New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-13
Approved May 30, 1877.
GENERAL NAruRE-No. so. /

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 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 two thousand nine
hundred and thirty-seyen dollars and fifty
cents.
For repairs and improvements timber,
lank, boards, joists, wall-strps, 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, fire-bricks,
B.
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 terriages, one thousand
two hundred dollars.
For printing-type, materials fer office,
diplomas for graduates, registers, and
blanks, seYen 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, one thousand five
hundred dollars
For department of instruction in mathe-
MATES, viz: For plane-table one hundred
and seventy-fye 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 tor 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 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; colors, brushes, pencils and papers,
tor 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
dollars.
For department of French: For text
books and stationery, for the use of in
struGtors, 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 hun
dred and fifty dollars; material for practi-
cal instruction in photography, two hun
dred dollars; rough specimens, files, alcO-
hol, lamps, blow Iaipes, pencils and agate
mortars, for practical instruction in miner
alogy and geology, one hundred and
seyenty-fve dollars; fossils illustrating the
different rock formations, for daily use in
sectlon-ro0ms, one hundred and twenty-five
dollars; gradual increase of the cabinet,
five hundred dollars; repairs and improve
ments IN electric, galvanic, magnetic, cleo
and magneto-electric 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 binocnlar
complete, three hundred dol
lars; diagrams illustrating chemical and
geological phenomena, one hundred and
twenty-five dollars; mechanics tools, TWEEN
" dollars; pay of mechanics, to be en-
oloyed in chemical and geological section
'ooms and in the. leetureroom, one thou
land and nifty dollars; for bringing steam {
lirectly to chemical rooms, and for chemi-
al and mechanical operations, two hun
ired and seventy dollars; steam cylinder
Ind piston, five hundred dollars; setting |
p. Ludd's dyname-magRetic electric ma I
'hlne, one hundred dollars; replastering
md painting section-rooms, one hundred
md twenty dollars; refiooring lecture-room,
eighty dollars; covering floor Of mineralogi-
al section-room, one hundred and ten dol !
airs; compensation to attendant, fifty dol 7
ars.
For department of practical engineering !
Cor ten box-eompasses, fifty dollars; re-
,airs of instruments, twenty-five dollars; ]
lumber for prof1ing, tracing tapes and /
urpentine, one hundred and twenty-five {
For department Of ordnance and gunnery: