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GENERAL ORDERS,

No. 17.

HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, March 20, 1883.

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

AN ACT making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, 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 for the objects hereinafter expressed for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eightyfour, namely:

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UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT.

ARMORIES AND ARSENALS.

For the Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois, as follows: For completing shop H, an iron-finishing shop, for the armory, sixtyfive thousand dollars.

For armory-shop K, an iron-finishing shop, fifty thousand dollars.

For storehouse numbered four, forty thousand dollars.

For machinery and shop-fixtures, fifteen thousand dollars.

For deepening the water-power canal, twenty thousand dollars; the same to be expended as required by act entitled "An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty three, and for other purposes,” approved August seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and to be immediately available.

For general care, preservation, and improvement; for building new roads; for care and preservation of the water-power; for painting and care and preservation of permanent buildings, bridges, and shores of the island; for building fences, grading grounds and repairs and extension of railroad, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.

For the Rock Island bridge as follows:

For care and preservation of the Rock Island bridge, and expenses of maintaining and operating the draw, nine thousand dollars.

For protecting the Rock Island bridge by means of sheer-booms, two

For Benicia Arsenal, Benicia, California: For purchasing metal-working machines for shops, namely, one planer, complete, with appendages; one steam-hammer; one slotting-machine; one hundred and fifty feet fourinch shafting, with couplings and pillar-blocks; one drill-press; one brassfounder's lathe, and one lathe for turning shafting, ten thousand dollars. To excavate for and build cisterns for saving water from new shoproofs, four thousand two hundred and forty-four dollars and eighty cents. For permanent repairs of post fences, and so forth, five thousand dollars. For Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For laying drain from the principal building to the creek, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For New York Arsenal, New York: For one set of officers' quarters, five thousand five hundred dollars.

For Piccatiny powder depot, Dover, New Jersey, forty thousand dollars. For the Sandy Hook proving-ground, New Jersey: For clearing, leveling, grading, and building roads and walks at the proving-ground, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For the Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts: For repairs and preservation of grounds, buildings, and machinery not used for manufacturing purposes, fifteen thousand dollars[.]

For additional compensation to the master armorer at the national armory, in Springfield, Massachusetts. while performing the duties of master machinist at said armory, one thousand dollars.

For repairs of arsenals: For repairs of arsenals, and to meet such unforeseen expenditures at arsenals as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, forty thousand dollars.

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS IN AND AROUND WASHINGTON.

For the improvement and care of public grounds, as follows:

For improving grounds south of the Executive Mansion, fifteen thousand dollars.

For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, including construction of one large house for storage and protection of palms and other tropical and subtropical plants, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For improving reservation on South Carolina avenue, between Fourth and Sixth streets east, fifteen hundred dollars.

For improving reservation at North Carolina avenue, between Second and Third streets east, one thousand dollars.

For ordinary care of Lafayette Square, one thousand dollars.

For care and improvement of reservation numbered three (Monument Grounds), one thousand dollars.

For continuing improvement of reservation numbered seventeen, and site of old canal, northwest of same, twenty thousand dollars: Provided, That no part thereof shall be expended upon other than property belonging to the United States.

For construction and repair of iron fences, five hundred dollars.
For manure, and hauling the same, five thousand dollars.

For painting iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For purchase and repair of seats, one thousand dollars.

For purchase and repair of tools, two thousand dollars.

For trees, tree stakes, lime, whitewashing, and stock for nursery, three thousand dollars.

For removing snow and ice, one thousand dollars.

For flower-pots, twine, baskets, and lycopodium, one thousand dollars. For care, construction, and repair of fountains in the public grounds, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For abating nuisance, five hundred dollars.

For improving various reservations, fifteen thousand dollars.

For improvement and care of Smithsonian Grounds, five thousand dollars.

For repairs and fuel at the Executive Mansion as follows:

For care and repair of the Executive Mansion, and for refurnishing the Executive Mansion, twenty-five thousand dollars.

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

For care and necessary repair of the conservatories of the Executive Mansion, five thousand five hundred dollars.

For lighting the Executive Mansion and public grounds: For gas, pay of lamp-lighters, gas-fitters, plumbers, plumbing, lamps, lamp-posts, matches, and repairs of all kinds; fuel and lights for office, stables, watchmen's lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, fifteen thousand dollars: Provided, That for each six-foot burner not connected with a meter in the lamps on the public grounds no more than twenty-two dollars shall be paid per lamp for gas, including lighting, cleaning, and keeping in repair the lamps, under any expenditure provided for in this act.

For repair of water-pipes and fire-plugs: For repairing and extending water-pipes, purchase of apparatus to clean them, and cleaning the springs and repairing and renewing the pipes to the same that supply the Capitol, the Executive Mansion, and the building for the State, War, and Navy Departments, two thousand five hundred dollars; and all officers in charge

of public buildings in the District of Columbia shall cause the flow of water in the buildings under their charge to be shut off from five o'clock post meridian to eight o'clock ante meridian: Provided, That the water in said public buildings is not necessarily in use for public business.

For telegraph to connect the Capitol with the departments and Government Printing Office: For care and repair of the same, one thousand dollars.

For the building for the State, War, and Navy Departments: For clearing the site, laying foundations, building walls of the lower stories, and continuing the preparation of cut granite for the west and center wings, and for each and every purpose connected with the same, including the rent of necessary office-rooms, five hundred thousand dollars. And so much of the appropriation for furniture, carpets, file-cases, and shelving for the north wing of said building contained in the sundry civil appropriation act approved August seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, as shall remain unexpended June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eightythree, is hereby reappropriated for the same purpose.

For completion of the Washington Monument: For marble, granite, iron frame work, machinery, tools, labor, office expenses, including the rent of necessary office-rooms, and for each and every purpose connected with the completion of the monument, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For the enlargement and construction of such military posts as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary, two hundred thousand dollars.

SIGNAL SERVICE.

To be expended by the Secretary of War:

For the observation and report of storms: For expenses of the observation and report of storms by telegraph and signal for the benefit of commerce and agriculture throughout the United States; for manufacture, purchase and repair of meteorological and other necessary instruments, five thousand five hundred dollars; for telegraphing reports, one hundred and thirty-six thousand dollars; for expenses of storm-signals announcing the probable approach and force of storms, ten thousand dollars; for cottou-belt reports, seven thousand dollars; for continuing the establishment and connections of stations at life-saving stations and light-houses including operators, repair-men, materials, and general service, five thousand five hundred dollars; and a portion of said sum shall be expended in establishing telegraphic connection between the life-saving station at Brigantine Beach, New Jersey, and the main land and the stations above and

below said Brigantine Beach Station: Provided, That such connection, in the opinion of the Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service, shall be deemed necessary; for instrument-shelters, five hundred dollars; for rent, hire of civilian employees, furniture, and expenses of offices maintained for public use in cities and ports receiving reports outside of Washington, District of Columbia, forty thousand dollars; office furniture, in Washington, District of Columbia, one thousand dollars; for river and flood reports, five thousand dollars; maps and bulletins to be displayed in chambers of commerce and boards of trade rooms, and for distribution, twenty-five thousand dollars; for books, periodicals, newspapers, and stationery, six thousand dollars; and for incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, one thousand dollars; in all, two hundred and forty two thousand five hundred 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, thirty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That on and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, all moneys received for the transmission of private dispatches over any and all telegraph lines owned or operated by the United States, shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States, as required by section thirty-six hundred and seventeen of the Revised Statutes; and all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Observation and exploration in the Arctic Seas: For completing the work of scientific observation and exploration on or near the shores of Lady Franklin Bay, and for transportation of men and supplies to said location and return, and for completing the work of scientific exploration at Point Barrow, thirty-three thousand dollars; the same to be immediately available. And it is provided that the above work near Lady Franklin Bay and Point Barrow shall be closed, and the force there employed shall be returned to the United States within the year, eighteen hundred and eighty-four.

Pay: For pay of one brigadier-general and ten second lieutenants, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars; for pay of one hundred and fifty sergeants, thirty corporals, and three hundred and twenty privates, including payments due on discharge, two hundred thousand dollars; for mileage to officers when traveling on duty under orders, five thousand dollars; for pay of contract surgeons, three thousand six hundred dollars; for commutation of quarters to commissioned officers at places where there are no public quarters, seven thousand dollars; in all, two hundred and thirtyfive thousand one hundred dollars. And the Secretary of War is authorized, in his discretion, to detail for the service in the Signal Corps, not to

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