280 FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 48, 49. 1869. M¤fi¤¤ ¤<>¤'t>¤· For clothing, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars. For fuel, twenty-six thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars. Imlimry For military stores, viz: Pay of mechanics ; repair oF arms; purchase °*°'°*· of accoutrements; ordnance stores, Bags, drums, lifes, and other instruments, seven thousand dollars. 'l‘i·¤nspm-m- For transportation of officers, their servants, troops, and for expenses
- l°“· of recruiting, twelve thousand dollars.
Repairs and For repair of barracks and rent of ohices where there are no public "°'"·“· buildings, ten thousand dollars. Contingencies. For contingencies, viz: Freight; ferriage; toll; cartage; wharfage; purchase and repair of boats; compensation of judge advocates per diem for attending courts-martial, courts of inquiry, and for constant labor; h0use—rent in lieu of quarters, and commutation for quarters to officers on shipboard; burial of deceased marines; printing, stationery, postage, telegraphing; apprehension of deserters ; oil, candles, gas; repa.ix·s of gas and water fixtures; water rent, forage, straw, barrack furniture; furniture for o{Hcers’ quarters; bed sacks, wrapping paper, oilcloth, crush, rope, twine, spades, shovels, axes, picks, carpenters’ tools; keep of a. horse for the messenger; repairs to fire-engines; purchase and repair of engine hose; purchase of lumber for benches, mesetables, hunks; repairs to public carryall; purchase and repair of harness; purchase and repair of hundcarts and wheelburrows ; scavengering, purchase and repair of galleys, cooking stoves, ranges; stoves where there are no grates; gravel for parade grounds; repair of pumps; furniture for staff and commanding officers ; brushes, brooms, buckets, paving, and for other purposes, fifty thousand dollars. Additional Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That each and every seaman, ordi-
nary seaman, or landsman who shall perfbrm the duty of a fireman or
of Bremen or c0a.l—heaver on board of any vessel of war shall be entitled to and shall °°°·l·h°”·"°*'*· receive v. compensation at the rate of thirty-three cents per day for the time they shall thus be employed as firemen and coal-heavers, and which shall be in addition to their compensation as seamen, ordinary- seamen, or landsmen, as aforesaid. mggjlzbg <;;°S°°‘ Sec. 3. Azzel be it furtheroenaewd, That so much of the first sectionlof mm ,w,,d,,,,,y the “Act making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending established- the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three,” as \}3‘?§_°:;: {Q3; declares that the salary of the secretary of the naval academy shall be twelve hundred and fifty dollars per annum be, and the same is hereby, repealed; and the salary of said secretary, from and after the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, shall be at the me of fourteen hundred dollars per annum. _ LAW ¤¤¢b¤\ji¤- Sec. 4. And be ftfurt/zcr enacted, That so much of the eighth section
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- .gc;5‘§;t;Q{°§;[°" of an act entitled "An ace to amend certain acts in relation to the navy,"
pyemees rm- approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and of any ¤¤i<l¤*éiP¤¤°¤ ¤’°· other act authorizing the annual selection of ten enlisted apprentices for §°§§f,,},_l7M8_ appointment as midshipmen to the naval academy, be, and the same is Vol.xiv. p. 617. hereby, repealed. Armzoven, March 1, 1869. March 1, 1869. CHAP. XLIX. -— An Act to restrict and regulate the Franking Privilege. Be it enacted by the Senate and Muse of Rqoresentatives y" the [Dzited rremking States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall not be lawful fbr §;‘Q;;$§d‘g£; any officer of the government, member of Congress, or other person enby me wi-mm titled by law to the franking privilege to exercise said privilege otherWiS¤
- ~\1:;§%F¤Pri1:lil§é¤¤· than by his or her written autograph signature upon the matter ii·ani<<¢d;
mmm??mnk°d_ and all letters or other mail matter not thus {ranked by the written signu- Ocner mu ture of a person entitled by law to exercise said privilege, shall be charged
