Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-07-24
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GENERAL NATURB-No. So. i

GENERAL NATURB-No. 35.l
AN ACT making appropriations for the
naval service for the year ending } June
lhirtieth, eighteen hundred aud seventy
five, and for other purposes.
BE IL enacted by the Senate and House OF
Representatives Qf the United States Of
.Imericd ia Congress assembled, That the
following sums be, aud they are hereby,
approx rated, TO be paid cut of any money
In the Treasury not utherw Use appropriated,
Tor the naval service OF the Government
Tor the year ending June thiriietn, eigh.-
cen hundred and seVenty-tive, and Tor 9th
er purposes:
For pay of commissioned and warrant
officers at sea, on shore, on special service,
aud of those on the retired list aud uncm-
plUyed, and for mileage and transportation
of officers travelling under orders, and for
pay of the petty officers, seamen, ordinary
seamen, laudsmon, and boys including men
of the engineers force, and for the Coast
Survey service, eight thousand hve hun
dred men, sin million two hundred and Ill
" thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses of the Navy
Department, one hundred thousand dol
lars.
For civil establishment at the different
navy yards, as follows Al Kittery, Maine,
eighteen thousand seven hundred and tif
ty-nine dollars; at Charleslown, Mas l.
chnsetts, lwenty-.hree thousand ant nine.
ty-three dollars and forty cents at Brook
lvn, New York. twenty-three thousand
seven hundred and eighty-nine dollars and
forty cents; al Philadelphia, PennsvlVan-
in, twenty one thousand two hundred and
ninety-tbree dollars aud forty cents; al
Norfolk, Virginia, eighties thousand five
hundred and thirty-eight dollats and TWEEN
~ cents at Pensacola, Florida, eight
thousand one hundred and forty five dol
lars at Washington, District of Columbia
nineteen thousand one hundred and TWEEN.
ty-three dollars and twenty cents at Mare
Island, California, twenty thousand three
hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty
cents and at League Island naval station
Pennsylvania, four thousand six hundred
and eighty dollars making in all, lhe sun
of one hundred and tifly-seven thousand
seven hundred and ihirtv-eight dollars and
eighty cents.
For civil establishment at the severa
naval hospitals and naval laboratory. thir-
ty-nine thousand one bundled and sixty
one dollars.
BUREAU OF NAVIGATION.
For foreign and loch pilotage and tow
age Of ships of war, fifty thousand dollars
For services and materials in correctinl
compAsses on board ship, and for adjust
ing and testing eompasses on shore, three
thousand dollars.
For nautical and astronomical instru.
ments, nautical books, maps, charts, anC
sailing directions, aud repairs of nautical
instruments for ships OF war, ten Thousand
dollars.
For books for libraries for ships of war
three thousand dollars.
For naval signals and apparatus, name
ly; signal lights, lanterns, and rockets, in
Guiding running lights, drawings and en-
CRAVINGS for signal hNNka eli
dollars.
For compass fittings, including binna
Giles, tripods, and other appendages of ships
compasses, TO be made In the navy wards
i've Thousand dollars.
For logs and other appliances tor meas
uring the ships way, leads and other appli
ances for sounding, three thousand dol
lars.
For lanterns and lamps, and their al
pendages, for general use on board shiI
including those for the cabin, watd-ruon
and storage, for the holds and spirit-roou
for decks and quartermaster's use, tiv
Thousand dollars.
For bunting and other materials for flags
and making and repairing flags OF n
kinds five thousand dollars.
For oil for ships OF war other than thu
used for the engineer department, candle
when used as a substitute for oil in binna
Giles, runnihs-lights, for chimneysand vic
twenty thousand dollars.
For stationery fer commanders and nav
igators OF vessels of war, two thousan
dollars.
For musical instruments, and music fc
vessels OF war, one thousand dollars.
For steering signals and indicators, an
for speaking-tubes and gongs, for sigma
communication on board vessels OF wal
two thousand five hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses OF the Burea
of Navigation: Freight and transporIatio
OF navigation materials instrument:
books, and stores postage and telegraph
ing advertising for proposals packing
boxes and materials blank boUks, form
and stationery at navigation offices, fou
thousand dollars.
For drawing, engraving, and printin
and phOto-llthographing charts, electrotyI
ing and correcting old plates, preparln
and publishing sailing directions, and oil
photographer in formation, twenty thou
and dollars; and for making charts, IL
clnding those OF the Pacific coast, thirI
Thousand dollars.
For fuel, lights, and Off &C. furniture cal
or building and other labor; purchase {
books for library, drawing materials, an
other stationery; postage, freight, and oil
er contingent expenses, hive thousand do
lars.
For rent and repair of building, Nv
thousand eight hundred dollars.
For expenses Of Naval ObservatOr.
namely:
For pay of one clerk, one thousand eigl
hundred dollars.
For three assistants, at one thousand fly
hundred dollars each.
For wages Of one instrument maker, OF
messenger, three watchmen, and one por
err; for keeping grounds in order and r
pairs to buildings for fuel, light, and q
ice-furniture and for stationery, purcha
OF books for library, chemicals, for bate
les, postage, and freight, and all other col
tingent expenses, ten thousand dollars.
For transcribing astronomical observi
lions upon sheets for publication, oil
thousand two hundred dollars.
For one chronometrical thermomete
tive hundred and fifty dollars.
For necessary furniture and equpmen
for the new building for the great leiescop
two thousand dollars.
For the last payment for the great +
fracting tele scope, ten thousand dollars.
For expenses of Nautical Almanac:
For pay of computers and clerk for con
piling and preparing for publication Il
American Ephemeris and Nautical Aim
nae, eighteen thousand dollars.
For continuance OF work on new plane
discovered by American astronomers, tv
thousand dollars.
For rent, fuel, labor, stationery, boxC
expresses, and miscellaneous Items, o.
thousand nYe hundred dollars,
BUREAU OF ORDNANCE.
For fuel and materials necessary in ca
rying on the mechanical branches OF 4
Ordnance Department at the navy. var
and stations, sevehty-hve thorsand dc
lars.
For labor at all the navy yards, two hu
dred and ffty thousand dollars.
For repairs 10 ordnance buildings, ma