Chapter XXX. *making Appropriations for the Support of the military Academy for the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine.*March 16, 1868. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Military academy appropriation
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CHAP. XXX.— An Act *making Appropriations for the Support of the military Academy for the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine.*March 16, 1868. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Military academy appropriation. That the following suras 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 June, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine.
Officers, instructors, cadets, &c.For additional pay of officers, and for pay of instructors, cadets, and musicians, one hundred and eighty-two thousand seven hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty cents. Subsistence.For commutation of officers’ subsistence, five thousand eight hundred and three dollars and fifty cents. For pay in lieu of clothing to officers’ servants, one hundred and fifty six dollars. Current expenses.For current and ordinary expenses, fifty-six thousand eight hundred and five dollars: *Provided,* That the second section of the act approved Repeal of. 1864, ch. 45, § 2.
Vol. xiii. p. 89.April first, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, “making appropriations for the support of the military academy for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five,” is hereby repealed. Library.For purchase of books for the library, two thousand dollars. Board of visitors.For expenses of board of visitors, two thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the second section of the act approved August eighth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, making appropriations for the support of the military Number of, not to exceed seven.academy for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, be amended by striking out the first proviso in said section, 1846, ch. 96.
Vol. ix. p. 71.and by inserting in lieu thereof the following: *Provided,* That the whole number of visitors each year shall not exceed seven. FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 30, 31. 1868.43 For forage for artillery and cavalry horses, five thousand dollars.Military academy appropriation. For horses for artillery and cavalry practice, four thousand dollars. For repairs of officers’ quarters, five thousand dollars. For targets and batteries for artillery practice, one hundred dollars.
For furniture for cadets’ hospital, two hundred dollars. For gas pipes, gasometers, and retorts, six hundred dollars. For purchase of fuel for cadets’ mess-hall, three thousand dollars. For furniture for soldiers’ hospital, one hundred dollars. For breast-high walls of water battery, five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the same shall complete the work. For reflooring academic building and barracks, fifteen hundred dollars. For addition to soldiers’ hospital, two thousand dollars.
For contingencies for the superintendent of the academy, five hundred Limitation upon expenditure of appropriations.dollars: *Provided,* That no part of the sums appropriated by the provisions of this act shall be expended in violation of the provisions of an act entitled “ An act to prescribe an oath of office, and for other purposes,”1862, ch. 128. Vol. xii. p. 602. approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two: *And provided further,* That no part of the moneys appropriated by this act shall be applied to the pay or subsistence of any cadet from any State declared to be in rebellion against the government of the United States, appointed after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, until such State shall have been returned to its original relations to the Union.
SCHUYLER COLFAX, *Speaker of the House of Representatives*. B. F. WADE, *President of the Senate pro tempore*. Indorsed by the President: “Received March 4, 1868.” [Note by the Department of State.—The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the House of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]