780 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 41. 1899. mglrgeeu of E<1¤i1> BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT. Equipment of vw For purchase of coal for steamers’ and ships’ use, including expenses °°l" of transportation, storage, and handling the same; hemp, wire, iron, 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 ouicers of ships, equipment officers on shore and afloat, and for the use of courts-martial 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; ioreign and local pilotage and towage of ships of war; services and materials in repairing, correcting, adjusting, and testing compasses on shore and on board 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 ships’ 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; hunting and other materials for making and repairing tlags 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, three hundred and eighty-five thousand eight hundred and four dollars. ~ 0•>¤¤¤z¤¤¢¤¤v¤¤¤¤¤· For freight and transportation of equipment stores, packing boxes and materials, printing, advertising, telegraphing, books, and models; stationery for the Bureau; furniture for equipment offices in navy-yards; postage on letters sent abroad; lerriage, ice, lighterage of ashes, and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Equipment, gn£oresecn and impossible to classify, two thousand and seventy-four 0 ars. "0:¤·¤ sud 1¤k¤¤¤r· For ocean and lake surveys; the publication and care of the results Y ° thereof; the purchase of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, and freight and express charges on same; preparing and engraving on copper plates the surveys of the Mexican coasts, and the publication of a series of charts of the coasts of Central and South America, twenty thousand dollars. Ngj;jl;,_r§¤w Yerk Hvlgogopgggvriter at navy-yard, New York, four hundred and seventy- -M¤*¤ I¤l¤¤<r 1 Egr one clerk at navy-yard, Mare Island, California, five hundred e o rs. ¤i·£¤u;;?in1i;;:;iZstm°` BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR. vgxgrwntion. ew-. Eur preservation and 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 otheia 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; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat· general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; incidental expenses, such as advertising, freight foreign ppstéage, telegrams; telepfiqne service, photographing, hooks, profesn magazines ans s a ionerv ant instr ‘ one million five liulndred thousand ilollars. mums for dmfting mom, “§?g;j;°°r;_M¤·*·¤¤° BUREAU or MEDICINE AND SURGERY. curzmgeutexpemes. For freight, expressa e on medical stores tolls f ’ tion of sick to hospitalgtransportation of insane,p;rti.eT1€t§§,gaigstsarrigt portauou, and burial of the dead; advertising; telegraphing; ,rent of telephones; purchase of books and stationery; binding of medical
