Chapter 2508. Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 2508.— An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, and for other purposes. March 2, 1907. [[H. R. 24537](/us/bill/59/hr/24537).] [[Public, No. 167](/us/pl/59/167).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums Military Academy appropriations.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 eight. permanent establishment.Permanent establishment.

For pay of seven professors, twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars; For pay of one chaplain, two thousand dollars; For pay of the master of the sword, two thousand dollars; For pay of cadets, two hundred and sixty thousand dollars; Cadets. *Provided*, That cadets appointed to the Military Academy at West *Proviso*.Admissions to be on March 1.Point, New York, for admission after the year nineteen hundred and seven, may be admitted on the first day of March in place of the first day of June.

In all, for permanent establishment, two hundred and eighty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For extra pay of officers of the Army on detached service at the Extra pay for officers.Military Academy; For pay of one Superintendent of the United States Military Academy (colonel), in addition to pay as major, one thousand 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 professor of ordnance and science of gunnery (lieutenant-colonel), in addition to pay as major: *Provided*, That the *Proviso*.Detail of professor of ordnance and gunnery.position shall be filled by the detail of an officer of the Army, who, while so serving, shall have the title and status of other professors: *Provided further*, That the appropriation shall be immediately available, Immediately available.five hundred dollars:

That the Secretary of War may detail an officer of the Medical Detail of professor of hygiene.Corps of the Army to the Military Academy as professor of military hygiene. For pay of one associate professor of mathematics (major), in addition to pay as captain mounted, five hundred dollars: For pay of one associate professor of modern languages (major), in addition to pay as captain, five 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 eight assistant professors (captains), in addition to pay as first lieutenants not mounted, four thousand dollars; For pay of four senior assistant instructors of artillery, and infantry tactics and ordnance and gunnery and practical engineering (captains), in addition to pay as first lieutenants not mounted, two thousand dollars: For pay of seven instructors of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics (captains), in addition to pay as second lieutenants not mounted, four thousand two 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 at Academy, in addition to pay as first lieutenant mounted, four hundred dollars: 1064 For pay of one constructing quartermaster in addition to pay as major, one thousand dollars:

Longevity. 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 nine hundred dollars; Enlisted men. For pay of the Military Academy band, field musicians, general army service, cavalry and artillery detachments, 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 eight hundred dollars;

Clothing on discharge, one thousand four hundred dollars; Travel allowance to enlisted men on discharge, thirty dollars: For interest on deposits of enlisted men on discharge, one hundred and fifty 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; Twenty-two privates, three thousand four hundred and thirty-two dollars; Additional pay for length of service, two hundred and fifty dollars;

Clothing on discharge, eight hundred dollars: Travel allowance to enlisted men on discharge, twenty dollars: Interest on deposits due enlisted men on discharge, twenty-five dollars; General army service. For pay of general army service: One first sergeant, four hundred and eight dollars: Eight sergeants, one thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight dollars; Two cooks, four hundred and thirty-two dollars; Nine corporals, one thousand six hundred and twenty dollars; One hundred and eighty privates, twenty-eight thousand and eighty dollars;

Additional pay for length of service, eleven thousand two hundred and eighty-four dollars; Clothing on discharge, six thousand nine hundred dollars; Interest on deposits of enlisted men, seven hundred and ninety-nine dollars; For travel allowances due enlisted men on discharge, one hundred and eighty-five dollars; Extra-duty pay. For extra pay of enlisted men of the army service detachment, Quartermaster’s Department, when employed on extra duty at West Point, New York, twenty-two thousand dollars;

Cavalry detachment. For pay of cavalry detachment: One first sergeant, three hundred dollars; Five sergeants, one thousand and eighty dollars: Two cooks, four hundred and thirty-two dollars: Five corporals, nine hundred 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; 1065 Eighty-one privates (cavalry), twelve thousand six hundred and thirty-six dollars;

Additional pay for length of service, two thousand one hundred and eighty dollars; Clothing on discharge, one thousand eight hundred dollars; Traveling allowances to enlisted men on discharge, eight hundred and twenty dollars; Interest on deposits to enlisted men, one hundred dollars; For pay of artillery detachment: One first sergeant, three hundred Artillery detachment.dollars: Five sergeants, one thousand and eighty dollars; One cook, two hundred and sixteen dollars; Four corporals, seven hundred and twenty 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; Fifty-nine privates, nine thousand two hundred and four dollars; For additional pay for enlisted men of the Military Academy detachment Additional for gunners.of field artillery found duly qualified as first-class gunners, at two dollars per month each, two hundred and forty dollars;

