Annual Report of the Secretary of the NavyU.S. Government Printing Office, 1917 |
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additional Amount appropriated annual expenditures armor Armored cruisers August 29 authorized Balance July battleships boats Boston building Bureau Carried to surplus cent Charleston Class VII Class XX clerks commanding completed Congress construction contract cost cruise cruisers destroyers discharge division duty equipment estimates Expenditures by titles fiscal year 1916 fleet Fracture grade Guam guns Haiti hand June 30 Harbor increase Indirect expense deducted Inter June 30 labor Mare Island Marine Corps ment Miscellaneous adjustments Miscellaneous Auditor's material Miscellaneous receipts Naval Academy Naval hospital Naval magazine Naval Militia Naval station Navy Department Navy yard Norfolk Olongapo ordnance Pay and allowances personnel Philadelphia Portsmouth Public vouchers Puget Sound purchase Radio station Ratio of annual Receiving ship repair reserve Sept Statement 40.-APPROPRIATION ACCOUNTS submarines surplus fund SY H tion TITLES-Continued Total expenditures total number United States Navy vessels York
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Page 353 - That in time of war or threatened war preference and precedence shall, upon the demand of the President of the United States, be given, over all other traffic, to the transportation of troops and material of war, and carriers shall adopt every means within their control to facilitate and expedite the military traffic.
Page 32 - That the rights of any person who, at the date of any order of withdrawal heretofore or hereafter made, is a bona fide occupant or claimant of oil or gas bearing lands, and who, at such date, is in diligent prosecution of work leading to discovery of oil or gas, shall not be affected or impaired by such order, so long as such occupant or claimant shall continue in diligent prosecution of said work...
Page 47 - Officers of the lower grades of the Medical Corps, Pay Corps, Construction Corps, and Corps of Civil Engineers shall be advanced 'in rank up to and including the rank of lieutenant commander with the officers of the line with whom or next after whom they take precedence under existing law...
Page 324 - Provided, That no part of this sum shall be applied to the repairs of any wooden ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed twenty per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material...
Page 816 - War is authorized, on the requisition of the governor of a State or Territory or the commanding general of the...
Page 70 - President shall appoint, an advisory commission, consisting of not more than seven persons, each of whom shall have special knowledge of some industry, public utility, or the development of some natural resource, or be otherwise specially qualified, in the opinion of the council, for the performance of the duties hereinafter provided.
Page 31 - ... legislation affecting the use and disposition of the petroleum deposits on the public domain, all public lands in the accompanying lists are hereby temporarily withdrawn from all forms of location, settlement, selection, filing, entry, or disposal under the mineral or nonmineral public-land laws. All locations or claims existing and valid on this date may proceed to entry in the usual manner after field investigation and examination.
Page 324 - ... lanterns, and lamps and their appendages for general use on board ship for illuminating purposes, and oil and candles used in connection therewith ; bunting and other materials for making and repairing flags of all kinds; for all permanent galley fittings and equipage ; rugs, carpets, curtains, and hangings on board naval vessels...
Page 802 - Affairs of the House of Representatives, the chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs of the House of Representatives, the chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs...
Page 324 - That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, drafting...