# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/24th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 18

Chap. XVIII.—An Act to provide for the support of the Military Academy of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Military Academy for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven; to wit:
Pay of officers, cadets and musicians.For pay of the officers, cadets and musicians, fifty-six thousand and twelve dollars;
Subsistence of officers and cadets.For subsistence of officers and cadets, thirty-nine thousand five hundred and sixty-six dollars;
Forage of officers’ horses.For forage of officers’ horses, one thousand one hundred and fifty-two dollars;
Clothing of officers’ servants.For clothing of officers’ servants, three hundred and thirty dollars;
Board of visiters.For defraying the expenses of the board of visiters at West Point, two thousand and seven dollars and eighty-four cents;
Fuel, stationery, &c.For fuel, stationery, printing, transportation and postage, eight thousand dollars;
Repairs and improvements, &c.For repairs, improvements and expenses of buildings, grounds, roads, wharves, boats and fences, ten thousand one hundred and seventy-eight dollars and twenty-five cents;
Philosophical apparatus.For philosophical apparatus, and repairs of the same, three hundred dollars;
Department of engineering.For models for the department of engineering, three hundred dollars;
Departments of drawing, chemistry, and mathematics.For models for the drawing department, apparatus and contingencies of the department of chemistry, and instruments and repairs for the mathematical department, eight hundred and fifty dollars;
Department of artillery.For incidental expenses of the department of artillery, three hundred dollars;
Library.For increase and expenses of the library, six hundred dollars;
Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous items and incidental expenses, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty cents;
Completing the chapel.For completing the chapel, one thousand two hundred and fifty-three dollars and thirty-five cents;
A building for the public stores.For the erection of a suitable building to contain the public stores, one thousand five hundred dollars;
Construction of workshops, &c.For the preparation of a yard and construction of permanent shops suitable for carpenters, painters, blacksmiths, and so forth, and for the safe-keeping of implements and materials, eight thousand dollars;
A building for recitation, &c.For the erection, as per plan, of a building for recitation and military exercises, in addition to amount heretofore appropriated, thirty thousand dollars;
Erection of new barracks.For the erection of new barracks, for the Military Academy department, to consist of eight buildings, at five hundred dollars each, four thousand dollars;
Grading the grounds, &c.For grading the grounds about the exercise hall, and removing temporary buildings, three hundred and fifty dollars;
Compensation to the acting professor of chemistry, &c.For compensation to the acting professor of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology, at the Military Academy, between the first of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, and the first of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, at twenty-five dollars per month, three hundred dollars;
A painting room.For a painting-room for the professor of drawing, eight hundred dollars.
Approved, March 2, 1837.