THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 122. 1856. 47 completing wharves, paint shop, lightning conductors, and for repairs of all kinds, one hundred and seventy-seven thousand nine hundred and thirty-four dollars. San Fram·isc0.———For four houses for officers, steam box, pitch kettles, San Francisco. wharf, with stone wall, saw mill, artesian well, grading, completing smithery, joiners’ shop and timber shed, storehouse, and wharf; three hundred and twenty-two thousand dollars. Hospitals. Hospitals. For the construction and completion of works, and for current repairs of the several naval hospitals: .B0sion.—~For building and completing surgeon’s house, and for repairs Boston, of all kinds, sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. New York.-—-For brick building, machinery, and fixtures for warming and Ventilating hospital, for filling and grading cemetery, repairs of laboratory buildings, repairs of all kinds, twenty thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. _ Naval Asylum, P}ziladeQ0lz·£a.——For painting and repairing main build- Naval Asylum, ing, governor’s and surge0n’s houses, iron railing for southwest wall, P iiil¤<l¢lPi1i8·· repairs of furnaces, grates, furniture, cleaning and whitewashing, gas, water rent, and miscellaneous repairs, eight thousand nine hundred dollars. Noijfol/c.-For repairs of all kinds, six thousand dollars. Norfolk. Pensac0la.—For wall around burial-ground, steam-boiler, pump and Pensacola. reservoir, draining and filling ponds, and for general repairs, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars. Magazines. Magazines. For the construction and completion of works, and for the current repairs at the several naval magazines : Portsmouth, New Hampshire.—For ordnance building, shell house for Portsmouth. loaded shells, gun skids and shot beds, forty thousand dollars. B0sion.—For repairs of all kinds, one thousand dollars. Boston. New York.—For altering gunner’s to store house, shot beds, skids, New York. powder boat, dredging, and repairs of all kinds, sixteen thousand dollars. Washington..--For building and completing iron shed for ordnance pur- Washington. poses, twenty-two thousand dollars. N0ifolk.—For repairs of wall at Fort Norfolk, shot beds, gun skids and Norfolk. crane, new machinery and tools, eleven thousand dollars. Pensucolu.——For brick wall around shell house, and for current repairs, Pensacola. two thousand six hundred dollars. For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil estab- Pay_ot‘ navy lishments at the several navy yards and stations, one hundred and twenty- gagicigl °$**b‘ tive thousand seven hundred and eighty-two dollars. S en ` For the purchase of nautical instruments required for the use of the Purchase of navy; for repairs of the same, and also of astronomical instruments ; and ;’;‘;g;”·§L;“s““' for the purchase of nautical books, maps, and charts, and for backing and l l binding the same, twenty thousand dollars. For printing and publishing sailing directions, hydrographical surveys, Printing and astronomical observations, Fifteen thousand dollars: Provided, That g{1*jr{>S¤bl¤Sh*¤g the charts shall be sold when completed, and the instruments used be of Charts to bg American manufacture. S°l<l· For continuing the publication of the series of wind and current charts, Wind and ourand for defraying all the expenses connected therewith, eighteen thousand ’°““ °l‘“"lS· dollars. For models, drawings, and copying, postage, freightaand transportation, Naval Obssl-. for working lithographic press, including chemicals, for keeping grounds V¤¤¤fY· in order, for fuel and lights, and for all other contingent expenses of the United States Naval Observatory and hydrographical office, twelve thousand dollars. For the wages of persons employed at the United States Naval Obser-
