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 262 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 334, 335. 1884. For enlistment bounty to seamen prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty one, two hundred and seventy three dollars and thirty four cents. For bounty for destruction of 6DOT11i8S, vessels prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty one, eleven dollars and eighty six cents. b U:;;m&X?;*2°;$`d POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT CLAIMS ALLOVVED BY THE JOY, Posh0mm SIXTH AUDITOR. Department' For deficiency in postal revenues, eighteen hundred and eighty one and prior years, four thousand six hundred and thirty one dollars and seventy four cents. Approved, July 7, 1884. July 7, 1884. CHAP. 335.-.4.11 acm making temporary provision for the naval service Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Approprigpipugy States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of protvmrwrayy, for viding for the expenses of the naval service for the six months ending N“"‘1“°"‘°°· December thirty first, eighteen hundmd and eighty four, there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the_ Treasury not otherwise appropriatcd one half or fifty per ccutum of the sums of money (and for the like purposes and continuing the same provisions relating thereto) as were appropriated for the service of the fiscal year ending June thir- 22Stst.,472. tieth eighteen hundred and eighty four, by the act entitled “An Act making approprizxtions for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thjrtictsh eighteen hundred and eighty four and for other purppses” approved March third eighteen hundred and eighty three (cxncpt as hercipahcr declared), subject to all the limitations and conditions in respect to the disbursement of the appropriations hereby made that were imposed by said act and the other laws of the United States upon or in respect to the appropriations made by said act: Provided, P~vi•¢- That; nothing is appropriated by this act “ for special ocean surveys and the publication there0f” or “ for the purchase and manufacture after full investigation and test in the United States under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy of torpedoes adapted to naval warfare or of the right to manufacture the same and for the iixtums and machinery necessary for operating the samo"; That the clause under the heading “ Bureau of Yards and Docks " commencing “For general maintenance of yards and docks " is amended so as to appropriate for the six mouths herein provided for the sum of one hundred and ten thousand dollars; That under the heading “Increase of the Navy" in said act, in lieu of all the paragraphs thereunder and preceding the heading of “Naval Academy " there is hereby substituted the following: New me; mg, For continuing work upon the three new steel cruisers und one disp:1tchcm boat authorized by act of Congress approved March third eighteen %2h?;:*-·‘*7"· hundred and eight three as follows: Chicago three hundred and forty g°‘ nine thousand one hundred and thirty three dollars and forty tivo cents; Boston. Boston, two hundred and thirty one thousand eight hundred and hfty Atlanta. three dollars and twenty sight cents · Atlanta two hundred and thirty » one thousand eight hundred and iiigty three dollars and twenty seven Dolphin. cents; Dolphin one hundred and eight thousand six hundred and sixty dollars, in all nine hundred and twenty one thousand iiva hundred dollars; the four pivot:-guns of the Chicago to be mounted on 018l`k’8 deflectrive single-gun turrets or V shields, of the same weight as is now _ allowed for the mounting and armor protection of the guns: Provided, P'°°**°· That it. shall not change the contract entered into by the Govarnmcvt for the construction of said vessels! $¢¤¤¤5¤ mwbinvry “For completion of ¤team·machi¤ery and boilers, with necessary it-
 * 1 ""‘l°"·°**°· tinge for sca-service, of steel cruisers and dispatch bout, under contract