Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 30.djvu/817

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FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Srxss. III. Ch. 41. 1899. 779 at National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and its several branches, and ma.rksmen’s medals and insignia for all arms of the service, four hundred thousand dollars. For purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requisitions Ordnance stem. of troops, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments and horse equip- E·1¤ir¤¤¤*¤· ments; equipments of all kinds for iield and siege artillery, and for miscellaneous war material, and articles and implements for war purposes, including machinery and tools for their manufacture at the arsenals, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For repairing and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the Pr¤¤¤rvi¤z. ew., Salrllls of troops and for issue at the arsenals and depots, six thousand °“""‘“°°‘ o rs. For overhauling, cleaning, and preserving new ordnance on hand at the arsenals and depots, twenty-five thousand dollars. For manufacture, repairing, procuring, and issuing arms at the Manufacture er national armories, including machinery and tools for their manufacture, "‘"°* °"‘* three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. ENGINEER DEPARTMENT. . mgiupigiueer Depart, For pontoon trains, intrenching tools, instruments, and drawing reuisese. materials, thirty thousand dollars. _ For services of surveyors draftsmen, photographers, and clerks to Emvlvyvu engineer officers on the staff, of division and corps commanders, thirty thousand dollars. That out of the balances remaining unexpended January iirst, eighteen · hundred and ninety-nine, of the. appropriations made by the deficiency appropriation Act approved June eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety- ape, pp. 4a¤,m. eight, and by section two of the deiiciency appropriation Act approved July seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for the six months beginning July iirst, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, on account of war expenses under the title “Naval establishment! there is hereby reappropriated and made available for expenditure during. the six months beginning January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for objects hereinafter' specified, the following sums, namely: . NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT. — N¤vy- For emergency fund to meet unforeseen contingencies constantly Emergency appr _ arising, to be expended at the discretion of the President, one million dollars. BUREAU OF NAVIGATION. n£sr¤¤·¤ vf Nsvizw For expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent of rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for men and boys, and all other expenses attending the recruiting for the naval service, and for the transportation of enlisted men and boys at home and abroad; for heating apparatus for receiving and training ships, and extra expenses thereof; for freight, telegraphing on public business, postage on letters sent abroad, ferriage, ice, apprehension of deserters and stragglers, continuous-service certificates, discharges, good-conduct badges, and medals for boys, schoolbooks for training ships, packing boxes and materials, and other contingent expenses. and emergencies arising under cognizauce of the Bureau of Navigation, unforeseen and impossible to classity, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. BUREAU or OBDNANGE. B¤r¤¤¤¤for<1¤¤¤<=·>- Ord nance and ordnance stores: For labor, munitions of war, and other material at navy-yards and stations, and necessary expenses incident to improving and increasing the eiliciency of ships and the Ordnance Department for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, three hundred thousand dollars.