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Machinery of Navy vessels, present condition...

Magazine rifles, purchase of, from Lee Arms Company.
Magnetic variations, collection of data
Magnetic observations, preparations for
Magnetic deviations, vessels of the Navy.
Magnonometer, tests of...

Mahan, Capt. A. T., report as president of War College..
lecture at War College......

report of president of War College.

Mare Island, advantages as a ship-building yard.....
Marine barracks, League Island, temporary, provided.

new, needed.

Norfolk, additional appropriations wanted
quarterly inspections satisfactory
Pensacola, detachment withdrawn

Marine conference, international, importance of
Marine Corps, annual report of colonel commandant
number and distribution of enlisted men
enlistments during the year.

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retirements during the year..
increase of officers recommended.
increase of privates recommended.

rank, better distribution recommended
barracks, condition of.....

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for new vessels under construction
changes in designs....

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estimates for pay department....

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estimates for quartermaster's department.

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schedules of proposals and contracts.......

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Marsh, Ensign C. C., in charge compass-house

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Martin, William, Assistant Surgeon, detailed to investigate yellow fever

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Mayer, A. N., Ensign, in charge of chronometers and time service

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Miller, J. R., Western Union Telegraph Company, services acknowledged
Monitors, appropriations and expenditures, Bureau Steam Engineering

10-inch guns for, not due under contract..
single-turret, repair of, important.......

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Mullan. Commander D. W., information furnished Hydrographic Office...
Murdock, Lieut. J. B., installed electric plant on Omaha....

Museum of Hygiene, extract from report of Medical-Inspector H. M. Wells...
Naval Academy,

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practical instruction, time devoted to......

library, increase in books....

catalogue necessary.

general-service men, enlistment of, for.................

result of May examination...

estimates for support of..

additional ground needed....

electric lighting should be introduced.

new furniture for cadets' quarters needed.......
estimates and appropriations for 1888....

schedule of offers and contracts for supplies..
report of practice cruise..

annual report Board of Visitors..

reduction of course recommended..

grounds, buildings, and sanitary condition.

seamenship, ordnance, and navigation.

discipline, drill, exercises, and police...

steam-engineering, physics, and mathematics

English studies, history, etc......

finance and library.

subjects of study, and standard of scholarship..

presence of North Atlantic Squadron, enhanced interest

Naval Asylum, expenditures for, in 1888..

estimates for 1890..

excellent condition reported...
beneficiaries, number and changes..
improvements in building recommended.
pay of employés, increase suggested..
proposed change in name approved
sale of wharf lot recommended.......

Naval hospital fund, condition of

Naval hospitals, condition of..

diseases treated at.

Navy increase, appropriations for

description of vessels..

payments made on vessels..

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Naval Intelligence, office of, estimates for salaries, etc..

Naval Observatory, notice of operations at...

estimates for salaries, etc

estimate for new

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Navigation, Bureau, derelicts, importance of removing

Hydrographic Office, its great importance.
Nautical Almanac office, work of..
Naval Observatory, work at

new, progress in constructing.

library of Department, accessions to, etc

naval war records, importance of completing
Naval War College, value to the service..

naval reserves, establishment of

international marine conference, importance of.
estimates for all purposes -

expenditures for civil establishment at navy-yards.

Navy-yard, Portsmouth, N. H., condition and requirements...

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Navy-yard, Boston, condition and requirements.

appropriations required for repairs..
civil force..

expenditure at, in 1888.
estimates received from
expenditures for civilians in 1888

expenditure at, in 1888..
estimates received from

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civil force..51, 71, 90, 202, 281, 352, 423

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Navy-yard, New York, condition and requirements..

appropriations required for repairs, etc..

expenditure at, in 1888..
estimates received from
expenditures for civilians in 1888.

Navy-yard, League Island, condition and requirements

civil force.....51, 71, 90, 202, 281,

appropriations required for repairs, etc

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estimates received from
expenditures for civilians in 1888

Navy-yard, Norfolk, condition and requirements

appropriations required for repairs.....

expenditure at, in 1888.
estimates received from.
expenditures for civilians in 1888.

Navy-yard, Mare Island, condition and requirements..

appropriations required for repairs, etc.

civil force.51, 71, 90, 202, 231, 352, 423

expenditure at, in 1888..
estimates received from
expenditures for civilians in 1888.

Navy-yard, Pensacola, condition and requirements

appropriations for civil force
expenditures at, in 1888...
estimates received from..

expenditures for civilians in 1888..

