of necessary material; for the purchase of samples of arms and accoutrements other than those supplied to the military service; for books of reference, text-books, stationery, and lithographic printing materials, and for contingencies, four hundred and fifty dollars;

Manufacture or purchase of models of breech mechanisms of cannon, rapid fire guns, small arms, and the various machines and tools used in their manufacture, for cadet instruction, one thousand two hundred dollars;

For purchase of machines, tools, and material for practical instruction of cadets in wood and metal working, five hundred dollars;

For a course of lectures for the more complete instruction of cadets, one thousand two hundred dollars;

In all, for current and ordinary expenses, one hundred and sixteen thousand six hundred and fifty-five dollars.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND INCIDENTAL EXPENSES.

For commercial periodicals, stationery, office furniture and supplies, and for binding orders, circulars, and so forth, for the office of the treasurer, United States Military Academy, one hundred and eighty dollars;

For filing cabinets and card indexes for same for office of the treasurer, United States Military Academy, one hundred and fifty dollars;

For stationery for office of commissary of cadets, namely: Record books, blank books, paper for printing menus, laundry lists, and so forth, envelopes, pens, mucilage, and other items of stationery, twenty five dollars;

For gas coal, oil, candles, lanterns, matches, chimneys, and wicking for lighting the Academy building, chapel, library, cadet barracks, mess hall, shops, hospital, offices, stables, and riding hall, sidewalks, camp, and wharfs, ten thousand dollars; For water pipe, plumbing, and repairs, five thousand dollars; For cleaning public buildings (not quarters), two thousand five hundred dollars;

For soap, lye, sapolio, buckets, scrubbing brushes, mops, dustpans, brooms, feather dusters, and so forth, for policing public buildings (not quarters), one thousand dollars;

For chalk, crayons, sponges, slate, rubbers, rulers, pointers, card. and toilet paper, and so forth, for recitation rooms, three hundred dollars:

For renewing furniture in section rooms and repairing the same, three hundred dollars.

Increase and expense of library, namely:

For purchase, preservation, care, storage, binding and repair of books, periodicals, pamphlets, maps, pictures, and manuscripts; purchase of furniture, cases, stationery, and fittings; for expenses of making copies of military manuscripts in other libraries, and for contingent expenses not otherwise provided for; purchases to be made in open market on the written order of the Superintendent, ten thousand dollars;

For contingent funds, to be expended under the direction of the academic board: For instruments, books, repairs to apparatus, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, one thousand dollars;

Provided, That all technical and scientific supplies for the departments of instruction of the Military Academy shall be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may deem best;

Purchase of instruments for band and repairs to same; for purchase of reeds, pads, strings, and other materials necessary for brass, wood, wind, and string instruments; for purchase of music stands and other equipments; for purchase of music for military band and orchestra and for extra parts; all to be purchased in open market on order of Superintendent, two thousand three hundred dollars;

Repairs and improvements to the laundry machinery and apparatus in the cadet laundry, and the purchase of new material, tools, and so forth, to be expended without advertising, one thousand eight hundred dollars;

Repair of cooking utensils, chairs, tables, and other furniture in the cadet mess, and the replacement of same, to be expended without advertising, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars;

Gymnasium and athletic supplies: For repairs, new machines, athletic supplies, and fixtures for gymnasium, one thousand seven hundred dollars;

For furniture, curtains, and rugs for cadet reception room, one hundred and fifty dollars;

For the policing of barracks, bath houses, supplying light and plain furniture to cadet barracks, nine thousand dollars; In all, for miscellaneous items and incidental expenses, fortysix thousand five hundred and fifty-five dollars.

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.

