For general care, preservation, and improvements; for building new roads; for care and preservation of the water-power; for painting and care and preservation of permanent buildings, bridges, and shores of the island; for building fences, grading grounds, and repairs and extension of railroad, ten thousand dollars.

For permanent shafting underground through north end of arsenal shops by brick tunnels between shops; gearing, and so forth, from shop "A" to shop "I," twenty thousand dollars.

For the Rock Island Bridge as follows:

For care, preservation, and expense of maintaining and operating the draw, nine thousand dollars.

For the reconstruction of the Government dam at the Rock Island Arsenal, and for the immediate construction of a temporary dam to furnish water-power for said arsenal and to be used as a coffer-dam when the permanent dam is reconstructed, two hundred and seventyfive thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War: Provided, That this appropriation shall not be construed or held as importing or implying any obligation on the part of the United States to maintain said dam or works by reason of any obligation to said Moline Water-Power Company, and no money hereby appropriated shall be expended until the Moline Water-Power Company shall agree that no liability on the part of the Government to maintain the dam, water-power, or other works in connection therewith exists whenever the Government shall see fit to relinquish the use of said power: Provided further, That whenever the Government shall cease to maintain or use said water-power, it shall reconvey in fee simple, to said Moline Water-Power Company, its right and title to use the

same.

For repairs of draw-pier of the Rock Island Bridge, fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For repairs of dykes and embankments of the water-power pool, and for dredging and scouring out mud in said pool, twenty-five thousand dollars.

KENNEBEC ARSENAL, MAINE: For repairs to walks, grounds, sewers, drains, and for new and necessary sewers and drains, two thousand dollars.

For introducing city water and for necessary changes and repairs in plumbing work, two thousand dollars.

SPRINGFIELD ARSENAL, SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS: For repairs and preservation of grounds, buildings, and machinery not used for manufacturing purposes, fifteen thousand dollars.

For shop fixtures for new milling shop at the National Armory, Springfield, Massachusetts, consisting of shafting, couplings, pillowblocks, hangers, and pulleys, ten thousand dollars.

BENICIA ARSENAL, BENICIA, CALIFORNIA: For building reservoir for additional water-supply, sixteen thousand dollars.

PICCATINY POWDER-DEPOT, DOVER, NEW JERSEY: For completing magazine number four, eighteen thousand dollars; for repairing magazine number one, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; in all, nineteen thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.

SANDY HOOK PROVING-GROUND, NEW JERSEY: For cleaning, leveling, and grading grounds, building and repairing roads, two thousand dollars.

TESTING-MACHINE, WATERTOWN ARSENAL: For labor and material in caring for, preserving, and operating the United States testing1299 -18

machine at Watertown Arsenal, including new tools and appliances, ten thousand dollars.

WATERVLIET ARSENAL, WEST TROY, NEW YORK: For a handpower loading-crane, fifty tons capacity, for use in shops, three thousand dollars;

For two traveling cranes, thirty tons capacity, for use in workshops, twenty-four thousand dollars;

For crab, blocks, hooks, chains, and so forth, capacity fifty tons, for shrinkage-pit, four thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.

For new machinery to bring the plant up to a modern standard, and to replace that which is obsolete and worn out, five thousand dollars;

For necessary railway facilities in arsenal grounds, connecting shops with Delaware and Hudson Canal Company Railroad, Erie Canal, and with the Hudson River, eight thousand four hundred and fifty-eight dollars;

For replacing the present old and unsuitable wooden bridge over the Erie Canal with an iron bridge adapted to the present wants of the arsenal, capacity one hundred and thirty tons, fifteen thousand dollars;

For two steam-boilers for running steam-engine at shops, and for heating purposes, eight thousand dollars; in all, sixty-eight thousand three hundred and eight dollars.

That the sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby appropriated to bore, construct, and equip an artesian well at the United States arsenal in the village of Summerville, near the city of Augusta, Georgia, the money to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War.

