Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1847-04-23

ted at each of the navy-yards at Kittery, Phil
adelphia and Pensacola, floating dry-dock
for ships of the line, with basin and RAILWAYS
at Philadelphia, and reference thereto at the
other places, on such plan as may be prefer
red by the Secretary of the Navy: the said
dock at Pensacola 10 be completed with all
possible despatch and the sum of fifty thou
sand dollars IS hereby appropriated towards
said dock at Kittery fifty thousand dollars to-
wards said dock at Philadelphia and two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars towards
SAID dock at Pensacola; out of any money in
the treasury not otherwise appropriated:
1T Charlestoocn
For wharf number sixty -four, and repairs
OF dry-dock number fifty four; timber dock &
erected on number twenty-seven; smith shop
and plumbers shop, and drains to reservoir,
and pipes to smithery; shell-house, joiners'
and carpenters shops and rigging loft, and for
repairs of all kinds, ninety-seven thousand
six hundred and ffty-fve dollars.
At Brooklyn.
For repairing Wharves in front of D and E
csterns to reservoir C completing cob-wharf ;
shell-house on gun-block, and for repairs of
and forty-eight dollars
For dry-dock, two hundred and seventy-fve
thousand dollars. That from and after the
passage of this act, all moneys derived from
the sale of all stores and other articles belong
ing to the navy, shall revert to that appropri-
alton from which such stores and other arti-
rotary of the Treasury is hereby authorized
TO 10
clothing for the navy" the proceeds of all
sales of condemned navy clothing which have
been paid into the treasury of the United States
subsequent to the first day of August, eighteen
| hundred and forty-four, as shall appear from
clothing, and the Fourth Auditor of the Trea-
sury; and it shall not be lawful hereafter to
make transfers from the clothing fund, or the
head of the appropriation for clothing for
the navy to any other head of appropriation
except in the adjustment of the accounts OF
disbursng officers, at the office of the Fourth
| Auditor OF the Treasury.
At Philadelphia.
| For outside piers of Wharves numbers two
and three; wharf number FOUR and outside
pier of number four workshops on site num-
Der ten; anchorage and repairs of all kinds
forty-seven thousand four hundred and six
teen dollars
At Washington.
For rip-hammer in anchor shop, and blow
ing chain-cable fires in hydraulic proving ma.
chine shop; new boiler to steam engine num-
Der two converting number eleven to an iron
foundry; temporary laboratory building, and
repairs OF all kinds, thirty thousand five hun
dred and forty light dollars.
At GOsDOrt
| For completing storehouse number thirteen
and launching slip number forty ght; new
wharf where small shears now stand, and fol-
repairs OF all kinds, forty-tive thousand two
hundred dollars.
1T Pensacola.
For completing storehouse number twenty
| five, and timber-shed number twenty-siX
blacksmith shop and steam engine; permanen
wharf extending and completing coal-house
completing lime-house, and for repairs of al
kinds, fifty eight thousand and seventeen dol
lars. 1T Memphis
For blacksmith's shop; steam engine ant
boilers for rope-walk; joiner's shop and store
house, Zone wing J saw-mill; commandment
house and offices foundation of wall to en-
close yard embankment and excavation, anC
for repairs of all kinds, one hundred and two
thousand two hundred and five dollars.
At Sacketts Harbor
/ For construction of officers quarters, ant
for repairs of all kinds, five thousand dollars
For the improvement and repairs of the sew
eral navy hospitals, viz:
At Chelsea, five thousand four hundred ant
eighty dollars and ffty-four cents.
At Brooklyn, twenty-five thousand three
hundred and ninety dollars.
At or near Gosport, five thousand six hun
bred and thirty four dollars.
AT Washington, one hundred dollars.
At Pensacola, thirty thousand four hundre'
and forty-one dollars and seventy-fve cents
For magazines, viz:
At Charlestown, Massachusetts, two hun
bred dollars
At Brooklyn, eight hundred dollars.
At Washington, one hundred dollars.
At Gosport, three hundred dollars.
Marine Corps.
For pay of officers, non-commissioned off
GERS, musicians, privates, and servants serving
oHshore, and subsistence of officers, one hun
dred and ffg thousand dollars.
For clothing, forty thousand five hundre'
and forty eight dollars.
For fuel, fifteen thousand four hundred an
, sixty-nine dollars
For military stores, repair CT arms, pay o
armorers, accoutrements, ordnance stores, flags
drums, flies, and musical instruments, fou
thousand three hundred and five dollars.
For transportation of officers and troops, an
for expenses of recruiting, eight thousand dol
lars.
For repair of barracks. and rent OF Temporal
ry barracks, six thousand dollars.
For contingencies, viz:
Freight, ferriage, toll, wharfage, and carriage
compensation to Judge advocates; per diem 70
attending courts-martial and courts of inquiry
per diem to enlisted men on constant labor
house rent where no public quarters are as
signed the burial of deceased marines; print
ing, stationery, forage, hostages, and the pun
suit of deserters; candles and oil; straw, bal
rack furniture, bed sacks, spades, axes, she
wells, picks, carpenters tools, and keeping
horse for the messenger, fifteen thousand dol
lars.
That the first section of the act of fourth c
August, eighteen hundred and forty-two, en-
titled An act making appropriations for tn
naval service for the year one thousand eIgE
hundred and forty -two,'' shall not be construe
, as applying to the appointment of boatswaln:
gunners, carpenters, and sail-makers.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That S
much of the proviso of the act of third c
. March, eighteen hundred and forty three, en-
titled GO An act making appropriations for tn
naval service for the half calendar year begin
ming the first of January and ending the THU