music; musical and astronomical instruments; uniforms for the bandsmen; telegraphing; for feed and maintenance of teams; for current expenses and repairs of all kinds; and for incidental labor and expenses not applicable to any other appropriation, seventeen thousand three hundred dollars.

For stores in the department of steam-enginery, four hundred dollars. For materials for repairs in steam-machinery, five hundred dollars.

MARINE CORPS.

For pay of officers on the active-list, as follows: For one colonel commandant, one colonel, two lieutenant-colonels, one adjutaut and inspector, one quartermaster, one paymaster, four majors, two assistant quartermasters, one judge-advocate-general United States Navy, nineteen captains, thirty first lieutenants, and twenty-two second lieutenants, ninety-eight thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; and from and after the passage of this act there shall be no appointments, except by promotion, to fill vacancies occurring in the list of commissioned officers of the Marine Corps until the number of such officers shall have been reduced, by casualties or otherwise, below seventy five as fixed by the act approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six; and after the number of officers shall be reduced as above provided, the whole number of commissioned officers on the active list in the Marine Corps shall not exceed seventy-five.

For pay of officers on the retired-list: For one colonel, three majors, two assistant quartermasters, three captains, two first lieutenants, and three second lieutenants, fourteen thousand eight hundred and nineteen dollars.

For pay of non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates: For one sergeant-major, one quartermaster sergeant, one leader of the band, and one drum-major, fifty first sergeants, one hundred and forty sergeants, one hundred and eighty corporals, thirty musicians, ninety-six drummers and fifers, and one thousand five hundred privates, one hundred and ninety-four thousand five hundred and twenty-six dollars.

For ten clerks and two messengers, eight thousand and seventeen dollars and fifty cents; payments to discharged soldiers for clothing undrawn, ten thousand dollars; transportation of officers travelling under orders without troops, four thousand dollars; commutation of quarters for officers where there are no public buildings, two thousand dollars; in all, twenty-four thousand and seventeen dollars and fifty

cents.

For provisions for the Marine Corps, and for difference between cost of rations and commutation thereof for detailed men, thirty thousand dollars.

For clothing, thirty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.
For fuel, nine thousand dollars.

For military stores, namely: For pay of one chief armorer, at three dollars per day; three mechanics, at two dollars and fifty cents per day each; purchase of military equipments, such as cartridge-boxes, bayonetscabbards, haversacks, blanket-bags, canteens, musket-slings, swords, flags, kuapsacks, drums, fifes, bugles, and other instruments, two thousand five hundred dollars; purchase of ammunition, five hundred dollars; purchase and repair of instruments for the band and purchase of music, two hundred and fifty dollars; in all, four thousand eight hundred and ninety-three dollars and twenty-five cents.

For transportation of troops and for expenses of recruiting, five thousand dollars.

For repairs of barracks, and rent of buildings to be used for the manufacture of clothing, stores for supplies, and offices of assistant quartermaster at Philadelphia, and for hire of quarters where there are no public buildings, seven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

For forage for four public horses, one for messenger to commandant and staff, Washington, District of Columbia, and three for general use at marine barracks, Mare Island, California, and League Island, Pennsylvania, three hundred and sixty dollars.

For the purchase of forage, two thousand three hundred and forty dollars: Provided, That no commutation for forage shall be paid.

For contingencies, namely: For freight; ferriage; toll; cartage; funeral expenses of marines; stationery; telegraphing; rent of telephone; apprehension of deserters; per diem to enlisted men employed on constant labor for periods not less than ten days; repair of gas and water fixtures; office and barrack furniture; mess utensils for enlisted men; packing-boxes; wrapping paper; oil-cloth; crash; rope; twine; carpenter's tools; tools for police purposes; purchase and repair of hose; repairs to public carryall; purchase and repair of harness; repair of fire extinguishers; purchase and repair of hand-carts and wheelbarrows; purchase and repair of cooking-stoves, ranges, and so forth; stoves where there are no grates; purchase of ice; towels and soap for offices; improving parade-grounds; repair of pumps and wharves laying drain and water pipes; introducing gas; and for other purposes, including gas and oil for marine barracks maintained at the various navy-yards and stations; and water at marine barracks, Boston, Massachusetts; Brooklyn, New York; Annapolis, Maryland, and Mare Island, California; also straw for bedding for enlisted men at the various posts, and furniture for Government houses; in all, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.

At the Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For superintendent, at the rate per annum of six hundred dollars; steward, at the rate per annum of four hundred and eighty dollars; matron, at the rate per annum of three hundred and sixty dollars; cook, at the rate per annum of two hundred and forty dollars; two assistant cooks, at the rate per annum of one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; chief laundress, at the rate per annum of one hundred and ninety-two dollars; six laundresses, at the rate per annum of one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; nine scrubbers and waiters, at the rate per annum of one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; six laborers, at the rate per annum of two hundred and forty dollars each; stable keeper and driver, at the rate per annum of three hundred and sixty dollars; master-at-arms, at the rate per annum of four hundred and eighty dollars; corporal, at the rate per annum of three hundred dollars; barber, at the rate per annum of three hundred and sixty dollars; carpenter, at the rate per annum of eight hundred and forty-five dollars; water-rent and gas, one thousand dollars; ice, one hundred dollars; car-tickets, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; cemetery and burial expenses, and headstones, one hundred and seventy-five dollars; improvement of grounds, two hundred and fifty dollars; repairs to buildings and preservation of all kinds, painting, and for grates, furnaces, ranges, furniture, and repairs of furniture, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; and for support of beneficiaries, twenty-one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; in all, twenty-nine thousand nine hundred and six dollars and fifty cents, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund.

SEC. 2. That all appropriations made by the act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, making temporary provisions for the naval service for the six months ending December thirty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, or any balances thereof that may be unexpended at that date, be, and they are hereby, reappropriated, continued, and made available for the remainder of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five.

SEC. 3. That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed to report to Congress, at its next and each regular session thereafter, the amount expended during the prior fiscal year, from the appropriations for the pay of the Navy, Bureaus of Navigation, Ordnance, Equipment and Recruiting, Yards and Docks, Medicine and Surgery, Provisions and Clothing, Construction and Repair, and Steam-Engineering, for civilians employed on clerical duty, or in any other capacity than as ordinary mechanics and workingmen, and to submit, under the estimates for pay of the Navy.and for the respective Bureaus enumerated above, specific estimates for such civilian employees for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and each fiscal year thereafter.

Approved, January 30th, 1885.

[PUBLIC-No. 26.]

AN ACT making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six:

For pay of eight professors, twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars.

For one commandant of cadets, in addition to pay of captain in the line, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For pay of one instructor of practical military engineering, in addition to pay as first lieutenant, nine hundred dollars.

For pay of one instructor of ordnance and science of gunnery, in addition to pay as first lieutenant, nine hundred dollars.

For pay of eight assistant professors, in addition to pay as first lieutenants, four thousand dollars.

For pay of three instructors of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics, in addition to pay as second lieutenants, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For pay of four assistant instructors of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics, in addition to pay as second lieutenants, two thousand four hundred dollars.

For pay of adjutant, in addition to pay as second lieutenant, four hundred dollars: Provided, That the sum paid to said officer shall not exceed one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum.

For pay of treasurer, quartermaster, and commissary of cadets, in addition to pay as captain of infantry, seven hundred dollars.

For pay of one master of the sword, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For pay of cadets, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars; and no cadet shall receive more than at the rate of five hundred and forty dollars a year.

For pay of the teacher of music, one thousand and eighty dollars. For pay of the Military Academy band, nine thousand two hundred and forty dollars; which shall be in full for the pay of the said band for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

For additional pay of professors and officers on (increased rank) for length of service, nine thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars. For current expenses, as follows:

For repairs and improvements, timber, planks, boards, joists, wallstrips, laths, shingles, slate, tin, sheet-lead, zinc, nails, screws, locks, hinges, glass, paints, turpentine, oils, varnish, brushes, stone, brick, flag, lime, cement, plaster, hair, sewer and drain pipe, blasting powder, fuse, iron, steel, tools, mantels, and other similar materials, and for pay of overseer and master builder and citizen mechanics and labor employed upon repairs and improvements that cannot be done by enlisted men, eleven thousand dollars.

For fuel and apparatus, coal, wood, stoves, grates, furnaces, ranges and fixtures, fire-bricks, clay, sand, repairs of steam-heating apparatus, grates, stoves, ranges, furnaces, and fixtures, thirteen thousand dollars; one thousand dollars of which sum shall be immediately available.

For gas-pipes, fixtures, lamp-posts, gasometers, and retorts, and annual repairs of the same, nine hundred dollars.

For fuel for cadets' mess-hall, shops, and laundry, three thousand dollars.

For postage and telegrams, three hundred dollars.

For stationery, blank-books, paper, envelopes, quills, steel pens, rubbers, erasers, pencils, mucilage, wax, wafers, folders, fasteners, rules, files, ink, inkstands, pen-holders, tape, blotting pads, and rubber bands, six hundred dollars.

For transportation of materials, discharged cadets, and ferriages, two thousand dollars.

For printing: For type, materials for office, diplomas for graduates, annual registers, blanks, and monthly reports to parents of cadets, one thousand dollars.

For clerk to the disbursing officer and quartermaster, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For clerk to adjutant, in charge of cadet records, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For clerk to treasurer, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For department of instruction in mathematics, namely: For repairs and materials for preservation of models and instruments fifty dollars; text-books, books of reference, binding, and stationery for instructors, one hundred and fifty dollars; one draughtsman, to draw figures, make corrections and copies of subjects rendered necessary by revision of text-books in mathematics now under way, one hundred dollars; in all, three hundred dollars.

For department of civil and military engineering: For models, maps, purchase and repairs of instruments, text-books, books of reference, and stationery for the use of intructors, and contingencies, five hundred dollars; extra pay of enlisted man employed as draughtsman, one hundred dollars; in all, six hundred dollars.

For department of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology: For chemicals, chemical apparatus, glass and porcelain ware, paper, wire, sheetmetal, ores, photographic apparatus and materials, five hundred dollars; rough specimens, fossils, files, alcohol, lamps, blow-pipes, pencils, and paper for practical instruction in mineralogy and geology, and for gradual increase of the cabinet, four hundred dollars; repairs and additions to electric, magnetic, pneumatic, and thermic apparatus, and apparatus illustrating optical properties of substances, seven hundred and fifty dollars; pay of mechanic employed in chemical and geological section-rooms and in lecture-rooms, one thousand dollars; models, maps, and diagrams, text-books, and stationery for the use of instructors, one hundred and eighty dollars; contingencies, one hundred dollars; in all, two thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars.

For department of modern languages: For stationery, text books, books of reference for the use of instructors, and for printing examination papers, two hundred dollars; furniture for instructors' room in academic building, necessary for the use of instructors, and for the proper protection of the books and apparatus of the department kept in that room, seventy-five dollars; in all, two hundred and seventy-five dollars.