F ORTY—SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. IH. Ch. 230. 1873. 549 For repairs to ordnance buildings, magazines, gun-parks, machinery, and other nocessaries of the like character, forty-seven thousand six hundred and one dollars. For miscellaneous items, six thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. For experiments in ordnance, forty thousand dollars. Experiments. For the torpedo-corps: For the purchase and manufacture of gun- Torpedo-corps. powder, nitro-glycerine, and gumcottou, twelve thousand dollars. For purchase and manufacture of electrical machines, galvanic butteries, and insulated wire, twenty-four thousand dollars. For purchase of copper, iron, wood, and other materials necessary for the manufacture of torpedoes, and for work on the same, twenty-seven thousand dollars. For construction of torpedo-boats, purchase of coder-work or hulks, Torpedo-boats. and contingent expenses, thirty-five thousand dollars. For repairs be buildings and wharves, four thousand seven hundred dollars. For labor, including one chemist at two thousand dollars, pyroteohnist electrician, one foreman machinist at one thousand five hundred and sixty- five dollars, and two clerks at one thousand seven hundred dollars each, twenty-o11e thousand and sixty-five dollars: Provided, 'l`ha.t the funds Pmviso. herein appropriated for the torped0—corps shall only be used in the establishment and maintenance of torpedoes to be operated for offensive or defensive use against an enemy in naval warfare. Civil establishment: For pay of superintendents and the civil establish- Civil establishment of the several navy—yards under this bureau, fifteen thousand dollars. "“’¤*- For contingent expenses of‘the ordnance service of the navy, one thousand dollars. Burcau of Equipment and Recruiting. -For equipment of vessels: For Ilureau of coal for steamers’ use, including expenses of transportation; storage, °¤“1P.‘;}°“l and labor, hemp, wire, and other materials for the manufacture of rope; hides, mm mg' cordage, canvas, leather; iron for manufacture of cables, anchors, and galleys; condensing and boat-detaching apparatus; cables, anchors, furniture, hose, bake-ovens, and cooking-stoves, life-rafts, heating-appaxa tus for receiving-ships; and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels, and manufacture of articles in the navy-yards, pertaining to this bureau, one million five hundred thousand dollars. Civil establishment at the navy-yard, Kittery, Maine: For clerk in Civil establishequipment office, one thousand four hundred dollars; for st0re—clerk, one ;‘§;1° "°"'7` thousand one hundred dollars; for time—olerk, nine hundred dollars; in Kittery; all, three thousand four hundred dollars. . At the navy-yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts: For superintendent Charlestown; of rope—walk, one thousand nine hundred dollars; clerk to same, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk in equipment office, one thousand five hundred dollars; for store-clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; time—clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand dollars. At the navy-yard, Washi11gton, District of Columbia: For clerk in Washington; equipment office, one thousand five hundred dollars; and for one store and one time clerk, one at one thousand four hundred dollars and one at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, four thousand one hundred dollars. At the navy-yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For clerk in equipment Philadelphia; office, one thousand four hundred dollars; for one store and one time clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; in all, three thousand eight hundred dollars. At the navy—yard Brooklyn, New York: For clerk in equipment Brooklyn. office, one thousand five hundred dollars; and for one store and one time clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars each ; in all, three thousand nine hundred dollars.
