FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 1760. 1904. 449 and toilet paper, and so forth, for recitation rooms, three hundred dollars; For renewing furniture in section rooms aud repairing the same, three hundred dollars. ‘ Increase and expense of library, namely: For purchase, preserva- L¤>¤¤Y· tion, care, storage, binding and repair of books, eriodicals, pamphlets, maps, pictures, and manuscripts; ol) furniture, cases, stationery, and fittings; for expenses 0 making copies of military manuscripts in other foraries, and for contingent expenses not otherwise provided for; purchasesto be made in o en market on the written · order of the Superintendent, ten thousand dbllars. _ For contingent funds, to beexpended imder the direction of the ,,,‘?;{:,%i1*,f· "°“' academic board: For instruments, books, repairs to apparatus and gthpr incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, one thousand o ars: Provided, That all technical and scientific sup lies for the depart- mh, ,,;,,,,1,,,,, ments of instruction of the Military Academy shall be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may deem best. For purchase of instruments for band, to be purchased in open M““°°”“PP“·‘*S· market on the order of the Superintendent five hundred dollars; For purchase of reeds, pads, strings, and other materials necessary for string instruments, two hundred dollars; * For repairs to instruments, music stands, and other equipments, three hundred dollars; For purchase of music for band, five hundred dollars; For purchase of music and a set of wood wind instruments, to be purchased in open market `on the order of the Superintendent, eight undred dollars; ‘ ‘ ‘ · _For general repairs to laundry machinery and the replacing of worn- L“““‘*"· out parts, to be expended without advertising, five hundred and twenty- ve dollars; For purchase of laundry baskets, to he expended without advertising, ninety-six dollars; For incidental repairs and improvements to the cadet laundry, to be expended without advertising, as follows: For constructing additional metal sorting boxes; purchase of new belting, to replace ol and wornout belts; purchase of new steam pipe, valves, fittings, and covering ' same with insulating material; for three reversible-body ironersg purchase and installation of one belt-lacing machine; and purchase of machinists’ tools, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five dollars; Repair of cooking utensils, chairs, tables, and other furniture in the cadet mess, and the replacement of same, to be expended without advertising, eiglht hundred and fifty dollars; For the purc ase of one t ipewriter for the laundry, with cabinet for the same, to be expended without advertising, one hundred and ten dollars. - ‘ Gymnasium and athletic supplies: For repairs, new machines, G’"““"“‘“‘“· athletic supplies, and fixtures for gymnasium, one thousand five hundred dollars; For repairs, improvements, and equipment of bowling alleys, two hundred dollars; . For furniture, curtains, and rugs for cadet reception room, one hundred and iiftv dollars; ` For renewing and repairing furnishiqgs and furniture in the quarters gflqpe Superintendent, United States ilitary Academy, six hundred o rs; For the policing of barracks, bath houses, supplying light and plain *’°“°°· furniture to cadet barracks, nine thousand dollars; _ In all, for miscellaneous items and incidental expenses, fifty-three thousand and ninety-six dollars. vox. xxxm, rr 1——29
