FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sir s. III. Ch. 210. 1899. 901 MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND imcmnmrm. EXPENSES. For stationery for office of the treasurer, United States Military M¤e¤¤l1¤¤¤¤¤¤i¢¤¤¤ Academy, namely: Blank books, paper, envelopes, pens, mueilage, §I,',u,`j°id°”'°°1 "` tlypfwriting supplies and repairs, and other items of stationery, fifty o ars; i For gas coal, oil, candles, lanterns, matches, chimney , and wicking for lighting the Academy building, chapel, library, cadet barrack , mess hall, shops, hospital, odiees, stables and riding hall, sidewalks, . camp, and wharves, six thousand five hundred dollars; For water pipe, plumbing, and repairs, three thousand dollars; For cleaning public buildings (not quarters), one thousand dollars; For brooms, brushes, pails,tubs, soap, and cloths, two hundred dollars · For chalk, crayons, sponges, slate, rubbers, rulers, pointers, card, and toilet paper, etc., for recitation rooms, three hundred dollars; Increase and expense of library, namely: ¤b¤¤y- For periodicals, stationery, binding books, and scientiiic, 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 binding pamphlets and periodicals, two hundred dollars; For carpets and furniture for cadet hospital, and for repairs of damaged articles, one hundred dollars; · For contingent funds, to be expended under the direction of the m‘é°g_*:¤;g•¤t¤¤•- academic board: For instruments, books, repairs to apparatus, and ' other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, one thousand · dollars- J Provided, That all technical and scientific supplies for the depart- P·•>•*•·>- ments of instruction of the Military Academy shall be purchased by Technical mppuu. contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may deem best. For renewing furniture in section rooms, andrepairing the same, three hundred dollars; For purchase of five desks for use in omce of the adjutant, United States Military Academy, to be immediately available, two hundred dollars; For purchase of instruments for band, to be purchased in open market by order of the Superintendent, three hundred and fifty dollars; For purchase of reeds, pads, strings, and other materials necessary ¤¤•i·>¤¤ ¤¤m»11¤·- for string instruments, one hundred and fifty dollars; For repairs to instruments, music stands, and other equipments, 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, three hundred dollars; For repair of cooking utensils and the replacement of worn out cook- smmme aernrt ing utensils in the cadet subsistence department, to be expended with- “'°"‘· out advertising, two hundred dollars; For repair o‘f chairs, tables, and other furniture in cadet subsistence department, to be expended without advertising, seventy-five dollars; fearing out the old, worn out and obsolete style “ cold storage ” in the cadet mess building and putting in new and modern style coldstorage rooms, plant, and ice-making apparatus, lor the perfect preservation of meats, milk, iruits, and so forth, to be immediately available, seven thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars; For repairs, new machines, and HXUIFGS lbf gymnasium, two hundred Gymnasiumdollars· Taking out old drying room in cadet laundry, putting in new metal Laundry- drying room with outer casing of llc8V)' g3lV3lllZ8d corrugated iron, inner frame of heavy galvanized channel, angle, and tec iron, securely bolted and fastened, inside packing to be of asbestos, with all the latest improvements in racks, panels, and so forth, complete in all respects, to be immediately available, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars;
