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For general repairs to the cadet laundry building and for emergency incidental expenses about building, to be expended without advertising, $400.

For general incidental repairs and improvements to the cadet store building, including storerooms, office, tailor shops, and shoerepairing shops, $1,000.

For materials and labor for repairs, alterations, and additions needed at the soldiers' hospital, as follows:

Purchase of suitable incandescent lights, drop-lights, tubing, tubing mantles, and so forth; for paraffin and turpentine for waxing floors; for brushes, paints, glass, putty, and for general repairs; for materials for rebronzing radiators; and for purchase of flowers, fruit trees, shrubs, plants, and so forth, for hospital grounds, $165.

For painting all woodwork of exterior of building two coats, $700.

For the construction of a root cellar, eight feet by twenty feet by four feet deep, of brick with rock base, with suitable ventilator at top, $500.

For the repair and upkeep of quarters of the sergeant, first class, Hospital Corps, at soldiers' hospital: For miscellaneous minor repairs and general upkeep of quarters, $50.

For waterworks: For the maintenance and operation of the filter beds, reservoirs, and pipe lines, including the tools, implements, and material required therefor; and for policing the grounds and repairing the roads in the vicinity of the reservoirs, filters, and intake dam, and for the protection and enforcement of rules to protect the water supply, $3,000.

For extension of bayonet fencing ground and repairs to same, $2,000.

For repairs to quarters of steward of cadet mess, to be expended without advertising, $150.

For the repair and restoration of retaining walls along the line of the Poplopen pipe line, $3,000.

For carrying on the development of the general plan for improvements to roads and grounds on the military reservation of West Point, designed under contract by authority of the Secretary of War, $3,000.

For painting of east academic building, $12,000.

For repairs and necessary alterations and additions to the cadet hospital, as follows:

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For materials for rebronzing radiators and piping; material for waxing and polishing floors; suitable incandescent lights, drop-lights, mantles, tubes; for carpets, furniture and appliances; for repairs of damaged articles; and for miscellaneous expenses, $120.

For purchase of flowers and shrubs for hospital grounds, $100. For enlarging elevator shaft and installing elevator from basement to second floor, $10,000.

For cadet hospital and nurses' quarters, $390,000.

For the construction of two mortuary rooms; one in each hospital, $4,000.

For necessary repairs, replacement and extension of steam heating system, and steam lines and cooking apparatus, cadet mess, $1,300.

For repairs to cadet mess building, $4,265: Provided, That this appropriation be, and the same is hereby, made immediately available.

For repairs and improvements to the West Point Army mess building, including supplying and renewing furniture and fittings, $2,500.

For the construction of an addition to fireproof sheet metal shed for housing material of the United States military equipage employed in the instruction of cadets and for flooring the sheds, $3,000.

For the repair and maintenance of the cadet boathouse and the purchase and maintenance of boats and canoes for the instruction of cadets in rowing; for extra pay of one engineer soldier in charge of boathouse, at 35 cents per day, $750.

For repair and upkeep of quarters of the sergeant, first class, Hospital Corps, at the cadet hospital, $50.

For reshingling entire roof of quarters, $330.

For repairs to cadet barracks: For repairing and renewing plastering, painting, and calcimining, repairs to woodwork, reflooring, rearranging rooms, increasing sinks, baths, and other incidental repairs to the building, $15,000: Provided, That this appropriation be, and the same is hereby, made immediately available.

For maintaining and improving the grounds of the post ceme tery, $2,000.

For continuing the construction of breast-high wall in dangerous places, $1,000.

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For broken stone and gravel for roads, and for repairing sidewalks, roads, paths, and bridges on the reservation, $10,000.

For repairs of boilers, engines, dynamos, motors, refrigerating and other machinery in the cadet mess, and the replacement of same, to be expended without advertising, $6,500: Provided, That this appropriation be, and the same is hereby, made immediately available.

For the repair, improvement, and maintenance of the cadet polo field, and for the purchase of blackboards, gongs, and other necessary material for the same, $600.

For waterproofing the post headquarters, bachelor, and gymnasium buildings, $2,000.

For care and maintenance of organ in cadet chapel, $250. For general repairs to the buildings of the Coast Artillery fire-control system, including necessary exterior painting, repairs to steps, roofs, and so forth, $100.

