Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1848-09-01
dred and fifty-nine thousand six hundred and

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eide TO be due to Jerrison and Foster, seven
thousand dollars.
ut Memphis.--For completing comman-
dants house and storehouse; tarring- house
engine and machinery for saw mill timber
shed, and boat builders shop, and wall to en-
close yard; embankmeht and excavations
machinery for ropewalk, and for repairs of all
Kinds, one hundred and seventy -four thousand
and thlrty-eight dollars
At SackettS Harbor.-For the completion
OF officers quarters and for repairs of all kinds
two thousand dollars
For Hospitals, Vi@ AT Boston-For re-
pairing hospital buildings and dependencies,
fences and furnaces, painting, glazing, and
embarrassing, two thousand eight hundred
dollars
For the completion of the marine hospitals
now building, viz: At Plttsburg, ten thousand
dollars; at Cleveland, ten thousand dollars ;
at Louisville, ten thousand dollars.
For the purpose of erecting marine hospi-
tails on the sites owned bv the United States
at the following places, viz:
AT St Louis, ten thousand dollars; at Match
e. ten thousand dollars; at Paducah, ten
thousand dollars.
AT Napoleon, Arkansas, $50 soon as the
government title to the site selected and pur-
chased shall be perfected) ten thousand dollars.
Also Tor the construction of a marine hos.
pItal on such site as shall be selected by the
Secretary of the Treasury on the lands owned
by the United States at Chicago, ten thousand
dollars
At New York.-For purchase from the city
OF New York of waterfront to hospital
lands; for surgeons house; paving, guttering,
and completing sewer. and for current repairs,
twenty thousand and fifty. seven dollars.
AT Washngton.-For current repairs, one
hundred dollars.
At Norfolk.-For repairs of galleries, cells,
bath-house, fence, and surgeons house, one
thousand four hundred dollars and for ma
king necessary repairs tor the marine hospital
at Norfolk, sixteen hundred dollars.
AT Pensaco!a. brcking up ponds and
drain repairs 10 hospital, and for current re-
pairs, six thousand three hundred and seventy
eight dollars.
At Mobile.-For necessary repairs of the
marine hospital, one thousand and ninety dol
lars
For Naga@ines, viS AT Boston, FIVE hun
bred dollars
At New York, FIVE hundred dollars.
At Washington, two hundred dollars.
At Norfolk, one thousand nine hundred and
thirty eight dollars.
Marine Corps.-For pay of officers, non
commissioned officers, musicians, privates, and
servants, serving on shore, subsistence of Off
GERS, and pay for undrawn clothing, two hun
dred and eighty-three thousand dollars
For provisions for marines, serving on
shore, sixty thousand dollars
Forclothing, eighty -one thousand four hun
dred and ninety-two dollars
For fuel, eleven thousand three hundred
and thirty-four dollars.
For military stores, repair of arms, pay of
Announcements, ordnance stores,
flags, drums, flies, and musical instruments,
eight thousand dollars.
For transp ortation of officers and troops, and
for expenses of recruiting, twelve thousand
dollars.
For contingencies, viz:
Freight, ferriage, toll, carriage, wharfage,
to judges advocate, per diem for
attending courts martial, courts of inquiry, and
for constant labor; house rent, in lieu of quar-
ters; burial of deceased marines; printing,
stationery, forage, postage, pursuit Of deser-
tiers; candles, oil, straw, furniture, bed sacks,
spades, axes, shovels, picks, carpenters tools;
keep of horse for messenger, pay of the ma
tron, washerwoman, and porter at hospital
headquarters. twenty-five thousand dollars.
For the relief and protection of American
seamen in foreign countries; further to supply
deficiencies in appropriations made for the ser
vice Of the fiscal year ending the thirtieth
June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, twen-
~ thousand dollars.
SEC. 2 And be 1t further enacted, That
the sum Of seventeen thousand and three hun
dred dollars be, and the same is hereby, ap-
out of any money in the treasury
not otherwise appropriated, for Improvements
and repairs at the naval school at Annapolis,
to be expended as follows For enclosing the
grounds embraced in the new purchase, re-
pairing the houses thereon, docking, grading,
and improving the grounds, six thousand eight
hundred dollars
For repairing and timing superintendent
house, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For building an arsenal. five hundred dol
lars.
For raising the row of houses occupied by
professors, one story, six thousand dollars.
For completing mess-room and lyceum, five
hundred dollars.
For painting outside of houses, and other
necessary repairs, one thousand five hundred
dollars.
For five engines and apparatus, complete,
five hundred dollars.
Sec. 8. A,ad be 1t further enacted, That in
execution of the act approved March third,
eighteen hundred and forty seven, making ap-
preparations for the naval service, &c, direc.
ing among other things the construction of
floating dry-docks at the navy-yards at Phila.
lelphia, Pensacola, and kittery, and in purs'l-
lnce of the reports in favor of the two plans
hereinafter named as best adapted to naval
made by board of officers appoin-
led to examine all the plans, and by the Bu-
reau of Yards and Docks, the Secretary of the
Navyis hereby directed forthwith to enter in
10 contract with Samuel D. Dakin and Ruth
eTford Moody, for the complete construction,
within a reasonable time from the date Of the
contract, of sectional floating dry-dock, ba-
sin, and railways, at the navy-yard at Phila-
1elphia, according to the plan and specifica-
ions submitted by them to the Navy Depart
merit: and also to enter into contract with
John S. Gilbert and Zeno Secor for the COM
Dete construction, within a reasonable time
rom the date of the contract, OF balance
floating dry-dock, basin, and railways, al the
navv-yard at Pensacola, according to the plan
and Specifications submitted by them to the
NAVY Department; and also to enter into
contract with one or the other Of the res
Dective parties above named, for the complete
construction, within a reasonable time from
he date of the contract, at the naVy-yard at
Kitterv, of floating drydock, basin, and rail-
WAYS. upon either of the above named plans
that the said Secretary may prefer as best