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LA WIS
OF THE
UNITED STATES
PASSED AT THE
SECOND SESSION OF THE FORTY-SECOND
CONGRESS.
GENERAL NATURE-No. 79.1

GENERAL NATURE-No. 49,
AN ACT making appropriations for the naval SER
vice for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hum
dred and seventy-threc and for other purposes.
Be IL enacted By the Senate and House Of Repre-
sentdtces Of the United States Of america in Con-
gYess assembled, That the following sums be, and
they are hereby, appropriated to be paid out of any
money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,
for the naval service Of the government for the year
ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy
three, and for other purposes:
For pay of commissioned and warrant officers at
sea, on shore, on special service and OF those the
transportation of officers travelling under ORDERS AMI
for pay Of the petty ohcers, seamen ordinary sea-
men, landsmen, and boys, including men of the en-
gineers force, eight thousand five hundred men, at
an average pay Of three hundred dollars each per
annum, six million two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars.
For contingent expenses of the Navy Department,
one hundred Thousand dollars.
BUREAU OF NAVIGATION.
For foreign and local piIotage and towage of ships
of war; fifty thousand dollars.
For services and materials in correcting compasses
on board ship, and for adjusting and testing com
passes on shore, three thousand dollars.
For nautical and astronomical instruments pauti-
cal books maps charts and sailing directions, and
thousand dollars
For books for libraries for ships of war, three
thousand dollars.
For navy signals and apparatus, namely signal
lights, lanterns, and rockets, including running
lights drawings and engrayings for signal books six
For compassfttings, including binnacles, tripods,
and other appendages of ships compasses to be made
in the navy-yards, five thousand dollars.
For logs and other appliances for measuring the
shlps way, leads and other appliances for sounding,
three thousand dollars.
For lanterns and lamps and their az pendages for
general board Ship, including those for the
cabin, ward-room and Storage, for the holds and
spirit-room, for decks and quartermasters use, six
For bunting aud 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 substi-
tue tor oil in bnnaces rnnninglights, for chmneys
and wick and soap used in Navigation department
thirty-hve Thousand dollars.
For stationery for commanders and nayigators 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 speak
ing-tubes and gongs, for signal communication on
dollars.
Civil establishment: For pay of writers and labor
ers and for purposes incidental the support OF the
civil establishment under this bureau at the several
navy yards, twelve thousand dollars.
For Contingent expenses Of the Bureau of Naviga-
ton: Freight and transportation of navigation mate
rails; Instruments, books, and stores; postage and
telegraphing on public business advertising for pro-
posas; packiug-boxes and materials; blank books
iofms and stationery at navigation Offices, six thous
and dollars.
For drawing engraving, and printing and photo
old plates, preparing and publishing sailing direc-
lions. and other photographic information seventeen
thousand seven hundred dollars
For surveying in the Pacific fifty thousand dollars
For making charts, twenty thousand dollars
For fuel lights, and office furniture; care of build
ing and other labor purchase of books for library
drawing materials, and other stationery; postage,
freight and other contingent expenses, tho1s
and dollars.
For rent and repair of building two thousand
eight hundred dollars.
For expenses of naval observatory, namely:
dollars
For three assistant Observers four thousand five
hundred dollars
For wages of one instrument maker. one messen-
GER three watchmen, and one porter; tor keeping
grounds in order and repairs to buildings; for fuel
light and office furniture; and for stationery pur-
postage, and freight, and all other contingent ex-
penses, 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
it's arrangement, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For transcribing astronomical observations upon
sheets for publication, one thousand two hundred
dollars.
For erection Of tower and dome for the new refrac
ing telescope, ten thousand dollars.
FOR payment in part, for the great refracting tel
escope now In the course of construction ten thous
and dollars
For expenses of Nautical Almanac:
For pay OF computers and clerk for compiling and
preparing for publication the American Ephemeris
and che Nautical Almanac, twenty thousand dollars.
For preparing elements and tables of new planets
discovered by American astronomers, three thousand
dollars.
For rent, fuel labor, stationery boxes. expresses.
and miscellaneous items, one thousand five hundred
dollars.
BUREAU OF ORDNANCE.
For one thousand two hundred and fifty barrels of
gunpowder, twenty five thousand dollars.
For fuel and materials necessary in carving on
the mechanical branches Of the Ordnance department
at the navy-yards and stations hundred thousand
dollars.
For labor at all the navy-yards, three hundred
hor condh all Dx1., a. -
employed in the several navy-yarda by the proper
officers in charge with reference to skill eficien-
cy, and without regard to other considerations.
10 enab the Secretary of the Navy to carry on his
experiments towards converting heavy smooth bore
guns into rifed guns, with view to obtain comb-
bore and rifle, forty thousand dollars
For repairs to ordnance buildings, magazines gum
parks machinery, and other necessaries of the like
dollars. ~ ~ -
For miscellaneous items, six thousand one hundred
and fifty dollars.
dollars. '"-'' '"o0'""'
For the gun-park at the navy-yard at Pensacola,
For the shot-park at Pensacola five thousand seven
hu1dred and sixty dollars
for the shell-house at the magazine at Pensacola
five dollars ~ 0e'
For the railroad to the shellhouse at Pensacola,
one Thousand and ninety-six dollars
For the railroad to the magazine six thousand
three hundred and ninety eight dollars
For gun-skids and shot-bed at navy-yard Mare
Island, ten thousand dollars. =
For reservoir and pipe at magazine fifteen tbops
and dollars.
For new car and railroad-track at magazine. one
thousand five hundred dollars
For the torpedo corps For the purchase and man
fracture OF gunpowder,. nitro-gycerine, and gum
cotton, twelve thousand dollars.
For purchase and manufacture of electrical ma
tnaes galvanic batteries, and insulated wire, TWEEN
ty,.our thousand dollars.
msterapl purchase of copper; iron WOOD and other
ho foaf.,ra nffp
and ama ior work on the same twenty-seven thous-
ier-work OF hulks, and CONTINGENT eInansa. tIirtv
five thousand dollars 'inseht expenses, thlrIy-
additional "nara buildings and machne-sho and
az ~. aSq uai .ers, twenty-five thousand dollars
FOR labor, including one chemist Of ~, Via tl,
dOrs one foreman machinist at one thousand five
thousand seven hundred dollars each 1851 4. one
thousand and sixty-fve dollars ' '"e"'s -ohe
t te sa For pay Of superintendent
under this bureau, which shall include ons y,us
clerk Of ordnance at the Philadelphia nayyy,rd g.
the salary of one thousand four hundred dollars fl
teen thousand dollars NJ
For contingent expenses of the ordnance service of
inc navy, one thousan dollars
BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING.
For equipment of vessels: For coal for steamers
se. including expenses of transportation; storage
net.np wire, and other materials for the manu-
for fa"pe hides cordage canvas, leather; iron
dn. l'e,ure OF cables, anchors, and galleys; con-
usenMns and boat-detaching apparatus; cables an
c St, furniture hose, hake-oyens and cooking
sh' NE RATS heatingapparatus for receiving
vessels anu ior the payment of labor in equpping
wards nH nanuacture of articles in the navy
dred Thousand dollars ""eau' ohe miihon hve hun
Maine Foa elsrn Re at the nayyyard Kttery
four hundred dollars for storecler one thousand
dred doI,ars IN M and for time clerk, nine bnn-
dollars. thousand four hundred
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