Improving Saint Marys River, Michigan: For continuing improvement at the falls by the construction of a new lock, with a separate canal, six hundred thousand dollars.

Improving harbor at San Juan, Porto Rico: For continuing improvement, in completion of contract authorization, eighty thousand dollars.

Improving Trinity River, Texas: For the construction of locks and dams, in completion of contract authorization, eighty-five thousand dollars.

Improving Mississippi River: For continuing improvement of Mississippi River from Head of Passes to the mouth of the Ohio River, including salaries and clerical, office, traveling, and miscellaneous expenses of the Mississippi River Commission, in completion of contract authorization, two million dollars.

For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred and nine, and in completion of contract authorizations, as follows: Improving Appomattox River, Virginia: For completion of the work of deflection and improvement of the river at Petersburg, sixty thousand dollars.

Improving Aransas Pass and Bay, Texas: For continuing improvement, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Improving Big Sandy River, West Virginia and Kentucky: For completing improvement at Dam Numbered One, Tug Fork, and Dam Numbered One, Levisa Fork, Big Sandy River, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Improving Ohio River below Pittsburg, Pennsylvania: For completion of Lock and Dam Numbered Thirty-seven, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Improving Tennessee River below Chattanooga, Tennessee, Alabama, and Kentucky: For continuing improvement at Hales bar, Tennessee, fifty thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars.

MAPS, WAR DEPARTMENT: For publication of engineer maps for use of the War Department, inclusive of war maps, five thousand dollars. SURVEY OF NORTHERN AND NORTHWESTERN LAKES: For survey of northern and northwestern lakes, including all necessary expenses for preparing, correcting, extending, printing, and issuing charts and bulletins, and of investigating lake levels, with a view to their regulation, to be immediately available, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

CALIFORNIA DÉBRIS COMMISSION: For defraying the expenses of the commission in carrying on the work authorized by the act of Congress approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, fifteen thousand dollars.

HARBOR OF NEW YORK: For prevention of obstructive and injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City: For pay of inspectors, deputy inspectors, office force, and expenses of office, ten thousand two hundred and sixty dollars;

For pay of crews and maintenance of six steam tugs and one launch, seventy-five thousand dollars;

For renewing engines and boilers of steam tug Vigilant, fifteen thousand dollars;

In all, one hundred thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. INTERNATIONAL WATERWAYS COMMISSION: For continuing the work of investigation and report by the International Waterways Commission, authorized by section four of the river and harbor Act approved June thirteenth, nineteen hundred and two, twenty thousand dollars.

BRIDGE ACROSS MISSISSIPPI RIVER AT FORT SNELLING, MINNESOTA: For maintenance and repairs, one thousand two hundred dollars.

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.

Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus, or commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, one hundred and five thousand dollars.

Medical Depart

ment.

Artificial limbs, etc.

Appliances for disabled soldiers: For furnishing surgical appliances Surgical appliances. to persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States, and not entitled to artificial limbs or trusses for the same disabilities, two thousand dollars.

Trusses for disabled soldiers: For trusses for persons entitled thereto under section eleven hundred and seventy-six, Revised 211 Statutes of the United States, and the Act of Congress amendatory thereof approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, six thousand dollars.

Support and medical treatment of destitute patients: For the support and medical treatment of medical and surgical patients who are destitute, in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with the Providence Hospital by the Surgeon-General of the Army, nineteen thousand dollars, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.

Trusses.

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Providence

pital.

Hos

Destitute patients.

Screens,

For screening doors and windows of isolating ward of Providence ward. Hospital for minor contagious diseases, five hundred dollars.

Garfield Memorial Hospital: For maintenance, to enable it to provide medical and surgical treatment to persons unable to pay therefor, under a contract to be made with the Board of Charities of the District of Columbia, nineteen thousand dollars, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.

The unexpended balance of the appropriation for additional repairs and for furniture, and covered way connecting the main building of Garfield Memorial Hospital with the new children's ward is hereby reappropriated and made immediately available for such furnishings and equipment, of whatever kind, as may be found by the hospital directors to be necessary to put the new children's ward in proper condition for use by patients.

