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 FIFTYTHIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 178, 179. 1894. 2],5 For the necessary expenses of officers while temporarily employed on E¤r¤¤¤¤¤ ¤f <>¤i¤¤r¤- ordnance duties 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 Aximy Ordnance Bureau on ordnance construction, eight thousand o ars. For additional machine tools required in machine shops to facilitate T•><>1¤· repairs in connection with experimental firings and tests, one thousand two hundred dollars. Wxrnnrown Ansmui., Wxrmnrown,Mxssxcnusnrrs: For erec- ‘,g’=e¢·¤r¤¤~¤¤-·¤r¤¤¤=·1- tion of a brick shed with slate roof, one hundred and ninety by twenty- mk °h°d' five feet, south of new foundry, three thousand three hundred dollars. WATERVLIET ABSENAL, Wmsr TROY, NEW YORK: For new tur- Watmlictarsenal. bine station in the basement of the machine shop below the canal, T“"”"° S"’"°“‘ seven thousand six hundred and fifty-four dollars. For the following, to be expended under the direct supervision of B¤=1¤i_¤f 0¤i¤¤¤¤¤ the Board of Ordnance and Fortitication, created by the Fortitications °°ii·d.°i;ig?ii$?n` Appropriation Act approved September twenty-second, eighteen hundred land eighty-eight, and in the manner prescribed by said Act, name y: Boann or Onmuncn Arm Fonrmroxrrouz To enable the Board *’¤*°*>¤¤°¤·*°¤*¤·¤*°· to make all needful and proper purchases, experiments, and tests to ascertain, with a view to their utilization by the Government, the most effective guns, small arms, cartridges, projectiles, fuses, explosives, 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 of the Board, be necessary in the proper discharge of the duty devolved upon it by the Act ap- ve1.zs,p.4ss. proved September twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight; to pay the salary of the civilian member of the Board of Ordnance and Uivilian member. Fortification provided by the Act of February twenty-fourth, eight- V"‘·“·P·7°°· een hundred and ninety-one, and for the necessary traveling expenses of said member when traveling on duty as contemplated in said Act; for payment of the necessary expenses of the Board, including a per- Ex,,.,,,m_ diem allowance to each ohicer detailed to serve thereon when employed on duty away from his permanent station, of two dollars and fifty cents a day; and for the test of experimental guns and carriages procured iu accordance with the recommendations of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification, one hundred thousand dollars: Pro/vided, That before geese. _ any money shall be expended in the construction or test of any gun, ¤,,,,‘§"°"° ““° "“'°“` gun carriage, ammunition or implements under the supervision of the said Board, the Board shall be satisfied, after due inquiry, that the Government of the United States has a lawful right to use the in ventions involved in the construction of such gun, gun carriage, ammunition or implements, or that the construction or test is made at the request of a person either having such lawful right or authorized to convey the same to the Government. That all material purchased under the foregoing provisions of this Purchases to lv; of Act shall be of American manufacture, except in cases when, in the $,",§"°“" um"` °°` judgment of the Secretary of War, it is to the manifest interest of the E¤<>¤P*i°¤· United States to make purchases in limited quantities abroad, which material shall be admitted free of duty. ' Approved, August 1, 1894. CHAP. 179.-—·AD Act T0 regulate enlistments in the Army of the United St3·i78S_ August 1* 189* Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the Act of gaelgéidou of W Congress entitled "An Act making appropriations for the support of euiszmeuzmpeexea.