tactics, commanding companies, in addition to pay as second lieutenants, two thousand four hundred dollars.

For pay of treasurer, quartermaster, and commissary of cadets, in addition to pay as captain of infantry, seven 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 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: Provided, That hereafter any cadet dismissed for hazing shall not be eligible to reappointment.

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-five, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

For additional pay of professors for length of service, eight thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight dollars and fifty cents.

For current expenses, as follows:

Proviso.

Proviso; hazing.

Professors, additional pay of.

For repairs and improvements, timber, plank, boards, joists, wall- Repairs and imstrips, laths, shingles, slate, tin, sheet-lead, zinc, nails, screws, locks, provement. hinges, glass, paint, 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 Laborers. 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, and repairs of steam-heating apparatus, grates, ranges, furnaces, and stoves, twelve thousand dollars. 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, 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.

Fuel.

Gas-pipes, eto.

Postage, telegrams. Stationery.

Transportation.

Printing, etc.

Clerks.

For department of instruction in mathematics, namely: For repairs Department of and materials for preservation of models and instruments, fifty dollars; mathematics. text-books, books of reference, and stationery for instructors, one hun

dred dollars; binding books of reference, fifty dollars; in all, two hundred dollars.

For department of civil and military engineering: For models, maps, Department of purchase and repairs of intruments, text-books, books of reference, and civil and military engineering. stationery for the use of instructors, and contingencies, five hundred dollars; for continuing preparation of text-books for special instruction of cadets, five hundred dollars; extra pay of enlisted man employed

Department of chemistry, etc.

Department of philosophy.

Department of languages.

Department of geography, etc.

Department of drawing.

Department of

law.

Department of artillery, etc.

nery.

as draughtsman, one hundred dollars; in all, one thousand one 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 and improvement 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 dol lars; models, maps, and diagrams, books of reference, 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 natural and experimental philosophy: For additions to apparatus to illustrate the laws of accoustics, optics, and mechanics, one thousand dollars; books of reference, text-books, stationery, materials, and repairs, four hundred dollars; for pay of mechanic assistant, one thousand dollars; construction of quarters near the new observatory for the mechanic assistant, three thousand eight hundred dollars; necessary additions to the astronomical transit circle for the new observatory, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; in all, eight thousand and seventy-five 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.

For department of geography, history, and ethics: For maps, globes, text-books, books of reference, and stationery for use of instructors, three hundred dollars.

For department of drawing: For fifteen new desks one hundred and fifty dollars; photographic slides for use in lectures, repairs and construction of racks, models, stretchers, stools and desks, stationery, drawing materials, cardboard for mounting drawings, tacks, hammers, and contingencies, books of reference (mechanical, architectural, surveying, geometry, and art), periodicals on art and technology, models for topographical, free hand, and constructive drawing, hectograph, rules and triangles, and for shades, rollers, and contingencies for enlargement of drawing academy, eight hundred and ten dollars; in all, nine hundred and sixty dollars.

For department of law: For text-books and stationery and books of reference for the use of instructors, two hundred and fifty dollars.

For department of artillery, cavalry, and infantry tactics, namely: For tan-bark for riding-hall, three hundred dollars; repairing campstools and camp-furniture, one hundred dollars; furniture for offices and reception-room, one hundred dollars; plumes for cadet officers, to be accounted for as other public property, one hundred and eighty dollars; stationery for use of instructor and assistants, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; books and maps, seventy-five dollars; supply of fixtures for gymnasium, and repairs, two hundred dollars; foils, fencing-gloves, jackets, gaiters, and repairs, two hundred and fifty dollars; in all, one thousand three hundred and thirty dollars.

Department of For department of ordnance and gunnery: For addition to models ordnance and gun- and apparatus illustrating course of instruction, repairs of electroballistic machines and galvanic batteries and models, and for addition to firing houses, and practical instruction-room, for books of reference, text-books, and stationery for instructors, three hundred dollars. Department of For department of practical military engineering: For pontoning and military engineer- materials for mining and profiling, telegraphing and signaling materi als, stationery and text-books, books of reference, and purchase and repairs of instruments, nine hundred dollars.

ing.

For expenses of the Board of Visitors, including mileage, three thou- Board of Visitors. sand dollars.

