Chapter 38. Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine

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CHAP. 38.— An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. March 5, 1898. *Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the following sums be,Military Academy appropriations. 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-nine. 254 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.

Sess. II. Ch. 38. 1898. permanent establishment.Permanent establishment. Pay of professors.For pay of seven professors, twenty-three thousand dollars; For pay of one chaplain, two thousand dollars; For pay of one associate professor of mathematics, two thousand dollars; Cadets.For pay of cadets, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars; In all, for permanent establishment, one hundred and ninety-seven thousand dollars. Extra to officers.For extra pay of officers of the Army on detached service at the Military Academy:

For pay of one Superintendent of the United States Military Academy (colonel), in addition to pay as lieutenant-colonel of engineers, one thousand 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 five senior instructors of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics, ordnance and gunnery, and practical military engineering (captains), in addition to pay as first lieutenants, not mounted, two thousand five hundred dollars; For pay of four assistant instructors of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics (captains), in addition to pay as first and second lieutenants, not mounted, two thousand one 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; Longevity pay.For additional pay of professors and officers (and officers on increased rank) for length of service, nine thousand one hundred and forty-four dollars and fifty-one cents; In all, for extra pay of officers of Army on detached service at the Military Academy, twenty-one thousand seven hundred and sixty-four dollars and fifty-one cents.

Pay of enlisted men, band.For pay of the Military Academy Band, field musicians, general army service, cavalry detachment, and enlisted men on detached service, and extra pay for enlisted men on special duty: For pay of military band: Six enlisted musicians, at 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 two hundred and twenty-four dollars; Clothing on discharge, five hundred dollars; Retained pay on discharge, two hundred and ten dollars; Field musicians.For pay of field musicians: One sergeant, two hundred and sixteen dollars; One corporal, one hundred and eighty dollars; Thirteen privates, drummers, and lifers, two thousand and twenty-eight dollars; Additional pay for length of service, one hundred and forty-four dollars; Clothing on discharge, six hundred dollars;

Retained pay on discharge, one hundred and eighty-nine dollars. General army service.For pay of general army service: One first sergeant, three hundred dollars; FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 38. 1898. 255 Six sergeants, one thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars; Seven corporals, one thousand two hundred and sixty dollars; One hundred and eleven privates (infantry), seventeen thousand three hundred and sixteen dollars; Additional pay for length of service, seven thousand and nine dollars and forty cents;

Clothing on discharge, three thousand three hundred dollars; Retained pay on discharge, one thousand and seventy-seven dollars; For pay of cavalry detachment: One first sergeant, three hundredCavalry detachment. 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; Sixty-one privates (cavalry), nine thousand five hundred and sixteen dollars;

Additional pay for length of service, two thousand two hundred and two dollars; Clothing on discharge, two thousand two hundred dollars; Retained pay on discharge, five hundred and sixty-seven dollars; Interest on retained pay due enlisted men, two hundred dollars; Miscellaneous: For extra pay of twenty-eight enlisted men of cavalryExtra pay enlisted men, etc. 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, at fifty cents each per day, three hundred and thirty-nine dollars;

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 seventy-five dollars and fifty-seven 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 seventy-five cents; For extra pay of one enlisted man employed in the philosophical department observatory as mechanic, at fifty cents per clay, 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,* That the extra pay provided by the twelve preceding paragraphs*Proviso.*No duplication. shall not be paid to any enlisted man who receives extra-duty pay under existing laws or Army regulations. 256 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.

Sess. II. Ch. 38. 1898. In all, for pay of Military Academy Band, field musicians, general army service, cavalry detachment, enlisted men on detached service and extra pay of enlisted men on special duty at the Military Academy, sixty-three thousand eight hundred and seventy-six dollars and twenty-two cents. pay of civilians.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 two hundred dollars; For clerk to treasurer, one thousand five hundred dollars; For one clerk to the quartermaster, one thousand two hundred 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 assistant plumber, six 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. For pay of keeper of post cemetery, seven hundred and twenty dollars;

For pay of engineer and janitor for Memorial Hall, nine hundred dollars; In all, to civilians employed at Military Academy, twenty-eight thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. Current expenses.For current and ordinary expenses as follows: Board of Visitors.For expenses of the Board of Visitors, including mileage, three thousand dollars; Superintendent.Contingencies for Superintendent of the Academy, one thousand dollars; Repairs.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, twenty thousand dollars;

Fuel and lights.For fuel and apparatus, namely: Coal, wood, charcoal, stoves, grates, 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; FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 38. 1898. 257 For gas pipes, gas and electric fixtures, electric lamps and lighting supplies, 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 dollars;Postage and telegrams.Stationery. For stationery, 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, nine hundred dollars; For transportation of materials, discharged cadets, and ferriages, oneTransportation. thousand dollars;

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

For repairing camp stools and camp furniture, one hundred dollars; For repairs and improvements of dressing rooms, walks, and dock, at swimming places, two hundred and twenty dollars; For furniture for offices and reception room for visitors, one hundred dollars; For stationery, typewriting supplies and repairs, 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 and acting officers, 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; For department of civil and military engineering: Models, maps,Department of civil and military engineering. 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;

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, 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; For department of instruction in mathematics, namely:

For textbooks,Department of mathematics. books of reference, binding, and stationery, one hundred and fifty dollars; For tables of logarithms, fifty dollars; For rules and triangles, twenty-five dollars; For purchase of geometrical drawings, one hundred dollars; For contingencies, fifty dollars; For department of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology: Chemicals,Department of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology. chemical apparatus, glass and porcelain ware, paper, wire, sheet metal, ores, photographic apparatus and materials, one thousand dollars;

For rough specimens, fossils, and for apparatus and materials 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; 258 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 38. 1898. For new cases for mineralogical and geological cabinets, four hundred dollars; For repairs and additions to electric, magnetic, pneumatic, thermic, and optical apparatus, eight hundred dollars;

For purchase of modern electric machinery and appliances not in the Academy, one thousand dollars: *Proviso.*Fittings for chemical rooms.*Provided,* That any of the above-named sums for the department of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology, not expended for the purposes named, may be expended for fittings for chemical rooms of the new Academy building. Models, maps, and diagrams, books of reference, text-books, and stationery for the use of instructors, one hundred and eighty dollars;

Contingencies, one hundred dollars; Department of drawing.For department of drawing: For drawing material for use of instructors, tacks, sponges, brushes, glue, alcohol, tumblers, saucers, towels, soap, ink, stationery, and contingent expenses, two hundred and fifty dollars; For repairs to models, desks, stretchers, racks, stands, and materials, one hundred dollars; For models in flat and relief for topographical, mechanical, and freehand drawing, one hundred dollars; For photographical material and appliances, two hundred and fifty dollars;

For slides and apparatus for lectures, one hundred dollars; For books and periodicals on art, architecture, and technology, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; For binding books and periodicals and loose sheets, fifty dollars; For renewing tops to one hundred and thirty-three drawing desks, at three dollars and fifty cents each, four hundred and sixty-five dollars and fifty cents; For replacing hammered by clear glass in skylight of photo gallery, one hundred and fifty dollars;

Department of modern languages.For department of modern languages: For stationery, text-books, and books of reference for use of instructors, for repairs of books, and for office furniture, and for printing examination papers, and for contingencies, three hundred and fifty dollars; For purchase of roll-top cabinet desk for typewriter, forty-five dollars; Department of law and history.For department of law and history: For stationery, text-books, and books of reference for the use of instructors, maps, map fixtures, furniture, and for repairs to the same, four hundred dollars;

For purchase of a set of the American and English Cyclopedia of Law, one hundred and forty 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: For 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 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;

Department of ordnance and gunnery.For department of ordnance and gunnery: For purchase and repair 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, and for contingencies, four hundred and fifty dollars; FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 38. 1898. 259 For manufacture or purchase of models of the new steel carriages for held, siege, and seacoast services for cadet instruction, one thousand five hundred dollars;

For manufacture or purchase of one model steel breech-loading twelve-inch mortar for cadet instruction, one hundred and fifty dollars; For purchase of ammunition for rapid-fire guns now on hand, three hundred dollars; In all, for current and ordinary expenses, sixty-eight thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars and fifty cents. miscellaneous items and incidental expenses.Miscellaneous items and incidental expenses. For stationery for office of the treasurer, United States Military Academy, namely:

Blank books, paper, envelopes, pens, mucilage, typewriting 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, six thousand five hundred dollars; For water pipe, plumbing, and repairs, three thousand dollars; For cleaning public buildings (not quarters), one thousand dollars;

For brooms, brushes, pails, tubs, soap, and cloths, two hundred dollars; For chalk, crayons, sponges, slate, rubbers, rulers, pointers, card, and toilet paper, and so forth, for recitation rooms, three hundred dollars; Increase and expense of library, namely:Library. 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 binding pamphlets and periodicals, two hundred dollars; For carpets and furniture for cadet hospital, and for repairs of damaged articles, one hundred dollars; For contingent funds, to be expended under the direction of theContingent, Academic Board. 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 departments*Proviso.*Technical supplies. 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, three hundred dollars; For purchase of instruments for band, to be purchased in open marketMusical supplies. by order of the Superintendent, three hundred and fifty dollars; For purchase of reeds, pads, strings, and other materials necessary for string instruments, one hundred and fifty dollars; For repairs to instruments, music stands, and other equipments, to be purchased in open market on the order of the Superintendent, two hundred dollars;

For purchase of music for band, to be purchased in open market on the order of the Superintendent, two hundred and fifty dollars; For repair of cooking utensils and the replacement of worn-out cookingSubsistence department. utensils in the cadet subsistence department, to be expended without advertising, two hundred 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, two hundredGymnasium. dollars;

To exchange the old and insufficient twenty-five-horsepower boiler nowLaundry. in use in cadet laundry for one sixty-horsepower horizontal boiler, the same to be delivered, set up, and all connections made, to be immediately available, and to be expended without advertising, one thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars; 260 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 38. 1898. Smokestack.For one smokestack, seventy feet high, twenty-four inches in diameter, made of one-fourth-inch steel, with brick base four feet high and a cast-iron plate, also a side outlet to connect with the breeching of the boiler; stack to be erected and fastened with steel wire guys; to be immediately available, and to be expended without advertising, four hundred dollars;

In all, for miscellaneous items and incidental expenses, seventeen thousand nine hundred and twenty-five dollars. buildings and grounds.Buildings and grounds. Repairing roads, etc.Repairing roads and paths, including roads and bridges on reservation, one thousand dollars; Continuing construction of breast high wall in dangerous places, five hundred dollars; Waterworks.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 sheds 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 for stairs for access to same, and all other necessary work of maintenance and repairs, eight hundred dollars.

Material for roads.Broken stone and gravel for roads, one thousand five hundred dollars; Cemetery.Maintaining and improving the grounds of the post cemetery, one thousand dollars; Repairs.Painting, calcimining, whitewashing, and repairing interior walls of cadet mess building, kitchen, dish pantry, bakery, dormitories, and storerooms, and for incidental repairs about the same, to be expended without advertising, two hundred dollars; General repairs to cadet laundry building, painting interior, and for emergency incidental expenses about the building, to be expended without advertising, three hundred dollars;

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; Cadet barracks.Repairs to cadet barracks: For repointing and repairing exterior walls, area walls, and coping; renewing floors; painting and calcimining; repairing woodwork; repairing and painting roof, two thousand dollars; Cadet hospital.Repairs to cadet hospital:

Repainting walls and woodwork of halls, wards, offices, lavatories, and so forth, three hundred dollars; Laboratory.Enlarging laboratory, eighty dollars; Floor wax, etc.Paraffin and turpentine for waxing and polishing floors, fifty dollars; Materials for rebronzing radiators and piping, thirty dollars; Soldiers’ hospital.For materials and labor for repairs, alterations, and additions needed at the soldiers’ hospital: Brushes, paints, glass, putty, wax, and turpentine, for general repairs and waxing floors, seventy-five dollars;

Stationary washbowl and plumbing, labor, and materials for same in surgeon’s office, ninety dollars; Whitewashing basements, forty dollars; Painting or calcimining plastered walls, varnishing interior woodwork, and general repairs, two hundred and fifty dollars; Purchase of trees and shrubs for hospital grounds, fifty dollars; Rack for mattresses in storeroom, twenty dollars; Shades and mantles for Welsbach burners, twenty-five dollars; Sash in porch roof, near windows in bathroom, fifteen dollars;

Repairs ordnance buildings.Repairs to ordnance laboratory and other buildings pertaining to the department of ordnance and gunnery, painting buildings, and material FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Chs. 38, 53. 1898. 261 for roads and walks, and for repairs to machinery and tools, one hundred and fifty dollars; Continuing the construction and repair of the roads between the southRoads, etc. guardhouse and the southern boundary line of reservation, and for continuing the laying of a stone walk along same, one thousand dollars;

Cases, materials, fittings, fixtures, and other appliances and repairsMuseum. for ordnance museum in new academy building, three hundred dollars; Lumber and other materials for general repairs of cavalry stables,Cavalry stables. one hundred and fifty dollars; Whitewashing or painting interior of riding hall (walls and ceilings),Riding hall. three hundred dollars; Two additional bath tubs and fixtures in cavalry barracks, one hundredBath tubs, etc. and fifty dollars: Three hundred and seventy tables for rooms in the cadet barracks, atTables, etc. two dollars and fifty cents each, nine hundred and twenty-five dollars;

Repairing and renewing roofs of eighty-five sets of married enlistedRepairing roofs. men’s quarters, two thousand dollars; Removing and rebuilding the south dock and ferry slip and freightDock. house on dock, twenty thousand three hundred and eighty-three dollars, to be immediately available; Rebuilding area walls in rear of cadets’ mess building, draining same,Area walls, etc. and repaving areas with granolithic or other suitable pavement, one thousand dollars; Completing the construction of a set of filter beds and connecting theFilter beds. same with the new reservoir, including all necessary appurtenances, to be immediately available, sixteen thousand dollars;

Completing necessary improvements to the water-supply system, toWater supply. be immediately available, ten thousand dollars; Total for Buildings and Grounds, Military Academy, sixty thousand nine hundred and eighty-three dollars. Approved, March 5, 1898.