FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 571. 1898. 695 For the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, four million and five thousand dollars. BUREXU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in commission, navy-yards, .S¤rz<=¤¤¤’ ¤¤¤<+¤¤¤- naval stations, Marine Corps, and Coast Survey, and for the civil H"` establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy-yards, naval laboratory and department of instruction, museum of hygiene, and Naval Academy, for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one hundred thousand dollars. · BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS. Bureau ¢>fY¤rd¤aud . Docks. Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For coal sheds and appliances, 1,;g;>g;W°*k¤· repairs to, seven thousand dollars; for repairing and extending ' wharves, thirty-five thousand dollars; for electric-light plant, extension of, fifty thousand dollars; for dredging, thirty-five thousand dollars; for alterations in building numbered forty-two_ (southeast machine shop) and foundations for machinery, thirty-five thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and sixty-two thousand dollars. Naval station, New London, Connecticut: For coal-storage pockets Nw I-¤¤d¤¤· or sheds and coal-handlin g machinery, two hundred thousand dollars. N avy-yard, New York, New York: For repairs to entrance of timber New York. dry dock numbered two, three hundred thousand dollars; for locomotive, three thousand five hundred dollars; for reconstruction and extension of railroad system, twenty-five thousand dollars; for onehundred-ton crane and foundations, one hundred thousand dollars; for extension of electric-light system, fifty thousand dollars; for building for electricdight plant, thirty thousand dollars; in all, five hundred and eight thousand five hundred dollars. A Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For electric lighting, League 1¤1¤¤<1- increase of plant, ten thousand dollars. Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For electric lighting, W¤¤*¤*¤B‘°°¤·D·¤ increase of plant, twenty thousand dollars. Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For repairs to timber dry dock, fifteen N·»rf<>1k· thousand dollars; for increase of electric light and power for yards and docks, thirty thousand dollars; in all, forty-five thousand dollars. Naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina: For coal-storage houses Pm F¤y·L for ten thousand tons, fifty thousand dollars; for repairs and extensions of wharf, thirty-five thousand dollars; in all, eighty-five thousand dollars. Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: For electriclightin g plant, ten thou- P•>¤¤¤¤¤¤~ sand dollars; for repairs to buildings and wharves, twenty-five thousand dollars; for dredging, fifty thousand dollars; for repairs to coal-storage sheds and coal·handling machinery, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. Naval station, Key West, Florida: For dredging and filling in, twenty- Key Wm. flve thousand dollars. Floating dry docks: For two floating dry docks for use on the Gulf d Gplf ¤<>¤¤¢. dry coast, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. °° °' Maintenance yards and docks: For general maintenance of yards and M¤i¤¢~¢¤¤¤¤¤· docks at navy-yards and stations for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, fifty thousand dollars. Repairs and preservation, navy-yards: For repairs and preservation R¤v¤*¤¤·¤*¤· at navy-yards and stations for the six months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, fifty thousand dollars. The Secretary of the Navy may employ, and pay out of the appro- M<H¢i¤¤¤i ¤¤¤· priation for public works, herein authorized under Bureau of Yards and "l°’°°°‘ Docks, such additional temporary expert aids, draughtsmen, writers and copyists as may be necessary for the preparation of plans and specifications.
