Chapter XXII. making Appropriations for the Support of the Military Academy for the Year ending the thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two
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Chap. XXII.— An Act making Appropriations for the Support of the Military Academy for the Year ending the thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.March 3, 1851. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following Appropriation for military academy. 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 June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.
For pay of officers, instructors, cadets, and musicians, eighty-seven Pay of officers, &c. thousand four hundred and thirty-six dollars. For commutation of subsistence, two thousand two hundred and Commutation of subsistence. sixty-three dollars. For forage of officers’ horses, eight hundred and sixty-four dollars:Forage.594THIRTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 23, 24. 1851. *Provided,* That hereafter, in lieu of the pay proper, ordinary rations, Compensation of professors of engineering, philosophy, mathematics, ethics, chemistry, drawing, and French, and of the adjutant.1812, ch. 72. forage, and servants, heretofore received under the provisions of the act of April twelfth, [twenty-ninth,] eighteen hundred and twelve, the 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:
And that the adjutant of the Military Academy shall hereafter be entitled to receive the same pay and allowances as an adjutant of a regiment of dragoons.(*a*)(*a*) See act of 1812, ch. 72, and 1850, ch. 54. For clothing for officers’ servants, thirty dollars.Sundries. For repairs and improvements, fuel, apparatus, forage for public horses and oxen, stationery, printing and other incidental and contingent expenses, twenty-seven thousand one hundred and thirty-five dollars. For increase and expenses of the library, one thousand dollars.
For expenses of the board of visitors, including deficiency in the Board of visitors. appropriation for the fiscal year ending thirtieth June, one thousand 1850, ch. 54. eight hundred and fifty-one, three thousand eight hundred dollars. For expenses of practical instruction in field engineering, comprising Practical instruction in field engineering. purchase of lumber, iron, tools, brush, &c. &c., for construction of trenches, field batteries, magazines, gun and mortar platforms, descents of ditches, mines, and other temporary work, five hundred dollars.
For erecting quarters for engineer troops, five thousand dollars.Quarters. For apparatus for warming academy and other buildings with hot air, Warming apparatus. two thousand five hundred dollars. Approved, March 3, 1851.