United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/26th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 50
Chap. L.—An Act to provide for the support of the Military Academy for the year eighteen hundred and forty.
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 forty, viz.:
Pay.For pay of officers, cadets, and musicians, fifty-nine thousand two hundred and twenty-eight dollars;
Subsistence.For subsistence of officers and cadets, forty thousand and four dollars;
Forage of officers’ horses.For forage of officers’ horses, three thousand nine hundred and thirty-six dollars;
Clothing of officers’ servants.For clothing of officers’ servants, three hundred and ninety dollars;
Board of visiters.For defraying the expenses of the Board of Visiters at West Point, two thousand dollars;
Fuel, &c.For fuel, forage, stationery, printing, transportation and postage, twelve thousand nine hundred and thirty-one dollars and forty-five cents;
Repairs, &c.For repairs, improvements, and expenses of buildings, grounds, roads, wharves, boats, and fences, seven thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents;
Clerks.For pay of adjutants and disbursing officer’s clerks, nine hundred and fifty dollars;
Library.For increase and expenses of the library, one thousand dollars;
Binding books.For binding books, injured at the fire in February, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and imported stitched, three hundred dollars;
Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous items and incidental expenses, seven hundred and twenty-six dollars and twenty-five cents;
Engineering.For the department of engineering, five hundred dollars;
Philosophy.For the department of philosophy, seven hundred and fifteen dollars and twenty-five cents;
Chemistry.For the department of chemistry, seven hundred and twenty-four dollars and seventy-five cents;
Drawing.For the department of drawing, three hundred and thirty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents;
Tactics.For the department of tactics, two hundred and forty dollars;
Artillery.For the department of artillery, three hundred and ten dollars;
Commander of cadets to be instructor of infantry tactics, or, &c.—his pay.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the commander of the Corps of Cadets at the Military Academy, shall be either the instructor of infantry tactics, of cavalry and artillery tactics, or of practical engineering, and that his pay and emoluments shall in no case be less than the compensation allowed by law to the professor of mathematics; and that the pay and emoluments of the instructors in these branches shall in no case be less than is allowed by law to the assistant professor of mathematics.
Compensation of assistant professors of ethics.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the assistant professors of ethics shall be allowed the same compensation as is now allowed by law to the other asisstant professors in the institution.
Approved, July 20, 1840.