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and that the existing agencies and superintendencies of said In-Agencies dians be continued with the same powers and duties which are continued. now prescribed by law, except that the President of the United States may, at his discretion, change the location of the office of Location may be said agencies or superintendents. Approved March 3, 1863.

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CHAPTER CXVIII.

AN ACT making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending March 3, 1863. June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, 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 Appropriation. following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-four:

For pay of commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, including the engineer corps of the navy, fourteen million seven hundred and thirty-four thousand three hundred and thirty-two dollars and seventy cents.

For the construction and repair of vessels of the navy, nine million two hundred and ninety-eight thousand dollars.

Pay of officers and men.

Construction and

repair.

Purchase, &c., of

additional steam

For the purchase and building of additional steamers, repairs of same, charter of vessels, extra labor and materials, and repairs of ers, &c. vessels on foreign stations, fifteen millions of dollars.

Armor-plated sea

advertisement, &c.

For two armor-plated sea-steamers of iron of the first class, steamers of iron. three million dollars: Provided, That no contract shall be en- Contract to be tered into for the construction of said steamers until after public made only after advertisement for proposals to build the same, published for at least thirty days in two daily newspapers of general circulation, published in each of the cities of Washington, New York, Boston, and Philadelphia, prior to such contract being made.

For the purchase of hemp and other materials for the navy, three hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

For fuel for the navy, and for the transportation and expenses thereof, two million six hundred and ninety thousand dollars. For the equipment of vessels in the navy, viz:

For the purchase of various articles of equipment, canvas, leather, cables, and anchors, and furniture, and stores, in the masters', boatswains', and sailmakers' departments, two million dollars.

For provisions for commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, including engineers and marines attached to vessels for sea service, five million four hundred and seventeen thousand seven hundred and forty-five dollars.

Hemp, &c.

Fuel.

Equipment.

Provisions.

of machinery.

For construction and repair of machiney for vessels in commis- Construction,&c., sion, five million seven hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.

Surgeon's' necessaries and appli

For surgeons' necessaries and appliances for the sick and hurt of the navy, including the engineer and marine corps, one hun- ances. dred and fifty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.

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For cannon of all descriptions, field and boat howitzers, gun carriages, shot, shell, and equipment of all kinds, powder, purchase of nitre, small arms, ordnance labor at navy yards, freight, transportation, books, inspecting instruments, watchmen, assistants for fabrication and inspection of guns, and contingent expenses of ordnance and Ordnance bureau, six millions three hundred thousand dollars.

For three powder-tugs at Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, and repairs of ordnance steamboat, forty thousand dollars.

For repairs and additions to ordnance machinery in shops, and for the establishment by purchase or hire of two magazines, and repairs and additions thereto, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For pay of photographer for Ordnance bureau, three hundred dollars.

For compass stations and magnetic deviations, books, binnacles, flags, signals, logs, sand-glasses, leads, longitudes, tables of navigation, determination of meridian distances, and experiments with night-signals, one hundred and forty-nine thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of the navy, one hundred thousand

dollars.

BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS.

For contingent expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, viz: For the freight and transportation of materials and stores for yards and docks; for dockage; for printing and stationery; for books, maps, models, and drawings; for the purchase and repair of fire-engines; for machinery of every description, and the patent right to use the same; for the repair of steamengines, and attendance on the same in the navy yards; for docking vessels; for the purchase and maintenance of horses and oxen and driving teams; for carts and timber wheels, and workmen's tools of every description, and repairing the same; for postage of letters on public service; for furniture for government houses; for coals and other fuel; for candles and oil for use of navy yards and stations; for cleaning and clearing up yards; for supply of water at navy yards for navy yard purposes; for flags, awnings, and packing boxes; for watchmen, and for incidental labor at navy yards not applicable to any other appropriation, six hundred and seventy-nine thousand dollars.

BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING.

