182 FIFTY-SECON D CONGRESS. SEss. I. Ch. 195. 1892. rnmmsnw For purchase and repair of instruments to be issued to officers of the corps of engineers and to officers detailed and on duty as acting engineer officers for use on public works and surveys, two thousand dollars. Bwks- Library of the Engineer School of Application: Purchase and binding of professional works of recent date treating of military and civil engineering and kindred scientific subjects, five hundred dollars. rtmam mmm:. The purchase of pontoon material required to complete one division of reserve and one division of advance-guard equipage, five thousand dollars. . In all, fifteen thousand dollars. mgliédnance Depart OBDNANCE DEPARTMENT. Curwnt ¤¤r¤¤¤¤•- Ordnance service: For current expenses of the ordnance service required to defray the current expenses at the arsenals; of receiving stores and issuing arms and other ordnance supplies; of police and office duties; of rents, tools, inel, and lights; of stationery and office furnitiue; of tools and instruments for use; incidental expenses of the ordnance service, and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small arms, and other ordnance supplies, including payment for mechanical labor in the office of the Chief of Ordnance, eighty thousand dollars. mjh¤:·r;¤m·>¤ fw For manufacture of metallic ammunition for small arms and ammu- °"nition for reloading cartridges, and tools for the same, including the cost of targets and material for target practice, and marksmen’s medals, and insignia for all the arms of the service, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Hewir of <>¤l¤¤¤¤¤» For repairing and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the m` hands of troops and for issue at the arsenals and depots, five thousand A dollars. 0¤l¤=¤¤¤ ¤¤¤¢·~ For purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requisitions of troops, one hundred thousand dollars. Eqrrivmem- For infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments, including horse equipments for cavalry and artillery, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Preserving wwwa- For overhauling, cleaning, and preserving new ordnance stores on "“"°° *'°““‘ hand at the arsenals, five thousand dollars. _ 11·>r¤i¤c ¤¤<¤ even- For Bring the morning and evening gun, at military posts, prescribed mg g""‘ by General Orders Numbered Seventy, Headquarters of the Army, dated July twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, twenty thousand six hundred dollars. 1""*°°“‘· For targets for artillery practice and implements for mechanical maneuvers, five thousand dollars. M¤°**i¤* g“¤°· For purchase of machine guns, improved muskct caliber, of American manufacture, twenty thousand dollars. m§fs‘f”"'“°*“‘° °' For manufacture of arms at the national armories, four hundred l·~·»·¤~·- thousand dollars: Provided, That if the Secretary of War shall, upon xm system umm. the report of the small arms board now in session, adopt a new ritle or system for rides for the military service, or for trial with a view to such adoption, then this appropriation shall be available for the procmement opt;. market pur- of such arms: Provided further, That purchases may be made in open °**“·°S· market, in the manner common among business men, when the aggre- , gate of the purchase does not exceed two hundred dollars: Provided cmmm parks. further, That not more than sixty thousand dollars of the money appropriated for the Ordinance Department in all its branches shall be applied to the payment of civilian clerks in said department. H¤¤r¤i¢i¤z ¤¢¤i·¢¤- nncizvrtrrxo smzvicn. Expenses- For expenses of recruiting and transportation of recruits from rendez vous to depot, including sending of recruiting parties to small towns, and not exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars for payment of a clerk to the officer disbursing the appropriation, in all, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
