and supplies when ordered by proper authority for military purposes only; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; the purchase and hire of draught and pack animals, and harness, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, and drays, and of ships and other sea-going vessels and boats required for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters and other employees; extra-duty pay of enlisted men driving teams, repairing means of transportation, and employed as train-masters, and in opening roads and building wharves; transportation of the funds of the Army, the expenses of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific; for procuring and introduction of water at such posts as from their situation require it to be brought from a distance; and for the disposal of sewage and drainage; for the transportation of discharged military prisoners to their places of enlistCompensation of ment; for the payment of Army transportation lawfully due such certain land-grant land-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds railroads. Maximum. Provisos. Basis of computa tion, etc. Acceptance. Compensation of certain other land grant roads. (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land-grant acts), but in no case shall more than fifty per centum of the full amount of the service be paid: Provided further, That such compensation shall be computed upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large, and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: Provided further, That in expending the money appropriated by this act, a railroad company which has not received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition that such railroad should be a post route and military road subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and all other Government service, and also, subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charges for such Government transportation, having claims against the United States for transportation of troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property over such aided railroad, shall only be paid out of the Basis of computa- moneys appropriated by the foregoing provision on the basis of such rate for the transportation of such troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property as the Secretary of War shall deem. Maximum rate, 60 just and reasonable under the foregoing provision, such rate not to exceed sixty per centum of the compensation for such Government transportation as shall at the time be charged to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and similar transportation; and the amount so fixed to be paid shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service; in all, two million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. tion, etc. per cent. Acceptance. Barracks and quar ters. Amount. $500. Barracks and quarters: For barracks and quarters for troops, storehouses for the safe-keeping of military stores, for offices, and for the hire of buildings and of grounds for summer cantonments and for temporary buildings at frontier stations, for the construction of temporary buildings and stables, and for repairing public buildings at established posts, seven hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That no expenditures exceeding five hundred dollars shall Expenditures over be made upon any building or military post, or grounds about the same, without the approval of the Secretary of War for the same, upon detailed estimates by the Quartermaster's Department; and the erection, construction, and repair of all buildings and other public structures in the Quartermaster's Department shall, as far as may be practicable, be made by contract, after due legal advertisement: Provided further, That not less than fifty thousand dollars of said sums shall be used to begin the repair and reconstruction of Jefferson Barracks, Missouri: And provided further, That no more than one million three hundred thousand dollars of the sums appropriated by this act shall be paid out for the services of civilian employees in Repairs, etc.. Jeffer son Barracks, Mo. Civilian employees. the Quartermaster's Department, including those heretofore paid out of the funds appropriated for regular supplies, incidental expenses, barracks and quarters, Army transportation, clothing, and camp and garrison equipage; and that no employee paid therefrom shall receive as salary more than one hundred and fifty dollars per month, unless the same shall be specially fixed by law; and no part of any of the moneys so appropriated shall be paid for commutation of fuel and for quarters to officers or enlisted men. Maximum salaries. For the purchase by the Secretary of War of buildings erected at Purchase of buildpermanent Army posts by private parties under proper authority, ings at Army posts. and which may be suitable and actually necessary for the Army service, and at prices to be fixed by the Secretary of War, fifty thousand dollars. Construction and repairs of hospitals: For construction and repairs of hospitals at military posts, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, and including also all expenditures for construction and repairs required at the Army and Navy hospital at Hot Springs. Arkansas, except quarters for the officers, seventy-five thousand dollars. Hospitals. stewards, etc. Proviso. For construction and repairs of quarters for hospital stewards, Quarters for hospital including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, twelve thousand dollars: Provided, That the posts at which such quarters shall be constructed shall be designated by the Secretary Designation of posts. of War, and the quarters shall be built by contract, after legal advertisement, whenever the same is practicable; but the cost of con struction of quarters at any one post shall in no case exceed eight Limit of cost. hundred dollars, except where a post is situated at a city of more than fifty thousand inhabitants the cost of construction of such quarters may be not to exceed one thousand two hundred dollars. For shelter, shooting galleries, ranges, repairs and expenses inci- Shooting ranges.etc. dent thereto, five thousand dollars. Clothing, camp and garrison equipage: For cloth, woolens, mate Clothing, camp and rial, and for the manufacture of clothing for the Army; for issue garrison equipage. and for sale at cost price, according to the Army Regulations; for altering and fitting