Cadet camp main tenance. Instruction materials, etc., for specified departments. Lectures. For camp stools, office furniture, and so forth, $4,000. For repairs to saddles, bridles, and so forth, $500. For the purchase of carbons and for repairs and maintenance of searchlights, and so forth, $250. For the purchase of stationery and office supplies for the office of the senior instructor of Coast Artillery tactics, $75. For purchase of machines, tools, textbooks, and material for the practical instruction of cadets in the maintenance, repair, and operation of all classes of motor transportation and automobile or internal combustion engines, $1,000. For repair of mattresses, machines, and so forth, in gymnasium of Cavalry barracks, $100. For material for hurdles, and so forth, riding hall, $600. For general maintenance and repairs to the site of the cadet camp, $10,000. For repair of obstacles on mounted drill ground, and for constructing other obstacles, and so forth, $100. For the purchase of thread, wax, needles, and so forth, in the Cavalry stables, $200. For the purchase of thread, wax, needles, and so forth, in the Artillery stables, $200. For material for preserving floors, and so forth, Artillery barracks and stables, $150. For the purchase of tools, machines, and so forth, Artillery gun shed, $2,000. For repair to mattresses, machines, and so forth, in drill hall and gymnasium of Artillery barracks, $100. For the purchase of new and upkeep of worn-out rubber matting in squad rooms of Artillery barracks, $150. For purchase of stationery and office furniture in office of the senior instructor of Field Artillery tactics, $100. For material for preserving floors, and so forth, Cavalry barracks and stables, $100. For repair of mattresses, machines, and so forth, in drill hall and gymnasium of Engineer barracks, $100. For department of civil and military engineering: Textbooks, stationery, and so forth, $1,200. For department of natural and experimental philosophy: Textbooks, apparatus, and so forth, $3,500. For department of instruction in mathematics: Textbooks, stationery, and so forth, $1,250. For department of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology, $2,500. For department of drawing: Drawing materials, and so forth, $2,000. For department of modern languages: Stationery, and so forth, $1,900. For department of law: Books, stationery, and so forth, $2,000. For department of practical military engineering: For models, books, stationery, and so forth, $4,500. For department of ordnance and gunnery: Models, instruments, books, and so forth, $2,150. For the purchase of machines, tools, and so forth, for practical instruction of cadets in wood and metal working, $500. For department of military hygiene, $500. For department of English and history: For purchase of stationery, books, and so forth, $1,500. For a course of lectures for the more complete instruction of cadets, $1,200. For the maintenance of one automobile truck, $300. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND INCIDENTAL EXPENSES. For commercial periodicals, stationery, and so forth, for the office of the treasurer United States Military Academy, $300. Miscellaneous. Treasurer's office. Lighting, plumbing, For gas coal, oil, candles, and so forth, for operating the gas plant, etc. $25,000. For water pipe, plumbing, and repairs, $8,000. For material and labor for cleaning and policing public buildings, $6,620. For supplies for recitation rooms not otherwise provided for and for renewing and repairing furniture in same, $1,000. Increase and expense of library, $7,200. For contingent funds, to be expended under the direction of the academic board: For instruments, books, repairs to apparatus, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $500: Provided, That all technical and scientific supplies for the departments of instruction of the Military Academy shall be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may deem best. For the purchase and repair of instruments and maintenance of the band, $1,500. For repairs and improvements to the laundry machinery, and so forth, which may be expended without advertising, and to be immediately available, $15,325. For the repair and purchase of cooking utensils, chairs, and so forth, cadet mess, which may be expended without advertising, to be immediately available, $3,000. For the policing of barracks and bathhouses, $25,000. For supplying light and plain furniture to cadets' barracks, $15,000. For the purchase and repair of cocoa matting for the aisleways in the stables of the riding hall, $300. For maintaining the children's school, and so forth, $6,500. For new wooden steps, with handrail, from sidewalk to entrance to cadet hospital, $250. For painting, two coats, walls, doors, and ceilings of rooms, third floor, cadet hospital, kitchen, dining room, hallway, and three squad rooms, $600. For repair of paint and calcimine ceiling of ward Wheaton, cadet hospital, damaged by leak in roof, $250. For removing old air ducts in basement and repairing floor in cadet hospital, $200. For repairing and renewing rain conductors around building at cadet hospital, $150. For painting walls, ceilings, and woodwork of interior of main and annex buildings; ceilings and walls of operating and dressing rooms to be white enamel or other durable substance at soldiers' hospital, $2,500. For care, upkeep, and mounting of trophies at the United States For purchase and repair of fire-extinguishing apparatus, $2,000. BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. Library. Proviso. Band expenses. Laundry. Cadet mess. Policing. Cadet barracks. Children's school. Soldiers' hospital. Care of trophies. Fire protection. Ordnance museum, For cases, materials, and so forth, ordnance museum in head- etc. quarters building, $1,500. For repairs to ordnance laboratory and other buildings pertaining to department of ordnance and gunnery, $150. Army surplus material, etc., transferred struction. For general repairs to cadet laundry building, and so forth, to be expended without advertising, $400. For general incidental repairs and improvements to the cadet store building, including storerooms, office, tailor shops, and shoerepairing shops, $1,000. For materials and labor for repairs, and so forth, soldiers' hospital, $165. For repair and upkeep of quarters of the staff sergeant, Medical Department, at soldiers' hospital, $50. For waterworks, $3,000. For repairs to quarters of steward of cadet mess, which may be expended without advertising, $150. For the repair and restoration of retaining walls along the line of the Poplopen pipe line, $3,000. For carrying on the development of the general plan for improvements to roads and grounds, $3,000. For repairs and necessary alterations and additions to the cadet hospital as follows: For materials for radiators, piping, furniture, and so forth, $120. For purchase of flowers and shrubs for hospital grounds, $100. For necessary repairs and replacements in steam-heating system and steam line in cadet mess, which may be expended without advertising, $650. For repairs to the cadet mess building, which may be expended without advertising and to be immediately available, $1,000. For repairs and improvements to the West Point Army mess building, including supplying and renewing furniture and fittings, $2,500. For the repair and maintenance of the cadet boathouse and the purchase and maintenance of boats and canoes for the instruction of cadets in rowing, $750. For grading and paving the area of south cadet barracks, $15,000. For the restoration and repair of the Poplopen intake to the Poplopen pipe line, $500. For the repair and upkeep of quarters of the master sergeant, Medical Department, at the cadet hospital, $50. For repairs to the cadet barracks, to be immediately available, $15,000. For maintaining and improving grounds of post cemetery, $2,000. For continuing the construction of breast-high wall in dangerous places, $1,000. For broken stone and gravel for roads, $10,000. For repairs of boilers, engines, dynamos, motors, and so forth, cadet mess, which may be expended without advertising, to be immediately available, $3,350. For the repair and improvement of cadet polo field, $600. For waterproofing the post headquarters, bachelor, gymnasium, and other large buildings, $2,000. For care and maintenance of organ in cadet chapel, $250. For general repairs to the buildings of the Coast Artillery firecontrol system, $100. For material and labor for repair of Field Artillery target range, $500. For repair and upkeep of stable Numbered four, and corral, purchase of paint, nails, and so forth, $300. for The Secretary of War is hereby directed to turn over to the United for temporary con- States Military Academy without expense all such surplus material Tools, etc., for in- as may be available and necessary for the construction of temporary buildings; also surplus tools and matériel for use in the instruction of cadets at the academy. struction. demic building. aca New bachelor build ing. For subdividing rooms 401 and 402, fourth floor, east academic Changes building, including new partitions, new entrances from corridor, new lights, additional slate blackboards, and incidental work, $4,000. For extension of water, sewer, gas, and electric systems to new Ne bachelor building, to be immediately available, $20,000. Provided, That the constructing quartermaster, United States Leaves of absence, Military Academy, is hereby exempted from all laws and regula- construction emtions relative to granting leaves of absence to employees with pay while employed on construction work at the Military Academy. In all, buildings and grounds, $92,185. In all, Military Academy, $2,357,259.80. Proviso. ployees. Pay of civilians lim SEC. 2. No part of the moneys appropriated in this Act shall be ited to local rates. used for paying to any civilian employee of the United States Government an hourly wage or salary larger than that customarily paid by private individuals for corresponding work in the same locality. Approved, June 30, 1921. CHAP. 34.