Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 5.djvu/64

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Gosport, Virginia.For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Gosport, Virginia, one hundred and sixty-seven thousand dollars.

Pensacola.For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Pensacola, forty-nine thousand dollars.

Wharves, &c.For wharves and their appendages at the navy yard at Pensacola, as recommended by the Secretary of the Navy, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Powder magazine.For powder magazine, seventeen thousand dollars.

Brick wall.For wall or enclosure of brick three yards high, and a half yard thick, as recommended by Commodore Dallas, twenty-four thousand dollars.

Ordnance and stores.For ordnance and ordnance stores, sixty-four thousand nine hundred dollars.

Various contingent expenses enumerated.For defraying the expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, viz; for the freight and transportation of materials and stores of every description; for wharfage and dockage, storage and rent; travelling expenses of officers and transportation of seamen; house rent for pursers, when attached to yards and stations where no house is provided; for funeral expenses; for commissions, clerk hire, office rent, stationery and fuel to navy agents; for premiums and incidental expenses of recruiting; for apprehending deserters; for compensation to judge advocates; for per-diem allowance to persons attending courts martial and courts of inquiry; for printing and stationery of every description, and working the lithographic press, and for books, maps, charts, mathematical and nautical instruments, chronometers, models and drawings; for the purchase and repair of fire engines and machinery, and for the repair of steam engines; for the purchase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and for carts, timber-wheels, and workmen’s tools of every description; for postage of letters on public service; for pilotage and towing ships of war; for cabin furniture for vessels in commission; for taxes and assessments on public property; for assistance rendered to vessels in distress; for incidental labor at navy yards, not applicable to any other appropriation; for coal and other fuel, and for candles and oil; for repairs of magazines or powder-houses; for preparing moulds for ships to be built; and for no other purpose whatever, three hundred and twenty-one thousand six hundred dollars.

Contingent expenses not enumerated.For contingent expenses for objects not hereinbefore enumerated, three thousand dollars.

Steam vessel building at Brooklyn.For completing the steam vessel now building at the navy yard at Brooklyn, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Completing navy hospitals near New York and Boston, &c.For completing the navy hospitals near New York and Boston, regulating the grounds, making the necessary enclosures, repairing the naval asylum and all other hospitals, and the buildings wharves, and landings connected with them, and for preparing suitable burying grounds, forty-five thousand four hundred and ten dollars.

Powder magazines, &c.For completing the powder magazines near New York and Boston, with the landings, enclosures, and dependencies, nineteen thousand two hundred dollars.

Pay of marine corps.For pay of the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, and for subsistence of the officers of the marine corps, one hundred and sixty-three thousand seventy-seven dollars and twenty-five cents.

Pay of marine corps, &c. on shore.For provisions for non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates of said corps, serving on shore, and for servants and washerwomen, thirty-three thousand five hundred and seventeen dollars and seventy-two cents.

Clothing.For clothing, thirty-eight thousand six hundred and fifty-five dollars.

Fuel.For fuel, fourteen thousand five hundred and eighty-nine dollars.

Sites for barracks, &c.For the purchase of sites and the erection of barracks near the navy