THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 181, 182. 1860. 83 For the erection of hose-house, one thousand five hundred dollars. For the erection and repairs of buildings, improvement and preservation Naval Acadof the grounds, and for contingencies at the United States Naval Academy, my- fifty-seven thousand and ninety-six dollars. For preparing for publication the American Nautical Almanac, twenty- Nautical Alfivo thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. m°‘°°°' For the preparation of the report of the results of the survey of the P;¤¤¤¤_l>¤tw¤¤¤ route between California and China, and of portions of the coast of g§?£,”&’;_ me Japan, five thousand dollars. For engraving charts of the survey of Behring Straits, the North Belu~ingSu·aih», Pacihc Ocean, and China seas, under the direction of the Secretary of the &°· Navy, nine thousand and ten dollars. For the removal of the naval monument from the west front of the Nwd Menu- Capitol to the grounds of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, fifteen hun- m°°°' dred dollars. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of thirty-nine thou- gay ¤°°¤' 7*** sand four hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for ig6g?g Jam 30’ pay of commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, including the engineer corps of the navy, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That pursers in the navy of the JSF? *° *'° United States shall hereafter be styled paymasters, and that all laws and ;,m_ wmv regulations applying to them as pursers, and all responsibilities and obligations attaching to them as such, shall remain in full force, and continue to apply to them, under the title of paymasters, and that the payments th! *2* Mb (_ heretofore made to the pursers’ clerks at the navy-yards at Charlestown, ° y"d°° New York, and Norfolkyunder appropriations made by Congress, at the rate of seven hundred and fifty dollars per annum, are hereby conirmed; and that the pay of the pursers’ clerks at those navy-yards shall be continued at the rate of seven hundred and fifty dollars per annum. _ _ Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the sum of dve thousand ,.0fPrg;P8l;Q;)*;°gt dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the c0,,£m;°m,,g_ treasury not otherwise appropriated; to be expended under the joint resolution passed the twenty-sixth February eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, Vol. xi. p. zu. “ to prevent the counterfeiting of the coins of the United States." Sec. 5. And be it jicrt/ter enacted, That the sum of ten thousand Exsminationof dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to enable the President fnghgt to send some competent person or persons to the Isthmus of Chiriqni, 3,,,}, " whose duty it shall be to examine into and report upon the quality and probable quantity of coal to be found there, upon the lands of the Chiriqui Improvement Company; upon the character of the harbors of Chiriqui Lagoon and Golfito; upon the practicability of building a railroad across said Isthmus, so as to connect said harbors; and generally upon the value of the privileges contracted for in a conditional contract made on the twenty-first day of May, eighteen hundred and iit”ty-nine, between Isaac Toucey, the Secretary of the Navy of the United States, and Ambrose W. Thompson, and the Chiriqui Improvement Company: Provided, Proviso. That nothing herein contained shall be construed as a ratification of the said contract. Approved, June 22, 1860. Curr. OLXXXII.—An Act to grant to the CitZ1qj'Porl Hiuvn, Michayan, a Pm? the Jung zz, 1830, _ m£lita1yReservation of Fort Gmtioajbr the En rgementof the City Cemeteryatthat lace. "‘*""‘*i" Be it enacted by the Senate and [muse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, i and he is hereby, authorized and required to convey to the city of Port Part otmmtary i Huron, Michigan, of the military reservation of Fort Gratiot, a lot not to *’°5°*’;;¤°t*; Pm . exceed thirty acres, to be taken from the land adjoining the city cemetery mon ,-0,, 8 t and to be used for its enlargement and for no other purpose, so tar and cemetery.
