No. 74.

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, July 11, 1902.

The following act of Congress is published for the information and government of all concerned:

An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, namely:

For the Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois, as follows:

For machinery and shop fixtures, ten thousand dollars.

For general care, preservation, and improvements; for painting and care and preservation of permanent buildings; for building fences and sewers, grading grounds, and roads, ten thousand dollars.

For operating and care and preservation of Rock Island bridge and viaduct, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. BENICIA ARSENAL, BENICIA, CALIFORNIA: For one magazine on the Pacific coast, forty thousand dollars.

FORT CONSTITUTION, NEWCASTLE, NEW HAMPSHIRE: For acquiring, by purchase or condemnation, the land in the square surrounding Fort Constitution, at Newcastle, New Hampshire, to be used for barracks and quarters for troops, twentyfive thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in addition to the thirty thousand dollars specially appropriated for this purpose by the sundry civil appropriation act of June sixth, nineteen hundred.

SANDY HOOK PROVING GROUND, NEW JERSEY: For building and repairing roads and walks, and for general repairs of

shops, storehouses, and quarters, one thousand five hundred dollars.

POWDER DEPOT, NEAR DOVER, NEW JERSEY: For one magazine for high explosives, loading houses for explosives, and boiler house for service of same, storehouse for fused projectiles, detonating fuse house, house for fusing high explosive shell, four lathes with fixtures complete, shop fixtures, press for assembling caps on projectiles, sixty-seven thousand seven hundred dollars.

SPRINGFIELD ARSENAL, SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS: For general care, repair of quarters, of buildings, and machinery not used for manufacturing purposes, and of grounds and roads, ten thousand dollars.

For putting in new flume and water wheel, five thousand five hundred dollars.

SCHUYLKILL ARSENAL, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA: For completing construction of an addition to fireproof storehouse at the clothing depot at Schuylkill Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and installing elevators, twenty-five thousand dollars.

SAN ANTONIO ARSENAL, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS: For new storehouse for artillery and ordnance supplies, fifteen thousand dollars;

For new sewers, one thousand dollars; in all, sixteen thousand dollars.

TESTING MACHINES, WATERTOWN ARSENAL: For labor and materials in caring for, preserving, and operating the United States testing machines at Watertown Arsenal, including such new tools and appliances as may be required, fifteen thousand dollars.

WATERTOWN ARSENAL, WATERTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS: For completing barracks for one company of enlisted men, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

REPAIRS OF ARSENALS: For repairs and improvements at arsenals and powder depots, and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, one hundred thousand dollars.

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS IN AND AROUND WASHINGTON.

For the improvement and care of public grounds, as follows: For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of Executive Mansion, four thousand dollars.

For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, two thousand dollars.

For ordinary care of Lafayette Park, one thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Franklin Park, one thousand dollars. For improvement and ordinary care of Lincoln Park, two thousand dollars.

For care and improvement of Monument grounds, five thousand dollars.

For continuing improvement of reservation numbered seventeen, and site of old canal northwest of same, two thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That no part thereof shall be expended upon other than property belonging to the United States.

For construction and repair of post-and-chain fences, repair of high iron fences, constructing stone coping about reservations, painting watchmen's lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp posts; manure, and hauling the same, and removing snow and ice; purchase and repair of seats and tools; trees, tree and plant stakes, labels, lime, whitewashing, and stock for nursery, flowerpots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, moss, and lycopodium, to be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may determine; care, construction, and repair of fountains; abating nuisances, cleaning statues, and repairing pedestals, sixteen thousand and fifty dollars.

For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, twenty thousand dollars.

For improvement, care, and maintenance of Smithsonian grounds, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For improvement, care, and maintenance of Judiciary Park, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For laying asphalt walks in vario us reservations, two thousand dollars.

For grading, resetting street curb, providing park curb, park walks, planting, and for each and every object necessary for improving the grounds of Mount Vernon square around the Free Public Library building, to be expended under the direction of the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, ten thousand dollars.

For improvement of that part of Potomac Park west of and adjacent to Monument Park from the intersection of Virginia avenue and B street, northwest, to Maryland avenue, south

west, to be expended under the direction of the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, in accordance with existing plans made by him, who is authorized to appoint the necessary employees in connection therewith, to be immediately available, seventy thousand dollars: Provided, That the authority given the Commissioners of the District of Columbia by act approved September twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety, "To construct a beach and dressing houses upon the east shore of the tidal reservoir against the Washington Monument Grounds," is hereby revoked; and they are directed to remove immediately said bath houses, floats, wharves, pipes, and so forth, either to such other points as may be agreed upon between them and the Secretary of War, or to barges constructed to carry dressing rooms, which may be anchored at such point around an inclosed water space, or along the shore, as may be agreed on between the Secretary of War and the said Commissioners.

For broken-stone road covering for parks, two thousand dollars.

For curbing and flagging for park roads and walks, two thousand dollars.

For the improvement of Iowa Circle, two thousand five hundred dollars.

One-half of the foregoing sums under "Buildings and grounds in and around Washington" shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.

That under appropriations herein contained no contract shall be made for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Washington City at a higher price than one dollar and eighty cents per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with a base of not less than six inches in thickness.

For improvement, care, and maintenance of grounds of Executive Departments, one thousand dollars.

For improvement and maintenance of Executive Mansion grounds (within iron fence) one thousand dollars.

For the employment of an engineer by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, two thousand four hundred dollars.

For purchase and repair of machinery and tools for shops at nursery, and for grading around the building, two thousand dollars.

SHERMAN STATUE: The unexpended balance of the sum of eight thousand dollars appropriated by act approved June sixth, nineteen hundred, for stone coping around the Sherman statue is hereby made available for construction of roadways and paths and for each and every object connected with improvement of the grounds about said statue, and, in addition thereto, the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars is appropriated for the same purpose.

For completing and unveiling the statue, four thousand dollars.

GRANT MEMORIAL: To enable the commission authorized by the act of February twenty-third, nineteen hundred and one, to commence the erection of a memorial to General Ulysses S. Grant, fifty thousand dollars; and said commission is authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for the completion of said memorial for a sum not exceeding two hundred and forty thousand dollars, including the amount herein appropriated.

EXECUTIVE MANSION: For care, repair, and refurnishing of Executive Mansion, twenty-five thousand dollars, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine.

For a building to accommodate the offices of the President, to be located in the grounds of the Executive Mansion, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, including heating apparatus and light fixtures, furniture, and removal of greenhouses, all to be done according to plans, the details of which shall be approved by the President, and completed in every respect within the sum hereby appropriated, sixtyfive thousand one hundred and ninety-six dollars, to be expended by contract or otherwise in the discretion of, and under the direction of, the President, and to be immediately available; and said building shall be constructed with sufficient foundation and walls suitable for a durable, permanent building, and of sufficient strength for an additional story when needed.

For extraordinary repairs and refurnishing of the Executive Mansion and for each and every purpose connected therewith,