and stationery for the use of instructors, one hundred and eighty dollars; contingencies, one hundred dollars; in all, two thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars.

For department of history, geography, and ethics: For text-books, books of reference, and stationery for use of instructors, and repairs, one hundred and fifty dollars.

For department of artillery, cavalry, and infantry tactics, namely: For tan-bark for riding-hall, three hundred dollars; repairing campstools and camp-furniture, one hundred dollars; furniture for offices and reception room, one hundred dollars; stationery for use of instructor and assistants, one hundred and fifty dollars; books and maps, seventyfive dollars; supply of fixtures for gymnasium, and repairs, two hundred and fifty dollars; foils, fencing gloves, jackets, gaiters, and repairs, two hundred and fifty dollars; in all, one thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars.

For department of law: For stationery, text-books, and books of ref erence for use of instructors, two hundred and fifty dollars.

For department of civil and military engineering: For models, maps, purchase and repairs of instruments, text-books, books of reference, and stationery for the use of instructors, and contingencies, five hundred dollars; extra pay of enlisted man employed as draughtsman, one hundred dollars; in all, six hundred dollars.

For department of ordnance and gunnery: For addition to models; drawing apparatus illustrating course of instruction; repairs of electroballistic machines, galvanic batteries, and models; for addition to firinghouses and practical instruction-room; for books of reference, textbooks, and stationery for the use of instructors, three hundred dollars. 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: Astronomical and meteorological instruments and lights for use in instructing cadets in practical astronomy; reconnoitering instruments for use in their practical instruction in making reconnaissances; photographic apparatus and material for field photography; drawing instruments and material for plotting reconnaissances; surveying instruments; instruments and material for signaling and field telegraphy; transportation of field parties; tools and material for the preservation and repair of one wooden ponton and one canvas ponton bridge train; sapping and mining tools and material; profiling material; rope; cordage; end materials for rafts and for spar and trestle bridges; intrenching tools; tools and material for the repair of Fort Clinton and the batteries at the Academy, and extra-duty pay of engineer soldiers employed upon the same; extra-duty pay of two 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, one thousand two hundred dollars. For department of drawing: For books of reference, periodicals on art and technology, one hundred dollars; models for topographical, mechanical, and free-hand drawing, one hundred dollars: repairs to desks, models, racks, stools, stretchers, and tables, one hundred dollars; drawing material for use of instructors, card-board, tacks, brushes, sponges, glue, alcohol, transfer-paper, hectograph, cloth, stationery, and contingencies, two hundred dollars; in all, five hundred dollars.

For expenses of the Board of Visitors, including mileage, three thousand dollars.

For miscellaneous and incidental expenses: For gas-coal, oil, candles,

lanterns, matches, and wicking for lighting the Academy, chapel, library, cadet barracks, mess-ball, shops, hospital, offices, stables and ridinghall, sidewalks, and wharves, three thousand five hundred dollars; water-pipes, plumbing, and repairs, one thousand five hundred dollars; cleaning public buildings (not quarters), six hundred dollars; brooms, brushes, pails, tubs, soap, and cloths, two hundred dollars; chalk, crayons, sponges, slate, and rubbers for recitation-rooms, three hundred dollars; compensation of chapel organist, two hundred dollars; compensation of librarian, one hundred and twenty dollars; pay of engineer of heating and ventilating apparatus for the academic building, the cadet barracks, and office building, cadet hospital, chapel, and philoso phical building, including the library, one thousand two hundred dollars; pay of assistant engineer of same, one thousand dollars; pay of five firemen two thousand seven hundred dollars; in all, eleven thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.

For pay of librarian's assistant, one thousand dollars.

For increase and expense of library, namely: For periodicals, binding new books, and scientific, historical, biographical, and general literature, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For additional tables and chairs, furniture, and contingent repairs to library rooms, two hundred dollars.

For furniture for cadet hospital, and repairs of the same, one hundred dollars.

For purchase of bedding and necessary articles for the use of candidates previous to their admission into the Academy, and for the purpose of defraying the cost of subsistence and other necessary expenses of indigent candidates who fail to pass the preliminary examination, five hundred dollars.

For contingencies for superintendent of the Academy, one thousand dollars.

For renewing furniture (desks and benches) in section-rooms, and repairing the same, five hundred dollars.

PUBLIC WORKS.

For buildings and grounds: For repairing roads and paths, including roads and bridges on reservation, five hundred dollars.

For continuing construction of breast-high wall in dangerous places, five hundred dollars.

For cadet barracks: To complete the reflooring of fifty-one rooms and eight halls, two thousand dollars; scraping and painting the ceilings and halls, the wood-work inside and out, and completing the repairs to the same and the piazza, three thousand dollars; in all, five thousand dollars.

For altering, repairing, and converting into suitable quarters for officers the old cadet hospital, three thousand five hundred dollars.

For water-works: Renewal of material in filter-beds; improving ventilation of filter-house and water-house; hose for use in cleaning filterbeds 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 supplypipes; for shed for tools, and storage of fuel for keeper at Round Pond, and for tool-house at filter; for gauges at Round Pond and Delafield Pond, and stairs for access to same, five hundred and twenty dollars. Approved, June 29, 1886.

[PUBLIC-No. 95.]

CHAP. 573.—An act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty

seven.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the service of the Post-Office Department, in conformity to the act of July second, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, as follows:

OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL.

For mail depredations and post-office inspectors, and fees to United States marshals, attorneys, and the necessary incidental expenses connected therewith, two hundred thousand dollars.

For advertising, twenty thousand dollars.

For miscellaneous items in the office of the Postmaster-General, one thousand five hundred dollars.

OFFICE OF THE FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER-GENERAL.

For compensation to postmasters, eleven million seven hundred thousand dollars.

For compensation to clerks in post-offices, five million one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For rent, fuel, and light, four hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars. And the Postmaster-General is hereby authorized to rent a suitable building on Capitol Hill for use as a branch of the Washington city post-office, at a rate not exceeding thirty dollars per month, until further action of Congress.

For office furniture, twenty five thousand dollars.

For miscellaneous and incidental items, seventy thousand dollars. For free-delivery service, four million nine hundred and twenty-eight thousand five hundred and thirty-one dollars and twenty-five cents; forty thousand dollars of which may be used, in the discretion of the Postmaster General, for the establishment, under existing law, of the free-delivery system in cities where it is not now established. For stationery in post-offices, fifty-five thousand dollars. For wrapping-twine, eighty thousand dollars.

For wrapping-paper, thirty thousand dollars.

For letter balances, scales, and test-weights, ten thousand dollars. For postmarking and rating stamps, and ink and pads for stamping and cancelling purposes, thirty thousand dollars.

OFFICE OF THE SECOND ASSISTANT POSTMASTER-GENERAL.

For inland mail transportation, namely:

Inland transportation by star routes, five million eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Inland transportation by steamboat routes, five hundred and seventyfive thousand dollars.

Mail-messenger service, nine hundred thousand dollars.

Mail-bags and mail-bag catchers, two hundred and sixty thousand dollars.

Mail locks and keys, twenty thousand dollars.

Inland transportation, railroad routes, fifteen million five hundred and ninety-five thousand four hundred and thirty-two dollars.

Railway post-office-car service, one million eight hundred and eight thousand dollars.

Railway postal clerks, four million eight hundred thousand dollars. Necessary and special facilities on trunk lines, two hundred and ninety-one thousand dollars.

Miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars.

OFFICE OF THE THIRD ASSISTANT POSTMASTER-GENERAL.

For manufacture of adhesive postage and special-delivery stamps, one hundred and sixteen thousand seven hundred dollars.

For pay of agent and assistants to distribute stamps, and expenses of agency, eight thousand one hundred dollars.

For manufacture of stamped envelopes, newspaper-wrappers, and letter-sheets, five hundred and eighty-three thousand five hundred dollars.

For pay of agent and assistants to distribute stamped envelopes, newspaper-wrappers, and letter-sheets, and expenses of agency, sixteen thousand dollars.

For manufacture of postal cards, one hundred and eighty-eight thousand six hundred dollars.

For pay of agent and assistants to distribute postal cards, and expenses of agency, ten thousand three hundred dollars.

For registered-package, tag, official, and dead-letter envelopes, sixtyseven thousand two hundred dollars.

For ship, steamboat, and way letters, two thousand dollars.

For engraving, printing, and binding drafts and warrants, two thousand dollars.

For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars.

OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF FOREIGN MAILS.

For transportation of foreign mails, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.

For balance due foreign countries, one hundred thousand dollars.

SEC. 2. That if the revenues of the Post-Office Department shall be insufficient to meet the appropriations made by this act, a sum equal to such deficiency of the revenues of said Department is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply the said deficiencies in the revenue of the PostOffice Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.

Approved, June 30, 1886.

[PUBLIC-No. 96.]

CHAP. 574.—An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven:

PAY OF OFFICERS OF THE LINE.

For one Lieutenant-General, three major-generals, six brigadiergenerals, forty colonels, forty lieutenant-colonels, seventy majors, one hundred and thirty captains (mounted), three hundred captains (not mounted), thirty-four chaplains, forty adjutants, forty regimental quartermasters, one hundred and forty first lieutenants (mounted), three hundred and fifty first lieutenants (not mounted), one hundred and thirty-five second lieutenants (mounted), three hundred second lieutenants (not mounted), in all, two million eight hundred and sixty-eight thousand dollars.

Additional pay: For twenty-three aids-de-camp, one military secre tary, and officers of foot regiments when mounted by proper authority, in addition to and payable with their current monthly pay, in all, eight thousand dollars.

For pay to officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, in all, seven hundred and sixty-seven thousand seven. hundred and ninety-one dollars and fifty cents.

ENLISTED MEN.

For pay proper of the enlisted men of all grades, four million two hundred and seventy-six thousand five hundred and eighty-eight dollars.

For pay of one hundred and twenty five men enlisted as general service clerks at Army, Division, Department, and District headquarters, at the headquarters of the general recruiting service, at recruiting depots, and at West Point, New York, as follows: ten clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; twenty-five clerks, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; and ninety clerks, at one thousand dollars each; said sums to be in full for all pay, commutations, and allowances; in all, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand five hundred dollars.

For pay of forty-five men enlisted as general service messengers, at the rate of sixty dollars per month each, in full for all pay, commutations, and allowances, thirty-two thousand four hundred dollars.

Service pay to enlisted men: For pay to eulisted men by reason of length of service, in addition to their monthly pay, and payable therewith, three hundred and sixty-eight thousand seven hundred and eightyfour dollars.