FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 404. 1889. 887 For preparation of plans for fortincations, five thousand dollars. P1¤¤¤· . .TOR1?EDOES Fon Hanson DEFENSE: For the purchase of subma- roqaams rine mines and necessary appliances to operate them for closing the channels leading to our principal sea-ports, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For needful casemates and cable galleries to render it possible to operate submarine mines, two hundred and nfty thousand dollars. For continuing torpedo experiments and for practical instruction pf engineer troops in the details of the service, thirty thousand dollars. 1 For the purchase of movable submarine torpedoes, in the discreiuon of the board on ordnance and fortifications, fifty thousand dollars. For torpedo—shed at San Francisco Harbor, twenty-two thousand dollars. — Annnnnur or Fonrrmcxrionsz For the finishing and assembling smigms of eight-inch, ten-inch, and twelve-inch steel guns made from forg- , ings procured under the act of September twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, thirty-five thousand dollars. For the purchase of steel forgings for field and siege cannon, as follows: , Forsteel forgings for not less than twenty-four three and six-tenths sm: forging;. inch field guns, twenty-four thousand dollars; For steel forgings for not less than ten tive-inch siege guns, twenty thousand do lars; For steel forgings for not less than ten seven-inch siege howitzers, eighteen thousand dollars; or steel forgings for not less than sixteen three and six-tenths inch field niortars, two thousand dollars; For manufacture of field and siege cannon(Hnishing and assembling) mm manage gum within the fiscal year_eighteen hundred and ninety, fourteen thousand ° dollars; in all, seventy-eight thousand dollars. For the test of experimental guns procured under the act of Sep- '*`°”· °*°· tember twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, namely, for one ten-inch wire wound gun, steel, twenty-eight thousand dollars; for one twelve-inch gun, steel hooped. thirty-11ine thousand tive hundred dollars; for procuring one ten—inch disappearing gun- ` carriage, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars; for gun platforms at proving ground, six thousand five hundred dollars; for projectiles for held, siege, and sea·coast dguns for issue to the service, twenty- eight thousand five hundred ollars; for siege-gun powder for issue ‘ to the service, seven thousand dollars; for fuzes an implements for issue to the service, two thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. _ ` For the alteration of barbette carriages for ten-inch smooth-here Axzemumm, ew. guns to adapt. them to the service of eight-inch muzzle-loading converted rifles, fiftv-four thousand dollars; for the alteration of barbettecarriages for fifteen-inch smooth-bore guns to adapt them to resent service conditions, forty-six thousand dollars, in all one hundred thousand dollars. _ _ For the manufacture of carriages for twelve-inch breech-loading Csrriages. rifled mortars. procured under the act of September twenty-second, ei rhteen hundred and eighty-eight, one hundred thousa-n dollars. gltor the manufacture of forty caissons and ten combined battery €¤isS<>¤S.¤¤=- wagons and forges for three and two-tenths inch field guns, forty- three thousand two hundred and seventy-four dollars. _ t For procuring the necessary instruments and othenmaterials and A¤·11¢¤‘n>¤·¤¤¤<=<+· for the pro er installation of instruments for conducting the annual heavy artillery practice of the Army. twenty thousand dollars. For repairs and improvements at the Qrdnance Proving Qi-ound, Sarlagggogkggopna Sandy Hook, New Jersey, namely: Repairing dock and dret ging,nx;e Re;,,,,,,, egcj ‘
