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 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. H. Ch. 283. 1891. 7 69 while employed in the Army ordnance bureau on ordnance construction, as provided in the fortifications act, a_p roved Se tember V<>l·25,¤-489- twenty-second, eighteen wndred and eighty-e1 lit, nine thousand five hundred dollars; in a, forty-seven thousand nine hundred dolrs. For purchase of hoisting engine, and steam shovel for grading and Homing eugmem, for bu ding and repairing proof butts at the proving- ound, Sandy Hook, New Jersey, three thousand eight hundred dolldrs. For dpurchase of oil-tempered and annealed steel for high-power P¤¤=\¤¤·¤¤¤f¤¢e¤lt¤r coast efense guns of eight, ten, and twelve-inch caliber, in quality °°°°°'d°‘°"°°"'“"‘ and dimensions conforming to specifications, sub'ect to inspection at each stag? of the manufacture, and including all the parts of each caliber, cig t hundred thousand dollars. ‘ Provide, That no contract for the expenditure of any portion of hmm. the money herein provided, or that may be hereafter rovided for cena-semu-mw. the purchase of steel shall be made until the same shagl have been "“L ‘ submitted to public competition by the Department by advertisemen. For carriages for steel breech-loading seacoast guns, rocured can-ages sm- me junder the fortification act of September twenty-second, Eighteen ""°°°”"‘°“°"· hundred and eighty-eight, one hundred thousand dollars. For two gun-carriages of the disappearing-type, fifty six thousand Disumearlng gunfive hundred dollars, together with the sum of thirteen thousand °"`"“‘°“· five hundred dollars a%ropriated for one ten-inch disappearing gun carriage by the act of arch second, eighteen hundre and eighty- Vol. ze, p. asv. nineédwhic sum is hereby reappropriated for the object herein mention. Amar Gun Facronr, Wnanvmnr Ansmur., Wnsr Txor, New www mmm Yo11K: For boring lathe and planer adapted to the manufacture of siege-guns and howitzers in small gum-shop at the army gun factory, four thousand one hundred dollars. To complete army gun factory building at Watervliet Arsenal, 'roccmplew army West Troy, New York, by the erection of south wing, inclusive of g"" '“°'°"’ ”““‘““$· ways for traveling cranes, two hundred and forty-eight thousand seven hundred an forty-three dollars. For machinery, tools, power plant, and fixtures adapted to the Macmneryne. manufacture of steel seacoast guns, to complete the equipment of the south wing of army gun factory at Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, New York, two hundred and sixty-eight thousand dollars. For iron framework, with adjustable platforms and centers for Shrlnkage pin. ziittin up shrinkage pit, and for drainage of shrinkage pit at army gun gctory, fourteen thousand dollars. For locomotive and cars or trucks for shifting guns and material ummeuve, men, and transportation between gun factory and river wharf, nine thou- °"°· sand dollars. For increase of facilities at Watervliet Arsenal for shipment by smpmeue resumes. water, including repairs to wharf, dredging, and extending and setting ulp fifty-ton hand-power loading crane, six thousand five hundred ollars. BoAm> or ORDNANCE Asn Fomurrcariouz To enable the board mm pr ordnance to make all needful and proper purchases, experiments, and tests to °"E,IQ‘.?,f.E$§f‘,§“g,,,,t,_ ascertain, with a view to their utilization by the Government, the ggé vfrgergh ¤¤p¤<» most effective guns, small arms, cartridges, projectiles, fuses, ex- m0r.p1£’m2, aJ”’ ”` plosives, torpedoes, armor-plates, and other implements and engines of war, and to purchase, or cause to be manufactured under authority of the Secretary of War, such guns, carriages, armor-plates, and other war materials and articles as may, in the judgment o the board, be necessary in the proper discharge of the duty devolved upon it by the act approved September twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And one additional member shall be added to said Board of mglprgnnlmeuc gig:} Ordnance and Fortification who shall be a civilian and not an ex- B,,.:.; '“°“‘ sryr L—voL XXVI--49