Chapter 112. Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 112.— An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and for other purposes. March 30, 1920. [[H. R. 12467](/us/bill/66/hr/12467).] [[Public, No. 166](/us/pl/66/166).] *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 30, 1921:
Permanent establishment.PERMANENT ESTABLISHMENT. Professors, etc.For pay of seven professors, $26,500. For pay of one chaplain, $2,400. Master of the sword.Rank, etc.For pay of master of the sword, $3,500, and the present incumbent shall have the relative rank and be entitled to the pay, allowances, and emoluments of a lieutenant colonel during his incumbency. Cadets.For pay of cadets, $850,000. Pay increased for 1921.[R. S., sec. 1339, p. 228; Vol. 40, p. 1336](/us/rs/s1339/p228/p1336).*Proviso*.Credit for clothing, equipment, etc.The pay of cadets for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, shall be fixed at $780 per annum and one ration per day or commutation thereof at the rate of $1.08 per ration, to be paid from the appropriation for the subsistence of the Army: *Provided*, That the sum of $250 shall be credited to each cadet now at the academy and to each cadet discharged since January 1, 1919, to the extent of paying any balance due by any such cadet to the academy on account of initial clothing and equipment issued to him.
Officers on detached service.officers on detached service at the academy. Extra pay.For extra pay of officers of the Army on detached service at the Military Academy: For pay of one commandant of cadets (colonel) in addition to his regular pay, $1,000. 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 three battalion commanders in addition to pay as captain, $1,800. For pay of one senior assistant instructor of Field Artillery tactics (major) in addition to pay as captain, $600. For pay of one senior assistant instructor of Cavalry tactics (major) in addition to pay as captain, $600. For pay of one senior assistant instructor of Coast Artillery tactics (major) in addition to pay as captain, $600. 539 For pay of sixteen instructors of Cavalry, Artillery (Field and Coast), and Infantry tactics (captains), in addition to pay as first and second lieutenants, $6,400.
For pay of one adjutant, in addition to his regular pay, $600. For pay of one quartermaster and commissary of cadets and treasurer, in addition to his regular pay, $600. For pay of one line officer on duty in quartermaster’s department at academy, in addition to his regular pay, $400. For pay of one associate professor of mathematics (major), in addition to pay as captain, $600. For pay of one constructing quartermaster, in addition to his regular pay, $1,000. For additional pay of professors and officers (and officers on increasedLongevity. rank) for length of service, $12,000. military academy band.Band.
For pay of Military Academy band:Pay. One band sergeant and assistant leader, $972. Fifteen enlisted musicians, at $51 each per month, $9,180. Fifteen enlisted musicians, at $44 each per month, $7,920. Twenty enlisted musicians, at $38 each per month, $9,120. Additional pay for length of service, $6,437. field musicians.Field musicians. For pay of field musicians:Pay. One sergeant, $672. Two corporals, at $36 each per month, $864. Seven privates, first class, at $33 each per month, and twenty-one privates, second class, at $30 each per month, $10,332.
Additional pay for length of service, $990. service detachment.Service detachment. For pay of Service detachment:Pay. One first sergeant, at $51 per month, $612. Forty-seven sergeants, at $38 each per month, $21,432. Twenty corporals, at $36 each per month, $8,640. Four cooks, at $38 each per month, $1,824. Fifty-one privates, first class, at $33 each per month, $20,196. One hundred and fifty-three privates, at $30 each per month, $55,080. Additional pay for length of service, $21,777.
Extra pay of the enlisted men in the Service detachment, on extraExtra duty pay. duty at West Point, $37,536. cavalry detachment.Cavalry detachment. For pay of Cavalry detachment:Pay. One first sergeant, at $51 per month, $612. One mess sergeant, at $44 per month, $528. One supply sergeant, at $38 per month, $456. Three stable sergeants, at $38 each per month, $1,368. Nine sergeants, at $38 each per month, $4,104. Four cooks, at $38 each per month, $1,824. Sixteen corporals, at $36 each per month, $6,912.
One bugler, first class, at $33 per month, $396. One bugler, at $30 per month, $360. Six horseshoers, at $38 each per month, $2,736. 540 Three farriers, at $36 each per month, $1,296. Four saddlers, at $36 each per month, $1,728. Four wagoners, at $36 each per month, $1,728. Two mechanics, at $36 each per month, $864. Forty-one privates, first class, at $33 each per month, $16,236. One hundred and twenty-three privates, second class, at $30 each per month, $44,280. For additional pay for length of service, $17,000.
