New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-05
GENERAL NATrRE-No. SOL

GENERAL NATURE-No. 80.l
An act making appropriations for the sup
port OF the Military Academy for the isca
|. year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hun
dFed 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-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.
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and repairs, fourteen thousand dollars.
For G es-p!pes, gasometers, and retorts,
and annual repairs OF the same, six hun
dred dOls,rs.
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 eTriages, one thousand
two hundred dollars.
For printing-type, materials for Office,
diplomas for graduates, registers, and
blanks, seven hundred dollars.
For compensation OF hthographer 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-fTe dollars; repairs of instru-
ments, thirty dollars; text boo~s and sta
tionery ioc 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 contingent
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;
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
cry, 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
dred and fifty dollars; material for praeti-
cal instruction in photography, two hun
dred dollars; rough specimens, files, alco-
hOl, lamps, blow pipes, pencils and agate
m0rtars, for practical instruction in miner
alogy and geology, one hundred and
dollars; fossils illustrating the
different rock formations, for daily use IN
one hundred and twenty-five
dollars; gradual increase Of the cabinet,
five hundred dollars; repairs and improve |
ments in electric, galvanic, magnetic cleo |
and magnetoeleetrlc 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.fye dollars; improved binocular |
complete, three hundred dol |
lars: diagrams illustrating chemical and |
geological phenomena, one hundred and |
twenty-five dollars; mechanics tools, TWEEN |
y dollars; pay of mechanics, to be en-
OlOJed IN chemical and geological section |
rooms and in the lectuTeroofn, one thou,
sand and fifty dollars; for bringing steam
directly to chemical rooms, and for chemi-
3al and mechanical operations, two hun |
bred and seventy dollars; steam cylinder
and piston, five hundred dollars; setting |
lp Ludd's dJnamo-magnetic electric ma
chime, one hundred dollars; replastering
and painting section-rooms, one hundred |
and twenty dollars; retlooring lecture-ro9oml,
eighty-dollars; covering floor Of milneralo9gI- |
,al seotion-room, one hundred and ten dol
ars; compensation to attendant, fifty dol |
airs.
For department Of practical engineering:
For ten box-compasses, fifty dollars; re-
pairs of Instruments, twenty-five dollars;
lumber for profIing, tracing tapes. and
turpentine, one hundred and twenty-five
dollars
For department of ordnance and gunnery: