Chapter 314. Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 314.— An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes. August 11, 1916[[H. R. 16699](/us/bill/64/hr/16699)][[Public, No. 191](/us/pl/64/191)] *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, nineteen hundred and seventeen: permanent establishment.Permanent establishment.
For pay of seven professors, $27,000: *Provided*, That any officerProfessors, etc.*Provisos*.Promotion to colonel. of the United States Army now holding the position of permanent professor at the United States Military Academy who on July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, should have served not less than thirty-three years in the Army, one-third of which service shall have been as professor and instructor at the Military Academy, shall on that date have the rank, pay, and allowances of a colonel in the Army: *Provided further*, That the present manager of the cadet store shall,Cadet store manager may be retired. on his own application, after forty years’ service as clerk, superintendent, and manager of said store, be entitled to be placed on the retired list of the Army with the pay of a retired pay clerk, Quartermaster Corps, of the same period of service;
For pay of one chaplain, $2,400; For pay of the master of the sword, $2,400; For pay of cadets, $462,000: *Provided*, That whenever a cadet shallCadets.*Provisos*Second examinations allowed, etc. fail to pass any required examination because deficient in any one subject of instruction ho shall have the right to apply for a second examination regarding such subject by making written application therefor to the Academic Board within ten days after being officially notified of such failure.
The examination demanded shall be held within sixty days from the date of such application, and if the cadet being otherwise qualified shall pass the same by compliance with the requirements existing at the time of the first examination, he shallApplicable to former cadets. be readmitted to the academy: *Provided further*, That this proviso shall apply to those former cadets who failed in not more than two subjects during the current year who shall make application for such examination within twenty days after the approval of this Act: *Provided further*, That any cadet who fails to pass any requiredRestriction. examination shall have no more than one reexamination: *And providedEligibility for present vacancies in second lieutenants.[R.
S., sec. 1325, p. 227](/us/rs/s1325/p227). further*, That nothing contained in section thirteen hundred and twenty-five of the Revised Statutes shall render ineligible any former cadet honorably discharged from the Military Academy for deficiency in studies, if otherwise qualified, as a civilian candidate for appointment to any vacancy in the grade of second lieutenant under class*Ante*, p. 182. six of the national-defense Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen; *Provided*, That the four Filipino cadets authorized by the Act ofFilipino cadets.Vol. 35, p. 441.*Post*, p. 552.
May twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eight, to be designated by the Philippine Commission to receive instructions at the United States Military Academy, shall hereafter be designated by the Governor General of the Philippine Islands. 494 Extra pay for officers.For extra pay of officers of the Army on detached service at the Military Academy: For pay of one commandant of cadets (lieutenant colonel), in addition to pay as captain, $1,100; For pay of one professor of ordnance and science of gunnery (lieutenant colonel), in addition to pay as major, $500;
For pay of one professor of law (lieutenant colonel), in addition to pay as major, $500; For pay of one professor of practical military engineering (lieutenant colonel), in addition to pay as major, $500; For pay of twelve assistant professors (captains), in addition to pay as first and second lieutenants, $4,800; For pay of two battalion commanders (majors), in addition to pay as captains, $1,200; For pay of one senior assistant instructor of artillery tactics (captain), in addition to pay as first lieutenant, $400;
For pay of nine instructors of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics (captains), in addition to pay as first and second lieutenants, $4,900; For pay of one adjutant, in addition to pay as captain or lieutenant, $600; For pay of one quartermaster and commissary of cadets and treasurer, in addition to pay as captain, $600; For pay of one line officer, on duty in quartermasters’ department at academy, in addition to pay as first lieutenant, $400; For pay of one associate professor of mathematics (major), in addition to pay as captain, $600;
For pay of one associate professor of modern languages (major), in addition to pay as captain, $600; For pay of one constructing quartermaster, in addition to his regular pay, $1,000; Longevity.For additional pay of professors and officers (and officers on increased rank) for length of service, $12,000; Enlisted men.For pay of the Military Academy band, field musicians, general Army service, Cavalry, Artillery, and Engineering detachment, and enlisted men on detached service, and extra pay for enlisted men on special duty:
Academy band.For pay of one band sergeant and assistant leader, $900; Twelve enlisted musicians, at $45 each per month, $6,480; Twelve enlisted musicians, at $36 each per month, $5,184; Sixteen enlisted musicians, at $30 each per month, $5,760; Additional pay for length of service, $5,124; Field musicians.For pay of field musicians: One sergeant, $600 ; Two corporals, $504; Twenty-two privates, at $180 each, $3,960; Additional pay for length of service, $664 ; General Army service.For pay of general Army service detachment:
One first sergeant, $540; Forty sergeants, $14,400; Twenty corporals, $5,040; Three cooks, $1,080; One hundred and eighty privates, $32,400; Additional pay for length of service, $23,275; Quartermaster duty.Extra pay of the enlisted men of the Army service detachment, Quartermasters Department, on extra duty at West Point, $28,000; Cavalry detachment.For pay of Cavalry detachment: One first sergeant, $540; One stable sergeant, $360; Five sergeants, $1,800; Three cooks, $1,080;
Eleven corporals, $2,772; Two trumpeters, $360; 495 Three horseshoers, $1,080; One farrier, $252; Two saddlers, $504; One wagoner, $252; One hundred privates (Cavalry), $18,000; For additional pay of one sergeant in charge of mess, at $6 per month, $72; Additional pay for length of service, $13,408; For pay of Artillery detachment:Artillery detachment. One first sergeant, $540; One quartermaster sergeant, $360; One stable sergeant, $360; One chief mechanic, $288; Nine sergeants, $3,240;
Three cooks, $1,080; Sixteen corporals, $4,032; Five mechanics, comprising one saddler, two horseshoers, and two mechanics, $1,476; Two trumpeters, $360; One hundred and two privates, $18,360; One electrician sergeant, $540; One electrician sergeant, second class, $432; One master gunner, $480; For additional pay for first and second class gunners, $3,600; For additional pay of one sergeant in charge of detachment mess, at $6 per month, $72; Additional pay for length of service, $8,932;
For pay of engineer detachment:Engineer detachment. One first sergeant, at $45 per month, $540; One quartermaster sergeant, at $36 per month, $432; Eight sergeants, at $36 each per month, $3,456; Ten corporals, at $24 each per month, $2,880; Two cooks, at $30 each per month, $720; Two musicians, at $15 each per month, $360; Thirty-eight privates, first class, at $18 each per month, $8,208; Thirty-eight privates, second class, at $15 each per month, $6,840; For additional pay of one sergeant in charge of detachment mess, at $6 per month, $72;
Additional pay for length of service, $8,604; Additional pay of marksmen, sharpshooters, and expert riflemen,Marksmen, etc. $2,280; Travel allowances to enlisted men on discharge, $1,390;Travel, etc., on discharge. Clothing not drawn due enlisted men on discharge, $9,051.60; Interest on deposits due enlisted men, $950.16; For extra pay of four enlisted men employed as clerks in the officeExtra pay, enlisted men. of the adjutant, United States Military Academy, at 50 cents each per day, Sundays and legal holidays included, $730;
For extra pay of two enlisted men employed as clerks in the office of the commandant of cadets, at 50 cents each per day, Sundays and legal holidays included, $365; For extra pay of five enlisted men, at Headquarters United States Military Academy, four as printers and one as assistant to bookbinder, at 50 cents each per day, $782.50; For extra pay of one enlisted man employed as watchman, at 35 cents per day, $191.63; For extra pay of one enlisted man employed as trumpeter at the cadet barracks, at 35 cents per day, $159.80;
For extra pay of two enlisted men employed in the department of philosophy, at 50 cents each per day, $313; For extra pay of two enlisted men employed in the chemical department, at 50 cents each per day, $313; 496 For extra pay of one enlisted man employed in the department of drawing, at 50 cents per day, $156.50; For extra pay of one enlisted man employed in the mathematical department, at 50 cents per day, $156.50; For extra pay of five ordnance soldiers employed one as draftsman in charge of museum, one as machinist, one as clerk, one in the department of ordnance and gunnery, and one as skilled attendant in the museum, at 50 cents each per day, $782.50;
For extra pay of seven enlisted men (cavalrymen) employed, two when performing especially skilled mechanical labor, one as saddler, one in charge of property and saddle equipment pertaining to riding and equitation other than military, one sergeant in charge of stables and horses, one clerk, and one in charge of new riding hall and property, and property contained therein, $1,173.50; For extra pay of thirteen enlisted men (cavalrymen)—two teamsters, nine laborers employed in keeping clean the equipment used by cadets in riding and equitation other than military, and two laborers for harrowing, sprinkling, and assisting in caring for the riding hall, at 35 cents each per day, $1,460.48;
For extra pay of one enlisted man on duty in charge of engineer property and fatigue, at 50 cents per day, $156.50; For extra pay of five enlisted men as assistants and attendants at the library, at 50 cents each per day, Sundays and legal holidays included, $912.50; For extra pay of one enlisted man as clerk in the department of practical military engineering and to the officer in charge of waterworks, and works of construction at the Military Academy, at 50 cents per day, $156.50;
For extra pay of eight enlisted men (artillerymen), three performing extra mechanical labor, one sergeant in charge of stables, horses, and mules, one enlisted man employed as clerk and stenographer to senior assistant instructor of artillery tactics, and three enlisted men performing the duty of mechanics in the batteries, at 50 cents each per day, $1,304; For extra pay of three teamsters (artillerymen), at 35 cents each per day, $383.25; For extra pay of eight laborers (artillerymen), employed in keeping clean the equipment used by cadets, at 35 cents each per day, $876.40;
For extra pay of one enlisted man as messenger in the office of the adjutant, United States Military Academy, at 35 cents per day, $109.55; For extra pay of three enlisted men employed as clerks in the office of the quartermaster and one as clerk in charge of clothing room in quartermaster’s storehouse, at 50 cents per day, $678; For extra pay of one enlisted man employed in the department of civil and military engineering, at 50 cents per day, $156.50; For extra pay of one enlisted man employed as janitor and substitute teacher in the children’s school at 50 cents per day, $156.50;
For extra pay of one teamster (engineer soldier) employed in the department of practical military engineering, in connection with the water supply and on works of construction, at 35 cents per day, $127.75; For extra pay of one enlisted man employed in the department of modern languages, at 50 cents per day, $156.50; For extra pay of one enlisted man employed in the department of English and history, at 50 cents per day, $156.50; Battalion sergeant major.For pay of one battalion sergeant major, Infantry, $768; *Proviso*.Pay, etc.*Provided*, That the enlisted man in the headquarters, United States Corps of Cadets, performing that duty has the rank, pay, and allowance of that grade. 497 pay of civilians.
For pay of one teacher of music, $1,700;Pay of civilians. For pay of four clerks in the office of the quartermaster, as follows: One clerk, at $1,500; two, at $1,400 each; and one clerk and stenographer, at $1,200, $5,500; For pay of nine clerks and stenographers employed at headquarters, United States Military Academy, in the offices of the superintendent and adjutant, as follows: One chief clerk, at $1,500; one clerk, at $1,500; two clerks, at $1,400 each; one clerk, at $1,200; and four clerks, at $1,000 each, $11,000;
For pay of one clerk to treasurer, $1,800; For pay of one clerk and stenographer in the office of the commandant of cadets, $1,200; For pay of two civilian instructors in French, to be employed under rules prescribed by the Secretary of War, $2,000 per year each, $4,000; For pay of two civilian instructors in Spanish, at $2,000 per year each, to be employed under rules prescribed by the Secretary of War, $4,000; For pay of two expert civilian instructors in fencing, broad-sword exercises, and other military gymnastics as may be required to perfect this part of the training of cadets, $3,000;
For pay of one professional civilian instructor in gymnastics, athletics, and swimming, $1,500; For pay of one librarian, $3,000; For pay of assistant librarian, $1,200; For pay of custodian of gymnasium, $1,200; For pay of one superintendent of gas works, $1,500; For pay of engineer of heating and ventilating apparatus for the academic building, the cadet barracks and office building, cadet hospital, chapel, and library, $1,800; For pay of assistant engineer of same, $1,000;
For pay of eleven firemen, $7,920; For pay of one draftsman in department of civil and military engineering, $1,200; For pay of mechanic and attendant skilled in the technical preparations necessary to chemical and electrical lectures and to the instruction in mineralogy and geology, $1,200; For pay of mechanic assistant in department of natural and experimental philosophy, $1,000; For pay of one custodian of academy building, $1,000; For pay of one electrician, $1,500; For pay of one chief plumber, $1,500;
For pay of assistant plumber, $900; For pay of one plumber’s helper, $600; For pay of one scavenger, at $60 a month, $720; For pay of chapel organist and choirmaster, $1,200: *Provided*,Chapel organist.*Proviso*.Allowances. That hereafter the chapel organist and choirmaster shall be entitled to public quarters when available and to the same allowances with respect to fuel and light as those of a second lieutenant when occupying public quarters; For pay of superintendent of post cemetery, $1,200;
For pay of engineer and janitor for Memorial Hall, $900; For pay of printer at headquarters, United States Military Academy, $1,500; For pay of one assistant printer at headquarters, United States Military Academy, $1,000; For pay of one janitress, Memorial Hall, $600; For pay of one master mechanic, $1,800; For pay of attendant and skilled photographer in the department of drawing, $1,200; 498 For pay of one stenographer, typewriter, and attendant in charge of the library in the department of law, to be appointed by the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy, $840;
For pay of one overseer of the waterworks, $720; For pay of one engineer of steam, electric, and refrigerating apparatus for the cadets’ mess, $840; For pay of one copyist, stenographer, librarian, typewriter, and attendant in the department of modern languages, to be appointed by the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy, $840; For pay of one mechanic and attendant skilled in the operation necessary for the preparation of lectures and of material in the department of drawing, $720;
For pay of janitor for bachelor officers’ quarters, $600; For pay of one chief engineer of-power plant, $2,400; For pay of three engineers for power plant, $3,600; For pay of two oilers for power plant, $1,440; For pay of one attendant in the department of philosophy for the handling of models and materials used in the instruction of cadets, $480; For pay of one copyist, typewriter, and attendant in the department of English and history, to be appointed by the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy, $840;
For pay of one bookbinder at headquarters, United States Military Academy, $1,200; For pay of two book sewers in bindery, $960; For pay of one skilled pressman in the printing office, headquarters, United States Military Academy, $1,000; For pay of one charwoman, headquarters United States Military Academy, $480; For pay of one messenger for the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy, $720; For pay of one skilled copyist, confidential stenographer, librarian, typewriter, and attendant in the department of mathematics, to be appointed by the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy, $840;
Accounting.All the money hereinbefore appropriated for the pay of the Military Academy shall be disbursed and accounted for by officers of the Quartermaster Corps as pay of the Military Academy and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. Current expenses.For current and ordinary expenses as follows: Board of Visitors.For the expenses of the members of the Board of Visitors, $750, or so much thereof as may be necessary; Superintendent.Contingencies for superintendent of the academy, $3,000;
Repairs and improvements.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 architect overseer and citizen mechanics, and labor employed upon repairs and improvements that can not be done by enlisted men, $40,000;
Fuel, lighting, etc.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 and coal-conveying apparatus, grates, stoves, heaters, ranges, furnaces, and mica, and repair, improvement, and maintenance of power plant, $45,000; For gas pipes, gas and electric fixtures, electric lamps, telephone and lighting supplies, lamp-posts, gasometers and retorts, and annual repairs of the same, $6,500;
For installing electric fight and fixtures in buildings (officers’ quarters, hotel, and so forth) now without such fixtures, $11,800; 499 For fuel for cadets’ mess hall, shops, and laundry, $10,000; For postage and telegrams, $375;Postage and telegrams. For stationery, namely, blank books, paper, envelopes, steel pens,Stationery. rubbers, erasers, pencils, mucilage, wax, wafers, folders, fasteners, rules, files, ink, inkstands, typewriters, typewriting supplies, office furniture, penholders, tape, desk knives, blotting pads, and rubber bands, and for contingencies not otherwise provided for, $2,500;
For transportation of materials, discharged cadets, including PullmanTransportation. accommodations, and $3 per day or fraction thereof for subsistence and other expenses for the necessary number of days’ travel over the shortest usually traveled route, and tor ferriages; for hire of camp sites for cadets on practice marches, for transportation of first class of cadets to and from Gettysburg battle field, for transportation of first and second class to and from Watervliet Arsenal and Sandy Hook Proving Ground or other ordnance establishments, including a visit to a steel mill, and for expenses of officers detailed to accompany cadets on. these trips, $7,000;
Printing: For printing and binding, type, materials for office,Printing, including repairs to motors and machinery, diplomas for graduates, annual registers, blanks, and monthly reports to parents of cadets, and contingencies, $2,000; For department of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics: Tan barkDepartment of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics. or other proper cover for riding hall, to be purchased in open market upon written order of the superintendent, $1,200; For camp stools, camp and office furniture, and repairs to same; for doormats for cadet barracks, sinks, and cadet headquarters; for stationery, typewriting supplies and repairs, for use of instructor and assistant instructors of tactics; for books and maps, binding books, and mounting maps; for plumes, silk and worsted sashes for cadet officers and acting officers; for furniture, curtains, and rugs for cadet reception room; and contingencies, $1,750;
For the upkeep of athletic grounds, $500; Gymnasium and athletic supplies: For repairs, new machines, athletic supplies, and fixtures for gymnasium; for foils, masks, belts, fencing gloves, fencing jackets, gaiters, sabers, and repairs; for repairs and improvements to dressing rooms, platform, and swimming tank, $3,500; For repairs to saddles, bridles, purchase of leather, curb chains, bits, stirrups, and so forth, and to keep the same in repair, $250; For purchase of carbons and for repairs and maintenance of searchlight for Coast Artillery night practice and for miscellaneous expenses connected with Coast Artillery fire-control stations, $125;
For repair of mattresses, machines, and for replacing worn-out articles in gymnasium of Cavalry barracks, $100; For riding hall: Providing material for hurdles, and upkeep of wings, head posts, and so forth; repairing and maintaining electric lights and providing reflectors for same; and for painting knee-guard, $600; For general repairs to cadet camp, including camp grounds, repairs to tent platforms, painting, shower baths, and underground sinks, and so forth, to be immediately available, $1,000;
For two hundred new tent floors for cadet camp, $3,000, to be immediately available; For the purchase of thread, wax, needles for new blades, sharpening old blades, and spare parts and accessories for power clipping machines and saddler’s sewing machines in Cavalry and Artillery stables, $150; For repairs to mattresses, machines, and for replacing worn-out articles in the drill hall and gymnasium of Artillery barracks, and for miscellaneous expenses connected therewith, $100; 500 For repair of mattresses, machines, and replacing worn-out articles in the drill hall and gymnasium pertaining to Engineer barracks, and for miscellaneous expenses connected therewith, $100;
Department of civil and military engineering.For 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, textbooks, books of reference, and stationery for the use of instructors, and contingencies, $1,200; Department of natural and experimental philosophy.For department of natural and experimental philosophy: Additions to apparatus to illustrate the principles of mechanics, acoustics, optics, and astronomy; books of reference, scientific periodicals, textbooks, stationery, materials, and repairs; and for repairs to the observatory buildings and repairs to clocks, and for contingent expenses not otherwise provided for, $1,850;
Department of mathematics.For department of instruction in mathematics: Textbooks, books of reference, binding, and stationery; for tables of logarithms; for rulers and triangles; for purchase of geometrical drawings and models; for cases for geometrical models; for desks, chairs, bookcases, and office fittings; and for contingencies, $1,000; Department of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology.For department of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology: Chemicals, chemical apparatus, glass and porcelain ware, paper, wire, sheet metal, ores, photographic apparatus and materials; rough specimens, fossils, and for apparatus and materials to be used in the practical determination of mineralogical and geological specimens; pencils and paper for practical instruction in the same branches, and for gradual increase and improvement of the cabinet; for repairs and additions to electric, magnetic, pneumatic, thermic, and optical apparatus; for purchase of laboratory and power-room machinery and apparatus and installation of same; for models, maps, diagrams, books of reference, textbooks, and stationery for use of instructors; and for contingent expenses not otherwise provided for, $2,500;
Department of drawing.For department of drawing: Drawing material, instruments, and stationery for use of instructors; repairs to models and purchase of new models; desks, stretchers, drawing boards, racks, and stands; framing drawings; books and periodicals on art, architecture, topography, and technology; binding maps, books, and so forth; repairs to stereopticon and purchase of lantern slides; photographic apparatus and material; purchase of new instruments and repair of old ones, for use of cadets; and for contingent expenses, $1,530;
For the purchase of the latest model sketching apparatus to complete the equipment of the drawing department necessary for the instruction of cadets in the course of topography, $1,000; Department of modern languages.For department of modern languages: For stationery, textbooks, and books of reference for use of instructors, for repairs of books and apparatus and for office furniture, and for printing examination papers, and other necessary papers, and for contingencies, $1,000;
Department of law.For department of law: For stationery, textbooks, and books of reference for the use of instructors, maps, map fixtures, furniture, and for repairs to the same, for rebinding books and periodicals, and for contingencies, $850; Department of practical military engineering.For department of practical military engineering: For models, books of reference, scientific periodicals, and stationery; for purchase and repair of instruments, materials, and apparatus for use in instructing cadets in surveying, reconnoissance, signaling and field telegraphy, military field engineering, and field fortification; for photographic and lithographic apparatus and materials for field photography and map reduction; tools and materials for maintenance of the batteries of the academy; transportation of field parties; for extra-duty pay of engineer soldiers at 50 cents per day each when employed as assistants in photographic laboratory or as special skilled mechanics in the department, and for contingent expenses not otherwise provided for, $2,000; 501 For department of ordnance and gunnery:
For purchase, manufacture,Department of ordnance and gunnery. and repair of instruments, models, machinery, and apparatus; for purchase of samples of arms and accouterments other than those supplied to the military service; for books of reference, textbooks, stationery, office furniture and supplies; for services of skilled merchanic (civilian) employed in the department of ordnance and science of gunnery, and for contingencies, $1,800; For purchase of machines, tools, and material for practical instruction of cadets in wood and metal working, $500;
For department of military hygiene: For stationery, textbooks,Department of military hygiene. and books of reference for use of instructors; for the preparation of plates, purchase of paper, and other expenses incidental to the printing of syllabuses of lectures on parts of the subject not covered by the regular textbooks; for the purchase of charts, photographs, and pictures for use in demonstration; for the purchase of instruments and models; for shelves and cases for books, instruments, and models and records; and for contingent expenses not otherwise provided for, $500;
For department of English and history: For purchase of stationery,Department of English and history. textbooks, books of reference, office furniture, maps, map fixtures, and for repairs to same, for rebinding books and periodicals, and for contingent expenses not otherwise provided for, $1,100; For a course of lectures for the more complete instruction of cadets,Lectures. $1,200; miscellaneous items and incidental expenses.Miscellaneous and incidental expenses. For commercial periodicals, stationery, office furniture and supplies,Treasurer’s office. and for binding orders, circulars, and so forth, for the office of the treasurer, United States Military Academy, $210;
For gas-coal, oil, candles, lanterns, matches, chimneys, wicking andLighting, plumbing, etc. electric lamps and supplies; and for operating the gas plant, $10,000; For water pipe, plumbing, and repairs, $7,000; For material and labor for cleaning and policing public buildings (not quarters), $4,050; For supplies for recitation rooms not otherwise provided for and for renewing and repairing furniture in same, $600; Increase and expense of library, namely:Library. For purchase, preservation, care, storage, binding and repair of books, periodicals, pamphlets, maps, pictures, and manuscripts; purchase of furniture, cases, stationery, and fittings; for expenses of making copies of military manuscripts in other libraries, and for contingent expenses not otherwise provided for; purchases to be made in open market on the written order of the superintendent, $7,200;
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, $500; *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. Purchase of instruments for band and repairs to same; for purchaseMusical supplies. of reeds, pads, strings, and other materials necessary for brass, wood, wind, and string instruments; for purchase of music stands and other equipments; for purchase of music for military band and orchestra and for extra parts; and for contingent expenses not otherwise provided for; all to be purchased in open market on order of superintendent, $1,500;
