miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. And not over thirty-six thousand dollars of the money appropriated by this paragraph shall be applied to the payment of civilian employees in the Medical Department.

For the Army Medical Museum, including ordinary repairs of the museum hall, preservation of specimens, and the preparation or purchase of new specimens, five thousand dollars; for the library of the SurgeonGeneral's Office, ten thousand dollars; in all, fifteen thousand dollars.

ENGINEER DEPARTMENT.-For engineer depot at Willets Point, New York, namely: For purchase of engineering materials to continue the present course of instruction of the Engineer Battalion in their special daties of sappers, miners, and poutoniers, one thousand dollars.

For incidental expenses of the depot, remodeling ponton-trains, repairing instruments, purchasing fuel, forage, stationery, chemicals, professional books for library, extra-duty pay to enlisted men employed as artisans, and ordinary repairs and unforeseen expenses, three thousand dollars. For repairing surveying and other instruments, accumulated in depot for want of means to repair, two thousand dollars.

ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT.-For the current expenses of the ordnance service, required to defray the current expenses at the arsenals; of receiving stores and issuing arms and other ordnance supplies; of police and office duties; of rents, tools, fuel, and lights; of stationery and office furniture; of tools and instruments for use; incidental expenses of the ordnance service, and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small-arms, and other ordnance supplies, one hundred thousand dollars.

For manufacture of metallic ammunition for small-arms, one hundred thousand dollars.

For ammunition, tools, and material for target practice, thirty thousand dollars.

For mounting and dismounting guns and removing the armament from forts being modified or repaired, including heavy carriages returned to arsenals for alteration and repairs, and other necessary expenses of the same character, and for repairing ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of troops and for issue at the arsenals and depots, and for extraduty pay for enlisted men detailed for ordnance service, twenty-five

thousand dollars.

For purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores, to fill requisitions of troops, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.

For infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments, consisting of clothingbags, haversacks, canteens, and great-coat straps, and repairing horse equipments for cavalry troops, seventy-five thousand dollars.

For horse equipments for cavalry, harness for field and machine guns, and for cavalry forge-carts, forty thousand dollars.

For overhauling, cleaning, and preserving new ordnance stores on hand at the arsenals, twenty thousand dollars.

For the purchase of machine-guns suitable for field service. twenty thousand dollars.

For manufacture of arms at national armories, four hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That not more than sixty-five thousand dollars of the money appropriated for the Ordnance Department, in all its branches, shall be applied to the payment of civilian clerks in said Department. Approved, March 3d, 1885.

BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL SHERIDAN:

OFFICIAL:

R. C. DRUM,

Adjutant General.

Assistant Adjutant General.

GENERAL ORDERS,

No. 29.

HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, March 17, 1835.

The following extracts of an act of Congress are published for the information and government of all concerned :

AN ACT making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and for prior years, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:

WAR DEPARTMENT.

For compensation of conductor of hydraulic passenger elevator in the building corner of Seventeenth and F streets from January first, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, to June thirti-th, eighteen hundred and eightyfive, six months, at sixty dollars per month, three hundred and sixty dollars.

For payment of taxes upon lots numbered six and seven in square numbered one hundred and sixty-nine, Washington, District of Columbia, assessed prior to July, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, including interest and cost of advertising, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five and prior years, five hundred and fortythree dollars and thirty cents; and the Attorney General of the United States is hereby directed to proceed against the warrantors upon the covenants in the conveyance to recover back said sum, in the name of the United States.

For printing and binding for the War Department and its Bureaus, to be executed under the direction of the Public Printer, there is hereby reappropriated out of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for eighteen hundred and eighty four a sum not exceeding thirty thousand dollars for this purpose for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty

five.

QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT.

For postage; extra pay to soldiers employed under the direction of the Quartermaster's Department in the erection of barracks, quarters, and storehouses, and as clerks for post quartermasters at military posts; in the construction of roads, and other constant labor, for periods of not less than ten days, including those employed as clerks and messengers at Army, division, department, and district headquarters; expenses of expresses to and from the frontier posts and armies in the field, of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing officers, and to trains where military escort cannot be furnished; expenses of the interment of officers killed in action, or who die when on duty in the field or at military posts, and on the frontiers, or when traveling under orders, and of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster's Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, and guides for the Army; compensation of clerks and other employees to officers of the Quartermaster's Department; compensation of forage and wagon masters, authorized by the act of July fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; for rewards for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of deserters, and for the expenses incident to their pursuit; and for the following expenditures required for the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of light artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, and for the trains, to wit: Hire of veterinary surgeons, and for medicine for horses and mules, picket-ropes, and for shoeing the horses and mules; also generally the proper and authorized expenses for the movement and operations of the Army not expressly assigned to any other department fifteen thousand dollars.

For extra pay to soldiers employed as clerks and messengers at Army division, and department headquarters during the first four days in July, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, three hundred and ninety-six dollars and sixty cents.

To John Fiun, two thousand eight hundred dollars, being the purchaseprice for mules bought from him in November, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and payable from the appropriation for "Transportation of the Army and its supplies, eighteen hundred and eighty-two and prior years" (fiscal year eighteen hundred and sixty five), which is exhausted[.]

BUILDING AND GROUNDS IN AND AROUND WASHINGTON.

For improving, care, aud maintenance of various reservations seven thousand dollars[.]

For care and repair of and refurnishing the Executive Mansion, ten thousand dollars.

For fuel for the Executive Mansion and greenhouses, five hundred dollars.

Increasing the water supply of Washington, District of Columbia: For completing payment for land taken for a reservoir under the act to increase the water supply of the city of Washington, and for other purposes, approved July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, in addition to a like amount appropriated for the same purpose by act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, eighty-seven thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That this appropriation shall be subject to the same provisions and restrictions named in said act of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two[.]

SIGNAL SERVICE[.]

To complete the establishment of signal stations upon the island ot Nantucket, and of submarine telegraphic communication from such stations to the mainland, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, being for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, twenty thousand dollars.

Observations and report of storms: For expenses of storm, cautionary, off-shore, and other signals on the sea and lake coasts of the United States, announcing the probable approach and force of storms, one thousand dollars.

For services of special hurricane observer at Barbadoes, West Indies, being for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, four hundred dollars.

For maintenance and repair of military telegraph lines, to pay enlisted men detailed from the line of the Army, for commutations for fuel, quarters, rations, and for extra-duty pay while engaged on extra duty repairing military telegraph lines, to supply deficiencies in the appropriation for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and for prior years, five hundred dollars.

For forage for thirteen horses actually kept by officers in the public service, as allowed by paragraph eighteen hundred and ninety, Army Regulations, and the act making appropriations for the support of the Army, approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and eightyone, at one hundred and fifteen dollars each, per annum, one thousand four hundred and ninety-five dollars.