United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/24th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 265
[Obsolete.]
Chap. CCLXV.—An Act making appropriations for the Military Academy of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six.
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, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Military Academy, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, viz:
For pay of the officers, cadets, and musicians, fifty-six thousand and twelve dollars.
For subsistence of officers and cadets, thirty-nine thousand five hundred and sixty-six dollars.
For forage of officers’ horses, one thousand one hundred and fifty-two dollars.
For clothing of officers’ servants, three hundred and thirty dollars.
For defraying the expenses of the Board of Visiters at West Point, two thousand dollars.
For arrearages of the same in eighteen hundred and thirty-four and eighteen hundred and thirty-five, three hundred and eighty-two dollars and forty-eight cents.
For fuel, forage, stationery, printing, transportation, and postage, twelve thousand five hundred and thirty-five dollars.
For repairs, improvements, and expenses of buildings, grounds, roads, wharves, boats, and fences, nine thousand and sixty-six dollars.
For pay of adjutant’s and quartermaster’s clerks, nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For philosophical apparatus and repairs of the same, three hundred dollars.
For models for the department of engineering, five hundred dollars.
For models for the drawing department, apparatus and contingencies for the department of chemistry, and instruments and repairs for the mathematical department, one thousand two hundred and thirty-five dollars.
For the purchase and repairs of instruments for the band, three hundred and ninety-two dollars.
For incidental expenses of the department of artillery, fifty dollars.
For increase and expenses of the library, eight hundred dollars.
For miscellaneous items and incidental expenses, two thousand two hundred and ninety-three dollars.
For completing the chapel, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the acting professor of chemistry for services in his department from September first, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, to September first, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, at twenty-five dollars per month, three hundred dollars; for the ensuing year, three hundred dollars.
Approved, July 2, 1836.