Chapter 48. Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven

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CHAP. 48.— An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.March 6, 1896. *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 TreasuryFIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 48. 1896.47 not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven: permanent establishment.Permanent establishment.Pay of professors, etc.

For pay of seven professors and a chaplain with the pay and allowances of a captain mounted, twenty six thousand dollars; For pay of one associate professor of mathematics, two thousand dollars; For pay of cadets, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars;Cadets. In all, for permanent establishment, one hundred and ninety-eight thousand dollars. For extra pay of officers of the Army on detached service at theExtra pay to officers. Military Academy: For pay of one Superintendent of the United States Military Academy (colonel), in addition to pay as lieutenant-colonel of engineers, five hundred dollars;

For one commandant of cadets (lieutenant colonel), in addition to pay as captain, not. mounted, one thousand two hundred dollars; For pay of one instructor of practical military engineering (major), in addition to pay as captain, mounted, five hundred dollars; For pay of one instructor of ordnance and science of gunnery (major), in addition to pay as captain, mounted, five hundred dollars; For pay of eight assistant professors (captains), in addition to pay as first lieutenants, not mounted, four thousand dollars;

For pay of three senior instructors of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics (captains), in addition to pay as first lieutenants, not mounted, 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, not mounted, two thousand four hundred dollars; For pay of one adjutant, in addition to pay as second lieutenant, not mounted, four hundred dollars; For pay of one treasurer, quartermaster, and commissary of cadets, in addition to pay as captain not mounted, seven hundred dollars;

For additional pay of librarian, one hundred and twenty dollars; For additional pay of professors and officers (and officers on increasedLongevity pay. rank) for length of service, ten thousand three hundred dollars and fifty-one cents; In all, for extra pay of officers of the Army on detached service at the Military Academy, twenty-two thousand one hundred and twenty dollars and fifty-one cents. For pay of the Military Academy Band, field musicians, general armyPay of enlisted men. service, cavalry detachment, and enlisted men on detached service, and extra pay for enlisted men on special duty:

For pay of the Military Academy Band: Six enlisted musicians, atBand. thirty-four dollars per month, two thousand four hundred and forty-eight dollars; six enlisted musicians, at twenty dollars per month, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; twelve enlisted musicians, at seventeen dollars per month, two thousand four hundred and forty eight dollars; additional pay for length of service, one thousand and forty-four dollars; clothing on discharge, three hundred and sixty dollars; retained pay on discharge, two hundred and sixteen dollars;

For pay of field musicians: One sergeant, two hundred and sixteenField musicians. dollars; fourteen privates, two thousand one hundred and eighty-four dollars; additional pay for length of service, sixty dollars; clothing on discharge, one hundred and twenty dollars; retained pay on discharge, seventy-two dollars; Pay of general army service: For one first sergeant, three hundredGeneral army service. dollars; six sergeants, one thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars; seven corporals, one thousand two hundred and sixty dollars; one hundred and two privates, fifteen thousand nine hundred and twelve48FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.

Sess. I. Chs. 48. 1896. dollars; additional pay for length of service, five thousand three hundred and seventy-six dollars; clothing on discharge, three thousand seven hundred and twenty-one dollars; retained pay on discharge, two thousand two hundred and thirty-two dollars; Pay ofCavalry detachment. cavalry detachment: For one first sergeant, three hundred dollars; five sergeants, one thousand and eighty dollars; four corporals, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two farriers, three hundred and sixty dollars; one saddler, one hundred and eighty dollars; one wagoner, one hundred and sixty eight dollars; fifty-two privates, eight thousand one hundred and twelve dollars; additional pay for length of service, one thousand six hundred dollars; clothing on discharge, six hundred dollars; retained pay on discharge, three hundred and sixty dollars; interest on retained pay due enlisted men. two hundred and fifty dollars: *Provided,**Proviso.*Number limited.

