New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-28

GENERAL NATURE-NO. so ]
An act making appropriations for the sup:
port Ofthe Military Academy for the fiscal
year ending June tLirtieth, eighteen hun
bred and sevehty-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
wear 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,
plank, boards, jUists, wall-strips, latLs,
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,
and repairs, fourteen thousand dollars.
For gas-pipes, gasometers, and retorts,
and annual 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-
yelOpes, 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 fer Office,
diplomas for graduates, registers, and
blanks, seven hundred dollars.
For compensation OF photographer, one
hundred dollars.
For clerk to discussing 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-
mates, viz: For plane-table, one hundred
and seventy-tive dollars; repairs Of iustru-
ments, thirty dollars; text books andesta-
tiOneTy fOy instructors, twenty dollars.
I OF department. u dIlltItl,N I'd tllI y anu
infantry tactics, viz: For tan-Dafk for
riding hail and gymnasium, one hundred
and fifty dollars; stationery for assistant
instructors, one hundred dollars guidous,
marker flags camp COlOrs, and embroider-
ing COlOTs for caps Of cadets, fifty dollars;
repairing camp stools, tents, and furniture,
five hundred dollars; foiIs, 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
Ometcr, fifty dollars; repairs and contingen-
ces, five hundred dollars; compensation to.
attendant, fifty dollars.
For department of drawing: For Turner's
Liber studiOrum for the use of the second
.cIass, 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
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 pTacti-
cal instruction in photography, two hun
dred dollars; rough specimens, files, alec
hol, lamps, blow pipes, pencils and agate
mortaTs, for practical instruction IN miner
alCgy and geology, one hundred and
seventv-fVe dollars; fossils illustrating the
different rock formations, for daily use in
,secGOnTOOms, one hundred and twenty
dollars: gradual increase Of tie cabinet,
five hundred dollars; repairs and improve
mCnts In.CleGtrlc, EalYanIc, magnetic, cleo
tr0-magnetiC. and magnetO-eleetric appa-
ratus, four hundred and. fifty dollars; re-
pairs and additions to pneumatic and ther
mic apparatus, one hundred and fifty dol
lars; improved adjustable electric lamp,
one hundred and fifty dollars; carpenters
and metal work, and materials tor the
same, sixty five dollars; improved bln0cular
microscope, complete, three hundred dol
geological phenomena, one hundred and
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-magnetic. electric ma
cline. one hundred dollars; repIastering
and painting sectiOn-rUums, one hundred
and twenty dollars; reteoring leetuFe-room,
eighty-doliars: covering floor Of lnineralogi-
cal section-roOm, one hundred and ten dol
lars; compensation to attendant, fifty dol
lars
For department of practical engineering:
For ten boxcOmpasses, fifty dollars; re-
pairs Of instruments, twenty-five dollars:
lumber for pTofliug, tracing tapes, and
turpentine, one hundred and twenty-five
dollars.
For depal tment of ordnance and cuunerv:
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