Chapter CIX. *making Appropriations for the Naval Service, for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.* August 31, 1852. *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 th
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Chap. CIX.— An Act *making Appropriations for the Naval Service, for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.* August 31, 1852. *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 year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three:
Pay.For pay of commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, including the engineer corps of the navy, two millions seven hundred and Salary of secretary of Naval Academy at Annapolis.Extra pay to persons in the Naval service on the coasts of Mexico and California, and to those engaged in the search for Sir John Franklin.seventy-one thousand six hundred and ninety-eight dollars: *Provided, *That from and after the first of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, the salary of the Secretary of the Naval Academy at Annapolis shall be twelve hundred and fifty dollars per annum, and the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to allow and pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the officers, petty officers, seamen, and marines of the United States navy, and to the officers and men of the revenue service, who served in the Pacific Ocean on the coast of California and Mexico since the twenty-eighth of September, eighteen hundred and filly, the same increased or additional compensation, as has been by law directed to be paid to the officers and soldiers of the army who served in California; and the several officers who served on the late Arctic expedition in search of Sir John Franklin shall, in addition to the pay with which they have already been credited, be allowed for the period during which they so served the following compensation respectively, namely: the commander of the expedition, the pay of a commander; the passed midshipmen, the pay of lieutenants; the passed assistant-surgeon, the pay of a fleet surgeon; the assistant surgeon, the pay of a surgeon; and the midshipmen, the pay of passed midshipmen, all as on sea service; and that there be allowed to the warrant-officers and to the petty officers and men that composed the crews of the vessels employed on that expedition, extra pay equal to the regular pay with which they have been credited for their Pay of chaplains.services on the said expedition; and the pay[of]chaplains in the navy shall be one thousand dollars on leave, or waiting orders, and fifteen hundred dollars while on duty.
THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 109. 1852. 101 For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishmentsNavy-yards, &c. at the several navy-yards and stations, ninety thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars; and the navy agent at Memphis, for the timeMemphis. during which be has performed or may perform the duties of purser, in addition to his own, shall be allowed and paid the annual salary of a purser on duty at navy-yards of the second class, which shall not be in addition to his commissions, but in lieu thereof; and the salary of the assistant to purser for the navy-yard at Kittery, Maine, who also dischargesKittery. the duties of clerk and steward, shall be seven hundred and fifty dollars; and the pay of the “first clerk to the commandant” at the navy-yards at Norfolk, New York, and Boston, shall be at the rate of oneCommandants’ clerks at Norfolk, New York, and Boston. thousand dollars per annum; and that the “second clerk to the commandant ” at the same yards, shall be at the rate of eight hundred dollars per annum from and after the passage of this act.
For provisions for commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen,Provisions. including engineers and marines attached to vessels for sea-service, six hundred and eighty-six thousand two hundred dollars. It being provided, that so much of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, entitled “An act making appropriations for the naval serviceCommutation of rations.1851, ch. 34. of the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two,” as provides, that “no commutation of rations shall be allowed, except to officers and their attendants, and for the spirit part of the ration,” be and the same is hereby repealed.
For a scientific investigation and experiments upon the character ofExperiments on alimentary substances. alimentary substances used as subsistence in the navy, and means to prevent their deterioration, two thousand five hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy. For surgeons’ necessaries and appliances for the sick and hurt of theSick, &c. navy, including the marine corps, thirty-seven thousand six hundred dollars. For repair of vessels in ordinary, and for wear and tear of vessels inRepairs. commission, including fuel and purchase of hemp, one million three hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars.
And the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby authorized and required to have completed with the least possible delay, the war-steamer contracted for with Robert L. Stevens,War steamer of Robert L. Stevens.1842, ch. 22.*Post,* p. 670. in pursuance of an act of Congress, approved April fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two; and the balance of the appropriation heretofore made, which has been carried to the credit of the surplus fund, shall be used for that purpose.
And the Secretary of the Navy may, if he deem it proper, cause to be applied, as soon as practicable, to one or more of the steam-vessels belonging to the United States,Steam condensers. any steam-condenser which may be found best calculated for the purpose, for furnishing fresh water to marine boilers and for the use of the crews. For ordnance and ordnance stores, and smallarms, including incidentalOrdnance. expenses, one hundred and twenty-five thousand Coast survey. 1849, ch. 103.dollars.
For preparing for publication the American Nautical Almanac, nineteenNautical Almanac. thousand four hundred dollars. For the purchase and repair of nautical instruments required for theNautical Instruments. use of the navy, ten thousand five hundred dollars. For the purchase of all the books, maps, and charts required for theBooks, &c. use of the navy, eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For backing and binding the same, and for printing and publishingContingencies. sailing directions, hydrographical surveys, and astronomical observations, nine thousand two hunched dollars.
For models, drawings, and copying, postage, stationery, freight, and transportation, for pay of lithographer, and for working lithographic press, including chemicals, for keeping grounds and buildings in order, for repairing and protecting from further depredations brick wall on[the] 102cast, south, and west side of the grounds, for pay of porter, gardener, watchmen, instrument-maker, for fuel, lights, and all the unenumerated contingent expenses of the Hydrographical Office and National Observatory, eleven thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.
