Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-03-28
Official.
LAWS OF THE
U " TIED STA TIE y 4,
PASSED AT the
SECOND SESSION OF THE l2d CONGRESS
GENERAL NATURE.-No 7e1


the year ending june hreh, eighteen hundred
/ and seventy three, and for other purposes
For pay Of commissioned and officers ut sea- on
shore special service and Of those the list aud
unemployed and for mileage and transportation Of officers
travelling under orders and for pay Of the petty officers
Of the engineers force eight thousand ave hundred mem at
average pay q three hundred dollars each per annum
| million two hundred and Any thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses Of the Navy Department,
/ hundred thousand dollars.
NAVIGATION.
for foreign and local plotage and towage Of ships war;
any thousand dollars. For and materials in
ctng compasses on board ship and for adjusting and
ing compases Shore three thousand dollars For nautical
and astronomical Instruments nautical books maps charts
and sailing directions, and repairs Of nautical instruments
for ships " ten thousand dollars For for libra
es for ships u war three thousand dollars For navy sig
nails ard apparatus namely. signal lights lanterns and
rockets including running lights drawings and engravings
tor signal books six thousand dollars For compassangs
oompases to be made In the navy yards Ave thousand dol
lars For logs and other appliances for measuring the ships
and dollar. Por iSn,erpi ana lamns srJ ,bs' nnnd
Tor general board ship including thoee for the cabin
wardroom and eege for the holds and spirit room Tor
decks and quartermasers ak thousand dollars. For
bunting aud other materials for flags, aud making and
pairing flags of all kinds Ave housond Ave hundrrd dollars
For oil Tor ships Of other than that used for the engineer
department. candles when used substitute for oil in bin
naces running lights for chmneys and wick and soap used
In navigation department, thryhve thousand dollars. For
stationery for commanders and navgaors Of vessels Of
four thousand dollars For musical instruments and music
for vessels " thousand dollars For steerage sig
nails aud indicators, and for speaking tubes and gongs for
signal communication board vessels Of war thousand
Civil establishment FOR pay writer's ahorers and
Tor purposes Incidental 10 the support Il the civil establish
men under this bureau at the several navy yards twelve
| thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses IT the bureau Of Navigation
Freight aud transportation of navigation macrialsi ustru-
men books and storesi postage aud telegnphng public
busnes advertising for proposals packing boxes aud
teralsi blank books, forms and stationery at navigation
offices, six thousand dollars For drawing engraving aud
printing and photohogrphng charts electrntypmg aud
correcting OLD Plates preparing and publishing sailing dr,c
tons, and other photographic information seventeen thous
and seven hundred dollars For surveying IN the Pacific,
my thousand dollars. For making charts twenty thousand
dollars For fuel, lights and Office mrniturei care NJ build
ing and other labor; purchase Of books for library drawing
materials and sther staonery postage, freight aud other
contingent expenses seven thousand dollars For rent and
repair Of building, thousand eight hundred dollars.
For expenses II Naval Observatory, namely For pay
clerk thousand eight hundred dollars For three
assistant Observers four thousand Ave hundred dolr For
u instrument maker, messenger three watch
men, and porter, fr keeping grounds order aud
pairs buildings for fuel, lights aud office furniture; and
Tor stationery purchase of hooks for library, chemicals for
batteries postage aud freight, and all other contingent
expenses thirteen thousand Ave hundred dollars. For com
putatou for theory and tables u the moon, thousand
arrangements thousand two hundred dollars. For
scbing astronomical observations sheets Tor pubca
ton one thousand two hundred dollars For erection Of
tower and dome for the reiictng telescope, thou
sand dollars. For payment in part for the great efracng
telescope now IN the course Of constructions ten thousand
dollars.
For expenses IT Nautical Almanac For pay Of compu-
tiers aud clerk TOR compiling and preparing Tor publication
the American Ephemeris and the Nautical Almanac twenty
thousand dollars For preparing elements and tables NJ
planets discovered by American astronomers three Thousand
and miscellaneous items thousand Ave hundred dolarn
BUREAU % ORDNANCE
For thousand hundred aud Atty barrels Of gun
powder, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For fuel and materials necessary in carrying on the
mechanical branches Of the Ordnance department at the
nayyyard and stations, one hundred thousand dollars.
Por labor at all the navy-yards, three hundred theu
sand dollars Provided That aborers shall he employ
cd In the several nayyyards by the proper officers In
charge with reference TO skill and efficiency, and with
out regard to other considerations.
To enable the Secretary Of the Navy to carry his
experiments towards converting heavy smooth-hore
guns into rled guns with view to obtain combina-
tlOn gun possessing the qualities OF both smoothbOre
and rifle forty thousand dollars.
For repairs 10 ordnance buildings magazines, gun
parks machinery, aud other necessares Of the like
character, forty-seven thousand six hundred aud one
For miscellaneous items, six thousand one hundred
and ffty dollars.
For experiments in ordnance twenty thousand dol
lars.
For the gun-park at the navy-yard at Pensacola,
eight thousand eight hundred and eightysiI dollars
For the shOtpark at Pensacola, Ave thousand seven
hundred and sixty dollars
For the shel-houso at tho magazine at Pensacola,
tw nty-three thousand seven hundred and oghty-hyo
For the railroad to tho shel-house at Pensacola one
thousand and nnety-siN dollars.
