Volume 50 · 545
Public Law 75–537
To authorize the construction of certain auxiliary vessels for the Navy.
Approved July 30, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the construction of certain auxiliary vessels for the Navy.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That for the purpose of furnishing or replacing auxiliary vessels urgently necessary for the proper maintenance and operation of the Navy, the President of the United States is hereby authorized to undertake the construction of about thirty-six thousand and fifty tons (light displacement tonnage) of such auxiliary vessels as follows at a total cost for all vessels of not more than $50,000,000:
One seaplane tender of about eight thousand three hundred tons;
One destroyer tender of about nine thousand tons;
One mine sweeper of about six hundred tons;
One submarine tender of about nine thousand tons;
One fleet tug of about one thousand one hundred and fifty tons; and
One oiler of about eight thousand tons.
Sec. 2.
Not less than 50 per centum of the vessels herein authorized,
Ratio of construction in Government yards, etc.
allocated on an approximate tonnage basis, including such portions thereof as are customarily manufactured in Government plants, shall be constructed or manufactured in Government navy yards, naval stations, naval gun factories, naval ordnance plants, or arsenals of the United States; Provided, That the President may, however,
Provisos.
Changes allowed in public interests.
should the public interests in his judgment so require, have the vessels built in Government or private yards notwithstanding the allocation otherwise imposed: Provided further, That the provisions
Contract provisions.
of section 3 of the Act entitled “An Act to establish the composition of the United States Navy with respect to the categories of vessels limited by the treaties signed at Washington, February 6, 1922, and at London, April 22, 1930, at the limits prescribed by those treaties; to authorize the construction of certain naval vessels; and for other purposes”, approved March 27, 1934 (48 Stat. 505;
U. S. C., title 34, sec. 496), as amended, are hereby made applicable to contracts for the construction of the vessels or any portion thereof herein authorized.
Sec. 3.
Any bid for the construction on the Pacific coast of any
Construction on Pacific coast, differential.
of the vessels authorized by this Act shall have a differential of 6 per centum in its favor which shall be considered by the Secretary of the Navy in awarding contracts for the construction of said vessels.
Approved, July 30, 1937.