Chapter CCX. *making Appropriations for the Support of the Military Academy for the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four*
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CHAP. CCX.— An Act *making Appropriations for the Support of the Military Academy for the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four*. Feb. 28, 1873. *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 June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, namely:
For additional pay of officers, and for pay of instructors, professors,Officers, instructors, cadets, &c.Pay of professors established;of instructors of ordnance and practical engineering. cadets, and musicians, two hundred and twenty thousand three hundred and seventy-nine dollars and fifty cents: *Provided*, That the professors of the United States Military Academy whose service at the academy exceeds ten years shall have the pay and allowances of colonel, and all other professors shall have the pay and allowances of lieutenant-colonel; and the instructors of ordnance and science of gunnery and of practical engineering shall have the pay and allowances of major; and hereafter there shallIncrease of pay for every five years’ service.Addition not to exceed, &c.Restrictions as to pay and retirement. be allowed and paid to the said professors ten per centum of their current yearly pay for each and every term of five years’ service in the army and at the academy: *Provided*, That such addition shall in no case exceed forty per centum of said yearly pay; and said professors are hereby placed upon the same footing, as regards restrictions upon pay and retirement from active service, as officers of the army.
For repairs and improvements, timber, plank, boards, joists, wall-strips,Repairs, fuel, &c. laths, shingles, slate, tin, sheet-lead, nails, screws, locks, butts, hinges, glass, paint, turpentine, oils, bricks, varnish, stone, lime, cement, plaster, hair, blasting-powder, fuel, iron, steel, tools, mantels, and other similar materials, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars. For pay of citizen-mechanics and labor employed upon repairs thatCitizen-mechanics cannot be done by enlisted men, eight thousand dollars.
For fuel and apparatus, namely: coal, wood, stoves, grates, furnaces,480FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 210. 1873. ranges, fire-bricks, and repairs of steam-heating apparatus, fourteen thousand dollars. Gas-pipes, &c.For gas-pipes, gasometers, and retorts, and annual repairs of the same, six hundred dollars. For fuel for cadets’ mess-hall, shops, and laundry, three thousand five hundred dollars. Postage, stationery, &c.For postage and telegrams, three hundred dollars. For stationery, blank books, paper, envelopes, quills, steel pens, pencils, erasers, wax, and ink, five hundred dollars.
Transportation.For transportation of materials, discharged cadets, and ferriages, one thousand five hundred dollars. For printing-type, materials for office, diplomas for graduates, registers, and blanks, seven hundred dollars. For compensation of pressman and lithographer, one hundred dollars. Clerks.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.Mathematics.For department of instruction in mathematics, namely: For repairs of instruments, forty dollars; text-hooks, drawing materials, and stationery for instructors, thirty dollars. Tactics.For department of artillery, cavalry, and infantry tactics, namely: For tan-bark for riding-hall and gymnasium, three hundred dollars; and for repairing apparatus for same, fifty dollars; for repairing camp-stools, tents, and furniture, fifty dollars. Engineering.For department of civil and military engineering:
For models, maps, repairs of instruments, text-books, books of reference, and stationery for use of instructors, five hundred dollars. Drawing.For department of drawing: For models for free-hand drawing for second class, forty-five dollars; mounting and framing the same, seventy-five dollars; architectural and topographical models for third class, forty dollars; mounting and framing the same, thirty dollars; tar-board for mounting models, fifteen dollars; colors, paper, brushes, and pencils, twenty dollars.
Chemistry, &c.For department of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology: For chemicals, including chemical apparatus, glass and porcelain ware, paper, wire, and sheet metal, and ores, nine hundred and seventy-five dollars, including material for practical instruction in photography; rough specimens, files, alcohol, lamps, blow-pipes, pencils, and agate mortars, for practical instruction in mineralogy and geology, two hundred and twenty-five dollars; fossils illustrating the different rock-formations, for daily use in section-rooms, one hundred and seventy-five dollars; gradual increase of the cabinet, five hundred dollars; repairs and improvements in electric, galvanic, magnetic, electro-magnetic, and magneto-electric apparatus, and additions to pneumatic and thermic apparatus, eight hundred dollars; carpenters’ and metal work, and materials for the same, sixty dollars; pay of mechanic, to Ire employed in chemical and geological section-rooms, and in the lecture-room, one thousand and fifty dollars; completing repairs and improvements in laboratory, lecture-rooms, and mineralogical rooms, three hundred and ninety-five dollars; models and diagrams, one hundred dollars; books of reference, text-books, and stationery, for use of instructors, and contingencies, two hundred and fifty dollars; compensation to attendant, fifty dollars.