Wind and current charts.For continuing the publication of the wind and current charts, and for defraying all the expenses connected therewith, ten thousand dollars. Naval Academy at Annapolis.For the repairs and erection of buildings at the United States Naval Academy, at Annapolis, Maryland, twenty-eight thousand dollars. To complete the quarters for the students and professors of the Naval Academy Appointment of midshipmen, pupils, &c.at Annapolis, the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars.
And hereafter no appointment of midshipman, acting midshipman, or pupil at any naval school in the navy, shall be made unless recommended by the member of Congress representing the district in which the applicant resides, in the same manner that cadets at West Point are now appointed; Report of appointments.and that the Secretary of the Navy is hereby required to report to Congress, at its second session, the number and names of appointments to the Naval School, which have been made; and the district and State whence each one comes, and the number of vacancies then existing at said school, with the Congressional district which may be entitled to supply them; and a statement of the order in which the remainder of the Congressional districts shall be entitled to supply all future and accruing vacancies, so far as it may be determined by existing law, or by circumstances.
Contingencies of Naval Academy.For the contingent expenses of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, twenty-one thousand seven hundred dollars. Miscellaneous.For contingent expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, viz.: freight and transportation, printing and stationery, advertising in newspapers, books, maps, models, and drawings, purchase and repair of fire-engines and machinery, repairs of and attending to steam-engines in navy-yards, purchase and maintenance of horses and oxen, and driving teams, carts, timber-wheels, and the purchase and repair of workmen’s tools, postage of public letters, furniture for Government houses, fuel, oil, and candles for navy-yards and shore-stations, pay of watchmen and incidental labor, not chargeable to any other appropriation, labor attending the delivery of stores on foreign stations, wharfage, dockage, and rent, travelling expenses of officers and others under orders, funeral expenses, store and office rent, stationery, fuel, commissions, and pay of clerks to navy agents and storekeepers, flags, awnings, and packing boxes, premiums and other expenses of recruiting, apprehending deserters, per diem pay to persons attending courts-martial, and courts of inquiry, and other services authorized by law, pay to judges-advocate, pilotage, and towage of vessels and assistance to vessels in distress, bills of health and quarantine expenses of vessels of the United States Navy in foreign ports, five hundred and twenty-seven thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.
Meteorological observations.For meteorological observations, to be conducted under the directions of the Secretary of the Navy, two thousand dollars. J. P. Espy.For the payment of the salary of Professor James P. Espy, during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, no appropriation having been made by Congress for that year, two thousand dollars. Navy-yards.For construction, extension, and completion of the following objects, and for contingent expenses at the several navy-yards, viz.:
Portsmouth.*Portsmouth, New Hampshire.—*For building timber shed number twenty-nine, foundation for shores at railway, drains, gutters, and paving, and repairs of all kinds, thirty-five thousand and forty-one dollars and twenty-three cents. Boston.*Boston, Massachusetts.—*For rain-water cistern, pitch house and oakum loft, muster office, and repairs of all kinds, twenty-eight thousand one hundred dollars. 103 *New York, N. Y.—*To complete saw-mill, quay-wall, dredging channels,New York. water-tank and lighter, gas-pipes and fixtures, lightning conductors, continuation of sewer, machinery, &c., for engine-house, and repairs of all kinds, one hundred and twenty-six thousand eight hundred dollars. *Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.—*For shed to cover north railway, coveringPhiladelphia. to south railway, steam-box and pitch-kettles, mooring anchors for dry dock, dredging channel, continuing pavement to wharf, cross-paving to smithery, and from thence to the dock basin, paving round west end of ship-house, paving wharf number three to ship-house, paving between ways of dock, paving between timber sheds, completing gutters and drains, completing shed number five, extending gas-pipes, &c., extending water-pipes one thousand feet, and repairs of all kinds, twenty-eight thousand live hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty cents. *Washington, District of Columbia.—*For completing ordnance buildingWashington. number eleven, fitting up timber dock, completing saw-mill, completing copper-rolling mill, completing railway, completing side lathes in machine shop, and repairs of all kinds, one hundred and twenty-three thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight dollars. *Norfolk, Virginia.—*For storehouse number fourteen, wharf north sideNorfolk. of timber dock, culvert, dredging machine, and repairs of all kinds, eighty thousand seven hundred and thirty-two dollars and twenty cents. *Pensacola, Florida.—*Towards completing permanent wharf, toPensacola. complete guard-house and kitchen, to complete yard railway and repair old track, to complete extension of central wharf, to rebuild east wall of cistern number twenty-six, for icehouse, repairs of cisterns number fourteen and twenty-five, and repairs of all kinds, eighty-eight thousand and forty-four dollars. *Memphis, Tennessee.—*For pavements, drains and ditches, cisterns forMemphis. ropewalk, hemp-house, store-house, (one wing,) complete, railing for vertical wall, and repairs of all kinds, forty-seven thousand and forty-three dollars and thirty-four cents. *Sackett’s Harbor, New York.—*For repairs of all kinds, five hundredSackett’s Harbor. dollars.
For Hospitals:Hospitals. *At Boston.—*For repairs, five hundred dollars.Boston. *At New York.—*For fence round garden, repairs of buildings, painting,New York. whitewashing, clearing up grounds, &c., at hospital, and for completing fence and wall around the burial-ground, eight thousand nine hundred and ninety-three dollars. And to secure some proper place for the burial of seamen who die in the New York hospital, five thousand dollars. *At Philadelphia Naval Asylum.—*For introducing gas, painting mainPhiladelphia Naval Asylum. building inside, repairing and painting wall, repairs to roof and dome, cleaning and whitewashing, cleaning and repairing grates and ranges, water-tax, shade trees, and repairs of all kinds, five thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars. *At Washington.—*For general repairs, four hundred dollars.Washington. *At Norfolk.—*For repairs of hospital and dependencies, five thousandNorfolk. dollars. *At Pensacola.—*For draining and filling up ponds, &c., two thousandPensacola. dollars.
For Magazines:Magazines. At Boston, two hundred dollars. At New York, one thousand dollars. At Washington, one hundred and fifty dollars. Marine Corps.Marine corps. For pay of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, privates, and servants serving on shore, subsistence for officers, and pay for undrawn 104clothing, two hundred and seventeen thousand nine hundred and eighty-three dollars and forty-four cents. For provisions for marines serving on shore, nineteen thousand nine hundred and eighty-four dollars and seventy-five cents.
For clothing, forty-nine thousand four hundred and sixteen dollars. For fuel, three thousand dollars. For military stores, repair of arms, pay of armorers, accoutrements, ordnance stores, flags, drums, fifes, and musical instruments, eight thousand dollars. For transportation of officers and troops, and expenses of recruiting, nine thousand dollars. For repairs of barracks and rent of temporary barracks and offices where there are no public buildings for that purpose, six thousand dollars.
For contingencies, viz.: Freight, tonnage, toll, cartage, wharfage, 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, apprehension of deserters, oil, candles, forage, straw, furniture, bed-sacks, spades, axes, picks, shovels, carpenters’ tools, keep of a horse for the messenger, pay of matron, washerwoman, and porter at the hospital headquarters, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For purchase and freight to San Francisco of patent black marine paint for painting the interior of the sections and end-floats of the California dry dock, fifteen hundred dollars. 1849, eh. 103.For a deficiency in the act making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty, approved third Transfers of appropriations for the navy forbidden.March, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, for paying the unsatisfied demands upon the fund tor continuing the survey of the coast on the Gulf of Mexico from Apalachicola Bay to the Mississippi, two thousand one hundred and ten dollars and sixty-two cents, to be taken out of the balance of the fund appropriated for that purpose by the act of third March, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, and which has been carried to the credit of the surplus fund.
Sec. 2. Surveys of Behring Straits, North Pacific, and the China seas. *And be it further enacted, * That all acts or parts of acts authorizing the President of the United States, or the secretary of the proper department under his direction, to transfer any portion of the moneys appropriated for a particular branch of expenditure in that department, to be applied to another branch of expenditure in the same department, be, and are hereby, so far as relates to the Navy Department, repealed.
Proviso.For the building or purchase of suitable vessels and for prosecuting a survey and reconnoissance for naval and commercial purposes, of such parts of Behring Straits, of the North Pacific Ocean, and of the China seas, as are frequented by American whaleships and by trading vessels in their routes between the United .States and China, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, the sum of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; *Provided,* That the expense of purchasing or building and of equipping, with the exception of the armament and of fitting out these vessels, shall not exceed the sum hereby appropriated.
Sec. 3. Navy-yard and depot at San Francisco. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of the Navy be and he is hereby authorized and directed to select a site for a navy-yard and naval depot in the bay of San Francisco, in California, or neighboring waters, either by purchase or by reservation of public lands, as the case may be, and shall cause the same to be surveyed and a plat thereof to be recorded in proper form; and when such selection shall have been made, the said Secretary shall make such arrangements as may be necessary to establish a navy-yard and naval depot upon the most approved and economical plan on the site so obtained, and cause to be erected a foundry, machine-shop, blacksmith’s shop, boiler shop, engine house, pattern shop, THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 110. 1852.105carpenter shop, and storehouse, and for the purpose of carrying this section into effect, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not other- wise appropriated. Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of the Navy be,Superintendency of construction of dry docks in California. and lie hereby is directed to appoint some suitable naval officer or engineer to receive and superintend the construction of the floating dry dock in California.
Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted,* That the percentage added by lawAdditional pay of clerks in Navy-yard and Marine barracks at Washington.1852. ch. 108, §2 .Public printing for sixty days from August 31, 1852. to the pay of the clerks employed in the Executive and Legislative Departments of Washington be, and is hereby allowed to the clerks employed at the navy-yard and marine barracks in the city of Washington. Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted,* That Robert Armstrong, the public printer, be and is hereby directed to execute without delay the public printing ordered by either house of Congress since his election as public printer, and that all paper used by the public printer for the space of sixty days from this date shall be furnished by him at cost, and shall be of the quality and description specified in the law passed at this session of Congress.
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