Chapter LIV. *making Appropriations for the Support of the Military Academy for the fiscal Year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-two*
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CHAP. LIV.— An Act *making Appropriations for the Support of the Military Academy for the fiscal Year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-two*. Feb. 18, 1871. *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 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, eighteen hundred and seventy-two :— For additional pay of officers, and for pay of instructors, cadets, andOfficers, instructors, cadets, &c. musicians, two hundred and twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars and fifty cents.
For repairs and improvements, twenty-two thousand five hundredRepairs, fuel, &c. dollars. For fuel and apparatus, fourteen thousand dollars. For annual repairs of gas-pipes, gas-meters, and retorts, six hundred dollars. For fuel for cadets' mess-hall, and shops, and laundry, three thousand five hundred dollars. For postage and telegrams, two hundred dollars. For stationery, five hundred dollars. For transportation, one thousand two hundred dollars.Transportation. For type and materials for office and diplomas for graduates, four hundred dollars.
For cadet registers, class reports, and blanks, three hundred dollars. For compensation to pressman and lithographer, one hundred dollars. For clerk to disbursing officer and quartermaster, one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. For clerk to adjutant, one thousand five hundred dollars. For clerk to treasurer, one thousand five hundred dollars. Department of instruction in mathematics: For surveyor's compass,Departments of instruction.Mathematics. fifty-eight dollars; chain, eight dollars; leveling-rod, sixteen dollars; measuring-tapes, twelve dollars; repairs to instruments, twenty dollars; text-books for instructors, twenty dollars ; in all, one hundred and thirty-four dollars.
Artillery, cavalry, and infantry tactics: Tan-bark for riding-hall andTactics. gymnasium, one hundred and fifty dollars; stationery for assistant instructors of tactics, one hundred dollars; furniture for offices of commandant and officer in charge, and the reception-room for visitors, three hundred dollars; for repairs and new apparatus for gymnasium, five hundred dollars; in all, one thousand and fifty dollars. 414 FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 54. 1871. Civil and military engineering:
Engineering. For models, maps, and text-books for instructors, five hundred dollars. Natural and experimental philosophy: Natural, &c. philosophy. For pocket-barometer, seventy-five dollars; for compasses, sixty dollars; for repairs and contingencies, two hundred dollars; compensation to attendants, fifty dollars; in all, three hundred and eighty-five dollars. Drawing: Drawing. For pencil models for second class, fifty dollars; colored models for second class, fifty dollars; topographical models for third class, fifty dollars; architectural models and ornaments, twenty-five dollars; paper, pencils, colors, and brushes, ten dollars; in all, one hundred and eighty-five dollars.
Ethics: Ethics. For text-books, books of reference, and stationery for instructors, fifty dollars. French: French. For text-books and stationery for instructors, twenty-five dollars. Spanish: Spanish. For text-books and stationery for instructors, fifty dollars. Chemistry, mineralogy, and geology: Chemistry. For chemicals, including glass, porcelain ware, paper, wires, and sheet-copper, one thousand four hundred dollars; for material for practical instructions in photography, two hundred and fifty dollars ; for work-ben ch and tools, and tools for lathe, sixty-five dollars; for carpenters' and metal work, fifty dollars; for gradual increase of the cabinet, five hundred dollars; for rough specimens, files, and alcohol lamps for practical instruction, two hundred dollars; for fossils illustrating American rocks, for daily use in section rooms, one hundred and fifty dollars; for repairs and improvements in electric, galvanic, magnetic, electro-magnetic, and magneto-electric apparatus, four hundred and fifty dollars; for galvanic battery and lamp regulator, one hundred and forty dollars ; for repairs and addition to pneumatic and thermic apparatus, one hundred and fifty dollars; for Voightlander's camera tube, seventy-five dollars; for Dullmeyer's rapid rectilinear lens, one hundred and fifty-five, dollars; for Ladd's dynamo magneto-electric machine complete, one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars; for additional compensation to attendant, fifty dollars; in all, five thousand four hundred and eighty-five dollars.
Miscellaneous and contingent expenses : Miscellaneous and contingent. For gas, coal, oil for lighting academy and cadets' barracks, mess-hall and hospital, offices, stables, and side-walk, four thousand dollars; for water-pipes, plumbing, and repairs, two thousand dollars; scrubbing public buildings, (not quarters,) five hundred and sixty dollars ; brooms, brushes, tubs, pails, and wages of scrubbers and cleaners, one thousand five hundred dollars; chalk, sponge, and slates for recitation-rooms, one hundred dollars; compensation of organist of chapel, two hundred dollars; compensation to librarian, one hundred and twenty dollars; compensation to non-commissioned officers in charge of mechanics, fifty dollars; compensation to soldier writing in adjutant's office, fifty dollars; amounting in all to eight thousand five hundred and eighty dollars.
Library.For increase and expense of library, books, magazines, periodicals, and binding, two thousand dollars; salary of librarian's assistant, one thousand dollars, while the office is held by the present incumbent. For contingencies for superintendent, one thousand dollars. For furniture for cadet hospital, one hundred dollars. Board of visitors.For expenses of board of visitors, to wit, board, lodging, and travelling allowances, three thousand dollars. Roads.For repairing and opening roads and paths, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Drill ground.For grading, draining, and improving drill ground, one thousand dollars. Water.For increasing the supply of water, rebuilding dam for reservoir at the foot of Crows' Nest mountain, five thousand dollars. 415 FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 54, 55. 1871. For survey, map, and estimate for plan for bringing water fromWater. Round pond, two thousand five hundred dollars. For heating apparatus, book eases for archives, office furniture, upholstery,Heating apparatus, &c. blinds, gas-pipes and fixtures in fire-proof building for public office and archives, five thousand dollars.
Approved, February 18, 1871.