Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

696.

Thirtieth Congress,
thi Second Session,
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 out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Military Academy for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty:

For pay of officers, instructors, cadets and musicians, seventy-nine thousand seven hundred and sixty-four dollars;

For commutation of subsistence, five thousand six hundred and twenty-one dollars;

For forage for officers’ horses, two thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars, and all professors shall be entitled to the same amount of forage which is allowed to officers of the rank to which their rank is assimilated;

For clothing for officers’ servants, four hundred and twenty dollars;

For repairs, fuel, apparatus, forage for public horses and oxen, stationery, printing, and other incidental and contingent expenses, twenty-six thousand four hundred and sixty dollars;

For the increase and expenses of the library, one thousand dollars;

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For expenses of the board of visiters, one thousand and thirty-three dollars and sixty-one cents;

For barracks for cadets, forty thousand dollars;

For new mess hall, five thousand dollars;

For riding hall, two thousand dollars;

For hospital for enlisted men, two thousand five hundred dollars;

For permanent quarters and barracks for engineer troops, (sappers, miners and pontoneers,) five thousand dollars.

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01/29/1849
Passed the House of Representatives
January 29^th AD. 1849
Attest
Tho. J Campbell
Clerk

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Ways & Means [?]

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H R 69[6]
An Act
Making appropriations for the suppo[rt] of the Military Academy for the ye[ar] ending the thirtieth of June, one th[ou]sand eight hundred and fifty.

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Bill rec^d Jan 30.

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02/07/1849
In Senate of the U. Sta[tes]
February 7, 1849
Resolved, That this bill pass.
Attest
Asbury Dickins,
Secretary

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Jan 30 & [Finance?]
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Hampton