For the payment by the Garfield Memorial Hospital on account of the purchase of the land described as lots two hundred and ninetyfour, two hundred and ninety-five, two hundred and ninety-six, two hundred and ninety-seven, two hundred and ninety-eight, and two hundred and ninety-nine on the subdivision of part of Mount Pleasant as the same appears in Liber County fourteen at folio twenty-five in the office of the surveyor of the District of Columbia (the same real estate as that described in the deed from Schneider and others to the hospital of April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine), twenty-five thousand dollars, to be drawn by the board of directors of the hospital and applied by them exclusively and only to the object herein stipulated, and to be paid one-half from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from the Treasury of the United States.

To aid the Children's Hospital on account of addition to and alterations and improvements of building, and for furnishings and equipment, of whatever kind, in the discretion of the board of directors, to be paid to said directors, and to be applied by them exclusively to the objects named herein, twenty-five thousand dollars, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.

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Garfield Hospital.
Destitute patients.

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Children's ward.

Balance for equip

ment.

Additional land.
Payment for.

Children's Hospital.
Additions, etc.

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.

Dayton, Ohio.

NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS.

For the support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, as follows:

Central Branch, Dayton, Ohio: For current expenses, namely: Pay of officers and noncommissioned officers of the home, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted, and their clerks, weighmasters, and orderlies; also payments for chaplains, religious instruction, and entertainment for the members of the home, printers, bookbinders, librarians, musicians, telegraph and telephone operators, guards, janitors, watchmen, and fire company; for all property and materials purchased for their use, including repairs not done by the home; for necessary expenditures for articles of amusement, library books, magazines, papers, pictures, and musical instruments, and for repairs not done by the home; and for stationery, advertising, legal advice, for Effects of deceased payments due heirs of deceased members: Provided, That all receipts on account of the effects of deceased members during the fiscal year shall also be available for such payments; and for such other expenditures as can not properly be included under other heads of expenditure, seventy-one thousand dollars;

Proviso.

members.

Subsistence.

Household.

Hospital.

Transportation.

Repairs.

Proviso.
Restriction.

For subsistence, namely: Pay of commissary sergeants, commissary clerks, porters, laborers, bakers, cooks, dishwashers, waiters, and others employed in the subsistence department; the cost of all articles purchased for the regular ration, and the subsistence of civilian employees regularly employed and residing at the branch, their freight, preparation, and serving; aprons, caps, and jackets for kitchen and dining-room employees; of tobacco; of all dining-room and kitchen furniture and utensils, bakers' and butchers' tools and appliances, and their repair not done by the home, two hundred and fifty-three thousand dollars;

For household, namely: Expenditures for furniture for officers' quarters; for bedsteads, bedding, bedding material, and all other articles required in the quarters of the members, and of civilian employees permanently employed and residing at the branch, and for their repair, if they are not repaired by the home; for fuel, including fuel for cooking, heat, and light; for engineers and firemen, bath-house keepers, janitors, laundry employees, and for all labor, materials, and appliances required for household use, and for their repairs, unless the repairs are made by the home, one hundred and twenty-four thousand dollars;

For hospital, namely: Pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists, hospital clerks and stewards, ward masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers, drivers, gravediggers, funeral escort, janitors, and for such other services as may be necessary for the care of the sick; burial of the dead; for surgical instruments and appliances, medical books, medicine, liquors, fruits, and other necessaries for the sick not on the regular ration; for bedsteads, bedding,. and bedding materials, and all other special articles necessary for the wards, for hospital furniture, including special articles and appliances for hospital kitchen and dining room; carriage, hearse, stretchers, coffins; for tools of gravediggers, and for all repairs to hospital furniture and appliances not done by the home, seventy-two thousand dollars;

For transportation, namely: For transportation of members of the home, three thousand dollars;