Natural, &c., philosophy.For department of natural and experimental philosophy: For instruments and apparatus to illustrate the laws of mechanics and of solids and fluids, three thousand dollars; instruments and apparatus to illustrate the laws of acoustics and optics, four thousand dollars; instruments and apparatus to equip one field observatory, two thousand five hundred dollars; one break-circuit chronometer for mural-circle room inFORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 211. 1873.481 the observatory, five hundred dollars; lathe, forge, tools, and equipment of work-shop, seven hundred and fifty dollars; repairs and contingencies, eight hundred dollar’s; compensation to mechanic and assistant in charge of apparatus, one thousand dollars; compensation to attendant, fifty dollars.
For department of practical engineering: For mining material, twenty-fiveEngineering. dollars: lumber for profiling, twenty-five dollars; stationery and drawing material, twenty-five dollars; theodolite-transit, two hundred and fifty dollars; repairs of instruments, twenty-five dollars. For department of Spanish: For text-books and stationery for the useSpanish. of instructors, fifty dollars. For department of French: For text-hooks and stationery for the useFrench. of instructors, fifty-five dollars.
For department of law and ethics: For text-books and stationery forLaw and ethics. the use of instructors, fifty dollars. For expenses of the board of visitors, four thousand five hundred dollars:Board of visitors.Three members of the House of Representatives of forty-third Congress to be visitors.1863. ch. 108. Vol xiii. p. 804. *Provided*, That three members of the House of Representatives of the forty-third Congress, whose credentials in due form of law have been duly filed with the clerk of the House of Representatives in accordance with the act. of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, shall lie appointed by the speaker of the present House of Representatives, members of the board of visitors, at the next annual examination to be held at the Military Academy.
For miscellaneous and contingent expenses: For gas. coal-oil, and candles,Miscellaneous and contingent. for lighting the academy, catlet-barracks, mess-hall, hospital-offices, stable, and side-walks, four thousand dollars; water-pipes, plumbing, and repairs, two thousand dollars; cleaning public buildings, (not quarters,) five hundred and sixty dollars; brooms, brushes, pails, tubs, and clothing, two hundred dollars; chalk, crayons, sponge, and slates, for recitation-rooms, one hundred dollars; compensation of chap el-organist, two hundred dollars; compensation of librarian, one hundred and twenty dollars; compensation of non-commissioned officer in charge of mechanics, fifty dollars; compensation of soldier writing in adjutant’s office, fifty dollars; pay of engineer of heating and ventilating apparatus for the cadet-barracks, chapel, and philosophical academy, including the library, one thousand five hundred dollars; pay of assistant of same, seven hundred and twenty dollars; pay of five firemen, two thousand two hundred dollars; increase and expense of the library, books, magazines, periodicals, and binding, two thousand dollars.
For pay of librarian’s assistant, one thousand dollars. For contingencies for superintendent of the academy, one thousand dollars. For furniture for cadet-hospital, one hundred dollars. For buildings and grounds: For repairing and opening roads, one thousandBuildings and grounds. dollars. For rebuilding the dam at the foot of Crow’s Nest mountain, two thousandDam at foot of Crow’s Nest. four hundred and eight dollars and six cents. For preparing site and constructing foundation and beginning superstructureNew hospital. for cadet’s new hospital, twenty thousand dollars.
For commencing system of sewerage leading from barracks of troops,Sewerage. three thousand dollars. For remodelling battery Knox, ten thousand dollars.Battery Knox. Approved, February 28, 1873.