Chapter LXXIV. *making Appropriations for the Naval Service for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.* March 2, 1865. *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 Navy appropriation.they a
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Chap. LXXIV.— An Act *making Appropriations for the Naval Service for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.* March 2, 1865. *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 Navy appropriation.they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treas ury not otherwise appropriated, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six:— For pay of commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, includ ing the engineer corps of the navy, twenty-three million three hundred THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 74. 1865. 463and twenty-seven thousand seven hundred and twenty-two dollars and fifty cents. For the completion arid repair of vessels of the navy, twenty-four million Repair, &c., of vessels.five hundred and thirty thousand dollars. For the purchase of hemp and other materials for the navy, five hundred and seventy thousand dollars. Hemp. For fuel for the navy, and for the transportation and expenses thereof, Fuel.seven million six hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
For bounties to seamen, one million dollars. Bounties. For the equipment of vessels in the navy, viz:— Equipment. For the purchase of various articles of equipment, viz: canvas, leather, iron, cables and anchors, oil, furniture, galleys, and stores, and for the payment of labor on articles manufactured in the navy-yard, and for outfit stores in the masters’, boatswains’, and sailmakers’ department of vessels, five million eight hundred thousand dollars. For provisions for commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, Provisions.including engineers and marines attached to vessels for sea service, twelve million nine hundred and twenty-three thousand two hundred and eighty dollars and seventy-five cents.
For the construction, repair, wear and tear of machinery of vessels Construction, &c., of machinery.in commission, seventeen million one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars. For surgeons’ necessaries and appliances for the sick and hurt of the Surgeons’ necessaries, &c.navy, including the coast survey, and engineer and marine corps, two hundred and twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. For ordnance and ordnance stores, including labor and incidental expenses, Ordnance and stores.eight million three hundred thousand dollars.
For navigation apparatus and supplies, and for purposes incidental to Navigation apparatus.navigation, four hundred thousand dollars. For clothing for the navy, one million dollars. Clothing. For contingent expenses of the navy, two hundred and fifty thousand Contingencies.dollars. *Bureau of Yards and Docks.—*For contingent expenses that may accrue Bureau of yards and docks;for the following purposes, viz: For freight and transportation; for printing, advertising, and stationery; for books, maps, models, and drawings; for the purchase and repair of fire-engines; for machinery of every description, and patent right to use the same; for repairs of steam-engines and attendance: for purchase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and driving teams; for carts, timber-wheels, and workmen’s tools of every description for navy-yard purposes; for telegrams and postage of letters on public service; for furniture for government offices and houses; for coals and other fuel; for candles, oil, and gas; for cleaning and clearing up yards; for flags, awnings, and packing-boxes; for pay of watchmen; for incidental labor at navy-yards not applicable to any other appropria tion; for rent of landing at Portsmouth, New Hampshire; for tolls and ferriages; for water tax; and for rent of stores and rendezvous, one million seven hundred and sixty thousand dollars. *Bureau of Navigation.—*For contingent expenses of the bureau of of navigation;navigation, viz:
For freight, and transportation of navigation materials, instruments, books, and stores; for postage on public letters; for telegraphing on public business; for advertising for proposals; for packing-boxes and materials; for blank books, forms, and stationery at navigation offices; for maps, charts, drawings, and models; and for incidental expenses not applicable to any other appropriation, five thousand dollars. *Bureau of Construction and Repair.—* For contingent and incidental of construction and repair.expenses, viz:— For postage, drawings, and transportation of materials, seventy-five thousand dollars. 464 Bureau of steam engineering; *Bureau of Steam Engineering.—*For contingent expenses, viz:— For transportation of materials, printing, stationery, experiments, advertising, books, drawings, models, postage, and incidental expenses, eighty-five thousand dollars. of provisions and clothing; *Bureau of Provisions and Clothing.—*For 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, six hundred thousand dollars. of medicine and surgery. *Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.—*For contingent expenses of the bureau of medicine and surgery, seventy-five thousand dollars. Marine corps. *Marine Corps.—*For pay of officers, non-commissioned officers, musi cians, 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, one million and forty thousand eight hundred and sixty-five dollars and forty-five cents.
Provisions. For provisions, one hundred and sixty-nine thousand nine hundred and seven dollars and fifty cents. Clothing. For clothing, three hundred and twenty-eight thousand five hundred and twelve dollars. Fuel. For fuel, thirty-two thousand six hundred and twenty-six dollars and seventy-five cents. Stores. For military stores, viz: pay of mechanics, repair of arms, purchase of accoutrements, ordnance stores, flags, drums, fifes, and other instru ments, sixteen thousand dollars.
