New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-03

GENERAL NATURE-NO. 80
An act making appropriations for the sup
port of the Military Academy for the fiscal
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
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-seven dollars and fifty
cents.
For repairs and improvements, timber,
lank, boards, joists, 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, fre-bricks,
and repairs, fourteen thousand dollars.
For gas-pipes, gasometers, and retorts,
andsannual repairs of the same, six hun
dred 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 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, one thousand five
hundred dollars.
For department of instruction in mathe-
matics. viz: For plane-table, one hundred
and seventy-tive dollars; repairs Of instru-
ments, thirty dollars; text books and sta
tionery fo- 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-
gineering 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
Liberstudiorum 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
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 hun
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-fiy dollars; fossils Illustrating the
different rock formations, tor 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
rO-magnetic, and magnetO-electric 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 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-
pIoyed 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-magnetic electric ma
chine, one hundred dollars; repLiasteF5ing
and painting section-rooms, one hundred
and twenty dollars; refiooring leoture-r0om!,
eighty-dolIars; covering floor Of mineraloqgj-
cal section,room, one Hundred and ten dol
lars; compensation to attendant, fifty dol
lars.
For y ten boT-compasses, fifty dollars; re-
pairs Of Instruments, twenty-five dollars;
| lumber for profIing, tracing tapes, and
turpentine, one hundred and twenty-five
| For department of ordnance and gunnerY