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 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Gus. 235, 331. 1884. 159 For the purchase of machine guns of the latest improvement, twenty M=¤=h*¤<> g¤¤¤- thousaml dollars. For the armament of sea.-coast ikmtihcatious, including the munufa.ct· A1'¤¤¤¤¤¤¤*9f¤*>¤· ure and conversion of heavy guns and carriages, projectiles, fuses, pow- :9**** f°"‘°°"' der, and implements, their trial umd prooty and all necessary expenses wm' incident thereto, including compensation of draughtsmcn on gun construction whilc employed in the Ordnance Bureau, four hundred thousand dollars, and not exceeding iittcen thousand dollars thereof, may E. ts. be used for the expenses of experiments in the use of dynamite or other the high explosive projectilcsi1;e,¤m. For the preservation of Fort Marion, at Saint; Augustine, Florida., and |§`<>¤· M=¤fi{>¤» tbr the enclosure and improvement of the grounds attached to the same, §,]’““° A“g““°“‘°* said grounds to be in charge of the commanding officer of said fort, tivo °‘ thonsund dollars. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of War to cause the various Caliber, _1¤¤gf·1¤ cnlibcrs, lengths of bore, greatest and least admissible weights of guns °f b°"°· “'$"§£‘ °f. for each caliber, together with the greatest and least weights of pro- §¥;§Zm¥;°:,E,,. MQ joctiles for each caliber, of all the various calibers required for the serv- nm, mu., m be ueico, together with the number of each caliber of gun required, to be ¤¤r¤¤i¤¤<¤;r¤p<>r¤¤¤ determined, and to make the same known to manufacturers of ord- b° m“d° *‘° C"' mums on their application and to report the same to Congress at its gms' next session for its approval. · Sm. 2. That hereafter all riiicd cannon of any particular material, Tut of dum caliber, or kind, made at the cost of the United States shall be pub- ,,,mm,,,,,tc_ licly subjected to the proper test including such rapid firing as a. like gun would be likely to be subjected to in actual battle for the determination of the endurance of the same_t0 the satisfaction of the President of the United States or such persons as he may select; and ho is hereby authorized to select. not to exceed tivo persons, who shall be killed in such matters; and if such gun shall not prove satisfactory, they shall not be put to use in the Government service. · S20. 3. That the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy me of mmm_ arc hereby authorized to sell to projectors of methods of conversion, for bm., cm,,,,, fm. oxpeximeutal purposes only, any smooth-bore cannon on hand required experimental pup by them, at prices which shall not be less than have been received from 1><>¤¤•» ¤¤l¥- auction sales for such articles, and deliver the same, at the cost of the Government, at the nearest convenient place for shipmontor public transportation; the cost of delivery to be deducted from the proceeds of sales, and the balance to be covered into the Treasury of the United States. Sec. 4. That so much of the act making appropriations for the naval 22 Stn 28B_ service for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, approved " August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, as provides that the words *‘ o:dnance” and “ gunp0wdcr" in section thirty-seven hundred R_ S_ ml’m_ and twenty-one of the Revised Statutes shall be construed to mean Provisions of dfcusive and defensive arms, ammunition, and explosives, the appa- n.ct,etc.,dc‘¤rminrams for their military uso, and the materials for producing the whole, ing m gisu ing 0; and also transportation, necessary infomation concerning them, and sig?} :'g:’:;:_°,, mmm- is requisite in muumy experiments with ¤u¤m,1», am me ,,,p,,,f,‘},_’ · same is hereby, repealed. · Approved, July 5, 1884. CHAP. -’•¤i0nn for the lc 'slstivqcxacutlve and udicial oxg::;¤se;:¥: m:£1!;r¥£:lho {kcal your cuglling Juno thirticd, oiglfteou hundred and eighty-Eva, and for other pnrpuse. Bc it emctcd by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Statex of Ameriea On Congress assembled, That the following sums be, Apprcrgriaricnm and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treas- nry not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation. for the nerviuyof 0W2u_