382 FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. S1rss.IL C11. 109. 1877. dred dollars; for continuing preparation of text-books for special instruction of cadets, five hundred dollars. . De{>¤¤‘*=¤¤e¤i¤ of For department of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology: For chem- °h°“”““`Y»°t°· icals, including chemical apparatus, glass and porcelain ware, paper, wire, sheet-metal, ores, photographic materials, five hundred dollars; rough specimens, tiles, alcohol, lamps, blow-pipes, pencils, and steel and agate mortars, for practical instruction in mineralogy and geology; for · fossils illustrating the different rock-formations for daily use in section- · rooms, and for gradual increase of the cabinet, six hundred and fifty dollars; repairs and additions to electric, galvanic, magnetic, electromagnetic, magnetroelectric, pneumatic, and thermatic apparatus, seven hundred and nfty dollars. For receiling, repairing, and painting of section-rooms, two hundred dollars; pay of `mechanic employed in chemical and geological sectionrooms and in lecture·room, one thousand dollars; models and diagrams, twenty-five dollars; books of reference, text-books, and stationery, for the use of instructors, forty dollars. » Department of For department of natural and experimental philosophy: For addi- “,‘;l““"·1 Ph'1°*’°‘ tions to the apparatus to illustrate the laws in mechanics, optics, and P y' acoustics, one thousand dollars; books of reference, text-books, repairs, and materials, four hundred dollars; for pay of mechanic, one thousand dollars. Depertmemi of For department of practical military engineering: For mining matel‘;`“°°*°“1°“S‘“°°" rials and for profiling; telegraphing and signaling materials; drawing g` materials, stationery, and text-books; and repairs of instruments, two hundred dollars. ` Department of For department of French: For text-books and stationery for the use vh““°h· of instructors, one hundred dollars. Department of For department of Spanish: For text-books and stationery for the SPM18h- use of instructors, forty dollars. ‘ Department of For department of law: For text-books and stationery and books of mw- reference for the use of instructors, one hundred dollars. Department of For department of ordnance and gunnery: For books of reference °'d“”°°¤ °*"· and text-books for instructors, forty dollars. For keeping in repair instrument and firing houses, sixty dollars. For models of machines employed in the manufacture of gunpowder and cannon, four hundred dollars. - Department of For department of drawing: For topographical models for third class, <l1‘=}»Wi¤z- tar-board for mounting models, frames and glass for securing models from injury, books of reference on drawing, painting, and color, benches, and repairs to same, models for the use of second class, colors, brushes, pencils, and paper for the use of instructors, tumblers, saucers, hammers, shears, paste-bruslies, and nails, one hundred dollars. Boardofvisitors. For expenses of the board of visitors, including mileage, three thou- R·S·zU29¤P·226· sand dollars: Provided, That the expenses allowed by section thirteen hundred and twenty-nine of the Revised Statutes shall be paid as follows: each member of the board of visitors shall receive not exceeding eight cents per mile for each mile traveled by the most direct route from his residence to West Point and return, and shall in addition receive five dollars per day for expenses during each day of his service at West Point. Contingent ex- For miscellaneous and contingent expenses: For gas-coal, oil, candles, ` penses. matches, and wicking for lighting the academy, cadet-barracks, messhall, shops, hospital, offices, stable, and sidewalks, tour thousand dollars; water-pipes, plumbing, and repairs, one thousand five hundred dollars; cleaning public buildings, (not quarters,) ive hundred dollars; brooms, brushes, pails, tubs, soap, and cloths, two hundred dollars; chalk, crayons, sponge, slate, and rubbers, for recitation-rooms, one 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, chapel, and philosophical building, including tho
