The North-Carolina standard., 1849-02-21
GPUBLIC-No. 1911

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An Act making appropriations for the naval service
for the year ending the thirtieh of June, one thou
sand eight hundred and forty-nine.
SEC. 1. Be IL enacted by the Senate and House OF
Representatives Of the United States Of Rnerfca in Con-
gress assembled, That the following sans be aPPro-
prated for the naval service for the year ending June
hirtieth one thousand eight hundred and fortynne,
out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, in
addition to the of million five hundred thou
sand dollars of the unexpended balances OF former
Appropriations for the naval service The remainder
of such unexpended balances after deducting the
said sum of million FIVE hundred thousand dol
lars to be carried to the surplus fund.
For pay of commission, warrant, and petty officers,
and seanen, including theengineer copsof the navy,
two millions hundred and eighty-nine thousand
two hundred and eleven dollars. .-....--...---
For the pay of the superintendent of the Naval
Observatory at Washington city, who shall be cap
tain, commander, or lieutenant in the navy, three
thousand dollars which shall be the salary per
of said superintendent. And the provision in the act
entitled An act making appropriations for the naval
service for the year ending the thirtieth of June,
thousand eight hundred and forty-eight,'' which is
in these words viz: including three thousand dol
lars for pay of the superintendent, who shall be either
a captain, commanders or 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 act .y< ,s.t
For paw of superntendents, naval constructors, and
all the civil establishments at the several navy yards
lars. $50 siz-s. 5'-={A 81 s9 H -
For provisions for commissicn warrant; and petty
officers, and seamen, including engineers and ma
rnes, attached TO vessels for six hundred
and seventy-seven thousand eight hundred and sixty
dollars -t.5aaizs 90 so = -f---'''+ taE5'AN
For surgeons neeessaTies and appliances for the
sick and hurt of the navy including the corps,
twenty-eig thousand five, hundred dollars
For increase, repair, afrnaments and equipment for
the navy including and tear of vessels inscona
mission, coal for steamers, purchasesgf hemp, and
one million two hundred thousand dollars for COM
pleng four frst-class steamers, two millions five
Hundred and thfrty-one thousand four hundred and
For ordnance and ordnance stores, including incl
dental expenses, two hundred and eighteen thousand
four hundred and twenty dollars go - t.i
For nautical books maps charts, instruments, bind
ing and repairing the same, and all expenses OF the
hydrographical office, thirty-fve thousand dollars
And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed to
expend five thousand dellaTsspr much thereof as
may be necessary, in causing the observations to be
made which have been recently recommended 10 him
by the American Philosophical Society and the Acad-
emy OF Arts and Sciences. -.
following purposes, viz reig mt and transportation
printing and stationery ;radvertising IN newspapers
books maps models, and drawings; purchase and
repair of FIRE engines and machinery repair of and
attending on steam engines in yards; purchase and
support of horses and oxen, and driving teams carts
timber wheels, and the purchase and repair of work
mems tools postage of public letters furniture for
government houses fuel, OIL, ana cdndleS loI navy
yards and shore stations; cleaning and clearing UP
Yards watchen and Incidental labor not chargeable
to any other appropriations labor attending the de-
livery of stores and supplies on foreign stations
wharfage dockage, and rent travelling expenses OF
officers funeral expenses; store and office rent; sta
tionery and fuel to navy agents and storekeepers
flags, awnings, and packing boxes; premiums and
other expenses of recruiting ;apprehendng deserers
per diem paw to persons attending courts martial,
and courts of inquiry, other service authorized by
law; paw to Judge advocates plGotage and towage
of vesses assistance rendered to vessels In distress
seven hundred thousand dollars. And the Secretary
of the Navy Is hereby authorized, from the sum
aforesaid, without further notice advertisement,
out of the appropriation for PROVISIONS to purchase
at his discretion sufficient quantity of flour and
corn-meal prepared and dried by the process and
machinery invented by j. r. Stafford, of Ohlo to be
different naval stations, to test its capacity to-
resist the influence of time and climate and to ascer
tain what advantage there may be IN introducing the
use of the same for the navy. -
For the transportation of the nlted States mall
between New York and Liverpool, between New |
York and New Orleans, and Havana and Chagres,
and between Panama and Astoria, under the act OF
the third of March, hundred and toryseven
eight hundred and seVentyfour thousand SIX hundred
dollars. And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby
directed to advance the Contractors for said seryIce
or to their assgnees for the purpose OF enabling them
to finish the steamships contracted Tor under thelr
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 of said contracts shall not
exceed the amount of years compensation. stip-
nated for in such contract to be secured in all cases
by lien on said ships, in such manner as the Sec
retary of the Navy may require; and the money so
advanced shall be faithfully IN finishing said
ships to the satisfaction of Secretary of the Navy a
and compensation on the contract from Panama to
Astoria shall commence from the time the ships are4
ready for servce and placed at the disposal of the
United States; the said annual compensation, how
ever, not to commence until first October eighteen
hundred and forty-eght: PrOUded That the contrac-
tor for the ne from Panama to Astoria, as the con-
dtOn of this advance be required to stop and deliver
and take mails at San Diego, San Francisco, and
Monterey, in California, if required SO to do by the
Secreary of the Navy, with the concurrence of the
postmaster General find prOyided Jrther That, IN
Consideration of the foregoing advance, the line OF
steamers provided in the contract with A. S. Sloo