Chapter 495.

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CHAP. 495.— An act making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two.March 2, 1891. *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 he, 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-two:

For pay of one Superintendent of the United States Military AcademyPay of superintendent, professors, instructors, etc. (colonel), in addition to pay as lieutenant-colonel of engineers, five hundred dollars. For pay of eight professors, twenty-six thousand seven hundred and forty-seven dollars and twenty-three 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. For pay of cadets, one hundred and sixty-six thousand and eightyCadets. 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.

For pay of the Military Academy band, nine thousand two hundredBand. 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-two, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. For additional pay of professors and officers (on increased rank) forLongevity pay. length of service, eleven thousand and forty-three dollars and seventy-eight cents. 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,Repairs, etc. 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 817 master builder and citizen mechanics, and labor employed upon repairs and improvements that can not he done by enlisted men, fifteen thousand dollars.

For fuel and apparatus, namely: Coal, wood, charcoal, stoves,Fuel and light. grates, heaters, furnaces, ranges and fixtures, fire bricks, clay, sand, repairs of steam-heating apparatus, grates, stoves, heaters, ranges, furnaces, and 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, penholders, 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,Printing. including repairs to motors, 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 two clerks to the quartermaster and adjutant, respectively, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, two thousand four 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 plumes for cadet officers of the first class, seventy-five dollars;

For foils, masks, belts, fencing-gloves, and boxing-gloves, fencing-jackets. gaiters, and repairs, two hundred and fifty dollars; For repairs and improvements of dressing rooms, walks, and dock at swimming place, two hundred and twenty dollars; For books and maps, binding books and mounting maps, seventy-five dollars; For silk sashes for cadet privates of the first-class acting as officers of the day or officers of the guard and for cadet first sergeants and color bearer, two hundred and twenty dollars:

For rugs. mats, and cuspidors for halls of cadet barracks, one hundred and fifty dollars; in all, one thousand nine hundred and forty dollars. For department of civil and military engineering: For models,Department of civil and military engineer. maps, purchase and repair of instruments, text-books, books of reference. and stationer 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. 818 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. text books, 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, twenty-five dollars; for text-books, books of reference, binding, and stationery for instructors, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; for contingencies, twenty-five dollars; in all, one hundred and seventy-five dollars. For department of history, geography, and ethics: For text-books,Department of history, geography, and ethics. books of reference, maps and globes, and stationery for use of instructors, and repairs, one hundred and fifty dollars.

For department of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology: For chemicals,Department of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology. chemical apparatus, glass and porcelain ware, paper, wire, sheet metal, ores, photographic apparatus and material, five hundred dollars; For rough specimens, fossils, and for apparatus and material to be used in the practical determination of mineralogical and geological specimens, pencils and paper for practical instruction in the same branches, and for the gradual increase and improvement of the cabinet, five hundred dollars;

For repairs and additions to electric, magnetic, pneumatic, thermic, and optical apparatus, six hundred and fifty dollars; For purchase of a gas engine to operate dynamo machine (at least of ten-horse power), one thousand two hundred dollars; For pay of mechanic employed in chemical and geological section rooms and in lecture rooms, one thousand dollars; For models, maps, and diagrams, books of reference, text-books, and stationery for the use of instructors one hundred and eighty dollars;

For contingencies, one hundred dollars; in all, four thousand one hundred and thirty dollars. For department of drawing: For books and periodicals on art andDepartment of drawing. 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 material for the use of instructors, sponges, wash brushes, tacks, alcohol, turpentine, paint, tumblers, saucers, and contingencies, two hundred and fifty dollars;

For Maxwell’s disc and apparatus, for illustrations in lectures on form and color, one hundred dollars; For photographic material, chemicals, dry plates, and paper, one hundred dollars; For enlarging and copying cameras, rollers, burnishers, printing frames, and accessories, one hundred and fifty dollars; For ten plain ebony frames with glass and mats for retained drawings of cadets, at five dollars and fifty cents each, fifty-five dollars; For six new racks for hanging drawings for examination, at eight dollars each, forty-eight dollars:

For twenty new stretchers, at two dollars each, forty dollars; For one hand level for topographical work in the field, ten dollars; For one Abney reflector for topographical work in the field, fifteen dollars; For four prismatic compasses for topographical work in the field, forty dollars: For one aneroid barometer, fifteen dollars; 819 For one plain table and attachments for topographical work in the field, one hundred dollars; For one pantograph for-enlarging and reducing maps, one hundred dollars;

For binding periodicals, forty dollars; For additional steel rulers and triangles, fifty dollars: For four high stools, at three dollars each, twelve dollars; For one long table, thirty dollars: For two stands for plaster relief model, thirty dollars; in all, one thousand four hundred and sixty dollars. For department, of modern languages: For stationery, text-books,Department of modem languages. 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 law: For stationery, text-books, and books forDepartment of law. use of instructors, and for repairing and rebinding same, and furniture for office, two hundred and fifty 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: 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; 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 ordnance and gunnery: For purchase and repairsDepartment of ordnance and gunnery. of instruments,models,and apparatus, and purchase of necessary materials; for the purchase of samples of arms and accouterments other than those supplied to the military service; for books of reference, text-books, stationery, and lithographic printing materials, four hundred and fifty dollars; For extra pay of one ordnance soldier, as draughtsman and lithographicExtra pay to ordnance soldiers. printer, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and forty-three dollars and fifty cents;

For extra pay of one ordnance soldier as machinist, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and forty-three dollars and fifty cents; For one Hotchkiss three-pounder rapid-fire gun. with accessoriesHotchkiss three-pounder, etc. and spare parts and elastic pedestal mount, one thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars; For ammunition for one Hotchkiss rapid-fire gun, two hundred and eighty-five dollars; For packing and transporting one Hotchkiss rapid-fire gun and ammunition, providing a proper platform, and reloading tools and appliances, two hundred dollars; in all, three thousand one hundred and fifty-two dollars.

