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 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 640. 1890. 205 tions, water at the marine barracks, Boston, Massachusetts; Brooklyn, New York; Annapolis, Maryland; Mare Island, California; also straw for bedding an purchase of mattresses for enlisted‘ men at the various posts, furniture for Government houses and repair of same, and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but impossible to anticipate or classify; in all, twenty-seven thousand nve hundred dollars; total for Marine Corps, Epic hundred and thirty-eight thousand and eighty-three dollars and y one cen s. APPRoPR1A'r1oNs FOR SUPPLIES. Apgpriatious rm- BUPP. For expenses of arranging, classifying, consolidating, and cata- Future elussidcaloguing supplies for the Navy, herein lprovided for and now on g°,,'€$,L";,,,°°,,‘l,,*f,“°,,§’,{ hand, ten thousand dollars; and all supp ies purchased with mone s “°” umu ¤¤PP“¢¤· appropriated by this act shall be deemed to be purchased for the avy and not for any bureau thereof, and these supplies, together with all supplies now on hand, shall be arranged, classiiied, consolidated, and catalogued, and issued for consumption or use, under such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, without regard to ueguuuomrcruue. the bureau for which they were purc ased. . INCREASE OF THE NAVY. mcmueermeuavy. That for the purpose of further increasing the Naval Establishment of the United States the President is hereby authorized to have constructed by contract three sea-going coast-line battle ships Three sea-going designed to carry the heaviest armor and most powerful ordnance ‘l‘*’°· upon a dglplacement of about eight thousand ve hundred tons, ‘ with a c endurance of about ve thousand knots on the total coal ca acity at the most economical rate of speed, and to have Speed. the highest practicable speed for vessels of their class, to cost, ex- cm. clusive of armament and of any premiums that may be paid for increased s d not exceeding four million dollars eac ; one lprotected agp: protected cruiser oflhibout seven thousand three hundred tons disp acement, " at a cost, exclusive of armament, not to exceed two ini ion seven cm. hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to have a maximum speed of Sveerh not less than twentyone knots; one swift torpedo cruiser o about 0¤e¢<>¤>e<¤¤¤~i¤erseven hundred an fifty tons displacement, at a cost, exclusive of °°°*~ armament, not to exceed three hundred and fifty thousand dollars to have a maximum speed of not less than twenty-three knots ; and ¤¤ee<¤· one torpedo boat, at a cost not to exceed one hundred and twenty- one torpedo-boa:. five thousand dollars; and in the construction of all said vessels all cm. of the provisions of the act of August third, eighteen hundred and ,r$g;¤;¤;~g**¤¤· ¤>¤· eighty-six, entitled, "An act to increase the Naval‘Establ1shment," v»n.`e4,pp.mem, as to materials for said vessels, their engines, boilers, and machinery, the contracts under which they are built, the notice of any proposals for the same, the plans, drawings, specifications therefor, and the method of executin said contracts, s all be observed and followed, and said vessels shall be built in compliance with the terms of said act, save that in all their p3·l'tS said vessels Shall be of domestic Dcmesticmuuufact manufacture. And in the contracts for the construction of each of u"' said vessels such rovisions for minimum speed and for premiums Speed. for increased speed) and penalties for d•cient speed may be made Premiums me peusubject to the terms of this bill, 3S lll the discretion of the Secretary ‘m"’“· of the Navy ma be deemed advisable. In making proposals for contracts for building the vessels authorized by this act it shall be required that one of such vessels shall be built on or near the coast naming. of the Pacific Ocean or the waters connecting therewith, one of them cum meme. on or near the coast of the Gulf of Mexico or the waters connecting one menu or ue:-· therewith and two of them on 01‘I1f:M‘thB coast of the Atlantic Ocean mm 0. mnt or the waters connecting theremth, and at such places on· or near