Meanwhile, the Navy Department prepared to grant additional contracts on the projected twelve new outlying [naval bases authorized by Congress at a cost of $31,621,000 for the first year's work. Work is already under way on some of the bases, most of which are in the Pacific, The outlying bases are to be located at San Juan, Puerto Rice, key to the defence of the Panama Canal in the Atlantic; Kaneohe and Pearl Harbour, Hawaii; Sitka and Kodiak, Alaska; Midway Island, Johnston Island, and Palmyra Island, in the Far Pacitc. Continental bases are to be at Pensacola and Jacksonville, Fla, and Tongue Point, Ore.
Under the legislation, the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to negotiate directly with contractors to build the outlying bases without the "formal necessity of advertising for bids, if satisfactory arrangements can be made. Under this procedure 100 firms have submitted their offers.
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