Chapter XLV. making Appropriations for the Support of the Military Academy for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight
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Chap. XLV.— An Act making Appropriations for the Support of the Military Academy for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight. Feb. 16, 1857. *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 Appropriation.not otherwise appropriated for the support of the Military Academy, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight.
For pay of officers, instructors, cadets, and musicians, ninety-one 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 current and ordinary expenses, as follows: repairs and improve-THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 45, 46. 1857.161ments, fuel and apparatus, forage, postage, stationery, transportation, printing, clerks, miscellaneous and incidental expenses, and departments of instruction, thirty-five thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For gradual increase and expense of library, one thousand five hundred 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 supplying horses for cavalry and artillery practice, one thousand dollars. For furniture for hospital for cadets, two hundred and fifty dollars. For barracks for dragoon detachment, five thousand dollars. For purchase of bell, and mounting the same with the clock on one of the public buildings, eight hundred dollars.
To procure the balistic apparatus for gun pendulum, five hundred dollars. For repairs to officers’ quarters, five hundred dollars. For models for the department of cavalry, one thousand dollars. For extension of water pipes and increase of reservoir, two thousand dollars. For targets and batteries for artillery exercise, two hundred dollars. For gas pipes, gasometers, and retorts, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That there shall be appointed at theProfessor of Spanish to be appointed.
Military Academy, in addition to the professors authorized by the existing laws, a professor of Spanish, at a salary of two thousand dollars per annum. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted*, That the compensation of thePay of master of the sword. master of the sword be fifteen hundred dollars per annum with fuel and quarters. Approved, February 16, 1857.