Southern shield., 1850-11-16


 wing teams; carts, timber wheels and the purchase and repair of workman's tools post age of public letters, furniture for govern ment houses, fuel, oil and candles, for navy yards and store stations, cleaning and clear | ing up yards; watchmen and incidental la bor not chargeable to any other appropria- ! tion; labor attending on the delivery of stores and supplies OF foreign stations; wharfage, dockage and rent, traNelng ex- penses of officers, funeral expenses, store and office rent, stationery and fuel to navy agents and storekeepers, flags, awnings and l packing cases, premiums and other expen- ses of recruiting, experimenting deserters, per diem pay to persons attending. courts martial and courts of inquiry,a and other ser vices authorized by law, pay to judge advo- cates, pilotage and towage of vessels, and assistance rendered to vessels in distress, five hundred and thirty-two thousand one hundred and forty y-fve dollars.
 For transportation of the United States ma between New York and Liverpool, between New York and New Orleans, Ha- vana, and Chagres, and between Panama and some points in the Territory of Oregon, eight hundred and seventy-four thousand six hundred dollars: Prouided, That 10 pay ment shall be made for said services except in proportion to the mail service heretofore performed or that may be hereafter perform ed; and that the Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed to make payment in said proportion only: P,ovided, That fogging in the navy and on board vessels of com merce be and the same is hereby abolished from and after the passage of this act.
 And that no midshpman in the navy shall be appointed from any Congressional district having, at the time of appointment more than two officers of that grade in the navy from such district; and whenever an appointment shall be made from any State, 1 the person so appointed shall be an actual resident of the Congressional district from which the appointment purports to be made, And proUided further, That such Congress- ional district of any State as may not have any midshipmen in the navy at the time an appointment may be made from said State, shall be entitled to at least one appointment before any other shall be made from any district of the State having one or more of ficers of that grade in the navy.
 For preparing for publication the Amer ican Nautical Almanac, twelve thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
 Provided, that hereatter,,the meridian of the Observatory at Washington shall be ad- opted and used as the American meridian for all astronomical purposes, and that the meridian of Greenwich shall be adopted for all nautical purposes.
 And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed in making contracts and purchases of articles for naval purposes, to give the preference, all other things Gncluding price and quaity( being equal, to articles of the growth, production, and manufacture ot the United States; and that in the artcl e of | fuel for the navy or naval stations and yards, the Secretary of the Navy shall have pow CT to discriminate and purchase, in such manner as he may deem proper, that kind offuel which is best adapted to the purpose for which it is to be used.
 And the pay ofthe Superintendent of the Naval School at Annapolis, shall be at the rate allowed to an officer of his rank when in service at sea.
 For construction, extension, and compile ton of the following objects, and for contin- gent repairs at the several navy yards viz: AT PORTSMOUTH, N. II.
 For brick stables, limehouse, coal-house, filling in wharf east of bridge, filling III wharf east of timber shed, machinery and tools for smithery, and for repairs of all kinds, thirty one thousand six hundred and seventy-three dollars. AT BOSTON.
 For store-house on number thirty-slX, stone skids in timber shed number thirty three, stone skds in timber shed number thirty-eight, pav- ing in front and rear of carpenters and joiners' shops, completing sail-loft and cordage store, mastmakers' shed, N. Pedrick's patent fiers, drains between timber sheds, and repairs of all kinds, one hundred and eight thousand five hun dred dollars.
 AT NEW YORK.
 For one officers house, one work and ma chine shop, quay walls, dredging channels, sewer from city drain, house on gun block, re- moving coner dam and dredging in front of dock. and for repairs of all kinds, one hundred and nineteen thousand five hundred dollars. AT PHILADELPHIA. | For extending wharves numbers one, two, and four, extending ways in ship-house G, moving ship-house r, and extending ways, two ! culverts and moving shears, raising roof of smithery raising roof of timber shed five, fill ing up old timber dock, iron railing front of officers houses, and for repairs of all kinds, eighty thousand and ninety-three dollars; and the pay of the engineer, Ward B. Burnett, at the navy yard, Philadelphia, two thousand three hundred and fifty dollars, commencing at the time of his appointment on the first day of February eighteen hundred and forty-nine. AT WASHINGTON