268 TIIIRTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 12]. 1848. _r>rovi¤¤ for ad- from Panama to Astoria, as the condition of this advance, be required gg*°';j1l Pl*°°° °*` to stop and deliver and take mails at San Diego, San Francisco, and Pp g' Monterey, in California, if required so to do by the Secretary of the Navy, with the concurrence of the POStmaster·General: And provided further, That,. in consideration of the foregoing advance, the line of steamers provided in the contract with A. S. Sloo shall stop, going and returning, at Charleston, if practicable, and Savannah. pcES<;*l¤S°¤* °*· For contingent expenses for objects not hereinbefore enumerated, ` two thousand dollars. m$g;*l§gw¥;¤i· To pay arrearages due for grading University Square, and other Depot {-0,. expenses, for the construction of the depot for charts and instruments, charts. being a reappropriation in part of a sum carried to the surplus fund, peretofgre appropriated for that purpose, ten thousand forty-three dol- _ _ ars an seventy-seven cents. m1l§*;:°O:{g;i;;· For furnishing the marine hospital building at New Orleans, seven ’ thousand five hundred dollars. °bI;;$;:;;°;>€¤¤N d For "rniet¢;Ior¢§ogical observations," to be conducted under the ' irection o the ecretary of the Navy two thousand dollars. Og;!:: ¤* New For the establishment of a depot for, naval stores, which the Secre- ‘tary of the Navy is hereby required to cause to be located at or near the city of New Orleans, twenty thousand dollars. & Conga-notion, For the construction, extension, and completion of the following g,;g,::,,,‘Q“,:;$;_ objects, and for the current repairs at the several navy-yards, viz.: yards. At Portsmouth. -For completing quay wall and wharf, and wharf Portsmouth. number one; wall west side of ship-house number four, and lilling in; timber shed opposite number seven, and addition to smithery I; brick powder magazine, engine, fixtures, &c., for blowing-tires to forges; ing for repairs of all kinds, fifty thousand five hundred and fifty-one o ars. Boston. At Boston. ——For timber shed number thirty-seven, and pier wharf at angle number fifty-nine; coal-house near dry-dock, and pier wharf in rear of carpenter’s and iomer’s shop; for eight knee docks, and tracks for stowage of guns in gun park; for completing brick barn; and repairs of all kinds, ninety-seven thousand three hundred and iiily- one dollars. N°“ “""‘ ...2f2iili1’§ f.i”Ii2’.;iZ§.€.‘Zl'..li°“.i“'Zi‘1·°°*"’?.' “°ie’ °°.i"’°i.“g‘?’-°°`} wil"? _ _; re grng c anne s an w ar in ron 0 hospital lands; steam engine rn smithery, steam pipes, &.c., and cistern iior each reservoir; paving and nagging, and granite skids, and plattplrms fcgdcgpnon, and for repairs of all kinds, one hundred and six ousan dollars. For the dry—dock, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the purchase by the Secretary of the Navy of the land, above and under water, bounded by Flushing Avenue, in the cit of Brook- . Y lyn, ini the Sitatle oik`NelwbYork, the United States navy-yard, hospital groun s, an the ala out Bay to the channel two hundred and eighty-five thousandedollarsz Provided, That no part of said sum of money shall be applied to the payment of the purchase money until a gogdtaud perfect title rs secured to the United States for the said land an 1 s appur enances. Philadelphia. At PhiladeQ2hia.—=For removing and extending ship-house G; completing wharf number two; dredging machiue· and re airs of all k (1 ’ P · in s, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars. W¤¤h¤¤S¥¢>¤· b All W¤S¥tngtm.·— For chain-cable forges, and htting part of mlmer e even or aboiler shop; steam hammer for sm1th’s shop, and alteration in hydraulic proving machine; converting joiner’s shop in number twelve to mould loft, and steam hammer in place of old tilt hammer; ordnance workshops, and extending brass foundry; extending blacksmiths shop and iron store under N, and finishing shop for
