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yards and stations. ninety thousand nine hundred

For provisions for commission, warrant, anc
petty officers and seaInen, including engineers ano
marines attached TO vessels for service six hun
dred and eighty eight thousand and eighty dollars
Prorided. That no Communication of rations shall be
allowed except to officers and their attendants, and
Tor the spirit part OF the rations; and person not
actually attached to, and doing duty on board q
seagoing or receiving vessel, and the petty officers
seamen, and ordinary seamen, attached to the or
binary OF the navy yards. shai be allowed ration.
Ind prouided further, That no rations stopped for
the sick board vessels shall be credited the
hospital fund, but shall remain and be accounted
for by the purser part of the provisions Of the
vessels; and that the rations Of officers and others
Of the navy, sent to the hospitals shore, shall be
credited to the hospital fund at the cost only there
Of; and the Chief Of the Bureau of Provisions and
Clothing, with the appreciation OF the Secretary OF
the Nary, shall prescribe all such regulations in
relation TO stopping such rations will insure a
faithful accountability for the ratons stopped for
the sick board vessels and TO insure due credit
the hospital fund for the ratons at cost of those sent
to the hospitals shore; the said regulations TO go
into effect the first day of the succeeding month
after their official receipt at yards, stations, and
| board vessels.
For surgeons necessaries and appliances for the
| sick and hurt OF the navy, including the marine
corps, thirty seven thousand six hundred dollars.
| For repair of vessels in ordinary, and for wear
and tear OF vessels in commission, including fuel
and purchase OF hemp, one million three hundred
| and sixty five thousand dollars: Propided, That
the Secretary OF the Navy shall hereafter purchase
for the use of the navy, in open market, if TO be
procured, American hemp OF quality equal to the
For ordnance and ordnance stores, and small
arms, including incidental expenses, one hundred
and seventy one thousand two hundred dollars:
! Provided, That the officer charged with the ex-
| periments'in gunnery at the navy yard at Wash
ington shall hereafter receive the compensation of
| o commander at sea.
| For meteorological observations TO be conducted
under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy,
| two thousand dollars.
For the purchase and repair of the nautical in
| strumenst required for the use of the navy, ten
| thousand five hundred dollars.
| For the purchase of all the books, maps, and
charts required for the of the navy eight thou
sand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For backing and binding the same, and for print
ing and publishing Typographical surveys, astro
nomica observations, and sailing directions, nine
thousand two hundred dollars.
| And the superintendent of the naval astronomi-
cal expedition in Chilli, directed by the act of the
third of August, eighteen hundred and forty eight,
shall receive the same amount of salary is al
lowed to the superintendent of tho naval observa-
tory at Washington city, while he has been or may
be in charge of that expedition: Provided, That
the pay and emoluments of said officer shall not
coed, for any one year, the sum of three thousand
dollars.
| For models, drawings, copying, postage station
ery freight, and transportation, for pay of litho
| grapher, and for working photographic press, in
Guiding chemicals, for keeping grounds and build
ings in order, for finishing the grading of the
grounds, for pay Exporters, gardner, watchmen, in
strument maker, for fuel, lights, and all the
merated contingent expenses Of the photographic
cal office and national observatory, eleven thousand
| six hundred and twenty dollars.
| For copying abstracts from old sea journals for
| the wind and current charts, and for continuing
| and engraving and publication Of the same, in
| GLIDING cost OF copper, stones, chemicals, paper
&C., In the national observatory, fifteen thousand
dollars.
For the repairs and erection of buildings at the
| United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Mary
| land, fifty two thousand five hundred dollars.
1 For the CONTINGENT eXDenSCg of the United States
| Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, twenty.
six thousand seven hundred dollars
! For contingent expenses that may accrue for the
following purposes, viz: Freight and transporta-
ton, printing and stationery, advertising in news
papers, books, maps, models, and drawings, for
purchase and repair of fire engines and machine
ry, and patent right to use the same, repair and
| attending on steam engines in yards, purchase
| and maintaining horses and oxen, and driving
teams, carts, timber wheels, and the purchase and
repair OF workmens tools, postage of public letters,
furniture for Government houses, fuel, oil, and
candles for navy and store stations, cleaning and
clearing up yards, watchmen, and incidental labor
| not chargeable to any other appropriation, labor
| attending delivery of stores and supplies on
foreign stations, wharfage, dockage and rent. trav-
cling expenses of officers, funeral expenses, store
and office rent, stationery and fuel to navy agents
and storekeepcrs, flags, awnings, and packing
cases, premiums, and other expenses of recruiting,
experimenting deserters, per diem pay to persons
| attending courts martial and courts of inquiry,
and other services authorized by law, pay of judge
|
sisance rendered to vessels In distress, five hum
dred and twenty eight thousand seven hundred
dollars.
For the floating dry dock in California, one hum
dred and fifty thousand dollars and the Secretary
| Of the Navy Is hereby required 90 to modify the
contract alleged to have been made on the seven
teenth january last to confine the sum to the
construction of the floating dock alone, without
the basin and railway: Provided. The contractors
will agree to do the work at the estimates made by
the Department in November and December last
And provided, The Secretary considers the said es
Inmates fair and reasonable; and 30 much of said
law authorizes the construction of the basin and
railway is hereby repealed: Provided, That be-
fore making said contract, the Secretary of the
Navy shall give at least sixty days. notice by ad
vertisement in the usual way.
For transportation of the United States mail be-
tween New York and Liverpool, between New
York and New Orleans, Havana, and Chagres,
and between Panama and some points in the Ter
ritory OF Oregon, eight hundred and seventy four
thousand six hundred dollars: Provided, That no
payment shall be made for said services except in
proportion to the mail service heretofore per-
formed or that may be hereafter performed; and
that the Secretary Of the Navy is hereby directed
TO make payment in said proportion only Propi-
ded, also, That the Secretary of the Navy be- and
| ne ia hereby, authorized and directed to require
the several advances Of money, made under the act
OF Congress, August third, one thousand eight hun
bred and forty eight, to the different or
their assignees, for mail steamship service, to be
refunded by deductions from the compensation of
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adjustment of the advances to all of the lines from
the commencement Of the performance of their re-
spcctivc mail service And provided, further, That
the said contractors or their assigns SHALL from
and after the passage of this act, pay interest on
the balances Of said advances still due at the rate
OF six per cent. per annum. till paid And, also,
prouided further, That the Secretary of the Navy
and the Postmaster General be authorized, by and
with the consent of the contracting parties re-
spectively, TO rearrange the running Of the
United States mail steamships, to afford
more direct despatch between the ports of the
| United States and the Isthmus Of Panama: Pro-
cided, That the Postmaster General shall maintain
| a semi monthly mail between Charleston, Savan-
| nah, and Havana, during the continuance Of the
Sloo contract. and also to make the service from
Panama to California and Oregon conform with
| the service required by the existing contract on
the Atlantic side Of the Isthmus by increasing the
trips OF the Pacific line to semi monthly Prorided,
That the said increased service the Pacific side
shall be at rate not exceeding seventy five per
cent. upon the amount now paid for the Pacific
vice. and to be performed in steamships built
cording to the specifications and subject to all the
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