Chapter XLIX. *making Appropriations for the Naval Service for the Year ending the thirtieth of Jane, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.* February 21, 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 Appropriationand th
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Chap. XLIX.— An Act *making Appropriations for the Naval Service for the Year ending the thirtieth of Jane, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.* February 21, 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 Appropriationand 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-two.
For pay of commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, including Pay.the engineer corps of the navy, four million four hundred and thirty-eight thousand five hundred and seventy-seven dollars. For provisions for commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, Provisions.including engineers and marines attached to vessels for sea service, one million forty-two thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. For surgeons’ necessaries and appliances for the sick and hurt of the Sick, &c.navy, including the engineer and marine corps, thirty-five thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
For the repair and equipment of vessels of the navy, two million five Repair and equipment. Proviso as to repairs costing over $3,000, of a vessel at a navy yard.hundred and eighty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That not more than three thousand dollars shall hereafter be expended at any navy yard in repairing the hull 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 commande*d* 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-workman or engineer to be designated by the head of the Bureau of Construction and Repairs; and not more than one thousand dollars shall be expended in repairs on the sails Costing over $1,000.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, appointed by the Secretary of the Navy, and the master rigger and the master sailmaker of the yard where such vessel may be ordered.
For fuel for the navy, to be purchased in the mode prescribed by law Fuel.for other materials, and for the transportation thereof, five 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, including incidental expenses, three Ordnance, &c.hundred and twenty-seven thousand five 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, 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 judge advocates, pilotage and towage of vessels, and assistance to vessels in distress, and for bills of health and quarantine expenses 148of vessels of the United States navy in foreign ports, eight hundred and ninety-nine thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the expenditures under the Each bureau to show its disbursements.foregoing appropriations shall be so accounted for as to show the disbursements by each bureau under each respective appropriation.
Davidson’s boat-lowering apparatus. For the purchase of the right to use in the navy, if in the opinion of the Secretary of the Navy it shall be deemed expedient, Davidson’s boat lowering, attaching, and detaching apparatus, a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars. Brooke’s deepsea sounding apparatus. For the purchase of the right to use by the United States, Brooke’s deep-sea sounding apparatus, five thousand dollars. Survey of Isthmus of Chiriqui. For the balance of the expenses of the survey of the Isthmus of Chiriqui, one thousand six hundred and thirty-seven dollars and eighty-one cents.
Sargeant’s steam-engine governor. For the purchase of the right to use in the United States navy, on steamships and propellers, in navy yards, or otherwise, whenever the Government of the United States may choose to use the same, Sargeant’s Proviso.steam-engine governors, ten thousand dollars: *Provided,* The Secretary of the Navy shall consider it expedient. 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 reënlistments, 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, eighty-one thousand six hundred and ninety 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 accoutrements, 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, carriage, wharfage, 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, 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, washer-woman, and porter at the hospital headquarters, repairs to fire-engine, purchase and repair of engine hose, purchase of lumber for benches, mess tables, bunks, repairs to public carry all, 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, thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars.
Navy yards. Navy Yards. Portsmouth, N.H. *Portsmouth, New Hampshire.—*For repairs of all kinds, twenty thousand dollars. Boston. *Boston.—*For machinery for machine shop, twenty thousand dollars. For repairs of marine barracks at Charlestown, Massachusetts, nineteen thousand four hundred and fifty-six dollars. For repairs of all kinds, forty thousand dollars. New York. *New York.—*For boilers for new boiler-house, sixteen thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars. 149 For boilers for machine shop, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
For machinery for smithery and saw-mill, eight thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs of all kinds, thirty thousand dollars. *Philadelphia.—*For repairs of all kinds, twelve thousand and forty-three dollars. Philadelphia. *Washington.—*For repairs of all kinds, twenty thousand dollars. Washington. For wall on west side of yard, five hundred and forty feet long, thirteen thousand four hundred and eighty-eight dollars. *Norfolk.—*For completing timber shed number seventeen, nine thousand Norfolk.eight hundred and eighty-eight dollars.
For completing spar shed, twelve thousand dollars. For repairs of all kinds, twenty thousand dollars. For amount due to contractors for provision store, and to complete the same, thirty-six thousand one hundred and sixty-eight dollars. *Mare Island.—*For completing machine shop, fifty thousand dollars. Mare Island. For completing smithery, fifteen thousand dollars. For completing coopers’ shop, ten thousand dollars. For repairs of all kinds, twenty thousand dollars. *Sackett’s Harbor.—*For repairs of all kinds, one thousand dollars.
Sackett’s Harbor Hospitals. Hospitals. *Boston.—*For repairs of all kinds, two thousand five hundred dollars. Boston. *New York.—*For repairs of hospital buildings, laboratory, and apparatus, New York.two thousand one hundred dollars. *Naval Asylum, Philadelphia.—*For furniture and repairs, house-cleaning and whitewashing, repairs to furnaces, grates, and ranges, gas and Naval Asylum.water rent, and for repairs of all kinds, four thousand three hundred dollars. For support of beneficiaries at the asylum, twenty-seven thousand dollars. *Washington.—*For repairs of all kinds, one thousand dollars.
