Chapter 255. making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 255.— An Act making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and for other purposes.June 30, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Military Academy appropriations. 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-three:
For pay of professors, twenty-nine thousand five hundred dollars.Pay of professors.Commandant of cadets. 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 additionInstructor of military engineering.Instructor of ordnance. 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,Assistant professors. four thousand dollars. For pay of three instructors of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics,Instructors of cavalry, etc. in addition to pay as second lieutenants, one thousand five hundred dollars. For pay of four assistant instructors of cavalry, artillery, and infantryAssistant instructors of cavalry.Graduate of Academy assigned to duty as professor, etc., only after four years from date of graduation.Pay of adjutant.*Proviso*. tactics, commanding companies, in addition to pay as second lieutenants, two thousand four hundred dollars; and hereafter no graduate of the Military Academy shall be assigned or detailed to serve at said academy as a professor, instructor, or assistant to either within four years after his graduation.
For pay of adjutant, in addition to pay as first lieutenant, three 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.Master of sword.Pay of cadets. 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. And the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to detail a commissary-sergeant to act as assistant to the commissary of cadets.
For pay of the teacher of music, one thousand and eighty dollars.Teacher of music.Pay of band. For pay of the Military Academy band, nine thousand two hundred and forty dollars; which shall be in full for the pay of the said band for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. For additional pay of professors and to officers (on increased rank)Longevity pay. for length of service, ten thousand three hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents.
For current expenses, as follows:Current expenses. For repairs and improvements, timber, plank, boards, joists, wall- 124strips, laths, shingles, slate, tin, sheet-lead, zinc, nails, screws, locks, hinges, glass, paint, turpentine, oils, varnish, flagstone, lime, cement, plaster, hair, sewer and drainpipe, 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, thirteen thousand dollars.
For fuel and apparatus, coal, wood, stoves, grates, furnaces, ranges, Fuel.firebricks, clay, sand, and repairs of steam-heating apparatus, grates, ranges, furnaces, and stoves, twelve thousand dollars. For gas-pipes, fixtures, lampposts, gasometers, and retorts, andGas-pipes. annual repairs of the same, nine hundred dollars. For fuel for cadets’ mess hall, shops, and laundry, three thousand dollars. For postage and telegrams, three hundred dollars.Postage, telegrams.Stationery.
For stationery, blank books, paper, envelopes, quills, steel pens, rubbers, erasers, pencils, mucilage, wax, wafers, folders, fasteners, files, ink, and rubber bands, six hundred dollars. For transportation of materials, discharged cadets, and ferriages, oneTransportation, etc. thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For printing: For type, materials for office, diplomas for graduates,Printing. annual registers, blanks, and monthly reports to parents, 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, one thousand two hundred dollars. For department of instruct ion in mathematics, namely: For repairsDepartment of instruction. and materials for preservation of models and instruments, fifty dollars; text books of reference, and stationery for instructors, one hundred and fifty dollars; in all, two hundred dollars. For department of civil and military engineering: For models, maps,Department of civil and military 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 hundredExira pay to draughtsman. dollars. For department of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology: For chemicals,Department of chemistry and geology. chemical apparatus, glass and porcelain ware, paper, wire, sheet metal, ores, photographic apparatus and materials, five hundred dollars; rough specimens, fossils, files, alcohol, lamps, blowpipes, pencils, and paper for practical instruction in mineralogy and geology, and for gradual increase of the cabinet, four hundred dollars; repairs and additions to electric, magnitic, pneumatic, and thermic apparatus, and apparatus illustrating optical properties of substances, seven hundred and fifty dollars; in all, one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
For pay of mechanic employed in chemical and geological section-roomsPay of mechanic, etc. and in lecture-rooms, one thousand dollars; set of drawing instruments, models and diagrams, books of reference, textbooks, and Stationery, etc.stationery for the use of instructors, one hundred and eighty dollars; contingencies, one hundred dollars; in all, one thousand two hundred and eighty dollars. For department of Spanish: For textbooks, books of reference, andDepartment of Spanish. stationery for use of instructors, fifty dollars.
