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 706 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. HI. Ch. 162. 1895._ eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one hundred and forty-four thousand _ dollars: Provided, That the total amount expended for each of these said objects shall not exceed the amount specified therefor in the said Act. sanaynmkpming PBOVING GROUND, SANDY HOOK, NEW JERSEY: For current expen- ¢'§,'f,P;};cmm_ ses and maintenance of the ordnance proving ground, Sandy Hook, New Jersey, including general repairs and alterations, and accessories incidental to testing and proving ordnance, including hire of assistants for the Ordnance Board, skilled mechanical labor, purchase of instruments and other supplies, building and repairing butts and targets, clearing and grading ranges, twenty thousand dollars. Expenses or emma. For the necessary expenses of officers while temporarily employed on 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 Army Ordnance Bureau on ordnance construction, eight thousand dollars. Repairs. For repairs of railroad and wharf, nine thousand dollars. wsa-mwummmi. WATEBTOWN Ansurnu., \¢VA'PERTOWN, Miissacuusnrrsz For grad- R‘"’°°°‘ ing and laying one railroad from erecting shop to the wharf, fivethousand dollars. rwis For new machine tools for the carriage plant, twenty-nve thousand dollars. uma tr oyamm Bokun or ORDNANCE AND FORTIFICATIONI To enable the board to ““{},,1,i§,§§,§,°;‘Q#“§§;,,,_· make all needful and proper purchases, experiments, and tests to ascer- ¤¤<=- tain, 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 Sec- - retary of War, such guns, carriages, armor plates, and other war materials and articles as may, in the judgment of the board, be necessary v¤i.z,p4so. in the proper discharge ‘of the duty devolved upon it by the Act approved September twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eightyeight; ¤*~*i¤=¤¤ ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤·~ to pay 'the salary of the civilian member of the Board of Ordnance and vu. ze. p. mo. Fortiiications provided by the Act of February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for the necessary traveling expenses of said member when traveling on duty as contemplated in said Act; nxpmss. for the payment of the necessary expenses of the board, including a per diem allowance to each officer 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 in accordance with the recommendations of the Board of {mm. _ Ordnance and Fortilicatious, one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, ,,,,,’,§“‘ ‘° ‘“° ‘"°°‘ That before any money shall be expended in the construction or test of any gun, gun carriage, ammunition, or implements under the super— vision of the said board, the board shall be satisfied, after due inquiry, that the Govern ment of the United States has a lawful right to use the inventions involved in the construction of such gun, gnu carriage, ammunition, or implements, or that the construction or test is made at the requesthof a pcrsonlcitger having such lawtnl right or `authorized to convey the same to t ie overnment. rmpimes to be or That all material purchased under the foregoing provisions of this {,“,§f"'°“" “""'“f‘“‘ Act shall be of American manufacture, except in cases when, in the Exception- judgment of the Secretary of War, it is to the manifest interest of the - United States to make purchases in limited quantities abroad, which material shall be admitted free of duty. rm pioneers. Four }IoNROE, VIRGINIA, CONTINGENT REPAIRS *1*0 ROADS, —*··¢¢· P-212- and material to redeck one—third of main pier, two thousand seven hundred and seventy-three dollars; labor and material to redeck apron of pier. four hundred and ei ghty-two dollars; sixty oak tender piles, onethonsand five hundred dollars; labor and material to renew oak binders of apron to pier, three hundred and twenty-tive dollars; wharfinger, one
 * “P¤‘”·°*°··"***’f· WHARVES, AND SEWERS: Repair and maintenance of wharf: For labor