Chapter 1760. Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 1760.— An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, and for other purposes. April 28, 1904.[[H. R. 13860](/us/bill/58/hr/13860).][[Public, No. 192](/us/pl/58/192).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be, Military Academy appropriations.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 five. permanent establishment.

Permanent establishment. For pay of seven professors, twenty-two thousand five hundred Pay of professors, etc.dollars; For pay of one chaplain, two thousand dollars; For pay of one associate professor of mathematics, two thousand dollars; For pay of the master of the sword, one thousand six hundred dollars; For pay of cadets, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; Cadets. In all, for permanent establishment, two hundred and seventy-eight thousand one hundred dollars. 442 Extra pay for officers.

For extra pay of officers of the Army on detached service at the Military Academy: For pay of one Superintendent of the United States Military Academy (colonel), in addition to pay as captain, not mounted, one thousand seven hundred dollars; For one commandant of cadets (lieutenant-colonel), in addition to pay as captain, not 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 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 pay of one associate professor of modern languages, in addition to pay as captain, five hundred dollars; For additional pay of professors and officers (and officers on increased rank) for length of service, nine thousand eight hundred dollars; In all, for extra pay of officers of Army on detached service at the Military Academy, twenty-six thousand dollars. For pay of the Military Academy Band, Enlisted men.field musicians, general army service, cavalry and artillery detachment, and enlisted men on detached service, and extra pay for enlisted men on special duty:

Band. For pay of military band, one band sergeant and assistant leader, six hundred dollars; 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 nine hundred and ninety-eight dollars;

Clothing on discharge, nine hundred and fifty dollars; 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; Twenty-two privates, three thousand four hundred and thirty-two dollars; Additional pay for length of service, eighty dollars; Clothing on discharge, seven hundred and fifty dollars; Travel allowance to enlisted men on discharge, one hundred and fifty dollars; General army service.

For pay of general army service: One first sergeant, four hundred and eight dollars; Seven sergeants, one thousand five hundred and twelve dollars; 443 Two cooks, four hundred and thirty-two dollars; Eight corporals, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; One hundred and fifty-seven privates, twenty-four thousand four hundred and ninety-two dollars; Additional pay for length of service, ten thousand three hundred and thirty-two dollars; Clothing on discharge, four thousand seven hundred and twenty-three dollars;

Interest on deposits of enlisted men, six hundred and fifty dollars; For pay of cavalry detachment: One first sergeant, three hundred Cavalry detachment.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 nine hundred and sixty dollars; Clothing on discharge, two thousand one hundred dollars; Traveling allowances to enlisted men on discharge, six hundred and fifty dollars; Interest on deposits to enlisted men, one hundred dollars; For pay of artillery detachment; One first sergeant, three hundred Artillery detachment.dollars; Four sergeants, eight hundred and sixty-four dollars;

One cook, two hundred and sixteen dollars; Three corporals, five hundred and forty dollars: One farrier and blacksmith, one hundred and eighty dollars; One saddler, one hundred and eighty dollars: One wagoner, one hundred and sixty-eight dollars; Two trumpeters, three hundred and twelve dollars; Forty-six privates, seven thousand one hundred and seventy-six dollars; Additional pay for length of service, one thousand two hundred dollars; Clothing on discharge, one thousand two hundred dollars;

Interest on deposits due enlisted men. one hundred and twenty-five dollars; Travel allowances to enlisted men on discharge, six hundred and fifty dollars; For extra pay of one ordnance soldier as draftsman and lithographic Extra pay, enlisted men.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 ordnance soldier when employed in department of ordnance and gunnery, at thirty-five cents per day, eighty-four dollars; For extra pay of two enlisted men employed as clerks in the office of the adjutant, United States Military Academy, at fifty cents each per day, three hundred and sixty-five dollars; 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; 444 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 fifty-nine dollars and sixty-nine 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 four enlisted men as assistants and attendants at the library, at fifty cents each per day, six hundred and eighty-four 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-works 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; For extra pay of two enlisted men (artillerymen) when performing extra mechanical labor, at fifty cents each per day. three hundred and thirteen dollars;

For extra pay of two enlisted men as messengers in the office of the adjutant United States Military Academy, at thirty-five cents each per day, two hundred and nineteen dollars and ten cents; 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, one hundred thousand and seventy-four dollars *Proviso.* No duplication.and forty-two cents: *Provided,* That the extra pay provided by the preceding paragraphs shall not be paid to any enlisted man who receives extra-duty pay under existing laws or army regulations. pay or civilians.

Pay of civilian, clerk, etc. 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; 445 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 tire hundred dollars; For one clerk to the quartermaster, one thousand two hundred dollars; For one civilian instructor of French, to be employed under rules prescribed by the Secretary of War, two thousand dollars;

For two civilian instructors in Spanish, at two thousand dollars per rear each, to the employed under rules prescribed by the Secretary of War, four thousand dollars; For pay of one stenographer and typewriter in the office of the quartermaster and disbursing officer, twelve hundred dollars; For pay of one librarian, two thousand five hundred dollars; For pay of librarian’s assistant, one thousand 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 firemen, 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 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, nine, hundred 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; For pay of one master mechanic, one thousand five hundred dollars; For pay of attendant, and skilled photographer in the department of drawing, one thousand dollars; For pay of one typewriter, copyist, and attendant in the library, to be selected and appointed by the Superintendent, seven hundred and fifty dollars;

For pay of one, stenographer and typewriter in the adjutant’s office, to be selected and appointed by the Superintendent, six hundred dollars; For pay of one overseer of the waterworks, five hundred and forty dollars; For pay of engineer of steam, electric, and refrigerating apparatus for the cadets’ mess, to be appointed by the Superintendent, of the, United States Military Academy, one thousand dollars; For pay of one assistant engineer of steam, electric, and refrigerating apparatus for the cadets’ mess, to be appointed by the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy, six hundred dollars; 446 In all, to civilians employed at Military Academy, forty-seven thousand four hundred and ten dollars;

Current expenses. For current and ordinary expenses as follows: Board of Visitors. For expenses of the Board of Visitors, including mileage, three thousand five hundred dollars; Contingencies for Superintendent of the Academy, two thousand dollars; Repairs, etc. Repairs and improvements, namely: Timber, planks, boards, joists, 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, Masting 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 cannot be done by enlisted men, thirty-five thousand dollars;

Fuel, etc. For fuel and apparatus, namely: Coal, wood, charcoal, stoves, grates, heaters, furnaces, ranges and fixtures, tire bricks, clay, sand, and for repairs of steam heating apparatus, grates, stoves, heaters, ranges, and furnaces, mica, thirty 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, two thousand five hundred dollars; For fuel for cadets’ mess hall, shops, and laundry, four thousand dollars;

Postage and telegrams. For postage and telegrams, three hundred and fifty dollars; Stationery. For stationery, namely: Blank books, paper, envelopes, quills, steel pens, rubbers, erasers, pencils, mucilage, wax, wafers, folders, fasteners, rules, files, ink, inkstands, typewriters, typewriting supplies, office furniture, penholders, tape, desk knives, blotting pads, and rubber bands, one thousand five hundred dollars; Transportation. For transportation of materials and discharged cadets, and for ferriages, two thousand dollars;

Printing. Printing: For printing and binding, type, materials for office, including repairs to motor and machinery, diplomas for graduates, annual registers, blanks, and monthly reports to parents of cadets, one thousand five hundred dollars; Department of cavalry, artillery and infantry tactics. For department of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics: Tan bark 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, three 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 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, fencing jackets, gaiters, sabers, and repairs, four hundred dollars; For door mats for cadet barracks, sinks, and guardhouse, fifty dollars; For repairs and furniture for offices, three 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 cases for books and instruments, text-books, books of reference, and stationery for the use of instructors, and contingencies, one thousand dollars; 447 For department of natural and experimental philosophy:

Additions Department of natural and experimental philosophy.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 and repairs to clocks, four hundred and fifty dollars; *Provided,* That any of the above sums for the department of natural *Proviso.* Instrument cases, etc.and experimental philosophy, not expended for the purposes named, may be expended for instrument cases, shelves, and fittings in the lecture room, office, and section rooms used by the department of natural and experimental philosophy.

For department of instruction in mathematics: Text-books, books Department of mathematics.of reference, binding, and stationery; for tables of logarithms; for rules and triangles; for purchase of geometrical drawings and models; for cases for geometrical models; for office desks, chairs, bookcases, and office fittings; and for contingencies, seven hundred and twenty-five dollars; For department of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology : Chemicals, Departments chemistry, mineralogy, and geology.chemical apparatus, glass and porcelain ware, paper, wire, sheet metal, ores, photographic apparatus and materials, five 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 instruction in the same branches, and for gradual increase and improvement of the cabinet, two hundred dollars; repairs and additions to electric, magnetic, pneumatic, thermic, and optical apparatus, nine hundred dollars; for models, maps, and diagrams, books of reference, text-books, and stationery for the use of instructors, one hundred and eighty dollars; and for contingencies, one hundred dollars;

For purchase of laboratory and power-room machinery and apparatus and installation, seven thousand one hundred and ninety-five dollars; For department of drawing: Drawing material, instruments, and Department of drawing.stationery for use of instructors; repairs to models and purchase of new models; desks, stretchers, drawing boards, racks, and stands; framing drawings; books and periodicals on art, architecture, topography, and technology; binding maps, books, and so forth; repairs to stereopticon and purchase of lantern slides; photographic apparatus and material, preparation of new data sheets and illustrated pamphlets for use of cadets; purchase of new instruments and repair of old ones, for use of cadets; and for contingent expenses, one thousand five hundred and eighteen dollars and fifty cents;

