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For harbor of refuge at Point Judith, Rhode Island: Continuing improvement, three hundred thousand dollars.

For improving harbor and bay at Humboldt, California: Continuing improvement, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

NATIONAL CEMETERIES.

Point Judith, R. I.

Humboldt, Cal.

National cemeteries.

FOR NATIONAL CEMETERIES: For maintaining and improving Maintenance. national cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents of national cemeteries, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools and materials, one hundred thousand dollars.

FOR SUPERINTENDENTS OF NATIONAL CEMETERIES: For pay of Superintendents. seventy-five superintendents of national cemeteries, sixty-one thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars.

HEADSTONES FOR GRAVES OF SOLDIERS: For continuing the work of furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of Union soldiers, 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, twenty thousand dollars.

Headstones for solgraves.

diers'

Vol. 17, p. 545.
Vol. 20, p. 281.

Roadways.

Proviso.
Encroachments by

REPAIRING ROADWAYS TO NATIONAL CEMETERIES: For repairs to roadways to national cemeteries which have been constructed by special authority of Congress: Provided, That no railroad shall be permitted upon the right of way which may have been acquired by the United railroads forbidden. States to a national cemetery, or to encroach upon any roads or walks constructed thereon and maintained by the United States, eight 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 a cost not exceeding fifty dollars for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, three thousand dollars. ROAD TO NATIONAL CEMETERY, PRESIDIO OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALI FORNIA: For continuing the work of improving the reservation at the Presidio of San Francisco, California, by developing and perfecting the water supply, the reclaiming of sand dunes, the planting of trees and shrubs, and construction of new roads, the erection of a permanent fence or wall on the south and east lines of the reservation, the erection of permanent gateways, the reclamation of the marsh, and other general and much-needed improvements, ten thousand dollars.

Military Cemetery at Key West, Florida: For the purchase and use of land included in the military cemetery adjacent to the reservation of Key West Barracks, Florida, as recommended in a letter from the Secretary of War, dated February seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six (House Document Numbered Two hundred and twenty-one, Fifty-fourth Congress, first session), two thousand and fifty-eight dollars.

Burial of indigent

soldiers.

Road to Presidio, Cal.

Key West, Fla.

BATTLEFIELD OF ANTIETAM: For completing the work of locating, Antietam, Md. preserving, and marking the positions of troops and lines of battle of the Union and Confederate armies at Antietam, and the closely related battles of Harpers Ferry, South Mountain, Cramptons Gap, and Shepherdstown, the said lines and positions to be marked with cast-iron tablets, each bearing a brief historical legend compiled without praise and without censure; for improvement of roads owned by the United States at Antietam; for monuments of cannon balls and bases therefor to mark the localities where six general officers were killed; for completing the observatory towers; for guideposts; for preparing and publishing maps indicating the movements and positions of troops engaged in the battles and in the Antietam campaign; and for services and materials incidental to the foregoing, seventeen thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War.

Guilford battle grounds.

Miscellaneous.

Survey of Northern, etc.. lakes.

Additions.

Transporting maps.

Artificial limbs.

Appliances for dis abled soldiers.

Providence Hospital, D. C. Destitute patients.

Garfield

D. C.

Hospital,

Maintenance.

Military convicts.

Official Records War of the Rebellion.

tion.

Civilian board.

Vol. 25, p. 970.

For repairs to the Guilford battle grounds: To enable the Guilford Battle Ground Company to repair the grounds and public buildings of said company on said battle grounds, one thousand dollars; said amount to be disbursed on the order of the president of the said company; and the United States shall be at no further expense in the future for repairs or other expenses relating to said battle grounds.

MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS, WAR DEPARTMENT.

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, to be available until expended, twenty-five 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.

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, five hundred and seventyfive thousand dollars.

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 or trusses for the same disabilities, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, two thousand dollars.

SUPPORT AND MEDICAL TREATMENT OF DESTITUTE PATIENTS: For the support and medical treatment of ninety-five medical and surgical patients who are destitute, in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with the Providence Hospital by the Surgeon-General of the Army, nineteen thousand dollars.

GARFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: For maintenance, to enable it to provide medical and surgical treatment to persons unable to pay therefor, nineteen thousand dollars.

EXPENSES OF MILITARY CONVICTS: For payment of costs and charges of State penitentiaries, for the care, clothing, maintenance, and medical attendance of United States military convicts confined in them, five hundred dollars, to be expended in the current support of military convicts.

PUBLICATION OF OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE WAR OF THE REBELContinuing publica- LION: For continuing the publication of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies, including 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 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, and for the purchase of stationery and for additional rent, not exceeding one thousand eight hundred dollars, and for traveling expenses of the agent for collection of records, to be disbursed under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, not exceeding five hundred dollars, one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars.

Artillery school, Fort Monroe, Va.

Infantry.etc., school,

Kans.

ARTILLERY SCHOOL AT FORT MONROE, VIRGINIA: To provide for means of instruction, such as text-books, instruments, drawing 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: Fort Leavenworth, For text-books, books of reference, instruments and materials for use in theoretical and practical instruction, one thousand five hundred dollars.

HARBOR OF NEW YORK: For prevention of obstructive and injurious New York Harbor. deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City:

For pay of inspectors and deputy inspectors, office force, and expenses of office, ten thousand two hundred and sixty dollars; For pay of crews and maintenance of four steam tugs and three launches, forty-eight thousand seven hundred and forty dollars; In all, fifty-nine thousand dollars.

CALIFORNIA DÉBRIS COMMISSION: To defray the expenses of the California Débris Commission, authorized by the Act approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, fifteen thousand dollars.

Inspectors, etc.

Vessels.

California Débris
Commission.
Vol. 27, p. 507.

NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS.

For the support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, as follows:

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.

Dayton, O.
Current expenses.

AT THE CENTRAL BRANCH, AT DAYTON, OHIO: For current expenses, namely: Pay of officers and noncommissioned officers of the Home, clerks and orderlies, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted; also payments for chaplains and religious instruction, printers, bookbinders, librarians, musicians, telegraph and telephone operators, guards, policemen, watchmen, and fire company; for all property and materials purchased for their use, including repairs not done by the Home; for necessary expenditures for articles of amusement, boats, library books, magazines, papers, pictures, and musical instruments, and for repairs not done by the Home; and for stationery, advertising, legal advice, and for such other expenditures as can not properly be included under other heads of expenditure, fifty-eight thousand dollars; For subsistence, namely: Pay of commissary sergeants, commissary Subsistence. clerks, porters, laborers, bakers, cooks, dishwashers, waiters, and others employed in the subsistence department; the cost of all articles purchased for the regular ration, their freight, preparation, and serving; aprons, caps, and jackets for kitchen and dining-room employees; of tobacco; of all dining-room and kitchen furniture and utensils, bakers' and butchers' tools and appliances, and their repair not done by the Home, two hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars;

For household, namely: Expenditures for furniture for officers' quarters; for bedsteads, bedding, bedding material, and all other articles required in the quarters of the members, and for their repair if they are not repaired by the Home; for fuel, including fuel for cooking, heat, and light; for engineers and firemen, bath-house keepers, hall cleaners, laundrymen, gas and soap makers, and privy watchmen, and for all labor, materials, and appliances required for household use, and for their repairs unless the repairs are made by the Home, one hundred thousand dollars;

Household.

For hospital, namely: Pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists, Hospital. hospital clerks and stewards, ward masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers, hospital carriage drivers, hearse drivers, gravediggers, funeral escort, and for such other services as may be necessary for the care of the sick; for surgical instruments and appliances, medical books, medicine, liquors, fruits, and other necessaries for the sick not on the regular ration; for bedsteads, bedding, and bedding materials, and all other articles necessary for the wards; for hospital kitchen and dining-room furniture, and appliances, including aprons, caps, and jackets for hospital kitchen and dining-room employees; for carriage, hearse, stretchers, coffins; for tools of gravediggers, and for all repairs to hospital furniture and appliances not done by the Home, fifty-five thousand dollars;

That hereafter upon proper application therefor, the Medical Depart- Supplies from Army. ment of the Army is authorized to sell medical and hospital supplies at its contract prices to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers;

Transportation.

Construction.

Farm.

