592 FORTYNINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 391. 1887. Calitornia, one thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars ; in all, twenty-nine thousand five hundred and thirty dollars. Forage. Forman, Mamma Cours: For forage in kind for four horses of the quartermaster’s department, and the authorized number of officers’ horses, four thousand dollars. Contingent ex- CONTINGENT, MARINE CORPS: For freight, ferriage, toll, cartage, P°¤¤°*· funeral expenses of marines, stationery, telegraphing, rent of tele phone, purchase and repair of type-writers, apprehension of deserteis, repair of gas and water tixtures, office and barrack furniture, mess utensils for enlisted men, such as bowls, plates, spoons, knives, forks, packing—boxes, wrapping-paper, oil—cloth, crash, rope, twine, camphor and carbolized paper, carpenters’ tools, tools for police purposes, iron safe, purchase and repair of public wagons, purchase and repair of harness, purchase of public horses, services of veterinary surgeons and medicine for public horses, purchase and repair of hose, repair of fire extinguishers, purchase of nre hand grenades, purchase and repair of carts and wheelbarrows, purchase and repair of cooking-stoves, ranges, stoves where there are no grates, purchase of ice, towels, and soap for ofiices, postage- stamps for foreign postage, purchase of newspapers and periodicals, improving parade—grounds, repair of pumps and wharves, laying drain and water pipe, introducing gas, and for gas and oil for marine barracks maintained at the various navy-yards and stations, water at the marine barracks, Boston, Massachusetts; Brooklyn, New York; Annapolis, Maryland; Mare Island, California; also straw for bedding for enlisted men at the various posts, furniture for Government horses and repair of same, and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but impossible to anticipate or classify, twenty-six thousand, three hundred and twenty-two dollars and two cents. Hire ofqnarters. Hum or qumrrnns, LIARINE Cours: For hire of quarters for onicers serving with troops where there are no public quarters, belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them, four thousand five hundred dollars. For hire of quarters for seven enlisted men employed as clerks and · messengers in commandant’s, adjutant and inspector’s, paymaster and quartermaster’s offices, Washingtoii, District of Columbia, and assistant quartermastersl offices Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and San Francisco, California, twenty-one dollars per month each, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-four dollars. — For hire of quarters for three enlisted mcn employed as above, at ten dollars each per month, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, six thousand six hundred and twentyfour dollars. ·r,,mi_ Total for the Marine Corps, eight hundred and seventytwo thousand nine hundred and thirty-tive dollars and ninety cents. . Increase of the INCREASE OF THE NAVY. I<f\\’}". • Two steel gnu- Sec. 2. That for the purpose of increasing the naval establishment
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- :€‘;;*‘;$]";°h”;°:} of the United States the President is hereby authorized to have conmd_ structed by contract two steel gun boats each of about seventeen hundred tons displacement; of the type of guuboat number one; at a cost,
exclusive of armament, of not more than five hundred and fifty thousand dollars each, two steel cruisers to be provided with such armament for each as the Navy Department may deem suitable. The cost of both of said cruisers in the aggregate, complete, exclusive of armament, and excluding any premiums that may be paid for speed for the same shall not he more than three million dollars. The sum of one million tive hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated toward the construction of said vessels. ,
