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 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. H. Ch. 214. 1897. 523 For reimbursing contractor for extra labor and material expended upon twenty-three large oak model forms and drawing stands, two hundred and ninety-eight dollars and fifty cents; For department of modern languages: For stationery, text-books, _,,Q"{,*j,*}""",{"‘; °"“°d· and books of reference for use of instructors, for repairs of books and gu g ` apparatus, and for office furniture, and for printing examination papers, and for contingencies, three hundred and fifty dollars; For department of law: For stationery, text-books, books of refer- D°P“"”“°¤*°*` I"- ence for use of instructors, maps, map fixtures, furniture, and for repairs to the same, four hundred dollars; For purchase of a set of Myer’s Federal Decisions (second-hand), forty-nve dollars; A For purchase of volumes twenty to twenty-eight, inclusive, of the United States Digest, sixty-four dollars; For department of practical military engineering: For purchase and ,,£f*’“,f,§‘,’;?{’;§v°f Q5"? repair of instruments, transportation, purchase of tools, implements, nwring.A g and materials, and for extraduty pay of engineer soldiers, as follows, namely : For instruments for use in instructing cadets, in making reconnoissances; photographic apparatus and material for field photography; drawing instruments and material for platting reconnoissances, survey- ing instruments, instruments and material for signaling and field telegraphy; transportation of field parties; tools and material for the preservation, augmentation, and repair of wooden pontoon, and one canvas pontoon-bridge train; sapping and mining tools and material; rope, cordage, material for rafts, and for spar and trestle bridges; intrenchin g tools; tools and material for the repair of Fort Clinton and the batteries at the Academy, and extra-duty pay of 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 ordnance and gunnery: For purchase and repairs ,,,£§§‘;’,,*,‘{“,,;’§§f,,f_f,;f°` of instruments, models, and apparatus, and purchase of necessary materials; for the purchase of samples of arms and accouterments other than those supplied to the military service; for books of reference. text-books, stationery and lithographic printing materials, and for contingencies, four hundred and fifty dollars; For purchase of ammunition for rapidfrire guns now on hand, thz·¤·o hundred dollars; _ For the purchase of one Maxim semiautomatic three-pounder quick- M‘“*'”¥‘“‘· firing gun mounted on field carriage complete, and ammunition theretbr, five thousand dollars; - In all, for current and ordinary expenses, seventy-three thousand five hundred and two dollars and fifty cents. 1rrsom.LAm:oUs irmrs Ann rNorDEN·rA1l rzxrmnsms. ,nj§,;;‘{,§Q*;’;;';:_j,s;jjd F or stationery for office of the treasurer, United States Military Academy, namely, blank books, paper,envelopes, pens, mucilage, typewritin g supplies and repairs, and other items of stationery, fifty dollars; For gas coal, oil, candles, lanterns, matches, chimneys, and wicking for lighting the Academy building, chapel, library, cadet barracks, mess hall, shops, hospital, offices, stables, and riding hall, sidewalks, camp, and wharves, six thousand five hundred dollars; For water pipe, plumbing, and repairs, three thousand dollars; For cleaning public buildings (not quarters), one thousand dollars; For brooms, brushes, pails, tubs, soap, and cloths, two hundred dollars · Fdr chalk, crayon, sponges, slate, rubber, rulers, pointers, card and toilet paper, and so forth, for recitation rooms, three hundred dollars; For increase and expense of library, namely: For periodicals, sta- ¤b¤¤:<· tionery, binding books, and scientific, historical, biographical, and general literature to be purchased in open market on the written order of the Superintendent, two thousand dollars;