Chapter CLXIV. making Appropriations for the Naval Service for the Year ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and for other Purposes
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Chap. CLXIV.— An Act making Appropriations for the Naval Service for the Year ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and for other Purposes. July 14, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the following sums be, andAppropriation. 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-three:
For pay of commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, includingPay of officers and men. the engineer corps of the navy, eleven million six hundred and seventeen thousand one hundred and nine dollars. For the repair and equipment of vessels of the navy, eleven millionRepair and equipment. four hundred thousand dollars. For fuel for the navy, to be purchased in the mode prescribed by lawFuel. for other materials, and for the transportation thereof, two million one hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
For the purchase of hemp and other materials for the navy, fiveHemp. hundred and forty thousand dollars. For ordnance and ordnance stores, including incidental expenses, fiveOrdnance and ordnance stores. million one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For provisions for commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen,Provisions. including engineers and marines attached to vessels for sea service, three million three hundred and fifty-one thousand five hundred and twenty-one dollars and twenty-five cents; *Provided,* That the preserved meatPreserved meats, how may be prepared and packed. forming part of the navy ration may be prepared and packed under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, if he shall deem it advisable; and that the cattle or fresh beef therefor may be purchased under his directions, and from this appropriation; and that he be authorized to do whatever else may be necessary for the procuring, preparing, and packing said preserved meat in the most approved and advantageous manner; the expense for machinery and tools to be defrayed from the last-named sum, and not to exceed five thousand dollars.
For surgeons’ necessaries and appliances for the sick and hurt of theSurgeons’ appliances. navy, including the engineer and marine corps, seventy-seven thousand nine hundred dollars. For contingent expenses that may accrue for the following purposes,Contingent expenses. viz: freight and transportation; printing and stationery; advertising in newspapers; books, maps, models, drawings; purchase and repair of fire-engines; for machinery of every description and the patent right to use 562 THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 164. 1862. the same; repair 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 workman’s tools; postage of public letters; telegrams; fuel, oil, and candles for navy yards and shore stations; pay of watchmen and incidental labor not chargeable to any other appropriation; transportation to, and labor attending the delivery of provisions and stores on foreign stations; wharfage, dockage, and rent for docking vessels; for furniture for government houses; travelling expenses of officers and others under orders; funeral expenses; store and office rent; 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, courts of inquiry, and other services authorized by law; pay to judge advocates; pay to lithographers; pilotage and towage of vessels, and assistance to vessels in distress; and for bills of health and quarantine expenses of vessels of the United States navy in foreign ports, one million seven hundred thousand dollars.
Clothing.For clothing for the navy, six hundred thousand dollars. Charter of vessels, &c.For the charter of vessels, stores, extra laborers, and purchase of additional steam-vessels, three million dollars: *Provided,* That hereafter, Navy officers to make contracts for charter or purchase of vessels where, &c.in all cases where the officers of the navy can be made available, consistently with the public service, in making contracts for the charter of vessels and the purchase of additional steam-vessels, no other person or persons shall be employed; nor shall such officers, when so employed, receive any compensation in addition to their official pay, and when any Compensation of other persons.other person or persons than an officer of the navy shall be employed, the compensation shall not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars for all contracts for purchases or charters in any one year made under the provisions of this act.
Lithographer.For pay of lithographer for the year ending June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, three hundred dollars. Repairs, &c., Navy Department building.For repairs, painting, and raising the roof of the Navy Department building, finishing and furnishing the same, twenty thousand dollars. Marine corps; pay, &c.*Marine Corps.*—For pay of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, privates, clerks, messengers, stewards, and servants; for rations and clothing for servants; additional rations for five years’ service; for undrawn clothing and rations, bounties for reenlistments, six hundred and ninety-six thousand one hundred and ninety-eight dollars and thirty cents.
For the support of five hundred and eighty men authorized to be enlisted for the marine corps, by the President of the United States, on the twenty-second of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, seventy four thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven dollars and forty cents. Provisions.For provisions, one hundred and. forty-three thousand four hundred and forty-five dollars. Clothing.For clothing, one hundred and thirty-four thousand six hundred and sixty dollars. Fuel.For fuel, thirty thousand eight hundred and ninety-four dollars and fifty cents.
Military stores.For military stores, namely: Pay of armorers, repair of arms, purchase of accoutrements, ordnance stores, flags, drums, fifes, and other instruments, fifteen thousand dollars. Transportation.For transportation of officers, their servants, and troops, and expenses of recruiting, twenty-two thousand dollars. Repairs and rent.For repairs of barracks, and rent of offices where there are no public buildings for that purpose, eight thousand dollars. Charlestown barracks.For completing repairs of Charlestown barracks, ten thousand four hundred and fifty-eight dollars and ninety-seven cents: *Provided,* That the same can be fully completed for that sum; and no part of the money 563 hereby appropriated shall be expended until it is satisfactorily ascertained that the said building can be completed therewith.
For contingencies, namely: Freight, ferriage, toll, carriage, wharfage;Contingencies. purchase and repair of boats; compensation to judge advocates; 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: bed sacks, spades, shovels, axes, picks, carpenters’ tools; keep of a horse for the messenger; pay of matron, washerwoman, and porter at the hospital head-quarters, forty-five thousand dollars.
Navy Yards.Navy Yards. *Portsmouth, New Hampshire.*—For machine shop and smithery, fittingPortsmouth. and furnishing the same, reservoir, capstan for sheers, quay wall near landing, extension of storehouse number eleven one hundred feet, repairs and increase of ordnance machinery and shops, and repairs of all kinds, two hundred and thirty-two thousand thirty-two dollars. For futtock saw-mill and building, ten thousand dollars. *Boston.*—For paving and draining at new shops; coal-house for foundery,Boston. smithery, and for other purposes; reservoir and steam pump, or pipes for Cochituate water; water-closets; repairs and increase of ordnance machinery and shops, and repairs of all kinds, two hundred and fifty-three thousand five hundred dollars.
For house foundation and heavy Nesmith hammer for heavy forgings, sixty-two thousand dollars. For the purchase of land and wharf adjoining the navy-yard at Charlestown, Massachusetts, owned by Oakman and Eldridge, and extending from Charles River to Water-street, and containing about one hundred and twenty thousand square feet, one hundred and twenty-three thousand dollars. For futtock saw-mill and building, ten thousand dollars. *New York.*—For dredging channels; building and repairing scows;New York. rebuilding long dock; repairs to ship-houses; quay walls; extension of sewer; boiler house; foundery shed; machinery for machine shop, foundery, boiler shop, and smithery; repairs of machinery, boilers; repairs of engines in machine shop; repairs and increase of ordnance machinery and shops, and repairs of all kinds, three hundred and twenty thousand eight hundred and forty-six dollars.
For a cylinder for roasting coffee, four hundred dollars. *Philadelphia.*—For extension of joiners’ shop, storehouses and smitheryPhiladelphia.; repairs of dry dock; dredging; repairs and increase of ordnance machinery and shops, and repairs of all kinds, one hundred and twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and forty-six dollars. *Washington.*—For machinery and tools; paving; gas works; repairsWashington. and increase of ordnance machinery and shops, and repairs of all kinds, one hundred and twenty-six thousand nine hundred and eighty-five dollars. *Mare Island.*—For completion of derrick, foundery, and equipment;Mare Island. grading; completing officers’ houses; gas works; two iron wharf-cranes; machinery and tools for smithery; cisterns; scows, lighters, stages and pile-driver; drainage and sewerage; boat-house and slip, and repairs of all kinds, one hundred and ninety-six thousand three hundred and fifty two dollars: *Provided,* That no expenditure for completing officers’ houses shall be incurred until complete plans and specifications, with estimates ofExpenditure on officers’ houses cost in detail, shall be furnished to and approved by the Secretary of the Navy, and the work shall be done by contract after due and public advertisement for proposals; but no portion of this appropriation shall be expended unless the work can be completed for the sum hereby appropriated. 564 Sackett’s Harbor.*Sackett’s Harbor.*—For repairs of all kinds, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Hospitals.Hospitals. Portsmouth.Purchase of Seavey’s Island.*Portsmouth, New Hampshire.*—For purchase of twenty-seven and three hundred and fifty-five thousandths acres of land on Seavey’s island, adjacent to the Kittery navy yard, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided,* That the Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks be, and he is hereby, authorized to purchase that portion of Seavey’s island lying west of the road, for such sum as to him may seem reasonable and advantageous to the government.
Building not to be erected, &c. nutil plans, &c. are furnished, &c.For hospital on Seavey’s island, ten thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no building shall be erected or extended until complete plans and specifications and estimates of cost in detail shall be furnished to and approved by the Secretary of the Navy, and contracts therefor shall be let upon due and public advertisement. Boston.*Boston.*—For extension of hospital and repairs of buildings, seventy-one thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided,* That no building shall be erected or extended until complete plans and specifications and estimates of cost in detail shall be furnished to and approved by the Secretary of the Navy, and contracts therefor shall be let upon due and public advertisement.
New York.*New York.*—For repairs and improvements, and house for surgeon and director of the lab[o]ratory, twenty-one thousand five hundred dollars. Philadelphia.*Philadelphia.*—For furniture and repairs of same; house cleaning and whitewashing; repairs to furnaces, grates, and ranges; gas and water rent; painting wall on Shippen-street, and general repairs, five thousand three hundred dollars. For support of beneficiaries, twenty-seven thousand dollars. Magazines.Magazines. Boston.*Boston.*—For general repairs of buildings; addition to magazine, and wall around magazine grounds, thirty-two thousand nine hundred and thirteen dollars.
New York.*New York.*—For improvement of armory; house for storage of loaded shells, and repairs of all kinds, fifty-five thousand two hundred and forty-nine dollars. Philadelphia.*Philadelphia.*—For repairs of wharf and magazine at Fort Mifflin, one thousand five hundred dollars. Washington.*Washington.*—For repairs of magazine and ordnance buildings, six thousand dollars. Mare Island.*Mare Island.*—For repairs of all kinds, two thousand dollars. Civil establishments at navy yards.For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishments at the general navy yards and stations, one hundred and four thousand five hundred and eighty-four dollars: *Provided,* That Salaries of employees in Navy Yards.hereafter no salaries shall be paid to any employee in any of the navy yards except to those designated in the estimates.
All other persons shall receive a per diem compensation for the time during which they were actually engaged. Naval Observatory.*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, sixty thousand dollars. For wages of instrument maker, watchman, porter, and laborers; for keeping grounds in order; for fuel, lights, freights, transportation, and postage; for repairs to buildings and enclosures, and contingent expenses, thirteen thousand dollars.
For pay of four aids to be employed at the Observatory and Hydrographical office, four thousand dollars. 565 For wages of watchmen and contingent expenses of the NavalWatchmen. Academy, twenty-two thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven dollars. For the pay of mileage of the visitors to the Naval Academy, oneMileage of visitors to Naval Academy. thousand dollars. For preparing for publication the American Nautical Almanac, twenty-fiveAmerican Nautical Almanac. thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted, *That the pay of any captain ofPay of captain of navy doing duty as chief of bureau.1860, ch. 67.*Ante*, p. 23. the navy who shall, in pursuance of law, perform duty as chief of a bureau in the Navy Department, shall be the pay of a captain in the navy “on other duty,” to take effect from the date of the “Act regulating the pay of the navy,” approved June one, eighteen hundred and sixty. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted, *That the pay of the clerks ofPay of clerks, &c., at Mare Island. the navy yard and navy agency at Mare Island shall be as follows, viz:
One clerk to navy agent, two thousand dollars per annum; one clerk to navy agent, fifteen hundred dollars; one clerk to the commandant, fifteen hundred dollars; one clerk of the yard, fifteen hundred dollars; one clerk to the paymaster and inspector of provisions, and so forth, fifteen hundred dollars; one clerk to the naval constructor, nine hundred dollars; one clerk to the civil engineer, nine hundred dollars; one draughtsman to civil engineer, twelve hundred dollars; one steward to paymaster, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted, *That from and after the firstSpirit ration to cease. day of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, the spirit ration in the navy of the United States shall forever cease, and thereafter no distilled spirituous liquors shall be admitted on board of vessels-of-war except as medical stores, and upon the order and under the control of the medical officers of such vessels, and to be used only for medical purposes. From and after the said first day of September next there shall be allowedCommutation in lieu thereof. and paid to each person in the navy now entitled to the spirit ration five cents per day in commutation and lieu thereof, which shall be in addition to their present pay.
Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted, *That the orders, regulations, andOrders, &c., of the Secretary of Navy to be regulations of Navy Department. instructions heretofore issued by the Secretary of the Navy be, and they are hereby, recognized as the regulations of the Navy Department, subject, however, to such alterations as the Secretary of the Navy may adopt, with the approbation of the President of the United States. Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted, *That the pay of the secretary ofPay of secretary of commander of squadron. a commander of a squadron shall hereafter be fifteen hundred dollars a year and one ration.
Sec. 7. *And be it further enacted, *That chaplains in the navy shallAge of chaplains at their appointment. be no less than twenty-one nor more than thirty-five years of age at the time of their appointment as such. Sec. 8. *And be it further enacted, *That the President of the UnitedPresident may appoint ten acting midshipmen from sons of officers, &c. States be, and he is hereby, authorized to annually appoint ten acting midshipmen for education at the Naval Academy, who shall be selected from the sons of officers or soldiers who distinguis[h]ed themselves in the service of the United States, or from the sons of officers or men in the naval or marine service of the United States who have thus distinguished themselves.
Sec. 9. *And be it further enacted, *That the District of ColumbiaTo appointments in Naval Academy the District of Columbia to be regarded as a congressional district. shall be regarded for all the purposes of appointment to the Naval Academy as a congressional district, their appointment thereto to be designated by the President of the United States from residents of the District. Approved, July 14, 1862.