Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-09-23

AN ACT making appropriations IOr tne
naval service for the year ending thir.
tieth of June, eighteen hundred and
sixty-three, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled, That
the following sums be and they are here
be appropriated, to be paid out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise
appropriated, for the year ending the
thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and
sixty-three: t-
For pay OfcommissiOners, warrant, and
petty officers and seamen, including the
engineer corps of the navy, eleven million
six hundred and seventeen thousand one
hundred and nine dollars.
For the repair and equipment ofvessels
of the navy, eleven million four hundred
Thousand dollars.
For fuel for the navy, to be purchased
in the mode prescribed by law for other
materials, and for the transportation
thereof, two million one hundred and
sixty thousand dollars.
For the purchase of hemp and other
materials for the navy, five hundred and
forty thousand dollars
For ordnance and ordnance stores,
includingincidental expenses, Ave million
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For provision for commission, warrant,
and petty officers aud seamen, including
engineers and mariners attached to vessels
orseaservice, three million three hundred
and fifty-One thousand five hundred and
tweuty-one dollars and twenty-five cents:
Provided, That the preserved meat for
ming part of the navy ration may be
prepared aud packed under the direction
of the Secretary of the Navy, If he shall
deem it advisable; and that the cattle or
fresh beef therefor may be purchased
under his directions, and from this apprO-
priation; and thar he be authorized to
do whatever else may be necessary for
the procuring, preparing, and packing
said preserved meat in the most approved
and advantageous manner; the expense
for machinery and tools to be betrayed
exceed five thousand dollars.
For surgeons necessaries and appliau-
ces for the sick and hurt of the navy,
including the engineerand marine corps,
seventy-seyen thousand nine hundred
dollars.
For contingent expenses that may
accrue for the following purposes, viz.
freight and transportation printing and
stationery; advertising in newspapers I;
books, maps, models, drawings purchase
and repair Of fire engines for machinery
Of every description and the patent right
to use the same; repair and attending to
steam-engines in navy yards; purchase
and maintenance of horses and oxen, aud
driving teams, carts, timber-wheels and
the purchase and repair of wOrkman's s
tools postage of public letters kilograms;
fuel, oil, and candles for navy yards and
share stations; pay of watchmen and
incidental labor not chargeable to any
other appropriation transportation to,
and labor attending the delivery Of provi-
sions and stores on foreign stations whar-
fage, dockage, andrent for docking vessels;
for furniture for Government houses T;
travelling expenses of officers and others
under orders funeral expenses; store aud
Office rent; fuel. commissions and pay of
clerks to navy agents and storekeepers ;
aags, awnings. and packing boxes pre-
miums, and other expenses of recruiting:
apprehendiDg deserters per diem pay to
persons attending courts-martial, courts
of inquiry, and other services authorized
by law; pay to judge advocates; pay to
lithographers; pilotage and towage of
vessels, and assistance to vessels in dis
tress; and for bills of health and quar,tn-
tine expenses of vessels Of the United
States navy in foreign ports, one million
seven hundred thousand dollars.
For clothing for the navy, six hundred
Thousand dollars.
For the charter of vessels, stores, extra
labOrers, and purchase of additional steam
vessels, three million dollars: Provided,
That hereafter, in all cases where the Off
GERS of the navy can be made available,
consistently with the public service, in
making contracts for the charter of vessels
and the purchase of additional steam
vessel, no other person or persons shall be
employed; nor shall such officers, when so
employed, receive any compensation in
addition to their official pay, and when
any other person or persons than an Off
Ger Of the navy shall be employed the
compensation shall not exceed tde sum Of
five thousand dollars for all contracts for
purchases or charters IN any one year
made under the provisions Of this act
For pay of photographer for the year
ending June, eighteen hundred and sixty
two. three hundred dollars. ,T
= For repairs. painting, and raising the
roof of the Navy Department building.
finishing and furnishing the same, twenty
thousand dollars ~ .isgia5 1ra er s.
MAaHE CORPS. sais
For pay Of officers, uon-eommissioned
officers, musicians, privAtes, clerks, mes
sengers, stewards aad serTantsi for ratiOns
and clothing for servants; additional ra-
tions for i've years servicei for uudraWp
clothing aud rati0ps, bounties, for re-en-
listments, six hundred and ninety-six thou
sand one hundred and ninety eight dollars
aud thirty cents. 55 regot5
For the support Of Eve hundred and
eighty men. Authorized, to be enlisted for
the marine corps, by The President of the
United States, on the tHenty -second OF
eighteen hundred and sixty one.
thousand seven bundled and
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