The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1851-03-27
ACTS OF THE THIRTY-FIRST
CONGRESS OF THE u. s..

| CONGRESS OF THE u. s.,
Passed at the first Session, which was begun and
/ held at the City of Washington in the District
of Columbia, on Monday, the third day OF De-
| cember, one thounsand eight hundred and forty
! nine
MILLARp FILLMORE, President. WILLIAM
X. KING, President of the Senate, pro tenn
pore. HOW'LL. Conn, Speaker Of the House
of Representatives.
CHAP. LXXX An Act making appropriations for the
naval service for the year ending tie thiriieth CT Jure
one thousand eight hundred and hity-one
SEC l. Be II enacted By the Senate and House
Of Representatives Of the United States Of
.faerica az Congress assembled, That the
following he, and they hereby appropriated TO
be paid out Of any money the Treasury not otherwise
appropriated for the year ending the thrch Of Juno
! one thousand eight hundred and 1fty-onc.
For pay OF commission, warrant and petty ocers and
scancn, including the engineer corps OF The navy, TWO
million hundred and fifty eight Thousand hun
de and ixytwo dollars; and that there be paid by the
proper accounting officers, TO William J. McAlpne aud
William T. Sanger the same salary that was paid 10
their predecessors engineers in Chief during the time
they severay performed such service at the navy yard
Brooklyn New York. and that the amount of salary
as is provided for the said William McApine and Will
liam r. s. Sanger be paid to James Herron the Engi-
ntern-chief at the navy yard at Pensacola, during the
time he has been employed at said yard
For pay of supermtendents naval constructors and all
the eiva establishments at the several navy yards and
stations, seventy three thousand hundred and sixty
dollars.
To equare the salary Of the clerk of the naval
strucor at kttery with those al other navy yards, TWO
hundred and fifty dollars.
For provisions for commission, warrant and petty Of
deers and seamen, including engineers and marines at
tached 10 vessels for service six hundred and eighty
six thousand two hundred dollars. Procided, That so
much OF The 'act making appropriations for the naval
service for the half calendar beginning the first day
OF january ard ending the trtieth day OF June eigh
teen hundred and for,thrce and for the fiscal be-
ginning the frs, day OF July eighteen hundred and forty
three and ending The thrtieh day OF June, eighteen hun
dred and forty -four approved the third March, eighteen
hundred ard ortytree, requires the Secretary of the
Navy 10 advertise once week. for at least four weeks,
for proposals for the of supplies the
of the Navy" be- aud the hereby is repealed
anu that hereafter such advertisement shall be made for
period OF not less than five days.
For surgeons necessares and appliances for the sick
and hurt oil the navy including marine corps thirty-sx
Thousand eight hundred dollars
For repair 81 vessels in ordinary, and for and
OF vessels in commission including fuel for steamers ard
the purchase OF American water-roted hemp, to be
bought BY the Secretary Of the Navy open market.
PFouaed ihat the price OF the American hemp shall not
exceed the price OF the foreign article for the last
Eve years million hundred and fifty thousand
dollars.
And that the SECRETARY Of the Navy be authorized TO
examine into the merits of the various condensCrs for
supply ing the boilers OF marine engines with fresh water,
and that hc report this House. session the
result CT said eNaminaon together with his opinion
TO the value Of the best Of said condensers the Govern
menf of the United States and thar the Of five
sand dollars be- end the same hereby appropriated to
carry into effect this provision.
fGr meteorological obserN dCns TO be conducted under
the direction OF the Secretary OF the Navy two thousand
dollars
For ordnance and ordnance stores and small arms,
including incidental penses one huntred and nrty-six
Thousand nine hundred dollars.
For ie purchase and repair of nautical instruments Of
e HydToSraphieai Office, ten thousand five hundred dol
lars
For the purchase of books maps aid charts for the
Hydrographical office four thousand hundred and
twenty-five dollars.
For backing and binding the SANE and for printing md
publishing hy biographical surveys and OBJ
seryai,ons iour thousand SIX hundred dollars.
