Estimates Submitted by the Secretary of the Navy, 1915: Hearings Before Committee on Naval Affairs, House of Representatives, on Estimates Submitted by the Secretary of the Navy, 1915U.S. Government Printing Office, 1915 - 1108 pages |
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Admiral BADGER Admiral BLUE Admiral FLETCHER Admiral GRIFFIN Admiral McGOWAN Admiral STANFORD Admiral STRAUSS Admiral WATT aeroplanes air craft amount appropriation Army Atlantic authorized BARNETT battery battleships boats BRAISTED BRISTOL BUCHANAN building BUTLER Capt cent CHAIRMAN charge clerk coal coast Commander STIRLING commanding officer commission committee Congress construction contract cost cruisers Cruz defense destroyers dreadnaughts duty enlisted equipment estimate expenditures expense fiscal fleet FULLAM Government gunboats guns Harbor HOBSON increase interposing maneuvers Mare Island Marine Corps MCCAWLEY ment mines Naval Militia Navy Department navy yard necessary Norfolk Pocahontas present question recommended repair reserve ROBERTS Secretary DANIELS ships statement station STEPHENS submarine tender submarines Supplies and Accounts tank target practice tender thing tion tons torpedo Total transportation United States Navy Vera Cruz vessels WASHINGTON WINTERHALTER WITHERSPOON
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Page 814 - District, which may require or involve the employment of laborers or mechanics shall contain a provision that no laborer or mechanic doing any part of the work contemplated by the contract, in the employ of the contractor or any sub-contractor contractIng for any part of said work contemplated, shall be required or permitted to work more than eight hours in any one calendar day...
Page 121 - The amount so deposited shall be accounted for in the same manner as other public funds, and shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States and kept as a separate fund, known as pay of the Army...
Page 121 - That the system of deposits herein established shall be carried into execution under such regulations as may be established by the Secretary of the Navy.
Page 433 - States shall while so serving receive ten per centum additional " of their salaries and increase as above provided, and such increase shall commence from the date of reporting for duty on board ship or the date of sailing from the United States for shore duty beyond the seas or to join a ship in foreign waters.
Page 27 - Labor and material; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and piers; street car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same ; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs .to same; fire...
Page 121 - ... the amount, date, and place of such deposit. The money so deposited shall be accounted for in the same manner as other public funds and shall pass to the credit of the appropriation for 'Pav for the Navy...
Page 47 - No appropriation made in this or any other act shall be available for the purchase of any motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle for the service of any of the executive departments or other Government establishments, or any branch of the Government service, unless specific authority is given therefor...
Page 33 - For water rent, heating, and lighting; cemetery, burial expenses, and headstones; general care and improvements of grounds, buildings, walls, and fences; repairs to power-plant equipment, implements, tools, and furniture, and purchase of the same; music in chapel and entertainments for beneficiaries; stationery, books, and periodicals; transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, and of sick and insane beneficiaries, their attendants and necessary subsistence for both,...
Page 262 - Territory, or the commanding general of the militia of the District of Columbia, in the encampments, maneuvers, and field instruction of any part of the Regular Army, at or near any military post or camp or lake or seacoast defenses of the united States. In such case the Organized Militia...
Page 761 - In view of the increasing use of fuel by the American Navy there would appear to be an immediate necessity for assuring the conservation of a proper supply of petroleum for the government's own use. . . ." and "pending the enactment of adequate legislation on this subject, the filing of claims to oil lands in the state of California should be suspended.