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FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 853. 1901. 1163 and editing a Supplement to the Revised Statutes of the United States for the Fifty-sixth Congress, under the Acts of February twenty- v¤1.2v,p.4vv. seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and June fourth, eighteen V<>1.30. P-30- hundred and ninety-seven, one thousand dollars. Brnnnuu. Rneisrnn or arms Unizrmn STATES: For preparation of ,,,§*§Q?,§(§§$gi§§°r°* the Ofhcial Register of the United States for nineteen hundred and " ona, including editing, proof reading, and indexing, five thousand dollars. ‘ Govnnnimnr HOSPITAL ron rm: Insane: For current ex enses of p,g‘{‘,i,§“,’{,*§‘}§,$,§§;$· the Government Hospital for the Insane: For support, clothing, and Expemestreatment in the Government Hos ital for the Insane of the insane from the Army and Navy, Marine 801* s, 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, three hundred and thirty-eight, thousand five hundred dollars; and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars of this sum may be expended in defray- ing the expense of the removal of patients to their friends; not exceeding one thousand dollars may be expended in the purchase of such hooks, periodicals, and papers as may be required for the purposes of the hospital, and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the apprehension and return to the hospital of escaped patients. The Secretary of War may, in his discretion, contract for the care, m§;°gggg§ct°{0r‘g§; maintenance, and treatment of the insane of the Army, and inmates of or army mma in the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers on the Pacific coast °“hf°"“°’ em at any State asylum in California, in all cases which he is now authorized by law to cause to be sent to the Government Hospital for the Insane in the District of Columbia. . For the buildings and grounds of the Government Hospital for the gr§u‘},§,lfi“gS *‘“" Insane, as follows: For general repairs and improvements, twenty-five thousand dollars. To complete the renewal of the plumbing, and for 1'ireproofing lavatory sections of the old building, six thousand dollars, to be immediately available. _ For additional electric machinery sufficient to furnish the necessary light for the present group of buildings, ten thousand dollars, to be immediately available. For additional laundry machinery, three thousand dollars, to be 'fimmediately available. · A For kitchen furnishings for new kitchen and six-oven range for main kitchen, three thousand dollars, to be immediately available. _ For continuing the work of the extension of the hospital sufhcient p,§,’§f"““°“ °f h°“‘ to provide for one thousand patients, as authorized by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved June sixth, nineteen hundred, nine Ante, p. 619. hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and au*§f,‘§§’;§,§" °‘ "‘“"“ directed to exchange a tract of land containing sixty acres, more or less, east of Nichols avenue and south of Congress Heights, for sixty acres, more or less, adjoining the grounds of the Government Hospital for the Insane on the south, to be selected by said Secretary, the exchan e to be made acre for acre. And the Secretary of the Interior is gurther authorized, if in his judgment advisable, to exchange such portion as he may deem equitable of the agricultural land now owne by the Government, or of the farm opposite Alexandria, and — known as Goddin Croft, for eighty acres, more or less, lying immediately adjoining said sixty acres and south of the present building