Chapter LVII. *making additional Appropriations for the Naval Service for the Year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.* April 17, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Additional naval appropriations
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Chap. LVII.— An Act *making additional Appropriations for the Naval Service for the Year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.* April 17, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Additional naval appropriations. 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 service of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-two:
Purchase and alteration of vessels.For the purchase of vessels and necessary alterations incurred in fitting them for service, two million five hundred and thirty thousand dollars. For the purchase of additional vessels, two millions of dollars. Nautical instruments, &c.For the purchase of nautical instruments, books, maps, and charts, twenty thousand dollars. Observatory.For repairs at Observatory, freight, and transportation, three thousand dollars. Ordnance foundry at Washington.For the ordnance foundery at the Washington navy yard, fifty thousand dollars.
Ordnance.For ordnance, one million dollars. Sec. 2. Stevens battery.*And be it further enacted*, That the sum of seven hundred and eighty-three thousand two hundred and ninety-four dollars, being the amount necessary to be provided, as estimated by a board appointed for that purpose, to pay for and finish the Stevens’ battery now partially constructed at Hoboken, New Jersey, be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated for Proviso.the immediate completion of said battery: *Provided*, That in the contract for the completion of said vessel it shall be stipulated that no part of the money claimed by Edwin A.
Stevens to have been heretofore expended by him upon said vessel shall be refunded until the amount of said claim shall be established to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Navy, and the payment of said sum shall be contingent upon the success of said vessel as an iron-clad, sea-going, war steamer, to be determined by the President, and such contract shall stipulate the lime within which Proviso.the vessel shall be completed: *Provided nevertheless*, That said money shall not be expended unless the Secretary of the Navy is of opinion that the same will secure to the public service an efficient steam battery Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted*, That the sum of thirteen millions ofTHIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 57, 58. 1862.381 dollars be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwiseIron-clad steam-vessels. appropriated, to enable the Secretary of the Navy to construct iron-clad steam-vessels of war. Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted*, That the Secretary of the NavyNavy ration of coffee and sugar may he commuted for extract of coffee, &c. be authorized to commute the navy ration of coffee and sugar for the extract of coffre combined with milk and sugar, to be procured in the same manner and under like restrictions and guarantees as are preserved meats, pickles, butter, and desiccated vegetables, if he shall believe it will be conducive to the health and comfort of the navy, and not more expensive to the Government than the present ration, and if it shall be acceptable to the men.
Approved, April 17, 1862.