Chapter CX. making Appropriations for the Support of the Military Academy for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven
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CHAP. CX.— An Act making Appropriations for the Support of the Military Academy for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.June 8, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be,Appropriations for Military Academy. 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, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven:
For pay of officers, instructors, cadets, and musicians, one hundred andPay &c. fifty-four thousand eight hundred and forty dollars. 59 THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 110, 111, 114. 1866. For commutation of subsistence, four thousand five hundred and sixty-one dollars. For pay in lieu of clothing to officers’servants, one hundred and fifty-six dollars. For current and ordinary expenses, fifty-eight thousand dollars.Ordinary expenses. For increase and expense of library, two thousand dollars.Library.
For expenses of board of visitors, three thousand dollars.Board of visitors. For forage for artillery and cavalry horses, fifteen thousand dollars.Forage for horses. For horses for artillery and cavalry practice, one thousand dollars.Horses. For repairs of officers’ quarters, five thousand dollars.Repairs. For targets and batteries for artillery practice, five hundred dollars.Targets, &c. For furniture for cadets’ hospital, one hundred dollars. For gas pipes, gasometers, and retorts, three hundred dollars.
For replastering academic buildings and barracks, six thousand dollars. For the purchase of fuel for warming mess hall, shoemakers’ and tailors’shops, two thousand dollars. For materials for quarters for subaltern officers, three thousand dollars. For continuing the erection of memorial tablets and mural monumentsMemorial tablets, &.c to deceased officers of the regular army, and of volunteers; arranging and preserving trophies of war; and marking with proper inscriptions the guns captured during the rebellion, five thousand dollars.
For enlarging and improving the cemetery, and for repairing the enclosureCemetery. thereof, five thousand dollars. For the removal to a safe place, and reconstruction of the magazine,Magazine. ten thousand dollars. For ventilating and heating the barracks and other academic buildings;Ventilation, heating, &c. improving the apparatus for cooking for the cadets; repairing the hospital buildings, including the introduction of baths for the sick; the construction of water closets in the library building; and new furniture for the recitation rooms, twenty thousand dollars.
For the removal and enlargement of the gas works, six thousand dollars.Gas works. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That no person who has served inWho not to be appointed to Military or Naval Academy. any capacity in the military or naval service of the so-called Confederate States during the late rebellion shall hereafter receive an appointment as a cadet at the Military or Naval Academy. Approved, June 8, 1866.