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 242 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 228. 189-1. I¤¤¤’¤¤¤•·¤*·¤· For purchase and repair of instruments to be issued to officers of the Corps of Engineers, and to officers detailed and on duty as acting engineer officers for use on public works and surveys, two thousand dollars. B,,,,k,,_ Library of the United States Engineer School: Purchase and binding of professional works of recent date treating of military and c1v1l engineering and kindred scientific subjects, five hundred dollars. mgR1¤¤¤¤¤ T>¤1>¤rf» ommnivon DEPARTMENT. °°*"°’** °‘P°""°* Ordnance service: For current expenses of the ordnance service required to defray the current expenses at the arsenals; of receiving stores and issuing arms and other ordnance supplies; of police and office duties; of rents, tools, fuel, and lights; of stationery and office furniture; of tools and instruments for use; incidental expenses of the 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, one hundred thousand dollars. ` m{¤,{¤¤¤¤i¤¤:,_ f ¤= For manufacture of metallic ammunition for small arms and ammu- °"°°'° nition for reloading cartridges, 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. mR¤r·ir¤r mance, For repairing and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the ’ hapds of troops, and for issue at the arsenals and depots, five thousand do lars. , www =*¤*¤¤· For the purchase and manufacture of ordnance tores to iill requisitions of troops, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. E‘1“*P“*°“*~°· For infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments, including horse · eqpipments for cavalry and artillery, one hundred and ninety thousand do lars. . omfg Mc- Overhauling, cleaning, and preserving ordnance stores on hand at ' the arsenals, five thousand dollars. h¥°*¤lf¤s •¤d ¤~‘<=¤— For firing the morning and evening gun at military posts, prescribed “°by General Orders numbered seventy, Headquarters of the Army, dated July twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, twenty thousand six hundred dollars. ·mg»z»,m. For targets for artillery practice and implements for mechanical maneuvers, six thousand dollars. ir.;...,;`.,-. of Manufacture of arms at the National armories, four hundred thou- •",t‘:;,§,°_f;_ sand dollars: Provided, That this appropriation shall be applicable to xigmmpn. the manufacture of the magazine arm recommended for trial by the Board, recently in session, and approved by the Secretary of War: 0M|i¤¤¤1¤rks· 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. ch‘L>j:·m¤*l¤°* Pur- Purchase of ordnance and ordnance stores and supplies may be made by the Ordnance Department in open market, in the manner common among business men, when the aggregate of the amount required does not exceed two hundred dollars, but every such purchase shall be _ immediately reported to the Secretary of War. M¤¤*¤¤° ¢¤¤¤- For purchase of machine guns, improved musket caliber, of American manufacture, fifteen thousand dollars. _ Expense.; For expenses of recruiting and transportation of recruits from rendezvous to depots and military posts, 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, including the actual and necessary cost of transportation
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