New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-12
GENERAL NATURE-No, 8O,1

GENERAL NATURE-No. 80.J
An act making appropriations for the sup
| port of the Military Academy for the fiscal
| year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hun
| dred and seyenty-three.
| 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 out of any money IN the treas
ury not otherwise appropriated, for the
support of the Military Academy for the
year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hun
bred 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-seyen dollars and fifty
| cents.
For repairs and Improvements, timber,
lank, boards, ioists, wall-strips, laths,
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 by 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, gas0meters, 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-
velOpes, quilts, steel pens, wax, and ink
FIVE hundred dollars.
For transportation of materials, dis
charged cadets, and ferriages, one thousand
two hundred dollars.
For printing materials fer 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, enc thousand five
hundred dollars.
For department of instruction in mathe-
matics, viz: For plane-table, one hundred
aud seventy-fve dollars; repairs of instru-
ments, thirty dollars; text books and sta
tionery for 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 furniture,
five hundred dollars; foils, masks, gloves,
and repairs for fencing, two hundred dol
lars.
For department of civil and military en-
cheering: For models, maps, repairs of
instruments, and text books and stationery
for use of instructors, five hundred dollars.
For department of natural and expert
mental philosophy: For chronOgraph for
observatory, one thousand dollars; two
sextants, three hundred dollars; surveyors
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;
typographical 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
ery for the use Of instructors, one hundred
dollars.
For department of French: For text
books and stationery, for the use of in
structors, fifty dollars.
For department of Spanish For text
books and stationery, for the use of in
struetors, fifty dollars.
For department of chemistry, mineral
ogy and geology: For chemicals, including
chemical apparatus, glass and porcelain
ware, paper, wire and sheet-metal five hun
dred and fifty dOllars material for practi-
cal instruction in photography, two hun
dred dollars; rough specimens, files, alcO-
hol, lamps, blow pipes, pencils and agate
mortars, for practical instruction J, IN miner
alogy and geology, one hundred and
seventy-fve dollars; fossils illustrating the
different rock formations for daily use in
sectiOn-rooms, one hundred and twenty-five
dollars; gradual increase of the cabinet
five hundred dollars; repairs and improve
ments in electric, galvanie, magnetic cleo
trO-magnetic, and magnetO-electIc appa-
ratus, four hundred and fifty dollars; re-
pairs and additions to pneumatic and Their
mic apparatus, one hundred and nifty dol
lars improved adjustable electric lamp,
one hundred and fifty dollars; carpenters
and metal work, and materials for the
same, sixty.fVe dollars; improved binOcular
microscope, complete, three hundred doll
lars: diagrams illustrating chemical and
2HOlOgICdl ptIIIlOlAClp5 olO AuuuICu anu
twenty-five dollars; mechanics tools, TWEEN
ty dollars; pay Of mechanics, to be en-
ployed in chemical and geological section
rooms and in the lecture-room, one thou
sand and fifty dollars; for bringing steam
directly to chemical rooms, and for chemi
cal and mechanical operations, two hun
dred and seventy dollars steam cylinder
and piston, five hundred dollars; setting
up Ludd's dynamo-magRetie electric ma
chino hup1ral InI1aTCF rpnaStGrlng
and painting section-rooms, one hundred
and twenty dollars; refooring lecture-room!,
eighty-dolIars; covering floor OF mineral9 3l
cal section-room, one hundred and ten dol
lars; compensation to attendant nifty DOL
For department of practical engineering:
For ten ENCOMPASSES, fifty dollars; re-
pairs Of instruments, twenty-five dollars;
lumber for PPeb hundred and t SPgs
For department of ordnance and gunnery: