Repairs of Army TransportaionFor hose for use in case of fire and for filling cisterns, and for too] and materials in shops, repairs of Army transportation, cleaning and repairing machinery and belting, three thousand eight hundred dollars;
Tobacco to prisoners. For tobacco for issue to prisoners on special and excessive hard labor, four hundred dollars;
For foreman and engineers, and mechanics, and watchmen, seven thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars;
Teamsters, &c. For teamsters, one thousand eight hundred dollars;
Clerks to disbursing-officer, &c. For clerks in offices of disbursing-officer and acting assistant quarter-master, two thousand seven hundred dollars;
Extra-duty pay. For extra-duty pay, tour hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty-five cents
Materials. For paving-bricks, two thousand five hundred dollars;
Repairs to officers quarters. For repairs to officers’ quarters, prison buildings, shops, and for extension of shops, three thousand dollars.
Medical supplies For purchase of supplies from the Medical Department, one thousand dollars; in all, fifty-five thousand eight hundred and ten dollars and eighty cents.
Artillery School United States Artillery School at Fortress Monroe, Virginia: To provide for text-books, drawing materials, models, and material necessary in the science of engineering and of artillery, stationery, and miscellaneous necessaries for the use of the school, five thousand dollars.
Artificial limbs. Artificial limbs : For furnishing artificial limbs and appliances, or comutation therefor, and transportation, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Surgical appliances Appliances for disabled soldiers: For providing surgical appliances for persons disabled in the military and naval service of the United States, not otherwise provide for three thousand dollars.
Catalouge Surgen-General's Office. Printing Catalouge of the Library of the Surgeon-General’s Office: For printing an binding the First and second volumes of the Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon·General's Office, six thousand five hundred dollars.
Transisent paupers, city of Washington. Support of transient paupers: For care support and medical treatment of seventy-five transient paupers, medical and surgical patients in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with such instiution as the Surgeon-General of the Army may select, fifteen thousand dollars.
National Home of Disabled Volunteers. Support of National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers: Current expenses, including construction and repairs: For the Central Branch for the Eastern Branch, for the Northwestern Branch, for the Southern Branch, and for barracks, and other necessary construction purposes, for clothing of extra sizes and underclothing for out-door relief and incidental expenses, one million and thirty-three thousand five hundred
and sixty dollars and eighty-three cents.
Proviso.
Provided that so much of
this amount as may be necessary, not exceeding thirty thousand dollars,
hereby authorized to be used for the purpose of rebuilding Memorial
Hall at Dayton, Ohio:
Proviso.
Managers appointed to fill vacancies Provided further, That General John M. Palmer,
of Illinois, General William B. Franklin, of Connecticut, and General
Charles W. Roberts, of Maine, are herby appointed managers of the
National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soilders to fill vacancies which
occurred on the twenty-first day of April, eighteen hundred and sevnty-eight; and General Martin T. MacMahon, of New York, General John
Love, of Indiana, and Mayor David C. Fulton, of Wisconsin, are hereby
appointed managers of said National Home, to fill vacancies which
occured on the twenty first day of April, eighteen hundred and eighty.
Washington Asylum That the buildings and grounds adjoining the Washington Asylum in the District of Columbia, heretofore used as a naval and Army magazine, be and the same hereby are, added to the grounds of the asylum, and subjected to the control of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia as part of the asylum until otherwise ordered.