Contingent ex

For miscellaneous and contingent expenses: For gas-coal, oil, candles, lanterns, matches, and wicking for lighting the Academy, chapel, penses. library, cadet barracks, mess-hall, shops, hospital, offices, stable and riding-hall, and sidewalks and wharves, three thousand five hundred dollars; water pipes, plumbing, and repairs, one thousand five hundred dollars; cleaning public buildings (not quarters), five hundred dollars; brooms, brushes, pails, tubs, soap, and clothes, two hundred dollars; chalk, crayon, sponge, slate, and rubbers for recitation rooms, three hundred dollars; compensation of chapel organist, two hundred dollars; compensation of librarian, one hundred and twenty dollars; pay of engineer of heating and ventilating apparatus for the academic building, the cadet barracks, and office building, chapel, and philosophical building, including the library, one thousand two hundred dollars; pay of assistant engineer of same, one thousand dollars; pay of five firemen, two thousand seven hundred dollars; in all, eleven thousand two hundred and twenty dollars.

For pay of librarian's assistant, one thousand dollars.

For increase and expense of library, namely: For periodicals, binding, new books, and scientific, historical, biographical, and general literature, one thousand dollars.

For additional tables and chairs, and repairing same, two hundred dollars.

For furniture for cadet hospital, and repairs of the same, one hundred dollars.

For purchase of bedding and necessary articles for the use of candidates previous to their admission into the Academy, five hundred dollars.

Librarian's a8 sistant. Library.

Tables, chairs.

Furniture, cadet hospital. Bedding.

For contingencies for superintendent of the Academy, one thousand for dollars.

For renewing furniture in section-rooms, five hundred dollars. For buildings and grounds: For repairing roads and paths, five hundred dollars.

For continuing breast-height wall south toward guard-house five hundred dollars.

For completing new twelve-inch water-main to sally-port of cadet barracks, two thousand dollars.

For completion of new hospital for cadets, five thousand dollars. For reflooring academic building, including fencing Academy, two thousand five hundred and eighty dollars.

For reflooring cadet barracks and piazza, two thousand four hundred and twenty dollars.

Contingencies superintend

ent.

Furniture.

Buildings and

grounds.

Breast-height

wall.

Water-main.

New hospital, completion of. Reflooring, etc.

For new skylights for drawing academy, three hundred and fifty Skylights. dollars.

For water-works: Renewal of material in filter-beds; improving ventilation of filter-house and water-house; hose for use in cleaning filterbeds and water-house, and for use in fire-service at same; tools, implements, and materials for use of the two keepers and for repairs of siphonhouse, filter-house, and of four and one-half miles of supply-pipes; for shed for tools, and storage of fuel for keeper at Round Pond, and for tool-house at filter; for gauges at Round Pond and Delafield Pond, and stairs for access to same, five hundred and twenty dollars.

For additional bath-tubs, and repairs to bath-tubs, in cadet barracks, two thousand dollars.

Water-works.

Bath-tubs.

Cadet mess.

For cadet laundry: One number four washer, connections, and fix- Laundry. tures, three hundred and sixty dollars, to be immediately available. For cadet mess: One bake-oven in cadet mess, that is, for brick, tire brick, cement, mortar, grates, doors, and labor, the same to be built by skilled labor, and to replace old oven long in use, six hundred and fifty dollars, the same to be immediately available. Approved, March 31, 1884.

Apr. 2, 1884.

12 Stat., 503.

State of Colo

lands.

Proviso.

CHAP. 20.-An act to enable the State of Colorado to take lands in lieu of the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections found to be mineral lands, and to secure to the State of Colorado the benefit of the act of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled "An act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts."

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 18 Stat., 474. States of America in Congress assembled, That an act entitled "An act rado, authorized to to enable the people of Colorado to form a constitution and State gov select certain lands ernment, and for the admission of the said State into the Union on an other than mineral equal footing with the original States", approved March third eighteen hundred and seventy-five, shall be construed as giving to the State of Colorado the right to select for school purposes other lands in lieu of such sixteenth and thirty sixth section as may have been or shall be found to be mineral lands: Provided, That such selections shall be made from lands returned as agricultural, and upon which at the date of selection no valuable mineral discoveries have been made; and all such selections shall be reported to the Secretary of the Interior, who shall, if be is satisfied such lands so selected are not mineral, so certify, and thereupon the right of said State to such selected lands shall finally attach; and the Secretary of the Interior shall also ascertain whether any of such sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections are mineral lands, and shall certify their character, which certificate shall determine the matter. SEC. 2. That it shall be the duty of the deputy surveyor, at the time of executing the survey of any township, to make a critical examination of the character of sections sixteen and thirty-six, and to embrace in his field-notes a full report of any and all mineral discoveries found to the surveyor-general, who shall report to the Secretary of the Interior whether the whole or any part of either of said sections is mineral in character.