Navy-yard, New London, condition and requirements

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Nautical Almanac office, work on new tables of planets....
computations, annual correction of.
theory of Jupiter and Saturn.
mass of Jupiter....

Nautical instruments, trial of, at Observatory

Naval reserves, importance of establishing

Naval War Records, progress in prepairing.

insufficiency of force...

estimates for office....

should be speedily completed

Naval War College, importance of, suggested by the Admiral.

notice of, by Chief of Bureau of Navigation.
report of Capt. A. T. Mahan, president

programme, session of 158

officers engaged in lecturing at.

estimate for...

improvement in course of studies..

lectures delivered at....

importance to the naval profession..

Naval Ordnance Proving Ground, trial of guns and carriages.

trial of Maxim's 45-caliber machine-gun..

work performed at....

services of Lieut. A. M. Knight and assistants
trial of inventions.

gun ranges insufficient.

forms of exercises and drills for guns tried..

change of location thought of..

registering velocities, Knight's instrument.
reports of Lieut. A. M. Knight

Nautilus Submarine Company, proposal torpedo-boat designs not satisfactory.
Nelson, Commander T., information furnished Hydrographic Office...
Newcomb, Prof. Simon, report of, superintendent Nautical Almanac.
Newell, Lieut. Commander J. S., report of surveys furnished Hydrographic
Office.

Nitro-glycerine inert, firing of shells charged with.

Nordenfeldt design for torpedo-boat, proposal not satisfactory

Norris, Lient. John A., to determine magnetic longitude measurement..
Oath of allegiance, administering of, by officers suggested..
Octants examined at Observatory

Ocean surveys, satisfactory continuation of...

estimates for............

Our Mary, launch, report on boilers of..

Oscillating engines, pump, etc., report on......

Ordance Proving Ground. (See Naval Ordnance Proving Ground.)

Ordnance, Bureau of, report of Chief.......

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Ordnance, Bureau of, greater facilities required at torpedo station...
notice of Commander McCormick.
appropriations and expenditures in 1888.
expenditure for day labor...

amount paid civilian employés..

abstracts of offers for supplies..

extimates for various purposes

report of Commander Goodrich, torpedo station

Naval Ordnance Proving Ground, report of Lieutenant
Knight......

gun factory, monthly reports of work
Records of Torpedo Board

Pacific, northwest coast, location of yard on coast.
Paddock, Hon. A. S., member of Board of Visitors..
Parker, Lieut. John P., services commended....

report of, branch office, Baltimore.
Patrick, J. K. N., trial of his torpedo not completed..
Paul, Asst. Prof. H. M., services at Observatory

Pay, increase to petty officers recommended..

of the Navy, and pay miscellaneous, estimates for..
Pension cases examined in Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
Pensions granted to continuous-service men...........
Petroleum as a fuel, reports as to ....

Petty officers, increase of pay recommended.

Philip, Commander J. W., commanding receiving-ship Independence.
Photography, Observatory, Lieutenant Winterhalter in charge

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Phythian, Capt. R. S., report of, as Superintendent Observatory
Picking, Commander H. F., commanding U. S. S. Michigan..
Pillsbury, Lieut. J. E., surveys made for Hydrographic Office
Pittsburgh Steel Casting Company, contract for guns..
Plant for ship-building, procurement of....

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steering-machine, contract for..

Pneumatic gun-carriages, contract for..

Polk, Mrs. James K., opened Cincinnati Exposition..

Porter, D. D., Admiral, report of (see also Admiral of the Navy).

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report on Berdan's torpedo..

Port Royal, estimates for...

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Pratt & Whitney, construction of Hotchkiss guns by...

Primers, several forms of Lieutenant May's electrical, tried.

expenditure at..

Powder, tests of American, used in Navy.

new forms of, introduced..

Potter, Capt. E. E., governor of Naval Asylum, Philadelphia

Powell, W. T., recommended for chief draughtsman, Construction and Repair.

Printing and binding, estimates for Hydrographic Office..

Projectiles, form of cast-iron, not changed

trial of armor-piercing shell

cast-steel common shell or shrapnel

Property accounts, ashore and afloat, system improved
condemned, sales of..

Provisions, estimates for

statement of appropriation for

Provisions and Clothing, Bureau of, report of Chief...

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Rae, Passed Assistant Engineer C. W., report on Herreshoff boiler.

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