The North-Carolina standard., 1849-02-21
expenses Of recruiting, twelve thousand dollars.

courts-mara courts of inquiry, and for constant Ia
Dor house-rent lieu of quarters burial of deceas-
ed marines; printing, stationary, forage postage.
pursuit of deserters candles, ol straw, furniture,
bed sacks, spades, axes, shovels picks carpenters,
tools keep ofa horse for messenger pay of the mat
ron, washerwoman and porter at hospital headquar-
tiers, twenty-five thousand dollars. H-@-a 4 -..S3'
For the relief and protection of American seaEnen
in foreign countless further to supply deficiencies in
appropriations made the service of the fiscal year
ending thirtiet June, eighteen hundred and forty
eight, twenty thousand dollarsJp .-'f..a - -
SEC. 9. lind be 1T further enacted That the sum of
seventeen thousand and three dollars be- and
the same is hereby. appropriated, out OF any money
in the treasury not otherwise appropriately for inn
provements and repairs at the naval school at Annap
oils, to be expended follows For enclosing the
grounds embraced in the purchase, repairing the
house thereon, docking, grading, and improving the
grounds, six thousand eight hundred dollars. - -
For repairing and timing superintendent's house,
thousand five hundred dollars - t. i g. ,-',-.'
For building arsenal, five hundred dollars.
For raising the row of houses occupied by profess
sors, one story, six thousand dollars.
For completing mess-room and lyceum, five hum
dred dollars I'.
For painting outside of houses and other necessa-
ry REPAIRS thousand five hundred dollars. ...
For fire engines and apparatus, complete, five hun
dred dollars. 5oeE E..l B., t3 ...a 49, t'''
SEC g. 4nd be IL further enacted, That in execu-
ton of the act approved March third, eighteen hun
dred and forty-seven, making appropriations for the
naval services &C., directing among other things the
construction of floating drydocks at the navy-yards
at Philadelphia Pensacola and Kittery, and pursu
of the reports in favor of the two plans herein
after named best adapted to naval purposes, made
by board of officers appointed to examine all the
plans, and by the Bureau of Yards, and Docks, the
Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed forthwith
to enter into contract with Samuel ID. Dakin and
Rutherford Moody, for the complete construction,
within reasonable. time from the date of the
tract of sectional floating dry-dock,o basin, and
railways, at the navy-yard at Philadelphia. accord
ing to the plan and specifications submitted by them
oils Itafoa
contract with John S. Gilbert and Zono Secor, for
the complete construction, within reasonable time
from the date of the contract of balance floating
dry-dock, basin, and railways. at the naVy-yaFd at
Pensacola according to the plan and specifications
submitted by them to the Navy Department; and
also TO enter into contract with one the other of
the respective parties abeve-named for the complete
construction, within reasonable time from the date
of the contract, the navy-yard Kittery, of float
ing dEY-dock, basn and railways, upon either of the
above-named plans that the said Secretary may prefer
as best adapted to said yards the said works at each
yard be of the largest dimensions proposed In said
plans and specifications: Provided, That in each
such contract can be made at prices that shall
pot exceed by more than ten per cent. the prices
which have been submitted by either of the said
pretorS to the Navy Department Tor floating dry
dock either of said plans, and for the basins and
railways, of the dimensions aforesaid at any of the
said navy-yards': Ind propided further, That the
said Secretary shall also by further contract with
said parties enlarge the dimensions of said
each yard to capacity sufficient for docking war
steamers of the largest class, at least three hundred
and fifty feet in length, if the dmensionsA men
toned should be found adequate for that purpose
SEC. 4. find be 1T further enacted, That the sum
of four hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropr
ated towards said works from any money in the treas
ury otherwise appropriated, which sum- together
with the that remain uneXpended OF the appro-
prations made by said act of March third, eighteen
hundred and fortyseven, for floating drydocks the
three navy-yards aforesaid, shall be applied towards
the payments to be provided for the said contracts
the said works at the three navy-yards aforesaid.
Sec. 5. And be 1T further enacted, That hereafter
the amount of money commutation allowed by law in
lieu of the spirit ration shall be increased to four
cents. .".. ~. t' .'- ''.f .--
Sec. 6. find be II further enacted, That when any
master in the navy, or passed midshipman, holding
an acting appointment master from the Secretary
of the Navy, has performed, shall hereafter per-
form the duty of lieutenant under order of the
of the vessel to which he was or shall
be at the time attached, to supply deficiency in the
established complement of lieutenants of said YES
sels whether belonging to a squadron separate
service, which order shall have been subsequently ap
proved by the Secretary of the Navy, shall be allowed
the pay of master for the period periods during
which he shall have performed such duty. i.-
Sec. 7. find be IL Purifier enacted That in calcula-
ting for the pay Of surgeons in the navy, hereafter,
the time upon the graduated scale of pay shall be
reckoned from their original entry into the service.
SEC. 8. find be il further enacted, That the Secre
tary of the Navy be, and he is hereby directed to
report Congress, at the of the next
session, the number of persons in the naval service
ffogged in each of the years eighteen hundred and
forty-six and eighteen hundred and forty-seven, spe
cifying the name of the ship, the offence, the SEN
tence, and the number of lashes inflicted and it
shall be his duty to make asimar report for each
year thereafter. ,''''.
Sec. g. find be IL further enacted That, on the APP
pcation of the Secretary of the Navy, the President
Of the United States be authorized, when, in his
opinion, the contingencies of the public service may
require it, transfer any portion of the of one
million five hundred thousand dollars of unexpended
balances of former appropriations, mentioned in
the first section of this act, from one head OF appro-
oration to any other head of the appropriations made
for the naval service; and in all of such trans
fer special account of the moneys transferred and
heir application, shall be laid before Congress at
each session, previous to its adjournment.
SEC. 10. find be it further enacted, That it shall
,e the duty of the Postmaster General, under the
lirecton of the President to the net receipts
If postages collected the several lines Disclaimers
rom New York to LIVERPOOL, from New York to
Chagres and from Panama to some point In the Ter
itory of Oregon, stipulated for in contracts made
With the Secretary of the Navy, TO be deposited in
he treasury to the credit of the appropriation for the
annual compensation for the service to be rendered
lnder said contracts, or otherwise apply the said
,ostages in payment of the said annual compesatoh.
SEC. IL. .4sd be IT. further enucted That so much of
he proyiso of the-act of third of March, thou,
and eight hundred and forty y-three, entitled " An
ct making appropriations for the naval service for
he half calendar year beginning the first of Janua
w. and ending the thirteth of JuneI one thousandI
light hundred and forty -four, &C., requires that
materials of every and nature for the 7of
he navy be furnished by contract with the lowest
idder, be, and the same is hereby far modified,
hat it shall be lawful for the Secretary of the Navy,
ereafter, into contract for tobacco, fromme
time as the service requires, for period notex-
eeeding four years; and in making such contracts
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