1062 FIFIY-NINTH CONGRESS. H. Ch. 2507. 1907. machinery nesesslagylfor their manufacture at the arsenals, two thousand five un re olars. . _;Q}{j§§,,,_ “°‘°°“‘ For the alteration and maintenance of the seacoast artillery, includ- ' ing the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessaryaforlthe wogké aipd the expenses of the mechanics engaged · thereon, ve thousand dollars. ` ,,,§f‘b”""”‘° ’““"’· For the purchase of submarine mines and necessary appliances to P¤¤=h!¤¢- operate them for closing the channels leading to the principal seaports o (thfe insuéaplpossessions, two hundred and five thousand four hundred an ort dollars. mPThe (lhief of Ordnance, in conducting manufacturing or similar operations, is authorized to charge any indirect or general expense for labor or material therefor against any of the appropriations authorizing these operations in such manner as is most economical and efficient, provided that the methods adopted shall show that each of such appropriations bears its ratable share of the total amount of these expenses. ¤ 0u!‘i•i¤lf¤°° BOARD OF ommauom AND Fonrrmoymon. P'"°h"°”’°°°‘ To enable the Board to make all needful and roper purchases, experiments, and tests to ascertain, with a view to dneir uti ization by the Government, the most effective guns, small arms, cartridges, projectiles, fiuses, explgsives, to]rpedoes,h:•mor plates, and other implyiments an en 'nes o war an to rc or causeto manufactu , under authorgy of the Sdcretarypgf War, such guns, carriages, armor plates, and other war material as may, in the judgment of the Board, e necessary in the proper discharge of the duty devolved upon it by Y°lj?*·P·“°· the Act approved September twenty-second, eighteen hun red and $"';‘“ ";;“*’°’· ggchty-eig tp payii the salary ofdthp §ivillianAmemp%r of the Board of °‘· ip- · r nance an `orti cation rovi e y the ct o e ruary twent r- fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for the necessary travg1— ing expenses of said member when traveling on duty as contemplated _ in said Act; for the payment of the necessary expenses of the Board, P"’ ‘*""“· · including a per diem allowance to each officer detailed to serve hm m thereon, when employed on duty away from his permanent station, of 'two dollars and fifty 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 Fortiiication, twent — five thousand dollars, the expenditure of which shall be made by the several bureaus of the l¢Var Department heretofore having jurisdiction . _ of the same, or by the Boar itself, as the Secretary of War may m';{°,bm,¤v€¤_ direct: Prrmirled, That before any money shall be expended in the cum. _ consgructilon cpl; test of any gun, grin carriage, aimmlunitionh or implemep sun er e supervision o the said ar , the Boar 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 person either having _ such lawful right or authorized to convey the same to the Government. n’f§,*f,‘;,§’ §;’m'Q,j’f,,_j’,{ That all material purchased under the foregoing provisions of this ture- Act shall be of American manufacture, except in cases when, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, it is to the manifest interest of the [ mted States to make purchases in limited quantities abroad, which material shall he admitted free of duty. Approved, March 2, 1907.