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 other necessary papers, and for contingencies, five hundred and ninety-eight dollars; For department of law and history: For stationery, text-books, and Department of law and history.books of reference for the use of instructors, maps, map fixtures, furniture, and for repairs to the same, for rebinding books and periodicals, and for contingencies, five hundred dollars;

For department of practical mi1itary engineering: For purchase and Department 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 Held 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 448preservation, 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 for 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 photographic laboratory, photographic apparatus, materials, and supplies, at fifty cents per day, two thousand 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, textbooks, 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-tire guns, small arms, and the various machines and tools used in their manufacture, for cadet instruction, one thousand two hundred dollars; Lectures. For a course of lectures for the more complete instruction of cadets, one thousand two hundred dollars; In all, for current and ordinary expenses, one hundred and five thousand one hundred and eighty-one dollars and fifty cents. miscellaneous items and incidental expenses.

Miscellaneous items and incidental expenses. Jubilee Centennial History of Military Academy. For the printing by the Public Printer of six thousand copies of the Jubilee Centennial History of the United States Military Academy, one thousand of which shall be for the use of the Senate and two thousand for the use of the House of Representatives, and the balance to be distributed by the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy under the direction of the Secretary of War, five thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Stationery, etc. For stationery, binding, commercial periodicals, and so forth, for office of the treasurer, United States Military Academy, as follows: Blank books, paper, envelopes, pens, mucilage, typewriting supplies and repairs, and other items of stationery; for binding orders, circulars. and so forth, and for commercial periodicals, journals, and market reports, one hundred and eighty dollars; For bookcase for keeping records, orders, and books of reference in the office of the treasurer, United States Military Academy, thirty-five dollars;

For stationery for office of commissary of cadets, namely: Record books, blank hooks, paper for printing menus, laundry lists, and so forth, envelopes, pens, mucilage, and other items of stationery, twenty-five dollars; Lighting. 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 wharfs, ten thousand dollars; For water pipe, plumbing, and repairs, five, thousand dollars;

For cleaning public buildings (not quarters), two thousand five hundred dollars; For soap, Lye, sapolio, buckets, scrubbing brushes, mops, dustpans, brooms, feather dusters, and other similar articles and materials for policing public buildings (not quarters), one thousand dollars; For chalk, crayons, sponges, slate, rubbers, riders, pointers, card, 449and toilet paper, and so forth, for recitation rooms, three hundred dollars; For renewing furniture in section rooms and repairing the same, three hundred dollars.

Increase and expense of library, namely: For purchase, preservation, Library.care, storage, binding and repair of books, periodicals, pamphlets, maps, pictures, and manuscripts; purchase of furniture, cases, stationery, and fittings; for expenses of making copies of military manuscripts in other libraries, and for contingent expenses not other-wise provided for; purchases to be made in open market on the written order of the Superintendent, ten thousand dollars. For contingent funds, to be expended tinder the direction of the Contingent, academic board.academic board:

For instruments, books, repairs to apparatus and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, one thousand dollars: *Provided,* That all technical and scientific supplies for the departments *Proviso.* Technical supplies.of instruction of the Military Academy shall he purchased by contract or otherwise, us the Secretary of War may deem best. For purchase of instruments for baud, to he purchased in open Musical supplies.market on the order of the Superintendent, five hundred dollars;

For purchase of reeds, pads, strings, and other materials necessary for string instruments, two hundred dollars; For repairs to instruments, music stands, and other equipments, three hundred dollars; For purchase of music for band, five hundred dollars; For purchase of music and a set of wood wind instruments, to be purchased in open market on the order of the Superintendent, eight hundred dollars; For general repairs to laundry machinery and the replacing of wornout Laundry.parts, to be expended without advertising, five hundred and twenty-five dollars;

For purchase of laundry baskets, to be expended without advertising, ninety-six dollars; For incidental repairs and improvements to the cadet laundry, to be expended without advertising, as follows: For constructing additional metal sorting boxes; purchase of new belting, to replace old and worn- out belts; purchase of new steam pipe, valves, fittings, and covering same with insulating-material; for three reversible-body ironers; purchase and installation of one be It-lacing machine; and purchase of machinists’ tools, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five dollars;

Repair of cooking utensils, chairs, tables, and other furniture in the cadet mess, and the replacement of same, to be expended without advertising, eight hundred and fifty dollars; For the purchase of one typewriter for the laundry, with cabinet for the same, to be expended without advertising, one hundred and ten dollars. Gymnasium and athletic supplies: For repairs, new machines, Gymnasium.athletic supplies, and fixtures for gymnasium, one thousand five hundred dollars; For repairs, improvements, and equipment of bowling alleys, two hundred dollars;

For furniture, curtains, and rugs for cadet reception room, one hundred and fifty dollars; For renewing and repairing furnishings and furniture in the quarters of the Superintendent, United States Military Academy, six hundred dollars; For the policing of barracks, bath houses, supplying light and plain Police.furniture to cadet barracks, nine thousand dollars; In all, for miscellaneous items and incidental expenses, fifty-three thousand and ninety-six dollars. 450 buildings and grounds.

