The Arkansas banner., 1847-04-21

Pubilc-No 2o. AN ACT
 Making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty eight. Be R enacted by Ae Sennie and HoHse Of Repre- scystat.res f LAe Uaifed States of amsrca ia Con gross Gssembted, That the following sums, be, and the same are hereby appropriated for the naval ser vice for the year ending the thirtieth juur one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight. For pay of commission, warrant, and petty off. cers aud seamen, including the engineer corps of the navy, three million two hundred and ninety two thousand eight hundred and six dollars.
 Fot pay of thirteen additional assistant surgeons, l whose appointment is hereby authorized, twelve thousand three hundred and fifty dollars 1 That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he IS hereby authorised 10 appointa PyFoteehnst for the service of the navy, at an annual salary of hfteen hundred dollars, which sum is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise ap propTiaed as full compensation for the services of said Pyrotechnist.
 1 For provisions for commission, warrant and pet | ty officers and seanen, including engineers and marines attached tc vessels for sea service. nine hundred and seyehty-six thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and eighty.ehe cents And there shall be allowed, instead of the sum now allowed by law. three cents per day m lieu of the spirit raons in the navy to be paid monthly to such persons as may elect 10 receive the same who ! SflAH dcIuaEIT GrdW tuSif FatloHs HI Aifi0. For an additional clerk for Bureau oi Provision and Clothing, one thousand dollars. For surgeons necessaries, and appliances iof inc sick and hurt Of the naval service, InetuuIug the marine ccTps including three thousand dollars Tor pay of the superintendent, who shall be either captain, commander or lieutenant in the navy, forty thousand two hundred dollars.
 For the increase, repair, armament, and equip ment of the navy, and wear and tear Of vessels Tn commission, including coal fer steamers and pur chase of hemp, two million five hundred thousand dollars. For ordnance and ordnance stores, including in- cidental expenses, three hundred and seventy-one thousand three hundred and ninety dollars. # For nautical books, maps, charts and instruments binding and repairing the same, and all ihe e1pen- ses of the hydrographcal office, twenty-five thons- and nine hundred and forty dollars.
 For contingent expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, viz:
 Freight and rassportion; printing and stationery; advertising in newspapers books, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines, and machinery; repair of steam engines, and aiten- dance on the same in yalds; purchase and mainten- ance of horses and oxen, and driving teams; carts, timber wheels, and woIkmen's tools of every de- seFiptoH, and repairing the postage of lei teIs public business coal and other fuel, and oil and candles for navy yards and shore stations; cleaning and clearing up yards; incidental labor not chargease to any other appropriation, labor atten- ding tbe delivery of public stores and supplies on foreign stations wharfage, dockage, storage, and rent; travelling expenses ofoicers, funeral eXpen- ses, commissions hire of agents clerk hire, store rent, otce Tr.t, stationery, and fuel to navy agents and sa1 naval storekeepers flags awnings and Raek and incidental expenses oI reeTuiting appTehend- ing deserers; per diein allowance to persons atten- ding courts martial and courts of Inquiry or other service authorized by law compensation ta judge advocates; piloage, and towing vessels; assistance l. 11s csx hf.r. .raA fhR and dollars.
 For enabling ibe Secretary of the Navy, 10 test, by experiment, the value to the navy, of Earle's patented invention for the preservation o canvass, i've thousand dollars.
 Fof contingent expenses for objects not herein before enumerated, five thousand dollars. For the support of the civil estabishmeAt al lhe several navy yards the officers and others to be psd paid the annual compensation that was allowed to them seyeGaIly in the sci making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending on the thirtieth day of June, enc thousand eight hundred and forty-seyen, except as hereinafter provided.
 .3t Kittery, .Maiae.
 For pay of storekeeper, naval constructor, nspec- tor of timber, clerk 10 the yard, clerk to the com mandant clerk to the storekeeper, clerk 10 the ns- val constructor and porter sefen thousand six hun dred and fifty dollars.
 A CharlestOlcn, Massachusetts.
 For pay of storekeeper. naval constructor. meas urer and inspector of timber clerk 10 the yard. two clerks 10 the commandani three clerks to the store keeper, clerk 10 naval constructor, keeper of mag azine and porter, eleven thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.
 .9i Brooklyn, .Netc York.
 For pay of stofekeeper, naval constructor, meas urer and inspector of timber, clerk the yard. two Jerks to the commandant three clerks 10 the store keeper. clerk to the naval constructor, keeper of magazine. and porter, eleven thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.
 fl Philadelphia.
 For pay Of storekeeper, naval eonstsNttor, meas nrer and inspector of timber, clerk 10 the yard, clerk o the commandant, clerk 10 ,ae storekeeper. clerk to naval constructor, and porter, seven thou sand seven hundred dollars.
 fl Washington.
 For pay of s,orekeeper messurer and inspector Of timber, clerk 10 the yard two clerks to comman- dant, eieIk the storekeeper keeper of the maga- zine, and porter, six thousand six hundred and eighty dollars.
 .4t Gosporf, Firginia.
 For pay of storekeeper, naval constructor, meas urer and inspector of timber clerk to the yard, two clerks to commandant three clerks 10 the store keeper, clerk 10 the naval constructor, keeper of the magazine and porter, eleven thousand one hun dred and eighty dollars.
 .it Pensacola.
 For pay of siorekeeper, and naval constructor, clerk 10 the yard. two clerks to the commandant, two clerks to the storekeeper, and porter, eight thousand and fifty dollars.
 .fi .Hemphis. /
 For pay of storekeePeF, clerk to the yard. clerk 10 the commaBdsHt, and porter, three thousand three hundred dolafs.
 For Improvements and necessary repairs Of navy yards, viz: .
 .4i kutery I
 For extending knee dock wall, and filling in for gun and anchor wharf, re-hpilding wharf number one, eisteIn near mast and boa house nnmber hi- teen snd for repairs Of all kinds, ihrtyone thous- and Ege handred and twenty eight dollars. That inc Secretary of ths Navy is hereby directed 10 cause to be eonstf4eted al each of the navy yards al Kiitery. Philadelphia, and Pensacola, floating dry dock for ships of the line with basin and rail ways al Philadelphia, and reesences thereto as the other NlazsS saeh yflaa may bss EFeferfed by