Artillery detachment.artillery detachment. Pay.For pay of Artillery detachment: One first sergeant, at $51 per month, $612. One supply sergeant, at $38 per month, $456. Two stable sergeants, at $38 each per month, $912. One chief mechanic, at $36 per month, $432. Twelve sergeants, at $38 each per month, $5,472. One mess sergeant, at $44 per month, $528. Four cooks, at $38 each per month, $1,824. Eighteen corporals, at $36 each per month, $7,776. One saddler, at $38 per month, $456.
Three horseshoers, at $38 each per month, $1,368. Eight mechanics, at $36 each per month, $3,456. Three buglers, at $30 each per month, $1,080. Forty privates, first class, at $33 each per month, $15,840. One hundred and twelve privates, at $30 each per month, $40,320. One farrier, at $36 per month, $432. Five wagoners, at $36 each per month, $2,160. For additional pay for expert first-class gunners, at $5 each per month, first-class gunners at $3 each per month, and second-class gunners at $2 each per month, $4,080.
Additional pay for length of service, $6,000. Engineer detachment.engineer detachment. Pay.For pay of Engineer detachment: One first sergeant, at $51 per month, $612. Three sergeants, first class, at $51 each per month, $1,836. Eight sergeants, at $44 each per month, $4,224. One supply sergeant, at $44 per month, $528. Twelve corporals, at $36 each per month, $5,184. Three cooks, at $38 each per month, $1,368. Two musicians, at $30 each per month, $720. Thirty-eight privates, first class, at $33 each per month, $15,048.
Fifty privates, at $30 each per month, $18,000. Additional pay for length of service, $14,000. Additional pay for marksman, sharpshooter and expert riflemen, $2,400. Signal Corps detachment.signal corps detachment. Pay.For pay of detachment of Signal Corps: One master signal electrician, at $81 per month, $972. Two sergeants, first class, at $51 each per month, $1,224. Two sergeants, at $44 each per month, $1,056. One chauffeur, at $44 per month, $528. Two corporals, at $36 each per month, $864.
Two privates, first class, at $33 each per month, $792. Two privates, at $30 each per month, $720. Additional pay for length of service, $648. Additional pay for expert military telegrapher, first class military telegrapher, and military telegrapher, $324. 541 coast artillery detachment.Coast Artillery detachment. For pay of Coast Artillery detachment:Pay. One first sergeant, at $51 per month, $612. One master electrician, Coast Artillery, at $75 per month, $900. One electrician sergeant, first class, at $51 per month, $612.
One master gunner, at $48 per month, $576. Five sergeants, at $38 each per month, $2,280. Four wagoners, at $36 each per month, $1,728. Five mechanics, at $36 each per month, $2,160. Twelve privates, first class, at $33 each per month, $4,752. For additional pay for first class gunners, at $3 each per month, and second class gunners, at $2 each per month, $1,080. Additional pay for length of service, $5,400. For additional pay of rated men (one plotter, one observer, first class, and four gun commanders), $552.
Travel allowance due enlisted men on discharge, $3,000.Travel, etc., on discharge. Clothing not drawn due enlisted men on discharge, $5,000. Interest on deposits due elisted men, $2,000. extra pay of enlisted men.Extra pay of enlisted men. For extra pay of enlisted men:Employment specified. For extra pay of one enlisted man employed as bugler at the cadet barracks, at 35 cents per day, $159.80. For extra pay of one enlisted man employed as mail carrier at the cadet barracks and camp, at 50 cents per day, $182.50.
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 nine 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, two sergeants in charge of stables and horses, one clerk, one in charge of new riding hall and property, and one in charge of the remount detail, at 50 cents each per day for three hundred and sixty-five days, $1,642.50.
For extra pay of twenty-three enlisted men (cavalrymen), three teamsters, eleven laborers employed in keeping clean tne equipment used by cadets in riding and equitation other than military, seven specially qualified trainers engaged in training mounts used by cadets in riding and equitation other than military, and two laborers for harrowing and sprinkling and assisting in the care of the riding hall, at 35 cents each per day, $2,938.25. 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 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 ten enlisted men (field 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 field artillery tactics, and five enlisted men performing the duties of mechanics in the batteries, at 50 cents each per day, $1,621.
For extra pay of four teamsters (field artillerymen), at 35 cents each per day, $511. 542 For extra pay of eight laborers (field 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 50 cents per day, Sundays and holidays included, $182.50. 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.
