Territory the Secretary of War is authorized to replace the ordnance and ordnance stores which the volunteers from said State or Territory carried into the service of the United States Army during the recent war with Spain, and which have been retained by the United States.

Hereafter the following persons only shall be entitled to the benefits of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and may be admitted thereto upon the order of a member of the Board of Managers, namely: All honorably discharged officers, soldiers, and sailors who served in the regular or volunteer forces of the United States in any war in which the country has been engaged, who are disabled by disease, wounds, or otherwise, and who have no adequate means of support, and by reason of such disability are incapable of earning their living.

That the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, granting "extra pay to officers and enlisted men of the United States Volunteers," shall extend to all volunteer officers of the general staff who have not received waiting orders pay prior to discharge, at the rate of one month to those who did not serve beyond the limits of the United States and two months to those who served beyond the limits of the United States; and officers and enlisted men of volunteer organizations, who have served honestly and faithfully in the Volunteer Army of the United States during the war with Spain and have been honorably discharged without furlough, or by reason of their services being no longer required, or at any time by reason of wounds received, or disability contracted in the service and in the line of duty, and who have not received the extra pay granted in said Act or in subsequent Acts of Congress supplemental thereto: And this Act shall be deened to apply to officers of volunteers who resigned and enlisted men of volunteers who were discharged upon their own applications subsequent to the issue of orders for the mus ter out of their organizations and prior to the dates of muster out.

Approved, May 26, 1900.

BY COMMAND OF MAJOR GENERAL MILES:

H. C. CORBIN,

No. 77.

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, June 2, 1900.

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

An Act Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, 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 sums of money herein provided for be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be available until expended, namely:

FORTIFICATIONS AND OTHER WORKS OF DEFENSE.

For construction of gun and mortar batteries, two million dollars.

For pneumatic dynamite batteries, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars.

For installation of range and position finders, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For the procurement of land, or right pertaining thereto, needed for the site, location, construction, or prosecution of works, for fortifications and coast defenses, two hundred thousand dollars.

For the purchase of suitable building sites, and improvements and leases thereon, necessary to properly provide for the garrison at Sullivans Island, Charleston, South Carolina, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: Provided, That no part of this sum shall be expended until valid title to all the land, and improvements and leases thereon, necessary for this purpose shall have been acquired by the United States.

For the protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications for which there may be no special appropriation available, one hundred thousand dollars.

For preparation of plans for fortifications, five thousand dollars.

For tools, electrical and engine supplies, for use of the troops for maintaining and operating electric light and power plants

For construction of sea walls and embankments, fifty thousand dollars.

For construction of a sea wall and for necessary filling in at the reservation at Fort Caswell, North Carolina, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For the purchase of submarine mines and necessary appliances to operate them for closing the channels leading to our principal seaports, needful casemates, cable galleries, and so forth, to render it possible to operate submarine mines, and continuing torpedo experiments, fifty thousand dollars.

ARMAMENT OF FORTIFICATIONS.

For finishing and assembling eight-inch, ten-inch, and twelveinch guns at the Army Gun Factory, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For oil tempered and annealed steel for eight-inch, ten-inch, and twelve-inch seacoast guns, five hundred and thirty thousand dollars: Provided, That no contract for oil-tempered and annealed steel for high-power coast-defense guns and mortars shall be made at a price exceeding twenty-two cents per pound: Provided, That in the discretion of the Secretary of War a portion of this money may be used for the purchase of material for steel-wire seacoast guns.

For carriages for eight, ten, and twelve inch seacoast guns, including one carriage for sixteen-inch type gun, four hundred and ninety-two thousand dollars.

For twelve-inch steel breech-loading mortars, three hundred thousand dollars.

For carriages for twelve-inch steel breech loading mortars, one hundred and eighty-three thousand dollars.

For powders, projectiles, and explosives for reserve supply for cannon, six hundred and twenty-four thousand dollars. For rapid-fire guns, including their mounts and ammunition, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For eight, ten, and twelve-inch guns manufactured by contract under the provisions of the fortification Acts approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, aud February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, three hundred and sixty-one thousand four hundred and eightyeight dollars.

For test of one sixteen-inch type of breech-loading gun, sixty thousand dollars.

For proof of eight-inch, ten inch, and twelve-inch guns, thirty-three thousand dollars.

For powder and projectiles for the proof of twelve-inch breech-loading seacoast mortars, four thousand dollars.

For armor plates and deck plates for testing armor and deck piercing projectiles, twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars.

For powders and projectiles for artillery instruction and practice, eighty-eight thousand dollars.

For armament chests for siege and seacoast guns and mortars, nine thousand eight hundred dollars.

For machine guns of caliber thirty, army model, including metallic carriages, with limbers and protective shields complete for same, fifty thousand dollars.

For range finders for coast defense, thirty-five thousand dollars.

For implements and equipments for service, and also for mounting, repairs, care and preservation of armament, including range finders, twenty-five thousand dollars.

To enable the Secretary of War, in his discretion, to purchase for the United States the patent of Gregory Gerdom for a gas check for breech-loading guns, fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: Provided, That before payment is made to said Gerdom for said patent he shall file with the Secretary of War a release of all claims against the United States for accrued royalties for the use of said patent or for any other claim in connection therewith.

For steel field guns, one hundred and five thousand dollars. For carriages for steel field guns, three hundred and ninetyeight thousand dollars.

For mountain guns, with their carriages and ammunition, seventy thousand dollars.

For steel field mortars of three and sixth-tenths inch caliber, eight thousand dollars.

For carriages and platforms for steel field mortars of three and six-tenths inch caliber, including implements and equipments, three thousand eight hundred dollars.

For sights for cannon, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For fuses and primers for cannon, nineteen thousand dollars. For inspecting instruments, gauges, and templets for the