Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1847-04-23
DAVID FULTON, EDITOR.
VOL. 3.---NO. 80.
BY AUTHORITY.
Laws of the United States, Passed at the
second Session Of the 29th Congress.
IPUBLIC-No. 2S.1

[PUBL1c-No. 2S.1
AN ACT making appropriations for the naval
service for the year ending the thirtieth
June, one thousand eight hundred and for
ty-eight.
Representatives of the United States of Amer
ing sums be, and the same are hereby appropria-
ted, for the naval service, for the year ending
on the thirtieth June, one thousandeight hun
dred and forty-eight:
For pay of thirteen additional assistant sur
geons, whose appointment Is hereby author-
zed, twelve thousand three hundred and fifty
dollars
That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he
is hereby authorized to appoint a Pyrotech-
mist for the service of the navy, at an annual
is hereby appropriated out of any money in
the treasury not otherwise appropriated, as
full compensation for the services Of said Py-
rotechnist.
For provisions for commission, warrant
and petty officers and seamen, including en-
gineers and marines attached to vessels for sea
service, nine hundred and seventy thou
sand six hundred and sixty-sx dollars and
eighty-one cents.
And there shall be allowed, instead of the
sum now allowed by law, three cents per day
in lieu of the spirit rations in the navy to be
paid monthly to such persons as may elect to
receive the same, who shall actually draw
their rations in kind.
For an additional clerk for Bureau of Pro-
vision and Clothing, one thousand dollars.
For surgeons necessarirs, and appliances
| for the sick and hurt Of the naval service, in
Guiding the marine corps, including three
thousand dollars for pay of the superintendent,
who shall be either a captain, commander, or
lieutenant in the navy, forty thousand two
hundred 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 purchase of hemp, two million
| five hundred thousand dollars.
For ordnance and ordnance stores, including
incidental expenses, three hundred and seven
| ty-one thousand three hundred and ninety
dollars.
| For nautical books, maps, charts, and in
struments, binding and repairing the same,
and all the expenses of the photographed Of
| flee, twenty-five thousand nine hundred and
| forty dollars.
For contingent expenses that may accrue
for the following purposes, VIZ: Freight and
transportation printing and stationery; adj
vertising in newspapers; books, maps, mod
els, and drawings purchase and repair OF tre
engines and machinery; repair OF steam en-
gines, and attendance on the same in yards
purchase and maintenance Of horses and OK
en-, and driving teams; carts, timber wheels,
and workmen's tools of every description, and
repairing the same postage OF letters on pub
lie business; coal and other fuel, and oil and
candles, for navy yards and shore stations;
cleaning and clearing up yards incidental Ia
Dor not chargeable to any other appropriation
labor attending the delivery of public stores
and supplies on foreign stations; wharfage
dockage, storage, and rent; travelling expen-
| ses of officers, funeral expenses, commissions
hire of agents; clerk hire, store rent, office
rent, stationery, and fuel to navy agents anC
naval storekeepers flags, awnings, and pack
ing boxes fixtures for officers quarters; pre-
NUNS, and incidental expenses of recruiting
experimenting deserters per diem allowance
to persons attending courts-martlal and court:
OF inquiry, or other service authorized by law
compensation to Judge advocates; pIlotage
and towing vessels; assistance rendered tt
vessels in distress, six hundred thousand dol
lars.
For enabling the Secretary of the Navy tt
test, by experiments, the value to the navy
of Eare's patented invention for the preser
walton of canvass, five thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses for objects no
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 tina
was allowed to them severally IN the act ma
king appropriations for the naval service tol
the year ending on the thirtieth June, on
thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, ex
cept as hereinafter provided:
ut KiHery, Maine.
For pay of storekeeper, naval constructor
inspector OF timber, clerk to the yard, clerk t
the commandant, clerk to the storekeeper, clerl
to the naval constructor, and porter, sever
thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
, 1t Charlestown, Massachusetts,.
For pay of storekeeper, naval constructor
measurer and inspector of timber, clerk to thu
yard, two clerks to the commandant, thre
clerks to the storekeeper, clerk to naval con
structor, keeper of magazine, and porter
eleven thousand one hundred and eighty dol
lars.
1T Brooklyn New York.
. For pay of storekeeper, naval constructor
measurer and inspector of timber, clerk to tn
yard, two clerks to the commandant, thre
clerks to the storekeeper, clerk to the nava
constructor, keeper of magazine, and porter
eleven thousand one hundred and eighty dol
lars.
1t Philadelphia.
For pay of storekeeper, naval constructor
measurer and inspector of timber, clerk to tn
yard, clerk to the commandment, clerk to tn
! storekeeper, clerk to naval constructor, ant
porter, seven thousand seven hundred dollars
At Washington.
For pay of storekeeper, measurer and in
spector of timber, clerk to the yard, two clerk
, to commandant, clerk to the storekeeper, keep
er of the magazine, and porter, six THOUSAND
six hundred and eighty dollars.
At GoSport, Virginia.
For pay of storekeeper, naval constructor
measurer and inspector of timber, clerk to til
yard, two clerks to the commandant, thre
clerks to the storekeeper, clerk to the nava
constructor, keeper of the magazine, and por
ter, eleven thousand one hundred and eight,
dollars.
y 1T Pensacola.
For pay of storekeeper, naval constructor
clerk to the yard, two clerks to the comman
dant, two clerks to the storekeeper, and por
ter, eight thousand and fifty dollars.
ut Memphis.
: For pay of storekeeper, clerk to the yard
! clerk to the commandant, and porter, sthre
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