Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1847-06-02
AT CHARLEsTOWN.

and fifty five dollars.
AT BROOKLYN.
For repairing wharves IN front Of d and E
cisterns to reservoir CT completing cob-wharf;
filling in timber pond and dredging channels
shell-house on gun-block, and for repairs Of all
kinds, ffty-one thousand eight hundred and for
ty-eight dollars.
For dry-dock, two hundred and seventy-five
thousand dollurs That from and after the pas
sage of this act, all moneys derived from the sale
of all stores and other articles belonging to the
navy, shall revert to that appropriation from
which such stores and other articles were origin
ally purchased, and the Secretary Of the Treas
ury is hereby authorized and directed to refund
to the appropriation for clothing for the navy"
the procee,s of all sales of condemned navy
clothing which have been paid into the Treasu-
nv of the United States subsequent to the first
day of August, eighteen hundred and forty-four,
as shall appear from the accounts of the Bureau
of Provisions ard Clothing and the Fourth Audi.
tor of the Treasury; and it shall not be lawful
hereafter to make transfers from the clothing
fund, or The head Of the appropriation for "clo-
thing for the navy" to any other head of appro-
priation, except in the adjustment ofthe 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 number ten {;
anchorage and repairs Of all kinds, forty-seyen
thousand four hundred and sixteen dollars.
AT WASHINGTON.
For trip-hammer in anchor-shop, and blowing
chain-cable fires in hydraulic proving machine
shop; new boiler to steam engine number two !;
converting number eleven to an iron froundry !;
temporary laboratory building, and repair. Of
all kinds, thirty thousand five hundred and forty
eight dollars.
AT GosPoRT.
For completing storehouse number thirteen,
and launching slip number forty-eight; new
wharf where small shears now stand, and for re-
pairs Of all kinds, forty-6ve thousand two humid
rel dollars. ..
AT PENSACOLA.
For completing storehouse number twenty
five, and timber shed number twenty-six; black
smith shop and steam engine; permanent wharf;
extending and completing coaf-house; complet-
ing lime-house, and for repairs Of all kinds, fifty
eight thousand and seventeen dollars.
AT MEMPHIS.
For blacksmith's shop; steam engine and boil
ers for rope-walk; joiner's shop and storehouse,
Gone wing j saw-mill; commandant's house
and excavation, and for repairs Of
all kinds, one hundred and two thousand two
hundred and five dollars.
AT SACKETTS HARBOR.
For construction of officers quarters, and for
repairs of all kinds, FIVE thousand dollars.
For the improvement and repairs of the sever
al navy hospitals, viz:
At Chelsea, five thousand four hundred and
eighty dollars and fifty four cents.
At Brooklyn, twenty-five thousand three hun
dred and ninety dollars.
At or near Gosport, FIVE thousand six hundred
and thrty-four dollars.
At Washington, one hundred dollars.
At Pensacola, thirty thousand four hundred
and forty-one dollars and seventy-fve cents.
For magazines, viz:
At Charlestown, Massachusetts,, two hundred
dollars.
At Brooklyn, eight hundred dollars.
At Washington, one hundred dollarf.
At Gosport, three hundred dollars.
MARINE CORPS.
For pay of officers, non-commissioned officers
privates, and servants serving on
shore, and subsistence Of officers, one hundred
md fifty thousand dollars.
For clothing, forty thousand FIVE hundred and
orty-eight dollars.
Eos fuel, fifteen thousand four hundred and
xty-nine dollars.
For military stores, repair of arms, pay OF ar
norers, accoutrements, ordnance stores, flags,
1rums, flies, and musical instruments, four thou
and three hundred and five dollars.
For transportation Of officers and troops, and
or expenses of recruiting, eight thousand dol
ars.
For repair of barracks, and rent OF temporary
six thousand dollars.
For contingencies, viz: |
Freight, ferriage, toll, wharfage, and carriage
to judge-advocates per diem for
attending courts-martial and courts of inquiry
yer diem to enlisted men on constant labor
louise rent where no public quarters are assign
ID; the burial of deceased marines printing, !
tatlonery: forage, hostages, and the pursuit Of
leserters candles and oil (; straw, barrack fur
'iture, bed sacks, spades, axes, shovels, picks,
;arpenters' tools, and keeping horse for the
Messenger, fsteen thousand dollars.
That the first section of the act of fourth of
August, eighteen hundred and forty.two, enti-
led An act making appropriations for the ma
al service for the year one thousand eight hun
red and forty-two," shall not be construed as
pplying to the appointment Of boatswains, gun |
ers, carpenters, and sa;l-makers.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That 40 |
much OF the proviso of the act Of third March, |
Eighteen hundred and forty-three, entitled can
~ A.A"NAu6 "Pp'oPiidlOIS tue HdNdI ccItlCe 1
or the half calendar year beginning the first of
anuary and ending the thirtieth day of June,
ighteen hundr edand forty four ,, as requireSthat
rovisons and all other materials of every name |
nd nature, for the use Of the navy, be furnished |
y contract with the lowest bidder, after aIver-
sement, shall be, and the same is hereby 50 far
,odi6ed, that it shall not apply to butter or
heese destined for the use of our navy, or things
ofwar. And it shall be lawful that
ontracts for those articles for the use of the ma
y be made, as heretofore, for periods longer
ran one year, if, in the opinion Of the Secretary
the Navy, economy and the quality of the ra-
on will be promoted thereby.
SEC. g. And be 1t further enacted, That the
ct Of June seventeen, eighteen hundred and
'rty-four, entitled can act making appropria-
ons for the naval service for the fiscal year
nding the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hun
red and forty-fve," which directs s'that the
ecretary Of the Navy shall order competent
commissioned or warrant officer Of the navy to
Ike charge Of the naval stores for foreign squa-
rons in place OF naval storekeepers at each of
lie foreign ports where store, may be deposited,