That the detachments of enlisted men at the Military Academy, heretofore designated as the General Army Service (Quartermaster’s Department), and the cavalry detachment, shall be fixed at such numbers, not exceeding two hundred and fifteen enlisted men in both detachments, as in the opinion of the Secretary of War the necessities of the public service may from time to time require; but the number of enlisted men of the Army shall not be increased on account of this proviso or the two preceding paragraphs of this Act;

For extraExtra pay, enlisted men. pay of twenty-eight enlisted men of cavalry detachment employed on additional duty with the instruction battery of field artillery, United States Military Academy, at twenty dollars each, five hundred and sixty 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 extra pay of one ordnance soldier as clerk, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and forty three dollars and fifty cents; For extra pay of two enlisted men employed as clerks in the offices of the adjutant United States Military Academy and commandant of cadets, respectively, 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 headquarters 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 fifty-nine dollars and sixty cents; For extra pay of one enlisted man employed as trumpeter at the cadet, barracks, at thirty-five cents per day, one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and severity 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 one enlisted man employed in the department of drawing, 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; For extra pay of one enlisted man employed as saddler, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents; *Provided,**Proviso.*No duplication.

That the extra pay provided by the twelve preceding paragraphs shall not be paid to any enlisted man who receives extra-duty pay under existing laws or army regulations; In all, for the pay of the Military Academy band, field musicians, general army service, cavalry detachment and enlisted men on detachedFIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 48. 1896.49 service, and extra pay of enlisted men on special duty at the Military Academy, fifty-seven thousand five hundred and sixty-two dollars and ten cents. pay of civilians at the military academy.Pay of civilians, clerks, etc.

For pay of the master of the sword, one thousand five hundred dollars; For pay of one teacher of music, one thousand and eighty dollars: For clerk to the disbursing officer and quartermaster, one thousand five hundred dollars; For clerk to adjutant in charge of cadet records, one thousand five hundred dollars; For one clerk to the adjutant, one thousand dollars; For clerk to treasurer, one thousand five hundred dollars; For one clerk to the quartermaster, one thousand dollars;

For pay of librarian’s assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; For pay of one superintendent of gas works, one thousand five hundred 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 eight firemen, four thousand eight hundred dollars;

For pay of one draftsman in department of civil and military engineering, one thousand dollars; For pay of mechanic employed in chemical and geological section rooms and in lecture rooms, one thousand dollars; For pay of mechanic assistant in department of natural and experimental philosophy, one thousand dollars; For pay of custodian of new Academy building, one thousand dollars; For pay of one electrician, nine hundred dollars; For pay of one civilian plumber, nine hundred dollars;

For pay of one scavenger, at sixty dollars a month, seven hundred and twenty dollars; For compensation of chapel organist, two hundred dollars; In all, for civilians employed at the Military Academy, twenty-five thousand eight hundred dollars. for current and ordinary expenses.Current expenses.Board of Visitors. For expenses of the Board of Visitors, including mileage, three thousand dollars; For contingencies for Superintendent of the Academy, one thousandSuperintendent. dollars;

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, twenty thousand dollars;

For fuel and apparatus, namely: Coal, wood, charcoal, stoves, grates,Fuel and lights. heaters, furnaces, ranges and fixtures, fire, bricks, clay, sand, and for repairs of steam-heating apparatus, grates, stoves, heaters, ranges, and furnaces, mica, twenty-two thousand dollars; For gas pipes, fixtures, lamp-posts, 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 and telegrams. For stationery, namely: Blank books, paper, envelopes, quills, steelStationery.50FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 48. 1896. 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; ForTransportation. transportation of materials, discharged cadets, and ferriages, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars;

Printing:Printing. For printing and binding, type, materials for office, including repairs to motor and machinery, diplomas for graduates, annual registers, blanks, and monthly reports to parents of cadets, one thousand dollars; ForDepartment of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics. department of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics, namely: For tan bark or other proper cover for riding hall, to be purchased in open market on written order of the Superintendent, four hundred dollars ;

For repairing camp stools and camp furniture, one hundred dollars; For repairs and improvements of dressing rooms, walks, and dock at swimming place, two hundred anti twenty 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 books and maps, binding books, and mounting maps, seventy-five dollars: For plumes for cadet officers of the first-class, seventy-five dollars;

For silk and worsted sashes for cadet officers and acting officers, two hundred and twenty dollars; For foils, masks, belts, fencing gloves and fencing jackets, gaiters, and repairs, two hundred and fifty dollars; For soap used in scrubbing cadet barracks, fifty dollars; For door mats for cadet barracks, sinks, and guardhouse, fifty dollars; ForDepartment of civil and military engineering. department of civil and military engineering: For models, maps, purchase and repair of instruments, apparatus, drawing boards, desks, chairs, shelves, and cases for books and instruments, text-books, books of reference and stationery for the use of instructors, and contingencies, one thousand dollars;

ForDepartment of natural and experimental philosophy. department of natural and experimental philosophy: For additions to apparatus to illustrate the principles of mechanics, acoustics, optics, and astronomy, one thousand dollars; for books of reference, scientific periodicals, text-books, stationery, materials, and repairs, four hundred dollars; for repairs to the observatory buildings, repairs to clocks, and fittings to new lecture room, four hundred and fifty dollars; ForDepartment of mathematics. department of instruction in mathematics, namely:

For repairs and materials for preservation of models and instruments, thirty-five dollars; for text-books, books of reference, binding, and stationery, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; for table of logarithms, fifty dollars; one safe, sixty eight dollars: for contingencies, twenty-five dollars; ForDepartment of history, geography, and ethics. department of history, geography, and ethics: For text-books, books of reference, maps, map fixtures, stationery, and repairs, one hundred and fifty dollars; and any unexpended balance of the appropriation of four hundred dollars for two thirty-six-inch terrestrial globes for section rooms, made by the Military Academy appropriation Act approved January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, is hereby made available and may be used for the purchase of furniture for section rooms and of text books, books of reference, maps, map cases, and for stationery for use of instructors:

ForDepartment of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology. 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; 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 the practical instructions in the same branches, and for gradual increase and improvement of the cabinet, five hundred dollars:

FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 48. 1896.51 For repairs and additions to electric, magnetic, pneumatic, thermic, and optical apparatus, five hundred dollars: *Provided,* That any of the*Proviso.*Fittings for chemical room. above-named sums for the department of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology not expended for the purposes named may be expended for fittings of the chemical rooms of the new Academy building; 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; For department of drawing: For drawing material for the use ofDepartment of drawing. instructors, tacks, sponges, brushes, glue, alcohol, tumblers, saucers, towels, soap, ink, paint, stationery, and contingent expenses, two hundred and fifty dollars; For repairs to models, desks, stretchers, racks, and material, one hundred dollars; For models in flat and relief for topographical, geometrical, mechanical, and free-hand drawing, one hundred dollars;

Photographic material and appliances for new gallery and enlarging room, two hundred and fifty dollars; For condensing lens for enlarging room, one hundred and twenty dollars; For objective for enlarging room, one hundred and eight dollars; Slides and apparatus for stereopticon to illustrate lectures, two hundred and fifty dollars: For books and periodicals, one hundred dollars; For binding periodicals and loose sheets, fifty dollars; For repairing, cleaning, and reglazing one hundred and thirty-two oak frames, and repairing and regilding picture frames of retained drawings, engravings, and models, two hundred dollars;

For eighty compasses for new reconnaissance sketching boards, two hundred and twenty eight dollars; For department of modern languages: For stationery, text-books, andDepartment of modern languages books of reference for use of instructors, for repairs of books and apparatus, and for office furniture, and for printing examination papers, and for contingencies, three hundred and fifty dollars; For department of law: For stationery, text-books, books of reference,Department of law. and books for use of instructors, and for repairing and binding 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, transportation, purchase of tools, implements, and materials, and for extra-duty pay of engineer soldiers, as follows, namely: For instruments for use in instructing cadets, in making reconnoissances; photographic apparatus and material for field photography; drawing instruments and material for platting reconnoissances, surveying instruments, instruments and material for signaling and field telegraphy; transportation of field parties; tools and material for the preservation, augmentation, and repair of wooden pontoon, and one canvas pontoon-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 supplide to the military service; for books of reference, text-books, stationery and lithographic printing materials, and for contingencies, four hundred and fifty dollars; For manufacture or purchase of models of the new steel carriages for field, siege, and seacoast services for cadet instruction, three thousand dollars; 52FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.

