Chapter 804. Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 804.— An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, and for other purposes. March 2, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Military Academy appropriations. That the following sums be. and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two. permanent establishment.Permanent establishment.Pay of professors.

For pay of seven professors, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars; 911 For pay of one chaplain, two thousand dollars: For pay of one associate professor of mathematics, two thousand dollars: For pay of cadets, two hundred and twenty-nine thousand five hundredCadets. dollars: *Provided*, That section thirteen hundred and nineteen, chapter four, title fourteen, of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: " “Sec. 1319. Appointees shall be examined under regulations to be—examination.[R.

S., sec. 1319, p. 226](/us/rs/s1319/226) amended. framed by the Secretary of War before they shall be admitted to the Academy and shall be required to be well versed in such subjects as he may, from time to time, prescribe.” " *Provided* That the Superintendent of the Military AcademyPenalty for hazing shall make such rules, to be approved by the Secretary of War, as will effectually prevent the practice of hazing: and any cadet found guilty of participating in or encouraging or countenancing such practice shall be summarily expelled from the Academy and shall not thereafter be reappointed to the corps of cadets or be eligible for appointment as a commissioned officer in the Army or Navy or Marine Corps, until two years after the graduation of the class of which he was a member.

In all, for permanent establishment, two hundred and fifty-six thousand 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, not mounted, one thousand four hundred and eighty 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 infantry 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 six assistant instructors of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics (captains), in addition to pay as second lieutenants, not mounted, three thousand six hundred dollars: For pay of one adjutant, in addition to pay as second lieutenant, not mounted, six 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 pay of one line officer on duty in Quartermaster’s Department, in addition to pay as first lieutenant, mounted, four hundred dollars;

For additional pay of librarian, one hundred and twenty dollars; For additional pay of professors and officers (and officers on increasedLongevity. rank) for length of service, nine thousand three hundred and fifty-four dollars and twenty-five cents; In all, for extra pay of officers of Army on detached service at the Military Academy, twenty-five thousand one hundred and seventy-four dollars and twenty-five cents: For pay of the Military Academy Band, field musicians, generalPay of enlisted men.Band. army service, cavalry detachment, and enlisted men on detached service, and extra pay for enlisted men on special duty: 912 Composition, etc.[R.

S., sec. 1278, p. 221](/us/rs/s1278/p221), repealed.Vol. 19, p. 380.*Provided,* That section twelve hundred and seventy-eight of the Revised Statutes and sections two and three of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven (Nineteenth Statutes at Large, three hundred and eighty), are hereby repealed, and section eleven hundred and eleven of the Revised Statutes is hereby amended to read as follows: " “Sec. 1111. Pay, etc.[R. S., sec. 1111, p. 204](/us/rs/s1111/p204), amended.

The Military Academy Band shall hereafter consist of one teacher of music, who shall be the leader of the band, and of forty enlisted musicians. The teacher of music shall receive the pay, of a second lieutenant, not mounted: and of the enlisted musicians of the band, twelve shall each receive thirty-four dollars per month, twelve shall each receive twenty-five dollars per month, and the remaining sixteen shall each receive seventeen dollars per month, and each of the aforesaid enlisted men shall also be entitled to the clothing, fuel, Teacher of music; pay, etc.rations, and other allowances of musicians of cavalry: and the said teacher of music and the enlisted musicians of the band shall be entitled to the same benefits in respect to pay, emoluments, and retirement arising from longevity, reenlistment, and length of service as are, or may hereafter become, applicable to other enlisted men of the Army.

