372 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 234. 1898. R°¤°¤'9 ¤¤PPlY °‘ Reserve supply of ammunition, five hundred thousand dollars. amvliliiiiligiilgitn Navy- Purchase and erection of new and improved machinery for the shops Y•“*· of the gun plant at the W’ashington Navy-Yard, thirty-six thousand dollars. Capping, filling, and fusing armor-piercing shell now on hand, forty- five thousand dollars. Conversion of ordinary six—inch guns to rapid tire, twenty-five thousand dollars. Modern battery for the Chicago, fifty thousand dollars. Sr¤·>k·>1¤¤¤ r¤w¤¤=· Sxuoxuuzss POWDER: For the purchase and manufacture of smoke less powder, two hundred and nity thousand dollars. R¢¤¤rv¤ r¤¤¤ f¤r RESERVE GUNS Fon AUXILIARY OBUISERS: Toward the armament ` '“$“,1i$'€,$_*}•§i{°"‘ of modern guns for auxiliary cruisers mentioned in the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and in section tour of V<·¤·2’*1>-2'*· the Act approved May tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, two Pr¤•»i•·>- hundred and ilfty thousand dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of °°""”°°°' the Navy may, in hi discretion, purchase by contract all or any part of such guns. rmx;. Suoxmmsrownna 1¤·A0tr0mr: For the erection of buildings on ` Government ground for the manufacture of smokeless powder, with _ the necessary machinery and equipment, niuety-three thousand seven hundred and twenty-seven dollars. NT¤md<;,_·}¤¤¢i¤¤· Tonrnno s·rAr1oN, Nnwrour, Enom: ISLAND: For labor, material, °"°"'treight, and express charges; general care of and repairs to grounds, buildings, and wharves; boats, instruction, instruments, tools, turnitmiia, experiments, and general torpedo outfits, sixty-tive thousand dollars; Enlarging storehouse, improvements and repairs to seaman gunners’ quarters, and providing more adequate accommodations for the increasing number of torpedo boats sent to the station for outts and torpedo work, ten thousand five hundred dollars; in all, torpedo station, ninety- seven thousand five hundred dollars. N»w·r·¤k Harm. Frrrme Four Lusmrun AS MAGAZINE: For the necessary im- $$,2 L‘“’“*`°"°· “‘“g“‘ provements and iittings at Fort Lafayette, New York Harbor, to render same suitable for the storage, handling, and distribution of ammuni- -a;ia_¢i¤t of site for tion for the naval service, fifteen thousand dollars; and the Secretary “‘“*""”°` of the Navy is hereby authorized and directed to appoint a board of officers to ascertain whether a suitable site for a naval magazine can be obtained at or near the port of New York, and to make report thereon to the next session of Congress. ryrcmgrimin. P··» Nkvn. MAGAZINE, Four MZIFFLIN, PENNSYLVANIA: For additional '"“°" " magazine, fixed ammunition house, two gun-cotton houses, tire plant, tramway, two filling houses, remodeling old building for watchmens’ quarters, cistern, converting old gunners’ house into storehouse, lightning conductors, with the necessary Ilttings to same, at the naval magazine, Fort Milhin, Pennsylvania, torty-five thousand dollars. Reserve t¤rrwd¤>¢¤· RESERVE TORPEDOES AND APPLIANCES: Reserve torpedoes and tor- °"" pedo appliances, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. j°$E¤_¤z;-géiygggtgre EXPEBIMENTS WITH ARMOR-PHERCING PROJEGTILES: For conduct— ‘ " ing experiments in tiring arnnorpiercing projectiles charged with high explosives under service conditions from naval guns at high velocities, and for the purpose of determining whether the destructive eifect of shells so charged is greater than that of similar shells charged with gunpowder, and whether they can be placed on board naval vessels on tlhpl same footing as Shells loaded with gunpowder, twenty-five thousand o ars. r·...ph»» Rnruns, Burman or OnDNANcu: For necessary repairs to ordnance buildings, magazines, gun parks, boats, lighters, wharves, machinery, and other objects of the like character, thirty thousand dollars. Armin;. em., Naval r-XRIING AND EQUIPPING NAVAL MILITIA: For arms, accouterments, ““’““· signal onttlts, boats and their equipments, and the printing of the necessary books of instruction for the Naval Militia of the various States, under suchregulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe,
