and twenty dollars each; four skilled artisans (either machinists, instrument-makers, carpenters or engineers), at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one janitor, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant janitors, at six hundred dollars each; five laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; one battery man, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; two messengers, at four hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, ninety-five thousand four hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-seven cents: Provided, That any person performing duty in any capacity as officer, clerk, or otherwise, in the office of the Chief Signal Officer at the date of the passage of this act, who has heretofore been paid as an enlisted man in the Signal Corps, and whose office employment or place is specifically provided for herein, under the direction of the Secretary of War, may be continued in such office, clerkship, or employment without a new appointment thereto after September first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.

OBSERVATION AND REPORT OF STORMS.

To be expended by the Secretary of War: For expenses of the meteorological observation and report, by telegraph, signal, or otherwise, announcing the probable approach and force of storms, for the benefit of commerce and agriculture of the United States, as follows:

For the manufacture, purchase, and repair of meteorological instruments, and expenses in connection therewith, including those already issued and to be issued to voluntary unpaid observers, and the Secretary of War shall establish regulations respecting such issue, three thousand dollars.

For telegraphing reports, messages, and other meteorological information in connection with the observation and report of storms, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

For expenses of storm, cautionary, offshore, cold-wave, and other signals on the sea, lake, and Gulf coasts of the United States, and in the interior, announcing the probable approach and force of storms, including the pay of observers, services of operators, lanterns, and flags, ten thousand dollars.

For manufacture, purchase, and repair of instrument shelters, and expenses in connection therewith, five hundred dollars.

For rent, hire of civilian employees, furniture, light, stationery, ice, stoves and fixtures, repairs, rent of telephones, text-books, lumber, and other expenses of offices maintained as stations of observation outside of Washington, District of Columbia, forty-five thousand dollars.

For river and flood observations, and expenses in connection therewith, nine thousand dollars.

For expenses (including paper, forms, printing and lithographing supplies, hire of civilian printers and engravers) of preparing, printing, distributing, and displaying weather maps or weather bulletins, and for the maintenance of a printing office, under the direction of the Chief Signal Officer, in the city of Washington, for the printing of the necessary orders, circulars, maps, or bulletins, as may be necessary to carry into effect the appropriations made for the support of the Signal Service, fifteen thousand dollars.

For observations, and expenses incidental thereto, announcing the probable approach and severity of frosts or rains, for the benefit of the cotton region of the United States, seven thousand dollars.

For maintenance and repair of military and sea-coast telegraph lines, including rent of offices, salaries of civilian operators and repairmen, lights, stoves and fixtures, supplies, and general repairs, twenty-three thousand seven hundred dollars; and of this amount not exceeding seven hundred dollars may be used for the rental of such cable and land wires as may, in the opinion of the Chief Signal Officer, be necessary to secure connection between the Point Reyes military telegraph line and the signal-office in San Francisco, California

PAY.

For pay of one brigadier-general and fourteen second lieutenants, mounted, twenty-six thousand five hundred dollars; for longevity pay to officers of the Signal Corps, to be paid with current monthly pay, four thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars; for pay of not exceeding one hundred and twenty-five sergeants, twenty corporals, and one hundred and seventy-five privates, including payment due on discharge, to men now in the service, one hundred and forty-one thousand five hundred and sixteen dollars and eighty-two cents: Provided, That no part of this money shall be used in payment of enlisted men of the Signal Corps on clerical or messenger duty at the office of the Chief Signal Officer; for mileage to officers when traveling on Signal Service duty under orders, two thousand five hundred dollars: Provided further, That this amount shall be disbursed under the same limitations prescribed for payment of mileage to officers in the act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine; for commutation of quarters to commissioned officers at places where there are no public quarters, four thousand seven hundred and fifty-two dollars; in all, one hundred and eighty thousand and forty-three dollars and eighty-two cents. And the Secretary of War is authorized, in his discretion, to detail for the service in the Signal Corps not to exceed five commissioned officers of the Regular Army, to be exclusive of the second lieutenants of the Signal Corps authorized by law; and the Regular Army officers herein authorized to be detailed for the Signal Corps shall receive their pay and allowances from the appropriation for the support of the Army; and no money herein appropriated shall be used for pay and allowances of second lieutenants appointed or to be appointed from the sergeants of the Signal Corps, under the provisions of the act approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, in excess of the number of fourteen, or for the pay and allowances of exceeding three hundred and twenty enlisted men of the Signal Corps.

SUBSISTENCE.

For commutation of rations of not exceeding, after September first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, three hundred and twenty Signal Service enlisted men of the Signal Corps, and for sales of subsistence stores to officers and enlisted men of said Corps, as authorized by section eleven hundred and forty-four of the Revised Statutes, and paragraph twenty-one hundred and ninety-nine of the Army Regulations, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, one hundred and five thousand five hundred and sixty-two dollars and eighty-two cents.

REGULAR SUPPLIES.

FUEL: For various offices on the United States telegraph lines, and at stations of observation outside of Washington, District of Columbia (for fires the year round when needed), and for sales of the regulation allowance to officers of the Signal Corps, as allowed by section eight of the act of Congress approved June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight (twentieth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and fifty), seven thousand dollars.

COMMUTATION OF FUEL: For commutation of fuel for not exceeding, after September first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, three hundred and twenty enlisted men of the Signal Corps on duty at the office of the Chief Signal Officer and at signal-stations throughout the United States, thirty-four thousand five hundred and forty dollars.

FORAGE: For forage for fourteen public animals (four to be horses), as allowed by paragraph eighteen hundred and eighty-six of the Army Regulations, one thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars; straw for fourteen public animals, as allowed by paragraph eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, Army Regulations, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, ninety-eight dollars; for forage for thirteen horses actually kept by officers in the public service, as allowed by paragraph eighteen hundred and ninety and twenty-three hundred and eighty-five, Army Regulations, and the act making appropriations for the support of the Army approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, at one hundred and five dollars each per annum, one thousand three hundred and sixty-five dollars; for straw for private horses actually kept by officers in the public service, as allowed by paragraphs eighteen hundred and ninety and twenty-three hundred and eighty-five, Army Regulations, and the act making appropriations for the support of the Army approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, at eight dollars and forty cents each per annum, one hundred and nine dollars and twenty cents; in all, three thousand four hundred and fortytwo dollars and twenty cents.

INCIDENTAL EXPENSES.

For horse and mule shoes, nails, and expenses for shoeing once each month for fourteen animals, at one dollar and fifty cents each per month (paragraph three hundred and one, Army Regulations, eighteen hundred and eighty-one), two hundred and fifty-two dollars. For shoes, nails, and expenses of shoeing once each month for thirteen horses actually kept by officers in the public service, at one dollar and fifty cents each per month (paragraph three hundred and one, Army Regulations, eighteen hundred and eighty-one), two hundred and thirty-four dollars.

For blacksmith's supplies, tools, lathes, and materials, one hundred dollars.

For veterinary supplies, thirty dollars.

For interment of officers and men, one hundred and fifty dollars.

TRANSPORTATION.

For transportation of officers of the Signal Corps (including their baggage) when traveling on duty under orders, to be in lieu of actual

cost of transportation; for transportation of the enlisted men of the Signal Corps or civilian employees (including their baggage) when traveling on duty under orders; transportation of material, animals, and funds as per paragraphs seventeen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, Army Regulations, eighteen hundred and eighty-one; for freights, wharfages, tolls, and ferriages, drayages, and cartages, and for the purchase of special delivery stamps, twenty-two thousand dollars.

For purchase of necessary harness and other articles and expenses of repairs to means of transportation, one hundred and fifty dollars.

BARRACKS AND QUARTERS.

For commutation of quarters to not exceeding, after September first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, three hundred and twenty enlisted men of the Signal Corps on duty at office of the Chief Signal Officer and at signal stations throughout the United States, fifty-six thousand four hundred and eighty-four dollars.

