The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-06-02
LA WIS
OF THE
UNITED STATES
PASSED AT THE
THIRD SESSION OF THE FORTY-SECOND
CONGRESS.
rl,rNERAL NAruRE=Nn. 81


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentGtiOes Of the United States Of America in Cor
gress assembled, That the following sums be, and
tney are here, appropriated, to be paid out of any
money IN the treasury not otherwise appropriated
i the naval service Of the government for the year
ending June thrtieth, eighteen hundred and seven
ty-tour. and for other purposes:
For pay Of commissioned and warrant officers at
$50 Nhc.aang sea-pay and ratons of officers detail
ed or appointed as naval storekeepers abroad1 on
shore on special service and of those on the retired
i lst and unemployed and for mileage and transpor-
OF the petty-oicers, seamen, ordinary seamen lands
men, and boys, including men of the engineers
force anu Tor the Coast-Survey service eight thou-
sand five hundred men, at an average nv Of tbrao
hundred dollars each per annum, six million two
hanaieu anu hity thousand dollars ProDided, That
no officer on the retired list of the navy shall be EN-
pioyei on active duty except in time of war: dn6
prcrided That those officers the retired list and
those hereafter RETIRED who were, may be- retired
after forty years SERVICE on attaining the 400 Of
sxywo years, in conformity with section one Of tbe
act of December, eighteen hundred and siytv-one
and its amendments, dated June twenty-fiffh eioht,
hundred and sixty -four, or those who were or
may be retired ftom incapacty resulting from long
anil faithful service from wounds Injuries received
in the line Of duty from sickness exposure there
in SHALL after the passage Of this act be entitled to
grade or rank which they held at the time Of their
retirement The rear-admirals provided for in the
act Of June fifth, eighteen hundred and seveny-two,
shall be considered as having been retired rear
admrals
For contingent expenses of the Navy Department,
one hundred thousand dollars.
BUREAU Or NAV ldAIlON.
For foreign and local pilotage and towage of ships
Of war, fifty thousand dollars.
For services and materials in correcting comrasses
on board ship, and for adj lsng and testing compass
on shore, three thousand dollars.
For nautical and astronomical instruments, nauti-
cal books maos, charts, and sailing directions, and
repairs OF nautical instruments for ships of war; ten
thousand dollars
books FOR libraries for ships of war; three thou
sand dollars.
For navy signals and apparatus, namely, signal
lights lanterns and rockets, including running lights,
drawings, and engravngs for signal-books, six thou
For compasS-fttings, including binnacles tripods
and other appsndages Of ships comnasses five thou
sand dollars.
ships way, lead. and other appliances for sounding
threo thousand dollars.
For lanterns and lamps, and their appendages for
general use ON board ship, including those for the
cabin ward-room, and Storage. 70 the holds and
spirit-room, for decks and quartermasters use six
thousand dollars
For bunting and other materials for flags and
making ami repairing flags, of all kinds, five thou
sand five hundred dollars.
For oil for ships of other than that used for the
Engineer department; caudles when used as sub
stitute for oil in binnacles, and running-ighs for
chimneys and wicks: and soap used in navigation
department, thir. y-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 an indicators, and for speak
ing-tubes and gongs, for signal communication on
board vessels of war; two thousand five hundred dol
las.
Civil establishment: For pay of writers and labor
ers and for purposes Incidental the support of the
civil establishment under this bureau at the scvera
navy-yards twelve thousand dollars.
For con ingent expenses OF the Bureau of Navigl-
tom Fret ,ht and transportation of navigation ma
terials Instruments books, and stores postage and
telegrapbing; advertising for proposals; packing
boxes and materials; blank books forms, and station
cry at navigation offices, six thousand dollars.
For drawing, engraving, and printing and photo
lithographing charts electrotyping and correcting
old plates, preparing and publishing sailing direc-
tons, AMI other photographic information, twenty
thousand dollars.
For surveying in the Pacific, fifty thousand dollars
For making charts, including those of the Pacific
coast, thirty thousand dollars
For fuel, lights and office furniture; care of build
ing and other labor purchase Of books tor library,
drawing materials, and other stationery; postage.
fteght and other contingent expenses, seven thou
For rent and repair of building, two thousand eight
hundred dollars.
For cxpens S of Naval Observatory. namely:
For pay Of one clerk, one thousand eight hundred
dollars.
For three assistant observers, at thousand five
For wages of one instrument-maker, one mcssen-
ger, three watchmen, AMI one porter; for keeping
grounds in order and repairs to buildings; for fuel
light, and OIL re furniture; and for stationery pur-
chase OF books for library chemicals for batteries,
postage and and ali other contingent expenses
thirteen thousand five hundred dollars.
For transcribing astronomical observations upon
dollars
nasdng telescope, five thousand dollars.
