Kansas weekly herald., 1855-06-08
| Itronomical observations, ten thousand doll

lars.
For models. drawing and copying, post
age, freight, and transportation, and for
working lithographic press, including chem.
icals, for keeping grounds In order, for
fuel and lights, and for all other contingent
expenses of the Autographed Office and
United States observatory, seven thousand
six hundred dollars.
For continuing the publication of the
series of wind and current charts, and for
defraying all the expenses connected there
with, eighteen thousand dollars.
For the wages of persons employed at
the observatory and hydrographical Office,
viz: one lithographer, one instrument
maker, two watchmen, and one porter,
three thousand one hundred and sixty dol
lars. ~
Te enable the Secretary of the Navy
to pay the salary of Professor James P.
Epsy, for the current fiscal year ending
June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty
six, two thousand dollars; the payment to
be made in the same manner and under
the like control as former appropriations for
meteorological observations.
For contingent expenses that may accrue
for the following purposes, viz: Freight
and transportation, printing and stationery,
advertising in newspapers, books, maps,
models, and drawings, purchase and re-
pair of fire-engines and machenery, re-
pairs of and attending to steam-englnes in
navy-yards, purchase and maintenance of
horses and oxen, and driving teams, carts,
timber-wheels, and the purchase and re-
pairs of workmen's tools, postage of pub
lie letters, fuel, oil, and candles for navy
yards and shore stations, pay of watchmen,
and incidental labor, not chargeable to any
other appropriation, labor attending the de-
livery of stores on civil stations, wharfage,
dockage, and rent, travelling expenses of
officers and others under orders, funeral
expenses, store and office rent, stationery,
fuel commissions and pay of clerks to ma
vy-agents and storekeepers, flags, awnings,
and packing boxes, premiums and Others ex-
penses of recruiting, apprehending deser-
ters, per diem pay to persons attending
courts-martial and courts of inquiry, and
other services authorized by law, pay to
judges advocate, pilotage and towage of
vessels and assistance to vessels in distress,
bills of health, and quarantine expenses
of the United States navy In foreign ports,
eight hundred and forty-two thousand and
forty-eight dollars.
For repair of buildings, for the necessa-
ry additions and repairs to the works for
heating the buildinds, and support of the
Naval Academy, at Annapolis, Maryland,
twenty-five thousand and forty-four dollars
and twenty-five cents for continuing the
sea-wall along the northern water front
of the academy grounds, grading, drain
ing, and filling in low grounds, and
for keeping the grounds in order, twenty
three thousand dollars.
For repainting, caulking, and for other
repairs of the floating balance dry-dock,
basin and railway, at the navy yard Pensa-
cola, the sum of ten thousand dollars.
And the Secretary of the Navy is here.
by authorized to receive the said works /:
PROVIDED, That it shall appear from the
certificates of the officers appointed by the
government to superintend and direct in
the construction thereof that the same have
been faithfully built according to the stipu-
latlons of the contract, and that a ship
furnished by the contractors at their own
expense, has been successfully docked and
hauled on and off the land by the railway,
of equal or greater weight an displace-
ment than the ships by which the docks,
basins and railways, at Philadelphia and
Kittery were tested.
For construction, extension, and compile
ton of the following objects, and for con-
tingent expenses at the several navy yards,
viz:
PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE.
For completing Cooper's shop and watch
| mems quarters dredging front of basin; dock
basin; sewer and drainage; removing ledge
| back timber shed paving aue boiler at Smith
shell-house, for safe-keeping Of shells and
repairs of all kinds, hfty-eight thousand two
hundred and ffty-eight dollars.
BOSTON.
| For removing and altering coal-house at
smithery; stone wall north side Of timbef-doek,
and filling area around machine shop and
smithery; packing-house and cooperage re-
building dock-engfne boiler-house; paving area
around dry dock; paving between sheds no. thir-
one and thirty-three; extension of city sewer
to sea-wall; finishing coal-house at ropewalk;
machinery for machine-shop and smithery
steam-engine and pump for ropewalk; complies
| ting the boundary boiler aHd machine-shop and
necessary tools for the same, and repairs Of ali
kinds, two hundred and ffty-ive thousand three
hundred and twenty-five dollars.
| NEW YORK.
| For extension Of smithery; machinery for
| smithery: carpenters' shop; oakum-shop; quay
wall; paving and tagging; dredging channels;
timber and Knee slip; dry dock pavement; fl
ling in low pieces, and grading; oakum-pieker;
and completing the foundry, boiler andmachine-
shop, and necessary tools for the same, three
hundred and forty-five thousand nine hundred
and forty-six dollars. For this sum required
to pay amoent due for iron-work for engine
house, nine thousand five hundred dollars; FeI
repairs OF all kinds twenty five thousand dol
lars.
/ PHILADELPHIA.
For adding sixty feet to ship-house F; roof Of
ship-house F roof to ship-house G wharf
numb sr four; dredging channels; repairs ID
dry dock; and repairs Of all kinds, sixty-sil