658 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 386. 1897. N'"‘“ “"‘“°"‘ Naval station, Newport, Rhode Island: In general storehouse: One clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; ¥¤°I¤l*¤**· Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: In general storehouses: Two bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two assistant bookkeepers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant clerk, at one thousand dollars. In yard pay omce: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty- five cents; in all, nine thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twenty-tive cents; N°"‘°“‘· Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: In general storehouses: Two bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two assistant bookkeepers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant bill clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one receiving clerk, at nine hundred and forty-two dollars; one assistant receiving clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars. In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, eight thousand eight hundred and thirty-three dollars and seventy-nve cents; In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, seventy thousand four hundred and thirty-two dollars and three cents, and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for uch service. §gg,*?Q,j‘,;},’}’,}§,f,;‘,}‘c‘},·_ Navtu. SUPPLT FUND: And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby von 27, p. M- authorized and directed to cause the general account of advances to be charged with the sum of one million dollars, in addition to the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, provided in the Act approved March third, .4m,p.mo. eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and the three hundred thousand dollars, provided in the Act approved June tenth, eighteen hrmdred and ninety-six, making in all one million five hundred thousand dollars, which amount shall be carried to the credit of the permanent naval supply fund, to be used under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy in thepurchase of supplies for the naval service, and to be reimbursed from the proper naval appropriations, whenever the supplies purchased under said fund are issued for use. 0¤¤**¤S¤¤*~ CONTINGENT, BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCoUN1‘s: For ireight and express charges, candles, fuel, books and blanks, stationery, advertising, furniture for general storehouses and pay oftlces in navy-yards, expenses of naval clothing factory and machinery for same, postage, telegrams, telephones, tolls, ferriages, yeornau’s stores, iron safes, newspapers, ice, transportation of stores purchased under the naval-supply fund, and other incidental expenses, fifty thousand dollars. mg¤::1¤;:pE?:¤*~¤— BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR. P§rf;:c$f:,°§;Q;,;°‘ CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR OF VESSELS: For preservation and completion of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of matcrials and stores of all kinds; steam steerers, pneumatic steerers, steam capstans, steam windlasses, and all other auxiliaries; labor in navy- yards and on foreign stations; purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops; carrying on work of experimental model tank; wear. tear, and repair of vessels afloat; general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; incidental expenses, such as advertising, freight, foreign postage, telegrams, telephone service, photographing, books, professional magazines, plans, station- _ ery, and instruments for drafting room, one million five hundred thoufQ',;,’;’;f,‘Q.'_;0,,,,,,,b,pS_ sand dollars: Provided, That no part of this sum shall be applied to the repair of any wooden ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed ten per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ··nmmd.·» Ship of the same size and like material: Provided further, That nothing herein contained shall deprive the Secretary of the Navy of the authority
