THIRTIZEIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 74, 75. 1865. 467 sick, wounded, and otherwise disabled at the Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, tions for sick, authorized by act of congress of March fourteen, eighteen hundred and f”°·· ” ”*“’“l”Y‘ slXty’f°ur‘ uulh64, ch 30. Sec. 6. And Ge it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Navy be, AW. p· 26· and is hereby, authorized to purchase the balance of square nine hundred L¤Pd {9* ¤¤V¤l and forty-eight, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, some 1§3;;f;1,}g¥;,,_ fourteen thousand feet, upon which a naval hospital is now in course of erection : Provided the same can be obtained, in the judgment of the secretary, upon terms deemed just and reasonable. Sec. 7. And be it fierthe·r enacted, That so much of the proviso of the Re e3_10f pm act of third March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, entitled "An act <>f18£3»¢h· 83- making appropriations for the naval service for the half calendar year, V°1’v' p'617` beginning the first of January and ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-four," as requires that provisions, and all other materials of every name and nature, for the use of the navy, be furnished by contract with the lowest bidder, after advertisement, shall be, and the same is hereby, so far moditied, that it shall not apply to bunting delivered for the use of the army and navy; that it shall be lawful for the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into contract for bunting, of American manufacture, as their Bunting ,-0,. respective services require, for a period not exceeding one year, and at army and navy- a price not exceeding that at which an article of equal quality can be imported. Approved, March 2, 1865. C 1*. LXXV.—An Act maki A proprins the u o Milita udem . HA for the year ending thdlfhirfieth of dtdlie,éghteetxioihldzelddddeshtycig Ac y Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _ _ States of America in Uongress assembled, That the following sums be, and °mM*i;i°·:_5; %;d‘ the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not tid pp P otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Military Academy for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. For pay of officers, instructors, cadets, and musicians, one hundred and fifty-four thousand seven hundred and fifty-six dollars. For commutation of subsistence, four thousand one hundred and sixty- one dollars. For pay in lieu of clothing to officers’ servants, sixty dollars. For current and ordinary expenses, as follows: repairs and improvements, fuel and apparatus, forage, postage, telegrams, stationery, transportation, printing, clerks, miscellaneous and incidental expenses, and departments of instruction, fifty-seven thousand nine hundred and twenty- seven dollars. For increase and expense of library, one thousand dollars. For forage for artillery and cavalry horses, seventeen thousand dollars. For supplying horses for artillery and cavalry exercise, one `thousand dollars. For repairs of ofI·icers’ quarters, one thousand five hundred dollars. For targets and batteries for artillery exercise, one hundred dollars. For furniture for hospital for cadets, two hundred dollars. For annual repairs of gas-pipes and retorts, three hundred dollars. For warming apparatus for academic and other buildings, ten thousand dollars. For building public wharf, five thousand dollars. For quarters for subaltern olhcers, one thousand ive hundred dollars. For fire apparatus, three thousand dollars. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That section four of chapter forty- (g,,,;,,,, ,0,,,,,; live of the public acts of the first session of the thirty-eighth congress, deficientrelating to cadets “ found deEcient," is hereby repealed. $,2% l?;,;?' Approved, March 2, 1865. ’