For repairs, namely: Pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths, carpenters, painters, gas fitters, electrical workers, plumbers, tinsmiths, steam fitters, stone and brick masons, whitewashers, and laborers, and for all appliances and materials used under this head; also for repairs of roads and other improvements of a permanent character, sixty thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of the

appropriation for repairs for any of the branch homes shall be used for the construction of any new building;

For farm, namely: Pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness makers, farm hands, gardeners, horseshoers, stablemen, teamsters, dairymen, herders, and laborers, and for all tools, appliances, and materials required for farm, garden, and dairy work; for grain, hay, and straw, dressing, seed, carriages, wagons, carts, and other conveyances; for all animals purchased for stock or for work (including animals in the park); for all materials, tools, and labor for flower garden, lawn, and park; and for construction of roads and walks, and for repairs not done by the home, twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars;

In all, six hundred and seven thousand five hundred dollars. Northwestern Branch, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-eight thousand dollars;

Farm.

Milwaukee, Wis.
Current expenses.

For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this Subsistence. head for the Central Branch, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand

five hundred dollars:

For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household. for the Central Branch, seventy thousand dollars;

For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital. for the Central Branch, forty-three thousand five hundred dollars;

For transportation of members of the home, one thousand eight Transportation. hundred dollars;

For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-six thousand dollars;

For completion of iron fence, ten thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, ten thousand five hundred dollars;

In all, three hundred and forty-seven thousand three hundred dollars.

Eastern Branch, Togus, Maine: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-eight thousand dollars;

For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars;

For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, eighty-two thousand dollars;

For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-two thousand dollars;

For transportation of members of the home, one thousand two hundred dollars;

Repairs.

Iron fence.

Farm.

Togus, Me.
Current expenses.

Subsistence.

Household.

Hospital.

Transportation.

For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head Repairs. for the Central Branch, sixty thousand dollars;

For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars;

In all, three hundred and seventy thousand seven hundred dollars. Southern Branch, Hampton, Virginia: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-nine thousand dollars;

Farm.

Hampton, Va.
Current expenses.

Subsistence.

Household.

For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, seventy-eight thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital. for the Central Branch, forty-five thousand dollars;

For transportation of members of the home, two thousand two hundred dollars;

Transportation.

Repairs.

Barracks.
Farm.

Leavenworth, Kans.
Current expenses.

Subsistence.

Household.
Proviso.
Restriction.

Hospital.

Transportation.
Repairs.

Farm.

Santa Monica, Cal.
Current expenses.

Subsistence.

Household.

Hospital.

Transportation.

Repairs.

Tents for hospital.
Farm.

Marion, Ind.

Current expenses.

Subsistence.

Household.

Hospital.

Transportation.

Repairs.

Farm.

For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-five thousand dollars;

For three barracks, one hundred and sixty-two thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under its head for the Central Branch, ten thousand dollars;

In all, five hundred and fifty-one thousand two hundred dollars. Western Branch, Leavenworth, Kansas: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty-eight thousand dollars;

For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and sixty-two thousand dollars;

For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, eighty-seven thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this sum shall be used for fuel oil if it shall appear to the board of managers that coal as a fuel can be procured and used more economically:"

For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty-three thousand dollars;

For transportation of members of the home, three thousand dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty-three thousand dollars;

For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, eighteen thousand dollars;

In all, four hundred and thirty-four thousand dollars.

Pacific Branch, Santa Monica, California: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty-one thousand five hundred dollars;

For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and sixty-three thousand dollars;

For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty-nine thousand dollars;

For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty thousand dollars;

For transportation of members of the home, three thousand five hundred dollars;

For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty thousand dollars;

For six tent houses for hospital, one thousand six hundred dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twelve thousand dollars;

In all, three hundred and ninety thousand six hundred dollars. Marion Branch, Marion, Indiana: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-four thousand dollars;

For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and seven thousand dollars;

For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, and for necessary expenses for the procurement, piping, and preservation of natural gas, oil, and water, forty-eight thousand dollars;

For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-seven thousand dollars;

For transportation of members of the home, one thousand five hundred dollars;

For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-three thousand dollars;

For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars; In all, two hundred and eighty-four thousand dollars.