For additional pay for enlisted men of the Military Academy detachment of field artillery found duly qualified as second-class gunners, at one, dollar per month each, one hundred and twenty dollars; Additional pay for length of service, one thousand five hundred dollars; Clothing on discharge, one thousand five hundred dollars; Interest on deposits due enlisted men, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; Travel allowances to enlisted men on discharge, nine hundred dollars; For extra pay of two enlisted men employed as clerks in the office Extra pay, enlisted men.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; 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 two enlisted men employed in the chemical department, at fifty cents each per day, three hundred and thirteen dollars;

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. 1066 For extra pay of one ordnance soldier as draftsman and lithographic printer, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents; For extra pay of one ordnance soldier as machinist, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents;

For extra pay of one ordnance soldier as clerk, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents; For extra pay of one ordnance soldier when employed in department of ordnance and gunnery, 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 (cavalryman) 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 waterworks 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 three enlisted men (artillerymen) when performing extra mechanical labor, at fifty cents each per day, four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents; For extra pay of one first sergeant (artilleryman) at fifty cents per day, one hundred and eighty-two dollars and fifty cents:

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: For extra pay of one enlisted man in charge of property and saddle equipment pertaining to riding and equitation other than military, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents; For extra pay of one first sergeant (cavalryman), at fifty cents per day, one hundred and eighty-two dollars and fifty cents;

For extra pay of one enlisted man employed as clerk in charge of clothing room in quartermaster’s storehouse, 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 civil and military engineering, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty 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 and thirty-nine thousand thirty-five dollars and forty-two cents; *Proviso*.No duplication. *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 of civilians. pay of civilians. 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; 1067 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 six hundred dollars; For one clerk to the quartermaster, one thousand two hundred dollars; For two civilian instructors of French, to be employed under rules prescribed by the Secretary of War, two thousand dollars per year each, four thousand dollars;

For two civilian instructors in Spanish, at two thousand dollars per year each, to be employed under rules prescribed by the Secretary of War, four thousand dollars; For two expert civilian instructors in fencing, broadsword exercises, and other military gymnastics as may be required to perfect this part of the training of cadets, three thousand dollars; For pay of one professional civilian instructor in gymnastics, athletics, and swimming, one thousand five hundred dollars; For pay of one clerk and stenographer in the office of the quartermaster and disbursing officer, one thousand two hundred dollars;

For pay of one clerk in the office of the quartermaster, one thousand dollars; For pay of one librarian, three thousand 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 library, one thousand five hundred dollars; For pay of assistant engineer of same, one thousand dollars;

For pay of eleven firemen, seven thousand nine hundred and twenty 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 two hundred 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 five hundred dollars; For pay of one civilian plumber, one thousand five hundred dollars; For pay of assistant plumber, nine hundred dollars; For pay of one plumber’s helper, six 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 superintendent of post cemetery, one thousand two 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 assistant printer at headquarters United States Military Academy, seven hundred and twenty dollars; For pay of one janitress, Memorial Hall, six hundred dollars; For pay of one master mechanic, one thousand eight 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 charge of the library in the department of law and history, seven hundred and fifty dollars; 1068 For pay of one stenographer and typewriter in the adjutant’s office, seven hundred and twenty 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, one thousand two hundred dollars; For pay of one assistant engineer of steam, electric, and refrigerating apparatus for the cadets’ mess, seven hundred and twenty dollars; For pay of one copyist, typewriter, and attendant in the department of modern languages, seven hundred and fifty dollars; For pay of one mechanic and attendant skilled in the operation necessary for the preparation of lectures and of material in the department of drawing, to be selected and appointed by the Superintendent, seven hundred and twenty dollars;

For pay of janitor for bachelor officers’ quarters, to be selected and appointed by the Superintendent, six hundred dollars; In all, to civilians employed at Military Academy, sixty-two thousand and sixty 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, 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, forty 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 and coal conveying apparatus, grates, stoves, heaters, ranges, and furnaces, mica, thirty thousand dollars; For gas pipes, gas and electric fixtures, electric lamps, telephone 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, fourteen thousand dollars; Postage and telegrams.Stationery. For postage and telegrams, three hundred and fifty dollars; 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, discharged cadets, and for ferriages, and for transportation of first class of cadets to and from Gettysburg battlefield, Watervliet Arsenal, and Sandy Hook proving grounds, three 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, six hundred dollars; For camp stools, camp and office furniture and repairs to same, and door mats for cadet barracks, sinks, and guardhouse, six hundred and fifty dollars; 1069 For stationery, typewriting supplies and repairs, for use of instructors and assistant instructors of tactics; for books and maps, binding books, and mounting maps, four hundred and twenty-five dollars;

