The Superintendent and Board of Control hereby recommend the following general and specific appropriations for 1901 and 1902: For 1 motor, 20 H. P. to furnish power for manual training RECOMMENDATIONS. The committee recommends appropriations for this institution as follows, or so much thereof as may be required: NEEDS. This institution asks that the appropriation for the years ending October 31, 1902, and October 31, 1903, be per annum as follows: Administration Subsistence Clothing Sundries Ordinary repairs and improvements Material and labor. Total Specific appropriation for deficiency, maintenance fund of 1900: Bills unpaid Insurance premiums accruing in 1901... Total $14,000 00 9,000 00 4,000 00 14,500 00 3,500 00 $45,000 00 853 13. 579 00 $1,432 13 RECOMMENDATIONS. This committee does not see the need for so great an increase in the maintenance fund as is asked for, but believes that this institution should have an appropriation for its library and a small appropriation to provide mirrors for the bedrooms, and therefore recommends the following appropriation: STATE SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' MONUMENT. GEN. Fred Knefler, PresidENT AND SUPERINTENDENT BOARD OF REGENTS.. This monument, which is erected in memory of the soldiers and sailors of the late War of the Rebellion, is recognized the world over as being the most artistic, the most beautiful and symmetrical soldiers' monument that is in existence to-day. On the 25th day of February, 1899, the following act for the completion of the monument was passed by the General Assembly: An Act to Appropriate Money to Complete the State Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument and Declaring an Emergency. (S. 283. Approved February 25, 1899.) Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) be and the same is hereby appropriated out of the moneys in the State treasury not otherwse appropriated, which sum is to be in full for the completion of the State Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument and to pay for work already done, by order of the Board of Regents; Provided, That said monument be in all respects completed by the first day of January, 1901, and provided further that any unexpended balance of said appropriation remaining on December 31, 1900, and after the completion of said monument, shall be returned to the general fund of the State treasury. The above appropriation, in the opinion of the Board of Regents, suffices for the entire completion of the monument in all of its main features, according to the original design. The Board of Regents has informed the committee that it has exhausted every effort to complete the monument January 1, 1901, as required by the above section 283, but has been prevented by circumstances beyond control to accomplish this much desired result, but the board is of the opinion, and has every reason to believe, that if nothing extraordinary shall occur, now at this time. entirely unforeseen, the monument will be ready for dedication on or before June 1, 1901. The Board of Regents respectfully requests that the General Assembly reappropriate the unexpended balance of the $100,000 for the completion of this monument and extend the time for com |