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preservation of the same; for repairs and improvements on buildings, heating, lighting, and furniture for same; books and stationery, freight, and other contingent expenses; purchase of food and maintenance of live-stock, and mail wagon and attendance on same, eighteen thousand dollars.

NAVAL WAR COLLEGE AND TORPEDO SCHOOL ON COASTER'S HARBOR ISLAND: For maintenance of the Naval War College and Torpedo school on Coaster's Harbor Island, ten thousand dollars.

BUREAU OF ORDNANCE.

Naval War College and Torpedo School, Coaster's Harbor

Island, R. I.

Bureau of Ordnance.

etc.

ORDNANCE AND ORDNANCE STORES: For procuring, producing, Material, supplies, preserving, and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; for fuel, tools, and material, and labor to be used in the general work of the Ordnance Department; for furniture at magazines, at the ordnance dock, New York, and at the naval ordnance and proving ground, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars; proof of naval armament, ten thousand dollars; expenses of target practice, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars.

NEW MAGAZINE: For new magazine for naval purposes at Sitka or Juneau, Alaska, ten thousand dollars.

CRANEY ISLAND MAGAZINE: For dredging on the channel to Craney Island Magazine, Norfolk Harbor, and for repairs to the wharves and buildings, fifteen thousand dollars.

New magazine at Sitka, or Juneau, Alaska.

Craney Island mag

azine, Norfolk, Va.

PURCHASE OF FLOATING OR TUG CRANE: For the purchase of a Floating or tug floating or tug crane for use in the transportation of material at the crane, New York navy New York navy yard, thirty thousand dollars

RESERVE SUPPLY OF PROJECTILES: For reserve supply of projectiles for vessels in commission, thirty thousand dollars. REPAIRS, BUREAU OF ORDNANCE: For necessary repairs to ordnance buildings, magazines, gun parks, boats, lighters, wharves, machinery, and other objects of the like character, thirty thousand dollars.

yard.

Reserve supply of

projectiles.

Repairs.

Torpedo station,

TORPEDO STATION, BUREAU OF ORDNANCE, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND: For labor, material, freight, and express charges; general Newport, R. I. care of and repairs to grounds, buildings, and wharves; boats, instruction, instruments, tools, furniture, experiments and general torpedo outfits, sixty thousand dollars.

ÁRMOR TESTS: For the purpose of making ballistic tests and experiments in the development of American armor the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to use one hundred thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary out of the apppropriation of one million dollars appropriated by joint resolution of September twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety, for the purchase of nickel ore or nickel matte.

Armor tests.

Naval militia.

NAVAL MILITIA: For arms and equipment connected therewith for naval militia of various States under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, twenty-five thousand dollars. CONTINGENT, BUREAU OF ORDNANCE: For miscellaneous items, Contingent. namely: Freight to foreign and home stations; advertising; cartage and express charges; repairs to fire engines; gas and water pipes; gas and water tax at magazines; toll, ferriage, foreign postage, and telegrams to and from the Bureau, eight thousand dollars. CIVIL ESTABLISHMENT, BUREAU OF ORDNANCE: For the civil establishment under the Bureau of Ordnance, namely:

Navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one writer, when required, five hundred dollars.

Civil establishment.

Portsmouth.

Navy yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one writer, when required, Boston. five hundred dollars.

Navy yard, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand four hun- New York. dred dollars.

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Navy yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at twelve hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twentyfive cents each; one draughtsman, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; three draughtsmen, at one thousand and eighty-one dollars each; one assistant draughtsman, at seven hundred and seventy-two dollars; two foremen, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; two copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one telegraph operator and copyist, at nine hundred dollars;

Navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars;

Navy yard, Mare Island, California: For one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents;

Naval ordnance proving-ground: For one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents;

Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island: For one chemist, at two thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one draughtsman, at one thousand five hundred dollars.

In all, twenty-six thousand eight hundred and twenty-four dollars, and no other fund appropriated by this act shall be used in payment for such service.

BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT.

EQUIPMENT OF VESSELS: For purchase of coal for steamers' and ships' use, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same; hemp, wire, iron, and other materials for the manufacture of cordage, anchors, cables, galleys, and chains; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, hammocks, and other canvas work; water for steam launches; stationery for commanding and navigating officers of ships, equipment officers, on shore and afloat, and for the use of courts-martial on board ship, and for the purchase of all other articles of equipment at home and abroad and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels and manufacture of equipment articles in the several navy yards; foreign and local pilotage and towage of ships of war; services and materials in repairing, correcting, adjusting, and testing compasses on shore and on board ship; nautical and astronomical instruments, and repairs to same; libraries for ships of war; professional books and papers, and drawings and engravings for signal books; naval signals and apparatus, namely: signals lights, lanterns, rockets, running lights, compass-fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ships' compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship's way, and leads and other appliances for sounding; lanterns and lamps, and their appendages for general use on board ship, for illuminating purposes, and oil and candles used in connection therewith; bunting and other materials for making and repairing flags of all kinds; photographic instruments and materials; musical instruments and music; and for introducing and maintaining electric lights and interior sig. nal communications on board vessels of war, nine hundred and sixty thousand dollars.

