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 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 189. 1895. 945 at fifty dollars per month; one assistant nreman, at forty-nve dollars per month; one conductor of elevator car, at seventy-tive dollars per month; one attendant on iloor, at sixty dollars per month; one attendant on top floor, at sixty dollars per month; three night and day watchmen, at sixty dollars per month each; in all, eight thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes, Expenses. brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower iloors, repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and repairs of all kinds connected with the monument and machinery, and purchase of all necessary artieles for keeping the monument, machinery, elevator, and electric-light plant in good order, three thousand dollars. STATUE or GENERAL W. T. SHERMAN: For the completion of the 1, Si-¤§F¤ <>f G-}?-Sf,Yir ‘ equestrian statue of General William Tecumseh Sherman, thirty thou- QE, °°°m°° °° sand dollars: Provided, That said statue shall not be located on the Capitol grounds. » " »- ’ . m1.1TAuY rosTs. _ Mimary 1><>¤¢¤- For the construction of buildings at, and the enlargement of such C¤¤¤¢¤¤¤¤<>¤· military posts as, in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be . necessary, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided Promo:. further, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized within his dis- S,,€f,’,{ ° °“ P “‘ °° cretion to establish a military post at such point on Puget Sound as shall in his judgment best subserve the public interests: Provided, That six hundred and forty acres of land suitable for the purpose shall Land to be autumn. be donated free of cost to the United States, or such greater quantity of land as in the opinion of the Secretary of War shall be necessary ior that purpose: Provided further, That the Secretary of War is hereby Bi¤m¤r¤k.N-D¤k- authorized, within his discretion, to establish a military post at or near N"' ’°“° the city of Bismarck, North Dakota, in place of the present post at Fort Yates, to be abandoned, as in his judgment shall best subserve the public interests: Provided, That a sufficient quantity of land not less D°¤¤**°¤ of *=¤*d· than six hundred and forty acres as, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, will be suitable for the purpose, shall be donated tree of cost to the United States. Said post to be established only after a thorough r1m¤¤i¤¤¢i<>¤, mc. official examination of all the sites that may be oiiered to the United States for the purpose above mentioned, such examination to be made by a board of three army officers to be selected by the Secretary of Wa1· outside of the military district in which such post is to be established; and said board shall report its findings in all matters to the Secretary of \\’ar for his action. 1m·aovmiEN·r AND Pnorncriou or THE YEL1.owsToNE NATIONAL ,Y:,¤{,¤~;··¤¤•>N·- PARK: For the improvement and protection of the Yellowstone National mn °r ' Park, to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of \Var, thirty thousand dollars. . For salary of commissioner provided for in the Act to protect the C°¤¤¤i¤¤*°¤°*· birds and animals in Yellowstone National Park and to punish crimes ‘"‘“* *’·"‘ in said park, approved May seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one thousand dollars. To reimburse John NV. Meldrum amount paid for completion of build- John W.Me1dr¤¤¤- ing authorized to be erected in said park by section nine of the foregoing Act, three hundred and eighty-tive dollars and seventyhve cents. CHICKAMAYGA AND CHATTANOOGA NATIONAL PARK; To enable the C,f¤;;·;1;¤m¤¤,_=,¤t·e ¤$ Secretary of War to complete the establishment of the Chickamauga p,,?;,, °°g° ° l°°. and Chattanooga National Military Park in accordance with existing laws, including road work, memorial gateway and designs theretor, maps, surveys, iron and bronze tablets, gun carriages, land the purchase of which has heretoibre been authorized by law, sites for monuments in Lookout Valley, not to exceed three hundred dollars in all, foundations for State monuments, compensation of two civilian commissioners and their assistant in historical work, labor, clerical and • sTAT-voi. KX\'III—60