" 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, one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars: Clothing on discharge, one thousand two hundred dollars;

Field musicians.For pay of field musicians, one sergeant, with pay of first-class musician, four hundred and eight dollars; One corporal, one hundred and eighty dollars; Thirteen privates, two thousand and twenty-eight dollars; Additional pay for length of service, eighty-four dollars; Clothing on discharge, five hundred dollars; General Army servce.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, seventeen thousand and four dollars; Additional pay for length of service, nine thousand four hundred and sixty-eight dollars; Clothing on discharge, seven thousand dollars: 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 trumpeters, three hundred and twelve 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; Fifty-eight privates (cavalry), nine thousand and forty-eight dollars; Additional pay for length of service, one thousand three hundred and ninety-two dollars; Clothing on discharge, two thousand three hundred dollars; Artillery detachment.For pay of artillery detachment:

One first sergeant, three hundred dollars; Three sergeants, six hundred and forty-eight dollars; One cook, two hundred and sixteen dollars; 913 Three corporals, five hundred and forty dollars; One farrier, one hundred and eighty dollars; One saddler, one hundred and eighty dollars: One wagoner, one hundred and eighty 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;Miscellaneous. Interest on deposits due enlisted men. one hundred dollars;Interest on deposits, enlisted men, extra pay, etc. Travel allowances to enlisted men on discharge, six hundred dollars; For extra pay of one ordnance soldier as draftsman and lithographic 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 ninety-one dollars and sixty-three 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 day, 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 one enlisted man employed in the mathematical department, 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; 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 two enlisted men as assistants and attendants at the library, at fifty cents each per day, three hundred and thirteen dollars;

For extra pay of one enlisted man as clerk in the department of practical military engineering and to the officer in charge of water-914works and works of construction at the Military Academy, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents; For extra pay of three enlisted men as clerks in the office of the quartermaster, United States Military Academy, at fifty cents each per day. four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents: *Proviso*.No extra-duty pay.*Provided,* That the extra pay provided by the nineteen preceding paragraphs shall not be paid to any enlisted man who receives extra-duty pay under existing laws or army regulations:

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, eighty-four thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars and eighty-eight cents. pay of civilians.Pay of civilians, clerks, etc. Master of the sword.For pay of the master of the sword, one thousand six hundred dollars: *Proviso.*[R. S., sec, 1338, p. 228](/us/rs/s1338/p228), amended.*Provided.* That section thirteen hundred and thirty-eight of the Revised Statutes is hereby amended to read as follows:

" “Sec. 1338. To act as instructor of physical culture, etc. The master of the sword shall hereafter act as instructor of military gymnastics and physical culture at the Military Academy, and shall have the relative rank and shall be entitled to the pay, allowances, and emoluments of a first lieutenant, mounted: *Provided, however,*—termination of office. That whenever a vacancy shall occur in the office of master of the sword and instructor of military gymnastics and physical culture the said office shall cease and determine, and the duties thereunto pertaining shall thereafter be performed by an officer of the line of the Army to be selected for that purpose by the Secretary of War;

” " 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 eleven tiremen. six thousand six 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 preparations 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; 915 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;

For pay of one master mechanic, one thousand two hundred dollars; In all, to civilians employed at Military Academy, thirty-four thousand eight hundred and forty dollars. For current and ordinary expenses as follows: 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 architect overseer and citizen mechanics, and labor employed upon repairs and improvements that can not be done by enlisted men, twenty-five thousand dollars;

For fuel and apparatus, namely: Coal, wood, charcoal, stoves, grates,Fuel and lights. heaters, furnaces, ranges and fixtures, fire bricks, clay, sand, and for repairs of steam heating apparatus, grates, stoves, heaters, ranges, and furnaces, mica, twenty-five thousand dollars; 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;Postage and telegrams. For stationery, namely: Blank books, paper, envelopes, quills, steel pens, rubbers, erasers, pencils, mucilage, wax, wafers, folders, fasteners,Stationery. rules, files, ink, inkstands, typewriting supplies, penholders, 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 two hundred 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 camp furniture, one hundred dollars; For repairs and improvements of dressing rooms, platform, and swimming tank, two hundred and twenty dollars; For stationery, typewriting supplies and repairs, for use of instructor and assistant instructors of tactics, two hundred 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, sabers, and repairs, four hundred dollars; For soap, lye. sapolio, buckets, scrubbing brushes, mops, dust pans, brooms, feather dusters, and other similar articles and material, for policing cadet barracks, guardhouse, and sinks, three hundred and twenty-five dollars; 916 For door mats for cadet barracks, sinks, and guardhouse, fifty dollars;

