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 FORTY—SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 316. 1872. 261 For modification and repair of buildings, five thousand dollars. Buildings. For erection of new chapel, five thousand dollars. For repairs of instruments for general service of the corps of engi- Instruments. neers, ten thousand dollars. For purchase of siege and mining material, and for simple photographic Siege, &c., apparatus for copying maps, one thousand dollars. m*‘*°'““l· For expenses of trials with torpedoes for harbor and land defence, and Trials with mrmaterial for same, ten thousand dollars. P"d°”· For the ordnance service required to defray the current expenses at the .Ord“““°° S"` arsenals; of receiving stores and issuing arms and other ordnance sup- wml plies; of police and office duties; of rents, tolls, fuel, and lights; of stationery and office furniture; of tools and instruments for use; of public animals, forage, and vehicles; incidental expenses of the ordnance service, including those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, imall-arms, and other ordnance supplies, two hundred thousand dollars. For manufacturing metallic ammunition for small-arms, one hundred M??“m° “m' and twenty-five thousand dollars. mmm0n` r For overhauling, preserving, and cleaning new ordnance stores on hand S,£;g?;;$2€n¤]S_ in the arsenals, seventy-five thousand dollars. For sea-coast cannon, and carriages for the same, one hundred and S”·‘°°”* °*‘“‘ twenty thousand dollars. mm' _ For experiments and tests of heavy rifled ordnance, two hundred and §I°‘:"Y_"*H°d seventy thousand dollars: Provided, That this appropriation shall be ap- Ort;:;);;;;,-Om;- plied to at least three models of heavy ordnance, to be designated by a Htion. MW to be board of officers to be appointed by the Secretary of `War, which report °pph°d‘ shall include both classes, breech and muzzle loading cannon, and the powder and projectiles necessary for testing the same shall be supplied from stores on hand. _ For constructing and testing Mofl`at’s breech-loading field-pieces, eight ,1f°f' thousand dollars ; and for testing James Crocket’s graduating and accel- {Wang 5g1d- erating cartridge, and for experimenting with patent metallic cartridge of piscss. and im- WVillis E. Moore, and other improvements in ammunition, five thousand dollars. For purchase and manufacture of other ordnance stores to fill requisi— st£;l¤’*“°‘* tion of troops, fifty thousand dollars. ` For manufacture of arms at the national armory, one hundred and fifty fM¤**¤f¤¤*¤’° thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be ° grmsf . . _ . 0 pmt to be expended until a breech—loading system for muskets and carbines shall Expanded mm], have been adopted for the military service upon the recommendation of §¤c·, brccch—loadthe board to be appointed by the Secretary of War, which board shall  be consist of not less than five officers, as follows: one general officer, one adoptedbyboard; ordnance officer, and three officers of the line, one to be taken from the *° °°¤S*S°°€ &°·# cavalry, one from the infantry, and one from the artillery: And provided System whm further, That the system, when so adopted, shall be the only one to be adopted to be the used by the ordnance department in the manufacture of muskets and 0¤l§ <>¤¢d¢<> N carbines for the military service; and no royalty shall be paid by the ‘;;$ah;"m‘{; government of the United States for the use of said patent to any of its paid. officers or employees, or for any patent in which said officers or employees may be directly or indirectly interested. Seo. 2. That hereafter it shall be illegal to brand, mark, or tattoo on Bm¤<li¤g. &¢ . . · ( on body oi sol— the body of any soldier by sentence of court-martial, and the word ‘ cor- dm mmgmegg poreal " shall be stricken from the forty-fifth of the rules and articles for \Vord "c'orthe government of the armies of the United States. g‘:;1*‘l&cS“‘°k°“ Approved, June 6, 1872. ’ `