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Improving Ocmulgee River, Georgia: For continuing improvement, forty thousand dollars.

Improving Patapsco River, Maryland: For continuing improvement of channel to Baltimore, four hundred and seventyfive thousand three hundred and fifty-two dollars.

Improving Potomac River: For improvement below the city of Washington, ninety-eight thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Saint Joseph, Michigan: For completing improvement, thirty-eight thousand dollars.

Improving Savannah River, Georgia: For continuing improvement between Augusta and Savannah, one hundred thousand dollars.

Improving Tampa Bay, Florida: For continuing improvement of channel from the Gulf of Mexico to Port Tampa, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at Toledo, Ohio: For continuing improvement, eight thousand dollars.

Improving Warrior and Tombigbee rivers, Alabama and Mississippi: For continuing improvement of Warrior River by the construction of the three locks and dams next below Tuscaloosa, two hundred and forty thousand dollars.

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.

FOR SUPERINTENDENTS OF NATIONAL CEMETERIES: For pay of seventy-five superintendents of national cemeteries, sixtyone 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-five thousand dollars.

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 States to a national cemetery, or to encroach upon any roads or walks constructed thereon and maintained by the United States, fifteen thousand dollars.

For repairing and improving Government roadway from Staunton, Virginia, to the national cemetery, two 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 forty dollars for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, three thousand dollars.

ROAD TO NATIONAL CEMETERY, PRESIDIO OF SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA: For continuation of stone wall on the boundary line of the reservation of the Presidio of San Francisco, California, five thousand dollars.

ANTIETAM BATTLEFIELD: For repair and preservation of monuments, tablets, observation tower, roads, and fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States upon public land within the limits of the Antietam battlefield, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For pay of superintendent of Antietam battlefield. said superintendent to perform his duties under the direction of the Quartermaster's Department and to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of War, at his discretion, the person selected and appointed to this position to be an honorably discharged Union soldier, one thousand five hundred dollars.

MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS, WAR DEPARTMENT.

BRINGING HOME THE REMAINS OF OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS WHO DIE ABROAD: To enable the Secretary of War, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of officers and soldiers who die at military camps or who are killed in action or who die in the field or hospital in Alaska and at places outside of the limits of the United States, or who die while on voyage at sea, one hundred thousand dollars.

BRINGING HOME THE REMAINS OF CIVIL EMPLOYEES OF THE ARMY WHO DIE ABROAD AND SOLDIERS WHO DIE ON TRANSPORTS: To enable the Secretary of War, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of civilian

employees of the Army who have died, or may hereafter die, while in the employ of the War Department in Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii, China, Alaska, and the Philippines, including the remains of any honorably discharged soldiers who are entitled under the terms of their discharge to return transportation on Government transport, and who die while on said transport, fifty thousand dollars.

MAPS, WAR DEPARTMENT: For publication of maps for use of the War Department, inclusive of war maps, five thousand dollars.

SURVEY OF NORTHERN AND NORTHWESTERN LAKES: For survey of northern and northwestern lakes, including all necessary expenses of correcting, extending, printing, and issuing charts, and of investigating lake levels, with a view to their regulation, to be available until expended, one hundred 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, one hundred and twenty-five 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; for the erection and equipment of a power house and nurses' home to be erected at Providence Hospital, fifty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; in all, sixty-nine thousand dollars, one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.

GARFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: For maintenance, to enable

it to provide medical and surgical treatment to persons unable to pay therefor, nineteen thousand dollars; for pointing up and painting all the interior walls and ceilings of the isolating wards for minor contagious diseases at the Garfield Hospital, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; in all, twenty thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. ESTABLISHMENT OF APACHE PRISONERS AT FORT SILL, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY: For the erection of buildings and repairs to same, purchase of draft animals, and live stock for breeding purposes, farm and household utensils, blacksmith and wheelwright tools, and repairs to same, and all other necessary articles absolutely needed for the support and maintenance of the Apache prisoners of war permanently established at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, under control of the War Department, two thousand five hundred dollars.

CALIFORNIA DÉBRIS COMMISSION: For defraying the expenses of the commission in carrying on the work authorized by the Act of Congress approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, fifteen thousand dollars.

HARBOR OF NEW YORK: For prevention of obstructive and injurious 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 five steam tugs and three launches, fifty-eight thousand three hundred and forty dollars;

For electric plant and steam steering gear and installing same, and generally overhauling and repairing steam tug Nimrod, four thousand two hundred dollars;

In all, seventy two thousand eight hundred dollars.

STATUE OF GENERAL JOHN A. LOGAN: To defray the expenses attending the unveiling of the statue of General John A. Logan, lately erected in Iowa circle, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, one thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the commission charged with the selection of a site and erection of a pedestal for said statue, to be immediately available.

STATUE OF GENERAL GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN: For the preparation of a site and the erection of a pedestal for a statue of the late Major-General George B. McClellan in the city of Washington, said site to be selected by and said pedestal erected under the supervision of the chairman of the Joint Committee on the Library, the Secretary of War, and the chairman of the McClellan statue committee of the Society of the Army of the Potomac, fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That any part of this sum not required for the site and pedestal may be used and expended for the completion of the statue of General McClellan: And provided further, That said statue shall not be located in the grounds of the Capitol or Library of Congress. NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS.

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

AT THE CENTRAL BRANCH, AT DAYTON, OHIO: For current expenses, namely: Pay of officers and noncommissioned officers of the Home, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted, and their clerks and orderlies; 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, for payments due heirs of deceased members, and for such other expenditures as can not properly be included under other heads of expenditure, fifty-one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For subsistence, namely: Pay of commissary sergeants, commissary 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 diningroom and kitchen furniture and utensils, bakers and butchers' tools and appliances, and their repair not done by the Home, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

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