[PUBLIC-No. 19.] AN ACT making additional appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and for other purpos Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Un States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the naval service of the G ernment for the six months beginning January first, eighteen hund and eighty-five, and ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eig five, and for other purposes: For the pay of the Navy, for the active-list, namely: For one Admi one Vice-Admiral, eight rear-admirals, seven Chiefs of Bure twenty-one commodores, forty-five captains, eighty-seven comma ers, seventy-eight lieutenant-commanders, two hundred and seve two lieutenants, ninety-five junior lieutenants, one hundred and nin three ensigns, fourteen medical directors, fifteen medical inspect fifty surgeons, seventy-nine passed assistant surgeons, eight assist surgeons, two assistant surgeons not in the line of promo (who shall hereafter, after fifteen years' service, be entitled to rece as annual pay, when at sea, two thousand one hundred doll when on shore duty one thousand eight hundred dollars, and w on leave or waiting orders one thousand six hundred dollars), thirt pay directors, twelve pay-inspectors, forty-nine paymasters, twe nine passed assistant paymasters, twenty assistant paymasters, si nine chief engineers, ninety-three passed assistant engineers, seve eight assistant engineers, twenty-four chaplains, eleven professor mathematics, ten naval constructors, nine assistant naval construct ten civil engineers, one hundred and eighty-eight warrant offic thirty eight mates, two hundred and ninety-five naval cadets; in one million seven hundred and forty-three thousand seven hund and fifty dollars. For pay of the retired-list, namely: For forty-three rear admirals, twe commodores, eleven captains, twelve commanders, sixteen lieuten commanders, twenty-seven lieutenants, seven ensigns, twenty-two m cal directors, two medical inspectors, four surgeons, five passed ass ant surgeons, seven assistant surgeons, nine pay-directors, two inspectors, four paymasters, two passed assistant paymasters, assistant paymaster, eleven chief engineers, twenty passed assist engineers, twenty-six assistant engineers, eight chaplains, six pro sors of mathematics, one chief constructor, three civil engineers, t teen boatswains, ten gunners, nine carpenters, and seven sailmake in all, three hundred and sixty-one thousand eight hundred and six five dollars. For pay to petty officers, seamen, ordinary seamen, landsmen, boys, including men in the engineers' force and for the Coast Sur service, not exceeding eight thousand two hundred and fifty in all, million two hundred and forty-five thousand dollars. For two secretaries, one to the Admiral and one to the Vice-Admi clerks to paymasters, clerks at inspections, navy-yards, and static and extra pay to men enlisted under honorable discharge; commiss 11724- -1 1 and interest, transportation of funds, exchange; mileage to officers while travelling under orders in the United States, and for actual personal expenses of officers while travelling abroad under orders, and for travelling expenses of apothecaries, yeomen, and civilian employees, and for actual and necessary travelling expenses of naval cadets while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment as cadets, and for the payment of any such officers as may be in service, either upon the active or retired list, during the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, in excess of the numbers of each class provided for in this act, and for any increase of pay arising from different duty, as the needs of the service may require; for rent and furniture of buildings and offices not in navy-yards; expenses of courts-martial and courts of inquiry, boards of investigation, examining 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; telegraphing, foreign and domestic; telephones; copying; care of library; mail and express wagons, and livery and express fees; 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, cost of special instruction, and information from abroad, and the collection and classification thereof, one hundred and eighty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, exclusive of personal services in the Navy Department or any of its subordinate Bureaus or offices at Washington, District of Columbia, seven thousand five hundred dollars. BUREAU OF NAVIGATION. For foreign and local pilotage and towage of ships of war; services and materials in correcting compasses on board ship, and for adjusting and testing compasses on shore; nautical and astronomical instruments, nautical books, maps, charts, and sailing directions, and repairs of nautical instruments for ships of war; books for libraries of ships of war; naval signals and apparatus, namely, signal-lights, lanterns, rockets, running lights, drawings, and engravings for signal-books; compassfittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ships' compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship's ways, and leads and other appliances for sounding; lanterns and lamps, and their appendages, for general use on board ship, including those for the cabin, ward-room, and steerage, for the holds and spirit-rooms, for decks and quartermasters' use; bunting and other materials for flags, and making and repairing flags of all kinds; oil for ships of war, other than that used in the engineer department; candles when used as a substitute for oil in binnacles and running lights; chimneys and wicks and soap used in the navigation department; stationery for commanders and navigators of vessels of war, and for use of courts-martial; musical instruments and music for vessels of war; steering-signals and indicators, and speaking-tubes and gongs for signal communication on board vessels of war; and for introducing electric lights on board vessels of war, not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. |