No. 32.

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, March 14, 1901.

The following act of Congress is published for the information and government of all concerned:

An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, 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, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, namely:

GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE: For current expenses of the Government Hospital for the Insane: For support, clothing, and treatment in the Government Hospital for the Insane of the insane from the Army and Navy, Marine Corps, Revenue-Cutter Service, and inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States who are insane, all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military or naval service of the United States, who have been admitted to the hospital and who are indigent, three hundred and thirty-eight thousand five hundred dollars; and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars of this sum may be expended in defraying the expense of the removal of patients to their friends; not exceeding one thousand dollars may be expended in the purchase of such books, periodicals, and papers as may be required for the purposes of the hospital, and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the apprehension and return to the hospital of escaped patients.

The Secretary of War may, in his discretion, contract for the care, maintenance, and treatment of the insane of the Army, and inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers on the Pacific coast at any State asylum in California, in all cases which he is now authorized by law to cause to be sent to the Government Hospital for the Insane in the District of Columbia.

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UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT.

ARMORIES AND ARSENALS.

For the Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois, as follows:

For machinery and shop fixtures, ten thousand dollars.

For general care, preservation, and improvements; for painting and care and preservation of permanent buildings; for building fences and sewers and grading grounds, ten thousand dollars.

For entire completion of excavating rock, earth, and other matter from tailrace of the Government water power dam at the Rock Island Arsenal below the junction of the tailraces of the Moline and Government dams of said power, one hundred and thirty thousand five hundred dollars.

For replanking and repainting the Moline Bridge, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For the Rock Island Bridge, as follows:

For operating and care and preservation of Rock Island bridge and viaduct, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. FRANKFORD ARSENAL, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA: For new two-story carpenter shop, twenty-five thousand dollars; For new two-story storehouse for factory supplies, fifteen thousand dollars;

For one two-story brick shop for large caliber cartridge plant and additional machinery, fifty-five thousand dollars; East storehouse: For one Morse improved belt power elevator of two thousand pounds capacity, to operate at a speed of forty feet per minute, also a number two Crane electric motor, and the cutting and framing of hatchways and preparation of pit in cellar, and for renewal of six hundred square feet of flooring in first story, one thousand five hundred and

fifty dollars; in all, ninety-six thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.

SCHUYLKILL ARSENAL, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA: For the construction of one fireproof building for storage and other purposes, seventy-five thousand dollars.

SANDY HOOK PROVING GROUND, NEW JERSEY: For building and repairing roads and walks, and for general repairs of shops, storehouses, and quarters, two thousand five hundred dollars.

SPRINGFIELD ARSENAL, SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS: For general care, repair of quarters, of buildings, and machinery not used for manufacturing purposes, ten thousand dollars.

The unexpended balance of the sum appropriated by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved June sixth, nineteen hundred, for curbing and macadamizing Magazine street, is hereby made available for grading and macadamizing Lincoln street.

TESTING MACHINE, WATERTOWN ARSENAL: For labor and materials in caring for, preserving, and operating the United States testing machine at Watertown Arsenal, including such new tools and appliances as may be required, fifteen thousand dollars.

WATERTOWN ARSENAL, WATERTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS: For moving the old brick two-storied administration building to a new site, and converting it into two sets of noncommissioned officers' quarters, two thousand five hundred dollars;

For barracks for one company of enlisted men, thirty thousand dollars; in all, thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars. REPAIRS OF ARSENALS: For repairs and improvements at arsenals and powder depots, and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, ninety thousand dollars.

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS IN AND AROUND WASHINGTON.

For the improvement and care of public grounds, as follows: For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of Executive Mansion, four thousand dollars.

For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, two thousand dollars.

For ordinary care of Lafayette Park, one thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Franklin Park, one thousand dollars. For improvement and ordinary care of Lincoln Park, two thousand dollars.

expenditure provided for in this Act; and said lamps shall burn every night, on the average, from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise; 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 further, That three thousand four hundred dollars of the foregoing sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the remainder from the Treasury of the United States.

For lighting six arc electric lights in Executive Mansion grounds within the iron fence three hundred and sixty-five nights, at not exceeding seventy-two dollars per light per annum, which shall cover the entire cost to the United States of lighting and maintaining in good order each electric light in said grounds, four hundred and thirty-two dollars.

For lighting arc electric lights in public grounds as follows: For seven in grounds south of the Executive Mansion; thirtytwo in Lafayette, Franklin, Judiciary, and Lincoln Parks, and fourteen in grounds south of Executive Mansion and in Monument Park, at not exceeding seventy-two dollars per light per annum, which sums shall cover the entire cost of lighting and maintaining in good order each of said arc electric lights; in all, three thousand eight hundred and sixteen dollars, onehalf 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.

REPAIR OF WATER PIPES: For repairing and extending water pipes, purchase of apparatus for cleaning them, purchase of hose, and for 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 five hundred dollars.

WASHINGTON MONUMENT: For the care and maintenance of the 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 attendant 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.

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 floors, 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.

That the appropriation of six thousand five hundred dollars for addition to boiler house of the Washington Monument, made by sundry civil Act approved June sixth, nineteen hundred, is hereby also made available for the necessary waterpipe connections and for each and every purpose necessary to make said boiler house most effective for the elevator service.

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, and for the erection of barracks and quarters for the artillery in connection with the adopted project for seacoast defense, and for the purchase of suitable building sites for said barracks and quarters, eight hundred and sixty thousand dollars.

The unexpended balance of the appropriation made by the sundry civil Act approved July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for continuing construction and improvements at the military post at Spokane, Washington, is hereby reappropriated and made available until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, together with such additional sum out of the amount appropriated for construction of buildings at and enlargement of military posts as may in the discretion of the Secretary of War be necessary to be expended for continuing construction and improvements at said military post until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two.

For continuing work of rebuilding quarters, and for rebuilding commanding officer's quarters at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo