GENERAL ORDERS, 
NO. 138. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General's Office, 
Washington, April 4, J864. 
The following act of Congress is published for the information of all 
concerned: 
Public—No. 36. 
AN ACT inakiDg appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the 
year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five. 
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, eighteen hundred and sixty-five: 
For pay of officers, instructors, cadets, and musicians, one hundred 
and seventeen thousand one hundred and seventy-six dollars. 
For commutation of subsistence, four thousand one hundred and sixty- 
one dollars. 
For pay in lieu of clothing to officers’ servants, sikty dollars. 
For current and ordinary expenses, as follows: repairs and improve- 
ments, fuel, and apparatus, forage, postage, telegrams, stationery, 
transportation, printing, clerks, miscellaneous and incidental expenses, 
and departments of instruction, forty-one thousand two hundred and 
eighty dollars. 
For gradual increase and expense of library, one thousand dollars. 
For expenses of the board of visitors, four thousand dollars. 
For forage for artillery and cavalry horses, eight thousand six hun- 
dred and forty dollars. 
For supplying horses for artillery and cavalry exercise, one thousand 
dollars. 
For repairs of officers’ quarters, one thousand five hundred dollars. 
For targets and batteries for artillery exercise, one hundred dollars. 
For furniture for hospital for cadets, including fixed wrash-tubs, hot 
and cold water bath apparatus and water closets, one thousand dollars. 
For annual repairs of gas pipes and retorts, three h undred dollars. 
For warming apparatus for barracks, fifteen thousand dollars. 
For rebuilding public wharf and opening approach to the same from 
the south, six thousand dollars. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the thirty-fifth section of the 
act entitled “An act for enrolling and calling out the national forces, 
and for other purposes,” approved March three, eighteen hundred and 
and sixty-three, shall not be deemed hereafter to prohibit the payment 
to enlisted men employed at the Military Academy of the extra-duty 
pay heretofore allowed by law to enlisted men when employed at con- 
stant labor for not less than ten days continuously'. 
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That from and after the first day of 
July, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, the annual pay of cadets at 
the Military Academy at West Point shall be the same as that allowed 
to midshipmen at the Naval Academy', and the amount necessary for 
that purpose is hereby appropriated. 
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That cadets found deficient at any 
examination shall not be continued at the Military Academy, or be re- 
appointed except upon the recommendation of the Academic Board. 
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That no part of the money hereby' 
appropriated shall be applied to the support or pay of any cadets here- 
after appointed not in conformity with the expressed provisions of law 
regulating appointments of cadets at that Academy'. 
Approved April*], 1864. 
By order of the Secretary of War: 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official: 
Assistant Adjutant General.