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SIXTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cr1.252. 1909. 749 For purchase and repair of instruments to be issued to officers of iuyégaag °*°·· 0* the Corps of Engineers and to officers detailed and on duty as acting H ' gngfneer officers for use on public works and surveys, ten thousand o ars. ENGINEER Scnoor., WASHINGTON, Drsrmcr or Corman1A: E uip- Engineer scrum. ment and maintenance of the Engineer School at WashingtonqBar- B”$i""g°°”B“r”°k" racks, District of Columbia, including purchase of instruments, E¤‘“Pm”°· machinery, implements, models, and materials, for the use of the . school and for instruction of engineer troops in their special duties as sappers and miners; for land mining, ontooning, and signaling; for purchase and binding of professionalpworks and periodicals of recent date treatin of military and civil engineering and kindred . scientific subjects for the library of the United States Engineer School; for incidental expenses of the school, including fuel, lights, I“°*d°““*1°XP°"S°’~ chemicals, stationery, hardware, machinery, and boats; for ay of civilian clerks, draftsmen, electricians, mechanics, and laborers; for extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days as artificers on work in addition to and not strictly in the line of their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine drivers, telegraph operators, telep one operators, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers; for repairs of and materials to repair lpublic buildings and machinery; forunforeseen expenses; for trave expenses of officers on journeys approved T’“"°““*°"P°““°“· by the Chief of Engineers and made for the purpose of instruction: Pr , Provided, That the traveling expenses herein provided for shall be Inolilgif or manage, in lieu of mileage and other allowances; and to rovide means for °*°· the theoretical and practical instruction at the Epngineer School by the purchase of text—books, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, and for other absolutely necessary expenses, twenty- five thousand dollars. _ ENGINEER EQUIPMENT OF TROOPSZ For pontoon material, tools, €,§°““’°“ ’“‘“°“’“· instruments, and supplies required for use in the engineer equipment of troops, including the {purchase and preparation of engineer manuals, nmety thousand dollars. “ . For services of surveyors, survey parties, draftsmen, photographers, S““'°’°”· °‘°‘ master laborers, and clerks to engineer officers on the stad of division, corps, and department commanders, forty thousand dollars. c ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT. m§§{""“°° °°*"‘"` ORDNANCE srmvrcmz For the current expenses of the Ordnance °“"°"°°"’°""°“‘ Department, in connection with purchasing, receiving, storing, and issuing ordnance and ordnance stores, comprising police and office duties, rents, tolls, fuel, light, water, and advertising, stationery, and office furniture, tools, and instruments of service ; for incidental expenses of the ordnance service and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small arms, and other ordnance stores; and for publications for libraries of the Ordnance Department, including the Ordnance Office, and payment for mechanical labor in the office of the Chief of Ordnance, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. . . ORDNANCE STORES—IiMMUNITIONI Manufacture and purchase of ,m’§{§‘§’E,,§‘f$lK’“ M ammunition and materials therefor for small arms for reserve supply; ammunition for burials at the National Soldiers' Home in Was ington, District of Columbia; ammunition for firing the morningvand evening gun at military posts prescribed by General Orders, l\umbered Seventy, Headquarters o the Army, dated July twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and at National Home for_Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and its several branches, including National 90893—~vor. 35, PT 1—09—·49