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Fonrr-nronmu concnnss. sms. 11. cn. 4.2. 1885. 291 BUREAU OF PROVISIONS AND CLOTEUN G. For provisions for the seamen and marines; commuted rations for Provisions and omcers, seamen, and marines; expenses of the handling and transpor- vlvthiugtation of provisions; of inspections and storehouses ; purchase of water for ships for cooking and drinking purposes; and for provisions and commutation of rations for seven hundred and fifty boys, ilve hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That all enlisted men and boys in mM_ the Navy, attached to any United States vessel or station and doing . duty thereon, and naval cadets, shall be allowed a ration, or commutation thereof in money, under such limitations and regulation as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe. For contingent expenses: For freight on shipments (except provis— Contingent exions); oandles, fuel; books and blanks; stationery; advertising and com- P¤¤¤°¤· missions on sales; furniture for inspection and pay offices in navy-yards; foreign postage, telegrams, and express charges; toll, ferriages, cartickets; yeoman’s stores, iron safes, newspapers, ice, and incidental ex- ‘ penses absolutely necessary, fifteen thousand dollars. For the civil establishment, three thousand dollars. Ciivil establishlll0D BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR. For preservation and completion of vessels on the stocks and in ordi· Freservation,renary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; laborin navy-yards P•¤» ;}¤d °°¤¤Pl°· and on foreign stations; preservation of materials; purchase of tools; *i°“° "“°l“*°°"‘ wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat, and for general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair, an incidental expenses, namely, advertising, foreign postage telegrams, photographing, books, plans, stationery, and instruments for drawingmom, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That no part Proviao. of thrssum shall be applied to the repairs of any wooden ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of ' naval officers, shall exceed twenty per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material : Provided further, That nothing herein contained shall deprive the Sec- pM;.,, rotary of the Navy of the authority to order repairs of ships damaged in foreign waters or on the high seas, so far as maybe necessary to bring them home._ For the civil establishment, ten thousand dollars. ¤¤|=•l•1i•h- BUBEAU OF STEAM-ENGINEERING. For repairs,` completion, and preservation of machinery and boilers, stesmmselnnu-y. including steam-steerers, steam-capstans, steam-windlasses, and so forth, in vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase and preservation of all materials and stores purchase, fitting, and repair of machinery and tools in the navy-yards and stations; wear, tear, and repair of machinery and boilers of naval vessels; incidental expenses, such as foreign postages, telegrams, advertising, freight, photographing, books, stationery, and instruments, two hundred and eighty thousand dollars; and the unexpended balance of the appropriation of one million dollars made by the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty- three, for engines and machinery for the double-turreted iron-clads be, and the same is hereby, reappropriated and made available during the last half of the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty- tive, for the purposes enumerated in this paragraph: Provided, That no Pmnlnu. part of said sum shall be applied to the repair of engines and machinery. of wooden ships where the estimated costs of such repair shall exceed twenty per centum of the estimated cost of new engines and machinery of the same character and power; but nothing herein contained shall " prevent the repair or building of boilers for wooden ships the hulls of which can be fully repaired for twenty per centum of theestirnated cost of a new ship of the same size and material.