FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. OH. 421. 1899. 1035 additional tools for machine shop (yards and docks), four thousand dollars; extension and renewal of railroad and its equipments, twenty thousand dollars; fire-engine house, seven thousand dollars; additional storehouse for supplies and accounts, forty thousand dollar ; blockmakers’, coopers’, and varnishers’ shop (construction and repair), sixteen thousand dollars; dredging channel and anchorage ground, one ' hundred thousand dollars; timber shed (supplies and accounts), twenty-six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; apartment house for junior and other officers, fifteen thousand dollars; sidewalks and roads, five thousand dollars; boat shops (construction and repair), seventy-two thousand dollars; machine shop (construction and repair), thirty-four thousand dollars; grading and paving streets, six thousand dollars; building for storing and handling guns, twenty-two thousand dollars; moving back ferry slip, eighty thousand dollars; shipwright * shop (construction and repair), eventy-five thousand dollars; steam engineering, machine shop, and foundry, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; grading yard, one hundred thousand dollars; storehouse for equipment materials, forty~five thousand dollars; workshop and boiler house for Bureau of Equipment, thirty-five thousand dollars; chain shed for Bureau of Equipment, four thousand five hundred dollars; in all, navy-yard, Mare Island, nine hundred and thirty-five thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Poonr Sormn NAVAL STATION, WASHINGTON: Pump and boiler rugerso-m.1,w»»1i. house for new water station, three thousand dollars; yard water-closets, one thousand dollars; purchase of additional land near springs, one' thousand dollars; continuing clearing, grading, and stumping station, twelve thousand dollars; concrete iloor for construction and repair shop', eight thousand dollars; yard railway, three thousand five hundred dollars; extension of boiler room and steam plant for yards and docks, twenty thousand dollars; in all, Puget Sound Naval Station, forty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. ‘ REPAIRS AND PRESERVATION AT NAVY-YARDS AND srAr1oNs: For °¤‘ P¤*¤·¤‘- repairs and preservation at navy-yards and station , four hundred and ` fifty thousand dollars. That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to use the balance Lfry a»ek.A1ga¤-s. remaining unexpended of the appropriations made by the Act approved p,,-,,,.,,.; 0;;,,;,,,,,, March third, eighteen hundred and ninety three, "Dry dock, Algiers, estgwjggjghgeim Louisiana," and by the Act approved July twenty-sixth, eighteen hun- twain)?. dred and ninety-tour, “Dry dock at Algiers, Louisiana," for the pay- {g}j,,g;,¥[,',,’§j ment of the interest and costs adjudged by the decrees of the court in the proceedings for the condemnation of the lands acquired, as authorized by said Acts. _ _ The provisions of "An Act making appropriations for the naval serv- C»_n¤3r¤¤dri·L¤ or ice- for the iiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and §{§}?,f§d_ "" °° "“' ninety-nine, and for other purposes," approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, relating to the construction of dry docks, are hereby modiiied so that the Secretary of the Navy may, in his discretion, contract for the construction of one of the four dry docks named in said provision in addition to that at Boston, to be built of granite, or of concrete faced with granite, and in such case the limit of the cost of ‘ each of said dry docks is 'fixed at one million one hundred thousand dollars. Toward the construction of said dry docks there is hereby appro- anu, p. 379. priated the sum of eight hundred thousand dollars in addition to the appropriations contained in said provisions of the Act of May fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, which may be used in carrying out the terms of this provision. The Secretary of the Navy may OIDPIOY Bild pay, out of the appropri- E¤p¤¤¤-¤¤=- ation for public works herein authorized under the Bureau of Yards and Docks, such additional expert aids, draftsmen, writers, and copyists as may be necessary for the preparation of plans and specifications, and for such services an amount not to exceed ive thousand dollars is made immediately available.
