Water supply, water tower and connections, high pres Hose and hose reels and hook and ladder truck.... 1,000 Raising steam pipes in first section male wing... 600 1,000 Repairs to cold storage, painting, improvement of 12,000 Sec. 6. For the state hospital at Cherokee: To continue work on hospital building, erect outbuildings, to construct sewer, to equip and furnish all buildings, and to pay salary of superintendent, support his family and pay necessary employes; to be drawn as follows Lumber, steel, nails, hardware, tile, slate, windows For purchase of land.......... Iron beams, tile, slate, etc., for engine, boiler and Transportation of discharged convicts. Contingent and repair fund...... 1,200.00 500.00 3,000.00 8,000.00 Sec. 9. For the Industrial School for Boys at Eldora: Central heating station and laundry with tunnel and connections to buildings... $30,000 Changing present heating station to cold storage department.... 3,000 New tank extension of tower, standpipe and hose... 450 500 Contingent and repair fund.......... 4,000 Sec. 10. For the Industrial School for Girls at Mitchellville: New steam heating plant and connections, including new boilers $13,000 Bake oven 250 For water, water closets, fixtures and connections..... 3,500 tingent and repair fund.... 4,000 For purchase of land and furniture.... 1,000 Sec. 11. For the Institution for Feeble-Minded Children at Glenwood: Hospital building, heating, lighting, carrying water to, and sewer, and furnishing same.. $35,000 watert to and furnishing same.. 6,034, One electric generator and boiler... 3,500 Ice manufacturing and cold storage plant and building.... 9,000 rewiring, piping, pumps, etc 5,000 Contingent and repair funds... 6,000 Sec. 12. For the College for the Blind at Vinton: Water closets and sewer.......... $ 4,000 Contingent and repair fund.. 2,500 Sec. 13. For the Soldiers' Orphans' home at Davenport: same Cow barn -820,800 Addition to heating plant, connections and new boilers. 1,000 Contingent and repair fund, including cement walks 800 4,000 15,000 Sec. 14. For the Soldiers' home at Marshalltown: Furnishing portion of old peoples' building erected Also, that there be further appropriated the sum of thirteen thousand dollars ($13,000) (from the excess pension fund) for the following purposes: Sec. 15. For the School for the Deaf at Council Bluffs: Sec. 16. This act being deemed of immediate importance shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Iowa State Register and the Des Moines Leader, newspapers published in Des Moines, Iowa. Also: MR. SPEAKER-Your committee on Appropriations, to whom was referred House files Nos. 16, 15, and 26, bills for acts making appropriations for the State Normal school, the State university, and the State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration and have instructed me to report the same back to the House with the following committee bill, with the recommendation that the same take the place of House files Nos. 15 and 26, already on the Calendar, and of House file No. 16, and that when the same is substituted, the same do pass. WILLIAM G. Dows, Chairman. Ordered passed on file. House file No. 409, by Appropriations committee, a bill for an act making appropriations to the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanie Arts, the State university, and the State Normal school, was read first and second times. HOUSE FILE NO. 409, BY APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE. A bill for an act making appropriations to the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, the State university and the State Normal school. Be it Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: Section 1. There is hereby appropriated to the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, out of any money in the state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for repairs, general improvements, current expenses and additional support, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars (825,000) annually hereafter; said sum to be paid in quarterly installments, on order of the trustees, the first installment to be paid July 1, 1900. That there be further appropriated for said college, out of any money in the state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the following sums for the following purposes, to wit: President's residence..--. Horse barn and stock pavillion.... General engineering hall.... $10,000 12,000 10,000 85,000 Twenty-five thousand dollars of the item "general engineering hall" shall not be available before November 1, 1901. Sec. 2. There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the further and additional support of the State university of Iowa, in its several departments and chairs, and in addition to other appropriations the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) annually hereafter; said sum to be payable in quarterly installments on the order of the board of regents of said university, the first installment to be payable on the first day of September, A. D. 1900. There is further appropriated, in addition to the above sum, the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for repair and contingent fund, to be paid on the order of the board of regents of said university; provided that not more than half thereof shall be drawn during the year 1900. Sec. 3. There is hereby appropriated, annually, to the State Normal school at Cedar Falls, out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, the following sums of money, in addition to the permanent support fund of said school: For payment of teachers.... For payment of contingent expenses.. $16,500 For other expenses; that there be and is hereby appropriated the following respective sums of money from any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the use and benefit of said school: Appropriation for an additional building: That there be and is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended in the erection and equipment of an additional building, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) or so much thereof as may be necessary. Said sum of one hundred thousand dollars (8100,000) shall be paid upon the order of the board of trustees of said normal school in the following sums and at the following dates: Fifty thousand ($50,000) dollars on October 1, 1900. Fifty thousand ($50,000) dollars on November 1, 1901. The itemized appropriations specified in this section for the payment of teachers and contingent expenses, and the itemized appropriations for repairs, library, military instruction and for librarian and assistant, shall be paid on the order of the board of trustees of said normal school, provided that not more than one-fourth thereof shall be paid before October 1, 1900, or more than one-half before April 1, 1901, and more than three-fourths before October 1, 1901. The itemized appropriation making provision for the support of the summer school shall be paid on the order of the board of trustees of said normal school, provided that not more than one-half thereof shall be paid before the first day of August, 1900, and the other half shall not be paid before the first day of August, 1901. Sec. 4. This act, being deemed of immediate importance, shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Iowa State Register and the Des Moines Leader, newspapers published in Des Moines, Iowa. Also: MR. SPEAKER-Your committee on Appropriations, beg leave to submit the following bill and recommend that it do pass, a bill for an act providing for closing the Indutrial Home for the Blind, etc., beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration and have instructed me to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass. WILLIAM G. Dows, Chairman. Ordered passed on file. |