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 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 1028, 1037. 1888. 49] power, endurance, and general efiiciency, the gun and ammunition shall be paid for at a fair valuation, including cost of transportation, ann contract shall be made at a price reasonable in the opinion ¤<>¤¤·¤<=t= for wrof the Board, with the lparty presenting the best of such guns, for a °h”°' further supply of simi ar guns, to be subjected to the usual service test before acceptance, the experimental gun and all guns purchased hereunder to be subject to inspection at each stage of manufacture, as follows, namely : For not less than fifty ten-inch steel guns ; and for not less than fifty twelve-inch steel guns. The Board is authorized to make all needful and proper purchases, invescigmombyunn investigations, experiments, and tests, to ascertain with a view to B""' their utilization by the Government, the most effective uns, including multicharge guns and the conversion of Parrott anld other guns on hand, smal arms, cartridges, projectiles, fuzes, explosives, torpedoes, armor—plates, and other implements and engines of war; and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to purchase or cause to be manufactured. such guns, carriages, armor-plates, and other war materials and articles as may, in the judgment of said Board, be necessary in the proper discharge of the duty herein devolved upon them: laovided, That the amount expended and liabilities incurred in such lwqisc. purchases. investigations, experiments, and tests shall not exceed Lim" °f °xp°"°s‘ ve hundred thousand dollars which sum is hereby appropriated: Provided further, That said Board shall test, and if found satisfactory, shall purchase two breach loading field guns of three and two Aluminum umm tenths inch bore of aluminum bronze. g“““· That under the provisions of this section there shall not be ex- Mmmmu expendipended or contract or contracts entered into involving the Govern- t““" ment in an aggregate expenditure exceeding six million five hundred thousand dollars, nor an expenditure on the part of the Government in any one fiscal year in excess of two million dollars, and all guns and materials purchased under authority of this section shall be of American production and furnished by citizens of the United States. For payment of the necessary expenses of the Board including a Expenses of mma. per diem allowance to each member thereof when employed on duty away from his permanent station, of two and one-half dollars a day, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Approved, September 22, 1888. ‘ CHAP. 1037.-An act to amend section twelve hundred and twenty-five of the Sepu·m!»u·sn,1rm. Revised Statutes, concerning details of officers of the Army and Navy to educa- """""""""‘ tional institutions, and so forth. Be it enacted by the Senate and House og' Rejp·e.s·enfah`ves of the United States of America in Congress assem led, hat section twelve edvewil orlcmggés ro hundred and twenty-tive of the Revised Statutes of the United States, ,,,,`f§“'°"° ""' as amended by an act of Congress approved July fifth, eighteen hun- 2"lf-ug;;;,?,, me- v- dred and eighty-four, be, and the same is hereby, further amended, vo; za. p. its. so as to read as follows:. " Sec. 1225. The President may. upon the application of any estab- d06cm tv Mimlishcd military institute, seminary or academy, college or university, °°S` Within the United States having capacity to educate at the same time not less than one hundred and fifty male students, detail an officer of Limit. the Army or Navy to act as superintendent, ogeplrofessor thereof; but the number of officers so detailed shall not exc fifty from the Army, Army- and ten from the Navy, being a maximum of sixty. at any tune. and Navy. they shall be apportioned throughout the United States, first, to those State institutions applying for such detail that arerequired to provide instruction in military tactics under the provisions of the act of Congress of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, donating