CONTINGENT, MARINE CORPS: For freight, ferriage, toll, cartage, funeral expenses of marines, stationery, telegraphing, rent of telephone, purchase and repair of type-writers, apprehension of deserters, repair of gas and water fixtures, office and barrack furniture, mess utensils for enlisted men, such as bowls, plates, spoons, knives, forks, packing-boxes, wrapping-paper, oil-cloth, crash, rope, twine, camphor and carbolized paper, carpenters' tools, tools for police purposes, iron safe, purchase and repair of public wagons, purchase and repair of harness, purchase of public horses, services of veterinary surgeons and medicine for public horses, purchase and repair of hose, repair of fire extinguishers, purchase of fire hand grenades, purchase and repair of carts and wheelbarrows, purchase and repair of cookingstoves, ranges, stoves where there are no grates, purchase of ice, towels, and soap for offices, postage stamps for foreign postage, purchase of newspapers and periodicals, improving parade-grounds, repair of pumps and wharves, laying drain and water pipe, introducing gas, and for gas and oil for marine barracks maintained at the various navy-yards and stations, water at the marine barracks, Boston, Massachusetts; Brooklyn, New York; Annapolis, Maryland; Mare Island, California; also straw for bedding for enlisted men at the various posts, furniture for Government horses and repair of same, and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but impossible to anticipate or classify, twenty-six thousand three hundred and twenty-two dollars and two cents.

HIRE OF QUARTERS, MARINE CORPS: For hire of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them, four thousand five hundred dollars.

For hire of quarters for seven enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in commandant's, adjutant and inspector's, paymaster and quartermaster's offices, Washington, District of Columbia, and assistant quartermasters' offices Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and San Francisco, California, twenty-one dollars per month each, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-four dollars.

For hire of quarters for three enlisted men employed as above, at ten dollars each per month, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, six thousand six hundred and twenty-four dollars.

Total for the Marine Corps, eight hundred and seventy-two thousand nine hundred and thirty-five dollars and ninety cents.

INCREASE OF THE NAVY.

SEC. 2. That for the purpose of increasing the naval establishment of the United States the President is hereby authorized to have constructed by contract two steel gunboats each of about seventeen hundred tons displacement; of the type of gunboat number one; at a cost, exclusive of armament, of not more than five hundred and fifty thousand dollars each, two steel cruisers to be provided with such armament for each as the Navy Department may deem suitable. The cost of both of said cruisers in the aggregate, complete, exclusive of armament, and excluding any premiums that may be paid for speed for the same shall not be more than three million dollars. The sum of one million five hundred thousand dollars is hereby appro

priated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated toward the construction of said vessels.

That in the construction of the aforesaid vessels all of the provisions of the act of August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled "An act to increase the naval establishment," as to material for said vessels, their engines, boilers, and machinery, the contracts under which they are built, the notice of and proposals for the same, the plans, drawings, and specifications therefor, and the method of executing said contracts, shall be observed and followed, and said. vessels shall be built in compliance with the terms of said act, so far as the same relate to vessels constructed under contract, save that in all their parts they shall be of domestic manufacture. The contracts for the construction of said cruisers shall contain provisions to the effect that the contractor guarantees that when completed and tested for speed, under conditions to be prescribed by the Navy Department, the vessel shall exhibit a maximum speed of at least nineteen knots per hour; and for every quarter knot of speed so exhibited above said guarantee the contractor shall receive a premium over and above his contract-price of fifty thousand dollars, and for every quarter knot that said vessel fails of reaching said guaranteed speed there shall be deducted from the contract-price the sum of fifty thousand dollars.

In making proposals for contracts for building the vessels authorized to be constructed under this act, it shall be required that one of such vessels shall be built on or near the coast of the Pacific Ocean, or the waters connecting therewith, one of them on or near the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, or the waters connecting therewith, and two of them on or near the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, or the waters connecting therewith, and at such places on or near such coasts or waters as the Secretary of the Navy shall approve.

