For contingent expenses, including books, blanks, stationery, printing, purchase of technical reference books and periodicals not to exceed seventy-five dollars, and other necessary items and services, two thousand five hundred dollars

For fuel, repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, pipe distribution to high and low service, material for high and low service, including public hydrants and fire plugs, and labor in repairing, replacing, raising, and lowering mains, laying new mains and connections, and erecting and repairing fire plugs and purchase and maintenance of horses, wagons, carts, and harness necessary for the proper execution of this work, forty-two thousand dollars.

For continuing the extension of and maintaining the high-service system of water distribution, and for laying necessary service and trunk mains for low service, to include all necessary land, machinery, buildings, mains, and appurtenances, and labor, and the purchase and maintenance of horses, wagons, carts, and harness necessary for the proper execution of this work, so much as may be available in the water fund, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, after providing for the expenditures hereinbefore authorized, is hereby appropriated: Provided, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and directed to cause to be paid from the appropriation for the water department, District of Columbia, extension of the high-service system, to the Holly Manufacturing Company, of Buffalo, New York, the sum of six thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars, deducted by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia as a penalty under contract numbered thirty-three hundred and twenty-four, dated November eleventh, nineteen hundred and three, and supplemental contract numbered thirty-three hundred and twentyfour, dated February twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and five. [Total amount for Water Department, $130,166.]

SEC. 2. That the services of draftsmen, assistant engineers, levelers, transitmen, rodmen, chainmen, computers, copyists, overseers, and inspectors temporarily required in connection with sewer, street, or road work, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations when specifically and in writing ordered by the Commissioners of the District; and all such necessary expenditures for the proper execution of said work shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the Commissioners of the District in their annual estimates shall report the number of such employees performing such services, and their work, and the sums paid to each, and out of what appropriation: Provided, That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed sixty thousand dollars during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven.

The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are further authorized to employ temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics, as may be required exclusively in connection with sewer, street, and road work, and street sprinkling, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof; said laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriations under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred.

SEC. 3. All horses, harness, and wagons necessary for use in connection with sewer, street, or road work, or on construction and repair

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$2,500.00

42,000.00

Indefinite.

of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations may be purchased, hired, and maintained, exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations, when specifically and in writing ordered by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and all such expenditures necessary for the proper execution of said work, exclusive of personal services, shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work, and the Commissioners of the District, in the annual estimates, shall report the number of horses, wagons, and harness purchased, and horses and wagons hired, and the sums paid for same, and out of what appropriation, and all horses owned or maintained by the District shall, so far as may be practicable, be provided for in stables owned or operated by said District: Provided, That such horses, wagons, and carts as may be temporarily needed for hauling and excavating material in connection with works authorized by appropriations may be temporarily employed for such purposes under the conditions named in section two of this Act in relation to the employment of laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics.

SEC. 4. The services of draftsmen, levelers, rodmen, chainmen, and inspectors, temporarily required in connection with water-department work authorized by appropriations, may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations, and be paid therefrom, when specifically and in writing ordered by the Commissioners of the District, and the Commissioners of the District in their annual estimates shall report the number of such employees performing such services and their work and the sums paid to each: Provided, That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed eight thousand dollars during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven.

The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are further authorized to employ temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics, as may be required in connection with water-department work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof; said laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by existing law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriation under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred.

SEC. 5. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to employ in the execution of work the cost of which is payable from the appropriation account created in the District appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, approved April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four, and known as the "Miscellaneous trust-fund deposits, District of Columbia," all necessary inspectors, overseers, foremen, sewer tappers, skilled laborers, mechanics, laborers, special policemen stationed at street-railway crossings, one inspector of gas fitting, two janitors for laboratories of the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light companies, market master, assistant market master, watchman, and one laborer for the wholesale producers' market, horses, carts, and wagons, and to incur all necessary expenses incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof; such services and expenses to be paid from said appropriation account.

SEC. 6. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall not make requisitions upon the appropiations from the Treasury of the United States for a larger amount during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven than they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues, including drawback certificates, of said District, except as otherwise provided herein.

SEC. 7. That until and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred

and seven, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to advance, on the requisition of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, made in the manner now prescribed by law, out of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary from time to time to meet the general expenses of said District, as authorized by Congress, and to reimburse the Treasury for the portion of said advances payable by the District of Columbia out of the taxes and revenues collected for the support of the government thereof: Provided, That all advances made under this Act and under the Acts of February eleventh, nineteen hundred and one, June first, nineteen hundred and two, March third, nineteen hundred and three, April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four, and March third, nineteen hundred and five, not reimbursed to the Treasury of the United States on or before June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, shall be reimbursed to said Treasury out of the revenues of the District of Columbia from time to time, within five years, beginning July first, nineteen hundred and seven, together with interest thereon at the rate of two per centum per annum until so reimbursed: Provided further, That the Auditor for the State and other Departments and the auditor of the District of Columbia shall each annually report the amount of such advances, stating the account for each fiscal year separately, and also the reimbursements made under this section, together with the balances remaining, if any, due to the United States: And provided further, That nothing contained herein shall be so construed as to require the United States to bear any part of the cost of acquisition of land for street extensions, and all advances heretofore or hereafter made for this purpose by the Secretary of the Treasury shall be repaid in full from the revenues of the District of Columbia.

SEC. 8. That all laws and parts of laws to the extent that they are inconsistent with this Act are repealed.

Approved, June 27, 1906.

Total, District of Columbia Act.

[In addition to the appropriations for the District of Columbia made in the foregoing Act, contracts are authorized thereby to be entered into, subject to future appropriations by Congress, aggregating $40,000. For details, see p. 766.]

$10, 138, 672. 16

FORTIFICATION APPROPRIATION ACT. 1

[PUBLIC-NO. 292.]

By the 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, approved June 25, 1906.

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 money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be available until expended, namely:

FORTIFICATIONS AND OTHER WORKS OF DEFENSE.

For modernizing older emplacements, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars

For construction of fire-control stations and accessories, including purchase of lands and rights of way, and for the purchase, installation, operation, and maintenance of necessary lines and means of electrical communication, including telephones, dial and other telegraphs, wiring and all special instruments, apparatus, and materials, coast signal apparatus, and salaries of electrical experts, engineers, and other necessary employees, connected with the use of coast artillery; for the purchase, manufacture, and test of range finders and other instruments for fire control at the fortifications, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, seven hundred thousand dollars

For purchase and installation of searchlights for the defenses of our most important harbors, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For the protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications for which there may be no special appropriation available, two hundred thousand dollars

For preparation of plans for fortifications, five thousand dollars

For tools, electrical and engine supplies and appliances, to be furnished by the Engineer Department, for the use of the troops for maintaining and operating electric light and power plants in gun and mortar batteries, thirty thousand dollars

For construction of sea walls and embankments, fifty thousand dollars

PRESERVATION AND REPAIR OF TORPEDO STRUCTURES: For preservation and repair of structures erected for the torpedo defense of the United States, ten thousand dollars

For the construction of mining casemates, cable galleries, torpedo storehouses, cable tanks, and other structures necessary for the operation, preservation, and care of submarine mines and their accessories, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, to be expended by the Engineer Department

It shall be the duty of the Secretary of War to apply the money herein and hereafter appropriated for fortifications and other works of defense, in carrying on the various works, by contract or otherwise, as may be most economical and advantageous to the Government. Where said works are done by contract, such contract shall be made after sufficient public advertisement for proposals, in such manner and form as the Secretary of War shall prescribe; and such contracts shall be made with the lowest responsible bidders, accompanied by such securities as the Secretary of War shall require, con

$150,000.00

700, 000. 00 125,000.00

200, 000. 00 5,000.00

30,000.00

50,000.00

10, 000. 00

175,000.00

ditioned for the faithful prosecution and completion of the work according to such contract.

[Total amount for Fortifications and other Works of Defense, $1,445,000.]

ARMAMENT OF FORTIFICATIONS.

For the purchase, manufacture, and test of machine and automatic guns, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, thirtythree thousand dollars

For the purchase, manufacture, and test of mountain, field, and siege cannon, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, five hundred thousand dollars..

For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for machine and automatic guns, and for mountain, field, and siege cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars.

For the purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon for coast defense, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, one hundred and seventy-four thousand dollars

For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

For the purchase, manufacture, and test of inspecting instruments for the manufacture of cannon, carriages, and ammunition; range finders and other instruments for fire control in field batteries, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, eighty-three thousand dollars

For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition, subcaliber tubes, and other accessories for seacoast artillery practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars...

For the alteration and maintenance of the mobile artillery, including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work and the expenses of the mechanics engaged thereon, fifty thousand dollars....

For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition, subcaliber tubes, and other accessories for mountain, field, and siege artillery practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, seventy-seven thousand dollars

For the alteration and maintenance of the seacoast artillery, including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work and the expenses of the mechanics engaged thereon, three hundred and twenty thousand dollars: Provided, That the unexpended balance of thirty-nine thousand three hundred and two dollars and sixteen cents of the forty thousand dollars appropriated by Act of March third, nineteen hundred and three, for cast-steel top carriages for twelve-inch mortars, is hereby made available for the purposes above named.

[Total amount for Armament of Fortifications, $2,072,000.]

PROVING GROUND, SANDY HOOK, NEW JERSEY.

For current expenses and maintenance of the ordnance proving ground, Sandy Hook, New Jersey, including expenses incident to the transportation of men and material therefor, general repairs and altera

$33,000.00

500,000.00

160, 000. 00

174, 000. 00

325,000.00

83,000.00

350,000. 00

50,000.00

77,000.00

320,000.00