Chapter LIV. making Appropriations for the Support of the Military Academy for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five
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Chap. LIV.— An Act making Appropriations for the Support of the Military Academy for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five. May 10, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Appropriations. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Military Academy forTHIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 59. 1854.277 the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five: For pay of officers, instructors, cadets, and musicians, eighty-eightOfficers’ pay. thousand two hundred and sixty-six dollars; For commutation of subsistence, two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars; For forage for officers’ horses, nine hundred and sixty dollars; For general repairs and improvements of academic buildings, barracks,Repairs. mess-rooms, officers’ quarters, stables, roads, fences, parade and drill grounds, miscellaneous and incidental expenses, fuel, forage, and departments of instruction, twenty-nine thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars;
For gradual increase and expense of library, one thousand dollars; For expenses of the Board of Visitors, three thousand 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 enlarging and improving hospital of cadets, six thousand five hundred dollars; For cavalry exercise hall, twenty thousand dollars; Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the compensation of MasterPay of Master of Sword. of the Sword be twelve hundred dollars per annum.
Approved, May 10, 1854.