The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-04-24
For clerk to treasurer, one thousand ire hun

bred dollars
For department of instruction in math ematics,
namely: for repairs os forty dollars;
text books, drawing materials, and stationery
for instructors. thirty dollars.
For department of rtillery, cavalry. and in
fantry tactics, namely: For tan-bark for rid
ing hall and gymnasium, three hundred dollars !;
and for repairing apparatus for same, fifty dol
u lars for repairing camp stools tents and furni-
tnre, fifty dollars.
For department of civil and military engineer
ing For models maps repairs of instruments,
textbooks, books of reference, and stationery
for use of instructors, five hundred dollars.
For department of drawing For models for
free hand drawing for second class, forty five
dollars; mounting and framing the same. seven
| ty five dollars architectural and Typographical
models for third class. forty dollars; mounting
and framing the same thirty dollars cardboard
| for mounting models. fifteen dollars; colors, pa
per- brushes, and pencils. twenty dollars
For department of chemistry, mineralogy, and
geology: For chemicals, including chemical
apparatus glass and porcelain ware. paper, wire
and sheet metal. and ores, nine hundred and
seventy FIVE dollars, includzhg material for prac-
teal instruction in photography; rough speci-
mems, files, alcohol. lamps, blow pipes, pencils,
and agate mortars, for practical instruction in
mineralogy and geology, two hundred and TWEEN
five' dollars; fossils illustrating the different
rock formations, for daily use in section-rooms,
one hundred and seventy five dollars; gradual
increase of the cabinet five hundred dollars;
repairs and improvements in electric. galvanic
magnetic, electro magnetic. and magnetic electric
apparatus and additions to the pneumatic and
thermic apparatus. eight hundred dollars; car
penters' and metal work, and materials for the
same sixty dollars pay OF mechanic, to be en-
ployed in the chemical and geological section
rooms, and in the lecture room. Que thousand
and fifty dollars completing repairs and i'm
provements in the laboratory, lecture rooms, and
meteorological rooms, three hundred and ninety
five dollars models and diagrams one hundred
dollars books of reference, text books. and sta
tionery, for use of instructors, and contingen
cies, two hundred and fifty dollars; compensa
ton to attendant, fifty dollars.
For department of natural and experimental
PHILOSOPHY For instruments and apparatus to
illustrate the laws of mechanics and of solids
and fluids three thousand dollars; instruments
and apparatus to illustrate the laws of acoustics
and optics, four thousand dollars; instruments
and apparatus to equip one field observatory two
| thousand five hundred dollars; one break circuit
chronometer for mural-crcle room in the obser-
vatory Ave hundred do lars lathe, forge. TOOLS
and equipment of work shop. seven hundred and
fifty dollars; repairs and contingencies, eight
hundred dollars compensation to mechanic and
assistant in charge of apparatus, one thousand
dollars; compensation to attendant, fifty dollars
For department of practical engineering: For
| mining material, twenty five dollars lumber for
prof ling twenty FIVE dollars stationery and
| drawing material, twenty-five dollars theodo
lite transit. two hundred and fifty dollars repairs
| of instruments, twenty five dollars
For department of Spanish For text books
and stationery for the use of instructors fifty dol
lars.
For depa rtment of French: For text books and
stationery for the of instructors, fifty Eve dol
| lars.
! For department. OF law and ethics: Fer text
books and stationery for the use of instructors,
| fifty dollars.
For expenses of the board of visitors four thou
sand FIVE hundred dollars Provided. That three
| members of the House Of Representatives of the
Forty third Congress, whose credentials In due
form of law have been duly filed with the Clerk
of the House of Representatives in accordance
with act OF Congress approved March third, eiglt
teen hundred end sixty three shall he appoiuted,s
by the Speaker of the present House of Repre-
sentatves, members of the board of visitors, at
| the next annual examination to be held at the
Military Academy.
For miscellaneous and contingent expenses
For gas, coal oil, and candles for lighting the
! academy. cadet barracks, mess hall. hospital-of
fees, stable and side walks, four thousand dol
| lars water pipes plumbing, and repairs, two
thousand dollars; cleaning public buildings (not
auarters) five hundred and sixty dollars brooms,
| brushes, pals, tubs. and cloths. two hundred dol
lars; chalk crayons, sponge, and states, for re
citation rooms. one hundred dollars; compensa
| ton of chapel organist. two hundred dollars;
compensation of librarian, one hundred and TWEEN
| ty dollars compensation of nom commissioned
| officer in charge ofmechanics, fifty dollars com
pensation of soldier writing in adjutant's Office,
fifty dollars pay of engineer officiating and ven
tiatng apparatus for the cadet barracks oh APPEL,
and philosophical academy, including the library,
one thousand five hundred dollars; pay of assis-
tant of same, seven hundred and twenty dollars:
pay of five firemen, two thousand two hundred
| dollars; increase and expense of the library,
| books, magazines, periodicals, and binding, two
| thousand dollars
| For pay of librarians assistant, one thousand
| dollars.
For contingencies for superintendent of the
academy, one thousand dollars.
| For furniture for cadet hospital, one hundred
| dollars.
For buildings and grounds For repairing and
| opening roads, one thousand dollars.
| For rebuilding the dam at the foot of Crow 8
| Nest mountain, two thousand four hundred and
| eight dollars and six cents.
| For preparing site and constructing foundation
| and beginning superstructure of cadets new hos
| pia twenty thousand dollars
| For commencing system of sewerage leading
| from barracks of troops, three thousand dollars
For remodelling battery Knox, ten thousand
dollars.
Approved, February %, 1878.
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