THIRTY—SEV.ENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 118. 1863. 815 For the purchase of hemp and other materials for the navy, three hun- Hemp, &o. dred and twenty thousand dollars. For fuel for the navy, and for the transportation and expenses thereof, Fuel. two million six hundred and ninety thousand dollars. For the equipment of vessels in the navy, viz: Equipment. For the purchase of various articles of equipment, canvas, leather, cables, and anchors, and furniture, and stores, in the masters’, boatswains’, and sailmakers’ departments, two million dollars. For provisions for commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, provisions_ including engineers and marines attached to vessels for sea service, five million four hundred and seventeen thousand seven hundred and forty-five dollars. For construction and repair of machinery for vessels in commission, Construetion, (ive million seven hundred and seventy-tive thousand dollars. &°~°fm**°h*”°’7· For surgeons necessaries and appliances for the sick and hurt of the S¤’8¤9¤¤’ navy, including the engineer and marine corps, one hundred and fifty- ;°°€?§;;;s md seven thousand five hundred dollars. pp ` For cannon of all descriptions, field and boat howitzers, gun·carriages, Ordnance, erdshot, shell, and equipment of all kinds, powder, purchase of nitre, small “‘*“°*‘ ’°°'°“* &° arms, ordnance labor at navy yards, freight, transportation, books, inspecting instruments, watchmen, assistants for fabrication and inspection of guns, and contingent expenses of ordnance and ordnance bureau, six millions three hundred thousand dollars. For three powder-tugs at Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, and Powder-tugs. repairs of ordnance steamboat, forty thousand dollars. For repairs and additions to ordnance machinery in shops, and for the Ordnance establishment by purchase or hire of two magazines, and repairs and ‘““°h‘“""·V‘ additions thereto, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For pay of photographer for ordnance bureau, three hundred dollars. Photographer. For compass stations and magnetic deviations, books, binnacles, flags, Compass stasignals, logs, sand-glasses, leads, longitudes, tables of navigation, determi- *l°““· &°· nation of meridian distances, and experiments with nightpsignals, one hundred and forty-nine thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of the navy, one hundred thousand dollars. Contingent Bureau of Yards and Docks. — For contingent expenses that may ac- °xg°nS°S` f crue for the following purposes, viz: For the freight and transportation of ,,,,.(;r;i,%(:p,,,k,, materials and stores for yards and docks; for dockage; for printing andContingent - stationery; for books, maps, models, and drawings; for the purchase expensesand repair of iire~engines; for machinery of every description, and the patent right to use the same; for the repair of steam—engines, and attendance on the same in the navy yards ; for docking vessels; for the purchase and maintenance of horses and oxen and driving teams; for carts and timber wheels, and workmen’s tools of every description, and repairing the same; for postage of letters on public service; for furniture for government houses; for coals and other fuel ; for candles and oil for use of navy yards and stations; for cleaning and clearing up yards; for supply of water at navy yards for navy yard purposes; for flags, awnings, and packing-boxes ; for watchmen, and for incidental labor at navy yards not applicable to any other appropriation; six hundred and seventy-nine thousand dollars. Bureau of Equzpment and Recruiting. — For contingent expenses that B_¤f¤¤¤t¤f d may accrue for the following purposes, viz: Expenses of recruiting; °° travelling expenses of officers; transportation of men; printing and sta- Contingent tionery; advertising in newspapers; postage on public letters; wharfage expenses. and demurrage ; funeral expenses; apprehending deserters; pilotage and towage of vessels, and assistance to vessels in distress; per diem pay to persons attending courts-martial, courts of inquiry, and other services authorized by law; pay to judge advocates, and for bills of health and quarantine expenses of vessels of the navy, one million dollars.
