For fuel and apparatus, namely: Coal, wood, charcoal, stoves, grates, Fuel, lights, etc. heaters, furnaces, ranges, and fixtures, fire-brick, clay, sand, repairs of steam-heating apparatus, grates, stoves, heaters, ranges, and furnaces, mica, fifteen thousand dollars.

For gas-pipes, fixtures, lamp-posts, gasometers, and retorts, and annual repairs of the same, nine hundred dollars.

For fuel for cadets' mess-hall, shops, and laundry, three thousand dollars.

For postage and telegrams, three hundred dollars.

For stationery, blank-books, paper, envelopes, quills, steel pens, rubbers, erasers, pencils, mucilage, wax, wafers, folders, fasteners, rules, files, ink, inkstands, pen-holders, tape, blotting-pads, and rubber bands, six hundred dollars.

For transportation of materials, discharged cadets, and ferriages, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

Postage.
Stationery.

Transportation.

For printing: For type, materials for office, diplomas for graduates, Printing. annual regisisters, blanks, and monthly reports to parents of cadets, one thousand dollars.

For clerk to the disbursing officer and quartermaster, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For clerk to adjutant, in charge of cadet records, one thousand five hundred dollars.

Clerks.

For clerk to treasurer, one thousand two hundred dollars. For department of natural and experimental philosophy: For addi- Department of tions to apparatus to illustrate the principles of mechanics, acoustics, natural and experimental philosooptics, and astronomy, one thousand dollars; books of reference, text- phy. books, stationery, materials, and repairs, four hundred dollars; for pay of mechanic assistant, one thousand dollars; repairs to the observatory building and clocks, four hundred and fifty dollars; in all, two thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.

Department of

For department of modern languages: For stationery, text-books, books of reference for the use of instructors, and for printing examina- modern languages. tion papers, two hundred dollars; in all, two hundred dollars.

For department of instruction in mathematics, namely: For repairs Department of and materials for preservation of models and instruments, twenty-five mathematics. dollars; text-books, books of reference, binding and stationery for in

structors, seventy-five dollars; in all, one hundred dollars.

For department of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology: For chemi- Department of cals, chemical apparatus, glass and porcelain ware, paper, wire, sheet- alogy, and geolochemistry, minermetal, ores, photographic apparatus and materials, five hundred dollars; gy. rough specimens, fossils, files, alcohol, lamps, blow-pipes, pencils, and paper for practical instruction in mineralogy and geology, and for gradual increase and improvement of the cabinet, four hundred dollars; repairs and additions to electric, magnetic, pneumatic, and thermic apparatus, and apparatus illustrating optical properties of substances, seven hundred and fifty dollars; pay of mechanic employed in chemical and geological section-rooms and in lecture-rooms, one thousand dollars; models, maps, and diagrams, books of reference, text-books, and stationery for the use of instructors, one hundred and eighty dollars; contingencies, one hundred dollars; in all, two thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars.

For department of history, geography, and ethics: For text-books, Department of books of reference, and stationery for use of instructors, and repairs, history, geogra one hundred and fifty dollars. phy, and ethics.

For department of artillery, cavalry, and infantry tactics, namely: Department of For tan-bark for riding-hall, three hundred dollars; repairing camp. artillery, etc., tacstools and camp-furniture, one hundred dollars; furniture for offices tics. and reception-room, one hundred dollars; stationery for use of instructor and assistants, one hundred and fifty dollars; books and maps, seventyfive dollars; supply of fixtures for gymnasium, and repairs, two hundred and fifty dollars; foils, fencing gloves, jackets, gaiters, and repairs, two

Department of

law.

hundred and fifty dollars; in all, one thousand two hundred and twentyfive dollars.

For department of law: For stationery, text-books, and books of ref erence for use of instructors, and for repairing and rebinding same, and shelving, two hundred and fifty dollars.

Department of For department of civil and military engineering: For models, maps, civil and military purchase and repairs of instruments, text-books, books of reference, engineering. and stationery for the use of instructors, and contingencies, five hundred dollars; extra pay of enlisted man employed as draughtsman, one hundred dollars; in all, six hundred dollars.

nery.

Department of For department of ordnance and gunnery: For addition to models; ordnance and gun- drawing apparatus illustrating course of instruction; repairs of electroballistic machines, galvanic batteries, and models; for addition to firinghouses and practical instruction-room; for books of reference, text-books, and stationery for the use of instructors, three hundred dollars.

Department of practical military engineering.

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Miscellaneous

expenses.

For department of practical military engineering: For purchase and repair of instruments, transportation, purchase of tools, implements, and materials, and for extra-duty pay of engineer soldiers, as follows, namely: Astronomical and meteorological instruments and lights for use in instructing cadets in practical astronomy; reconnoitering instruments for use in their practical instruction in making reconnaissances; photographic apparatus and material for field photography; drawing instruments and material for plotting reconnaissances; surveying instruments; instruments and material for signaling and field telegraphy; transportation of field parties; tools and material for the preservation and repair of one wooden ponton and one canvas ponton bridge train; sapping and mining tools and material; profiling material; rope; cordage; end materials for rafts and for spar and trestle bridges; intrenching tools; tools and material for the repair of Fort Clinton and the batteries at the Academy, and extra-duty pay of engineer soldiers employed upon the same; extra-duty pay of two engineer soldiers, at fifty cents per day each, when performing special skilled mechanical labor in the department of practical military engineering; for models, books of reference, and stationery, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For department of drawing: For books of reference, periodicals on art and technology, one hundred dollars; models for topographical, mechanical, and free-hand drawing, one hundred dollars; repairs to desks, models, racks, stools, stretchers, and tables, one hundred dollars; drawing material for use of instructors, card-board, tacks, brushes, sponges, glue, alcohol, transfer-paper, hectograph, cloth for screens, colored diagrams, cloth, stationery, and contingent expenses, two hundred dollars; in all, five hundred dollars.

For expenses of the Board of Visitors, including mileage, three thousand dollars.

For miscellaneous and incidental expenses: For gas-coal, oil, candles, lanterns, matches, chimneys, and wicking for lighting the Academy, chapel, library, cadet barracks, mess-hall, shops, hospital, offices, stables and riding hall, sidewalks, camp, and wharves, three thousand five hundred dollars; water-pipes, plumbing, and repairs, one thousand five hundred dollars; cleaning public buildings (not quarters), six hundred dollars; brooms, brushes, pails, tubs, soap, and cloths, two hundred dollars; chalk, crayons, sponges, slate, rubbers, and cord for recitationCompensation. rooms, three hundred dollars; compensation of chapel organist, two hundred dollars; compensation of librarian, one hundred and twenty dollars; pay of engineer of heating and ventilating apparatus for the academic building, the cadet barracks, and office building, cadet hospital, chapel, and philosophical building, including the library, one thousand two hundred dollars; pay of assistant engineer of same, one thousand dollars; pay of five firemen, two thousand seven hundred dol. lars; in all, eleven thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. For pay of librarian's assistant, one thousand dollars..

Library.

For increase and expense of library, namely: For periodicals, stationery, binding new books, and scientific, historical, biographical, and general literature, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For additional tables and chairs, furniture, and contingent repairs to library rooms, two hundred dollars.

For furniture for cadet hospital, and repairs of the same, one hundred dollars.

For contingencies for superintendent of the Academy, one thousand dollars.

Library.

Furniture.

Contingenc i es, superintendent.

For renewing furniture (desks and benches) in section-rooms, and re- Repairs. pairing the same, five hundred dollars.

Contingencies,

For contingent fund, to be expended under the direction of the aca demic board; for instruments, books, repairs to apparatus, and other academic board. incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, one thousand dollars.

