Chapter 404.
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CHAP. 404.— An act making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service and for other purposes.March 2, 1889. *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, Under supervision of Board. *Ante*, p. 489.to be expended under the direct supervision of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification, created by the fortification appropriation act approved September twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and in the manner prescribed by said act. namely:
Preservation and Repair of Fortifications: For the protection.Preservation and repair. preservation, and repair of fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars. 887 For preparation of plans for fortifications, five thousand dollars.Plans. Torpedoes for Harbor Defense: For the purchase of submarineTorpedoes. mines and necessary appliances to operate them for closing the channels leading to our principal seaports, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For needful casemates and cable galleries to render it possible to operate submarine mines, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For continuing torpedo experiments and for practical instruction of engineer troops in the details of. the service, thirty thousand dollars. For the purchase of movable submarine torpedoes, in the discretion of the board on ordnance and fortifications, fifty thousand dollars. For torpedo-shed at San Francisco Harbor, twenty-two thousand dollars. Armament of Fortifications: For the finishing and assemblingSteel guns. of eight-inch, ten-inch, and twelve-inch steel guns made from forgings procured under the act of September twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, thirty-five thousand dollars.
For the purchase of steel forgings for field and siege cannon, as follows: For steel forgings for not less than t twenty-four three and six-tenthsSteel forgings. inch field guns, twenty-four thousand dollars; For steel forgings for not less than ten five-inch siege guns, twenty thousand dollars; For steel forgings for not less than ten seven-inch siege howitzers, eighteen thousand dollars: For steel forgings for not less than sixteen three and six-tenths inch field mortars, two thousand dollars;
For manufacture of field and siege cannon (finishing and assembling)Field and siege guns within the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, fourteen thousand dollars; in all, seventy-eight thousand dollars. For the test of experimental guns procured under the act of SeptemberTests, etc. twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, namely, for one ten-inch wire wound gun. steel, twenty-eight thousand dollars; for one twelve-inch gun, steel hooped, thirty-nine thousand five hundred dollars; for procuring one ten-inch disappearing gun-carriage, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars; for gun platforms at proving ground, six thousand five hundred dollars; for projectiles for field, siege, and seacoast guns for issue to the service, twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars; for siege-gun powder for issue to the service, seven thousand dollars; for fuzzes and implements for issue to the service, two thousand dollars; in all. one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For the alteration of barbette carriages for ten-inch smooth-boreAlterations, etc. guns to adapt them to the service of eight-inch muzzle-loading converted rifles, fifty-four thousand dollars; for the alteration of barbette carriages for fifteen-inch smooth-bore guns to adapt them to present service conditions, forty-six thousand dollars, in all one hundred thousand dollars. For the manufacture of carriages for twelve-inch breech-loadingCarriages. rifled mortars, procured under the act of September twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one hundred thousand dollars.
For the manufacture of forty caissons and ten combined batteryCaissons, etc. wagons and forges for three and two-tenths inch field guns, forty-three thousand two hundred and seventy-four dollars. For procuring the necessary instruments and other materials andArtillery practice. for the proper installation of instruments for conducting the annual heavy artillery practice of the Army, twenty thousand dollars. For repairs and improvements at the Ordnance Proving GroundProving ground, Sandy Hook.
X. J. Repairs, etc.. Sandy Hook, New Jersey, namely: Repairing dock and dredging, five 888 thousand five hundred dollars; relaying roads and walks, three thousand eight hundred dollars; repairs to officers’ quarters, two thousand dollars; repairs to foreman’s and soldiers quarters, two thousand six hundred dollars: repairs to office, five hundred dollars: repairs to shops and storehouses, one thousand dollars; machinery for shops four thousand dollars; clearing ground about ranges, six hundred dollars; laying narrow gauge tramway to proof butts and targets, five thousand three hundred and twenty dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand three hundred and twenty dollars: *Provided*, That all material purchased under this act shall be of American manufacture.
Approved, March 2, 1889.