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been honorably discharged or retired and who die while patients at the Army and Navy General Hospital, Hot Springs, Arkansas, to be disbursed at a cost not exceeding $35 for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, $200.

San Francisco National Cemetery: For preparation of new extension in order to provide additional burial sites, $10,000.

NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS.

Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park: For continuing the establishment of the park; compensation and expenses of civilian commissioner, maps, surveys, clerical and other assistance, including $300 for necessary clerical labor under direction of the chairman of the commission; maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled and one horse-drawn passengercarrying vehicle; office and all other necessary expenses; foundations for State monuments; mowing; historical tablets, iron and bronze; iron gun carriages; roads and their maintenance; purchase of small tracts of lands heretofore authorized by law, $50,000.

Gettysburg National Park: For continuing the establishment of the park; acquisition of lands, surveys, and maps; constructing, improving, and maintaining avenues, roads, and bridges thereon; fences and gates; marking the lines of battle with tablets and guns, each tablet bearing a brief legend giving historic facts and compiled without censure and without praise; preserving the features of the battle field and the monuments thereon; compensation of civilian commissioner, clerical and other services, expenses, and labor; purchase and preparation of tablets and gun carriages and placing them in position; maintenance, repair, and operation of a motor-propelled passengercarrying vehicle, and all other expenses incident to the foregoing, $50,000.

Guilford Courthouse National Military Park: For continuing the establishment of a national military park at the battle field of Guilford Courthouse, in accordance with the act entitled "An act to establish a national military park at the battle field of Guilford Courthouse," approved March 2, 1917, $9,200.

Shiloh National Military Park: For continuing the establishment of the park; compensation of civilian commissioner; secretary and superintendent; clerical and other services; labor,

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historical tablets; maps and surveys; roads; purchase and transportation of supplies, implements, and materials; foundations for monuments; office and other necessary expenses, including maintenance, repair, and operation of a motor-propelled passengercarrying vehicle, $25,435.

Vicksburg National Military Park: For continuing the establishment of the park; compensation of civilian commissioners; clerical and other services, labor, iron gun carriages, mounting of siege guns, memorials, monuments, markers, and historical tablets, giving historical facts, compiled without praise and without censure; maps, surveys, roads, bridges, restoration of earthworks, purchase of lands, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials; and other necessary expenses, $30,000.

ENGINEER DEPARTMENT.

Buildings and grounds in and around Washington: For improvement and care of public grounds, District of Columbia, as follows:

For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of Executive Mansion, $4,000.

For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, $2,000. For repair and reconstruction of the greenhouses at the nursery, $3,000.

For ordinary care of Lafayette Park, $2,000.

For ordinary care of Franklin Park, $1,500.

For improvement and ordinary care of Lincoln Park, $2,000. For care and improvement of Monument Grounds and annex, $7,000.

For improvement, care, and maintenance of Garfield Park, $2,500.

For construction and repair of post-and-chain fences, repair of high iron fences, constructing stone coping about reservations, painting watchmen's lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts; repairing and extending water pipes, and purchase of apparatus for cleaning them; hose, manure, and hauling same; removing snow and ice; purchase and repair of seats and tools; trees, tree and plant stakes, labels, lime, whitewashing, and stock for nursery, flowerpots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, and moss, to be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may determine; care, construction, and

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repair of fountains; abating nuisances, cleaning statues, and repairing pedestals, $18,550.

For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservatlons, including maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of three motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes, $35,000.

For improvement, care, and maintenance of Smithsonian grounds, $4,000.

For improvement and maintenance of Judiciary Park, $2,500. For laying cement and other walks in various reservations, $3,000.

For broken-stone road covering for parks, $10,000.

For curbing, coping, and flagging for park roads and walks, $2,000.

For care and improvement of Rock Creek Park and the Piney Branch Parkway, exclusive of building for superintendent's residence, and including personal services in the District of Columbia, $23,200.

