New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-17
GENERA NArURE-No. SOL

GENERAL NATURE-NO. 80.1
An act making appropriations for the sup
port of the Military Academy for the fiscal
year ending June thirtietb. eighteen hun
dred and seyenty-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, wall-strips, laths,
| shingles, slate, tin, sheetlead, 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,
and repairs, fourteen thousand dollars.
For gts-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-
velopes, quilts, steel pens, wax, and ink
five hundred dollars,
For transportai N of materials, dis
charged cadets, ana jerriages, 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-
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-
matics, viz: For plane table, one hundred
and seventy-ive dollars; repairs of instru-
ments, thirty dollars; text booj,s and sta
tionery for instructors, twenty dollars.
T Oh department. VI bTb1llSIy, CdFdlTy, anu
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 c0lors, 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.
H., r. -,
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 contingent
cies, five hundred dollars; compensation to
attendant, Iiity dollars,
For department of drawing: For Turner's |
Liber-studiorum for the use of the second |
class, one hundred and twenty dollars;
Geographical models, archite ctural 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 |
dred 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 |
mOrtaTs, for practical instruction in miner |
alOgy and geology, one hundred and |
dollars; fossils illustrating the
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 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 binocular
complete, three hundred dol
lars; diagrams illustrating chemical and
geological phenomena, one hundred and
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 ehemi-
gal and mechanical operations two hun
dred and seventy dollars; steam cylinder
and piston, five hundred dollars; setting
up Ludd's dynamo-magaetid electric ma
chine, one hundred dollars; replastering
and painting seetion-rooms, one hundred
and twenty dollars; refoorlng lecture-rooIn,
cal section-room, one Hundred and ten dol
lars; compensation to attendant, fifty dol
lars.
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 3eoartn1ept of ordnance and oy71pparv.