Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1864-04-05
toFFIcIAL.l
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
Passed at the First Session OF the Thirty
Eighth Congress,
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[PUBIIC-No. $751;
AN ACT making appropriations for the support
of the Military Academy for the year ending
June thlrtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty
Hye.
BeRe enacted blythe Senate and House Of Repre-
sentdtipes Of the United States Of AmerieG IN Con-
gTess assembled, That the following sums be and
the same are hereby appropriated, out OF any
money In the Treasury not otherwise appro-
priated, for the support Of the Military Acade-
nv for the wear ending the thirtieth OF June,
eighteen hundred and sixty-fve;
For pay Of officers, instructors, cadets, and
musicians, one hundred and seventeen thou
sand one hundred and seyenty.slx dollars.
For communication Of Subsistence, four thou
sand one hundred and sixty-ono dollars.
For pay in lieu Of clothing to officers SER
wants, sixty dollars.
For current and ordinary expenses, as fol-
lows; repairs and Improvements, fuel, and ap-
paratus, forage, postage, kilograms, stationery,
transportation, printing, clerks, miscellaneous
and incidental expenses, and departments Of
instruction, forty-one thousand two hundred
and eighty dollars.
For gradual increase and expense Of library,
one thousand dollars.
For expenses Of the board of visitors, four
thousand dollars.
eight thousand six hundred and forty dollars.
For supplying horses for artillery and cav.
airy exercise, one thousand dollars.
For repairs Of officers quarters, one thou.
sand Eve hundred dollars.
For targets and batteries for artillery oxor.
else one hundred dollars.
For furniture for hospital for cadets, includ
ing fixed wash-tubs, hot and cold water batl
apparatus and water closets, one thousand dol
lars.
For annual repairs of gas pipes and rotorts
three hundred dollars.
For warming apparatus for barracks, fftcer
thousand dollars.
For rebuilding public wharf and opening
approach 10 the same from the south, si1
thousand dollars.
Sec. 9. And be Il further enacted, That the
thirty-ffth section OF the act entitled can act
for enrolling and calling out the Lational
forces, and for other purposes" approved
March three, eighteen hundred and and sixty.
three, shall not be deemed hereafter to prohibit
the payment TO enlisted men employed at thu
Military Academy Of the extra-duty pay hereto
fore allowed by law to enlisted men when EN-
ployed at constant labor for not less than tel
days continuously.
after the first day Of July, eighteen hundred ant
siXty-three, the annual pay Of cadets at the
Military Academy at West Point shall be the
same as that allowed to midshipmen at thu
Naval Academy, and the amount necessary FOL
that purpose is hereby appropriated.
Sec. 4. And be Il further enacted, That cadet
found deficient at any examination shall NO
be continued at the Military Academy, or b
re-appolnted except upon the recommending
of the Academic Board.
Sec. 5. Aud be Il JtirtheT enacted, That n
part Of tho money horoby appropriated shall
applied to the support or pay Of any cadet
hereafter appointed not in conformity with tn
express provisions Of law regulating appoint
ments Of cadets at that Academy.
Approved, April /, 1864.