For the railroad to the magazine. six thousand three
hundred and ninety-eght dollars
For gun-skds and shot-bed at navy-yard, Mare Is
land, ten thousand dollars.
For reservoir and pipe at magazine, ifteen thousand
dollars.
For new car and raroad-track at magazine one thou.
sand FIVE hundred dollars.
For the torpedo corps For the purchase and manuac
ture Of gunpowder, nitro gyoerine and gun-ootton,
For purchnse and manufacture Of electrical machines
gayano batteries, and insulated wire, twenty-tOur
thousand dollars.
For purchase Of "copper" iron wood and other materi
ais ssary for the manufacture Of torpedOes, and
for work on the same, tWenty-seven Thousand dollars
For construction Of torpedo boats purchase Of Golfer
work or hulks and contingent expenses, thirtv-hve
thousand dollars.
For additional buildings and machne-shop and addi-
tional quarters twenty-five thousand dollars
Por labor, Including one chemist at two thousand
AgiIm aUaN al nd hua
humid red and siXty-ve dollars and two clerks at one
thousand hundred dollars each tWenty-one thou
Civil estaoishment. For pay Of the superintendents
and the civil establishment Of the several navy-yards
Of ordnance the Philadelphia maynard at the saa
~ of thousand four hundred dollars, fifteen thou
sand dollars.
For contingent expenses Of the ordnance service Of
| the navy one thousand dollars.
BUREAU oF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING.
For equipment Of vessels For coal for steamers
use, including expenses Of transportation storage
II rope hides cordage, canvas, leather iron for
manufacture Sf cables, anchors and galleys condens
ing and boat-detaching apparatus; cables anchors,
furniture, hose bakeOvens and cookingstoves, life.
rans heatin g-apparatus for receiving ships and for
the payment Of labor in equpping vessels, and manu-
] bureau, one million ave hundred thousand dollars.
Civil establishment at the naVy-yard Kittery
Maine For clerk in equipment oioe, thousand four
hundred dollars for store-cerk thousand hun
dred dollars and for time-cerk nine hundred dol
| lars; in all, three thousand four hundred dollars
| At the nayy-yard, Charostown Massachusetts, For
superinteudent Of rope-wak, one thousand nine hun.
dred dollars clerk 10 same, one thousand two hundred
dollars; clerk IN equipment office, thousand Ave
hundred dollars; for stOre-elerk, one thousand two
hundred dollars, time CLERK, one thousand two hun
| At the navy-yard, Washington, District Of Columbia
For clerk n equipment Office one thousand five hun
dred dollars aud for store aud one time clerk one
Mt one thousand four hundred dollars, and at
thousand two hundred dollars In ALL four thousand
At the nnvy-yard Philadelphia, Pennsy wanna, For
clerk in upment office, one thousand four hundred
dOlars for store and one time clerk, at one thou
sand hundred dollars each in ALL three thousand
eight hundred dollars.
In equipment Office thousand i've hundred dollars
and for store and time clerk at one thousand
two hundred dollars each In all, three thousand nine
Al the nayy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia PQr clerk in
equipment office, one thousand four hundred dollars
for store-clerk thousand hundred and twenty
Ave dollars; and for tne-olerk, nine hundred dol
lars in ALL three thousand four hundred and twenty.
Al the navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida For equip
ment ohlc clerk one thousand three hundred dollars
At the nayy-yarl, Mare Island, California For clerk
| in equipment office thousand eight hundred and
seyenty-hye dollars for storrcerk, onr thousand two
hundred dollars in ALL three thousand and seventy
For contingent expenses of the Bureau Of Equipment
and Recruiting, namely For freight and transporta-
ton of stores transportation Of enlisted men, mileage
to honorably discharged men, printing, advertising,
trlcgraphng, stationery apprehension Of deserterr
and assistance 70 vessels Ia distress, hundred and
| twenty-five thousand dollars
| BUBEAU or YARDS AND DOCKS.
For civil establishment at the nayy-yard, kitteTy,
Maine: For draughtsman and clerk to call lneer
a. one thousand four hundred dollars each for clerk "
pay-rols and mustering-clerk, thousand Ave hun
bred dollars for receiver and inspector Of sor,
thousand Ave hundred dollars for writer TO receiver
and inspector of stores thousand dollars for chef
accountant, thousand eight hundred dollars for
gats-keepeT and detective, thousand dollars and
or messenger at comandants Office, six hundred dol
lars; making, In ell, ton thousand two hundred dol
/ lars.
Al the navy-yard Charlestown, Massachusetts, For
assistant civil engineer one thousand i've hundred
dollars; for draughtsman and clerk 10 civil engineer
at one thousand four hundred dollars each for clerk n
pay-ros and mastering olerk one thousand Ave hun
bred dollars for receiver and Inspector OF stores
thousand 1--WE hundred dollars for writer TO receiver
\ aud inspector Of stores thousand dollars for
writer to C0mmRndant thousand dollars for chief
accountant thousand eight hundred dollars; for
gate keeper and detective, one thousand dollars and
| Tor messenger for commandments otioe six hundred
dollars; Ina ALL twelve thousand hundred dollars.
| Al the nayy-yard, Brooklyn, Now York for assist
ant 10 civil engineer one thousand five hundred dol