Ordnance service.

Manufacture

of arms.

Arsenals.

Saltpetre and brimstone. Drawings. Springfield armory.

Harper's Ferry armory.

Fort Atkinson.

To settle accounts of C.

tonments and encampments for military purposes, one hundred and forty thousand dollars;

For transportation of officers' baggage, when travelling on duty without troops, thirty-five thousand dollars;

For transportation of troops and supplies of the army, including the baggage of troops when moving either by land or water; freights and ferriages; the purchase or hire of horses, mules, oxen, carts, wagons and boats for the transportation of supplies, and for garrison purposes; drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay department; the expense of sailing public transports between the posts on the Gulf of Mexico, and of procuring water at such posts, as from their situation require it; of clothing from the depot at Philadelphia to the stations of the troops; of subsistence from the places of purchase, and from the places of delivery, under contracts, to such places as the circumstances of the service may require it to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, and frontier posts, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars;

For medical and hospital department, twenty-seven [thousand] eight hundred dollars;

For continuing the meteorological observations at the military posts of the United States, under the direction of the Surgeon General for said fiscal year, two thousand dollars;

For the contingencies of the army, five thousand dollars;

For surveys in reference to the military defences of the frontiers, inland and Atlantic, ten thousand dollars;

For military and geographical surveys west of the Mississippi, twenty thousand dollars;

For continuing the surveys of the Northern and Northwestern lakes, twenty thousand dollars;

For purchase of ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, seventyfive thousand dollars;

For armament of fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars;
For current expense of ordnance service, ninety-five thousand dol

lars;

For manufacture of arms at the national armories, two hundred thou sand dollars;

For arsenals, one hundred thousand dollars;

For purchase of saltpetre and brimstone, forty thousand dollars; For expense of preparing drawings of artillery, one thousand dollars; For repairs and improvements and new machinery at Springfield armory, twenty-five thousand dollars;

For repairs and improvements and new machinery at Harper's Ferry armory, twelve thousand dollars;

For barracks, quarters, &c., at Fort Atkinson, to close outstanding accounts, nine thousand four hundred and seventy-six dollars and eighty-eight cents;

To settle the accounts of Major Charles Thomas and Captain EdThomas and E. Ward B. Alexander, being a re-appropriation of part of two former ap propriations for the erection of a fort on the Arkansas frontier, which has been carried to the surplus fund, twenty-eight thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars and seventy-one cents;

B. Alexander.

Building at Newport, Ky.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of ten thousand dollars be and hereby is appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of repairing the present buildings and erecting such others as may be necessary at the military post at Newport, Kentucky.

APPROVED, June 17, 1844.

STATUTE I.

June 17, 1844.

In addition to

CHAP. CVII.-An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-five. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be appropriated out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, in ad- unexpended dition to the unexpended balances of former appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year commencing on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and forty-four, and ending on the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-five:

balances.

Pay of officers and seamen. Proviso.

For pay of commission, warrant and petty officers and seamen, including the engineer corps of the navy, two millions five hundred and nine thousand one hundred and eighty-nine dollars: Provided, That the whole number of petty officers, seamen, ordinary seamen, landsmen and boys in the naval service, shall not exceed seven thousand five hundred at any one time during the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made: And provided, further, That no portion of the said sum be ap- Proviso. plied to the pay of any officers of any grade of the navy beyond the number allowed by law, in the respective grades, on the first day of September, eighteen hundred and forty-two: And provided, further, Proviso. That all persons who may have been appointed as masters mates since the fourth day of August, eighteen hundred and forty-two, and who were not at the time of their appointment able seamen of the first class, shall be forthwith discharged, except such as shall have actually gone to sea; and those at sea shall be discharged and sent back in the first national ship returning to the United States, and paid to the period of their return; and in case no opportunity for returning shall be presented before the expiration of the cruise of the ship to which they are attached, then they shall be discharged on the return of such ship and paid to that time.

For pay of the civil establishment at the navy-yard in Kittery, Maine, Kittery. viz:

For pay of naval store-keeper, fourteen hundred dollars;

For pay of clerk to naval store-keeper, seven hundred and fifty dollars;

For pay of naval constructor, two thousand three hundred dollars;
For pay of clerk of navy-yard, nine hundred dollars;

Storekeeper.
Clerk.

Constructor.
Clerks.

For pay of clerk of commandant, nine hundred dollars;

For pay of clerk of naval constructor, four hundred dollars;

For pay of porter of navy-yard, three hundred dollars;
For pay of inspector of timber, seven hundred dollars;

For pay of the civil establishment at navy-yard in Charlestown, Massachusetts, viz:

For pay of naval store-keeper, seventeen hundred dollars;
For pay of three clerks to naval store-keeper, twenty-one hundred
and fifty dollars;

For pay of naval constructor, two thousand three hundred dollars;
For pay of inspector of timber, one thousand and fifty dollars;
For pay of clerk of navy-yard, nine hundred dollars;
For pay of two clerks to commandant of navy-yard, sixteen hundred
and fifty dollars;

For pay of clerk to naval constructor, six hundred and fifty dollars;
For pay of porter of navy-yard, three hundred dollars;

For

Porter.
Inspector.
Charlestown.

Storekeeper.
Clerks.

Constructor.
Inspector.
Clerks.

Porter.
Magazine

pay of keeper of magazine, four hundred and eighty dollars; For pay of the civil establishment at the navy-yard in Brooklyn, New keeper. York, viz:

For pay of naval store-keeper, seventeen hundred dollars;

For pay of three clerks for naval store-keeper, twenty-one hundred and fifty dollars;

Brooklyn.

Storekeeper.
Clerks.

Constructor.
Inspector.
Clerks.

Porter. Magazine keeper. Philadelphia. Storekeeper. Clerk.

Constructor.
Inspector.
Clerks.

Porter.
Washington.

Constructor.

Steam engi

neer.

Storekeeper.
Clerk.

Inspector.
Clerks.

Porter.
Magazine

keeper.

Gosport.

Storekeeper.
Clerks.

Constructor.

Inspector.
Clerks.

Porter. Magazine keeper. Pensacola.

Storekeeper.
Clerks.

Porter.

Warrant officer to take

charge of stores in foreign ports.

For pay of naval constructor, two thousand three hundred dollars;
For pay of inspector of timber, one thousand and fifty dollars;
For pay of clerk of the navy-yard, nine hundred dollars;

For pay of two clerks to commandant of the navy-yard, sixteen hundred and fifty dollars;

For pay of clerk to naval constructor, six hundred and fifty dollars;
For pay of porter of navy-yard, three hundred dollars;

For pay of keeper of the magazine, four hundred and eighty dollars;
For pay of the civil establishment of the navy-yard in Philadelphia,

viz:

For pay of naval store-keeper, twelve hundred and fifty dollars;
For pay of clerk to naval store-keeper, seven hundred and fifty dol-
lars;

For pay of naval constructor, two thousand three hundred dollars;
For pay of inspector of timber, nine hundred dollars;

For pay of clerk of navy-yard, nine hundred dollars;

For pay of clerk to commandant of the navy-yard, nine hundred dollars;

For pay of clerk to naval constructor, four hundred dollars;
For pay of porter of navy-yard, three hundred dollars.

For pay of the civil establishment at the navy-yard in Washington,
District of Columbia, viz:

For pay of chief naval constructor, three thousand dollars;
For pay of principal steam engineer, twenty-five hundred dollars;
For pay of naval store-keeper, seventeen hundred dollars;

For pay of clerk of naval store-keeper, seven hundred and fifty dol

lars;

For pay of inspector of timber, nine hundred dollars;

For pay of clerk of navy-yard, nine hundred dollars;

For pay of two clerks to commandant of navy-yard, sixteen hundred and fifty dollars;

For pay of porter of the navy-yard, three hundred dollars;

For pay of keeper of the magazine, four hundred and eighty dollars; For pay of the civil establishment at the navy-yard in Gosport, Virginia, viz:

For pay of the naval store-keeper, seventeen hundred dollars; For pay of three clerks to naval store-keeper, twenty-one hundred and fifty dollars;

For pay of naval constructor, two thousand three hundred dollars;
For pay of inspector of timber, one thousand and fifty dollars;
For pay of clerk of navy-yard, nine hundred dollars;

For pay of two clerks to commandant of navy-yards, sixteen hundred and fifty dollars;

For pay of clerk to naval constructor, six hundred and fifty dollars;
For pay of porter of the navy-yard, three hundred dollars;

For pay of the keeper of the magazine, four hundred and eighty dollars;

For pay of the civil department of the navy-yard at Pensacola, in Florida, viz:

For pay of naval store-keeper, seventeen hundred dollars;

For

For

For

pay of two clerks to naval store-keepers, twelve hundred dollars; pay of clerk of navy-yard, nine hundred dollars;

pay of two clerks to commandant of navy-yard, sixteen hundred and fifty dollars;

For pay of porter of the navy-yard, three hundred dollars;

And it is hereby directed that the Secretary of the Navy shall order a competent commissioned or warrant officer of the Navy to take charge of the naval stores for foreign squadrons in the place of naval storekeepers at each of the foreign ports where said stores may be deposited

and where a store-keeper is necessary: Provided, That said officers shall be required to give a bond in such amount as may be fixed by the Secretary of the Navy for the faithful performance of his duty: And provided also, That the annual compensation for all his services except travelling, shall not exceed fifteen hundred dollars.

Proviso.

Proviso.

For provisions for the navy, including transportation, cooperage, and Provisions. other expenses, six hundred and fifteen thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight dollars;

For surgeons' necessaries and appliances, for the sick and hurt of the naval service, including the marine corps, twelve thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;

For the increase, repair, armament and equipment of the navy, and wear and tear of vessels in commission, one million dollars;

For ordnance and ordnance stores, including all incidental expenses and liabilities on outstanding contracts, three hundred and seventy thousand eight hundred and eighty-five dollars;

Surgeons' necessaries, &c.

Increase of

navy, &c.

Ordnance, &c.

