Chapter XCVI. *making appropriations for the Support of the Military Academy for the Year ending on the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven.* Aug. 8, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the following Appropriati
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Chap. XCVI.— An Act *making appropriations for the Support of the Military Academy for the Year ending on the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven.* Aug. 8, 1846. *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 on the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven:
Pay.For pay of officers, instructors, cadets, and musicians, seventy-eight thousand nine hundred dollars. Subsistence.For commutation of subsistence, five thousand two hundred and fifty-six dollars. Forage.For commutation of forage for officers’ horses, two thousand four hundred dollars. Clothing.For clothing for their servants, four hundred and twenty dollars. Incidental and contingent expenses.For repairs and improvements, fuel, and apparatus, forage for public TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 97. 1946.71horses and oxen, stationery, printing, and other incidental and contingent expenses, twenty thousand dollars. For completing the barracks for cadets, fifteen thousand dollars.Barracks. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the President be authorized to appoint a board of visitors, to attend the annual examinationBoard of visitors to be appointed. of the Military Academy, whose duty it shall be to report to the Secretary of War, for the information of Congress, at the commencement of the next succeeding session, the actual state of the discipline, instruction, police administration, fiscal affairs, and other concerns, of the institution: *Provided,* That the whole number of visitors each year shall not exceed the half of the number of States in the Union; and that they shall be selected, alternately, from every second State,How selected. each member being a *bond fide* resident citizen of the State from which he shall be appointed; that not less than six members shall be taken from among officers actually serving in the militia; and that a second member shall not be taken from any Congressional district, until every other district in the State shall have supplied a member: *Provided, further,* That no compensation shall be made to said membersCompensation. beyond the payment of their expenses for board and lodging while at the Military Academy, and an allowance not to exceed eight cents per mile, for travelling by the shortest mail route from their respective homes to the Academy, and back to their homes.
And the sum of two thousand dollars is hereby appropriated to defray theAppropriation. expenses of said board of visitors, at the next annual examination. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the teacher of drawing,Certain teachers to be professors. and the first teacher of French, at the Military Academy, shall here-after be, respectively, professor of drawing, and professor of the French language. Approved, August 8, 1846.