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 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 186. 1895. 829 ‘ BUREAU or EQUIPMENT. mg_¤g¤¤¤ ¤f Equiv- EQUIPMENT OF vm sI¤Ls: For purchase of coal for steamers’ and _°f;‘}“*P'”"”“ °* “’°‘ ships' use, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same; hemp, wire, iron, and other materials for the manufac- ‘ ture of cordage, anchors, cables, galleys, and chains; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, hammocks, and other work; water for steam launches; stationery for commanding and navigating officers of ships, equipment officers on shore and afloat, and for the use of courtsmartial on board ship, and for the purchase of all other articles of equipment at home and abroad and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels and manufacture of equipment articles in the several navy- yards; foreign and local pilotage and towage of ships of war; services and materials in repairing, correcting, adjusting, and testing compas es on shore and ou boardship; nautical and astronomical instruments, and repairs to same; libraries for ships of war; professional books and papers, and drawings and engravings for signal books; naval signals and apparatus, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, rockets, running lights, compass fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other append-‘ ages of ships’ compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship’s way, and leads and other appliances for sounding; lanterns and lamps, and their appendages, for general use on board ship, for illuminating purposes, and oil and candles used in connection therewith; hunting and other materials for making and repairing flags of all kinds · photographic instruments and materials; musical instruments and music; and installing and maintaining electric lights and interior signal communications on board vessels of war, one million two hundred and seventy-eight thousand dollars. ` CIVIL ESTLBLISHIENT, BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT: N avy-yard, Ports- gmguggmwtmouth, New Hampshire: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred °° ‘ dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand two hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one superintendent of rope- B¤¤*·¤¤ walk, at one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand three hundred dollars; one writer, at nine hundred and fifty dollars; in all, five thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars; N avy-yard, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred N"' Y°"‘· dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one writer, at, one thousand dollars; one storekeeper, at nine hundred dollars; in all, four thousand ilve hundred dollars; N avy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one thou- I·••¢¤•I•*•¤•*- sand two hundred dollars; _Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For two clerks, at one thousand two Nvrfvlkhundred dollars each; - N avy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousand Nm I°'“‘· two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand two hundred dollars; N avy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one clerk, at one W•¤¤i¤¤¤¤· thousand six hundred dollars, who shall also perform the clerical duties for the Board of Labor Employment at said navy-yard; In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Equipment, nineteen thousand six hundred and twenty-tive dollars; and no other fund appropriated _ by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. Coivrnvcnur, BUREAU or Eqnrmamzr: For freight and transpor— ¤¤¤¤¤s•¤f- tation of equipment stores, packing boxes and materials, printing, advertising, telegraphing, books, and models; stationery; furniture for equipment offices in navy-yards ; postage on letters sentabroad; ferriage, ice, lighterage of ashes, and emergencies arising under coguizance of the Bureau of Equipment unforeseen and impossible to classify, twelve thousand dollars.