FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. OH. 399. 1896. 363 -grounds for same, including one draftsman, at one thousand two hundred dollars, nine thousand two hundred dollars; For the proper preservation, cementing, and reeniorcing cellar walls; repairing window casings, floors, and door casings; a water tank in attic for use in case of llre, and a rain-water cistern and pumps, two thousand dollars; in all, eleven thousand two hundred dollars. _ BUREAU OF ORDNANCE. B¤r¤¤¤•>fo¤1¤a¤¤e. OBDNANCE AND onniuucm STORES: For procuring, producing, pre- m_°*_:¤_*;n“_°“ °***· serving, and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the general work of the Ordnance Department; for furniture at magazines, at the ordnance dock, New York, and at the naval ordnance proving ground, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars; expenses of target practice, fifteen téhclmsand dollars; maintenance of new proving ground, five thousand 0 ars; Reserve supply of guns for ships of the Navy two hundred and iift Mm ¤·!Pl·1 ·f thousand dollars; , y g"" ”"d ’"`°’°°?5°°' Reserve supply of projectiles for ships of the Navy, two hundred thousand dollars; Additional supply of torpedoes, one hundred and forty-two thousand T°"P°‘°°* dollars; 4 _ For testing methods of throwing high explosives irom guns on board ,;,?,‘:°° °f.l"gh °x°l°' ship with the ordinary velocities, fifty thousand dollars; In all, eight hundred and forty-two thousand dollars. A m . Rn rznvn cons ron AUx11.rAnr cnmsnns: Toward the armament A}L.§,...§‘.§¥’,'t_°’“'“°’°' of modern guns for auxiliary cruisers mentioned in the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and in section four of vti. 2c, pear; vu. the Act approved May tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, four "*"‘"‘ hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of the Navy {,’;j'g*,j;;cs may, in his discretion, purchase by contract all or any part of such ' guns. . GUN PLANT, NAVY-YARD, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT O1? COLUMBIA: a.E_°i¥’gm'W°°hmz` For cupolas and blowers, traveling crane and runways, swing cranes, blower engines, and iron elevators, and for installing and connecting the same in the brass and iron foundry, fifty thousand dollars. F rt Mm m _ NAVAL mAeAzi1u:, Four Mrrrrm, PENNSYLVANIA: For construe- m2 °' tion of new brick or stone buildings in place of the present wooden ones, fifty thousand dollars. Ma nin Dom NAVAL MAGAZINE, Dovmz, New J nnsnr: For introduction of water im. E‘ supply for the new naval magazine at Dover, New Jersey, fifteen thousand dollars, which sum shall be immediately available. T d mi Tonrnno STATION, Nnwroa·r,Bnonn ISLAND: For labor, material, °"’“ °° °“‘ freight, and express charges; general care of and repairs to grounds, . buildings, and wharves; boats; instruction; instruments; tools; furniture; experiments, and general torpedo outfits, sixty thousand dollars; extending sea wall, iitteen thousand dollars; in all, seventyhve _ thousand dollars. _ REPAIRS, BUREAU OF ORDNANGE: For necessary repairs to ordnance R"¥’“"“· buildings, magazines, gun parks, boats, lighters, wharves, machinery, and other objects of the like character, thirty thousand dollars. , _ _ Anime AND nqcirrme NAVAL Muir1A: For arms, accouterments, I`"' “‘“"‘ signal outfits, boats and their equipments, the printing of the necessary books of instruction for the Naval Militia of the various States, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, fifty Dmj I I k thousand dollars. And the Secretary of the Navy shall detail a clerk° ° °r ' of class one to perform clerical services in the Navy Department necessary to carry on the work incident to this appropriation. Cmmgm CoNT11wGENT, BUREAU or ORDNANGE: For miscellaneous items, ' namely: Freight to ioreign and home stations, advertising, cartage, and express charges, repairs to iire engines, gas and water pipes, gas