The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-17


Marine Corps.-For pay of non-commissioned
officers, musicians, prirates, clerks, messengers,
steward and nurse, and servants; for ratlons and
clothing for officers servants; additional ratons
to officers for five years service; for undrawn
clothing and ratiOns, and bounties for re-enllst-
ments, seven hundred and ninety thousand seven
hundred and eighty dollars and eighty cents.
For provisions, one hundred and thirty-ive
thousand nine hundred and twenty-six dollars
For clothing, two hundred thousand two hun
dred and seyenty-slx dollars and seventy-six
cents.
For fuel, thirty-one thousand four hundred and
thirty dollars and scventy-tive cents.
For military Stores viz Pay of mechanics, re-
pair of arms, purchase of accoutrements. ord
nance stores, flags, drums flies, and other instru-
ments, fifteen Thousand dollars.
For transportation of officers, their servants,
troops, and expenses of recruiting, twenty-five
thousand dollars.
For repairs of barracks, and rent of Offices
where there are public buildings for that pur
pose, eight thousand dollars.
For contingencies, viz: Freight ferriage, toll,
carriage, wharfage purchase and repair OF boats;
compensation TO judges advocate; per diem for
attending courts-martial, courts of inquiry, and
for constant labor; house rent in lieu OF quarters
burial of deceased marines; printing, stationery,
postage, telegraphing; apprehension OF deserters;
oil, candles, gas; repairs of gas and water fix
lures; water rent forage, straw, barrack furni-
ture; furniture for officers quarters; bed sacks,
spades, shovels, axes, picks carpenters tools;
keep of Il horse for the messenger; pay of matron,
washerwoman, and porter at the hospit,l head
Xuirters; repairs to tire-engine; purchase and re-
pair of engine-hose purchase of lumber for
benches, mess-tables, and hunks; repairs to pub
lie carryall purchase and repair of harness; scav
engerlng, galieys, cooking-stoves, and ranges;
stoves where there are no CRATES; gravel for pa
rade grounds; repair Of pumps. furniture for
staff and commanding officers Offices; brushes,
brooms, buckets, paving, and for other purposes,
forty five thousand dollars.
For the construction of marine barracks at Mare
Island, California, one hundred thousand dollars,
ded, nevertheless, That said money shall not be
expended until the plans for said barracks shall
have been submitted to and approved by the Sec
retary of the Navy.
Navy Yards.
Portsmouth, New HanIpahire.-For boat house
and carpenters shop; paint shop; Bishops der
rick; railway; dock-wall repairs of floating
dry-dock, and repairs of all kinds, one hundred
and thirty two thousand three hundred and sixty
two dollars.
For rebuilding porter's house at Portsmouth
navy yard, two thousand dollars.
Boston.-For repairing around dry dock and re-
laying surface water drains, joiners' shop and
painters loft; extension of shear wharf; ad,li-
tional expenses on house for heavy forging ham
mer, and for repairs of all kinds two hundred and
seventy eight thousand five hundred and slSty-six
dollars
New York-For continuation of quay wall for
new foundery; drains, paving, and tagging; wa
ter pipes and hydrants; filling low place; repairs
of dry dock; shan cable shop; railways; officers
houses: machinery for machine shop, foundcry !;
boiler shop and pattern shop; for large chuck
lathe, for turning large rings for turrcts on gun
batteries and for repairs of all i-inds, three hun
dred and seVentyseven thousand and eleven dol
lars.
For building floating dry dock at navy yard
New York, seven hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars Provided, That if, after examination and
survey, the Secretary of the Navy shall deem it
expedcnt.
Philadelphia For repairs of all kinds, twen-
ty-eigIrt thousand eight hundred dollars.