PUBLIC WORKS.

For buildings and grounds: For repairing roads and paths, includ ing roads and bridges on reservation, five hundred dollars.

For continuing construction of breast-high wall in dangerous places, five hundred dollars.

For erection of sixteen sets of quarters for enlisted men and their families, to be built of brick and in sets of four each, each set to contain four rooms, and to be immediately available, fourteen thousand dollars.

Buildings and grounds. Repairs.

Wall.

Quarters.

Academic build

For remodeling and rebuilding the academic building, putting an additional story thereon, and rendering it fire-proof and suitable for section- ing. rooms for instruction of cadets, seventy thousand dollars, to be immediately available, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, upon plans and detailed specifications to be approved by the academic board

For the erection of a gymnasium for cadets, and for repairs and alterations to present gymnasium building, thirty-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available.

Gymnasium.

For erection of new shops for mechanics employed in the quarter- Shops. master's department, to be immediately available, eleven thousand five hundred dollars.

For repairs to north wharf, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.

For water-works: Renewal of material in filter-beds; improving ventilation of filter-house and water-house; hose for use in cleaning filterbeds and water-house and for use in fire-service at same; tools, implements, and materials for use of the two keepers and for repairs of siphon-house, filter-house, and of four and one half miles of supplypipes; for shed for tools, and storage of fuel for keeper at Round Pond, and for tool-house at filter; for gauges at Round Pond and Delafield Pond, and stairs for access to same, five hundred and twenty dollars. Approved, March 1, 1887.

Repairs to wharf

Water-works.

CHAP. 313. An act making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of pensions for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and for other purposes, namely:

Mar. 1, 1887.

Pensions appropriations.

Army and Navy

For Army and Navy pensions as follows: For invalids, widows, minor children, and dependent relatives, and survivors and widows of the war pensions.

Provisos.

of eighteen hundred and twelve, seventy-five million dollars: Provided, That the appropriations aforesaid for Navy pensions shall be paid from the income of the Navy pension fund, so far as the same may be suffiTo be separately cient for that purpose: And provided further, That the amount expended under each of the above items shall be accounted for separately.

Navy.

accounted for. Examining surgeous, fees, etc. Boards.

Proviso.

Agents.

Clerk-hire.

Fuel.
Lights.
Stationery, etc.

Rent.

Rooms in public buildings.

Mar. 2, 1887.

For fees and expenses of examining surgeons, for services rendered within the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one million dollars. And each member of each examining board shall, as now authorized by law, receive the sum of two dollars for the examination of each applicant whenever five or a less number shall be examined on any one day, and one dollar for the examination of each additional applicant on such day: Provided, That if twenty or more applicants appear on one day, no fewer than twenty shall, if practicable, be examined on said day, and that if fewer examinations be then made, twenty or more having appeared, then there shall be paid for the first examinations made on the next examination day the fee of one dollar only until twenty examinations shall have been made.

For the salaries of eighteen agents for the payment of pensions, at four thousand dollars each, seventy-two thousand dollars.

For clerk-hire, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For fuel, seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For lights, seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For stationery and other necessary expenses, to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, nine thousand dollars.

For rents, twenty thousand dollars. And the Secretary of the Treasury, where possible, shall cause suitable rooms to be set apart in the public buildings under his control in cities where pension agencies are located, which shall be acceptable to the Secretary of the Interior, for the use and occupancy of the said agencies respectively.

Approved, March 1, 1887.

CHAP. 314.—An act to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in the several States under the provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the acts supplementary thereto.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Agricultural ex- States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to aid in acquir periment stations. ing and diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects connected with agriculture, and to promote scientific investigation and experiment respecting the principles and applications of agricultural science, there shall be established, under direction of the college or colleges or agricultural department of colleges in each State or Territory established, or which may hereafter be established, in accordance with the provisions of an act approved Vol. 12, p. 503. July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled "An act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," or any of the supplements to said act, a department to be known and des ignated as an "agricultural experiment station:" Provided, That in Division of ap- any State or Territory in which two such colleges have been or may be propriation. so established the appropriation hereinafter made to such State or Territory shall be equally divided between such colleges, unless the legislature of such State or Territory shall otherwise direct.

