FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 11. 1898. 237 For purchase or construction of a steam launch for use of the steamer h‘;j_1l» =¤ irvs s." Albatross, four thousand dollars. u ° ‘ WAR DEPARTMENT. W¤PD¤1>¤¤¤=¤¤¢- MILITARY E TABLISHMENT. Military establish- 111611 . To supply deficiencies in the appropriations for pay, and so forth, of Pay of Armmac. the Army for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, as fol ows: For pay of officers, twenty-eight thousand dollars; For pay to officers for length of service, twelve thousand dollars; For additional pay for length of service to enlisted men, forty-five thousand dollars; in all, eighty-five thousand dollars. MILITARY ACADEMY. Military Academy. For iield musicians: One corporal, being for the fiscal year eighteen Ficld musicians. hundred and ninety-eight, twenty-four dollars. NATIONAL HOME Fon. DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS. Dl?f:,f}:g°},,f§Q1¤;j°f;*; For construction at the Danville Branch of the National Home for &§L°§3£r¤%& Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, at Danville,_Illinois, of barracks, to cost ¤.,..ZY;,,,,d_ ZL,'?' ' in all not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars, bakery and PMP- UP- kitchen, boiler house, coal shed, otIicers’ quarters, guardhouse, headquarters, laundry, memorial hall and chapel, mess hall, quartermaster’s and commissary’s storeroom; for all necessary furniture, machinery, and equipments for said barracks and other buildings, including the hospital; for fencing, grading, and sewerage; for waterworks and piping; heating plant, piping, and iixtures; and for additional land, to cost not exceeding ten thousand dollars, the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers are authorized to enter into contract or contracts, to be paid for as appropriations may be made from time to time by law, not exceeding in the aggregate for all of said enumerated objects the sum of five hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, toward which there is hereby appropriated the sum of one hundred thousand dollars. For the Marion Branch, namely: For electric-light plant (provided §;¢m·_i§·¤{_·§h5 such amount of the appropriation for repairs for the Marion Branch for st., ° “ “""‘ the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, as may be spared is made available), three thousand five hundred dollars; for barn, one thousand one_hundred and thirty dollars; and for lodge and gateway thirty-four dollars; in all, four thousand six hundred and sixty-four dollars. _ NATIONAL UENIETERIES. Nntionalcernoteries. For the repair and improvement of the national cemetery at the city Fm S¤¤i¤¤¤·-¤k- of Fort Smith, in the State of Arkansas, and for rebuilding and furnishing the lodge and other buildings in said cemetery, and restoring and repairing the monuments of the dead therein, fifteen thousand dollars. NAVY DEPARTMENT. N=·*>‘”*¤·=¤¤··°¤*· BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR: For preservation and u_}f1§$‘{P‘£f°"“°‘ completion of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; steam steercrs, pneumatic steerers, steam capstans, steam windlasses, and all other auxiliaries; labor in navy- yards and on foreign stations; purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops; carrying on work of experimental model tank; wear,_tear, and repair of vessels afloat; general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; incidental expenses,
