The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-03-13

Ipr coal house, eight thousand I'VE hundred dol
repairs of all kinds SIX thousand one hundred
Iirty two dollars.
AT MEMPHIS.
Improvements at this ward; for embankments
1tDu, excavation, and wslling, to secure the RI
'ts; for SIX dwelling houses, aud Tor iounda-
the ropewak, two hundred thousand dol
sACKETTs HARBoR.
II II BARS Of all kinds six hundred dollars.
II repairs and building bulk head or wall, for
ring hphouse, and FOR stores Tor ship on the
Is, three thousand dollars.
For improvements Of the naval hospitals and naval
ftsylum, viz;
AT CHELSEA
For cisfern, Sc, to supply the hospital with wa
Tar seven hundred do lars;
tSfor dead. house to the hospital, five hundred dol
AT BROOKLYN
For completing present hospital building, and fur
hg south wing, six thousand i've hundred and
dollars;
additional building for small pOz patients, five
8snd dollars.
NEAR GospoRT.
For completion OF walls, one thousand eight hun
dred and ninety-eigh, dollars
For repair OF hospital buildings, two thousand Sc
ven hundred and fifty dollars
AT PENSACOLA.
For centre building Of hospital, nineteen thousand
two hundred and twelve dollars
For repairs Of hospitals and quarters three thou
sand nine hundred and twelve dollars.
NAVAL ASYLUM NEAR PHILADELPHIA.
For two small porters lodges, seven hundred dol
lars;
For cemetery and dead-house, one thousand two
hundred dollars.
For magazines, viz
Al Charlesown, one hundred and fifty dollars
AT Brooklyn, two hundred dollars
AT Washington, one hundred and fifty dollars;
AT GosPort, three hundred and twenty-five dol
lars.
For contingent expenses that may accrue for tie
following purposes viz For freight and transporta-
ton printing and stationery books, models and
drawings purchase and repair Of hre-engnes, and
for machinery repair Of steam-engines IN yards
purchase and maintenance of horses and oxen carts
timber heels and worknens tools postage OF let
tiers on public service coal and other fuel, and oil
and candles for navy yards and shore stations Incl
dental labor, not chargeabe any other appropia-
tom labor attending the delivery of public stores aud
supplies on foreign stations wharfage dockage sto.
rage and rent travelling expenses of officers fuDe-
raj expenses commissions, clerk-hire, store.ren t
Different, stationery, and fuel to navy agents and
storekeepers premiums, and incidental expenses Of
recruiting; experimenting deserters per diem allow
ance to persons attending courts marital and courts
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compensation to judge advocates pilotage and
towing vessels and assistance rendered TO yes-
sells in distress, sir hundred thousand dollars: part
Of which sum, not exceeding hundred thousand
dollars, may be applied to supply any deficiency that
may arise 10 the appropriation made under this head
for the service of the fiscal year ending on the thir
teth June, eighteen hundred and forty five Pro.
pidsd also That out Of the latter the sum of seven
teen thousand two hundred and two dollars and
eightytwo cents, be applied TO the appropriation for
the construction of depot of charts and instruments
to balance expenditures heretofore made, and to pay
arrearages due for that object.
For contingent expenses, for objects not heretofore
enumerated, five thousand dollars
For coal, and other fuel for steam-vessels, forty
thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars;
For the purpose of enabling the Secretary of the
Navy to test the value of such inventions for pre-
venting explosions Of steam boilers as he may think
proper, by applying the same to steam engines on
board Of vessels Of the United Safes five thousand
dollars.
MARINE CORPS.
For pay Of officers, non-commissioned officers mu-
sicians priyates and servants serving on shore and
subsistence Of officers two hundred thousand seven
hundred and seventy-one dollars and sixteen cents:
For clothing, forty three thousand six hundred and
sixty-two dollars and fifty cents;
For provisions forty-fve thousand and sixty-nine
dollars and ninety cents;
For fuel, sixteen thousand two hundred and seven
ty.four dollars and twelve cents;
For military stores, repair of arms, pay Of armor-
ers, accoutrements, ordnance stores, hags, drums
flies, and musical Instruments two thousand three
hundred dollar,
For transportation Of officers and troops and for
expenses OF recruiting. eight thousand dollars;
For repair of barracks, and rent of temporary bar
racks, six thousand dollars
For contingencies VIZ:
Freight, ferrage toll, wharfage and carriage com.
pensation to judge advocates per diem for attending
con m nd of A..
listed men constant labor; house rent where no
public quarters are assigned; the burial of deceased
marines; printing, stationery, forage, posages and
the pursuit Of deserers; candles and oil straw bar
rack furniture; bed sacks, spades, axes, shovels
picks carpenters TOOLS and keeping horse for the
messenger, seventeen thousand nine hundred and
eighty dollars
TO X. 7. Anderson for printing and binding for
the Navy Department, by contract, thirteen hundred
and thiry-one dollars.
Sec 2. find be further enacted That naval con-
structors may be required to perform duty at any
maynard or other staioni and, when ordered,
shall be entitled to the same allowance for travel
which is made to officers of the navy. q
Sec 3. find be ii further enacted, That so much of
the proviso the act of third March, eighteen hun
dred and tortythree entitled "An act making appro
prations for the naval service for the ha-calendar
year beginning the first of January and ending the
thrtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty
three, and for the fiscal year beginning the first of
july eighteen hundred and forty three and ending
the htieth day Of June, eighteen hundred and forty
four" as requires that provisions and all other mate
rails of every name and nature, for the use Of the
navy, to be furnished by contract with the lowest
bidder, after adv srsement shall be- and the same is
hereby, so far modified that it shall not apply to ord
nance, tgunpowder, medicines, the supplies which
II may be necessary to purchase out of the United
States, for vessels on foreign stations.
SEC. 4. Ind be IL further enacted That no more
than one hundred and eighty passed midshpmen and
those senior in rank, shall at the same time receive
the pay fixed by law for that class of officers
SIC. 5. find be IL further enacted That mdshipmen
shall hereafter be appointed from each State and
Territory, with reference and in proportion, as near
as may be, to the number of representatives and del
egaes to Congress; and that, until such proportion
shall have been established, all future appointments