APPENDIX A.

Table showing allotments made by the Board of Ordnance and Fortification from July 1, 1916, to June 30, 1917, including statement of unexpended balances.

Balance available_--

ACT OF AUGUST 18, 1890.

$593. 39

1916.

ACTS OF 1892 TO 1916, INCLUSIVE.

July 1. Balance on hand as shown by the annual re

July 7. Allotment of Nov. 6, 1914, for Decker submarine mine_.

1.29

Oct. 25. Allotment of July 2, 1915, for Greble fuze setter

76.00

1917.

Feb. 2. Allotment of Oct. 1, 1915, for motors for ponton boats

136.50

Allotment of Oct. 1, 1915, for small search-
lights, star bombs, and flares__.

350.25

May 4. Allotment of Dec. 3, 1915, for antisubmarine net

2,000.00

454, 668. 08

4,500.00

1,500.00

tions

62, 000. 00

Aug. 19. Railroad mount for 7-inch howitzer

Sept. 12. Armored railroad car, additional_

Oct. 24. Experimental parapet for seacoast fortifica

Jan. 24. General expenses

Feb. 2. Test of trinitrotoluol_.

Turntable mount for siege artillery.

19. Oil-electric self-propelled armored railway

car_.

Submarine detector_.

May 4. Experimental parapet for seacoast fortifica

tions, additional

Railroad mount for 7-inch howitzer, additional
General expenses--.

20.53 1,000.00

4, 000. 00
5,000.00
3,500.00

74, 000. 00

200.00

8,000.00
7,000.00

Balance available July 1, 1917.

4, 000. 00

176,820. 53

277, 847.55

Statement of appropriations made for experimental work of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification since its organization.

$5,000 for expenses.

Remarks.

$15,000 for torpedo howitzers; $1,0001 for expenses of selection of site for proving ground; $40,000 for counterpoise battery; $50,000 for movable submarine torpedoes; 2 $125,000 for test of experimental guns.

$100,000 for purchases abroad; $5,000 for expenses; $50,000 for pneumatic gun carriages, segmental guns, and high explosives.

$5,000 was carried in the sundry civil bill to pay salary of the civilian member.

$130,000 of amounts appropriated in prior years set aside for Emery gun carriage.

$50,000 for pneumatic disappearing gun carriage.

1895.

100,000

$50,000 for Howell carriage; $10,000 for Emery loading apparatus; $40,000 for Gatling cast-steel gun.

1898.

100,000

1899.

100, 000