For carriages for field mortars of three and six-tenths inch caliber.
For carriages for siege rifles of five-inch caliber.

For carriages for siege howitzers of seven-inch caliber.

For alteration of existing carriages for ten-inch and fifteen-inch smooth-bore guns to adapt them to present service conditions.

For machines, and for improvement of existing plant at the Watertown Arsenal, Massachusetts, for the manufacture of seacoast gun carriages, including those of new design. For sights and implements for guns and for fuses..

For machinery and tools for the manufacture of fuses at Frankford Arsenal, Pennsylvania.

For inspecting instruments, gauges, and templets, for the manufacture of cannon...
For powders for issues to the service, namely: For siege guns; for seacoast mortars of
twelve-inch caliber; for seacoast high-power steel guns; in all.

For projectiles for issues to the service, namely: For steel shell or shrapnel for field
guns; for cast-iron projectiles for field and siege guns; for cast-iron projectiles for
seacoast mortars of twelve-inch caliber; for cast-iron projectiles for seacoast high-
power steel guns; in all.

For steel shell for siege and seacoast cannon..

For purchase and erection of steel plates for representative experiments upon armored decks.

For steel armor-piercing projectiles for seacoast guns..

For purchase and erection of armor plate for testing armor-piercing projectiles.
For testing one seacoast breech-loading rifled mortar, steel, of twelve-inch caliber.
For current expenses and maintenance of the ordnance proving ground, Sandy Hook,
New Jersey, including general repairs, alterations, and accessories, and including a
crane, incidental to testing and proving ordnance, including hire of assistants for Ord-
nance Board, skilled mechanical labor, purchase of instruments and other supplies,
building and repairing bntts and targets, clearing and grading ranges, and extending
iron tramway.
For the necessary expenses of ordnance officers while temporarily employed at the prov-
ing ground and absent from their proper stations, at the rate of two dollars and fifty
cents per diem while so employed, and for the compensation of draughtsmen while
employed in the Army Ordnance Bureau on ordnance construction, as provided in the
fortifications act approved September twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-
eight.

For purchase of hoisting engine and steam shovel for grading, and for building and re-
pairing proof butts at the proving ground, Sandy Hook, New Jersey.

For purchase of oil-tempered and annealed steel for high-power coast-defense guns of
eight, ten, and twelve inch caliber, in quality and dimensions conforming to specifica-
tions, subject to inspection at each stage of the manufacture, and including all the
parts of each caliber.

Prorided, That no contract for the expenditure of any portion of the money herein
provided, or that may be hereafter provided, for the purchase of steel shall be made until

the same shall have been submitted to public competition by the Department by advertisement.

For carriages for steel breech-loading seacoast guns, procured under the fortification act
of September twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.
For two gun carriages of the disappearing type:

Together with the sum of thirteen thousand five hundred dollars appropriated for one
ten-inch disappearing gun carriage by the act of March second, eighteen hundred
and eighty-nine, which sum is hereby reappropriated for the object herein mentioned.
Army Gun Factory, Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, New York: For boring lathe and
planer adapted to the manufacture of siege guns and howitzers in small gun shop at
the Army Gun Factory.

To complete Army Gun Factory building at Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, New York,
by the erection of south wing, inclusive of ways for traveling cranes.
For machinery, tools, power plant, and fixtures adapted to the manufacture of steel
seacoast guns, to complete the equipment of the south wing of Army Gun Factory at
Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, New York.

For iron framework, with adjustable platforms and centers for fitting up shrinkage pit,
and for drainage of shrinkage pit at Army Gun Factory.

For locomotive and cars or trucks for shifting guns and material and transportation
between gun factory and river wharf.

For increase of facilities at Watervliet Arsenal for shipment by water, including re-
pairs to wharf, dredging, and extending and setting up fifty-ton hand-power loading

crane.

Board of Ordnance and Fortification: To enable the Board to make all needful and pro-
per purehases, experiments, and tests to ascertain, with a view to their utilization by
the Government, the most effective guns, small arms, cartridges, projectiles, fuses,
explosives, torpedoes, armor plates, and other implements and engines of war, and to
purchase, or cause to be manufactured under authority of the Secretary of War, such
guns, carriages, armor plates, and other war materials and articles as may, in the
judgment of the Board, be necessary in the proper discharge of the duty devolved
upon it by the act approved September twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-
eight.

Total..

2,290, 803.00

2, 140, 453. 00 Balance, $150,350, unallotted.

Appropriations made for the objects specified to be expended under the direct supervision of the Board-Continued.

SUMMARY TO OCTOBER 30, 1891.

Appendix B.

SPECIFICATIONS GOVERNING THE MANUFACTURE AND INSPECTION OF STEEL FOR CANNON, PRESCRIBED BY THE ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT, U. S. ARMY.

PART I.-GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS.

1. Metal.

The metal used shall be low steel, melted by the open-hearth process, and cast into suitable ingots at the works of the contractor. For special purposes and for some small parts crucible steel shall be used when required.

2. Marking forgings during manufacture.

The manufacturers shall devise and use plans for marking forgings, picces for forgings cut from ingots, etc., which shall determine with certainty that end or part of the forging, piece, etc., which was nearest to the top of the ingot as cast, and in case more than one piece is cut from any one ingot, the relative positions of the several pieces in the ingot, and which shall in all cases assure the identification of the forging, piece, etc., with the ingot from which it was made or cut. They shall also determine with certainty the weight of metal cut from the top and from the bottom of each ingot used.

3. Condition of material when delivered.

All the forgings shall be rough finished, except when, for some parts of breech mechanism, it is specifically stipulated that smooth forgings are required; they shall conform strictly to the dimensions shown on the drawings accompanying the contract. The United States requires sound and reliable material, and the pieces shall be free from seams, cracks, sand, slag, folds, or other defects.

4. Allowance of metal for tests.

The manufacturers shall always allow, without cost to the United States, sufficient additional length or size to the pieces to furnish the test specimens required. If no particular part of the piece is designated for the specimens, the instructions of the senior inspector shall be followed.

5. Metal for manufacturers' tests.

Any metal required by the manufacturers for their own mechanical tests at the various stages of manufacture shall be provided for in additional length or size of the pieces over that required by the United States for the tests of acceptance, and in no case, unless by special authorization of the senior inspector, shall the manufacturers use for their own tests any of the metal or length of piece required by the United States.

6. Test of specimens.

If the manufacturers possess a reliable testing machine, and if the results obtained with such testing machine are found to be comparable with those obtained with the United States testing machine at Watertown Arsenal, then the Gov

ernment specimens required shall be tested by the manufacturers in such man ner as shall be prescribed by the United States and in the presence of the inspector; and the inspector shall be furnished with the original notes of the several tests that they may be worked up in his office. Tests made with the United States testing machine at Watertown Arsenal shall always be considered as standard, and any or all specimens may be tested at that place if desired by the United States. The specimens from any one piece shall be tested by the manufacturers within three days of the time they are all finished, except for good and sufficient reasons, to be adjudged as such by the senior inspector. If the manufacturers have no reliable testing machine then all the specimens shall be tested at Watertown Arsenal.

7. Shipment of specimens.

All specimens which are to be tested at Watertown Arsenal, excepting those special additional specimens taken by the United States for information, shall be sent to that place by the manufacturers, by express, at their own expense. All specimens shall pass through the senior inspector's hands for inspection and record.

8. Cost of testing specimens.

All tests made by the manufacturers shall be without cost to the United States. If tests are made at Watertown Arsenal, then the actual cost of testing and recording specimens shall be charged to the manufacturers.

9. Reports of tests.

Summaries of the results of tests of specimens made at Watertown Arsenal will be furnished the manufacturers for their information, but shall be regarded as strictly confidential prior to their publication by the Government.

10. Provisional acceptance.

Pieces which have filled the requirements of manufacture, which are accepted as to physical qualities, which are satisfactory as to dimensions, and which show no defects, shall be received by the United States provisionally, but the manufacturers shall hold themselves liable to promptly replace any piece which may be condemned at any time during machine finishing for any developed effect.

11. Delivery.

A piece shall be considered delivered when it is received provisionally by the United States. The manufacturers shall place such pieces, without charge, on board cars, where they can be taken up by a convenient shipping line, for transportation by the United States.

12. Weight of delivered pieces.

The weight of all pieces shall be determined in the inspector's presence on reliable and accurate scales, which the inspector may verify at any time. The weight should closely correspond with the calculated weight, assuming a cubic inch of steel to weigh 0.285 of a pound; should there be any great variation, and the inspector can not accurately check the weight, then the calculated weight at the required rough finished dimensions shall be taken as correct.

13. Time allowed to replace pieces not accepted or rejected.

If a piece is not accepted on account of unsatisfactory physical qualities shown by the results of test of the first set of specimens presented, the manufacturer shall be allowed six weeks in the case of tubes and jackets for cannon of 8 inches caliber and over, and four weeks in the case of all other pieces, from the date of notification of nonacceptance, in which to present additional specimens, if additional treatment or testing is allowed.