Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 40 Part 1.djvu/387

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368 SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 79. 1917. Ug"“"g· _ For gas coal, oil, candles, lanterns, matches, chimneys, and wickgig, and electric lamps and supplies, and for operating the gas plant, 3,500. °°d°*"°’P‘“"· h For apegroving, replacing, and resetting white tile in the cadet os 1t , 3,150. eglséitc, °°°°°"°°d°` Flor temporary mess accommodations, $6,500. For alterations and additions to organ in cadet chapel, $1,600. H§,§’,Qf“*"°‘ S°*‘“°"" NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS. iior. az;`p. ssa, So much of the Act making appropriations for the sundry civil “"""“d°d‘ expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thrrtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and for other purposes, so far as it designates the classes of persons entitled to the benefits of the National mmw ,,,,,,,,,,;,,,1,,, Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, is amended so as to read as

G§§,§=*m*;,gg follows: The following persons only shall hereafter be entitled to

mm mms. the benefits of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, ,,ml2;$;ds°?°‘°°g;2’p‘°37’ and may be admitted thereto upon the order of a member of the board of managers, namely: All honorably discharged officers, soldiers, and sailors who served in the rein-ilar, volunteer, or other forces of the United States in any war in w `ch the countiiy has been or is e aged, including the Spanish American War, the rovisional V°1‘3°’p’°"‘ Army ugxuthorized by Act of Congress apfproved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine), in any o the campaigns against hostile Indians, or who have served in the Philippines, in China or in Alaska, or in the Organized Militia or Nation Guard when called into the Federal service to enforce the laws, suppress insurrection, or re el invasion, who are disabled by disease, wounds, or otherwise and have no adeiiuate means of support, and who are not otherwise provided for by aw, and by reason of such disability are incapable of earning their living. ,.¥’.;‘.§’l;€%‘?%‘¥"‘“’ °“° PUBLIC BUILDINGS Arm eRoUNns. wdgiliigilariw. Wk Park watchmen: For additional park watchmen from October first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hrmdred and eighteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation, as follows: Secoml sergeant of park watchmen, 3900; eighteen park watchmen for duty at the Highway Bridge, District of olumbia, at $840 each; in all, $12,015. For purchase and repair of bicycles and revolvers for park watchmen and for purchase of ammumtion, $316. For purchasing and supplying uniforms to park, monument, and mu mm DMC, bridge watchmen, $950. revenue. O the foregoing amounts appropriated under public buildings and · grounds, the sum of $6,640.50 shall be paid out of the revenues of gem Park- build the District of Columbia. _ _ m,°Z,’}’°v€·§Y,¤d NMI For temper? office buildings, including heating and lighting, for D°P°'““°°" ‘¤· the use of the ar and Navy Departments, to contain approximately one million and fifty-five thousand square feet, to be erected under the direction of the Secretary of War in Henry Park, reservation numbered four, Sixth and B Streets, $2,000,000. Space in said building shall be allotted by the officer in charge of Public Buildings and P,,,,,,,,_ Grounds upon the joint order of the Secretary of War and the Secre-

 £§¤¤i¤z¢¤¤ tary of the Navy: Provided, That within two years after the conclu-

' sion of the existing war, the land above referred to shall a ain be reserved for the erection of the George Washington Memorial illall.