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 692 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. Il. Ch. 571. 1898. for band, purchase of music and musical accessories, medals for excellence in gunnery and riile practice, good-conduct badges, incidental expenses in connection with the school of application, signal equipment and stores, binocular glasses, for the establishment and maintenance of targets and ranges, for hiring established ranges, and for procuring, preserving, and handling ammunition for the six months beginning July iirst, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, eight thousand nve hundred dollars. T¤¤¤r¤¤¤¤¤¤· For transportation of troops, including ferriage, and the expense of recruiting service, for the six months beginning July hrst, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, eight thousand dollars. camugsuzcxpensw. For freight, tolls, cartage, advertising, washing of bed sacks, mattress covers, pillowcases, towels, and sheets, funeral expenses of marines, stationery and other paper, telegraphing, rent of telephones, purchase and repair of typewriters, apprehension of stragglers and deserters, per diem of enli ted men employed on constant labor for a period not less than ten days, repair of gas and water fixtures, office and barracks furniture; mess utensils for enlisted men, such as bowls, plates, spoons, knives, and forks; packing boxes, wrapping paper, oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, camphor and carbolized paper, carpenters’ tools, tools for police purposes, iron safes, purchase and repair of public wagons, purchase and repair of public harness, purchase of public horses, services of veterinary surgeons and medicines for public horses, purchase and repair of hose, repair of fire extinguishers, purchase of iire hand grenades, purchase and repair of carts, wheelbarrows, and lawn mowers; purchase and repair of cooking stoves, ranges, stoves, and furnaces where there are no grates; purchase of ice, towels, soap, combs, and brushes for offices; postage stamps for foreign postage; purchase of books, newspapers, and periodicals; improving parade grounds, repair of pumps and wharves, laying drain, water, and gas pipes, water, introducing gas, and for gas, gas oil, and introduction and maintenance of electric lights; straw for bedding, mattresses, mattress covers, pillows, sheets; wire bunk bottoms for enlisted men at various posts; furniture for Government houses and repair of same, and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but impossible to anticipate or classify, for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. mi;¤¤»¤¤ or Nmga BUREAU OF NAVIGATION. . cmmgmisymm. For continuing the coast signal system during May and June, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, seventy-tive thousand dollar. For establishing, extending, and maintaining the naval coast signal system during the six months beginning July iirst, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, two hundred thousand dollars. Becruitlngmtc- For expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent of rendezvous ‘ and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for men and boys, and all other expenses attending the recruiting for the naval service, and for the transportation of enlisted men and boys at home and abroad; for heating apparatus for receiving and training ships, and extra expenses C¤¤u¤g¤¤¢·-:1>¤¤¤·=¤- thereof; for freight, telegraphing on public business, postage on letters sent abroad, ferriage, ice, apprehension of deserters and stragglers, continuous-service certiiicates, discharges, good-conduct badges, and medals for boys, schoolbooks for training ships, packing boxes and materials, and other contingent expenses and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation, unforeseen, and impossible to classify, for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, two hundred thousand dollars. Mui m»m¤ms.,· For bounties for outfits of two hundred and fifty apprentices, being °“_;,‘m p_3,,_ the diiierence between seven hundred and fifty apprentices estimated ' for and one thousand allowed by naval appropriation act of May fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, seven thousand five hundred dollars.