The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-03-08

For construction, oxteualony and completion OF
the following objects, and for contingent expenses
| at the several navy yards, viz;
| At Portsmouth, Nes0 Hampshire.
Towards the construction Of quay wharf across
the head of timber dock, filling in around walls of
.hoAt r. dock basin, payements around timber
shed, magazine wharf, and filling in low grounds,
engine house, wharf, and filling in east OF number
four, repairs of all kinds thirty thousand six
hundred and seventy three dollars.
ut Boston, lassachusstts.
For completing sail loft and cordage store grad
ing and paving. for completing storehousc number
thirty six paving, grading, and filling in between
numbers twenty seven and twenty eight, twenty
nine and thirty, grading yard, paving cutters.
drains, &C., rain water cistern, coal house
ropewalk, dredging slips, for completing steam
tug and water-tanks, repairs of all kinds, fifty
thousand dollars.
At Ne,o York.
For smithery, saw-mill, number twenty four,
quay wall continued, cob wharf, dredging chan
neis, ono timber shed, paving, guttering, and
tagging, cisterns, cutters, and leaders to ship
houses and timber sheds, filling timber pond and
of all kinda, one hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars
DIT Philadelphia.
For slip Of ship house G., addition to wall of
basin, and filling in old timber dock repairs of all
kinds, twenty -four thousand four hundred dollars.
at Washington. ID. C.
For filling up timber dock. w-mill and ma
chinery, ordnance building number eleven, COM
petng wharf, and slide-lathes, completing copper
rolling establishment, to convey water TO the yard,
reservoir pipes, sc, railway in ship houseT paint
shop and wharfcrane. brass foundry and tank
shop (rasing one story) repairs of all kinds, one
hundred thousand dollars.
At Norfolk.
For wall at st. Helena, brick saw. shed
cylinder and exhaust pump and apparatus, water
tank and capstans, repairs Of all kinds, fifty thou
sand eight hundred dollars.
At Pensacola
For permanent wharf, paint-shop, and cooper
age, completing guard house, wharf near store
house number twenty six, tar, pitch and oil house,
storehouse for shells, house for boiling tar, PITCH
&C., steam-tug water tank, rail tracks in yard,
fences, and outbudngs, for outside houses repairs
Of all kinds, one hundred thousand dollars.
ut Memphis.
For preservation of the public property at Mem
phis, Tennessee, and for the rope walk at said
place, fifty thousand dollars.
At .Sacketts Haybor
For repairs of buildings, grading, filing in, and
repairs Of all kinds, two thousand three hundred
dollars.
roR HOSPITALS, VIZ:
1t Boston.
For repairing, painting. withdrawing, glazing,
furnaces, ranges, &c., fifteen hundred dollars.
at Ne,u York.
For plastering, painting, repairs of furnaces,
banks, wall, paving Of tagging, building for la
boratory wall around grave yard, grading, setting
Trees and all other repairs, hfteen thousand dollars
At Philadelphia
For removing and rebuilding stable drains and
water to stable, excavation and grading wall on
south side Of Shipper street, curbing and paving
along Shipper street, painting house, iron railing,
&C., repairs of all kinds, thirteen thousand eight
hundred and thirty seven dollars.
1t Norfolk.
For general repairs, five thousand dollars.
at Pensacola.
For wall around hospital grounds, drawing and
filling ponds, repairs of all kinds, four thousand
four hundred and fifty dollars.
t MARINl CoRPs.
For pay Of officers, on-commissioned officers,
musicians, and servants serving shore, subsist-
cnce for officers, and pay for undrawn clothing,
two hundred aad twenty one thousand four hum
dred dollars.
For provisions for marines serving on shore, fif-
For clothing, fifty-six thousand six hundred and
one dollars. at
For fuel ten thousand dollars
For military stores repair Of arms, pay of arnor-
ers, Announcements, ordnance stores, flags, drums,
flies, and musical Instruments eight thousand dol
lars.
penses Of recruiting, nine thousand dollars.
For repairs Of barracks, and rent Of temporary
barracks, and Offices for comman ding officers six
Thousand dollars
For contingencies, viz: freight, ferriage carriage,
wharfage, compensation to judges advocate, per
diem for attending courts martial, courts Of inqui
ry and for constant labor, house rcnt, in lieu of
quarters burial OF deceascd marines, printing, sta
tionery, forage postage, pursuit Of dessrters,
dies OIL straw, furniture bed sacks, spades, axes,
shoves, picks carpenters tools, keep Of horse for
the messenger, pay of matron, washerwoman, and |
porter at hospital headquarters, twenty five thou
sand dollars. at
For arrcarages of pay which accrued to John
Rush. late sailing MASTER from thirty first of July
one thousand eight hundred and thirteen to ninth
of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty
seven, six thousand and ninety five dollars and
enty-o cents.
SEC. 2. Ard be Il further enacted, That in time |
of peace while il not threatened, the steam
ers employed in carrying the United States mail |
between New York and Liverpool shall be placed |
under the exclusive control Of, and Differed by the
E. X. Collins and his associates Pro-
rided, The same shall be done with the consent of
the contractors.
SEC 3. Ind be it further enacted, That. if any
assistant engineer shall have been absent from the
United States duty at the time others of his date
were examined he shall, IL not rejected at a sub
sequent examination, be entitled to the same rank
with them; and if, from any cause, his relative
rank cannot be assigned to him, he shall maintain
his original position on the register.
SEc.4. And be it further enacted, That the rulo
established in tho preceding section shall be APP
piled to the cases of Joshua Follansbec and B. f.
sherwood, who were prevented, by reason Of their
absence on duty, from being present at the exami-
nation ordered for officers Of their date.
SEC. 8. Ind be it further enacted, That for con-
tinuing the preparation and publication Of the
works of the exploring expedition, including the
pay of the scientific corps, care Of properly pay
ment for printing and paper, and other contracts
under the law of eighteen hundred and forty two,
authorizing the preparation and publication Of said
works, twenty five thousand dollars.
Sec. 6. lind be it further enacted, That the Sec
rotary of tie Navy be directed to cause the wreck
of the steamer Missouri to be removed from the
harbor of Gibraltar, in such mode he shall deem
expedent by contract otherwise; and that |
eighty thousand dollars be, and hereby IL, appro-
priatcd out of any money in the Treasury not 9TH
erwise appropriated, may be necessary to defray
the expense of removing said wreck.
Approved, March 3, 1861
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A SINGULAR ExPLosIoN.--On Saturday last, dur |
ing the heaviest Of the rain, of the largest Of
tho water tanks located at the wharf the ma
Wy yard, burst with tremendous explosion, all Of
ono end Of the large three story building being
torn away, and literally crushed into small frag-
ments OF bricks and mortar,
1t was large, beautiful tank, of immense capa-
city, calculated to contain about 100000 gallons of
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