probable approach and force of storms, ten thousand dollars; for cottonbelt reports, seven thousand dollars; for continuing the connections of stations at life-saving stations and light-houses, including services of operators, repair-men, materials, and general service connected therewith, five thousand five hundred dollars; Provided, That such connections, in the opinion of the Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service and the Light-House Board, shall be deemed necessary; for manufacture, purchase, and repair of instrument-shelters, two thousand dollars; for rent, hire of civilian employees, furniture, and other expenses of offices maintained for public use in cities and ports receiving reports, outside of Washington, District of Columbia, forty thousand dollars; for river and flood reports, ten thousand dollars; maps and bulletins to be displayed in chambers of commerce and boards of trade rooms, and for distribution, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, two hundred and forty-one thousand dollars: Provided, That the work of no other Department, Bureau, or Commission authorized by law shall be duplicated by this Bureau.

For maintenance and repair of military-telegraph lines, twenty-four thousand dollars.

For the establishment of signal stations upon the island of Nantucket, and of submarine telegraphic communication from such stations to the mainland, twenty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War.

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Pay: For pay of one brigadier-general and fourteen second lieutenants, twenty-six thousand five hundred dollars; for longevity pay to officers. to be paid with current monthly pay, four thousand dollars; for pay one hundred and fifty sergeants, thirty corporals, and three hundred and twenty privates, including payment due on discharge, two hundred thousand dollars; for mileage to officers when traveling on duty under orders. five thousand dollars; cost of telegrams in regard to discharged men. two hundred and fifty dollars; for pay of contract surgeon, one thousand two hundred dollars; for commutation of quarters to commissioned officers at places where there are no public quarters, eight thousand two hundred and eight dollars; in all, two hundred and forty-five thousand one hundred and fifty-eight dollars. And the Secretary of War is authorized, in his discretion, to detail for the service in the Signal Corps not to exceed six commissioned officers, exclusive of the second lieutenants of the Signal Corps authorized by law; and of the three officers serving in the Arctic Seas.

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Subsistence: For the subsistence of Signal Service enlisted men, for commutation of rations of Signal Service enlisted men, including rine thousand and ninety dollars and ninety cents for subsistence stores, author

ized articles for sales to officers and enlisted men and company messes, as allowed by paragraph twenty-one hundred and ninety-nine, Army Regulations, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars.

Regular supplies: Fuel, authorized allowance for officers and enlisted men at Fort Myer, Virginia, and for various offices at Fort Myer, Virginia, and on the United States military telegraph lines, six thousand two hundred dollars; commutation of fuel for two hundred and twenty enlisted men of the Signal Corps, at nine dollars each per month, twenty three thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars; commutation of fuel for two hundred and forty-three enlisted men of the Signal Corps, at eight dollars each per month, twenty-three thousand three hundred and twenty-eight dollars; forage for twenty-five mules and six horses, three thousand one hundred dollars; straw for thirty-one animals, at seven dollars each per annum, as allowed by paragraph eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, Army Regulations, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, two hundred and seventeen dollars; straw for forty enlisted men at post of Fort Myer, Virginia, and for hospital at that post, as allowed by paragraph eighteen hundred and ninety-six, Army Regulations, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, forty-six dollars and eight cents; stationery, one hundred dollars; stoves and repairs to heating apparatus, six hundred dollars; lights, three hundred dollars; in all, fifty-seven thousand six hundred and fifty-one dollars and eight

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Incidental expenses: Office furniture for post of Fort Myer, Virginia, one hundred dollars; horse and mule shoes, five hundred dollars; blacksmiths' and miscellaneous tools, four hundred dollars; veterinary supplies, three hundred dollars; fire apparatus and disinfectants, two hundred dollars; in all, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For interment of officers and men, two hundred dollars.

For apprehension of deserters, one hundred and twenty dollars. Transportation: For transportation of material and funds, twenty-five thousand dollars; for transportation of men, eight thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; means of transportation, namely, five mules, at not exceeding two hundred dollars each, one thousand dollars; one set six-mule harness, eighty-five dollars; one set four-mule ambulance harness, forty-five dollars; for leather, iron, and timbers for repairs to means of transportation, five hundred dollars; in all, thirty-five thousand five hundred and five dollars.

Barracks and quarters: For commutation of quarters to enlisted men of the Signal Corps, eighty-four thousand one hundred and eight dollars;

dollars; work and supplies at Fort Myer, Virginia, on hospital account, three hundred dollars; in all, eighty-five thousand nine hundred and eight dollars.

Clothing, camp and garrison equipage: For six wall-tents, complete, at nineteen dollars and thirty cents each, and for other articles to replace those worn out in service, four hundred and fifteen dollars and eighty cents; clothing issues in kind, say complete outfits for one hundred and twelve men of the Signal Corps, at an average of forty-three dollars and seventy-five cents per man per annum, four thousand nine hundred dollars; in all, five thousand three hundred and fifteen dollars and eighty cents.

Medical department: For medical attendance and medicines for officers and enlisted men of the Signal Corps, five thousand dollars; medical attendance and medicines for officers doing duty in connection with the Signal Service, one hundred dollars; medical and hospital supplies at Fort Myer, Virginia, seven hundred dollars; medicines furnished to officers and enlisted men from purveying depots and Army dispensaries, one thousand dollars; materials for repairs of hospitals at Fort Myer, Virginia, two hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand dollars.

And there shall not be expended from any moneys appropriated by the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and for other purposes," any money for the support of the Signal Service or Corps, except the pay of such commissioned officers as the Secretary of War may detail for service in that corps, and except the appropriation of five thousand dollars therein contained for expenses of the Signal Service of the Army, and excepting also the pay and allowances of fourteen enlisted men detailed from the line of the Army serving with Lieutenant Greely in the Arctic regions.

That a joint commission, consisting of three Senators, to be appointed by the President of the Senate, and three members of the House, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, shall consider the present organizations of the Signal Service, Geological Survey, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and the Hydrographic Office of the Navy Department, with the view to secure greater efficiency and economy of administration of the public service in said Bureaus; and said joint commission shall report to their respective Houses on or before the third Monday in December, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, their conclusions, by bill or report.

NATIONAL CEMETERIES.

For national cemeteries: For maintaining and improving national cemeteries, one hundred thousand dollars.

For superintendents of national cemeteries: For pay of seventy-three superintendents of national cemeteries, sixty thousand four hundred and forty dollars.

For grading, sodding, and erecting a suitable monument, with headstones, and for curbing or fence for the cemetery lot at Fort Gratiot, Michigan, occupied by the bodies of soldiers dying in the service, three thousand dollars.

For completing the Macadam road from Fort Scott, Kansas, to the national cemetery near said city, ten thousand dollars.

To transfer the remains of forty-six soldiers buried at Fort Churchill to the cemetery at Carson City, Nevada, one thousand dollars.

To purchase additional grounds at or near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for a national cemetery, fifteen thousand dollars.

For purchase of additional land for the Cyprus Hills National Cemetery, near Brooklyn, New York, fifteen thousand six hundred dollars. For the completion of the road from Chattanooga to the national cemetery near that city, two thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That said work shall be first advertised and let to the lowest bidder; and no part of this sum shall be expended for anything except for labor and material on said road.

For the construction and completion of a macadamized road from Springfield, Missouri, to the national cemetery near that city, twenty thousand dollars; and none of said money shall be expended until contracts shall be made for the completion of said road for the sum hereby appropriated.

MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS.

For publication of maps for use of the War Department, five thousand dollars.

Survey of northern and northwestern lakes: For printing and issuing charts for use of navigators, electrotyping copper-plates for chart-printing, three thousand dollars.

For the Mississippi River Commission, as follows:

For salaries and traveling expenses of the Mississippi River Commission, and for salaries and traveling expenses of assistant engineers under them,

For the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries: For the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries, through the Smithsonian Institution, three hundred dollars.

For the support and medical treatment of transient paupers: For the care, support, and medical treatment of seventy-five transient paupers medical and surgical patients, in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with such institution as the Surgeon-General of the Army may select, fifteen thousand dollars.

For artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and appliances, or commutation therefor, and transportation, to be disbursed under the direc tion of the Secretary of War, one hundred thousand dollars.

For appliances for disabled soldiers: For providing surgical appliances for persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States, and not entitled to artificial limbs, two thousand dollars.

For the publication of the official records of the war of the rebellion, both of the Union and Confederate armies, as follows:

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For continuing the publication of the official records, and printing and binding, under direction of the Secretary of War, of the compilation of the official records, Union and Confederate, of the war of the rebellion, far as the same may be ready for publication during the fiscal year, distributed as required by act of March third, eighteen hundred eightythree, thirty-six thousand dollars: Provided, That the time fixed in said act during which said publication shall be subject to the order of Senators, Representatives and Delegates and shall be extended from July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, until July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-five; and any act or joint resolution to the contrary be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

For the expenses of military convicts: For payment of costs and charges of State penitentiaries for the care, clothing, maintenance, and medica' attendance of United States military convicts confined in them, ten thou sand dollars.

For the replacement of a bridge across the Republican River, near Fort Riley, Kansas, under direction of the Secretary of War, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; and the Treasurer of the United States is hereby authorized and directed to reserve and retain out of any moneys due or that may become due from the Government of the United States to the State of Kansas a sum equal to the amount expended for the replacement of said bridge in accordance with the action of the legislature of Kansas approved November sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three[.]