writer, at one thousand dollars; one store-keeper, at nine hundred dollars; one master of tugs, at one thousand five hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one clerk, at one thousand dollars; Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one clerk, at one thousand dollars; Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousand dollars; Training-station: One clerk (when required), three hundred dollars; in all, nine thousand three hundred dollars. And no other fund appropriated by this act shall be used in payment for such services. BUREAU OF ORDNANCE. ORDNANCE AND ORDNANCE STORES: For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; for fuel, tools, material and labor to be used in the general work of the Ordnance Department; for furniture at magazines, at the ordnance dock, New York, and at the naval ordnance battery and proving-ground and for prizes to enlisted men for excellence in ordnance exercises and target practice, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars; For ammunition for the guns of the Vesuvius, twelve thousand dollars; For proof of naval armament, six thousand dollars; For modern guns and ammunition for instructing the cadets of the Naval Academy, fifty-five thousand dollars; For modern guns and ammunition for instructing the apprentices of the training squadron, fifty thousand dollars; in all, two hundred and fifty-three thousand dollars. REPAIRS, BUREAU OF ORDNANCE: For necessary repairs to ordnance buildings, magazines, gun-parks, boats, lighters, wharves, machinery, and other objects of the like character, fifteen thousand dollars. CONTINGENT, BUREAU OF ORDNANCE: For miscellaneous items, namely: Freight to foreign and home stations; advertising; cartage and express charges; repairs to fire-engines; gas and water pipes; gas and water tax at magazines; toll, ferriage, foreign postage, and telegrams to and from the Bureau, five thousand dollars. CIVIL ESTABLISHMENT, BUREAU OF ORDNANCE: For the civil establishment under the Bureau of Ordnance, namely: Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one writer (when required), five hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one writer (when required), five hundred dollars: Navy-yard, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; one draughtsman, at one thousand five hundred and forty-five dollars; three draughtsmen, at one thousand and eighty-one dollars each; one assistant draughtsman, at seven hundred and seventy-two dollars; one fore man, at two thousand one hundred and fifty-six dollars; two copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one telegraph operator, at nine hundred dollars; Navy-yaid, Norfolk, Virginia: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one writer at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; Naval ordnance proving-ground: For one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; Torpedo-station, Newport, Rhode Island: For one chemist, at two thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one draughtsman, at one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, twenty-four thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars. And no other fund appropriated by this act shall be used in payment for such service. TORPEDO CORPS: For labor, material, freight, and express charges; general care of and repairs to grounds, buildings, wharves; boats; instruction; instruments, tools, furniture, experiments, and general torpedo outfits, fifty thousand dollars; New landing stage, seven hundred dollars; Completing repairs to sea-wall, two thousand dollars; For correcting the sanitary condition of the cottages used as quarters at the station, five thousand dollars; in all, sixty-five thousand seven hundred dollars. BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING. EQUIPMENT OF VESSELS: For coal for steamers' and ships' use, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling; hemp, wire, and other materials for the manufacture of rope and cordage; iron for the manufacture of anchors, cables, galleys, and chains; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, bags, and hammocks: water for steam-launches; heating apparatus for receiving-ships; and for the purchase of all other articles of equipment at home and abroad, and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels and manufacture of equipment articles in the several navy-yards, six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. TRANSPORTATION AND RECRUITING: For expenses of recruiting for the naval service, rent of rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for men and boys. and all other expenses attending the recruiting for the naval service and for the transportation of enlisted men and boys at home and abroad, thirty thousand dollars. . CONTINGENT, BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING: For extra expenses of training-ships, freight and transportation of equipment stores, printing, advertising, telegraphing, books and models, postage on letters sent abroad, ferriage, ice, apprehension of deserters and stragglers, continuous-service certificates, good-conduct badges, and libraries for enlisted men, school-books for training-ships, medals for boys, and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting unforeseen and impossible to classify, fifteen thousand dollars. NAVAL TRAINING-STATION, COASTERS' HARBOR ISLAND, RHODE ISLAND (for apprentices): For dredging channels, repairs to main causeway, roads, and grounds, extending sea-wall, and the employ ment of such labor as may be necessary for the proper care and preservation of the same; for repairs and improvements on buildings; heating, lighting, and furniture for same; books and stationery, freight, and other contingent expenses; purchase of food, and maintenance of live-stock and mail-wagon, and attendance on same; fourteen thousand dollars. CIVIL ESTABLISHMENT, BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING: Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one superintendent of ropewalk, at one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand three hundred dollars; one writer, at nine hundred and fifty dollars; Navy-yard, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars: Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, eleven thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars. And no other fund appropriated by this act shall be used in payment for such services. BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS. MAINTENANCE OF YARDS AND DOCKS: For general maintenance of yards and docks, namely: For freight and transportation of materials and stores; books, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire-engines; machinery; repairs on steam fire-engines and attendance on the same; purchase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and driving teams; carts and timber-wheels, and all vehicles for use in the navy-yards, and tools and repairs of the same; postage on letters and other mailable matter on public service sent to foreign countries, and telegrams; stationery; furniture for Government houses and offices in the navy-yards; coal and other fuel; candles, oil, and gas; cleaning and clearing up yards and care of buildings; attendance on fires, lights, fire-engines, and apparatus; for incidental labor at navy-yards; water-tax and tolls and ferriage; rent of four officers' quarters at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; for pay of watchmen in navy-yards, and for awnings and packing-boxes, and advertising for yards and docks purposes, one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars. PUBLIC WORKS.