FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 384. 1897. 643 accepted and purchased at one—half the contract prices, from funds R°d“°"i°" i" "i°°‘ applicable for payments under the contracts mentioned. For Hnishing and assembling coast-defense guns of eight—inch, ten- ;F,`§:§,.?° inch, and twelve-inch caliber, and one type sixteen-inch gun, at the grimy Gun Factory, two hundred and tour thousand and ninety-two o ars. For coast-defense guns of eight, ten, and twelve·inch caliber manu- §’,‘;]*';*°* *;*;;-,,,0 factured by contract under the provisions of the fortifications acts'W' approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred-and ninety, and February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, four hundred thousand dollars. For sights for cannon, ten thousand three hundred dollars. Sig"*·° ml *“°°°· For fuses and primers for cannon, five thousand dollars. _ _ For inspecting instruments, gauges, and templets for the manufae- m£_,‘§,’°§§Qf‘g “‘“"'“‘ ture of cannon and projectiles, one thousand five hundred dollars. ` For powder for issue to service, including metallic cartridge cases for ,_f,‘{,‘,f°' “‘ P'°· · cannon, sixteen thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars. ` For projectiles, including shrapnel, for issue to the service, twenty- four thousand dollars. For powders and proiectiles for the proof of coast-defense guns of eight-inch, ten-inch, and twelve-inch caliber, six thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. For powder and projectiles for the proof of twel ve-inch breech-loading mortars, twenty-three thousand three hundred and eighty-five dollars. For armor plates and deck plates for the test of armor-piercing and P1°*°¤ *`°* *·¤*¤- deck-piercing projectiles, twenty-six thousand dollars. For armament chests, including tools for coast-defense guns and A"““‘“°”‘ °"°°*¤· mortars, twenty-seven thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. For the purchase of machine guns of approved musket caliber, of M¤°l**¤¤ &f¤¤¤· American manufacture, twenty thousand dollars. I _ _ For the services of a chemist in investigating properties of smokeless 0i.§§s;tl€0¥i$L€ powders and high explosives, with a view to improving same for adop- °°°· tion in service, one thousand five hundred d0Hars. Pnovmc. Gnomvn, SANDY HooK,‘ Nnw JnnsnY.—For current ex- ,,,s';§,{,,,§°°" P’°'= penses and maintenance of the ordnance proving ground, Sandy Hook, giniutenmw. New Jersey, including general repairs and alterations, and accessories incidental to testing and proving ordnance, including hire of assistants for the Ordnance Board, skilled mechanical labor, purchase of instruments and other supplies, building and repairing butts and targets, clearing and grading ranges, twenty-seven thousand dollars. , For the necessary expenses of officers while temporarily employed on ¤¤r¤¤=¤·¤f<>¢¤¤¤r»- ordnance duties at the proving ground and absent from their proper stations, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per diem while so employed, and the compensation of draftsmen while employed in the Army Ordnance Bureau on ordnance construction, sixteen thousand dollars. For repairs of railroad tracks connecting the proving groiuid with the R·¤>·i¤ ¤·*¤·¢k- Central Railroad of New Jersey, three thousand dollars. YVATERTOYVN AXRSENAL, WAT11RTO\w’N, FIASSACHUSETTS: For Vgutemwmfnal. enlargement and improvement of gun-carriage plant, including the “““'"“'—‘°" """ purchase of such machine tools as may be necessary, fifteen thousand dollars. For extension of brick foundry shed and storehouse, two thousand Sb°‘1· dollars. Wnmnvnmr Ansnmu., Wnsr Tnor, NEW Your; For new me- §{:;g;}j;)§=;{;¤¤¤¤· chinery, tools, iixtures, and alteration and improvement of same, forty-` six thousand five hundred dollars. _ _ For filling and grading grounds, construction of necessary roads and °*’°“'*“°· covering the same and some old roads with granite paving, three thousand dollars.
