New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-06
GENERAL NATURE-No. 80 7
Approved May %, 1872.

GENERAL NATURE-No. 80
An act making appropriations for the sup
port ofthe 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 sameare 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 hum
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, wallstrips, laths,
shingles. slate, tin, sheet-1ead, 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,
and annual repairs Of the same six hun,
bred dollars.
For fuel for cadets mess hall, shops, and
laundry, three thousand tive 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 transp0rta ton of materials, dis
charged cadets, and ferriages, one thousand
two hundred dollars.
For printiug-type, materials fer Office,
diplomas for graduates, registers, and
blanks, seven hundred dollars.
For compensation OF photographer, one
hundred dollars.
For clerk to disbursng officer and GUAR
termaster, one thousand six hundred and
fifty dollars.
Fors3lerk to adjutant, one thousand 1--WE
hundred dollars.
For clerk to treasurer, enc thousand five
hundred dollars.
For department of instruction in mathe-
matics, viz For pIane-table, one hundred
aud seventy-rive dollars; repairs of instru-
1nents, thirty dollars; text books and sta
tionery fov instructors, twenty dollars.
For department Of artillery, cavalry, and
infantry tactics, viz: For tan-bark for
riding hail and gymnasium, one hundred
and fifty dollars; stationery for assistant
instructors, one hundred dollars; guid0ns,
marker flags, camp coi0rs, and embrolder-
ing coiors for caps OF cadets, fifty dollars;
repairing camp stools, tents, and furniture,
tive 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 contingen-
cies, five hundred dollars; compensation to
attendant, fifty dollars.
For depa1 tment Of drawing: For Turner's
Liber- studiorum for the use of the second
class, one hundred and twenty dollars
Typographical models, architectural models
and ornaments, and models,o OF machines, tor
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
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, fsr 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 practl-
cal instruction, in photography, two hun
bred dollars; rough specimens files, alc0-
hol, lamps, blow pipes. pencils and agate
In0rtars, for practical instruction IN miner
alOgy and geology, one hundred ana
seventy-fve dollars; fossils illustrating the
different rock formations, for daily use IN
secti0n-roor1s, one hundred and twenty-five
dollars; gradual increase of the cabinet,
five hundred dollars; repairs and improve
ments in electric. galvanic, magnetic, elec-
tro-magnetic, and magnetic electric appa-
ratus, four hundred and fifty dollars; re-
pairs and additions to pneumatic ana oneF-
mic annaratns one hundred and fifty dol
lars; improved adjustable electric lamp,
one hundred and fifty dollars; carpenters
and rretal work and materials Tor the
aaroe sixtv-five dollars; improved blnocuiar
Tnicrosnope. complete, three hundred dol
lars; diagrams illustrating chemical and
0pOlOoICat pheuOintHaJ ONE uuEuEeu anu
fventv-fye 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 chefni-
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; replasteFing
and painting section-rooms, one hundred
and twenty dollars; rehooring lecture-room,
eighty-dolIars covering floor Of mineralogi-
cal section-room, one hundred and ten dol
lars; compensation to attendant, fifty dol
lars.
For department of practical engineering:
For aten ENCOMPASSES, fifty dollars; re.
pairs of instruments, twenty-five dollars;
lumber for profling, tracing tapes, and
turpentiae, one hundred and twenty-five
dollars.
For department Of ordnance and gunnery;