For repairs and improvements of dressing rooms, platform, and swimming tank, two hundred and twenty 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, six hundred dollars; For repairs to saddles, bridles, purchase of leather, curb chains, bits, stirrups, and so forth, and to keep the same in repair, two hundred and fifty dollars; For one Edison oscillating mimeograph, complete, with supplies, for reproducing both typewriting and handwriting work, sixty dollars;

For one typewriting machine, with tabulator and cabinet, for use of instructor of physical culture, one hundred and thirty-five dollars; For one typewriting machine, with tabulator and cabinet, for use of United States Military Academy detachment of artillery, one hundred and thirty-five dollars; For material for moving targets for field artillery practice, for authorized horse equipments for cadets and incidental material for care and preservation of property not furnished by the supply departments, fifty dollars;

For department of civil and military engineering: For models, maps, Department of civil and military engineering.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: 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; books of reference, scientific periodicals, text-books, stationery, materials, and repairs; and for repairs to the observatory buildings and repairs to clocks, and for contingent expenses not otherwise provided for one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars:

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, Department of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology.chemical apparatus, glass and porcelain ware, paper, wire, sheet metal, ores, photographic apparatus and materials; rough specimens, fossils, and for apparatus and materials to be used in the practical determination 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; for repairs and additions to electric, magnetic, pneumatic, thermic, and optical apparatus; for purchase of laboratory and power-room machinery and apparatus and installation of same; for models, maps, and diagrams, books of reference, textbooks, and stationery for use of instructors; and for contingent expenses not otherwise provided for; two thousand five hundred 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; purchase of new instruments and repair of old ones, for 1070use of cadets; and for contingent expenses, one thousand two hundred and thirty dollars;

For the preparation of plates, purchase of paper, and for binding and incidental expenses for text-books in the subjects of topography, cartography, and reconnoissance; building construction; engineering and mechanical drawing, now in course of preparation, three hundred dollars; Department of modern languages. For department of modern languages: For stationery, text-books, 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;

Department of law and history. For department of law and history: For stationery, text-books, and 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; Department of practical military engineering. For department of practical military engineering: For purchase and 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 tor 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 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: 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; 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:

For purchase of machines, tools, and material for practical instructions of cadets in wood and metal working, five hundred dollars; Department of military hygiene. For department of military hygiene: For stationery, text-books, and books of reference for use of instructors; for the preparation of plates, purchase of paper, and other expenses incidental to the printing of syllabuses of lectures on parts of the subject not covered by the regular text-books; for the purchase of charts, photographs, and pictures for use in demonstration: for the purchase of instruments and models, and for contingent expenses not otherwise provided for, five 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 sixteen thousand two hundred and forty-eight dollars. 1071 miscellaneous items and incidental expenses. Miscellaneous and incidental expenses. For commercial periodicals, stationery, office furniture and supplies, Stationery, etc.and for binding orders, circulars, and so forth, for the office of the treasurer, United States Military Academy, two hundred and ten dollars;

For gas coal, oil, candles, lanterns, matches, chimneys, and wicking Lighting, plumbing, etc.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, tire thousand dollars: For material and labor for cleaning and policing public buildings (not quarters), three thousand five hundred dollars; For supplies for recitation rooms not otherwise provided for and for renewing and repairing furniture in same, six hundred dollars;

Increase and expense of library, namely: Library. For purchase, preservation, 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 otherwise 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 under 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 snail be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may deem best. Purchase of instruments for band and repairs to same: for purchase Musical supplies.of reeds, pads, strings, and other materials necessary for brass, wood, wind, and string instruments; for purchase of music stands and other equipments; for purchase of music for military band and orchestra and for extra parts: all to be purchased in open market on order of superintendent, two thousand three hundred dollars:

Repairs and improvements to the laundry machinery and apparatus Laundry, etc.in the cadet laundry, and the purchase of new material, tools, and so forth, to be expended without advertising, one thousand eight hundred dollars; Repair of cooking utensils, chairs, tables, and other furniture in the cadet mess, and the replacement of same, to be expended without advertising, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; Gymnasium and athletic supplies: For repairs, new machines, athletic Gymnasium, etc.supplies, and fixtures for gymnasium, two thousand dollars;

