402 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Gu. 248. 1898. ,¤§°;t{m£°°* P*°'· PBOVING GROUND, SANDY Hook, NEW JERSEY. M¤i¤w¤¤¤¤¤- For current expenses and maintenance of the ordnance proving ground, Sandy Hook, New Jersey, including general repairs and alterations, and accessories incidental to testing and proving ordnance, including hire of assistants for the Ordnance Board, skilled mechanical labor, purchase of instruments and other supplies, building and repairing butts and targets, clearing and grading ranges, twenty-seven thousand dollars. F¤P¤¤¤·•¤f¤¤¤¤¤; For the necessary expenses of officers while temporarily employed on ordnance duties at the proving ground and absent from their proper stations, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per diem while so employed, and the compensation of draftsmen while employed in the Army Ordnance Bureau on ordnance construction, sixteen thousand dollars. uggm °*` **“*‘°°‘ For repairs of railroad tracks connecting the proving ground with ` the Central Railroad of New Jersey, three thousand dollars. W•'*°'°°“’”*“'°’“‘· WATEBTOWN ABSENAL, WATERTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS. G¤¤·¤=¤¤*¤G° Pl·¤*— For enlargement and improvement of gun-carriage plant, including the purchase of such machine tools as may be necessary, sixty-five thousand dollars. Brick ¤¤¤¤¤¤•>¤¤¤· For one brick storehouse for the storage of gun carriages, fitteen thousand nine hundred dollars. W¤*¤¤¤•¤¤¤°¤¤'— wATn12.v1.mT Ansmux., wnsr TROY, NEW Yom:. N¤*¤¤¢=l¤i¤¤¤¥-°*°· For new machinery, tools, and fixtures, and alteration and improvement of same, twenty-six thousand dollars. Gr¤¤¤¤¤- For filling and grading grounds, construction of necessary roads and covering the same with granite paving, two thousand dollars. u§°g{,§,,gQaQ{_'};“°° noun or onmuncm un FORTIFIGATION. P¤*¤h==¤¤°¤~ m- To enable the board to make all needful and proper purchases, experiments, and tests to ascertain, with a view to their utilization by the Government, the most eifective guns, small arms, cartridges, projectiles, fuses, explosives, torpedoes, armor plates, and other implements and engines of war, and to purchase or cause to be manufactured, under authority of the Secretary of War, such guns, carriages, armor plates, and other war material as may, in the judgment of the board, be necesv¤¤.25.p.489. sary in the proper discharge of the duty devolved upon it by the Act approved September twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight; Cir¤¤¤¤ ¤M¤*·•>¢- to pay the salary of the civilian member of the Board of Ordnance and ‘~’·»l.2G· p.760· Fortitication provided by the Act of February twentyfourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for the necessary traveling expenses of F¤r·¤¤¤¤¤· said member when traveling on duty as contemplated in said Act; for the payment of the necessary expenses of the board, inc1uding u per diem allowance to each oillcer detailed to serve thereon when employed on duty away from his permanent station,of two dollars andfitty cents a day; and for the test of experimental guns, carriages, and other devices procured in accordance with the recommendation of the Board of Ordnance and ,r;pj;;·?¢·¥, mW_ For-titication, one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That before any ,,,,,,§;7‘ '“”°’ money shall be expended in the construction or test of any gun, gun carriage, ammunition, or implements under the supervision of the said board, the board shall be satisfied, after due inquiry, that the Government of the United States has a lawful right to use the inventions involved in the construction of such gun, gun carriage, ammunition, or implements, or that the construction or test is made at the request of a pe1£sionGeither havipg such lawful right or authorized to convey the same to e overnmeu . Ar·ir;];=?e»1;g;H1&•;agf That all material purchased under the foregoing provisions of this ...23 ° ‘ Act shall be ot American manufacture, except in cases when, in the E¤¢¤v¢i¤¤· judgment of the Secretary of War, it is to the manifest interest of the
