The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-03-06


| AT MEMPHIS.
FOR backsmts shops steam engine and boilers for rope
walk; Joiners shop and store-house Zone wing y saw
mill commandments house and offices; foundation Of wall
to enclose yard embankment and excavation for re-
pairs OF all kinds one hundred and two thousand hun
AT sAcKETTs HARBoR.
For construction OF officers quarters and for repairs
For the Improvement repairs the several navy hos
pitfalls, viz;
AT Chelsea five thousand four hundred and eighty dol
AT Brooklyn, twenty-five thousand three hundred and
At Gospor, five thousand hundred thirty
four dollars
| At Washington one hundred dollars,
At Pensacola thirty thousand four hundred and ibryone
dollars and seventy-fve
| At Charleston Massachusetts, hundred dollars.
| AT Brooklyn, eight hundred dollars
| AT Washington one hundred dollars
| AT Gosport, three hundred dollars
| MARINE CORPS.
For pay of officers, officers, musicians
prvates and servants serving Shore and subsistence
officers, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
For clothing, forty thousand five hundred and forty eight
For fuel, fifteen thousand four hundred and sxty-nine
dollars
couremens ordnance Stores flags drums, fes and lnu-
steal Instruments four thousand three hundred and five dol
lars
For transportation of officers and troops and for expenses
OF rec recrultlng, eight thousand dollars
For repair OF barracks and rent of temporary barracks,
six thousand dollars.
Freight, ferrage, TOLL wharfage, and cartage compen-
saon to judge advocates diem for attending
martial and courts OF INQUIRY per diem to enlisted men
assigned the burial OF deceased marines printing,
Candles nd oil straw baack rn Iu OF bed e'' SACKS
spades axes, shovel picks, TOOLS und keeping
horse for the messenger, fifteen thousand dollars
teen hundred and ortytwo, entitled San making APP
eight hundred and torywo shall be APP
plying TO the appointment oboatswains, gunners, capei
SEC. 2. Ind be it further eaeted, That so much Of the
OF the act of third OF March, eighteen hundred aud
the. naval service for the half calendar year begin
ming the first OF January and ending the ,hifteth day of
that provisions and all other materials Of every name
and nature, for the of the navy, be furnished by
be and the is hereby far modified that shall
apply to butter cheese destined for the of navy,
contracts for those articles Tor the the navy be made
asereoiore, for periods longer than year, if in the
quality Of the ration will be promoted thereby.
SEC. D. dnd De further enacted, That the act of June
making appropriations for naval serv ice for the s
cal year ending the hirieh day OF June eighteen hundred
Navy shall order competent commissioned or warrant
officer OF the take charge of the naval for for
eign squadrons in place of naval sorekeepers
foreign ports where said may be deposited, and
where sorekeePer is necessary" be- and the same is
ponunent of citizens other than naval officers
keepers on foreign stations when suitable naval officers
cannot be ordered such service, when opinion
OF the Secretary OF the Navy the pusc interest will be pro-
NOTED thereby Persons selected and appointed
ceive the compensation allowed, aud
INTO bond WITH security as required by law OF officers OF
the navy performing said service.
SEo = hnd DC further enacted, That the pay OF remen
and coaheayers employed in the naval scrvce shall here
after be fixed by the President of the United States,
same manner rs is provided by law for the pay of
other petty officers and of seamen ordinary seamen and
narnes ana 50 much OF the act OF Congress approved
- n, act 70 regulate the appointment and pay oenginees
and coahcavers be, and the same hereby repealed
SEc. 5. And be further enacted, That the money APP
propated in this act for pay OF the navy" and contin-
geut expenses enumerated, amount exceeding
tyegh thousand and hundred dollars may be expontl-
repairs, improvements, and instructions Fort Severn
Annapolis Maryland and for the purchase of land for the
of the naval school at that place. not exceeding twelve
acres.
SEC And be it further enacted, That in every
the loss capture OF vessel belonging the navy of the
United States the accounting officers OF the treasury, under
the direction of the Secretary of the Navy shall be- and
OF the purse Of such vessel, credit him witt, such portion
OF the amount OF The provisions clothing small stores and
Fourth Auditor the Treasury, they shall be satisfied
was inevitably lost by such capture loss of public
SELL and such prser shall be fully exoneraed by such cred
it, from all liability Of the provisions clothing
small stores and money proved to have been captured
SEC 7. And be further enacted, That the Secretary Of
the Navy be- and he hereby authorized and directed
direction and superintendent of Uriah Brown shall
thoroughly test the efficient properties Of liquid fire.
invention Of said Brown for the coast and harbor de-
fence; said experiments to be made in the pres
rotary of the Navy for that purpose and it shall be the
duty of the said Secretary to report to Congress at the
experiments and his opinion whether the interest of the
United States would be promoted by adopting this nven
ton of national defence That said Brown
shall receive the sum OF six dollars day while engaged
in making said experiments together with all his travelling
and other necessary expenses Prorded He shall be
employed for time exceeding SIX months And that
sum not exceeding thousand dollars be, and the
is hereby appropriated of any money in the treasury
otherwise appropriated for deruyng the expenses Of
said experiments.
APPROVED March 3, 1917.
IPUBIIc-No. 30
AN ACT making appropriations for the payment OF navy