FORTY·-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 295. 1870. 325 For contingent expenses of the bureau of navigation; freight and B’?"°““ °f m"' transportation of navigation materials; instruments, books, and stores, mW0D' postage and telegrapbing on public business; advertising for proposals; packing-boxes and materials ; blank-books, forms, and stationery at navigation offices, six thousand dollars. Bureau of Ordnance. -— For ten fifteen-inch guns, needed fon the Bureau ofordgattery of the Colossus, and to meet contingencies, seventy thousand ““g‘:;s_ o ars. For gunpowder, one hundred thousand dollars. Guvxwwdcr- For fuel and materials necessary in carrying on the mechanical branches Fuel. of the ordnance department at the navy yards and stations, seventy-tive thousand dollars. For labor at navy yards, two hundred thousand dollars. L¤·b0¥· For repairs to ordnance buildings, magazines, gun parks, machinery, Repairs. boats, fifteen thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items, freight, twenty thousand dollars. Miscellaneous- For experiments in ordnance, eight thousand dollars. Experiments. For expenses of the torpedo corps, including, viz.: The purchase and Expenses of manufacture of gunpowder, nitro-glycerine, gun-cotton ; purchase and w"p°d° °°rP" manufacture of electrical machines, galvanic batteries, wire ; purchase of copper, wood, imu, and other materials used in the manufacture of torpedos, with work on the same ; construction of torpedo boats, purchase of coifer works, or hulks, and contingent expenses; labor, including one chemist, at two thousand dollars, one foreman machinist, at one thousand five hundred and sixty·1'·1ve dollars, and clerk hire; in all, sixty thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars of which may be expended, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, for the payment of services heretofore rendered in the invention and application of torpedos. Civil establishment.-For pay of the superintendents and the civil Ci:“°¤*¤b“¤h· establishment of the several navy yards under this bureau, fifteen thou- mm ' sand dollars. For contingent expenses of the ordnance service of the navy, one thou- Contingencies. sand d0]Iars. Bureau of O'0nstructz°¢m and Repaz'r.— For preservation of vessels on Bureau of conthe stocks and in ordinary ; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; :;"‘;‘;:_'°" ““d labor in navy yards and on foreign stations; preservation of material; Xe,-Sgewatgoy, purchase of tools; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat; discharge of <>fv¤§¤¤1¤,=¤¤¤ liabilities, and general maintenance of the navy, as follows: — {°;.;g1!°?:b%;l?;g_ For expenses of receiving ships, fifty thousand dollars. ’ ’ For preservation of iron-clad vessels, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For coast defense and practice vessels, eighty thousand dollars. For tools and machinery in navy yards, one hundred thousand dollars. For sheds over timber, and over ships, one hundred thousand dollars. For repairs of vessels abroad, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For transportation, fifty thousand dollars. F oxxmaterials by contract, one million dollars. _ For materials by purchase, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For labor in navy yards and on foreign stations, two million dollars. For purchase and preservation of timber and general maintenance of the navy, eight hundred thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Navy to discharge liabilities provided Liubilitiesunder for by contracts made previous to March four, eighteen hundred and °*;$If*;:*ii¤;*r*;*}: sixty-nine, five hundred and fifteen thousand nine hundred and sixty E, 186,, dollars and ninety-two cents, for so much thereof as may be necessary: Provided, That before paying the claim of the Corliss Steam-Engine Claim of Qorliss Company, the Secretary of the Navy shall cause a re-examination of g:;*;m;§¤]g*¤¤° said claim to be made by the law officers of the Navy Department, and P j' two competent engineers to be detailed for that purpose, who shall de-
