FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION, JUNE 30, 1890.

AN ACT Making appropriations for the Naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the naval service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for other purposes:

PAY OF THE NAVY.

For the pay of officers on sea duty; officers on shore and other duty; officers on waiting orders; officers on the retired list; admirals, secretary; clerks to commandants of yards and stations; clerks to paymasters at yards and stations; inspections; receiving-ships and other vessels; extra pay to men re-enlisting under honorable discharge; pay of petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and boys, including men in the engineer's force and for the Coast Survey service and Fish Commission, seven thousand five hundred men and seven hundred and fifty boys, at the pay prescribed by law; in all, seven million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

PAY, MISCELLANEOUS.

For commissions and interest; transportation of funds; exchange; mileage to officers while traveling under orders in the United States, and for actual personal expenses of officers while traveling abroad under orders, and for traveling expenses of apothecaries, yeoman and civilian employees, and for actual and necessary traveling expenses of naval cadets while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment as cadets; for rent and furniture of buildings and offices not in navy-yards; expenses of courts-martial, prisoners and prisons and courts of inquiry, boards of investigation, examining boards, with clerks' and witnesses' fees, and traveling expenses and costs; stationery and recording; expenses of purchasing-paymasters' offices of the various cities, including clerks, furniture, fuel, stationery, and incidental expenses; newspapers and advertising; foreign postage; telegraphing, foreign and domestic; telephones; copying; care of library, including purchase of books, prints, manuscripts, and periodicals, ferriage, tolls, and express fees; costs of suits; commissions, warrants, diplomas, and discharges; relief of vessels in distress; canal tolls and pilotage; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; reports, professional investigation; cost of special instruction, at home or abroad, in maintenance of students and attachés and information from abroad, and the collection and classification thereof, and other necessary incidental expenses; in all, two hundred and forty thousand dollars.

CONTINGENT, NAVY: For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, exclusive of personal services in the Navy Department or any of its subordinate Bureaus or offices, at Washington, District of Columbia, seven thousand dollars.

BUREAU OF NAVIGATION.

FOR THE PURCHASE OF FARMER'S HOUSE, COASTER'S HARBOR ISLAND, RHODE ISLAND: For the purchase of the Farmer's House, on Coaster's Harbor Island, erected by W. A. Whaley, at his expense, under permission granted him by the Secretary of the Navy, September twentysixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

GUNNERY EXERCISES: For prizes for excellence in gunnery exercises and target practice; for the establishment and maintenance of targets and ranges; for hiring established ranges, and for transportation to and from ranges, six thousand dollars.

OCEAN AND LAKE SURVEYS: For ocean and lake surveys, the publication and care of the results thereof; the purchase of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, 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, ten thousand dollars.

BOUNTY FOR NAVAL APPRENTICES: For bounties for outfits of seven hundred and fifty naval apprentices, thirty thousand dollars.

RECRUITING AND TRANSPORTATION: For expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent of rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for men and boys, and all other expenses attending the recruiting for the naval service, and for the transportation of enlisted men and boys at home and abroad, thirty thousand dollars.

CONTINGENT, BUREAU OF NAVIGATION: For heating apparatus for receiving and training ships, and extra expenses thereof; for freight, telegraphing on public business, postage on letters sent abroad, ferriage, ice, apprehension of deserters and stragglers, continuous-service certificates, good-conduct badges and medals for boys; school-books for training-ships; packing-boxes and materials, and other contingent expenses and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation, unforeseen and impossible to classify, fifteen thousand dollars.

NAVAL TRAINING STATION, COASTER'S HARBOR ISLAND, RHODE ISLAND (FOR APPRENTICES): For dredging channels, repairs to main causeway, roads, and grounds, extending sea-wall, and the employment of such labor as may be necessary for the proper care and preservation of the same; for repairs and improvements on buildings, including the building on Coaster's Harbor Island, formerly occupied by the Naval War College; heating, lighting, and furniture for same; books and stationery, freight, and other contingent expenses; purchase of food and maintenance of live-stock, and mail wagon and attendance on same, fourteen thousand dollars.

NAVAL WAR COLLEGE AND TORPEDO SCHOOL ON COASTER'S HARBOR ISLAND: For maintenance of the Naval War College and Torpedo School on Coaster's Harbor Island, ten thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to cause the building for

use by the Naval War College and Torpedo School, for the construction of which the sum of one hundred thousand dollars was appropriated in the act of March second, eighteen hundred and eightynine, to be erected on Coaster's Harbor Island.

BUREAU OF ORDNANCE.

ORDNANCE AND ORDNANCE STORES: For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; for fuel, tools, and material, and labor to be used in the general work of the Ordnance Department; for furniture at magazines, at the ordnance dock, New York, and at the naval ordnance battery and proving-ground, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.

For proof of naval armament, six thousand dollars.

For the purchase of armor plates for reception tests of modern projectiles, fifty thousand dollars.

NAVAL ORDNANCE RANGE AND PROVING-GROUND: For draining, erection of firing butts, screens, cranes, building of wharf, chronograph house, and other necessary improvements of naval ordnance range and proving-ground heretofore authorized by act of March. third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That the moneys heretofore and hereby appropriated for the purpose of erecting buildings and making other improvements on said proving-ground may be forthwith expended upon the acquisition by the United States of the title thereto.