For models, drawings copying, postage stationery,
freight and transportation fos pay of hographer and
Tor woking ithographic press including chemicals; fer
planting trees, sodding keeping grounds and baidnes
in order; for pay of porter, gardener, watcen, and
strieit maker for fue ara lights of the Hydrographi
cal oice and National Observatory eight thousand -four
hundred and ten dollars.
For copying abstracts from old journals for the
wind ana current charts and for continuing the engrav
lag ana publication OF the same, including Of cop
fer, stones chemicals, paper &c, in the National OF
servatory, seven thousand ive hundred dollars
For improvement and repair of buildings and grounds
oi the naval school at Annapolis twenty eight thousand
two hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses that may accrue for the fol
lowing purposes freight and transportation printing
and stationery, advertising newspapers; books maps
models, and drawings; purchase and repair OF ire
gines aud machinery and patent right the same;
repair ot and attending steam engines in yards pur
chase and maintaining OF horses and oxen and driving
teams carts, timber wheels aud the purchase and repair
of wurkman's tools, postage Of public letters furniture
for government houses, fuel oil and candies for navy
yards and store stations, cleaning and clearing yards;
labor chafgeable -
other appropriation; labor attending delivery
aud supplies foreign stations; Wharfage, dockage and
rent travelling expenses OF officers, funcrel expenses,
store and Office rent stationery and fuel navy agents
and stocheepers flags awnings and packing cases pre-
muus and other expenses of recruiting apprehending
deserters diem pay persons attending
al and courts of inquiry and other services authorized
BY law pay to Judge advocates plotagc and towage Of
vessels and assistance rendered to vessels in distress
hundred and thirty thousand hundred and orty-
five dollars
For transportation Of the United States mail between
New York and Liverpool between New York and New
orleans, Havana aud Chagrcs, and between Panama and
some points in the Territory OF Oregon, eight hundred
and seventyiour thousand six hundred dollars Provided
That payment shall he made for said services except
IN proportion 10 the mail service heretofore performed,
or that may be hereafter performed and that Secre-
tay OF the Navy hereby directed make pa nent in
said proportion only. Prouided, That nogeing In the
navy, and on board vessels OF commerce. be, and the
same is hereby abolished from and after the passage
this act.
And that nidshpman in the navy shall be appoint
ed from any Congressional District having time
appointment more than two officers OF that grade the
navy from such district and whenever appointment
shall be made from any State the persen appointed
shall be actual resident Of the Congressional District
from which the appointment purports to be made: And
prorided further That such Congressional District of
any State, not have any mdshipmen in the navy
at the time an appointment be made from said State
shall be entitled TO at least appointment before
other shall be made from district of the State having
one or more officers OF that grade in the navy.
For preparing for publication the American Nautical
Almanac, twelve thousand eight hundred fifty dollars:
Propided That hereafter the meridian of the Observa-
at Washington shall be adopted and used the
American meridian for all astronomical purposes and
that the meridian Of Greenwich shall be adopted fer all
| nautical purposes.
And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed in
making contracts md purchases Of articles for pur
poses give the preference, all other things ncluding
price and quaty being equal articles of the growth
productions and manufacture of the United States and
that in the article of fuel for the naval stations
and yar the Secretary of the Navy shall have power
discriminate and purchase, in such manner he may
deem proper that kind Of el which is best adapted
the purpose for which ii is to BE- used.
And the pay of the Superintendent Of the Naval School
at Annapolis, shall be the allowed to an officer of
his rank, when in service at sea.
For constructions extension and completion Of the fol-
lowing objects and for contingent repairs the several
navy yards, viz
| 1 AT PORTSMOUTH, n. II.
For brick stables lime-houseS, coal-houses filing in
wharf of bridge, filing in wharf Of timber shed
machinery and tools for smhery and for repairs of all
kinds thirty thousand six hundred and seventy three
/ dollars. tn $3.50
AT BOSTON.
For storehouse number thirty-six, skids in
timber shed number thirty three, stone skds in timber
shed number hiryesht, paving in front and of
pcnters and oiners shops, completing ealIoft and
dsge store, mastmakers shed, N. Percks patent ferA
drains between timber sheds and repairs of all kinds
haadrcd and eight thousand Ave hundred dollars. s
| -e 81 r AT NEW YORK.