Chapter 792.

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CHAP. 792.— Ac Act Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, and for other purposes. June 6, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the followingMilitary Academy appropriations. sums be, and the same tire hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year endi ng June thirtieth nineteen hundred and one. permanent establishment.Permanent establishment.

For pay of seven professors, twenty-two thousand live hundredPay of professors. dollars; For pay of one chaplain, two thousand dollars; For pay of one associate professor of mathematics, two thousand dollars: For pay of three hundred and eighty-one cadets, at five hundred andCadets. forty dollars each, one hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars; In all, for permanent establishment, two hundred and eleven thou-sand five hundred dollars; For extra pay of officers of the Army on detached service at theExtra to officers.

Military Academy: For pay of one Superintendent of the United States Military Academy (colonel), in addition to pay as captain, mounted, one thousand seven hundred dollars; For one commandant of cadets (lieutenant-colonel), in addition to pay as captain, mounted, one thousand two hundred dollars; For pay of one instructor of practical military engineering (major), in addition to pay as captain, mounted, five hundred dollars; For pay of one instructor of ordnance and science of gunnery (major), in addition to pay as captain, mounted, five hundred dollars;

For pay of eight assistant professors (captains), in addition to pay as first lieutenants, not mounted, four thousand dollars; For pay of five senior instructors of cavalry, artillery, and infantry646 tactics, ordnance and gunnery, and practical military engineering (captains), in addition to pay as first lieutenants, not mounted, two thousand five hundred dollars; For pay of four assistant instructors of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics (captains), in addition to pay as second lieutenants, not mounted, two thousand four hundred dollars;

For pay of one adjutant in addition to pay as second lieutenant, not mounted, six hundred dollars; For pay of one line officer on duty in Quartermaster’s Department in addition to pay as first lieutenant, mounted, four hundred dollars; For pay of one treasurer and quartermaster, and commissary of cadets, in addition to pay as captain, not mounted, seven hundred dollars; For additional pay of librarian, one hundred and twenty dollars; Longevity pay.For additional pay of professors and officers (and officers on increased rank) for length of service, nine thousand five hundred and fifteen dollars and twenty cents;

In all, for extra pay of officers of Army on detached service at the Military Academy, twenty-four thousand one hundred and thirty-five dollars and twenty cents; Pay of enlisted men.For pay of the Military Academy Band, field musicians, general army service, cavalry detachment, artillery detachment, and enlisted men on detached service, and extra pay for enlisted men on special duty: Band.For pay of military band, twelve enlisted musicians, at thirty-four dollars per month, four thousand eight hundred and ninety-six dollars;

Twelve enlisted musicians, at twenty-five dollars per month, three thousand six hundred dollars; Sixteen enlisted musicians, at seventeen dollars per month, three thousand two hundred and sixty-four dollars; Additional pay for length of service, two thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars; Clothing on discharge, eight hundred dollars: Field musicians.For pay of field musicians, one sergeant, two hundred and sixteen dollars; One corporal, one hundred and eighty dollars; Thirteen privates, two thousand and twenty-eight dollars;

Additional pay for length of service, one hundred and forty-four dollars; Clothing on discharge, five hundred dollars; General Army service.For pay of General Army Service: One first sergeant, three hundred dollars; Six sergeants, one thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars: Two cooks, four hundred and thirty-two dollars; Seven corporals, one thousand two hundred and sixty dollars; One hundred and nine privates, sixteen thousand nine hundred and ninety-four dollars; Additional pay for length of service, seven thousand eight hundred and eighteen dollars;

Clothing on discharge, two thousand seven hundred and six dollars and forty-seven cents; Cavalry detachment.For pay of cavalry detachment: One first sergeant, three hundred dollars; Five sergeants, one thousand and eighty dollars; One cook, two hundred and sixteen dollars; Four corporals, seven hundred and twenty dollars; Two farriers and blacksmiths, three hundred and sixty dollars; One saddler, one hundred and eighty dollars; One wagoner, one hundred and sixty-eight dollars; 647 Sixty privates (cavalry), nine thousand three hundred and sixty dollars;

Additional pay for length of service, one thousand five hundred dollars; Clothing on discharge, one thousand six hundred dollars; Interest on deposits due enlisted men, one hundred dollars; Traveling allowances to enlisted men on discharge, six hundred dollars; For pay of artillery detachment: One first sergeant, three hundredArtillery detachment. dollars; Three sergeants, six hundred and forty-eight dollars; One cook, two hundred and sixteen dollars; Three corporals, five hundred and forty dollars;

