Executive mansion. Repairs, refurnishing, etc. Fuel. Lighting Executive Mansion and public grounds. Provisos. lamp. cents per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen and eighty-six, and with a base not less than six inches in thickness. For repairs and fuel at the Executive Mansion as follows: For care, repair, and refurnishing the Executive Mansion, thirtyfive thousand dollars, to be expended by contract or otherwise as the President may determine. For fuel for the Executive Mansion, greenhouses, and stable, three thousand dollars. For care and necessary repair of greenhouses, five thousand dollars. LIGHTING THE EXECUTIVE MANSION AND PUBLIC GROUNDS: For gas, pay of lamp lighters, gas fitters, and laborers; purchase, erection, and repair of lamps and lamp posts; purchase of matches, and for repairs of all kinds; fuel and lights for office, office stables, watchmen's lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, fourteen thousand dollars: Provided, That for each six-foot burner not connected with a meter in the lamps on the public grounds no more Maximum price per than twenty-one dollars and fifty cents shall be paid per lamp for gas, including lighting, cleaning, and keeping in repair the lamps, under any expenditure provided for in this act; and said lamps shall burn not less than three thousand hours per annum; and authority is hereby given to substitute other illuminating material for the same or less price, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as may be necessary for that purpose: Provided, That before any expenditures are made from the appropriations herein provided for, the contracting gas companies shall equip each lamp with a selfregulating burner and tip, so combined and adjusted as to secure, under all ordinary variations of pressure and density, a consumption of six cubic feet of gas per hour. Gas consumption. Electric lights. Water pipes, etc. Government tele graph. Washington Monu ment. nance. For electric lights for three hundred and sixty-six nights from seven posts, at forty cents per light per night, one thousand and twenty-four dollars and eighty cents. REPAIR OF WATER PIPES: For repairing and extending water pipes, purchase of apparatus, for cleaning them, purchase of hose, and cleaning the springs and repairing and renewing the pipes of the same that supply the Capitol, the Executive Mansion, and the building for the State, War, and Navy Departments, two thousand five hundred dollars. TELEGRAPH TO CONNECT THE CAPITOL WITH THE Departments AND GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: For care and repair of existing lines, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. WASHINGTON MONUMENT: For the care and maintenance of the Care and mainte. Washington Monument, namely: For one custodian, at one hundred dollars per month; one steam engineer at eighty dollars per month; one assistant steam engineer, at sixty dollars per month; one fireman, at fifty dollars per month; one assistant fireman, at forty-five dollars per month; one conductor of elevator car, at seventy-five dollars per month; one attendent on floor, at sixty dollars per month; one attendent on top floor, at sixty dollars per month; three night and day watchmen, at sixty dollars per month each; in all, eight thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. Expenses. Extra cables. For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes, brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower floor, repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and repairs of all kinds connected with the monument and machinery, and purchase of all necessary articles for keeping the monument, machinery, elevator, and electric-light plant in good order, three thousand dollars. For an extra set of cables for elevator, one thousand three hundred dollars. FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. SESS. II. CH. 542. 1891. 977 ENGINEER DEPARTMENT. Engineer Department. Rivers and harbors. ments, harbor at Phil For improving harbor at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Continuing improvement; removal of Smith's Island and Windmill Island, Pennsylvania, and Petty's Island, New Jersey, and adjacent shoals, three hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That the plan for the improvement may be modified by changing the line limiting the excavation on Betty's Island to such position as the Secretary of War may consider desirable, and the material to be removed from said islands and shoals under this appropriation and appropriations heretofore made shall be deposited and spread on League Island and to the extent of the cost of such deposit and spreading the said appropriations are hereby made available: Provided further, That the title to any addi-a. tional lands acquired for this purpose shall be vested in the United States without charge to the latter. Deposit of material on League Island. Available appropriations. Harbor at