Regimental sergeant major.*Proviso*.At Corps headquarters.For pay of one regimental sergeant major, Infantry, $660: *Provided*, That the enlisted man in the headquarters, United States Corps of Cadets, performing that duty has the rank, pay, and allowances of that grade. Assistant instructors, etc.For extra pay of thirty-eight noncommissioned officers (engineers, artillerymen, and cavalrymen) as assistant instructors of cadets, at 50 cents per day, $6,935. For pay of one sergeant, senior grade, $900.
For pay of one regimental sergeant major, Infantry, $852. For extra pay of one first sergeant (cavalryman) at 50 cents per day, $182. For extra pay of one ordnance soldier, in charge of machine guns, at 50 cents per day, $156.50. Pay of civilians.pay of civilians. For pay of civilians: Employment specified.For pay of one teacher of music, $2,000. For pay of nine clerks in the office of the quartermaster, as follows: One chief clerk, $1,800. One clerk, $1,500. Two clerks, at $1,400 each, $2,800.
Two clerks, at $1,200 each, $2,400. Three clerks and stenographers, $3,600. For pay of twelve clerks and stenographers employed at headquarters, United States Military Academy, in the offices of the superintendent and adjutant, as follows: One chief clerk, $1,800. One clerk and stenographer to superintendent, $1,500. Three clerks, at $1,400 each, $4,200. One clerk, $1,400. Three clerks, at $1,000 each, $3,000. Three clerks, at $1,000 each, $3,000. For pay of one clerk to the 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 of French, to be employed under the rules prescribed by the Secretary of War, at $2,000 each, $4,000. For pay of two civilian instructors of Spanish, to be employed under the rules prescribed by the Secretary of War, at $2,000 each, $4,000. For pay of two expert civilian instructors in fencing, broadsword 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 military gymnastics, fencing, boxing, wrestling, and swimming, $1,500. For pay of two expert assistant civilian instructors in military gymnastics, fencing, boxing, wrestling, and swimming, $4,000: *Proviso*.Quarters, etc., allowed instructors.*Provided*, That these civilian instructors employed in the department of modern languages and the department of tactics shall be543entitled to public quarters and to the same allowances with respect to fuel and light as those of a first lieutenant when occupying public quarters.
For pay of one librarian, $3,000. For pay of one assistant librarian, $1,500. For pay of one custodian of gymnasium, $1,200. For pay of one superintendent of gas works, $1,500. For pay of one chief engineer of power plant, whose duties will include those of engineer of heating and ventilating apparatus, $2,700. For pay of one assistant chief engineer of same, $1,100. For pay of three assistant engineers of same, $3,600. For pay of eight firemen, $6,240. For pay of two oilers for power plant, $1,440.
For pay of one draftsman in the department of civil and military engineering, $1,200. For pay of mechanic and attendant skilled in the technical preparation 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 (to be appointed by the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy), $840. For pay of one custodian of academy buildings, $1,000.
For pay of one electrician, $1,600. For pay of one chief plumber, $1,600. For pay of one 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, $1,500. For pay of superintendent of post cemetery, $1,200. For pay of engineer and janitor of Memorial Hall, $900. For pay of printer at headquarters, United States Military Academy, $1,600. For pay of assistant printer at headquarters, United States Military Academy, $1,100.
For pay of one janitress, Memorial Hall, $600. For pay of one master mechanic, $1,800. For pay of clerk and photographer in the department of drawing, $1,300. 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, $900. For pay of one overseer of the waterworks, $720. For pay of one engineer of steam, electric, and refrigerating apparatus for the cadets’ mess, $1,200.
For pay of one copyist, stenographer, clerk, librarian, typewriter, and attendant in the department of modern languages, to be appointed by the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy, $1,040. 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 to be appointed by the superintendent, $720. For pay of janitor for bachelor officers’ quarters, $600. For pay of one stenographer, typewriter, and attendant in the department of English and history, to be appointed by the superintendent, $840.
For pay of one bookbinder at headquarters, United States Military Academy, $1,200. For pay of two book sewers in bindery, $1,080. For pay of one skilled pressman in the printing office, headquarters, United States Military Academy, $1,100. 544 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, $1,000.
Stenographer, etc., medical department.For pay of one stenographer, typewriter, and clerk in the medical department and department of military hygiene, to be appointed by the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy authorized Vol. 37, p. 860.by the Military Academy Appropriation Act for 1914, approved March 4, 1913 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 860), $840. For pay of one confidential stenographer, copyist, librarian, typewriter, and multigraph operator in the department of natural and experimental philosophy, to be appointed by the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy, $1,000.
