Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1846-11-13
CHAP. 176.-AN ACT


eighteen hundred and forty
[SEC. IL Be 1t enacted By the Senate and
House Of Representatives. of the United States
Of AmeritG an Congress assembled, That the
following sums be, and the same are hereby
appropriated for the naval service, for the year
ending on the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred
and forty seven:
For pay of commission, warrant, and petty
officers and seamen, including the engineer
corps of the navy, three million five hundred
and seyenty-one thousand seven hundred and
| thirty five dollars.
Passed midshipmen performing the duties
of master, under the authority of the Secreta-
nv of the Navy, to receive the compensation
allowed to such higher grade, while actually
TO employed
| For provisions, including transportation, coop
erage, and other expenses, eight hundred and
sixty-nine thousand seven hundred and TWEEN
ty-two dollars
For surgeons necessaries, and appliances
! for the sick and hurt of the naval service, in
Guiding the marine corps, twenty one thousand
and seventy-two dollars;
For the increase, repair, armament, and e.
qUipment of the navy, and wear and tear OF
vessels in commission, including coal for
steamers, and hemp, one million fifty thousand
dollars; and the President is hereby authorized
to construct, by contract, any vessel or steam
er for the public service, when in his opinion
the same can be done with equal efficiency and
on terms more economical than in the present
navy yards
For ordinance and ordinance stores, inclu-
ding all incidental expenses, three hundred
and seventy-one thousand eight hundred and
twenty dollars;
For books, maps, charts, and instruments,
binding and repairing the same, and all the
expenses OF the Typographical office, thirty
five thousand nine hundred dollars;
For contingent expenses that may accrue
for the following purposes, viz For freight and
transportation printing and stationery books,
models, and drawings; purchase and repair of
| fire-engines, and for machinery repair of
steam engines in yards; purchase and main
tenance Of horses and oxen; carts, timber
wheels, and workmen's tools: postage of let
tiers on public service; coal and other fuel, and
oil and candles for navy yards and shore sta
tons incidental labor, not chargeable to any
other appropriation: labor attending the deliv-
cry Of public stores and supplies on foreign
stations wharfage, dockage, storage, and rent;
travelling expenses of officers; funeral expen-
SEES; commissions, clerk hire, store-rent, Office
storekeepers premiums, and incidental eXpen-
ses of recruiting experimenting deserters; per
diem allowance to persons attending courts
martial and courts of inquiry, or other services
authorized by law compensation to Judge ad-
vocates; pilotage and towing vessels, and as
sistance rendered to vessels in distress, five
hundred and fifty thousand dollars;
For contingent expenses for objects not
hereinbefore enumerated, five thousand dol
lars
: For the support OF the civil establishment
at the several navy yards, the officers and 9th
ers to be paid the annual compensation that
was allowed to them seyerallY in the act ma
king appropriations for the naval service fol
: the year ending on the thirtieth June, eighteen
hundred and forty-six, except as hereinafter
} provided:
1T Kitery, Maine
For pay Of storekeeper, naval constructor
inspector of timber, clerk to the yard, clerk tc
the commandant, clerk to the storekeeper
clerk to the naval constructor, and porter, sew.
en- thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
S st Charlestomn, Massachusetts,.
/, For pay of storekeeper, naval constructor
moasurer and inspector of timber, clerk to thu
r yard, two clerks to the commandant, three
clerks to the stOrekeeper, clerk to naval con
structor, keeper of magazine, and porter, e
l leven thousand one hundred and eighty dollars
: For repairs of the sheer wharf, Charles
town navy yard, twelve thousand dollars.
: 1T Brooklyn, New York.
= For pay OF storekeeper, naval constructor
j measurer and inspector OF timber, clerk to TIT
: yard, two clerks to the commandant, thre
clerks to the storekeeper, clerk to naval con
structor, keeper OF the magazine, and porter
| Al III I,,,o AL
: lars.
|, 1T Philadelphia.
5, For pay of storekeeper, naval constructor
: measurer and inspector of timber, clerk to tn
: yard, clerk to the commandant, clerk to tn
d storekeeper, clerk to naval constructor, an
porter, seven thousand seven hundred dollars
n Provided, That when the duties of the clerl
i to the yard and clerk to the commandant ar
e performed by the same person, he shall nc
d receive a greater compensation than twelv
It hundred dollars per annum.
/ 1t WASHINGTON.
o For pay of storekeeper, measurer and in
1t spector Of timber, clerk to the yard two clerk
Y to commandant, clerk to the storekeeper, keep
: er of the magazine, and porter, six thousan
d six hundred and eighty dollars.
: ut Gosport, Virginia.
&c For pay of storekeeper, naval constructor
e measurer and inspector of timber, clerk - tn
t, yard, two clerks to commandant, three clerk
IS to the storekeeper, clerk to the naval construC
re tor, keeper of the magazine and porter, eleVe
Is thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.
II lit Pensacola
re For pay of storekeeper, naval constructor
IL clerk to the yard, two clerks to the comman
l. dant, two clerks to the storekeeper, and pol
ter, eight thousand and fifty dollars.
1t At Memphis, Tennessee.
: For pay of storekeeper, clerk to the yart
le clerk to the commandant, and porter, thre
ID thousand three hundred dollars Provided
ID That the Secretary OF the Navy be, and he
t, hereby authorized, when in his opinion tn
,, public interest will permit it, to discortinu
J. any of the civil Offices and employments here
re in provided for at the navy yards, or to dis
l. charge the keepers of magazines and requir
x their duty to be performed by gunners.
ofl For improvements and necessary repairs {
a navy yards, viz
he 1T Kittery, Maine.
&C. For wall for landing wharf at smithery, an
y filling in, one thousand seven hundred and fiv
Id dollars and fifty cents;
IN For cistern, near mast and boat house, tw
Il thousand dollars;
ne For granite gun skids, and road to gray
ne yard one thousand one hundred and thirty
OF two dollars;
Il For repairs of all kinds, four thousand do
he lars.
c. At ChdrteStopn