Annual Report of the Superintendent, Coast and Geodetic Survey to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor for the Fiscal Year Ended (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. WAR WORK OF THE COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY. On May 22, 1917, an act was approved "to temporarily increase the commissioned and warrant and enlisted strength of the Navy and Marine Corps, and for other purposes." By section 16 of this act the field officers of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, then under the designation of assistants and aids, were directed, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to be commissioned as officers in the Coast and Geodetic Survey under designations therein specified. By this same act the President was authorized "whenever in his judgment a sufficient national emergency exists to transfer to the service and jurisdiction of the War Department and the Navy Department such vessels, equipment, stations, and personnel of the Coast and Geodetic Survey as he may deem to the best interest of the country." Provision is also made for the return to the Coast and Geodetic Survey of such vessels, equipment, stations, and personnel v. hen such emergency ceases in the opinion of the President. In the exercise of this authority, the President issued an Executive order on September 24, 1917, by which the following vessels and the personnel thereon were transferred to the service and jurisdiction of the Navy Department: Surveyor, Bache, and Isis. And on May 16, 1918, another Executive order was issued transferring the following vessels and the personnel thereon to the service and jurisdiction of the Navy Department: Patterson (temporarily renamed U. S. S. Forward) and Explorer. On March 16, 1918, at the request of the Secretary of War, the Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey was granted "leave of absence" from his duties in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and commissioned in the War Department. OFFICERS OF THE SURV...