FIFTY -F1F'1‘H CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 421. 1899. wm no M;·mie‘ quartermaster’s offices, and the offices of the assistant quartermasters, '*‘”' Washington, District of Columbia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and for the leader of the Marine Band, twenty-one dollars each per month, ·;;.m;;,~:·> three thousand and twenty-four dollars; for hire of quarters for live enlisted men employed as above, at ten dollar each per month, six léuludred dollars; in all, twelve thousand six hundred and twenty-four 0 ars. f°;¤H:_)¤33¤}§g,g¤¤M For provisions, clothing, fuel, military stores, transportation and ‘recruiting, forage, and hire of quarters for officers and men to be commissioned and enlisted previous to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, twenty thousand four hundred dollars, to be imme- .e—>x<•:»2 tyisrliliii 3»V3·ll&bl8. conmgm Uoncrmcnur, MARINE Cours: For freight, tolls, cartage, advertising, washing of bed sacks, mattress covers, pillowcases, towels, and sheets, funeral expenses of marines, stationery and other paper, telegraphing, rent of telephones, purchase and repair of typewriters, apprehension of stragglers and deserters, per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor for a period not less than ten days, repair of gas·and water iixtures, office and barracks furniture, camp and garrison equipage and implements, mess utensils for enlisted men. such ps bowls, plates, spoons, knives and forks, tin cups, pans, pots, and so forth; packing boxes, wrapping paper, oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, . camphor and carbolized paper, carpenters’ tools, tools thr police purposes, iron safes, purchase and repair of public wagons, purchase and repair of public harness, purchase of public horses, services of veterinary surgeons and medicines for public horses, purchase and repair of bm: ¤·>i:»>¤t·~;gs¤·¤‘s‘ hose, repair of nre extinguishers, purchase of fire hand grenades pur- ·**“"""°*’“ chase and repair of carts, wheelbarrows, and lawn mowers; purchase and repair of cooking stoves, ranges, stoves, and furnaces where there .¤:¤m¤·s·m mma are no grates; purchase of ice, towels, soap, combs, and brushes for offices; postage stamps for foreign postage; purchase of books, newspapers, and periodicals; improving parade grounds, repair of pumps and wharves, laying drain, water, and gas pipes, water, introducing gas, and for gas, gas oil, and introduction and maintenance of electric lights; straw for bedding, mattresses, mattress covers, pillows, sheets; wire bunk bottoms for enlisted men at various posts; furniture for Government quarters and repair of same, and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but impossible to gxlilllifjli Tllyql anticipate or classify, fifty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. ,,,f{,'}i{'°"‘*'*"“*’*° iucmansn or run NAVY. &,}§§{;{j;d§,}§_gl;g That for the purpose of further increasing the naval establishment of the United States the President is hereby authorized to have structed by contract three seagoing coast line battle shi s carr?ii1n· the heaviest armor and most powerful ordnance for vessgals of tiheig class upon a trial displacement of about thirteen thousand five hun dred tons, to be sheathed and coppered, and to have the hi hest l Zticable speed and great radius of action, and to cost, exclusige of alfiliidr Thru Mmomdrand armament, not exceedingthree million six hundred thousand dol- _,,,,,S€,__ dars each, three armored cruisers of about twelve thousand ton tl _ gdisplaeement, carrying the heaviest armor and most powerful ordiialrige for vessels of their class, to be sheathed and coppered and to h th
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