APPENDIX.

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the House, a report upon the present condition of the Monument at Washington's Headquarters, Newburgh, New York.

WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City, May 25, 1888. SIR: In compliance with the following resolution of the House of Representatives, I have the honor to submit herewith a copy of the report of Col. John M. Wilson, U. S. Army, in charge of public buildings and grounds in this city, in reference to the present condition of the Monument at Washington's Headquarters in the city of Newburgh, New York:

MAY 23, 1888.

Resolved, That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, requested to transmit to this House copies of all reports made to him by the Engineers of the War Department, or others, relating to the present condition of the work on the Monument at Washington's Headquarters, in the city of Newburgh, State of New York, and any other information relating to the same in possession of his Department, together with any recommendation he may deem proper to make in relation to the completeness thereof according to the plans adopted therefor by the Joint Committee of the Senate of the United States and this House.

This monument was constructed in accordance with the joint resolution of Congress approved March 3, 1883, which provides as follows:

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That sections two and three of the joint resolution of Congress approved July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, authorizing the Secretary of War to erect at Washington's Headquarters, in the city of Newburgh, New York, a memorial column. and to aid in defraying the expenses at the centennial celebration to be held at that city in the year eighteen hundred and