CIVIL ESTABLISHMENT, BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT: Navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars.

Navy yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one superintendent of rope walk, at one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand three hundred dollars; one writer, at nine hundred and fifty dollars:

Navy yard, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one

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writer, at one thousand dollars; one storekeeper, at nine hundred dollars.

Navy yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars;

Navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each;

Navy yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars;

Navy yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one clerk, at one thousand dollars.

In all, nineteen thousand and twenty-five dollars; and no other fund appropriated by this act shall be used in payment for such service.

League Island.

Norfolk.

Mare Island.

Washington.

CONTINGENT, BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT: For freight and transpor- Contingent. tation of equipment stores, packing boxes and materials, printing advertising, telegraphing, books and models; postage on letters sent abroad; ferriage, ice, lighterage of ashes, and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Equipment unforeseen and impossible to classify, fifteen thousand dollars.

BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS.

Bureau of yards and docks.

General mainte

MAINTENANCE OF YARDS AND DOCKS: For general maintenance of yards and docks, namely: For freight; transportation of materials nance. and stores; books, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines; machinery; repairs on steam fire-engines and attendance on the same; purchase and maintenance of oxen, horses, and driving teams; carts, timber-wheels, and all vehicles for use in the navy yards; tools and repairs of the same; postage on letters and other mailable matter on public service sent to foreign countries, and telegrams; stationery; furniture for Government houses and offices in navy yards; coal and other fuel; candles, oil, and gas; cleaning and clearing up yards and care of buildings; attendance on fires, lights, fire engines, and apparatus; for incidental labor at navy yards; water-tax, tolls, and ferriage; rent of four officers' quarters at Phil- Philadelphia. adelphia, Pennsylvania; pay of watchmen in navy yards; awnings and packing boxes, and advertising for yard, dock and other purposes, two hundred and thirty thousand dollars.

PUBLIC WORKS.-NAVY YARDS AND STATIONS.

Public works at navy yards and stations.

NAVY YARD, PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE: For constructing Portsmouth. reservoir and perfecting water system, twenty-two thousand two hundred and eighty-seven dollars.

NAVY YARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS: For constructing steel Boston. shears, twelve thousand dollars; extensions and renewals in water

pipe system, and repairs of wharves, five thousand dollars.

NAVY YARD, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK: For quay wall on cob dock, Brooklyn. one hundred thousand dollars; paving and sewers around new drydock, twenty-one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five dollars; for

one crane, five thousand dollars.

NAVY YARD, LEAGUE ISLAND, PENNSYLVANIA: For west dry- League Island. dock pier, eighty-seven thousand four hundred and forty-one dollars and sixty-two cents; for rip rap for protection wall, nine thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; for continuation of light retaining wall, twenty-five thousand dollars; for sewers and flushing tank, five thousand six hundred and eighty-five dollars.

NAVY YARD, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: For exten- Washington. sion of railroad tracks, three thousand five hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents; for sanitary improvements for Smith quadrangle, five thousand dollars; converting paint shop into two officers' quarters, eight thousand two hundred and twenty dollars and

Norfolk.

Port Royal.

Timber dry-dock.

fifty-nine cents, the total cost not to exceed the sum hereby appropriated; for dredging and filling in, five thousand dollars.

NAVY YARD, NORFOLK, VIRGINIA: For extending machine shop for steam engineering, four thousand one hundred and sixty-six dollars; for extension of quay wall, twenty-five thousand dollars.

COALING STATION, PORT ROYAL, SOUTH CAROLINA: To continue the construction of a timber dry-dock at the coaling station at Port Royal, South Carolina, and for the work provided for by the naval Laws, 1st Sess., 51st appropriation act, approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Cong., p. 194.

Dry dock at Port

Sound.

Site.

Construction.