Baltimore, Md. Harbor at Galveston, Tex. For improving harbor at Baltimore, Maryland: Continuing improvement, one hundred and fifty-one thousand two hundred dollars. For improving harbor at Galveston, Texas: Continuing improvement to entrance to harbor, six hundred thousand dollars. For improving Saint Mary's River, Michigan: Continuing improvement to Saint Mary's Falls, six hundred thousand dollars. For improving Hay Lake Channel, Saint Mary's River, Michigan: Hay Lake Channel, Continuing improvement, three hundred thousand dollars. MILITARY POSTS. For the construction of buildings at and the enlargement of such military posts as, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, may be necessary, seven hundred and forty five thousand dollars: Provided, That the total cost of Fort Bliss shall not exceed three hundred thousand dollars, and that of Fort Brady two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and that of Fort Omaha five hundred thousand dollars; and the name of the latter post is hereby changed to Fort Crook. To enable the Secretary of War in his discretion to purchase a site for a military post at Eagle Pass, Texas, twenty thousand dollars. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK: For the improvement of the Yellowstone National Park, seventy-five thousand dollars, the same, together with the unexpended balance of appropriations already made, to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of War. Saint Mary's River, Mich. Mich. etc. For the repair, maintenance, relocation, and completion of roads, Repair, etc., roads, bridges, and paths already in use and necessary to reach objects of natural interest in the Park; Grand Additional roads. For the construction of a road from Grand Canon to Yellowstone coad from Grain Lake outlet, thence to the thumb of the Yellowstone Lake, thence by Geyser. the shortest practicable route to Fountain Geyser; any unexpended balance to be applied to the construction of additional roads, bridges, footways, and bridle paths, as the public service may require, in the discretion of the Secretary of War. NATIONAL CEMETERIES. For national cemeteries: For maintaining and improving national cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents of national cemeteries, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools and materials, one hundred thousand dollars. National cemeteries. Maintenance, etc. For superintendents of national cemeteries: For pay of seventy- Superintendents. four superintendents of national cemeteries, sixty-one thousand one hundred and sixty dollars. HEADSTONES FOR GRAVES OF SOLDIERS: For continuing the work of furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of Union soldiers, Headstones. Vol. 17, p. 545. Roadways. Burial of indigent soldiers. Limit. Hampton, Va. Laws, 1st Sess., 51st Cong., p. 401. sailors, and marines in national, post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy yards and stations of the United States, and other burial places, under the acts of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and February third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, ten thousand dollars. REPAIRING ROADWAYS TO NATIONAL CEMETERIES: For repairs to roadways to national cemeteries constructed by special authority of Congress, fifteen thousand dollars. BURIAL OF INDIGENT SOLDIERS: For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent ex-Union soldiers, sailors, and marines of the late civil war who die in the District of Columbia, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at at a cost not exceeding fifty dollars for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, one thousand five hundred dollars. NATIONAL CEMETERY AT HAMPTON, VIRGINIA: In lieu of the land authorized to be purchased by act approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, the Secretary of War is hereby authorized Enlargement of to acquire by purchase eight acres of land adjoining or as near as practicable to the National Cemetery at Hampton, Virginia, required for enlargement of the same, and the sum of two thousand dollars is Additional appropri- hereby appropriated for this purpose, in addition to the sum of ten thousand dollars appropriated by the said act. cemetery. ation. Mound City, Ill. bridges. NATIONAL CEMETERY NEAR MOUND CITY, ILLINOIS: For conGravel road and structing and completing a gravel road and the necessary bridges from the national cemetery near Mound City Illinois, to Mounds Junction on the Illinois Central Railroad, in Pulaski County, Illinois, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary for such purpose, said sum to be expended and the work performed under the direction of the Secretary of War, but no part of this sum shall be expended until a contract for the completion of the work within this appropriation shall be made by the Secretary of War. Limitation. Presidio of San Francisco. Roads, walks, etc. Miscellaneous ob jects. Survey, lakes. Transporting re ports, etc. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park. NATIONAL CEMETERY, PRESIDIO OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA: For continuing the work of construction and repair of the roads and walks leading to the United States national cemetery on the reservation of the Presidio of San Francisco, planting trees and shrubs, and for the protection and fencing of said roads and reservations in which the cemetery is situated, and also for the preservation of the same and its springs of water used for irrigating the post and cemetery from drifting sands, ten thousand dollars. MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS. SURVEY OF NORTHERN AND NORTHWESTERN LAKES: For printing and issuing charts for use of navigators and electrotyping plates for chart printing, two thousand dollars. For surveys, additions to, and correcting engraved plates, ten thousand dollars. TRANSPORTATION OF REPORTS AND MAPS TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES: For the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries, through the Smithsonian Institution, one hundred dollars. CHICKAMAUGA AND CHATTANOOGA NATIONAL PARK: To enable the Secretary of War to complete the establishment of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park according to the terms of Laws, 1st Sess., 51st the act entitled "An act to establish a national military park at the Cong., p. 333. battle field of Chickamauga," approved August nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, two hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of War, upon the recommendation of the Chickamauga Park Commissioners, may confine the limits of the park to such reduced area, within the bounds fixed by the said act, as may be sufficient for the purposes of the said act, and the acquisition of title for the United States to such reduced area shall be held to be a Proviso. Reduced area. Title. compliance with the terms of said act, and such title shall be procured by the Secretary of War and under his direction in accordance with the methods prescribed in sections four, five, and six of Vol. 14, pp. 400, 401. the act approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled "An act to establish and protect national cemeteries," which procurement of title shall be held to be a compliance. with the act establishing the said Park, and the Secretary of War shall proceed with the establishment of the park as rapidly as juris-Establishment, jurisdiction over the roads of the park and its approaches and title to the separate parcels of land which compose it may be obtained for the United States. ARTIFICIAL LIMBS: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus, or commutation therefor, and necessary transportation to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; and hereafter in case of commutation the money shall be paid directly to the soldier, sailor, or marine, and no fee or compensation shall be allowed or paid to any agent or attorney. APPLIANCES FOR DISABLED SOLDIERS: For furnishing surgical appliances to persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States, and not entitled to artificial limbs, two thousand dollars. diction, etc. Artificial limbs, etc. Commutation. No fee to agent. Appliances for disabled soldiers, etc. SUPPORT AND MEDICAL TREATMENT OF DESTITUTE PATIENTS: Support, etc., of desFor the support and medical treatment of ninety-five medical and titute patients. surgical patients who are destitute in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with the Providence Hospital by the Surgeon Providence Hospital. General of the Army, nineteen thousand dollars. Garfield Memorial Hospital. GARFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: For maintenance, to enable it to provide medical and surgical treatment to persons unable to pay therefor, fifteen thousand dollars. EXPENSES OF MILITARY CONVICTS: For payment of costs and Military convicts. charges of State penitentiaries, for the care, clothing, maintenance, and medical attendance of United States military convicts confined in them, five thousand dollars. Official RecordsWar of the Rebellion. Continuing publica ian members of boardVol. 