Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-05-10
THE DAILY CHRONICLE.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Passed at the Third Session OF the Forty
Second Congress.
IPUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
GENERAL NATURE-No. $751;

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AN ACT making appropriations for the naval service
for the year ending June thrteth eighteen hundreu
and seventy four, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House Of Represen
taves of the United States of America in Congress as
hereby appropriated. to be paid out ct any money IN
the treasury not otherwise appropriated lor Ene %
Oh egSsen bnnred and seventy four and for
For pay Of commissioned and warrant officers at sea.
(incIuding se ay and ratons of officers detailed or
appointed as naval storekeepers abroad on shore on
special service and of those on the retired t ane IN
employed and for mileage and transportauOn OF oM-
GERS travelling under ORDERS and for Of the petty
officers seamen, and ordinary seamen, landsmen, ana
s Coast Survey service, eight thousand five hundred
men, at average pay of three hundred dollars eaca
dollars Provided, That no officer the retired List Of
the shall be employed on active GUY excSpt I'm
retired list and those hereafter retired who were
who may be retired after forty years service or on
section one Of the act Of December eighteen hundred
and sixty two. and its amendments dated June twenty
fifth eighteen hundred and sixty four. or those who who
long and faithful service, from wounds or injuries re-
ceived in the line of duty. from sickness or exposure
the grade or rank which they held at the time Of their
Of June fifth eighteen hundred and seventy two shall
be as having been ear M1T
one hundred thousand dollars
BUREAU OF NAVIGATION.
For foreign and local pilotage and towage Of ships of
war; fifty thousand dollars.
For services and materials in correcting compssses
on board ship and for adjusting and testing
on shore. three thousand dollars.
For nautical and astronomical instruments nautical
of nautical instruments for ships of war; ten thousand
dollars
For navy signals and apparatus, namely. signal
lights lanterns and rockets including running lights
drawings. and engravings for sgnabooks six thousand
dollars.
other appendages of ships compasses i've thousand
dollars.
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 ship. including thos; for the cab
in wardroom and steerage, for the holds and spirit
for decks and quarermasters use, SIX thousand
For bunting and other materials for flags and max
ing and repairing flags of all kinds, five thousand five
For oil fot ships of war other than that used for the
Engineer Department; candles when used as SUBJ
stitute for oil in binnaces and running lights for
partment thirty FIVE thousand dollars,
For stationery for, commanders and navigators 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 communication on board
vessels of war, two thousand five hundred dollars.
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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 ma
terials instruments books, and stores; postage and
es and materials; blank books forms and stationery
at navigation offices, six thousand dollars.
lthOgrap6ing charts eieetrotypng and Correcting old
plates, preparing and publishing sailing directions,
and other photographic information, twenty thousand
For surveying in the Pacific, fifty thousand dollars
For making charts INCLUDING those OF the Pacific
For fuel lights, and Office furniture; care of build
drawing materials. and other stationery; postage,
freight and other contingent expenses, seven thousand
For rent and repair of buildings two thousand eight
For expenses of Naval Observatory. namely;
For pay OF one clerk, one thousand eight hundred
For three assistant observers. at thousand five
For wages of one instrument-maker one messenger.
three watchmen and one porter for keeping grounds
Office furniture and for stationery purchase Of books
for library chemicals for batteries postage and freight
and all other contingent expenses thirteen thousand
For transcribng astronomical observations upon
sheets for publication, thousand two hundred dol
lars.
For completing tower and dome for the new refract
ing telescope, five thousand dollars.
For computations for catalogue of stars observ-
ed by the United States naval astronomical expedition
to the southern hemisphere in eighteen hundred and
y egne S % ana my one ana shf So
lars.
For switch board for Geographic apparatus,
six hundred dollars.
For payment of second instalment for the
great refracting telescope now in the course Of
construction, ten thousand dollars.
For expenses of Nautical Almanac:
For pay of computers and clerk for compil-
ing and preparing for publication the Ameri-
can Ephemeris and the Nautical Almanac,
twenty thousand dollars.
For continuance of work on new planets dis
discovered by American astronomers, three
thousand dollars.
For rent. fuel, labor, statationery, boxes, ex-
press and miscellaneous items, one thousand
five hundred dollars.
BUREAU OF ORDNANCE.
For fuel and material necessary in carrying
on the the mechanical branches of the Ordnance
department at the navy yards and stations, one
hundred thousand dollars.
For labor at all the navy yeards, three hun
dred thousand dollars.
For repairs to ordnance buildings, maga-
Zines gun parks, machinery ond other necessa-
ries of the like character, forty seven thousand
six hundred and one dollars.
For miscellaneous items, six thousand one
hundred and fifty dollars.
For experiments in ordnance, forty thousand
dollars.
For the torpedo corps: For the purchase and
manufacture of gun powder, nitro glycerine
and gun cotton, twelve thousand: dollars.
For purchase and manufacture of electrical
machines, galvanic batteries; and insulated
wire, twenty four thousand dollars
For purchase of copper, iron. and other mas
terials necessary for the manufacture of torpe-
does, and for work on the same, twenty seven
thousand dollars.
For construction of torpedo boats, purchase
OF Golfer work or hulks, and contingent expen-
ses, thirty five thousand dollars.
For repairs to buildings and wharves, four
thousand seven hundred dollaas.
For labor including one chemist at two thou
sand dollars, pyrotechnist electrician, one fore
man lnachinist a. one thousand FIVE hu ndred
and sixty five dollars, and two clerks at one
thousand seven hundred dollars each, twenty
one thousand and sixty five dollars: Provided,
That the funds herein appropriated for the tor
pedo corps shall only be used in the establish
mcnt and maintenance of torpedoes to be oper-
ated for offensive or defensive use against an en-
envy in naval waaefare.
Civil establishment: For pay of superinten-
dents and the civil establishment of the several
navy yards under this bureau, fifteen thousand
dollars.