Two trumpeters, three hundred and twelve dollars; Thirty privates, four thousand six hundred and eighty dollars; Additional pay for length of service, one thousand dollars; Clothing on discharge, one thousand dollars; Interest on deposits due enlisted men, one hundred dollars; Traveling allowances to enlisted men on discharge, six hundred dollars; miscellaneous.Miscellaneous. For extra pay of one ordnance soldier as draftsman and lithographicExtra pay, enlisted. printer, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and forty-three dollars and fifty cents;

For extra pay of one ordnance soldier as machinist, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and forty-three dollars and fifty cents; For extra pay of one ordnance soldier as clerk, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and forty-three dollars and fifty cents; For extra pay of one enlisted man employed as clerk in the offices of the adjutant. United States Military Academy, at fifty cents per day. one hundred and eighty-two dollars and fifty cents; ‘ For extra pay of two enlisted men employed as clerks in the office of the commandant of cadets, at fifty cents each per day, three hundred and sixty-five dollars;

For extra pay of four enlisted men as printers, at headquarters United States Military Academy, at fifty cents each per day, six hundred and twenty-six dollars; For extra pay of one enlisted man employed as watchman, at thirty-five cents per day, one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents; For extra pay of one enlisted man employed as trumpeter at the cadet barracks, at thirty-five cents per day, one hundred and twenty--seven dollars and seventy-five cents; For extra pay of one enlisted man employed in the philosophical department observatory as a mechanic, at fifty cents per clay, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents;

For extra pay of one enlisted man employed in the philosophical department in care of apparatus, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents; For extra pay of one enlisted man employed in the chemical department, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents; For extra pay of one enlisted man employed in the department of drawing, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents; For extra pay of two enlisted men (cavalrymen) when performing special skilled mechanical labor, at fifty cents each per day, three hundred and thirteen dollars; 648 For extra pay of one enlisted man employed as saddler, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents;

For extra pay of one enlisted man on duty in charge of engineer property and fatigue, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents; For extra pay of one enlisted man as assistant and attendant at the library, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and forty-three dollars and fifty cents; For extra pay of one enlisted man as clerk in the department of practical military engineering and to the officer in charge of water-works and works of construction at the Military Academy, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents: *Provided*,*Provisos*.No duplication.

That the extra pay provided by the seventeen preceding paragraphs shall not be paid to any enlisted man who receives extra-dutyAllowance of extra pay, less 20 per cent war increase, etc.Vol. 29, p. 518. pay under existing laws or Army regulations: *Provided further*, That the allowance of extra pay, as provided for in the Acts’ of February tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven (Twenty-ninth Statutes at Large, page five hundred and eighteen). March fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight (Thirtieth Statutes at Large, page two hundred andVol. 30, p. 255. fifty-five), and February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine (Thirtieth Statutes at Large, page two hundred and ninety-five), and of extra-duty pay to enlisted men of the Army stationed at the Military Academy, who have been placed on extra duty in obedience to the orders of the Superintendent, is hereby authorized and its payment directed, less the twenty per centum war increase already paid,[R.

S., sec. 3691, p. 729](/us/rs/sec3691/p729).Vol. 30, p. 365. the said payment being excepted from the operation of section thirty-six hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes and section six of the Act approved April twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight (Thirtieth Statutes at Large, page three hundred and sixty-five). In all, for pay of Military Academy Band, field musicians, general army service, cavalry detachment, artillery detachment, enlisted men on detached service and extra pay of enlisted men on special duty at the Military Academy, seventy-eight thousand three hundred and five dollars and seventy-nine cents;

Pay of civilians, clerks, etcpay of civilians. For pay of the master of the sword, one thousand six hundred dollars; For pay of one teacher of music, one thousand four hundred dollars: For clerk to the disbursing officer and quartermaster, one thousand five hundred dollars; For clerk to adjutant in charge of cadet records, one thousand five hundred dollars; For one clerk to the adjutant, one thousand two hundred dollars; For clerk to treasurer, one thousand five hundred dollars;