If it shall appear to the satisfaction of the President of the United States, from the biddings for said contracts, when the same are opened and examined by him, that said vessels cannot be constructed at a fair cost on or near the coast of the Pacific Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico, he shall authorize the construction of said vessels or either of them elsewhere in the United States. And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to readvertise for the construction of cruiser number one, known as "The Newark," and the limit of cost. of said vessel is hereby extended to one million three hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of armament.

SEC. 3. That for the purpose of further increasing the naval establishment of the United States, the sums of money hereinafter named are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended by the President, in the exercise of his discretion, upon plans and specifications, to be furnished by the Navy Department:

For floating batteries or rams, or other naval structures, to be used for coast and harbor defense, one million dollars. The final cost of said floating batteries, rams, or other naval structures, exclusive of armament, shall not exceed two million dollars.

For the purchase of, and the trial and testing of torpedoes and appliances using explosives to be operated from naval vessels, floating batteries, or rams, fifty thousand dollars, which sum shall be immediately available.

That the material used in all naval structures provided for in this act, and the armament for the same shall be, so far as practicable, of American production and furnished and manufactured in the United States, and all contracts made for their construction shall be under the provisions of the act of August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled "An act to increase the naval establishment: ' Provided, That the Secretary of the Navy may employ and pay out of appropriations for new ships such civilian expert aids, additional draughtsmen, writers, copyists, and model-makers on the designs therefor as may be necessary.

SEC. 4. For expenditure towards the construction and completion (exclusive of armament) of the five double-turreted monitors, the four vessels authorized by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and the vessels authorized by the act of August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, two million four hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

Towards the armament, of domestic manufacture, for the vessels authorized by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and eightyfive, of the vessels authorized by sections one and two of the act of August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, of the unfinished monitors mentioned in section three of the same act, and of the Miantonomoh, and of the vessels authorized by this act, two million one hundred and twenty-eight thousand three hundred and sixty-two dollars.

Towards procuring, testing, and delivering the armor and gun steel for the vessels authorized by section one of the act of August. third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and the unfinished monitors inentioned in section three of the same act, and the vessels authorized by this act, four million dollars: Provided, Said armor and gun steel shall be of domestic manufacture.

Approved, March 3, 1887.

FIFTIETH CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION-SEPTEMBER 7, 1888.

AN ACT Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, 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 eighty-nine, and for other purposes:

PAY OF THE NAVY.

For pay of officers on sea duty; officers on shore and other duty; officers on waiting orders; officers on the retired list; Admiral's and Vice-Admiral's secretaries; 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 eighty-two thousand four hundred and four 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, yeomen, 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 clerk's 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 fifteen 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.

NAVIGATION AND SUPPLIES: For 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 store; nautical and astronomical instruments; nautical books, maps, charts, and sailing directions, and repairs of nautical instruments for ships of war; books for libraries of ships of war; and professional papers, naval signals, and apparatus, namely, signal-lights, lanterns, rockets, running lights, drawings and engravings for signal-books; compass-fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ship's 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 spirit-room, for decks and quartermaster's use; bunting and other materials for flags, and making and repairing flags of all kinds; oil for ship of war; other than that used in the engineer department; candles, when used as a substitute for oil in binnacles and runninglights, 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; in all, ninety thousand dollars.

OCEAN SURVEYS: For special ocean surveys, and the publication thereof, five thousand dollars.

PUBLICATION OF SURVEYS OF MEXICAN COAST: For preparing and engraving on copper-plates the surveys of Mexican coast, five thousand dollars.

TRAINING STATION, COASTERS' HARBOR ISLAND, RHODE ISLAND: For repairs and improvements on buildings at Coasters' Harbor Island; heating, lighting, and furniture for same; books and stationery; freight and other contingent expenses; purchase of feed and maintenance of horses and mail-wagons, and attendance on same; and to enable the naval war college to be conducted at said Island up to January first, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to consolidate and place under one command the torpedo station and the naval war college at Newport, Rhode Island, after said date. CONTINGENT, BUREAU OF NAVIGATION: For contingent expenses of the Bureau of Navigation, namely: For freight and transportation of navigation materials; postage and telegraphing on public business; packing-boxes and materials: furniture, stationery, and fuel for navigation offices at navy-yards; and all other contingent expenses, five thousand dollars.