Buildings and grounds. For cases, materials, fittings, fixtures, and other appliances and repairs for ordnance museum in 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 painting and general incidental repairs and improvements to the cadet store building, including storerooms, office, tailor shops, and shoe repairing shops, three hundred dollars;

For improvements to the cadet laundry buildings, to be expended without advertising, as follows: For covering one new steam boiler with insulating material; and for covering the second floor of the southern and central portions of the laundry with linoleum, and for labor and material for repairing and renewing roof on the cadet laundry, nine hundred and sixty dollars; For purchase of one stencil cutting machine, to be expended without advertising, one hundred dollars; For granolithic floors in basement of Grant Hall, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars;

For purchase of one National Bread Company’s dough-kneading machine and motor, for the cadet mess, to be immediately available and to be expended without advertising, eight hundred dollars; For materials and labor for repairs, alterations, and additions needed at the soldiers’ hospital, as follows: Purchase of suitable incandescent lights, droplights, tubing, mantels, and so forth: for paraffin and turpentine for waxing floors; for brushes, paints, glass, putty, and for general repairs; for materials for rebronzing radiators; and for purchase of flowers, fruit trees, shrubs, plants, and so forth, for hospital grounds, one hundred and sixty-five 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 and for stairs for access to same, and all other necessary work of maintenance and repairs, one thousand two hundred dollars;

Cadet hospital. For repairs and necessary alterations and additions to the cadet hospital, as follows: Materials for rebronzing radiators and piping; paraffin and turpentine for waxing and polishing floors; suitable, incandescent lights, droplights, mantels, tubes, and so forth; and for carpets and furniture and appliances, and for repairs of damaged articles, and for miscellaneous expenses, one hundred and twenty dollars; For purchase of flowers and shrubs for hospital grounds, seventy- five dollars;

Cadet barracks. Repairs to cadet barracks: For repairing and renewing plastering, painting and calcimining, repair’s to woodwork, reflooring, rearranging rooms, increasing sinks, baths, and for other incidental repairs to the building, five thousand dollars; Cemetery. For maintaining and improving the grounds of the post cemetery, two thousand dollars; For continuing the construction of breast-high wall in dangerous places, five hundred dollars; 451 For broken stone and gravel for roads, and for repairing sidewalks, Roads.roads, paths, and bridges on the reservation, four thousand dollars;

For completing the construction of a wagon road from the railroad station to the south end of the post, including necessary gas piping and lamp-posts for lighting same, to be immediately available, thirty thousand dollars; For extending and increasing the efficiency of the fire-alarm and Fire-alarm, etc.telephone systems of the post, five thousand dollars; For plumbing material and labor to install a hot-water heater and hot-water storage boiler at cavalry barracks, two hundred and fifteen dollars and thirty-four cents;

For lumber and other material for general repair of cavalry stables, two hundred dollars; For repairs to saddles, bridles, purchase of leather, curb chains, bits, stirrups, and so forth, and to keep same in repair, two hundred and fifty dollars; For enlargement of barracks of army-service detachment, six thousand Enlargement of barracks.dollars; For new roofs for thirty-six sets of enlisted men’s quarters, five thousand dollars; For completing the work of improvement to provide for an increased Water supply.

Vol. 32, p. 419.water supply at the Military Academy at West Point, New York, provided for in the Act of June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, to be available immediately and until expended, three hundred thousand dollars, to be expended by contract or otherwise as the Secretary of War may deem most economical and advantageous: *Provided,* *Proviso.* Approval by Secretary of War, etc.That such sum shall not be available except for purchase of land and water rights until the project shall be approved by the Secretary of War. and until the Secretary of War shall determine that the whole expense necessary to complete, such project shall he included within the total appropriation of four hundred thousand dollars, including the one hundred thousand dollars appropriated by Act of June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two;

In carrying out the provisions of said Act of June twenty-eighth, Construction of cadet barracks. Vol. 32, p. 419.nineteen hundred and two, after general plans have been prepared and approved by the Secretary of War, he may proceed with the necessary construction of cadet barracks and such buildings as shall be needed to replace buildings removed in such construction of cadet barracks, upon detailed plans approved by him before the completion of detailed plans for the whole work, provided that the limit of cost is not increased thereby;

Total, buildings and grounds, three hundred and sixty-four thousand and eighty-five dollars and thirty-four cents. Approved, April 28, 1904.