and for the selection of sites for reservoirs and other hydraulic works necessary for the storage and utelization of water for irrigation and for ascertaining the cost thereof, and the prevention of floods and overflows, and to make the necessary maps, including the pay of employees in field and in office, the cost of all instruments, apparatus, and materials, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, the work to be performed by the Geological Survey under the direc tion of the Secretary of the Interior, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, of which sum fifty thousand dollars shall be immediately available; and the Director of the Geological Survey, under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, shall make a report to Congress on the first Monday in December of each year, showing in detail how the said money has been expended, the amount used for actual survey and engineer work in the field in locating sites for reservoirs, and an itemized account of the expenditures under this and any future appropriation.

REPAIR OF THE RUIN OF CASA GRANDE, ARIZONA: To enable the Secretary of the Interior to repair and protect the ruin of Casa ru Grande, situate in Pinal County, near Florence, Arizona, two thousand dollars; and the President is authorized to reserve from settlement and sale the land on which said ruin is situated and so much of the public land adjacent thereto as in his judgment may be necessary for the protection of said ruin and of the ancient city of which it is a part.

MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS.

GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.

Casa Grande, Ariz.
Preservation of the

Miscellaneous.

Government Hos

pital for the Insane.

For current expenses of the Government Hospital for the Insane; Expenses. For support, clothing, and treatment in the Government Hospital for the Insane of the insane from the Army and Navy, Marine Corps, and Revenue-Cutter Service, inmates of the National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States, and of all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military or naval service of the United States, and who are indigent, two hundred and seventeen thousand five hundred dollars; and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars of this sum may be expended in defraying the expenses of the removal of patients to their friends.

For the buildings and grounds of the Government Hospital for the
Insane, as follows:

For general repairs and improvements, twelve thousand dollars.
For special improvements, as follows:

For alterations at stable, including poultry-house one thousand three hundred dollars.

For renewing heating apparatus, west wing and lodges, nine thousand six hundred dollars.

For renewing boiler at engine-house, eight hundred dollars. For steam fire-engine and house, five thousand two hundred dollars.

COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB.

Buildings grounds.

and

Columbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb.

Expenses.

CURRENT EXPENSES OF THE COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB: For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, and for books and illustrative apparatus, and for general repairs and improvements, fifty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That of the above sum no more shall be expended Provisos. for salaries and wages in this Institution during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, than shall with the payments from other sources make a total for such salaries and wages for said year STAT L-VOL XXV-61

Limit of wages.

of persons admitted

irom District revenues.

of twenty-eight thousand dollars in all: Provided further, That One-half of expenses one half of all expenses attending the instruction of deaf and dumb from District of Co- persons admitted to said institution from the District of Columbia, lumbia to be borne under section forty-eight hundred and sixty-four of the Revised Statutes, shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half out of the Treasury of the United States, and hereafter estimates for such expenses shall each year be submitted in the regular estimates for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia: And provided further, That deaf-mutes, not exceeding sixty in number, admitted to this institution from the several States and Territories, as provided in section forty-eight hundred and sixty-five of the Revised Statutes, shall only have the expenses of their instruction in the collegiate department, exclusive of support, paid from appropriations made for the support of the institution.

Inmates from States, etc., to have only instruction paid. R. S., sec. 4865, p. 942.

Educating feebleminded children. Vol. 21, p. 275.

To enable the Secretary of the Interior to provide for the education of feeble-minded children belonging to the District of Columbia, as provided for in the act approved June sixteenth, eighteen hunHalf from District dred and eighty, two thousand five hundred dollars; one half of this sum shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half out of the Treasury of the United States.

revenues.

Howard University.

Maintenance.

Freedmen's Hospital and Asylum.

Expenses.

Education in Alaska.

HOWARD UNIVERSITY.

For maintenance of the Howard University, to be used in payment of part of the salaries of the officers and professors, and teachers, and other regular employees of the university, the balance of which will be paid from donations and other sources, eighten thousand five hundred dollars.

For tools, materials, wages of instructors, and other necessary expenses of the industrial department, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For repairs of buildings, three thousand dollars.

FREEDMEN'S HOSPITAL AND ASYLUM.

For the Freedmen's Hospital and Asylum, Washington, District of Columbia, as follows:

For subsistence, twenty-two thousand dollars.

For salaries and compensation of the surgeon-in-chief, not to exceed three thousand dollars, two assistant surgeons, clerk, engineer, matron, nurses, laundresses, cooks, teamsters, watchmen, and laborers, fourteen thousand dollars;

For rent of hospital buildings and grounds, four thousand dollars; For fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, transportation, medicines and medical supplies, repairs and furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses, eleven thousand five hundred dollars; For reading-matter for patients, twenty-five dollars;

For the erection of fire-escapes and stand-pipes, one thousand dollars;

For building one brick building to be used as a stable, store-house, and dead house, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, fifty-four thousand and twenty-five dollars.

EDUCATION IN ALASKA.

For the industrial and primary education of the children of school age in the Territory of Alaska, without reference to race, fifty thousand dollars.

UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT.

ARMORIES AND ARSENALS.

For the Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois, as follows: For completing store-house K, thirty thousand dollars. For machinery and shop-fixtures, ten thousand dollars. 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 and sewers, and grading grounds, fifteen thousand dollars.

For necessary repairs of the Arsenal Railroad, seven thousand dollars.

For the Rock Island Bridge as follows:

For care, preservation, and expense of maintaining and operating the draw, eleven thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.

For protecting Rock Island Bridge by means of sheer-booms, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

War Department.

Armories and arse. nals.

Rock Island.

