310 FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sruss. I Cus. 1033,1036. 1902 nlgoglmgcgrggmce Bonm or omnmmon nm r·o1z•r1moA·rr0N. P¤*°¤¤·*·*· To enable the board to make all needful and roper purchases, experiments, and tests to ascertain, with a view to their utilization by the Government, the most effective guns, small arms, cartridges, projectiles, fuses, explosives, torpedoes, armor plates, and other implements and engines of war, and to purchase or cause to be manufactured, under authority of the Secretary of War, such `guns, carriages, armor plates, and other war material as may, in the judgment of the board, be necessary in the proper discharge of the duty devolved V¤1-%~ a 48*- upon it by the Act approved September twenty-sewnd, eighteen hun- <¤v¤i·¤ ¤¤¢¤¤>•>r· dred and eighty-eight; to pay the salary of the civilian member of the Wl- 21 P- 769- Board of Ordnance and Fortriicationtprovided by the Act of February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred an ninety-one, and for the necessary traveling expenses of said member when traveling on duty as P¤¤*¤¤· contem lated in said Act; for the payment of the necessary expenses of the hoard, including a per diem allowance to each ofricer detailed to serve thereon, when emplotyed on duty away from his rmanent '*`°"'· station, of two dollars and fty cents a day; and for th;) test of experimental guns, carriages, and other devices procured in accordance with the recommendation of the Board of Ordnance and F ortrfication, one hundred thousand dollars, the expenditure of which shall be made by the several bureaus of the War Department heretofore having jurisdiction of the same_, or by the board itself, as the Secre- @;_,,,,, ,,,,,,,_ tary of War may direct: _Pr0vaAed, hat before any money shall be ¤¤¤¤- extpended in thp conszructrpn otrh test of an_y_guukgplp carréaggegxagmpnr on, or im emen un er e SHPOTVISIOD e san r , the board shall bh satisfied, after due inquiry, that the Government of the United States has a lawful right to use the inventions involved in the construction of such gun, gun carriage, ammunition, or implements, or that the construction or test is made at the request of a person eigheé having such lawful right or authorized to convey the same to the overnment. _u§;‘g,'{§‘:,§“uQ*,n‘;$,Q{ That all material purchased under the foregoing provisions of this turgcc mm Act shall be of American manufacture, except rn cases when, in the P{pdgment of the Secretary of War, It is to the manifest interest of the mted States to make purchases in limited quantities abroad, which material shall be admitted free of duty. Approved, June 6, 1902. __j‘j‘§°_f‘;{€’_‘Y¥;,____ CHAP. 1088.-An Act To increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings, to [Pub1ic,No.14s.] authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, and for other purposes. _ Be it enacted by the Semzte and House of Repmven tatices of the United b£}I;‘}}{§‘,';,_ ""’“° States ry America in Congress cwsemhled, That to enable the Secretary <>¤¤¤¤¤>i¤i¤¤r¤¤¤1- of the reasury of the Lnited States to give effect to and execute the
- ’°"· P·‘*”— provisions of existing legislation authorizing the purchase of sites and
the erection thereon of public buildings in the several cities hereinafter enumerated the limit of) cost heretofore fixed by Congress therefor be, and the same is hereby, increased, respectively, as follows, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to enter into contracts for the com Ietion of each of said buildings within its respective limit of cost, incliiding site, hereby fixed: ·‘·““*””°“·A'**- The limit of cost of the public building in Anniston, Alabama, is lliefpby increased from fifty thousand dollars to seventy-five thousand o ars. - “°¤t€°*¤**’Y· A*¤· United States post-office and courthouse at Montgomery, Alabama, from one hundred and eighty-five thousand four hundred and fifty-six