For one clerk to the quartermaster, one thousand two hundred dollars; For pay of librarian’s assistant, one thousand five hundred dollars; For pay of one superintendent of gas works, one thousand five hundred dollars; For pay of engineer of heating and ventilating apparatus for the academic building, the cadet barracks and office building, cadet hospital. chapel, and philosophical building, including the library, one thousand five hundred dollars; For pay of assistant engineer of same, one thousand dollars;

For pay of eight firemen, four thousand eight hundred dollars; For pay of one draftsman in department of civil and military engineering, one thousand dollars; For pay of mechanic and attendant skilled in the technical prepa649 rations necessary to chemical and electrical lectures and to the instruction in mineralogy and geology, one thousand dollars; For pay of mechanic assistant in department of natural and experimental philosophy, one thousand dollars; For pay of custodian of new academy building, one thousand dollars;

For pay of one electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars: For pay of one civilian plumber, one thousand two hundred dollars; For pay of assistant plumber, seven hundred and twenty dollars: For pay of one scavenger, at sixty dollars a month, seven hundred and twenty dollars; For compensation of chapel organist, two hundred dollars; For pay of keeper of post cemetery, nine hundred dollars; For pay of engineer and janitor for Memorial Hall, nine hundred dollars; For pay of printer at headquarters United States Military Academy, one thousand two hundred dollars;

For pay of one janitress Memorial Hall, six hundred dollars; In all, to civilians employed at Military Academy, thirty-one thousand eight hundred and forty dollars. For current and ordinary expenses as follows:Current expenses. For expenses of the Board of Visitors, including mileage, threeBoard of Visitors. thousand dollars; Contingencies for Superintendent of the Academy, one thousandSuperintendent. dollars; Repairs and improvements, namely: Timber, planks, boards, joists,Repairs. wall strips, laths, shingles, slate, tin, sheet lead, zinc, nails, screws, locks, hinges, glass, paints, turpentine, oils, varnish, brushes, stone, brick, flag, lime, cement, plaster, hair, sewer and drain pipe, blasting powder, fuse, iron, steel, tools, machinery, mantels, and other similar materials, renewing roofs, and for pay of overseer and master builder and citizen mechanics, and labor employed upon repairs and improvements that cannot be done by enlisted men. twenty-live thousand dollars;

For fuel and apparatus, namely: Coal, wood, charcoal, stoves, grates,Fuel and lights. heaters, furnaces, ranges and fixtures, lire bricks, clay, sand, and for repairs of steam-heating apparatus, grates, stoves, heaters, ranges, and furnaces, mica, twenty-five thousand dollars;Postage and telegrams.Stationery. For gas pipes, gas and electric fixtures, electric lamps and lighting supplies, lamp-posts, gasometers and retorts, and annual repairs of the same, one thousand five hundred dollars;

For fuel for cadets’ mess hall, shops, and laundry, three thousand dollars; For postage and telegrams, two hundred dollars; For stationery, namely: Blank books, paper, envelopes, quills, steel pens, rubbers, erasers, pencils, mucilage, wax. wafers, folders, fasteners. rules, tiles, ink, inkstands, typewriters, typewriting supplies, pen-holders. tape, desk knives, blotting pads, and rubber bands, nine hundred dollars; For transportation of materials, discharged cadets, and ferriages,Transportation. one thousand dollars;

Printing: For printing and binding, type, materials for office,Printing. including repairs to motor and machinery, diplomas for graduates, annual registers, blanks, and monthly reports to parents of cadets, one thousand dollars; For department of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics: TanbarkDepartment of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics. or other proper cover for riding hall, to be purchased in open market upon written order of the Superintendent, five hundred dollars;

For repairing camp stools and amp furniture, one hundred dollars; For repairs and improvement of dressing rooms, walks, and dock at swimming places, two hundred and twenty dollars; 650 For stationery, typewriting supplies and repairs, for use of instructor and assistant instructors of tactics, one hundred and fifty dollars; For books and maps, binding books and mounting maps, one hundred and seventy-five dollars; For silk and worsted sashes for cadet officers and acting officers, two hundred and twenty dollars;

For foils, masks, belts, fencing gloves, and fencing jackets, gaiters, and repairs, four hundred dollars; For soap used in scrubbing cadet barracks, fifty dollars; For door mats for cadet barracks, sinks, and guardhouse, fifty dollars; For plumes for cadet officers and acting officers, seventy-five dollars; For furniture for cadet barracks, three thousand four hundred dollars; For Welsbach lamps with the necessary shades, mica chimneys, and mantels for rooms in cadet barracks, five hundred dollars;

Department of civil and military engineering.For department of civil and military engineering: Models, maps, purchase and repair of instruments, apparatus, drawing boards, desks, chairs, shelves, and eases for books and instruments, text-books, books of reference, and stationery for the use of instructors, and contingencies, one thousand dollars; Department of natural, etc., philosophy.For department of natural and experimental philosophy: For additions to apparatus to illustrate the principles of mechanics, acoustics, optics, and astronomy, one thousand dollars;

For books of reference, scientific periodicals, text-books, stationery, materials, and repairs, four hundred dollars; For repairs to the observatory buildings, repairs to clocks, and fittings to new lecture room, four hundred and fifty dollars; Department of instruction in mathematics.For department of instruction in mathematics, namely: For text-books, books of reference, binding, and stationery, one hundred and fifty dollars; For tables of logarithms, fifty dollars; For rules and triangles, twenty-five dollars;

For purchase of geometrical drawings and models, one hundred dollars; For contingencies, fifty dollars; Department of chemistry, etc.For department of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology: Chemicals, chemical apparatus, glass and porcelain ware, paper, wire, sheet metal, ores, photographic apparatus and materials, nine hundred dollars; For rough specimens, fossils, and for apparatus and materials to be used in the practical determinations of mineralogical and geological specimens, pencils and paper for the practical instructions in the same branches, and for gradual increase and improvement of the cabinet, five hundred dollars;

For new cases for mineralogical and geological cabinets, five hundred dollars; For repairs and additions to electric, magnetic, pneumatic, thermic, and optical apparatus, five hundred dollars; For purchase of modern electric machinery and appliances not in the Academy, six hundred dollars; Models, maps, and diagrams, books of reference, text-books, and stationery for the use of instructors, one hundred and eighty dollars; Contingencies, one hundred dollars; Department of drawing.For department of drawing:

For drawing material for use of instructors, tacks, sponges, brushes, glue, alcohol, tumblers, saucers, towels, soap, ink, stationery, and contingent expenses, two hundred and fifty dollars: For repairs to models, desks, stretchers, racks, stands, and materials, one hundred dollars; 651 Photographic material for enlarging room and general photographic work, two hundred and fifty dollars; For slides and apparatus for lectures, fifty dollars; For books and periodicals on art. architecture, and technology, one hundred and twenty-five dollars;

Frames for retained drawings of cadets, to be hung in gallery of the Academy, fifty dollars; For binding books and periodicals and loose sheets, forty dollars: Twenty reconnaissance sketching boards, at four dollars and fifty cents each, ninety dollars; For department of modern languages: For stationery, text-books,Department of modem languages. and books of reference for use of instructors, for repairs of books and apparatus and for office furniture, and for printing examination papers, and for contingencies, three hundred and fifty dollars;

For the purchase of one office desk for the office of the Department, thirty dollars; For department of law and history: For stationery, text-books, andDepartment of law and history. books of reference for the use of instructors, maps, map fixtures, furniture, and for repairs to the same, four hundred dollars; For department of practical military engineering: For purchase andDepartment of practical military engineering. repair of instruments: transportation: purchase of tools, implements, and materials, and for extra-duty pay of engineer soldiers, as follows, namely:

For instruments for use in instructing cadets in making reconnaissances; photographic apparatus and material for field photography; drawing instruments and material for platting reconnaissances; surveying instruments; instruments and material for signaling and field telegraphy; transportation of field parties; tools and material for the preservation, augmentation, and repair of wooden pontoon, and one canvas pontoon train; sapping and mining tools and material; rope; cordage; material for rafts and for spar and trestle bridges; intrenching tools; tools and material for the repair of Fort Clinton and the batteries of the Academy, and extra-duty pay of engineer soldiers, at fifty cents per day each, when performing special skilled mechanical labor in the department of practical military engineering; for models, books of reference, and stationery, and for extra-duty pay of one engineer soldier (first sergeant) as assistant in photographic laboratory, and in charge of photographic laboratory, photographic apparatus, materials, and supplies, at fifty cents per day. one thousand two hundred dollars;