For plumes for cadet officers and acting officers, seventy-five, dollars; For additional furniture for cadet barracks, to be immediately available, one thousand one hundred and sixty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents; For repairs and furniture for offices, one hundred dollars; For twelve topographical canvas wall maps, with features in oil colors, large scale, to be immediately available, one hundred and twenty dollars; For eight canvas relief maps, in colors, large scale, to be immediately available, eighty dollars;

For three dozen pocket compasses for field reconnoissance, to be immediately available, ninety 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 cases 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 fit-tings to new lecture room, four hundred and fifty dollars; Department of 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: For cases for geometrical models, three hundred and 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 chemical cases in the laboratory for storing and preserving sup-plies used in practical work, six hundred dollars; For benches and raised platform for chemical lecture room, two hundred and fifty 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 repairs and additions to electric, magnetic, pneumatic, thermic, and optical apparatus, one thousand 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, three hundred dollars;

For repairs to models, desks, stretchers, racks, stands, and materials, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; 917 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 and wall models, fifty dollars; For binding periodicals, loose sheets of maps, books, and so forth, fifty dollars;

For forty-two new drawing desks for use of cadets, at ten dollars and fifteen cents each, four hundred and twenty-six dollars and thirty cents; . For fifty new stools for use of cadets, at seventy-five cents each, thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents; For twenty-one new reconnoissance sketching boards, at five dollars each, one hundred and five dollars; For forty new sketching rulers, celluloid and brass, with scale, forty dollars; For twenty-five new stretcher boards, large size, at two dollars and fifty cents each, sixty-two dollars and fifty cents;

For one hundred and thirty new stretcher boards, small size, at one dollar and seventy-five cents each, two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents; For eighty-six new open stretcher frames, medium, at fifty cents each, forty-three dollars; For twenty-four new open stretcher frames, large, at seventy-five cents each, sixteen dollars; For twenty-four new open stretcher frames, medium, at seventy-five cents each, sixteen dollars; For sixty-four steel triangles, at one dollar and twenty-five cents each, eighty dollars;

For thirty-six steel straightedges, at three dollars each, one hundred and eight dollars; For department of modern languages: For stationery, text-books,Department of modern 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, four hundred and fifteen 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 cost of exchanging one Densmore typewriter, eighty dollars, to be immediately available; 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 reconnoissances; photographic apparatus and material for field photography; drawing instruments and material for platting reconnoissances; surveying instruments; instruments and material for signaling and Held 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 pay of one engineer soldier as assistant in photographic laboratory, and in charge of pho-918tographic laboratory, photographic apparatus, materials, and supplies, at fifty cents per day, one thousand five hundred dollars;

Department of ordnance and gunnery.For department of ordnance and gunnery: For purchase and repair 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 two hundred dollars; In all, for current and ordinary expenses, seventy-nine thousand seven hundred and eighty-five dollars and fifty-five cents. 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, one hundred dollars; 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, side-walks, camp, and wharfs, 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; 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 five hundred dollars; For repairing books, and for furniture and contingencies, one thousand 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; 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.*Contract purchases.*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; 919 For repair of cooking utensils and the replacement of worn-outSubsistence department. cooking utensils in the cadet subsistence department, to be expended without advertising, three hundred dollars: For repairs of chairs, tables, and other furniture in cadet subsistence department, to be expended without advertising, one hundred and twenty-five dollars:

