The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-03-06

LAWS on THE UNITED STATES.

AN ACT making appropriations for the naval service
for the year ending the thtieh Of June eighteen hun
afed and SIXTY gallB ~
Be eaaosd By dc Senas and Houss ef Representatives. s
ue Uated Sa q Aasroa C5agres assembled That the
following sums be and they hereby appropriated to
be paid out Of any money In the treasury not otherwise
appropriated fos the yeaT ending the thlrteth Of June
eighteen hundred and sixty
For pay Of Commission warrant and pety officers and
seamen Including the corps of the navy three
million nine hundred and thirty thousand four hundred
and thirty-nine dollars. @
For the payment OF officers restored 10 the navy under
the provisions of the act Of January sixteenth eighteen
hundred and ftyseyen during the period OF their retire
ment or suspension, sNty-two thousand three hundred
aud ninety four dollars
For provisions Tor commission warrant aud petty OF
6cers and seameni including engineers and marines at
tached 90 vessels ior service nine hundred and forty
five thousand eight hundred aud forty dollars
For surgeons necessares and appliances for the sick
and hurt of the navy intending the engineer and marine
corps thirty five Thousand sx hundred dollars.
For fuel or the nayy, to be purchased in the mode pre-
seribed by Law for other materials and the tanspor
tation thereof, six hundred thousand dollars.
For the purchase OF hemp and other materials for the
navy three hundred thousand dollars.
For the repair, armament and equipment of vessels
one million dollars Procidd. That not more than one
thousand oass shall be expended in any navy yard Ia
the repair Of any vessel until the necessity OF such
pair and the probable cost thereof Is ascertaned by
the report of board OF not less than three officers OF the
navy. rfH
Guiding incidental expenses ye hundred and sixty three
thousand dollars
For contingent expenses that may accrue for the
following purposes, viz freight aud transportation,
printing and stationery advertising la newspapers
books, maps, models, aud drawings, purchase and
repair OF fire engines and machinery, repairs OF and
attending TO steam engines la navy yards purchase
and maintenance of horses and oxen, and driving
teams carts, timber Wheels and the purchase and repairs
of wokmen's tools, postage OF public letters, fuel, oil
and candles for navy yards and shore stations pay of
watchen and incidental labor not chageabe any other
appropriation transportation 10 and labor attending the
delivery OF provisions and stores foreign stations
wharfage dockage and rent travelling expenses Of officers
and Others under ORDERS funeral expenses store and office
rent fuel commissions and pay of clerks to navy agents
and storekcepers, flags, awnings and packing boxes pre-
mums and other expenses OF recruiting experimenting
dcsetes pea diem pay To attending courts martial
courts OF inquiry and other services authorized by law
pay to judges advocate potage and towage Of vessels
and assistance to vessels la Distress and for bills OF health
and quarantine expenses of vessels of the United States
navy in foreign ports eight hundred and ninety thou
sand dollars: P,ooded That the expenditures under the
foregoing appropriations shall be accounted for to
show the disbursements by each bureau, under each
spective appropriation. 3
For the payment of the charter purchase of Of YES
sells for the Paraguay expedition tor nine months two
hundred and eighty.ninc thousand dollars Proaaded,
That II the said vessels shall not be purchased
shall be used Of the herein appropriated than may
be necessary to pay for the charter Of said vessels at the
rate agreed on Tor such time they may be employed
a MARINE CORPS.
For pay of officers. on-commissioned officers. must
clans privates clerks messengers, stewards, and
wants for raons and clothing for servants additional
tons for years service. for unawn clothing and
tons bonnties for recnstments, four hundred and
twenty eight thousand nine hundred aud thirty seven
dollars and thirty cents. y
For provisions seventy thousandseve hundred and
fifty mine dollars
For clothing seventy three thousand eight hundredand
fifty six dollars. rsars 1.s4-et ..sae
For fuel twenty two thousand three hundred and forty
two dollars and twenty five cents
For military stores, viz pay OF armorers, repair oi
qrs purchase Of accoulrements ordnance stores flags,
drums flies, and other instruments twelve thousand dol
For transportation OF officers and troops and expenses
Of recruiting fourteen thousand dollars.
For repairs OF barracks and rent Of offices where there
public buildings Tor that purpose, eight thousand
dollars.
For contingencies viz freight ferrage, TOLL carriage
wharfage compensation to judges advocate per diem for
attending courtsmartia courts Of inquiry, and for con-
slant labor house rent In lieu of quarters burial of de-
ceased marines printing stationery postage, telegraph
ing apprehension Of deserers, OIL candles, gas forage,
straw furniture bed Sacks spades, shoyel, axes, picks
carpenters tools keep of horse for the messenger pay
OF aa.ron, Washerwpman, and porter at the hospital
headquarters thrtytw thousand Eve hu,dre dollars.
For the preservation of works and for the current re
pairs at the several navy yards viz
At Portsmouth, New Hampshire, ten thousand dollars
At Boston, fifteen thosand dollars.
at New York. twenty thousand dollars. ta.e
At Philadelphia fifteen Thousand dollars. aa
At Washington, ten thousand dollars
At Norfolk, twenty thousand dollars.
At Pensacola ten thousand dollars.
At Mare Island California, twenty thousand dollars
At Sacketts Harbor, one thousand dollars.
HOSPITALS
For the construction and completion OF works and for
the current repairs Of the several naval hospitals 81
BOSTON
For repairs Of hospital buildings and fences, two thou
sand Ave hundred dollars, r ea
Ekg FaRE.
For repairs of buildings and fences, thousand
dollars.
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For paving and curling Shipper street. paving side
walks Shipper street painting and repairing buildings
furniture and repairs of same house cleaning and white
washing, furnace CRATES and ranges, and repairs trees
and boxes Shipper street gas tax and water rent