Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1857-07-02
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AN ACT making appropriations for the naval
service for the year ending the thirtieth
Of June eighteen hundred and ffty-e;ght
Be it e7aactsI Jy tie Senate and House of
Representatives Of the United States of America
in Congress assembled, That the following
sums be, and they same are hereby, appro-
priated, to be paid out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the
year ending the thirtieth Of June eighteen
hundred and fifty-eight:
For pay of commission, warrant. and petty
officers and seamen, including the engineer
corps Of the navy. three million eight hundred
and Gfty-fye thousand four hundred and fifty
dollars.
And the Secretary of the Navy be, and he
is hereby authorized to enlist eight thousand
FIVE hundred men for the law instead of
seven thousand FIVE hundred, and to expend
so much of this amount as may, in his opinion,
be necessary to transport officers and men to
and from Panama, to refeve the officers and
crews of ships in the Pacific.
For provisions for commission, warrants and
petty officers and seameil, including engineers
and marines attached to vessals for sea service,
eight hundred and fifty thousand four hundred
and fifty Thousand four hundred and fifty dol
lars
/ For Increase, repair, armament, and equip
ment of the navy, including the wear and tear
/ Of vessals in commission, fuel for steamers,
/ and purchase of hemp for the navr, two mil
/ lion eight hundred and seventy-seven thousand
dollars.
For ordnance and ordnance stores and small
arms including incidental expenses, three hum
( dreG and four thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses that may accrue for
the following purposes, viz:
Freight and transportation, printing and sta
tionerv, advertising in newspapers, books,
maps, models, and drawings. purchase and re-
pair Of fire engines and machinery, repairs ol
and attending to steam engines in navy yaris
\ purchase and maintenance of horses and oxen,
and drawing teams, carts, timber wheels, and
the purchase and repairs Of workHen's tools
passage of letters, fuel, oil, and candles fol-
navv-vards and shore stations, pay OF watch
men. and incidental labor, not chargeable t.
any other appropriation, transportation to and
labor attending, tie delivery of provisions and
stores on foreign stations, wharfage, dockage
ana rent. travelling expenses of Officers and
Others under orders, funeral expenses, store
and Office rent, stationery, fue', commission
! and nav of clerks to navy agents and store
keepers, flags, awnings, and packing boxes
premiums and other expenses OF recruiting, ap
: pretending deserters, Per diem pay to persons
/ attending courts martial and courts of inquiry
and other services authorized by law, to pa,
! to Judges advocate, pilotage and towage
E vessels, and assistance to vessels IN distress
f bills of health, and quarantine expenses .
7 vessels of the United States ray!I IN foreie7
{ ports, eight hundred and eighty thousand dol
: lars: PTOti4eF, That the expenditures unde
S the foregoing appropriations shall De 50 ac
, counted for as to show the disbursements p
+; each bureau under each respective apPFoPua
: ton
/ To enable the Secretary of the Navy to arr
S and man the ordnance ship Plymouth at tn
7 Washington navy yard, with view to tn
b Improvement of ordnance and gunnery prssc
] tIce, forty-nine thousand dollars.
MARINE CORPS.
e For pay of the officers, non-commissiOn e
: officers, musicians and piivatss, clerks. me:
II sengers stewards, and servants, tor Tations an
e clothing 'forservaIits, subsistence md addition
= al ratians fsF FIVE years service Of officers. f
undrawn clothing and nations. bluntles for II
h eulistmeliss, and pay for inexperienced tern
e Of pTevidus service, three sundTed and fiftj
d nine thousand SIX hundred and ninety-on de
lars and sixty-eight cents.