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.

For medical attendance and medicines for officers and enlisted men of the Signal Corps, two thousand seven hundred dollars.

NATIONAL CEMETERIES.

For national cemeteries: For maintaining and improving national cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents of national cemeteries, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools and materials, one hundred thousand dollars.

For superintendents of national cemeteries: For pay of seventyfour superintendents of national cemeteries, sixty thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars.

HEADSTONES FOR GRAVES OF SOLDIERS: For continuing the work of furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of Union soldiers, sailors, and marines in national, post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy-yards and stations of the United States, and other burial places under the acts of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and February third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, eighty-five thousand dollars.

REPAIRS OF ROADWAYS TO NATIONAL CEMETERIES: For repairing the roadways to national cemeteries which have been constructed by special authority of Congress, sixteen thousand dollars.

NATIONAL CEMETERY NEAR MARIETTA, GEORGIA: That the sum of five thousand dollars, appropriated by the sundry civil appropriation act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, for the construction of a roadway to the national cemetery near Marietta, Georgia, is hereby authorized to be expended in the construction of said roadway without the limitation imposed by said act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five.

NATIONAL CEMETERY, ANTIETAM, MARYLAND: For the construction of a macadam road from Antietam Station to the Antietam, Maryland, National Cemetery, fifteen thousand dollars.

SOLDIERS' MONUMENT AT MOUND CITY, KANSAS: To enable the Secretary of War to collect the bodies of Union soldiers buried in

towns adjacent to Mound City, Kansas, and to reinter the same in the military cemetery near Mound City, and to erect therein a suitable monument, two thousand five hundred dollars.

BURIAL OF INDIGENT SOLDIERS: For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or in cemeteries in the District of Columbia indigent Ex-Union soldiers who die in the District of Columbia, one thousand dollars. Said sum to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding fifty dollars for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave.

MONUMENTS OR TABLETS AT GETTYSBURG: That the appropriation of fifteen thousand dollars, made by the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, for the erection of monuments or memorial tablets for the proper marking of the position of each of the commands of the regular Army engaged at Gettysburg, be, and the same is hereby, made available for the purchase of land upon which to erect the monuments and tablets.

For the completion of the monument at Washington's Headquarters at Newburgh, New York, and of the statues thereon, according to the plans adopted by the joint select committee of the Senate and House of Representatives, under joint resolution of the two Houses, and for gates therein, according to the recommendation of the Secretary of War, contained in Executive Document Numbered Three hundred and thirty-six, Fiftieth Congress, first session, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, thirty-two thousand dollars.

MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS.

SURVEY OF NORTHERN AND NORTHWESTERN LAKES: For printing and issuing charts for use of navigators, and electrotyping plates for chart-printing, two thousand dollars.

TRANSPORTATION OF REPORTS AND MAPS TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES: For the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries, through the Smithsonian Institution, one hundred dollars.

ARTIFICIAL LIMBS: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus, or commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, two hundred thousand dollars.

APPLIANCES FOR DISABLED SOLDIERS: For furnishing surgical appliances to persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States, and not entitled to artificial limbs, two thousand dollars.

SUPPORT AND MEDICAL TREATMENT OF DESTITUȚE PATIENTS: For the support and medical treatment of eighty-five medical and surgical patients who are destitute, in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with the Providence Hospital by the SurgeonGeneral of the Army, Seventeen thousand dollars.

GARFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: For maintenance, to enable it to provide medical and surgical treatment to persons unable to pay therefor, ten thousand dollars.

EXPENSES OF MILITARY CONVICTS: For payment of costs and charges of State penitentiaries for the care, clothing, maintenance, and medical attendance of United States military convicts confined in them, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

PUBLICATION OF THE OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE WAR OF THE REBELLION, BOTH OF THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE ARMIES, AS FOLLOWS: For continuing the publication of the Official Records of