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1 Establish the Composition of the United States Navy, to Authorize the Construction of Certain Naval Vessels, and for Other Purposes 1938

handle is hein.beal/nvcn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 75TH CONGRESS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REPORT 8d Session No.1899 TO ESTABLISH THE COMPOSITION OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY, TO AUTHORIZE THE CONSTRUCTION OF CERTAIN NAVAL VESSELS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES MARcH 4, 1938.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. VINsoN of Georgia, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 9218] The Committee on Naval Affairs to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 9218) to establish the composition of the United States Navy, to authorize the construction of certain naval vessels, and for other purposes, having had the same under consideration, report favorably thereon with the following amendments and recommend that the bill do pass: Amend as follows: Page 3, line 20, change the period to a comma and add which purposes shall include essential equipment and facilities at navy yards for building any ship or ships herein or heretofore authorized. Pages 3 and 4, strike out all of section 6 and insert in lieu thereof the following as section 6: Szc. 6. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $15,000,000 to be expended at the direction of the President of the United States for purposes of experimenting with surface craft, lighter-than-air craft, heavier-than-air craft, aerial bombs, aerial mines, torpedoes, and other inventions and material developments for the national defense, of which sum $5,000,000 shall be expended for the construction of experimental vessels, none -of which shall exceed three thousand tons standard displacement, and $3,000,000 of which shall be expended for the construction of a rigid air-ship of American design and American construction of about three million cubic feet capacity to be used for training, experimental and development pur- poses: Provided, That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to enter into contracts with inventors and manufacturers for experimental work, models, plans, materials, and the development of projects useful to the national defense to the extent of $15,000,000 in addition to the sum authorized by this section to be appropriated.

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