Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1848-09-01


letters furniture Tor government houses fuel
OIL, and candles for navy yards and shore STA.
tons' cleaning ard clearing up yards: watch.
men and incidental labor not chargeable to 4,
ny other appropriation labor Attending the de.
livery OF stores aid supplies on foreign sta.
tons wharfage. dockage. and rent TRAVELLING
expenses OF ofhcers; funeral expenses; store
ana once rent; stationery, and fuel TO navy
agents, and storekeepers flags, awnings, and
packing boxes; premiums and other expenses
OF recruiting; experimenting deserters; pei
diem pay to persons attending courts-martial
and courts OF inquiry, or other service author
lieu oy law; pay to Judge advocates; pilot.
age and toWage of vessels; assistance render.
Gu 10 vessels In distress, seven hundred thou
sand dollars. And the Secretary of the Navy
IS hereby authorized, from the sum aforesaid
without further notice or advertisement, Out
OF the appropriation for provisions, TO pur.
chase, at his discretion, sufficient quantity
OF Hour and corn-meal prepared and dried by
the process and machinery invented by J. R
Stafford, OF OHIO, to be sent to different naval
stations, to test It's capacity to resist the nf1u-
ence OF tine and climate, and to ascertain what
advantage there may be in introducing the
use OF the same in the navy.
For the transportation of the United States
mail between New York and Liverpool be-
tween New York and New Orleans, and Ha-
Vana and Chagres and between Panama and
Astoria, under the act of the third of March,
eighteen hundred and forty-seven, eight hun
bred and seventy-four thousand six hundred
dollars. And the Secretary of the Navy is
hereby directed 10 advance to the contractors
tor said service, or TO their assignees, for the
purpose of enabling them to finish the steam
ships contracted for under their respective
contracts, the sum of twenty five thousand
dollars per month on each of said ships, after
such ship SHALL have been launched but the
money so advanced under any one of said
contracts chall not exceed the amount of one
years compensation, stipulated for in such
contract, TO be secured in all cases by lien
on said ships, in such manner as the Secreta-
ry OF the Navy may require and the money
so advanced shall be faithfully expended in
finishing said ships TO the satisfaction of the
Secretary of the Navy; and compensation on
the contract from Panama to Astoria shall
commence from the time the ships are ready
for service, and placed at the disposal of the
United States; the said annual compensation,
however, not to commence until first October,
eighteen hundred and forty EIGHT Provided,
That the contractor for the line from Panama
to Astoria, as the condition of this advance,
be required 10 stop and deliver and take mails
at San Diego, San Francisco, and Monterey, in
California, If required so to do by the Secre-
tary OF the Navy, with the concurrence of the
Postmaster General Ind provided further,
That, IN consideration of the foregoing ad-
vance, the line of steamers provided in the
contract with A. S. Sloo shall stop, going and
returning, at Charleston, if practicable, and
Savannah.
For contingent expenses for objects not
herelnbefOre enumerated, two thousand dollars
10 pay arrearages due for grading Univer-
slty square, and other expenses, for the con-
struction of the depot for charts and instru-
ments, being a transportation in part of
sum carried to the surplus fund heretofore ap-
proprlated for that purpose, ten thousand for
ty-three dollars and seventy-seven cents
For furnishing the marine hospital building
at New Orleans, seven thousand five hundred
dollars.
For " meteorological observations" to be
conducted under the direction of the Secretary
of the Navy, two thousand dollars.
For the establishment of a depot for naval
stores, which the Secretary of the Navy is
hereby required to cause to be located at or
near the city of New Orleans, twenty thou
sand dollars
For the construction, extension, and compile
ton of the following objects, and for the cur
rent repairs at the several navy yards, viz
At Portsmouth-For completing quay wall
and wharf, and wharf number one wall west
side of ship-hOuse number four, and filling
in timber shed opposite number seven, and
addition to smithery |; brick powder maya
Hv+ G,o fire
to FORCES; and for repairs of all kinds, fifty
five hundred and fifty lone dollars.
1t B0StOn.-For timber shed number thirty
seven, and pier wharf at angle number fifty
nine; coal house near dry-dock, and pier
wharf in rear of carpenters and joiner's shop :;
for eight knee docks, and tracks for stowage
Of guns in gun park ; for completing brick
barn and repairs of ali kinds, ninety seven
three hundred and fifty one dollars
At NeU York.-For iron and copper store,
cooperage, cob wharf, and filling in timber
pond; dredging channels and wharf in front
of hospital lands steam engine in sm,thery,
steam pipes, sc and cistern for each reser-
voir, paving, and tagging, and granite skids,
and platforms for cannon, and for repairs of
all kinds, one hundred and SIX thousand dol
lars.
For the dry dock, three hundred and fifty
dollars.
For the purchase by the Secretary of the
NAVY of the land, above and under water,
bounded by Flushing avenue, in the city OF
BROOKLYN, in the State of New York, the Uni
ted States navy ward, hospital grounds, and
the WaIlabout bay to the channel, two hun
dred and eighty-fye thousand dollars: Pror-
ded, That no part of said sum of money shall
be applied to the payment of the purchase mo-
new until a good and perfect title Is secured to
the United States for the said land and It's ap-
purtenances.
At Philade7phia.-For removing and eX-
tending ship-house G.; completing wharf mum.
Der two; dredging machine; and repairs OF
all kinds, fourteen thousand five hundred dol
Jars.
At Washington-For chain cable FORCES,
and fitting part of number eleven for boiler
shop: steam hammer for smiths shop, and al
eration in hydraulic proving machine; con-
vprtinq ioiner's shop in number twelve to
mould loft, and steam hammer in place OF OLD
tiltbammer; ordnance workshops, and extend
mo brass foundry; extending blacksmlth'S
shop and iron store under N, and hnlsmng
shon for smithery; converting old foundry
INTO stables, and for repairs OF all kinds, thlr-
rv.two thousand four hundred and eighteen
dollars
At Norfok.-Fo- extension Of quay walls;
slip forty-eight, and for the store
house number nineteen brick stables; steam
hammer and engine; brick gun place. coal
II 1o,1;n~ wharf culvert drill press