694 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 571. 1898. and freight and express charges on same; preparing and engraving on copper plates the surveys of the Mexican coasts, and the publication of a series of charts of the coasts of Central and South America, for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, ten thousand dollars. ¤g¤;¤°::u:L§¤rvb¤¤ BUREAU OP SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS. Pr¤vi¤i¤¤¤· For provisions and commuted rations for the seamen and marines, which commuted rations may be paid to caterers of messes, in cases of death or desertion, upon orders of the commanding officer, commuted rations for officers on sea duty and naval cadets, and commuted rations stopped on account of sick in hospital and credited to the naval hospital fund, subsistence of officers and men unavoidably detained or absent from vessels to which attached under orders (during which subsistence rations to be stopped on board ship and no credit for commutation therefor to be given); fresh water for drinking and cooking purposes; labor in general storehouses and paymasters’ offices in navy- ‘ yards, including expenses in handling stores purchased under the naval supply fund, being for the six months beginning July hrst, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one million five hundred thousand dollars. counagmexpsmes. For freight and express charges, candles, fuel, books and blanks, stationery, advertising, furniture for general storehouses and pay offices in navy-yards, expenses of naval clothing factory and machinery for same, postage, telegrams, telephones, tolls, ferriages, yeoman’s stores, iron safes, newspapers, ice, transportation of stores purchased under the naval supply fund, and other incidental expenses, being for the following periods: · For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and·ninety-eight, fifty thousand dollars. For the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety- eight, one hundred thousand dollars. Bnreau ofConstruo- BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR. Hon and Repair. 1>¤>¤e¤v¤¤¤¤,r¤p¤¤. For preservation and completion ot vessels on the stocks and in ordi-_ °‘°‘·°f"°“°°"" nary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; steam steerers, pneumatic steerers, steam capstans, steam windlasses, and all other auxiliaries; labor in navy-yards and on foreign stations; purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops; carrying on work of experimental model tank; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat; general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; incidental expenses, such as advertising, freight, foreign postage, telegrams, telephone service, photographing, books, professional magazines, plans, stationery, and instruments for drafting room; including urgent repairs to vessels in ordinary, and work now being done under “national defense” at navy·yards and by outside ilrms, and including present estimated obligations, being for the following periods: For the iiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one million five hundred thousand dollars. For the six months beginning July iirst, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, five million nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
yi'S¢¤¤m En- BUREAU OF STEAM ENGINEERING.
m_¥}¤£=;i¤i··z ¤¤¤¤¤i¤· For labor and materials in outiitting and repairing steam machinery "and boilers of naval vessels, including cost of new boilers, distilling, · refrigerating, and auxiliary machinery, with necessary supplies and stores, and transportation; and for repair of tools and appliances at navy·yards necessary for expeditious repair of machinery of naval vessels; being for the following periods: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one million two hundred and forty-tive thousand dollars.
