shall be expended for providing increased facilities for the manufacture of projectiles; for examining, testing, and experimenting with pneumatic or other dynamite guns, gun-carriages, aerial torpedoes, dynamite shells and ammunition, and batteries for coast defense, whether sunken, counterpoise, or otherwise, brought to the notice of said Board, one hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be deemed proper: Provided, That all material purchased under this section, excepting samples, shall be of American manufacture.

SEC. 4. For the erection, purchase, or manufacture of the necessary buildings and other structures, machinery, tools, and fixtures for an army gun-factory for finishing and assembling heavy ordnance, to be erected at the Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, New York, seven hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That not exceeding twenty thousand dollars of this sum may be used for the erection and completion of two sets of officers' quarters.

For the purchase of rough-finished, oil-tempered, and annealed steel for high-power coast-defense guns of eight, ten, and twelve inch caliber, in quality and dimensions conforming to specifications, subject to inspection at each stage of the manufacture, and including all the parts of each caliber, one million five hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That no money shall be expended except for steel accepted and delivered, and no contract shall be made hereunder for gun steel at a greater average price per pound for each caliber than the lowest average price paid under contracts hitherto made by the Government for American forgings of like caliber.

The material for the guns provided for herein shall be purchased in accordance with section thirty-seven hundred and nine, Revised Statutes, for which purpose the Secretary of War is authorized to make contracts with responsible steel manufacturers, who shall be resident citizens of the United States, after proper advertisement, continuing not less than thirty days in the newspapers most likely to reach the said manufacturers: Provided, That each bidder with whom such contracts shall be made, shall have, or agree to erect, in the United States a suitable plant, including the best modern appliances, capable of making all the steel required, and of finishing it in accordance with the contracts, and shall further agree to deliver yearly a specified quantity of each caliber, the time of the delivery of the steel for the smaller calibers of heavy guns to commence at the expiration of not more than eighteen months, and that for the largest calibers, specified in the advertisement, at the expiration of not more than three years from the date of the acceptance of the contracts; and that all the tools, machines, and material for said guns shall be manufactured in the United States.

SEC. 5. For the purchase of the material for, and the manufacture of, twelve inch breech-loading rifled mortars of cast-iron, hooped with steel, of about thirty-two thousand pounds weight, similar to, and equal in range, power, and accuracy of fire to the twelve inch breech-loading mortar, cast-iron, steel-hooped, now at the Ordnance proving-ground, Sandy Hook, New Jersey, said mortars to be subject to inspection in all stages of manufacture, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

SEC. 6. Whenever any party shall present for test a completed cast-iron breech-loading mortar of twelve inches caliber, of about thirty-two thousand pounds weight, with a proper supply of ammunition therefor, not exceeding two hundred rounds, such mortar shall be tested in the presence of the party presenting the same, and should

it be shown to the satisfaction of the Board by such tests to be equal in accuracy, range, power, endurance, material, and general efficiency to the twelve-inch cast-iron steel-hooped breech-loading mortar now at Sandy Hook, the mortar and ammunition shall be paid for, including cost of transportation, and contract be made for a further supply of not less than fifty, and not more than one hundred, at such reasonable cost as the Board herein provided for shall determine, not to exceed six thousand five hundred dollars each. The entire number to be delivered in one year from date of contract. Said mortar and all which may be contracted for under this provision shall be subject to inspection at each stage of manufacture.

Whenever any party shall present for test a completed singlecharge breech-loading steel gun of ten or twelve inches caliber, and of weight and dimensions to be prescribed by the Board with the proper supply of ammunition for the test of the same, such gun shall, in the presence of the party presenting it, be subjected tosuch tests as the Board shall have prescribed; and should such gun be shown to the satisfaction of the Board by such tests to fullfill the requirements previously prescribed in respect to accuracy, range, power, endurance, and general efficiency, the gun and ammunition shall be paid for at a fair valuation, including cost of transportation, and contract shall be made at a price reasonable in the opinion of the Board, with the party presenting the best of such guns, for a further supply of similar guns, to be subjected to the usual servicetest before acceptance, the experimental gun and all guns purchased hereunder to be subject to inspection at each stage of manufacture, as follows, namely: For not less than fifty ten-inch steel guns; for not less than fifty twelve-inch steel guns.

