472 Fmriuru coxoauss. sms. 1. cH. am. isss. grounds, repair of pumps and wharves, laying drain and water pipes, 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 houses and repair of same, and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but implossible to anticipate or classify; in all, twenty-six thousand three undred and twenty-two dollars and two cents. mma: qumem Hmm: or QUARTERS, MARINE CoR1>s: For hire of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient tpparters 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, Washington, District of Colum ia, and assistant quartermaster’s offices, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and San Francisco, California, twenty-one dollars per month each, one thousand seven hundred dollars. For hire of quarters for three enlisted men employed as above, at ten dollars each per month, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, six thousand five hundred and sixty dollars. Rm-mia, Norfvlk, Towards the erection of barracks at Norfolk, Virginia, thirty thouv‘* sand dollars. Total for the Marine Cor s: Nine hundred and seventeen thousand two hundred and thirteen dollars and seventy-seven cents. Increase of the INCREASE OF THE NAVY. _ Navy. H0,?! ¤"¤‘¤l¤¤¤ CONSTRUCTION: That for the pu se of further increasing the °° °"naval establishment of the United r§t)ates, the President is hereby authorized to have constructed, by contract, two steel cruisers of about three thousand tons displacement each, at a cost, exclusive of armament, and excluding any premiums that may be aid for increased speed, of not more than eleven hundred thousand dbllars each; one steel cruiser of about five thousand three hundred tons displacement, to cost, exclusive of armament, and excluding any premium that may be id for increased speed, not more than eighteen hunoueu-moredenuser. dred thousanlladollars; one armored cruiser of about seven thousand five hundred tons displacement, to cost, exclusive of armament, not rum gun-nom. more than three million five hundred thousand dollars; and three gunboats, or cruisers, neither of which shall exceed two thousand tons in displacement nor seven hundred thousand dollars in cost, excluding any premium that may be aid for increased speed and the cost of armament; said three un-lioats, or cruisers, to be built either To be of Mel. wholly of steel or with steel frames. The contracts for the construction of said first three cruisers shall contain provisions to the effect <¤¤¤¤¤·¤¤¤¤· that the contractor guarantees that when completed and tested for speed, under conditions to be prescribed by the Navy Department, t e two vessels first hereinbefore provided for. shall each exhibit a maximum speed of at least nineteen knots per hour; and the vessel U¤¤¤‘¤¤**•*¤ °*¤P°¤*- of five thousand three hundred tons displacement, a maximum speed of at least twenty knots per hour; and in the case of each vessel, for every quarter knot of speed so exhibited above said guarantee 1’•‘¤¤¤l¤£f<>¤‘ i¤· the contractor shall receive a premium over and above the con- ` tract price of fifty thousand dollars; and for every uarter knot that such vessel fails of reaching said guaranteed speed, there shall be deducted from the contract price the sum of fifty thousand dollars. And in the contract for the construction of the three lastmentioned vessels such provisions for increased speed and the premium
