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FORTSBNINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 391. 1887. 58]. CHAP. 391.-An act making Appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year Mar. 3, 1887.

 ending June thirticth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and for other purposes. —···

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the ihllowing sums be, N=¤(a1e¤rvic¤apand they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the P’°P"“‘°““· Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the naval service of the Government for the year ending J unc thirtietb, eighteen hundred and eighty- eight, and for other purposes: PAY OF THE NAVY. Pay of theNa.vy. For the pay of officers OH sea. duty; officcrs on shore and other duty; Officem, seamen, officers on waiting orders; officers 011 the retired list; Admiral’s and °t°· Vice-Ad1nira1’s secretaries; clerks to commaudzmts of yards and stations; clerks to paymastars at yards and stations; inspections; receiving-ships and other vessels, extra pay to men rc-enlisting under honorable discharge ; pay ofpetty officcrs, seamen, lundsmen and boys, including men in the e11giuee1·’s force and for the coast survey service and Fish Commission, seven thousand five hundred men and seven hundred and iift-y boys, at the pay prescribed by law, in all seven million dollars. , PAY, MISCELLANEOUS. ‘ Miscellaneous. For commissions and interest; transportation of funds; exchange ; mileage to officers while traveling under orders in the United States, and for actual personal expenses of officers while traveling abroad under orders, and for traveling expenses of apothecarics, yeomen and civilian employees, and for actual and necessary traveling expenses of naval cadets while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment as cadets; for rent and furniture of buildings and offices not in navy-yards ; expenses of COHNZS-m3PCiB13Hd courts of inquiry, boards of investigation, examining boards, with 0lBIkS and witncsses’ fees, and traveling expenses and costs; stationery and recording; expenses of purchasirxg-paymastcrs’ offices of the various cities, including clerks, furniture, fuel, stationery, and incidental expenses ; newspapers and advertising ; foreign postage; tclographing, foreign and domestic; telephones; copying; care of library, including purchase of books and periodicals mail and express wagons, ferriage, tolls, and livery and express fees; costs of suits; commissions, warrants, diplomas, and discharges; relief of vessels in distress; canal tolls and pilotagc; recovery of valuables from shipwrccks; quarantine cxpenses; reports, professional investigation, cost of special instruction at home or abroad, including maintenance of students and information from abroad, and the collection aud classification thereof, and other necessary incidental expenses, two hundred und iiva thousand dollars. C01~z·r1NG1sN*1·, N Avy: For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses E X ¢ r ¤ oréiuary arising ai: home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or clussitled, °‘P°““°'· exclusive of personal services in the Navy Department or any of its subordinate Bureaus or offices, at \Vashingt0¤, District of Columbia, seven thousand dollars. BUREAU OF NAVIGATION. B ¤r•=¤¤ of Nvi- , gstxon. NAv1GA’1*x0N AND SUPPLIES: For foreign and local pilotaga and tow- E x po n ¤ as md uga of ships of war; services and materials in correcting compasses on ¤¤PPh°¤· board ship, and for adjusting and testing compasscs ou shore; nautical and astronomical instruments; nautical books, maps, charts, and sailing directions,- and repairs of nautical instruments for ships of war; books for libraries of ships of war; naval signalssmd apparatus, namely, signal lights, lanterns, rockets, running·lights, drawings and engravings for si gual·b00ks; compass-iittings, including binnaclcs, tripods, and other appendages of sbip’s compasscs; logs and other appliances for measur- . _, iu g the ship’s way, and lends and other appliances for sounding; lanterns