The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-03-20
OFFICIAL.
Lars Passed Jy The Third Session Of
the F0r6efh q ngress.
CPuRLIc-No. .

Lars Passed Jy The Third Session o
the Forhefh q ngress.
6 [PUBLIC-No. %.
An act making appropriations for th,
o naval service for the year endinl
e June thirtieth, eighteen hundred
8 and seventy.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and
!. House of Representatives Of the
0 United States of America in Con
gress assembled, That the following
sums be, and they are hereby, appro-
priated, to be paid out of any money
| Ia the treasury not otherwise appro-
: prlated, for the year ending the thir-
tleth of June, eighteen hundred and
seventy:
For pay of commission. warrant and
petty officers. and seamen. seven
millions of dollars.
Bureau Of Yards and Docks.
For contingent expenses that NAV
accrue for the following purposes.
viz:
For freight and transportation; for
printing, advertising, aud stationery;
for books, models. aud drawings; for
the purchase and repair of fire en-
gines; for machinery of every descrip-
ton; for purchase and maintenance
| OF oxen and horses, and driving
teams; for carts, timber wheels. and
workmen's tools; for kilograms and
postage of letters on public service;
for furniture for government offices
and houses; for candles, oil and gas
for cleaning and clearing up yards
for flags, awnings, and packing boxes;
| tor rent of landings; for tolls and
/ ferrlages; for water-tax, and for rent
of stores, eight hundred thousand
dollars.
Nary Yard at Portsmouth, Ne,o
Hampshire.
For the necessary repairs of all
kinds, fifty Thousand dollars.
Nary Yard at Boston.
For repairs of buildings, and re-
pairs of all kinds, one hundred thou
sand dollars.
Nary Yard ot Nelo York.
For repairs of all kinds, one hun
dred thousand dollars.
Navy Yard at philadelphia.
For repairs of all kinds, twenty
five thousand dollars.
Nary Yard al Washington.
For repairs of all kinds, fifty thou
sand dollars
Nary Yard at Norfolk.
For preservation OF the yard and |
the necessary repairs of all kinds, |
thirty thousand dollars.
Nary Yard at Psnsac0l {.
For preservation of the yard aud |
the necessary repairs of all kinds, |
thirty thousand dollars.
Nary Yard at Mare Island.
For replirs of all kinds, sixty thou
sand dollars.
NaUa2 Slatioa at SacEetts Har6or.
For repairs aud the general care Of
the, public property, one thousand
dollars.
Nacal Sutton al Mound Gty. Illinois.
For necessary repairs Of all Kinds,
five thousand dollars.
Na0d Asylum at Phi}adelphia.
For furniture and repairs of same,
one thousand dollars.
For house cleaning and white
washing, eight hundred dollars.
For furnaces, CRATES, aud ranges,
six hundred dollars.
For gas and water rent, one thou
sand two hundred dollars.
For general improvement and re-
pairs, five thousand dollars.
For cemetery, five hundred dollars.
For support of beneficiaries. fifty
four thousand dollars: Provided, that /
this appropriation and all amounts
hereafter appropriated for the support
of the Naval Asylum at Philadelphia,
the beneficiaries therein, the pay of
officers, repairs, contingent and other
expenses, shall be charged to and paid
from the income of the naval pension
fund.
For pay Of superintendenfs and
the civil establishment at the several
navy yards and stations under the
control OF the Bureau Of Yards aud
Docks, and at the Navy Asylum, fifty
thousand dollars.
Bureau Of Equipnaeat and Recruiting.
For the purchase Of hemp aud
other material for the navy; for the
purchase of coal and the transpOrta-
tion and other expenses thereon; for
the purchase of various articles Of
equipment, viz: wire rope and ma
chInery for its manufacture, hides.
cordage, canvas, leather, iron cables
and anchors. furniture, galleys and
hose. aud for the payment of labor
for equipping vessels, and manufac-
ture of articles in the navy yards per-
tanning to this bureau, eight hundred
thousand dollars.
For expenses that may accrue for
the following purposes, viz:
For freight and transportation of
materials and stores for Bureau of
Equipment and Recruiting, expenses
OF recruiting, transportation Of enlist
ed men, printing, postage, advertising,
telegraphing, aud stationery for the
bureau, apprehension of deserters, as
sistance 10 vessels In distress, two
hundred thousand dollars.
For the pay of superintendents and
the civil establishment at the several
navy yards under this bureau, eighteen
thousand dollars.
Bureau of NaUigqti0n.
For navigation apparatus and sup
plies, and Tor purposes Incidental to
navigation, viz:
For pay Of the civil establishment
under this bureau at the several navy
yards. twelve thousand dollars.
For local aud foreign pilotsge and
tOwage tor vessels of war, flty thou
sand dollars.
For text books, stationery, instru-
ments, and furniture used 10 instruct
ing naval Apprentices, one thousand
FIVE hundred dollars,
For services aud materials for cor
recting compasses on board Of vessels, !
aud for testing cOmpasses on shore,
three thousand dollars.
For nautical and astronomical in !
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