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SEC. 2. That it shall be the object and duty of said experiment stations to conduct original researches or verify experiments on the physi ology of plants and animals; the diseases to which they are severally subject, with the remedies for the same; the chemical composition of useful plants at their different stages of growth; the comparative advantages of rotative cropping as pursued under a varying series of crops; the capacity of new plants or trees for acclimation; the analysis of soils and water; the chemical composition of mauures, natural or

Commissioner of

vise, etc.

artificial, with experiments designed to test their comparative effects on crops of different kinds; the adaptation and value of grasses aud forage plants; the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of food for domestic animals; the scientific and economic questions involved in the production of butter and cheese; and such other researches or experiments bearing directly on the agricultural industry of the United States as may in each case be deemed advisable, having due regard to the varying conditions and needs of the respective States or Territories. SEC. 3. That in order to secure, as far as practicable, uniformity of methods and results in the work of said stations, it shall be the duty Agriculture to adof the United States Commissioner of Agriculture to furnish forms, as far as practicable, for the tabulation of results of investigation or experiments; to indicate, from time to time, such lines of inquiry as to him shall seem most important; and, in general, to furnish such advice and assistance as will best promote the purposes of this act. It shall be the duty of each of said stations, annually, on or before the first day of February, to make to the governor of the State or Territory in which it is located a full and detailed report of its operations, including a statement of receipts and expenditures, a copy of which report shall be sent to each of said stations, to the said Commissioner of Agriculture, and to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States.

SEC. 4. That bulletins or reports of progress shall be published at said stations at least once in three months, one copy of which shall be sent to each newspaper in the States or Territories in which they are respectively located, and to such individuals actually engaged in farming as may request the same, and as far as the means of the station will permit. Such bulletins or reports and the annual reports of said sta tions shall be transmitted in the mails of the United States free of charge for postage, under such regulations as the Postmaster-General may from time to time prescribe.

Reports.

Bulletins.

To be post free.

lands.

Proviso.

SEC. 5. That for the purpose of paying the necessary expenses of con- Appropriations ducting investigations and experiments and printing and distributing to be made from the results as herein before prescribed, the sum of fifteen thousand dol- sales of public lars per annum is hereby appropriated to each State, to be specially provided for by Congress in the appropriations from year to year, and to each Territory entitled under the provisions of section eight of this act, out of any money in the Treasury proceeding from the sales of public lands, to be paid in equal quarterly payments, on the first day of January, April, July, and October in each year, to the treasurer or other officer duly appointed by the governing boards of said colleges to receive the same, the first payment to be made on the first day of October, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven: Provided, however, That out of the first annual appropriation so received by any station an amount not exceeding one-fifth may be expended in the erection, enlargement, or repair of a building or buildings necessary for carrying Buildings. on the work of such station; and thereafter an amount not exceeding five per centum of such annual appropriation may be so expended. SEC. 6. That whenever it shall appear to the Secretary of the Treasury from the annual statement of receipts and expenditures of any of cessary to be apsaid stations that a portion of the preceding annual appropriation re- portioned. mains unexpended, such amount shall be deducted from the next succeeding annual appropriation to such station, in order that the amount of money appropriated to any station shall not exceed the amount actually and necessarily required for its maintenance and support. SEC. 7. That nothing in this act shall be construed to impair or modify the legal relation existing between any of the said colleges and affected. the government of the States or Territories in which they are respectively located.

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SEC. 8. That in States having colleges entitled under this section to the benefits of this act and having also agricultural experiment stations States having exestablished by law separate from said colleges, such States shall be au- periment stations thorized to apply such benefits to experiments at stations so established