Accounting by Academy disbursing officer.All the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the Military Academy shall be disbursed and accounted for by the disbursing officer of the United States Military Academy as pay of the Military Academy, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. Current expenses.current and ordinary expenses. Board of Visitors.For the expenses of the members of the Board of Visitors, or so much thereof as may be necessary, $750. Contingencies, superintendent.Contingencies for superintendent of the academy, $3,000.
Repairs and improvements.Repairs and improvements, namely: Timber, plank, boards, joists, wall strips, laths, shingles, slate, tin, sheet lead, zinc, screws, nails, locks, hinges, glass, paints, turpentine, oils, and so forth, $55,000. Fuel, light, etc.For fuel and apparatus, namely: Coal, wood, and so forth, $70,000, of which $5,000 shall be immediately available. For gas pipes, gas and electric fixtures, and so forth, $10,000. For fuel for cadets’ mess hall, shops, and laundry, $15,000.
Postage, etc.For postage and telegrams, $1,200. Stationery.For stationery, namely: Blank books, paper, and so forth, $3,500. Transportation.For transportation of materials, discharged cadets, and so forth, $20,000. Printing.Printing and binding, and so forth, $3,000. Department of Cavalry, Artillery, and Infantry tactics.For department of Cavalry, Artillery, and Infantry tactics: Tan bark or other proper covering for riding hall, to be purchased in open market upon written order of the superintendent, $1,500.
For camp stools, office furniture, and so forth, $4,000. For upkeep of athletic grounds, $500. For gymnasium and athletic supplies, and so forth, $5,000. For the maintenance of one automobile, $300. For repairs to saddles, bridles, and so forth, $500. For the purchase of carbons and for repairs and maintenance of searchlight, and so forth, $250. For the purchase of stationery and office supplies for the office of senior instructor of Coast Artillery tactics, $75. For repair of mattresses, machines, and so forth, in gymnasium of Cavalry barracks, $100.
For material for hurdles, and so forth, riding hall, $600. For general maintenance and repairs to cadet camp, to be immediately available, $10,000. For repair of obstacles on mounted drill ground, and for constructing other obstacles, and so forth, $100. For the purchase of thread, wax, needles, and so forth, in the Cavalry stables, $200. 545 For the purchase of thread, wax, needles, and so forth, in the Artillery stables, $200. For material for preserving floors, and so forth, Artillery barracks and stables, $150.
For the purchase of tools, machines, and so forth, Artillery gun shed, $2,500. For repair to mattresses, machines, and so forth, in drill hall and gymnasium of Artillery barracks, $100. For the purchase of new and upkeep of worn-out rubber matting in squad rooms of Artillery barracks, $150. For purchase of stationery and office furniture in office of senior assistant instructor of Field Artillery tactics, $100. For material for preserving floors, and so forth, Cavalry barracks and stables, $100.
For repair of mattresses, machines, and so forth, in drill hall and gymnasium of Engineer barracks, $100. For department of civil and military engineering: Textbooks, stationery,Instruction material, etc., for specified departments. and so forth, $1,200. For department of natural and experimental philosophy: Textbooks, apparatus, and so forth, $2,350. For department of instruction in mathematics: Textbooks, stationery, and so forth, $1,250. For department of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology, $2,500.
For department of drawing: Drawing materials, and so forth, $2,000. For department of modern languages: Stationery and so forth, $1,900. For department of law: Books, stationery, and so forth, $850. For department of practical military engineering: For models, books, stationery, and so forth, $6,000. For department of ordnance and gunnery: Models, instruments, books, and so forth, $2,150. For the purchase of machines, tools, and so forth, for practical instruction of cadets in wood and metal working, $500.
For department of military hygiene, $500. For department of English and history: For purchase of stationery, books, and so forth, $1,500. For a course of lectures for the more complete instruction of cadets,Lectures. $1,200. For the maintenance of one automobile truck, $300. miscellaneous items and incidental expenses.Miscellaneous. For commercial periodicals, stationery, and so forth, for the officeTreasurer’s office. of the treasurer United States Military Academy, $710. For gas, coal, oil, candles, and so forth, for operating the gas plant,Lighting, plumbing, etc. $15,000.
For the installation of new benches in gas plant, $4,000. For water pipe, plumbing, and repairs, $8,000, of which $1,000 shall be immediately available. For material and labor for cleaning and policing public buildings,Policing, etc. $6,620. For supplies for recitation rooms not otherwise provided for and for renewing and repairing furniture in same, $1,000. For installation of motor, grates, and blower in heating plant of Memorial Hall, $1,050. Increase and expense of library, $7,200.Library.
