Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-08-26
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lPuBLIc-No. 1871
AN ACT making appropriations for the naval service for the
year ending the threth Of June thousand eight hun
dred and forty-nine.
Be enacted BIZ the Senate and House Of Representatives.
Of The United States Of America ia Congress assembled,
That the following be appropriated for the naval
vice. for the year ending June theth thousand eight
hundred and forty nne out Of any unaPprpated money in
the Treasury, in addition the sum Of one million five hun
dred thousand dollars Of the uneSPended balances OF former
appropriations for the naval service The remainder of such
nexpended balances after deducting the said of
million FIVE hundred thousand dollars to be carried the
plus fund
For paw Of commission, warrant, and petty officers and
seamen including the engineer corps OF the navy two mil
hon hundred and thousand two hundred AID
eleven dollars.
For psy Of supernendent naval constructors and all the
civil establishments the several navy yards seventy four
thousand two hundred and twenty dollars.
For provisions for commission, warrant and petty officers.
and seamen including engineers and Marines attached
sells for service hundred and seventy thousand
eight hundred and sixty dollars
For surgeons necessaes and appliances for the sick and
hurt Of the navy including the marine corps, twenyesht
thousand five hundred dollars.
For increase repair ornament and equipment or the navy,
including and tear Of vessels in commission coal tor
steamers purchase OF hemp, and million hundred
thousand dollars for completing four rscass steamers
million five hundred and hirty-oue thousand four hundred
and sevcnty-four dollars.
For ordnance and ordnance stores including incidental
pense 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 hydrogrophcal
office hiry-ve thousand dollars. And the Secretary Of the
Navy hereby directed expend FIVE thousand dollars,
much thereof may be necessary in causing the obserys-
tons be made which have been recently recommended to
him by the American Philosophical Society and the Academy
Of Arts and Sciences.
For the pay Of the superintendent Of the Naval Observatory
Washington city, who shall be captain, commander,
lieutenant in the navy three thousand dollars which shall be
the salary per OF said superintendent And the pro-
vision in the entitled can making appropriations for
the for the year ending the threh Of June
thousand eight hundred and forty eight which in these
words viz "ncudng three thousand dollars for pay Of the
superintendent who shall be either captain, commander or
Lieutenant in the navy shall be construed TO apply to the SUI
perntenden Of said Naval Observatory, and shall take effect
from and after the passage Of that act.
For contingent expenses that may for the following
purposes viz freight and transportation printing and sta
,ionery advertising in newspapers books maps MODELS
and drawings purchase and repair Of fire engines and ma
chiney repair Of and attending engines 10 yards
purchase and support Of horses and and driving teams
carts timber wheels and the purchase and repair o. WORK
mems tools postage Of public letters furniture Tor uoyen
men houses fuel oil and candles for navy yards ana snO's