The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-08-11
TPUpLIc--No. ISL

.E PUpLIc--No. ISL
AN ACT making appropriations for the naval service for
the year ending the hrieh of june thousand eight
hundred and forty-nlne ttr.s
BE snacd by the Senate and House Of Representatives Of
the United STATES Of america in Congress assembled That the
following be appropriated for the naval for the
year ending June the thousand eight hundred and
ortynne, out of any unapproprated money in the treas
ury, in addition TO the sun of one million five hundred
thousand dollars of the unexpended balances of former
preparations for the naval service The remainder of such
unexpended balances, after deductng the said of
million five hundred thousand dollars, be carried to the
surplus fund.
For pay of commission, warrant, and petty officers, and
seamen, including the engineer corps of the navy mil
lion one hundred and eghynine thousand two hundred
and eleven dollars
For pay of superintendent, naval constructors and all
the civil establishments the several navy yards seventy
four thousand two hundred and twenty dollars.
For provisions for commissions warrant, and petty Off
and scame including engineers and marnes attached
to vessels for sea service hundred and sevenyseyen
thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars.
For neccssares and appliances for the sick and
hurt of the navy including the marine corps
thousand five hundred dollars.
For increase repair, armament and equipment for the
navy, including and of vessels in commission
coal for steamers, purchase of hemp and million two
hundred thousand dollars for completing four 6rsass
steamers million five hundred and thirtyone thousand
four hundred and seventy-four dollars.
For ordnance and ordnance stores including incidental
expenses hundred and eighteen thousand four hundred
and twenty dollars.
For nautical books maps, charts, instruments, binding
and repairing the same and all expenses of the hydroga
phica Office, thryfve thousand dollars And the Secre
ary Of the Navy is hereby directed to expend five thou
sand dollars, much thereof may be necessary, in
causing the observations to be made which have been
Gently recommended to him by the American Philosophical
Society and the Academy Of Arts and Sciences
For the pay Of the superintendent of the Naval Observ
tory at Washington city, who shall be captain command
err or lieutenant in the navy three thousand dollars which
shall be the salary annum of said superintendent And
the provision in the entitled An act making appropr
atoms for the naval for the year ending the theh
of June, thousand eight hundred and oryegh which
fhaca uyordC c,dp nd hnlla
for pay of the superintendent who shall be either captain
commander lieutenant in the navy" shall be construed
to apply to the superintendent Of said Naval Observatory,
and shall take effect from and after the passage of that
For contingent expenses that may for the follow
ing purposes, freight and transportation printing and
stationery advertising in newspapers books models
and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines and
chinery repair of and attending engines in yards;
purchase and support of horses and oxen, and driving
teams timber Wheels and the purchase and repair Of
workmens tools postage of public letters furniture for
government houses fuel OIL and candles for navy yards
and shore staons cleaning and clearing up yards watch
and incidental labor chargeabe any other appro
priaton labor attending the delivery of and sup
plies foreign statons wharfage, dockage, and rent
travelling expenses Of officers funeral expenses and
Office rent; stationery and fuel navy agents, and store
keepers flags, awnings and packing boxes premiums and
other expenses of ecrung experimenting dcserters
diem pay persons attending courtsaa and courts of
inquiry, other service authorized by law pay to judge
advocates potage and owage of vessels assistance
dered to vessels DISTRESS hundred thousand dollars
And the Secretary of the Navy hereby authorized from
without turtncr
out OF the appropriation for provisions purchase at his
discretion sufficient quantity Of -four and cornmeal pre-
pared and dried by the process and machinery invented by
j. R. Stafford, of Ohio, to be different naval stations,
TO test its capacity to resist the influence OF time and eli
mate, and to ascertain what advantage there may be in
Producing the use of the same for the navy
For the transportation of the United States mail between
New York and Liverpool between New York and New
Orleans and Havana and Chagros and between Panama
and Astoria under the act Of the third of March, eighteen
hundred and orty-seven, eight hundred and seventy
thousand six hundred dollars. And the Secretary of the
Navy hereby directed to advance to the contractors for
said service, their assgnees for the purpose Of
bling them finish the steamships contracted for under their
respective contracts the Of twenty-five thousand dol
lars per month each Of said ships, after such ship shall
have been launched but the money so advanced under
of said contracts shall exceed tho amount Of
years compensation stipulated for such contract 70 be
occurred in all by lien ad ships in such manner
the Secretary Of the Navy may require and the money
advanced shall be faithfully expended in finishing sand
ships the satisfaction Of the Secretary Of the Navy and
compensation from Panama Astoria tha
commence from the time the ships ready for service and
placed at the disposal Of the United States the said anua
compensation, however, not to commence until hrs Qcto-
ber eighteen hundted fortyeight Provided That the
contractor for the ne from Panama to Astoria thscon
d'ton Of this avance be required stop and deivst and
take mails at San Diego, San Francisco and Monterey, in