DRY-DOCK ON PUGET SOUND: That the Secretary of the Navy be, Orchard, Puget and he hereby is, authorized to acquire for the purposes of a drydock a tract of land not exceeding two hundred acres in extent on Puget Sound, at Port Orchard in the county of Kitsap, State of Washington, at such point as he may select, and a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars to pay for said land is hereby appropriated; and the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to have constructed by contract after public advertisement upon said land so selected, for naval and commercial purposes, a dry-dock, to be not less than six hundred feet in length, not less than seventy feet in width at bottom of entrance, and capable of admitting vessels drawing thirty feet of water; the cost of said dry-dock not to exceed seven hundred thousand dollars, of which the sum of two hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for use during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two.

Dimensions.

Limit of cost, etc.

Purchase or condemnation.

Vol. 25, p. 357.

Proviso.

No expenditure until valid title, etc., pass.

Mare Island.

Launching ways and granite slips, New York and Norfolk.

Repairs.

Contingent.

Civil establis' ent.
Portsmouth.

And the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, empowered and directed to purchase said tract of land at such price as he may deem reasonable; and where he is unable to purchase the same at such price or where the owner or owners of any of said tract of land may be unable for any reason to vest by voluntary conveyance a complete and valid title to any part of said tract of land hereinbefore described, then the same shall be acquired by condemnation, agreeably to the act of Congress of August first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight relative to such condemnations, and to the laws of the State of Washington for the condemnation of land for public uses in that State: Provided, That no money to be appropriated for said dry dock shall be available until a valid title to the land constituting the site of the same is vested in the United States, nor until the State of Washington shall cede to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over said tract of land during the time the United States may be or remain the owner thereof for all purposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said State and the service of any civil process thereon.

NAVY YARD, MARE ISLAND, CALIFORNIA: For widening gauge of railroad track, six thousand five hundred dollars; for roads, five thousand dollars; extension of quay wall, twenty-five thousand dollars; for removal and reconstruction of. return wall, sectional drydock basin, eleven thousand two hundred and eighty-five dollars and twenty-four cents; one twelve-ton crane, four thousand dollars. LAUNCHING WAYS AND SLIPS AT NEW YORK AND NORFOLK NAVY YARDS: For launching ways and granite slips, thirteen thousand dollars to be made immediately available.

REPAIRS AND PRESERVATION AT ŇAVY YARDS AND STATION: For repairs and preservation at navy yards and stations, three hundred thousand dollars.

CONTINGENT, BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS: For contingent expenses that may arise at navy yards and stations, twenty thousand dollars.

CIVIL ESTABLISHMENT, BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS: Navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; one

foreman laborer and head teamster, at four dollars per diem, including Sundays; one janitor, at six hundred dollars; one pilot, at three dollars per diem, including Sundays; one foreman mason, when required, at four dollars and fifty cents per diem, one thousand four hundred and thirteen dollars;

Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one clerk, at one thousand Boston. four hundred dollars; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one messenger to commandant, at one dollar and seventy-six cents per diem; one messenger, at one dollar and seventy-six cents per diem, one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one writer, at nine hundred dollars;

Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand Brooklyn. four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; two masters of tugs, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; two writers, at nine hundred dollars each; one foreman laborer, at four dollars and fifty cents per diem; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; two messengers, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem each; one draughtsman, at five dollars per diem; one quarterman, at three dollars per diem; one superintendent of teams or quarterman, at four dollars per diem; one messenger to commandant, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem, including Sundays;

Naval Station, Sackett's Harbor, New York: For one ship-keeper, Sackett's Harbor. at three hundred and sixty-six dollars per annum;

Navy Yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer and telegraph operator, at one thousand dollars; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem;

League Island.

Navy Yard, Washingtor, District of Columbia: For one clerk, at Washington. one thousand four hundred dollars; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one electrician to care for and be in charge of electric plant for electric lighting and fire alarm, one thousand dollars;

Navy Yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one writer, at one thousand dollars; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; two messengers, at two dollars per diem each, one pilot, at two dollars and twenty-six cents per diem:

Navy yard, Pensacola, Florida: For one clerk, at one thousand Pensacola. two hundred dollars; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays;

Navy yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousand Mare Island. four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one foreman mason, at six dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at five dollars and fifty cents per diem; one pilot, at four dollars and eighty cents per diem, one draughtsman, at five dollars per diem; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one messenger and lamplighter, at two dollars per diem; one electrician to care for and be in charge of electric plant for electric lighting, one thousand two hundred dollars:

Naval station, Key West, Florida: For one messenger at six hun- Key West. dred dollars;

In all, fifty-nine thousand one hundred and ninety-seven dollars and thirty-seven cents, and no other fund appropriated by this act shall be used in payment for such services.

delphia.
Employees.

NAVAL HOME, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA: For one superin- Naval Home, Philatendent, at six hundred dollars; one steward, at four hundred and eighty dollars; one matron, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one chief cook, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one assistant cook, at

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