Chapter CCVIII. *making Appropriations for the Support of the Military Academy, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-six.* March 3, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be, and
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Chap. CCVIII.— An Act *making Appropriations for the Support of the Military Academy, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-six.* March 3, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not Appropriation.otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Military Academy, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six:— For pay of officers, instructors, cadets, and musicians, ninety thousand one hundred and six dollars.
For commutation of subsistence, two thousand and forty-four dollars. For forage for officers’ horses, eight hundred and sixty-four dollars. For general repairs and improvements of academic buildings, barracks, mess-rooms, officers’ quarters, stables, roads, fences, parade and drill grounds, miscellaneous and incidental expenses, fuel, forage, and departments of instruction, thirty-five thousand and seventy dollars. For gradual increase and expense of library, one thousand dollars.
For expenses of the board of visitors, four thousand one hundred and sixty dollars. For forage for artillery and cavalry horses, eight thousand six hundred and forty dollars. For replacing dead and worn out cavalry and artillery horses, one thousand dollars. For furnishing hospital for cadets, five hundred dollars. For deficiency for expenses of the board of visitors, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, six hundred and eighty-eight dollars and fifty-two cents.
For additional pay allowed to enlisted men, employed on extra duty as mechanics and laborers, per act of fourth of August, eighteen hundred 1854, ch. 247.and fifty-four, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, two thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight dollars and forty cents. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That hereafter the yearly allowance Pay of Professors of French, Spanish, and drawing.of the Professor of French and Spanish, and of the Professor of Drawing, shall be the same as is now allowed to the other professors.
Approved, March 3, 1855.