Chapter 72. to provide a school of instruction for cavalry and light artillery, and for the construction and completion of quarters, barracks, and stables at certain posts for the use of the Army of the United States
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CHAP. 72.— An Act to provide a school of instruction for cavalry and light artillery, and for the construction and completion of quarters, barracks, and stables at certain posts for the use of the Army of the United States.Jan. 29, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Fort Riley.School of cavalry and light artillery instruction established at. That the Secretary of War be, and be is hereby, authorized and directed to establish upon the military reservation at Fort Riley a permanent school of instruction for drill and practice for the cavalry and light artillery service of the Army of the United States, and which shall be the depot to which all recruits for such service shall be sent; and for the purpose of construction of such Appropriation.quarters, barracks, and stables as may be required to carry into effect the purposes of this act the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated Sec. 2.
That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directedFort D. A. Russell, Wyoming.Quarters and barracks.Fort Robinson, Nebraska.Quarters and barracks.Appropriation to complete. to complete the quarters and barracks at Fort D. A. Russell in the Territory of Wyoming at an expense not exceeding thirty thousand dollars, and to complete the quarters and barracks at Fort Robinson in the State of Nebraska for a garrison of ten companies at a cost not to exceed fifty-five thousand dollars, and there is hereby appropriated for the purposes mentioned in this section out of any monies in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eighty-five thousand ($85,000) dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Approved, January 29, 1887.