ENGINEER DEPARTMENT. ENGINEER DEPOT AT WILLETS POINT, NEW YORK: For incidental expenses of the depot, including fuel, lights, chemicals, stationery. hardware, extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days as artificers on work in addition to and not strictly in the line of their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths. draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine drivers, telegraph operators, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machin ists, painters, overseers, laborers, repairs of, and for materials to repair, public buildings, machinery, and unforeseen expenses, five thousand dollars. For the purchase of material for use of United States Engineer School and for instruction of engineer troops at Fort Totten, Willets Point, in their special duties as sappers and miners; for land and submarine mines, pontoniers, torpedo drill, and signaling, and for travel expenses of officers on journeys approved by the Chief of Engineers and made for the purpose of instruction, one thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That the traveling expenses herein provided for shall be in lieu of mileage or other allowances. For purchase and repair of instruments, to be issued to officers of the Corps of Engineers and to officers detailed and on duty as acting engineer officers, for use on public works and surveys, three thousand dollars. For purchase and binding of professional works of recent date treating of military and civil engineering and kindred scientific subjects, for library of the United States Engineering School, five hundred dollars. Addition to the building containing the collection of engineering models used for illustration and instruction, and the library of the United States Engineer School, to be available until expended, twelve thousand dollars. For pontoon trains, intrenching tools, instruments, and drawing materials, twenty thousand dollars. For services of surveyors, draftsmen, photographers, master laborers, clerks to engineer officers on the staff of division, corps, and department commanders, twenty-five thousand dollars. Total for Engineer Department, sixty-seven thousand dollars. ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT. ORDNANCE SERVICE: For current expenses of the ordnance service required to defray the current expenses of receiving stores and issuing arms and other ordnance supplies; of police and office duties; of rents, tolls, fuel, and light; of stationery and office furniture; of tools and instruments for use; incidental expenses of the ordnance service and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small arms, and other ordnance supplies, including purchase of publications for ordnance office and payment for mechanical labor in the office of the Chief of Ordnance, three hundred thousand dollars. ORDNANCE, ORDNANCE STORES, AND SUPPLIES: For manufacture or purchase of metallic ammunition for small arms and ammunition for reloading cartridges, including the cost of targets and material for target practice, ammunition for burials at the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and its several Branches, including National Soldiers' Home in Washington, District of Columbia, and at Soldiers and Sailors' State Homes, and marksmen's medals and insignia for all arms of the service, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For repairing and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of troops and for issue at the arsenals and depots, seventy-five thousand dollars. For purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requisitions of troops, five hundred thousand dollars. For infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments, including horse equipments for cavalry and artillery, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For overhauling, cleaning, and preserving new ordnance and ordnance stores on hand at the arsenals, posts, and depots, fifty thousand dollars. For firing the morning and evening gun at military posts prescribed by General Orders, Numbered Seventy, Headquar ters of the Army, dated July twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and at National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and its several Branches, including National Soldiers' Home in Washington, District of Columbia, and at Soldiers and Sailors' State Homes, including material for cartridge bags, reworking obsolete powder, and so forth, twenty-five thousand dollars. For targets for artillery practice and implements for mechanical maneuvers, ten thousand dollars. Manufacture, repairing, procuring, and issuing arms at the national armories, one million one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of the appropriations made for the Ordnance Department shall be used in payment of freight charges on ordnance or ordnance stores issued by said Department. Provided further, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to appoint two additional members for the Board of Ordnance and Fortification, both of whom shall be selected from the Artillery Corps. The time for examination of monthly accounts, covering expenditures from appropriations for the Army, by the bureaus and offices of the War Department, after the date of actual receipt and before transmitting the same to the Auditor for the War Department, as limited by section twelve, Act approved July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, is hereby extended from twenty to sixty days. All military, civil, and judicial powers necessary to govern the Philippine Islands, acquired from Spain by the treaties concluded at Paris on the tenth day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and at Washington on the seventh day of November, nineteen hundred, shall, until otherwise provided by Congress, be vested in such person and persons and shall be exercised in such manner as the President of the United States shall direct, for the establishment of civil government and for maintaining and protecting the inhabitants of said islands in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and religion: Provided, That all franchises granted under the authority hereof shall contain a reservation of the right to alter, amend, or repeal the same. Until a permanent government shall have been established in said archipelago full reports shall be made to Congress on or before the first day of each regular session of all legislative acts and proceedings of the temporary government instituted under the provisions hereof; and full reports of the acts and doings of said government, and as to the condition of the archipelago and of its people, shall be made to the President, including all information which may be useful to the Congress in providing for a more permanent government: Provided, That no sale or lease or other disposition of the public lands or the timber thereon or the mining rights therein shall be made: And provided further, That no franchise shall be granted which is not approved by the President of the United States, and is not in his judgment clearly necessary for the immediate government of the islands and indispensable for the interest of the people thereof, and which can not, without great public mischief, be postponed until the establishment of permanent civil government; and all such franchises shall terminate one year after the establishment of such permanent civil govern ment. All laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. Approved, March 2, 1901. BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES: H. C. CORBIN, Adjutant General. No 27. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, March 8, 1901. The following acts of Congress are published for the inforination and government of all concerned: Page. I--Amends section 1225, Revised Statutes, relating to 1 II. Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, etc. 2 other purposes.... 7 III__To prevent the failure of military justice, and for I. An Act To amend section twelve hundred and twenty-five of Revised Statutes so as to provide for detail of retired officers of the Army and Navy to assist in military instruction in schools. Whereas the national defense must depend upon the volunteer service of the people of the several States; and Whereas those schools which shall adopt a system of military instruction are entitled to the assistance of the Government in order to secure to the United States such a knowledge of military affairs among the youth of the country as will render them efficient as volunteers if called upon for the national defense: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section twelve hundred and twenty-five of the Revised Statutes, concerning the detail of officers of the Army and Navy to educational institutions be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to permit the President to detail under the provisions of that Act, and in addition to the detail of the officers of the Army and Navy now authorized to be detailed under the existing provisions of said Act, such retired officers of the Army and Navy of the United States as in his judgment may be required for that purpose, to act as instructors in military drill and tactics in schools in the United States, where such instruction shall have been authorized by the educational authorities thereof, and where the services of such instructors shall have been applied for by said authorities. SEC. 2. That no detail shall be made under this Act to any school unless it shall pay the cost of commutation of quarters of the retired officers detailed thereto and the extra duty pay to which the latter may be entitled by law to receive for the performance of special duty: Provided, That no detail shall be made under the provisions of this Act unless the officers to be |