United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 47
Chap. XLVII.—An Act making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-six.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Appropriations. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Military Academy, for the year ending on the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-six:
Pay.For the pay of officers, instructors, cadets, and musicians, seventy-nine thousand four hundred and sixty dollars;
Subsistence.For commutation of subsistence, three thousand five hundred and seventy-seven dollars;
Forage of officers’ horses.For commutation of forage for officers’ horses, two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars;
Clothing of officers’ servants.For clothing for their servants, four hundred and twenty dollars;
Incidental and contingent expenses.For repairs and improvements, fuel and apparatus, forage of public horses and oxen, stationery, printing and other incidental and contingent expenses, twenty-two thousand dollars;
Barracks.For the building of barracks for cadets, thirty thousand dollars: Provided, That this appropriation, and the unexpended balance of the one heretofore made for this object, shall be applied exclusively to the completion of that portion of the barracks which is designed to accommodate the cadets usually quartered in the “old south barracks.”
Pay of a cadet.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-five, the pay of a cadet shall be twenty-four dollars per month, in lieu of the present pay and emoluments.
Approved, March 3, 1845.