-Navy-yards and Stations: Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Water-pipes and laying of same, thirty-two thousand dollars. Navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York: Repairs to building on cob-dock now used as recreation hall by enlisted men, five thousand dollars; boiler-shop and wing to machine-shop, sixty-eight thousand three hundred and forty dollars and forty-seven cents; one building for quarters for civil engineer, ten thousand dollars; reconstructing building number seven, partially destroyed by fire in January, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, sixty thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and forty-three thousand three hundred and forty dollars and forty-seven cents. Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For repairs and improvement of grounds and construction of protection wall, seventyfive thousand dollars; for one timber dry -dock, the contract price for the full completion of which shall not exceed the amount herein appropriated, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars; in all, six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For the better protection of the public property at the navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia, from danger from fire by means of electric fire alarms, time signals and watchman detectors, one thousand dollars. Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Iron and steel shop, seventy-five thousand dollars; railroad extension, ten thousand dollars; boilershop extension, fourteen thousand four hundred and eighty-eight dollars; water system, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and fourteen thousand four hundred and eighty-eight dollars. Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: Finishing boiler and machineshop, four thousand two hundred dollars; extending wharf from coalhouse to foundry, thirty thousand dollars; crane scow, seven thousand dollars; pile-driver, five thousand dollars; twelve-ton swinging crane, four thousand dollars; mud scow, four thousand five hundred dollars; in all, fifty-four thousand seven hundred dollars. Naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina: Fencing, two hundred and twenty-eight dollars; artesian well, one thousand dollars; boathouse, four hundred dollars; in all, one thousand six hundred and twenty-eight dollars. For the expenses of a commission of three officers, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Navy, to report as to the most desirable location on or near the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and the south Atlantic coast for navy-yards and dry docks and for the expenses of sounding and surveying and estimating expenses, fifteen thousand dollars. And the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, required to appoint a commission composed of three competent naval officers, whose duty it shall be to examine the coast north of the forty-second parallel of north latitude, in the State of Oregon and Territories of Washington and Alaska, and select a suitable site, having due regard to the commercial and naval necessities of that coast, for a navy-yard and docks; and having selected such site, shall, if upon private lands, estimate its value and ascertain the price for which it can be purchased, and of their proceedings and action make full and detailed report to the Secretary of the Navy; and the Secretary of the Navy shall transmit such report, with his recommendations, to Congress. That to defray the expenses of such commission the sum of five thousand dollars of the above amount, or as much thereof as may be necessary, may be used. Adjustable stern-dock: For one adjustable stern-dock, to be constructed at such place as the Secretary of the Navy may determine, thirty thousand dollars. For repairs and preservation at navy-yards and stations, three hundred thousand dollars. NEW NAVAL OBSERVATORY. New Naval Observatory: For continuing the erection of the new Naval Observatory and necessary buildings upon the site purchased under the act of Congress approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty (twenty-one Statutes, page sixty-four), fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That the work upon the domes, piers, transit shutters and floors of the observing rooms, and the necessary elevators in the building, and the fittings of the library and of the temperature room may be done by the Secretary of the Navy without contract, or in such manner as he shall deem most advantageous to the Government, but the total cost of said observatory, including the aforesaid items, shall not exceed the limit of four hundred thousand dollars fixed by the act making appropriations for the naval service, approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven. Total Public Works under Navy Department, one million three hundred and sixty-seven thousand one hundred and fifty-six dollars and forty-seven cents. CONTINGENT BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS: For contingent expenses that may arise at navy-yards and stations, twenty thousand dollars. CIVIL ESTABLISHMENT, BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS: Navyyard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one mail-messenger, at six hundred dollars per annum; one messenger, at six hundred dollars per annum; one foreman laborer at four dollars per diem; one janitor, six hundred dollars; one pilot, at three dollars per diem; Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one foreman-laborer, at four dollars per diem; one messenger to commandant, at one dollar and seventy-six cents per diem; one messenger, at one dollar and seventy-six cents per diem; one mail-messenger, six hundred dollars per annum ; Navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one foreman-laborer, at four dollars and fifty cents per diem; one mail-messenger, at six hundred dollars per annum; one messenger to commandant, at two dollars and fifty cents per diem; one messenger to captain, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem; one draughtsman, at five dollars per diem; one superintendent of teams or quarterman, at four dollars per diem; one messenger to civil engineer, at two dollars per diem; Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one messenger, at one dollar and seventy-six cents per diem; one foreman-laborer, at four dollars per diem; Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one messenger, at one dollar and seventy-six cents per diem; one foreman-laborer, at four dollars per diem. Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one foreman-laborer, at four dollars per diem; three messengers, at two dollars per diem each; one pilot, at two dollars and twenty-six cents per diem; Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one mail messenger, at six hundred dollars per annum ; Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one foreman-mason, at six dollars per diem; one foreman-laborer, at five dollars and fifty cents per diem; one pilot, at four dollars and eighty cents per diem; one |