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THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 45, 46. 1857. 161 ments, fuel and apparatus, forage, postage, stationery, transportation, printing, clerks, miscellaneous and incidental expenses, and departments of instruction, thirty-five thousand two hundred and seventy-tive dollars. For gradual increase and expense of library, one thousand five hundred dollars. For expenses of the board of visitors, three thousand dollars. For forage for artillery and cavalry horses, eight thousand six hundred and forty dollars. For supplying horses for cavalry and artillery practice, one thousand dollars. For furniture for hospital for cadets, two hundred and fifty dollars. For barracks for dragoon detachment, five thousand dollars. For purchase of bell, and mounting the same with the clock on one of the public buildings, eight hundred dollars. To procure the balistic apparatus for gun pendulum, five hundred dollars. For repairs to officers} quarters, five hundred dollars. For models for the department of cavalry, one thousand dollars. For extension of water pipes and increase of reservoir, two thousand dollars. 'For targets and batteries for artillery exercise, two hundred dollars. For gas pipes, gasometers, and retorts, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, '1`hat there shall be appointed at the Professor of Military Academy, in addition to the professors authorized by the existing SP*’·*{l5;dt° b° laws, a professor of Spanish, at a salary of two thousand dollars per appm ` annum. Src. 3. And be it further enacted, That the compensation of the Pay of master master of the sword be fifteen hundred dollars per annum with fuel and °f the *"°fdquarters. Approved, February 16, 1857. CHAP. XLVI.-An Act to incorporate the Columbian Institutibn for the Instruction <y" the Feb. 16, 1857. Deaf and Dumb, and the Blind. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Post; p. 293. States of America in Congress assembled, That Byron Sunderland, J. C. Names. McGuire, David A. Hall, and George W'. Riggs, of Vllashington city, IVilliam Edes, and Judson Mitchell, of Georgetown, and Amos Kendall and \Villiam Stickney, of the county of Washington, and such persons as may hereafter be associated with them, by contributions for the instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, and the Blind, are hereby created a body politic and corporate under the name of the “Columbia Institution for the In- ·rme_ struction of the Deaf and Dumb, and the Blind,” to have perpetual succession and be capable to take, hold and enjoy lands, tenements, heredita- Genera] power, ments and personal property, to use a common seal, and the same to alter at pleasure: Provided, That no real or personal property shall be held by said corporation, except such as may be necessary to the maintenance and eflicient management of said institution. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Institution shall be managed Election 0f as provided for in its present Constitution, and such additional regulations °m°°"' as may from time to time be found necessary; but as soon as sufficient contributions shall have been paid in to authorize an election according to the provisions of said Constitution, the provisional officers therein named shall give notice of a general meeting to the contributors for the election of officers, and the officers elected at such general meeting shall hold their offices for one year and until their successors shall be elected as in said Constitution provided : Provided, That said Constitution may be altered in the manner therein provided, but not in such manner as to von. x1. PUB.——21