The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1845-03-14

For completing tmhsr-shed, fourteen thousand
dollars;
For coal house, eight thousand five hundred dol
lars;
For repairs of all kinds SIX tho usand one hundred
and thirty two dollars
AT MEMPHIS.
For improve ments at this yard for entertainments,
graduation, excavation and walling, TO the RI
yer fronts; for six dwelling houses, and for founda-
ton for the ropewalk, two hundred thousand dol
lars.
SACKETT'S HARBOR.
For repairs of all kinds, six hundred dollars.
For repairs and building bulk head or wall, for
repairing ship-hOuse, and for stores for ship the
stocks, three thousand dollars
For improvements of the naval hospitals and naval
asylum, viz:
AT CHELSEA
For cis'ern, &C., to supply the hospital with wa
ter, seven hundred dollars;
For dead house to the hospital five hundred dol
lars.
AT BROOKLYN.
For completing present hospital building, and fur
nishng south wing, six thousand five hundred and
forty dollars;
For additional building for small pox patients, five
thousand dollars
NEAR GOSPORT.
For completion of walls, one thousand eight hum
dred and ninety eight dollars;
For repair of hospital buildings, two thousand
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
Ter and 1aaA hone
hundred dollars.
For magazines, viz
AT Charlestown, 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 the
following purposes, viz For freight and transporta-
ton printing aud stationery books, models and
drawings; purchase aud repair Of fre-engines, and
for machinery repair of steam-eng ines IN yards !;
purchase and maintenance of horses and oxen carts
timber-Hhees, and woTkmen's tools postage Of let
ters public service: coal and other fuel, and oil
and candies for navy yards and shore stations Incl
dental labor, not chargeable 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 fune-
raj expenses; commissions, cerk-hre, store rent,
Different, stationery, and fuel to navy agents and
recru ting; experimenting deserters; per diem allow
ance to persons attending courts marital and courts
OF inquiry, or other services authorized by law !;
compensation to Judge advocates; plotage and
towing vessels and assistance rendered to yes
sells in distress six hundred thousand dollars: part
of which sum, not exceeding hundred thousand
dollars, may be applied to supply any deficiency that
may arise IN the APPROPRIATION made under this head
for the service of The fiscal year ending the thir
tieth June, eighteen hundred and forty 6ve Pro-
rded, aLso That out Of the latter the of seven
teen thousand two hundred and two dollars and
eghty-,wo cents, be applied to the appropriation for
the construction of depot of charts and instruments
to balance expenditures heretofore made, and to pay
arrearages now 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-commissoned officers ml-
scians, prvates, and servants, serving 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-hve 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-
eTs, accoutrements, ordnance sores flags 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,
Freight ferrisge, TOLL wharfage and carriage com.
pensaton to judge advocates PEI diem for attending
courts martial and courts of inquiry; per diem TO en-.
listed men on constant labor; house. rent where
public quarters assigned; the burial of deceased
Marines printing, stationery forage, postages and
the pursuit Of d,serters candles and OIL straw;
rack furniture; bed sacks, spades, axes, shovcls,
picks carpenters tools; and keeping horse for the
messenger, seventeen thousand nine hundred and
eighty dollars;
To r. P. Anderson, for printing and binding for
the Navy Department, by contract, thirteen hundred
| and tbrty-one dollars.
Sec. z. find be further enacted That naval con-
structors may be required to perform duty at any
pavy-yard or other station and, when So ordered,
shall be entitled to the same allowance for travel
| which is made 10 officers of the navy
Sec 3. find be IL further enacted That so much OF
the provso to the act Of third March, eighteen hun
dred and fory-three, entitled can act making sppro-
prstions for the naval service for the halicalendar
| year beginning the first Of January, and ending the
thirtieh day Of June, eighteen hundred and forty
three and for the fiscal year beyinnng the first OF
July eighteen hundred and forty three, and ending
the htielb day of June eighteen hundred and forty
FOUR, as req uies 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 advertisement, shall be, and the is
hereby, far modified that it shall not apply to ord
nance, gunpowder, medicines, or the supplies which
it may be necessary to purchase out of the United
States, for vessels on foreign stations
SEC. a. ind be further enacted, That no more
than one hundred and eighty passed midshipmen, and
those senior IN rank, shall at the receive
the pay fixed by law for that class of officers.
SEC. D. lind be further enacted That midsbipmeD
shall hereafter be appointed fiom each, State and
Territory, with reference and in proportion as near
as may be, to the number of representatives and del
egates to Congress- and that until such proportion
shall have been established all future anpointme nj