Control, etc. etc. Proviso. with a sloping sandy beach in the Tidal Basin, and to install a proper equipment to purify the water entering the basin so that it will not endanger the health of those bathing in it. The direction and control of said public bathing facilities shall be vested in the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army, who shall prescribe such regulations for their use as may be necessary to insure the greatest benefit Restriction on fees, to the public: Provided, That no charge shall be made for the use of the bathhouse or beach, except that uniform fees may be collected for the hire of bathing suits, soap, towels, and such other conveniences as may be provided upon the request of persons desiring to use them. To enable the Chief of Engineers to begin construction of the bathhouse, beach, and purification plant herein provided for, $35,000, to be immediately available; and the limit of cost of such construction shall not exceed that amount. Construction. Half from District revenues. One half of the foregoing sums under "Buildings and grounds in and around Washington" shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the Limit for asphalt United States. pavements. Proviso. Under appropriations contained in this Act no contract shall be made for making or relaying sheet asphalt or asphalt block pavement at a higher price than $1.80 per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia during the years nineteen hundred and fourteen to nineteen hundred and seventeen, inclusive, Heavy traffic allow- and with same depth of base: Provided, That these conditions as to price and depth of base shall not apply to those streets on which, in the judgment of the Chief of Engineers, by reason of heavy traffic, poor foundation, or other causes, a pavement of more than ordinary strength is required, in which case the limit of price may be increased to $2 per square yard. ance. Grounds of executive departments, etc. Executive Mansion grounds. Engineer. For improvement, care, and maintenance of grounds of executive departments, $1,000. For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Library of Congress as may be requested by the superintendent of the Library Buildings, $1,000. For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Capitol and the Senate and House Office Buildings as may be requested by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building, $4,000. For improvement and maintenance of Executive Mansion grounds (within iron fence), $5,000. For the employment of an engineer by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, $2,400. For purchase and repair of machinery and tools for shops at Executive Mansion, nursery, and for the repair of shops and storehouses, $1,000. Care, etc. Executive Mansion: For ordinary care, repair, and refurnishing of Executive Mansion, and for purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles for official purposes, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine, $35,000. For extraordinary repairs and refurnishing of Executive. Mansion, $60,000. For fuel for the Executive Mansion and greenhouses, $6,000. For care and maintenance of greenhouses, Executive Mansion, $9,000. For repair to greenhouses, Executive Mansion, $3,000. For traveling expenses of the President of the United States, to be expended in his discretion and accounted for on his certificate solely, $25,000. For lighting the Executive Mansion, grounds, and greenhouses, including all necessary expenses of installation, maintenance, and repair, $8,600. Lighting the public grounds: For lighting the public grounds, Lighting and heating watchmen's lodges, offices, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, including all necessary expenses of installation, maintenance, and repair, $22,300; For heating offices, watchmen's lodges, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, $3,820; Half from District Government tele In all, $26,120, or so much thereof as may be necessary, one-half revenues. of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. Telegraph to connect the Capitol with the departments and Gov- graph. ernment Printing Office: For care and repair of existing lines, $500. Washington Monument: For custodian, $1,200; steam engineer, ment. $960; assistant steam engineer, $840; fireman, $660; assistant fireman, $660; conductor of elevator car, $900; attendants-one on floor $720, one on top floor $720; three night and day watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $8,820. For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes, brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower floors; repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and repairs of all kinds connected with the Monument and machinery; and purchase of all necessary articles for keeping the Monument, machinery, elevator, and electric plant in good order, $3,000. For extra services of employees and for additional supplies and materials, to provide for opening the Monument to the public on Sundays and legal holidays, $2,000. Washington Monu- Expenses. Sunday opening. Building where Abra Building where Abraham Lincoln died: For painting and miscel- ham Lincoln died. laneous repairs, $200. Birthplace of George Washington, Wakefield, Virginia: For repairs to fences and cleaning up and maintaining grounds about the monument, $100. Wakefield, Va. Commission of Fine Vol. 36, p. 371. Commission of Fine Arts: For expenses made necessary by the Act Arts. approved May seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled "An Expenses. Act establishing a Commission of Fine Arts," including the purchase of periodicals, maps, and books of reference, to be disbursed, on vouchers approved by the commission, by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, who shall be the secretary and shall act as the executive officer of said commission, $8,000. The appropriation of $5,000 made in the sundry civil Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, for unveiling and dedicating the memorial to General Ulysses S. Grant, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, including erecting and taking down viewing stands and putting the grounds in sightly condition, is made available for said purposes during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen. Grant Memorial. Reappropriation. Lincoln Memorial. Lincoln Memorial Commission: For completing the erection of the Completing construcLincoln Memorial in accordance with the plans and design and on the tion. location approved by Congress, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, to be immediately available, $331,000. Aqueduct Bridge: For continuing the construction of the bridge authorized in section one of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the removal of what is now known as the Aqueduct Bridge, across the Potomac River, and for the building of a bridge in place thereof," approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $400,000, one half to be payable out of the Treasury of the United States and the other half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. Harbors and rivers, contract work: Toward the construction of works on harbors and rivers, under contract and otherwise, and within the limits authorized by law, including horse-drawn and motor 100768°-65-1-10 D. Aqueduct Construction. Bridge, Half from District revenues. Rivers and harbors. propelled passenger-carrying vehicles required and to be used only for official business, namely: For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred and sixteen, as follows: Delaware River, Pennsylvania and New Jersey: For continuing improvement from Allegheny Avenue, Philadelphia, to the sea, $150,000. Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin, Harbor: For completing improvement, $180,000. East River, New York: For continuing improvement, $200,000. Hudson River, New York: For continuing improvement, $375,000. Kahului, Hawaii, Harbor: For continuing improvement, $100,000. Maps, War Department: For publication of engineer maps for use of the War Department, inclusive of war maps, $10,000. Survey of northern and northwestern lakes: For survey of northern and northwestern lakes, Lake of the Woods, and other boundary and connecting waters between said lake and Lake Superior, Lake Champlain, and the natural navigable waters embraced in the navigation system of the New York canals, including all necessary expenses for preparing, correcting, extending, printing, binding, and issuing charts and bulletins, and of investigating lake levels with a view to their regulation, $125,000. California Débris Commission: For defraying the expenses of the commission in carrying on the work authorized by the Act of Congress approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, $15,000. Harbor of New York: For prevention of obstructive and injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent water of New York City: For pay of inspectors, deputy inspectors, and office force, and expenses of office, $10,260; For pay of crews and maintenance of patrol fleet, six steam tugs and one launch, $75,000; For purchase and installation of a new dynamo, electrical fittings, new deck, and new boiler on patrol vessel Lamont, $11,500; In all, $96,760. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus, or commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, $210,000. Appliances for disabled soldiers: For furnishing surgical appliances to persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States, and not entitled to artificial limbs or trusses for the same disabilities, $1,000. Trusses for disabled soldiers: For trusses for persons entitled thereto under section eleven hundred and seventy-six, Revised Statutes of the United States, and the Act of Congress amendatory thereof approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, $2,000. Providence Hospital: For the support and medical treatment of medical and surgical patients who are destitute, in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with the Providence Hospital by the Surgeon General of the Army, $19,000, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. Garfield Memorial Hospital: For maintenance, to enable it to provide medical and surgical treatment to persons unable to pay therefor, under a contract to be made with the Board of Charities of the District of Columbia, $19,000, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS. For support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, as follows: National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Dayton, Ohio. Central Branch, Dayton, Ohio: Current expenses: For pay of officers and noncommissioned officers of the home, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted, and their clerks, weighmasters, and orderlies; chaplains, religious instruction, and entertainment for the members of the home, printers, bookbinders, librarians, musicians, telegraph and telephone operators, guards, janitors, watchmen, fire company, and property and materials purchased for their use, including repairs not done by the home; articles of amusement, library