Chapter LXXXI. *making Appropriations for the Support of the Military Academy for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and for other Purposes.*August 6, 1852. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemble
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Chap. LXXXI.— 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-three, and for other Purposes.*August 6, 1852. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the followingAppropriations. 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 for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three:
For pay of officers, instructors, cadets, and musicians, eighty thousand four hundred and nine dollars. For commutation of subsistence, two thousand two hundred and sixty-three dollars. For forage for officers’ horses, seven hundred and sixty-eight dollars. For clothing for officers’ servants, thirty dollars. For repairs, fuel, and apparatus therefor, forage for public horses and oxen, postage, stationery, printing, and other incidental and contingent expenses, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For increase and repairs of the library, one thousand dollars. For improvements and additions to officers’ quarters, three thousand dollars. For additional pay to the lithographer and pressman employed in the lithographic office, fifty dollars each, one hundred dollars. For expenses of the board of visitors, three thousand dollars. For purchase of new equatorial telescope, being the difference in value between the defective one now in use and a new one, five thousand dollars.
For purchase of thirty artillery and cavalry horses, three thousand dollars. For forage for ninety artillery and cavalry horses, six thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,*That hereafter the assistant professorsPay of assistant professors of French and drawing. of French and drawing shall receive the pay and emoluments allowed to other assistant professors. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,*That to rectify a mistake whichAppropriation for per diem and mileage of members of Congress. was made in the enrolment of the bill entitled “ An act to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-two,” by omitting a1852, ch. 66. clause appropriating for per diem compensation and mileage of senators, members of the House of Representatives, and delegates, and agreed to by the Senate and House of Representatives, the sum of fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for that object, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, August 6, 1852.