monitors hibited. Atlanta two hundred and thirty one thousand eight hun- "For completing equipment outfits of three new cruis- "For navigation outfit of the four new steel cruisers, thirty thousand dollars." "For ordnance outfit of the three new steel cruisers and one dispatch boat, five hundred thousand dollars.” Nothing herein contained shall be construed as appropriating money for or authorizing the continuation of Work on four work upon the double-turreted-monitors, Monadnock, pro- Terror, Amphitrite, and Puritan, and any unexpended balance now remaining of the appropriation contained in said act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty three, for engines and machinery for the said double turreted monitors shall be covered into the Treasury, except such part thereof as may be required under existing contracts made for the engines and machinery of the three last named monitors. Approved, July 7, 1884. FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION JANUARY 30, 1885. AN ACT making additional appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and for other [Only so much of this act is quoted as is new. Provision is made for the Naval Establishment and, under "Pay of the Navy," is added All the items under contingent expenses of the Navy for fiscal year 1884 have been transferred and included intact in the appropria- "For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classi- fied, exclusive of personal services in the Navy Department or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at Washington, District of Columbia, seven thousand five hundred dollars."] Provision is made "for erection of compass-testing Compass- testing house. Provision is made, under ordnance and ordnance stores, Furniture. tery, * * BUREAU OF PROVISIONS AND CLOTHING. commutation provided that all enlisted men and boys Ration or in the Navy, attached to any United States vessel or allowed. station and doing duty thereon, and naval cadets, shall be allowed a ration, or commutation thereof in money, Provision is made for 66 * * * telegrams, photo- * 99 Provision appropriating 66* * the unexpended balance of the appropriation of one million dollars made by the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and Mohican. eighty-three, for engines and machinery for the doubleturreted iron-clads be, and the same is hereby, reappropriated and made available during the last half of the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eightyfive, * INCREASE OF THE NAVY. Provision for completing the Mohican at the Mare Island Navy Yard, fifty thousand dollars. "For care and safe-keeping of the iron-clad monitors now in the hands of the contractors, when they shall have been turned over to the Government by said contractors, five thousand dollars." number of offi Corps. MARINE CORPS. Limiting A provision 66* * * From and after the passage cers of Marine of this act there shall be no appointments, except by promotion, to fill vacancies occurring in the list of commissioned officers of the Marine Corps until the number of such officers shall have been reduced, by casualties or otherwise, below seventy-five as fixed by the act approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventysix; and after the number of officers shall be reduced as above provided, the whole number of commissioned officers on the active list in the Marine Corps shall not exceed seventy-five." Secretary of port employees. * * A provision "* That all appropriations made by the act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eightyfour, making temporary provisions for the naval service for the six months ending December thirty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, or any balances thereof that may be unexpended at that date, be, and they are hereby, reappropriated, continued, and made available for the remainder of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five. That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby the Navy to re- directed to report to Congress, at its next and each regugress: civilian lar session thereafter, the amount expended during the prior fiscal year, from the appropriations for the pay of the Navy, Bureaus of Navigation, Ordnance, Equipment and Recruiting, Yards and Docks, Medicine and Surgery, Provisions and Clothing, Construction and Repair, and Steam-Engineering, for civilians employed on clerical duty, or in any other capacity than as.ordinary mechanics and workingmen, and to submit, under the estimates for pay of the Navy and for the respective Bureaus enumerated above, specific estimates for such civilian employees for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and each fiscal year thereafter." Approved, January 30, 1885. FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION-MARCH 3, 1885. [PUBLIC-No. 90.] AN ACT Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and for other purposes. ["Pay of the Navy" contains practically the same items as the act for the previous year, but after the paragraph "For pay to petty officers, seamen, ordinary seamen, landsmen, and boys, including men in the engineer's force and for the Coast Survey service, not exceeding eight thousand two hundred and fifty in all, two million four hundred and ninety thousand dollars," there is a division headed "Miscellaneous," which contains the remainder of the items formerly under "Pay of the Navy," beginning " For two secretaries, one to the Admiral and one to the Vice-Admiral, clerks to paymasters, clerks at inspections, navy-yards, and stations, and extra pay to men enlisted under honorable discharge;" and continuing with practically the same language as in previous act to the end of the paragraph.] BUREAU OF ORDNANCE. Wording is slightly changed. Practically the same items appropriated for as heretofore with some additions and, in altered form, as follows: "For preserving and handling ordnance and ordnance material of the kinds now in service, for the armament of ships therewith, for the purchase or manufacture of ammunition therefor, for materials. and labor to be used in the general work of the Ordnance Bureau for these purposes; for furniture at magazines, at the ordnance dock, New York, and at the naval ordnance proving-ground, * * of small call A provision" for the purchase or manufacture of steel Steel guns guns of small caliber for ships now in service, and for ber. testing the same at the naval ordnance proving ground, loading rifled "For the completion and public test of two breech- Two breechloading rifle cannon of the larger calibers now in course cannon. of construction for the Navy, with carriages and ammunition for both, * * * * One six-inch wire wound "For completing a six-inch wire-wound gun, "For testing American armor made of American mate- gun. rial, * American ar mor. BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY. A provision "for contingent expenses of the bureau: expressage on medical stores; toll, fer For Contingent expenses. ratory. riages; * * * rent of telephones; * postage * * and purchase of stamps for foreign service; rent of rooms for * * museum of hygiene; plants; furniture. and incidental articles for Naval labo- museum of hygiene, naval dispensary, Washington, navallaboratory, sick-quarters at Naval Academy, and dispensaries at navy-yards; washing for medical department at museum of hygiene, naval dispensary, Washington, naval laboratory, sick-quarters at Naval Academy, dispensaries at navy-yards, and for receiving-ships and rendezvous, twenty-five thousand dollars." Provisions, Navy. Two additional cruisers. tional gunboats. "For provisions for the seamen and marines; com- * * * * * * 97 A provision for expenses of naval clothing factory. NAVAL ACADEMY. Practically the same expenditures as in previous acts, provided for with slight changes. INCREASE OF THE NAVY. Under "Increase of the Navy" it is provided: "To enable the President to strengthen the naval establishment of the United States by additional vessels of the best and most modern design, having the highest attainable speed, the sum of one million eight hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, to be expended as follows and under the following limitations: "For the construction of two cruisers of not less than three thousand nor more than five thousand tons displacement, costing, exclusive of armament, not more than one million one hundred thousand dollars each; one heavily armed gunboat of about sixteen hundred tons displacement, costing, exclusive of armament, not more than Two a ddi- five hundred and twenty thousand dollars; and one light gunboat of about eight hundred tons displacement, costing, exclusive of armament, not more than two hundred and seventy five thousand dollars; and authority is hereby given for the construction of said four vessels, at not exceeding the total cost for each above specified, in accordance with such final plan as may be determined upon, after a revision and reconsideration of all designs which have been heretofore made, and in the manner and conformity to the conditions and limitations provided for the construction of the new cruisers in the acts of August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, except so far as said acts provide for and define the duties of Naval Advisory Board. "SEC. 2. That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to return the Arctic steamer Alert to Her Maj 7 |