25, p. 970. PUBLICATION OF OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE WAR OF THE REBELLION: For continuing the publication of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, War of the Rebellion, including tion. the atlas of maps and plans, in accordance with the plan approved by the Secretary of War August third, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for the compensation of the civilian members of the board of Compensation civil publication, appointed in accordance with the act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and for the compensation of such temporary expert services in connection with the preparation, publication and distribution of said records as may be deemed necessary by the Secretary of War, such experts to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of War, from time to time, as the necessity therefor arises, and for the purchase of stationery, and for additional rent not exceeding one thousand eight hundred dollars, two hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. Compensation tem porary experts. Appointment of ex perts. Stationery and rent. Artillery School, ARTILLERY SCHOOL AT FORTRESS MONROE, VIRGINIA: To provide for means of instruction, such as text books, instruments, draw- Fortress Monroe, Va. ing materials, and stationery required in the courses of artillery, engineering, law, and the art and science of war, and for other necessary expenses of the school, five thousand dollars. INFANTRY AND CAVALRY SCHOOL, FORT LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS: For text-books, maps, books of reference, instruments, and materials for use in theoretical and practical instruction, one thousand five hundred dollars. Infantry and Cavalry worth, Kans. School, Fort Leaven New York Harbor. HARBOR OF NEW YORK: For prevention of obstructive and injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York Injurious deposits. City: 980 Pay of inspectors, etc. Steamer "Argus;" pay of crew, etc. Steamer "Nimrod;" pay of crew, etc. Pedestals and statues of Generals Philip H. Sheridan, John A. Logan, and Winfield S. Hancock. ues. FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. SESS. II. CH. 542. 1891. For pay of inspectors and deputy inspectors, office force, and expenses of office, fifteen thousand dollars; For pay of crew and maintenance of steamer Argus, eight thousand dollars; For pay of crew and maintenance of steamer Nimrod, ten thousand dollars; in all, thirty-three thousand dollars. PEDESTALS AND STATUES OF GENERALS PHILIP H SHERIDAN, JOHN A. LOGAN, AND WINFIELD S HANCOCK: For the completion of the pedestals and statues thereon in honor of the late General Philip H Sheridan and the late General John A Logan and the late General Winfield Scott Hancock, ten thousand dollars for each comAdditional for stat memorative statue, thirty thousand dollars, in addition to the sums Vol. 25, pp. 971, 972. appropriated to these objects by the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth eighteen hundred and ninety," to be expended under the direction as provided for in regard to the appropriations made by said act. And such part of the appropriUnexpended bal- ations made by said act for the preparation of sites and pedestals in ance also available for each case as may not be needed for that separate purpose, may be used and expended in the completion of the statues respectively to be placed on said pedestals in addition to the sums hereby appropriated thereto. statues. Thirty thousand dollars, to be expended on the Trenton battle monument, Trenton, New Jersey, under the direction of the Secretary of War, when he is satisfied that a similar amount has been provided by the State of New Jersey and the Trenton Battle Monument Association. UNITED STATES MILITARY PRISON AT FORT LEAVENWORTH. For the support of the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, as follows; For subsistence of prisoners, five teamsters, and two watchmen ; and for prisoners en route to insane asylum, Washington, District of Columbia, twenty-four thousand dollars. For tobacco for prisoners on special or excessive hard labor, three hundred dollars. For forage and bedding for public animals used exclusively at the prison, and hay for prisoners' bedding, three thousand dollars. For stationery, blank books, typewriting supplies, for use in prison offices, memorandum books, and pencils for use of guard when on duty, stationery for use in prisoners' school, postage stamps, envelopes, and letter paper for issue to prisoners, one thousand dollars; For fuel for generating steam for running engines, heating buildings, and use in cooking; materials for extention and repair of steamheating apparatus, and water circulation; hose, belting, machinery castings, horse and mule shoes and nails, articles for repairing harness and wagons, horses and mules, stoves and stovepipe, lime, cement, fire clay, bricks, and fire bricks, iron, tin, solder, blacksmiths' coal, charcoal, glass, putty, nails, paint and whitewash brushes, and painting materials, disinfectants, axes, shovels, spades, wheelbarrows, and other articles required for proper police of buildings and grounds, horse medicines and dressings, tools and miscellaneous supplies for use in shops, laundry, and barber shop, bath rooms, stables, printing office and photograph gallery; furniture for use in offices; electric-light supplies and oil for illuminating buildings and grounds; and for such other expenditures as can not properly be included under other heads of expenditure, twenty thousand dollars; For materials, machinery, and tools for manufacture of prisoners' clothing; for purchase of such clothing as can not be made at the |