Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-03-12

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September the twenty eighth one thousand eight hun
dred and fifty, entitled z Anact making appropriations
forhe naval for the year ending the thrteh OF
June one thousand eight hundred and fty-one, and
stated in the letter of said late Secretary addressed
to the Honorable Howell Cobb, Speaker of the House
Of Representatives and dated the twenty first day Of
January one thousand eight hundred and hftyone,
ward the execution Of which hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars is hereby appropriated: Prorded That in
the judgment of the Secretary such basin and railway
necessary and will be useful 10 the public service
FOR HOSPITALS
At Boston.
For repairs Of all kinds, six hundred dollars.
III Netc York.
For repairs of all kinds, three hundred dollars
AT PHILADELPHIA Nacal asylum.
For timing roof Of asylum laying water pipes, furnaces
CRATES and ranges and CUTTERS five thousand
dollars.
For repairs of all kinds, one thousand dollars.
At Norfolk
For wall to enclose grave yard including excavation,
six thousand hundred and sixtyeight dollars and
ninety three cents.
For the purchase of land, TO be used road commu
nicating with the navy hospital grounds at Norfolk Vir
gina, twenty-five hundred dollars.
For repairs Of all kinds, two thousand i've hundred
dollars.
Al Pensacola.
For wall around hospital grounds, twenty-five thou
sand five hundred dollars.
For draining and filing ponds two thousand SIX hun
bred and fifty dollars.
For repairs of all kinds, eleven thousand hundred
and seyenty-hye dollars
FOR MAGAZINES.
1t Boston, Massachusetts.
For beds to stow shot for arrangements for bouching
filing and unloading Shells and for repairs of all kinds
two thousand eight hundred dollars
1T Ner YORK..
For fitting sore-rooms workshops, and machinery for
ordnance purposes for gunskds, graveling ordnance
grounds and for repairs of all kinds, four thousand
hundred and eightyive dollars.
1T Washington.
For foundations for slowing shot and protection of
shells for powder magazine floor and for repairs of
all kinds, four thousand seven hundred dollars.
At Norfolk
For foundations of guns and Shells for machinery for
bouchng Shells and preparing filling, and tankhouses,
and for repairs Of all kinds four thousand five hundred
dollars.
III Pensacola
For preparing platform for salung battery and for re-
pairs Of all kinds, nine hundred and fifty dollars
/ MARINE CORPS.
For pay of officers non-commissoned officers prvates
musicians, clerks, messengers stewards, and servants
serving Shore for ratons and clothing for servants
subsistence for officers and pay for undrawn clothing
and ratons bounes for reenlstment and pay for
pred terms of previous service hundred and twenty
three thousand FIVE hundred and thirty dollars and forty
four cents.
For provisions for marines serving Shore twenty
nine thousand nine hundred and eighty -four dollars and
seyenty-fve cents.
For clothing ffy-two thousand and sixty -four dollars
fuel fourteen thousand hundred and ninetfour
dollars and fifty cents
For military stores repair Of arms, pay of armorers
accoutrements ordnance stores flags drums, fes and
musical instruments, eight thousand dollars.
For transportation Of officers and troops and expenses
OF recruiting, twelve thousand dollars.
For repairs Of barracks and of temporary barracks
and Offices where there public buildings for that
purpose, six thousand dollars.
For contingencies viz freight tonnage toll cartane
wharfage compensation to judges advocate per diem for
attending courts martial of inquiry and for con-
slant labor, houserent IN lieu Of quarters burial de-
ceased marines, printing stationery postage apprehen
sion OF deserters OIL candles forage straw furniture
bed sacks spades axes picks shoves carpenters tools
keep Of horse for the messenger pay matron washer
woman and porter at the hospital headquarters twenty
Eve thousand dollars.
For the purpose of paying the lien existing the lands
recently purchased addition the Navy Yard
dollars and FIVE cents to be paid by the Secretary Of the
Navy, if upon examination he shall find the TO be
due lien the purchase of the said land, and the
Secretary Of the Navy is hereby empowered and directed
to sell and convey any purchaser all that part Of the
navy yard lands at Brooklyn between the west side Of
Vanderbilt avenue and the hospital grounds containing
about twenty six and ahaf including Vanderbilt
and Clinton ayenues Prordsd, That said lands shall
be sold at less price than theycost the Government IN
GLIDING interest with all assessments and charges ARd
ProUded FURTHER That, prior the sale of said lands ex-
elusive jurisdiction shall be coded the United States Of
all the remaining lands connected with the said navy
yard, belonging the United States Prorided That the
sale be made at public auction after thirty days notice in
at least three daily newspapers published in the cities Of
New York and Brooklyn.
That the Of one thousand hundred and sixty
four dollars and ten cents being part of the appropra
ton made for the service of continuing the survey the
coast of the Gulf Of Mexico, from Apaachicola Bay
the Mississippi river by the act Of March third eighteen
hundred and forty and which has been carried The
credit of the surplus fund.- be and is hereby reappropated
pay for the services Of the officer officers employed
in that survey.
Sec 2. lind be further enacted That the proper &C
counting officers Of the treasury be and they hereby
directed to credit the medical officers of the navy who
by order Of the department served with detachment Of
marines in Mexico during the late with that Repub
lie, in addition to the pay to which they entitled
medical officers Of the navy, respectively the allow
for raons and forage in proportion the time they
served allowed to officers the army similar
standing
Approved, March g. 1853.