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PUBLIC-No. 139.]

CHAP. 781.-An act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the naval service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and for other purposes:

PAY OF THE NAVY.

For the pay of officers on sea-duty; officers on shore and other duty; officers on waiting orders; officers on the retired-list; Admiral's and ViceAdmiral's secretaries; clerks to commandants of yards and stations; clerks to paymasters at yards and stations; inspections; receiving-ships and other vessels; extra pay to men re-enlisting under honorable discharge; pay of petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and boys, including men in the engineers' force, and for the Coast Survey service and Fish Commission, seven thousand five hundred men and seven hundred and fifty boys, at the pay prescribed by law; in all, seven million dollars.

PAY, MISCELLANEOUS.

For commission and interest; transportation of funds; exchange; mileage to officers while traveling under orders in the United States, and for actual personal expenses of officers while traveling abroad under orders, and for traveling expenses of apothecaries, yeomen, and civilian employees, and for actual and necessary traveling expenses of naval cadets while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment as cadets; 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 of 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, ferriage, tolls, and livery and express fees; costs of suits; commissions, warrants, diplomas, and discharges; relief of vessels in distress; canal tolls and pilotage; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; care and transportation of the dead; reports, professional investigation, cost of special instruction at home or abroad, including maintenance of students, and information from abroad, and the collection and classification thereof, and other necessary incidental expenses, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For the compensation of the two civilian members of the Naval Advisory Board for the time they may serve after June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, at the rate of two thousand five hundred dollars each for six months, and of two hundred and fifty dollars each for traveling and other expenses for six months, five thousand five hundred 15447-10

dollars: Provided, That the sum accepted by them under this act shall be in full of all services rendered after June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six.

CONTINGENT NAVY.

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, ten thousand dollars.

BUREAU OF NAVIGATION.

Foreign and local pilotage and towage of ships of war; services and materials in correcting compasses on board ships, 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, signallights, lanterns, rockets, running lights, drawings and engravings for signal-books; compass-fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ships' compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship's way, 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, and for the holds and spirit-room, for deck 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; photographic instruments and materials; stationery for commanders and navigators of vessels of war, and for use of courtsmartial; musical instruments and music for vessels of war; steeringsignals and indicators, and speaking-tubes and gongs for signal communications on board vessels of war; and for introducing and maintaining electric lights on board vessels of war, in all, eighty-three thousand five hundred dollars.

For special ocean surveys and the publication thereof, four thousand dollars.

For preparing and engraving on copper plates the surveys of the Mexican coast, and for publishing the same, seven thousand dollars. For completing compass-testing houses, and furniture for same, two 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, furniture, stationery, and fuel for navigation offices at navy-yards, and all other contingent expenses, five thousand dollars.

For the completion and other expenses connected with the reduction of the observations of the transit of Venus, in eighteen hundred and seventy-four and eighteen hundred and eighty-two, to be expended under the direction of the Transit of Venus Commission: Provided, That said Commission shall deliver all the instruments and other public property in its possession into the custody of the Secretary of the Navy, three thousand dollars.

For the civil establishment at navy-yards and stations, including master of tugs, storekeepers, clerks, writers, and all clerical work, niue

thousand dollars; and no other fund appropriated by this act shall be used in payment for such services.

BUREAU OF ORDNANCE.

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, one hundred and nine thousand three hundred dollars.

One or more rifled cannon of each type constructed at the cost of the United States for the Navy shall be publicly subjected to the proper test for endurance including such rapid firing as a like gun would be subjected to in battle. This test shall be under the direction and to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Navy, and if such guns do not prove satisfactory, the type they represent shall not be put in use in the naval service.

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

For miscellaneous items, namely: Freight to foreign and home stations, advertising and auctioneer's 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, four thousand dollars.

For the civil establishment at navy-yards and stations, including writers, clerks, foreman, draughtsmen, assistant draughtsman, and a chemist, twenty-three thousand two hundred and four dollars; and no other fund appropriated by this act shall be used in payment for such services.

For the torpedo corps, namely : Forlabor; 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.

For new ferry-launch, in place of the one now in use, which shall be sold, and building fuse-room and coal-shed, eight thousand five hundred dollars.

Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, and Dolphin: To complete the armament of the three steam-cruisers the Chicago, Boston, and Atlanta, and the dispatch-boat Dolphin, ninety-one thousand one hundred and thirtyseven 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; 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, seven hundred and eighty-two thousand two hundred dollars.

For expenses of recruiting for the naval service, rent of rendezvous and expense 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, twenty-five thousand 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 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, twenty thousand dollars.

For the civil establishment at navy-yards and stations, including clerks, writers, and superintendent of rope-walk, sixteen thousand eight hundred dollars; and no other fund shall be used in payment for such services.

BUREAU 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; 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 incidental labor at navy-yards; water tax, and for tolls and ferriage; rent of four officers' quarters at Philadelphia; pay of watchmen in the navy-yards; and for awnings and packing-boxes, and advertising for yards and docks purposes, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars.

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

For the civil establishment at navy-yards and stations, consisting of writers, clerks, messengers, telegraph operators, draughtsmen, foreman laborers and foreman masons, quarterman brick and stone masons, and pilots, including the work of bell-ringing and lamp lighting, sixty-two thousand dollars; and no other fund appropriated by this act shall be used in payment for such service.

NAVAL ASYLUM.

For the Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For superintendent, six hundred dollars; steward, four hundred and eighty dollars; matron, three hundred and sixty dollars; chief cook, two hundred and forty dollars; two assistant cooks, three hundred and thirty-six dollars; chief laundress, one hundred and ninety-two dollars; six laundresses, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; four scrubbers, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; eight waiters, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; six laborers, at two hundred and forty dollars each; stable-keeper and driver, three hundred and sixty dollars; master-at-arms, four hundred and eighty dollars; two house corporals,

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