Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-12-25

harness. purchase ana repair OF manu-
carts aud wh5elbarrows; scavengering;
purchase and repair of galeys, cooking
stoves, ranges, stoves where there there are
no CRATES; gravel for parade grounds; re-
pair of pumps brushes, brooms, buckets,
paving, and for other purposes, twenty
five thousand dollars: Provided, That no
money. appropriated by this act shall be
expended on account of naval engines
contracted for duriHg the war.
Sec. =. That the Secretary of the Navy
be, and is hereby authorized and directed
to sell, at public sale, such vessels and ma
terials of the United States navy as in his
judgment cannot be advantageously used,
repaired, or fitted out 4; Provided That be-
fore any such sale shall be made, public
notice shall be given by advertisement in
some leading newspaper or newspapers in
at least four of the principal cities of the
United States, which advertisement shall
state the namber of vessels and the amount
OF materials proposed to be sold, with a
description thereof as far as the shall be
practicable, together with the time and
place when and where such vessels and
materials can be seen and examined. And
the Secretary of the Navy shall, at the
opening of each session of Congress, make
full report of his acts under the authority
given by this section, which report shall
contain statement of all vessels and ma
terials sold, the parties buying the same,
and the amount realized therefrom, to-
| gether with such other facts as may be
necessary to a full understanding of his
| acts; and the total amount received on
such such sales shall be covered into the
! United States treasury ProUtded further,
! That nothing in this section shall be con-
! strued rs compelling the Secretary of the
Navy to accept any bid or offer which in
his Judgment is grossly inadequate to the
value of the vessel or materials offered for
| sale.
Approved, May %, 1872.
GENERAL NATURE-No. SOL
AN ACT making appropriations for the
support of the Military Academy for
the fiscal year ending June thirtieth,
eighteen hundred 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 here
by, appropriated, out of any money in the
treasury 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
r nine hundred and thirty seven dollars and
fifty cents.
For repairs and improvements, timber,
/ plank, boards, josts, wall strips, laths,
; shingles, slate, tin sheet lead, nails, screws,
3 locks, butts, hinges, glass, paint, turpen-
tine, oils, bricks, lime, cement plaster,
' hair, blasting powder, fuses, iron, Steel
tools, mantels, and other similar materials,
: fourteen thousand five hundred dollars.
{ For pay of citizen mechanics employed
4 upon repairs that cannot be done by en-
listed men, eight thousand dollars.
\ For fuel and apparatus, coal, wood
| stoves, CRATES, furnaces, ranges, fire bricks,
: and repairs, fourteen thousand dollars.
/ For gas pipes, gasometers and retorts,
$ and annual repairs of the same, six
: hundred dollars.
/. For fuel for cadets mess hall, shops, and
: laundry, three thousand five hundred
dollars.
Y For postage and kilograms, two hundred
l. dollars.
For stationery, blank books, paper, en-
l. velopes, quilts, steel pens, wax, and ink
v five hundred dollars.
For transportation of materials, dscharg.
t ed cadets, and ferriages, one thousand two
,r hundred dollars.
n For printing type, materials for Office
diplomas for graduates, registers, ant
ic blanks, seven hundred dollars.
l. For compensation of lithographer on,
r hundred dollars.
For clerk to discussing officer and quar-
n termaster, one thousand six hundred anC
L. fifty dollars.
,e For clerk to adjutant, one thousand fiv
of For clerk to treasurer, one thousand fiv
hundred dollars.
For department of instruction in math
ematics, viz: For plane table, one hundred
rs and seventy five dollars; repairs of instru
u ments, thirty dollars; text books and sta
-; tionery for instructors, twenty dollars.
~ For department of artillery, cavalry
III and infantry tactics, viz: For tan bark 70
riding hall and gymnasium, one hundre
y and fifty dollars; stationery for assistan
US instructors, one hundred dollars; guidonE
marker-flags, camp colors, and embroidel
y ing colors for caps of cadets, fifty dollars
oi- repairing camp stools, tents, and furnitur,
five hundred dollars; foils, masks, gloves
gu and repairs for fencing, two hundred do
lars.
OIL For department of civil and military ell
lc- gineering. For models, maps, repairs
rs, instruments, and text books and station
nu cry for use of instructors, five hundre
.. dollars.
elI For department of natural and expeI
VI mental philosophy. For chronograph
observatory, one thousand dollars tv
OF sextants, three hundred dollars surve
gs' or's transit, two hundred and fifty dollar
barometer, fifty dollars; repairs and co
eiu tingencies, five hundred dollars; compe
sation to attendant, fifty dollars
ere For department. of drawing. For Turner
ou- ber.studiorum for the use of tho second ella
one hundred and twenty dollars typgraphi
fer models, architectural models, and ornRrner
lase and models of machines for the use of