Chapter 181.
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CHAP. 181.— AN ACT making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes.June 11, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Appropriations. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, outMilitary Academy. of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine:
For pay of three professors, at three thousand five hundred dollarsPay of professors and others. per annum each, ten thousand five hundred dollars. For pay of six professors, at three thousand dollars per annum each, eighteen thousand dollars. For additional pay of professors for length of service, seven thousand dollars. For pay of one instructor of practical military engineering in addition to pay as first lieutenant, nine hundred dollars. For pay of one instructor of ordnance and science of gunnery, in addition to pay as first lieutenant, nine hundred dollars.
For pay of eight assistant professors, in addition to pay as first lieutenants, four thousand dollars. For pay of three instructors of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics, in addition to pay as first lieutenants, one thousand five hundred dollars. For pay of four assistant instructors of tactics, commanding companies, in addition to pay as second lieutenants, two thousand four hundred dollars. 109 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 181. 1878. For pay of adjutant, in addition to pay as first lieutenant, three hundred dollars: *Provided*, The sum paid to said officer shall not exceed one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum.
For pay of one master of the sword, one thousand five hundred dollars. For pay of cadets, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and no cadet shall receive more than at the rate of five hundred and forty dollars a year. For pay of the teacher of music, one thousand and eighty dollars. For pay of the Military Academy band, eight thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars, which shall be in full for the pay of the said band for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
For repairs and improvements, timber, plank, boards, joists, wall-strips,Repairs and improvements. laths, shingles, slate, tin, sheet-lead, nails, screws, locks, butts, hinges, glass, paint, turpentine, oils, bricks, varnish, stone, lime, cement, plaster, hair, sewer and drain pipe, blasting-powder, fuse, iron, steel, tools, mantels, and other similar materials, and for pay of citizen mechanics and labor employed upon repairs that cannot be done by enlisted men, and for reflooring mineralogical and geological section-rooms, and repairing the same, also the drawing academy section-rooms, twelve thousand dollars.
For fuel and apparatus, coal, wood, stoves, grates, furnaces, ranges,Fuel, etc. firebricks, and repairs of steam-beating apparatus, thirteen thousand dollars. For gas-pipes, fixtures, lampposts, gas-lamps, gasometers, and retorts,Gas-pipes, etc. and annual repairs of the same, six hundred dollars. For fuel for cadets’ mess-ball, shops, and laundry, three thousandFuel. dollars. For postage and telegrams, three hundred dollars.Postage, etc.Stationery. For stationery, blank books, paper, envelopes, quills, steel pens, rubbers, erasers, pencils, muilage, wax, and ink, six hundred dollars.
For transportation of materials, discharged cadets, and ferriages, twoTransportation thousand dollars. For printing-type, materials for office, diplomas for graduates, registers,Printing, etc. and blanks, five hundred dollars. For clerk to the disbursing-officer and quartermaster, one thousandClerks. two hundred dollars. For clerk to adjutant, in charge-of cadet records, one thousand two hundred dollars. For department of instruction in mathematics, namely: For measuring-tapes,Department of mathematics. twelve dollars; cleaning and repairs of instruments, twenty-five dollars; textbooks and stationery for instructors, thirty dollars; one spirit-level, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; marking-pins,Department of artillery, etc. six dollars; plane-table, fifty dollars.
For department of artillery, cavalry, and infantry tactics, namely: For tanbark for riding-hall and gymnasium, three hundred dollars; repairing camp-stools and camp furniture, fifty dollars; furniture for offices and reception-room for visitors, one hundred and fifty dollars; stationery for use of instructor and assistants, one hundred dollars; text books, fifty dollars; foils, masks, gloves, fencing-jackets, and repairs, one hundred dollars. For department of civil and military engineering:
For models, maps,Department of engineering. purchase and repairs of instruments, textbooks, books of reference, and stationery for the use of instructors, and contingencies, five hundred dollars; for continuing preparation of textbooks for special instruction of cadets, five, hundred dollars. For department of chemistry, mineralogy and geology: For chemicals,Department of chemistry, etc. including chemical apparatus, glass and porcelain ware, paper, wire, sheet-metal, ores, photographic materials, five hundred dollars; rough specimens, files, alcohol-lamps, blowpipes, pencils, and steel and agate mortars, for practical instruction in mineralogy; for fossils illustrating 110 the different-formations, for daily use in section-rooms, and for gradual increase of the cabinet, five hundred dollars; repairs and additions to electric, galvanic, magnetic, electromagnetic, magneto-electric, pneumatic, and thermic apparatus, and apparatus illustrating optical properties of substances, six hundred dollars.
