Chapter 56. Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for prior years, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 56.— An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for prior years, and for other purposes. March 9, 1898. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the following sums be,Urgent deficiencies appropriations. and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:
PRINTING AND BINDING.Printing and binding. For printing and binding for the Navy Department, ten thousandNavy Department. dollars. For printing and binding for the Department of Justice, four thousandDepartment of Justice. dollars. For printing and binding for the Department of State, twelve thousandDepartment of State. dollars. For printing and binding for the Interior Department, forty thousandInterior Department. dollars. 274 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Chs. 56, 57. 1898.
NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.Navy. bureau of medicine and surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in commission, navy-yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and Coast Survey, and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy-yards, naval laboratory and department of instruction, museum of hygiene, and Naval Academy, ten thousand dollars. bureau of equipment.Bureau of Equipment.Equipment of vessels. Equipment of vessels: For purchase of coal for steamers’ and ships’ use, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same; hemp, wire, iron, and other materials for the manufacture of cordage, anchors, cables, galleys, and chains; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, hammocks, and other work; water for steaming purposes; stationery for commanding and navigating officers of ships, equipment officers on shore and afloat, and for the use of courts-martial on board ship, and for the purchase of all other articles of equipment at home and abroad, and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels and manufacture of equipment articles in the several navy-yards; foreign and local pilotage and towage of ships of war; services and materials in repairing, correcting, adjusting, and testing compasses on shore and on board ship; nautical and astronomical instruments, and repairs to same; libraries for ships of war; professional books and papers, and drawings and engravings for signal books; naval signals and apparatus, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, rockets, running lights, compass fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ships compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship’s way, and ffiads and other appliances for sounding; lanterns and lamps, and their appendages, for general use on board ship, for illuminating purposes, and oil and candles used in connection therewith; bunting and other materials for making and repairing flags of all kinds; photographic instruments and materials; musical instruments and music; and installing and maintaining electric lights and interior signal communications on board vessels of war, one hundred thousand dollars. bureau of ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance.
For miscellaneous items, namely: Freight to foreign and home stations; advertising; cartage and express charges; repairs to fire engines; gas and water pipes; gas and water tax at magazines; tolls, ferriage, foreign postage and telegrams to and from the Bureau, technical books, and incidental expenses attending inspections of ordnance material, seven thousand dollars. NATIONAL DEFENSE.National defense. For the national defense, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, to be expended at the discretion of the President and to remain available until January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, fifty million dollars.
Approved, March 9, 1898.