714 SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 114. 1918. each; one stable keeper and driver, at $540; one master at arms, at $720; two house corporals, at $480 each; one barber, at $480; one carpenter, at $960; one painter, at $960; one painter, at $840; one engineer, $960; four laborers, at $600 each; two laborers, at $660 each; one laborer, at $420; total for employees, $27,840. “""°°’““°°‘ MAINTENANCE2 Water rent, heating, and lighting; cemetery, burial expenses and headstones ; general care and improvements of grounds, buildings, walls, and fences; repairs to power—plant equipment, 1mplements, tools, and f1n·niture, an purchase of the same; music in chapel and entertainments for beneficiaries; stationery, books, and periodicals; transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, and of sick and insane beneficiaries, their attendants and necessary subsistence for both, to and from other Government hospitals; employment of such beneficiaries in and about the Naval Home as may be authorized by the Secretary of the Navy, on the recommendation of the governor; sup ort of beneficiaries, and all other contingent expenses, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of three orse-drawn passenger-cargying vehicles, to be ,,§§,b},‘,,§f"‘ “""' used only for official urppses, $87,805; in , or Naval Home $115,645, which sum sli)a.l.l e paid out of the income from the naval pension fimd.
“""g“’ °' That the authorized enlisted strength of the active list of the Navy
ggsgge ¤¤§gg‘i=¤¤· is hereby increased from eighgseven thousand to one hundred and “ P` thirty-one thousand four hun ed and eighty-five.
That the Act approved May twenty-second, nineteen hundred and
¤r¤¤¤¢·~ seventeen (Statutes at Large, volume forty, page eighty-five), enti- _ tled "An Act to temporarily increase the commissioned and warrant p_*§,'g“§,‘§,§:,‘;?_;_"‘s°°*· and enlisted strength of the Navy and Marine Corps, and for other I 7} ` ' purposes, be, an the same is herebiy, amended by striking out all of the first and second sections of said Act, after the enacting clause, and by substituting therefor the followin : fggggedstnngth "That the authorized enlisted strengigi of the active list of the mgxgg-mm Navy is hereby temporarily increase_d from one hundred and thirty- D one thousand four hundred and eighty-five to one hundred and eighty-one thousand four hundred and eighty-five; the authorized number of alpprentice seamen is hereby temporarily increased from six thousan to twenty-four thousand; and the authorized number of enlisted men of the Flying Corps is hereby temporaril increased mfgm mum, from three hundred and fifty to ten thousand: Provided}; That the swmzehdeuned. phrase ‘authorized enlisted strength,’ as applied to the personnel of the Navy, shall mean the total number of enlisted men of the Navy authorized by law, exclusive of the Hospital Corps, apprentice seamen, those sentenced by court—martial to discharge, those detailed for duty with Naval Militia, those furloughed without pay, enlisted N bu at md men of the Flying Corps, and those under instruction in trade schools: sciiebii. t ° Provided fur! er, That the number of enlisted men for instruction in mmm an trade schools shall not at any time exceed fourteen thousand, which named. numberis hereby temporarily authorized: Provided further, That the President is authorized, at any time during the period of the present war, when in his judgment it becomes necessary, temporarily to increase the authorize enlisted strength of the Navy, as provided M _ for herein, by the addition of fifty thousand men." s£&%» "S1·:c. 2. That the authorized enlisted strength of the active list °*<{2g§jiég p_ m_ of the Marine Corps is hereby temporarily increased from seventeen ’ thousand four hundred to seventy·five thousand five hundred, this authorized strength being distributed in the various grades of the _ enlisted force in the same proportion as those authorized at the date §°,Q"§§'§;,, um cw, of the approval of this Act: jovided, That not more than twenty- <·¤¤*¤¤¤¤¤d- five per centum of the authorized number of privates in the Marine Corps shall have the rank of private, first class, which rank is hereby established in the Marine Corps."