For pay of mechanic employed in chemical and geological section-rooms and in lecture-room, one thousand dollars; models and diagrams, books of reference, textbooks, and stationery for the use of instructors, one hundred dollars. For department of natural and experimental philosophy: For additionsDepartment of natural philosophy. to the apparatus to illustrate the laws in mechanics, optics, and acoustics, one thousand dollars; books of reference, text books, repairs, and materials, four hundred dollars; for pay of mechanic, one thousand dollars.
For purchase of driving-clock for the equatorial, eight hundred dollars. For department of practical military engineering: For mining materialsDepartment of practical engineering. and for profiling; telegraphing and signaling materials; drawing materials, stationery, and text books; and repairs of instruments, two hundred dollars. For department of French: For textbooks and stationery for the useDepartment of French. of instructors, books of reference, and for printing examination-papers, one hundred dollars.
For department of Spanish: For text books and stationery for the use Department of Spanish.of instructors, forty dollars. For department of law: For text books and stationery and books of reference for the useDepartment of law. of instructors, three hundred and sixty-eight dollars. For department of ordnance and gunnery: For books of reference andDepartment of ordnance, etc. text books for instructors, forty dollars. For constructing timber frames on piles to support iron targets for cadet rifle-practice, one hundred dollars.
For keeping in repair instrument and firing houses, sixty dollars. For department of drawing: For various articles most necessary forDepartment of drawing. the course of topographical drawing, two hundred and fifty dollars For department of history, geography, and ethics, twenty-five dollars. For expenses of the Board of Visitors, including mileage, three Board of Visitors.*Expenses ef, how paid.*R. S. 1329, p. 226.thousand dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter the expenses allowed by section thirteen hundred and twenty-nine of the Revised Statutes shall be paid as follows: each member of the Board of Visitors shall receive not exceeding eight cents per mile for each mile traveled by the most direct route from his residence to West Point and return, and shall in addition receive five dollars per day for expenses during each day of his service at West Point.
For miscellaneous and contingent expenses: For gas-coal, oil, candles,Contingent expenses. matches, and wicking for lighting the academy, cadet-barracks, mess-hall, shops, hospital, offices, stable, and sidewalks, three thousand five hundred dollars; water-pipes, plumbing,and repairs, one thousand five hundred dollars; cleaning public buildings (not quarters), five hundred dollars; brooms, brushes, pails, tubs, soap, and cloths, two hundred dollars; chalk, crayon, sponge, slate, and rubbers for recitation-rooms, one hundred dollars; compensation of chapel-organist, two hundred dollars; compensation of librarian, one hundred and twenty dollars; pay of engineer of heating and ventilating apparatus for the academic building, the cadet-barracks, chapel, and philosophical building, including the library, one thousand two 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 completing printing and binding of catalogues, one thousand dollars.
For pay of librarian’s assistant, one thousand dollars.Librarian’s assistant.Cadet hospital. For furniture for cadet-hospital, one hundred dollars. 111 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 181, 182, 183. 1878. For new stone frontpintle platform for fifteen-inch gun, nine hundredSeacoast battery. and fifty dollars. For carpets for adjutant’s office, eighty dollars. Buildings and grounds: For repairing roads and paths, five hundredBuildings and grounds. dollars. For completing the walls and putting on the roof of the new hospitalCadet hospital. for cadets, twelve thousand dollars; to be available immediately.
For completing system of sewerage, thirteen thousand two hundredSewerage. and fifty dollars. For repairing cadets’ bath room, one hundred and twenty-five dollars. Sec. 2. That appointments of civilians, except such as are regular*Appointment of civilians in Army.* graduates of the United States Military Academy who have been honorably discharged from the service, to be second lieutenants in any of the regiments of the Army, shall be made in time of peace only when more vacancies exist in the Army than will be required in the assignment of the next graduating class of cadets at the United States Military Academy: *Provided*, Nothing herein shall prevent the appointment for*Proviso.* a commission in the Army of meritorious non-commissioned officers or private soldiers.
Sec. 3. That from and alter July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two,*Appointment of graduates as lieutenants.* only such number of the graduates of the United States Military Academy in any one year shall be entitled to appointment as second lieutenants in the Army as are required to fill vacancies of that grade existing on the first day of July in each year: those entitled to appointment to said vacancies to be determined by the academic board on the basis of their standing in the graduating class.
And hereafter no supernumerary*Supernumerary officers* officers shall be attached to any company or corps of the Army, and all graduates of t he Military Academy who are not appointed to the Army under the provisions of this act shall be discharged upon the graduation of their class. Sec. 4. That the cadets at large at the Military Academy shall not*Cadets at large.* hereafter exceed ten in all, and no new appointments at large shall be made until the number of such cadets heretofore appointed falls below ten.
But this provision shall not be held to require the discharge of any cadet heretofore appointed Approved, June 11, 1878.