Washington. *Norfolk.—*For general repairs at hospital, eight thousand dollars. Norfolk. Magazines. Magazines. For the construction and completion of works, and for the current repairs at the several naval magazines: *Boston.—*For repairs of all kinds, and building a powder-boat, five Boston.thousand four hundred dollars. *Washington.—*For repairing and improving ordnance building, six thousand Washington.dollars. *Norfolk.—*For shot beds and gun-skids, additional store at magazine, Norfolk.and for repairs of all kinds, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishments at the several navy yards and stations, one hundred and forty eight thousand one hundred and four dollars. For the purchase of nautical instruments 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 thousand dollars. For models, drawings, and copying; for postage, freight, and transportation;
Naval Observatory.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, nine thousand dollars. For the erection and repairs of buildings, improvement and preservation Naval Academyof the grounds, and for contingencies at the United States Naval Academy, forty-nine thousand five hundred and sixty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents. 150 Nautical Almanac.
For preparing for publication the American Nautical Almanac, twenty-five thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. Charts of survey of the La Plata. For the completion of the charts of the survey of the La Plata, six thousand dollars. For reducing and preparing for printing and engraving, under direction of Captain Cadwallader Ringgold, subject to the control of the Secretary of the Navy of the United States, copies of the charts of all surveys and North Pacific surveying expedition, &c.reconnaissances made by him while in command of the North Pacific Surveying Expedition, and of the “Coral Archipelago,” and the approaches thereto, together with sailing directions, reports, hydrographic and other results, and observations explanatory of the voyage, calculated to lessen the dangers and facilitate intercourse with the Eastern seas, China, and Japan, in accordance with the estimates of Captain Ringgold, Proviso.seven thousand seven hundred dollars: *Provided,* That no publication shall be made under and by virtue hereof, except the same be the result of actual surveys, reconnoissances, and observations made by Captain Ringgold, or under his personal direction and supervision.
Charts of N. Pacific, &c. seas. For completing the publication of the charts of the exploration of the North Pacific. China seas, and Behring’s Straits, eleven thousand six hundred and seventy-two dollars. Payments made to clerks of certain yards, &c. confirmed. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the payments heretofore made to the clerks of yards and the commandants’ clerks at the navy yards of Kittery and Philadelphia, under appropriations made by Congress for that purpose, at the rate of twelve hundred dollars per annum, are hereby allowed and confirmed.
Retired list for medical officers. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to place on a retired list any medical officer of the navy who is now or may hereafter be proved to be permanently incapable, from physical or mental infirmity, of further service at sea; and that the pay of officers so retired shall be the leave of absence pay of their respective grades as it existed prior to the passage of the act of 1860, ch. 67. *Ante,* p. 23.Congress to regulate the pay of the navy, approved June one, eighteen hundred and sixty.
Vacancies in medical corps, how filled Number. Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That all vacancies in the medical corps of the navy caused by the foregoing section shall be filled in accordance with established usage: *Provided,* The number of medical officers on the active list shall not exceed the number authorized by existing laws. Act 1860, ch. 205, § 8, repealed in part. Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted,* That the third section of the act entitled “An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one,” approved June twenty-three, eighteen hundred and sixty, be and the same is hereby repealed, except so far as the said section prohibits the purchase of patented firearms, as to which the said section shall still be in force.
Pay of superintendent of naval astronomical expedition to Chili. 1851, ch. 34. Vol. ix. p. 622. Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted,* That the compensation of the superintendent of the naval astronomical expedition to Chili shall be that provided by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, entitled “An act making appropriations for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-two,” from the seventeenth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, and that the amount necessary to pay the same be and is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Appropriations for foreign hydrographic surveys, how to be made Sec. 7. *And be it further enacted,* That all appropriations now or hereafter made for the preparation or publication of foreign hydrographic surveys shall only be applicable to their object upon the approval by the Secretary of the Navy, after a report from three competent naval officers, to the effect that the original data for proposed charts are, such as to justify their publication; and it is hereby made the duty of the Secretary of THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 49, 56, 57. 1861. 151the Navy to order a board of three naval officers to examine and report upon the said data before he shall approve of any application of money to the preparation or publication of said charts or hydrographic results. Sec. 8. *And be it further enacted,* That the pay of first clerks to commandants Pay of clerks of commandants at navy yards. Certain acts repealed. 1854, ch. 52. 1854, ch. 242 1855, ch. 175 1853, ch. 154at all the navy yards shall be at the rate of twelve hundred dollars per annum, except that at [the] California navy yard, which shall be at the rate of fifteen hundred dollars per annum:
That the laws approved twenty-second April, eighteen hundred arid fifty-four; fourth August, eighteen hundred and fifty-four; third of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, and twelfth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, increasing the pay of clerks and others twenty per cent, at the Washington navy yard, be and the same are hereby repealed. Sec. 9. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of the Navy Seven steam screw sloops-of-war to be built.be and he is hereby authorized to cause to be constructed for the United States navy, at as early a day as practicable, having due regard to efficiency and economy, seven steam screw sloops-of-war, of the second class, as vessels are rated in the navy, with full steam power, whose greatest draft of water shall not exceed fourteen feet, which sloops shall combine the heaviest armament and greatest speed compatible with their character and tonnage; and, for the purpose above specified, the sum of twelve hundred thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy.
Sec. 10. *And be it further enacted,* That so much of an act entitled Navy agent at San Francisco. Repeal of part of former law. 1854, ch. 268. Vol. x. p. 583.“An act making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five,” approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, as requires the navy agent at San Francisco to discharge the duties of purser as well as of navy agent, be and the same is hereby repealed.
Approved, February 21, 1861.