, 1868-09-18
Sgalla &jalIa Statestuatl.
OFFICIAL.


An ACT making appropriations for the naval
service for the year ending June THIRTEEN,
eighteen hundred and Sixty-niue.
rcoScLUDED.1
Forexpenses of Naval Academy, viz
For pay of professors and others, seventy-six
thousand seven huntlred and six dollars
For pay of watchmen and others, forty-nVe
thousand two hundred and niuety-four dollars
For contingent expenses sixty-three thousand
four hundred and-ffty dollars.
For necessary repairs of quarters, ten thousand
dollars.
For support of department Of steam enginery,
and for mechanics and laborers, five thousand
dollars.
For expenses of Naval Observatory, viz
For wages of one instrument maker, one mes
seuger, one porter, and three watchmen for
keeping grounds in order and repairs to build
ings and enclosures for fuel, light, and ofhee
furniture, and for stationery, chemicals for bats
teries, postage, and freight, ten thousand si1
hundred dollars.
For incidental expenses, FIVE hundred dollars.
For salary of clerk one thousand hTe hundred
dollars.
For salary of three aids four thousand dollars.
For preparing for publication the American
Nautical Almanac, namely FOR pay OF compus
ters, fifteen thousand dollars.
For pay of clerk, one thousand two hundred
dollars.
Naval Academy, two thousand dollars.
BUREAU OF ORDNANCE.
For guns, gun carriages, shot, shell, magazine
and laboratory stores, and equipments of all
kinds for gunpowder, small-arms, equipments
and ammunition for fuel and materials neces-
sary in carrying on the mechanical branches OF
the ordnance department at the navy yards and
stations, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For the necessary repairs of the magazine at
fOrt tha n leDOt.
Maiden for repairs to buildings on ordnance
dock, and also repairs to tugs and lighters, and
for repairs of ordnance dock at Ellis Island New
York for repairs of magazine at Fort Mifhin
for repairing crane and wharf at Norfolk, and
for repairs of magazine at Mare Island, fourteen
thousand five hundred dollars.
For pay of the superintendents and the civil
establishment at the several navy yards under
this bureau, fifteen thousand dollars.
BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIRS.
For pay of superiutendents and the civil estab-
lishmeut at the several navy yards under this
bureau, thirty nine thousand dollars.
BUREAU OF STEAM EYGISEERISG.
For pay of superintendents and the civil estab.
lshment at the several navy yards under this
bureau, twenty-fOur thousand dollars.
For stores and materials, tools, repairs of ma
chinery for steamers, boilers instruments, and
labor at navy yards, and repairs of the machine
ry and purchase of stores and materials for yes,
sells Of squadrons on foreign stations and for
transportation Of materials, six hundred and
fifty thousand dollars.
BUREAU OF PROVISIONS AND CLOTHING
For pay of the civil establishment at the sew
eral navy yards under this bureau, and at the
naval asylum, twenty-six thousand dollars.
For provisions and clothing, one million five
hundred thousand dollars.
To meet the demands upnn the huraan fnr
nd
fuel for to9s ggAk 5issGnkis for stationery;
for furniture and repairs of same in offices Of
paymasters and inspectors for kilograms and
postage; tolls and ferriages and for ice, ono
hundred thousand dollars.
BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY
For necessary repnirs and improvements of
hospitals and appendages, including roads, walls,
wharves, outhouses, sidewalks, fences, gardens,
farms, painting, glazing, blacksmiths plumb
ers', and masons' work for furniture, thirty
thousand dollars.
For pay of the civil establishment under this
bureay, at the several navy hospitals aud navy
yards, sixty thousand dollars.
MARINE CORPS.
For pay of officers nou.commissoned officers,
musicians, prvates, clerks, messengers, steward,
nurse, and servants for ratious and clothing for
officers servants, additional rations to officers
for five years service for undrawn clothing,
one hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
For provisions, one hundred thousand dollars
For clothing, one hundred thousand dollars
For fuel, ten thousand dollars.
For military stores, viz Pay of mechanics
repair of arms; purchase Of aceoutrements; ord
nance stores flags, drums, ffes, and other In
struments, five thousand dollars.
For transportation of officers, their servants
troops, and for expenses of recruiting, twelve
thousand dollars.
For repair of barracks, and for rent of Offices
where there are no public buildings, ten thou,
sand dollars.
For contingencies, viz: Freight; ferriage
toll carriage wharfage purchase aud repair
Of boats compensation Of judge advocates; per
diem for attending courts martial, and courts oil
inquiry, and for constant labor house-rent in
in lieu of quarters, and commutation for quar-
ters to officers on ship board burial of deceased
marines; printing, stationery postage, telegraph,
ing; apprehension Of deserters; oil, candles
gas repairs OF gas and water-fxtures; water
rent, forage, straw, barrack furniture furniture
for officers quarters; bed sacks, wrapping pa,
per, oil cloth, crash, rope, twine, spades, shov-
els axes, picks, carpenters tools keep of horse
Tor the messenger repairs to fre.eugines; pur.
chase and repair of engine house purchase OF
lumbe- for benches, mess s-tables, hunks; repairs
to public carryall; Purchase and repair of bar,
ness; purchase aud repair of handcarts and
wheelbarrows scavengering; purchase and re-
pair OF galleys, cooking stoves, ranges stoves
where there are no CRATES; gravel for parade
grounds repair Of pumps; furniture for staff
and commanding officers Offices brushes, buck.
cts, brooms, paving, and for other purposess
sevsnty-hve thousand dollars
SEc. 2. Ind Be Il further enacted, That the
number OF persons authorized 10 be enlisted into
the navy Of the United States, Including seaman
ordinary seameu, landsmen, aud mechanics and
including apprentices and boys, is hereby fred
aud established at eight thousand five hundred
and no more.
SIC }, Ind be Il further enacted, That all un.
expended appropriations existing on the first dav
OF July next, for any Of the several heads of an,
preparation provided for in this act, shall be
carried to the surplus fund, unless the same Is
necessary to pay expenditures made during the
current hseal year, or unless the same is neees.
sary to execute contracts made before said date
SEc. 4. And Be it further enacted, That tbs
secretary OF the Treasury is hereby directed In
nus next annual estimates Of appropriations to
state all the balances Of appropriations ,o.S.
prior to the present session Of Congress for o.sh