The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-11-12

repairs to buildings; for fuel, light, and
othce furniture, aud for stationery ,chemi-
Gals far batteries, postage, and freight,
and all other contingent expenses, thir-
teen thousand five hundred dollars.
Civil lestablishment.-For pay of writ
| ers and laborers, and for purposes incl
dental to the support of the civil estab-
lishment under this bureau at the several
navy yards, twelve Thousand dollars.
| For contingent expenses of the Bureau
OF Navigation; freight and transporta-
ton of navigation materials; inssru-
ments, books, and stores; postage aud
telegraphing on public business; adyer-
materials; blank books, forms, and sta
tionery at navigation offices, six thousand
dollars.
BUREAU OF ORDNANCE.
For ten fifteen inch guns, needed for
the battery of the Colossus, and to meet
contingencies, seventy thousand dollars.
For gunpowder, one hundred thousand
dollars
For fuel and matsrials necessary in car
rying ON the mechanical branches of the
ordnance department. at the ravy yards
and stations, seventy-five thousand dol
lars.
For labor at navy yards, two hundred
thousand dollars.
For repairs to ordnance buildings mag
aziaes, gun parks, machinery, boats. ff
teen Thousand dollars
For miscellaneous items, freight, tweu-
ty thousand dollars.
Foo experiments in ordance. eight
thousand dollars.
For expenses of the torpedo corps, in
Guiding, viz: the purchaee and manufac-
ture of gunpowder, nitro glycerine, gun
cotton; purchase and manufs cture of Ell &C
trical machines, galvanic batteries, wire;
purchase of copper, wood, iron, and 9th
er materials used in the manufacture of
torpedos, with work on the same; con-
struction of torpedo boats, purchass of
Golfer works, or hulks, and contingent ex
penses; labor, Including one chemist, at
Two thousand dollars, one foreman ma
chtalst, at one thousand Eve hundred
and sixty-fve do lars, and clerk hire; in
all, sixty THU sand dollars, ten thousand
dollars CT which may be expended, in
the discretion of the Secretary of the
Navy, for the payu Q 1T of services hereto
tore rendered in the invention and sppl:-
cation of torpedos.
CIVIL esta 5lishm ent.-For paw of the
superintendents an the civil establish
Inent OF the several navy yards under this
euSeau, hfteeu thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses of the ord
nance service Of the navy, one thou: aud
dollars.
HrREAU oy CONSTRUCTIONS AND REPAIR.
For preservation of vessels on the
stocks and in ordinary; purchase of ma
terIals and stores of all kinds; labor in
navy yards and on foreign stations; pres
ervation of material; purchase of tools;
wear, tear and repair of vessels afi ,at:
discha ge of liabilities, and general main
tenance of the navy, as follows:
For expenses OF receiving ships, 6fty
thousand dollax.
For reservation of iror-clad vessels.
one hundred and City thousand dollars.
For coast defense and practice vessels
eighty thousand dollars
For tools and machinery in navy yards,
one hundred thousand dollars
For sheds over timber, and over ships,
cne hundred Thousand dollars.
For repairs of vessels abroad, two huu-
ired and fifty thonsand dollars.
For transportation. fifty ,housaud dol
lars.
For materials by sontract, ore million
dollars.
For materials by purchase. two hun
dred ami fifty thousand dollars.
For labor IN navy yards and on for
eign stations, two million dollars.
For purchase and Preservation of tim
Der and geners1 maintenance of the navy,
tight hu1dred Thousand dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Navy
to discharge liabilities provided for by
contracts made previous to March four,
eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, five
hundred and fifteen thousand nine hun
dred and sixty dollars, and ninety-twoJ
cents, for sU'much thereof as may be me-
eessar.: Provided, That before paving
the claim of the Corliss Steam Engine
Company, the Secretary of the Navy
shall cause q re-examination of said
claim to be made by the law officers of
the Navy Department, and two competent
engineers to be detailed for that purpose,
" ho shall deduct from the contract price |
with said steam engine company whatev-
er sum it would have cost said company
to ha0 completed their said contract.
Civil establishment, at the navy yard, |
assistant naval construc- |
tor, two thousand dollars; clerk of store
houses, one thousand five hundred DOL |
lars each; ten thousand Eve hundred dol
lars.
At the navy yard, Boston.-For assist.
ant naval constructor, two thousand dol |
lars; clerk to naval constructor, inspector
of timber, and time clerk, at one thous-
and Eve hundred dollars each; draughts-
man to naval constructor, ono thousand
four hundred dollars; second clerk to ma I
val constructor, and clerk of storeheuses,
nd T.