Chapter 28. making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and for other puqioses
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CHAP. 28.— An Act making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and for other puqioses.Jan. 27, 1881. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Appropriations. Support of military Academy. 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 fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two:
For pay of professors, twenty-nine thousand eight hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-sevenPay of professors and others. cents. For one commandant of cadets, in addition to pay as captain in the line, one thousand two hundred 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 cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics, commanding companies, in addition to pay as second lieutenants, two thousand four hundred dollars. For pay of adjutant, in addition to pay as first lieutenant, three *Proviso.*hundred dollars: *Provided*, That 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 sixty 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, nine thousand five hundred and sixty dollars; which shall be in full for the pay of the said band for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
For additional pay of professors and to officers (on increased rank)Professors, additional pay of. for length of service, nine thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars and eighty six cents. 319 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 28. 1881. For current expenses, as follows: For repairs and improvements, timber, plank, boards, joists, wall-strips,Repairs and improvements. laths, shingles, slate, tin, sheet-lead, zinc, nails, screws, locks, hinges, glass, paint, turpentine, oils, varnish, flagstone, 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 and improvements that cannot be done by enlisted men, eleven thousand dollars.
For fuel and apparatus, coal, wood, stoves, grates, furnaces, ranges,Fuel, etc. firebricks, and repairs of steam-heating apparatus, twelve 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-hall, shops, and laundry, three thousand dollars. For postage and telegrams, three hundred dollars.Postage, etc.Stationery. For stationery, blank books, paper, envelopes, quills, steel pens, rubbers, erasers, pencils, mucilage, wax, wafers, folders, fasteners, files, and ink, six hundred dollars.
For transportation of materials, discharged cadets, and ferriages, oneTransportation. thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For printing: Type, materials for office, diplomas for graduates, registers,Printing, etc. and blanks, one thousand 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 clerk to treasurer, nine hundred dollars. For department of instruction in mathematics, namely:
For repairs Department of mathematics.and materials for preservation of instruments, fifty dollars; textbooks, books of reference, and stationery for instructors, one hundred dollars; one theodolite three hundred dollars; in all, four hundred and fifty dollars. For department of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology: For chemicals,Department of chemistry. chemical apparatus, glass and porcelain ware, paper, wire, sheet-metal, ores, photographic materials, five hundred dollars; rough specimens, fossils, files, alcohol, lamps, blowpipes, pencils, and paper for practical instruction in mineralogy and geology, and tor gradual increase of the cabinet, five hundred dollars; repairs and additions to electric, galvanic, magnetic, pneumatic, and thermic apparatus, and apparatus illustrating optical properties of substances, six hundred dollars; in all, one thousand six hundred dollars.
For pay of mechanic employed in chemical and geological section-rooms and in lecture-rooms, one thousand dollars; models and diagrams, books of reference, textbooks, and stationery for the use of instructors, eighty dollars; contingencies, one hundred dollars;■ in all, one thousand one hundred and eighty 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; in all, one thousand dollars.
For extra pay of enlisted man employed as draughtsman, one hundred dollars. For department of Spanish: textbooks and stationery for use ofDepartment of Spanish. instructors, thirty dollars. For department of French and English studies: For textbooks and Department of French and English.stationery for the use of instructor’s, books of reference, and for printing examination papers, two hundred and fifty dollars. For department of law: For textbooks and stationery and booksDepartment of law.*Proviso.* of reference for the use of instructors, one hundred dollars: *Provided*, That 320 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 28. 1881. the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, assign any officer of the Army as professor of law. For department of natural and experimental philosophy; For additionsDepartment of natural philosophy. to apparatus to illustrate the laws in mechanics, optics, accoustics, one thousand dollars; books of reference, textbooks, repairs, and materials, four hundred dollars; for pay of mechanics, one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand four hundred dollars. For department of drawing:
For pantograph for copy and reductionDepartment of drawing. of maps and mechanical drawings, new rulers and triangles, topographical, mechanical, and freehand models, mill-board for mounting drawings, drawing-materials for instructors, stationery, tacks, knives, and shears, new desks, exchange of drawings with foreign military schools, piuchase of foreign manuals and books of instruction in military drawing, models, and repairs on desks, stretchers, and models, lantern and slides for illustrating lectures, five hundred dollars.
For department of ordnance and gunnery: Additions to models andDepartment of ordnance, etc. drawings illustrating course of instruction, repairs of electroballistic machines and galvanic batteries, and for addition to firing-house, for books of reference and textbooks and stationery for instructors, two hundred dollars. For department of practical military engineering: For pontooning andDepartment of practical engineering. mining materials and for profiling, telegraphing, and signaling materials, stationery and textbooks, books of reference, and repairs of instruments, one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For department of artillery, cavalry, and infantry tactics, namely:Department of artillery. 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, fifty dollars; stationery for use of instructor and assistants, one hundred dollars; books and maps, fifty dollars; repairing gymnasium, one hundred dollars; foils, masks, gloves, jackets, and repairing wooden muskets, one hundred dollars; in all, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For expenses of the Board of Visitors, including mileage, three thousandBoard of Visitors. dollars. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses: For gas-coal, oil, candles,Contingent expenses. lanterns, matches, and wicking for lighting the academy, cadet-barracks, mess-hall, shops, hospital, offices, stable, and sidewalks and wharves, 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, three 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, and office building, 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; in all, ten thousand four hundred and forty dollars.
For increase and expense of library, namely: Periodicals, three hundredLibrary. dollars; binding, five hundred dollars; completing and binding catalogue, four hundred dollars; new books, scientific, historical, biographical, general literature, one thousand dollars; in all two thousand two hundred dollars. For pay of librarian’s assistant, one thousand dollars.Librarian’s assistant.Cadet hospital. For furniture for cadet-hospital, and repairs of the same, one hundred dollars.
For purchase of bedding and necessary articles for the use of Bedding, etc.candidates previous to their admission into the academy, five hundred dollars. For buildings and grounds: For repairing roads and paths, fiveBuildings and grounds. hundred dollars. 321 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 28, 29, 30. 1881. For continuing breast-height wall from Plain to South Wharf, fiveBreast-height wall. hundred dollars. For completing repairing roof of cadet-barracks, two thousand two Cadet barracks.hundred and fifty-five dollars.
For completion of main building and one wing for the now hospitalNow cadet hospital. for cadets, eleven thousand six hundred and seventeen dollars and eighty-four cents. For continuing addition to cadet-barracks, twenty-five thousand dollars. Approved, January 27, 1881.