For one steel shell-lighter of about sixty-eight tons displacement, with carrying capacity of about forty-five tons, eight thousand dollars;

To enable the Secretary of the Navy to manufacture and experimentally test, under rules and conditions to be prescribed by him, a submarine gun and projectiles for the same, thirty thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this money shall be expended until the owners of the patents to be tested under this provision shall agree by contract to give the Government the option within a specified time to contract at such price as shall be satisfactory to the Secretary of the Navy for the exclusive right on the part of the Government to manufacture by contract or otherwise such submarine guns and projectiles without the payment of any royalty on the same: Provided, That such submarine gun and projectiles shall prove satisfactory on due test, and be approved by the Secretary of the Navy; and for testing torpedoes, twenty thousand dollars; in all, fifty thousand dollars.

REPAIRS, BUREAU OF ORDNANCE: For necessary repairs to ordnance buildings, magazines, gun-parks, boats, lighters, wharves, machinery, and other objects of the like character, fifteen thousand dollars.

TORPEDO STATION, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND: For labor, material, freight, and express charges; general care of and repairs to grounds, buildings, and wharves; boats, implements, tools, furniture, experiments and general torpedo outfits; sixty thousand dollars.

CONTINGENT, BUREAU OF ORDNANCE: For miscellaneous items, namely: Freight to foreign and home stations; advertising; cartage and express charges; repairs to fire engines; gas and water pipe; gas and water tax at magazine; toll, ferriage, foreign postage, and telegrams to and from the Bureau, eight thousand dollars.

CIVIL ESTABLISHMENT, BUREAU OF ORDNANCE: For the civil establishment under the Bureau of Ordnance, namely:

Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one writer, when required, five hundred dollars;

Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one writer, when required, five hundred dollars;

Navy-yard, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars;

Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at twelve hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twentyfive cents each; one draughtsman, at one thousand six hundred dollars; three draughtsman, at one thousand and eighty-one dollars each; one assistant draughtsman, at seven hundred and seventy-two dollars; two foremen, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; two copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one telegraph operator and copyist, at nine hundred dollars;

Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars;

Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents;

Naval ordnance proving-ground: For one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents;

Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island: For one chemist, at two thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one draughtsman, at one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, twenty-six thousand six hundred and twenty-four dollars. And no other fund appropriated by this act shall be used in payment for such service.

BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT.

EQUIPMENT OF VESSELS: For purchase of coal for steamers' and ships' use, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same; hemp, wire and other materials for the manufacture of rope and cordage; iron for the manufacture of anchors, cables, galley, and chains; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, hammock-cloths, boom-covers, tarpaulins, hammocks, and bags; water for steam launches; stationery for equipment officers, 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 correcting compasses on board ship, and for adjusting and testing compasses on shore; nautical and astronomical instruments, and repairs of nautical instruments for ships of war; libraries for ships of war; professional books and papers, and drawings and engravings for signal books; naval signals and apparatus, namely: signal 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 including those for the cabin, wardroom, and steerage, for the holds and store-rooms; for decks and quartermaster's use; bunting and other materials for flags, and making and repairing flags of

all kinds; oil for ships of war, other than that used in the engineer department; candles, when used as a substitute for oil in binnacles and running-lights, chimneys and wicks, and soap used in the navigation department; photographic instruments and materials; stationery for commanders and navigators of vessels of war, and for use of courtsmartial; musical instruments, and music for vessels of war; steering signals and indicators, and speaking-tubes and gongs for signal communications on board vessels of war; and for introducing and maintaining electric lights on board vessels of war, nine hundred thousand dollars.

For installing the United States steamship Lancaster with an electric lighting plant, ten thousand dollars.

ELECTRIC WELDING MACHINE: For installing an electric welding machine in the Boston navy-yard, twelve thousand dollars: Provided, That the party supplying the said machine and apparatus shall guarantee that it will operate satisfactorily in the welding of steel links for chain cables of the various sizes up to two and one half inches in diameter, and no payment shall be made until tests shall have been made to the satisfaction of the Secretary of Navy, and no royalty shall be paid for the use of said machine.

CIVIL ESTABLISHMENT, BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT: Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk at one thousand dollars;

Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one superintendent of ropewalk, at one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand three hundred dollars; one writer, at nine hundred and fifty dollars; Navy-yard, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand dollars; one store-keeper, at nine hundred dollars;

Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars;

Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each;

Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars;

Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one clerk, at one thousand dollars; in all, nineteen thousand and twenty-five dollars. And no other fund appropriated by this act shall be used in payment for such service.

CONTINGENT, BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT: For freight and transportation of equipment and navigation stores, packing-boxes and materials, printing, advertising, telegraphing, books and models; 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, ten thousand dollars.

BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS.

MAINTENANCE OF YARDS AND DOCKS: For general maintenance of yards and docks, namely: For freight; transportation of materials and stores; books, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire-engines; machinery; repairs on steam fire-engines and attendance on the same; purchase and maintenance of oxen, horses,