THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 198. 1855. 677 For the wages of persons employed at the observatory and hydrograph- Wws M ¤b· iw,} Dime, viz: one lithographer, one instrument maker, two watchman, §°§§’fgfg’P,jQQQh and one porter, three thousand one hundred and sixty dollars. oéce. To enable the Secretary of the Navy to pay the salary of Professor James 172 Esp} James P. Espy, for the CuI‘1‘€Hb fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, two thousand dollars; the payment to be made in the same manner and under the like control as former appropriations for meteorological observations. For contingent expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, Contingencies_ viz: Freight and transportation, printing and stationery, advertising in newspapers, books, maps, models, and drawings, purchase and repair of fire-engines and machinery, repairs of and attending to steam-engines in navy—yards, purchase and maintenance of horses and oxen, and driving teams, carts, timber—wheels, and the purchase and repairs of workmen’s tools, postage of public letters, fuel, oil, and candles for navy-yards and shore stations, pay of watehmen, and incidental labor, not chargeable to any other appropriation, labor attending the delivery of stores on civil stations, wharfage, dockage, and rent, travelling expenses of officers and others under orders, funeral expenses, store and office rent, stationery, fuel, commissions and pay of clerks to navy-agents and storekeepers, flags, awnings, and packing-boxes, premiums and other expenses of recruiting, apprehending deserters, per diem pay to persons attending courtsmartial and courts of inquiry, and other services authorized by law, pay to judges advocate, pilotage and towage of vessels and assistance to vessels in distress, bills of health, and quarantine expenses of the United States Navy in foreign ports, eight hundred and forty-two thousand and forty-eight dollars. For repair of buildings for the necessary additions and repairs to the Naval Acadeworks for heating the buildings, and support of the Naval Academy, at ’“Y‘ Annapolis, Maryland, twenty-five thousand and forty-four dollars and twenty-two cents; For continuing the sea-wall along the northern water front of the academy grounds, grading, draining, and filling in low grounds, and for keeping the grounds in order, Lwenty-three thousand dollars. For repainting, caulking, and for other repairs of the floating balance work, at pwdry-dock, basin and railway, at the navy-yard, Pensacola, the sum of ten S¤<><>l¤· thousand dollars. And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to receive the said works: Provided, That it shall appear from the certificates of the officers appointed by the government to superintend and direct in the construction thereoi} that the same have been fiiithfully built according to the stipulations of the contract, and that a ship furnished by the contractors at their own expense, has been successfully docked and hauled on and off the land by the railway, of equal or greater weight and displacement than the ships by which the docks, basins, and railways at Philadelphia and Kittery were tested. For construction, extension, and completion of the following objects, Nm,y_ymds_ and for contingent expenses at the several navy-yards, viz : ·—- Portsmouih, Mw Hampshire. —- For completing oooper’s shop and Portsmouth. watchmen’s quarters; dredging front of basin; dock basin; sewer and drainage; removing ledge back of timber shed; paving; Hue boiler at smithery; repairs of floating-dock; for a new shell—house, for safe-keep ing of shells; and repairs of all kinds, fifty-eight thousand two hundred and fifty-eight dollars. Boston. ·-- For removing and altering coal»h0use at smithery; stone wall Bmw, north side of timber-dock, and filling area around machine·shop and smithery; packing-house and cooperage; rebuilding dock—engine boilerhouse; paving area around dry-dock; paving between sheds nurnbers thirty-one and thirty-three; extension of city sewer to sea-wall; finishing