-An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to furnish free transportation and subsistence from Europe and Siberia to the United States for certain destitute discharged soldiers and their wives and children. June 30, 1921. [S. 1019.] [Public, No. 28.] Destitute discharged Free passage to their to, and their families. From place of land Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War soldiers in Europe. be, and he is hereby, authorized to furnish transportation on United homes on Army transStates Army transports from Europe to the United States, and ports, and subsistence subsistence en route, to any person who served in the Army of the United States and was honorably discharged therefrom in Europe, and who is now in Europe and is or becomes destitute, and to the wife and children of such person and transportation and subsistence en route to such person and his wife and children from point of ing to where enlisted. debarkation in the United States to the point of enlistment of such person or his home of record or to any other point to which he may desire to be furnished transportation for himself, wife, and children: Provisos. Provided, That such point is of no greater distance from the point of other than place of debarkation than is his point of enlistment or home: Provided further, That if such person, his wife and children, are not at a port to port of embarkaof embarkation of United States Army transports in Europe the Secretary of War is further authorized to furnish transportation to such person, his wife and children, to such port of embarkation and Transportation, etc., subsistence en route: Provided further, That such transportation and furnished free. subsistence shall be furnished to such person, his wife, and children without cost to them. If to Transportation, etc., Similar passage, etc., discharged in Siberia. SEC. 2. That the Secretary of War is hereby further authorized to to destitute persons furnish transportation and subsistence en route, as contemplated above in the case of destitute former soldiers in Europe, to any person who was honorably discharged from the Army of the United States in Siberia and who is now in Vladivostok or its immediate vicinity and is or becomes destitute, and to the wife and children of such person: Provided, That the Secretary of War is authorized, in transporting such persons to the United States, to procure transportation transports from. and subsistence for them on vessels other than United States Army transports from Siberia to Japan. Proviso. Act to terminate in SEC. 3. That the authority conferred by this Act shall cease and six months. determine six months after the approval thereof. Approved, June 30, 1921. June 30, 1921. [H. R. 5616.] [Public, No. 29.] Allegheny River. Venango County, City. CHAP. 35.-An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the commissioners of Venango County, their successors and assigns, to construct a bridge across the Allegheny River, in the State of Pennsylvania. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of Pa., may bridge, Oil Congress is hereby granted to the commissioners of Venango County, Pennsylvania, and their successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Allegheny River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at Oil City, Pennsylvania, connecting Petroleum Street, on the south side of the river, with North Petroleum Street, on the north side of the river, in the county of Venango, in the State of Pennsylvania, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters," approved March 23, 1906. Construction. Amendment. SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, June 30, 1921. June 30, 1921. [H. R. 6652.] [Public, No. 30.] Arkansas River. CHAP. 36.-An Act To extend the time for the construction of a bridge across the Arkansas River, in Muskogee County, Oklahoma. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Time extended for States of America in Congress assembled, That the times for commencbridging, at Fort Gib- ing and completing the construction of a bridge authorized by Act of Vol. 41, p. 629, Congress, approved May 27, 1920, to be built by the county of Mus son, Okla. amended. Amendment. kogee, State of Oklahoma, across the Arkansas River, at a point near Fort Gibson, in said county and State, between sections sixteen and twenty-one, township fifteen north, range nineteen east, are hereby extended one and three years, respectively, from the date of approval hereof. SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, June 30, 1921. June 30, 1921. [H. R. 6653.] [Public, No. 31.] Arkansas River. Falls, Okla. Vol. 41, p. amended. CHAP. 37.-An Act To extend the time for the construction of a bridge across the Arkansas River at a point near Webbers Falls, in Muskogee County, Oklahoma. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Time extended for States of America in Congress assembled, That the times for commencbridging at Webbers ing and completing the construction of a bridge, authorized by Act 629, of Congress approved May 27, 1920, to be built by the county of Muskogee, State of Oklahoma, across the Arkansas River, at a point near Webbers Falls, in section eighteen, township twelve north, range twenty-one east, in the said county and State, are hereby extended one and three years, respectively, from the date of approval hereof. SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Amendment. Approved, June 30, 1921. June 30, 1921. [H. J. Res. 82.] CHAP. 38.-Joint Resolution Ratifying the reestablishment of the boundary line [Pub. Res., No. 7.] between the States of Pennsylvania and Delaware. Pennsylvania and Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Congress hereby consents to the reestablishment of the boundary line between the Reestablishment of, States of Pennsylvania and Delaware, as heretofore agreed upon by Delaware boundary line. ratified. |