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 1032 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 831. 1901. BUREAU or SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS. Bureau of Supplies To pay the firm of Gibson Brothers, Washington, District of Colum- °”d A°°°““tS‘ bia, one thousand and fifty-seven dollars and sixty-four cents for furnishing blank `proposals for supplies for the Navy, which service was duly authorized and rendered prior to the decision of the Comptroller of the Treasury dated July thirty-first, nineteen hundred, that such printing should be done by the Public Printer only; payment to be made from the unexpended balances under the appropriation “Contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts," for the seal year in which the services were ren ered. And the accounting officers of the Treasury are also authorized and directed to allow vouchers for similar iervices pgviously praid inhthe settlemept of the accounts of the disursin officer b w om the were ai . To piy amountlh found dueyby the gccounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for "Contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts," for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one thousand two hundred and ninety-three dollars and thirty-six cents. BUREAU or CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR. rr£r“;$r*},“r;’r§rf§*§}fS"““‘ For preservation and completion of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; steam steerers, pneumatic steerers, steam capstans, steam windlasses, and all other auxiliaries; labor in navy—yards and on foreign stations; purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops; carrying on work of experimental model tank; designing naval vessels; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat, general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; incidental expenses, such as advertising, ' freight, foreign postage, telegrams, telephone service, photographing, Eoogxs, professional magazinpsil plE.ns,1stationery, pfid Instruments for ra tin room, on account o the sca *ears as fo ows: d Fé)1'}§18 fiseialiypar nineteen hundred hud one, one million five hunre thousand o lars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, eighty thousand dollars. reprrrr ro Provided, That no part of said sums shall be applied to the repair wooden ships- of any wooden ship when the estimated cost 0- such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed ten per cgntipm of the estiriglapeiél cost, appraised in like manner, of a new s ip o the same size an i e materia . ` BUREAU OF STEAM ENGINEERING. Bemu. of Smm For completion re airin and reservation of machiner * and boil- Eugmwing ers of navzll vessdls, i)ncludIi:lg cosl? of new boilers; distillilig, refrigerating, and auxiliary machinery; preservation of and smal repairs to machinery and boilers in vessels In ordinary, receiving and training vessels, re air and care of machinery of 'yard tugs and launches; purchase, handling, and preservation of all material and stores; °purchase, fitting, repair, and preservation of machinery and tools in navy-yards and stations, and runnin yard engines; incidental expenses for naval vessels, yards, and the Ilureau, such as foreign postage, telegrams, advertisgng, freight, yghotolgragihipg, booksafsgsitionery, office furnishin s an instruments or the sca ears as o ows:. Por the fiscal year nineteen hundjfed and one, six hundred thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, eighty thousand dollars. Prooioo. _ Provided, That no part of said sums shall be applied to the en ines, wg‘$§Lil shiggims t° boilers, and machinery of wooden Ships where the estimatecg cost