For materials and labor for repairs, alterations, and additions needed at the soldiers' hospital, as follows:

Purchase of suitable incandescent lights, droplights, tubing, mantels, and so forth; for paraffin and turpentine for waxing floors; for brushes, paints, glass, putty, and for general repairs; for materials for rebronzing radiators; and for purchase of flowers, fruit trees, shrubs, plants, and so forth, for hospital grounds, one hundred and sixty-five dollars:

For waterworks: Renewal of material in filter beds; improving ventilation of filter house and water house; hose for use in cleaning filter beds 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 supply pipe; for shed for tools and storage of fuel for keeper of Round Pond, and for tool house at filter; for gauges at and for stairs for access to same, and all other necessary work of maintenance and repairs, one thousand two hundred dollars;

For repairs and necessary alterations and additions to the cadet hospital, as follows:

Materials for rebronzing radiators and piping; paraffin and turpentine for waxing and polishing floors; suitable incandescent lights. droplights, mantels, tubes, and so forth; and for carpets and furniture and appliances, and for repairs of damaged articles, and for miscellaneous expenses, one hundred and twenty dollars;

For purchase of flowers and shrubs for hospital grounds, seventyfive dollars;

Repairs to cadet barracks:

For repairing and renewing plastering, painting and calcimining, repairs to woodwork, reflooring, rearranging rooms, increasing sinks, baths, and for other incidental repairs to the building, five thousand dollars;

For maintaining and improving the grounds of the post cemetery, two thousand dollars;

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

For broken stone and gravel for roads, and for repairing sidewalks, roads, paths, and bridges on the reservation, four thousand dollars;

For completing the construction of a wagon road from the railroad station to the south end of the post, including necessary gas piping and lamp-posts for lighting same, to be immediately available, thirty thousand dollars;

For extending and increasing the efficiency of the fire-alarm and telephone systems of the post, five thousand dollars;

For plumbing material and labor to install a hot-water heater and hot-water storage boiler at cavalry barracks, two hundred and fifteen dollars and thirty-four cents;

For lumber and other material for general repair of cavalry stables, two hundred dollars:

For repairs to saddles, bridles, purchase of leather, curb chains, bits, stirrups, and so forth, and to keep same in repair, two hundred and fifty dollars;

For enlargement of barracks of army-service detachment, six thousand dollars;

For new roofs for thirty-six sets of enlisted men's quarters, five thousand dollars;

For completing the work of improvement to provide for an increased water supply at the Military Academy at West Point, New York, provided for in the Act of June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, to be available immediately and until expended, three hundred thousand dollars, to be expended by contract or otherwise as the Secre

tary of War may deem most economical and advantageous: Provided, That such sum shall not be available except for purchase of land and water rights until the project shall be approved by the Secretary of War, and until the Secretary of War shall determine that the whole expense necessary to complete such project shall be included within the total appropriation of four hundred thousand dollars, including the one hundred thousand dollars appropriated by Act of June twentyeighth, nineteen hundred and two;

In carrying out the provisions of said Act of June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, after general plans have been prepared and approved by the Secretary of War, he may proceed with the necessary construction of cadet barracks and such buildings as shall be needed to replace buildings removed in such construction of cadet barracks, upon detailed plans approved by him before the completion of detailed plans for the whole work, provided that the limit of cost is not increased thereby;

Total, buildings and grounds, three hundred and sixty-four thousand and eighty-five dollars and thirty-four cents.

[Total amount for Buildings and Grounds, $364,085.34.]

Approved, April 28, 1904.

Total, Military Academy Act

$364, 085. 34

973, 947, 26

NAVAL APPROPRIATION ACT.

[PUBLIC-NO. 181.]

By the Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, and for other purposes, approved April 27, 1904.

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 they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the naval service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, and for other purposes.

PAY OF THE NAVY.

Pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on sea duty; officers on shore and other duty; officers on waiting orders; officers on the retired list; clerks to commandants of yards and stations; clerks to paymasters at yards and stations; general storekeepers; receiving ships and other vessels; commutation of quarters for officers on shore not occupying public quarters, including boatswains, gunners, carpenters, sailmakers, warrant machinists, pharmacists, and mates, and also naval constructors and assistant naval constructors; pay of enlisted men on the retired list; extra pay to men reenlisting under honorable discharge; interest on deposits by men; pay of petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and apprentices, including men in the engineers' force, and men detailed for duty with Naval Militia, and for the Fish Commission, thirty-one thousand five hundred men and as many warrant machinists as the President may from time to time deem necessary to appoint, not to exceed twenty in any one year; the three thousand additional men herein authorized may be recruited upon the passage of this Act, and two thousand five hundred apprentices under training at training stations and on board training ships, at the pay prescribed by law, nineteen million three hundred and twenty-four thousand and ninety-three dollars.

$19, 324, 093.00

PAY, MISCELLANEOUS.

For commissions and interest; transportation of funds; exchange; mileage to officers while traveling under orders in the United States, and for actual personal expenses of officers while traveling abroad under orders, and for traveling expenses of civilian employees, and for actual and necessary traveling expenses of midshipmen while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment as midshipmen; for rent and furniture of buildings and offices not in navy-yards; expenses of courts-martial, prisoners and prisons, and courts of inquiry, boards of inspection, examining boards, with clerks' and witnesses' fees, and traveling expenses and costs; stationery and recording; expenses of purchasing-paymasters' offices of the various cities, including clerks, furniture, fuel, stationery, and incidental expenses; newspapers and advertising; foreign postage; telegraphing, foreign and domestic; telephones; copying; care of library, including the purchase of books, photographs, prints, manuscripts and periodicals; ferriage, tolls, and express fees; costs of suits; commissions, warrants, diplomas, and discharges; relief of vessels in distress; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; reports; professional

investigation; cost of special instruction at home and abroad, in maintenance of students and attachés and information from abroad, and the collection and classification thereof, and other necessary and incidental expenses, six hundred thousand dollars.

CONTINGENT, NAVY: For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, exclusive of personal services in the Navy Department or any of its subordinate bureaus or the offices at Washington, District of Columbia, arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, to be expended on the approval and authority of the Secretary of the Navy, and for such purposes as he may deem proper, sixtyfive thousand dollars: Provided, That the accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow, in the settlement of the accounts of disbursing officers involved, payments made under the appropriation "Contingent, Navy," to civilian employees appointed by the Navy Department for duty in and serving at naval stations maintained in the island possessions during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five

[Total amount for Pay and Contingent of the Navy, $19,989,093.]

BUREAU OF NAVIGATION.

TRANSPORTATION, RECRUITING, AND CONTINGENT: Transportation: For the transportation of enlisted men and apprentices at home and abroad; transportation and subsistence en route to their homes, if resider ts of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentices discharged on medical survey; transportation and subsistence en route to the places of enlistment, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentices discharged on account of expiration of enlistment; apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, and for railway guides and other expenses incident to transportation, two hundred and fifty-four thousand dollars

Recruiting: Expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent of rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentices, and all other expenses attending the recruiting for the naval service, ninety-seven thousand one hundred and forty-one dollars

Contingent: Freight, telegraphing on public business, postage on letters sent abroad, ferriage, ice, continuous-service certificates, discharges, good-conduct badges and medals for men and boys; transportation of effects of deceased officers and enlisted men of the Navy; books for training apprentices and landsmen; maintenance of gunnery and other training classes; packing boxes and materials, and other contingent expenses and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation unforeseen and impossible to classify, thirty thousand three hundred and fifty-eight dollars

GUNNERY EXERCISES: Prizes, trophies, and badges for excellence in gunnery exercises and target practice; for the establishment and maintenance of shooting galleries, target houses, targets, and ranges; for hiring established ranges, and for transportation to and from ranges, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars

OUTFITS ON FIRST ENLISTMENT: Outfits for all enlisted men and apprentices of the Navy on first enlistment, ten thousand men and apprentices, at forty-five dollars each, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

MAINTENANCE OF COLLIERS: Pay, transportation, shipping, and subsistence of civilian officers and crews of naval colliers, and all expenses connected with naval colliers employed in emergencies which can not be paid from other appropriations, two hundred and twenty-four thousand six hundred and four dollars...

NAVAL TRAINING STATION, CALIFORNIA: Maintenance of naval training

$600,000.00

65,000.00

254,000.00

97, 141. 00

30, 358.00

120,000.00

450,000.00

224, 604.00

station, Yerba Buena Island, California, namely: Labor and material; buildings and wharves; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and wharves; wharfage, ferriage, and street-car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same; fire engines and extinguishers; boats and gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentices; printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating, lighting, and furniture; stationery, books, and periodicals; fresh water, ice, and washing; freight and expressage; packing boxes and materials; postage and telegraphing; telephones, and all other contingent expenses, forty thousand dollars

NAVAL TRAINING STATION, RHODE ISLAND: Maintenance of naval training station, Coasters Harbor Island, Rhode Island, namely: Labor and material; buildings and wharves; dredging channels; extending sea wall; repairs to causeway and sea wall; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and wharves; wharfage, ferriage, and street-car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same; fire engines and extinguishers; boats and gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentices; printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating, lighting, and furniture; stationery, books, and periodicals; fresh water, ice, and washing; freight and expressage; packing boxes and materials; postage and telegraphing; telephones, and all other contingent expenses; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentices, one thousand dollars; in all, fifty-six thousand dollars.

NAVAL WAR COLLEGE, RHODE ISLAND: For maintenance of the Naval War College on Coasters Harbor Island, and care of grounds for same, eight thousand dollars; one draftsman, at one thousand two hundred dollars per year; services of a lecturer on international law, to be immediately available, one thousand dollars; services of civilian lecturers rendered at the War College, to be immediately available, six hundred dollars; purchase of books of reference, four hundred dollars; in all, eleven thousand two hundred dollars

NAVAL HOME, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA: One superintendent of grounds, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one steward, at four hundred and eighty dollars; one matron, at four hundred and twenty dollars; one beneficiaries' attendant, at two hundred and forty dollars; one chief cook, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one assistant cook, at two hundred and forty dollars; one assistant cook, at one hundred and eighty dollars; one chief laundress, at one hundred and ninety-two dollars; five laundresses, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; four scrubbers, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; one head waitress, at one hundred and ninety-two dollars; eight waitresses, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; one kitchen servant, at two hundred dollars; eight laborers, at two hundred and forty dollars each; one stable keeper and driver, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one master at arms, at four hundred and eighty dollars; two house corporals, at three hundred dollars each; one barber, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one carpenter, at eight hundred and forty-five dollars; one painter, at eight hundred and forty-five dollars; one engineer for elevator and machinery, six hundred dollars; three laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; three laborers, at three hundred dollars each; total for employees, fourteen thousand and seventy dollars. Miscellaneous: Water rent and lighting, two thousand one hundred dollars; cemetery, burial expenses, and headstones, three hundred and fifty dollars; improvement of grounds, seven hundred and eighty dollars; repairs to buildings, boilers, furnaces, and furniture, eight thousand dollars; music in chapel, six hundred dollars; transportation

$40,000.00

56,000.00

11, 200.00