Chapter 437. making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one
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CHAP. 437.— An Act making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one.June 20, 1890. *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 one:
For pay of one Superintendent of the United States Military AcademyPay of superintendent, professors, in structors, etc. (colonel), in addition to pay as lieutenant colonel of engineers, five hundred dollars. 164FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 437. 1890. For pay of eight professors, twenty-six thousand two hundred and sixty-three dollars and eighty-eight cents. For one commandant of cadets (lieutenant-colonel), in addition to pay as captain, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For pay of one instructor of practical military engineering (major), in addition to pay as first lieutenant, nine hundred dollars. For pay of one instructor of ordnance and science of gunnery (major), 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-five thousand dollars; and no cadet shall receive more than at the rate of five hundred and forty dollars a year.
For pay of one 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-one, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. Longevity pay.For additional pay of professors and officers (on increased rank) for length of service, ten thousand six hundred and ninety dollars. Field musiciansFor pay of 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. Current expenses.Repairs, etc.,For current expenses as follows: Repairs and improvements, namely:
Timber, planks, boards, joists, 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, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars.
Fuel and light.For fuel and apparatus namely: Coal, wood, charcoal, stoves, 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. Postage, etc.For postage and telegrams, two hundred and fifty dollars. 165 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, eight 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 cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics, namely:Department of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics. 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;
For repairing camp-stools and camp furniture, one hundred dollars; For 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; For foils, masks, belts, fencing-gloves, and boxing-gloves, fencing jackets, gaiters, and repairs, two hundred and fifty dollars; For one rowboat for use of guard during instruction in swimming, eighty dollars; For repairs and improvements of dressingrooms, walks, and dock at swimming place, two hundred and twenty dollars;
For books and maps, binding books and mounting maps, seventy-five dollars; For plumes for cadet officers of the first class, seventy five dollars; in all, one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. For department of civil and military engineering: For models,Department of civil and military engineering. maps, purchase and repair of instruments, textbooks, books of reference, and stationery for the use of instructors, and contingencies, five hundred dollars; Extra pay of one enlisted man employed as draughtsman, two hundred and fifty-six dollars; in all, seven hundred and fifty-six 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; for books of reference, textbooks, stationery, materials, and repairs, four hundred dollars; for pay of mechanic assistant, one thousand dollars; for repairs to the observatory building and clocks, four hundred and fifty dollars; in all, two thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For department of instruction in mathematics,_ namely: For repairsDepartment of mathematics. and materials for preservation of models and instruments, fifty dollars; for textbooks, books of reference, binding, and stationery for instructors, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; for contingencies, twenty-five dollars; in all two hundred dollars. For department of history, geography, and ethics: For text-books,Department of history, geography, and ethics. books of reference, and stationery for use of instructors, and repairs one hundred and fifty dollars.
For department of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology: ForDepartment of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology. chemicals, chemical apparatus, glass and porcelain ware, paper, wire, sheet-metal, ores, photographic apparatus and materials, five hundred dollars; 166 For rough specimens, fossils, files, alcohol, lamps, blowpipes, pencils and paper for practical instruction in mineralogy and geology, and for gradual increase and improvement of the cabinet, five hundred dollars; For repairs and additions to electric, magnetic, pneumatic and thermic apparatus, and apparatus for illustrating the optical properties of substances, six hundred and fifty dollars;
For pay of mechanic employed in chemical and geological section-rooms and inlecture rooms, one thousand dollars; For models, maps, and diagrams, books of reference, textbooks, and stationery for the use of instructors, one hundred and eighty dollars; For contingencies, one hundred dollars; in all, two thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars; Department of drawing.For department of drawing: For books and periodicals on art and technology, one hundred dollars; For models in fiat and relief for second and third classes, one hundred dollars;
For repairs to desks, models, stretchers, and material, seventy-five dollars; For drawing and photographic material for the use of instructors, and contingencies, two hundred and fifty dollars; For photographic surveying camera and tripod, two hundred dollars; For steel rulers and triangles, three hundred dollars; In all, one thousand and twenty-five dollars. Portraits.For relining portraits of Jefferson and Monroe, two hundred dollars. Department of modern languages.For department of modern languages:
For stationery, textbooks, books of reference for the use of instructors, and for printing examination papers, two 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 practical military engineering.For department of practical military engineering: For purchase 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, 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.
Department of ordnance and gunnery.For department of ordnance and gunner y: For purchase and repairs of instruments, models, and apparatus, and purchase of necessary materials; for the purchase of samples of aims and accouterments 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 167 hundred dollars: *Provided*, That from the amounts so appropriated*Proviso*.Draughtsman. extra pay at fifty cents per day. may he paid to an enlisted man while employed as a draughtsman; in all seven hundred dollars.
