STATE DEPARTMENT.

International Congress.-Authorizes the President of the United States to invite the International Congress of Applied Chemistry to hold its eighth meeting in the United States in the year 1912. (Stat. L., 1170; Mar. 4, 1909.)

Student interpreters.-Appropriates $11,250 for salary and tuition of 10 student interpreters at the legation to China; $6,750 for salary and tuition of 6 student interpreters at the embassy to Japan; $11,250 for salary and tuition of 10 student interpreters at the embassy to Turkey; and $600 for rent of quarters for the student interpreters in Japan. (35 Stat. L., 674, 675, 679; Mar. 2, 1909.)

International Congress of Hygiene and Demography.—Appropriates $10,000 to enable the United States to participate in the Congress to be held in Washington, D. C., in 1910. (35 Stat. L., 680; Mar. 2, 1909.)

WAR DEPARTMENT.

The specific appropriations for the educational work of the War Department are as follows:

United States Military Academy.-Authorizes the admission and instruction of Mr. Demetrio Castillo, jr., of Cuba. (35 Stat. L., 1039; Mar. 4, 1909.)

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.

National Training School for Boys, Washington, D. C.-Provides that every male juvenile offender who may be committed to this institution, and who has by his conduct given sufficient evidence that he has reformed, may be released on parole. (35 Stat. L., 657; Feb. 26, 1909.)

Appropriates $15,000 for hospital building and equipment and $48,300 for maintenance. (35 Stat. L., 1013, 1018; Mar. 4, 1909.)

NAVY DEPARTMENT.

The appropriations for educational purposes under the Navy Department were as follows:

United States Naval Academy:

Current expenses--

Buildings and grounds__

Engineering experiment station__.

$534, 293. 22

75, 000. 00 26, 058.00

The following appropriations were made for the education of Indians:

Support of Indian day and industrial schools___.

School buildings, sewerage, water supply, etc..

Transportation of Indian pupils....

Superintendent of Indian schools, salary.

Traveling expenses---

Matrons to teach domestic science__.

Farmers and stockmen to teach Indians_.

Indian schools:

Fort Mojave, Ariz..

Phoenix, Ariz____

$1,425, 000. 00 300, 000. 00 75,000.00 3,000.00 1, 500. 00 30, 000. 00 125,000.00

38, 100. 00 127,400.00

21, 200.00

Truxton Canyon, Ariz_--

Sherman Institute, Riverside, Cal__

104, 359. 00

Indian schools.-Grants the Indian schools at Fort Lewis, Colo., and Grand Junction, Colo., to the State of Colorado; the Indian school at Morris, Minn., to the State of Minnesota; the Indian school at Chamberlain, S. Dak., to the State of South Dakota, and the Panguitch school in Utah to the State of Utah. The grants are made on condition that the lands and buildings shall be held and maintained by the several States as institutions of learning and that Indian pupils shall at all times be admitted to such schools free of charge for tuition and on terms of equality with white pupils. (35 Stat. L., 788, 792, 808, 811; Mar. 3, 1909.)

BUREAU OF EDUCATION.

The appropriations for objects under the Bureau of Education were as follows:

Provides that the Director of the Geological Survey shall hereafter furnish to any person, concern, or institution, in the interest of education and the dissemination of knowledge, that shall pay in advance the whole cost of material and services thereof, copies of any photographs or lantern slides in the possession of the United States Geological Survey. (35 Stat. L., 989; Mar. 4, 1909.)

ALASKA.

Public schools. Repeals the provision of an act of Congress approved January 27, 1905 (33 Stat. L., 616), requiring 5 per cent of the license money, collected outside of incorporated towns in Alaska to be devoted to the care and maintenance of insane persons, and provides that such 5 per cent, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall hereafter be applied to and used for the establishment and maintenance of public schools in said district, under the supervision of the governor. (35 Stat. L., 601; Feb. 6, 1909.)

HOWARD UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D. C.

Appropriates for year ending June 30, 1910, $49,000 for maintenance; $9,000 for department of manual arts; $3,000 for libraries; $90,000 for scientific building and equipment; $3,000 for repairs to buildings and improvement of grounds; $5,000 for medical department; $200 for laboratories; $3,000 for fuel and light. (35 Stat. L., 991-992; Mar. 4, 1909.)

COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR DEAF AND DUMB.

Appropriates for year ending June 30, 1910, $65,000 for support and $5,000 for repairs to buildings and pavements. (35 Stat. L., 991; Mar. 4, 1909.)

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.

Office of Experiment Stations:

Salaries
Expenses

$39, 260.00

34, 800.00

The appropriations for educational purposes, one-half payable from the revenues of the General Government, included in the act making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia, were as follows: