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SEVENTIETH CONGRESS . SEss. I . CH. 656 . 1928 . May 21,1928 . CHAP . 656 .-An Act Making appropriations for the Navy Department [H. R. 12286.1 and the nava l service for the fisca l year ending June 30, 1929, and for other (Public, No . 454.1
purposes . Na vy De par tme nt Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the appropriations for fiscal United States of America in Congress assembled, That th e following year, 1929 . sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other- wise appropriated, for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, namely Naval Establish-
NAVAL E STA BLI SHM ENT men .. Secretary's Office . Pay, miscellaneous . Expenses designated. Attendance at meet- ings . Advertising, etc. Information from abroad, etc. Interned prisoners of war, etc. Damag es cla ims . Vol. 41, p . 132. Provisos . Restriction on use in naval districts . Clerica l, etc ., se rv ic es at yards and stations. OFF ICE OF THE S ECRE TARY PAY, MISC ELL ANEOUS For commissions and interest; transportation of funds; exchange; for traveling expenses of civilian employees; for the expenses of the attendance of two representatives of the Navy Department who may be designated as delegates from the United States to attend the meetings of the International Research Council or of its branches; for the expenses for the attendance of one representative of the Navy Department who may be designated as a delegate of the United States to attend the International Hydrographic Conference; not to exceed $2,000 for th e part time or intermittent employment in the District of Columbia or elsewhere of such experts and at such rates of compensation as may be contracted for by and i n the discre tion of the Secretary of the Navy; actual expenses of officers and midship- men while on shore patrol duty; hire of launches or other small boats in Asiatic waters; for rent of buildings and offices not in navy yards; expenses of courts-martial, including law and reference books, pris- oners and prisons, and courts of inquiry, boards of inspection, exam- ining boards, with clerks, and witnesses' fees, and traveling expenses and costs; expenses of naval defense districts; stationery and record- ing; religious books; newspapers and periodicals for the naval serv- ice; all advertising for the Navy Department and its bureaus (except adver tising for re cruits for the Bureau of Na vigation); copying; ferriage; tolls; costs of suits; relief of vessels in distress; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; reports; profes- sional investigation; cost of special instruction at home and abroad, includi ng maintenanc e of students and attaches; in f or ma t io n f ro m abroad and at home, and the collection and classification thereof; all charg es pertaining to the Navy D epartment and its bureaus for ice for the cooling of drinking water on shore (except at naval hos- pitals), and not to exceed $177,000 for telephone rentals and tolls, telegrams and cablegrams; postage, foreign and domestic, and post- office box rentals; for necessary expenses for interned persons and prisoners of war under the jurisdiction of the Navy Department, includi ng funeral ex penses for suc h interned pe rsons or priso ners of war as may die while under such jurisdiction, and for payment of claims for damages under Naval Act approved July 11, 1919; and other necessary and incidental expenses; in all, $1,510,000 : Pro- e ideel, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the expense of any naval district unless the commandant thereof shall be also the commandant of a navy yard, naval training station, or naval operating base : Provided further, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards and naval stations, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, shall not exceed $495,000.
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