For contingent funds, to be expended under the direction of theAcademic board. academic board: For instruments, books, repairs to apparatus, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $500: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Purchases. That all technical and scientific supplies for the departments of in546struction of the Military Academy shall be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may deem best. Band supplies.For the purchase of instruments for the band and repairs to same, $1,500.
Cleaning, etc., plant.For the purchase of machinery and equipment for new dry cleaning, sterilizing, and disinfecting plant, and for the installation of same, to be expended without advertising, $12,000. Laundry.For repairs and improvements to the laundry machinery, and so forth, which may be expended without advertising, and to be immediately available, $35,000. Cadet mess.For the repair and purchase of cooking utensils, chairs, and so forth, cadet mess, to be expended without advertising, to be immediately available, $3,000.
Policing barracks, etc.For the policing of barracks and bathhouses, $25,000. Cadet barracks.For supplying light and plain furniture to cadets’ barracks, $20,000. For the purchase and repair of cocoa matting for the aisleways in the stables of the riding hall, $300. For the maintenance of one automobile truck of the Ford type $250. Children’s school.For maintaining the children’s school, and so forth, $6,270. Fire protection.For purchase and repair of fire-extinguishing apparatus, $1,000.
Buildings and grounds.buildings and grounds. Ordnance museum, etc.For cases, materials, and so forth, ordnance museum in headquarters building, $1,500. For repairs to ordnance laboratory and other buildings pertaining to department of ordnance and gunnery, $150. For general repairs to cadet laundry building, and so forth, 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, $1,000.
Soldiers’ hospital.For materials and labor for repairs, and so forth, soldiers’ hospital, $165. For repair and upkeep of quarters of the sergeant, first class, Hospital Corps, at soldiers’ hospital, $50. For providing a railing for porches and steps, to be of iron pipe throughout, $1,119. For replacing wooden steps of north and south wards with stone ones, $250. Waterworks, etc.For waterworks, $3,000. For extension of bayonet fencing ground and repairs to same, $2,000. For repairs to quarters of steward of cadet mess, which may be expended without advertising, $150.
Walls, roads, etc.For the repair and restoration of retaining walls along the line of the Poplopen pipe line, $3,000. For carrying on the development of the general plan for improvements to roads and grounds, $3,000. For repairs and necessary alterations and additions to the cadet hospital, as follows: For materials for radiators, piping, furniture, and so forth, $120. For purchase of flowers and shrubs for hospital grounds, $100. For necessary repairs and replacements in steam-heating system and steam line in cadet mess, $1,300.
Repairs, improvements, etc.For repairs to the cadet mess building, to be immediately available, $4,265. Buildings, etc.For repairs and improvements to the West Point Army mess building, including supplying and renewing furniture and fittings, $2,500. 547 For the repair and maintenance of the cadet boathouse and the purchase and maintenance of boats and canoes for the instruction of cadets in rowing, $1,000.. For the repairs and maintenance of the wooden ponton house used for the housing of ponton materials, $500.
For the purchase of materials for use of instruction of cadets in handling and use of Engineer tools, $500. For the repair and upkeep of quarters of the sergeant, first class, Hospital Corps, at the cadet hospital, $50. For new doors, door frames, transoms, and casings for SouthCadet barracks. Cadet Barracks, $4,550. For repairs to the cadet barracks, to be immediately available, $15,000. For maintaining and improving grounds of post cemetery, $2,000.Cemetery grounds. For continuing the construction of breast-high wall in dangerous places, $1,000.
For broken stone and gravel for roads, $10,000.Roads, etc. For repairs of boilers, engines, dynamos, motors, and so forth,Machinery repairs, etc. cadet mess, to be expended without advertising, to be immediately available, $6,500. For the repair and improvement of cadet polo field, $600. For waterproofing the post headquarters, bachelor, gymnasium, and other large buildings, $2,000. For care and maintenance of organ in cadet chapel, $250. For general repairs to the buildings of the Coast Artillery fire-control system, $100.
For material and labor for repair of Field Artillery target range, $500. For repair and upkeep of stable Numbered four, and corral, and installing watering troughs, $1,000. For repairs to skylights in riding hall and stopping leaks around same, $300. For labor and material for construction of new dry cleaning, sterilizing,New buildings. and disinfecting building, $18,000. For completion of eight sets married officers’ quarters, authorizedVol. 40, p. 632. in the Military Academy Appropriation Act for 1919, approved June 27, 1918, to be immediately available, $20,000.
