FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. SEss. I. Ch. 14. 1900. 19 NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT. N“Y· NAVAL OBSERVATORY. 0b¤erv¤r»¤ry- Observation of total eclipse of the sun in May, nineteen hundred: For preparation and outfit of instruments and their transportation, the purc ase of additional apparatus and materials, including photographic material, the erection of suitable buildings at each station, and generally the expenses of preparation and observation, including the living expenses of parties at the several stations, and the available instruments used in observing the transit of Venus in eighteen hundred and seventy-four and eighteen hundred and eighty-two may be also utilized, five thousand dollars. ~ BUREAU OF ORDNANCE. mggereau oi Ord- For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ordnance mate- ‘rial; for the armament of ships; for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the general work of the Ordnance Department; for watchmen at magazines; for furniture in ordnance buildings at navy-yards and stations; for the maintenance of the proving ground; and for target practice, two hundred thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items, namely: Freight to foreign and home stations, advertising, cartage, and express charges, repairs to fire engines, gas and water pipes, gas and water tax at magazines, tolls, ferriage, foreign postage, and telegrams to and from the Bureau, technical books, and incidental ex enses attending inspection of ordnance material, thirty thousand dollars. BUREAU or EQUIPMENT. mggrwu of Equip Out of the unexpended balance of the appropriation made July sev- Equipment ot veaenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for the six months beginning sm July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for purchase of coal for steamers’ audi ships’ use, including expenses of transportation, stora e, and handling the same; hemp, wire, iron, and other materials for ghe manufacture of cordage, anchors, cables, galleys, and chains; canvas for the manufacture of sails, avvnin s, hammocks, and other work; water for all purposes on board navail vessels, including the expenses of transportation and storage of the same; stationery for commanding and navi ating officers of ships, equipment officers on shore and afloat, ‘ and for tlie use of courts-martial on board ship, and for the purchase of all other articles of equipment at home and abroad, and for the pay- ment 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, being, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
