telegrams on public business; preparation of pilot charts and their supplements, and printing and mailing same; purchase of data for charts and sailing directions and other nautical publications; books of reference and works and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, and to other professional and technical subjects connected with the work of the Hydrographic Office, $70,000.

BRANCH HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICES

For contingent expenses of branch hydrographic offices at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Savannah, New Orleans, San Francisco, Portland (Oregon), Portland (Maine), Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Buffalo, Duluth, Sault Sainte Marie, Seattle, Panama, San Juan (Porto Rico), Los Angeles, and Galveston, including furniture, fuel, lights, works, and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, stationery, miscellaneous articles, rent and care of offices, care of time balls, car fare and ferriage in visiting merchant vessels, freight and express charges, telegrams, and other necessary expenses incurred in collecting the latest information for pilot charts, and for other purposes for which the offices were established, $16,000.

For services of necessary employees at branch offices, $43,200.

CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES, NAVAL OBSERVATORY

For professional and scientific books, books of reference, periodicals, engravings, photographs, and fixtures for the library; for apparatus and instruments, and for repairs of the same; for repairs to buildings (including quarters), fixtures, and fences; for cleaning, repair, and upkeep of grounds and roads; furniture and furnishings for offices and quarters, gas, chemicals, paints, and stationery, including transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, foreign postage; plants, seeds, and fertilizers; for fuel, oil, grease, pipe, wire, and other materials needed for the maintenance and repair of boilers, engines, heating apparatus, electric lighting and power, and water supply; purchase and maintenance of teams; maintenance, repair, and operation of motor trucks and passenger automobiles, and of horse-drawn vehicles; telegraph and telephone service; and other absolutely necessary expenses, $25,700, of which sum $6,500 shall be available immediately.

For preparation for and observation of total solar eclipse of October 21-22, 1930, $3,600, to remain available until June 30, 1931. Approved, March 2, 1929.

A

Academy, Naval, appointment of midshipmen from Canal Zone to (H. R.
16717)_

Accounts, credit, of disbursing officers, Supply Corps (H. R. 9352).
Ackerman, Hon. Ernest R., statement on Gilbert P. Chase, bill H. R.
10569__

Acting assistant surgeons, relating to the number of (H. R. 15205)
Acting pay clerks, appointment of (H. R. 14923).

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869

21-39

384, 660

Active list, elimination of staff officers selected for promotion (H. R.
11331).

Active list, transfers in Marine Corps (H. R. 13685).
Administration, organization, and creation of reserves (H. R. 5487) to
amend section 6.

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53

323

189

433

Admiralty laws relating to Virgin Island (H. R. 17220)
Advancement in rank of officers on retired list (H. R. 14806, 15206).
Advisory Committee on Aeronautics, to increase membership of (H. R.
5544)--

837

325

749

Allowance and pay, equalize officer's (H. R. 13614)

Aeronautical duties, transfer certain officers employed (H. R. 15378).
Aeronautics, to increase the membership of advisory committee on (H. R.
5544)....

Age of officers in Marine Corps under selection system (H. R. 13685) -
Age, to regulate minimum, enlistments in reserves..
Airship base, to establish (H. R. 16694, 16839) -

Allowance for clothing, President to fix (H. R. 17142).

Alterations and repairs, naval vessels:

California (H. R. 14660)—

Antiaircraft battery for..

Beuret, Rear Admiral, statement on..

Estimated cost of..

317

749

128

327

551, 637

257

757

202

201

203

Dallinger amendment, principle of applied to-

Page

225

64

64

226

Distribution of work between Government and private yards... 226

Principle of distributing work between private and Government
yards...

Relating to estimates by private and Government yards.

Alvarez, Pedro P., hearing on (H. R. 13573).....
Amendment to-

Act May 4, 1898, appointment of surgeons (H. R. 15205)..
Act June 22, 1926, retirement of certain officers (H. R. 17322)
Naval appropriation act June 30, 1916 (H. R. 14923).
Section 6, February 28, 1925, act (H. R. 5487).
Section 8, Act March 4, 1925 (H. R. 17317)

Section 11, February 28, 1925, act (H. R. 8536 and H. R. 17128)
Section 12, May 18, 1920 act (H. R. 12986) -

Section 24, act February 28, 1925 (H. R. 7930).

Section 1440, Revised Statutes (S. 2410) –

Section 1493, Revised Statutes (H. R. 11483)

Section 1505, Revised Statutes (H. R. 14450).

American Legion, erect chapel at Lakehurst, N. J. (H. R. 16533)
Ames, Dr. Joseph S., statement relating to increase of membership on
aeronautics board (H. R. 5544) _ .

Annual base pay of United States naval officers (chart) (H. R. 13614)
Appointment as staff head, eligible list in Marine Corps (H. R. 13685).
Appointment of acting assistant surgeons by the President (H. R. 15205).
Appointment of midshipmen from Canal Zone (H. R. 16717).
Appointment of pay and acting pay clerks (H. R. 14923).
Appointment of promotion board in Marine Corps (H. R. 13685)
Appropriations for the Interparliamentary Union Conference-

Arizona and Pennsylvania, repairs and alterations to (H. R. 11616).
Army and Navy nurses, provide for retirement of (H. R. 15010).
Assignment table, of duty of officers distribution (H. R. 13685)
Astoria, Oreg., Gilpin Construction Co., of (S. 1530).

239

63-225

853

Authorization to discharge transferred members of the reserves (H. R.
5487)---

Awarding of gold medals in the name of Congress (S. 4338).

154

277

433

543

B

Babcock, Lieut. Arthur W.

Baldwin-Britten exchange of cablegrams. -

Bachelor pay and allowance in Navy and Marine Corps (H. R. 13614)
Baillie, Roland Vincent (H. R. 14384).

39

257

443

Barnes, Lieut. Archy W. (H. R. 16899) .

Barber, Lieut. Commander John R. (H. R. 480; S. 2068).

237

475, 537

Battleship California, repairs and alterations (H. R. 14660).

Barracks, mess hall, and galley at naval training station, San Diego,
Calif. (H. R. 13884).

39, 697

71

Battleships Oklahoma and Nevada, repairs and alterations (H. R.
13249).

Battleships, alterations and repairs to Pennsylvania and Arizona (H. R.
11616).

43, 201

63-225

Bedard John (H. R. 15755).

45, 83, 225
593

Beedy, Hon. Carroll L., statement on Kittery, Me., bridge (H. R. 10664) 513
Beuret, Rear Admiral John D.:

Statement on alterations and repairs to Oklahoma and Nevada
(H. R. 13249) _

Billings, Harold G. (H. R. 14692)

Blair, Edward A., hearing on (S. 1633).

Statement on repairs to U. S. S. California (H. R. 14660)
Statement on limiting cost to fleet submarines (H. R. 14922).

Statement on alterations and repairs to certain naval vessels (H. R.
11616, H. R. 13249).

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225

201

207

441

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