Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1864-07-09
OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Passed at the Third Session Of tie Thirty
Sevenh C01gress.
OFFICIAL.

An ACT making appropriations for the sup
port Of the Military Academy for the year
ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred
and sxty-fve.
Be it enacted by the Senate and Hoxse
Of Representatives. Of the United States
of america IN Congress assembled, That
the following sums b. and the same are here
by appropriated, out Of any money in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the
support of the Military Academy for the year
ending the thirti-th of June, eighteen hum
dred and sixty-fve:
For pay of officers, instructors, cadets, and
musicians, ono hundred and seventeen thou-
sand one hundred and s'ventysx dollars.
For communication of subsistence, four thou
sand one hundred and sixty-one dollars.
For pay in lieu of clothing to officers SER
wants, sixty dollars.
For current and ordinary expenses, as fol.
lows:
For repairs and imp, ovements, fuel, and
apparatus, forag', postage, kilograms, station
er, transportation. printing. clerks, miscella-
neous and incidental expenses and depart
ments of instructions, forty one thousand two
hundred and eighty do'lars.
For gradual increase and expense Of libra
~, one thousand dollars.
For cxrerscs of tho board of visitors, four
thousand dollars.
For forage f,r artillery horses, eight thou-
sand six hundred and forty dollars.
For supplying horses for artillery and cav
alry exercise, one thousand dollars.
For repairs of officers quarters, one thou
sand five hundred dollars.
For targets and batteries for artillery ex-
crcisc, ono hundred dollars.
For furnitur. for hospital for CADETS inclnd-
ing fixed wash.tubs, hot and cold water bath
apparatus and water closets, one thousand
dollars.
For annual repairs Of gas pipes and retorts,
three hundrad dollars.
For warming apparatus for barracks, fif-
teen thousand dollars.
For rebuilding public wharf and opening
approaches 10 the same from the south, six
thousand dollars.
Sec. g And be Il further enacted. That
the thirty fifth section of theact entitled "An
act for enrolling and calling out tho national
forces, and for other purposes" approved
March three, eighteen hundred and land
sixty-three. shall not be deemed hereafter to
DrOhlOlC tue pnyiuent ~ ttit'steu u'e" r'"P'oyV"
at the Military Academy Of tho cxtra-duty
pay heretofore allowed by law to enlisted
m"n when employed at constant labor for
not less than ten day continuously.
Sec. 8. And be Il further enacted That
from and after the first day Of July. eighteen
hundred and sixty three, the annual pay Of
cadets at tho Military Academy at West
Point shall b. the same as that allowed to
midshipmen at the Naval Academy, and the
amount necessary for that purpose is hereby
appropriated.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That
cadets found deficient mt any examination
shall not be continued at the Military Acad-
emy, or be re.appoin,cd except upon the rec
omcndation of tho Academic Board.
Sec. 5. And be Il further enacted, That
no part of the money hereby appropriated
shall b. applied to the support or pay Of any
cadets hereafter appointed not in conformity
with the express provisions oflaw regulating
appointments Of cadets at that Academy.
ArrRovED, April l, 1864.