SIXTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 163. 1908. 107 than ten' days as artiiicers on work in addition to and not strictly in line with their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine drivers, telegraph operators, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers; office furniture and fixtures, machinery, and unforeseen expenses, ten thousand dollars. For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring €,§P°°*°l ¤PP*¤‘¤m‘*· instruments, special apparatus and materials for the division of the ` enlisted specia ists, seven thousand dollars. For purchase of special apparatus and materials and for experimental Bpurposes for the department of artillery, three thousand dollars. or purchase of generating, measuring and mine apparatus, and S¤b¤¤¤ri¤¤ mines materia s for use in instruction of artillery troops in their special duties in connection with the loading and planting of submarine mines, five thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase and binding of professional books of recent date treat- B<¤>¤· ing of military and scientific subjects for library and for use of school, two thousand five hundred dollars._ Provided, That section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised pm,,,,,,],, Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional ew- _ newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation. R‘S"”°°‘3°°8*" '18‘ ormcm or run cmnr SIGNAL ormcnn. 0g§;$°*°h*¤*Si¤¤* SIGNAL Snnvrcn or rim Amar: For expenses of the Signal Service $8****** <‘=¤P¤¤¤¢¤· of the Army, as follows: Purchase, equi ment, and repair of field electric telegraphs, signal equipments and) stores, binocular glasses, telescopes, ehostats, and other necessary instruments, including necessary meteorological instruments for use on target ranges; war balloons; telephone apparatus (exclusive of exchange service) and maintenance of the same; electrical installations and maintenance at military posts; fire control and direction apparatus and material for field artillery; maintenance and repair of military telegraph lines and cables, including salaries of civilian employees, supplies, and general repairs, and other expenses connected with the dut of collecting and transmitting information for the Army by tele ra ll or otherwise, two _ hundred·and fifty thousand dollars: Providei That the conveyance §,QQ’,’§;°gnce0,,O,,u by Tillie McChesney to the United States of a lot in the town of Fair- Aéiwku gr =e¤¤¤g»n banks, Territor of Alaska, donated by said town as a site for a tele- ° °°’ ° "°°°°pt ' raph office andy quarters for a detachment of the Signal Corps of the Army, which conveyance was by deed duly execute , acknowledged, and recorded in volume two of deeds, Fairbanks precinct, Alaska, is hereby accepted. For the increase of post telephone systems at interior posts, fifteen m*,Q‘f* ‘°‘°p"°"° ”’*" thousand dollars. For the installation of post telephone s stems at all garrisoned coast artillery posts, except those located in districts where post telephone systems have already been installed or are in course of installation, twenty thousand dollars. . _ WAsHINe·roI~:-AL.AsKA MILITARY CABLE AND *rI:LnenAr11 srsrnmz For c8l,‘Q*;";l‘f‘°“‘“““ defraying the cost of such extensions and betterments of the Wash- gsi fgirbeixgensicn. ington-Alaska militar cable and telegra h system as may be approved Esigfllm ° ° mm W by the Secretary of War, to be available until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten from the receipts of the Washington- Alaska military cable and telegraph system that have been covered into the Treasury of the United States, the extent of such extensions R°"°“ °°°°“g’““ and the cost thereof to be re rted to Congress by the Secretary of War, two hundred thousand cldllars. _ To reimburse officers travelin on duty in connection with the Wash- R°‘““’““‘°“‘°“‘· ington—Alaska. military cable and telegraph system since January first,
