Chapter CLXXXI. *making Appropriations for the Naval Service for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.* June 22, 1860. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be, Appropriation.and they
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Chap. CLXXXI.— An Act *making Appropriations for the Naval Service for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.* June 22, 1860. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be, Appropriation.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-one:
Pay. For pay of commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, including the engineer corps of the navy, four million five hundred and seventy-four thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars and ninety-seven cents. Provisions. For provisions for commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, including engineers and marines attached to vessels for sea-service, nine hundred and forty-one thousand seven hundred dollars. Sick, &c. For surgeons’ necessaries and appliances for the sick and hurt of the navy, including the engineer and marine corps, thirty-five thousand six hundred dollars.
Repair, equipment. &c. Proviso as to repairs costing over $3,000 of a vessel at a navy yard; For the repair and equipment of vessels of the navy, one million five hundred and twenty-three thousand dollars: *Provided,* That not more than three thousand dollars shall be expended at any navy-yard in repairing the bull and spars of any vessel, until the necessity and expediency of such repair, and the probable cost thereof, be ascertained and reported to the Navy Department by an examining board, to be composed of one captain, or commander in the navy, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Navy, the naval constructor of the yard where any vessel may be ordered for repairs, and two master workmen of such yard, or one master workman and an engineer of the navy, according to the nature of the repairs to be made; said master workmen and engineer to be designated by the head of the Bureau of Construction and Repairs; and not more costing over $1,000.than one thousand dollars shall be expended in repairs on the sails and rigging of any vessel until the expediency and necessity of such repairs, and the estimated cost thereof, have been ascertained and reported to the Navy Department by an examining board, to be composed of one naval officer, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Navy, and the master rigger, and master sailmaker of the yard where such vessel may be Examination to be made of sailing vessels and cost of giving them full steampower.ordered. *Provided,* That the Secretary of the Navy cause a careful examination to be made by naval officers, engineers, and constructors, into the condition of the sailing vessels of the navy, and the cost of giving them, or atty of them, full steam power, together with the expediency of making such change in view of the cost, condition, model, and general character of such vessels so altered; and that the report of such officers, together with the Secretary’s views thereon, be communicated to Congress at its next session.
THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 181. 1860. 81 For fuel for the navy, to be purchased in the mode prescribed by law Fuel.for other materials, and for the transportation thereof, eight hundred and forty thousand dollars. For the purchase of hemp and other materials for the navy, three hundred Hemp.thousand dollars. For ordnance and ordnance stores and small arms, including incidental Ordnance, &c.expenses, three hundred and thirty-eight thousand dollars. For contingent expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, Contingencies.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 repairs of workmen’s tools; postage of public letters, 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; 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 judges advocate, 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, five hundred and ninety-six thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the expenditures under the Each bureau to show its disbursements.
Detailed estimates.foregoing appropriations shall be so accounted for as to show the disbursements by each bureau, under each respective appropriation: *And provided further,* That the estimates for expenditures for such purposes shall here-after be given in detail. For the purchase of saltpetre for the use of the navy, ten thousand Saltpetre.dollars. *Marine Corps.—*For pay of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, Marine corps.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 re-enlistments, four hundred and twenty-five thousand two hundred and seventy-eight dollars and eighty cents.
For provisions, seventy-one thousand seven hundred and fifty-nine dollars. For clothing, one hundred and thirteen thousand eight hundred and fifty-six dollars. For fuel, twenty-two thousand three hundred and forty-two dollars and twenty-five cents. For military stores, viz.: pay of armorers, repair of arms, purchase of accouterments, ordnance stores, flags, drums, fifes, and other instruments, twelve thousand dollars. For transportation of officers and troops, and expenses of recruiting, fourteen 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, compensation to judges advocate, *per diem* for attending courts-martial, courts of inquiry, and tor constant labor, house rent in lieu of quarters, burial of deceased marines, printing, stationery, postage, telegraphing, apprehension of deserters, oil, candles, gas, forage, straw, 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 headquarters, thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars. 82 Navy Yards.
Navy yards. Preservation of works and current repairs. For the preservation of works, and for the current repairs at the several navy yards, viz.: At Portsmouth, New Hampshire, ten thousand dollars. At Boston, fifteen thousand dollars. At New York, twenty thousand dollars. At Philadelphia, fifteen thousand dollars. At Washington, ten thousand dollars; and for repairing and painting the quarters occupied by the officers of the yard, seven thousand nine hundred and twenty-six dollars.
At Norfolk, twenty thousand dollars; to complete shiphouse, number forty-eight, nineteen thousand dollars; and for repairs of shiphouses A and B, at Norfolk, thirty thousand dollars. At Pensacola, ten thousand dollars. At Mare Island, twenty thousand dollars. At Sackett’s Harbor, one thousand dollars. Hospitals. Hospitals. For the construction and completion of works, and for the current repairs of the several naval hospitals: Boston. *Boston.—*For repairs of hospital, two thousand five hundred dollars.
New York. *New York.—*For repairs of hospital buildings and laboratory, seven thousand dollars. Naval Asylum, Philadelphia. *Naval Asylum, Philadelphia.*—For improving cemetery, sky-lights to main building, furniture, and repairs of same, house cleaning and white-washing, repairs to furnaces, grates, and ranges, gas and water rent, and for repairs of all kinds, five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. Beneficiaries. For support of beneficiaries at the asylum, twenty-seven thousand dollars.
Norfolk. *Norfolk.—*For porter’s lodge, replacing wooden galleries, and for repairs of hospital, eighteen thousand two hundred and seventy dollars. Pensacola. *Pensacola.—*For draining and filling ponds, and for repairs of hospital buildings and dependencies, ten thousand five hundred dollars. Magazines. Magazines. For the construction and completion of works, and for the current repairs at the several naval magazines: Boston. *Boston.—*For repairs of all kinds, two thousand dollars.
Philadelphia. *Philadelphia.—*For repairs of all kinds, six hundred dollars. Washington. *Washington.—*For the renewal of experimental battery with one part inclosed or casemated, to guard against accidents from guns of doubtful character, four thousand dollars. Norfolk. *Norfolk.—*For shot-beds and gun-skids, fitting up additional storehouse at magazine, converting coal-house at St. Helena into gun carriage shed, fitting racks for arms and stores, and for repairs of magazine buildings, ten thousand seven hundred dollars.
Pensacola. *Pensacola.—*For repairs of old magazine, one thousand one hundred and thirty-two dollars. Civil establishments at navy yards and stations. For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishments at the several navy yards and stations, one hundred and forty-eight thousand six hundred and four dollars. Instruments, books, maps, &c. For the purchase of nautical instruments required for the use of the navy, for repairs of the same, and also of astronomical instruments; and for the purchase of nautical books, maps, and charts, and for backing and binding the same, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses. Observatory. For models, drawings, and copying; for postage, freight, and transportation; for keeping grounds in order; for fuel and lights, and for all other contingent expenses; and for the wages of persons employed at the United States Naval Observatory and hydrographical office, viz.: one instrument maker, two watchmen, and one porter, seven thousand five hundred dollars. THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 181, 182. 1860. 83 For the erection of hose-house, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For the erection and repairs of buildings, improvement and preservation Naval Academy.of the grounds, and for contingencies at the United States Naval Academy, fifty-seven thousand and ninety-six dollars. For preparing for publication the American Nautical Almanac, twenty-five Nautical Almanac.thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. For the preparation of the report of the results of the survey of the Route between California and China, &c.route between California and China, and of portions of the coast of Japan, five thousand dollars.
For engraving charts of the survey of Behring Straits, the North Behring Straits, &c.Pacific Ocean, and China seas, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, nine thousand and ten dollars. For the removal of the naval monument from the west front of the Naval Monument.Capitol to the grounds of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, fifteen hundred dollars. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the sum of thirty-nine thousand Pay for year ending June 30, 1860.four hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for pay of commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, including the engineer corps of the navy, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That pursers in the navy of the Pursers to be called Paymasters.United States shaft hereafter be styled paymasters, and that all laws and regulations applying to them as pursers, and aft responsibilities and obligations attaching to them as such, shall remain in full force, and continue to apply to them, under the title of paymasters, and that the payments Pay of clerks at certain yards.heretofore made to the pursers’ clerks at the navy-yards at Charlestown, New York, and Norfolk, under appropriations made by Congress, at the rate of seven hundred mid fifty dollars per annum, are hereby confirmed; and that the pay of the pursers’ clerks at those navy-yards shall be continued at the rate of seven hundred and fifty dollars per annum.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That the sum of five thousand Appropriation for prevention of counterfeiting.dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the joint resolution passed the twenty-sixth February eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, Vol. xi. p. 254.“to prevent the counterfeiting of the coins of the United States.” Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted,* That the sum of ten thousand Examination of Isthmus of Chiriqui, &c., and Report.dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to enable the President to send some competent person or persons to the Isthmus of Chiriqui, whose duty it shall be to examine into and report upon the quality and probable quantity of coal to be found there, upon the lands of the Chiriqui Improvement Company; upon the character of the harbors of Chiriqui Lagoon and Golfito; upon the practicability of building a railroad across said Isthmus, so as to connect said harbors; and generally upon the value of the privileges contracted for in a conditional contract made on the twenty-first day of May, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, between Isaac Toucey, the Secretary of the Navy of the United States, and Ambrose W.
Thompson, and the Chiriqui Improvement Company: *Provided,* Proviso.That nothing herein contained shall be construed as a ratification of the said contract. Approved, June 22, 1860.