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For the civil establishment at navy-yards and stations, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For erection of compass-testing house, seven thousand dollars.

For contingent expenses of the Bureau of Navigation, namely: For freight and transportation of navigation materials, postage and telegraphing on public business, advertising for proposals, packing-boxes and materials, and all other contingent expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.

BUREAU OF ORDNANCE.

For procuring, producing, and preserving ordnance material; for the armament of ships; for fuel, tools, materials, 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 experimental battery, fifty thousand dollars.

For necessary repairs to ordnance buildings, magazines, gun-parks, boats, lighters, wharves, machinery, and other objects of the like character, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

For miscellaneous items, namely: For freight to foreign and home stations, advertising and auctioneers' fees, 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, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For the civil establishment at navy-yards and stations, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For the torpedo corps, namely: For labor, material, freight and express charges; general repairs to grounds, buildings, and wharves; boats; instruction; instruments, tools, furniture, experiments, and general torpedo outfits, twenty-five thousand dollars.

BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING.

For equipment of vessels: For coal for steamers' and ships' use, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling; hemp, wire, hides, 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; heatingapparatus 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, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For expenses of 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, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses equipment and recruiting: For extra expenses of training-ships, freight and transportation of equipment stores, printing, advertising, telegraphing, books and models, postage, cartickets, ferriage, ice, apprehension of deserters and stragglers, assistance to vessels in distress, continuous-service certificates and good-conduct badges for enlisted men, school-books for training-ships, medals

for boys, and emergencies arising under cognizance of Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting unforeseen and impossible to classify, five thousand dollars.

For the civil establishment at navy-yards and stations, four thousand five hundred dollars.

BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS.

For general maintenance of yards and docks, namely: For freights and transportation of materials and stores; books, models, maps, 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; dredging; postage on letters and other mailable matter on public service, and telegrams; 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 public buildings; attendance on fires, lights, fire-engines and apparatus; for clerical and incidental labor at navy-yards; water-tax, and for toll and ferriages; rent of four officers' quarters at League Island; pay of the watchmen in the navy-yards; and for awning and packing boxes, and advertising for yard and dock purposes, ninety thousand dollars.

For contingent expenses that may arise at navy-yards and stations, five thousand dollars.

For the civil establishment at navy yards and stations, twelve thousand dollars.

BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

For support of the medical department: For surgeons, necessaries for vessels in commission, navy-yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and Coast Survey, twenty thousand dollars.

For the naval hospital fund, namely: For maintenance of the navalhospitals at the various navy-yards and stations, fifteen thousand dollars. And if the Secretary of the Navy shall not be able to maintain properly the whole number of naval hospitals now kept open on the amounts hereby appropriated for the maintenance of and civil establishment at naval hospitals, he shall close those which are least necessary to the service, and provide for the patients now cared for therein at such other naval hospitals as may be most convenient.

For contingent expenses of the Bureau: For freight on medical stores; transportation of insane patients; advertising; telegraphing; purchase of books; expenses attending the medical board of examiners; rent of rooms for naval dispensary; hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration; purchase and repair of wagons and harness; purchase and feed of horses and cows; trees, garden tools, and seeds, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.

For necessary repairs of naval laboratory, naval hospitals, and appendages, including roads, wharves, out-houses, sidewalks, fences, gardens, farms, and cemeteries, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For the maintenance of the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy-yards, naval laboratory, and Naval Academy, ten thousand dollars.

BUREAU OF PROVISIONS AND CLOTHING.

For provisions for the seamen and marines; commuted rations for officers, seamen, and marines; expenses of the handling and transportation of provisions; of inspections and storehouses; purchase of water for ships for cooking and drinking purposes; and for provisions and commutation of rations for seven hundred and fifty boys, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That all enlisted men and boys in the Navy, attached to any United States vessel or station and doing duty thereon, and naval cadets, shall be allowed a ration, or commutation thereof in money, under such limitations and regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe.

For contingent expenses: For freight on shipments (except provisions); candles, fuel; books and blanks; stationery; advertising and commissions on sales; furniture for inspection and pay offices in navy-yards; foreign postage, telegrams, and express charges; toll, ferriages, cartickets; yeoman's stores, iron safes, newspapers, ice, and incidental expenses absolutely necessary, fifteen thousand dollars.

For the civil establishment, three thousand dollars.

BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR.

For preservation and completion of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; labor in navy-yards and on foreign stations; preservation of materials; purchase of tools; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat, and for general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair, and incidental expenses, namely, advertising, foreign postage, telegrams, photographing, books, plans, stationery, and instruments for drawingroom, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this sum shall be applied to the repairs of any wooden ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed twenty per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material: Provided further, That nothing herein contained shall deprive the Secretary of the Navy of the authority to order repairs of ships damaged in foreign waters or on the high seas, so far as may be necessary to bring them home.

For the civil establishment, ten thousand dollars.

BUREAU OF STEAM-ENGINEERING.

For repairs, completion, and preservation of machinery and boilers, including steam-steerers, steam capstans, steam-windlasses, and so forth, in vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase and preservation of all materials and stores purchase, fitting, and repair of machinery and tools in the navy-yards and stations; wear, tear, and repair of machinery and boilers of naval vessels; incidental expenses, such as foreign postages, telegrams, advertising, freight, photographing, books, stationery, and instruments, two hundred and eighty thousand dollars; and the unexpended balance of the appropriation of one million dollars made by the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eightythree, for engines and machinery for the double-turreted iron-clads be, and the same is hereby, reappropriated and made available during the

last half of the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eightyfive, for the purposes enumerated in this paragraph: Provided, That no part of said sum shall be applied to the repair of engines and machinery of wooden ships where the estimated costs of such repair shall exceed twenty per centum of the estimated cost of new engines and machinery of the same character and power; but nothing herein contained shall prevent the repair or building of boilers for wooden ships the hulls of which can be fully repaired for twenty per centum of the estimated cost of a new ship of the same size and material.

