1116 FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 1481. 1905. repair of same, and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but im ossible to anticipate or classify, two hundred and fifteen thousand dolhrrs. · Total under quartermaster, Marine Corps, one million seven hundred and forty thousand eight hundred and sixty-one dollars and fifty cents. Total Marine Corps, four million sixty-nine thousand three hundred and eighty-Eve dollars and seventy-eight cents. _ P“”“° "°’” runmo worms, MARINE ooars. tmgimks °°d qw"` Barracks and quarters, Marine Corps: Completion of guardroom, prison, and amusement room for enlisted men, Washington, District of Columbia, twenty-five thousand dollars; Water tower, rain—water cistern, pumps, and connections with local
- · . Eater service, navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia, twenty-five thousand
o ars. Total public works under Marine Corps, fifty thousand dollars. 1Ncrr1:As1·: or trmc NAVY. I°°”°°° °fN"y’ That for the urpose of further increasing the naval establishment _ of the United Sptates, the President is hereby authorized to have con- Two mmmsbame structed by contract or in navy-yards as hereinafter provided— ¤rup¤,1s,oo0m¤¤. Two firstclass battle ships, carrying the heaviest armor and most powerful armament for vessels of their class upon a maximum trial displacement of not more than sixteen thousand tons; to have the highest practicable speed and great radius of action, and to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not exceeding four million four hundred thou- Conmm sand dollars each. » And the contract for the construction of said vessels shall be awarded C0 _ by the Secretary of the Navy to the lowest best responsible bidder, ”°m°"°°‘ having in view the best results and most expeditious elivery; and in the construction of all of said vessels the provisions of the Act of V°1‘ 24* **215 August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled "An Act to increase the navaT establishment," as to materials for said vessels, their engines, boilers, and machinery, the contracts under— which they are built, the notice of any proposals for the same, the plans, drawings, s cifications therefor, and the method of executing said contracts shrill be observed and followed, and, subject to the provisions of this Act, all said vessels shall be built in compliance with the terms of said Act, and in all their parts shall be of domestic manufacture; and the steel material shall be of domestic manufacture, and of the quality and characteristics best adapted to the various purposes for which it may _ _ _ be used, in accordance with specifications approved by the Secretary l;j“",Pf°’°“°“““m°‘· of the Navy; and not more than one of the vessels provided for in this <;:ZfiiZ?;1»e:i0¤ in Act shall be built by one contracting party: Provided, That the Sec- QQQ{’,§“f§j_ *;,*3;,*3; retary of the Navy may build any or all of the vessels herein author- ~‘=¤¤·7 ized in such navy-yards as he may designate, and shall build any of the vessels herein authorized in such navy-yards as he may designate, should it reasonably appear that the persons, firms, or corporations, or the agents thereof, bidding for the construction of any of said vessels have entered into any combination, agreement, or understanding the effect, object, or purpose of which is to deprive the Government of fair, open, and unrestricted competition in letting contracts for the 8c!;};'? °€ °°¤*,gf construction of any of said vessels; Provided, That the limit of cost, massa. _ exclusive of armor and armament, of each of the scout cruisers author- ""°"‘ *" M ized by the Act making appropriations for- the Naval Service, approved April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four, be one million nine . hundred thousand dollars.·
