The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-07-22

apendasss DC shipss conpasses TO be
made ID the navy yards, I've thousand
dollars.
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 ap-
pendages for general use on board ship,
including those for the cabin, ward
room, aud steerage, for the holds and
spirit-room, for decks and quartermas-
ter's use, six thousand dollars.
For bunting and other materials for
flags, and making and repairing flags
of all kinds, Eve thousand dollars.
For oil for ships of war other
than that used for the engineer depart
ment, candles when used as a substi-
tute for oil in running lights, for Chin
neys aud wick and soap used in navi-
CATION department, forty thousand
dollars.
For stationery for commanders and
navigators of vessels of war, FIVE thou
sand dollars.
For musical instruments and music
for vessels of war, one thousand dol>
lars.
and for speaking tubes and gongs, for
signal communication on board ships
of war, two thousand five hundred
dollars.
For drawing, engraving, and printing
charts, electrotyping and correcting
old plates, preparing and publishing
sailing directions, and other hydro
graphic information, ten thousand dol
lars.
Civil stablishment.-For pay of
writer's and laborers, and for purposes
incidental to the support of the civil
establishment under this bureau at the
several navy yards, twelve thousand
dollars.
For contingent expenses of the Bu-
reau of Navigation: Freight and trans
portation of navigation materials; iu-
struments, books, and stores; postage
and teiegraphing on public business;
advertising for proposals; packing
boxes and materials; blank books,
forms, and stationery at navigation Of
fees, six thousand dollars.
For rent of building, fuel, Gght>,
and Office furniture; care of building
and other labor; purchase of hooks for
library, drawing materials, and other
stationery, postage, freight, and other
contingent expenses, ten thousand dol.
lars.
For expenses of Naval Observatory,
namely:
For pay of one clerk, one thousand
eight hundred dollars.
For three assistant observers, four
thousand dollars.
For payment, in part, for the great
refracting telescope now in course OF
construction, ten thousand dollars.
For purchase eff cronogrsph, i've
hundred dollars.
BFo- combut4tion for theory and ta-
bles of the moon, two thousand dol
lars.
For preparing instruments for obser-
vation of trrnsit of Venus, two thou
sand dollars: Provided, That this and
all other appropriations made for the
observations of the transits of Venus
shall be expended, subject to the ap-
proval of the Secretary of the Navy,
under the direction of commission to
be composed of the superintendent and
two OF the professors of mathematics
of the navy attached to the Naval OBJ
servatory, the president of the Na3ion-
al Academy of Sciences, aud the su-
perintendent of the Coast Survey, for
which service they shall not receive
any compensation.
For wages of one instrume aker,
one messenger, three watchmen, and
one porter; for keeping grounds in or
der and repairs to buildings; for fuel,
light, and Office furniture, and for sta
tionery, purchase of books for librpry,
chemicals for batteries, postage, and
freight, and all other contingent ex-
penses, thirteen thousand five hundred
dollars.
For expenses of Nautical Almanac:
Fer pay of computers and clerk for
compiling and preparing for publication
the American Ephemeris and the Maui
tucal Almanic, eighteen thousand five
hundred dollars.
For rent, fuel, labor, stationery, box
es, expresses, aud miscellaneous items,
one thousand Eve hundred dollars.
BURTAU OF ORDNANCE.
Fur ten fifteen-inch guns, to meet
contingencies, seventy thouaand dol
lars.
For one thousand two hundred and
fifty barrels of gundpowder, twenty
FIVE thousand dollars.
For fuel and materials necessary in
carrying on the mechanical branches of
the Ordnace Department at the navy
yatds and stations, seventy-five thou
sand dollars.
For labor at navy yards, two hun
dred thousand dollars.
For repairs To ordnance buildings,
magazines, gun-parks, machinery, and
other necessaries of the like character,
seventy thousand FIVE hundred and nine
dollars.
sand 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 dollars; at the magazine,
Norfolk, one thousand dollars.
For the construction of two iron-pla-
ted torpedo boats, six hundred thou
sand dollars.
For the torpedo corps.-For the pur
chase and manufacture of gunpowder,
nitro-glycerine. 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
| msuufacture of torpedoes, and for work
on the same, eighteen thousand dol
lars.
For construction of torpedo-boats.
purchase of Golfer work or hulks, and
contingent expenses, twenty thousand
dollars.
For additional buildings, and repairs
to buildings and to wharf, 6ve thou
sand dollars.
For labor, including one chemist, at
two Thousand dollars, one foreman ma.
chinist at one Thousand five hundred
and sixty-fise dollars, and one clerk,
ten Thousand dollars.
Civil establishment.-Forp pay of su.
perintendents aud the civil establishs
ment of the several navy yards under
| this bureaut fifteen thousand dollars
For contingent expenses of the ord.
nance service of the navy, one thou
| sand dollars.
BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTIONS AND REPAIR.
For preservation of vessels on the
stocks and in ordinary; purchase o.
materials and stores of all kinds; labor
| in navy yards and on foreign stations
| preservation of material: purchase o
tools; wear, tear, and repair of vessels
| afioat; ;sand general maintenance of the
navy; Incidental expenses. advertising
postages, three million Eve hundred
| thousand dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Navy ia
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