New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-14
GENERAL NArURE-No. so. I
Approved May 90, 1872.

| GENERAL N4TURE-N0. 80
An act making appropriations for the sup
| port of the Military Academy for the isca
year ending June thirtietb eighteen hun
dred and seventy 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
| 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
lank, boards, jOists, wallstrips, laths
shingles, slate, tin, sheetlead, nails, screws
locks, butts, hinges, glass, paint, turpen-
tine, oils, bricks, lime, cement, plaster, hair,
blastingpowder, fuses, iron, STEEL tools,
mantels, and other similar materials, four
teen thousand five hundred dollars.
For pay of citfzen-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, ire-bricks,
and repairs, fourteen thousand dollars.
For gas pipes, gasometers, and retorts,
and annual repairs of the same, six hun
bred dollar.
For fuel fer 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 fer riUgcs, one thousand
two hundred dollars.
For printing-type, 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-
ternaster, one thousand six hundred and
fifty dollars.
For clerk to adjutant, one thousand five
hundred dollars.
For clerk to treasurer, one thousand five
hundred dollars.
For department of instruction in mathe-
MATES, viz: For plane-table, one hundred
and seventy-tive dollars; repairs IT instru-
ments, thirty dollars; text books and sta
tionery for instructors, twenty dollars
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infantry tactics, viz; For tan-bark tor
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 tor fencing, two hundred dol
lars.
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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 contingen-
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; col0rs, brushes, pencils and papers,
for the use of instructors, ten dollars.
For department of law and ethics: For
books of reference, textbooks and station
,
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
structors, 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 hum
bred 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 in miner
alogy and geology, one hundred and
seventy-fye 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, galvanic, magnetic, cleo
tro-magnetic, and magnetoeleetrie appa- /
ratus, four hundred and fifty dollars; re-
pairs and additions to pneumatic and Their
mic apparatus, one hundred and fifty dol |
lars: improved adjustable electric lamp, |
one hundred and fifty dollars; carpenters
and metal work, and materials for the |
same, sixty-fVe dollars; improved Dln0cular |
complete, three hundred dol |
lars: diagrams illustrating chemical and |
geological phenomena, one hundred and |
twenty-five dollars; mechanics tools, TWEEN |
ty dollars; pay of mechanics, to be EN-
Dloyed 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-
3al and mechanical operations, two hun |
1red and seventy dollars; steam cylinder |
and piston, five hundred dollars; setting
up Ludd's dynamo-magRetic electric ma |
chine, one hundred dollars; replastering |
and painting seetion-rooms, one hundred |
and twenty dollars; rehooring lecture-room,
eighty-dolIars; covering floor of mineralogi-
cal section-room, one hundred and ten dol |
lars; compensation to attendant, fifty dol
lars.
For department of practical engineering:
For ten box-compasses, fifty dollars; re-
pairs of instruments, twenty-five dollars;
lumber for profling, tracing tapes, and
one hundred and twenty-five
dollars.
For department of ordnance and gunnarv: