Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-08-29
OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Passed at the Second Session of the Thirty
Congress.
TPuBLIc-No. 1851

Be 1t enacted by the senate and house of
representatives of the United States of Amer
ca in congress assembled, that the following
sums be and they are hereby 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
For pay Of commission, 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 Of vessels OF
the navy, eleven million four hundred thou
sand dollars.
For fuel for the navy, to be purchased in
the mode prescribed by law tor other mater
ials, and for the transportation thereof, TWO
million one hundred and sixty thousand dol
lars.
For the purchase Of hemp and other ma
terialS for the navy, five hundred and forty
thousand dollars.
For ordnance and ordnance stores, includ~
ing incidental expenses, five million one hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars.
For provisions forcommission, warrant, and
petty officers and seamcn, including engineers
and marines attached to vessels for sea SER
vice, three million three hundred and fifty
one thousand five hundred and twenty-one
dollars and twenty-five cents Provided that
the preserved meat forming part of the navy
ration may be prepared and packed under the
direction of the secretary Of the navy, ifhe shall
deem it advisable; and that the cattle or fresh
beef therefor may be purchased under his di-
rectlons, and tromthis appropriation; and that
he be authorized to do whatever else may be
necessary for the procuring, preparing, and
packing said preserved meat in the most APP
proved and advantageous manner; the ex-
pense for machinery and tools to be defrayed
from the last-named sum, and not to exceed
five thousand dollars.
For surgeons neceSsaries and appliances
for the sick and hurt of the navy, including
the engineer and marine corps seyenty-seven
thousand nine hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses that may accrue
for the following purposes, viz: freight and
transportation printing and stationery; adj
vertlsing in newspapers; books, maps, mod
els, drawings; purchase and repair of fire en-
sines; for machinery of every description
and the patent right to use the same; repair
OF and attending to steam engines in navy
yards; purchase and maintenance of horses
and oxen, and driving teams, carts, timber
wheels, and the purchase and repair Of work
mans tools; postage OF public letters; tele-
grams, fuel, oil, and candles for navy yards
and shore stations; pay of watchmen and in
cidental labor not chargeable to any other APP
preparations transportation to, and labor
attending the delivery of provisions and
stores on foreign stations; wharfage,
dockage, and rent for docking vessels;
for furniture for government houses travel
ling expenses OF officers and others under
orders; funeral expenses; store and office
rent; fuel, commissions and pay of clerks to
navy agents and storekcepcrs flags, awnings,
and packing boxes; premiums, and other eX-
penses of recruiting; experimenting deserters;
per diem pay to persons attending court
martial, courts Of inquiry, and other services
authorized by law; pay to judge advocates
pay to photographers; pilotage and towage of
vessels, and assistance to vessels in distress;
and for bills of health and quarantine ex-
penses 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 la
bOrers, and purchase of additional steam YES
sells, three million dollars Provided that
hereafter, in all cases where the officers 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 vessels, no other person or
persons snail be employed; nor shall such Of
fcers, when so employed, receive any COM
pensation in addition to their official pay, and
when any other person or persons than an of
fcer of the navy shall be employed the conf
pensation shall not exceed the sum Of five
thousand dollars for all contracts for purcha-
SEES or charters in any one year made under
the provisions of this act.
For pay OF photographer for the year end
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three hundred dollars.
For repairs, painting, and raising the roof
of the navy department building, finishing
and furnishing the same, twenty thosand dol
lars.
MARINE CORPS.
For pay Of officers, non-commissioned Off
GERS, musicians, privates, clerks, messengers,
stewards, and servants for rations and cloth
ing for servants additional rations for five
years service; for undrawn clothing and ra-
lions, bounties for re-enlstments, six hundred
and ninety-six thousand one hundred and
ninety-eight dollars and thirty cents.
For the support of five hundred and eighty
men authorized to be enlisted for the marine
corps, by the president of the United States,
on the twenty-second of November, eighteen
hundred and sixty -one, seventy -four thousand
seven hundred and sixty-seven dollars and
forty cents.
For provisions, one hundred and forty three
thousand four hundred and forty-five dollars.
For clothing, one hundred and thirty -four
thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.
For fuel, thirty thousand eight hundred and
ninety-four dollars and fifty cents.
For military stores, namely: Pay of aImor-
ers, repair of arms, purchase of accoutre-
ments, ordnance stores, flags drums, flies,
and other instruments, fifteen thousand dol
lars.
For transportation ofofficers, their servants
and troops, and expenses Of recruiting, twen-
ty-two thousand dollars.
For repairs of barracks, and rent of offices
where there are no public buildings for that
purpose, eight thousand dollars.
For completing repairs of Charlestown bar
racks, ten thousand four hundred and fifty
eight dollars and ninety-seyen cents Proyid-
ed, that the same can be fully completed for
that sum and no part Of the money hereby
appropriated shall be expended until it is sat
isfactoriy ascertained that the said building
can be completed Herewith.
For contingencies, namely; Freight, terri-
age, toll, carriage, wharfage; purchase and
repair Of boats, compensation to judge advo-
Gates, per diem for attending court-martial,
courts of inquiry, and for constant labor,
house rent in lieu Of quarters burial of de-
ceased marines, printing, stationery, postage,
telegraphng, apprehension OF deserters, oil,
candles, gas, repairs OF gas and water fixtures
water rent, forage straw, barrack furniture,
bed sacks, spades, shoves, axes, picks, car
penters' tools, keep of horse for the messen-
ger, pay Of matron, washwoman, and porter
at the hospital headquarters, forty thousand