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620 Firrr-six·rH corweanss. sees. 1. cn. 791. 1900. donated to the Government within the District of Columbia for that purpose, toward which, including the expense of the preparation of plans and specifications, there is ereby appropriated the sum of fifty thousand dollars. . t_¢¤}¤¤{>l§·; Dga¤gQ;g CURRENT EXPENSES or THE COLUMB1A INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF iililuiiir AND Duma: For support of the institution, including salaries and inci- C“”°“‘ °"*’°“s°“‘ dental expenses, for books and illustrative apparatus, and for eneral _ repairs and improvements, fifty-four thousand five hundred dollars: - {gig;} 0, Sim Provided, That the number of beneficiaries in said institution, authorueneucmnes iuerm ized by the Act of August thirtieth; eighteen hundred and ninety, to °‘·‘g·,,,_26,,,_m_ be received from the several States and erritories, is hereby increased from sixty to one hundred. _ - ' R¤v¤i¤=- For repairs to the buildings of the institution, including plumbing and steam-heating apparatus, and for repairs to pavements within the grounds, three thousand dollars. Howard University- HOWARD UN1vmzsrrr: For maintenance of the Howard University, M“lm°““°°°‘ to be used in payment of art of the salaries of the omcers, professors, teachers, and other regular employees of the university, the balance of which will be paid from donations and other sources, of which sum not less than one thousand Eve hundred dollars shall be used for normal instruction, twenty-nine thousand dollars; For tools, materials, fuel, wages of instructors, and other necessary expenses of the industrial department, three thousand dollars; - or books, shelving, furniture, and fixtures for the law and general libraries, nine hundred dollars; d ger improvement of grounds and repairs of buildings, two thousand · dollars; For material and apparatus for chemical, physical, and naturalhistory studies, and use in laboratories, including cases and shelving, two hundred dollars; A In all, thirty-five thousand one hundred dollars. gjlfgjfion EDUCATION IN ALASKA: For the industrial and elementary educa- ` $01111 of children in Alaska, without reference to race, thirty thousand 0 8.I‘S. ·# · R<·=*¤¤¤¤*- Rnmnmnn ron ALASKA: For support of reindeer stations in Alaska, for the instruction of Alaskan natives in the care and mana ement of the reindeer and for the purchase and introduction of reinldeer from Siberia for domestic purposes, twenty-five thousand dollars, of which a part may be used in the capture and domestication of the native caribou in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior. War 1>¤p¤r¤¤¢¤*· UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT. mggmories md me- ABMORIES AND ARsENALs. R°°k *S*°“"·m· For the Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois as follows: For machinery and shop fixtures, ten thousand dollars. For general care, preservation, and iniprovements; for painting and care and preservation of permanent buil ings; for building fences and _ sewers and grading grounds, ten thousand ollars. " For reqairs of wing dam of Rock Island Arsenal water power, deepening tai races of the Moline and Government dams o said power above and below their junction through the slough south of the island, ninety-seven thousand dollars. For the Rock Island Bridge, as follows: For operating and care and preservation of Rock Island bridge and viaduct, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. , For completing the installation of the plant and the purchase of tools, fixtures, and other sippliances for the manufacture o small arms in the armory shotps at ock Island Arsenal, to be available until expended, five hun red and nine thousand dollars.