The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-08-10
OFFICIAL.

r AVIS OF THE UNITED STATES PASSED
Ii AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE
FURTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
tGBsERAL NAruRE--No. 79l
AN ACT making appropriations for the naval
service for the year ending June thirty, elgh-
teen hundred and. seventy three, and for othef
purposes.
Re II enacted bu the Senate and House Of Rep
,sse3,tutiues Of the United States Of America m
Congress assembled, That the following sums be,
and they are hereby, appropriated, to be PAID
out of any money in the treasury not otherwise
a,mropriated for the naval service of the govern
nient Tor the year ending June thirtieth, elgb-
teen hundred and-seventy-three, and Tor other
purposes -
For pay of commissioned and warrant officers
at sea on shore, special service and OF those
the retired list and unemployed, and Tor mile
are and transportation of officers travelling UNI |
der orders, and for pay OF the petty oiicers sea-
men, ordinary seameL, landsmen ana poSs, m
GLIDING men of the engineers force, eight thou
sand five hundred men at an average pay OF |
three hundred dollars each per annum, six mil
lion two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
For contingent expenses OF the Navy Depart
lnent one hundred thousand dollars.
BUREAU OF NAVIGATION.
For foreign and local pilotage and towage o
ships OF war, fifty thousand dollars.
For services and materials in correct ting com
passes on board ship, and adjusting and testing
compas SEES on shore, three thousand dollars.
For nautical and astronomical instruments,
nautical books maps charts and sailing drec-
ships o. war, ten thousand dollars r.
For books for libraries for ships of war, three
thousand dollars. 49,.
For navy signals and apparatus, namely, sig
nal-lightS, lanterns, and rockets, including run
ming lights, drawings, and engrayings Tor signal
books, six thousand dollars. -.
For compass fittings including bnnacles, tri-
pods, and otherappendages of ships compasses,
TO he made in the vy-yards hVs thousand dol
lars
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 general board ships including those
for the cabin, ward-room, and steerage, for the
holds and spiIit-room, for decks and qu;rtermast-
eI's use, six thousand dollars.
For bunt ng and other materials for flags, and
making and repairing flags of all kinds, five thou
sand five hundred dollars.
For oil for ships of war other than that used
for the Engineer department., candles when used
as substitute for oil in binnaces running lights,
forchmueys and wick and soap used in Naylga-
ton department, thirty five thousand dollars.
For stationery for commanders and navigato's
of vessels of war, four thousand dollars.
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 communi
cation ON board vessels of war, two thousand
live hundred dollars.
Civil establishment For pay of writers and
laborers, and for purposes incidental to the sup
port of the civil establishment undr this bureau
at the several navy yards, twelve thousand dol
lars.
= For contingent expenses of the Bureau of Navi
CATION; Freight and transportation of naviga-
lion materials; instruments, books, and stores
postage and telegraphng on public business ;
advertising for proposals; packing boxes and ma
terials; blank books, forms, and Stationery at
navigation Offices six thouand dollars.
For drawing, engraving, and printing and pho'
tolitaographic charts, electrotyplng and correct
ing Old plates preparing and publishing sailing
directions and other photographic information
seventeen thousand seven hundred dollars,
For surveying in the Pacific fifty housand dol
lars. ... i
For fuel, lights and Office furniture care OF
building and other labor; purchase of books fol
library, drawing materials and other stationery
postage, freight and other contingent expenses
seven thousand dollars
For rent aud repair to building, two thousand
FOR expenses of Naval Observatory, namely
For pay of one CLERK, one thousand eight hun
bred dollars. ....t... ..-..F %.
For three assistant observers, four Thousand
five hundred dollars. -.sH f.a s38H
For wages of instrument maker, one mes
senger, three watchmen, and one porter; TO
keeping grounds in order and repairs to build
ings; Tor fuel light, and Office furniture; and 10
stationery, purchase of books for library chemi
Gals for batteries, postage, and freight, and al
other contingent expenses, thirteen Thousand
five hundred dollars. IgU
For computation for theory and tables of tn
moon, 1.-TWO thousand dollars. ht
For fitting up transiteircle room and com
pletngits arrangement one thousand two bun
dred dollars. '.,',. ~
For TRANSFERRING astronomical observation
upon sheets for publication, one thousand tw
hundred dollars. s-'t
For erection of tower and dome for the ney
refracting telescope, ten thousand dollars
For payment, in part, for the great refractin
telescope now in the course Of construction, te
thousand dollars
For expenses of Nautical Almanac;
Forpay OF computers and clerk for compilin
and preparing for gubhcaiion the America i,.ls,
Ephemefis and the Nautical Almanac. tWent
thousand dollars
For preparing elementsa and tables of new plar
els discovered by American astronomers, thrt
thOfIsaud dollars
For rent, fuel, labor, Stationery, boxes expires
Is, and miscellaneous items, one Thousand iiy
hundred dollars. f4n r IN
BUREAU OF oRpSAScE. +
For oAe thousand two hundred and fifty ba
iels OF guppowder twenty-five thousand dollar
For fuel and materials necessary IN carryif
on the mechanical branches OF the Ordnance d
partment at the navy-yards and stations OF
hundred thousand dollars. ~
For labor at all the hayward
three : hundred thousand dollars: Pr
uided That Iaborers shall be employed in Il
several nayy-yards by the proper officers
charge with reference to skill and efficiency, an
without regard TO other cons Iteration.
Toenable the Secretary of the Navy TO carr
on his experiments towards converting heaN
sinootf-hore guns into rited guns with Il vie
10 obtain combination gun possessing the qua
ties Of both smooth. bore and rifle forty thonsar
dollars
For repairs to ordnance buildings, magazine
gun-parks, machinery, and other neeessaries
the ike character, forty-seven thousand six hu
For miscellaneous items, six thousand, OIL
hundred and fifty dollars,
For experiments in ordnance, twenty tho
sand dollars ,
For the gun-park at The maynard at Pens
cola, eight thousand eight hundred and eight
six dollars,
For the shot-park at Pensacola, five thousai
seven hundred aud sixty dollars.
For the she-honse at the magazine ut Pens
cola twenty-three thousand seven hundred a.
eighty-five dollars. ~ ~
For the railroad TO the shell-house at PensaS
Ia one thousand and ninety-six dollars y
For the railroad TO the magazine six thousa
three hundred and nnety-eiglt dollars.
For gun-sIids and shot-bed at naVy-yard, Ma
Island, ten thousand dollars.
FOR reservoir and pipe at magazine, fife
thousand dollars. i-a.'
For new car and railroad-track at magazh
one Thousand five hundred dollars.
For the torpedo corps: For the purchase 20
manufacture of gunpoWder, nitro glycerne, n