The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-05-27

~rsphic pfcssi ihSsuoWs Sho~s w
s.o'ng grounds and buildings IN order
ri s' aud lights for repairs Of build
~ and for oil other contingent ex-
rs. OF the Photographed Office and
Eaited States Observatory
a, o0sootinuing the publication Of tho Wind
~ IA Csrrent Charts, and for defrsying all
.,o,nses connected Herewith
var mines for carrying gas TO, and fixtures
for lighting with IT, the National obsersa-
~ K, wages of persons employed at the
observatory and Photographed of'ico,
III one photographer, ono instrument ma
L,r two watchmen, and one porter
yor contingent expenses that may aecrus
for the following purposes, VIZ !; ire,sht
and transportation, pnnting ana s.auoh-
uy. advertising in newspapers, DOCKS
msos. models, and drawings, purchase
md renair of re-engines and machinery,
rerairs of and attending TO steam-enginas
in navy yards, purchase and maintenance
of horses and oxen, and driving teams,
earts, timber wheels, and the purchase
aid repair Of workmen's tools, postage OF
nublic letters, furniture for government
houses, fuel, oil, and candles for navy
wards and shore stations, pay OF watch
men and incidental labor not chargcable
~ ony other appropriation, labor attend
,np lhe delbery of stores on civil stations,
wharfage, dorkage, and rent, travelling ex-
n.nses OF officers and others under orders,
f,nsral expenses, store and office rent.
.ta,ionery, fuel, commissions and pay of
Clerks to navy agents and storekeepers,
asgs, awnings, and packing boxes, pre-
NUNS and other expenses OF recruiting,
,pprehending deserters, per diem pay to
psrsons attending courts-martiai and
courts of inquiry, and other services au-
thorized by law. pay TO judges advocate,
piloIage and towage Of vessels and assist
snce 10 vessels 10 distress, bills Of health
and quarantine expenses Of the United
States navy in foreign ports
For Improvement and repair of buildings
and grounds and support Of the Naval
Academy at Annapolis, Maryland
For purchase of land, extending walls, ma
king new roads and wharf, building and
furnishing hospital, and changing tho
fronts of houses, at the Naval Academy
At Annapolis, Mary and
For meteorological observations, to be con-
Quoted under the directions Of the Sccre-
tary Of the Navy
For construction, extension, and COM
pletion of the following objects, and
for contingent expenses at the several
nayy-yards, viz:
PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE.
For cooper shop and watchman's quarters.
dredging in front, and pointing and pud-
ding stone basin, boiler-room, boilers, en-
gine and machinery. reservoir for engine
house, pipes, cutters, drains, and cisterns,
grading y4rd near timber shed, and for re-
pairs of all kinds, including care Of float
ingdock :
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS,.
For rebuilding smithery, coopcrage, and
packing house, coal-house, for ropewaik,
engines, stone wall west Of timber dock,
rebuilding battery, grading and paving
timber shed number thirty-one, and for re-
pairs Of all kinds
NEW YORK, NEW YORK.
For completing commanders house, smith
cry, timber-shed; lime, pitch, and coal
house continuing quay-wall, muster
Office, cob-wharf; dredging channel and
piers; completing cngine-house, culvert,
and removing piles in front of dock; filing
in timber pond and low places paving
cutters and digging, and for repairs of all
kinds :
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.
For extending wharf number four, and
dredging, completing, paving, and for re-
pairs Of all kinds, including floating dock
DISTRICT OF Co
LUMBIA.
For filing in timber dock, completion off,
extending boller-shop; converting old
ordnance shop into machinc-shop; steam
engine and other machinery for ordnance
words, ordnance foundry, far casting
rass guns, railway from anchor and
boiler shop to ~harves, quay wall south
front Of yard, and for repairs Of all kinds
NORFOLK. VIRGINIA.
For extending quay wharves, completing
timber dock, machinery for engine, ma
chine and srmorers' shops, dredging, fll-
ING in low grounds, grading, completing
magazine and keepers house, Fort Nor
folk, hauling up slips and mud-scows, and
for repairs Of oil kinds
PENSACOLA, FLORIDA.
Yu permanent wharf, paint shops, and
eooperage, construction Of deep basin and
dredging, rebuilding cenusl wharf, and
vharycs J and G., smoke stack, and ex-
tending machine shops, mooring anchors,
cables, and fixtures for mooring and opc-
rsiing floating dock, and for repairs af all
kinds :
MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.
For completing hemp-house, completing
blacksmith shop and Office building, els
terms for ropeWalk, oulvcrt from rope
walk to rivcr, and for repairs Of all kinds
for completion Of railing for vertical wall
for the purchase Of iron rnlling for the rope
laying machinery Of the ropewalk
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.
For blacksmith shop, carpenters shop,
AoIthouse, ana Wharf
10 complete and carry into execution the
verbal contract for basin and railway in
California, in conncxion with the floating
dock, as made by the late Secretary Of the
Navy in pursuance OF authority for that
purpose, gwen by the act Of September
d. twenty eighth, one thousand eight
hundred and fifty, entitled IAN sctmakins
appropriations for tho naval service for
he year ending tho ,hirtie,h Of June, ono
thousand eight hundred and hfty-one, y
and rs stated in the letter Of the said late
SECRETARY, addressed to the Hon. Howell
Cobb, Speaker Of the House of Repre-
s.nlauves, and dated the twenty frat day
OF January, one thousand eight hundred
and hiy-one
For Hospitals:
AT BOSTON.
for repairs Of all kinda
AT NEW YORK.
Pa repairs OF all kinds
i PHILADELPHIA NAVAL ASYLUM.
o. INNING roof Of asylum, laying water
PIPES, furnaces, CRATES and rsnges, pave
ments and cutters ;