66 FOBTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. 1. Ch. 159. 1876. ` Eulistmonts lim- listed men is reduced to seven thousand five hundmd: Provided, That 1*;% 14,,, 249 section fourteen hundred and seventeen of the Revised Statutes shall ,,mé,,éj,d_ ’P' ’ be amended so as to read as follows: _ Number of on- "Sec. 14.17. The number of persons who may at one time be en- T listed msn, etc-.i¤ listed into the Navy of the United States, including seamen, ordinary Q N‘“’Y· seamen, landsmen, mechanics, Iiremen, coal-heavers, apprentices, and boys, shall not exceed seven thousand and five liumlred." Contingent ex- For contingent expenses of the Navy Department, namely: For rent . penscs. and furniture of buildings and offices not in navy-yards; expenses of courts-martial and courts of inquiry, boards of investigation, examin- . , ing-boards, with clerks’ and witnesses’ fees, and traveling-expenses and costs; stationery and recording- expenses of purchasing-paymasters’ offices at the various cities, including clerks, furniture, fuel, stationery, and incidental expenses; newspapers and advertising; foreign postage; tclegraphing, foreign and domestic; copying · mail and express wagons and livery and express tees and freight; all books for the use of the Navy; experts’ fees, and costs of suits; commissions, warrants, diplomas, and discharges; relief of vessels in distress and pilotage; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; care and transportation of the dead; reports, professional investigation, and informa- ” tion from abroad; and all other emergencies and extraordinary expenses ‘ arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, eighty thousand dollars. ' Civil establish- For the civil establishments of the several navy-yards, eighty-tive ¤’°*5*· “* ””·"Y‘ thousand dollars. And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed Y **;,,:;,,1 ,,0,,,,, ,,0 to organize a naval board of five commissioned officers in the Navy as determine what soon as practicable, three of whom shall be the senior officers on the navy-yards maybe active-list of the Navy whose duty it shall be to examine fully and d;°5’°°“°Q0 determine whether in their opinion any of the navy-yards can be disg,,,,,,";,, qiybgg pensed with and abandoned, and, if so to report the best manner of » Ielo.nd,ete. making disposition of the same; and, further, to inquire as to the propriety of establishing a naval rendezvous at Tybee Island or at Cockspur Island in the State of Georgia, or at any other point on the coast of Georgia or South Carolina, and whether any Government property at said islands can be made available and are suitable for such purpose; and said board shall, through the Secretary of the Navy, re- Report. port to Congress at the commencement of the next session the result of . their inquiry; and the sum of two thousand dollars is hereby appropriated to meet the expenses incurred by said board. · BUREAU OF NAVIGATION. Navigation and For foreign and local pilotage and towage of ships of war, forty-five navigation wr- thousand dollars. · . P1"’“· For services and materials in correcting compasses on board ship, and for adjusting and testing oompasses on shore, three thousand dollars. For nautical and astronomical instruments, nautical books, maps, charts, and sailing-directions, and repairs of nautical instruments for ships of war, nine thousand dollars. For books for libraries for ships of war, three thousand dollars. For navy-signals and apparatus, namely, signal-lights, lanterns, rockets, including running-lights, drawings, and engravings for signal-books, six thousand dollars. For compass-uttings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ships’ compasses, three thousand dollars. For logs and other appliances for measuring the ship’s way, leads and other appliances for sounding, three thousand dollars. For lanterns and lamps, and their appendages, for general use on board ship, including those for the cabin, wardroom, and steerage, for the holds and spirit-room, for decks and quartermasters’ use, five thousand dollars.
