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 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 332. 1884. 2].9 hundred dollars ; work and supplies at Fort Myer, Virginia, on hospital account, three hundred dollars; in all, eighty-tive thousand nine hundred and e-ight dollars. Clothing, camp and garrison equipuge: For six wall tents, complete, Clothing, F¤·¤¤P at nineteen dollars and thirty cents each, and for other articles to re- an *? 8 ”·"*“°¤ place those worn out in service, fourhundred and fifteen dollarsand eighty °q°‘p°g°‘ cents ; clothing issues in kind, say complete outiits for one hundred and twelve men of the Signal Corps, at an average of forty-three dollars and seventy-tive cents per man per annum, four thousand nine hundred dollars; in all, five thousand three hundred and fifteen dollars and eighty cents. Medical department: For medical attendance and medicines for Medical departofficers and enlisted men of the Signal Corps, five thousand dollars; ¤¤°¤*- medical attendance and medicines for odieers doing duty in connection with the Signal Service, one hundred dollars; medical and hospital supplies at Fort Myer, Virginia, seven hundred dollars; medicines furnished to ohicers and enlisted men from purveyin g depots and Army dispensaries, one thousand dollars; materials for repairs of hospitals at Fort Myer, Virginia, two hundred dollars ; in all, seven thousand dollars. And there shall not be expended from any moneys appropriated by Post,p. 107. the act entitled ·‘An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the iiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-tive, and for other purposes," any money for the support of the Appropriation Signal Service or Corps, except the pay of such commissioned officers Q?" °f !;;‘:i°' fj. as the Secretary of War may detail for service in that corps, and ex- AQ]; Hm,w{°°e,m_ cept the appropriation of five thousand dollars therein contained for ex- ’ penses of the Signal Service of the Army, and excepting also the pay and allowances of fourteen enlisted men detailed from the line of the Army serving with Lieutenant Greely in the Arctic regions. That a. joint commission, consisting of three Senators, to be appointed _Joint Congresby the President of the Senate, and three members of the House. to be "°”*E] t:3'°?:**°° appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, shall con- Zgpslgwam eg sider the present organizations of the Signal Service, Geological Sur- ciemzy, etc., in vey, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and the Hydrographic Office of the Sign al Service, Navy Department, with the view to secure greater efficiency and econ- gm? *° ’°P°"“ *° omy of administration of the public service in said Bureaus; and said °°g'°°°’ joint commission shall report to their respective Houses on or before the third Monday in December, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, their conclusions, by bill or report. - NATIONAL CEMETERIES. t Llational Comoence. For national cemeteries: For maintaining and improving national cemeteries, one hundred thousand dollars. For superintendents of national cemeteries: For pay of seventy-three superintendents of national cemeteries, sixty thousand four hundred and forty dollars. ‘ For grading, sodding, and erecting a suitable monument, with headstones, and for curbing or fence for the cemetery lot at Fort Gratiot, Michigan, occupied by the bodies of soldiers dying in the service, three thousand dollars. For completing the Macadam road from Fort Scott, Kansas, to the national cemetery near said city, ten thousand dollars. To trunster the remains of forty-six soldiers buried at Fort Churchill to the cemetery at Carson City, Nevada, one thousand dollars. To purchase additional grounds at or near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for a national cemetery, fifteen thousand dollars. For purchase of additional land for the Cyprus Hills National Cemetery, near Brooklyn, New York, tlfteen thousand six hundred dollars. For the completion of the road from Chattanooga to the national cometery near that city, two thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That said work shall be that advertised and lot to the lowest bidder; and no