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 SIXTY·FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 225. 1916. 347 rnovme cnormn, saivnr noon, Naw masmy, ,¤g¤•;ggm§°°* P*°'· For current expenses of the ordnance proving groimd, Sandy Hook, ExP°”°°· °*°· New Jersey, comprising the maintenance of rail and water transportation, repairs, alterations, accessories, and service of employees mcidental to testing and proving ordnance matériel, hire of assistants for the Ordnance Board, purchase of instruments and articles required for testing and experimental work, building and repairing butts and teigets, c caring and grading ranges, $75,000. or necessary expenses of officers not occup g public quarters ,,,;,r,§’{§*’°'“" °‘“"]°" at the proving ground, while employed on ordyridlnce duty thereat, at the rate of $2.50 per diem while so employed and the compensation of draftsmen while employed in the Army Ordnance Bureau on ordnance construction, $35,000. sumnnnu: mums. ““"'“““*°"““°°· For plurchase, manufacture, and test of submarine-mine materiel, p.?l»$°°°"°° ‘°' and other accessories for submarine-mine practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $26,000. 1, l For purchase of submarine mines and necessary appliances to operate them for closing the channels leading to our principal see.- ports, and for continuing torpedo experiments, $123,000. i mlummnco 0, For maintenance of submarine-mine matériel within the limits of »¤pp1s»,•w. continental United States, purchase of necessary machinery, tools, and implements for the repair shop of the torpedo gppot at Fort ,,,§,,°{f '¥`°“°“ ‘°"P°"° Totten, New York, extrmduty pay to soldiers necess y employed ‘ for riods not less than ten days in connection with the issue, recei t, andpgare of submarine-mining materiel at the torpedo depot, and fbr torpedo=depot administration, $68,000. For the procurement of the exclusive rights of John Hays Ham-  ‘°" mond, jumor, and the Radio Engineering Company of New. York Plyécbpvpfénwgwv (Incorporated) to their discoveries and inventions in the art of ii*mm3¤a,i°r.,¤¢¤.°y° ‘contro by radiodynamic energy of the movement of water-borne carriers o high exlpllosives, in accordance with a proposal heretofore made by said Jo Hays Hammond, junior, and said congpany, known as proposal Z, $750,000: Provided, That said sum sh not §,§§]"j&·w,,,,_,m_ be paid except u on the approval by the President of a report of a ¢i¤¤ *¤d¤PW*· board of three Xrmy an three Navy officers, to be aippointed by him, which report shall be favorable to the acquisition o such rights, such report to be made after a demonstration of the application of the said system to the control of torpedoes; and, to provide for such ·‘·“°"‘“°“°""'·‘· demonstration, $30,000 of the sum so appropriated, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purpose, mag be applied to the expense of conducting the same exclusive of e services of said Hammond, which services shall be rendered free of charge, the amount so applied and which shall be immediately available, in the event of the plurchase of such rights, to be considered as part payment of the purc ase price of the same. _ _ The Commissioner of Patents is authorized and directed,_m the Gulf}; g{_,{*“” °° . event of the entrance by the Government into a contract with the above-mentioned parties for the purchase of such rights in all mstances where it would grant patents to John Hays Hammondbjunior, or to the Radio Engineering Com any upon request of the nited States A, to D to issue said patents to the llnited States, and, in the event of sand m.m".M°'"°“ contract being made, the Commissioner of Patents is further author- · ized and directed to kee applications for such etents in the secret archives of the Patent Silica, not open to  osure even m cases of interferences.