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 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. 1. C11. 3540. 1906. 465 For the purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon for coast S°“°°°·°° gum- Aefense for the insular possessions, including their carria es, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, four hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That gmes the Secretary of War is authorized to mount seven twelve-inch rides ' on a. corresponding number of carriages to be rocured out of appropriations made or to be made hereunder for gm insular possessions, said guns being on hand in excess of the number of carriages provided for emplacements in the United States. For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast A““““““*°“· camxon, for the insular possessions, including the necessary experiments in connection therewit, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, one hundred thousand dollars. For purchase, manufacture, and test of inspecting instruments for mf,’§{,{{°'f-E§§Q, ##322; the manufacture of cannon, carriages, and ammunituon; range finders °°°· and other instruments for fire control at the fortifications in the insular possessions, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, thirty -two thousand' dollars. For the alteration and maintenance of the seacoast artillery in the M°°"°°°"‘ insular possessions, including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work, and the expenses of the mechanics engaged thereon, five thousand dollars. Boaizn or oiznuxivcn AND FORTIFICATION. ,,,]§°§.',§*,,,‘]{,,°,{2},'f“°° . To enable the Board to make all needful and roper urchases, P“'°"“°'·°”°· experiments, and tests to ascertain, with a view to their utilization 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 manufacturedh under authority of the Secretary of War, such guns, carria es, armor plates, and other war material as may, in the judgment of ae Board, V I m be necessary in the proper discharge of the duty evolved upon it by ?'25'°' ' the Act approved September twenty-second, eighteen hundred and §’,$l',‘;‘;,f‘Q§;f"’°"· eighty-eig t; to pay the salary of the civilian member of the Board of ` Ordnance and Fortification provided by the Act of February twenty- fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for the necessary travcling expenses of said member when traveling on duty as contemplated _ in said Act; for the pa ment of the necessary expenses of the ard, "' '“°'“‘ including a per diem allowance to each officer detailed to serve thereon, when employed on duty away from his permanent station, of two dollars and hfty cents a day; and for the test of experimental guns, car- T°¤°*·°*°· riages, and other devices procured in accordance with the recommendation of the Board of Ordnance and F ortification, five thousand ' dollars the expenditure of which shall be made by the several bureaus of the lVar Department heretofore having Vlurisdnction of the same, or _ b the Board itself, as the Secretary of 'ar may direct: Provided, §{§K'f°,;,,,,, i,,,,,,. That before any money shall be expended in the construction or test “°'*· of any gun, gun carriage, ammunition, or implements under the supervision of the said Board, the Board shall be satisfied, 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. That all material purchased under the foregoing provisions of this  ',j,’,,,",‘§,,'§ Act shall be of American manufacture, except in cases when, in the ¤¤r<=· piidgment of the Secretary of lVar, it is to the manifest interest of the nited States to make purchases in limited quantities abroad, which material shall be admitted free of duty. Approved, J uno C5, 1906. vox. xxxiv, rr 1--30 _