For contingent expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, viz: Expenses of recruiting; travelling expenses of officers; transportation of men; printing and stationery; advertising in newspapers; postage on public letters; wharfage and demurrage; funeral expenses; apprehending deserters; pilotage and towage of vessels, and assistance to vessels in distress; per diem pay to persons attending courts-martial. courts of inquiry, and other services authorized by law; pay to judge advocates, and for bills of health and quarantine expenses of vessels of the navy, one million dollars.

BUREAU OF NAVIGATION.

For contingent expenses of the Bureau of Navigation, one thousand dollars.

BUREAU OF CONSTUCTION AND REPAIR.

Bureau of Navi gation.

Contingent ex

penses.

Bureau of Con struction and Re

pair.

Contingent ex

For contingent expenses, viz: For transportation of materials; penses. printing, stationery, books, models, drawings, postage, and miscellaneous items, fifty thousand dollars.

BUREAU OF PROVISIONS AND CLOTHING.

Bureau of Provisions and Clothing.

penses.

For contingent expenses, viz: For candles; freight to foreign Contingent exstations; transportation from station to station within the United States; cooperage; pay of assistants to inspectors; advertising for proposals; printing paymasters' blanks; and stationery for cruising vessels, three hundred thousand dollars.

BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.

For contingent expenses of the Bureau of Medicine and Sur- Contingent exgery, forty thousand dollars.

MARINE CORPS.

penses.

Marine corps.

For pay of non-commissioned officers, musicians, privates, Pay. clerks, messengers, steward and nurse, and servants; for rations and clothing for officers' servants; additional rations to officers for five years' service; for undrawn clothing and rations, and bounties for re-enlistments, seven hundred and ninety thousand seven hundred and eighty-three dollars and eighty cents.

For provisions, one hundred and thirty-five thousand nine hundred and twenty-six dollars.

Rations & clothing, and bounties.

Provisions.

For clothing, two hundred thousand two hundred and seventy- Clothing. six dollars and seventy-six cents.

For fuel, thirty-one thousand four hundred and thirty dollars

and seventy-five cents.

Fuel.

For military stores, viz: Pay of mechanics, repair of arms, pur- Military stores. chase of accoutrements, ordnance stores, flags, drums, fifes, and other instruments, fifteen thousand dollars.

For transportation of officers, their servants, troops, and expenses of recruiting, twenty-two thousand dollars.

For repairs of barracks, and rent of offices where there are no public buildings for that purpose, eight thousand dollars.

For contingencies, viz: Freight, ferriage, toll, cartage, wharfage; purchase and repair of boats; compensation to judges advocate; per diem for attending courts-martial, courts of inquiry, and for constant labor; house rent in lieu of quarters; burial of deceased marines; printing, stationery, postage, telegraphing; apprehension of deserters; oil, candles, gas; repairs of gas and water fixtures; water rent, forage, straw, barrack furniture; furniture for officers' quarters; bed sacks, spades, shovels, axes, picks, carpenters' tools; keep of a horse for the messenger; pay of matron, washerwoman, and porter at the hospital headquarters; repairs to

Transportation.

Repairs of barracks and rent of offices.

Contingencies.

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fire-engine; purchase and repair of engine hose; purchase of lumber for benches, mess tables, and bunks; repairs to public carryall; purchase and repair of harness; scavengering, galleys, cooking stoves, and ranges; stoves where there are no grates; gravel for parade grounds; repair of pumps; furniture for staff and commanding officers' offices; brushes, brooms, buckets, paving, and for other purposes, forty-five thousand dollars.

For the construction of marine barracks at Mare island, California, one hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: Provided, nevertheless, That said money shall not be expended until the plans for said barracks shall have been submitted to and approved by the Secretary of the Navy.

NAVY YARDS.

Portsmouth, New Hampshire.-For boat-house and carpenters' shop; paint shop; Bishop's derrick; railway; knee-dock-wall; repairs of floating dry dock, and repairs of all kinds, one hundred and thirty-two thousand three hundred and sixty-two dollars.

For rebuilding porter's house at Portsmouth navy yard, two thousand dollars.

Boston. For repairing around dry dock and relaying surface water drains, joiners' shop and painters' loft; extension of shear wharf; additional expenses on house for heavy forging hammer, and for repairs of all kinds, two hundred and seventy-eight thousand five hundred and sixty-six dollars.

