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 652 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. ll. Ch. 386. 1897. on board ship; nautical and astronomical instruments, and repairs to same; libraries for ships of war; professional books and papers, and drawings and engravings lor signal books; naval signals and apparatus, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, rockets, running lights, compass httings, including binnacles, tripod, and other appendages of ships’ com passes; 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; bunting 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 four hundred and fifty-eight thou- _ _ sand one hundred and seventeen dollars. Crvu. EsrAnmsmuEn:r, BUREAU or EQUIPMENT: N avy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one clerk, at one thousand dollars; B°“*°"· Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one superintendent of ropewalk, 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; M" Y°'k· N avy-yard, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, two thousand six hundred dollars; I‘°‘g“°m""I‘ Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one _ thousand two hundred dollars; }‘°"°“‘· Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two thousand four hundred dollars; Mm N""' Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; "'°’*“"¥"°“· Navy·yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one clerk, at one . 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, fifteen thousand five hundred and twentydive dollars; and no other fund appropriated _ _ by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. °°“““g°‘“‘ CoNtr1NeENr, BUREAU or EQUIPMENT: For freight and transportation of equipment stores, packing boxes and materials, printing, advertising, telegraphing, books, and models; stationery for the Bureau; furniture for equipment offices in navy-yards; postage on letters sent abroad; ferriage, ice, lighterage of ashes, and emergencies arising under cognizauce of the Bureau of Equipment unforeseen and mm __, mmm impossible to classify, fifteen thousand dollars. seam. FLAGS or MARI1‘1ME NA1'lNS! The Secretary of the Navy is m_}I3‘;,_°‘****°'* *° b" authorized to contract at once with a lithographic or color printing establishment having ample facilities for the suitable and satisfactory execution thereof for the printing of a new edition, to consist of live thousand copies, of the book of “Flags of Maritime Nations," of which number one thousand copies shall be for use of the Navy Department and three hundred copies for the use of the Rcvenue·Cutter Service; and the remaining copies shall be delivered to the uperintendent of public documents for distribution to the Senate and House of Representatives, one thousand two hundred copies to the Senate and two thousand Eve hundred copies to the House of Representatives. BUREAU or YARDS AND Docks. n$¤,g*j:_Lj’*` Y•"l=* MAINTENANCE OF YAnDs AND Docks: For general maintenance of ummmmus. yards and docks, namely: For freight, transportation of materials and stores; books, maps, models, and drawing; purchase and repair of fire engines; machinery; repairs on steam tire engines and attendance on the same; purchase and maintenance of oxen, horses. and driving teams; carts, timber wheels, and all vehicles for use in the navy-yards; tools