The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-04-14
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GENERAL NATURE-No. 45.1
AN ACT making appropriations for the support OF
the Military Academy for the fiscal year eh,lnS
June ihirtie,h, eighteen hunuIea anu seventy ior'
Re IL enacted On the Senate and House Of Repre-
septatices The United States OF America IN Con-
greSs assembled, That the following sums be, ana
The hereby, appropriated, cut Oh any mon
ey In lie treasury not herws Appropriated tor tile
support Of the Military Academy tor the year endins
June thirtieth, ghteen hundred ana seventy-1our,
namely:
For additional pay of officers and for pay of in
sructors, professors caets and musicians, TWO hun
dred and twenty thousand, three hundred ana sew
enty-nine dollars and fifty cents: ProUtded, Inat
the professors of the United States Military Acaue-
my whose service at the academy exceeas ten years
shall have the pay anu allowances Of colonel and all
other professors shall have The pay and allowances OF
Northumberland; and the instructors of ordnance
and science of gunnery and OF practical engineer.
Ing shall have The pay allowances of major; ami
hereafter there shall be allowed and paid to the said
professors ten per centum of their current yearly
pay for each and every of five Years. service in
the army ami at the academy: Provided, That such
addition shall in case exceed forty per centum
said yearly pay and SAIL professors hereby placed
upon tile same footing as regards restrictions upon
pay and retirement from active service, as Officers of
the army. av.F.g-F
For repairs and Improvement timber, plank,
boards oists, wall-srips la his, Shingles slate Tin
sheetead nails, screws, locks, butts hinges glass
paut turpentine, oils, Bricks varnish stone lime
cement, plaster, hair, 6asting-powder. fuel iron,
Steel tools, mantels, and other similar materials,
fourteen thousand tive hundred dollars
For pay of citizen-mechanics and labor employed
upon repairs that cannot be done by enlisted men,
eight thousand dollars.
For fuel and apparatus, namely: COAL wood, stoves,
grates furnaces, ranges, hre-orlcks and repairs OF
steam-heatng al paraus, fourteen thousand dollars.
For gas-pipes, gasometers, and retOrts and annual
repairs If the same, six hundred dollars.
For fael for cadets mess hall shops, and laundry,
three thousand hve huld:ed dollars.
For postage and kilograms three hundred dollars
For stationery, blank books, paper, envelopes
quilts, steel pens. pencils erasers, wax and INK hVe
For transportation of of materials, discharged ca
diets, and eIIiages, one thousadd live hundred dol
For printing-type, materials for Office, diplomas
for graduates, registers, and blanks, seven hundred
dollars
For compensation of pressman and photographer,
one hundred dollars.
For clerk to discussing officer and quartermaster,
one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
For clerk to adjutant, one thousand tive hundred
dollars.
For clerk to treasurer, one thousand five hundred
dollars.
For department of instruction IN mathematics,
namely: For repairs of instruments, forty dollars;
textbooks, drawing materials, and stationery for in
structors, thirty dollars
For department of artillery, cavalry and infantry
tactics, namely For tan-bark for riding-hall and
gymnasium, three hundred dollars; and for repair
camp-stools. tents, and furniture, fifty dollars.
For department Of civil and military engineering:
For models, maps, repairs of Instruments textbooks
books Of reference and stationery for of instruc
tors. five hundred dollars. -
For department of drawing: For models for free
hand drawing for second class, forty-fve dollars !;
mounting and framing the same seventy five dollars
architectural and Typographical models for third
class forty dollars; mounting and framing the same,
thir y dolars tar-b0ard for mounting models, fif-
teen dollars; colors, paper, brushes, and pencils
tweoty dollars.
For department Of chemistry, mineralogy, and &C.
ology: For chemicals including chemical apparatus
glass and porcelain ware, paper wire, and sheet met
al and ores, nine hundred and seyenty-iye dollars
including material for practical instruction in pho
I0gralllV. rough SDeclmSDS tiles. alcohol lamue
blow pipes, pencils, ana agate mortar-, for prach
cal instruction in mineraogy and geology. two hun
dred and twenty-five dollars; fossils illustrating the
different rock formations for daily in section
rooms one hundred and seventyfve dollars; gradual
increase of the cabinet, five hundred dollars; re-
pairs and Improvements in electric, galvanic, mag
netic electr and magneDo-electrc appar
atus and additions to pneumatic and thermic appar-
atus, eight hundred dollars carpenters and metal
work and materials for the same, sixty dollars pay
OF mechanic, TO be employed in chemical ana geo.