For department of ordnance and gunnery: For purchase and repairDepartment of ordinance and gunnery. of instruments, models, and apparatus, and purchase of necessary material; for the purchase of samples of arms and accouterments other than those supplied to the military service; for books of reference, text-books, stationery, and lithographic printing materials, and for contingencies, four hundred and fifty dollars; For purchase of ammunition for rapid-fire guns now on hand, three hundred dollars;

For manufacture or purchase of models of breech mechanisms of cannon, rapid-fire guns, small arms, and the various machines and tools used in their manufacture, for cadet instruction, one thousand five hundred dollars; In all, for current and ordinary expenses, seventy-nine thousand one hundred and thirty dollars. miscellaneous items and incidental expenses.Miscellaneous items and incidental expenses. For stationery for office of the treasurer. United States Military Academy, namely:

Blank books, paper, envelopes, pens, mucilage, typewriting supplies and repairs, and other items of stationery, fifty dollars; 652 For gas coal, oil, candles, lanterns, matches, chimneys and wicking for lighting the Academy building, chapel, library, cadet barracks, mess hall, shops, hospital, offices, stables and riding hall, sidewalks, camp, and wharves, six thousand five hundred dollars: For water pipe, plumbing, and repairs, three thousand dollars; For cleaning public buildings (not quarters), one thousand dollars:

For brooms, brushes, pails, tubs, soap, and cloths, two hundred dollars; For chalk, crayons, sponges, slate, rubbers, rulers, pointers, card, and toilet paper, and so forth, for recitation rooms, three hundred dollars; Library.Increase and expense of library, namely: For periodicals, stationery, binding books, and scientific, historical, biographical, and general literature, to be purchased in open market on the written order of the Superintendent, two thousand dollars; For repairing books, and for furniture and contingencies, one thou-sand dollars;

For binding pamphlets and periodicals, two hundred dollars; For carpets and furniture for cadet hospital, and for repairs of damaged articles, one hundred dollars: Contingent, academic board.For contingent funds, to be expended under the direction of the academic board: For instruments, books, repairs to apparatus, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, one thousand dollars; *Proviso*.Technical supplies.*Provided*, That all technical and scientific supplies for the departments of instruction of the Military Academy shall be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may deem best.

For renewing furniture in section rooms, and repairing the same, three hundred dollars: Musical supplies.For purchase of instruments for band, to be purchased in open market by order of the Superintendent, three hundred and fifty dollars; For purchase of reeds, pads, strings, and other materials necessary for string instruments, one hundred and fifty dollars; For repairs to instruments, music stands, and other equipments, to be purchased in open market on the order of the Superintendent, two hundred dollars;

For purchase of music for band, to be purchased in open market on the order of the Superintendent, three hundred dollars; Subsistence department.For repair of cooking utensils and the replacement of worn-out cooking utensils in the cadet subsistence department, to be expended without advertising, two hundred dollars: For repairs of chairs, tables, and other furniture in cadet subsistence department, to be expended without advertising, seventy-five dollars; For repairs, new machines, and fixtures for gymnasium, three hundred dollars:

Tearing out old wooden drying room on second floor in cadet laundry, and putting in new and improved metal drying room complete in all respects, eight hundred dollars; . For replacing, by exchange, one worn-out mangle by one large “Duplex” mangle, delivered, installed, and ready for use. one thousand dollars; For one hydraulic dampener for white trousers, to be expended without advertising, fifty dollars: For improved starch cooker, to be expended without advertising, fifty dollars;

For six truck tubs, to be expended without advertising, seventy-two dollars; Reimbursement injured clothing.For the reimbursement of cadets of the United States Military Academy for articles of clothing, military uniforms, and equipment (personal property) destroyed and ruined through fumigation, in653 eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, to prevent the spread of contagious disease, one thousand two hundred and eighty-five dollars and fifty cents; In all, for miscellaneous items and incidental expenses, twenty thousand four hundred and eighty-two dollars and fifty cents;

Buildings and grounds, Military Academy: Repairing roads andBuildings and grounds. paths, including roads and bridges on reservation, one thousand dollars; Continuing construction of breast-high wall in dangerous places, five hundred dollars; For a sea wait at river front, eight thousand one hundred and thirty dollars. Waterworks: Renewal of material in filter beds: improving ventilationWaterworks. of filter house and water house; hose for use in cleaning filter beds and water house, and for use in fire service at same; tools, implements, and materials for use of the two keepers and for repairs of siphon house, filter house, and of four and one-half miles of supply pipe; for shed for tools and storage of fuel for keeper of Round Pond, and for tool house at filter; for gauges at Round Pond and Delafield Pond, and for stairs for access to same, and all other necessary work of maintenance and repairs, one thousand two hundred dollars;

