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For the removal to a safe space, and reconstruction of the magazine, ten thousand dollars.

For ventilating and heating the barracks and other academic buildings; improving the apparatus for cooking for the cadets; repairing the hospital buildings, including the introduction of baths for the sick; the construction of water closets in the library building; and new furniture for the recitation rooms, twenty thousand dollars.

For the removal and enlargement of the gas works, six thousand dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That no person who has served in any capacity in the military or naval service of the so-called Confederate States during the late rebellion shall hereafter receive an appointment as a cadet at the Military or Naval Academy.
Approved, June 8, 1866.

XI...[PUBLIC RESOLUTION—No. 21]

A RESOLUTION respecting the burial of soldiers who died in the military service of the United States during the rebellion.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby authorized and required to take immediate measures to preserve from desecration the graves of the soldiers of the United States who fell in battle, or died of disease in the field and in hospital during the war of the rebellion ; to secure suitable burial places in which they may be properly interred, and to have the grounds enclosed, so that the resting places of the honored dead may be kept sacred forever.
Approved, April 13, 1866.

XII...[PUBLIC RESOLUTION—No. 20.]

JOINT RESOLUTION giving construction to the law in relation to bounties payable to soldiers discharged for wounds.

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the true intent and meaning of the words, "or in the line of duty," used in the fourth section of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, entitled "An Act to amend the several acts heretofore passed to provide for the enrolling and calling out the

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