and

The Board is authorized to make all needful and proper purchases, investigations, experiments, and tests, to ascertain with a view to their utilization by the Government, the most effective guns, including multicharge guns and the conversion of Parrott and other guns on hand, small arms, cartridges, projectiles, fuzes, explosives, torpedoes, armor-plates, and other implements and engines of war; and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to purchase or cause to be manufactured, such guns, carriages, armor-plates, and other war materials and articles as may, in the judgment of said Board, be necessary in the proper discharge of the duty herein devolved upon them: Provided, That the amount expended and liabilities incurred in such purchases, investigations, experiments, and tests shall not exceed five hundred thousand dollars which sum is hereby appropriated: Provided further, That said Board shall test, and if found satisfactory, shall purchase two breach loading field guns of three and two tenths inch bore of aluminum bronze.

That under the provisions of this section there shall not be expended or contract or contracts entered into involving the Government in an aggregate expenditure exceeding six million five hundred thousand dollars, nor an expenditure on the part of the Government in any one fiscal year in excess of two million dollars, and all guns and materials purchased under authority of this section shall be of American production and furnished by citizens of the United States. For payment of the necessary expenses of the Board including a per diem allowance to each member thereof when employed on duty away from his permanent station, of two and one-half dollars a day, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Approved, September 22, 1888.

[PUBLIC-No. 30%.]

An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eightynine, 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 the same are hereby, appropriated for the objects hereinafter expressed for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, namely:

UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

For court-house and post-office at Augusta, Georgia: For completion of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. For custom-house at Bangor, Maine: For not exceeding one-half the cost of constructing stone abutments and piers for the protection of the United States custom-house and post-office building, and approaches, situated in the Kenduskeag Stream, at Bangor, in the State of Maine, the sum of ten thousand dollars, the expense of such works to be borne in equal proportions by the United States and by said. city of Bangor: Provided, That the plan of construction of said works shall be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury: And provided further, That the entire amount to be thus contributed by the United States shall not exceed the sum hereby appropriated.

For court-house and post-office at Bay City, Michigan: For purchase of site and commencement of building, one hundred thousand dollars.

For court-house and post-office at Birmingham, Alabama: For purchase of site and commencement of building, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For post-office at Bridgeport, Connecticut: For purchase of site and commencement of building, seventy-five thousand dollars.

For post-office and custom-house at Camden, New Jersey: For completion of building under present limit, sixty thousand dollars, and in addition thereto any portion of the sum appropriated for the purchase of ground on which to erect said building not expended for that purpose may be used for the construction of the building.

For marine hospital at Chicago, Illinois: For approaches and breakwater complete, fifteen thousand dollars.

For repairs of post-office and custom-house building, Chicago, Illinois, twenty-eight thousand dollars.

For custom-house at Cleveland, Ohio: For completion of repairs, twenty thousand dollars.

For court-house and post-office at Denver, Colorado: For continuation of building under present limit, one hundred and forty thousand dollars: Provided, That said building may be located not less than sixteen feet from any other building.

For court-house and post-office at Detroit, Michigan: For continuing erection of building under present limit, three hundred thousand dollars.

For court-house, custom-house, and post-office at Duluth, Minnesota: For purchase of site and commencement of building, seventyfive thousand dollars.

For post-office and custom-house at Eastport, Maine: For addi-tional amount for foundation of building, eight thousand dollars. If, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury, a safe foundation can not be provided for this sum, or the interests of the Govern- · ment require it, then he is hereby authorized to sell or exchange the present site and purchase or procure another, and for that purpose he may use so much of this appropriation as may be necessary.

For United States jail at Fort Smith, Arkansas: That not exceeding four thousand dollars of the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated by the act approved March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, for the construction of a jail at Fort Smith, Arkansas, may be expended for a heating apparatus for said jail.