Repairs and improvements to the laundry machinery and apparatusLaundry, kitchen, etc. in the cadet laundry, and the purchase of new material, adding machine, tools, and so forth, to be expended without advertising, $2,500; 502 Repair and purchase of cooking utensils, chairs, tables, and other furniture in the cadet mess, and the replacement of same, to be expended without advertising, to be immediately available, $2,600; Policing.For the policing of barracks and bathhouses, $11,260;
Cadets barracks.For supplying light and plain furniture to cadets’ barracks, $5,000; Children’s school.For maintaining the children’s school, the Superintendent of the Military Academy being authorized to employ the necessary teachers, $4,320; Fire protection.For purchase and repair of fire-extinguishing apparatus, $1,000; *Proviso*.Periodicals.[R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).*Provided*, That section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign, professional, and other newspapers and periodicals, to be paid for from any of the foregoing appropriations;
Buildings and grounds.buildings and grounds. Ordnance museum, laboratory, etc.For cases, materials, fittings, fixtures, and other appliances and repairs for ordnance museum in headquarters building, $1,500; For repairs to ordnance laboratory and other buildings pertaining to the department of ordnance and gunnery, and materials for roads and walks, and for repairs to machinery and tools, $150; For general repairs to the cadet laundry building, and for emergency incidental expenses about building, to be expended without advertising, $400;
For general incidental repairs and improvements to the cadet store building, including storerooms, office, tailor shops, and shoe-repairing shops, $500; Soldiers’ hospital.For materials and labor for repairs, alterations, and additions needed at the soldiers’ hospital, as follows: Purchase of suitable incandescent lights, droplights, tubing, mantels, and so forth; for paraffin and turpentine for waxing floors; for brushes, paints, glass, putty, and for general repairs; for materials for rebronzing radiators; and for purchase of flowers, fruit trees, shrubs, plants, and so forth, for hospital grounds, $165;
For general repairs to the building, and so forth, $1,192.20; For the repair and upkeep of quarters of the sergeant, first class, Hospital Corps, at soldiers’ hospital: For miscellaneous minor repairs and general upkeep of quarters, and so forth, and putting on new tin roof, $590.40; Waterworks.For waterworks: For the maintenance and operation of the filter beds, reservoirs, and pipe lines, including the tools, implements, and materials required therefor; and for policing the grounds and repairing the roads in the vicinity of the reservoirs, filters, and intake dam, and for the protection and enforcement of rules to protect the water supply, $2,500;
Cadet mess.For necessary repairs and replacements in steam-heating system and steam lines and cooking apparatus, cadet mess, $300; For repairs to cadet mess building, $2,000; For repairs and improvements to the West Point Army mess building, including supplying and renewing furniture, $1,029; For repairs and necessary alterations and additions to the cadet hospital, as follows: Cadet hospital.For materials for rebronzing radiators and piping; material for waxing and polishing floors; suitable incandescent lights, droplights, mantels, tubes; for carpets, furniture, and appliances; for repairs of damaged articles, and for miscellaneous expenses, $120;
For repainting the entire metal roof of the building, and repairing and rebuilding chimneys, $325; For purchase of flowers and shrubs for hospital grounds, $100; For installing fire escape at cadet hospital, $350: 503 For the repair and upkeep of quarters of the sergeant, first class, Hospital Corps, at the cadet hospital, $50; Repairs to cadet barracks:Cadet barracks. For repairing and renewing plastering, painting, and calcimining, repairs to woodwork, reflooring, rearranging rooms, increasing sinks, baths, and other incidental repairs to the building, to be immediately available, $15,000;
For repairs to the children’s school building, $1,470;School building. For maintaining and improving the grounds of the post cemetery,Cemetery. $1,500; For continuing the construction of breast-high wall in dangerousWall, roads, etc. places, $1,000; For broken stone and gravel for roads, and for repairing sidewalks, roads, paths, and bridges on the reservation, $10,000; For repair and supplies of boilers, engines, dynamos, motors,Machinery, etc. refrigerating and other machinery in the cadet mess, and the replacement of same, to be expended without advertising, $500;
For repairs to steward’s quarters, cadet mess, to be expended without advertising, to be immediately available, $150; For the repair, improvement, and maintenance of the cadet polo field, and for the purchase of blackboards, gongs, and other necessary material for same, $600; For waterproofing the post headquarters and bachelor buildings, $2,000; For installation of automatic stokers under four four hundred andAutomatic stokers. forty horsepower boilers in the power plant, $15,000;
For steel furniture, shelving, and filing cabinets for offices ofOffice furniture. quartermaster and disbursing officer, $7,172.75; For construction of retaining wall for earth slope behind officers’Retaining wall. quarters numbered sixty-one, sixty-three, sixty-five, sixty-seven, sixty-nine, seventy-one, seventy-three, and seventy-five, near cemetery, $3,443; For reconstruction of Artillery stable, practically destroyed by fireReconstructing artillery stable, etc. August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to be immediately available, $40,000;
For alterations and repairs to quarters forty-one, $760.60; For purchase of one pneumatic flusher, $900; For one eight-ton road roller, $2,850;Road roller. For steel cases for the Warner house on Constitution Island, toWarner house. secure articles left there by Miss Warner for the benefit of cadets in the academy, $636; For material and labor for construction of moving target on CroMoving target. Nest Mountain for the instruction of cadets and for Field Artillery service target practice of Field Artillery officers stationed at West Point, New York, to be immediately available, $1,100;
For carrying on the development of the general plan for improvementsImproving grounds. to roads and grounds on the military reservation of West Point, designed under contract by authority of the Secretary of War, $3,000; For the care and maintenance of organ in the cadet chapel, $250; The Secretary of War is authorized and directed to appoint threeBoard to report plan for extension, etc. officers of the Army, whose duty it shall be to investigate and to make report to Congress on the first Monday in December, nineteen hundred and sixteen, what is necessary to be done in the way of buildings and other improvements to accommodate and care for the increased Corps of Cadets, as provided by the Act of May fourth,*Ante*, p. 62. nineteen hundred and sixteen, together with the probable cost thereof. *Provided*, That all funds hereinbefore appropriated under the titles*Provisos*.Funds accounted as “Maintenance.
” “Current and ordinary expenses,” “Miscellaneous items and incidental expenses,” and “Buildings and grounds” shall be disbursed 504and accounted for by the disbursing officer, United States Military Academy, as “Maintenance, United States Military Academy,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. Settlement of accounts with Department bureaus, etc.*And provided further*, That hereafter in settling transactions between appropriations for the support of the United States Military Academy and other bureaus of the War Department, or between the United States Military Academy and any other executive department of the Government, payment therefor shall be made by the disbursing officer of the United States Military Academy or of the office, bureau, or department concerned.
Maj. B. T. Clayton.Credit in accounts.*And provided further*, That the accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow and credit in the accounts of Major B. T. Clayton, Quartermaster Corps, the sum of $19.09, disallowed on voucher five B, September, nineteen hundred and twelve, fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, of his money accounts and now standing against him on the books of the Treasury. J. Ricardo de Borja, of Ecuador, admitted for instruction.That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized to permit Mr.
J. Ricardo de Borja, a citizen of Ecuador, to receive instruction at the United States Military Academy at West Point: *Provisos*.No expense, etc.*Provided*, That no expense shall be caused to the United States thereby, and that the said J. Ricardo de Borja shall agree to comply with all regulations for the police and discipline of the academy, to be studious, and to give his utmost efforts to accomplish the course in the various departments of instruction, and that the said J.
Ricardo de Borja shall not be admitted to the Academy until he shall have passed the mental and physical examinations prescribed for candidates from the United States, and that he shall be immediately withdrawn if deficient in studies or conduct, and so recommended by the Oath and service.[R. S., secs. 1320, 1321, p. 227](/us/rs/s1320/p227).academic board: *And provided further*, That in the case of the said J. Ricardo de Borja the provisions of sections thirteen hundred and twenty and thirteen hundred and twenty-one of the Revised Statutes shall be suspended.
Approved, August 11, 1916.