books, magazines, papers, pictures, and musical instruments, and repairs not done by the home; stationery, advertising, legal advice, payments due heirs of deceased members: Provided, That all receipts Effects of deceased on account of the effects of deceased members during the fiscal year members. shall also be available for such payments; and for such other expenditures as can not properly be included under other heads of expenditures, $60,000; Subsistence: For pay of commissary sergeants, commissary clerks, porters, laborers, bakers, cooks, dishwashers, waiters, and others employed in the subsistence department; food supplies, except articles of special diet for the sick, purchased for the subsistence of the members of the home and civilian employees regularly employed and residing at the branch, their freight, preparation, and serving; aprons, caps, and jackets for kitchen and dining-room employees; tobacco; dining-room and kitchen furniture and utensils, bakers' and butchers' tools and appliances, and their repair not done by the home, $250,000; Household: For furniture for officers' quarters; bedsteads, bedding, bedding material, and all other articles required in the quarters of the members, and of civilian employees permanently employed and residing at the branch, and their repair, if not repaired by the home; fuel, including fuel for cooking, heat, and light; engineers and firemen, bathhouse keepers, janitors, laundry employees, and for all labor, materials, and appliances required for household use, and repairs, if not repaired by the home, $103,000; Proviso. Subsistence. Household. Hospital: For pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists, hospi- Hospital. tal clerks and stewards, ward masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers, drivers, funeral escort, janitors, and for such other services as may be necessary for the care of the sick; burial of the dead; surgical instruments and appliances, medical books, medicine, liquors, fruits, and other necessaries for the sick not purchased under subsistence; bedsteads, bedding, and bedding materials, and all other special articles necessary for the wards; hospital furniture, including special articles and appliances for hospital kitchen and dining room; carriage, hearse, stretchers, coffins; and for all repairs to hospital furniture and appliances not done by the home, $76,000; Transportation: For transportation of members of the home, $1,200. Transportation. Repairs. Repairs: For pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths, carpenters, painters, gas fitters, electrical workers, plumbers, tinsmiths, steam fitters, stone and brick masons, and laborers, and for all appliances and materials used under this head; and repairs of roads and other improvements of a permanent character, $60,000: Provided, Restriction on new That no part of the appropriation for repairs for any of the branch homes shall be used for the construction of any new building; Farm: For pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness makers, farm hands, gardeners, horseshoers, stablemen, teamsters, dairymen, herders, and laborers; tools, appliances, and materials required for farm, garden, and dairy work; grain, and grain products, hay, straw, fertilizers, seed, carriages, wagons, carts, and other conveyances; Proviso. buildings. Farm. Milwaukee, Wis. Subsistence. Household. Hospital. Transportation. Farm. Togus, Me. Current expenses. Subsistence. Household. Hospital. Transportation. Farm. Hampton, Va. Current expenses. Subsistence. Household. Hospital. Transportation. Farm. Leavenworth, Kans. Subsistence. Household. Hospital. animals purchased for stock or work (including animals in the park); gasoline; materials, tools, and labor for flower garden, lawn, park, and cemetery; and construction of roads and walks, and repairs not done by the home, $23,000; In all, $573,200. Northwestern Branch, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $45,000; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $140,000; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $62,000, of which sum $4,000 shall be immediately available; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $44,000; For transportation of members of the home, $600; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $30,000; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $8,000; In all, $329,600. Eastern Branch, Togus, Maine: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $43,000; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $112,500; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $68,000; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $38,000; For transportation of members of the home, $800; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $30,000; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $16,000; In all, $308,300. Southern Branch, Hampton, Virginia: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $45,000; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $170,000; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $65,000; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $43,000; For transportation of members of the home, $1,200; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $40,000; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $9,000; In all, $373,200. Western Branch, Leavenworth, Kansas: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $48,000; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $190,000; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $90,000; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $52,000; |