For material and labor for repair of field artillery target range, clearing grounds for targets and firing positions for batteries, constructing roads and trails to firing positions and target range; and for miscellaneous expenses connected with the indoor instruction of cadets in field artillery during the winter season, $500.

For repairs to skylights in riding hall and stopping leaks around same, $200.

For repairing riding hall and stable inside and out, and rebronzing pipes and radiators, stairways, halls, and squad rooms, $4,500.

Installing heating systems in tower rooms in riding hall separate from system of heating arena, $250.

New roof for dome of main observatory, walls and chimney pointed; concrete and brick gutters renewed, sash and window frames renewed, leaders renewed, plastering and painting, $3,000.

For alterations to increase seating in cadet mess dining hall, $6,185.

For extending power line to and wiring of playground pavilion, $1,500.

Repairs to frame building east of band barracks and south of field music barracks, now used as practice room by United States Military Academy band, $625.

The Secretary of War is authorized to direct the Ordnance Department to transfer, without charge, to the Quartermaster

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of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, one Holt, ten-ton artillery tractor, caterpillar type, such tractor to be used by the Quartermaster Corps for all kinds of tractor uses; that the Secretary of War is hereby directed to transfer, without charge, one ten-ton three-wheel road roller to the quartermaster of the United States Military Academy: Provided further, That the Secretary of War shall cause the work herein provided for to be done and performed under the direction and supervision of the superintendent of the United States Military Academy: Provided further, That the Secretary of War is authorized to detail Colonel E. J. Timberlake as quartermaster, disbursing and constructing officer at the United States Military Academy for such period of time as he deems fit notwithstanding the provisions of existing law relating to the detail of officers: Provided, That the following amounts: $7,777 for grading and granolithic paving in area of south cadet barracks; $25,000 for construction of an east wing to the present Artillery gun shed, similar to the west wing; $40,000 for construction of an addition to the south wing of the present Artillery stable to accommodate seventy-two additional animals; $40,000 for construction of wings to the present Artillery barracks to accommodate sixtythree additional men; $40,000 for construction of wings to the present Cavalry barracks to accommodate seventy men; $500,000 for enlarging the Military Academy to accommodate the authorized number of cadets: Construction of cadet barracks and headquarters, to be located at the south of the area of the old or south barracks; $60,000 for eight sets married officers' quarters; $60,000 for twenty sets bachelor quarters; $40,000 for automatic stokers; in all, $812,777; appropriated in “An Act for the support of the Military Academy, approved June 27, 1918," for fiscal year 1919, shall remain available until expended: Provided, That for the purpose of accounting only, all funds hereinbefore appropriated under the titles "Current and ordinary expenses," "Miscellaneous items and incidental expenses," and "Buildings and grounds" shall be disbursed and accounted for by the disbursing officer, United States Military Academy, as "Maintenance, United States Military Academy," and for the purpose shall constitute one fund: And provided, That hereafter, when any machinery, apparatus, implements, supplies, or materials which have been heretofore or may hereafter be purchased or acquired from appropriations made for the support of the United States Military Academy are no longer needed or are

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no longer serviceable, they may be sold in such manner as the superintendent may direct; and that the proceeds shall be turned into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.

That the President of the United States is hereby authorized, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint George R. Rogers, late cadet lieutenant and quartermaster at the Military Academy at West Point, to the position of second lieutenant of Cavalry in the Army, and to place him upon the retired list with the pay of a retired second lieutenant of Cavalry.

That the President is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to promote Colonel S. E. Tillman, retired, Superintendent of the Military Academy, to the rank of brigadier general on the retired list of the Army.

The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to allow any corporation, company, or individual to erect on the United States Military Academy reservation at West Point, New York, a hotel, in accordance with plans and specifications to be approved by the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy and to enjoy the revenue therefrom for a period of fifty years; after which time said hotel shall become the property of the United States: Provided, That the title and ownership of said hotel may be accepted by the Secretary of War on the behalf of the United States at any time. That said hotel shall be conducted under such regulations including the rates and the charges for accommodations thereat as may be promulgated by the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy under the direction of the Secretary of War.

That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, Colonel L. Mervin Maus to the grade of brigadier general in The United States Army, and place him on the retired list.