of fifty thousand dollars; and for every quarter knot that such vessel fails of reaching said guaranteed speed, there shall be deducted from the contract price the sum of fifty thousand dollars. And in the contract for the construction of the three lastmentioned vessels such provisions for increased speed and the premium for the same shall be made as in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy may be deemed advisable. In the construction of all of said vessels all the provisions of the act of August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled "An act to increase the naval establishment" as to material for said vessels, their engines, boilers, and machinery, the contracts under which they are built, the notice of, and proposals for the same, the plans, drawings, specifications therefor, and the method of executing said contracts, shall be observed and followed, and said vessels shall be built in compliance with the terms of said act, save that in all their parts said vessels shall be of domestic manufacture. If the Secretary of the Navy shall be unable to contract at reasonable prices for the building of any of said vessels, then he may build such vessel or vessels in such navy-yards as he may designate.

CONSTRUCTION AND STEAM MACHINERY: Towards the construction and completion of the new vessels heretofore and herein authorized by Congress with their engines, boilers, and machinery, and for the payment of premiums for increased speed or horse-power under contracts now existing and to be made under this act, three million five hundred thousand dollars.

ARMAMENT: Towards the armor and armament of domestic manufacture of new ships heretofore and herein authorized, two million dollars; in all, five million five hundred thousand dollars.

STEEL PRACTICE VESSEL: For the construction of one steel practice vessel of eight hundred tons, for the use of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, except when in emergencies it may be used for other purposes, to be built by contract in accordance with the terms of the "Act to increase the naval establishment," approved August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, two hundred and sixty thousand dollars.

Approved September 7, 1888.