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 1252 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 428. 1899. I“’P°°*·i“B i¤¤*¤¤· For inspecting instruments, gauges, and templets for the manufacture mm' of cannon and projectiles, three thousand dollars. _ ,I¤"°°*·*§°*·*°{j'”°k° For the services of a chemist in investigatin g properties of smokeless mpw °r’ 8powders and high explosives, with a view to improving same for adoption in service, one thousand five hundred dollars. GS¤¤¤gH<¤>kPr¤vi¤z PROVING GROUND, SANDY HOOK, NEW JERSEY. YOU!! . ¥¤i¤¤¤¤•¤°°· For current expenses and maintenance of the ordnance proving ground, Sandy Hook, New Jersey, including expenses incident to the transportation of men and material therefor, 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 gradin gran ges, thirty-seven thousand dollars. ‘ Expenmarumcm. 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, sixteen thousand dollars. mpm or mama For repairs of railroad tracks connecting the proving ground with “""]"‘ the Central Railroad of New Jersey, three thousanddollars. wmvmmmu. WATEBVLIET ARSENAL, WEST irEoY, NEW YORK. ' ‘ For purchase and erection of two dynamos for electric-lighting plant, one thousand four hundred dollars. ` mrxlaguipr Ordnance noami or om>NANcE AND FORTIFICATION. _ rmimu. ’ To enable the board to make all needful and proper purchases, experiments, and tests to ascertain, with a view to theirutilization by the Government, the most effective guns, small arms, cartridges, projectiles, iiises, 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 material as may, in the judgment of the board, be necessary in the proper discharge of the duty devolved upon it by the Act W1-25.r-4B¤· approved September twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight; Civilinnmember- to pay the salary of the civilian member of the Board of Ordnance v¤1.2s,p.·w¤. and Fortillcation 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; for the payment of the necessary expenses of the board, 1¤xp¤¤¤¤~· including a per diem allowance to each otllcer detailed to serve thereon, when employed on duty away from his permanent station, of two dollars and fifty cents a day; and lor the test of experimental guns, carriages, and other devices procured in accordance with the recommenda- _ tion of the Board of Ordnance and Fortiilcatiomone hundred thousand §{;;•:°&, mmm_ dollars: frwidcd, That before any money shall be expended in the um. construction or test of any gun, gun carriage, ammunition, or imple ments under the supervision of the said board, the board shall be satisiied, after due inquiry, that the Government of the United States has a lawful right to use the inventions 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. Aggxqlgwmzxsgf That all material purchased under the foregoing provisions of this m.,, _ Act shall beof American manufacture, except in cases when, in the —¤¤¤·P¤¤¤· 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. Approved, March 3, 1899.