THIRTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 103. 1849. 375 For paying the unsatisfied demands upon the fund for continuing the s¤"’°>`?_ U')'; survey of the coast on the Gulf of Mexico, from Apalachicola Bay to 8Q%70_° the Mississippi, four thousand and seventy dollars, to be taken out of the balance of the fund appropriated for that purpose by act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and forty-one, and which has been ISU. ¤h· 65- carried to the credit of the surplus fund. For the survey of the reefs, shoals, keys, and coasts of South Flori- Surveys <>¤ da by the Superintendent of the "Coast Survey," and for which the i$}‘;§}3,,°§33?,°0‘Q,},lT Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to provide the requisite i i officers, vessels, and crews to said “Coast Survey," the sum of thirty thousand dollars. For ordnance and ordnance stores, and small arms, including inci- 0¤i¤¤¤¤€ mj} dental expenses, two hundred and fifty-seven thousand dollars. st°"°’ For nautical books, maps, charts, instruments, and all other expenses Bobks, maps, of the hydrographical office, fifty-eight thousand two hundred and sixty §lg‘g;*éb&°·· dollars: Provided, That a competent officer of the navy, not below pm,-gg, as to the grade of lieutenant, be charged with the duty of preparing the PT¤P¤F¤¤9¤ O1? Nautical Almanac for publication, and that the Secretary of the Navy gl;,,1;i;“°°&1 A ` may, when, in his opinion, the interests of navigation would be promoted thereby, cause any nautical works that may, from timeto time, Books may bc be published by the hydrographical office, to be sold at cost, and the som a.t_cost of proceeds arising therefrom to be placed in the treasury of the United P“l’“°’*'°“· States. For contingent expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, MiS°°u”“°°“’ viz.: freight and transportation; printing and stationery; advertising §?,§?§§5_’ in newspapers; books, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of tire engines and machinery; repair of and attending on steam engines in yards; purchase and maintenance of horses and oxen and driving teams; carts, timber wheels, and the purchase and repair of workmen’s tools; postage of public letters; furniture for government houses; fuel, oil, and candles for navy-yards and shore stations; cleaning and clearing up yards; watchmen and incidental labor not chargeable to any other appropriation; labor attending the delivery of stores and supplies on foreign stations ; whufage, dockage, and rent; travelling expenses of officers; funeral expenses; store and office rent; stationery and fuel to navy agents and storekeepers; flags, awnings, and packing boxes; premiums and other expenses of recruiting; apprehending deserters; per diem pay to persons attending courts martial and courts of inquiry, or other service authorized by law; pay to judge advocates; pilotage and towage of vessels, and assistance rendered to vessels in distress, five hundred and eight thousand dollars. For support of the naval school at Annapolis, Maryland, twenty-eight Navel ¤°l¤Q°l thousand two hundred dollars, §h8)m%lm°°°hs’ For transportation of the United States mail between New York Transportation and Liverpool, between New York and New Orleans, Havana and gfeféjgmel m Chagres, and between Panama and some point in the Territory of ggygcoof Oregon, eight hundred and seventy-four thousand six hundred dollars. For the purchase of the right to use A. D. Bishop’s patent portable _PurchaseB_ gf boom derrick for all government purposes, ten thousand dollars: Sp;`;,?,;`;: b,;?,,,; Provided, The said Bishop shall, within fifteen days from the passage derrick, $10,000. of this act, notify the Secretary of the Navy, in writing, of his accept- P’°“S°· ance of said sum in full compensation for said patent right, and all improvements which he may, hereafter, make upon the same ; and shall furnish full working plans and explanations for the construction of said boom derrick. For testing the capacity and usefulness of the electro-magnetic power _Testing capa- - - · · cit and usefulas a mechanical agent for the purposes of navigation and locomotion, neg; 0,. alecm_ and the probable cost of using the same according to the invention of magnetic 08(pwer, Professor Page, the sum of twenty thousand dollars, to be expended &¤·» S20, ·
