Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-08-26

lions wharfage dockage, ana rent us'ens EXPENSES
officers funeral expenses store and ONCE rent stationery
and fuel 10 navy agents and oekeepers flags awnings and
packing boxes premiums and other expenses OF recruiting
apprehendng deserers per diem pay to attending
martial and courts OF inquiry, or other service aulho
rzed by pay judge advocates ploage and towage OF
vessels assistance rendered to vessels in Distress hun
dred thousand dollars And the Secretary of the Navy
hereby authorized from the aforesaid, without further
notice or dvesemen OF the appropriation for provisions
10 purchase his disceton sufficient quantity OF flour and
corn meal prepared and dried by the process and machinery
invented by j. r. Stafford, of Ohio be sent to different
naval Stations test its capacity 10 resist the influence OF
time and climate and to ascertain what advantage there may
be in Introducing the OF the same for the navy.
For the transportation Of the United States mail between
New York and Liverpool; between New York and New Or
leans and Havana and Chagres and between Panama and
Astoria under the act OF the third OF March, eighteen hundred
and eight hundred and sevenyiour thousand SIX
hundred dollars And the Secretary Of the Navy hereby
directed advance the contractors for said service or to
their assgnees for the purpose OF enabling them to hnsh the
steamships contracted for under their respective contracts me
twenty five thousand dollars month ON each said
ships such ship shall have been launched but the mo-
ney advanced under any OF said contracts shall not
exceed the of years compensation stipulated LOT
in such contract to be secured 10 all cases by lien on sad
Ships such the Secretary OF The Navy may re-
cure and the advanced shall be faithfully expended
in finishing said ships the satisfaction OF the Secretary OF
the Navy and compensation on the from Panama 10
Astoria shall commence from the time the shps are reaa lot
service and placed the disposal Of the United States the
said annual compensation, however, not to commence until
first OF October eighteen hundred and Prorded
That the contractor the neom Panama TO Astoria,
the condition of this advance be required TO stop and deliver
and take mails San Diego, San Francisco and Monterey
in California if required do by the Secretary OF the
Navy with the Of the Postmaster General And
provided further That in consideration OF the foregoing adj
vance line Of provided in the contract with A.
S. Soo shall stop, going and returning, Charleston, prac
ticable, and Savannah
For contingent expenses for objects not heenbefore emu
merated, two thousand dollars.
other expenses for the OF the depot Tor charts
and instruments being reappopnauon In part OF sum
carried the surplus fund heretofore appropriated Tor that
purpose thousand forty three dollars and seveny-seven
cents
For furnishing the marine hospital building at New Or
leans 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 depot for naval stores, which
the Secretary the Navy hereby required to cause to be
located at or the city Of New Oleans twenty thousand
dollars &c.. |
For the construction extension, and completion of the
following Objects and for the current repairs at the several
AT PORTSMOUTH.
For completing quay wall and wharf, and wharf number |
one wall side of ship house number four, and filling in
timber shed opposite number and addition TO smthery
l. brick powder magazine; engine fixtures DC for blow
fires orges; and for repairs of all kinds, nifty thousand
five hundred and fifty-one dollars
"A Il
For timber shed number thirty seven and pier wharf at
angle number fifty mine coahouse ydock and pier
wharf in rear carpenters and ones shops for eight knee
DOCKS and tracks for stowsge OF in gun park for COM
pleting brick barn and repairs of all kinds, ninety
thousand three hundred and fifty one dollars.
AT NEW YORK
For iron and copper store, cooperage, cobwhar and fill
ing timber pond; dredging channels and wharf IN front OF
hospital lands steam engine in smthery steam pipes, &c,
and cstern for each reservoir, paving and Tagging, and
nite andp
kinds one hundred and six thousand dollars.
For the dry Dock three hundred and fifty thousand dollars
For the purchase by the Secretary Of the Navy Of land
above and under water bounded by Flushing avenue the
city Of Brooklyn in the State Of New York, the United
States navy yard, hospital grounds and the Waabout bay
the channel hundred and eighty thousand dollars
Prordd Thano part OF said of money shall be applied
the payment Of the purchase money until good and
title secured to the United States for the said land and
AT PHILADELPHIA.
For removing and extending shiphouse G.; completing
wharf numbertwo dredging machine and repairs Of aIknds
fourteen thousand five hundred dollars
AT WASHINGTON.
For chain cable foges and fitting part Of number eleven for
boiler shop steam hammer for smiths shop, and alteration
in hydraulic proving machine converting joners shop in
number twelve to mould LOTT and hammer in place Of
old tilt hammer ordnance workshops and extending brass
foundry extending blacksmhs shop and iron under ~
and finishing shop for smihery converting old foundry into
stables and for repairs Of all kinds, hywo thousand four
hundred and eighteen dollars.
AT NORFOLK.
For extension OF quay walls completing slip ioryelght
and for the stohouse number nineteen brick stables steam
hammer and engine brick gun place. coal house. and landing
wharf; cuver drill press punching machine and cutting
shears and for repairs Of all kinds hundred and forty
thousand one hundred and ihirty-six dollars.
AT PENSACOLA.
For two thd-class officers houses completing timber shed
number tweny-siI dredge machine four Off
GERS houses and guard house paint shop and
rail tracks permanent wharf drain in Of officers quar-
wharf and rail track front Of torehouse number twen
iysx paving grading planting trees and leyelng and for
repairs Of all kinds hundred and fifty nine thousand six
hundred and twenty-fy dollars
For construction, part Of timber shed at said navy
yard, fifty thousand dollars
For Of such aearages the Secretary the Navy
may in law and equity decide be due Jeson and Fos
ter seven thousand dollars.
AT MEMPHIS.
For completing commandants house and sorehouse tar
ring house engine and machinery for mill timber shed
and boat-bulders shop and wall enclose yard emhank
and excavations machinery for ropewak, and for re-
pairs kinds one hundred and seventy thousand and
thirty eight dollars.
AT sACKETTs HARBoR.
For the completion Of officers quarters aud for repairs Of
all kinds, two thousand dollars.
FOR HOSPITALS, viz:
At Boston.-For repairing hospital buildings and Deepen
denotes, fences and furnaces painting glazing and white
washing two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For the completion Of the marine hospitals building,
VIZ At PItisburg, ten thousand dollars Cleveland ten
thousand dollars at Louisville, ten thousand dollars.
For the purpose Of erecting marine hospitals the sites
owned by the United States at the following places,