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[PUBLIC-No. 108.]

AN ACT making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, and for the armament thereof, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the following sums are hereby appropriated for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth eighteen hundred and eighty-five, the same to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, as hereinafter provided, for the following purposes, namely:

For the protection preservation, and repair of fortifications and other works of defense one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.

For the purchase of such submarine movable torpedoes, propelled and controlled by power operated from shore stations, as may be recommended by the Board of Engineers of the Army of the United States and approved by the Secretary of War, fifty thousand dollars; for the improvements and test of motors for movable torpedoes, twenty-five thousand dollars; for purchase of submarine mines for harbor defense, five thousand dollars; for continuation of torpedo experiments and for practical instruction of engineer troops in the details of the service, twenty thousand dollars, in all one hundred thousand dollars.

For the purchase of machine guns of the latest improvement, twenty thousand dollars.

For the 'armament of sea-coast fortifications, including the manufacture and conversion of heavy guns and carriages, projectiles, fuses, pow der, and implements, their trial and proof, and all necessary expenses incident thereto, including compensation of draughtsmen on gun construction while employed in the Ordnance Bureau, four hundred thousand dollars, and not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars thereof, may be used for the expenses of experiments in the use of dynamite or other high explosive projectiles

For the preservation of Fort Marion, at Saint Augustine, Florida, and for the enclosure and improvement of the grounds attached to the same, said grounds to be in charge of the commanding officer of said fort, five thousand dollars.

It shall be the duty of the Secretary of War to cause the various calibers, lengths of bore, greatest and least admissible weights of guns for each caliber, together with the greatest and least weights of projectiles for each caliber, of all the various calibers required for the service, together with the number of each caliber of gun required, to be determined, and to make the same known to manufacturers of ordnance on their application and to report the same to Congress at its next session for its approval.

SEC. 2. That hereafter all rifled cannon of any particular material, caliber, or kind, made at the cost of the United States shall be publicly subjected to the proper test including such rapid firing as a like gun would be likely to be subjected to in actual battle for the determination of the endurance of the same to the satisfaction of the President of the United States or such persons as he may select; and he is hereby authorized to select not to exceed five persons, who shall be skilled ir

such matters; and if such gun shall not prove satisfactory, they shall not be put to use in the Government service.

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SEC. 3. That the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy are hereby authorized to sell to projectors of methods of conversion, for experimental purposes only, any smooth-bore cannon required by them, at prices which shall not be less than have been received from auction sales for such articles, and deliver the same, at the cost of the Government, at the nearest convenient place for shipment or public transportation; the cost of delivery to be deducted from the proceeds of sales, and the balance to be covered into the Treasury of the United States.

SEC. 4. That so much of the act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, as provides that the words "ordnance" and "gunpowder" in section thirty-seven hundred and twenty-one of the Revised Statutes shall be construed to mean offensive and defensive arms, ammunition, and explosives, the ap paratus for their military use, and the materials for producing the whole, and also transportation, necessary information concerning them, and whatever is requisite in military experiments with them, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

Approved, July 5, 1884.

[PUBLIC-No. 109.]

AN ACT making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, 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, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:

LEGISLATIVE.

SENATE.

For compensation of Senators, three hundred and eighty thousand dollars.

For mileage of Senators, thirty-three thousand dollars.

For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others receiving an annual salary in the service of the Senate, two hundred and sixtysix thousand five hundred and ninety-six dollars and sixty cents, namely: For Secretary of the Senate, four thousand five hundred dollars, including compensation as disbursing officer of the contingent fund of the Senate, and for compensation as disbursing officer of salaries of Senators, three hundred and ninety-six dollars; hire of horse and wagon for the Secretary's office, one thousand two hundred dollars; chief clerk and financial clerk, at three thousand dollars each; principal executive clerk, principal clerk, minute and journal clerk, and enrolling clerk, two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars each; librarian, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; assistant librarian, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; six clerks, at two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars each; five clerks, at two thousand one hundred dollars each.

For keeper of stationery, two thousand one hundred and two dollars and forty cents; assistant keeper of stationery, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant in the stationery-room, one thousand dollars; two messengers, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; four laborers seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one page, at two dollars and fifty cents per day.

For clerk of printing records, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars.

For Chaplain, nine hundred dollars.

For secretary to the Vice-President, two thousand one hundred and two dollars and forty cents.

For messenger to the Vice-President's room, to be appointed by the Vice-President, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars.

For clerk to the Committee on Appropriations, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For assistant clerk to the Committee on Appropriations, one thousand six hundred dollars.

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For messenger to the Committee on Appropriations, to be appointed by the committee, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars.

For clerk and stenographer to the Committee on Finance, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For clerk to the Committee on Claims, clerk to the Committee on Commerce, clerk to the Committee on the Judiciary, clerk to the Committee on Private Land Claims, clerk to the Committee on Pensions, clerk to the Committee on Military Affairs, clerk to the Committee on Post Offices and Post-Roads, clerk to the Committee on the District of Columbia, clerk to the Committee on Naval Affairs, clerk to the Joint Committee on the Library, clerk to the Committee on the Census, clerk to the Com mittee on Foreign Relations, clerk to the Committee on Public Lands, clerk to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and clerk to the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, at two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars each.

For assistant clerk to the Committee on Pensions, under resolution of the Senate of January thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars.

For seven messengers, at the rate of one thousand four hundred and forty dollars per annum, for the following committees of the Senate, namely: Finance, Post-Offices and Post Roads, Pensions, Claims, Dis trict of Columbia, Judiciary, and Engrossed Bills, ten thousand and eighty dollars.

For telegraph operator, twelve hundred dollars.

For telephone operator, seven hundred and twenty dollars.

For Sergeant-at-Arms and Doorkeeper, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars; for clerk to Sergeant-at-Arms, two thousand dollars; assistant doorkeeper, two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars; acting assistant doorkeeper, two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars; three messengers, acting as assistant doorkeepers, one thousand eight hundred dollars each.

For one upholsterer and locksmith, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars.

For four riding pages, at two dollars and fifty cents per day each, three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.

For Postmaster to the Senate, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; assistant postmaster and mail-carrier, two thousand and eightyeight dollars; five mail-carriers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each.

For superintendent of the document-room (Amzi Smith), two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars; two assistants in document room, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; one clerk to the superintendent of the document room, under resolution of the Senate of December twenty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; one page in the documentroom, seven hundred and twenty dollars; superintendent of the foldingroom, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; one assistant in the folding-room, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk in the foldingroom, one thousand dollars.

For twenty-five messengers, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; messenger in charge of storeroom, one thousand two hundred dollars; messenger to the official reporters' room, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars.

For chief engineer, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; three assistant engineers, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; conductor of elevator, one thousand two hundred dollars; two

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