grounds for same, including one draftsman, at one thousand two hundred dollars, nine thousand two hundred dollars;

For the proper preservation, cementing, and reenforcing cellar walls; repairing window casings, floors, and door casings; a water tank in attic for use in case of fire, and a rain-water cistern and pumps, two thousand dollars; in all, eleven thousand two hundred dollars.

BUREAU OF ORDNANCE.

ORDNANCE AND ORDNANCE STORES: For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; for fuel, 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 proving ground, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars; expenses of target practice, fifteen thousand dollars; maintenance of new proving ground, five thousand dollars;

Reserve supply of guns for ships of the Navy, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars;

Reserve supply of projectiles for ships of the Navy, two hundred thousand dollars;

Additional supply of torpedoes, one hundred and forty-two thousand dollars;

Bureau of Ordnance.

Ordnance and ordnance stores.

Reserve supply of guns and projectiles.

Torpedoes.

Tests of high explo

For testing methods of throwing high explosives from guns on board sives. ship with the ordinary velocities, fifty thousand dollars;

Auxiliary cruisers.
Armament.

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In all, eight hundred and forty-two thousand dollars. RESERVE GUNS FOR AUXILIARY CRUISERS: Toward the armament of modern guns for auxiliary cruisers mentioned in the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and in section four of the Act approved May tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, four 27, p. 28. hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of the Navy may, in his discretion, purchase by contract all or any part of such guns.

Proviso.
Purchases.

Gun plant, Washing

GUN PLANT, NAVY-YARD, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: ton, D.C. For cupolas and blowers, traveling crane and runways, swing cranes, blower engines, and iron elevators, and for installing and connecting the same in the brass and iron foundry, fifty thousand dollars. NAVAL MAGAZINE, FORT MIFFLIN, PENNSYLVANIA: For construc- zine. tion of new brick or stone buildings in place of the present wooden ones, fifty thousand dollars.

Fort Mifflin maga

Magazine, Dover,

NÁVAL MAGAZINE, DOVER, NEW JERSEY: For introduction of water N.J. supply for the new naval magazine at Dover, New Jersey, fifteen thousand dollars, which sum shall be immediately available.

TORPEDO STATION, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND: For labor, material, freight, and express charges; general care of and repairs to grounds, buildings, and wharves; boats; instruction; instruments; tools; furniture; experiments, and general torpedo outfits, sixty thousand dollars; extending sea wall, fifteen. thousand dollars; in all, seventy-five 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.

ARMING AND EQUIPPING NAVAL MILITIA: For arms, accouterments, signal outfits, boats and their equipments, the printing of the necessary books of instruction for the Naval Militia of the various States, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, fifty thousand dollars. And the Secretary of the Navy shall detail a clerk of class one to perform clerical services in the Navy Department neces sary to carry on the work incident to this appropriation.

CONTINGENT, BUREAU OF ORDNANCE: For miscellaneous items, namely: Freight to foreign and home stations, advertising, cartage, and express charges, repairs to fire engines, gas and water pipes, gas

Torpedo station.

Repairs.

Naval Militia.

Detail of clerk.

Contingent.

and water tax at magazines, tolls, ferriage, foreign postage, and telegrams to and from the Bureau, technical books, and incidental expenses attending inspections of ordnance material, 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;

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

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

Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one chemist, at two thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; one draftsman, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; three draftsmen, at one thousand and eighty-one dollars each; one assistant draftsman, 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; in all, eighteen thousand four hundred and eightynine dollars and fifty cents;

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 draftsman, at one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, five thousand two hundred dollars;

In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Ordnance, twenty-nine thousand three 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 work; water for steaming purposes; 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 installing and maintaining electric lights and interior signal

communications on board vessels of war, one million three hundred and twelve thousand one hundred and forty-seven 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; in all, two thousand two hundred dollars;

Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one superintendent of ropewalk, 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; in all, five thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars;

Navy-yard, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand dollars; one storekeeper, at nine hundred dollars; in all, four thousand five 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; two thousand four hundred dollars;

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

Navy yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars, who shall also perform the clerical duties for the board of labor employment at said navy-yard;

Civil establishment.
Portsmouth.

Boston.

New York.

League Island.

Norfolk.

Mare Island.

Washington.

In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Equipment, nineteen thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars; and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. CONTINGENT, BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT: For freight and transpor- Contingent. tation of equipment stores, packing boxes and materials, printing, adver tising, telegraphing, books, and models; stationery for the Bureau; furniture for equipment offices in navy-yard; 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, twelve thousand dollars.

BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS.

Bureau of Yards and Docks.

MAINTENANCE OF YARDS AND DOCKS: For general maintenance of Maintenance. yards and docks, namely: For freight, transportation of materials and stores; books, maps, models, and drawing; 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; incidental labor at navy yards; water tax, tolls, and ferriage; rent of four officers' quarters at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; pay of watchmen in navy-yards; awnings and packing boxes, and advertising for yards and docks and other purposes, two hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars.

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

REPAIRS AND PRESERVATION AT NAVY-YARDS AND STATIONS: For Repairs. repairs and preservation at navy-yards and stations, four hundred thousand dollars.

Portsmouth.

CIVIL ESTABLISHMENT, BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS: Navy. Civil establishment yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one clerk, at one thousand

Boston.

New York.

Sacketts Harbor.

League Island.

Washington.

Norfolk.

Pensacola.

Mare Island.

Key West.

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; in all, five thousand eight hundred and eighty-five dollars;

Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one clerk, at one thousand 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; one master of tugs, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, six thousand five hundred and eighty-three dollars and seventy-six cents;

Navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand 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 draftsman, 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; one electrician, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, sixteen thousand five hundred and forty-one dollars and fifty cents;

Naval station, Sacketts Harbor, New York: For one ship keeper, at three hundred and sixty-five 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; in all, four thousand two hundred and seventy-eight dollars;

Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, four thousand four hundred and seventy-eight 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 electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; 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; in all, eight thousand five hundred and fifty-eight dollars and sixty-three cents;

Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; in all, one thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars;

Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousand 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 draftsman, 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, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, twelve thousand two hundred and sixty-six dollars and fifteen cents;

Naval station, Key West, Florida: For one mail messenger, at six hundred dollars;

In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Yards and Docks, sixty-one

thousand four hundred and eighty-six dollars and four cents; and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such services.

NAVAL HOME, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA: For one superintendent, 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 two hundred and forty dollars; one assistant cook, at one hundred and eighty dollars; one chief laundress, at one hundred and ninety-two dollars; five laundresses, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; four scrubbers, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; one head waiter, at one hundred and ninety-two dollars; eight waiters, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; eight laborers, at two hundred and forty dollars each; one stable keeper and driver, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one master at arms, at four hundred and eighty dollars; two house corporals, at three hundred dollars each; one barber, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one carpenter, at eight hundred and forty-five dollars; one painter, at six hundred dollars; one engi neer to run elevator, six hundred dollars; water rent and lighting, two thousand four hundred dollars; cemetery, burial expenses, and headstones, three hundred and fifty dollars; improvement of grounds, seven hundred dollars; repairs to buildings, furnaces, grates, ranges, furniture, and repairs of furniture, seven thousand dollars; music in chapel, six hundred dollars; transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, five hundred dollars; for support of beneficiaries, fifty-six thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars; in all, for Naval Home, seventy-nine thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund.

PUBLIC WORKS-BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS, NAVY-YARDS
AND STATIONS, NAVAL ACADEMY, AND NEW NAVAL OBSERVA-

TORY.

NAVY-YARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS: For cart shed (alteration of building numbered fifty-six), four thousand five hundred dollars. Two boilers for electric-light plant, four thousand five hundred dollars; in all, nine thousand dollars.

Naval Home.

Public works.

Boston.

NAVY-YARD, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK: For wing and quay walls of New York. dry dock numbered three, to be immediately available, sixty thousand dollars; grading, paving, sidewalks, and sewers, ten thousand dollars; quay wall for coal dock, forty thousand dollars; quay wall, Whitney Basin, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and thirtyfive thousand dollars.

NAVY-YARD, LEAGUE ISLAND, PENNSYLVANIA: For dredging and filling in, thirty thousand dollars; water-closets for yard, five thousand five hundred and eighty dollars; lightning rods and sidewalks, two thousand dollars; in all, thirty-seven thousand five hundred and eighty dollars,

League Island.

NAVY-YARD, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: For roof Washington. trusses and roof for entire quadrangle building, fifty-nine thousand four hundred and eleven dollars and seventy-seven cents; alterations of north end of west side quadrangle building, to be made immediately available, fifteen thousand six hundred and fifty-seven dollars and forty four cents; building sentry boxes at east gate and south end, one hundred dollars; building for paint shop and inflammable material, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, seventy-seven thousand six hundred and sixty-nine dollars and twenty-one cents.

NAVY-YARD, NORFOLK, VIRGINIA: For extension of quay wall (continuation of), fifteen thousand dollars; boiler for electric plant (including shed and connections), nine thousand dollars; quay wall north end of timber basin, twenty thousand dollars; in all, forty-four thousand dollars.

Norfolk.