The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-10-06

palachicola Bay to the Mississippi, two
thousand one hundred and ten dollars
and sixty-two cents. to be taken out of
the balance of the fund appropriated for
that purpose by the act of third March
eighteen hundred and forty-nine, and
which has been carried to the credit of
the surplus fund
Sec. :. And be it further enacted.
That all acts or parts of acts authorizing
the President of the United States, or
the Secretary Of the proper Department
under his direction to transfer any por.
ton of the moneys appropriated for a
particular branch of expenditure in that
Department to be applied to another
branch, Of expenditure in the same De-
partment, be, and are hereby 50 far as
relates to the Navy Department, repeal
ed.
For the building or purchase of suit
able vessels, and for the prosecuting a
survey and reconnaissance for naval and
commercial purposes, of such parts of
Behring's Straits. of the north Pacific
ocean and of the China Seas. as are fire.
qucntcd by American Whale ships and by
trading vessels in their routes between
the United States and China under the
direction of the Secretary of the Navy.
the sum of ono hundred and twenty-five
thousand dollars Provided. That the
expense of purchasing or building and of
equipping, with the exception of the ar
mamcnt, and of fitting out these vessels
shall no; exceed the sum hereby appro-
priated.
See 3. And be it further enacted.
That the Secretary of the Navy be, and
he is hereby. authorized and directed to
select site for a navy yard and naval
depot in the Bay of San Francisco, in
California, or ncighboring waters, either
by purchase or by reservation of public
lands as the case may be, and shall cause
the same to be surveyed, and a plat
thereof to be recorded in proper form :;
and when such selection shall have been
made, the Secretary shall make such ar
engagements as may be necessary to cs-
tablish Il ma vy-yard and naval depot up
on the most approved and economical
plan on the sites so obtained and cause
to be erected foundery, machine shop.
blacksmith shop, boiler shop, engine
house. pattern shop, carpenter shop, and
store houses for the purpose of carry.
ing this section into effect, the sum of
one hundred thousand dollars be- and
the same is hereby appropriated out of
and money ill the Treasury not otherwise
appropriated.
Sec. A. And be it further enacted.
That the Secretary of the Navy be, and
he hereby is directed to appoint some
suitabl naval officer or engineer to re-
ccivc and superintend the construction
Of the floating dry dock in California.
See ). And be it further enacted
That the percentage added by law to the
pay of the clerks employed in the exec
utve' and legislative departments of
Washington be, and is hereby, allowed
to the clerks employed at the navy-yard
and marine barracks in the city of
Washington.
See. 6. And be it further enacted.
That Robert Armstrong. the public
printer, be, and is hereby, directed to ex-
ecute the public printing ordered by ci-
Their House of Congress since his cleo
ton as public printer, and that all paper
used by the public printorfor the space of
sixty days from this date shall be furnish
ed by him at cost, and shall be of the
quality and description specified in the law
passed at this session of Congress.
LINN BOYD.
SPEAKER ofi1c HoHSe ofR personalities.
WILLIAM II. KING.
President Of The Senate pro tcmporc.
Approved. August 81. 1852
WILLARD FILLMORE.