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 FIFTY-SEVENTH ooxemcss. sm. 11. on. 1000. 190. 1027 For the necessary expenses of officers while temporarily employed E*P°'*°°*°‘°m°°¤"· on ordnance duties at the proving ground `and absent from their proper station, 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, eighteen thousand seven hundred dollars. _ For repairs of railroad tracks connectin the proving ground with pagufmd "’°k "°' the Central Railroad of New Jersey, four fiousand dollars. For replacing plank roads by macadam, five thousand dollars. Mmmm Md- Fnsmtrorzb lx11811N4L, PHILADELPHIA, 1>1=:NNsYLvANr.A. Fr¤¤kf¤¤dA¤¤¤¤¤1· For one brick sho, and machinery for manufacture of shrapnel, S*“'°P”°1’**°P· forty-three thousand dollars. Bonne or onnxwon AND Fonrrrrcyrrou. ,,,§°'¥,§#.u‘},‘,,,°,{‘,}',,,{{“°° To enable the board to make all needful and roper urchases, P"°b°°°°'°t°' experiments, and tests to ascertain, with a view to their utiiization by the Government, the most effective guns, small arms, cartridges, projectiles, fuses, 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 uns, carriaighes, armor plbates, and other war material as may, in the juhgment of e board, necessary in the roper discharge of the duty evolved upon it by V<>!·¤·r-¢¤9- the Act a proved September twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eigllt; to pay the salary of the civilian member of the Board of $5*% ¤gg;b¤· Ordnance and Fortrfication provided by the Act of February twenty-'P' ` fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for the necessary travcling expenses of said member when traveling on dutyas contemplated in said Act; for the pa ment of the ecessary expenses of the board, Perdicmincluding a per diem allowance to eats: officer detailed to serve thereon, _ when employed on duty away from his permanent station, of two dollars and fifty cents a day; and for the test of experimental guns, T¤¤¤· carriages, and other devices procured in accordance with the recommendation of the Board of Ordnance and Fortiiication, one hundred thousand dollars, the expenditure of which shall be made by the several bureaus of the War Department heretofore having jurisdiction of the same, or by the board itself, as the Secretary of War may direct: Provided, That before any money shall be expended in the construction Qggegb M mm or test of any gun, gun carriage, ammunition, or implements under um. the supervision of the said boar, the board shall be satrsiied, 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 carrigtge, ammunition, or implements, or that the construction or test is ma e at the request of a person either having such lawful right or aurglzorizeg to convsiy the gsgrrgel to tihe (Spvpmment. f h Pu h be I at a materia urc un er e oregoing rovisions o t is 'F ”°¤ *° ° Act shall be of Amelfican manufacture, except in cases when, in the iixidnmj mmum} judgment of the Secretary of War, it is to the manifest interest of the Ex°°p"°"’ United States to make purchases in limited quantities abroad, which · material shall be admitted free of duty. A. 11. mnmr mnmvarrxe csnmnom. ,¤;g£n%;¤¢1¤v¤¤- To enable A. H. Emery to complete and erect the twelve-inch bG*l°;*;g;_{¤°° mY elevating carriage he is building for the Government the Secretary of ` \Var, in his discretion, is hereby authorized to increase the contract _ price of such carriage and its foundations from one hundred and fifty v°’· ·'*·P·’“·