Sess. I. Chs. 48. 1896. For purchase of ammunition for rapid-fire guns now on hand, three hundred dollars; In all, for current and ordinary expenses, sixty-eight thousand three hundred and seventy-nine dollars. miscellaneous and incidental expenses.Miscellaneous and incidental expenses. For stationery for office of the treasurer, United States Military Academy, namely, blank books, paper, envelopes, pens, mucilage, type-writing supplies and repairs, and other items of stationery, fifty dollars;

For gas coal, oil, candles, lanterns, matches, chimneys, and wicking for lighting the Academy building, 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), one thousand dollars; For brooms, brushes, pails, tubs, soap, and cloths, two hundred dollars; For chalk, crayon, sponges, slate, rubbers, and card for recitation room, three hundred dollars;

ForLibrary. increase and expense of library, namely: For periodicals, stationery, 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 repairing books, and for furniture, and contingencies, two hundred dollars; For carpets and furniture for cadet hospital, and for repairs of damaged articles, one hundred dollars; ForContingent, Academic Board. 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 dollars:*Proviso.*Technical supplies. *Provided,* That all technical and scientific supplies (or the departments of instruction of the Military Academy shall be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may deem best;

For renewing furniture in section rooms, and repairing the same, five hundred dollars; ForMusical supplies. purchase of instruments for band, to be purchased in open market by order of the Superintendent, three hundred and forty-two dollars; For purchase of reeds, pads, strings, and other materials necessary for string instruments, to be purchased in open market on the order of the Superintendent, one hundred dollars; ForSubsistence department, etc. repairs to instruments, music stands, and other such equipment, to be purchased in open market on the order of the Superintendent, two hundred dollars;

For purchase of music for baud, to be purchased in open market on the order of the Superintendent, two hundred and fifty-eight dollars; For repair of cooking utensils and the replacement of worn out cooking utensils in the cadet subsistence department, to be expended without advertising, three hundred and twenty-six dollars; For repair of chairs, tables, and other furniture in cadet subsistence department, to be expended without advertising, fifty dollars; For repairs, new machines, and fixtures for gymnasium, three hundred dollars;

For one new French range of six fires and ovens, with proper water backs, equipment, and connections, to be expended without advertising, six hundred and eighteen dollars; ForLaundry. three brass-cylinder washing machines, of make, fixture, and capacity the same as those now in use in the cadet laundry, to replace four worn-out and unserviceable wooden washing machines, to be expended without advertising, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; In all, for miscellaneous and incidental expenses, fifteen thousand eight hundred and ninety-four dollars.

FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 48. 1896.53 buildings and grounds.Buildings and grounds.Repairing roads, etc. For repairing roads and paths, including roads and bridges on reservation, one thousand dollars; For continuing construction of breast-high wall in dangerous places, five hundred dollars; For waterworks: Renewal of material in filter beds, improving ventilationWaterworks. of filter house and water house; hose for use in cleaning filter beds and water house, and for use in tire 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 of Round Pond, and for tool house at filter; for gauges at Round Pond and Delafield Pond, and stairs for access to same, and all other necessary work of maintenance and repairs, five hundred dollars;

For broken stone and gravel for roads, one thousand five hundred dollars; For maintaining and improving the grounds of the post cemetery,Cemetery. five hundred dollars; For painting, calcimining, whitewashing, and repairing interior wallsRepairs, etc. of cadet mess building, kitchen, dish pantry, bakery, dormitories, and Storerooms, and for incidental repairs about the same, to be expended without advertising, one hundred and fifty dollars; For general repairs to the cadet laundry, painting interior, renewing machinery, to be expended without advertising, three hundred dollars;

For painting and for general incidental repairs and improvements to the cadet quartermaster’s department building, including storerooms, office, tailor shops, shoe-repairing shops, to be expended as required without advertising, three hundred dollars; For repairs to cadet barracks: For repointing and repairing exteriorCadet barracks. walls, area walls, and coping; renewing floors; painting and calcimining; repairing woodwork; repairing and repainting roof, three thousand dollars;

