Chapter 172. making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three
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CHAP. 172.— An Act making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three.July 14, 1892. *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 anti ninety-three:
For pay of one Superintendent of the United States Military AcademyPay of Superintendent, professors, etc. (colonel), in addition to pay as lieutenant-colonel of engineers, five hundred dollars. For pay of eight professors, twenty-seven thousand dollars. 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 dollars; andCadets. 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-three, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. For additional pay of professors and officers (on increased rank) forLongevity pay. length of service, ten thousand three hundred and twenty-five 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, 169 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, sixteen thousand dollars.
For fuel and apparatus, namely: Coal, wood charcoal, stoves, grates,Fuel and light. heaters, furnaces, ranges and fixtures, lire 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, one thousand five 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, steelStationery. 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, including Printing.repairs to motor, diplomas for graduates, annual registers, blanks, and monthly reports to parents of cadets, one thousand dollars.
One printing press with steam and other attachments, one thousand five hundred dollars. For clerk to the disbursing officer and quartermaster, one thousandClerks. 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. For one clerk to the adjutant, one thousand dollars. For department of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics, namely:Department of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics.
For tan bark 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 purchase of thirty assorted bits for instruction of cadets, one hundred and ‘twenty dollars; For purchase of one hundred saddlecloths for use of cadets, two hundred and fifty 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; For soap used in scrubbing cadet barracks, fifty dollar's; In all, two thousand three hundred and sixty dollars. For department of civil and military engineering: For models, maps,Department of civil and military engineering. purchase and repair of instruments, textbooks, books of reference, and stationery for the use of instructors, and contingencies, five hundred dollars; 170 Extra pay of one enlisted man employed as draftsman, 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, scientific periodicals, 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, twenty-five dollars; for textbooks, 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 materials, five hundred dollars; For rough specimens, fossils, and for apparatus and material to be used in the practical determinations of mineralogical and geological specimens, pencils and paper for practical instruction in the same branches, and for 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: *Provided*, That any of the above-named sums not expended for the purposes named, may be used in fittings of the laboratory of new academic buildings; 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, 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. For department of drawing: For periodicals and books on art and Department of drawing.technology, one hundred dollars; Drawing material for use of instructors, drawing instruments for use in instruction, paint, turpentine, oil, varnish, glue, plaster of Paris, card board, tacks, tumblers, saucers, cloth for screens, towels, and contingencies, two hundred and fifty dollars; Binding periodicals, twenty-five dollars;
Repairs to desks, racks and tables, shelving and arrangements in new academies and rooms, two hundred and fifty dollars; Photographic material, including chemicals, paper, dry plates, and implements, one hundred and fifty dollars; Framing cadets’ drawings retained for gallery, forty dollars; Models in flat and relief for second and third classes, one hundred dollars; Six prismatic compasses for field topography, ninety dollars; In all, one thousand and five dollars. For department of modern languages:
For stationery, text-books,Department of modern languages. and books of reference for the use of instructors, for repair and rebinding of text books, and books of reference, and for printing examination papers, two hundred dollars. For department of law: For stationery, textbooks, 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 purchase andDepartment of practical military engineering. repair of instruments, transportaion, purchase of tools, implements, and materials, and for extra-duty pay of engineer soldiers, as follows. 171 namely:
Instruments for use in instructing cadets in making reconnaissances; photographicapparatus 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, 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, 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, textbooks, stationery, and lithographic printing materials, four hundred and fifty dollars; For extra pay of one ordnance soldier, as draftsman and lithographic 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 purchase of one Maxim automatic rifle-caliber gun, complete,Maxim automatic gun. with spare parts and appendages, light field carriage, and ammunition therefor, including customs dues at forty-five per centum on cost thereof, two thousand five hundred dollars; In all, three thousand two hundred and thirty-seven dollars. For stationery for office of the treasurer, United States MilitaryTreasurer’s office.
Academy, namely, blank books, paper, envelopes, steel pens, mucilage, typewriting supplies, blotting pads, rubber bands, and other items of stationary necessary, fifty dollars. For extra pay of two enlisted men, employed as clerks in the officesExtra pay to enlist ed men. of the adjutant, United States Military Academy, and commandant of cadets, at fifty cents and thirty-five cents per day, two hundred and eighty-four dollars and twenty-five cents. For extra pay of four enlisted men as printers, at head quarters United States Military Academy, at fifty cents each per day, six hundred and twenty-six dollars.
For extra pay of one enlisted man, employed as watchman, at thirty-five cents per day, one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and seventy-five 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*Proviso*. 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 extra pay of one enlisted man employed as saddler, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents. For expenses of the Board of Visitors, including mileage, threeBoard of visitors. thousand dollars. 172 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, five thousand 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 bundled and twenty dollars; For pay of engineer of heating and ventilating apparatus for theMechanics. academic building, the cadet barracks, and office building, cadet hospital, chapel, and philosophical building, including the library, one thousand two 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, in charge of cemetery and general care of public grounds, for such period as his services may be necessary, five hundred dollars; In all, fifteen thousand one hundred and twenty dollars. For pay of one superintendent of gas works, eight hundred dollars. For pay of one civilian plumber, nine hundred dollars.
For increase and expense of library, namely: For periodicals, stationery,Library. binding 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, and for repairing books, two hundred dollars. For furniture for cadet hospital, and repairs of the same, one hundred dollars.Furniture, etc.
For contingencies for Superintendent of the Academy, one thousand dollars. For renewing furniture in section rooms, and repairing the same, five hundred dollars. For repairs, upholstering, and carpeting the Academy chapel, one hundred and fifty 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.
For purchase and repair of instruments for baud, and purchase ofMusical supplies. music, to be purchased in open market on the order of the Superintendent, and to be immediately available, two hundred and fifty 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 dangerous places, five hundred dollars.
For water works: Renewal of material in filter beds; improvingWater works. 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, 173 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, one thousand dollars. For maintaing and improving the grounds of the post cemetery,Cemetery. including the purchase of trees, plants, tools, and materials, to be immediately available, two hundred and fifty dollars. For repair of cooking utensils and the replacement of worn-out cookingSubsistence department. 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 in cadet subsistence department, and for contingent repairs, to be expended without advertising, fifty dollars.
For improving and modernizing the plumbing and sewerage of thePlumbing and sewerage. post, fifteen thousand dollars. For completing the general overhauling and repair of the plumbing and sewerage system of the West Point Hotel, two thousand dollars; to be paid out of the rents of said hotel, and the Superintendent of the Military Academy be, and is hereby, authorized to repair the plumbing of the West Point Hotel from the rent of said hotel. For new sinks and bath rooms for cadets, to be immediately available, twenty-four thousand dollars.
For repairs to cadet barracks: For repointing building, three hundredRepairs. and fifty dollars. For renewing flagging, two hundred and ten dollars. For repairing and painting roof, four hundred and thirty-two dollars. For enlarging and increasing gas plant, and for placing a two-lightGas plant pendant with slide light in each cadet room, to be immediately available, forty-eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For altering roof of wing of quarters numbered thirty-nine, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For earthen closets for twenty-five sets of married enlisted men’s quarters, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For new sewer from new soldiers’ hospital to river, three thousand five hundred and seventy-six dollars. For conducting water in pipes to fifty-five sets of married enlistedWater and gas mains. men’s quarters, one thousand five hundred dollars. For new water main from Sinclair Pond to new soldiers’ hospital, six hundred and fifty dollars. For new gas main from post-office to new soldiers’ hospital, four thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight dollars.
For new gas main from old cadet hospital to South gate, two thousand eight hundred and twelve dollars. For general repairs to cadet laundry, painting, pointing, and for incidental repairs to machinery, to be expended without advertising, three hundred dollars. For incidental repairs to the cadet quartermaster’s department storehouse, repairs to plumbing therein, necessary painting, and whitewashing, to be expended without advertising, three hundred dollars. For painting, kalsomining, whitewashing, and repairing interior walls of cadet mess building, kitchen, dish pantry, bakery, and storerooms, to be expended without advertising, one hundred and fifty dollars.
For grading and concreting inclosed rear area of cadet hospital (three hundred and forty square yards) to prevent dampness of foundation walls, and so forth, two hundred and ninety-four dollars. In connecting rain conductors (rear main building) with main house drain to prevent flooding of inclosed rear area of cadet hospital and existing dampness of cellar walls, one hundred and twenty dollars. For repairing trenches containing return heating pipes in cellar concrete floor and providing same with suitable iron covers for protection of pipes, two hundred and sixty-four dollars.
For reoiling and relacquering hard wood floors of cadet hospital throughout, one hundred and forty dollars. 174 For fitting up an additional kitchen in hospital (needed to separateHospital kitchen. the cadet and hospital corps messes, as recommended by the assistant inspector general of the Army) namely, range, boiler, hot and cold water connections, kitchen sink, dresser, cupboard, and gas-pipe rack, four hundred and four dollars. For equipment of new gymnasium: For machines, mattresses, apparatus,Gymnasium. and measuring outfit, and all labor and material for setting the same in position, one thousand dollars.
For new fencing goods, and new racks and closets for storage of material, five hundred dollars. For bolts, ropes, wringers, and fixtures tor swimming tank, one hundred dollars. For balls, pins, and fixtures for bowling alley, one hundred dollars. Approved, July 14, 1892.