374 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 234. 1898. the same; hemp, wire, iron, and other materials for the manufacture of cordage, anchors, cables, galleys, and chains; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, hammocks, and other work; water for steaming purposes; stationery for commanding and navigating officers of ships, equipment officers on shore and afloat, and for the use of courts-martial on board ship, and for the purchase of all other articles of equipment at home and abroad, and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels and manufacture of equipment articles in the several navy-yard ; foreign and local pilotage and towage of ships of war; services and materials in repairing, correcting, adjusting, and testing compasses on shore and on board ship; nautical and astronomical instruments, and repairs to same; libraries for ships of war; professional books and papers, and drawings and engravings for signal books; naval signals and apparatus, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, rockets, running lights, compass fiftings, including biunacles, tripods, and other appendages of ships’ compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship’s way, and leads and other appliances for sounding; lanterns and lamps, and their appendages, for general use on board ship, for illuminating purposes, and oil and candles used in connection therewith; bunting and other materials for making and repairing ilags of all kinds; photographic instruments and materials; musical instruments and music; and installing and maintaining electric lights and interior signal communications on board vessels of war, one million four hundred and eighty-three Incorporation of thousand six hundred and iltty-three dollars and forty cents; and the gfg°§f$’“*’b‘° °m°° Hydrographic Office shall hereafter be attached to and be a part of the Bureau of Equipment. For one steam water—bout for use at the Norfolk Navy-Yard, six thousand dollars. · gLv{L¤¤;;${j¤g¤§¤t· CIVIL ESTABLISHMENT, BUREAU or EQUIPMENT: Navy-yard, ’ "` ’*`Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one clerk, at one thousand dollars; mm mn. Navy yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one superintendent of rope— ' walk, at one thousand eight hundred and seventy-tive dollars; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand three hundred dollars; one writer, at nine hundred and fifty dollars; in all, five thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars; New York. N· Y- Navy-yard, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, two thousand six hundred dollars; League Is1n.¤d.I’¤. N avy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; N¤rf¤1k-‘°¤- Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two thousand four hundred dollars; M¤~1»¤¤¤·l.C¤l· Navy-yard, Mare Island, Calitbrnia: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; Wa¤himq¤.¤-0- Navy.yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars, who shall also perform the clerical duties for the board of labor employment at said navy-yard; · In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Equipment, fifteen thousand five hundred and twenty-tive dollars; and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. €·»¤¤¤z¤¤*- CONTINGENT, BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT: For freight and transportation of equipment stores, packing boxes and materials, printing, advertising, telegraphing, books, and models; stationery for the Bureau; furniture for equipment offices in navyyards; postage on letters sent abroad; ierriage, ice, lighterage of ashes, and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Equipment unforeseen and impossible to classify, fifteen thousand dollars. 1>t·p¤:» mr com. Dnrors Fox Com.: To enable the Secretary of the Navy to execute H.s..¤¤¤.1i·52.p·264· the provisions of section fifteen hundred and fifty-two of the Revised Statutes authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to establish, at such places as he may deem necessary, suitable depots of coal, and other fuel. for the supply of stearnships of war, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
