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 FOBTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 56. 1885. 301 houses and practical instruction-room; for books of reference, textbooks, and stationery for instructors, three hundred dollars. _ For department of practical military engineering: For purchase and D°l?=*;'1*m°!¥t of repair of instruments; purchase of tools, implements, and materials, £;°‘?;;r,Dg'" "Y and for extra duty pay of engineer soldiers, as follows, namely : Astro- gems. I nomical and meteorological instruments and lights for use in instructing cadets in practical astronomy; reconnoitering instruments for use in their practical instruction in making reconnaissances; photographic apparatus and material for iield photography; drawing instruments and material for plotting reconnaissances · surveying instruments; instruments and material for signaling and field telegraphy; tools and material for the preservation and repair of one wooden ponton and one • canvas pouton bridge train; sapping and mining tools and materials; profiling material; rope; cordage; end materials for rafts and for spar and trestle bridges; intrenching tools; tools and material for the repair of Fort Clinton and the batteries at the Academy, and extra-duty pay Extra-duty paly of engineer soldiers employed upon the same; extra-duty pay of two ¤€ <>¤zi¤¤¤1‘ B0 · engineer soldiers, at fifty cents per day each, when performing special d‘°“"* skilled mechanical labor in the department of practical military engineering; for models, books of reference, and stationery, one thousand two hundred dollars. For department of natural and experimental philosophy: For addi- 1}epartment of tions to apparatus to illustrate the laws of acoustics, optics, and me- Pl¤l¢>•<>1>h!- chanics, one thousand dollars; books of reference, text-books, stationery, materials, and repairs, four hundred dollars; for pay of mechanic assistant, one thousand dollars; repairs to the observatory building and the tower clock, four hundred and fifty dollars; in all, two thousand eight hundred and nity dollars. or expenses of the Board of Visitors, including mileage, three thou- Expenses or ormiscell? an incidentalexpenses: or gas-coal, o', can es, Miscellaneous lanterns, matches, and wicking for lighting the Academy chapel, Md i¤¤¤ld¤¤¢¤·i ¤¤- library, cadet barracks, mess-hall, shops, hospital, omces, stables and riding-hall, sidewalks, and wharvcs, thme thousand five hundred dollars ; water-pipes, plumbing, and repairs, one thousand five hundred dollars; cleaning public buildings (not quarters), six hundred dollars; brooms, brushes, pails, tubs, soap, and cloths, two hundred dollars; chalk, crayons, sponges, slate, and rubbers for recitation-rooms, three hundred dollars; compensation of chapel organist, two hundred dollars; compensation of librarian, one hundred and twenty dollars; pay of engineer of heating and ventilating apparatus for the academic building, the cadet barracks, and office building, chapel, and philosophical building, including the library, one thousand two hnndreddollars; pay of assistant engineer of same, one thousand dollars; pay of five tiremen, two thousand seven hundred dollars; in all, eleven thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. For pay of librarian’s assistant, one thousand dollars. mt¤•i¤¢¤¤¤ ¤l>¤‘•- For increase and expense of library, namely: For periodicals, bind- ing new books, and scientific, historical, biographical, and general literature, one thousand dollars. d Eur additional tables and chairs, and repairing same, two hundred F¤¤¤i¤¤•· o ars. Figg Furniture f o r d0H3s for cadet hosp tal, and repairs of the me, one hundred bupim For purchase of bedding and necessary articles for the use of candi- “l:,‘l?,E*,g;‘}f,‘:··f3f {laages previous to their admission into the Academy, five hundred dol- ,,,;,,;,,,,_ _ For contingencies for su rintendent of the Acadbm, one thousand c°”**.“ °'*°*°° dollars. pe y For renewing furniture (desks and benches in section-rooms, live R°“°"*“$ f'“'“*‘ hundred dollars. ) tu"`