Bridge expenses.

For repairs to draw-pier of the Rock Island Bridge, and for replacing the cement in the joints of the stones forming the piers of Draw-pier. the Rock Island Railroad and wagon bridges, thirty-seven thousand six hundred and eight dollars; and the Secretary of War shall require of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company the reimbursement of one-half of all the expenses incurred in the re- Re-imbursement pairs of said draw-pier under this and the appropriation of fifty Island and Pacific thousand dollars made for this object in the sundry civil appropria- Railroad Company. tion act for eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, as provided in their guaranty executed to the United States under the acts of Congress providing for the construction of said bridge.

For the construction of a viaduct from the south end of the wagon bridge between Rock Island and the city of Rock Island, over the railroad tracks which adjoin the approach to said bridge, thirty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That this appropriation shall not be available until the city of Rock Island shall, by proper instrument, have conveyed to the United States title, authority, and control over the premises to be used for the construction and maintenance of said viaduct, nor until all holders of property abutting on the same shall have executed release of all damages that might accrue to them by the construction and maintenance thereof, in such form as the Secretary of War may prescribe: Provided further, That the work shall not be commenced until the city of Rock Island shall deposit in the Treasury of the United States one-half of this amount towards reimbursing the United States for this expenditure.

KENNEBEC ARSENAL, AUGUSTA, MAINE: For water and light supply, one thousand two hundred dollars.

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

FRANKFORD ARSENAL, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA: For one screw-cutting and milling-machine, complete, largest size, one thousand six hundred dollars.

from Chicago,_ Rock

Viaduct,

Provisos.

Conveyance of title.

half.

Rock Island to pay

Kennebec Arsenal,

Springfield, Mass.

Me.

Frankford, Pa.

PICCATINY POWDER-DEPOT, DOVER, NEW JERSEY: For finishing Piccatiny powdermagazine number five, thirty-five thousand dollars, and the number depot, Dover, N. J. of magazines at the powder depot at Dover, New Jersey, shall not exceed five.

SAN ANTONIA ARSENAL, SAN ANTONIA, TEXAS: For the construction of a new fence in front of the arsenal grounds, four thousand five hundred dollars.

San Antonio, Tex.

SANDY HOOK PROVING-GROUND, NEW JERSEY: For cleaning, Sandy Hook prov leveling, and grading grounds, building and repairing roads, two ing-ground, N. J.

thousand dollars.

Watertown testingmachine.

Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, N. Y.

Repairs.

Augusta, Ga.
Hospital building.

Proviso.
Coatract.

Buildings and grounds, Washington, D. C.

Improvement and

care.

Proviso.

Concrete pave

ments.

TESTING-MACHINE, WATERTOWN ARSENAL: For labor and material in caring for, preserving, and operating the United States testing-machine at Watertown Arsenal, including new tools and appliances, ten thousand dollars.

WATERVLIET ARSENAL, WEST TROY, NEW YORK: For direct sewerage to river, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For general repairs to buildings, bridges, inclosing walls, fences, roads, grounds, and so forth, five thousand dollars.

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

For building one brick hospital building, uniform in architecture with the other buildings on the post at the United States Arsenal at Augusta, Georgia, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended until a contract is made for finishing said building complete including heating apparatus and approaches within the limit of this appropriation.

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS IN AND AROUND WASHINGTON.

For the improvement and care of public grounds as follows: For improvement of grounds north of Executive Mansion, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of the Executive Mansion, four thousand dollars.

For ordinary care of green-houses and nursery, two thousand dollars.

For ordinary care of Lafayette Square, one thousand dollars.
For ordinary care of Franklin Square, one thousand dollars.
For care and improvement of Monument Grounds, five thousand
dollars.

For continuing improvement of reservation numbered seventeen. and site of old canal northwest of same, ten thousand dollars: Pro vided, 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, and constructing stone coping around reservations, one thousand five hun dred dollars.

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

For painting watchmen's lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts, 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, labels, 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, 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, eight thousand dollars.

For improvement, care, and maintenance of Judiciary Square, including grounds around the Pension Building and asphalt roads and walks leading to Pension Building, 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 same depth

of base.

EXECUTIVE MANSION.

Executive Mansion.

For care, repair, repainting, and refurnishing the Executive Man- Repairs, fuel, etc, sion, sixteen thousand dollars, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine.

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

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

Lighting Executive Mansion and public

Proviso.
Maximum price per

LIGHTING THE EXECUTIVE MANSION AND PUBLIC GROUNDS: For gas, pay of lamp-lighters, gas-fitters, and laborers; purchase, erec- grounds. tion, 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 lamp. 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.

For erecting seven iron posts, each twenty-five feet high, and connecting them with underground wires for electric lights, one thousand dollars.

For electric lights for three hundred and sixty-five nights, from seven posts, at forty cents per light per night, one thousand and twenty-two dollars.

REPAIR OF WATER-PIPES: For repairing and extending waterpipes, 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.

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.

Electric lighting.

Water-pipes, etc.

Government tele

graph.

ment.
Care and mainte

nance,

WASHINGTON MONUMENT: For the care and maintenance of the Washington MonuWashington 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 elevator car, at seventy-five dollars per month; one attendant on floor, at forty-five dollars per month; one attendant at top, at forty-five dollars per month; three night and day watchmen, at sixty dollars each per month; in all, eight thousand one hundred and sixty dollars.

For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, Expenses. brushes, brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower floor, repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and repairs of all kinds connected with the monument and machinery, and purchase of all necessary articles for maintaining the monument, machinery, elevator, and electric light plant in good order, two thousand three hundred and forty dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War.