Chapter 345. waking appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, and for the armament thereof for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six and for other purposes
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CHAP. 345.— An Act waking appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, and for the armament thereof for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six and for other purposes.March 3, 1885. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Fortifications.Appropriations. That the sums of money herein provided for be, and the same are hereby, appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, namely:
For the protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications and otherFor protection, preservation, and repairs. works of defense for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, one hundred thousand dollars the same to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War. And the President of the United States shall appoint a Board of whichAppointment of Board to examine and report as to location and character of defenses needed. the Secretary of War shall be a member and president, to be composed of two officers of the Engineer Corps, two from the Ordnance Corps, two officers of the line of the Navy, and two civilians, which Board shall examine and report at what ports fortifications or other defenses are most urgently required, the character and kind of defenses best adapted for each, with reference to armament, the utilization of torpedoes, mines, or other defensive appliances, and for the necessary and proper expenses of said Board and for the compensation of the two civilians at ten dollars per day while so employed in the discharge of said duty the sum Report to be transmitted to Congress.Submarine movable torpedoes.of forty thousand dollars to be immediately available is hereby appropriated; and the report of said Board shall be transmitted to Congress by the Secretary of War.
For the purchase of movable submarine torpedoes propelled and controlled by power operated and transmitted 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 improvements, competitive test, and purchase of motors for movableImprovement, test, and purchase of motors for torpedoes.Submarine mines. torpedoes, twenty-five thousand dollars. For purchase of appliances for submarine mines for harbor defense ten thousand dollars.
For continuation of torpedo experiments and for practical instructionTorpedo experiments.Instruction of engineer troops.Machine guns. of engineer troops in the details of the service twenty thousand dollars. For the purchase of machine guns of the latest improvement thirty thousand dollars. For the armament of seacoast fortifications, including the manufactureArmaments of sen-coast fortifications. of heavy guns and carriages for the constructing and testing experimental gun carriages; for the purchase or manufacture of a multi charge gun and testing same; for projectiles, gun-loaders, fuses, powder, and implements, their trial and proof, and all necessary expenses incident thereto, including compensation of draughtsman on gun Construction while employed in the Ordnance Bureau, four hundred and Experiments in the use of dynamite, etc.No gun to be purchased until tested.fifty 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.
And no type of gnu shall be purchased until thoroughly tested and found to conform to the requirements of this act. Approved, March 3d, 1885.