Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-07-08
OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
Passed at the Second Session of the
Forty-Second Congress-.
GENERAL SAIusE-No. 70

GENERAL NAfuRE-NO.
making sppTc priations for the naval service
for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred
sLd seventy three, and for other purposes.
Be ~ sHa az ~ the Ssaats ard Hon,s Of Rsgrs-
sTssS assembled, That the following sums be, and
they are hereby, appropriately TO be paid out Of any
Tor the of the government for the year
ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seven
For pay Of commissioned and warrant officers at
sea shore, special sery ice, and of those the
Transportation Of officers travelling under orders,
and for Day Of the petty officers, ssamen, ordinary
engineer force, eight thousand fye hundred men,
at an ayeraSe Pay Of three hundred dollars each per
annun, sax million two hundred and atty thousand
FOR contingent expenses Of the Navy Department.
enc hundred Thousand dollars.
For foreign AMI , or Tii E1yJsA aI6 ~
Of var, fifty thousand dollars.
For services and materials in correcting passes
passes Oh shore, three thousand dollars
For nautical and astronomical Instruments, uauti-
cal books maps, charts, and sailing directions, and
repairs q nautical instr uments for ships OF war ten
For books for libraries for ships of war, three
Thousand dollars.
For navy signals and apparatus namely, signal
lights, lanterns, and rockets, including running
hghts, Cravings and engrav1ngs for signal books,
For compass fittings, including binnacles, tripods
and Other appendices OF ships eompssses, to be
For logs and other appliances for measuring the
ships way esds and other appliances for sounding,
Tor general on board ship including those for
the cabin. ward room, and steerage, for the holds
aud spirit room, for decks and quartermasters
For bunting and other materials for flags, and
Mains ana LepaiIipg flags Of all kinds, five thous
For oil for ships of war other than that used for
The Eng ineer department, candles when used as a
ehinneys and wick and soap used in Nayigation
department., thirty five thousand dollars.
vessels Of war, four thousand dollars.
For musical instruments and music for vessels of
For steering signals and Indicators and for speak
board vessels Of war; two Thousand ve hund red dol
borers and Tor purposes to the upDort Of
the civil under this bureau ct the sew
FOR eontnssnt esper.es Of the Bureau of Navrs
tiOn Freisht and transportation of navigation ma
teleRrsphins on public business; advertising for
proposals; pack1ng. boxes and materials; blank
six thousand dollars. '
For drawing, engraving, and printing and photo
CD Plates; preparing and publishing sailing direc
teen thousand seven hundred dollars.
For surveying In the Pacific, fifty thousand dol
For making charts. twenty thousand dollars
Fer fuel hghts, and Office furniture, care Of build
drawing materials, and other stationery, postage,
freight end other contingent expenses seven thou
For rent and repair Of building, two thousand
hundred dollars.
Fer expenses Of Naval Observ story, namely:
TOT pay oil one clerk, one thousand eight hundred
For three assistant observers, four thousand five
hundred dollars.
For wages Of one instrument maker, one messen-
grounds IA order ard repairs to buildings for fuel,
chase Of books for chemicals for batteries.
postage: and freight, ard all other contingent ex'
EeT computation for theory and tables Of the MOON
For ftfinC mn trsnsit- cirrla roor, AL ..--,..
lts arraI cement, one thousand two hundr ed dollars
Sheets Tor publication, one thousand two hundred
For erection Of tower and dome for the new re-.
fTacting telescope, ten thousand dollars
or Pal me- Mt in part, for the great refraet0n tel
e poN In the course Of col struction, ten thous
For expenses Of Nautical Almanac.
liliDg aud Pre- paring Tor publication The Amsrcan
hphenneris and the Nautical Almanac, twenty thou
For preparing elements and tables of new planet,
oi.soyeTsd BY Americ an astronomers, three thous-
For rent fuel, labor stationery, boxes presses,
ana miscellaneous Items one thousand five hundred
BUREAU OF ORDNANCE
Eor oiis Thousand two hundred aud fifty barrels of
kIEpowdsr, twenty five Thousand dollars -
a., OF lHtI AID materials necessary in carrying on
81 ne yards and stations, hundred
For labor a. all the navy yards, three hundred
tnS yssnd dollars PrOrdsd, That lsborers shall be
efssr. in s sns several navy yards BY the proper
CLERGY and without regard TO other considerstiona
his experiments towards converting heavy smooth IN
bore guns into rified guns with q view to obtain a
oomblnatlon gun possessing the qualities Of both
smooth bore and rise. forty thousand dollars.
For repsirs 20 ordnance buildings. magazines
gun parks, machinery aud other necessaries OF the
M ehaISS,sI, forty-seven thousand six hundred
For pise eIlaneous items, six thousand one hun.
cred and nifty dollars.
For experiments in ordnance, twenty thousand
For the gun-park ct the navy yard st Pensaesla
thousand eight hunc red and eighty SIX dollars
Tor the shot park at Pensacola, i've thousand
For the shell house at the magazine st Pensasola
fsenty three thousand seven hundred and eighty
For the railroad to the shell-house at Pensacola.
one Thousand and ninety six dollars.
An TOT the IAiroad 70 the magazine, six thousand
'nree hundred and ninety eight dollars.
Island, ten thousand dollars.
Sr T.seryofr and p.pe at magazine, fifteen thou
, For lew car and Railroad track At MAGAZINE. ma
thousand five hundred dollars.
-. the torpedo cor2s For the purchase and man.
cotton, twelve thousssd dollars. anu gun
TOT purchase and manufacture Of electrical ma.
t1.n, sH.v snie batteries, aud insulated wire,
for X. 90. os Ssasr M.
Snn 10. "OrA on the same, twenty ssyen thoassnd
Lor eonstruetion Of torpedo boats, purchase Of
or sSits and contingent expenses,
sdatGnsi quarters sny ve thonsand s oDR ana
dollars enc foreman mAchinist a. one thoua.nd = -
hundred and sixty i've dollars, ana two eisrts AZ
one thousand and sixty i've dollars H' '"sn'S'
Civil establishments: For pay Of the su ,erinta,a
eHts and the civil OF the nsv1
stQreclerk of ordnance At thu PhilAde .his o.e