Chapter LIV. making Appropriations for the Support of the Military Academy for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one
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Chap. LIV.— An Act making Appropriations for the Support of the Military Academy for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one.Sept. 16, 1850. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following Appropriation. 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 year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one.
For pay of officers, instructors, cadets, and musicians, eighty-seven Pay. thousand four hundred and thirty-six dollars. For commutation of subsistence, two thousand two hundred and Commutation. sixty-three dollars. For forage of officers’ horses, eight hundred and sixty-four dollars: Forage.Proviso.*Provided,* That hereafter, in lieu of the pay proper, ordinary rations, forage, and servants, heretofore received under the provisions of the act of April twelfth, [twenty-ninth,] eighteen hundred and twelve, the 1812, ch. 72.Professors’ salaries. professors of engineers, philosophy, mathematics, ethics, and chemistry, shall be entitled to receive two thousand dollars each, per annum; and the professors of drawing and French, fifteen hundred dollars each, per annum.
For clothing for officers’ servants, thirty dollars.Servants’ clothing. For repairs, fuel, apparatus, forage for public horses and oxen, stationery, Incidental and contingent. printing, and other incidental and contingent expenses, twenty-eight thousand eight hundred and eighty-four dollars. For the increase and expenses of the library, one thousand dollars.Library. For expenses of the board of visitors, two thousand five hundred and Board of visitors. seventeen dollars and forty-seven cents.
For barracks for cadets, forty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.Barracks. For new mess-hall, twenty-five thousand dollars.Mess-hall. For hospital for enlisted men, two thousand dollars.Hospital. For erecting permanent guard-house and commissary store, three Guard and storehouse. thousand dollars. Approved, September 16, 1850.