For stationery for office of the treasurer, United States Military Stationery, treasurer’s office.Academy, namely: Blank books, paper, envelopes, quills, steel pens, rubbers, erasers, pencils, mucilage, wax, wafers, folders, fasteners, rules, files, ink. inkstands, typewriting supplies, penholders, tape, desk-knives, blotting-pads, and rubber bands, fifty dollars. For one letter-copying press and stand, twenty-five dollars. For extra pay of two enlisted men, employed as clerks in the officesExtra pay to enlisted men. 820 of the adjutant, United States Military Academy, and commandant of cadets, at fifty cents and thirty-five cents per day, respectively, two hundred and sixty-five dollars.

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, *Proviso*.three hundred and thirteen dollars: *Provided*, That the extra pay Limitation.provided 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.

For expenses of the Board of Visitors, including mileage, threeBoard of Visitors. thousand dollars. For miscellaneous and incidental expenses: For gas-coal, oil,Miscellaneous 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; 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, three thousand dollars; For pay of librarian’s assistant, one thousand dollars: For pay of one landscape gardener, for such period as his services may be necessary, five hundred dollars; in all, thirteen thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars. For increase and expense of library, namely: For periodicals, stationery,Library. binding new books, and scientific, historical, biographical, and general literature, to be purchased in open market on the written order of the Superintendent, two thousand dollars;

For additional tables, chairs, furniture, and contingent repairs of library rooms, one hundred dollars; in all, two thousand one hundred dollars; For furniture for cadet hospital, and repairs of the same, oneHospital furniture. hundred dollars; For contingencies for Superintendent of the Academy, one thousandContingencies—superintendent. dollars; For renewing furniture in section rooms, and repairing the same,Section rooms furniture. five hundred dollars. 821 For repairs, upholstering, and carpeting the Academy chapel, oneChapel repairs, etc. hundred and fifty dollars.

For contingent funds, to he expended under the direction of theContingent funds. Academic Board: for instruments, books, repairs to apparatus, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for. one thousand dollars: *Provided*, That all technical and scientific supplies for the*Proviso*. departments of instruction of the Military Academy shall be purchasedTechnical supplies. by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may deem best. For purchase and repair of instruments for band, to be purchasedMusical Instruments. in open market on the order of the Superintendent, and to be immediately available, one hundred dollars. public works.Public works.

For buildings and grounds: For repairing roads and paths, includingRepairing roads, etc. roads and bridges on reservation, five hundred dollars. For continuing construction of breast-high wall in dangerousWall. places, five hundred dollars. For water works: Renewal of material in filter beds; improvingWater works, etc. 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 dollars.

For broken stone and gravel for roads, two thousand dollars.Stone for roads. For maintaining and improving the grounds of the Post Cemetery,Cemetery. including the purchase of trees, plants, tools, and materials, to be immediately available, five hundred dollars. For repair of cooking utensils and the replacement of worn outCooking utensils. cooking utensils in the cadet subsistence department, three hundred and twenty-six dollars, to be expended without advertising. For repairs of chairs, tables, and other furniture, and for contingentContingent repairs. repairs, fifty dollars.

For placing an additional story on the brick building in rear ofMess employees dormitory. cadet mess-hall, used as a dormitory for employees of the mess, one thousand seven hundred and twelve dollars. For reflooring, repairing, and painting that portion of the annex to the mess building over the kitchen of the mess, used as a dormitory for employees of the mess, four hundred and eighty-one dollars. For repairs of present quarters married enlisted men, five thousandQuarters. dollars.

For two or more sets of officers’ quarters to be immediately available. twenty thousand dollars. For twenty sets of quarters for enlisted men and their families, to be built in sets of twos, of brick, each set to contain four rooms, twenty-four thousand dollars. For enlarging the storehouse and workshop of the cadet quartermaster’s Storehouse and workshop.department, ten thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and seventy cents. For painting and repairing the exterior and interior of the present building occupied by the cadet quartermaster’s department, painting roof, replacing leaders to same, and for incidental repairs, six hundred and thirty-seven dollars.

For galleries and repairs, riding hall, two thousand dollars.Riding hall. For necessary repairs of, and for improving the plumbingSanitary improvements at West Point. and sewerage systems at West Point, New York, and putting the same in a sanitary condition, fifteen thousand dollars, to be expended underDirection. 822FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Chs. 495, 496. 1891. the joint direction of the Superintendent, the surgeon, and the quartermaster of the Academy. For general overhauling and repair of the plumbing and sewerageWest Point Hotel. of the West Point Hotel, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For extending the water supply from the corner of academicWater supply. building to the cavalry stables and-riding hall, five hundred dollars. For general repairs, painting, pointing, and shingling of the cadet Laundry.laundry building, and for repairing the smoke stack (chimney) of same, three hundred dollars. Approved, March 2, 1891.