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 FIFTY-SECOND CON GRESS. Srzss. I. Ch. 233. 1892. 259 That for the payment of the necessary expenses of the board to be appointed under the foregoing provisions the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to procure, by purchase or manufacture, the following, namely: Machine tools and fixtures adapted to the manufacture of steel sea- Wmrvuet Ar¤¤¤¤¤- coast cannon, to complete the equipment of the south wing of the army s,;{‘§;c‘m£ 2*;,3*;} gun factory, Watervliet Arscn al, West Troy, New York, the cost of which shall not exceed the sum of three hundredand forty-six thousand six hundred dollars; steel breech-loadin g rfiled sea-coast mortars of twelve inch M<¤*¤¤¤· caliber, the cost of which shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars; oil tempered and annealed steel for high-power coast-defence sua rm- gms. guns of eight-inch, ten-inch, and twelve-inch caliber, in quality and dimension conforming to specitications, subject to inspection at each stage of the manufactrue, and including all the parts of each caliber, the cost of which shall not exceed eight hundred thousand dollars; carriages for breech-loading rfiled mortars of twelve-inch caliber, two Carriages, breech; hundred thousand dollars; carriages for mounting new steel breech- §’,,“,§lQf‘g “‘°"""“· "”" loading eight, ten, and twelve inch guns, three hundred thousand dollars, amounting in all to one million seven hundred and forty-six thousand six hundred dollars: Provided, That not more than five hundred f*,,jl@·•>,°r mm, and seventy thousand dollars of this amount shall be expended for year. P ` these objects during the liscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, which sum of five hundred and seventy thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. For paving the highway to the extent of the arsenal frontage at the 1Y‘;m“°° ”°°°”· Watervliet Arsenal, the sum of fifteen thonfsand dollars. For derraying expenses incurred in procuring expert opinions on large mggm <>¤i¤i¤¤¤ ¤¤ lathes for army gun factory, the sum of five hundred and eighty-eight ` dollars and fifty-three cents is hereby reappropriated, for the object R¤¤r•pr<>pri¤¤¤¤. herein stated, from the sum of two hundred and sixty-eight thousand ` dollars appropriated by the act approved February twenty-fourth, eight- V0!-2i P- 769- een hundred and ninety-one, for machinery, tools, power plant, and s fixtures and for the equipment of the south wing of the army gun fac- ~ j tory. Pnovnve Gnonrm Srmnr Hoox, New JERSEY.—FOP current ex- my Hwkpwving penses and maintenance of the ordnance proving ground, Sandy Hook, gTKi1Ii¤ie¤mc0,etc, N ew Jersey, including general repairs and alterations, and accessories incidental to testing and proving ordnance, including hire of assistants for the Ordinance Board, skilled mechanical labor, purchase of instruments and other supplies, building and repairing butts and targets, cleaning and grading ranges, twenty-two thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of War, in his discretion, to purchase the M*“**¤¤··1¤¤¤·l· land adjoining the Govermnent reservation at Sandy Hook, New Jer- ` sey, now belonging to the grantees of the Highland Beach Association of New Jersey, together with the right of way from said land to the mgnm·w¤y,e». main line of the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey, together with the rails, ties, switches, and all the railroad equipment on said lands, twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For the necessary expenses of ordnance officers while temporarily e,f‘P°°°°¤ °* °m°°"· employed at the proving ground and absent from their proper stations, ` at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per diem while so employed, and the compensation of draftsmen while employed in the Army Ordnarice Bureau on ordnance construction, nine thousand five hundred r dollars. For one steam engine and boiler, two thousand dollars. mlfjk jr '°°°***¤°¤'» For woodworking machinery, to increase the capacity of carpenter °' shop, one thousand dollars.