For contingencies, such as instrument and materials for draughtingroom, five hundred dollars.

For the civil establishment, five thousand dollars.

INCREASE OF THE NAVY.

For completing the Mohican at the Mare Island Navy Yard, fifty thousand dollars.

For care and safe-keeping of the iron-clad monitors now in the hands of the contractors, when they shall have been turned over to the Government by said contractors, five thousand dollars.

NAVAL ACADEMY.

For pay of professors and others: For two professors, namely, one of mathematics, and one of chemistry, at the rate per annum of two thousand five hundred dollars each; three professors (assistants), namely, one of physics, one of Spanish, and one of English studies, history, and law, at the rate per annum of two thousand two hundred dollars each; six assistant professors, namely, four of French, one of English studies, history, and law, and one of drawing, at the rate per annum of one thousand eight hundred dollars each; sword master, at the rate per annum of one thousand five hundred dol ars, and two assistants, at the rate per annum of one thousand dollars each; boxing-master and gymnast, at the rate per annum of one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant librarian, at the rate per annum of one thousand four hundred dollars; Secretary of the Naval Academy, at the rate per annum of one thousand eight hundred dollars; three clerks to superintendent, at the rate per annum of one thousand two hundred dollars, one thousand dollars, and eight hundred dollars, respectively; one clerk to commandant of cadets, at the rate per annum of one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk to paymaster, at the rate per annum of one thousand dollars; one dentist, at the rate per annum of one thousand six hundred dollars; one baker, at the rate per annum of six hundred dollars; one mechanic in department of physics and chemistry, at the rate per annum of seven hundred and thirty dollars; one cook, at the rate per annum of three hundred and twenty-five dollars and fifty cents; one messenger to superintendent, at the rate per annum of six hundred dollar-; one armorer, at the rate per annum of five hundred and twenty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one gunner's mate, at the rate per annum of four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents, and one quarter gunner, at the rate per annum of four hundred and nine dollars and fifty cents; one cockswain, at the rate per annum of four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one seaman in the department of seamanship, at the rate per annum of three hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one attendant in the department of astronomy and one in the

department of physics and chemistry, at the rate per annum of three hundred dollars each; six attendants at recitation-rooms, library, store, chapel, and offices, at the rate per annum of two hundred and forty dollars each; one band-master, at the rate per annum of five hundred and twenty eight dollars; twenty-one first class musicians, at the rate per annum of three hundred and forty-eight dollars each; seven secondclass musicians, at the rate per annum of three hundred dollars each; in all, twenty-six thousand seven hundred and seventy nine dollars and fifty cents.

For pay of watchmen and others: For captain of the watch and weigher, at two dollars and fifty cents per day; four watchmen, at two dollars per day each; foreman of the gas and steam-heating works of Academy, at five dollars per day; ten attendants at gas and steamheating works, one at three dollars, one at two dollars and fifty cents, and eight at two dollars per day each; one steam-pipe fitter, at the rate per annum of six hundred dollars; one foreman of joiners, one foreman of painters, and one foreman of masons, at three dollars and fifty cents per day each; one mason, at three dollars per day; two joiners and one painter, at two dollars and fifty cents per day each; one tinner, one gas-fitter, and one blacksmith, at two dollars and fifty cents per day each; in all, eleven thousand five hundred and twelve dollars and seventy-five cents.

For pay of mechanics and others: For one mechanic at workshop, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem; one master laborer, to keep public grounds in order, at two dollars and twenty-eight cents per diem; fourteen laborers, to assist in same, three at two dollars per diem each and eleven at one dollar and fifty cents per diem each; one laborer, to superintend quarters of cadet-midshipmen and public grounds, at two dollars per diem; twenty servants, to keep in order and attend to quarters of cadet-midshipmen and public buildings, at twenty dollars per month each; in all, seven thousand two hundred and eighty-eight dollars and forty-eight cents.

For pay of the employees in the department of steam-engineering, Naval Academy: One master machinist, one boiler-maker, and one pattern maker, at three dollars and fifty cents per day each; two machinists and one blacksmith, at two dollars and fifty cents per day each; four laborers, at one dollar and fifty cents per day each; in all, three thousand eight hundred and thirty-four dollars.

For necessary repairs of public buildings, pavements, wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, and for improvements, repairs, and furniture and fixtures, ten thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That no appropriations provided for in this act shall be construed to authorize or be applied to a new building for the use of the superintendent or other officers of the Academy.

For fuel, and for heating and lighting the Academy and school-ships, eight thousand five hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses, Naval Academy: For purchase of books for the library, one thousand dollars.

For stationery, blank books, models, maps, and for text-books for use of instructors, one thousand dollars.

For expenses of the Board of Visitors to the Naval Academy, seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For purchase of chemicals, apparatus, and instruments in the department of physics aud chemistry, and for repairs of the same, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

For purchase of gas and steam machinery; steam pipe and fittings; rent of building for the use of the Academy; freight; cartage; water;

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