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FO RTYNINTH CONGRESS. SEss. II. CE. 391. 1887. 583 _ REPAIRS, BUREAU OF ORDNANUE: For necessary repairs to ordnance Repairs. buildings, magazines, gun·parks, boats, lighters, wharves, machinery, and other objects of the like character, fifteen thousand dollars. _· ~ CoNr1NcEm·, BUREAU on ORDNANUE: For miscellaneous items, Contingent oxnamely: Freight to foreign and home stations; advertising; cartage, P°¤¤°¤· and expresscharges ;· repairs to tire engines; gas and water pipes; gas and water tax at magazines; toll, ferriage, foreign postage, and telegrams to and from the Bureau, five thousand dollars. Civri. ESTABLISHMENT, BUREAU or ORIJNANUE: For the civil estab- Civil establishlishment under the Bureau of Ordnance, namely: ¤1*>¤*· · · Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one writer (when re- Portsmouth. quired), five hundred dollars ; Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one writer (when required), Boston. five hundred dollars; d Navy-yard, New York, For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred New Yvrk. ollars · ' N av)?-yard, `Washington, District of Columbia: For one clerk, at.one W¤¤hi¤gt¤¤- thousand six hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-tive cents each ; one draughtsman, at one thousand five hundred and iortvtive dollars; three draughtsnien, at one thousand and eighty-one dollars each; one assistant draughtsman, at seven hundred and seventy-two dollars; one foreman, at two thousand one hundred and fifty-six dollars; two copyists at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one telegraph operator, at nine hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For one clerk, at one thousand two Norfolk. hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one writer, at one thousand Mare Island. . and seventeen dollars and twenty-tive cents; _ Naval ordnance proving ground: For one writer, at one thousand P*’°'¤¤S·8¤>¤¤d- and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; _ Torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: For one chemist, at two T°YP°d° ¤*¤¢i¤¤· thousand ive hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one draughtsman, at one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, r twenty-tour thousand three hundred and forty-two dollars and twenty- ive cents. And no other fund appropriated by this act shall be used in payment for such service. Tonrnno Cones: For labor, material, freight, and express charges; T<>¤‘l>¢<i¢> Corin, general care of and repairs to grounds, buildings, wharves; boats; °xP"“"“‘ instruction; instruments, tools, furniture, experiments, and general torpedo outfits, fifty thousand dollars; extension to electrical laboratory, three thousand dollars; ponton, eight hundred dollars; repairs to sea·wall three thousand dollars; water·pipe from Newport to station, one thousand dollars; in all, fiftyseven thousand eight hundred dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Navy to purchase the steamer Stiletto I P¤*'°h°¤° °*` SW for use as a torpedo boat for experimental purposes, twenty-tive thou- °°°°‘ sand dollars. BUREAU or EQUIPMENT A.ND.RECRUITING. V m};·:;¤::d0§€?(g¤;§l:: Eonirnnucr or VESSELS3 For coal for steamers’ and ships’ use, in- lnffquipmom gf cluding expenses of transportation, storage, and handling; hemp, wire, vessels. and other materials for the manufacture of rope and cordage ; iron for the manufacture of anchors, cables, galleys, and chains; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, bags, and hammocks; water for steam launches; heating apparatus for receivingships; and for the purchase of all other articles of equipment at home and abroad, and lor the pay· ment of labor in equipping vessels and manufacture of equipment artielleis in the several navy-yards, six hundred and· twenty-nre thousand o lars. TRANSPORTATION AND RECRUITING! For expenses of recruiting for R¤<=¤¤i¤z· the naval service, rent of rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same, advertising for men and boys and all other expenses attending