Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-07-23

For services and materials in correct.
ing compasscs on board ship, and for ud.
jnsting and testing c"npaS>tS on shore.
three thousand dollars
For nautical and astronomical instru
mcntS, nautical books, maps, charts. and
and repairs Ut nautical
Instruments for ships OF war, ten thOus.
and dollars.
For books for libraries for ships OF
war, three thousand dollars.
For naval-signals and apparatus, name.
~: signal-lights, lanterns, and irockcts,
including runn!ng-ligl,ts, drawings, and
cngravings for signal books six tAous
and dollars.
For ompass-flttings, including bin
nac'c:, tripods, and other appendix cs Of
ships cOmpasscs. to lie made in the M
vy-yarls, five thousand dollars.
For logs and other appliances for
measuring the ships way, and other 49,
plianccs for sounding, three thousand
dollars.
For lanterns and lamps, and their an.
pendagcs for general use OH board shin,
including those for the cabin, ward room
and stccragc, for the holds and spit.room
tor decks and quartcrmaster's use. five
thousand dollars.
For bunting and other materials for
flags. and making and repairing flags Of
all binds, five thousand dollars.
For oil for ships Of war other than that
used tor the engineer department, can
dies when used rs substitute for oil in
binnaclcss, running-lights, climncys and
WICK and soap, used in navigation de-
partmcnt, twenty thousand dollars.
For stationery for commanders and
navigators Of vessels Of war, two thous-
ond dollars.
For musical instruments, and music
for vessels Of war, one thousand dollars.
For steering signals and indicators,
and for spcaking.tubes and gonSs, for
signal-communication on board vessels
OF war, two thousand five hundred dol
lars.
For contingent expenses Of the Bureau
Of Navigation: Freight and transporta.
ton of navigation.naterial; instruments,
books, and stores; postage and telegraph.
ing; advertising for proposals.; packing
boxes and materials; hank books, forms,
and stationery ut nav;gation-oficcs, four
thousand dollars.
For drawing, engraving, and printing
and photo litlograpLing charts. electro
typlng and correcting old plates, prepar-
ing and publishing sailing directions,
and other photographic information,
twenty thousand dollars; and for making
charts, including those of the Pacific
coast, thirty thousand dollars.
For fuel, lights, of1icc-furniture; care
of building and other labor; purchase Of
hooks for library, drawing materials, and
other sta tiOnery; postage, freight, and
other contingent expenses, five 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 assistants, at one thousand
five hundred dollars ca CHI. ~
ono mess cngcr, three Waterman, and ono
porter; for Keeping grounds in order and
repairs to buildings; for fuel, light, and
| office furniture; and for stationery, pur
chase Of books for library, chemicals fol
batteries, postage, and freight, and all
other contingent expenses. ton thousand
dollars.
For transcribing astronomical obscr
vations upon sheets for publication, ont
thousand two hundred dollars.
| For one chronomctrical thermometer
five hundred and fifty dollars.
For necessary furniture and equipment:
for the new building for the great telc
scope, two thousand dollars
| For the last payment for the great re
fracting-tclcscopc, ten thousand dol
lars.
For expenses of Nautical Almanac:
For pay of computcrs and clerk fo
compiling and preparing for publicatio,
the American Ephcmeris and Nautica
Almanac, eighteen thousand dollars.
For continuance Of work on new plan
cts discovered by American astronomers
two thousand dollars.
For rent, fuel, labor, stationery, boxes
expresses, and miscellaneous items, Oh,
thousand five hundred dollars.
For fuel and materials necessary in car
rying on the mechanical branches of tn
Ordinance Department at the navy-yard
and stations, seventy Ave thousand do,
lars.
For labor at all the navy,yards, tw,
thousand dollars.
magazines, gun-parks, machinery, an<
|
ten thousand dollars.
For miscellaneous items, freight, eX
press charges, and purchase of instru
ments, five thousand dollars.
For the Torpedo Corps: :
| For the purchase and manufacture o
of gunpowdcr, nitro-glyccrine, and gun
cotton, twelve thousand dollars.
For purchase and manufacture of cleo
trical machines, galvanic batteries, and
insulated wire, twenty thousand dollars
For purchase of copper, iron, wood
and other materials necessary for tn
manufacture Of torpcdocs, and for worl
on the same, twenty-five thousand dollars
For construction of torpedo boats, pun
chase of coffec-work or hulks, and con
tingcnt expenses, twenty-five thousan,
dollars.
For repairs to buildings and wharyes
one thousand dollars.
For labor, including chemists, pyre
jtechnist, electrician, machinist, and clc1
ical force, fifteen thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses Of the ord
nance service Of the Navy, one thousan,
dollars.
BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RE
| CKUITING.
! For equipment of vessels:
For coal for steamers use, includin!
Iexpenses of Transportation; storage, labo
hemp, wire, and other materials for til,
manufacture Of rope; hides, cordagc, can
vas, leather; iron for manufacture Of
cables, anchors, and galleys; condensin,
and boat.dctaclling apparatus; cables
anchors, furniture, hose, bakc-ovens, AM
cooking-stovcs; life-rafts; hcating-appal
atus for receiving ships; and for the pay
|ment Of labor in cquipping vessels, ant
manufacture of articles in the navy-yard
pertaining to this bureau, one million
sixty-fivc thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses of the Burca,
Of Equipment and Recruiting, namely
for expenses Of recruiting, freight an&
transportation of stores, transportation o
enlisted men, mileage to honorably-dis
charged men. printing, advertising, cx
pcnses. Of auction-sales, tclegraphine
stationery, apprehension of dcserters, as
sistancc to vessels in DISTRESS, and good
conduct badges for enlisted men, seventy
five thousand dollars.
BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS
For general maintenance of yards an,
docks, namely: for general expenses o
/ the Rl1rcau IF Varf1c and nockc fro; ul,