The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-11-10
{ Avs OF TILE United sTATEs,

r Avs OF THE UNITED STATES,
Passed at the First Session, sohich seas begun
Distyict of Columbia. on Monday, the fourth
dan of December, a. D. 1855, and ended oits
.saturaay, the tsoe1ty-siga nth day Of July, a.
d. 1862 81
= PUBLIC ACTS.
ANDREW JOHNSON, President. LA FAYETTE
s. FOSTER, President of the Senate. LA
FAYErTE S. FOSTER was elected Presldent
of the Senate pro temp0Te on the seVentn
day of March, and so acted until the END
of the Session. SCHUYLER CoLFAx, Speaker
of the House of Representatives.
CHAP XLv.-(Concluded. ,-s.,-
An Act making Appropriations for the Naval Ser
vice for the Year ending thirtieth June, eigh-
teen INBRED and sixty-seven III.
/. MISCELLANEOUS.
Fornay of SUPERINTENDENT naval constructors,
aud ali the civil establishments OF the several
navy yards and stations, one hundred ana 1ostys
thu paw of the clerk of the yard and hrst clerk 10
naval storekeeper at each of the navy yards at
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, ana rniluneipnia'
For testing the use of petroleum as afuel unoer
marine boilers, five thousand dollars.
front of the government property at Mound City,
Illinois. seven thousand dollars.
To pay mileage of visitors to the Naval AGA
DENY one thousand dollars.
For expenses of Naval Academy VIZ: LOT pay
of civil officers professors watchmen ana otners'
contingent expenses improvements aaa forr amn
dred and twenty-nine dollars.
For the purchase of the land adjacent TO the
Naval Academy at Annapolis, belonging TO the
State of MARYLAND and known as the government
house and grounds, twenty-five Thousand dollars
For the purchase of other grounds at Annapons
for the of the Naval Academy, twenty-five
For the erection of building suitable for the
accommodation of the third and fourth classes
at the Naval Academy, one hundred thousand dol
lars. No.,
Academy, twenty thousand dollars
For the increase of the library at the Naval Ac-
ademy, two thousand dollars. ",
For the enlargement of the chapel at the Naval
Academy and for the erection OF mural ,aIiets
therein to commemorate the memory OF naval Of
ficers who have sacrificed their lives in the ser
vice of the country, seven thousand dollars.
NAVAL OBSERVATORY.
For the paw of assistant astronomer, three AIDS,
and clerk, eight thousand dollars.
Forwages of instrument maker, Two watchlnen,
porter and messenger; for keeping grounds IN
order, and repairs to buildings ana enelosures enclosures
for fuel light office furniture, and stationery,
and for freight transportation, postage, ana incl
dental expenses, twelve thousand dollars.
For preparing for publication the AIner 1.aa
Nautical Almanac, fifteen thousand eight hundred
and fifty dollars.
NAVAL ASYLUM, PHILADELPHIA.
For furniture and repairs to same, one thous-
and dollars.
For furnaces, CRATES, and ranges, seven hun
For gas and water rent one thousand five hun
For improvement of grounds, three hundred
For wharves and lots, eight hundred dollars
Fer painting houses and walls, two thousand
dollars.
For support of benefciaries, forty-eight thous-
and dollars.
of the first section of the act making approprla-
tions for the naval service approved May twenty
first, eighteen hundred and siNty-four as aPPro-
pirates two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
for bounties for destruction of enemies vessels,
as per act of July seventeenth, eighteen hundred
and sixty-two,'' b, amended so that said appro.
priation shall apply to all cases of destruction OF
enemies vessels during the recent rebellion, and
at the rate as is provided in the act to which
reference is made.
SEC. g. And be it further enacted, That no por-
ton OF the amounts herein appropriated shall be
paid in violation of the provisions of the act en-
titled g An act to prescribe an oath OF othee, and
for otheI purposes, approved july second, elgn-
teen hundred and siXty-two.
SEC f. And be it further enacted, That so much
of the second section of an act entitled An act TO
regulate the pay of the navy of the United States,
approved March three, eighteen hundred and
thirty-five prohibits any allowance to any ON
Ger in the naval service for rent of quarters or tor
furniture, for lights, or fuel or transporting
baggage and all acts and parts of acts authorizing
the appointment of navy agents, be, and the same
are hereby, repealed.
SEC B. And be it further enacted, That the ex
animation of candidates for admission to the Ma
val Academy shall be held at such stated times as
the Secretary of the Navy may dieect:
SEC. g. And be it further enacted, That the of
fee of assistant in Bureau of Ordnance be, and
the same is hereby, abolished.
SEC. T. And be it further enacted, That hereaf-
ter no vacancy in the grade of professor OF math-
ematics in the navy shall be filed
SEC g. And be it further enacted, That the act
approved August thirty-first eighteen hundred
and tifty-two for surveys AMID reconnoissances,
for naval and commercial purposes, OF such parts
of Behring's Straits of the north Pacific ocean,
and of the China seas, are frequented by Ameri
can whale ships and by trading vessels in their
routes between the United StaIss and China" be,
nv of the Navy is hereby authorized and required
| to recommence and continue surveys and recon-
noissances in the Pacific ocean, not yet fully eX
| amined by using such vessels, officers, crews,
outfits and supplies of the navy, us may be neces
! sary and available for that service.
SEC 9. And be it further enacted, That, for the
purpose of settling the accounts of disbursing of
Ulcers of the navy, where payments for contingent
| expenses have been made from the appropriation
| for 90 the pay of the navy" prior to the passage
| of the act making appropriation S for the fiscal
| wear eighteen hundred and sixty three-four, the
authorized to transfer from the appropriation for
the pay of the navy to the appropriation for con-
| tingent the sum of two hunnred and fOrty-6ve
thousand and nine hundred and four dollars and
| twelve cents
Approved, April II, 1866.
| CHAP. XLVI.