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 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. OH. 38. 1898. 259 For manufacture or purchase of models of the new steel carriages for iield, siege, and Seacoast services for cadet instruction, one thousand tive hundred dollars; For manufacture or purchase of one model steel breech·loading twelve-inch mortar for cadet instruction, one hundred and fifty dollars; For purchase of ammunition for rapid-iire guns now on hand, three hundred dollars; In all, for current and ordinary expenses, sixty-eight thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars and fifty cents. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND INCIDENTAL EXPENSES. au§*¤9;i;g3:;;ji*¤;§ P011S6S- For stationery for office of the treasurer, United States Military Academy, namely: Blank books, paper, envelopes, pens, mucilage, typewriting 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 · For chalk, crayons, Sponges, slate, rubbers, rulers, pointers, card, and toilet paper, and so forth, for recitation rooms, three hundred dollars; Increase and expense of library, namely: Library- For periodicals, stationery, 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; For repairing books, and for furniture, and contingencies, two hundred dollars; For binding pamphlets and periodicals, two hundred dollars; For carpets and furniture for cadet hospital, and for repairs of damaged articles, one hundred dollars; For contingent funds, to be expended under the direction of the d0<;¤¤;;=0%- ·+—¤•· Academic Board: For instruments, books, repairs to apparatus, and °”`° ' gther incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, one thousand ollars: Provided, That all technical and scientiilc supplies for the depart- xw U ments of instruction of the Military Academy shall be purchased by °“” °` contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may deem best. For renewing furniture in section rooms, and repairing the same, three hundred dollars; For purchase of instruments for band, to be purchased in open market M¤¤i¤¤1¤¤1>1>1i¤¤· by order of the Superintendent, three hundred and fifty dollars; For purchase of reeds, pads, strings, and other materials necessary for string instruments, one hundred and fifty dollars; For repairs to instruments, music stands, and other equipments, to be purchased in open market on the order of the Superintendent, two hundred dollars; For purchase of music for band, to be purchased in open market on the order of the Superintendent, two hundred and fifty dollars; For repair of cooking utensils and the replacement of worn·out co0k· m§;Q>=*i¤*°¤°° d°P°'*· ing utensils in the cadet subsistence department, to be expended with- ` out advertising, two hundred dollars; For repair of chairs, tables, and other furniture in cadet subsistence department, to be expended without advertising, fifty dollars; d Sor repairs, new machines, and Hxtures for gymnasium, two hundred G¥¤¤¤*¤i¤¤¤~ o ars; · To exchange the old and insufficient twenty-five-horsepower boiler now L‘““'“'*`· in use in cadet laundry for one sixty-horsepower horizontal boiler, the · same to be delivered, set np, and all connections made, to be immediately available, and to be expended without advertising, one thousand two hundred and seventynve dollars;