Chapter VIII. *making additional Appropriations for the Naval Service for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and Appropriations of Arrearages for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.* July 18, 1861. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
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Chap. VIII.— An Act *making additional Appropriations for the Naval Service for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and Appropriations of Arrearages for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.* July 18, 1861. *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 TreasuryNaval appropriations. not otherwise appropriated, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two:
For pay of commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, includ-Pay.266THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 8. 1861.ing the engineer corps of the navy, six million eight hundred and forty thousand dollars. Repair and equipment.For the repair and equipment of vessels of the navy eight million five hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Fuel.For fuel for the navy, to be purchased in the mode prescribed by law for other materials, and for the transportation thereof, one million and eighty thousand dollars.
Hemp.For the purchase of hemp and other materials for the navy, three hundred thousand dollars. Ordnance.For ordnance and ordnance stores, including incidental expenses, three million five hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Seven steam screw sloops.1861, ch. 49, § 9.*Ante*, p. 151.For the completion of seven steam screw sloops, authorized by act of February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, one million six hundred thousand dollars. Side-wheel steamer.For the completion of seven steam screw sloops and side-wheel steamer, ninety-one thousand four hundred and thirty-nine dollars and eighty-two cents.
Provisions.For provisions for commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, including engineers and marines attached to vessels for sea service, one million tune hundred and ninety-four thousand two hundred and twenty-two dollars and forty-seven cents. Surgeons’ necessaries, &c.For surgeons’ necessaries and appliances for the sick and hurt of the navy, including the engineer and marine corps, twenty-five thousand dollars. Contingent expenses.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 repairs of workmen’s tools, postage on 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, one million fifty-two thousand three hundred dollars: *Provided,* That the expenditures Each bureau to show its disbursements.under the foregoing appropriations shall be so accounted for as to show the disbursements by each bureau, under each respective appropriation.
Marine Corps.*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 re-enlistments, one hundred and sixty thousand two hundred and twenty-four dollars. For provisions, forty-two thousand and forty-eight dollars. For clothing, fifty-six thousand tour hundred and forty-eight dollars.
For fuel, six thousand and forty-eight dollars. For military stores, viz.: pay of armorers, repair of arms, purchase of accoutrements, ordnance stores, flags, drums, fifes, and other instruments, six thousand dollars. For transportation of officers and troops, and expenses of recruiting, eight thousand dollars. For contingencies, viz.: freight, ferriage, toll, carriage, wharfage, pur-267chase 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, repair 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 of fire-engine, purchase and repair of engine hose, purchase of lumber for benches, mess tables, bunks, repairs to public carryall, purchase and repair of harness, galleys and cooking stoves for mess rooms, stoves where there are no grates, gravel for parade grounds, repairs of pumps, furniture for staff and commanding officers’ offices, brushes, brooms, buckets, paving, and for other purposes, twelve thousand dollars.
Navy Yards.Navy Yards. *Portsmouth, New Hampshire.* For repairs of all kinds, ten thousandPortsmouth, N.H dollars. *Boston.* For machinery, completing machine shop, drainage, mastingBoston. sheers, repairs, and painting, one hundred and fifty-four thousand one hundred dollars. *New York.* For hoisting apparatus for provision stores, four thousandNew York. six hundred and fifty dollars. For dredging channels, twenty thousand dollars. For repairs of dry dock, six thousand dollars.
For water pipes, hydrants, two thousand five hundred dollars. For floor for mould loft, one thousand two hundred dollars. For bilge blocks for dry dock, three thousand dollars. For new derrick, including foundation, twenty-one thousand nine hundred and eighty-eight dollars. For floor to third story of machine shop and columns to support, three thousand dollars. For railroad through new store, two thousand five hundred dollars. For caisson to launching ways, eight thousand five hundred and forty-one dollars.
For repairs of all kinds, twenty-eight thousand four hundred and thirty dollars. For removing small shears, one thousand dollars. *Philadelphia.* For repairs of floating dock, forty thousand dollars.Philadelphia. *Washington.* For repairs of all kinds, forty-four thousand four hundredWashington. and forty-seven dollars. *Mare Island.* For repairs to floating dock, and other repairs in theMare Island. yard, sixty thousand dollars. For machinery for machine shop, thirty thousand dollars. *Naval Asylum, Philadelphia.* For the extension of main sewer, eightNaval Asylum. hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses at the several navy yards, to meet extraordinaryContingent expenses of Navy Yards. demands for the remainder of the current and the next fiscal year, one hundred thousand dollars. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the following sums be, andArrearages for year ending June 30, 1861. they are hereby, appropriated for arrearages for the year ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one: For pay of commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, includingPay. the engineer corps of the navy, three hundred and thirty-nine thousand two hundred dollars.
For the charter of vessels, their purchase, fitting for war service, reservationsPurchase and charter of vessels. due on existing contracts, the fitting out of the ships of war, three million eight hundred and sixty-six thousand dollars. For ordnance and ordnance stores, including incidental expenses, ninetyOrdnance. thousand dollars. 268 THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 8, 9. 1861. Contingent expenses.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, 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, ten thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to expend so much of the sums remaining in the Treasury on the first of Printing sailing directions.July, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, to the credit of “printing and publication of sailing directions, wind and current charts, astronomical observations, and hydrographical surveys,” as may be necessary for completing the unfinished work left at the Observatory by the late Superintendent: *Provided,* That the expenditures under the foregoing Each bureau to show its own disbursements.appropriations shall be so accounted for as to show the disbursements by each bureau under each respective appropriation.
Sec. 3. Patented articles connected with marine engines not to be bought unless, &c. *And be it further enacted,* That no patented article connected with marine engines shall be hereafter purchased or attached to, or used in connection with any steam vessel of war, until the same shall have been submitted to, and officially recommended in writing for purchase and use by a competent board of naval engineers. Approved, July 18, 1861. Chapter IX: to authorize the Employment of Volunteers to aid in enforcing the Laws and protecting Public Property. 11 Stat. 268 1861-07-22 Chapter IX Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
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*making additional Appropriations for the Naval Service for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and Appropriations of Arrearages for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.* July 18, 1861. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
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