The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1853-05-04
NUMBER 2.

AlUhtbiiNdi lileti Abitbio NANNRh NhVAoNht
dollars
For tile purchase Of nautical books,
maps, and charts, and for backing and
binding the same, twelve thousand five
hundred dollars;
For printing and publishing sailing
directions, photographed surveys, and
astronomical observations. five thousand
five hundred dollars;
For models, drawing and copying,
postage, stationery, freight, and trans
portations for pay of photographer and
for working photographic press, including
chemicals; for keeping grounds and
buildings, and for all other contingent
expenses of Photographed Office and
United States Observatory, seven thou
sand two hundred and forty dollars;
For continuing the publication of the
wind and current charts, and for dcfray-
ing all the expenses connected therewithy
ten thousand dollars
For pipes for carrying gas to, and
fixtures for lighting with 1.-THE National
Observatory, twenty five hundred dol
lars;
For the wages ofpcrsons employed at
tho Observatory and Photographed
Office, viz one photographer, one instru-
mcnt maker, two watchmen. and one por
ter. three thousand one hundred and six
ty dollars;
For contingent expenses that may ac-
crue for the following purposes, viz.
freight and transportation, printing and
stationery, advertising in newspapers,
books maps, models, and drawings pur
chase and repair Of frc-engines and ma
chinery, repairs of, and attending to,
steam-engines in navy yards, purchase
and maintenance of horses and oxen, and
driving teams, carts, timber wheels, and
the purchase and repair Ct workmens
tools, postage of public letters, furniture
for Government houses, fuel. oil, and
candles for navy yards and shore sta
tions, pay of watchmen, and incidental
labor, not chargeable TO any other appro-
priatiou, labor attending the delivery Of
stores in civil stations, Wharfage, docl-
age, and rent, travelling EXPENSES Of Of
ficcrs. and others under orders. funeral
expenses, store and Office rent, statione-
ry, fuel, commissions and pay Of clerks
to navy agents and storekcepers, flags,
awnings, and packing boxes, prelfiums,
and other expenses of recruiting, appre-
hending deserters, per diem pay to per-
sons attending courts,martial and courts
of inquiry, aud other services authorized
= by law, pay to judges advocate, pilotage
and towago of vessels, and assistance to
vessels in distress, bills of health aud
. quarantine expenses of the United
States navy in foreign ports, five hundred
and twenty seven thousand eight hun
, dred and forty dollars
For improvement and repair of bull
' diugs and grounds, and support Of the
Naval Academy at Annapolis, Mary
land, forty six thousand and fifty pine
/ dollars;
!. For purchase of land, extending walls,
{ making new roads, and wharf, building
and furnishing hospital, and changing
- the fronts of houses, at the Naval Acad-
I emy at Annapolis, Maryland, thirty
q eight thousand dollars;
!. For meteorological observations, to be
i conducted under the direction Of the
{. Secretary of the Navy, two thousand
9 dollars and the Secretary of the Navy
y is hereby authorized to settle all exist
n ing controversies as to the title to any
:. portions of salt marsh near the lands of
II the Naval Hospital III Chelsea, in tho
4 county of Suffolk, and commonwealth Of
4 Massachusetts, and to sell and convey
"a the right, title, and interest Of the Uni
y. ted States, in so much of said marsh as
!. he may deem expcdient, upon the terms
10 and conditions recommended i'll report
:, from the Bureau of Navy Yards and
i Docks upon the subject, dated January
i seventeen, eighteen hundred aud fifty
IS three
. For construction, extension, and com
pletion of the following objects, and for
!. contingent expenses at the several navy
d yards, viz
4 PORTSMOUTH. NEW IIAMP-
. SHIRE.
For coopers shop and watchmans
!. quarters, dredging in front and pointing
!. and pudding stone-basin, boiler-room
). boilers, engine, and machinery, reservoir
4 for engine-houso, pipes, cutters, drains,
;. and cisterns, grading yard near timber
shed, and for repairs Of all kinds, inclu-
A ding care of foating-dock, fifty three
+ thousand one hundred and seven dollars
n BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
For rebuilding smithery, cooperage,
l. and packing house, coal-house for rope
5 walk engines, stone walls west oftimber1
!, duck, rebuilding battery, grading and
= paving timber-shed number thirty one,
and for repairs of all kinds, eighty one
G thousand four hundred and sixty dollars.
S NEW YORK, NEW YORK
;, For completing commanders horse,
smithery, timber-shed, lime. pitch, and
: coal-house, continuing quay-wau, muster'
Office, cob-wharf, dredging-channel. aud
J, piers, completing engiuo-house, culyert,
. and removing piles in front Of dock, I'LL
: ing in timber-pond and low places pa
wing cutters and fagging, ani for repairs
of all kinds two hundred and forty ninc
thousand three hundred and twenty dol
! lars Provided, That no part Of the
appropriation shall be expended until
the State of New York shall code tho
Jurisdiction over the navy yard TO the
, United States, and until the tide to SAID
land is settled. excepting SO much Of the
appropriation as may be needed for com
pletine engine-house, and for repairs Of
all kinds
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLNA-