Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-03-21

Done at the City OF. Washington this frs
day of June, in the year of our Lord on
thousand eight hundred and seventy-two. an
rsoot of the Independence of the Unite q
o7'' States of America the ninety-sixth.
a U. s. GRANT.
HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State.
FORTY SECOND CONGRESS. SEss. II.
ca. BIG. 1872. @ 10
For modification and repair of buildings, five
thousand dollars. In-, Is -
For erection of new chapel, five thousand
dollars.
For repairs of instruments for general service
of the corps of engineers ten thousand dollars.
For purchase of seige and mining material,
and for simple Photographic apparatus for copy
ing MAPS one thousand dollars. .t - ia
For expenses OF trials with torpedoes for har-
Dor and land defense, and material for same,
ten thousand dollars. s..e ss 81 pf-. =
For the ordinance service required to defray
the current expenses at the arsenals of receiv-
ing stores and issuing arms and other ordinance
| supplies; ofpolice and Office duties of rents,
tons. fuel and lights for stationery. and office
furniture; of tools and instruments for use; of
public animals, forage, and vehicles incidental
expenses of the ordinance service, including
those attending practical trials and tests of or.
dinance small arms, and other ordinance sup
plies, two hundred thousand dollars. i -ar -.
For manufacturing metallic ammunition for
small arms, one hundred and twenty five thou
sand dollars. -s..,-3 "a r
For overhauling, preserving, and cleaning
new ordinance stores on hand in the arsenals
seventy five thousand dollars.
For sea coast cannon, and carriages for the
same one hundred and twenty thousand dol
lars. al .a3I.-.i
For experiments and tests of heavy ,ri1ed
ordinance, two hundred and seventy thousand
dollars: Provided, That this appropriation shall
be applied to at least three models of heavy
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officers to be appointed by the Secretary Of
War, which report shall include both classes,
breech and muzzle loading cannon, and the
powder and projectiles necessary for testing the
same shall be supplied from stores on hand.
For constructing and testing Mofats breech
for testing James Crocket's graduating and
accelerating cartridge, and for experimenting
with patent metallic cartridge of Willis T..
Moore, and other Improvements in ammunition,
five thousand dollars.
For purchase and manufacture of other or
dinance stores to fill requisition of troops, fifty
thousand dollars .' ..-..s. .' $50 81
For manufacture of arms at the national
armory, one hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars Provided, That no part of this appropria-
ton shall be expended until a breech loading
system for mnskets and carbines shall have
been adopted for the military service upon the
recommendation Of the board to be appointed
by the Secretary of War, which board shall
consist of not less than five officers, as follows:
one general officer, one ordinance officer, and
three officers of the line, one to be taken from
the cavalry, one from the infantry, and one
from the artillery And provided further, That
the system, when so adopted, shall be only one
to be used by the ordinance department in the
manufacture of muskets and carbines for the
military service and no royalty shall be paid
by the government of the United States for the
use of said patent to any of its officers or en-
ployees, or for any pantent in which said
officers or employees may be directly or indi-
rectly interested. ..f.s .- ..,r..f = II
Sec. 2 That hereafter it shall be illegrl to
brand, mark, or tattoo on the body of any
soldier by sentence of court martial and the
word corporal shall be stricken from the
forty fifth of the rules and articles for the
government of the armies the United States.
Approved, June 6, 1872 it.