For household, namely: Expenditures for furniture for officer's quarters; for bedsteads, bedding, bedding material, and all other articles required in the quarters of the members, and for their repair if they are not repaired by the Home; for fuel, including fuel for cooking, heat, and light; for engineers and firemen, bath-house keepers, hall cleaners, laundrymen, gas and soap makers, and privy watchmen, and for all labor, materials, and appliances required for household use, and for their repairs unless the repairs are made by the Home, one hundred and ten thousand dollars.

For hospital, namely: Pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists, hospital clerks and stewards, ward masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers, hospital carriage drivers, hearse drivers, gravediggers, funeral escort, and for such other services as may be necessary for the care of the sick; for surgical instruments and appliances, medical books, medicine, liquors, fruits, and other necessaries for the sick not on the regular ration; for bedsteads, bedding, and bedding materials, and all other articles necessary for the wards; for hospital kitchen and dining-room furniture and appliances, including aprons, caps, and jackets for hospital kitchen and dining room employees; carriage, hearse, stretchers, coffins; for tools of gravediggers, and for all repairs to hospital furniture and appliances not done by the Home, fifty-seven thousand five hundred dollars;

For transportation, namely: For transportation of members of the Home, two thousand five hundred dollars;

For repairs, namely: Pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths, carpenters, cabinetmakers, coopers, painters, gas fitters, plumbers, tinsmiths, wire workers, steam fitters, stone and brick masons, quarrymen, whitewashers, and laborers, and for all appliances and materials used under this head; also for repairs of roads and other improvements of a permanent character, sixty five thousand dollars;

For extension of electric-light plant, ten thousand dollars; For improvement and general overhauling of hospital, twelve thousand dollars;

For cement walks and crossings, ten thousand dollars;

For one barrack dining room and kitchen combined, and furniture, forty-five thousand dollars;

For farm, namely: Pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness

makers, farm hands, gardeners, horseshoers, stablemen, teamsters, dairymen, herders, and laborers, and for all tools, appliances, and materials required for farm, garden, and dairy work; for grain hay, straw, dressing, seed, carriages, wagons, carts, and other conveyances; for all animals purchased for stock or for work (including animals in the park); for all materials, tools, and labor for flower garden, lawn, and park; for rent of leased lands, and for repairs not done by the Home, fifteen thousand dollars;

In all, six hundred and twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars;

AT THE NORTHWESTERN BRANCH, AT MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars;

For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and twentyseven thousand five hundred dollars;

For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty-five thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-two thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand five hundred dollars;

For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars;

For nurses' quarters and furniture, seven thousand five hundred dollars;

For chaplains' quarters, two thousand five hundred dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, nine thousand five hundred dollars;

In all, two hundred and eighty-nine thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

That the jurisdiction over the places purchased and used for the location of the Branches of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, under and by the authority of an Act of Congress approved March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, in Milwaukee County, State of Wisconsin, and upon which said Branch Home is located, and by authority

of an Act of Congress approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty eight, in the county of Leavenworth, State of Kansas, and upon which said Branch Home is located, is hereby ceded to the respective States in which said Branches are located and relinquished by the United States, and the United States shall claim or exercise no jurisdiction over said places after the passage of this Act: Provided, That nothing contained herein shall be construed to impair the powers or rights heretofore conferred upon or exercised by the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in and on said places.

AT THE EASTERN BRANCH AT TOGUS, MAINE: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars;

For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and twentyfive thousand dollars;

For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty-two thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars;

For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand five hundred dollars;

For repairs, including the same object specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-two thousand two hundred dollars;

For new cemetery, two thousand five hundred dollars;

For road, necessary drainage, and excavation, five thousand dollars;

For two boilers, connections, and setting up, to replace old and worn-out boilers, seven thousand five hundred dollars; For commissary quarters and furniture, six thousand five hundred dollars;

The four preceding sums shall be immediately available; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;

In all, two hundred and ninety-five thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.

AT THE SOUTHERN BRANCH, AT HAMPTON, VIRGINIA: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-one thousand dollars;

For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars;

For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, sixty-six thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-five thousand dollars;

For transportation of members of the Home, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars;

For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars;

For completing repairs to breakwater, six thousand five hundred dollars;

For extension of hospital complete, four thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, nine thousand dollars;

In all, three hundred and fifty-four thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

AT THE WESTERN BRANCH AT LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty thousand seven hundred dollars;

For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars;

For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, sixty-five thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars:

For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand dollars;

For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-three thousand dollars; For extension of boiler house and plant, six thousand five hundred dollars;

For chaplain's quarters, two thousand five hundred dollars. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifteen thousand dollars;

In all, three hundred and forty-three thousand two hundred dollars.

AT THE PACIFIC BRANCH, AT SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars;

For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and five thousand dollars;

For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty thousand dollars;

For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars;

For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand dollars;

For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars;

For addition to hospital dining room and kitchen, and septic tank for hospital sewage, eleven thousand dollars;

For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, ten thousand dollars;

In all, two hundred and sixty thousand five hundred dollars. AT THE MARION BRANCH, AT MARION, INDIANA: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars;

For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and five thousand dollars;

For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, and for necessary expenses for the procurement, piping, and preservation of natural gas, twenty-five thousand dollars;

For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars;

For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand five hundred dollars;

For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, and for necessary expenses for the procurement, piping, and preservation of natural gas,