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 132 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 165. 1894. design of sufficient size and cubic air space to accommodate at least fifty sick and wounded men, to be one story high with suitable elevavation and to be constructed of the same material used fonpresent ' hospital, twenty-five thousand dollars; for erection of retaining a11d boundary wall, fifteen thousand dollars; for kitchen, mess hall, and smoking room removed from basement and located apart, conveniently for inmates and attendants of main hospital building and proposed adjacent wards, three thousand five hundred dollars; ior construction of an operating ward with all modern antiseptic appliances, one thousand five hundred dollars; for heating and nrc apparatus enlarged and improved: Plumbing renewed, Eve thousand dollars; for elevator for A transporting sick and wounded introduced, three thousand dollars; for apartment fitted in main building for chapel, reading room, and sailors’ library, one thousand dollars; in all, sixty-nine thousand dollars, which sum shall be paid from that portion of the naval hospital fund accruing from the sale of naval hospital grounds to the city of Brooklyn, and placed to the credit of the naval hospital fund, in pursuance of the Yo1.26,p.213. provisions of the Act approved July second, eighteen hundred and ninet. . · <><»¤ti¤s•>¤*~ Coiyvrrncnnr, BUREAU or MEDICINE AND SURGERY: For freight, expressage on medical stores, tolls, ferriages, transportation of sick to hospital, transportation of insane patients; care, transportation, and burial of the dead; advertising; telegraphing; rent of telephones; purchase of books and stationery; binding of medical records, unbound books, and pamphlets; postage and purchase of stamps for foreign ‘ service; expenses attending the medical board of examiners; rent of rooms for naval dispensary; hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration; sanitary and hygienic instruction; purchase and repairs of wagons and harness; purchase of and feed for horses and cows; trees, plants, garden tools, and seeds; furniture and incidental articles for the museum of hygiene, naval dispensary, Washington; naval laboratory, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, surgeons’ offices and dispensaries at navy—yards and naval stations; washing for medical department at museum of hygiene, naval dispensary, VVashington, naval laboratory and department of instruction, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks,dispensaries at navy- yards and naval stations and ships and rendezvous; for necessary expenses incident to removal of museum of hygiene to old observatory building and grounds, and for such minor repairs on said building and grounds as may be required to properly receive and preserve the exhibits. and all other necessary contingent expenses, twenty-tive thousand dollars. P~•>i>=¤ir¤- REPAIRS, BUREAU or BIEDICINE AND SURGERY: For necessary repairs of naval laboratory, and department of instruction, naval hospitals, and appendages, including roads, wharves, outhouses, sidewalks, fences, gardens, farms, and cemeteries, twenty thousand dollars. Bureau of Supplies BITREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS. and Accounts. Deyail <»f_=¤>»3i¤¤¤¤t· That an ofliver of the pay corps of the Navy may be detailed as °l'{§*§f‘§'$§?T”{?g_’,,qS, assistant to the Chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts in the Navy Department. and that such officer shall, in case of the death, resignation, absence, or sickness of the Chief of the Bureau, unless otherwise directed by the President, as provided by section one hundred and seventy-nine of the Revised Statutes, perform the duties of such chief until his successor is appointed or such absence or sickness shall cease. P¤>ri¤i<>¤¤· PROVISIONS, NAVY, BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND .~XCCOUNTS: For provisions and commuted rations for the seamen and marines, commuted rations for officers on sea duty, and naval cadets and commuted rations stopped on account of sick in hospital and credited to the naval hospital fund, subsistence of officers and men unavoidably detained or