New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-28
MISCELLANEOUS.


and thirty of Statutes of eighteen hundred
and sixty-six. ~ f~sF $50
MISCELLANEOUS.
For contingencies of the army, namely:
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury
TO settle the accounts of disbursing officers
for expenditures already made in pursuance
of law, which will not involve any actual
expenditure, but merely transfer on the
books of the treasury, two hundred thou
sand dollars.
To enable the Secretary ef the Treasury
TO settle the accounts of disbursing officers
Cor expenditures already made in pursu.
ance of law, which will not involve any ac-
tual expenditure, but merely transfer on
the books of the treasury, seventy-fve
= thousand dollars.
y For payment of costs and charges of State
penitentiaries for the care, clothing, main
tenance, and medical attendance of United
States military convicts confined in them,
fifty thousand dollars.
For continuing the surveys of the north
ern and northwestern lakes, one hundred
and seventy-five thousand dollars.
LIGHTHOUSE ESTABLISHMENT
For repairs and incidental expenses in
reftting and improving light houses and
buildings connected Herewith, two hun
bred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For salaries of seven hundred and thirty
two lighthouse keepers and light-beacon
keepers, and their assistants, four hundred
and thirty-nine thousand two hundred dol
lars.
For seamen's wages, rations, repairs,
salaries, supplies, and incidental expenses
of twenty-five hght-vessels, and seven re-
lief ight-vessels, two hundred and sixty
one thousand six hundred and forty-seven
dollars and fifty cents
For expenses of raising, cleaning, paint
ing, repairing, removing, and supplying
losses of buoys, spindles, and day-beacons,
and for chains, sinkers, and similar neces-
saries, two hundred and seventy-tive thou
sand dollars.
renewing, reftting, and improving fog
signals and buildings connected Herewith,
thirty thousand dollars.
For expenses of visiting and inspecting
lights and other aids to navigation, two
thousand dollars.
For supplying the lighthouses and bea-
con lights on the Atlantic, Gulf, Lake, and
Pacific coasts with oil, wicks, glass Chin
neys, chamois skins, spirits of wine, whiting,
polishing powder, towels, brushes, soap,
paints, and other cleaning materials and
for expenses of repairing and keeping in
repair Illuminating apparatus and ma
chinery, and of guaging, testing. transpor-
tation, delivery of oil and other supplies for
lighthouses, and other incidental necessary
thousand seven hundred and seventeen
dollars.
SURVEY OF THE COAST.
For continuing the survey of the Atlantic
and gulf coasts of the United States, and
Lake Champlain. including compensation
of civilians engaged in the work, and ex-
GLIDING pay and emOluments of officers of
the army and navy and petty officers and
men of the navy employed in the work,
three hundred and ninety-0ne thousand
dollars. ..r or sH
For continuing the survey Of the Western
coast of the United States. including com
pensation of civilians engaged in the work,
two hundred and forty thousand dollars
Provided, that the operations shall include
a photographic development of the dan
gers of ocean navigation between San
Diego and Panama.
For paw and rations of engineers for the
steamers used in the coast survey, no longer
supplied by the Navy Department, five
thousand dollars.
For continuing the publication of the OBJ
servations made in the progress OF coast
survey, including compensation for civilians
engaged in the work, the publication TO be
made at the Government Printing Office,
ten thousand dollars.
For repairs and maintenance OF the COM
plement of vessels used in the coast survey,
torty-tive thousand dollars.
For extending the triangulation of the
coast survey so as to form a geodetic con-
nection between the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts of the United States including COM
pensation of civilians engaged in the work,
fifteen thousand dollars; provided. that
the triangulation shall determine points in
each State of the Union which shall make
requisite provisions for its own topogra-
phical and geological surveys.
UNDER THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.
FOR NAVY YARDS.
For navy yard at Portsmouth, New
HAMPSHIRE: Repairs of all kinds, seventy
five Thousand dollars.
For navy yard at Boston, Massachusetts:
Repairs of all kinds, seventy-fye thousand
dollars.
For navy yard at Brooklyn, New York:
Repairs of all kinds, one hundred thousand
dollars.
For navy yard at Philadelphia, Pennsyl-
vania: Repairs of all kinds, forty thou
sand dollars; for building landing wharves,
dredging and filing in, commencing quay
walls. store houses, carpenters shop,
ioiuers' shop, smiths shop, machine shop,
offices. steam engines, scows, boats, der
r;cks and machinery and tools of all kinds
at League island, two hundred thousand
dollars.
For navy yard at Washington, District OF