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LAWS OF TIE UNITED STATES.
Passed at the Third Session Of the Forty. first
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7r,7o tGESERAl NArvRE--No 4e.1si-s 1907
AN Acr making appropriations for the naval
eserviee for the year ending June thirty
eighteen hundred and seyenty-two, and for
other purposes. tabiiMO3
Be it enacted By the Senate and House of Re-
personalities of the United States of America
be- and they are hereby. appropriated, to be
paid out Of any money in the treasury not other
wise appropriated, for the naval service of the
government for the year ending June thirty,
eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and for
.ITlfTj UEcontin.cdl IjLUliN
For contingencies namely: Freight; fer
| riage ;toll carriage; wharfage; purchase and
| repair of boats; labor; house rent Of officers
quarters; burial of deceased marines printing.
ststions hen aOa
water fixtures; water rent, forage straw, bar
rack furniture; furniture for officers quarters
| bed-sacks, wrapping paper, oil-cloth. crash,
| rope Irvine, spades, shovels axes, picks. car
penters' tools keep Of a horse for the messen-
! ger; repairs TO fire engines, purchase aHdrepair
| Of engine hose; purchase of lumber for benches,
nness-tables, hunks; repairs to public carryaH {;
purchase and repair of harness : purchase
and repair of handcarts and wheelbarrowss
scayengering purchase and repair of !galieys
cooking stoves, ranges stoves, where there are
no CRATES gravel for parade grounds !; repair of
pumps; brushes broems, buckets, paving and
for other purposes, forty thousand dollars:
| Prorided, That the amount Of fifty thousand
| dollars appropriated byysection nine Of an act
| utive and judicial expenses of the government
for the year ending the thirtieth Of june, eight
| cen hundred and seventy -one,0 approved July
| twelfth eighteen hundred and seventy, to be
| in organizing and sending. out an expedition to
| the north pole, shall not be carried to the sur
| plus fund or covered into the treasury until the
| purpose of said appropriation shall have beer.
| completed, but may be applied to- expenses OF
| said expedition incurred during any subsequent
| year that said ex pedtion may be engaged on its
duties. r -sroi -1ttc tifs7 ~ 81 i'ii's-
| SEC 2 That the Secretary of the Navy is
hereby authorized to Rave built, by contract in
some private yard, a floating iron dock, for the
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sum not exceeding one million dellarsis hereby
appropriated for this purpose! And the said
| contract shall only be made to the lowest re-
| sponsible bidder, and on plans and specifications
ders for at least ninety days before. the day OF
letting said contract, after the public notice by
advertisement for at least thirty days in at least
| one daily newspaper published in each of the
cities of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia,
inviting sealed bids for such contract. which
bids shah be opened and the Award of the con-
tract made publicly by the Secretary of the
| Navy, at time and place to be specified in
such notice. And no contract shall be made for
dock under this section at cest exceeding one
best by q board consisting of chiefs Of the bu-
reaus Of Construction and Repairs" 30 Steam
Engineering" and yards and Docks" that
plans and Specifications shall be invited from
responsible builders, engineers, and others out
side of the Navy Department, the Secretary OF
provided in this section, advertise for such plans
and specifications to accompany bids for the
construction of the dock according to the same !;
in which case the Secretary of the Navy shall
and the bids on the plans furnished by the de.
partmentto board of at least five experienced
officers, q majority of whom shall be construc-
| tors and engineers, and one of whom may be an
experienced civiian engineer, who shall con-
slider and report which of all the bids is the
lowest for the purposes Of this contract, taking
into consideration the plans and specifications
on which they are respectively made: Provided,
howerer, That if the contract shall be awarded
upon plans and specifications furnished by per
sons outside of the department, such contract
shall not be entered into unless the contractor
shall furnish good and sufficient security in at
least five hundred thousand dollars. in addition
to the reservations on said contract that the
dock, when completed. shall be portable and
safe, and shall, in all respects answer the pur-
/ noses for which IL was built
/ SEC 3. That no chief of bureau shall make
any contract for supplies for the navy to be ex.
ecuted in foreign country, except 1t be on first
advertising for At least thirty days in two daily
sealed bids for furnishing the supplies desired,
which bids shall be opened In the presence Of
the Secretary of the Navy. and the heads Of two
bureaus; and contracts shah IN all cases be
awarded to the lowest bidder and paymasters
for the navy on foreign stations shall. render,
when practicable, with their accounts, for set
Element, an official certificate from the residen,
/ consul, commercial, or consular agent Of the
United States, il thercbe one, to be furnished
gratuitously, vouching that all purchases and
expenditures, made by said gpaymastcrs were
made ct the ruling market prices Of the port el
place at the time of purchase or expenditure.
Sec. 4. That the President be, and he is here
by, authorized to accept the, resignation Of any
in the grade to which such officer shall belong
is reduced to the nuHber authorized by law
whose resignation shall take effect on or before
the first day of January next and any Officer
so resgning shall be entitled TO. one years ses
pay in addition to the pay due such officer, al
the date when his resignation shall take effect
Provided, That this section shall not apply
when the number Of officers shall have been re
duced to the number allowed by law. 81 ~ Il.
SIC s. That the officers of the medicalcorp.
on the active list of the'navy shall be as fol;
lows: 80 - ~
4 Fifteen medical Directors, who shall have the
7 relative rank Of captain. .. t-... t.f -.; :,
Fifteen medical inspectors, who shall hare tn.
4 relative rank of commander and III ,sfsia =
4 Fifty surgeons, who shall have the relativ'
rank of lieutenant commander or lieutenant
4 and each and all of the above-named officers o.
the medical corps shall have the pay ofsurgeon
in the. navy. as, now provided; and medical di
rectors and inspectors, on duty at se,,, shall re-
ceive the pay of fleet surgeons ? n DIX. - -