SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. oe. 180. 1917. » 1175 engineer, $960; four laborers, at $600 each;. two laborers, at $660 each; one laborer, at $420; total for employees, $27,840. · _1 Mamrmxaucmz Water rent, heating, and lighting; cemetery, burial “°*'*“'*°°°°· expenses and headstones; general care and improvements of grounds, buildmgs, walls, and fences; re airs to power- lant equipment, implements, tools, and furniture, ang purchase of th)e same; music in chapel and entertamments for beneficiaries; stationery, books, and periodicals; transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, and of sick and insane beneficiaries, their attendants and necessary subsistence for both, to and from·other Government hospitals; employment of such beneficiaries in and about the Naval Home as may be authorized by the Secretary of the Navy, on. the recommendation of the governor; sup ort o benehciaries, and all other contmggpt expenses, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of ee horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for officiaglpiuposes $87,805; in all, for Naval Home, $115,645, p};g{:,”}g¤'g°”' N"°' which sum sh be paid out of the income from the naval pension ` fund: Provided, That all moneys derived from the sale of material at ,0 md a, the Naval Home, which was originally urchased from mone appro- m¤¤·r¤ r•¤•lv•d.¤¤=· priated from the income from the naval) pension fnmd, and allsmone erived from the rental of Naval Home property, shall hereafter KZ turned into the naval pension fund. mmaan or onnuaucm. B“"‘“ °‘°"*"“*°°· Oizmumca ami OIIDNANCE sronms: For rocuring, roducin , re- ,,,,,°{,‘§“““°°_‘“‘* °'°‘ sewing, and handling ordnance material; {gr the armiiment ofihips; mm for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the general work of the Ordnance Department; for furniture at naval magazines, torpedo stations, and proving groimds; for maintenance of the proving ground Passage: venus, and powder actory and for target practice; for the maintenance, °‘°· repair, or operation of horse—drawn passengoir-carrying vehicles, and one motor-propelled passenger-carrying ve `cle, to be used only for official purposes at naval magazines, the naval proving ground Indianhead, Maryland, and naval torpedo stations, and for pay of chemists, clerica , drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and naval magazines: Provided, That the §°,,'§",,',{",,;,,_ ,,,_ ,,,,,_ sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the *°¤· Secretary of the Navy for chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection watchmen, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and naval magazines for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, shall not exceed $750,000; in all, $8,488,333. S Purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, $1,800,000: Pro- md"' vakled, That no part of any money appropriated by this Act shall be Y¤°· “¤*°•**· expended for the pmchase of powder other than small arms rppwder mnrmims. spin; to at a price in excess of 53 cents a poimdz Prmnded further, at in ,,,,,,,‘{*’,§’g§’,{‘{‘f"° mm expenditures of this appropriation, or any part thereof, for powder, no owder shall at any time be purchased unless the powder factory at llindianhead, Maryland, shall be operated on a basis of not less than its full maximum ca acity. Fon Never, Gm: llhmonv, Wasnmeron, Drsrmcr or Oonmmil; D¥‘@Y“‘ Gm “°‘°""- New and improved machinery for existing shops, $307,036; repairs ¥¤<=¤i¤¤Y·°*¢· and betterments to present facilities, $395,200; machinery and equipment for new gum s op, $1,798,500; in all, $2,500,736. _ _ Pnomcrun PLANT: To complete the erection and equipment of a §Y,L‘§§‘,{°,{',,'{’,“§;,u,p. plant for the manufacture of projectiles, on a site to be selected by ¤¤°¤*· the President, including the employment of all necessary expert, drafting, and clerical assistance, $1,375,345, to be immediately avail- _ able and to remain available until expended, and the limit of cost j*:,'¢**;_¤5';,_’°°· fixed in the Naval A pro riation Act, aipproved August twenty- ’ ninth, nineteen hundred) andp sixteen, is here y increased to $2,080,956.
