The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1870-12-22
puRRAu oR NAYIaA aAFIoN.

For foreign and local pilotage and tow
age ofships Of war, fifty thousand dollars,
For services and materials IN correcting
ccupasses on board ship. and Tor adjusting
and testing compasses on shore, three
thousand dollars.
Fcr nautical and astronomical iustru-
ments. nautical books; maps, and charts.
aud smiling directions, and repairs Of naut-
ical instruments for ships Of war, ten
thousand dollars!
For books for libraries for ships Of war,
three thousand dollars,
For navy signals and apparatus, namely,
signal-lights, lanterns, aud rockets, inclu-
ding running lights, drawings, and en-
cravings for signal books, six thousand
dollars. m q '9sYs lt
For compass fittings, including binna-
cles, pedistals. tripods, and other lappen-
dages Of ships compasses. to be madein-
the yards. Eve thousand dollars. as5
For logs and other appliances for meas
uriug the ships way. leads. aud other ap-
pliances for sounding, three thousand dol
lars. b1
For lanterns and lamps and their appen-
dages for general use on board ship, iHclu-
ding those for the cabin, ward-room, and
steerage, for the holds and spirit room, for
decks and quartermasters use, six thous-
anddollurs. ~
Forbunting and other materials for flags,
and making and repairing dags Of all kinds,
three thousand dollars.
For oil for ships Of war other than that
used for the engineer department, candles,
when used as q substitute for oil in rum
ming lights, for chimneys aud wick and
soap used in navigation department, forty
thousand dollars.
For stationery for commanders and nav
igators Of vessels Of war, Eve thousand dol
lars
For musical iDDssrlments. and music
for vessels Of war, one thousand dollars
For preparing and publishing maps,
charts. NAUTICAL books, aud other hydro
graphic information, twenty thousand dol
lars
For steering signals and indicators, and
for speaking-tubes and gongs, for signal
communication on board ships Of war, two
thousand Eve hundred dollars.
For expenses Of Nautical Almanac:
For pay Of computers aud clerk for COM
piling The NAUTICAL Almanac, eighteen
thousand, Eve hundred dollars ,sl.,s
For labor stationery, boxes, expresses,
niiseIlsneons issns ono lhonsapa igchAn-
drcd dollars
For expenses Of Naval Observatory, viz:
For pay Of one clerk, one Thousand five
hundred dollars.
For three aids or assistant observers,
four thousand dollars.
For regrinding object.glass Of the great
transit circle, eight hundred dollars.
e For wages Of one instrument maker, ,one
messenger. three watchmeD, and one porter;
for keeping grounds in order and repairs
to buildings; for fuel, light, and Office fur
niture, and for stationery chemicals for
batteries, postage, and freight, and oil
other contingent expenses, thirteen thous-
and Eve hundred dollars.
Civiles establishment. For pay Of writer's
aud laborers, aud for purposes incidental to
the support Of the ciyilestablishment under
this bureau at the several navy yards,
twelve thousand dollars. sss.,
For contingent expenses Of the BeFeau
Of Navigation; freight and transportation
of navigation materials; freight and post
age aud telegraphing on public business;
advertising for proposals; packing-boxes
and materies; blank books, forms, and stat
ionery at navigation Offices, six thousand
dollars. fii.ts II ''
BEREAu OF ORDNANCE
For ton tifteen-inch guns, needed for The
battery Of the, Colossus, and to meet con-
tingenciss. seventy thousand dollars. Z
For gunpowder, one hundred thousand
dollars.
For fuel and materials necessary in CAR
ryiug on the mechanical branches of the
ordnance department at the nayyyards and
stations, ssyenty-fve Thousand dollars.
Eorlabor at navy yards, two hundred
thousand dollars sg1
For repairs to ordnance buildings. mag
asines, gun parks. machinery. boats, if-l
teen thousand dollars.
For miscellaneous items, freight, tweu-
ty thousand dollars. Bd N
For experiment in ordnance eight thou
dollars.
For expenses Of the torpedo corps, in-
cludiug, viz: the purchase aud manufacture
Of gunpowder, nitro,glycerine. gun-cOtton,
purchase and manufacture Of electrical
machines, galvanic batteries, wire; pur-
chase ofcoppef, wood, iron, and other mat
erial used 10 the manufacture Of torpedos,
With work on the same, construction Of tor.
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