Deputy surveyor, duty of.

14 Stat., 208.

SEC. 3. That the State of Colorado, in selecting lands for agriculturalcollege purposes under the acts of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and July twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, may select an amount of land equal to thirty thousand acres for each Senator and Representative which said State is entitled to in Congress, from any public land in said State not double-minimum-priced land; or selections may be made from said double-minimum lands, but in the latter case the lands are to be computed at the maximum price and the number of acres proportionally diminished; but no mineral lands shall be selected.

Approved, April 2d, 1884.

Apr. 10, 1884.

CHAP. 21.-An act to print certain eulogies delivered in Congress upon the late
Thomas Allen.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Thomas Allen, States of America in Congress assembled, That there be printed of the deceased; enlogies eulogies delivered in Congress upon the late Thomas Allen, a member of of late, with por- the Forty-seventh Congress from the State of Missouri, twelve thoutrait, authorized to be printed. sand copies, of which four thousand shall be for the use of the Senate and eight thousand for the use of the House of Representatives; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to have printed a portrait of said Thomas Allen to accompany said eulogies; and for engraving and printing said portrait the sum of five hundred dollars, or so much as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, April 10, 1884.

CHAP. 23.—An act authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to offer a reward of twenty-five thousand dollars for rescuing or ascertaining the fate of the Greely expedition.

Apr. 17, 1884.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy Greely expedibe, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to make proclamation im- tion, reward for discovery and resmediately, and cause said proclamation to be published and distributed cue of. as thoroughly as may be in such foreign ports as are interested in navigation and traffic in the Arctic seas, that the Government of the United States will pay a reward of twenty-five thousand dollars, to be equitably paid or distributed, to such ship or ships, person or persons, not in the military or naval service of the United States, as shall discover and rescue or satisfactorily ascertain the fate of the Greely expedition; but such proclamation shall not be made in terms that will involve the United States in any future liability or responsibility beyond said reward, or will induce unprepared vessels to incur extraordinary peril or risk. And the determination of the Secretary of the Navy as to the right of any person to said reward or a share thereof, shall be conclusive upon all persons.

Approved, April 17, 1884.

CPAP. 24.—An act to further suspend the operation of section fifty-five hundred and seventy-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States, title seventy-two, in relation to guano islands.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section fifty-five hundred and seventy-four, title seventy-two, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, be and the same is hereby, further suspended, as therein set forth, for the period of five years next from and after the passage of this act.

Approved, April 18, 1884.

Apr. 18, 1884.

Gnano Islands, R. S. 5574, 1080; suspended, etc.

CHAP. 25.-An act to amend section twenty-five hundred and twenty-seven of the
Revised Statutes, relating to the district of Gloucester.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That the second clause of sec-
tion twenty-five hundred and twenty-seven of the Revised Statutes,
describing the district of Gloucester, is hereby amended by making the
town of Rockport a port of delivery therein.
Approved, April 18, 1884.

Apr. 18, 1884.

R. S. 2527, 495.

Rockport created a port of delivery.

CHAP. 26. An act making it a felony for a person to falsely and fraudulently assume or pretend to be an officer or employee acting under authority of the United States or any Department or any officer thereof, and prescribing a penalty therefor.

April 18, 1884.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Persons assumStates of America in Congress assembled, That every person who, with intent to defraud either the United States or any person, falsely assumes to act under auing or pretending or pretends to be an officer or employee acting under the authority of the thority of the U.S. United States, or any Department, or any officer of the Government thereof, and who shall take upon himself to act as such, or who shall in such pretended character demand or obtain from any person or from the United States, or any Department, or any officer of the Government thereof, any money, paper, document, or other valuable thing, shall be