For computations for catalogue of zone-stars OBJ
petition to the southern hemisphere, in eighteen
hundred and ffty-one. one thousand five hundred
dollars.
For switchboard for Geographic apparatus, six
hundred dollars.
For payment of second testament for the great
refracting- now in the course of construc
ton, ten thousand dollars.
For expenses of Nautical Almanac
For pay of computers and clerk for compiling and
mn Et,ha pori.
and the Nautical Almanac, twenty thousand dollars
For continuance OF work On new planets discov-
cred by American astronomers, three thousand dol
For rent, fuel labor, stationery, boxes, expresses
and miscellaneous items, one thousand five hundred
BUREAU OF ORDNANCE.
For fuel and materials necessary in carrying on
the mechanical branches Of the Ordnance depart
thousand dollars.
For labor at all the navy-yards, three hundred
Thousand dollars.
For repairs to ordnance buildings magazines gun
parks, machinery and other necessaries of the like
character, torty-seven thousand six hundred and
For misc 9llaneous items, six thousand one hum
dred and fifty dollars.
For experiments in ordnance, ferty thousand dol
lars.
For the torpedo-corps For the purchase and man.
ufactnre OF gun-pow'ier, nitro-glycerine and gun
cotton, twelve thousand dollars.
For purchase aud manufacture of electrical ma
chimes, galvanc batteries and insulated wire TWEEN
ty-four thousand dollars.
T purchase OF copper iron, WOOD and other ma
terals necessary for the manufacture of torpedoes
and for work on the same, twenty-seven thousand
dollars.
For construction of torpedo-boat=, purchase of
cofer-work hulks and contingent expenses, thirty
five thousand dollars.
FIR repairs to buildings and wharyes, four thou
sand seven hundred dollars
For labor, including one chemist at two thousand
dollars, pyrotechnist electrician, one fireman
ehinst at one thousand five hundred and sixty-fve
dollars and two clerks at one thousand seven hun
dred dollars each. twenty-oIe thousand and sixty
nye do rs: Prooided, That the funds herein appro-
prlated LOT the torped J-corps shall only be used in
inc esl aohsnmeut and maintenance OF torpedoes to
De operated Tor offensive defensive use against an
Civil establishment: For pay of superintendents
and the civil establishment Of the seyerri nav
yards under I'll bureau, fifteen thousand dollars
Fer contingent expen of the ordnance service of
the navy, one thousand dollars.
BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING.
For equinment of vessels: For coal for steamers
use, including expenses of transp ,rtaton storage
soor, hemp, wire, aud other materials for the m,n-
uiaetnre OF rope; hid s, cordage. canvas leather;
non Ir manufacture OF cables, anchors, and gallcys
and Misunderstanding apparatus; cables
sucnors, furniture, hose, bake-overs and cooking
Stoves, lhe-raf S, heating-apparatus for recciynS
and for payment of labor in equipnine vessels
famine y, Of articles in the navy-yards pcr,
thousand do sns bureau, one million i've hundred
Maine. Forronishment at the navy-yard. Kitterv
four hundred dollars for one thousand
dollars. in oil 10 lars for tme-clerk nine bundred
Al lie na u, ,hree thous nd four hundred dollars
For snperntendssaattd Charlestown, Massachusetts
hundrsd doIIars clerk to same, one thousand Two
Ave- bun red clerk in equipmenU Office one thou
, un ied COLLARS for store-cIerk. one thonsand
Two nunen doliars time-cerk, one tbonsan% ,rpa
hundred dollars; In all, seven tLonsand Io Two
AT the navy-yard, Washington Distr;ct ~ T,
bia: For clerk in equipment efce one thousoId a
bundled dollars; and for one store and oa ,;r re
eler one at one thousand four hundred doiIar, s
one at one thousand two hundred dollars. in al,
four thousand one hundred dollars ''' "ii'
At the navy-yard, PHILADELPHIA Pepn,r,..
For clerk In equipment office, one thonsand ma
hundred dollars for one store and one time our
one Thousand two hundred dollars each IN iii at
thousand eight hundred dollars ~ Gil, tlfee
AT the navy-yard, Brooklyn New Ynr,. r.
IN equipment office, one thousand five bn Ior clerk
!ars; and for one store and one time nio, Gu DOL
thousand two hundred dollars eacb GierK at one
thousand nine hundred dollars ' III al, three
., AZ rne navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia.
a. once one THOUSAND four clerk In
~ Az do, one Thousand one hundrsd ~ dollars;
nsS uoars and for time-eerk nine ana TWEEN
xs AL three thousand four hndred u and DOL
snt oes navy yard, Pensacola, Florida: For oc,,n-
lars. WV 'nousano three hundred dol