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332 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 73. 1881. change and mileage, and for the payment of any such officers as may be in service either upon the active or retired list, during the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, in excess of the numbers for each class provided for in this act, and for any increase of pay arising from different duty, as the needs of the service may require, four hundred and eighty-six thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars; and should the sums hereinbefore appropriated for the pay of the officers on the active and retired lists of the Navy be msuiiieient, Deneieney in then, and in that case, the Secretary of the Navy is here authorized to PW {mm “¤°X·_ use any and all balances which may be due, or become due, to " pay

°f of the Navy " from the other bureaus of the department for that pur.

" pose. And hereafter the estimates for pay of the Navy shall be submitted in the book of estimates in detailed classifications and paragraphs, after the manner above set forth. Contingent cx- For contingent expenses of the Navy, namely: For rent and furniture P°US*‘S· _ of buildings and offices not in navy-yards; expenses of courts-martial b“"‘h"°S· and courts of inquiry, boards of investigation, examining boards, with (llG1'l(S’ and witnesscs’ fees, and traveling expenses and costs; stationery and recording; expenses of purchasing-paymasters’ offices at the various cities, including clerks, furniture, fuel, stationery, and incidental expenses; newspapers and advertising; foreign postage; telegraphing, foreign and domestic; copying; care of library; mail and express wagons and livery and express fees and costs of suits; commissions, warrants, diplomas, and discharges; relief of vessels in distress and pilotage; recovery0f valuables from sliipwrecks; quarantine expenses; cure and transportation of the dead; reports, professional investigation, Extraordinary and information from abroad; and all other emergencies and extraor- °XP°“S°“· dinary expenses arising at home or abroad but impossible to be anticipated or classified, one hundred thousand dollars. BUREAU OF NAVIGATION. Navigation sup- For ioreign and local pilotage and towage of ships of war, forty-five plies- thousand dollars. Imns. For services and materials in correcting compasses on board ship, and for adjusting 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, ten thousand dollars. For books for libraries for ships of war, two thousand dollars. For Navy signals and apparatus, namely, signal-lights, lanterns, rockets, runninglights, drawings, and engravings for signal-books, six thousand dollars. For compass-fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ships’ compasses, three thousand dollars. For logs and other appliances for measuring the ship’s way, and leads and other appliances for sounding, four thousand dollars. For lanterns and lamps, and their appendages, for general use on board ship, including those for the cabin, wardroom, 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, six 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 binnaeles and runninglights, for chimneys and wicks, and soap, used in navigation department, twenty-two thousand dollars. For stationery for commanders and navigators of vessels of war, and for use of courts-martial, two thousand dollars. d Eg; musical instruments and music for vessels of war, one thousand 0 s.