FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 97. 1883. 475 TORPEDOES. _ For thepurchase and manufacture, after full investigation and test 'f°¤’P¤d°¤¤· in the United States under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, of torpedoes adapted to naval warfare, or of the right to manufacture the same and for the fixtures and machinery necessary for operating the same, one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of said Pvwhvmoney shall be expended for the purchase or manufacture of any torpedo or of the right to manufacture the same until the same shall have been approved by the Secretary of the Navy, after a favorable report to be made to him by a board of naval officers to be created by him to examine and test said torpedoes and inventions. BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING. For equipment of vessels: For coal for steamers’ and ships’ use, in- E'l¤lP¤¤°¤* °f cluding expenses of transportation, storage, and handling; hemp, wire, "“°l“‘ hides, and other materials for the manufacture of rope and cordage; iron for manufacture of cables, anchors, galleys, and chains; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, bags, and hammocks; heating apparatus for receiving-ships; 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 eight hundred thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Navy is authorized and empowered, within his discretion, to constitute and introduce, as a portion of the equipment of the Navy, the life saving dress adopted and approved by the Life Saving Service of the United States. For expenses of recruiting: For expenses of recruiting, rent of ren- Recruiting. dezvous, and expenses of maintaining the same, advertising for men and boys, and all other expenses attending the recruiting for the naval service, and for- the transportation of enlisted men and boys, at home and abroad, twenty-tive thousand dollars. For contingent expenses equipment and recruiting: For extra ex- Contingent n- penses of training-ships, freight and transportation of equipment stores, P9¤¤¤•· printing, advertising, telegraphing, books and models, postage, cartickets, ferriage, ice, apprehension of deserters and stragglers, assistance to vessels in distress, continuousservice eutitieates and goodconduct badges for enlisted men, school books for training—ships, extra medals for boys, and emergencies arising under cognizance of Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting unforeseen and impossible to classify, ten thousand dollars. For the civil establishment at navy-yards and stations nine thousand Civil establishdollars. _ ¤°¤*— - BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS. For general maintenance of yards and docks namely: For freight Ymlsanddnclm and transportation of materials and stores, boots, models, maps, and drawings; purchase and repair of nreengines; machinery; repairs on steam iireengines, and attendance on the same; purchase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and driving teams, carts, and timber-wheels, and all vehicles for use in the navy-yards, and tools and repairs of the I same; dredging; postage on letters and other mailable matter on pub- ‘ lic service and telegrams; furniture for government houses and offices in the navy—yards; coal and other fuel; candles oil, and gas; cleaning and clearing up yards, and care of public buildings; attendance on fires; lights; tire engines and apparatus · for clerical and incidental labor at navy·yards; water-tax, and for toll and ferrrages; rent of omeers’ quarters at League Island; pay of the watchman in the navy- yards; and for awning and packing-boxes, and advertising, two hundred and sixty-four thousand dollars, of which sum sixty four thousand dollars shall be immediately available. _ _ For contingent expenses that may arise at navvyards and stations, Enmt xctwenty thousand dollars. '· P°