For improvement, care, and maintenance of West Potomac Park, including grading, soiling, seeding, planting, and constructing paths, $30,000.

For oiling or otherwise treating macadam roads, $8,000.

For care and improvement of East Potomac Park, $50,000. For continuing the improvement of Montrose Park, and for its care and maintenance, $5,000.

For placing and maintaining special portions of the parks in condition for outdoor sports, $15,000.

For improvement, care, and maintenance of Meridian Hill Park, $30,000.

For care and maintenance of Willow Tree Park, $1,500. For care of the center parking on Maryland Avenue northeast, $1,000.

For operation, care, repair, and maintenance of the pumps which operate the three fountains on the Union Station Plaza, $4,000.

To provide for the increased cost in park maintenance, $25,000. For care of the center parking in Pennsylvania Avenue, between Second and Seventeenth Streets southeast, $2,500.

Tidal Basin bathing beach: For purification of waters of the Tidal Basin and maintenance of the bathing beach, $15,000. For extension of the bathhouse at the Tidal Basin bathing beach, $20,000.

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For a ferry line from the vicinity of Seventh and Water Streets to East Potomac Park, $7,000.

For repair of sea wall in West Potomac Park, $3,000.

For cement walk in grounds south of Executive Mansion connecting walk around the Ellipse with street sidewalk bounding the park, $5,000.

For a new lodge and comfort station in the Smithsonian Grounds, $4,000.

For soiling and seeding East and West Seaton Park, $5,000.

One half of the foregoing sums under "Buildings and grounds in and around Washington" shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.

For improvement, care, and maintenance of grounds of executive departments, $1,000.

For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Library of Congress as may be requested by the superintendent of the Library Buildings, $1,000.

For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Capitol and the Senate and House Office Buildings as may be requested by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building, $4,000.

For improvement and maintenance of Executive Mansion grounds (within iron fence), $5,000.

For the employment of an engineer by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, $2,400.

For purchase and repair of machinery and tools for shops at nursery, and for the repair of shops and storehouses, $1,000. For a new roof for the storehouse at the propagating gardens, $1,000.

Executive Mansion: For ordinary care, repair, and refurnishing of Executive Mansion, and for purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles for official purposes, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine, $40,000.

For fuel for the Executive Mansion and greenhouses, $8,000. For care and maintenance of greenhouses, Executive Mansion, $9,000.

For repair to greenhouses, Executive Mansion, $3,000.

For reconstructing one greenhouse, Executive Mansion, $4,000.

For traveling expenses of the President of the United States, to be expended in his discretion and accounted for on his certificate solely, $25,000.

For lighting the Executive Mansion, grounds, and greenhouses, including all necessary expenses of installation, maintenance, and repair, $8,600.

Lighting the public grounds: For lighting the public grounds, watchmen's lodges, offices, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, including all necessary expenses of installation, maintenance, and repair, $23,000.

For heating offices, watchmen's lodges, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, $4,500.

In all, $27,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 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.

Telegraph to connect the Capitol with the departments and Government Printing Office: For care and repair of existing lines, $500.

Washington Monument: For custodian, $1,200; steam engineer, $960; assistant steam engineer, $840; fireman, $660; assistant fireman, $660; conductor of elevator car, $900; attendants one on floor, $720, one on top floor, $720; three night and day watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $8,820.

For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes, brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower floors; repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and repairs of all kinds connected with the Monument and machinery; and purchase of all necessary articles for keeping the Monument, machinery, elevator, and electric plant in good order, $4,500.

For extra services of employees and for additional supplies and materials, to provide for the opening of the Monument to the public on Sundays and legal holidays, $2,000.

Building where Abraham Lincoln died: For painting and miscellaneous repairs, $200.

Birthplace of George Washington, Wakefield, Virginia: For repairs to fences and cleaning up and maintaining grounds about the monument, $100.

For commencing the construction of a reflecting pool in west Potomac Park, $175,000.