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SIXTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 202, 203. 1908. 397 jectiles, fuses, explosives, for edoes, 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 dut * devolved upon it by the Act a proved Se tember twenty-second, "°‘·’5· P·*8’· eighteen hundred and eight eight; to pay tlile salary of the civilian civnmi member. member of the Board of Ordnance and Fortiiication rovided by s°l'"" the Act of February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred andpninetvone, v01.za,p.m. and for the necessar traveling expenses of said member when traveling on duty as contempiated in said Act; for the pa ment of the necessary ru mem, me em. expenses of the Board, including a per diem alllowance to each officer detailed to serve thereon, when em loyed on duty away from his permanent station, of two dollars and fifty cents a°day; and for the test of experimental guns, carriages, and other devices procured in accordance with the recommendation of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification, fifty thousand dollars, the expenditure of which shall be made by the several bureaus of the War Department heretofore havin jurisdiction of the same, or by the Board itself, as the Secretary of Mar may direct: Provided, That before any money shall be expended in the construe- {mg in D tion or test of any gun, n carriage, ammunition, or implements mm. M v° ` under the supervision of thdlsaid Board, the Board shall be 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 either having such lawful right or authorized to convey the same to the Government. That all material purchased under the provisions of this Act shall be ,}}.};:,*0*:;* fgmbjhgf of American manufacture, except in cases when, in the judgment of ture. the Secretary of War, it is to the manifest interest of the United States to make purchases in limited quantities abroad. Such material ' purchased in limited quantities shall be admitted free of duty, as shall other similar material furnished without charge. Approved, May 27, 1908. CHAP. 203.-An Act To authorize the construction of a railroad siding to the NW 27. IQ09- United States navy-yard, and for other purposes. . -[Hf;gTl [rutile, uu. 144.; Be it enacted by the Senate and House of RepreseratatoIve0 of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Philadelphia, Balti— ”,l’{f{f§_§,§"f,§’,lf",§‘,}Q'a; more and Washington Railrom Company be, and it is herebv, author- pgre.R¤gMuré2¤g- ized and directed to construct a' single branch track or siding from Qin, ,Z,y c.,,.,tm.-t its present main line, at some point, to be approved by the Commis- “*‘}§°“_*{,‘Qf““'>"’°'d· sioners of the District of Columbia, between the bridge over the Anacostia River at Pennsylvania avenue southeast, and one thousand feet westerly therefrom; thence extending by curve in a southwestwardly direction across square south of one thousand and eighty, to Fifteenth street, east; thence southwestwardly across square south one thousand and sixty-seven, on a line generally plarallel to the center line of Water street, at such distance between the center line of Water street and the present approved north bulkhead line of the Anacostia River as shall be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, crossing Pifteenth street southeast, Fourteenth street southeast, Thirteenth street southeast, Twelfth street southeast, M and N streets southeast, and Vircrinia avenue: thence in a southwestwardly direction by curve or otherwise, as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall approve, crossing Twelfth street southeast, and square south of one thousand and one, to the north abutment of the Anacostia River bridge at the foot of Eleventh 80893-von 35, rr 1-09;2'?