[PUBLIC-No. 91.]

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-six 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 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 other 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 which 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 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 movable 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 instruction 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 sea-coast fortifications, including the manufacture of heavy guns and carriages for the constructing and testing experimental gun carriages; for the purchase or manufacture of a multicharge 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 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 gun shall be purchased until thoroughly tested and found to conform to the requirements of this act. Approved, March 3d, 1885.

[PUBLIC-No. 105.]

AN ACT making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and for prior years, 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, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:

DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

For contingent expenses, being a deficiency on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, four hundred and thirty-five dollars and thirty-six cents.

For salary of stenographer to the Secretary of State from March fifteenth to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, five hundred and ninety-four dollars and seventy-four cents.

To enable the Department of State to ascertain what records or other documents are in existence either in France or Spain or the French colonies affecting the rights or claims of American citizens under the act of Congress approved January twentieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, entitled "An act to provide for the ascertainment of claims of American citizens for spoliations committed by the French prior to the thirty-first of July, eighteen hundred and one," and to procure said records and documents, or certified copies thereof, the sum of five thousand dollars, in addition to the sum already appropriated for that purpose, this amount to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State and to be immediately available.

For payment of a draft of T. McF. Patton, United States consul at Osaka and Hiogo, Japan, drawn in payment of salary of the interpreter at said consulate for the third quarter of eighteen hundred and eightyfour, eighty-two dollars and eighty-eight cents.

To pay to Louise R. S. Wing, the widow of E. Rumsey Wing, late minister of the United States to Ecuador, a sum equal to the salary of said minister for six months, in addition to all legal allowances.

To pay to Louise F. Hunt, the widow of William H. Hunt, late envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Russia, a sum equal to the salary of said minister for six months, in addition to all legal allowances.

FOREIGN INTERCOURSE

For payment of the annual rental of legation buildings in Tokio, Japan, up to March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, three thousand four hundred dollars.

To enable the accounting officers, without the payment of any money

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from the Treasury, to effect a proper settlement of the accounts of certain consular officers by reimbursing the account of consular fees, being deficiencies as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eightyfour, thirty-five thousand four hundred and thirty-seven dollars and thirty-one cents; for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, twenty-one dollars and eighty-two cents.

To pay amounts found due to certain consular officers on the settlement of their accounts, being deficiencies as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, six thousand one hundred and sixty-one dollars and twenty-five cents; for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, sixty dollars and thirty-three cents.

To enable the accounting officers, without the payment of any money from the Treasury, to effect a proper settlement of the accounts of Morton, Rose and Company, United States bankers at London, for drafts of United States ministers paid by them, by a transfer of the amount to their account of consular surplus fees, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, thirteen thousand one hundred and thirty dollars and seventy-four cents.

To pay the balance found due to J. R. Young, United States minister to China, on his account of contingent expenses to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, four hundred and fifty-two dollars and ninety-three cents.

To enable the accounting officers, without the payment of any money from the Treasury, to allow from the unexpended balance of said appropriation for the fiscal year ending eighteen hundred and eighty-three the amount disbursed by G. H. Heap, secretary of legation at Constantinople, during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, five hundred and fifty dollars.

To enable the accounting officers, without the payment of any money from the Treasury, to effect a proper settlement of the accounts of John S. Mosby, United States consul at Hong-Kong, by reimbursing the account of consular fees, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, three thousand dollars.

To enable the accounting officers to pay to Eugene Schuyler, late United States minister resident and consul-general to Roumania, Servia, and Greece, the amount allowed under section seventeen hundred and forty of the Revised Statutes for his transit from his late post (at Athens) to his residence in the United States, namely, from November second, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, to December fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, six hundred dollars and fifty-four cents.

To reimburse Thomas B. Van Buren for expenses incurred by him in the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy six for the relief and transmission to the United States of three discharged naval seamen, fortyseven dollars.

To enable the Secretary of State to pay the bills of expense incurred from May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, to September sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, inclusive, by F. W. Rice, then consul of the United States at Colon, in caring for an American vessel, the Mary C. Comery, abandoned by her master and crew in the harbor at that place, five hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents.

To enable the Secretary of State to pay the claim of the native authorities of Manila for assistance rendered in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-four to the shipwrecked crew of the American brig Leonora, sixty seven dollars and eighteen cents.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

For salary of Commissioner of Navigation from July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eightyfive, at four thousand dollars per annum, three thousand nine hundred and fifty-six dollars and forty-eight cents.

For additional compensation to the clerk acting as Commissioner of Navigation from September first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, one hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents.

Authority is hereby granted the Secretary of the Treasury to use two thousand five hundred and fifty dollars of the unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made for his office to pay employees of the division of warrants, estimates, and appropriations of his office for extra labor performed by them prior to May first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, outside of the regular office hours of the Department, to be paid in such sums as shall seem to him to be just and equitable, having reference to the value of the services rendered to the Government by each employee respectively.

To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay additional compensation for services rendered by employees of his Department, and for expenses incurred by them, in connection with the exchange of Government securities in London in eighteen hundred and eighty one, one thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. To compensate the clerks and employees of the Third Auditor's Office of the Treasury for extra work done at night during the months of April, May, June, and July, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, in copying the roll of pensioners in said office, seven thousand eight hundred and thirty-two dollars and eighty-one cents: Provided, That each clerk and employee shall be entitled to one half-day's pay for each night's work actually performed, to be computed on the basis of his then current salary.

For old custom-house, Saint Louis, Missouri: Paving Third street front, one thousand and forty-one dollars and seventy-four cents; paving Ólive street front, nine hundred and forty-six dollars and fortynine cents.

For paving and curbing street on north front of court-house and postoffice at Springfield, Illinois, eight hundred and seventy dollars and eighty-five cents.

For paving Halstead street adjacent to marine-hospital lot in Lake View, Illinois, two hundred and sixty four dollars.

INTERNAL REVENUE.

To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to collectors of internal revenue for services rendered during the period between the expiration of their first commissions and the date of taking the oath of office under their second commissions, one thousand four hundred and thirtytwo dollars and ninety-two cents.

Salaries and expenses of agents and subordinate officers of internal revenue: Additional amount necessary to pay salaries and expenses of agents and surveyors, for fees and expenses of gaugers, for salaries of storekeepers, and for miscellaneous expenses, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, fifty-eight thousand dollars.