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582 roar Y-NINTH cone-ness. Sess. 11. os. sei. 1887. and lamps, and their appendages, for general use on board ship, including those for the cabin, wardroom, and steerage, for the holds and spirit-room, for decks and quartermaster’s use; hunting and other materials for ilags, and making and repairing Bags of all kinds ; oil for ships of war, other than that used in the engineer department; candles, when used as a substitute for oil in hinuacles and running lights, chimneys and wicks, and sca p used in the navigation department; photographic instruments and materials; stationery for commanders and navigators of vessels of war, and for use of courts-martial; musical instruments and music for vessels of war; steering signals and indicators, and speaking-tubes and gongs, for signal communications on board vessels of war; and for introducing and maintaining electric lights on board vessels of war, in all eighty-three thousand five hundred dollars. Ocean surveys. OCEAN SURVEYS: For special ocean surveys, and the publication thereof, five thousand dollars. Surveys osmsxi- PUBLICATION or suuvnrs or Mnxrcm coAs·r: For preparing and °*" °°“*- Engraving on copper-plates the surveys of Mexican coast, five thousand o ars. Contingent ox- Courmsnur, BUREAU on NAVIGATION: For contingent expenses P°¤¤°°· of the Bureau of Navigation, namely: For freight and transportation of navigation materials; postage and telegraphing on public business; advertising for proposals; packing-boxes and materials; furniture, stationery, and fuel lor navigation olhees at navy-yards; and all other contingent expenses, five thousand dollars. Civil ssrsbustp CIVIL nsunrisnmnur, BUREAU or NAVIGATION: Navy-yard, New ¤¤•’¤*· Y ki York : For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, N"' °' at one thousand dollars; one storekeeper, at nine hundred dollars; one master of tugs, at one thousand five hundred dollars; P°**¤¤¤°¤*h· Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one clerk, at one thousand dollars; Norfolk. Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For one clerk, at one thousand two _ hundred dollars; . W¤¤}¤¤8‘*°¤- Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one clerk, at one thousand dollars; · M¤¤I¤l¤¤d- _ Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousand dollars; in all nine thousand dollars. And no other fund appropriated by this act hall be used in payment for such services. Bureau of Ord- - BUREAU or onnmmcn. 1131102. Mnt¤ri¤1¤¤d¤¤p— ORDNANGE AND OBDNANCE STORES: For procuring, producing, pre- Ph"- serving, and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; for fuel tools, material, and labor to be used in the general work of the Ordnance Department; for furniture at magazines, at the ordnance dock, New York. and at the naval ordnance battery and proving ground, one hundred and twenty thousand four hundred dollars of which sum twenty thousand four hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, Steel osimes, for the purchase and completion of three steel-cast, rough~hored and turned, six-inch, high-power rifle caution, of domestic manufacture, one ' of which shall be of Bessemer steel, one of open hearth steel, and one Pr¤vi¤•»- of crucible steel: Provided, That the castings for said cannon shall not be paid for until the cannon shall have been completed and have suc- Tests. _ cessfully stood the statutory test required by the act of July twenty- L3'" 1°l¤°¤*¤°¤ sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled “Au act making apgih C°“g"“* P' propriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thir- ° tieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and for other purposes." A*"¤’m°¤*· For proof of naval armament. six thousand dollars. moving, For purchase of land for proving and ranging ground for naval guns, and for constructing buildings, butts, shelters, and batteries, forty thou- , sand dollars.