386 FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 111. 1877. telegraphing, foreign and domestic; copying; mail and express wagons and livery and express fees and freight; all books for the use of the Navy; experts’ fees and cost of suits; commissions, warrants, diplomas, and discharges; relief of vessels in distress and pilotage; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; care and transportation of the dead; reports, professional investigation, and information irom abroad; and all other emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, eighty thousand dollars. ‘ For the civil establishments of the several navy-yards, eighty-tive thousand dollars. - BUREAU OF NAVIGATION. Navigation and For foreign and local pilotage and towage of ships of war, forty-tive ¤¤{VlS*m°“ ***1* thousand dollars. l’h°“' For services and materials in correcting compasses on board ship, and for ad_j_usting and testing compasses on shore, three thousand dollars. For nautical and astronomical instruments, nautical books, maps, charts, and sailing-directions, and repairs of nautical instruments for ships of war, nine thousand dollars. For books for libraries for ships of war, three thousand dollars. For navy-signals and apparatus, namely, signal-lights, lanterns, rockets, including running-lights, drawings, and engravings for signalbooks, six thousand dollars. For compass-nttings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ships’ compasses, three thousand dollars. · For logs and other appliances for measuring the ships? way, leads and other appliances for sounding, three thousand dollars. For lanterns and lamps, and their appendages, for general use on board ship, including those for the cabin, ward room, and steerage, for the holds and spirit-room, for decks and quartermasters’ use, five thousand dollars. For bunting and other materials for flags, and making and repairing flags of all kinds, five thousand dollars. For oil for ships of war other than that used for the engineer department, candles when used as a substitute for oil in binnacles, runninglights, for chimneys and wick and soap used in navigation department, sixteen thousand dollars. For stationery for commanders and navigators of vessels of war and for use of courts-martial, two thousand dollars. d For musical instruments and music for vessels of war, one thousand ollars. · For steeringsignals and indicators, and for speaking tubes and gongs, for signal-communication on board vessels of war, two thousand dollars. Contingent ex- For contingent expenses of the Bureau of Navigation, namely: For v°¤¤¤¤· freight and transportation of navigation materials; postage and telegraphing; advertising for proposals; packingboxes and materials, and all other contingent expenses, three thousand dollars. Y} yd¤‘<>;;r¤1>hi¤ For drawing, engraving, and printing and photolithographing charts, 0m°°· correcting old plates, preparing and publishing sailingdirections, and other hydrographic information, and for making charts, including those of the Pacific coast, fifty thousand dollars. For fuel, light, and office-furniture ; care of building and other labor; purchase of books for library, drawing-materials, and other stationery ; postage, freight, and other contingent expenses, five thousand dollars. For rent and repair of building, two thousand eight hundred dollars For expenses of Naval Observatory, namely: m§“"“1 O*’S“"’*‘ For pay of three assistants, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, y' four thousand five hundred dollars ; and one clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars. For wages of one instrument-maker, one messenger, three watchmen,
