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FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 640. 1890. 191 eral 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 thirty thousand dollars. For proo of naval Armament, six thousand dollars. For the purchase of armor plates for reception tests of modern prmectiles, fifty thousand dollars. AvAL ORDNANCE RANGE AND PROVING-GROUND: For draining, Naval ordnance erection of firing} butts, screens, cranes, building of wharf, chrono- §,,f‘”“ *"'°""€' graph house, an other necessary improvements of naval ordnance _ range and provingzground heretofore authorized by act of March third, eighteen hun red and eighty-seven, twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That the moneys heretofore and hereby appropriated mm- · for the purpose of erecting buildings and making other improve- ’1`<> Wg1MM ments on said proving-ground may be forthwith expended upon the °°°°i°°° acquisition by the United States of the title thereto. For one steel shell-lighter of about sixty-eight tons displacement, sweimarugma. yvith carrying capacity of about forty-five tons, eight thousand dollars; To enable the Secretary of the Navy to manufacture and experi- g,,.,,,,,,.,,,, gum mentally test, under 1'\1l0S and conditions to be prescribed by him, a °°°··¤¤*¤· submarine gun and projectiles for the same, thirty thousand dollars: _ Provided, hat no part of this money shall be expended until the owners of the patents to be tested under this provision shall agree ima. by contract to give the Government the option within a specified time to contract at such price as shall be satisfactory to the Secretary of the Navy for the exclusive right on the part of the Government to manufacture by contract or otherwise such submarine guns and projectiles without the payment of any royalty on the same: Provided, That such submarine gun and pfogctiles shall plrove sat- mmm isfactory'on due test, and be approved by e ecretary of the Navy ; and for testing torpedoes, twenty thousand dollars; in all fifty thou- ·rm-peuemu. sand dollars. REPAIRS, BUREAU OF OBDNANCE: For necessary repairs to ord- R#1>¤ir¤· nance buildin s, magazines, gun-parks, boats , lighters, wharves, machinery, and other objects of the like character, fifteen thousand dollars. _ Tonrmno SrA·r1oN, Nnwronr, Rnonn ISLAND: For labor, mate- Torpedo mum. rial, freight, and express charges; general care of and repairs to N°"’°"’·M· grounds, buildings, and wharves; boats. implements, tools furniture, experiments and general torpedo outfits; sixty thousand dollars. CoN·r1NcnN·r, BUREAU or Om>NANon: For miscellaneous items, oeummt. namely z Freight to foreign and home stations; advertising; cartage and express charges; repairs to iire engines ; gas and water pipe; gas and water tax at ma azine; toll, ferriage, foreign postage, and telegrams to and from the Bureau, eight thousand dollars. Crvn, Es1·ABL1sHMEN'1‘, BUREAU OF ORDNANCE: For the civil civil esmuxmnmeaz. establishment under the Bureau of Ordnance, namely : Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one writer, when remmmn. re uired, five hundred dollars. _ (Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one writer, when re- —B0st0n. quired five hundred dollars· _ Navy- ard, New York : hor one clerk, at one thousand four hun- New York. dred dollrars; _ _ _ `_ Navy-yard, Washington, D1Sli1’1Gl1 of Columbia: For one clerk, at Washington. one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at twelve hundred dol- ` lars · two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty- five lcents each; one draughtsman, at one thousand six hundred dollars; three dranszhtsmaii, at one thousand and eighty-one dollars each; one assistant draughtsman, at seven hundred an seventy-two dollars · two foremen, at one thousand Eve hundred dollars each; two copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one telegraph operater and copyist, at nine hundred dollars;