For completion of twenty sets of bachelor officers’ quarters, authorizedVol. 40, p. 632. in the Military Academy Appropriation Act for 1919, approved June 27, 1918, to be immediately available, $20,000. For remodeling old cadet hospital, extension steam tunnels, water,Cadet hospital.Remodeling, etc. sewer, and electric systems, excavation, grading, roads, quarrying stone for new cadet hospital, and miscellaneous expenses, to be immediately available, $75,000. The Secretary of War is hereby directed to turn over to the UnitedArmy surplus construction material, etc., for buildings.
States Military Academy without expense all such surplus material as may be available and necessary for the construction of temporary buildings; also, surplus tools and materiel for use in the instruction of cadets at the academy: *Provided*, That to cover the cost of labor*Proviso*.Labor. in the construction of such temporary buildings there is hereby appropriated the sum of $10,000. The amount, $10,000, for enlarging elevator shaft and installingCadet hospital elevator.Reappropriation.Vol. 40, p. 1346. elevator from basement to second floor (cadet hospital); appropriated in the Military Academy Appropriation Act for 1920, approved March 4, 1919, shall remain available until expended.
For the purpose of accounting only, all funds hereinbefore appropriatedAccounting consolidated. under the titles “Current and ordinary expenses,” “Miscellaneous items and incidental expenses,” and “Buildings and grounds,” shall be disbursed and accounted for by the disbursing officer, United States Military Academy, as “Maintenance, United States Military Academy,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. 548 Miscellaneous.miscellaneous. Instruction course to be four years.*Provisos*.Appointees heretofore nominated admitted while cadet retained.Course of instruction:
The course of instruction at the United States Military Academy shall be four years: *Provided*, That any person heretofore nominated in accordance with regulations, for appointment to fill a vacancy which would have resulted from the graduation of a cadet during the present year, may be so appointed notwithstanding the retention of such cadet at the academy: *Provided Present cadets may elect to continue full course.further*, That any cadet now at the academy may at his option, exercised prior to June 11, 1920, continue at the academy one additional year and postpone thereby his prospective graduation, and cadets not electing so to prolong their course shall be graduated in the years assigned to their respective classes prior to the passage of this Act.
Ages for admission.Extended for service in World War, 1919, 1920, 1921.[R. S., sec. 1318, p. 226, amended](/us/rs/s1318/p226).Amendment to section 1318, Revised Statutes relating to appointments: That section 1318, Revised Statutes, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: “Appointees shall be admitted to the academy only between the ages of seventeen and twenty-two years, except in the following case: That during the calendar years 1919, 1920 and 1921 any appointee who has served honorably and faithfully not less than one year in the armed forces of the United States or allied armies in the late war with Germany, and who possesses the other qualifications required by law, may be admitted *Proviso*.Admission of successor to member not graduating, etc.between the ages of seventeen and twenty-four years: *Provided*, That whenever any member of the graduating class shall fail to complete the course with his class by reason of sickness, or deficiency in his studies, or other cause, such failure shall not operate to delay the admission of his successor.
” Hotel site.Vol. 40, p. 1348, amended.Hotel at West Point: That the paragraph of the Military Academy Appropriation Act for 1920, approved March 4, 1919, relating to the erection of a hotel building at West Point, New York, be, and is hereby, amended to read as follows: " Lease of land for erection of hotel, etc., authorized.“That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to lease land on the United States Military Reservation at West Point, for a term of not exceeding fifty years, to any corporation, company, or individual, upon which to erect a hotel, and all other necessary buildings in connection therewith, in accordance with plans and specifications submitted to and recommended by the Superintendent of the Military Conditions, etc.Academy, and approved by the Secretary of War.
Said lease shall contain such conditions, terms, reservations and covenants, as may be agreed upon and shall also provide for just compensation to the lessees for the construction of said hotel, appurtenances, and equipments, to be paid to said lessees at the termination of said lease.” " Ramon Ricardo Arias, of Panama.Admitted for instruction.Ramon Ricardo Arias: The Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, in his discretion, authorized to permit one Ramon Ricardo Arias, a citizen of Panama, without expense to the United States, to receive instruction at the United States Military Academy at West Point; and such student, while undergoing instruction as herein authorized, shall be accorded the same privileges as are authorized by law for cadets at the Military Academy appointed from the United States.
Approved, March 30, 1920.