For public building at Frankfort, Kentucky: That the Secretary of the Treasury be and he is hereby directed to ascertain and report to this Congress at its next session the names of the persons who furnished materials for or performed labor on the public building at Frankfort, Kentucky, for which they have not been paid by reason of the Government taking the construction of the building from the original contractor, together with the amount and reasonable value of such material and labor.

For custom-house at Galveston, Texas: For completion of the building under the present limit, ninety thousand five hundred and eighty-one dollars and seventy-one cents.

For court-house and post-office at Greenville, South Carolina: For purchase of site and commencement of building, fifty thousand. dollars.

For post-office at Houston, Texas: For completion of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars.

For court-house and post-office at Huntsville, Alabama: For completion of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars.

For court-house and post-office at Helena, Arkansas: For purchase of site and completion of building, seventy-five thousand dollars. For post-office at Hoboken, New Jersey: For purchase of site and completion of building, sixty thousand dollars.

For post-office and custom-house at Jacksonville, Florida: For completion of building under present limit, eighty thousand dollars.. For court-house and post-office at Jefferson, Texas: For completion of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. For court-house and post-office at Louisville, Kentucky: For continuation of building, sixty thousand dollars.

For post-office at Lowell, Massachusetts: For purchase of site and commencement of building, one hundred thousand dollars.

For court-house and post-office at Los Angeles, California: For completion of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars.

For post-office at Minneapolis, Minnesota: For heating apparatus,. complete, thirty-one thousand dollars, and for one elevator, six thousand five hundred dollars; in all, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.

For custom-house at New Orleans, Louisiana: For additions,

alterations, and repairs, including elevators, one hundred and sixtyseven thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine dollars: Provided, That as soon as the work herein authorized is completed all public offices of the United States in the said city of New Orleans, occupying buildings or portions of buildings for which the Government pays rent, shall be removed to said custom-house and to suitable apartments therein, to be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury. For marine hospital at New Orleans, Louisiana: For approaches complete, twenty thousand dollars.

For public building, Oxford, Mississippi: For completion of approaches, four hundred dollars.

For court-house and post-office at Opelousas, Louisiana: For purchase of site and commencement of building, fifty thousand dollars. For court-house, custom-house and post-office at Brownsville, Texas: For purchase of site and completion of building, fifty thousand dollars.

For court-house and post-office at Charlotte, North Carolina: For purchase of site and completion of building, eighty-five thousand dol

lars.

For post-office at Ottumwa, Iowa: For purchase of site and completion of building, forty thousand dollars.

For court-house and post-office at Statesville, North Carolina: For purchase of site and completion of building, seventy-five thousand dollars.

For the United States Mint at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For an additional story to, and enlarging the building, including vault, alterations, and other necessary work, two hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

For court-house and post-office at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: For continuation of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. For post-office at Portsmouth, Ohio: For purchase of site and completion of building, sixty thousand dollars.

For marine hospital at Portland, Maine: For furnishing water supply, two thousand dollars.

For post-office and court-house at Peoria, Illinois: For completion of the building, twelve thousand dollars.

For custom-house at Richmond, Virginia: For heating apparatus, twelve thousand five hundred dollars; for approaches, one thousand dollars; in all, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars.

For court-house and post-office at Rochester, New York: For heating apparatus, twenty thousand dollars; and elevator, six thousand five hundred dollars; in all, twenty-six thousand five hundred dollars. For court-house and post-office at Savannah, Georgia: For continuation of building under present limit, seventy-five thousand dollars. Court-house at Santa Fé, New Mexico: For approaches complete, twelve thousand dollars.

For the old custom-house at Saint Louis, Missouri: For necessary repairs and alterations to the building known as the old custom-house building at Saint Louis, Missouri, including the construction of an additional story thereon, fifty thousand dollars; said structure being intended for its present occupants and for the occupancy of all Federal officers now renting offices in any building or buildings in Saint Louis, Missouri, not owned by the Government and for which the Government pays rental: Provided, That all such offices shall be removed to said custom-house building when completed and to suit