Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-10-18

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carriage wharfage, compensation to Judges ndvo.
cnto per diem for attending courts martial courts
OF inquiry, and for constant labor, house rent in
lieu OF quarters burial Of deceased marines print.
ing, stationery, postnge, telegraphing, apprehen.
sion OF deserters, oil, candles. gas forage, straw
furniture, bjd sacks, spades shovols, axes, picks
carpenters tools, keep Of horse for the messen.
ger, pay of matron, washerwoman, and porter Mt
the hospital headquarters, thirty thousand five
hundred dollars.
Navy Yards.
! For the preservation of works. md for the cur /.
rent repairs at the several navy yards, viz.
| At Portsmouth, New Hampshire, ten thousand
dollars
| At Boston, fifteen thousand dollars
| At New York twenty thousand dollars.
At Philadelphia, fifteen thousand dollars.
At Washington, ten thousand dollars; and for
the officers Of the yard seven thousand nine hun.
dred and twenty six dollars.
| At Norfolk, twenty thousand dollars to compl, te
shIphouse, number for'y eight, nineteen thousand
dollars; and for rcpnirs Of shipouses A and b. at
Norfolk, thirty thousand dollars.
At Pensacola, ten thousand dollars.
A. Mare Island, twenty thousand dollars.
At Sacketts Harbor, one thousand dollars.
Hospitals
For the construction and completion of works,
and lor the current repairs Of the several naval
hospitals;
BosroN For repairs of hospital, two thousand
! five hundred dollars.
New YoRK.-For repairs of hospital buildings
and laboratory, suven thousand dollars.
| NAVAL AsyLuM, PHILApELPHlA-Fo improving
! cemetery, sky lights to main bull ling, furniture,
| and repairs OF same, house cleaning and white
washing, repairs to furnaces, CRATES, and ranges
! gas and water rent, and for rernirs of all kinds,
1--we thousand one hundred aud fifty dollars,
For support OF beneiicaries at the asylum, TWEEN.
~ seven thousand dollars.
NoRFoLK.-For porter's lodge, replacing wooden
galleries, and for repairs OF hospital eighteen thou.
sand two hundred and seventy dollars.
PENsoooLA, For draining and filling ponds, and
tor repairs of hospital buildings and dependencies
+ ten thousand five hundred dollars.
Magazines.
For the construction and completion of works,
and for the current repairs at the several naval
magazines:
BosroN-For repairs of all kinds, two thousand
dollars.
PHlL,pELPHA-For repairs of all kinds six hun
dred dollars.
WAsHiN. ToN.--For the renewal of experimental
battery with one part inclosed or casemated, to
guard against accidents from guns OF doubtful
character, iour thousand dollars
NoRFoLK.-for shot-beds and gun skids fitting
up additional storehouse at magazine, converting
coal house Mt St Helena into gun carriage she'd
fitting racks for and stores and Tor repairs of
magazine buildings, ten thousand seven hundred
dollars
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| thousand one hundred and thirtv.two dollars
! For pay of superintendents, naval constructors
and all the civil establishments at the several navy
! yards and stations one hundred and forty eight
thousand six hundred and four'dollars
For the purchase of nauctic0l instruments re.
quired for the of the navy, for repairs of the
same and also of astronomical instruments; and
for the purchase Of nautical books, maps, and
charts. and Tor backing and binding the same,
twenty five thousand dollars.
For medals drn Nypua and drO far
freight, and transportation; Tor keel ing grounds
ORDER tor fuel and lights, and for all other contingent
! expenses; and for the wages OF persons employed
at the United States Naval Observatory and by.
biographical Office, viz: one instrument maker,
two watchnen, and one porter, seven thousand
| five hundred dollars
! For the erection of hose house one thousand
| five hundred dollars
provement and preservation of the grounds, and
for contingencies at the United States Naval
Academy, fifty seven thousand and ninety six
dollars.
For preparing for publication the American Nau.
tical Almanac. twenty five thousand eight hundred
and eighty dollars.
For the preparation of the report Of the results
OF the survey of the route between California and
China, and OF portions of the coast of Japan, five
thousand dollars
For engraving charts of the survey Of Behring
Straits, the North Pacific Ocean, and China seas,
under the direction OF the Secretary OF the Navy,
nine thousand and ten dollars.
For the removal OF the naval monument from
the west front OF the Capitol to the grounds of the
Naval Academy at Annapolis fifteen hundred dol
lars.
SEc. .. And be il further enacted, That the sum
of thirty nine thousand four hundred dollars be-
and the same is hereby, appropriated for pay of
commission, warrant and pc ty officers and sea.
mon, including the engineer corps OF the navy, for
the year ending the thrtieth Of June, eighteen
hundred and sixty.
SEC. 3. And be il further enacted, That pur-
sers i'll the navy OF the United States shall here
after be styled paymasters, and that all laws and
regulations applying to them AS purscrs, and all
responsibilities and obligations attaching to them
such, shall remain in full force, and continue 10
apply 10 them, under the title of paymasters, and
that the payments heretofore made to the pursers
clerks al the navy-yards at CT areston New York,
and Norfolk, under appropriations made by Con
gress at the rate of seven hundred and fifty dol.
lars per annum, are hereby confirmed; and that the
pay of the pursers clerks at those navy yards
shall be continued at the rate of seven hundred and
ilfty dollars per annum.
SEC. 4. And be il further enacted, That the sum
of five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby
appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated, TO be expended under the
joint reso oution passed the twenty sixth February
eighteen hundred and fifty seven, "to prevent the
ceunerfcitng of the coins of the United States"
SEC. 5. And be il further enacted, That the sum
of ten thousand dollars be, and same h. reby,
priated, to enable the President to send some com.
peten person or persons to the lsthmus of Chirqui
whose duty il shall be to examine into and report
upon the quality and probable quantity of coal to
be found there, upon the lands OF the Chriqui In.
provement Company; upon the character of the
harbors of Chirqui Lagoon and Gofto; upon the
prlcticability of building railroad across said
lthmus, so as to connect said harbors; and gener-
ally upon the value ot the privileges contracted for
in conditional contract maize the twenty first
day of May, eighteen hundred and fifty nine, be.
tween Isaac Toucey, the Secretary of the Navy of
the United States, and Ambrose W. Thompson,
and the Chiriqui improvement Company: ProU,ded,
That nothing he Elm contained shall be construed
as n ratification OF the said contract.
Approved June %, 1860.
AN ACT to grant to the City of Port Huron,
Michigan, Part of the Military Reservations of
Fort Graiiot, for the Enlargement of the City
Cemetery at that Place.
Be u enacted By The Senate and House of Repre'
sentatires ofthe United States Of America in Con
gress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and
he is hereby, authorized and required to convey to
the city of Port Huron, Michigan, of the military
reservation of Fort Grntiot, lot not to exceed
thirty acres, to be taken from the land adjoining
the city cemetery and to be used for its enlarge.
ment and for no other purpose, so far and under
such conditions and reservations as in the opinion
of the Secretary Of Wor the public interest present
or prospective may require
Approved, June 22, 1860.
AN ACT TO declare the Meaning of the Act en-.
| titled IAN Act making further Provisions for
the Satisfaction of Virginia Land Warrants"