For extra pay of two enlisted men, employed as clerks in the officesExtra pay to enlisted men. of the adjutant, United States Military Academy, and commandant of cadets, at thirty five cents each per day, two hundred and thirty-seven dollars and thirty cents. For extra pay of three enlisted men as printers, at headquarters United States Military Academy, at fifty cents each per day, four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents. For extra pay of one enlisted man, employed as watchman, at thirty-five cents per day, one hundred and fifty-nine dollars and sixty cents.
For 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. For 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. For 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.
For extra pay of two enlisted men (cavalrymen) when performing special skilled mechanical labor, at fifty cents each per day, three hundred and thirteen dollars: *Provided*, That the extra pay provided*Provisos*.Limitation. for by the seven preceding paragraphs shall not be paid to any enlisted man who receives extra-duty pay under existing laws or Army regulations. *And provided further*, That the enlisted men knownArtillery detachment to become Army service men, etc. as the artillery detachment at West Point shall be mustered out of the service as artillerymen and immediately reenlisted as Army service men in the Quartermaster’s Department, continuing to perform the same duties and to have the same pay, allowances, rights and privileges, and subject to the rules, regulations and laws in the same manner as if their service had been continuous in the artillery, and their said service shall be considered and declared to be continuous in the Army.
For expenses of the Board of Visitors, including mileage, threeBoard of Visitera. thousand dollars. For miscellaneous and incidental expenses: For gas-coal, oil, candles,Miscellaneous expenses. 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; For water-pipe, plumbing, and repairs, two thousand dollars;
For cleaning public buildings (not quarters), six hundred dollars; For brooms, brushes, pails, tubs, soap, and cloths, two hundred dollars; For chalk, crayons, sponges, slate, rubbers, and card for recitation rooms, three hundred dollars; For compensation of chapel organist, two hundred dollars;Compensation. For compensation of librarian, one hundred and twenty dollars; For 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.;
For 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; For pay of one landscape gardener, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, fourteen thousand six hundred and twenty dollars. For increase and expense of library, namely: For periodicals, stationery,Library. binding books, and scientific, historical, biographical, and 168 general literature, to be purchased in open market on the written order of the superintendent, two thousand dollars.
For repairing books; for furniture and contingent repairs of library-rooms, two hundred dollars. Hospital furniture.For furniture for cadet hospital, and repairs of the same, one hundred dollars. Contingencies—Superintendent.For contingencies for Superintendent of the Academy, one thousand dollars. Section-rooms, furniture.For renewing furniture in section-rooms, and repairing the same, five hundred dollars. Chapel repairs, etc.For repairs, upholstering, and carpeting the Academy Chapel, one thousand dollars.
Contingent funds.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, six hundred dollars; to be purchased in open market on the order of the Superintendent, and to be immediately available. 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. Wall.For continuing construction of breast-high wall in dangerous places, five hundred dollars. Water-works, etc.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.
Cooking utensils.For repair of cooking utensils and the replacement of worn-out cooking utensils in the cadet subsistence department, three hundred and twenty-six dollars, to be expended without advertising. Cadet hospital.For necessary changes required in the plumbing of the cadet hospital, two thousand five hundred dollars. Officers’ quarters.For two sets of officers’ quarters, to be immediately available, twenty thousand dollars. Cavalry barrack.For one cavalry barrack, to be located near the present cavalry stable, and to be immediately available, twenty-one thousand dollars.
Storehouse.For one quarter master’s storehouse, to be immediately available, eighteen thousand dollars. Band practice room.For one practice room for the Military Academy band, to be immediately available upon the approval of this act, three thousand and thirty dollars. Quarters.For ten sets of quarters for enlisted men and their families, to be built in sets of twos, of brick, each set to contain four rooms, and to be immediately available, twelve thousand dollars. Hospital.For the construction of a hospital for enlisted men, thirty thousand dollars.
Stone for roads.Watchman’s quarters.For broken stone for roads, two thousand dollars. For one set of quarters for watchman at south wharf, to be immediately available, one thousand five hundred dollars. Cemetery.For maintaining and improving the grounds of the post cemetery including the purchase of trees, plants, tools, and materials, to be immediately available, one thousand two hundred dollars. FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 437, 438. 1890.169 For addition to quarters of the superintendent of the cadet laundry,Laundry quarters. to be immediately available four hundred dollars.
For painting walls, putting up new doors, and general repairs inCadet barracks. cadet barracks and sinks, to be immediately available, three thousand dollars. For reflooring south wharf, two thousand dollars.Wharf.Headquarters building. For finishing and fireproofing the third story of the headquarters building, for the construction of a stairway leading thereto, and for fitting up same for printing office, to be immediately available one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
For purchase or rental upon the best terms that can be obtained,Telephone system supplies. in the discretion of the Secretary of War, of the necessary instruments, wire, poles, and other telephone supplies, for establishing a telephone system, with a central station at West Point, New York, to be immediately available, two thousand dollars. For repairs upon the residence on the estate of the late Edward V.Kinsley residence.Vol. 25, p, 834. Kinsley, purchased under act of Congress approved, March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Approved, June 20, 1890.