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 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. (FHS. 371, 372. 1888. 825 breech-loading rfiled guns, and an equal number of the same the of three-pounder guns, and an equal number of the same tvpe of thirty- two-pounder guns, as the Secretary of the Navy may designate, said test to be inac e with the cartridge known as a reinforce cartridge, and fer said purpose the sum of fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated: Provzded, That no part of this money shall be expended 1·»~ot—m. until the owners of the patents for such guns and cartridges shall rumnm or nga; contract at such a price as shall be satisfacto to the Secretary of ` the Navy for the exclusive right on the part Sl, the Government to manufacture by contract or otherwise, such guns and cartridges without the payment of any royalty upon the same, the option of the Government to make such contract to be exercised within a period to be fixed by said contract. CONSTRUCTION AND STEAM MACHINERY: Towards the construction Machinery, uouers,. and completion of the new vessels heretofore and herein authorized °°°‘ by Congress, with their engines, boilers, and machinery, and for the payment of premiums for increased speed or horse-power under contracts now existing and to be made under this and other acts providing for increase of the Navy, four million and fifty-five thousand dol-. lars, of which sum fifty-five thousand dollars is hereb authorized to be expended by the Secretary of the Navy u on the electric light- nomic lights rning of the Miantonomah, Terror, Monadnock, hetrel, and Vesuvius, "°‘” "S*""“· in addition to the amounts heretofore authorized to be expended on the said vessels. · ARMAMENT: Towards the armament and armor of domestic manu- grpument. facture for the vessels authorized by the act of March third, eighteen ° ‘ 23* p` m` hundred and eighty-five; of the vessels authorized by sections one and two of the act of August third, eighteen hundred- and eighty- V<>L2·¢.1>1>- 215. SM- six; of the unfinished monitors mentioned in section three of the same act; of the Miantonomah; of the vessels authorized by the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and Am, p. m. of the vessels authorized by the `act approved September seventh, _ eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and this act, two million five hundred thousand dollars. Gm: PLANT, NAVY-Yann, Wnsnmeros, Drsrmcr orCoLmv1n1A; Washington. To complete the construction and equipment of the ordnance shops, lpembrisiuug gunoffices, and gun plant at the Washington navy-yard, to be made 11n5p “ ‘ · mediately available, six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Approved, March 2, 1889. CHAP. 372.-An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for March 2,1Ssa the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, exghteen hundred an ninety, and for other ‘··——····"····• purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States- cZ·America in Congress qssembten, That the following t_ Army appropriar sums he, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the ‘°“’· Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety? For: PAY OF OFFICERS OF THE LINE. my- For pay of officers of the line, two million eight hundred and fifty- we ¤¤¤¤¤r=- seven thousand dollars. _ _ _ __ Additional pay for twenty-one a1ds—de-camp, one military secre- Aammmt. tary, and officers of foot-regiments when mounted by proper authorit v, ndditimml to and payable with their current monthly pay, eight thtiixdzgtfltlidohieem for length of service, to be paid with their Longevity. tarrent nionthly pay, eight hundred and fifteen thousand dollars,