FOR.TY—FIB.ST CONGRESS. Stes. III. OH. 117. 1871. 529 For lanterns and lamps and their appendages for general use on board lanterns, ship, including those for the cabin, ward-room, and steerage, for the holds and spirit-room, for decks and quartermastens use, six thousand dollars. For hunting and other materials for flags, and making and repairing Flags- 'Ha s of all kinds, five thousand dollars. Ihr oil for ships of war other than that used for the engineer depart- Oil. ment, candles when used as a substitute for oil in running lights, for chimneys and wick and soap used in navigation department, forty thou— sand dollars. For stationery for commanders and navigators of vessels of war, five Stationery. thousand dollars. For musical instruments, and music for vessels of war, one thousand Musical in. d0]],u.S_ struments. For steering signals and indicators, and for speaking-tubes and gongs, Signal com- ·for signal communication on board ships of war, two thousand five hun- ""“‘i°'·*i°“· dred dollars. For drawing, engraving, and printing charts, electrotyping and cor- Qharts and recting old plates, preparing and publishing sailing directions, and other {gf ‘l“'°°' hydrographic infomation, ten thousand dollars. ` Civil establishment.-For pay of writers and laborers, and for pur- _0ivil¤¤i=¤b- poses incidental to the support of the civil establishment under this h’hm°"t‘ bureau at the several navy yards, twelve thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of the bureau of navigation: Freight and Contingent transportation of navigation materials; instruments, books, and stores; °*P°“°’· postage and telegraphing on public business; advertising for proposals; packing-boxes and materials; blank books, forms, and stationery, at navigation offices, six thousand dollars. For rent of building, fuel, lights, and oihee furniture; care of building and other labor; purchase of books for library, drawing materials, and other stationery, postage, freight, and other contingent expenses, ten thonsaud dollars. For expenses of Naval Observatory, namely:— N¤v¤l 0l>¤M*- For pay of one clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars. l$?’¥;H_ P_ u_ For three assistant observers, four thousand dollars. For payment, in part, for the great refracting telescope now in course Rofracting of construction, ten thousand dollars. *°l°s°°P°· For purchase of chronograph, five hundred dollars. Cl¤¤‘¤¤¤sr¤i>l¤· For computation for theory and tables of the moon, two thousand dol- mlgbegzppd lars. °° For preparing instruments for observation of transit of Venus, two mglgrlhnsit or thousand dollars: Provided, That this and all other appropriations made VX““°- dm for the observations of the transits of Venus shall be expended, subject to ;,0,l?:,°€,, ox?"' the approval of the Secretary of the Navy, under the direction of a com· pcndoet mission to be composed of the superintendent and two of the professors of mathematics of the navy attached to the Naval Observatory, the gamma,,;,,, president of the National Academy of Sciences, and the superintendent *M¢¤¤lv<>t;¤<> of the coast survey, for which service they shall not receive any compen~ °°m’°°” °°' sation. For wages of one instrument-maker, one messenger, three watchmen, and one porter; for keeping grounds in order and repairs to buildings; for fuel, light and office furniture, and for stationery, purchase of books for library, chemicals for batteries, postage, and freight, and all other contingent expenses, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. _ For expenses of Nautical Almanac :-—- m£:‘;*’°"l Al' For pay of computers and clerk for compiling and preparing for pub- ° lication the American Ephemeris and the Nautical Almanac, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars. For rent, fuel, labor, stationery, boxes, expresses, and miscellaneous items, one thousand five hundred dollars. vox.. xv:. PUB. -34
