Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-01

CURED and who shall be borne upon the rolls clerks
Of the iourth class Provided That such appointments
shall not increase the clerical force Of said bureau.
SEC 3d. That all acts and parts Of acts inconsistent or
II conflict with the foregoing provisions Of this act are
Approved, March 3, 1879.
GENERAL NATURE-No. ISL
AN ACT making appropriations for the naval service
for the year ending june thireth, eighteen hundred
and soventy-four, and for other purposes.
Ne ~ enacted by the Senate and House Of Represent
atves Of the United States Of America In Congress
sembled, That the following sums DO, and they
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 -four and for
For pay Of commissioned aud warrant officers at sea,
Qncluding seapay and rations Of officers detailed
appointed as naval storekeepers abroad Shore
special service and Of those the retired list and un-
employed and for mileage and transportation Of on
Gers sraveing under orders aad for pay Of the petty
Including men Of the engineers force and for the Coast
Survey service, eight thousand Ave hundred men
average pay Of three hundred dollars each per annum
six million two hundred and fly thousand dollars
Provided That officer the retired list Of the navy
shall be employed on active duty except In time Of
war And provided That those officers on the retired
list and those hereafter retired who were or who may
he Sse Of yssS IN n on Ss sIoG
one Of the act Of December eighteen hundred and sz
ty-one, and its amendments dated June twenty-Ath,
eighteen hundred and sxtyfour, or those who
may be retired from paoty resulting from long and
faithful service from wounds injuries received In the
after the passage Of this act be entitled TO seventyRVe
per eentum Of the present seaay Of the grade rank
rear-admirals provided for in the act Of June th,
eighteen hundred and seventytwo shall DO considered
as having been retired as rear-admirals.
For contingent expenses Of the Navy Department,
ono hundred thousand dollars.
BUREAU OF NAVIGATION.
For foreign and local potage and towage of ships Of
For services and materials in correcting compasses
on board SHIP and for adjusting and testing oompasses
on shore, three thouqand dOllnra
For nautical and astronomical instruments nautical
books maps charts and sailing directions and repairs
dollars.
For books for libraries for ships Of war, three thou
For navy signals and apparatus namely sgnalllghts
lanterns and rockets, including running lights draw
ings and engravngs for sgnalbooks, six thousand dol
For compass fittings, including binnacles tripods,
and other appendages Of ships compasses Ave thou
For logs and other appliances for measuring the
ships way, leads and other appliances for sounding,
For lanterns and lamps, and their appendages, for
general use on board ship including those for the cab
room for decks and quartemasters use, six thousand
dollars.
Por bunting and other materials for flags, and max
ing and repairing flags Of all kinds FIVE thousand Eve
hundred dollars.
For oil for ships of war other than that used for the
Engineer department; candles when used as a substi-
tuts for oil in binnioles and running lights for chin
neys and Wioks and soap used In navigation depart
mont, thirty-hve thousand dollars
For stationery for commanders and navigaors Of
sells Of war, four thousand dollars.
FOR musical instrumsnand music for vessels OF war,
For steering signals and indicators and for speaking
tuSes and gongs, for signal communication on board
CS Fan nvs nundrea uo,hTs
~ ostaOlsnnent TOT Pay Oh Wrlters anu iaoOrers
~ 70 the support oil the civil
Ssrs tniH unusr snS bureau at the several navy
For contingent expenses Of the Bureau Of Nayiga-
w. , anu hI P OF navga.lon mayer .
AIS lnsIements, books, anu stores postage and tee-
graphing advertising for proposals packing boxes
nc. o ~. 'Srms ana stationery at
For drawing engraving and printing and photo-lith-
agraphing charts, electrytyping and correcting old
plates preparing and publishing sailing directions and
lars.
For surveying in tho Pacific, fifty thousand dollars
For making charts, including those Of the Pacific
coast, thirty thousand dollars
For fuel lights and Office furniture care Of building
and other labor purchase of books for library draw
ing materials, and other stationery postage. height
and other contingent expenses seven thousand dollars
For rent and repair Of building, two thousand eight
hundred dollars.
For expenses Of Naval Observatory namely, for pay
OF one clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars
For three assistant observers, at one thousand five
hundred dollars each.
For wages Of one INSTRUMENTATION, ono messenger,
three watchmen and porter; for keeping grounds
in order and repairs to buildings for fuel light and
Office furniture and for stationery, purchase Of books
for library chemicals for batteries postage and freight
and all other contingent expenses thirteen thousand
Eve hundred dollars.
For transcribing astronomical observations upon
sheets for publication, one thousand two hundred dol
lars.
For completing tower and dome for the new refract-
ing telescope hys thousand dollars
by the United States naval astronomical expedition to
tho southern hemis phere in eighteen hundred and f
ty eighteen hundred and Rty-one and eighteen hun
dred and ffty-two thousand five hundred dollars.
For switchboard for telegraphic apparatus six hun
dred dollars.
For payment of second instalment for tho great re-
now in tho course Of construction,
ten thousand dollars.
For expenses Of Nautical Almanac For pay of com.
puters and clerk for compiling and preuaring for publ
Sston the a%srissn E9hsmsris and the Nautio" Al
for continuance OF work on new planets discovered
oy american astronomers, three thousand dollars.
ions iue,, IAoor stItohery ooAes expresses and
miscellaneous one thousand hye hundred dollars.
.c,., bOhEAU oF ORDINANCES.
mechanical branches Of the Ordnance department at
ny navy yarus anu STATIONS, one hundred thousand
u0 va sohor =, oil ,.,-, A..
Sap p uoIlan.
.s rSpats 70 ordnance buildings magazines, gun
SiAs, r anu other heeessares OF the hke
ohaLaeter orty-sevon thousand six hundred and one
uoliAIs.
and ifty dollar '''"''' S'A '"ouSSuu 'uo huhureu
GoI yAPtnents IN ordnance, iorty thousand dollars
drs 40 Eor ine purchase and manu-
~ ~ suh-PoIIeIi n'uo-gycerine ana sun-cotton
'" v tnousanu I uohars'
TOT me purchase ana manuiaeture Of electrical ma
S,nes gsSn5e paterles ana insulated WIRE twenty
iopr Thousand dollars.
for purchase OF copper, IRON, wood and other mater
worE an M s aTp me o. and Tor
F3r construction Of torpedo-boAts purchase Of Golfer
M oIh OF huiks ana contingent expenses, thirtyhvC
'h4 4 uohaIs;
TOT lePars 70 pulldlhgs ana WharNes Tour thousand
seE zen n lahar u4i,ais, ....,-,.
TOT labor lneluding one chemist at two thousand
dollars pyToteohnis electrician one foreman maShln
st ~ enc thousand hve hundred aud s'xtyhye dollars
anu TWO oeI NJ one Thousand seven hundred dollars
I'LL ~. one .ngusahu anu sAtyInye doaIs FRO
ydeuI Ihht te lunds herein appropriated for the tor
maintenanea nj tornsdoos ~ ha So e n M
tho ev Of tie several navy yards undSI