FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 424. 1899. l]_O]_ For special improvements as follows: · d Eur furnishing West Lodge Extension, one thousand five hundred 0 ars. For central plant for hot water, with boiler, piping covering, and so forth, six thousand dollars. For renewing plumbing, tiling bathrooms and toilets in two sections of main building, five thousand dollars. For lireprooling lioors, brick partitions, piazzas, Atkins Hall, live thousand dollars. For three cottage buildings for working inmates, to be immediately available, eighteen thousand dollars. CURRENT EXPENSES OF THE COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE _€<>¤¤¤¤bi¤ 1¤¤¤i¤¤- DEAF AND DUMB: For support of the institution, including salaries B‘3.'I..‘{‘;’ "‘° Dm “"d and incidental expenses, for books and illustrative apparatus, and for °¤¤’·=¤* ¤¤r¤¤·¤¤· geperal repairs and improvements, fiftydour thousand five hundred o lars. For repairs to the buildings of the institution, including plumbing and steam-heating apparatus, and for repairs to pavements within the grounds, three thousand dollars. Hereafter one—half of the indefinite appropriation to pay for the _,fl;f,°;*{;gg°°*:£ instruction of the indigent blind children of the District of Columbia, anna cmnnsn it be formerly instructed in the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of §'fjj',§,{fQ° °‘°*'*°‘°" the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half out of the Treasury of the United States. HOWARD UNIVERSITY: For maintenance of the Howard University, m¤M U¤iv¤r¤iry. to be used in payment of part of the salaries of the officers, professors, °°'""‘°°' teachers, and other regular employees of the university, the balance of which will be paid from donations and other sources, of which sum not less than one thousand five hundred dollars shall be used for normal instruction, twenty-nine thousand dollars: For tools, materials, fuel, wages of instructors, and other necessary expenses of the industrial department, three thousand dollars; For books, shelving, furniture, and fixtures for the law and general libraries, nine hundred dollars; For improvement of grounds and repai.rs of buildings, two thousand dollars- For material and apparatus for chemical, physical, and natural history studies, and use in laboratories, including cases and shelving, two hundred dollars; in all, thirty-five thousand one hundred dollars: Pro- {xvi,-;-:-"__°,,_m_l vided, That hereafter no part of the appropriations made by Congress dopartnientlbrbidelen. for the Howard University shall be used, directly or indirectly, lor the support of the theological department of said_ university, nor for the support of any sectarian, denominational, or religious instruction there- _ in; And provided further, That no part thereof shall be paid to said i¤¤r¤¤¤·>¤· university until it shall accord to the Secretary of the Interior, or to his designated agent or agents, authority to visit and inspect such university and to control and supervise the expenditure therein of all moneys paid under said appropriations. EDUCATION IN ALASKA: For the industrial and elementary educa- glasgtion of children in Alaska, without reference to race, thirty thousand I ‘ '°"' llars. dokninonna ros ALASKA! For support of the reindeer station at —~*¤¤·M- Port Clarence, Alaska, and for the purchase and introduction of reindeer from Siberia for domestic purposes, twenty-five thousand dollars. Diss Mo1NES RIVER LANDS SETTLERS: T0 pay the Des Moines I D;¤"g¤i¤¤¤ River River lands settlers, under the provisions of the paragraph in the suu· maui ¤¤°i;§¤¤t of dry civil Act approved July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, ¢¤=j;¤;¤f~ 625 under the heading, “Des Moines River Lands Settlers/’ in addition to A.inii£.,,.i'.,,pr.,. the amount already 8ppl‘0pI‘l3l$8d fo1‘ said pl1I']>0Ses, one hundred and Pd“'°“ f°"· fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, the same to bein full of all claims adjusted or in process of adjustment provided for by said Act, and no part of the claim shall be paid by the
