New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-28

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foIIowiuo sums be, and they are hereby,
annropriated, to be paid out Of any money
in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,
for fine naval service Of the government for
+be year ending June thirtieth, eighteen
hundred and seYenty-three, and for other
purposes:
For pay Of commissioned and warrant
officers at sea, Oh shore, on special service,
and of those on the retired list and uncm-
ployed, and for mileage and transportation
Of officers travelling under orders, and for
nav Of the petty officers, seamcn, ordinary
seamen, landsmen. and boys, including men
of the engineers force, eight thousand FIVE
hundred men, at an average pay of three
hundred dollars each per annum, elk mil
lion two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses Of the Navy De-
partnent, one hundred thousand dollars.
BUREAU OF NAVIGATION.
For foreign and local pilotage and towage
NJ sbips Of war, fifty thousand dollars.
For services and materials in correcting
cOrnpasses on board ship, and for adjusting
and testing cOmpasses on shore, three thou
sand dollars.
For nautical and astronomical instru-
meuts, nautical books, maps, charts and
ealing directions, and repairs Of nautical
instruments for ships OF war, ten thousand
dollars.
For books for libraries for ships Of war,
three thousand dollars.
For navy signals and apparatus, namely,
signal lights, lanterns and rockets, includ-
ing running lights, drawings and engrav-
iuGs for signal books, six thousand dollars.
For compass fittings including binnacles,
tripods and other appendices OF ships
compasses to be made il the navy yards,
five thousand dollars.
For logs and other appliances for measur-
ing the ships way, leads and other appll-
ances for sounding, three thousand dollars.
For lanterns and lamps, and their APP
pendagcs, for general use on board ship,
including those for the cabin, ward-rOop,
and gteerage, for the holds and spirit ECOm,
for decks and quarJeTlnasters use, six thou
sand dollars.
For bunting and other materials for flags,
and making and repairing flags Of all kinds,
five thousand five hundred dollars.
For oil for ships Of war other than that
used for the Engineer department, candles
when used as a substitute tor oil in bin
nacles, running-lighte, for chimneys and
wick and soap used in Navigation depart
ment, thirty-fve thousand dollars.
For stationery for commanders and navi-
GATORS Of vessels of war, four 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, toE signal
communication on board vessels of war,
two thousand five hundred dollars.
Civil establishment: For pay of writers
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 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 drawing, engraving and printing and
phOtOlithOgrapbing charts, eleetrOtyplng
and correcting old plates, preparing and
publishing sailing directions and other by
geographic information, seventeen thou
sand seven hundred dollars.
For surveying in the Pacific, fifty thou
sand dollars.
For making charts, twenty thousand dol
lars.
For fuel, lights and office furniture; care
of building and other labor; purchase Of
books for library, drawing materials and
other stationery, postage freight and other
contingent expenses, seven thousand dol
lars.
For rent and repair of building, two
thousand eight hundred dollars.
For expenses Of Naval Observatory,
namely:
For day of one, clerk, one thousand eight
hundred dollars.
For three assistant observers, four thou
sand five hundred dollars.
For wages of one instrument maker one
Vyn mi VA
for keeping grounds in order and repairs to
buildings; for fuel, light and office furni-
ture: and for stationery, purchase OF books
for library, chemicals for batteries, post
age and freight, and al other contingent
EXPENSES, thirteen thousand five hundred
dollars.
For computation for theory and tables Of
the moon, two thousand dollars.
For fitting up transit-circle room, and
completing its arrangement, one thousand
two hundred dollars.
For transCTibing astronomical Observa-
tiOns upon sheets for publication, one thou
Sand two hundred dollars.
For erection of tower and dome for the
new refracting telescope, ten thousand
dollars
For payment, in part, for the greet re-
fracting telescope now in the course of con
structiOn, ten thousand dollars.
For expenses of Nautical Almanac:
For pay of computers and clerks for com
piling and preparing for publication the
American EphemeTis and the Nautical Al
manac, twenty thousand dollars.
For preparing elements and tables of new
planets discovered by American astrono-
mers, three thousand dollars.
For rent, fuel, labor, stationery, boxes,
expresses, and miscellaneous items, one
thousand five hundred dollars.
For one thousand two hundred and fifty
barrels of gunpowder, twenty-five thou
sand dollars.
For fuel and materials necessary in car
rying on the mechanical branches Of the
Ordnance department at the navy-yards
and stations, one hundred thousand dol
For labor at all the navy-yards.
three hundred thousand dollars; pro-
vided, that labOrers shall be employed in
the several nayy-yards by the proper Off
GERS in charge with reference to skill and
efficiency, and without regard to other con
EiderauQns.
10 enable the Secretary of the Navy to
carry on his experiments towards convert
ing heavy smooth-bore guns into riHed
Guns. with view to obtain combination
ann possessing the qualities OF both smooth
bore and rifle, forty thousand dollars,
For repairs to ordnance buildings, maya
zines, aun-parks, machinery, and other
necessaries of the like character forty
seven thousand six hundred and one dol
lars.
For miscellaneous items, six thousand
one hundred and fifty dollars.
For experiments IN ordnance, twenty
thousand dollars.
For the gun-park at the navy,yard at
Pensacola, eight thousand elgat hundred
and eighty-siX dollars.
For the shot park at Pensacola, five thou