Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-07-13
OFFICIAL.l
IoFFICIAL.l
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Passsd at the kIrsf Session of fhs FORT NJ.
third C0Hgrsss.
GENERAL NATURE-No, So

third COSsrsss.
| GENERAL NATURg-No. 35l
AN ACr making appropriations for the naval
| service for the year ending June thirtieth
eighteen hundred and seventy-fye, and for
Be 1t enacted 6y the Senate and House of Rsprs-
sentdtiUeS Of the United States of America in Con-
| qresS assembled, That the following sums he
and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid
out OF any money in the Treasury not other
| wise appropriated, for the naval service of the
government for the year ending j une thirtieth
eighteen hundred and seventy-fve, and for
| other purposes:
For pay OF commissioned and warrant officers
at sea- on shore, on special service, and of those
| on the retired list and unemployed, and for
mile age and transportation of Off GERS trav cling
under orders, and for pay of the petty officers,
| seamen, ordinary sesmen, landsmen, and boys,
| including men OF the engineers force, and for
| tie Cosst-Survey service, eight Thousand Eve
| hundred men, six million two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses of the Navy Depart-
ment, 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,, tYenty-three
thousand and ninety-three dollars and forty
cents; at Brooklyn, New York, twenty-three
thousand seven hundred aud eighty-nIne dol
lars and forty cents; at Philadelphis, Pennsyl-
vania, twenty thousand two hundred and
ninety-three dollars and forty cents; at Norfolk
Virginia. eighteen thousand FIVE hundred and
thirty eight dollars aud twenty cents; at PEN
| sacola, Florida, eight thousand one hundred and
and forty-tive dollars; at Washington, District
| OF Columbia, nineteen thousand one hundred
and twenty-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 the sum OF one
hundred and hfty-seven thousand seven hun
bred and thirty eight dollars and eighty cents.
For civil establishment at the several naval
hospitals and naval laboratory, thirty-nine thou
sand 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
compssses on board ship, and for adjusting and
testing compasses on shore, three thousand dol
lars.
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.
For navy signals and apparatus, namely: sig
nal-lights, lanterns, and rockets, including run
ning-llghts, drawings, and engravings for signal
books, six thousand dollars.
For compass fittings, including binnacles, tri-
pods, and other appendsges of ships COM
passes, to be made In the nsvy-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.
11clutlng
those for the cabin, ward-room, aud Storage,
FOR the holds and spirit-room, for decks and
qusrtermsster's use, I've thousand dollars.
For bunting and other materials for flags, and
making and repairing flags Of all kinds, i've
thousand dollars.
For Oil for ships of war other than that used
Tor the engineer department, candles when
used as substitute for oil in binnacles, run
ming lights, for chimneys and wick and soap
used in navigation department, twenty thousand
dollars.
For stationery for commanders and nayiga-
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
speakiDg-tubes and gongs, for signal communi-
cation on board vessels OF war, two thousand
For contingent expenses of the Bureau of
Navigation: Freight and transportation Of nav
igation- materials; instruments, books, and
stores; postage and telegraphing; advertising
for proposals; packing boxes and materials;
blssk books, forms, and stationery at naviga-
ton offices, four thousand dollars.
For drawing, engraving, and printing and
toto-ltbograph1Dg charts, electrotyping and
correcting old plates, preparing and publishing
sailing directions, and other photographic in
formation, twenty. thousand dollars; and for
making charts, including those Of the Pacific
coast, thirty thousand dollars.
For fuel, lights, and offce-furniture; care of
building and other labor; purchase OF books
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
For expenses of Naval Observatory, namely /:
For pay of one clerk, one thousand eight hun
For three assistants, at one thousand five
hundred dollars.
For wages Of one instrument maker, one mes
| senger, three watchmen, and one porter; for
keeping grounds in order and repairs to build
| iDgs; for fuel, Light, and office-furniture; and
for stationery, purchase of books for library,
| chemicals for batteries, postage, and light,
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, five
| hundred and fifty dollars.
For necessary furniture and equipments for
| the new building for the great telescope, two
| For the last payment for the great refractlng-
| telescope, ten thousand dollars.
| For expenses of Nautical Almanac:
For pay of computers and clerk for compiling
| and pref airing for publication the American
| Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, eighteen
For continuance of work on new planets dis
| covered by American astronomers, two thous-
| ard dollars.
| For rent, fuel, labor, stationery, boxes, ex-
| presses, and miscellaneous items, one thousand
| five hundred dollars.
For fuel and materials necessary in carrying
| on the mechanical branches of the Ordnance
Department at the navy-yards and stations,
seventy-nve thousand dollars.
For labor at all the navy-yards, two hundred
| ard fifty thousand dollars.
For repairs to ordnance buildings, magazines,
/ gum parks, machinery, and other necesearies of
the like character, ten thousand dollars.
| For miscellaneous items, freight, express
| charges, and purchase OF instruments, i've thou
1 sand collars.
For the Torpedo Corps:
/ For the purchase and manufacture Of gun
powder, nitro glycerine, and gun-cOtton, twelve
/ 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 Tor the manufacture Of tor
pedoes, and for work on the same, twenty-five
| thousand dollars.
For construction Of torpedo boats, purchase OF
| Golfer work or hulks, and contingent expenses
| twenty-five thousand dollars.
For repairs to buildings and wharves, one
| thousand dollars.
For labor, including chemist, pyrotechnist
electrician, machinist. and clerical force, fifteen
| thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses OF the ordnance SER
| vice Of the Navy, one thousand dollars.
BURHAU or EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING.