FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 235. 1880. 271· Mississippi River Commission: For surveys and examinations and 1<Us¤i¤¤ippiRiv<>¤ the necessary salaries and other expenses of the Mississippi River Com- U°““'“i“i°°- mission, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. UNDER THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. For construction and repair of Marine barracks at Washington, Nor- Marino bal-iatlls folk, and Annapolis, twenty-two thousand three hundred and thirtysix M W=¤¤hi¤¤g*<>¤¤, dollars and sixty nine cents, using therefor unexpended appropriations ’Qfg”§§§» ‘""l A"' to that amount, now on the books of the Treasury for provisions and fuel It M-} ,,., C,,,.,,, for the Marine Corps, for the fiscal year ending Jzune thirtieth, eighteen f u el and provis? hundred and seventy-nine. i0¤¤· To pay for clothing and bedding of officers and others in the Navy and Marine Corps, destroyed to prevent the spread of disease, two thousand dollars, to be available immediately. The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to use any balances 3.,],.,,.,., .,4- M,- of appropriations heretofore made upon contracts not fully executed at propriations mine the close of the present fiscal year to be applied to payments upon such **1***1 <=<*¤¤'*‘=¤<¢*~ {M contracts up to the time of their fuliillment, anything in sections thirty- g§°é°°‘"°d "‘“l‘*` six hundred and ninety and thirty-six hundred and ninety-one of the g_S_;;690’ Revised Statutes to the contrary notwithstanding. R. S. 3691. NAVY-YARDS AND STATIONS. N,,Vy,y,,,d,,_ Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For continuation of work on Marc Island. stone dry-dock, one hundred and twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: To enable the Secretary of the Navy p.,m,w,],,,_ to put the Pensacola navy—yard in a state of eihciency, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For continuing repairs and improvements at the navy-yard, New Lon- New London. don, Connecticut, in extending one of the buildings thereat, so as to furnish a drill-room and hospital for the use of the training-ships of the Navy, twenty thousand dollars. For repair of the sea—wall at Gosport navy-yard, Virginia, fifty thou- Gosport. sand dollars; and for rebuilding timber-sheds to preserve timber at same, seventynve thousand dollars. Repairs and preservation at navy-yards: For repairs at the diiferent R cp a ir s uml navy-yards and stations, and preservation of the same, three hundred 1’*“S°*“”‘_°" M navy-yards. thousand dollars. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Sgate D·>pm·t— HIGH . That the sum of fourteen thousand three hundred dollars be, and _I*1jiuti¤·g and hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other- 1’“b‘ wise appropriated, for printing and distributing more frequent-ly the U " publications by the Department of State of the consular and other commercial reports, including circular letters to chambers of commerce, seven thousand dollars: Provided, That such publications may be sold Proviso. at such rates as may be fixed by said deparament, and the proceeds of all sales to be paid into the Treasury; and seven thousand three hundred dollars of said amount is hereby appropriated for the clerical hire clerks, pay or. necessary for the competent administration of this whole branch of the public service in the collection, analyzing, publication, and distribution of commercial information under the Department of State; two thousand one hundred dollars for chief clerk; one thousand eight hundred dollars for one clerk ; one thousand four hundred dollars for one clerk, and two thousand dollars for two additional clerks. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Casual repairs: For casual repairs of the building occupied by the Interiq{dDepart· Department of the Interior, for replacing heating apparatus in Ninth- m°¤* "“ mg- W-