For repairs and improvements needed at cadet hospital, as follows:Cadet hospital. For hard-pine flooring for wards, rooms, and halls; for repair of chimneys; for repointing joints of stonework of walls; for repainting of all exterior wood and iron work, two coats; for repainting of walls and interior wood and iron work, two coats; for revarnishing of inside blinds, two coats, and glazing of windows; for repainting of roof of annex; for locks for doors; for three hundred yards, more or less, of Neufchatelmastic, or other suitable pavement; for turpentine and paraffin for polishing floors of wards and halls; for ammonium chlorid for telephone batteries; for two iron lamps for posts at bottom of entrance to stairway; for bronze for rebronzing radiators; for speaking tube, ends, mouthpieces, and connections; for fifty feet of wirework screen for dispensary counter; for two iron open-work doors for dispensary; for iron open-work door for entrance hall, and for four benches, one thousand five hundred dollars;

For improvements and repairs required at the soldiers’ hospital, asSoldiers’ hospital. follows: For repainting all exterior woodwork and metal roofs, two coats; for exterior storm sash for all windows; for repairs to and resetting outside steps; for repainting porch floors, two coats; for painting or calcimining plastered walls; for whitewashing basement; for new chandelier with droplights and attachments and connections for Benson burners; for new sinks for dispensary and for hall outside of operating room; for new kitchen table; for glazing doors of kitchen dresser; for brushes, paints, wax, turpentine for minor repairs, waxing floors; and for continuing the work of erecting a rubblestone wall three feet high along the road boundary of the hospital grounds, one thousand two hundred dollars;

For repairs to exterior of cadet mess building, including repointing exterior walls, painting exterior wood and iron work, three hundred dollars; 54FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 48, 49. 1896. ForRoads, etc. continuing the construction and repairs of the roads between the south guardhouse and southern boundary line of reservation, and for continuing the laying of a stone walk along same, and extending the same northward to a junction with the present concrete walks, one thousand dollars;

ForGuardhouse. guardhouse at south entrance and gates, seven thousand five hundred dollars; For addition to the building occupied by the post school for enlisted men’s children, one thousand five hundred dollars; For necessary repairs to engineer equipment shed, nine hundred and twenty dollars: For repairs and improvements to cavalry stable, as follows: For new stable doors, with crossbars, and material for new door frames in the fire entrance to stable; for material for ceiling and for new siding for interior of saddle room; new floor for guardroom; material for new siding for exterior of saddle room and granary, and for painting same, and for material for new watering troughs on outside of central western entrance to stable, five hundred dollars:

For repairs to ordnance laboratory: For painting and repair of buildings, and material for roads and walks, one hundred and fifty dollars; ForReservoir. removing a deposit of peat and soil from a portion of the new reservoir, seven thousand five hundred dollars; ForFerry slip, etc. repairing the south dock and ferry slip and freight house, two thousand dollars; For rebuilding boathouse pertaining to the department of ordnance and gunnery, to replace the one now standing and irreparable, nine hundred dollars;

ToRowboats, etc. purchase two six-oared barges and two small rowboats, for instruction of cadets in rowing, five hundred dollars; For gravel filling and tile drains and cement plastering upon outside of foundation walls of hospital steward’s quarters, one hundred and fifty dollars; ForCable coal railway. reconstructing the cable coal railway, including replacing the present wooden trestle with an iron trestle, straightening and relaying rails, repairing and equipping the cars with new apparatus, new cable, new track, pulleys, and sheaves, new cable driver with steam cylinders, complete, twenty thousand dollars;

ForLatrine, cadet camp. enlarging the latrine at the cadet camp, and renewing plumbing of same, five thousand four hundred dollars; For completion of repairs and improvements to barracks of the detachment of army-service men, quartermaster’s department, and for steam heating of same, two thousand dollars; For cases, materials, fittings, fixtures, and other appliances for ordnance museum in new Academy building, one thousand dollars; TheBreast-high wall.Vol. 28, p. 158. appropriation contained in the Act approved July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety four, for building a breast-high masonry wall on the east side of road from north gate to entrance of post cemetery, one thousand dollars, and remaining unexpended, is hereby made available for building said wall on west side of said road;

In all, for public buildings and grounds, sixty-one thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars. Approved, March 6, 1896. Chapter 49: Relating to the anchorage and movements of vessels in Saint Marys River. 29 Stat. 54 1896-03-06 Chapter 49 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-10-30 54 2 public

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