For books, maps, charts and instruments, binding and repairing the Books, &c. same, and all expenses of the Hydrographical office, twenty-three thousand two hundred dollars;

For grading and enclosing University Square in the city of Washington, upon which the depot of charts and instruments has been erected, twelve thousand five hundred dollars;

For improvements and necessary repairs of navy-yards, viz:
At Kittery, Maine, twenty-four thousand eight hundred dollars;
At Charlestown, Massachusetts, twenty-four thousand five hundred
and fifty dollars;

At Brooklyn, New York, thirty-eight thousand six hundred and eighteen dollars, and the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the said navy-yard of one hundred and twenty-nine thousand one hundred dollars, made by the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the naval service for the year eighteen hundred and forty-two," approved on the fourth day of August, eighteen hundred and forty-two, shall be immediately expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy in continuance of the work already commenced at said navy-yard, for the construction of a stone dry dock at the said place, or in the construction of a dry dock on some other plan, if he shall deem the same better suited for the purposes of the navy, as in his discretion he shall deem best for the public interest.

University Square.

Improvements of yards. Kittery. Charlestown.

Brooklyn, for construction of a dry dock.

Act of August 4, 1842, ch. 121.

At Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, nine thousand two hundred and twen-, Philadelphia. ty-two dollars and sixty-six cents;

At Washington, District of Columbia, sixteen thousand two hundred and sixty-seven dollars;

Washington.

At Gosport, Virginia, twenty-nine thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars;

Gosport.

Pensacola. Continuation of certain works specified.

Act of March

At Pensacola, Florida, sixteen thousand three hundred and thirtyseven dollars; and the further sum of fifty thousand three hundred and seventy-one dollars, which, with the sum of one hundred thousand dollars heretofore appropriated for the construction of a floating dry dock at that place by the act of March third one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, making together the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand 3, 1843, ch. 83. three hundred and seventy-one dollars, shall be expended in the construction of the following works and in the following proportions, to wit: for a permanent wharf, sixty thousand dollars; for a ship-house and building slip, forty thousand dollars; for a store-house, twenty thousand dollars; for a timber shed, twenty thousand dollars, and for a temporary wharf, ten thousand three hundred and seventy-one dollars; according to the plan and report communicated to the Senate by the Secretary of the Navy in compliance with a resolution of the twentyninth April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.

Examination of Pensacola harbor.

For the examination of the navy-yard and bottom of the harbor of Pensacola, for the purpose of ascertaining whether a dry dock can be constructed and at what cost; and whether a dry dock or a floating dock with or without a basin and railways would be most suitable for that place; and the Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed to appoint a competent board of officers and engineers to examine and report to Congress at its next session the relative properties and advantages of a dry dock, and of the different kinds of floating docks with or without a Yard at Ports- basin and railways; five thousand dollars. And that a similar examination be made at the navy-yard near Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and a report made on the expediency of making a dry dock there.

mouth to be

examined.

For magazines, viz:

At Charleston, two hundred dollars;

At Brooklyn, two hundred dollars;

At Washington, two hundred dollars;

At Norfolk, seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For contingent expenses that may accrue for the following purposes,

viz:

For the freight and transportation of materials and stores of every description; for printing and stationery; for books, maps, charts, mathematical and nautical instruments, chronometers, models and drawings; for the purchase and repair of fire-engines, and for machinery of every description; for the repair of steam-engines in yards; for the purchase and maintenance of horses and oxen; for carts, timber-wheels, and workmen's tools of every description; for postage of letters on public service; for coals and other fuel; for candles and oil for use of vessels of war in commission and of navy-yards and shore stations; for incidental labor at navy-yards and on board vessels not chargeable to any other appropriation; for labor attending the delivery of public stores and supplies on foreign stations; for wharfage, dockage, storage and rent, travelling expenses of officers, and transportation of seamen; house rent to pursers, when duly authorized; funeral expenses, commissions, clerk hire, store rent, office rent, stationery and fuel to navy agents and naval storekeepers; premiums, and incidental expenses of recruiting; apprehending deserters; per diem allowance to persons attending courts-martial and courts of inquiry, or other services authorized by law; compensation to judge advocates; printing and stationery of every description, and for working the lithographic press; pilotage and towing vessels of war; assistance rendered to vessels in distress; and for no other purpose whatever, four hundred thousand dollars;

For contingent expenses for objects not herein before enumerated, five thousand dollars;

For coal and other fuel for steam vessels, forty thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars;

Marine Corps.-For pay of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, privates and servants serving on shore, and subsistence of officers, two hundred thousand eight hundred and fifteen dollars and sixty cents;

For clothing, forty-three thousand six hundred and thirty-five dollars: and the President of the United States is hereby authorized to direct the transfer of any unexpended balance of appropriation hereto fore made for the pay or subsistence of the marine corps, to the head of clothing for the marine corps;

For provisions, forty-five thousand and eleven dollars and ninety-five cents;

For fuel, sixteen thousand two hundred and seventy-four dollars and twelve cents;

For military stores, repair of arms, pay of armorers, accoutrements,