New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-11

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GENERAL NATURE-NO. so
An act making appropriations for the SUP
port OF the Military Academy for the fisca
year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hun
dred and seventy-three.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House o
Representatives of the United States O
America in Congress assembled, That tn,
following sums be, and the same are hereby
| appropriated out OF any money in the treas
ury not otherwise appropriated, for thu
support OF the Military Academy for the
year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hun
dred and seventy-three, viz:
For additional pay OF officers, and for pay
OF Instructors, cadets and musicians, two
hundred and twenty-five thousand nine
| hundred and thirty seven dollars and fifty
cents
| For repairs and improvements, timber
| Iank, boards, ioists, wall-strips, Iaths
| shingles, slate, tin, sheet-lead, nails, screws
locks, butts, hinges, glass, paint, turpen.
| tine, oils, bricks, lime, cement, plaster, hair,
| blasting powder, fuses, iron, STEEL tools,
mantels, and other similar materials, four
teen thousand five hundred dollars.
For pay of citizen-mechanics employed
upon repairs that can not be done bv en-
listed men, eight thousand dollars.
For fuel and apparatus, coal, wood.
stoves, CRATES, furnaces, ranges, tire-bricks,
and repairs, fourteen Thousand dollars.
For gas pipes, gasometers, and retorts,
and annual repairs of the same, six hun
bred dollars.
For fuel for cadets mess hall, shops, and
laundry, three thousand five hundred dol
lars.
For postage and kilograms, two hundred
dollars.
For stationery blank books, paper, en-
yelopes, quilts, steel pens, wax, and ink,
five hundred dollars
For transportation of materials, dis.
charged cadets, and tcrriages, one thousand
two hundred dollars.
For printing-type, materials for office,
diplomas for graduates, registers, and
blanks, seven hundred dollars.
For compensation OF photographer, one
hundred dollars.
For clerk to disbursing officer and quar-
termaster, one thousand six hundred and
fifty dollars.
For clerk to adjutant, one thousand five
hundred dollars.
For clerk to treasurer, che thousand five
hundred dollars.
For department of instruction in mathe-
MATES, viz: For plane-table, one hundred
and seventy-tive dollars; repairs of instru-
ments, thirty dollars; text bo0Ls and sta
tionery foc instructors, twenty dollars.
For department of artillery, cavalry, and
infantry tactics, viz: For tan-bark for
riding hall and gymnasium, one hundred
and fifty dollars; stationery for assistant
instructors, one hundred dollars; guidons
marker flags, camp colors, and embroider-
ing colors for caps of cadets, fifty dollars;
repairing camp stools, tents and furnitare,
five hundred dollars fOils, masks, gloves, |
and repairs Tor fencing, two hundred dol
lars.
For department of civil and military en-
cheering: For models, maps, repairs of
and text books and stationery
for use of instructors, five hundred dollars. |
For department of natural and expert
mental philosophy: For chronOgraph for |
sextants, three hundred dollars; surveyors I
transit, two hundred and fifty dollars; bar
Ometer, fifty dollars; repairs and contingent
cies, five hundred dollars; compensation to
attendant, fifty dollars.
For department of drawing For Turner's
Liber- studiOrum for the use of the second
class, one hundred and twenty dollars;
models, architectural models
and ornaments, and models of machines, for
the use Of the third class, one hundred dol
lars; cOlOrs; brushes, pencils and papers,
for the use Of instructors, ten dollars.
For department. of law and ethics: For
books Of reference, textbooks and station
cry, for the use of instructors, one hundred
jOIlaTs.
For department of French: For text
BOOKS and stationery, for the use of in
,truCtors. fifty dollars.
For department Of Spanish: For text
books and stationery, for the use Of in
tructors, fifty dollars.
For department of chemistry, mineral
Dgy and geology: For chemicals, including
;hemical apparatus, glass and porcelain
ware, paper, wire and sheet-metal, five hun
tred and fifty dollars; material for practi-
al instruction in photography, two hun
lred dollars; rough specimens, files, alco-
nOrtars, for practical instruction in miner
-lOgy and geology, one hundred and
dollars: fossils illustrating the
litterent rock formations, for daily use in
ectiOn-rooms, one hundred and twenty-five
dollars; gradual increase of the cabinet,
i've hundred dollars: repairs and improve
nents in electric, galvanic, magnetic, cleo
romagnetic, and magneto-electrlc appa-
atus, four hundred and fifty dollars; re-
,airs and additions to pneumatic and Their
mic apparatus, one hundred and fifty dol
ars; improved adjustable electric lamp,
ne hundred and fifty dollars. carpenters
nd metal work, and materials for the
anne sixty-fve dollars; improved binOcular
complete, three hundred dol
ar5; diagrams illustrating CU6HIcdl ana |
phenomena, enc hundred and |
twenty-five dollars; mechanics tools, TWEEN
y dollars; pay of mechanics, to be en-
loyed in chemical and geological section
oOms and in the lecture-room, one thou
and and fifty dollars; for bringing steam
irectly to chemical rooms, and for chemi-
al and mechanical operations, two hun
red and seventy dollars; steam cylinder
nd piston, five hundred dollars setting
P Ludds dynamo-magnetic electric ma
hine, one hundred dollars; replastering
nd painting section-rooms, one hundred
nd twenty dollars; rehooring lecture-room,
ighty- dollars; covering floor Of nnineralogi-
al section-room, one hundred and ten dol
ars; compensation to attendant, fifty dol
ara.
For department of practical engineering:
FOR ten ENCOMPASSES, fifty dollars; re-
airs Of instruments, twenty-five dollars;
lumber for profling, tracing tapes, and
one hundred and twenty-five
For department of ordnance and gunnery: