848 F IFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Cus. 1402,1403. 1905. jectiles, fuses, explosives, torpedoes, armor plates, and other implements and engines of war, and to purchase or cause to be manufactured, under authority of the Secretary of War, such guns, carriages, armor . plates, and other war material as may, in the judgment of the Board, be necessary in the roper discharge of the duty devolved upon it by V°*·”·P·*·”· the Act a proved Shptember twentysecond, eighteen hun red and 0********* ***°'***’°'- eighty-eight; to pay the salary of the civilian member of the Board of V°*· *6- P- ""· Ordnance and Fortification provided by the Act of February twenty- fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for the necessary . traveling expenses of said member when traveling on duty as con-
- ’°* d*°***· tem lated in said Act;_ for the payment of the necessary expenses of
the Board, including a per diem allowance to each officer detailed to serve thereon, when employed on duty away from his permanent sta- '*:°'°“· tion, of two dollars and fifty cents a day; and for the test of experimental guns, carria es, and other devices procured in accor nce with the recommendation of the Board of rdnance and Fortifica— tion, ten thousand dollars, the qgpenditure of which shall be made . by theseveral bureaus of the ar Department heretofore having yqrrisdiction of the same or b the Boa itself, as the Secretary of
- "°""* · ar may direct: Provided, That before any money shall be ex nded
. . . .P° unl}?" """° ”"°"‘ rn the construction or test of any gun, gun carnage, ammunition, or implements nmder the supervision of the said Board, the Board shall be - satisfied, after due inquiry, that the Government of the United States has a lawful right to use the inventions involved in the construction of such gun, gun carriage, ammunition, or implements, or that the construction or test is ma e at the request of a person either having _ such lawful right or authorized to convey the same to the Government. _,,{'Q§,°,,*},‘,f‘°“,,l,‘f,,,*{,‘},,'§l That all material purchased under the foregoing provisions of this me- Act shall be of American manufacture, except in cases when, in the ' pyidgment of the Secretary of War, it is to the manifest interest of the . nited States to make purchases in limited quantities abroad, which material shall be admitted free of duty. · Approved, March 3, 1905. 1******* ****5- GHAP.·1403.—An A Mak' appropriations f r the nt of in l' an
other pensions of the lliiited Slltategpfoi? the fiscal) year lihldiiz June lrhigietbll
[Public. No- 136-] nineteen hundred and six, and for other purposes. Be it emzcted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United mfg***°*** **PP*°P'***‘ States of rlmerica in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise approplriated, for the payment of pensions for the/fiscal year ending June t irtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and for other purposes, namely: _ _ i _ _,gg;****•*· °*¤·· WP _For army and navy pensions, as follows: For invalids, widows, minor chil ren, and dependent relatives, army nurses, and all other pensioners who are now home on the rolls, or who may hereafter be _ · placed thereon, under the provisions of any and all Acts of Congress, §f,°‘$'°};,_,m mm one hundred and thirty-seven million dollars: Provided, That the f¤¤¤- appropriation aforesaid for navy pensions shall be paid from the income of the navy nsion fund, so far as the same shall be sufficient ·'*¤¤°**¤•¤- for that purpose: Pli;vided'fzu·the¢·, That the amount expended under each of the above items shall be accounted for separately. _,,€§§"’*°"" ""` For fees and expenses of examining surgeons, pensions, for serv-
- '°¤- ices rendered within the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, seven
hundred thousand dollars. And each member of each examining board shall, as now authorized by law, receive the sum of two dollars
