1038 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. SEss. III. Ch. 421. 1899. 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 office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, nine thousand eight hundred and fiftyseven dollars and twenty-five cents. N¤rf•>1k.V¤· Navyyard, 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-tive 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 oiltice: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, eight thousand eight hundred and thirty-three dollars and seventy-five 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 such service. A ContinS¤¤lF Conrmcnnr, BUREAU on SU1>1>1.1Es AND Acoounrs: For freight and express charges, candles, fuel, books and blanks, stationery, advertising, furniture for general storehouses and pay offices in navy-yards, expenses of naval clothing factory and machinery for same, postage, telegrams, telephones, tolls, ferriages, yeoman’s stores, iron safes, newspapers, ice, transportation of stores purchased under the naval supply fund, and other incidental expenses, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 1;¤¤,:g¤¤i¤Q::B¤;d The active list of passed assistant and assistant paymasters of the “{}§mb,}’f,,’§",,,,,d_’ Pay Corps shall hereafter consist of thirty and forty, respectively: maya, Provided, That when such appointments of assistant paymasters are "‘°“"“°‘ made from among those who served honorably as such in the late war with Spain the age limit may be increased to forty-five years. _1>¤y or omcer of P=•y The officer of the Pay Corps of the Navy detailed as assistant to the ‘ §;‘f,§',,t‘}§*$$‘}0}°§‘§f Chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts pursuant to the Act of regu, 28, B2 Congress approved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety- °‘ p‘four, shall hereafter receive the highest pay of his grade. m£1¤;_$f,°};’,fp‘j;’:°‘”°· BUREAU on oonsruuorron AND REPAIR. · is- CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR OF VESSELS: For preservation and P°“"° " ’ completion of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials 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; designing naval vessels; 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, stationery, and instruments for drafting room, three 1>m;»s».00d h_ miHion dollars: Provided, That no part of this sum shall be applied to L"“"·" °"" "’“‘ 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 ceutum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material. Portsmouth, N. H. Construction plant, navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Repairs toand improvement of plant at navy·yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, twenty-tive thousand dollars. B<>¤r<>¤.M¤¤¤- Construction plant, navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Repair to and improvement of plant at navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts, twenty-five thousand dollars. Br00k1yn.N. Y. Construction plant, navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York: Repairs to and
