382 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 234. 1898. N°*f·>lk·"=*· Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: In general storehouses: Two bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two assistant bookkeepers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-tive cents each; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant bill clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one receiving clerk, at nine hundred and forty»two dollars; one assistant receiving clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars. In yard pay office: One writer. at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, eight thousand eight hundred and thirty-three dollars and seventy-five cents. . In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, seventy thousand four hundred and thirty-two dollars and three cents, and no other fund appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment for such service. C·*¤**¤g°¤*·Conrmenur, BUREAU or Sorrmns AND Aocoomisz For freight and express charges, candles, fuel, books and blanks, stationery, advertising, furniture for general storehouses and pay offices in navy-yards, expenses of naval clothing factory and machinery for same, postage, telegrams, telephones, tolls, ferriages, yeoman’s stores, iron safes, newspapers, ice, transportation of stores purchased under the naval supply fund, and other incidental expenses, fifty thousand dollars. ‘,,}f_¤;;Q,¤I;*;PQ_Q;¤¤‘“°· BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND ummm. ` F¤‘¤:¤*$.==;;;y ¤‘*· CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR OF VESSELS! For preservation and p°"’° °"° - J` completion of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; steam steerers, pneumatic steerers, steam capstans, steam windlasses, and all other auxiliaries; labor in navy- yards and on foreign stations; purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops; carrying on work of experimental model tank; designing naval vessels; wear, tear, and repair of vessels aiioat; general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; incidental expenses, such as advertising, freight, foreign postage, telegrams, telephone service, photographing, hooks, protessional magazines, plans, stationery, and instruments for drafting room, two ]1g¤;_€i¢=gjé0d8nships million five hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this ’sum shall be applied to the repair of any wooden ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed ten per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like mate- ··Hsrttor¤l." rial; Provided further, That nothing herein contained shall deprive the ` Secretary of the Navy of the authority to cause the necessary repairs wps <1¤¤¤¤:·><l M and preservation of the United States ship Hartford or to order repairs “°"‘ of ships damaged in foreign waters or on the high seas, so far as may be necessary to bring them home. —- umizmis· Repairs to United States steamship Hartford: Completion of repairs to and outtit for the United States steamship Hartford, thirty thousand dollars. ·-<:im»,i.i¤." Repairs to the United States steamship Chicago: Completion of repairs to and outfit for the United States steamship Chicago, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. (main; tinge. One coaling barge, eight hundred tons capacity, sixteen thousand dollars. 1·,,m¤mmn,1<.n. Construction plant, navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Repairs to and improvement of plant at navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, fifty thousand dollars. 1:is¤»n.11¤s¤. Construction plant, navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Repairs to ‘ and improvement of plant at navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts, fifty thousand dollars.
- <¤··~· York. N. Y. Construction plant, navy-yard, New York, New York: Repairs to and
· improvement of plant at navy-yard, New York, New York, fifty thousand dollars.
