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FOHTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 339, 340. 1885. 361 pairing instruments, purchasing fuel, forage, stationery, chemicals, professionnl hooks for library, extra-duty pay to enlisted men employed as artisans, und 01`(lll.iil1')' iepoirs and unforeseen expenses, three thousand dollars. For repairing surveying and other instruments, accumulated in depot for want of means to repair-, two thousand dollars. OBDNANGE DEPARTMENT.-For the current expenses of the ordnance Ordnance servservice, required to defray the current expenses atthe arsenals; of re- iwceiving stores and issuing arms and other ordnance supplies; of police and office duties; of rents, tools, fuel, and lights; of stationery and office furniture; of tools and instruments for use; incidental expenses of the ordnance service, and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small-arms, and other ordnance supplies, one hundred thousand dollars. For manufacture of metallic ammunition for small-arms,oue hundred Metsuio ammuthousand dollars. EB f°¤‘ ¤¤¤¤H For nmmnniuon, tools, and material for target practice, thirty thou- Target practice. sand dollars. For mounting and dismounting guns and removing the armament Removal of the from forts being modified or repaired, including heavy carriages re- ¤¤¤¤·¤¤°¤*¤ f1‘¢>¤¤ turned to arsenals for alteration and repairs, und other necessary ex- f°"°“* °t°‘ penses of the same character, and for repairing ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of troops and for issue at the arsenals and depots, and for extra-duty pay for enlisted men detailed for ordnance service, twenty-tive thousand dollars. For purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores, to till requisitions Purchase and of troops, one hundred and iif teen thousand dollars. agzgizfgtgmo f For infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments, consisting of clothing- Equipments. bags, haversacks, canteens, and great-coat straps, and repairing horse equipments for cavalry troops, seventy-five thousand dollars. For horse equipments for cavalry, harness for Held and machine guns, and for cavalry forge-carts, forty thousand dollars. For overhauling, cleaning, and preserving new ordnance stores ou Preservation of hand at the arsenals, twenty thousand dollars. °*<l¤°”°° °*°*°¤· For the purchase of machine-guns suitable for field service, twenty Purchase of mathousaud dollars. °hl¤° gms- For manuincture of arms ot national armories, four hundred thousand Manufacture of dollars: Provided, That not more than sixty-five thousand dollars of the ¤¤¤¤· _ money appropriated for the Ordnance Department, in all its branches, P'""°‘ ‘ shall be applied to the payment of civilian clerks in said Department. Approved, March 3d, 1885. CHAP. 340.—An act making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other Mnrch3, 1885. pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtioth, eighteen hun- -·-——;——- dred and eightysix, and for other purposes. Bc if enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _ _ States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, APP'°P’¤°•*¤°¤ and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treas- f‘;‘;g‘§ug°{·l$;°‘;°f§ ury not otherwise appropriu ted, for the payment of pensions for the Hs- and your ending ea.! year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and June 30, 1886. tor other purposes, namely: For Army and Navy pensions as follows: For invalids, widows, minor Army and Navy children, and dependent relatives, and survivors and widows of the war P°¤¤*°¤°· of eighteen hundred and twelve, tlfty-nine million one hundred and seventy-two thousand dollars: Provided, That the appropriations z.fore· .Provi•0•. said for Navy pensions shall be paid hom the income of the Navy pension fund, so far as the same may be suiicient for that purpose: And profvidedfurther, That the amount expended under each of the above items shell be accounted for separately.