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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 11 STAT. · April 23, 1856 · Chapter XIX

Chapter XIX. *making Appropriations for the Support of the Military Academy for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven.* April 23, 1856. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the following sums be,

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Chap. XIX.— An Act *making Appropriations for the Support of the Military Academy for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven.* April 23, 1856. *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 otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Military Academy, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven:— For pay of officers, instructors, cadets, and musicians, ninety-one thousandAppropriations. 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 current and ordinary expenses, as follows: repairs and improvements, fuel, and apparatus, forage, postage, stationery, transportation, printing, clerks, miscellaneous and incidental expenses, and departments of instruction, thirty-four thousand seven hundred and ninety 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 repairs and additions to professors’ quarters, five thousand dollars. For furniture for hospital for cadets, one hundred and fifty dollars. For a gun pendulum, six hundred dollars. For a public clock, seven hundred dollars. For additional stables for dragoons’ and artillery horses, ten thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the amounts disbursed, or thatPay of librarian, assistant librarian, and certain enlisted men.1854, ch. 54.Vol. x. p. 276.1855, ch. 208.Vol. x. p. 703. may be disbursed, out of moneys appropriated for the support of the Military Academy by the acts of May tenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, in payment of additional compensation to the librarian, assistant librarian, and certain enlisted men at that post, be passed to the credit of the disbursing officer: *Provided,* That the additional pay to said librarian, and assistant librarian, shall not exceed the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars each per annum, and to the non-commissioned officer in charge of mechanics and’ other labor at the post, the soldier acting as clerk in the Adjutant’s office, and the four enlisted men in the philosophical and chemical departments, and lithographic office, not exceeding the sum of fifty dollars each per annum: and that a like measure of compensation be hereby authorized to be allowed hereafter for said services respectively.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of the SenateSenate documents to be sent to the library. furnish annually the library of the Military Academy at West Point with a copy of all documents published by the Senate. Approved, April 23, 1856. Chapter XX: to repeat Part of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the Safe-keeping of the Acts, Records, and Seal of the United States, and for other Purposes.” 11 Stat. 5 1856-04-23 Chapter XX Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
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