Chapter CXCVI. *making Appropriations for the Support of the Military Academy for the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three.*May 23, 1872. *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. CXCVI.— An Act *making Appropriations for the Support of the Military Academy for the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three.*May 23, 1872. *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-three, viz. :
Officers, instructors, cadets, &c.For additional pay of officers, and for pay of instructors, cadets, and musicians, two hundred and twenty-two thousand niue hundred and thirty seven dollars and fifty cents. Repairs, fuel, &c.For repairs and improvements, timber, plank, boards, joists, wall-strips, laths, shingles, slate, tin, sheet-lead, nails, screws, locks, butts, hinges, glass, paint, turpentine, oils, bricks, lime, cement, plaster, hair, blasting-powder, fuses, iron, steel, tools, mantels,aud other similar materials,fourteen thousand five hundred dollars.
Citizen-mechanics.For pay of citizen-mechanics employed upon repairs that cannot be done by enlisted men, eight thousand dollars. For fuel and apparatus, coal, wood, stoves, grates, furnaces, ranges, firebricks, and repairs, fourteen thousand dollars. FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 196. 1872.155 For gas-pipes, gasometers, and retorts, and annual repairs of the same,Gas-pipes, &c. six hundred dollars. For fuel for cadets’ mess-hall, shops, and laundry, three thousand fiveFuel. hundred dollars.
For postage and telegrams, two hundred dollars.Postage, &c. For stationery, blank-books, paper, envelopes, quills, steel pens, wax, andStationery. ink, five hunched dollars. For transportation of materials, discharged cadets, and ferriages, oneTransportation. thousand two hundred dollars. For printing-type, materials for office, diplomas for graduates, registers, and blanks, seven hundred dollars. For compensation of 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. For department of instruction in mathematics, viz.: For plane-table, oneDepartments of instruction. hundred and seventy-five dollars; repairs of instruments, thirty dollars; text-books and stationery for instructors, twenty dollars.Mathematics. For department of artillery, cavalry, and infantry tactics, viz.: For tanbarkTactics. for riding-hall and gymnasium, one himdred and fifty dollars; stationery for assistant instructors, one hundred dollars; guidons, marker-flags, camp-colors, and embroidering colors for caps of cadets, fifty dollars; repairing camp-stools, tents, and furniture, five hundred dollars; foils, masks, gloves, and repairs for fencing, two hundred dollars.
For department of civil and military engineering: For models, maps,Engineering. repairs of instruments, and text-books and stationery for use of instructors, five hundred dollars. For department of natural and experimental philosophy : For chronographNatural, &c., philosophy. for observatory, one thousand dollars; two sextants, three hundred dollars; surveyor’s transit, two hundred and fifty dollars; barometer, fifty dollars; repairs and contingencies, five hundred dollars; compensation to attendant, fifty dollars.
For department of drawing: For Turner’s Liber-studiorum for the useDrawing. of the second class, one hundred and twenty dollars; topographical models, architectural models and ornaments, and models of machines, for the use of the third class, one hundred dollars; colors, brushes, pencils, and papers, for the use of instructors, ten dollars. For department of law and ethics: For books of reference, text-books,Law and ethics. and stationery, for the use of instructors, one hundred dollars.
For department of French : For text-books and stationery, for the useFrench. of instructors, fifty dollars. For department of Spanish : For text-books and stationery, for the use Spanish.of instructors, fifty dollars. For department of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology : For chemicals,Chemistry, &c. including chemical apparatus, glass and porcelain ware, paper, wire, and sheet-metal, five hundred and fifty dollars; material for practical instruction in photography, two hundred dollars; rough specimens, files, alcohol, lamps, blow-pipes, pencils, and agate mortars, for practical instruction in mineralogy and geology, one hundred and seventy-five dollars; fossils illustrating the different rock formations, for daily use in section-rooms, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; gradual increase of the cabinet, five hundred dollars; repairs and improvements in electric, galvanic, magnetic, electro-magnetic, and magneto-electric apparatus, four hundred and fifty dollars; repairs and additions to pneumatic and thermic apparatus, one hundred and fifty dollars; improved adjustable electric lamp, one hundred and fifty dollars; carpenters’ and metal work, and materials for the same, sixty-five dollars; improved binocular microscope, complete, three hundred dollars; diagrams illustrating chemical and geological phenomena, one hundred and twenty-five FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 196, 197. 1872.156Chemistry, &c.dollars; mechanics’ tools, twenty dollars; pay of mechanics, to be employed in chemical and geological section-rooms and in the lecture-room, one thousand and fifty dollars; for bringing steam directly to chemical rooms, and for chemical and mechanical operations, two hundred and seventy dollars; steam cylinder and piston, five hundred dollars; setting up Ludd’s dynamo-magnetic electric machine, one hundred dollars; replastering and painting section-rooms, one hundred and twenty dollars; reflooring lecture-room, eighty dollars; covering floor of mineralogical section-room, one hundred and ten dollars; compensation to attendant, fifty dollars.
Practical engineering.For department of practical engineering: For ten box-com passes, fifty dollars; repairs of instruments, twenty-five dollars; lumber for profiling, tracting-tapes, and turpentine, one hundred and twenty-five dollars. Ordnance and gunnery.For department of ordnance and gunnery : For building sink, repairing and pointing walls, and for new doors, five hundred dollars. Board of visitors.For expenses of the board of visitors, five thousand dollars. Miscellaneous and contingent.For miscellaneous and contingent expenses:
For gas, coal-oil, for lighting the academy, cadet barracks, mess-hall, hospital oilices, stable, and inside 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 cloths, two hundred dollars; chalk, crayons, sponge, and slates for recitation-rooms, one hundred dollars; compensation of chapel 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, 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.
Losses of cadets by fire.For reimbursing cadets for losses incurred by their efforts in extinguishing a fire in their barracks, in the year eighteen Hundred and seventy-one, six thousand eight hundred and eighteen dollars and eighty-two cents. 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. Roads and paths.For repairing and opening roads and paths, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Ice, &c.For ice-house and an additional store-room and servants’ room, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For coal-house, five thousand dollars. For re-covering south wharf, two thousand five hundred dollars. Approved, May 23, 1872.