FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 859. 1900. 695 gllil naval station, Port Royal, two hundred and twenty-seven thousand o ars. The expenditure of the appropriations hereinbefore provided under Board on proposed the head of Public Works in the Bureau of Yards and Docks at the °h°”g° °f°mi°"‘ naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina, is left in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, who is hereby authorized and directed to forthwith a point a board of naval officers whose duty it shall be to examine into dheexpediency of changing said station to some point in the State of South Carol1na at or near the cit of Charleston, and, if the Secretary on such examination shall decidbe that such.change is expedient and desirable, he is authorized to expend the money hereinbefore appropriated upon such new naval station and a dock therefor having t irty feet depth of water on the sill at mean high tide; and for the purchase of a site for the same he is authorized to expend out of said appropriation a sum not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars. N AVAL s·rAT1oN, KEY Wns*r, FLORIDAZ Building fo1‘ e uipment, Kev W¢¤¤»F*¤- forty-seven thousand dollars; construction and repa1r shop, dfty thousand dollars; floor in new machine shop, steam engineering, three thousand dollars; in all, naval station, Key West, one hundred thousand dollars. NAVY—YARD, RIARE ISLAND, CALIFORNIA: Tools for yards and docks, More Is1and,Ca1. ten thousand dollars; sewers, ten thousand dollars; sidewalks and roads, fifteen thousand dollars; water system, one hundred and seven thousand dollars; enlar ing freight shed, five thousand dollars; medical dispensary, seven tgousand five hundred dollars; light and power station, thirty thousand dollars; shelter roof for construction and repair, two thousand two hundred dollars; joiner shop for construction and repair, to cost not more than one hundred thousand dollars, for which contract- is hereby authorized, fifty thousand dollars; anchor shed, seven thousand dollars; to continue quay wall, thirty thousand dollars; for the construction of a chapel, five thousand dollars; crane scow, twelve thousand dollars; to continue dredging, one hundred thousand dollars; foundry for construction and repair, four thousand five hundred dollars; pattern shop for construction and repair, six thousand dollars; coal storage, fifty thousand dollars; changes and extensions in electric system, twelve thousand dollars; enlargement of equi ment ofiices, building sixty-five, five thousand dollars; completing worllishop and boiler house for Bureau of Equi ment, ten thousand dollars; in all, na vy—yard, Mare Island, four hundred and seventy-eight thousand two hundred dollars. NAVAL srxcrrox, PUGET SOUND, `VASHINGTONZ Yard scow, three P¤g¢¤S¤¤¤d·W¤¤¤- thousand five hundred dollars; water system, additions, twelve thou- ' sand dollars; fence about station, entrance gate, and guard quarters, fifteen thousand dollars; sewers, two thousand five hundred dollars; angle, plate, and smithery shed, twelve thousand dollars; wharf crane, five thousand dollars; tire-protection system, additions, seven thousand dollars; composition fittings for dry dock, five thousand dollars; dry- dock pumpin · plant, improvements, two thousand one hundred and sixty-tive dollars; electric-light plant, to complete, seven thousand dollars; to continue grading, ten thousand dollars; equipment shop, eighty-five thousand dollars; coal shed and appliances, forty thousand dollars; in all, naval station, Puget Sound, l ashington, two hundred and six thousand one hundred and sixty-five dollars. And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized and directed to driioiirdeign ciidiiflgsrifd appoint a board of naval officers to determine the desirability of locat- Rivorwrosing and constructing a dry dock on the Columbia River, Oregon, and to report such finding to the next session of the present Congress; and the sum of one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to defray the expenses of said board. ·
