National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-06-30
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE
EORTY-THIRD CONGRESS-
[GENERAL NATURE-No. IS. l

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Il [GENERAL NATURE-No. $751;
AN ACT making appropriations for the navs
service for the year ending June thirtieth
eighteen hundred and seVenty-fve, and 70
). other purposes.
Be Il enacted by The Senate cy,d House Of Reu
rsse'rtdtivss Of the United States of America q
Congress assembled, That the following sum
be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to b
paid out Of any money In the Treasury no
otnerwise appropriated, for the naval ssrvic
OF the Government for the year ending jun
thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy five
and for other purposes:
For pay Of commissioned aud warrant off
GERS az sea, on shore, on special service, and o.
those on the retired list and unemployed, anC
Tor mileage and transportation Of officers trav
cling under orders, and for pay of the petit
oncers, seamen, ordinary 1seamen, landsmen
and boys, including men of the engineers
force, and for the coast survey service, eight
thousand five hundred men, six million two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
4 For contingent expenses of the Navy De
partment, one hundred thousand dollars.
For civil establishment at the different navy
yards, as follows: At Kittery, Maine, eighteen
thousand seven hundred and fifty-nine dollars
at Charlestown, Massachusetts,, twenty-three
thousand and ninety-three dollars and forty
cents; at Brooklyn, New York, twenty-thrce
thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine dol
lars and forty cents; at Philadelphia, Pennsyl-
yania, twenty lone thousand two hundred and
ninety-three dollars and forty cents; at Nor
folk, Virginia, eighteen thousand five hundred
and thirty-eight dollars and twenty cents; at
Pensacola, Florida, eight thousand one hun
bred and forty-fve dollars; at washington,
District Of Columbia, nineteen thousand one
4 hundred and twenty-three dollars aud twenty
cents; at Mare Island, California, twenty thou.
sand three hundred and seventeen dollars and
twenty cents; and at League Island naval sta
ton, Pennsylvania, four thousand six hundred
and eighty dollars; making in all the sum of
one hundred and ffty-seven thousand seven
hundred and thirty-eight dollars and eighty
cents.
| For civil establishment at the seyersl naval
hospitals and naval laboratory, thirty-nine
thousand one hundred and sixty-one dollars.
BUREAU OF NAVIGATION.
For foreign and local pilotage and towage OF
ships of war, fifty thousand dollars
| For services and materials In correcting COM
passes on board ship, and for adjusting and
testing compasses on shore, three. thousand
dollars.
For nautical and astronomical instruments,
nautical books, maps, charts and sailing direc-
tons, and repairs of nautical Instruments for
ships of war, ten thousand dollars
For books for libraries for ships of war,
three thousand dollars.
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signallights, lanterns and rockets, including
running lights, drawings and engravings for
signalbooks, six thousand dollars.
For eompass-fttings, including bnnacles,
tripods and other appendages of ships COM
passes, to be made in the navy yards, five
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 append
ages, for general use on board ship, including
| those for the cabin, ward-room and steerage
| for the holds and spirit-room, for decks and
quartermaster's use, five thousand dollars
For bunting and other materials for flags,
and making and repairing flags of all kinds,
five thousand dollars.
For oil for ships of war other than that used
for the engineer department, candles when
used as q substitute for oil in binnacles, run
ng-lights, for cfimneys and wick and soap
used In navigation department, twenty thou
| sand dollars.
For stationery for commanders ard naviga-
tors Of vessels Of war, two thousand dollars,
For musical instruments, and music for YES
sells of war, one thousand dollars.
For steering signals and indicators, and for
speaking tubes and gongs, for signal-communi-
cation on board vessels of war, two thousand
five hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of the Bureau of
Navigation: Freight and transportation of
navigation materials; instruments, books and
stores; postage and telegraphing; advertising
for proposals; packing boxes and materials;
blank books, forms and stationery at nayiga-
tion-ohices, four 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; and for max
ing 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, drawing materials and other sta
tionery; postage, freight and other contingent
expenses, Ave thousand dollars.
For rent and repair of building, two thou
sand eight hundred dollars.
For expenses of naval observatory,-na
For pay OF one clerk, one thousand eight
hundred dollars.
For three assistants, at one thousand five
hundred dollars each.
For wages of one Observation-Disclosures, one
messenger, three Rutchrnan- and one porter; for
keeping grounds in order and repairs to-ouild-
ings; 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, ten thousand
dollars.
For transcribing astronomical observations
upon sheets for publication, one thousand two
hundred dollars.
For one chronometrical thermometer, i've.
hundred and fifty dollars.
For necessary furniture and equipments for
the new building for the great telescope, two
thousand dollars.
For the last payment for the great refracting
telescope, 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 Nautical Almanac, eighteen
thousand dollars
For continuance of work on new planets dis
covered BY American astronomers, two thou
sand dollars.
For rent, fuel, labor, stationery, boxes, ex-
presses and miscellaneous items, one thousand
live hundred dollars.
ECREAU OF ORDNANCE.
For fuel and materials necessary in carrying
on the mechanical branches of the Ordnance
Department at the navy yards and stations,
seventy i've thousand dollars.
For labor at all the.na yards, two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars.
For repairs to ordnance buildings, maya
zines, gun parks, machinery, and other neces-
saries ofthe like character, ten thousand dollars
For miscellaneous items, freight, express
charges, and purchase of instruments, five
thousand dollars.
TOT the ~IOrpeQO corps:
For the purchase and manufacture of gun
powder, nitro glycerine and gun-cottOn, twelv
thousand dollars.
For purchase and manufacture of electrical
machines, galvanic batteries and Insulated
wire, twenty thousand dollars.
For purchase of copper, iron, wood, and
other materials necessary for the Ipanuhcture
Of topedoes, and for work on the 81 ne, twenty
five thousand dollars.
For construction Of torpedo-boatf, purchase
of coffer-work or hulks, and contingent ex-
penses, twenty-five thousand dollsrs.
For repairs to buildings and wharves, one
thousand dollars. 81
For labor, including chemist, pyrotechiist,
electrician, machinist, and clerical force, fifteen
thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses Of the ordnance
service Of the navy, one thousand dollars
BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RE-
CRUITING.
For equipment of vessels
For coal for steamers use, including expenses
Of transportation; storage, labor, hemp, wire,
and other materials for the manufacture of
rope; hides, cordsge, canvas, leather; Iron for
manufacture of cables, anchors, and kalleys;
condensing and bcat-detaching apparatus; ca
bles, anchors, furniture, hose, bake-osns, and
cooking-stoves; hfe-rafts; heating abparatus
for receiving-ships; aud for the payment Of
labor in equipping vessels, and mahufacture
of articlee in the navy wards pertaining to this