52 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 48. 1896. For purchase of ammunition for rapid-nre guns now on hand, three hundred dollars; In all, for current and ordinary expenses, sixty-eightthousand three hundred and seventy-nine dollars. 1n•e•n¤m¤• and mscELLANEoUs AND INCIDENTAL EXPENSES. incidental expenses. For stationery for office of the treasurer, United States Military Academy, namely, blank books, paper, envelopes, pens, mucilage, typewriting supplies and repairs, and other items of stationery, fifty dollars; For gas coal, oil, candles, lanterns, matches, chimneys, and wicking for lighting the Academy building, chapel, library, cadet barracks, mess hall, shops, hospital, offices, stables, and riding hall, sidewalks, camp, and wharves, five thousand dollars; For water pipe, plumbing, and repairs, two thousand dollars; For cleaning public buildings (not quarters), one thousand dollars; For brooms, bru hes, pails, tubs, soap, and cloths, two hundred dollars; For chalk, crayon, sponges, slate, rubbers, and card for recitation room, three hundred dollars; · www- For increase and expense of library, namely: For periodicals, stationery, binding books, and scientific, historical, biographical, and general literature, to be purchased in open market on the written order of the Superintendent, two thousand dollars; , For repairing books, and for furniture, and contingencies, two hundred dollars; · For carpets and furniture for cadet hospital, and for repairs of damaged articles, one hundred dollars; ,,,E,}§{§,:§{"°· *"’ For contingent funds, to be expended under the direction of the ' Academic Board; for instruments, books, repairs to apparatus, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, one thousand dolgrvwgew lars: Provided, That all technical and scientific supplies for the depart- ""'u°°’ ments of instruction of the Military Academy shall be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may deem best; For renewing furniture in section rooms, and repairing the same, five hundred dollars; ‘ M¤¤i¤¤1¤¤1»v1i¤•- For purchase of instruments for band, to be purchased in open- market by order of the Superintendent, three hundred and forty-two dollars; For purchase of reeds, pads, strings, and other materials necessary for string instruments, to be purchased in open market on the order of the Superintendent, one hundred dollars; For repairs to instruments, music stands, and other such equipment, to be purchased in open market on the order of the Superintendent, two hundred dollars; For purchase of music for band, to be purchased in open market on the order of the Superintendent, two hundred and fifty-eight dollars; m§;’K*{°‘f"‘°° ‘*°¥"‘"" For repair of cooking utensils and the replacement of worn out cook- ' ing utensils in the cadet subsistence department, to be expended without advertising, three hundred and twenty- six dollars; For repair of chairs, tables, and other furniture in cadet subsistence department, to be expended without advertising, fifty dollars; For repairs, new machines, and fixtures for gymnasium, three hundred dollars; For one new French range of six tires and ovens, with proper water backs, equipment, and connections, to be expended without advertising, six hundred and eighteen dollars; L“““‘“'*`· For three brass-cylinder washing machines, of make, fixture, and capacity the same as those now in use in the cadet laundry, to replace four worn-out and unserviceable wooden washing machines, to be expended without advertising, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; In all, for miscellaneous and incidental expenses, hfteen thousand eight hundred and ninety-four dollars.
