Chapter 137.
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CHAP. 137.— An act making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety.February 12, 1889. *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 ninety, namely:
Pay of professors and others.For pay of eight professors, twenty-six thousand dollars. For one commandant of cadets (lieutenant-colonel), in addition to pay of 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 (captains), in addition to pay as first lieutenants, four thousand dollars.
For pay of three senior instructors of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics (captains), in addition to pay as second lieutenants, one thousand five hundred dollars. For pay of four assistant instructors of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics (captains), in addition to pay as second lieutenants, two thousand four hundred dollars. For pay of one adjutant, in addition to pay as second lieutenant, four hundred dollars. For pay of one treasurer, quartermaster, and commissary of cadets, in addition to pay as captain of infantry, seven hundred dollars.
For pay of one master of the sword, one thousand five hundred dollars. Cadets.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. 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 ninety, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. 663 For additional pay of professors and officers on (increased rank)Longevity pay. for length of service, ten thousand six hundred and ninety dollars.
For pay of field musicians:Field musicians. One sergeant, two hundred and four dollars; Fourteen privates, two thousand one hundred and eighty-four dollars; Additional pay for length of service, two hundred and eighty-eight dollars; , Retained pay on discharge, two hundred and eighty-eight dollars; Clothing on discharge, two hundred and eighty-one dollars and eight cents; in all, three thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars and eight cents. For current expenses as follows:Current expenses.
Repairs and improvements, namely: Timber, planks, boards, joists,Repairs, etc. wall-strips, laths, shingles, slate, tin, sheet-lead, zinc, 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, machinery, mantels, and other similar materials, renewing roofs, and for pay of overseer and master-builder and citizen mechanics, and labor employed upon repairs and improvements that can not be done by enlisted men, including repairs to walls, woodwork, roof, and other fixtures of cadet barracks, twelve thousand dollars.
For fuel and apparatus, namely: Coal, wood, charcoal, stoves,Fuel and light. grates, heaters, furnaces, ranges, and fixtures, firebricks, clay, sand, repairs of steam-heating apparatus, grates, stoves, heaters, ranges, and furnaces, mica, fifteen thousand dollars. For gas-pipes, fixtures, lampposts, gasometers, and retorts, and annual repairs of the same, nine hundred dollars. For fuel for cadets’ mess-hall, shops, and laundry, three thousand dollars. For postage and telegrams, two hundred and fifty dollars.Postage, etc.
For stationery, namely: Blank-books, paper, envelopes, quills,Stationery. steel pens, rubbers, erasers, pencils, mucilage, wax, wafers, folders, fasteners, rules, files, ink, inkstands, typewriting supplies, pen-holders, tape, desk-knives, blotting pads, and rubber bands, six hundred dollars. For transportation of materials, discharged cadets, and ferriages,Transportation, etc. one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Printing: For printing and binding, type, materials for office, includingPrinting. repairs to motor, diplomas for graduates, annual registers, blanks, and monthly reports, to parents of cadets, one thousand dollars.
For clerk to the disbursing officer and quartermaster, one thousandClerks. five hundred dollars. For clerk to adjutant in charge of cadet records, one thousand five hundred dollars. For clerk to treasurer, one thousand five hundred dollars. For department of natural and experimental philosophy: For additionsDepartment of natural and experimental philosophy. to apparatus to illustrate the principles of mechanics, acoustics, optics, and astronomy, one thousand dollars; books of reference, textbooks, stationery, materials, and repairs, four hundred dollars; for pay of mechanic assistant, one thousand dollars: repairs to the observatory building and clocks, four hundred and fifty dollars;
For cases for books and instruments, two hundred and fifty dollars; in all, three thousand one hundred dollars. For department of modern languages: For stationery, text-books,Department of modern languages. and books of reference for the use of instructors, for repairs of books, apparatus, and office furniture, and for printing examination papers, two hundred dollars. For department of instruction in mathematics, namely: For repairsDepartment of mathematics. and materials for preservation of models and instruments, 664twenty-five dollars; textbooks, books of reference, binding, and stationery for instructors, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; for dividers, fifty dollars; contingencies, twenty-five dollars; in all, two hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Department of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology.For department of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology: For chemicals, 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 for gradual increase and improvement of the cabinet, five hundred dollars. Repairs and additions to electric, magnetic, pneumatic, and thermic apparatus, and apparatus illustrating optical properties of *Proviso*.substances: *Provided*, That any of the above sums may be available for Gas-engine.the purchase of a gas-engine for operating electric machines, six hundred and fifty dollars;
Pay of mechanic employed in chemical and geological section-rooms, and in lecture-rooms, one thousand dollars; Models, maps, and diagrams, books of reference, textbooks, and stationery for the use of instructors, one hundred and eighty dollars; Contingencies, one hundred dollars; in all, two thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars. Department of history. geography, and ethics.For department of history, geography, and ethics: For textbooks, books of reference, and stationery for use of instructors, and repairs, one hundred and fifty dollars.
Department of artillery. cavalry, and infantry tacticsFor department of artillery, cavalry, and infantry tactics, namely: For tanbark or other proper cover for riding-hall, to be immediately available and to be purchased in open market on written order of the superintendent, six hundred dollars; Repairing camp-stools and camp-furniture, one hundred dollars; Furniture for offices and reception-room for visitors, one hundred dollars; For stationery for use of instructor and assistant instructors of tactics, one hundred and fifty dollars;
Books and maps, binding books and mounting maps, seventy-five dollars; For repairs of gymnasium and gymnasium supplies, two hundred and fifty dollars; Foils, masks, belts, fencing and boxing-gloves, fencing-jackets, gaiters, and repairs, and for metal lined boxes for protection of fencing-gloves and jackets, two hundred and fifty dollars: Plumes for cadet officers of the first class, seventy five dollars; in all, one thousand six hundred dollars. Department of law.For department of law:
For stationery, textbooks, and books of reference for use of instructors, and for repairing and rebinding same, and furniture for office, two hundred and fifty dollars. Department of civil and military engineering.For department of civil and military engineering: For models, maps, purchase and repairs of instruments, textbooks, books of reference, and stationery for the use of instructors, and contingencies, five hundred dollars. Extra pay of enlisted man employed as draughtsman, two hundred and fifty-six dollars; in all, seven hundred and fifty-six dollars.
Department of ordnance and gunnery.For department of ordnance and gunnery: For purchase and repairs of instruments, models, and apparatus, and purchase of necessary materials; for the purchase of samples of arms and accoutrements other than those supplied to the military service; for the purchase and preparation of specimens for use in the testing machine; for books of reference, textbooks, and stationery, four hundred dollars; For stereotyping, and for making lithographic drawings illustrating revised course of instruction in ordnance and gunnery, three *Proviso*.hundred dollars: *Provided*, That from the amounts so appropriated 665 extra pay, at fifty cents per day, may be paid to an enlisted manDraughtsman. while employed as a draughtsman; in all, seven hundred dollars.
For department of practical military engineering; For purchaseDepartment of practical military engineering. and repair of instruments: transportation: purchase of tools, implements, and materials, and for extra-duty pay of engineer soldiers, as follows, namely: Instruments, for use in instructing cadets in making reconnaissances; photographic apparatus and material for field photography; drawing instruments and material for platting reconnaissances; surveying instruments; one typewriter; instruments and material for signaling and field telegraphy; transportation of field parties, tools and materials for the preservation, augmentation, and repair of one wooden ponton and one canvas ponton bridge train; sapping and mining tools and material; profiling material; rope; cordage; and material 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 pay 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 drawing: For books and periodicals on art andDepartment of drawing. technology, one hundred dollars. Models (machine, architectural, and topographical) in flat and fac simile, for second and third classes, one hundred and fifty dollars. Repairs to desks, models, stretchers, and material, one hundred dollars; Drawing material for use of instructors, tacks, brushes, sponges, glue, alcohol, hectograph, cloth, tumblers, saucers, towels, soap, ink-pads, blank-pads, ink, paint, stationery, and contingent expenses, two hundred and five dollars; in all, five hundred and fifty-five dollars.
Extra pay of two enlisted men, employed as clerks in the offices ofExtra pay to enlisted men. the adjutant, United States Military Academy, and commandant of cadets, at thirty-five cents per day, two hundred and thirty-seven dollars and thirty cents. Extra pay of two enlisted men as printers at headquarters. United States Military Academy, at fifty cents per day, three hundred and thirteen dollars. Extra pay of one enlisted man, employed as watchman, at thirty-five cents per day, one hundred and fifty-nine dollars and sixty cents.
Extra pay of one enlisted man as trumpeter at the cadet barracks, at thirty-five cents per day, one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents. Extra pay of one enlisted man, employed in the philosophical department, Observatory, as mechanic, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents. Extra pay of one enlisted man. employed in the chemical Department, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and fifty six dollars and fifty cents. Extra pay of two enlisted men, (cavalrymen), when performing special skilled mechanical labor, at fifty cents per day, three hundred and thirteen dollars: *Provided*, That the extra pay provided for by the*Proviso*. seven preceding paragraphs shall not be paid to any enlisted man who receives extra-duty pay under existing, laws or Army regulations.
For expenses of the Board of Visitors, including mileage, threeBoard of Visitors. thousand dollars. For miscellaneous and incidental expenses: For gas-coal, oil,Contingent expenses. candles, lanterns, matches, chimneys, and wicking for lighting the Academy, chapel, library, cadet barracks, mess-hall, shops, hospital, offices, stables, and riding-hall, sidewalks, camp, and wharves, three thousand five hundred dollars; 666 For water pipes, plumbing, and repairs, two thousand dollars.
For cleaning public buildings (not quarters), six hundred dollars; Brooms, brushes, pails, tubs, soap, and cloths; two hundred dollars; Chalk, crayons, sponges, slate, rubbers, and card for recitation-rooms, three hundred dollars; Compensation.Compensation of chapel organist, two hundred dollars; Compensation of librarian, one hundred and twenty dollars; Mechanics.Pay of engineer of heating and ventilating apparatus for the academic building, the cadet barracks, and office building, cadet hospital, chapel, and philosophical building, including the library, one thousand five hundred dollars;
Pay of assistant engineer of same, one thousand dollars; For pay of five firemen, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For pay of librarian’s assistant, one thousand dollars; in all, thirteen thousand one hundred and twenty dollars. Library.For increase and expense of library, namely: For periodicals, stationery, binding new books, and scientific, historical, biographical, and general literature, to be purchased in open market on the written order of the Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Furniture, etc.For additional tables and chairs, furniture, and contingent repairs to library-rooms, two hundred dollars. For furniture for cadet hospital, and repairs of the same, one hundred dollars. For contingencies for Superintendent of the Academy, one thousand dollars. For renewing furniture in section-rooms, and repairing the same, five hundred dollars. Repairs, etc.For repairs, upholstering, and carpeting the Academy chapel, five hundred dollars. For contingent funds to be expended under the direction of the Academic Board; for instruments, books, repairs to apparatus, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, one thousand *Proviso*.
Technical supplies.dollars: *Provided*, That all technical and scientific supplies for the departments of instruction of the Military Academy shall be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may deem best. Musical instruments.For purchase and repair of instruments for band, three hundred dollars. public works.Public works. Repairing roads, etc.For buildings and grounds: For repairing roads and paths, including roads and bridges on reservation, five hundred dollars.
For continuing construction of breast-high wall in dangerous places, five hundred dollars. Water works.For waterworks: Renewal 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 repair of cooking utensils, and the replacement of worn-out cooking utensils in the cadet, subsistence department, three hundred and twenty-six dollars and ninety six cents. Fireproof building to be erected.For the erection of a fire-proof building on such site of the public grounds at West Point. New York, as may be designated by the Secretary of War, to accommodate all the departments of instruction of the Military Academy, to be constructed according to the plans recommended by the Academic Board and approved by the Secre- 667 tary of War, four hundred and ninety thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso*.
That plans and specifications for said building shall be preparedPlans. etc. under the direction of the Academic Board and approved by the Secretary of War, which plans and specifications shall be such that when said building shall be fully completed the cost thereof shall not exceed the sum herein appropriated. For the erection of a fire-proof building on such site of the publicGymnasium building to be erected. grounds at West Point, New York, as may be designated by the Secretary of War, to be used as a gymnasium and fencing academy for the cadets of the United States Military Academy, to be constructed according to the plans recommended by the Academic Board and approved by the Secretary of War, one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That plans and specifications for said building shall*Proviso*.
Plans, etc. be prepared under the direction of the Academic Board and approved by the Secretary of War, which plans and specifications shall be such that when said building shall be fully completed the cost thereof shall not exceed the sum herein appropriated: *Provided further*, That the sums herein appropriated for erection of one building toImmediately available. Buildings. be used by all departments of instruction, and one gymnasium and fencing academy, shall be immediately available.
For placing in cadet barracks fifteen alcove partitions, three hundred and fifteen dollars. For one retiring house, to be immediately available, three thousand dollars. For repairing and improving the soldier’s chapel upon the West Point Military Reservation, three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For one storehouse at north wharf for storage of supplies, to be immediately available, five hundred dollars. For maintaining and improving the grounds of the Post Cemetery,Improving grounds. including the purchase of trees, plants, tools, and materials, to be immediately available, five hundred dollars.
For new settees, to be immediately available, five hundred dollars. For one hundred and twenty-two new tent floors, one hundred and twenty-two lockers, and eight sentry boxes, to be immediately available, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For resetting four horizontal tubular boilers, including all materialHeating apparatus, etc. and labor, used for heating with steam the Academic building, cadet barracks, commandants’ office, mess-hall, hospital, and cadet sinks, to be immediately available, two thousand two hundred dollars.
For repairing gas holder, to be immediately available, two thousand dollars. Approved, February 12, 1889.