FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 421. 1899. 1027 nve dollars; one painter, at six hundred dollar ; one engineer to run elevator, six hundred dollars; water rent and lighting, two thousand one hundred dollars; cemetery, burial expenses, and headstoncs, three hundred and nfty dollars; improvement of grounds, seven hundred dollars; repairs to buildings, boilers, furnaces, furniture, and repairs to the same, eight thousand dollars; music in chapel, six hundred dollars; transportation of indigent and destitute benenciaries to the Naval Home, three hundred dollars; for support of benenciaries, nfty-two thousand nine hundred and nfty dollars; in all, for Naval Home, seventy-six thousand four hundred and twenty-nve dollars, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund. And j*!°w¤g•=·>b fggn whenever any otneer, seaman, or marine entitled to a pension is £:v;i°1i$s,Ynn?° ° admitted to the Naval Home at Philadelphia, or to a naval hospital, his pension, while he remains there, shall be deducted from his accounts ` and paid to the Secretary of the Navy for the benefit of the fund from whichsuch home or hospital, respectively, is maintained; and section R—S··¤°*=*m· P- '°* forty-eight hundred and thirteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States is hereby amended accordingly. BUREAU OF ORDNANOE. B¤m¤uoI0rdnmc¤. ORDINANCE AND OBDNANGE STORES: For procuring, producing, pre- Ordnance mu ordserving, and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; ““°° "°“"· for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the general work of the Ordnance Department; for watchmen at magazines; for furniture in ordnance buildings at navy-yards and stations; for the maintenance of the proving ground, and for target practice, three hundred thousand dollars. Reserve supply of ammunition, five hundred thousand dollars. _:$:g;r;0;¤vr¤y ·>f Purchase and erection of new and improved machinery for the shops wasmngibn mvy- of the gun plant at the Washington Navy-Yard, nity thousand dollars. YM- Conversion of ordinary six-inch guns to rapid nre, twenty-nve thousand dollars. » Purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, one million dollars. S¤¤<>¥•¤¤¤¤ r·>··¤·¤· RESERVE mms Fon AUx11.1AnY onmssnsz Toward the armament m§;’,‘_;°"°c,_,¤§';;',*jS_‘°' of modern guns for auxiliary cruisers mentioned in the Act approved Volga p. $31. March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and in section four of V0i- 2* 1>· 27- the Act approved May tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, two _ hundred and nfty thousand dollars:_Pr0vcdcd, That the Secretary of gggmtu the Navy may, in his discretion, purchase -by contract all or any part of such uns. Suoxgrnss-rownnn FACTORY: N eeessary expenses incident to the F·¤¤>¤‘Y· work of continuing the development of the smokeless powder factory, twenty-nve thousand dollars. Tournno STATION, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND: For labor, mate Nfsmgik atstlcn. rial, freight, and express charges; general_care_of and repairsto grounds, ’° · · · buildings, and wharves; boats, instruction, instruments, tools, furniture, experiments, and general torpedo outfits, sixty-nve thousand llars. d°Frr·rmc Fear LAFAYETTE AS MAGAZINE: Additional work neces- *15;; Ygrffggm sary in fitting Fort Lafayette, New York Harbor, in suitable condition ,,,,,,,,,,,,,_ - for magazine purposes, nve thousand dollars. _ _ NAVAL MAGAZINE, NEW YORK HARBOR: For the purchase of land ¤·¤¤·¤1¤>¤z¤=¤¤¤ for a site for a naval magazine, near New York City, and for the erection thereon of the necessary buildings; for inclosing said grounds; for grading and nlling in; for building roads and walks; for the improvement of the water front; for the necessary wharves and cranes; for railroad tracks and water service; and for the equipment of the establishment, six hundred thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary; and the Secretary of the Navy ma_y_cmploy and pay out of the appropriation hereby authorized such additional expert aids, architects,superintendent of construction, or draftsmen, as may be necessary for the preparation of the plans and speclhcations and prosecution of the work authorized, to an amount not to exceed seven thousand dollars.
