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 814 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 494. 1891. rouge. FORAGE, MARINE CORPS: For forage in ki11d for five horses of the Quartermastefs Department, and the authorized number of officers’ horses, three thousand five hundred dollars. mmozqmm Hmm or- QUARTERS, MARINE CoR1=·s: For hire of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are 11ot sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them, four thousand five hundred dollars; For hire of quarters for seven enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in commandant’s, adjutant and inspector’s, aymaster’s and quartermaster’s offices, Washington, District of Colliimbia, and assistant quartermasters’ offices, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Washington, District of Columbia, at twenty-one dollars per month each, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-four dollars; For hire of quarters for three enlisted men employed as above, at ten dollars each per month, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, six thousand six hundred and twenty four dollars. °°¤'=*¤8°¤*~ CONTINGENT, MARINE CoRPs: For freight, ferriage, tolls, carta e, funeral expenses of marines, stationery, telegraphing, rent of telephones, purchase and repair of typewriters, apprehension of deserters, per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor for a period of not less than ten days, repair of gas and water fixtures, office and barracks furniture, mess utensils for enlisted men, such as bowls, plates, spoons, knives, forks, ackin boxes, wrapping paper, oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, camplhor and carbolized paper, carpenters’ tools, tools for police purposes, iron safes, purchase and repair of public wagons, purchase and repair of harness, purchase of public orses, services of veterinary surgeons and medicine for public horses, purchase and repair of hose, repair of iire extinguishers, purchase of re hand grena es, purchase and repair of carts and wheelbarrows, purchase and repair of cooking stoves, ranges, stoves, and furnaces where there are no grates, purchase of ice, towels, and soap for offices, postage stamps for foreign postage. purchase of newspapers and periodicals, improving parade grounds, repair of pumps and wharves, laying drain and water pipes, introducing gas, and for as and oil for marine barracks maintained at the various navy yards and stations. water at the marine barracks, Boston Massachusetts; Brook- 1, New York; Annapolis, Maryland; Mare Island, California ; also straw for beddin r and purchase of mattresses for enlisted men at the various posts, ihrniture 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 five hundred dollars. I IWW, USM- Mm For introducing electric light at Marine Barracks and naval prison at Mare Island, California, three thousand dollars. Total for Marine Corps, nine hundred and nity thousand five hundred and thirty dollars and forty-two cents. Njg;j*¢¤¤¤ °* We INCREASE or THE NAVY. That for the urpose of further increasing the Naval establishment of the Uliiited States the President is hereby authorized 0%;; 1>¤‘¢>¢¤¤¤¤d to have constructed by contract one protected cruiser of about ' seven thousand three hundred tons displacement, at' a cost, exclu- ¤*¤i*¤f cm- sive of armament, not to exceed two million seven hundred and M¤¤im¤¤¤•v¤•¤1 fifty thousand dollars, to have a maximum speed of not less than comm-uceou. twenty-one knots, and in the construction of said vessel all of the v¤1.z4,p.21s. provisions of the act of August third, eighteen hundred and eighty- six. entitled "An act to increase the Naval Establishment," as to mm-ms. materials for said vessel, its engines, boilers, and machinery, the emma:. contract under which it is built, the notice of any pro osals for the Pl¤¤¤,¤¤¤- same, the plans, drawings, specifications therefor, and the method