For department of artillery, cavalry, and infantry tactics, namely: For tan-bark for riding-hall and gymnasium, three hundred dollars; repairing camp-stools and camp-furniture, fifty dollars; furniture for offices and reception-room for visitors, one hundred and fifty dollars; stationery for use of instructor and assistants, one hundred dollars; books and maps, fifty dollars; repairing gymnasium, one hundred dollars; in all, seven hundred and fifty 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 instructors, and contingencies, five hundred dollars; for continuing preparation of text-books for special instruction of cadets, five hundred dollars; in all, one thousand dollars.

For department of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology: For chemicals, chemical apparatus, glass and porcelain ware, paper, wire, sheet-metall ores, photographic materials, five hundred dollars; rough specimens, fossils, files, alcohol, lamps, blowpipes, pencils, and paper for practica, instruction in mineralogy and geology, and for gradual increase of the cabinet, five hundred dollars; repairs and additions to electric, galvanic, magnetic, pneumatic, and thermic apparatus, and apparatus illustrating optical properties of substances, six hundred dollars; additions to apparatus for illustrating science of electricity as applied to the useful arts, five hundred dollars; in all, two thousand one hundred dollars.

For pay of mechanic employed in chemical and geological section-rooms and in lecture room, one thousand dollars; models and diagrams, books of reference, text-books, and stationery for the use of instructors, seventy dollars; in all, one thousand and seventy dollars.

For department of practical military engineering: For mining materials and for profiling, telegraphing and signaling materials; stationery and text-books, books of reference, and repairs of instruments, one hundred and fifty dollars.

For department of French and English studies: For text-books and stationery for the use of instructors, books of reference, and for printing examination-papers, two hundred and fifty dollars.

For department of drawing: For reflooring the drawing academy, three hundred and fifty dollars; for repairs of desks, racks, tables, models throughout; construction of chest of drawers for sheets of maps and drawings; brushes, tacks, and similar necessaries, one hundred and fifty dollars; for varions articles most necessary for the course of topographical, mechanical, and constructive drawing, two hundred and fifty dollars; in all, seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For department of law: For text-books and stationery and books of reference for the use of instructors, one hundred dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, assign any officer of the Army as professor of law.

For department of ordnance and gunnery: Addition to models and drawings illustrating course of instruction; for additions to, and repairs of, electric ballistic machines and electric batteries, and for keeping in repair instruments and firing-houses; for books of reference and textbooks for instructors, two hundred dollars.

For open shed, one hundred feet long by twenty-four feet wide, with tin roof, for protection of field batteries when not required for instruction of cadets, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For department of natural and experimental philosophy: For apparatus to illustrate the laws in mechanics, optics, and acoustics, one thousand dollars; books of reference, text-books, repairs, and materials, four hundred dollars; for pay of mechanic, one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand four hundred dollars.

For department of Spanish: Text-books and stationery for use of instructors, thirty dollars.

For expenses of the Board of Visitors, including mileage, three thousand dollars.

For miscellaneous and contingent expenses: For gas-coal, oil, candles, lanterns, matches, and wicking for lighting the academy, cadet-barracks, mess-hall, shops, hospital, offices, stable, and sidewalks, 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 cloths, two hundred dollars; chalk, crayon, sponge, slate, and rubbers for recitation rooms, one hundred and fifty 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 of same, seven hundred and twenty dollars; pay of five firemen, two thousand two hundred dollars; increase and expense of the library, books, magazines, and binding, one thousand dollars; in all, eleven thousand two hundred and ninety dollars.

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

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

dollar s.

For purchase of bedding and necessary articles for the use of candidates previous to their admission into the academy, five hundred dollars. Buildings and grounds: For repairing roads and paths, five hundred dollars.

For continuing breast-height wall from Plain to South Wharf, five hundred dollars.

For completion of main building and one wing for the new hospital for cadets, ten thousand dollars.

For addition to cadet-barracks, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For repairing roof of cadet-barracks, one thousand dollars.
Approved June 1, 1880.

BY COMMAND OF GENERAL SHERMAN :

OFFICIAL:

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Adjutant General.

Assistant Adjutant General.

GENERAL ORDERS

No. 51.

HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, June 12, 1880.

The following decision of the Secretary of War, relative to the proper construction of General Orders No. 106, of 1879, is, by his direction, published for the information and guidance of all concerned :

I..That the number and grade of the clerks who may be employed is to be fixed by the heads of the Military Bureaux in accordance with the classification given in said order, and shall not involve expenditure exceeding the allotment of appropriation which may be made to each Division and Department.

II..The selection of employés as clerks, &c., is left to the officer employing them, provided such selection has the approval of the commander of the Division or Department in which the officer may be serving, and the approval of the head of Military Bureau, when serving at depots, arsenals, posts, and stations not under the immediate control of a Division or Department Commander.

III..The term hired labor, as used in paragraph 2, General Orders No. 96, 1867, is construed to refer to employés of an inferior class to that to which General Orders 106, of 1879, applies. It may in general be said to extend to those hired by the day or for temporary labor of short duration, or of such character as may require discharge of laborers as soon as a particular work is completed upon which they were hired.

BY COMMAND OF GENERAL SHERMAN:

OFFICIAL:

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Adjutant General.

Assistant Adjutant General.