Chapter 56. making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 56.— An Act making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and for other purposes.Feb. 12, 1885. *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-six:
For pay of eight professors, twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars.Pay of professors. For one commandant of cadets, in addition to pay of captain in theCommandant of cadets. line, one thousand two hundred dollars. 299 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 56. 1885. 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. tactics, in addition to pay as second lieutenants, two thousand four hundred dollars.
For pay of adjutant, in addition to pay as second lieutenant, four hundredPay of adjutant.*Proviso*. dollars: *Provided*, That the sum paid to said officer shall not exceed one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum. For pay of treasurer, quartermaster, and commissary of cadets, inTreasurer, quartermaster, etc. addition to pay as captain of infantry, seven hundred dollars. For pay of one master of the sword, one thousand five hundred dollars.Master of sword. For pay of cadets, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars; andPay of cadets. 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.Teacher of music.Pay of hand. 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-six, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. For additional pay of professors and officers on (increased rank) forLongevity pay. length of service, nine thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For current expenses, as follows:Current expenses.Items. For repairs and improvements, timber, planks, boards, joists, wall-strips, laths, shingles, slate, tin, sheet-lead, zine, nails, screws, locks, hinges, glass, paints, turpentine, oils, varnish, brushes, stone, brick, flag, lime, cement, plaster, hair, sewer and drain pipe, blasting-powder, fuse, iron, steel, tools, mantels, and other similar materials, and for pay of overseer and master builder and citizen mechanics and tabor employed upon repairs and improvements that cannot be done by enlisted men, eleven thousand dollars.
For fuel and apparatus, coal, wood, stoves, grates, furnaces, rangesFuel, etc. and fixtures, firebricks, clay, sand, repairs of steam-heating apparatus, grates, stoves, ranges, furnaces, and fixtures, thirteen thousand dollars; one thousand dollars of which sum shall be immediately available. For gas-pipes, fixtures, lampposts, gasometers, and retorts, and annualGas-pipes, etc. repairs of the same, nine hundred dollars. For fuel for cadets’ mess-ball, shops, and laundry, three thousand dollars.
For postage and telegrams, three hundred dollars.Postage and telegrams.Stationery. For stationery, blank-books, paper, envelopes, quills, steel pens, rubbers, erasers, pencils, mucilage, wax, wafers, folders, fasteners, rules, files, ink, inkstands, pen-holders, tape, blotting-pads, and rubber bands, six hundred dollars. For transportation of materials, discharged cadets, and ferriages, twoTransportation, etc. thousand dollars. For printing: For type, materials for office, diplomas for graduates,Printing. annual registers, blanks, and monthly reports to parents of cadets, one thousand dollars.
For clerk to the disbursing officer and quartermaster, one thousandClerks to disbursing officer, quartermaster, adjutant, and treasurer. 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. 300 For department of instruction in mathematics, namely: For repairsDepartment instruction. and materials for preservation of models and instruments fifty dollars; textbooks, books of reference, binding, and stationery for instructors, Pay to draughtsman.one hundred and fifty dollars; one draughtsman, to draw figures, make corrections and copies of subjects rendered necessary by revision of textbooks in mathematics now under way, one hundred dollars; in all, three 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 intructors, and contingencies, five hundred dollars; extra pay of enlisted man employed as draughtsman, one hundred dollars; in all, six hundred 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, magnetic, pneumatic, and thermic apparatus, and apparatus illustrating optical properties oi substances, seven hundred and fifty dollars; pay of mechanic employed in chemical Pay of mechanic, etc.and geological section-rooms and in lecture-rooms, one thousand dollars; models, maps, and diagrams, textbooks, and stationery for the use Stationery, etc.of instructors, one hundred and eighty dollars; contingencies, one hundred dollars; in all, two thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars.
For department of modern languages: For stationery, textbooks,Department of modern languages. books of reference for the use of instructors, and for printing examination papers, two hundred dollars; furniture for instructors’ room in academic building, necessary for the use of instructors, and for the proper protection of the books and apparatus of the department kept in that room, seventy-five dollars; in all, two hundred and seventy-five dollars. For department of history, geography, and ethics:
For textbooks,Department of history, geography, and ethics. maps, books of reference, and stationery for use of instructors, three hundred dollars. For department of drawing: For books of reference, periodicals on artDepartment of drawing, etc. and technology, one hundred dollars; models for topographical, mechanical, architectural, and freehand drawing, two hundred and fifty dollars; rules and triangles, thirty dollars; repairs to desks, models, racks, stools, stretchers, one hundred dollars; drawing material for use of instructors,cardboard, tacks,brushes, sponges, glue,alcohol,transfer-paper, hectograph, cloth for screens, color-diagrams, and contingent expenses, two hundred dollars; stationery, ten dollars; photographic slides for use in lectures, one hundred and seventy-five dollars; continuing the decorated frieze, paneling, and painting wall to correspond to rest of room, two hundred and fifty dollars; in all, one thousand two hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents.
For department of law: For text books and stationery, and books ofDepartment law. reference for the use of instructors, two hundred and fifty dollars. For department of artillery, cavalry, and infantry tactics, namely:Deportment of artillery, cavalry, etc. For tanbark for riding-hall, three hundred dollars; repairing camp-stools and camp-furniture, one hundred dollars; furniture for offices and reception-room, one hundred dollars; stationery for use of instructor and assistants, one hundred and fifty dollars; books and maps, seventy- five dollars; supply of fixtures for gymnasium, and repairs, two hundred and fifty dollars; foils, fencing-gloves, jackets, gaiters, and repairs, two hundred and fifty dollars; plumes for cadet officers, to be accounted for as other public property, seventy-five dollars; in all, one thousand three hundred dollars.
For department of ordnance and gunnery: For addition to models;Department of ordnance and gunnery. drawing apparatus illustrating course of instruction; repairs of electroballistic machines, galvanic batteries, and models; for addition to firing- 301 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 66. 1885.houses and practical instruction-room; for books of reference, textbooks, and stationery for instructors, three hundred dollars. For department of practical military engineering: For purchase andDepartment of practical military engineering.Items. repair of instruments; purchase of tools, implements, and materials, and for extra duty pay of engineer soldiers, as follows, namely:
Astronomical and meteorological instruments and lights for use in instructing cadets in practical astronomy; reconnoitering instruments for use in their practical instruction in making reconnaissances; photographic apparatus and material for field photography; drawing instruments and material for plotting reconnaissances; surveying instruments; instruments and material for signaling and field telegraphy; tools and material for the preservation and repair of one wooden ponton and one canvas ponton bridge train; sapping and mining tools and materials; profiling material; rope; cordage; end materials for rafts and for spar and trestle bridges; intrenching tools; tools and material for the repair of Fort Clinton and the batteries at the Academy, and extra-duty payExtra-duty pay of engineer soldiers. of engineer soldiers employed upon the same; extra-duty pay of two engineer soldiers, at fifty cents per day each, when performing special skilled mechanical labor in the department of practical military engineering; for models, books of reference, and stationery, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For department of natural and experimental philosophy: For additionsDepartment of philosophy. to apparatus to illustrate the laws of acoustics, optics, and mechanics, one thousand dollars; books of reference, text books, stationery, materials, and repairs, four hundred dollars; for pay of mechanic assistant, one thousand dollars; repairs to the observatory building and the tower clock, four hundred and fifty dollars; in all, two thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. For expenses of the Board of Visitors, including mileage, three thousandExpenses of Board of Visitors.Miscellaneous and incidental expenses.Items. dollars.
For miscellaneous and incidental expenses: For gas-coal, oil, candles, lanterns, matches, and wicking for lighting the Academy, chapel, library, cadet barracks, mess-hall, shops, hospital, offices, stables and riding-hall, sidewalks, and wharves, three thousand five hundred dollars; water-pipes, plumbing, and repairs, one thousand five hundred dollars; cleaning public buildings (not quarters), six hundred dollars; brooms, brushes, pails, tubs, soap, and cloths, two hundred dollars; chalk, crayons, sponges, 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 engineer of same, one thousand dollars; pay of five firemen, two thousand seven hundred dollars; in all, eleven thousand three 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, one thousand dollars. For additional tables and chairs, and repairing same, two hundred dollars.Furniture. For furniture for cadet hospital, and repairs of the same, one hundredFurniture for cadet hospital.Bedding, &c., 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. For contingencies for superintendent of the Academy, one thousandContingencies for superintendent of Academy.Renewing furniture. dollars. For renewing furniture (desks and benches) in section-rooms, five hundred dollars. 302 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 56,58. 1885. For buildings and grounds: For repairing roads and paths, five hundredBuildings and grounds.Breast-high wall. dollars.
For continuing breast-high wall south toward guardhouse, five hundredCadet, barracks. dollars. For cadet barracks: Reflooring certain rooms and halls, paintingCadet hospital. wood work and repairing same, door-locks, scraping and kalsomining walls, and repairing piazza, five thousand dollars. For pointing new cadet hospital, one thousand one hundred and fiftyAdministration building.Pointing cadet barracks.Relining parapets of cadet barracks.Waterworks. dollars. For pointing administration building, seven hundred and ninety dollars.
For pointing portion of cadet barracks, three hundred dollars. For relining parapets of cadet barracks with galvanized iron, five hundred dollars. For waterworks: Renewing of material in filter-beds; improving ventilation of filter-house and water-house; hose for use in cleaning filter beds and water house, and for use in fire-service at same; tools, implements, and materials for use of the two keepers and for repairs of siphon-house, filter-house, and of four and one-half miles of supply-pipes; for shed for tools, and storage of fuel for keeper at Round Pond, and for tool house at filter; for gauges at Round Pond and Delafield Pond, and stairs for access to same, five hundred and twenty dollars.
For additional bathtubs, and repairs to bath tubs, in cadet barracks:Additional bathtubs, etc. Completion of the setting, casing, partitioning off, and concreting around twenty bathtubs for use of the cadets, one thousand dollars; which sum shall be immediately available. For band barracks, namely: Floor-timbers, flooring and plasteringBand barracks. basement of; concreting area; stairs from basement; porches, with stairs to back yard; writer and drain pipes, and repairs, three thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fourteen cents.
For addition to the present building containing water-closets for theAddition to building containing water-closets. use of cadets, so as to permit new closets and new urinals to be set up, one thousand two hundred dollars. For erection of a new ice-cooler, or refrigerator, for the cadet mess,Erection of ice-cooler. to be immediately available, three hundred dollars. Approved, February 12th, 1885.