Chapter CXVIII. making Appropriations for the Naval Service for the Year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and for other Purposes
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Chap. CXVIII.— An Act making Appropriations for the Naval Service for the Year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and for other Purposes.March 3, 1863. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatAppropriation. 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, eighteen hundred and sixty-four:
ForPay of officers and men. 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. ForConstruction and repair. the construction and repair of vessels of the navy, nine million two hundred and ninety-eight thousand dollars. ForPurchase, &c., of additional steamers, &c. the purchase and building of additional steamers, repairs of same, charter of vessels, extra labor and materials, and repairs of vessels on foreign stations, fifteen millions of dollars.
ForArmor-plated sea steamers of iron.Contract to be made only after advertisement, &c. two armor-plated sea-steamers of iron of the first class, three million dollars: *Provided,* That no contract shall be entered into for the construction of said steamers until after public 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.
THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 118. 1863.815 ForHemp, &c the purchase of hemp and other materials for the navy, three hundred and twenty thousand dollars. ForFuel. fuel for the navy, and for the transportation and expenses thereof, two Gillion six hundred and ninety thousand dollars. ForEquipment. the equipment of vessels in the navy, viz: For the purchase of various articles of equipment, canvas, leather, tables, and anchors, and furniture, and stores, in the masters’, boatswains’, and sailmakers’ departments, two million dollars.
ForProvisions provisions for commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, including engineers and marines attached to vessels for sea service, live million four hundred and seventeen thousand seven hundred and forty-five dollars. ForConstruction, &c. of machinery construction and repair of machinery for vessels in commission, five million seven hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. ForSurgeons’ necessaries and appliances. surgeons’ necessaries and appliances for the sick and hurt of the navy, including the engineer and marine corps, one hundred and fifty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
ForOrdnance, ordnance stores, &c 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. ForPowder-tugs. three powder-tugs at Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, and repairs of ordnance steamboat, forty thousand dollars.
ForOrdnance machinery. 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. ForPhotographer. pay of photographer for ordnance bureau, three hundred dollars. ForCompass stations, &c. 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.
ForContingent expenses. contingent expenses of the navy, one hundred thousand dollars. *Bureau of Yards and Docks*.—forBureau of yards and ducksContingent expenses. 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 steam-engines, 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*.—ForBureau of equipment and recruiting.Contingent expenses. 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. 816 *Bureau of Navigation*.—ForBureau of navigation.Contingent expenses. contingent expenses of the bureau of navigation, one thousand dollars. *Bureau of Construction and Repair*.—ForBureau of construction and repair.Contingent expenses. contingent expenses, viz:
For transportation of materials; printing, stationery, books, models, drawings, postage, and miscellaneous items, fifty thousand dollars. *Bureau of Provisions and Clothing*.—ForBureau of provisions and Clothing.Contingent expenses. contingent expenses, viz for candles; freight to foreign stations; 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*.—ForBureau of medicine and surgery.Contingent expenses. contingent expenses of the bureau of medicine and surgery, forty thousand dollars. *Marine Corps*.—ForMarine Corps.Pay.Rations and clothing, and bounties. pay of non-commissioned officers, musicians, privates, 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 reenlistments, seven hundred and ninety thousand seven hundred and eighty-three dollars and eighty cents.
ForProvisions. provisions, one hundred and thirty-five thousand nine hundred and twenty-six dollars. ForClothing. clothing, two hundred thousand two hundred and seventy-six dollars and seventy-six cents. ForFuel. fuel, thirty-one thousand four hundred and thirty dollars and seventy-five cents. ForMilitary stores. military stores, viz: Pay of mechanics, repair of arms, purchase of accoutrements, ordnance stores, flags, drums, fifes, and other instruments, fifteen thousand dollars.
ForTransportation. transportation of officers, their servants, troops, and expenses of recruiting, twenty-two thousand dollars. ForRepairs of barracks and rent of offices. repairs of barracks, and rent of offices where there are no public buildings for that purpose, eight thousand dollars. ForContingencies. 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 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.
ForMarine barracks at Mare Island. the construction of marine barracks at Mare Island, California, one hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may lie 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*.—ForNavy Yards.Portsmouth. boathouse 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. 817 *Boston*.—ForNavy Yards. 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 allBoston. kinds, two hundred and seventy-eight thousand five hundred and sixty-six dollars. *New York*.—ForNew York. 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.
ForFloating dry-dock.Proviso. 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*.—ForPhiladelphia. repairs of all kinds, twenty-eight thousand eight hundred dollars. *Washington*.—ForWashington. 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*.—ForMare Island. 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 gasworks; sawmill; commencing stables; commencing coal-house and wharf; commencing seawall 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*—ForSackett’s Harbor. repairs of all kinds, one thousand five hundred dollars. *Navy Yard, Norfolk*—ForNorfolk. repairs of dry-dock, and pumps, and general repairs, eighty-five thousand dollars. hospitals. *Boston*.—ForHospitals.Boston. repairs of hospital and grounds at Chelsea, two thousand five hundred dollars. *New York*.—ForNew York. repairs and improvements; repairs and increase of apparatus in laboratory; and for temporary addition to hospital accommodations, twenty-two thousand dollars. *Philadelphia Asylum and Hospital*.—ForPhiladelphia asylum and hospital. furniture and repairs; 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*.—ForNorfolk. 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*.—ForMound City. supporting hospital, repairs, rent, and furniture at Mound City, Illinois, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. *Mare Island, California*.—ForMare Island. commencing hospital, twenty-five thousand dollars. magazines. *Portsmouth, New Hampshire*.—ForMagazines.Portsmouth. ordnance, timber shed, and storehouse for howitzers, thirty-one thousand five hundred and twenty-two dollars. *Boston*.—ForBoston repairs of building and care of grounds, two thousand dollars. 818 ForCivil establishment of navy yards.Salary of civil engineer at Washington navy yard, and of bureau of yards and docks. pay of superintendent, 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.
ForContingencies Naval Academy. expenses of watchmen and others, and contingencies of the United States Naval Academy, twenty-four thousand eight hundred and eighty-one dollars. *Naval Observatory*.—ForNaval Observatory. 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.
ForAmerican Nautical Almanac. preparing for publication the American Nautical Almanac, twenty-five thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* ThatCertificates to officers, crew, &c., of the Congress and Cumberland to be paid. there shall be paid, out of any money in the treasury' not otherwise appropriated, the several certificates issued by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department, to the officers, sailors, marines, and crews of the Congress and Cumberland, and other persons provided for by the act of April second, eighteen hundred and1862, ch. 52.*Ante,* p. 375. sixty-two, entitled “An act to provide for the equitable settlement of the accounts of the officers and crews of the frigate Congress and other vessels.
” Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* ThatTemporary appointments of acting assistant paymasters and ensigns confirmed until, &c.1861, ch. 13.*Ante,* p. 272. the second section of the act entitled “An act for the temporary increase of the Navy,” approved July twenty-four, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, shall be so construed that the temporary appointments made, or which may be made, of acting assistant paymasters and acting ensigns, are hereby ratified and confirmed as temporary acting appointments until the return of the vessels in which they are respectively employed, or until the suppression of the present insurrection,Pay. as may be deemed necessary; and the rale of compensation allowed for the several grades specified, is hereby legalized and approved.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* ThatPurchase of flour for the navy. the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to purchase in such manner as he shall deem most advantageous to the Government, the flour required for naval use;Baking bread. and to have the bread for the navy baked from this flour by special contract under naval inspection. Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted,* ThatAssistant paymaster attached io war vessel allowed a clerk.Proviso. every assistant paymaster attached to a vessel of war shall be allowed a clerk, with the compensation and privileges which would be given by law to the clerk of a paymaster if attached to the same vessel: *Provided,* That clerks shall not be allowed to paymasters or assistant paymasters in vessels having complements of less than one hundred, excepting in supply steamers or store-ships.
Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted,* ThatPay of boatswains, gunners, carpenters, and sailmakers.1860, ch. 67.*Ante,* pp. 23,26. the act to increase and regulate the pay of the navy of the United States, approved June first, eighteen hundred and sixty, be so construed as it respects boatswains, gunners, carpenters, and sail-makers of the navy, as to allow to those officers such arrears of pay, or difference of pay, as they would be entitled to, had their sea-service been computed from the dates of their appointments ot entry into the service, in their respective grades, instead of the date of their warrants.
Approved, March 3, 1863.