FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. Ii. Ch. 571. 1898. 693 BUREAU OF om>NANcE. B¤¤*=¤¤•>ford¤=¤¤¤¤- Ordnance and ordnance stores: For labor, munitions of war, and other m§,f,‘;'§lQf;’s ‘“"’ °"‘*‘ material at navy-yards and stations, and necess_ary expenses incident ` to improving and increasing the efficiency of ships and the Ordnance Department for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninetyeight, four hundred thousand dollars. _ For labor and material at navy—yards and stations, production and purchase of munitions of war, and necessary expenses incident to improving and increasing the efficiency of ships and the Ordnance - Department for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, six million dollars. Torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: For the manufacture of 1,1`{,*jWP°*,;{‘fb&n};m smokeless powder, twenty-two thousand dollars, to be available for rp ` fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT. ·m£_¤g¤s¤ of Equiu For purchase of coal for steamers’ and ships’ use, including expenses Equipment of vosof transportation, storage, and handling the same; hemp, wire, iron, °°1“‘ and other materials for the manufacture of cordage, anchors, cables, galleys, and chains; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, hammocks, and other work; water for steaming purposes ;. stationery for commanding and navigating officers of ships, equipment officers on shore and afioat, and for the use of courtsmartial on board ship, and for the purchase of all other articles of equipment at home and abroad, and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels and manufacture of equipment articles in the several navy-yards ; foreign and local pilotage and towage of ships of war; services and materials in repairing, correcting, adjusting, and testing compasses on shore and on hoard ship; nautical and astronomical instruments, and repairs to same; libraries for ships of war; professional books and papers, and drawings and engravings for signal books; naval signals and apparatus, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, rockets, running lights, compass fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of shi ps’ compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship’s way, and leads and other appliances for sounding; lanterns and lamps, and their appendages, for general use on board ship for illuminating purposes, and oil and candles used in connection therewith; bunting and other materials for making and repairing flags of all kinds; photographic instruments and materials; musical instruments and music; and installing and maintaining electric lights and interior signal communications on board vessels of war, being for the following periods: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one million three hundredthousand dollars. For the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety— eight, five million dollars. . _ For freight and transportation of equipment stores, packing boxes °°”“‘”¥°“‘°‘P°"°°'· and materials, printing, advertising, telegraphing, books, and models; stationery for the Bureau; furniture for equipment offices in navy- yards; postage on letters sent abroad; ferriage, ice, lighterage of ashes, and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Equipment unforeseen and impossible to classify, for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninetyeight, twenty thousand dollars. For one writer at navy-yard, New York, for the six months beginning Ygg" Y°*¤ N"? July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight,,four hundred and seventy- ` five dollars. . For one clerk at navy-yard, Mare Island, California, for the six months YQ? 15******* N"?' beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, five hundred . dollars. For ocean and lake surveys; the publication and care of the results v§§jf‘““ “"‘““"°'“" thereof; the purchase of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, `
