SEVENTIETH CONGRESS . SESS . I. CH.5. 1927.
25 Naval station, Guantanamo, Cuba : For replacement of fuel-oil dock, $75,000 ; reconstruction of marine railway, $25,000 ; salt-water fire-protection system, $45,000 ; in all, $145,000 . Na vy y ard, New York : For replacing public works facilities destroyed by fire February 9, 1927, $25,000 ; improvement of Dry Dock Numbered 4, $250,000 ; in all, $275,000 . A i r S ta t i o ns : Toward the construction of buildings and im rove- Air stations . g
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Construction and im . ments at air stations, as authorized by the Act approved March Proveme nts at desig- 2, 1927, as follows : Coco Solo, Canal Zone, $632,000 ; Sand Point, n do . 44, p.1340 . Washington, $210,000 ; San Diego, California, $380,000 ; Hampton Road s, V irgi nia, $64 0,00 0 ; in all, $1,862,000 . Marine barracks, Parris Island, South Carolina : For construction of a steel bridge across Archers Creek, $30,000 . Marine barracks, Quantico, Virginia : F or c onst ruct ion of p ubli c Marine i barracks con- works as authorized by the Act approved February 15, 1927, struction . $1,650,000 ; and the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to enter
01 .44,p.1101 . into co ntract or contracts for such construction at a cost in the aggregate not to exceed $2,205,000 . Naval Observatory, Washington, District of Columbia : For rep airs ReNaval pa irs Observatory . to heating tunnel at intersection of Gilliss Avenue and roadway to main building, and for repairs to balustrade around twelve-inch equatorial dome of main building, $7,500 . Not to exceed an a regate of $40,000 is made available from the Additional employ- gg b
ees authorized for con- foregoing appropriations for " Public works, Bureau of Yards and struction work . Docks," to provide for the employment of classified personal services in the Bureau of Yards and Docks and in the field to be en ; aged upon such work and to be in addition to employees otherwise pro- vided for . MARINE CORPS AL TERATI ONS TO NAVAL V ESSELS Major alterations, naval vessels : To wa rd t he a lt er at io ns a nd repairs required for the purpose of modernizing the United States ships Oklahoma and Nevada as authorized by the Act approved March 2, 1927, $6,575,000, to remain available until June 30, 1929
Provided, That the alterations to the capital ships herein authorized shall be subject to the limitations prescribed in the treaty limiting naval armaments ratified August 17, 1923 . Guantanamo, Cuba . New York, N. Y. Parris Island, S . C . Marine Corps . For additional amounts necessary to defray the increased expenses Expenses of guards for United States mails, inciden t to maintaining armed guards of marines detailed for duty etc . in protecting the United States mails and for expeditionary forces in Nicaragua and China, including the same objects specified in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1927, under the headings that follow Pay, Marine Corps : For allowance for lodging and subsistence of enlisted men, $8,418, and for mileage and actual and necessary expenses to officers, and so forth, $117,213 ; in all, fiscal year 1927, $125 ,631 . General expenses, Marine Corps : For provisions, subsistence, board and lodging of enlisted men, and so forth, $596,700 ; f or m il it ar y supplies and equipment, and so forth, $470,300 ; for transportation of troops, and so forth, $400,000 ; for miscellaneous supplies, and so forth, $351,000 ; in all, fiscal year 1927, $1,818,000 . INCREASE OF THE NAVY
Increase of the Navy, Construction and Construction and machinery : For an additional amount for the mac hin ery . purposes specified under this heading in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1928, $10,800,000 . Pay, etc . General expenses . Alterations to naval vesse ls . Modernizing "Okla- homa" and "Nevada ." Vol.44,p. 1343. Proviso. Treaty limitations . Vol.43,p. 1655.
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