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FIFIY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. sm. 11. cu. 1000. 1903. 1025 For preparation of plansfor fortifications, five thousand dollars. *`l'““· For too s, electrical and engine supplies and appliances, to be fur- Electric plants. nished by the Engineer Delpartment, for the use of the troops for maintaining and oplerating e ectric light and power plants in gun and . mortar batteries, t irty-five thousand dollars. For construction of sea walls and embankments, eighty-nine thou- S" ‘”“’· sand Eve hundred and seventy-five dollars. For the construction of mining casemates, cable galleries, torpedo S“‘“““"*“° “‘*“°“· storehouses, cable tanks, and other structures necessar for the operation, preservation, and care of submarine mines and their accessories, fifty thousand dollars, to be expended by the Engineer Department. For the purchase of submarine mines and necessary appliances to mfalfggjw f¢>r M- operate them for closing the channels leading to our dprmcgml sea-` °°°' ports, and continuing torpedo experiments, one hun red thousand nmmcsmnunuea. ollars; this sum and the unexpended balance from the sum of seventeen thousand dollars appropriated in the fortification a propriation Am,p.axr act of June sixth, nineteen hundred and two, for the purdhase of submarine mines and necessagy appliances and for continuing torpedo · experirnents, to be expend through the Ordnance Department. or purchase of the necessary machiner , tools, and implements for .f.`g;°,:`°*““· N·Y· the reypair shopeof the torpedo de t at liort Totten, Vi illets Point, New ork to expended throughllhe Ordnance Department, three thousand dollars. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of War to apply the money ¤¤¤¤¤=¤- herein appropriated under the heading “Fortitications and other works of defense," in carrying on the·various works, by contract or otherwise, as may be most economical and advantageous to the Government. Wlrere said works are done by contract, such contract shall be made after sufficient public advertisement for proposals, in such manner and form as the Secretary of War shall prescribe; and such contracts shall be made with the lowest responsible bidders, accompanied by such securities as the Secretary of War shall require, conditioned for the faithful prosecution and completion of the work according to such contract. ABMAMENT OF FORTIFIOATIONS. Armament. For finishing and assembling eight-inch, ten-inch, and twelve-inch gj*;*m*g*;\l;}y*q{§’ guns at the Army Gun Factory, including new tiring attachments for gum. '°' °" guns now in service and any new tools or machinery necessary for their manufacture, eighty thousand dollars. For oil tempered and annealed steel for seacoast-defense guns of Sm! eight—inch, ten-inch, and twelve—inch caliber, sixty-one thousand dollars: I’mvidecl, That no contract for oil-tempered and annealed steel mim Hue for high-power coast-defense guns and mortars shall be made at a pérplmsu. P price exceeding twenty-one cents per pound except for nickel steel: [’:·¢n·i¢Ied, That in the discretion o the Secretary of \Var a portion of S¢¤¢l·W*¤* s¤¤¤· this money may be used for the purchase of material for a limited number of steel-wire seacoast guns. For purchase, manufacture, alteration, issue, and repair of carriages for mounting seacoast guns of eight, ten, and twelve inch calibers, including any new tools or machinery necessary for their manufacture at arsenals, two hundred and ninety-six thousand dollars. For equipping twelve—inch seacoast carriages in service with electrical m§l°°"‘°*l °¥’P”'* apparatus or retracting purposes, fifteen thousand dollars. or alteration and improvement of twelve—inch mortar carriages, Mcmresrrinsu one hundred and sixt —five thousand dollars. _ For new Bring mechanism for twelve-inch mortars,thirty-tive thou- *"'*“g‘“°°*"*'“‘”* sand dollars. _ For shields for barbette carriages, fifty thousand dollars. B"*’”"° ’*“°"’· von xxxrr, rrr 1--65