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OFFICIAL
OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF TWE UNITED STATES,
Passed a. Second Session Of Forty -drst Cons ress
IPUBLIC-No. H.

lPU BLIC--No. IA.
An ACT making appropriations for THO support
Of the Military ACADEMY for the d cal year
ending June thirtteth, eighteen hundred and
seventy-One.
BE cTscted sy TIE Senate and Kosse of Repre-
se-tctrss If the Usstsd States If Lmoried IN Com
gress assembled, That the following sums be. and
The same are hereby, appropriated out Of anv
money in the treasury not othernise appropTis-
ted, fsr the suIF,oTt OF the Military Academy for
the year ending the thirt.eth " June eighteen
hundred and seventy-one:
For additional paw of officers, and for pay of
tnsuuetors, cadets, and musicians. two an1red
and hve thousand two hundrpd and nInety-three
dollars and twenty cents;
For eommutation Of officers subsistence, six
thousand I'VE hunCTed and seventy dollars
For pay in lieu of clothing to officers servants
one hundred and ifty-six dollars;
For repairs and improvements, twenty thous-
and dollars;
dollars;
For forage for draeght animals, twelve hun
For postage and kilograms, two hundred dol
lars;
For stationery, five hundred dollars:
For transportation, twelve hundred dollars:
For new press, type, and materials for office,
and diplomas for graduates, one Thousand three
hundred dollars;
For cadet registers, class reports and blanks
two hundred dollars;
For compensation to pressmen and lithogra-
pher, one hundred dollars;
For clerks to disbursing officers and quarter
dollars;
For clerks to adjutants, one thousand five
hundred dollars.
For clerks to treasurers, one thousand five
For contingent expenses OF the Slepartments
OF mathematics, artillery, cavalry, and infantry,
ordnance and gunnery, practical engineering,
evil and military engineering. natural and ex-
attendant, three thousand three hundred and
For miscellaneous and incidental expenses
viz: gas, coal, for lighting academy barracks
mess-hali, and hospital; officers stables, three
thousand i've hundred dollars; water pipes,
plumbing, repairs, one thousand five hundred
dollars; scrubbing public buildings, (nOt quar-
ters,) five hundred dollars; brooms, brushes.
tubs, pals. and wages Of police, fifteen hundred
dollars; chalk, sponge, and states for recitation
rooms, nifty dollars; musical Instruments re-
pairs for band, and organist in Chapel three
Sanare9 a collars; compensation to librarian, one
assistant librarian, one hundred and twenty
dollars; compensation of non-cOmmissioned Of
neers IN charge Of mechanics, fifty dollars; and
offices, fifty dollars; all seven thousand six
hundred and ninety dollars;
For the departments of drawing French
ethics, Spanish, and the department of chem
tsuy, mineralogy, and geology, including one
thousand dollars, and no more, for the yearly
per, for the latter department, four thousand
and ten dollars;
For increase and expense of library, two thou
For annual repairs Of gas pipes gas meters.
and retorts, six hundred dollars;
For furniture for cadets hospital, two hun
ared and fifty dollars;
For repairs and additions to officers quarters,
three thousand dollars;
For fuel for cadets mess-hall, shops, and
laundry. three thousand dollars;
For fre-proof building for public offices and
archives, twenty five thousand dollars:
For rebuilding the north wharf, seven thou
sand dollars;
For repairing roads, five hundred dollars:
FOR furniture ior soldiers hospital, one hun
dred dollars;
For grading, draining, and improving the ar
tiIery and cavalry drill ground, two thousand
dollars;
For contingencies for superintendent, one
thousand dollars.
And hereafter. in addition to the other mem
bers of the Board of Visitors to be appointed
by the President, according to e,isting law, to
attend the annual examination Of cadets at the
United States Military Acade my, there shall be
on every such board two senator's to be desig-
mated by the Vice President President pro
tempore Of the Senate; and three members o
the House of Representatives to be designated
by the Speaker OF the House Of Representa-
tiyes, such designations respectively TO be made
at the session or Congress next preceding the
time OF such examination; and the senators and
members 80 appointed shall make full report of
their action as such visitors, with their views
and Recommendations in regard to the said Mil
itary Academy, within twenty DAYS after the
meeting Of Congress, at the session next sue
ceeding the time or their appointment.
Approved, February 21, 1870.