378 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 399. 1896. oflicers 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 inspcctor’s, paymaster’s, and quartermaster’s offices, Washington, District of C0- lumbia, and for the leader of the Marine Band, and assistant quartermaster’s offices, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at twenty one dollars per month each, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-four 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 six hundred and twenty-four dollars. <>q¤ti¤g¤¤¢~ CoNtr1NeEN·r, Mamma Cours: For freight, tolls, cartage, advertising, washing of bed sacks, mattress covers, pillowcases, towels, and sheets, funeral expenses of marines, stationery and other paper, telegraphing, rent of telephones, purchase and repair of typewriters, apprehension of stragglers and deserters, per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor for a period not less than ten days, repair of gas and water fixtures, office and barracks furniture; mess utensils for enlisted men, such as bowls, plates, spoons, knives, forks; packing boxes, wrapping paper, oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, camphor and carbolized paper, carpenters’ tools, tools for police purposes, iron safes, . purchase and repair of public wagons, purchase and repair of harness, purchase of public horses, services of veterinary surgeons and medicines for public l1orses,·purchase and repair of hose, repair of fire extinguishers, purchase of fire hand grenades, purchase and repair of carts, wheelbarrows, and lawn mowers; purchase and repair of cooking stoves, ranges, stoves, and furnaces where there are no grates; . purchase of ice, towels, and soap for offices; postage stamps for foreign postage; purchase of books, newspapers, and periodicals; improving parade grounds, repair of pumps and wharves, laying drain, water, and gas pipes, water, introducing gas, and for gas, gas oil, and maintenance of electric lights; straw for bedding, mattresses, mattress covers, pillows; wire bunk bottoms 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 impossible to anticipate or classify, thirty thousand dollars. For iron bedsteads, mattresses, mattress covers, pillows, clothing boxes, and other articles, for five hundred noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, to be enlisted in accordance with the provisions of section fifteen hundred and ninety-six, Revised Statutes, three thousand dollars, to be immediately available. I¤¤r¤¤¤¤¤f¤h¤N¤vy- INCREASE OF THE NAVY. ,,Qi3f;;,f°““°"*“° ""°‘ That for the purpose of further increasing the naval establishment of the United States the President is hereby authorized to have constructed by contract three seagoin g coastline battle ships designed to carry the heaviest armor and most powerful ordnance upon a displacement of about eleven thousand tons, to have the highest practicable con. speed for vessels of their class, and to cost, exclusive of armament, not excecdin g three million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars each; Thr¤¤wri>¤1¤b•>¤¤¤- and three torpedo boats, to have a maximum speed of not less thanthirty knots, to cost in all not exceeding eight hundred thousand dolroo romeo boots. lars; and not to exceed ten torpedo boats to cost in all not exceeding tive hundred thousand dollars, and to have the highest practicable Contracts. speed for vessels of their class; and not more than two of said battle ships and not more than three of said torpedo boats shall be built in one yard or by one contracting party, and in each case the contract shall be awarded by the Secretary of the Navy to the lowest best responsiggesgyvfgeg- ble bidder; and in the construction of all said vessels all of the pro- " `p’“ ° visions of the Act of August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled “An Act to increase the naval establishment," as to materials
