New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-11

dollars.
At the navy yard Boston.-For superin-
tendent of rOpe-walk, one thousand nine
hundred dollars; clerk to same. one thou
sand two hundred dollars; clerk in equip
ment office one thousand five hundred dol
lars: for store clerk, one thousand two hun
| bred dellars: time clerk, one thousand two
hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand
| dollars.
| At the navy yard Philadelphia.-For
| clerk in equipment office. one thousand
four hundred dollars; for one store and one
time clerk, at one thousand. two hundred
dollars each; in all, three thousand eight
! hundred dollars.
At the navy yard, Washington.-For
clerk in equipment office, one thousand five
| hundred dollars; and for one store and one
| time clerk one at one thousand four hum
dred dollars, one at one thousand two hun
dred dollars; in all, four thousand one hun
bred dollars.
AT the navy yard, Brooklyn, New York
For clerk in equipment office, one thousand
five hundred dollars: and for one store and
| one time clerk, at one thousand two hun
dred dollars each; in all, three thousand
nine hundred dollars.
At the navy yard, Norfolk.-For clerk in
equipment office, one thousand four hun
dred dollars; for store clerk, one thousand
| one hundred and twenty-five dollars, and
for time clerk, nine hundred dollars; in all,
| three thousand four hundred and twenty
five dollars.
At the navy yard. Pensacola.-For equip
ment office clerk, one thousand three hun.
| dred dollars.
At the navy ward, Mare Island.-For clerk
in equipment office, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-tive dollars; for store
clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars;
three thousand and seventy five dollars.
% RVrn n{
| Equipment and Recruiting, namely: For
| freight and transportation OF stores, trans
portation of enlisted men, mileage to hon
| Orably discharged men, printing, adyertis-
| ing, telegraphing, stationery. apprehension
of deserters, assistance to vessels in dis
tress. one hundred and twenty-five thou
| sand dollars.
BUREAU OF NAVIGATION.
For foreign and local pilotage and towage
of ships OF war, fifty thousand dollars.
For services and materials in correcting
compasses on board ships, and for adjust
ing and testing compasses on shore, three
| thousand dollars.
For nautical and astronomical instru-
! ments. nautical books, maps, and charts,
and sailing directions, and repairs of nauti-
J cal instruments for ships of war, ten thou
| sand dollars.
For books for libraries for ships of war,
| three thousand dollars.
For navy signals and apparatus, namely.
| signallghts, lanterns, and rockets, includ-
| ing running lights, drawings, and engrav-
| ings for signal books, six thousand dollars.
For compass fittings, including binnacles,
| pedestals, tripods, and other appendages
of ships cOmpasses to be made in the navy
yards, five thousand dollars.
For logs and other appliances, for meas
uring the ships way. leads, and other ap-
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lars.
For lanterns and lamps and their appen-
dages for general use on board ship, includ-
ing those tor the cabin. ward-room. and
storage, for the holds and spirit-room, for
decks and quartermaster's use, six thousand
dollars.
For bunting and other materials for flags,
and making and repairing flags of all kinds,
five thousand dollars.
For oil for ships of war other than that
used for the engineer department, candles
when used as a substitute for oil in running
lights, for chimneys and wick and soap
used in navigation department, forty thou
sand dollars.
For stationery for commanders and navi-
gators of vessels Of war, five thousand dol
lars.
For musical instruments, and music for
vessels of war, one thousand dollars.
For steering signals and indicators. 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 di-
rections and other photographic informa-
ton, ten thousand dollars.
Civil stablishment-FOr pay of writers
and laburers 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 Bureau of
Navigation: Freight and transportation of
navigation materials; instruments, books
and stores; postage and telegraphing ON
public business; advertising for proposals;
packing boxes and materials: blank books
forms and stationery at navigation offices,
six thousand dollars,
For rent of building, fuel, lights and Office
furniture; care of building and other labor
purchase of books for library, drawing ma
terials, and other stationery, postage, freight
and other contingent expenses, ten thousand
dollars.
For expenses of Naval Observatory,
namely:
For pay of one clerk, one thousand eight
hundred dollars.
For three assistant observers, four thou
sand dollars.
For payment, in part, for the great re-
fracting telescope now in course of con-
struction, ten thousand dollars.
For purchase of chronograph, five hun
dred dollars.
For computation for theory and tables of
the moon, two thousand dollars.
For preparing instruments for observa-
ton of transit OF Venus, two thousand dol
lars: Provided, That this and all other ap-
prOpria tons made for the observations of
the transits of Venus shall be expended
subject TO the approval of the Secretary of
the Navy, under the direction of a commits
sion to be composed of the superintendent
and two of the professors of mathematics of
the navy attached to the Naval Observable
nv, the president of the National Academy
of Sciences, and the superintendent of the
Coast Survey, for which service they shall
not receive any compensation.
For wages of one instrument-maker one
messenger, three watchmen, and one porter;
for keeping grounds in order and repairs 10
buildings; for fuel, light, and Office furni-
ture, and for stationery, purchase of books
for library, chemicals for batteries, postage,
and freight, and all other contingent ex-
penses, thirteen thousand five hundred dol
lars.
For expenses of Nautical Almanac:
For pay of cOmputers and clerk for com
piling and preparing for publication the
American Ephemeris and the Nautical AL
manac, eighteen thousand five hundred dol
lars.
For rent, fuel, labor, stationery, boxes,
expresses and miscellaneous items. one
thousand five hundred dollars
BUREAU OF ORDNANCE.
For ten fifteen inch guns, to meet contin-
gencies, seventy thousand dollars
For one thousand two hundred and fifty
barrels of gunpOwder, twenty-five thousand
dollars.
For fuel and materials necessary in car