For cases, materials, fittings, fixtures, and other appliances and repairs for ordnance museum in academy building, three hundred dollars;

For repairs to ordnance laboratory and other buildings pertaining to the department of ordnance and gunnery, painting buildings, and materials for roads and walks, and for repairs to machinery and tools, one hundred and fifty dollars;

For general repairs to the cadet laundry building, painting, and for emergency incidental expenses about building, to be expended without advertising, four hundred dollars;

For the better fire protection of the cadet laundry, providing therein standpipe, hose, hose connection and swinging reel, two hundred and eighty-five dollars;

For painting and general incidental repairs and improve. ments to the cadet store building, including storerooms, office, tailor shops, and shoe repairing shops, three hundred dollars; For materials and labor for repairs, alterations, and additions needed at the soldiers' hospital, as follows:

For 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 materials, labor, and so forth, required for putting skylight in operating room, two hundred dollars;

For repainting interior walls, ceilings, and woodwork of soldiers' hospital, four hundred and fifty 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; material for waxing and polishing floors; suitable incandescent lights, droplights, mantles, tubes; for carpets, furniture, and appli ances; for repairs of damaged articles, and for miscellaneous expenses, one hundred and twenty dollars;

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

For one new bathroom, third floor, with fixtures and tiling; for iron bridge across court, and stairway leading to court; for subdividing operating room so as to make room for minor cases, dressing and anæsthesia, with corresponding tiled walls; for enlarging and renovating present cadet mess room, and for new kitchen in basement, with plumbing, cooking apparatus, refrigerator, pantry, and dumb-waiter; for making two new entrances to basement; for new bathroom, first floor, with fixtures and tiling; for exhaust fan for shaft and fan inside dark room; for cement gutter along the lower base of lawn in front of hospital; for one hundred and twenty window screens; six thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars;

For repainting interior walls, ceilings, and woodwork of central building, and the north wing of cadet hospital, seven hundred and fifty dollars;

For building provisional contagious-disease hospital, under direction of the Secretary of War, two thousand five hundred dollars, to be immediately available;

Repairs to cadet barracks:

For repairing and renewing plastering, painting and calcimining, repairs to woodwork, reflooring, rearranging rooms, increasing sinks, baths, and 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, five thousand 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 painting and repairing interior walls and woodwork of cadet mess building, one thousand dollars;

For renewing roof of old portion of cadet mess and new copper down spouts for same, two thousand two hundred dollars;

For construction of three-inch standpipes in north and south halls of cadet mess, with suitable hose connections, and fifty feet of cotton hose on swinging brackets on first and second floors; also for installing and connecting with post fire-alarm system one fire-alarm box in basement, six hundred and fifty dollars;

For one steam road roller, of about six tons weight, to be immediately available, two thousand five hundred dollars;

For completing work of macadamizing and laying brick gutters to road in front of quarters numbered twenty-two to forty, three thousand dollars;

For material and labor to rebuild about two hundred and fifty feet of main sewer at north end of post, one thousand dollars;

For regrading and draining ground occupied by cadet camp, surfacing company streets with broken stone, and substituting iron posts and rails for the present wooden posts and rails used to support tents, six thousand dollars;

For providing screen doors and windows for officers' mess building and quarters, nine hundred dollars;

For painting interior walls, ceiling, and ironwork of stairways in the academy building and varnishing the woodwork, repairing plastering and plaster cornice throughout the building, six thousand five hundred dollars;

For adding another story to quarters occupied by keeper of the post cemetery, two thousand five hundred dollars;

For repairing ceiling of porch and repairing fence around stable and riding hall, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; For repairing roof of riding hall, one hundred dollars;

For putting in eighteen new sashes in riding hall, replacing glass in others and repairing same, two hundred and fifty dollars;

For construction of new saddle room to hold flat saddles, bridles, and equipments pertaining to riding instruction of cadets, one hundred and fifty dollars;

For painting and whitewashing interior of cavalry stables, one thousand dollars;

For painting woodwork throughout the cavalry barracks and repairing roof, one hundred and ninety dollars;

Lumber and other material for general repairs in cavalry barracks, cavalry stables, riding hall, and for constructing hurdles, heads and ring posts, training chutes, and so forth, two hundred dollars;

For lavatory at cavalry barracks, eighty-five dollars;

To use toward the restoration of Fort Putnam, on the United States Military Reservation at West Point, New York, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, five thousand dollars;

Total buildings and grounds, fifty-nine thousand eight hundred and ninety-five dollars.