For repairs, new machines, and fixtures for gymnasium, three hundredGymnasium. dollars; For one twenty-eight foot metal drying room of twelve eighteenLaundry. inch racks, complete and installed in the cadet laundry, to be immediately available, seven hundred and twenty-five dollars; For one three-roll number five collar and cuff ironer, to be immediately available, one thousand two hundred dollars; For eighteen ironing tables, twenty-eight by fifty inches, to be immediately available and to be purchased without advertising, one hundred and fifty dollars:

One number two dampener for belts, to be immediately available and to be purchased without advertising, one hundred and fifty dollars; For one collar and cuff starcher, to be immediately available and to be purchased without advertising, three hundred and fifty dollars; For six rattan laundry baskets, to be immediately available and to be purchased without advertising, seventy-six dollars; For one Carter’s pressure water filter number three, to be immediately available and to be purchased without advertising, two hundred and twenty-five dollars;

For one Worthington pump and receiver, to be immediately available and to be purchased without advertising, four hundred dollars; For one hydraulic dampener, twenty-four by thirty-two by thirty-six inches, to be immediately available and to be expended without advertising, one hundred dollars; For purchase of two hundred and forty dictionaries for the use ofDictionaries. the cadets, at fifteen dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars; For partly meeting the expenses incident to the exercises in commemorationCommemoration exercises expenses. of the one hundredth anniversary of the opening of the United States Military Academy, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent, ten thousand dollars;

In all, for miscellaneous items and incidental expenses, thirty-four thousand nine hundred and one dollars. Buildings and grounds, Military Academy: For cases, materials,Buildings and grounds. fittings, fixtures, and other appliances and repairs for ordnance museum in new academy building, three hundred dollars; For 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;

For filling in, raising, and otherwise improving engineer ponton ground, and constructing sea wall at same, three thousand dollars: For painting walls throughout cavalry barracks, three hundred and seventy-five dollars: For whitewashing interior and painting exterior of cavalry stables, four hundred and eighty dollars: For lumber for general repairs of cavalry stables, one hundred and fifty dollars: For benching cellar wall of quarters of the hospital steward at the soldiers’ hospital, eighty dollars;

For materials and labor for repairs, alterations, and additions needed at the soldiers’ hospital, as follows: For screens to all transoms, forty dollars; For storm windows and doors, three hundred and seventy-five dollars; For porcelain sink, with hot and cold water combination spigots (two), one hundred and fifty dollars; 920 For Welsbach burners, mantles, and mica chimneys, twenty-five dollars; For brushes, paints, glass, putty, wax. and turpentine, for general repairs and waxing floors, seventy-five dollars;

For materials for rebronzing radiators, thirty dollars: For purchase of flowers and shrubs for hospital grounds, fifty dollars; For metal ceiling for walls, three hundred dollars; Waterworks.For waterworks: Renewal of material in filter beds: improving ventilation 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;

For necessary improvements to water-supply system: To grade and remove vegetable growth and properly drain the vicinity of Lusk reservoir and fence road around it. five thousand dollars: —extra-duty pay to overseer.*Provided*, That from the foregoing appropriations for waterworks, or from any appropriation that may hereafter be made for water-works, 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.

Repairs.For painting and for general incidental repairs and improvements to the cadet quartermaster’s department building, including store-rooms, office, tailor shops, shoe-repairing shops, to be expended as required without advertising, three hundred dollars: For electric motor to run elevator, fans, and sewing machines in cadet quartermaster’s department building, to be immediately avail-able, one hundred and fifty dollars; For one furnace and connection, complete, for one set of quarters belonging to the cadet quartermaster’s department and occupied by one of its employees, to be immediately available, two hundred and fifty dollars;

Repairs and additions to the cadet hospital, as follows: For repainting walls and woodwork of halls, wards, lavatories, and so forth, three hundred dollars: For repainting exterior of brick annex to wards, and painting exterior of hew brick addition to same, one hundred and fifty dollars: For new boiler for range in kitchen in hospital corps mess, ninety-five dollars; For closets for storing dust pans, brooms, bedpans, etc., in each lavatory pertaining to wards, sixty dollars;

For material for rebronzing radiators and piping, thirty dollars; For paraffin and turpentine for waxing and polishing floors, fifty dollars; For metal ceiling for dormitories of the hospital corps, with cost of labor, one hundred dollars: For constructing a south wing to the hospital, to correspond with the present north wing, for the accommodation of the sick, to be built of stone, with brick annex for lavatories, baths, and water-closets, including cost of labor, plumbing, gas fittings, radiators, and so forth, forty-six thousand dollars;

For purchase of flowers and shrubs for hospital grounds, seventy-five dollars; For purchase of Welsbach burners, droplights, mantles, tubes, and so forth, forty dollars; For painting walls, ceiling, and ironwork of main hall of gymnasium, bowling alleys, closets, vestibules, reception room, office, store-rooms. and halls, eight hundred dollars; 921 For steel ceiling for gymnasium, seven hundred dollars:Repairs—Continued. For furniture, curtains, and rugs, for cadet reception room, one hundred and fifty dollars;

For two-story brick addition (about twenty-eight by seventy-five feet) to north end of cadet laundry, finished to correspond to main building, to be immediately available, four thousand two hundred dollar; For adding second story of brick to one-story addition, fifteen by twenty-eight feet (boiler room), on south end of main building, to be immediately available, one thousand dollars: For one two-story brick addition, fifteen by thirty feet, to west side of cadet laundry, to be immediately available, one thousand six hundred dollars;

For enlarging cadet mess hall, kitchen, and servants’ quarters, to be immediately available, sixty-nine thousand four hundred and fifty dollars; For wiring for electric lights for mess hall, kitchens, pantries, bakery, cold-storage rooms, dormitories, and for chandeliers, brackets, switches, and machinery, to be immediately available, two thousand five hundred dollars: For repairing and varnishing woodwork, repairing plastering, painting walls and ceilings in cadet guardhouse, one hundred and fifty dollars:

For granolithic pavement in rear of cadet barracks, and for laying a cement gutter along same, in all six thousand eight hundred square feet, two thousand dollars; Repairs to cadet barracks: For repairing and renewing plastering, painting and calcimining, repairs to woodwork, reflooring, rearranging rooms, increasing sinks, baths, and for other incidental repairs to the building, ten thousand dollars; For water main and sewerage for quarters recently built and to be built during the coming year, five thousand dollars;

For maintaining and improving the grounds of the post cemetery, three thousand dollars; For converting coal shed into storehouse for lime, cement, stoves, and so forth, one thousand and sixty dollars: For removing and replacing the asphalt and galvanized-iron roofs and gutters of the Academy building by copper or other durable material, eleven thousand dollars; For repairing and renewing damaged plastered walls, ceilings, and cornices of the Academy building, due to leaks in roof, one thousand dollars;

For rebuilding north dock, four thousand two hundred dollars: For filling the ditches and leveling the parapets of the modern portion of Fort Clinton, to be immediately available, five thousand dollars: For two double sets of officers’ quarters, to be of brick, with plumbing and heat, complete, forty thousand dollars; For continuing the construction and repair of the roads between the site of the old south guardhouse and the southern boundary line of reservation, and for continuing the laying of a stone walk along same, one thousand dollars;

For repairing roads and paths, including roads and bridges on reservation, one thousand dollars; To repair the sidewalks of the post, one thousand dollars: For continuing the construction of breast-high wall in dangerous places, five hundred dollars: For broken stone and gravel for roads, one thousand five hundred dollars; 922 For building for officers’ quarters and mess, twenty-nine thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars; Appropriations available until expended.*Ante,* p. 654.*Provided*, That the foregoing appropriation, and the appropriation contained in the Act approved June sixth, nineteen hundred, for building for officers’ mess and quarters, seventy-eight thousand nine hundred and ninety dollars are hereby made available until expended;

Total buildings and grounds, two hundred and fifty-eight thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. Approved, March 2, 1901.