For department of French and English studies: For text-books, books Department of French and English.of reference, and stationery for the use of instructors, books of reference, and for printing examination papers, one hundred and seventy-five dollars. For department of artillery, cavalry, and infantry tactics, namely:Department of artillery, cavalry, etc. For tanbark for riding-hall and gymnasium, three hundred dollars; repairing camp-stools, and camp-furniture, fifty dollars; furniture for 125 offices and reception-room for visitors, one hundred dollars; stationery for use of instructor and assistants, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; books and maps, fifty dollars; fixtures and repairing gymnasium, two hundred dollars; foils, masks, fencing-gloves, jackets, and repairing wooden muskets, three hundred dollars; in all, one thousand one bundled and twenty-five dollars.
For department of law: For textbooks and stationery and books of Department of law.reference for the use of instructors, two hundred and fifty dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary’ of War may, in his discretion, assign any*Proviso*. officer of the Army as professor of law. For department of practical military engineering: For pontooningDepartment of military engineering. and materials for mining and profiling, telegraphing and signaling materials, stationery and textbooks, books of reference and repairs of instruments, one hundred and fifty dollars.
For construction of pontoon train, three thousand five hundred dollars.Pontoon train.Department of ordnance and gunnery. For department of ordnance and gunnery: For additions to models and drawings illustrating course of instruction, and for keeping in repair instrument and firing-houses, for books of reference and stationery for instructors, two hundred and fifty dollars. For altering a building in laboratory-yard, four hundred dollars.Altering building in laboratory yard.Department of drawing.
For department of drawing: For new desks and stools, repairs on desks, tables and drawing material, exchange of drawings with foreign military schools, foreign textbooks and manuals, textbooks of and models for topographical surveying and topographical, mechanical, and freehand drawing, rules, and triangles, drawing-materials, card-boards, tacks, scissors, knives, brushes, roller-shades for skylights, and photographic slides for lanterns, four hundred and fifty-five dollars. For department of natural and experimental philosophy:
For additionsDepartment of philosophy. to apparatus to illustrate the laws of accoustics, optics, and mechanics, one thousand dollars; books of reference, textbooks, materials, and repairs, four hundred dollars; for pay of mechanic assistant, one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand four hundred dollars. For astronomical instruments to equip the new observatory, ten thousandAstronomical instruments.Expenses of Board of Visitors.Miscellaneous and contingent expenses. dollars.
For expenses of the Board of Visitors, including mileage, three thousand dollars. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses: For gas coal, oil, candles, lanterns, matches, and wicking for lighting the academy, chapel, library, cadet-barracks, mess hall, shops, hospital, offices, stable and riding-hall, 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, brashes, 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, one thousand dollars; pay of five firemen, two thousand two hundred dollars; in all, ten thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For pay of librarian’s assistant, one thousand dollars.Assistant librarian.Library. For increase and expense of library, namely: For periodicals, binding, new books, and scientific, historical, biographical, and general literature, two thousand dollars. For furniture for cadet-hospital, and repairs of the same, one hundredFurniture for cadet hospital.Bedding, etc., for candidates for admission. dollars. For purchase of bedding and necessary articles for the use of candidates previous to their admission into the academy, five hundred dollars. 126 For contingencies for superintendent of the academy, one thousand Contingencies for superintendent of academy.Buildings and grounds.dollars.
For buildings and grounds: For repairing roads and paths, seven hundred dollars. For continuing breast-height wall from Plain to South Wharf, fiveBreast-height wall. hundred dollars. For continuing addition to cadet-barracks, twenty-one thousand oneAddition to cadet-barracks. hundred and ninety dollars and fifty-four cents. For replacing window-sash of cadet-barracks with larger panes, two thousand dollars. For swimming-bath for use and instruction of cadets, two thousand dollars.Swimming-bath.
For new boilers for steam-heating apparatus for cadet-barracks andBoilers for steam-heating apparatus. academic building, ten thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine dollars. For gasworks: For putting up two new benches of retorts, including Gas-works.brick and iron work, new chimney, new set of purifiers, new condenser, new tank and holder, and connections, five thousand dollars. For new twelve-inch water-main from water-house to sally-port oWater-main, etc.f cadet-barracks, and for laying the same, three thousand dollars.
Approved, June 30, 1882.