Milwaukee, Wis.
Current expenses.

Subsistence.

Household.

Hospital.

Transportation.

Construction.

Farm.

Togus, Me.

For transportation, namely: For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand five hundred dollars;

For repairs, namely: Pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths, carpenters, cabinetmakers, coopers, painters, gas fitters, plumbers, tin. smiths, wire-workers, steam fitters, stone and brick masons, quarrymen, whitewashers, and laborers; and for all appliances, and materials used under this head, also for repair of roads and of other improvements of a permanent character, fifty-five thousand five hundred and sixty-eight dollars;

For farm, namely: Pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness makers, farm hands, gardeners, horseshoers, stablemen, teamsters, dairymen, herders, and laborers, and for all tools, appliances, and materials required for farm, garden, and dairy work; for grain, hay, straw, dressing, seed, carriages, wagons, carts, and other conveyances; for all animals purchased for stock or for work (including animals in the park); for all materials, tools, and labor for flower garden, lawn, and park; and for repairs not done by the Home, fifteen thousand dollars;

In all, five hundred and seventy thousand and sixty-eight dollars. AT THE NORTHWESTERN BRANCH, AT MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-nine thousand dollars;

For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty-seven thousand dollars;

For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-eight thousand three hundred and fifty dollars;

For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand five hundred dollars;

For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty thousand dollars;

For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, eight thousand dollars;

In all, two hundred and seventy-one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.

AT THE EASTERN BRANCH AT TOGUS, MAINE: For current expenses, Current expenses. including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-three thousand dollars;

Subsistence.

Household.

Hospital.

Transportation.

Construction.

Farm.

Hampton, Va.

Current expenses.

Subsistence.

Household.

Hospital.

For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and seventeen thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty-six thousand dollars;

For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand eight hundred dollars;

For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand five hundred dollars;

For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, eighteen thousand dollars;

For new barn, two thousand eight hundred dollars;

For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, ten thousand dollars;

In all, two hundred and fifty-four thousand one hundred dollars. AT THE SOUTHERN BRANCH, AT HAMPTON, VIRGINIA: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand dollars;

For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty-five thousand dollars;

For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars;

For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand five hun- Transportation. dred dollars;

For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for Construction. the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand dollars;

For addition to present latrine, three thousand five hundred dollars; For reimbursement of amount advanced for additional boilers, four thousand two hundred dollars;

For new gasoline lighting-machine plant, six thousand dollars;

For construction of sewage pumping works, including building, reservoir, machinery, pipes, ventilating chimney, and other items necessary for the purpose, twenty-six thousand dollars to be immediately available; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirteen thousand dollars;

In all, three hundred and sixty-six thousand two hundred dollars. AT THE WESTERN BRANCH, AT LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand dollars;

For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and thirty-two thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty-five thousand dollars;

Farm.

Leavenworth, Kans.
Current expenses.

Subsistence.

Household.

For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for Hospital. the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars;

For transportation of members of the Home, two thousand five Transportation. hundred dollars;

For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-two thousand dollars;

For new building for insane ward, five thousand three hundred dollars;

For materials and labor necessary to renew the steam and other pipes to cover the same, with their necessary connections, seven thousand five hundred and fourteen dollars and seventy-five cents;

For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, eight thousand dollars;

In all, two hundred and eighty-seven thousand three hundred and fourteen dollars and seventy-five cents.

AT THE PACIFIC BRANCH, AT SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty thousand dollars;

For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, eighty-five thousand dollars;

For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars;

For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, nineteen thousand dollars;

For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty thousand dollars;

For additional barracks, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars; For new boiler house and stack, nine thousand two hundred dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, ten thousand dollars;

In all, two hundred and eighteen thousand seven hundred dollars. AT THE MARION BRANCH, AT MARION, INDIANA: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-four thousand dollars;

Construction.

Farm.

Santa Monica, Cal.
Current expenses.

Subsistence.

Household.

Hospital.

Transportation.
Construction.

Farm.

Marion, Ind.
Current expenses.

Subsistence.

Household.

For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, eighty-seven thousand six hundred dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for Hospital. the Central Branch, twenty thousand dollars;

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