New York. For continuation of quay wall; for new foundery; drains, paving, and flagging; water pipes and hydrants; filling low place; repairs of dry dock; chain-cable shop; railways; officers' houses; machinery for machine shop, foundery; boiler shop and pattern shop; for large chuck-lathe, for turning large rings for turrets on gun batteries, and for repairs of all kinds, three hundred and seventy-seven thousand and eleven dollars.

For building floating dry dock at navy yard, New York, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That if, after examination and survey, the Secretary of the Navy shall deem it expedient.

Philadelphia. For repairs of all kinds, twenty-eight thousand eight hundred dollars.

Washington. For Bishop's derrick; depot for coal for steamers; machinery and tools; and for repairs of all kinds, one hundred and thirty-one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one dollars.

Mare Island, California. For completing officers' houses; grading and paving; foundery, machine shop and equipment; completing Bishop's derrick; repairs of sectional dock; fitting up boiler shop in smithery; portable engines, with machinery for hoisting for yard purposes; cistern and holder for gas-works; sawmill; commencing stables; commencing coal-house and wharf; commencing sea-wall on west side of island, and repairs of all kinds, three hundred and sixty-six thousand three hundred and sixty-three dollars.

Sackett's Harbor.─For repairs of all kinds, one thousand five hundred dollars.

Navy Yard Norfolk.-For repairs of dry dock, and pumps, and general repairs, eighty-five thousand dollars.

HOSPITALS.

Norfolk.

Hospitals.

Boston. For repairs of hospital and grounds at Chelsea, two Boston. thousand five hundred dollars.

New York. For repairs and improvements; repairs and increase of apparatus in laboratory; and for temporary addition to hospital accommodations, twenty-two thousand dollars.

New York.

lum and hospital.

Philadelphia Asylum and Hospital.-For furniture and re- Philadelphia asypairs; house cleaning and whitewashing; repairs to furnaces, grates, and ranges; gas and water rent; improvement of chapel and grounds; for library of asylum; and for hospital and repairs of all kinds, two thousand nine hundred dollars.

For support of beneficiaries, thirty thousand dollars.

Norfolk. For the support and repair of the naval hospital at Norfolk for the remainder of the current fiscal year, and for the years eighteen hundred and sixty-three and eighteen hundred and sixty-four, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars.

Mound City-For supporting hospital, repairs, rent, and furniture at Mound City, Illinois, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars.

Norfolk.

Mound City.

Mare Island, California.-For commencing hospital, twenty- Mare island. five thousand dollars.

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Portsmouth, New Hampshire.-For ordnance, timber, shed, and storehouse for howitzers, thirty-one thousand five hundred and twenty-two dollars.

Boston. For repairs of building and care of grounds, two thousand dollars.

For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishment of the several navy yards and stations, one hundred and six thousand seven hundred and eighty-four dollars: Provided, That hereafter the salary of the civil engineer at the Washington navy yard shall be two thousand dollars a year, and the salary of the civil engineer of the Bureau of Yards and Docks shall be three thousand dollars.

For expenses of watchmen and others, and contingencies of the United States Naval Academy, twenty-four thousand eight hundred and eighty-one dollars.

Naval Observatory.-For the purchase of nautical instruments, repairs of the same, and of astronomical instruments, and for the purchase of nautical books, maps, and charts, and for backing and binding the same, twenty-three thousand dollars.

For wages of instrument maker, watchman, porter, and laborers; for keeping grounds in order, and repairs to buildings and enclosures; for fuel, lights, freights, transportation, and postage, and stationery, and incidental expenses, twelve thousand dollars. For preparing for publication the American Nautical Almanac, twenty-five thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.

Portsmouth.

Boston.

Civil establishment of navy yards.

Salary of civil

engineer at Wash

ington navy yard, Yards and Docks.

and of Bureau of

Contingencies

Naval Academy.

Naval Observa

tory.

American Nautical Almanac.

Certificates to officers, crew, &c.,

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sev- of the Congress

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