Department of practical military engineering.

Department of ord

For department of practical military engineering: For purchase and repair of instruments; transportation; purchase of tools, implements, and materials, and for extra-duty pay of engineer soldiers, as follows, namely: For instruments for use in instructing cadets in making reconnoisances; photographic apparatus and material for field photography; drawing instruments and material for platting reconnoisances; surveying instruments; instruments and material for signaling and field telegraphy; transportation of field parties; tools and material for the preservation, augmentation, and repair of wooden pontoon, and one canvas pontoon train; sapping and mining tools and material; rope; cordage; material for rafts and for spar and trestle bridges; intrenching tools; tools and material for the repair of Fort Clinton and the batteries of the academy, and for extra-duty pay of engineer soldiers, at fifty cents per day each, when performing special skilled mechanical labor in the department of practical military engineering; for models, books of reference, and stationery, and for extra pay of one engineer soldier as assistant in photographic laboratory, and in charge of photographic laboratory, photographic apparatus, materials, and supplies, at fifty cents per day, two thousand dollars;

For department of ordnance and gunnery: Purchase and repair of nance and gunnery. instruments, models, and apparatus, and purchase of necessary material; for the purchase of samples of arms and accouterments other than those supplied to the military service; for books of reference, text-books, stationery, and lithographic printing materials, and for contingencies, four hundred and fifty dollars;

Manufacture or purchase of models of breech mechanisms of cannon, rapid-fire guns, small arms, and the various machines and tools used in their manufacture, for cadet instruction and contingencies, one thousand two hundred dollars;

For purchase of machines, tools, and material for practical instructions of cadets in wood and metal working, two thousand dollars;

For department of military hygiene: For stationery, text-books, and books of reference for use of instructors; for the preparation of plates, purchase of paper, and other expenses incidental to the printing of syllabuses of lectures on parts of the subject not covered by the regular text-books; for the purchase of charts, photographs, and pictures for use in demonstration; for the purchase of instruments and models; for shelves and cases for books, instruments, and models and records; and for contingent expenses not otherwise provided for, five hundred dollars;

For department of English and history: For purchase of stationery, text-books, books of reference, office furniture, maps, map fixtures, and for repairs to same, for rebinding books and periodicals, and for contingent expenses not otherwise provided for, five hundred dollars; For a course of lectures for the more complete instruction of cadets, one thousand two hundred dollars;

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND INCIDENTAL EXPENSES.

For commercial periodicals, stationery, office furniture and supplies, and for binding orders, circulars, and so forth, for the office of the treasurer, United States Military Academy, two hundred and ten dollars;

For gas-coal, oil, candles, lanterns, matches, chimneys, and wicking for lighting the academy building, chapel, library, cadet barracks, mess hall, shops, hospital, offices, stables, and riding hall, sidewalks, camp, and wharfs, ten thousand dollars;

For water pipe, plumbing, and repairs, six thousand dollars;

For material and labor for cleaning and policing public buildings (not quarters), three thousand five hundred dollars;

For supplies for recitation rooms not otherwise provided for and for renewing and repairing furniture in same, six hundred dollars; Increase and expense of library, namely:

For purchase, preservation, care, storage, binding and repair of books, periodicals, pamphlets, maps, pictures, and manuscripts; purchase of furniture, cases, stationery, and fittings; for expenses of making copies of military manuscripts in other libraries, and for contingent expenses not otherwise provided for; purchases to be made in open market on the written order of the superintendent, ten thousand dollars;

Library.

Contingent,

For contingent funds, to be expended under the direction of the demic board. academic board: For instruments, books, repairs to apparatus, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, one thousand dollars;

Proviso.

aca

Provided, That all technical and scientific supplies for the depart- Technical supplies, ments of instruction of the Military Academy shall be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may deem best.

Purchase of instruments for band and repairs to same; for purchase Musical supplies. of reeds, pads, strings, and other materials necessary for brass, wood, wind, and string instruments; for purchase of music stands and other equipments; for purchase of music for military band and orchestra and for extra parts; all to be purchased in open market on order of superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars;

Laundry, kitchen,

Repairs and improvements to the laundry machinery and appa- etc. ratus in the cadet laundry, and the purchase of new material, tools, and so forth, to be expended without advertising, one thousand eight hundred dollars;

Repair of cooking utensils, chairs, tables, and other furniture in the cadet mess, and the replacement of same, including a new dishwashing machine, to be expended without advertising, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars;

For the policing of barracks and bath houses, eight thousand four hundred dollars;

For supplying light and plain furniture to cadets' barracks, three thousand six hundred dollars;

For maintaining the children's school, the Superintendent of the Military Academy being authorized to employ the necessary teachers, three thousand five hundred and twenty dollars;

Policing.

Cadet barracks, fur

niture, etc.

Children's school.

Proviso.
Periodicals.

Provided, That section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign, professional, R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718. and other newspapers and periodicals, to be paid for from any of the foregoing appropriations.

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.

For cases, materials, fittings, fixtures, and other appliances and repairs for ordnance museum in academy building, three hundred dollars;

For repairs to ordnance laboratory and other buildings pertaining to the department of ordnance and gunnery, and materials for roads and walks, and for repairs to machinery and tools, four thousand dollars;

For general repairs to the cadet laundry building, and for emergency incidental expenses about building, to be expended without advertising, four hundred dollars;

For general incidental repairs and improvements to the cadet store building, including storerooms, office, tailor shops, and shoe-repairing shops, five hundred dollars;

Buildings and

grounds.

Ordnance museum, laboratory, etc.

For materials and labor for repairs, alterations, and additions Soldiers' hospital. needed at the soldiers' hospital, as follows:

Waterworks.

Cadet hospital.

Cadet barracks.

Cemetery.

Walls, roads, etc.

Machinery.

Historic sites.

Purchase of suitable incandescent lights, droplights, tubing, mantels, and so forth; for paraffin and turpentine for waxing floors; for brushes, paints, glass, putty, and for general repairs; for materials for rebronzing radiators; and for purchase of flowers, fruit trees, shrubs, plants, and so forth, for hospital grounds, one hundred and sixty-five dollars;

For waterworks: For the maintenance and operation of the filter beds, reservoirs, and pipe lines, including the tools, implements, and materials required therefor; and for policing the grounds and repairing the roads in the vicinity of the reservoirs, filters, and intake dam, two thousand dollars;

For repairs and necessary alterations and additions to the cadet hospital, as follows:

For materials for rebronzing radiators and piping; material for waxing and polishing floors; suitable incandescent lights, droplights, mantels, tubes, for carpets, furniture, and appliances; for repairs of damaged articles, and for miscellaneous expenses, one hundred and twenty dollars;

For purchase of flowers and shrubs for hospital grounds, one hundred dollars;

For repairing all exterior woodwork and windows in hospital, where required, including storm windows, eight hundred and fifty dollars; For new bowl and flush tank in water-closet near cadet hospital kitchen and making necessary connections, sixty dollars;

For furnishing and connecting radiators in the assistant surgeon's office in basement, in eye room, and in noncommissioned officers' room, second story, one hundred and sixty-four dollars;

For furnishing and connecting new enameled sink in dispensary and supplying same with proper faucets for hot and cold water, fortysix dollars;

For tiling floors and walls of vestibules, lavatories, bathrooms, and so forth, of upper and lower north wards, to correspond with other wards of hospital, four thousand dollars;

For construction of new toilet for use of cadets at sick call, to be located in or near waiting room of basement, three hundred and eighty-two dollars;

For alterations and repairs to quarters of the sergeant, first class, cadet hospital, as follows: For repairing all interior walls, ceilings, and woodwork; for new sink for kitchen and renewal of wooden tops to stationary washtubs of kitchen, one hundred and ten dollars; Repairs to cadet barracks:

For repairing and renewing plastering, painting, and calcimining, repairs to woodwork, reflooring, rearranging rooms, increasing sinks, baths, and other incidental repairs to the building, ten thousand dollars;

For maintaining and improving the grounds of the post cemetery, one thousand five hundred dollars;

For continuing the construction of breast-high wall in dangerous places, one thousand dollars;

For broken stone and gravel for roads, and for repairing sidewalks, roads, paths, and bridges on the reservation, six thousand dollars;

For repair of boilers, engines, dynamos, motors, refrigerating and other machinery in the cadet mess, and the replacement of same, to be expended without advertising, five hundred dollars;

For preserving and marking Revolutionary forts, redoubts, and batteries, and other historic sites, situated with the limits of the West Point Military Reservation, one thousand five hundred dollars; For purchase of one power clipping machine and motor for cavalry stables, two hundred and fifty dollars;

For purchase of one sewing machine, for leather, for saddler's shop of cavalry detachment, two hundred and fifteen dollars;

For purchase of gymnasium apparatus for the drill hall in the barracks of the cavalry detachment, one thousand dollars;

For one small electric motor, driving pulley, and accessories for artillery stables, one hundred and twenty-five dollars;

For one machine to sew leather for the artillery saddler's shop, two hundred and fifteen dollars;

For repairs to mattresses and machines and for replacing worn-out articles in gymnasium of artillery barracks, one hundred dollars;

For the construction of one skeleton emplacement for twelve-inch mortars for the instruction of cadets, six thousand eight hundred dollars;

For one electric blueprinting machine, to be immediately available, eight hundred and fifty dollars;

Mortar emplace

ment.

New organ.

For organ for new chapel, to be immediately available, and to be expended without advertising upon the written order of the superintendent, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; For carrying on the development of the general plan for improve- Improving grounds. ments to roads and grounds on the military reservation of West Point, designed under contract by authority of the Secretary of War, three thousand dollars;

Vol. 32, p. 419.

The Secretary of War is authorized to purchase, in his discretion, Additional land,etc. and at a price not to exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for the use of the United States Military Academy and in lieu of the hotel provided for in the general plans, the buildings and grounds known as Ladycliffe Academy, formerly Cranston's Hotel, adjacent to the Military Academy reservation, from the appropriation "For continuing the work of increasing the efficiency of the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, and to provide for the enlargement of buildings, and for other necessary work of improvement in connection therewith," authorized in Acts of Congress Vol. 33, pp. 451, 860. approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, March third, nineteen hundred and five, and June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and six, in accordance with the general plan approved by the Secretary of War, January twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four.

For continuing the work of increasing the efficiency of the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, and to provide for the enlargement of buildings, and for other necessary work of improvement in connection therewith, as authorized in Acts of Congress approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two (Public, One hundred and eighty-one), April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four (Public, One hundred and ninety-two), March third, nineteen hundred and five (Public, One hundred and thirty-seven), and June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and six (Public, Three hundred and ten), in accordance with the general plan approved by the Secretary of War January twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four, to remain available until expended, one million dollars.

Vol. 34, p. 531.

Enlargement of buildings, etc.

Vol. 32, p. 419.

Vol. 33, pp. 451, 860.

Vol. 34, p. 531.

Cadets.
Admission of suc-

Hereafter, for six years from July first, anno Domini, nineteen hundred and ten, whenever any cadet shall have finished three years cessors after three of his course at the United States Military Academy, his successor years' course. may be admitted to the Academy; and the corps of cadets is hereby increased to meet this provision.

Vol. 31, p. 911.
R. S., sec. 1319, p. 226,

amended.

The portion of the Act of Congress entitled "An Act making Hazing. appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, and for other purposes," approved March second, nineteen hundred and one, prescribing penalty for hazing, is hereby amended to read as follows: "That the superintendent of the United States Military Academy, Regulations to presubject to the approval of the Secretary of War, shall make appropriate regulations for putting a stop to the practice of hazing, such regulations to prescribe dismissal, suspension, or other adequate

Court-martial trials.

punishments for infractions of the same, and to embody a clear definition of hazing.

"That any cadet who shall be charged with offenses under such regulations which would involve his dismissal from the academy shall be granted, upon his written request, a trial by a general courtEffect of dismissal. martial, and any cadet dismissed from the academy for hazing shall not thereafter be reappointed to the corps of cadets nor be eligible for appointment as a commissioned officer in the Army or Navy or Marine Corps until two years after the graduation of the class of which he was a member.

Inconsistent laws repealed.

Disposal of pending

cases.

Juan Torroella y Rooney.

struction.

Provisos.

No expense.

"That all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed."

The regulations of the United States Military Academy upon the subject of hazing having been modified, the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to dispose of any cases which are now pending, and in which final action has not yet been taken, under the provisions of the said regulations as modified.

The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to permit Mr. Juan Admitted for in- Torroella y Rooney, of Cuba, to receive instruction at the Military Academy at West Point: Provided, That no expense shall be caused to the United States thereby, and that the said Juan Torroella y Rooney shall agree to comply with all regulations for the police and discipline of the academy, to be studious, and to give his utmost efforts to accomplish the courses in the various departments of instruction: And provided further, That in the case of the said Juan Torroella y Rooney the provisions of sections thirteen hundred and twenty and thirteen hundred and twenty-one of the Revised Statutes shall be suspended.

Oath and service.

R.S., secs. 1320, 1321,

p. 227.

Cuba and Panama.

under.

Provisos.
Limit.

etc.

Volunteers.

Decision of Depart

The consent of Congress is hereby granted to the acceptance by Details of officers officers of the army, in the discretion of the President, of such military details under the Governments of Cuba and Panama as may be requested by the Presidents of these Republics: Provided, That such Restriction on pay, details shall not exceed five in number: And provided further, That no officer so detailed shall receive any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever from the Government of Cuba or Panama. Hereafter in administering the Act of Congress approved February ment as to date of twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled "An Act to provide for the relief of certain officers and enlisted men of the volunteer forces," the decision of the War Department as to the right of any person to be held and considered to have been mustered into the service of the United States under the provisions of said Act shall be conclusive, and no claims shall be allowed or considered under said Act after the first day of January, nineteen hundred and eleven. Approved, April 19, 1910.

muster conclusive.

Vol. 29, p. 593.

April 19, 1910. [H. R. 19633.]

[Public, No. 140.]

Morris and Cum

CHAP. 175.-An Act To authorize Aransas Terminal Railroad to construct a bridge across Morris and Cumming Channel.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United ming Channel. States of America in Congress assembled, That the Aransas Terminal Aransas Terminal Railroad, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Texas, at Aransas Pass, Tex.' is hereby authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and

Railroad may bridge,

Vol. 34, p. 84.

Amendment.

approaches thereto across the Morris and Cumming Channel, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at or near Aransas Pass, in the county of San Patricio, in the State of Texas, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters," approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.

SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.

Approved, April 19, 1910.