FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sicss. I. Ch. 420. 1896. 437 Revenue-Cutter Service, and inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States who are insane, all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military or naval service of the United States, who have been admitted to the hospital and who are indigent, two hundred and sixty-four thousand four hundred and fiftyone dollars; and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars of this sum may be expended in defraying the expense of the removal of patients to their friends. For the buildings and grounds of the Government Hospital for the g,Eu‘§,§},“*”g“ °“d Insane, as follows: ` For general repairs and improvements, fifteen thousand dollars. For special improvements as iollows: d Igor heating apparatus for new buildings, tour thousand five hundred o ars. For renewing and iireprooiing iloors, two thousand four hundred dollars. For laboratory extension, one thousand five hundred dollars. For electric fans and resistance coils, six thousand dollars. COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB. Columbia Institution for Deaf and CURRENT EXPENSES OF THE COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE Dzldrlirent expenses. DEAF AND Duma: For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, for books and illustrative apparatus, and for general repairs and improvements, fifty-four thousand Eve hundred dollars. For repairs to the buildings of the institution and for the furnishing 1$~>1>=»ir¤.·-rc. of the new buildings provided for by Act approved March second, `°1`28’p‘°°‘ eighteen hundred and ninety-five, three thousand dollars. HOWARD ITNIVERSITXV. Howar¢lUniversity. For maintenance of the Howard University, to be used in payment Maintenance. of part of the salaries of the officers, professors, teachers, and other regular employees of the university, the balance of which will be paid from donations and other sources, twentyseven thousand five hundred dollars· For iocls, materials, wages of instructors, and other necessary expenses of the industrial department, three thousand dollars; For books for library, law library, bookcases, shelving, and lixtures, nine hundred dollars; For material and apparatus for chemical, physical and natural history, and laboratory, two hundred dollars; For improvement of grounds and repairs of buildings, one thousand _ dollars; in al], thirty-two thousand six hundred dollars: Provided, That 5g;"';;'; thmogm, no part of this appropriation shall be used, directly or indirectly, for department. em., nnthe support of the theological department of said university, nor for the b"m°“‘ support of any sectarian, denominational, or religious instruction therein: And providerl further, That no part thereof shall be paid to said xnspeasonac. university until it shall accord to the Secretary of the Interior, or to his designated agent or agents, authority to visit and inspect such university and to control and supervise the expenditure therein of all moneys paid under this appropriation. EDUCATION IN ALASKA. EducationinAlaska. For the industrial and elementary education of children in the Territory of Alaska. without reference to race, thirty thousand dollars. REINDEEH FOR ALASKA. ReindeerforAlaska. For support of the reindeer station at Port Clarence, Alaska, and for the purchase and introduction of reindeer from Siberia for domestic purposes, twelve thousand dollars.