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 486 FIFTY-SECON D CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 168. 1893. ordnance service, and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small arms, and other ordnance supplies, including payment for mechanical labor in the office of the Chief of Ordnance, eighty thou— sand dollars. A,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, f,,, For manufacture of metallic ammunition for small arms and ammu- •¤¤¤=¤’·¤¤·•¤=· nitiou for reloading cartriges, and tools for the same, including the cost of targets and material for target practice, and marksmen’s medals, and insignia for all the arms of the service, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. mms: wanna, For repairing and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the °*°· hands of troops and for issue at the arsenals and depots, five thousand dollars. onnumcs sums.. For purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requisitions of troops, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. azquipmsm. For infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments, including horse equipments for cavalry and artillery, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars. ri-smvmgmwuu. For overhauling, cleaning, and preserving ordnance stores on hand °•”°° °'*"°°· at the arsenals, nve thousand dollars. hM¤r¤i¤z ¤•i ¤v¤¤- For tiring the morning and evening gun at military posts, prescribed gg""' by General Orders Numbered Seventy, Headquarters of the Army, dated July twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, twenty thousand six hundred do lars. '1‘=rz¤¢¤- For targets for artillery practice and implements for mechanical manmuvers, six thousand dollars. n,&';f*‘°“”· °*°·· For maniacture of arms at the national armories, four hundred thoupmt-". sand doHars: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be ex- 1f=•:¤=i¤¤¤¤¤¤· pond for the manufacture of magazine rilles of foreign invention until u¤1},‘{,@';§E;}$‘,;‘_;§; such magazine riiles of American invention as maybe presented for museum. tests to the War Department within the next thirty days shaH have been @,2** °‘°°"°"' °" tested by a board of officers to be selected by the Secretary of War, which born shall report to the board of Ordnance and Fortilication, xauhcmc on W on or before July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three. If the pm-:. decision of said board of officers shall be in favor of any American invention and shall also receive the approval of the board of Ordnance and Fortification and the Secretary of War, then this appropriation, umumemtsm or such part thereof as the Secretary may direct, shall be expended in '°*°°°°"· the manufacture of such American arm: Provided further, That if no such American invention shall be recommended by said board or receive the approval of the Secretary of War this appropriation shall be applicable to the manufacture of the magazine arm recommended for trial by the board recently in session and approved by the Secretary of cmnm cmu. War: Provided further, That not more than sixty thousand dollars of the money appropriated for the Ordnance Department in all its branches shall be applied to the payment of civilian clerks in said Department. Recruiting service. RECRUITING SERVICE. nxpma. For expenses of recruiting and transportation of recruits from rendezvous to depot, including sending of recruiting parties to small towns, and not exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars for the payment of a clerk to the officer disbursing the appropriation; Also, inchuliug the actual and necessary cost of transportation of accepted applicants from their homes to places of enlistment, when authorized by the Secretary of War; in all, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. And hereafter, in time of peace, no recruit shall be enlisted in qpmncsum at it- the Army for the first time who is over thirty years of age, and no °'*“*°· private shall be re-enlisted who has served ten years or more, or who is over thirty-five years of age, except such as have already served as enlisted men for twenty years or upwards.