Broken stone and gravel for roads, one thousand five hundred dollars; Maintaining and improving the grounds of the post cemetery, threeCemetery. thousand dollars; Painting, calcimining, whitewashing, and repairing interior walls ofRepairs. cadet mess building, kitchen, dish pantry, bakery, dormitories, store-rooms, cold-storage rooms, and machinery rooms, and for incidental repairs about the same, to he expended without advertising, four hundred dollars; General repairs to cadet laundry building, painting interior, and for emergency incidental expenses about the building, to be expended without advertising, four hundred dollars;

Tearing out old cement floor of machinery and wash room in cadet laundry building, putting in granolithic floor, moving and resetting machinery on proper foundations, putting in new and repairing old drain pipes, seven hundred and fifty dollars: Painting, and for general incidental repairs and improvements to the cadet quartermaster's building, including storerooms, office, tailor shops, shoe-repairing shops, to be expended as required without advertising, three hundred dollars;

Putting steel ceiling in cadet mess hall—Grant Hall—six hundred dollars; Tearing out the old cement floor in “scullery” of cadet subsistence building, tearing out old sinks, grease trap, and connections now in the center of floor, and putting in granolithic floor, new sinks, improved plumbing, and connections with a new and modern style of grease trap on outside of building, one thousand dollars; Repairs to cadet barracks: For repairing and renewing plastering:—barracks. painting and calcimining four divisions; repairs to woodwork; reflooring two divisions; and for other incidental repairs to the building, two thousand three hundred dollars;

For repairs and additions to the cadet hospital:—hospital. Repainting walls and woodwork of halls, wards, lavatories, and so forth, three hundred dollars; Paraffin and turpentine for waxing and polishing floors, fifty dollars;Floor wax, etc. Materials for rebronzing radiators and piping, thirty dollars; Lockers for clothing of sick cadets in ward numbered two, one hundred dollars; Removing present defective floor in ward numbered two and replac654 ing it with tiling; also tiling walls of said ward, and removing present ceiling and substituting metal lathing and plastering with Keen’s cement, with cost of labor, four thousand dollars;

Purchase of globes, fixtures, and connections for electrical lighting in new operating room of cadet hospital, two hundred and fifty dollars; Purchase of flowers and shrubs for hospital grounds, seventy-five dollars; Purchase of Welsbach burners, droplights, mantles, tubes, and so forth, forty dollars; Sink for kitchen for cadet hospital mess, with grease trap and fixtures of the latest design, one hundred and twenty-six dollars. For materials and labor for repairs, alterations, and additions needed at the soldiers’ hospital:

Brushes, paints, glass, putty, wax, and turpentine for general repairs and waxing floors, seventy-five dollars; Painting or calcimining plastered walls, varnishing interior wood-work. and for general repairs, three hundred and twenty dollars; Painting exterior of hospital, including roof, porches, porch floors, exterior woodwork, gutters, and so forth, three hundred and seventy five dollars; Fitting up the operating room, including the removal of present floor and preparing tile floor and walls, plumbing and fixtures for sterilizing hands of operator and assistants, one thousand four hundred dollars;

Four additional lockers for clothing of enlisted men of the hospital corps, one hundred dollars; Materials and labor for steam heating the north ward of soldiers’ hospital, five hundred and thirty-five dollars: Purchase of flowers and shrubs for hospital grounds, fifty dollars; Additions to quarters of the hospital steward at the soldiers’ hospital: Building an outhouse for fuel, with walk to same, two hundred and sixty dollars; Piazza on south side of house, four hundred and fifty dollars:

Repairs to ordnance laboratory and other buildings pertaining to the department of ordnance and gunnery, painting buildings, and materials for roads and walks, and for repairs to machinery and tools, one hundred and fifty dollars: Continuing the construction and repair of the roads between the old south guardhouse and the southern boundary line of reservation, and for continuing the laving of a stone walk along same, one thousand dollars; Cases, materials, fittings, fixtures, and other appliances and repairs for ordnance museum in new academy building, three hundred dollars:

