Equipment (exclusive of Ammunition) for a Six 3.2-inch Field Battery, etc.-Continued. SADDLER'S TOOLS (CHEST). 1 saddler's tool chest (handled), (in chest compartment). 1 knife, round. 1 knife, shoe. 1 draw-gauge. 6 awls, stitching, handled (assorted). 1 rivet set (two holes). 1 hand ax, No. 7. 1 hammer, claw. 4 chisels, framing-34-inch, 1-inch, 11⁄2inch, and 2-inch. 3 gouges, framing-2-inch, 1-inch, 11⁄2inch. 1 screw wrench, 12-inch. 1 plane, jack. 1 plane, smoothing. 1 revolving punch, four tubes, Nos. 4, 5, 1 spokeshave. 6, and 7. 1 claw tool. 1 compasses, 6-inch. 1 creaser (wood). 1 cutting nippers, 10-inch. 1 pair shears, 6-inch blade, 1 hammer, riveting. 1 edge tool, No. 2. 1 rule (2-foot), No. 18 (2-fold). 1 oilstone. 1 pliers (large), 6-inch. 1 driving punch, No. 5. 1 stitching horse, complete. 2 small canvas bags for small stores. CARPENTER'S AND WHEELWRIGHT'S TOOLS (CHEST). 1 carpenter's and wheelwright's tool chest, handled (in chest compartment). 1 brace with twelve bits, assorted. 1 drawing knife, 12-inch. 1 handsaw, 20-inch. 1 ripsaw, 26-inch. 1 rule (2-foot, No. 72, 4-fold, Stanley. 10 brad awls, assorted, with (and contained in) handle. 1 square, trying, 9-inch. 1 awl, scribing. 12 files, saw, assorted-4-inch and 6-inch. 1 rasp, wood, 10-inch. 1 file, wood, 10-inch. 1 oiler, brass. 1 oilstone, 8-inch. Supplies, Cleaning Material, Spare Parts, etc., in Battery Material for Cleaning and Preservation-Continued. BLACKSMITH'S TOOLS (FORGE 1 forge, portable, Empire (modified for Army use). 2 aprons (leather), smith's. 1 hammer, hand, handled. 1 hammer, riveting. 1 hammer, shoeing. 1 pair tongs, for holding 14-inch iron. 1 pair tongs, for holding 1-inch iron. 1 pair tongs, smith's, 11-inch. 1 chisel, handled (for cutting hot iron). 1 chisel, handled (for cutting cold iron). 1 fore punch and creaser (on one handle). 1 chisel, hand, cold. 1 pritchel. 1 shoeing rasp, 16-inch. 1 flat bastard file, 12-inch. 1 round punch, hand. Equipment for the Personnel of a Light Battery of Six Guns. GENERAL ORDERS, No. 42. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, May 11, 1898. The following act and joint resolution of Congress are published for the information and guidance of all concerned: I. 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. 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, to be available until expended, namely: FORTIFICATIONS AND OTHER WORKS OF DEFENSE. For construction of gun and mortar batteries, three million dollars. For the procurement of land, or right pertaining thereto, needed for the site, location, construction, or prosecution of works, for fortifications and coast defenses, three hundred thousand dollars. For the protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications for which there may be no special appropriation available, one hundred thousand dollars. For preparation of plans for fortifications, five thousand dollars. For construction of sea walls and embankments, fifty-five thousand dollars. For the purchase of submarine mines and necessary appliances to operate them for closing the channels leading to our principal seaports, needful casemates, cable galleries, and so forth, to render it possible to operate submarine mines, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. ARMAMENT OF FORTIFICATIONS. For finishing and assembling coast-defense guns of eightinch, ten-inch, and twelve-inch caliber, and one type sixteeninch gun, at the Army Gun Factory, three hundred and eleven thousand five hundred dollars. For oil-tempered and annealed steel for high-power coastdefense guns of eight-inch, ten-inch, and twelve-inch caliber, three hundred and sixty-nine thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That no contract for oil-tempered and annealed steel for high-power coast-defense guns and mortars shall be made at a price exceeding twenty-three cents per pound: Provided, That in the discretion of the Secretary of War, a portion of this money may be used for the purchase of material for steel-wire seacoast guns. For purchase or manufacture of carriages for coast-defense guns of eight, ten, and twelve inch calibers, seven hundred and sixty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase or manufacture of steel breech-loading mortars of twelve-inch caliber, one million one hundred and eighty-s -seven thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. For purchase or manufacture of carriages for steel breechloading coast-defense mortars of twelve-inch caliber, five hundred and fifty-one thousand two hundred dollars. For powders and projectiles for a reserve supply for armament of fortifications, nine hundred and fifty thousand six hundred and eighteen dollars. For rapid-fire guns, including their mounts, five hundred and forty-five thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars. For coast-defense guns of eight, ten, and twelve inch caliber, manufactured by contract under the provisions of the fortifications acts approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, two hundred and twenty-four thousand six hundred and fifty-six dollars. For powders and projectiles for the proof of coast-defense guns of eight-inch, ten-inch, and twelve-inch caliber, forty thousand dollars. For powder and projectiles for the proof of twelve-inch breech-loading mortars, twenty-six thousand dollars. For armor plates and deck plates for the test of armorpiercing and deck-piercing projectiles, twenty-four thousand dollars. For armament chests, including tools for coast-defense guns and mortars, twenty-six thousand dollars. For metallic carriages for machine guns, calibers thirty |