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 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ons. 552, 553. 1900. 187 to enable the Secretary of War to make this increase in the price of this work and to make payment therefor, the sum of forty _ thousand dollars is hereby a pro riated: Provided, That of the one Promohundred aud fifty thousand) doli)ars to be aid for the carriage sci»"$iii»ir¢iirra¤a¤il$iilabi° and its foundations, ten thousand dollars shall be paid towards the construction of the foundations, of which sum one·half shall be paid to the said Emery as soon as needed by hi1n to pay bills for materials used and labor performed in its construction and erection and the other half of this ten thousand dollars shall be paid to him when the foundations are erected ready for the carriage and all bills for the whole cost thereof entirely satisfied. Of the one hundred ,.,g§d§§,‘}°°" f°’ '“‘*“"' and forty thousand dollars balance of this money to be paid for the `, - carriage and its foundations, advances shall be made as heretofore for material and Hnishing the same as provided in the contract, until such advances shall reach, for materials and finishing and erecting the same, not exceeding ninety per centum of this sum. Of the balance of the said one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, fourteen thousand shall be advanced to the said Emery, after the passage of this Act, as fast as it is needed to pay bills made and to be made in connection with the work of this contract. The ten thousand dollars authorized mf,°,‘}{’,§‘§§f,{’,‘,§,§{fp”'° to be paid A. H. Emery on the supplemental contract provided for in the Fortification appropriation Act approved June. sixth, eighteen V¤l·2°· P·26°- hundred and ninety-six, shall be due and (paid as soon as the carriage. and loading apparatus provided for in said supplemental contract are _ completed according to contract and ready for erection. After the m§'A%.b['bgE1jFé)v§§!;n; carriage herein provided for is completed and tested and all moneys ***86* due the said A. H. Emery thereon have been paid, the Government shall have the right to build any and all such other disappearing carriages as it may choose under any or all,United States patents obtained at any time by the said Emery on his inventions embodied in this carriage. The royalty to be due and paid him or his legal representa- R°"“" tives on all carriages built by or for the Government or carriages which the build, excepting the type carriage now under construction, embodying any of the said specified inventions, shall not exceed six per g centum of the cost of the erected carriage in which such inventions are used; payment of the royalty on any such carriage to be due when such carriage is completed. ‘ ‘ i Sec. 2. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to m§’,g*g,’§,gfi° d>'”°‘ make partial payments under the contracts now existing with the War Papialpaymentsfor Department for the purchase and erection of pneumatic ynamite guns, Egf ”°’°“?"’“"h°" carriages, and so forth, and ammunition for same, the said payments to be roportioned to the amount of work done and mater'.] furnished _ to dimte under said contracts: Provided, That the contractors furnish a §g',f{’,‘§’§,0,,. ,,0,,,, satisfactory bond, equal to the amount of all payments to be made, e inde‘mnifying the Government against loss in case the said dynamite uns, fittings, and so forth, shall not fulfill the contract reeiluirementsz . _ _ Trevided farther, That the aggregate amount of partia payments L‘““‘°‘ ¥’“·Y“‘°““· made under the contract shali `not exceed eighty per centum of the work done and material furnished to date of payment. Approved, May 25, 1900. CHAP. 553.-An Act To enlarge the powers of the Department of Agriculture, May 25, 1900. rohibit the transportation by interstate commerce of game killed in violation of "—‘”°_`_"` ibcal laws, and for other purposes. _ Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofReg5resentatives of the United States of Ameriea in Congress assembled, That the duties and powers Dep¤rtmentofAsri· . culture. · of the Department of Ag1‘1CHlhUY€ are hereby enlarged so as to include ·_ Pgwgyg gnlgyggq to the preservation, distribution, introduction, and restoration of game g{§}‘{)‘};,§,;‘;S§{:,§§’,';; birds and other wild birds. The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby ·I `