WashingtOn.-For Bishops derrick depot for
coal for steamers; machinery and tools; and for
repairs of all kinds, one hundred and thirty-one
thousand eight hundred and seyenty-onL dollars
Mare Island, California.-For completing Off
GERS houses: grading and paving; foundery,
machine shop and equipment; completing Bisll-
ops derrick; repairs OF sectional dock fitting up
boiler shop in sElithcry; portable engines, with
machinery for husting for yard purposes; cistern
and holder for gas works; saw-flill; commen-
cling stables; commencing coal-ho and wharf,
repairs of ali kinds, three hundred and siXty-siX
thousand three hundred and slxty-thrce dollars
Sackct'> Harbor.-For repairs of all kinds, one
thousand five hundred dollars.
Navy Yard, Norfolk.-For repairs of dry dock
and pumps, and general, repairs, eighty five thou
sand dollars.
Hospitals.
Boston.-For repairs of hospital and grounds at
Chelsea, two thousand five hundred dollars.
New YOrk.-For repairs and improvements;
repairs and increase of apparatus in laboratory
and for temporary addition to hospital accommo
dations, twSnty-t thousand dollars.
Philadelphia Asylum and Hospital.-For furni-
ture and repairs; house cleaning and whitewash-
ing; repairs to furnaces, CRATES, and rangers;
gas and water rent; improvement of chapel and
grounds; for ibrIry OF asylum and for hospital
and repairs ofall kinds, two thousand nine hum
dred dollars.
For support of benefciaries, thirty thousand
dollars.
Norfolk.-For the support and repair OF the
val hospital at Norfolk for the remainder of the
current fiscal year, and for the years eighteen
hundred and sXty-three ana eighteen hundred and
sixty Jour, eighteen thousand five hundred dol
lars.
Mound City.-For supporting hospital, repairs,
rent, and furniture at Mound City, Illinois, sew
entcen thousand five hundred dollars.
Mare Island, Californa.-For commencing hos
pital, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Magazines.
Portsmouth, New Hampshire.-For ordinance,
timber shed, and storehouse for howitZers, thirty
one thousand five hundred and twenty-tow dol
lars.
Boston-For repairs of building and care of
grounds, two thousand dollars
For pay of supcrintendents, naval constructors,
and all the civil establishment of the several navy
yards and stations, one hundred and six thousand
That hereafter the saery OF the civil engineer at
the Washington navy yard shall be two thousand
dollars year. and the salary of the civil engineer
of the bureau of yards and docks shall be three
thousand dollars.
For expenses of watchmen and others, and con-
tn;encies of the United States Naval Academy,
twenty -four thousand eight hundred and eighty
one dollers.
Naval Observatory.-For the purchase of nauti-
cal Instruments, repairs of the same, and of astro
nomical instruments, and for the purchase of nau-
ticai books, maps, and charts, and for backing
and binding the same, twenty-three thousand dol
lars.
For wages of instrument maker, watchman,
porter, and laborers; for keeping grounds in
der, and repairs to buildings and enclosures; for
fuel lights, freights, transportation, and postage,
and stationery, and incidental expenses, twelve
dollars.
For preparing for publication the American
Nautical Almanac, twenty-five thousand eight
hundred and fifty dollars.
Sec. q And be it further enacted, That there
shall be paid, out of any money in the treasury
not otherwise appropriated the several certif-
Gates issued by the accounting officers of the
Treasury Department to the officers, sailors, ma
rines, and crews OF the Congress and Cumberland,
and other persons provided for by the act of
April second, eighteen hundred and siXty-two,
entitled An act to provide for the equitable
settlement of the accounts of the officers and
crews OF the frigate Congress and other vessels''
Sec. g. And be it further enacted, That the Sc
cond section of the act entitled "An act for the
temporary increase of the Navy" approved July
twenty-four, eighteen hundred and sixty one,
shall be so construed that the temporary appoint
ments made, or which may be made, of acting as
sistant paymasters and acting ensigns, are hereby
ratified and confirmed as temporary acting ap-
pointments until the return of the vessels in which
they are respectively employed, or until the sup
preston of the present insurrection, as may be
deemed necessary; and the rate of compensation
allowed for the several grades specified, is hereby