The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-06-26
STAUNTON, VIRGINIA. THURSDAY. JUNE &C. 1878.
For books for libraries for ships Of war,
three thousand dollars

For books for libraries for ships Of war
three thousand dollars
For navy signals and apparatus, namely
signal-lights, lanterns aud rockets, including
running lights, drawings, and engraving
for signal books, six thousand dollars.
For compass-fttiugs, including binnacles
tripods. and other appeadages ofsh.p s' com
passes, FIVE thousand dollars.
For logs and other appliances for measur-
ing the ships way, leads and other appli
ances for sounding, three thousand dollars.
For lanterns aud lamps, and their appen
dages, for general use on board ship, includ
ing those for the cabin, ward room aud steer
age, for the holds and spirit-room, for decks
and quarteFmasters' use, six thousand dollars
For bunting and other materials for flags
aud making aud repairing flags o. all kinds
five thousand five hundred dollars.
used for the Engineer department; candles
when used as substitute for oil in binnacles
and running-ligh for chimneys aud wicks
and soap used in navigation department.
thirty FIVE thousand dollars.
For stationery for commanders and navi-
gators of vessels of war; four thousand dol
lars
For musical Instruments, and music for
vessels of war, one thousand dollars.
For steering signals and indicators, aud for
speaking-tubes and gongs, for signal COM
munlcation on board vessels of war, two thou
sand five hundred dollars.
Civil establishment !: For pay Of writers
and Iaborers, and for purposes incidental to
the support of the civil establishment under
this bureau at the several navy-yasds twelve
thousand dollars
For contingent expenses of the Bureau Of Nav
igaton: Freight and transportation of navigatio n
materials instruments, books, and stores ; pos
tage and telegraphing; advertising for proposals;
packing boxes and materials; blank books, f. rms,
and stationery at navigation Offices, six thousand
dollars.
For drawing. ENGRAVING, and printing and
photo lithographing charts, electrotyping and
correcting old plates, preparing and publishing
sailing directions. and other photographic infor-
nation, twenty thousand dollars
For surveying in the Pacific, fifty thousand
dollars.
For making charts, including those of the Pa
cifc coast, thirty thousand dollars.
For fuel lights, and Office furniture care of
building and other labor purchase OF books for
library, drawing materials, and other stationery;
postage, freight, and ether contingent expenses,
seven thousand dollars
For rent and repair Of building, two thousand
eight hundred dollars.
For expenses of Naval Observatory, name
ly:
For pay of one clerk, one thousand eight
hundred dollars.
For three assistant observers, at one thou
sand five hundred dollars each.
For wages of one instrumen t-maker, one
messenger, three watchmen, and one porter
for keeping grounds in order and repairs to
buildings; for fuel, light. and Office furniture;
and for stationery, urchase Of books for
library, chemicals for batteries, postage, and
freight and all other contingent expenses,
thirteen thousand FIVE hue dred doll Is
For transcrbing astronomical observations
upon sheets for publication, one thousand
two hundred dollars.
For completing tower and dome for the
new refracting telescope, five thousand dol
lars.
For computations for catalogue Of zone
stars observed by the United States naval
astronomical expedition to..thc southern hem
isphere, IN eighteen hundred and fifty. in
eighteen hundred and ffty-one, and eigE'
teen hundred and ffty-two, one thousand
FIVE hundred dollars
For switch board for Geographic apparatus, six
hundred dollars.
For payment of second instalment for the great
refratting telescope in the course of con-
struction, ten thousand dollars.
For expenses of Nautical Almanac:
For pay of computers and clerk for compiling
and preparing for publication the American
Ephemeris and the Nautical Almanac, twenty
thousand dollars.
For continuance of work on new planets dis
covered by American astronomers, three thou
sand dollars
For rent, fuel, labor, stationery, boxes, ex-
presses, and miscellaneous items, one thousand
FIVE hundred dollars
BUREAU OF ORDNANCE:
For fuel and materials necessary in carrying
on the mechanical branches of the Ordnance de
partment at the navy yards and stations; one
hundred thousand dollars.
For labor at all the navy yards, three hundred
thousand dollars.
For repairs to ordnance buildings, magazines.
gun-parks, machinery, and her necessaries of
the like character forty seven thousand six hun
bred and one dollars.
For miscellaneous items, six thousand one hun
dred and fifty dollars
For EXP eriments in ordnance, forty thousand
dollars.
For the torpedo corps: For the purchase and
manufacture Of gunpowder. roglycerine, and
gun cotton, twelve thousand dollars.
For pu1 chase and manufacture Of electrical
machines galvattic batteries, and insulated wire,
twenty four thousand dollars
For purchase of copper, iron, wood. and other
materials necessary for the manufacture Of tor
pedoes and for work on the same, twenty seven
thousand dollars
For construction Of torpedo boats. purchase of
coffer-work or hulks, and contingent expenses,
thirty five thousand dollars
For repairs to buildings and wharves, four thou
sand seven hundred dollars.
For labor, including one chemist at two thou
sand dollars pyrotechnist electrician, one fore.
man ma:hinst at one thousand five hundred 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 torpeds-eorps shall
only be used in the establishment and maint enance
of torpedoes to be operated for often sive or de
fensive use against an enemy in naval warfare.
Civil esta blishment: For pay of supernten
dents and the civil establishment of the several
navy yards under this bureau, fifteen thous and
dollars.
For contingent expenses the ordnance ser
vice ofthe navy one thousand dollars.
BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING.
For Equipment of vessels: For coal for steam
ers use, including expenses Of transportation
storage, labor, hemp, wire, and other mater ials
for the manufacture of ropes hides, cordage. can
vas, leather; iron for manufacture of cables, an
chors aud galleys; condensing and boat detach.
ing apparatus cables, anchors, furniture, lose.
bake ovens. and cooking stoves life. ~ fts heat