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 52 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 47. 1888. For kalsominin walls, ceilings, hall-ways, and repairing plasterin, three hundred and ninety-hve dollars. _ _ hor necessary painting of wood and iron work, including cases, helving, and necessar glazing, five hundred dollars ; in all, six !’*¤¤*•¤· thousand three hundred and ninet Jive dollars : Provided, That the Pr¤¤¤¤¢- rinpress and material formerlyy in use in the office of the Surgeon- Cough? may be used by the record and gnsion division of that office to lpxpedite as much as possible the wor of the division, and for no ot er purpose. méigivvv ¤¤•*·¤¤¤· mnrrsar msranmsnumur. umm. ¤i1¤•s¤· PAY OF THE ARMY: For mile to officers, when authorized by law, forty thousand three hundreldhnd eight dollars and seventy-six cents_; to be disbursed under the limitations prescribed for the approv¤1.s4,p.zm. priation for mileage to officers by the Army appropriation act approved February ninth, eighteen undred and eightyJ-seven. Sfsnnisuwm SIGNAL SERVICE OF *1*111;: ARMY: For expenses of the Signal Serv- E°°°°°°` ice of the Arm, as follows: Purchase, equipment, and repair of field electric telyegraphs; signal equipments and stores; binocular glasses, telescopes, heliostats, and other necessary instruments, including absolutel necessary meteorological instruments for use on target ran ; tele hone apparatus an maintenance of same, tive thousand dbllars. P ` That the sum of fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as ma ` be necessary of the unex nded balance of four hundred thousand Y°U’~P-*”- dollars appropriated by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, for armament of fortincations be, and the same is hereby, reappropriated, and made available for the completion and payment of the gains authorized bgvsaid act, and now being manuactured by the nth Boston Iron orks, under contract dated September twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four and the extension of said contracis is hereby authorized accordinglyé {,:5,°*;{*·hN°*"- Extension of military reservation at Fort obinson, Nebraska; rqmhnm.For payment to John . Sechler for private property taken by the Government in extension of the military reservation at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, under the Presidents order of June twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventynine, being the amount awarded by a board of oficers J anuary ii th, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, as per their relport approved by the War Department, two thousand five hundred ollars. méwgimsr Depart- ENGINEER DEPARTMENT. Examf¤•¢;gs¤‘¤*4=·; EXAMINATIONS AND SURVFXQS AT SOUTH PASS, MISSISSIPPI RIVER: §,°$,,°{{P"" pp Annual expenses of ascertaming the depth of water and width of {gt gpg- channel secured and maintained from time to time at South Pass of the Mississippi River, to enable the Secretary of War to report to Congress during the maintenance of the work, as required by Congress, eight thousand eight hundred dollars. ¤¢¤•1s¤-me. SIGNAL SERVICE. obwwwm ¤¤i¤¤· OBSERVATION AND REPORT or STOBMS : To be e nded b the ’°"°"""'"‘°‘ Secretary of War: For expenses of meteorological dgdervaticd and report by telegraph, signal, or otherwise, announcing the probable ap roac and force of storms, for the benefit of commerce and agri. culture of the United States, as follows: ¤¤•*'~ For expenses of storm, cautionary, off-shore, 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,