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502 FORTY-EIGHTH COXGRESS. Sitss. II. Ch. 360. 18*5. UNDER THE WAR DEPARTNIICZVI`. Armorios and ARMORUSS AND AHSENALS. Arscualn. Rook Island, I11. For the Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois, as follows: For completing shop H, an iron-finishing shop for the armory, three thousand tivo hundred dollars. For Amory shop K, an iron-iinishing shop fifty thousand dollars. For completing storehouse numbered four, five thousand scvon hundred dollars. -* For commencing and completing fire-proof stone building for offices for both the armory and arsenal thirty thousand dollars. For erecting lumber storehouse fourteen thousand dollars. For general cam, preservation, and improvement; for building new roads; for care and preservation of tho water power; for pamting and care and preservation of permanent buildings, bridges, and shoms of the island; for building fences, grading grounds, and repairs and extension of railroad, ten thousand dollars. For machinery and shop~iixtures, seventeen thousand dollars. wam-v<>¤l. That any balance of the appropriation of eighteen thousand tivo hun- A'*‘* P- 215- dmd dollars for the completion of the improvement of the water-pool above the dam at the Rock Island Arsenal, msdn by the sundry civil up- Uncxpondcd 1,;.1- proprintions act for eighteen hundred and eighty-iivo, remaining unexqmm mippmpri- pended at the close of the current fiscal year, bc, and the same is hereby, ‘**"l· rcappropriated and made available for and during the fiscal year eightcon hundred and oighty-six. Rock Island For the Rock Island bridge as follows: "¤dH°· For carc and preservation of the Rock Island bridge, and expenses of maintaining and operating the draw, nine thousand dollars. For protecting the Rock Island bridge by means of shcor-booms, two hundred and fifty dollars. spri¤gn¤1d,M¤s¤. For the Springiicld Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts: For repairs and preservation of grounds, buildings, and machinery not used for manufacturing purposes, fifteen thousand dollars. Benicia, Cal. For Benicia Arsenal, Benicia, California: For permanent repairs of post and fences, six thousand dollars. Sm Antonio, For tho Sam Antonio Arsenal, San Antonio, Texas: For repairs of Tax. buildings, roads, and drains, four thousand dollars. ~ Concroting me- For laying concrcto sidewalks on Flores and Arsenal streets, four x£§Jr§wmd thousand and seventy-five dollars and twenty cents. pow, N. J.,Pi¤- For Piccatiny Powder Depot, Dover, New Jersey: For grading ¤•¢¤=! P¤Wd¤¤D¢· grounds, erecting magazines and other necessary buildings, and all cx- P°°· pcnscs incident thereto, forty thousand dollars. Sandy Hook For Sandy Hook Proving Ground, New Jersey : For clearing, level- P¤>vi¤g G¤>¤¤d- ing, grading, and building roads and general repairs, three thousand dollars. Repairs or arse- For repairs of arsenals : For repairs of arsenals, andto meet such un- ¤¤!¤-. foreseen expenditures at arsenals as accidents or other contingencies during tho year may render necessary, thirty thousand dollars. Watertown Ai-. Testing-machine, Watertown Arsenal; For curing for, preserving, ¤¤¤¤1·_ using, and operating the United States testing machine at Watertown £j‘;}3§‘”‘°°h‘“°· Arsenal, ren thousand dollars: Provided, That hereafter the tests of Tm, io be W iron and steel and other materials for industrul purposes shall ho couport•:di0Congress. tinucd, and report thereof shall be mndc to Congress: And providcdfurlijfmrv- ther, That in making tests for private citizens the officcr in charge may 1_ 8 of fggff '§:Ym*{‘f require payment in advance, and may use the funds so received in mak- Nuc, when mt is mg such private tests, making full report thereof to the Chicf of Ordtor a privsu cm- nance; and the Chief of Ordnance shall give attention to such pro- ¤¤¤· gmmmc of tests as may be submitted by the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the record of such tests shall be furnished said society, to be by them published at their own cxpcnso.