Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-10-05


LOT sea service SIX hundred and eghys thousand
TWO hundred dollars Provided That so much Of the act
appropriations for the naval service for the half cal
endar year beginning the first day of January and ending
the thirteh day Of June eighteen hundred and
ana io me nsca year beginning the first day of Juy eeh-
teen hundred and and ending the hirtet6 d.v Of
e'sn'sen hundred and forty four approved the third
March, eighteen hundred and foyhee as reouiras the
Secretary OF the Navy to advertise once week for a Is.f
four weeks for proposals for the Of supplies for
the use OF the navy be and the hereby repealed
sna na hereafter such advertisement shall be made for
period OF not less than five days.
For surgeons necessares and appliances for the sick and
hurt OF the navy, including marine corps thirty six thousand
eight hundred dollars
vessels in commission including fuel for steamers and the
purchase Of American wasrro.ted hemp, be bought by
the Secretary of the Navy in open Market provided that
the OF the American hemp shall exceed the average
price Of the foreign article for the last five years. one million
seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
And that the Secretary of the Navy be authorized to ex-
anime INTO the merits Of the various condense for supplying
the boilers OF marine engines with fresh water and that he
report 70 this House its session the result of said ex
amnaton together with his opinion as to the value Of the
best OF said condensers the Government Of the United
States and that the Of Eve thousand dollars be and the
same hereby appropriated to into effect this provision
meteorological observations, to be conducted under
the direction OF the Secretary Of the Navy, thousand dol
lars.
For ordnance and ordnance Stores and small arms, inclu
dng incidental expenses one hundred and ninety thon
FOR the purchase and repair Of nautical instruments or ba
Photographed Office len thousand five hundred dollars
FOR Inc purchase of books maps, and charts for the hy
geographical Office four thousand hundred and twen,y-
five dollars.
For backing and binding the same and for printing and
Publishing photographed surveys and astronomical obserya
tons, four thousand six hundred dollars.
For models drawings copying, postage stationery freight
ana Ter Pay Of hographer and for working
soddng and keeping grounds and buildings order for pay
OF porter gardener watchmen and instrument maker; for
fuel and lights of the photographed Office and National OBJ
servaory eight thousand four hundred and ten dollars
For copying abstracts from old journals for the wind
and current charts and for continuing the engraving and
publication OF the same, including of "copper" stones
chemicals, paper, &C. in the National Observatory seven
thousand five hundred dollars. E 5sg
For Improvement and repair of buildings and grounds Of
the naval school at Annapolis twenty thousand two
hundred dollars
For contingent that may accrue for the following
purposes, viz freight and transportation printing and Sta
onery, advertising in newspapers; books MAPS rnodels
and drawings purchase and repair of fire engines and ma
chnery, and patent right the repair Of and
attending on steam engines in yards purchase and maintain
ing OF horses and oxen and driving teams; carts TIMBER
wheels and the purchase and repair of workmans tools
postage of public letters furniture for Government houses
L. oil and candles for navy yards and clean
ing and clearing up YARDS watchmen and incidental labor
not chageabe to any other appropriation labor attending on
the delivery of stores and supplies foreign stations wharf,
dockage, and rents travelling expenses Of officers une
raj expenses store and Office stationery and fuel navy
agcnts awnings packing
premiums and other expenses Of recruiting; apprehendng
deseers per diem pay to persons attending martial
and courts OF inquiry, and other services authorized by
to judge advocates potage aad towage of vessels and
assistance rendered vessels Distress Eve hundred and
thiry-two thousand hundred and forty-fve dollars
For transportation of the United States mail between New
York and Liverpool, between New York and New Orleans
Havana, and Chages, and between Panama and point
in the Territory Of Oregon eight hundred and
thousand six hundred dollars Provided That payment
shall be made for such services except proportion to the
mail service heretofore performed that may be hereafter
performed And that the Secretary Of the Navy hereby
directed to make payment in said proportion only Provided
That foggng the navy and board vessels be
and the hereby abolished from and after the passage
of this act And that midshipman In the navy shall BE-
appointed from any Congressional district having the time
Of appointment than two officers of that grade in the
navy from such district. And whenever appointment
shall be made from any State the person appointed shall
be an actual resident of tho Congressional district from which
the appointment purpors to be made And provided further
That such Congressional district of any State as may not
have any mdhpmen in the navy the time appointment
may be made from said State, shall be entitled least one
appointment before any other shall be made from any district
Of the State having officers of that grade in the
navy.
For preparing for publication the American Nautical AL
manac twelve thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars
Pouidd That hereafter the meridian of the Observatory at
Washington shall be adopted and used the American me
dian 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
aItces IOr naval purposes,
give the preference all other things ncluding price and
quality being equal, to articles of the growth production
and manufacture of the United States And that in the ar
Gle of fuel for the navy and naval stations and yards tho
Secretary of the Navy shall have power discriminate and
purchase in such he may deem proper that kind
of fuel which best adapted the purpose which to
be use And the pay of the Superintendent Of the Naval
School at Annapolis shall be the allowed to an officer
of his rank when 10 service at sea.
For construction, extension and completion of the fol-
lowing Objects and for contingent repairs the several navy
yards, viz:
AT PORTSMOUTH, NH
For brick stables lime house, coal house, filling in wharf
east Of bridge, filling in wharf east Of timber shed, machinery
and tools for smthey, and for repairs of all kinds hiyone
thousand six hundred and seventy three dollars.
AT BOSTON
For store-house number thy-six stone skds in tim
Der shed number thirty three, stone ds in timber shed
Der hrtyegh paving in front and of carpenters and
joiner Shops completing sail loft and cordage store mast
makers she'd N. Pedrck's patent fers drains between tim
Der Sheds and repairs of all kinds hundred and eight
thousand five hundred dollars
AT NEW YORK
For officers house, work and machine shop quay
walls dredging channels from city drain, house on
gun block removing coerdam and dredging front Of dock
and for repairs all kinds hundred and nineteen thou
sand five hundred dollars.
AT PHILADELPHIA.
For extending wharves numbers one, two and fur err
lending in shp-house G. moving shphouse and en-
lending ways two culve and moving shears raising roof
Of smthery raising roof Of timber shed ve filling up old
timber dock, iron railing front Of officers houses and for re
pairs Of all kinds eighty thousand and nnety-three dollars
and the pay Of the engineer, Ward B. Burnett the navy
yard, Philadelphia, be thousand three hundred and fifty
dollars, a of his he