logical sectionorooms and in the lecture-room, one
thousand and fifty dollars; completing repairs and
improvements in laboratory, lecture rooms and min
eralogical rooms three hundred and ninety-ve dol
lars; models and diagrams, ono hundred dollars !;
books OF reference, textbooks and statinnery for
use of instructors and contingencies, two hundred
and fifty dollars; compensation to attendant, fifty
dollars resf rsar.s
For department Of natural and experimental phil
osophy: For instruments and apparatus to illustrate
the laws OK mechanics and Of solids and uids three
thousand dollars instruments and apparatus to il
1ustrae the laws Of acoustics and optics four thou
sand dollars; instruments and apparatus to equip
one ueiu OBSERVATORY. Two tnuuEduu nVe nunGFeil
dollars; one break-oircuit chrcnometer for mural
circle room in the observatory, five hundred dollars
lathe, foig &C. tools ana equipment of Workshop,
en- hundred and fifty dollars; repairs and contin-
gencies, eight hundred dollars pensaiiOn TO me-
chanic and assistant in charge of apparatus, one
thousand dollars: comps nsation to attendant, fifty
dollars.
For department of practical engineering: For
mining material, twenty-five dollars; stationery
ite-transit. two hundred and fifty collars; repairs
OF instruments, twenty -tive dollars.
For department Of Spanish: For textbooks and
stationery for the use of instructors, fifty dollars
For department of French: For textbooks and
and stationery for the use Of instructors, ftyiye
dollars.
For department of law and ethics: For textbooks
lars. 81 srt -sF
For expenses Of the board of visitors four thousand
iiye bundled doilars; Prorded, That three members
OF the House of Representatives of the Forty-thrd
Congress, whose credentials IN due form of law have
been filed with the Clerk of the House of Repre-
sentatives in accordance with the act of Congress
approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty
three, shall be appointed, by the Speaker of the
House of Representatives. members of the board of
visitors at the rext annual examination to be held
the iiitary Academy -e
gas, coai-oil and candles, for lighting the academy
cadet-barracks, mess-hall, hosptal-offices stable
and sidewalks, four thousand dollars; waier-ppes,
plumbing and repairs, two thousand dollars; clean
ing public buildings, mot quarers) five hundred and
sixty dollars broOs, brushes pals tubs and cloths
two hundred dollars; chalk, crayons sponge and
slates for recitation rooms, hundred dollars;
compensation of chapel-organist, two hundred dol
lars; compensation Of librariad, hundred and
twenty dollars; compensation of non-commissioned
officer In charge of mechanics, fifty dollars; compen-
pensation of soldier writing in djutants office fifty
dollars; pay IT engineer of heating and ventiating
appara us for the cadet-barracks chapel, and phil
osophlla al academy, including the library, thou
SAND nve hundred dollars pay of assistant of same
seven hundred and wenty dollars; pay of five fire
men, two thousand dollars; increase and expense Of
the library, booss magazines, periodicals, and bind
ing, two thousand dollars.
For pay Of librarians assistant, one thousand dol
lars.
For contingencies for superintendent of the acad
envy, one thousand dollars.
For furniture for cadet-hospita, one hundred dol
lars.
For buildings and grounds: For repairing and
opening roads, one thousand dollars
For rebuilding the dam at the foot of Crowss Nest
mountain, two thousand four hundred and eight dol
lars and six cents.
For preparing site and constructing foundation and
beginning superstructure for cadets new hospital
twenty thousand dollars
For commencing system of sewerage leading
from barracks Of troops, three thousand dollars.
For remodeiling battery Knox, ten thousand dol
lars. ~
Approved, February IS, 1873.
GENERAL NATURE-No. 46.
AN ACT to carry into effect the provisions of the
treaty between the United States and Great Pri+
aln slgned In the city Of Washington the eighth
relating to the fisheries. -''
Be n enacted By the Senate and House of Ren,s.
'entatiues Of the United States Of Aanerica in Ton
PRESS assembled, That whedever the President of the
United States shall receive satisfactory evidence that
he Imperial Parliament of Great Britain, the Par
lament Of Canada, and the legislature of Prince
EDWARDS Island have passe, laws on their part to