REPAIR OF ARSENALS: For repairs of smaller arsenals, and to meet such unforeseen expenditures at arsenals as accidents or other contingencies duri: g the year may render necessary, fifty thousand dollars.

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS IN AND AROUND WASHINGTON.

For the improvement and care of public grounds as follows: For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of the Executive Mansion, six thousand dollars.

For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, two thousand dollars.

For ordinary care of Lafayette Square, one thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Franklin Square, one thousand dollars. For continuing improvement of reservation numbered seventeen, and site of old canal, northwest of same, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That no part thereof shall be expended upon other than property belonging to the United States.

For construction and repair of post-and-chain fences, removal and repair of high iron fences around reservations, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For manure, and hauling the same, five thousand dollars.

For painting watchmen's lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, lampposts, and settees, seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For purchase and repair of seats, one thousand dollars.

For purchase and repair of tools, two thousand dollars.

For trees, tree and plant stakes, lime, whitewashing, and stock for nursery, three thousand dollars.

For removing snow and ice, one thousand two hundred dollars. For flower-pots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, moss, and lycopodium, one thousand dollars.

For care, construction, and repair of fountains in the public grounds, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For abating nuisances, five hundred dollars.

For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, twelve thousand dollars.

For improvement, maintenance, and care of Smithsonian Grounds, including construction of asphalt roads and paths, ten thousand dollars.

For improvement and care of Judiciary Square, including grounds around the Pension Building, and asphalt walks leading to City Hall, five thousand dollars.

That under appropriations herein contained no contract shall be made for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Washington City at a higher price than two dollars per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with a base of not less than six inches in thickness.

For repairs and fuel of the Executive Mansion as follows:

For care, repair, repainting, and refurnishing the Executive Mansion, sixteen thousand dollars to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine.

For fuel for the Executive Mansion, greenhouses, and stable, three thousand dollars.

For care and necessary repair of greenhouses, four thousand dollars.

For renewing entire superstructure of one greenhouse connected with the Executive Mansion and grounds, one thousand five hundred dollars.

LIGHTING THE EXECUTIVE MANSION AND PUBLIC GROUNDS: For gas, pay of lamp-lighters, gas-fitters, and laborers; purchase, erection, and repair of lamps and lamp-posts; purchase of matches, and for repairs of all kinds; fuel and lights for office, office-stables, watchmen's lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, fourteen thousand dollars: Provided, That for each six-foot burner not connected with a meter in the lamps on the public grounds no more than twenty dollars shall be paid per lamp for gas, including lighting, cleaning, and keeping in repair the lamps, under any expenditure provided for in this act; and said lamps shall burn not less than two thousand six hundred hours per annum; and authority is hereby given to substitute other illuminating material for the same or less price, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as may be necessary for that purpose.

REPAIR OF WATER-PIPES AND FIRE-PLUGS: For repairing and extending water-pipes, purchase of apparatus to clean them, purchase of hose, and cleaning the springs and repairing and renewing the pipes of the same that supply the Capitol, the Executive Mansion, and the building for the State, War, and Navy Departments, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For furnishing a full supply of water for all purposes to the Executive Mansion by connecting the Mansion by a twelve inch main with the thirty-six inch water-main on L street, five thousand three hundred dollars.

TELEGRAPH TO CONNECT THE CAPITOL WITH THE DEPARTMENTS AND GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: For care and repair of existing lines, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

WASHINGTON MONUMENT: For completion of the Washington Monument, namely: For earth-filling and grading around the monument, in accordance with existing law; insertion of memorial tablets presented for that purpose in the interior walls of the monument; office expenses, and every purpose connected with the completion of the monument, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War.

For the care and maintenance of the Washington Monument and the operation of the elevator and machinery connected therewith, namely: For one custodian, at one hundred dollars per month; one steam engineer, at eighty dollars per month; one assistant steam engineer, at sixty dollars per month; one fireman, at fifty dollars per month; one assistant fireman, at forty-five dollars per month; one conductor of car, at seventy-five dollars per month; one attendant on floor, at forty-five dollars per month; one attendant on top, at forty-five dollars per month; three night and day watchmen, at sixty dollars each per month; coal, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; oil, waste, packing, and repairs to engine and boiler, five hundred dollars; contingencies, ninety dollars; in all, ten thousand five hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, who is hereby and hereafter charged with the custody, care, and protection of the monument.

And the joint commission created by the act of August second, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, for the completion of the Washington Monument, having completed the work intrusted to it, is, at its own request, dissolved, and the unexpended balances of appropriations for this work, as well as the amount herein appropriated, shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War; and the Washington National Monument Society is hereby continued with the same powers as provided in the act of August second, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, creating the joint commission aforesaid; and the Secretary of War is hereby directed to set apart a room for the deposit of the archives of the Washington National Monument Society (as also for the records of the joint commission dissolved) and for the continuous use of said society in the building now being erected by the said society with funds collected by it for its use and for the public comfort.

BUILDING FOR ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM AND LIBRARY: For a cremating furnace, to be used in connection with the laboratories, three hundred and seventy-five dollars.

For cases, shelving, and appliances for new anatomical and biological laboratories, eight hundred and fifty dollars.

For additional cases for the Museum hall, seven hundred and seventy-five dollars.

OLD MUSEUM BUILDING AND ANNEX: For additional amount for the completion of needed repairs and improvements on the old Museum Building and Annex on Tenth street, between E and F, now occupied by the record and pension division of the Surgeon-General's Office, as follows: To complete plumbing, including the purchase of a supply tank, pump, and gas-engine, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

MISSISSIPPI RIVER COMMISSION: For salaries and traveling expenses of the Mississippi River Commission, and for salaries and

traveling expenses of assistant engineers under them, and for office expenses and contingencies, thirty-five thousand dollars.

MILITARY POSTS.

For the construction of buildings at and the enlargement of such military posts as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Cavalry and Artillery School, Fort Riley, Kansas: For continuing the work of buildings for the cavalry and artillery school, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Military post at Denver, Colorado: For continuing the work of constructing necessary buildings, fifty thousand dollars.

Military post at Fort Robinson, Nebraska: For completing the work of constructing necessary buildings, thirty thousand dollars. Military post at Fort Niobrara, Nebraska: For completing the work of constructing necessary buildings, thirty thousand dollars. Fort Meade Military Reservation, Dakota: For the purchase of certain land adjoining the military reservation of Fort Meade Dakota, known as the McMillan addition, for the purpose of obtaining a water supply for the post, three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: Provided, That a good and sufficient title to the property shall first be vested in the United States.

New York, New York: For completing the work of remodeling the old Produce Exchange building, eighty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of War shall cause the public building in New York City, erected in place of the old Produce Exchange, to be completed and occupied without unnecessary delay; and to facilitate the work on said building, all expenditures upon the same including those from the appropriations for the support of the Army, shall be subject to the control and direction of the Secretary of War.

PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK: For the construction and improvement of suitable roads and bridges within the park, under the supervision and direction of an engineer officer detailed by the Secretary of War for that purpose, twenty-five thousand dollars.

SIGNAL SERVICE.

FOR THE FOLLOWING CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES AFTER SEPTEMBER FIRST, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-EIGHT, AT ANNUAL SALARIES STATED, IN THE OFFICE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, NAMELY: One chief clerk, two thousand dollars; two clerks of class three; three clerks of class two (including one stenographer); one chief draughtsman, one thousand four hundred dollars; one foreman of printing, one thousand four hundred dollars; one chief mechanic, one thousand two hundred dollars; two draughtsmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two telegraph operators at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two telegraph operators, at one thousand dollars each; two telegraph operators, at nine hundred dollars each; thirty-five clerks, class one (including not more than three stenographers); twenty-five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; ten clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two copyists and typewriters, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; two copyists and typewriters, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; two watchmen, at seven hundred