FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 975. 1903. 941 incidental expenses of the school, including fuel, lights, chemicals, stationery, hardware, machinery, and boats; for pay of civilian clerks, mechanics, and laborers; for extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for (periods not less than ten days as artiticers on work in ad 1tion to an not strictly in the line of their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photograp ers, engine drivers, telegraph operators, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers; for repairs of, and materials to repair, public buildings, and machinery; for unforeseen '1`r¤v¤1¤¤1>¤¤¤¢¤· expenses, for travel expenses of officers on journeys approved by the Chief of Engineers and made for the purpose of instruction: Provided, MM- That the traveling expenses herein provided for shall be in lieu of m neu csmueuge. mileage and other allowances; and to provide means for the theoretical B°°k¤· °*°· and ractical instruction at the Engineer School of Application, by the , purchase of text-books,_books of reference, scientific and professional papers, and for other absolutely necessary expenses, twenty-five thousand dollars. _ BUHlDINGS,.ENGINEER SoHo0L, Wasnmezrorz, Drsrmcr or Conum- ,,§’“Pl°"*°"°"’“""‘ nu: For the completion of the establishment of the Engineer School ` and Post at Wuhitxggimn Barracks, District of Columbia, in accordance with plans submit by the Chief of En ineers and approved by the Secretary of War, subject to such modifications as may prove to be expedient before or during construction, including buildings, roads, pavements, tree planting, gradinfg, sea walls, sewerage, provision for ighting and protection against re, and all purposes for the proper establishment of said Engineer School and Post not specifically men- . tioned herein, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars; this sum and pe#m;g°*’l° “'““ °"` all other funds heretofore appropriated for this purpose to be available ` — until expended. \ For pontoon trains, intrenchiug tools, instruments, and drawing mate- “’“‘°°" “"“"·°"°· rials, and for purchase and printing of engineer manuals for use in the engineer equipment of troops, twenty-five thousand dollars. hor services of surveyors, draftsmen, photographers, master labor- S°""*°°’· ers, and clerks to en ineer officers on the staff of division, corps, and department commanders, twenty-five thousand dollars. Total for Engineer Department, four hundred and fifty-one thousand five hundred dollars. om:•NANo1=: Dnrnvnmirr. m‘Q,{{{“"“°° “°*"‘"' Omuuxcn Smzvron: Current expenses of the Ordnance Service °“"°“°°"P°""°’· required to defray the current expenses at the arsenals; of receiving stores and issuing arms and other ordnance supplies; of police an oflicc duties; of rents, tolls, fuel, and light; of stationery and office furniture; of tools and instruments for use; incidental expenses of the Ordnance Service and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small arms, and other ordnance supplies, including purchase of publications for ordnance office library and payment for mechanical labor in the office of the Chief of Ordnance, three hundred thousand dollars. ORDNANGE, onnsnncm strokes, AND SUPPLIESZ Manufacture or pur- *°' chase of metallic ammunition for small arms for current needs and reserve supply, and ammunition for reloading cartridges, including the cost of targets and material for target practice, ammunition for burials · at the National Home for Disable Volunteer Soldiers and its several Branches, including National Soldiers’ Home in \Vashington, District of Columbia, marksmen’s medals and insignia for all arms of the service, eight hundred and twenty-five thousand two hundred and sixty-six dollars: Hwided, That for the purpose of furnishinga national troplhy medals and medals and other prizes to be provided and contested for annua y, pm m_ '