For furniture, curtains, and rugs for cadet reception room, one hundred and fifty dollars; For the policing of barracks, bath houses, supplying light and plain Policing.furniture to cadet barracks, nine thousand five hundred dollars; For the purchase of one dough-dividing machine for the bakery of the cadet mess, to be immediately available and to be expended without advertising, one thousand dollars; The members of the Senate and House of Representatives appointed Children’s school.Report on advisability.to serve on the Board of Visitors to the Military Academy at West Point for the year nineteen hundred and seven, are directed to investigate as to the advisability of maintaining a children’s school at Government expense at said Academy, and to report their findings to the next session of Congress;

For erecting in Memorial Hall tablets to deceased officers entitled thereto whose families and friends may not be in a financial position to defray cost of same, three hundred dollars; 1072 For purchase of one counting machine for use in the office of the quartermaster and disbursing officer, United States Military Academy, and cabinet for same, to be immediately available and to be purchased without advertising, four hundred and twenty-five dollars; Jamestown Exposition.Subsistence of cadets attending.

For expense of subsistence of cadets while attending the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition, at the rate of one dollar and fifty cents per day for each cadet in attendance, six thousand dollars, to be immediately available; In all, for miscellaneous items and incidental expenses, fifty-four thousand nine hundred and thirty-five dollars. 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, and materials for roads and walks, and for repairs to machinery and tools, one hundred and fifty dollars; For general repairs to the cadet laundry building, and for emergency incidental expenses about building, to be expended without advertising, four hundred dollars; For general incidental repairs and improvements to the cadet store building, including storerooms, office, tailor shops, and shoe repairing shops, three hundred dollars:

Soldiers’ hospital. For materials and labor for repairs, alterations, and additions needed at the soldiers’ hospital, as follows: Purchase of suitable incandescent lights, droplights, tubing, mantles, 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: For materials for rebronzing radiators and piping; material for waxing and polishing floors; suitable incandescent lights, droplights, mantles, tubes; for carpets, furniture, and appliances; for repairs of damaged articles, and for miscellaneous expenses, one hundred and twenty dollars; For purchase of flowers and shrubs for hospital grounds, one hundred dollars; For refurnishing the cadet dining room and kitchen, four hundred dollars;

Cadet barracks. Repairs to cadet barracks: For repairing and renewing plastering, painting, and calcimining, repairs to woodwork, reflooring, rearranging rooms, increasing sinks, baths, and other incidental repairs to the building, five thousand dollars; Cemetery. For maintaining and improving the grounds of the post cemetery, one thousand dollars; 1073 For continuing the construction of breast-high wall in dangerous places, five hundred dollars; For broken stone and gravel for roads, and for repairing sidewalks, Roads, etc.roads, paths, and bridges on the reservation, five thousand dollars:

For continuing work in connection with the restoration of Fort Putnam, Fort Putnam,on the United States Military Academy Reservation at West Point, New York, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, five thousand dollars; For increasing the capacity of the refrigerating machine in the Cadet mess.cadet mess, to be immediately available and to be expended without advertising, two thousand one hundred and forty dollars; For a tile or terazzo floor and tile wainscoting in the kitchen scullery, the milk-sterilizing room, the north hall way of the basement, the vegetable rooms, and the south basement hall way, four thousand dollars:

For additional insulation of the cold-storage room in the cadet mess, to be immediately available and to be expended without advertising, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars: For one double set of quarters for civilian employees, to be built in Quarters for civilians.the vicinity of the workshops and storehouses, six thousand dollars; For two twenty-five horsepower electric motors for ventilating system Motors.in Memorial Hall, one thousand five hundred dollars; For the supply and erection of one coal conveyor in basement of Memorial Hall, one thousand dollars:

For continuing the work of increasing the efficiency of the United New buildings.States Military Academy, West Point, New York, and to provide for Construction, etc.the enlargement of buildings, and for other necessary work of improvement in connection therewith, authorized in Acts of Congress approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two (Public One hundred Vol. 32, p. 419.and eighty-one), April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four Vol. 33, pp. 451, 860.(Public One hundred and ninety-two), March third, nineteen hundred and five (Public One hundred and thirty-seven), and June twenty-eighth, *Ante*, p. 531.nineteen hundred and six (Public Three hundred and ten), in accordance with the general plan approved by the Secretary of War January twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four, to remain available until expended, one million two hundred thousand dollars;

For the construction of emplacements for two six-inch breech-loading Emplacements. breech-loading rifles.rifles on disappearing carriages, seven thousand dollars; Total buildings and grounds, one million two hundred and forty-three thousand and twenty-five dollars. Approved, March 2, 1907.