Lumber for general repairs of cavalry stables, one hundred and fifty dollars; Steam-heating plant for the superintendent’s quarters, one thousand dollars; Steam-heating plant for quarters numbered twenty-one, eight hundred and fifty dollars; Completion of additions to officers’ quarters, two thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars; Whitewashing cavalry stables and painting interior woodwork, one hundred and fifty dollars; Two sets of officers’ quarters, at ten thousand dollars each, twenty thousand dollars;

For building for officers’ mess and quarters, seventy-eight thousand nine hundred and ninety dollars; Kitchen annex to quarters numbered live, occupied by the post surgeon, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five dollars; 655 Stable for officers’ horses, three thousand eight hundred dollars; New front porch for quarters numbered twenty-five, seven hundred and eighty-seven dollars; One hundred and sixty-eight running feet of light iron porch, with yellow-pine floor and tin roof, for south side and east end of the cavalry barracks, four thousand two hundred dollars;

Grading street and laying granolithic walk on approaches to new Memorial Hall, two thousand six hundred dollars: Grading street and. laying granolithic walk in front of chapel and library, three thousand one hundred dollars; Construction of one small brick magazine or storehouse for small arm and rapid-fire ammunition, one thousand six hundred dollars; For thoroughly overhauling and repairing the roofs, gutters, and leaders on cadet mess hall, kitchens, and attached buildings, nine hundred and seventy-five dollars:

Reprinting exterior walls, woodwork, and tin roofs of fifty-eight sets of officers’ quarters, seven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; Repairing and renewing porches, floors, and steps of thirty sets of married enlisted men’s quarters, five hundred and twenty-five dollars; Repainting exterior woodwork and reputtying windows of thirty sets of married enlisted men’s quarters, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars: Rebuilding wall on south dock road, eleven thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars;

Rebuilding engineer stables, two thousand dollars: Purchase of four barges for use of cadets, five hundred dollars: Water house for storage of filtered water in connection withWater-supply system. “Lusk” reservoir and filter beds, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars; House for keeper near “Lusk” reservoir, three thousand dollars; Necessary improvements to the water-supply system, ten thousand dollars; *Provided*, That from the foregoing appropriations for waterworks,*Provisos*.–extra-duty pay to overseer. a sum not to exceed seventy-five cents per day may be paid as extra-duty pay to the overseer, when such overseer is a soldier detailed for that duty. *Provided further*, That the appropriation contained in the ActRenovation of library building.Vol. 30, p. 903. approved February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for the complete renovation of the library building, seventy thousand dollars, is hereby made available until expended. *Provided further*, That the appropriation contained in the ActReconstructing cable coal railway.Vol. 29, p. 54 approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, for reconstructing the cable coal railway, including replacing the present wooden trestle with an iron trestle, straightening and relaying rails, repairing and equipping the cars with new apparatus, new cable, new track, pulleys and sheaves, new cable driver with steam cylinders, complete, twenty thousand dollars: and so much remaining unexpended is hereby made available to complete the payment for work done by the Trenton Iron Company, as final payment on agreement for furnishing materials and labor for the reconstruction of the cable coal railway, seven thousand seven hundred and seventy-three dollars and twenty cents.

Total buildings and grounds, two hundred and eight thousand one hundred and seventy-three dollars. Sec. 2. That the senior major-general of the line commanding theIncreased rank, etc., Major-General Commanding the Army and staff. Army shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of a lieutenant-general, and his personal staff shall nave the rank, pay, and allowances authorized for the staff of a lieutenant-general. Sec. 3. That the Adjutant-General of the Army shall have the rank,—Adjutant-General. pay, and allowances of a major-general in the Army of the United States, and on his retirement shall receive the retired pay of that rank:656*Proviso*.—limited to present Adjutant-General. *Provided*, That whenever a vacancy shall occur in the office of Adjutant-General on the expiration of the service of the present incumbent the Adjutant-General shall thereafter have the rank, pay, and allowances of a brigadier-general.

Sec. 4. Corps of cadete.Number increased, etc. That the corps of cadets shall consist of one from each Congressional district, one from each Territory, one from the District of Columbia, two from each State at large, and thirty from the UnitedVol. 30, p. 979. States at large. They shall be appointed by the President, and shall, with the exception of the thirty cadets appointed from the United States at large, be actual residents of the Congressional or Territorial districts, or of the District of Columbia, or of the States, respectively, from which they purport to be appointed.

Approved, June 6, 1900.