That no expenditures exceeding five hundred dollars shall be made upon any building or military post, or grounds about the same, without the approval of the Secretary of War, for the same, upon detailed estimates by the Quartermaster's Department; and the erection, construction, and repair of all buildings and other public structures in the Quartermaster's Department shall, as far as may be practicable, be made by contract, after due legal advertisement: And provided further, That no more than one million three hundred thousand dollars of the sums appropriated by this act shall be paid out for the services of civilian employees in the Quartermaster's Department, including those heretofore paid out of the funds appropriated for regular supplies, incidental expenses, barracks and quarters, Army transportation, clothing, and camp and garrison equipage; and that no employee paid therefrom shall receive as salary more than one hundred and fifty dollars per month, unless the same shall be specially fixed by law; and no part of any of the moneys so appropriated shall be paid for commutation of fuel and for quarters to officers or enlisted

men.

For officers' quarters at the post at Columbus, Ohio, twenty thousand dollars.

For shelter, shooting-galleries, ranges, repairs and expenses incident thereto, ten thousand dollars.

For the purchase of about one hundred and one acres of landʼadjoining or near the post, at Madison Barracks, New York, for riflerange and drill and camping purposes, seven thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Purchase of site for Fort Elliott, Texas: For payment for sections forty-seven, fifty-three, fifty-five, and sixty-seven, in block A five of surveys made for the Houston and Great Northern Railroad Company, according to the sketch of the surveys in said block number A five, certified by the commissioner of the general land office of the State of Texas, January fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, to be correct, seventeen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

To enable the Secretary of War to complete the Water Supply System of Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming Territory, twenty four thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Construction and repairs of hospitals: For construction and repairs of hospitals, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men em

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ployed on the same, and including hereafter the Army and Navy hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, one hundred thousand dollars.

For construction of quarters for hospital-stewards, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, twelve thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That the posts at which such quarters shall be constructed shall be designated by the Secretary of War, and the quarters shall be built by contract, after legal advertisement, whenever the same is practicable; but the cost of construction of quarters at any one post shall in no case exceed eight hundred dollars, except where a post is situated at a city of more than fifty thousand inhabitants the cost of construction of such quarters may be not to exceed twelve hundred dollars.

Clothing, camp and garrison equipage: For cloth, woolens, material, and for the manufacture of clothing for the Army; for issue and for sale at cost price, according to the Army Regulations; for altering and fitting clothing, and washing and cleaning when necessary; for equipage, and for expenses of packing and handling, and similar necessaries, one million one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That out of the money hereby appropriated for clothing and equipage of the Army there shall not be expended at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth a sum in excess of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, also, That hereafter the regimental price fixed for altering and fitting soldiers' clothing shall not exceed the cost of making the same at the clothing depots:

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.

Medical and Hospital Department: For the purchase of medical and hospital supplies, including disinfectants for general sanitation, expenses of medical purveying depots, pay of employees, medical care and treatment of officers and enlisted men of the Army on duty at posts and stations for which no other provisions is made, for the proper care and treatment of cases in the Army suffering from contagious or epidemic diseases, and the supply of the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, advertising, and other miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department; in all, two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars; and not over forty-five thousand dollars of the money appropriated by this paragraph shall be appplied to the payment of civilian employees of the Medical Department.

Medical Museum and Library: For Army Medical Museum, preservation of specimens and the preparation or purchase of new speci

mens, five thousand dollars; for the library of the Surgeon General's Office, ten thousand dollars; in all, fifteen thousand dollars.

ENGINEER DEPARTMENT.

Engineer depot at Willets' Point, New York: Incidental expenses of the depot, including fuel, chemicals, stationery, extra-duty pay to soldiers employed for periods of not less than ten days as artificers on work in addition to and not strictly in line of their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draughtsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine-drivers, teamsters, repairs of and for materials to repair public buildings, machinery, and unforeseen expenses, five thousand dollars.

For purchase of materials for the instruction of engineer troops at Willet's Point in their special duties of sappers and miners, for land and submarine mines, and pontoneers, torpedo drill and signaling, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For purchase and repairs of instruments to be issued to officers of the Corps of Engineers, for use on public works and surveys, four thousand. dollars[.] '

Library of the Engineer School of Application: Purchase and binding of professional works of recent date treating of military and civil engineering, five hundred dollars.

For a building to contain engineer models, eight thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT.

Ordnance service: For current expenses of the ordnance service required to defray the current expenses at the arsenals; of receiving stores and issuing arms and other ordnance supplies; of police and office duties; of rents, tools, fuel and lights; of stationery and office furniture; of tools and instruments for use; incidental expenses of the ordnance service, and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small arms, and other ordnance supplies, including payment for mechanical labor in the office of Chief of Ordnance, eighty thousand dollars.

For manufacture of metallic ammunition for small-arms and ammunition for reloading cartridges, and tools for the same, including the cost of targets and material for target-practice, and marksmen's medals and insignia, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requisitions of troops, one hundred thousand dollars.

For infantry, calvary [cavalry], and artillery equipments, including horse equipments for cavalry and artillery, one hundred thousand dollars.

For repairing and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of troops and for issue at the arsenals and depots, five thousand dollars.

For the purchase by the Secretary of War of three pneumatic dynamite guns of fifteen-inch caliber, and the necessary machinery to fire and handle the same, ammunition and carriages for the same, to be placed and mounted ready for use, free of cost to the Government, at such point or points on the Pacific coast as may be designated by the Secretary of War, one hundred and eighty-seven thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as he may deem proper. For the purchase of machine guns, musket calibre, of American manufacture, twenty thousand dollars.

For manufacture, repair, and issue of arms at the national armories, four hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That not more than sixty thousand dollars of the money appropriated for the Ordnance Department in all its branches shall be applied to the payment of civilian clerks in said Department: Provided further, That hereafter the cost to the Ordnance Department of all ordnance and ordnance stores issued to the States, Territories, and District of Columbia, under the act of February twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty seven, shall be credited to the appropriation for "manufacture of arms at national armories", and used to procure like ordnance stores, and that said appropriation shall be available until exhausted, not exceeding two years.

For overhauling, cleaning, and preserving new ordnance stores on hand at the arsenals, five thousand dollars.

For firing the morning and evening gun at military posts, prescribed by General Orders Number Seventy, Head-quarters of the Army, dated July twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For targets for artillery practice, five thousand dollars.

To enable the Secretary of War to cause examinations and tests to be made in converting the existing cast-iron ordnance of the War Department into steel lined breech loading torpedo howitzers for

throwing high explosives, according to the plans heretofore submitted to Congress and to be submitted to the Board of Ordnance and Fortifications fifteen thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary.

The Board of Ordnance and Fortification is hereby directed to examine and report upon a site or sites for ordnance testing and proving ground to be used in the testing and proving of heavy ordnance, having in view in the selection of said site or sites their accessibility by land and water, means of transportation, and suitability for the purpose intended, and also the actual and reasonable cost, and value of the land embraced in said site or sites and the least sum for which the same can be procured. Said Board shall report thereon to the Secretary of War, to be submitted to Congress at its next session; and in case the said Board shall select a site or sites and recommend their purchase, the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to secure written proposals for the sale of the land so recommended, until such time as Congress may act upon the recommendation of said Board and of the Secretary of War.

For the necessary expenses under the foregoing provision, one thousand dollars so much thereof as may be necessary

RECRUITING SERVICE.

For expenses of recruiting and transportation of recruits from rendezvous to depot, one hundred and thirteen thousand dollars.

SIGNAL SERVICE.

For expenses of the Signal Service of the Army, as follows: Purchase, equipment, and repair of field electric telegraphs ; signal equipments and stores; binocular glasses, telescopes, heliostats, and other necessary instruments, including absolutely necessary meteorological instruments for use on target-ranges; telephone apparatus and maintenance of same; in all, five thousand dollars.

CONTINGENT EXPENSES.

For contingent expenses of the office of the Commanding-General, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses of the Adjutant-General's Department at the headquarters of the several military divisions and departments, two thousand dollars.

For binding current orders and purchasing maps for the InspectorGeneral's Department, five hundred dollars.