clothing, and washing and cleaning when necessary; for equipage, and for expenses of packing and handling, and similar necessaries, one million one hundred and seventy-five thou sand dollars: Provided, That out of the money hereby appropriated Proviso. for clothing and equipage of the Army there shall not be expended at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth a sum in excess of one Military prison. hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Contingent ex For all contingent expenses of the Army not provided for by other estimates, and embracing all branches of the military service, to be penses. expended under the immediate orders of the Secretary of War, fifteen thousand dollars. In lieu of the land authorized to be purchased by act approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, that the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to acquire for the United States through donation, purchase, or condemnation such additional land or other land for the Military Post at Madison Barracks, New York, as he may deem necessary, the cost of the same not to exceed ten thousand dollars. Purchase, etc.. of land, Madison Bar racks, N. Y. Limit of cost. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. Medical Depart ment. Medical and Hospital Department: For the purchase of medical supplies, etc. and hospital supplies, including disinfectants for general sanitation, expenses of medical purveying depots, pay of employees, medical care and treatment of officers and enlisted men of the Army and Signal Corps on duty at posts and stations for which no other provision is made, for the proper care and treatment of cases in the Army suffering from contagious or epidemic diseases, and the supply of the Army and Navy hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, Hot Springs, Ark. Amount. advertising, and other miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department; in all, two hundred thousand dollars; and not over forty-five thousand dollars of the money appropriated by this paragraph shall Civilian employees. be applied to the payment of civilian employees of the Medical Department. Medical Museum. Library. Engineer Depart ment. Incidental expenses. New building, etc. Ordnance Department. Current expenses. small arms, etc. Medical Museum and Library: For Army Medical Museum, preservation of specimens and the preparation or purchase of new specimens, five thousand dollars; for the library of the SurgeonGeneral's Office, ten thousand dollars; in all, fifteen thousand dollars. ENGINEER DEPARTMENT. Engineer depot at Willets Point, New York: Incidental expenses of the depot, including fuel, lights, chemicals, stationery, hardware, extra duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods of not less than ten days as artificers on work in addition to and not strictly in line of their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draughtsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine-drivers, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers, repairs of and for materials to repair public buildings, machinery, and unforeseen expenses, five thousand dollars. For purchase of materials for the instruction of engineer troops at Willets Point in their special duties of sappers, miners, for land and submarine mines, and pontoneers, torpedo drill and signaling, three thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase and repairs of instruments to be issued to officers of the Corps of Engineers, and to officers detailed and on duty as acting engineer officers for use on public works and surveys, two thousand dollars. Library of the Engineer School of Application: Purchase and binding of professional works of recent date treating of military and civil engineering, and kindred scientific subjects, five hundred dollars. For fireproof building to replace engineer depot store house destroyed by fire May tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, for storing intrenching tools, bridge equipage, pontoon material, and general stores, sixteen thousand dollars. In all, twenty-seven thousand dollars. ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT. Ordnance service: For current expenses of the ordnance service required to defray the current expenses at the arsenals; of receiving stores and issuing arms and other ordnance supplies; of police and office duties; of rents, tools, fuel, and lights; of stationery and office furniture; of tools and instruments for use; incidental expenses of the ordnance service, and those attending practical trials and tests. of ordnance, small arms, and other ordnance supplies, including payment for mechanical labor in the office of Chief of Ordnance, eighty thousand dollars. Ammunition for For manufacture of metallic ammunition for small arms and ammunition for reloading cartridges, and tools for the same, including the cost of targets and material for target-practice, and marksmen's medals and insignia, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Repair of certain ordnance, etc. Ordnance stores. Equipments. Preserving new ordnance stores. For repairing and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of troops and for issue at the arsenals and depots, five thousand dollars. For purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requisitions of troops, one hundred thousand dollars. For infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments, including horse equipments for cavalry and artillery, one hundred thousand dollars. For overhauling, cleaning, and preserving new ordnance stores on hand at the arsenals, five thousand dollars. Morning and even For firing the morning and evening gun at military posts, pre-Mornin scribed by General Orders Numbered Seventy, Headquarters of the Army, dated July twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, twenty thousand six hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For targets for artillery practice, five thousand dollars. Targets. Manufacture,etc.,of arms. Civilian clerks. Secretary of War to on civilians For manufacture, repair, and issue of arms at the national armories, four hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That not more than sixty Proviso. thousand dollars of the money appropriated for the Ordnance Department in all its branches shall be applied to the payment of civilian clerks in said department. The Secretary of War shall report to Congress at the beginning of its next regular session the names of report employed in Departall civilian employees and the amounts paid to each during the fiscal ments of the Army. year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, who are paid from appropriations for Subsistence, Quartermaster's, Department, Medical Department, Engineers Department, and Ordnance Department of the Army. For four mountain guns, carriages, limbers, accessories, and ammunition therefor, sixteen thousand dollars. For the purchase of machine guns, musket caliber, of American manufacture, twenty thousand dollars. For two sets of officers' quarters at Springfield Arsenal, Massachusetts, twenty thousand dollars. RECRUITING SERVICE. Mountain guns, etc. Machine guns. Officers' quarters, Springfield Arsenal, Mass. Recruiting service. For expenses of recruiting and transportation of recruits from Expenses. rendezvous to depot, including sending of recruiting parties to small towns, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars; and not exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars of this amount may be used for payment of a clerk to the officer disbursing this appropriation. For expenses of the Signal Service of the Army, as follows: Pur- Expenses. chase, equipment, and repair of field electric telegraphs; signal equipments and stores; binocular glasses, telescopes, heliostats, and other necessary instruments, including absolutely necessary meteorological instruments for use on target ranges; telephone apparatus and maintenance of same; in all, seven thousand five hundred dollars. MILITARY TELEGRAPH LINES. For the maintenance and repair of military telegraph lines, including rent of offices, fuel, salaries of civilian employees, lights, stoves and fixtures, supplies, and general repairs, fifteen thousand dollars: Provided, That the appropriations made by the two preceding paragraphs shall be disbursed by a bonded officer, to be designated from time to time by the Secretary of War. CONTINGENT EXPENSES. Military telegraph lines. Maintenance, etc. Proviso. Disbursements by bonded officer. Contingent ex penses. For contingent expenses of the office of the Commanding-General, Commanding Genone thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. At headquarters of military For contingent expenses at the headquarters of the several military divisions and departments, being for the necessary articles of departy divisions and office, toilet, and d sk furniture, stationery, binding, maps, books of reference, including one copy of some standard work on military law and courts-martial for each of the one hundred and eight military posts, and police utensils, three thousand dollars, to be al- Allotment. lotted by the Secretary of War. Approved, February 24, 1891. February 24, 1891. Roanoke, Va. Cost. Proposals to be advertised for. Responses. by Treasury agent. CHAP. 285.-An act for the erection of a public building in the city of Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to acquire, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, a site, and cause to be erected thereon a suitable building, including fire-proof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and approaches, for the use and accommodation of the United States post office, and other Government offices, in the city of Roanoke, and State of Virginia, the cost of said site and building, including said vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and approaches, complete, not to exceed the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars. Proposals for the sale of land suitable for said site shall be invited by public advertisement in one or more of the newspapers of said city of largest circulation for at least twenty days prior to the date specified in said advertisement for the opening of said proposals. Proposals made in response to said advertisement shall be addressed and mailed to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall then cause the said proposed sites, and such others as he may think Examination, etc., proper to designate, to be examined in person by an agent of the Treasury Department, who shall make written report to said Secretary of the results of said examination, and of his recommendation thereon, and the reasons therefor, which shall be accompanied by the original proposals and all maps, plats, and statements which shall have come into his possession relating to the said proposed sites. If, upon consideration of said report and accompanying papers, the Secretary of the Treasury shall deem further investigation Appointment of necessary, he may appoint a commission of not more than three persons, one of whom shall be an officer of the Treasury Department, which commission shall also examine the said proposed sites, and such others as the Secretary of the Treasury may designate, and grant such hearings in relation thereto as they shall deem necessary; and said commission shall, within thirty days after such examination, make to the Secretary of the Treasury written report of their conclusion in the premises, accompanied by all statements, maps, plats, or documents taken by or submitted to them, in like manner as herein before provided in regard to the proceedings of Determination of lo said agent of the Treasury Department; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon finally determine the location of the building to be erected. commission. Examination. Hearings. Report. cation. Compensation of Commissioners. Proviso. The compensation of said commissioners shall be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, but the same shall not exceed six dollars per day and actual traveling expenses: Provided, however, That Treasury member. the member of said commission appointed from the Treasury Department shall be paid only his actual traveling expenses. No expenditure until valid title, etc., pass. Open space. No money shall be used for the purpose mentioned until a valid title to the site for said building shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Virginia shall have ceded to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the same, during the time the United States shall be or remain the owner thereof, for all purposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said State and the service of civil process therein. The building shall be unexposed to danger from fire by an open space of at least forty feet on each side, including streets and alleys. Approved, February 24, 1891. |