Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-06-10
V, ssels in distress, one hund ed and twenty-five

for Foreign and local pilotage and towAge of
ships OF var, trty Thousand dollars.
For services and materials IN correcting COM
passes on beard chip, and for adjusting and
testing compasses en- shore, three thousand dol
lars. @ = :,
For nautical and astronomical instruments.
nautical books, maps, and charts, and sailing
directions, and repairs Of nautical instr ments
For books for libraries for shins Of war. three
thousand dollars.
For navy signals and apparatus, namely, sig
natbgais, lanterns, and rockets, including rum
ming lights, drawings, and engrayings for sig
nal books, six thousand dollars.
For compass fittings, including binnacles,
Pedestals, tripods, and other APPENDICES OF
shlps, compassss to be made in the navy yards,
For logs and other appliances for measuring
the ships way, leads, and other appliances for
sounding, three thousand dollars
For lanterns and lamps and their appendages
for &c neral use on board ship, including thoss
Tor he cabin, wsrd-room, and stee rAge, for the
holds and spirit room, fer decks and quarter
masters use, Elk thousand dollars.
For bunting and other materials for a ags, and
making and repairing flags Of all kinds, i've
thousand dollars.
for the engineer department, candles when used
rs substitute for oil in running lights, for
chimneys and wick and soap used IN navi CATION
department, forty thousand dollars
For stationery for commanders and nayig ators
OF vessels OF war, five thousand dollars.
For musical instruments, and music for YES
tcIt OF war; one thousand dollars.
For steering signal and indicators and FOR
spt aklng tubes and gongs, for signal communi-
cation on boards hips OF war, two thousand i've
hun dred dollars. -
eleetroty ping and correcting old plates, prepar-
ing and publishing sailing directions, and other
photographic information. ten tho usand dollars
Civil establishment-For pay of writer's and
lstorers, and for purposes incdeital TO the sun
port Of the civil establishment IN Ter this bureau
at the several navy yards, twelve thousand dol
For contingent expenses of the Buresu of
Navigation: Freight and IN anspor tation OF nayi-
CATION materials; instruments, books and stores:
postage and teleRrapbing on public business;
advertising for proposals; packing boxes and
materials; blank books, forms, an ] stationery at
navigation Offices, six thousand dollars.
fuTru REM cs e, or h6ia mel Lights, and office
chase OF books for library, draw ing materials,
and other stationery, postage, freight, and other
contingent expenses, ten thousand dollars.
For expenses of Naval Observatory. namely
For pay ofone clerk, one thousand eight hun
For three assistant Observers, four thousand
dollars.
For payment, in part, for the great refractiny
telescope now In course OF construction, ten
thousand dollars.
dollars.
For computation for theory AMI tables OF the
moon, two thousand dollars.
For preparing instruments for observation of
transit Of Venus, two thousand dollars: Pro-
ctdsd, That this and all other appropriations
made for the observations OF the transits of
prevail of the Secretary Of the Navy, under the
direction Of q commission to be CO imposed of the
superintendent and two OF the professors of
q th .se nqss attached to the Naval
Academy Of Sciences, and the superintendent
of the Coast Survey, for which service they
ehall not receive any compensation.
For wages Of one instrum ent makea one meg
eenger, three watchmen, and one porter, for
keeping grounds in order and repairs to build
inss; for fuel. light. and office furniture, and
for stationery, purchase Of books for library,
chemicals for batteries, postage, and freight,
and al other contingent expenses, thirteen
thousand i've hundred dollars.
For expenses Of Nautical Almanac:
For pay Of computers and oaerk for compiling
and preparing for publication the American
EphemeIis and the Nautical Almanac, eighteen
thousand i've hundred dollars.
For rent, fuel, labor, stationery, boxes. ex-
presses, and miscellaneous items, one thousand
i've hundred dollars.
BUREAU OF ORDNANCE.
For ten hiteen-inch guns, to meet coptin-
gencies, seventy thousand dollars.
for one thousand two hundred and fifty bar
res OF gunpowder, twenty-five thousand dol
For fuel and materials necessary in CARVING
on the mechanical branches or the Ordinance
department. at the navy yards and stations.
seventy i've thousand dollars.
For labor at navy yards, two hundred thou
ERnd dollars.
For repairs to ordnsnce buildings m sgazines.
gun-Parks, machinery, and other necessaries of
the Ike character, seventy thousand Iye hmm
drsd and nine dollars.
For miscellaneous items, six thousand one
hundred and fifty dollars.
For experiments in ordnance, fifteen thousand
dollars.
For improvements at the nitre depot, Maiden.
seven thousand three hundred and sixty dollar:
az the magazine, Norfolk, one thousand dollars
For the construction OF two iron-nla,e3
torpedo boats, six hundred thousand dollars.
For the torpedo corps.-For the purchase and
manufacture Of gunpoxder. nitro-gIycerine.
and gun cotton, seven thousand dollars
for purchase and manufacture Of electrical
machines, galvanic batteries, and insulated
wire. twenty thousand dollars.
For purchase OF copper, iron, wood, and other
materials necessary for the manufacture of
torpecoes, and for work on the same, eighteen
For construction of torpedo boats, purchase
OF coher-work or hulks, and contingent expen-
ses, twenty thousand dollars.
For additional buildings, and repairs to build
iDgs, and to wharf, i've thousand dollars.
For labor including one chemist ut two thou-
sand dollars, one foreman machinist at one
thousand i've hundred and sixty five dollars,
and one clerk, ten thousand dollars.
Civil establishment--For pay of the superfn-
tendenfs and the civil establishment OF the
several navy yards under this bureau, fifteen
For contingent expenses of the ordnance Gar.
vice Of the navy, one thousand dollars.
BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND RzPAIR.
For preservation OF vessels on the stocks and
in ordinary; purchase or materials and stores Of
all kinds; labor in navy yards and on foreign
stations; preservation OF material; purchase or
tools; wear, tear. and repair OF vessels afioat,
and general maintenance OF the navy; incidental
expenses, advertising. and foreign hostages,
three million i've hundred thousand dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Navy to pur-
chase OF Seth Wilmarth "the right to use, for all
pnrpcses, biz patent called hydrostat C arrange
ment for raising turrets, /" frty thousand dollars:
Provided, That he shall execute, to the salts
faction OF the Secretary or the Navy an instru-
ment conveying to the United States full right
to use the same under his patent and under All
improvements, notifications, or extensions OF
the same, which may now or hereafter exist
Civil establishment at the navy yard, Kit
tery.-For clerk of store-ho uses one thousand
five hundred dollars; inspector of timber.
draughtsman, clerk to naval constructor, time
clerk, and superintendent OF floating dock at
one thousand and four hundred dollars each,
eight thousand i've hundred dollars.
At the navy yard, Boston.-For clerk to naval
constructor, inspector of timber, and Il me CLERK
az ore thousand five hundred dollars each;
draughtsmanto naval constructor, one thousand
four hundred dollars; and clerk OF storehouses.
IT one thousand two hundred dollars each; in
all, seven thousand one hundred dollars.
At the navy yard, Brooklyn, New York
For draDghtsman TO naval constructor, one
thousand four hundred dollArs; clerk to naval
constructor, inspector of timber, aud time
clerk, at one thousand i've hundred dollars
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