CHICKAMAUGA AND CHATTANOOGA NAT. MIL. PARK COMMISSION. 989

Balance July 1, 1916 (no-year appropriation)_.
Rent of land in Point Park__.

Rent of land in Cravens Reservation__.

Balance July 1, 1916 (1915 appropriation).

Outstanding obligation transferred to no-year ap

propriation____

Appropriation for fiscal year 1917--

$8,742, 86
200.00

6.00 158. 29

.60 55, 260. 00

$64, 367.75

Expenditures:

From no-year appropriation.......

From appropriation, fiscal year 1915.
From appropriation, fiscal year 1917.

Available balance July 1, 1917, no-year appropriation_____

$2,819, 93
158.89
53, 425. 24

$56, 404. 06

6, 128. 93

Unexpended balance July 1, 1917, 1917 appropriation---

1, 834. 76

7, 963. 69

64, 367. 75

Total area, exclusive of rights of way for road pur-
poses

Number of memorial shell monuments, brigade commanders killed:
Union_..

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REPORT OF THE GETTYSBURG NATIONAL

MILITARY PARK COMMISSION.

SIR: We submit the annual report for the fiscal year ended June 30,

1917.

OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES.

Chairman and commissioner, Lieut. Col. John P. Nicholson; engineer, Lieut. Col. E. B. Cope; 2 assistant superintendents, 1 rodman, 1 messenger, 1 hostler, 4 guards, 4 carpenters, 1 carpenter's assistant, 4 painters, 6 concrete builders, 1 inspector, 9 pavers, 1 steam engineer and 1 helper, 5 laborers, 2 employees with horses and carts, 1 employee with 2 horses and wagon, and i temporary employee with horse and cart.

LAND.

Total land within the park area, reported June 30, 1916, 2,451.06

acres.

No land has been acquired since report of 1916.

CONTRACTS FOR PIKING AVENUES.

Contract No. 276 made with M. & T. E. Farrell for piking two sections of a macadam avenue on the East Cavalry Field. No. 309 made with M. & T. E. Farrell for piking a macadam avenue from West Confederate Avenue westerly to the Sharpshooters Monuments, Third Corps, in the Pitzer woods. No. 361 for making a macadam roadway, etc., around the Virginia memorial.

BIDS FOR LABOR, MATERIALS, ETC.

Equipment for flagpole, Nos. 287, 325.

Repairs to motor truck, Nos. 288, 307, 317, 324, 334.

Supplies for stable, Nos. 289, 297, 306, 315, 321, 329, 333, 339, 343, 344, 348.

Farm materials and supplies, Nos. 290, 294, 301, 302, 308, 314, 316, 319, 320, 322, 323, 326, 332, 341.

Paints, oils, and varnish, Nos. 303, 304, 313, 327, 328, 353.

Materials for repairing roads, etc., Nos. 299, 300, 310, 311, 318, 331, 340, 342, 345, 347, 350.

Repairing and painting towers, Nos. 291, 293.

Tools, Nos. 292, 298.

Maps, map rolls, and printing, Nos. 295, 296, 330.

Drugs, etc., Nos. 305, 312.

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