Transportation. For transportation of officers, their servants, troops, and expenses of recruiting, twenty-five thousand dollars. Barracks, &c. For repairs of barracks, and rent of offices where there are no public buildings, fifteen thousand dollars. Contingencies. For contingencies, viz: freight, ferriage, toll, cartage, 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 quarter; 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, wrapping-paper, oil cloth, crash, rope, twine, 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; purchase and repair of handcarts and wheelbarrows; scavengering; purchase and repair of galleys; cooking-stoves, 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, sixty thousand dollars.
Navy-yards. navy-yards. Portsmouth. *Portsmouth, New Hampshire.—*For reservoir, gutters, oakum, store, siding-mill, extension of ship-house R; railway for floating dock; machinery and tools; grading gutters and drains; completing plumbers’, coppersmiths’, and tin shops; quay walls; completing mooring piers; completing extension of ship-house S; two launching *ships* [slips]; and for repairs of all kinds, three hundred and sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Boston. *Boston.—*For addition to second story of ropewalk, two building slips, one set spinning preparation and repairs of rope walk machinery, tar pit, and for repairs of all kinds, two hundred and fifty-four thousand five hundred dollars. 465 For completion of joiners’ building, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Navy-yards. *New York.—*For continuing quay wall; receiving store; grading and New York.filling; drains, paving, and flagging; muster-office addition; completing new foundry; continuation of machine shop and iron-plating shop; launching ways, ship-house D; launching ways for steamers; joiners’ shop ad dition; water-pipes and hydrants; general increase of machinery in the yard; and repairs of all kinds, eight hundred and ninety-five thousand seven hundred and sixty-three dollars. *Philadelphia.—*For boat shop; machine shop; saw-mill; storehouse;
Philadelphia.plumbers’ shop; crib foundation for launching ways; brick wall around new purchase; bulkhead at new purchase; repairs of dry dock; repairs of dredger; filling on new purchase; and repairs of all kinds, two hundred and eighty-five thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. *Washington.—*For completing copper-rolling mill extension; completing Washington.storehouse for provisions; new cradle for railway; coal depot and machinery; machinery and tools; flagging and draining; dredging channels; rail tracks; and repairs of all kinds, two hundred and eighteen thousand three hundred dollars. *Norfolk.—*For repairs of boat-shed number twenty-nine; repairs of Norfolk.timber-sheds number thirty and thirty-one; repairs of naval store number fifteen; repairs of stables; repairs of carpenters’ shop; repairs of build ings number nineteen and thirty-seven; machinery and tools; dredging channels; and repairs of all kinds, four hundred and sixty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. *Pensacola.*—For repairs of machine shop, storehouse, commandant’s Pensacola.quarters, commander’s quarters, officers’ quarters, and repairs of all kinds, one hundred and seventy-one thousand dollars. *Mare Island.—*For continuing grading and paving; foundry establishment;
Mare Island.completing iron-wharf cranes; smithery, tools, and machinery; cistern and holder for gas-works; saw-mill machinery; coal house and wharf; sea-wall continuation; guard-house; completing one half of store house; and repairs of all kinds, two hundred and eight thousand eight hundred dollars. *Sackett’s Harbor.—*For repairs of all kinds, two thousand dollars. Sackett’s Harbor. hospitals. Hospitals. *Boston.—*For repairs of buildings, roads, fences, painting hospital, enlargement Boston.of cemetery, glazing, painting, furniture, and miscellaneous items, eight thousand five hundred dollars. *New York.—*For repairs of hospital buildings, appendages, roads, New York.fences, walls, stables, painting, glazing in hospital and laboratory, and labor on cemetery and grounds, fourteen thousand dollars. *Washington, District of Columbia.—*For completing building authorized Washington.by act of March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, thirty thousand dollars. *Norfolk.—*For plastering, glazing, painting, repair of wharves and Norfolk.bridges, repair of cemetery enclosure, gas fixtures, and flagging, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. *Pensacola.—*For extension of building, enclosures, rooms for distributing Pensacola.stores, and for general repairs and improvements, ten thousand five hundred dollars. *Memphis.—*For repairs and improvements, seven thousand dollars.
Memphis. *New Orleans.—*For repairs and improvements, five thousand dollars. New Orleans. magazines. Magazines. *Portsmouth.—*For shot-beds; quay walls; boiler, boiler-room, and machinery; grading grounds; and Portsmouth.repairs of all kinds, forty-seven thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars. *Boston.—*For repairs of magazine, shell-houses, wharf at Chelsea, and Boston. 466 Magazines.powder-boat; repairs of ordnance store, shell-houses, gun and shot park at the yard; repairs of nitre depot at Malden; and tools for gun-carriage shop, six thousand three hundred and seventy-eight dollars.
New York. *New York.—*For ordnance machinery, and repairs of all kinds, fifty-five thousand dollars. Philadelphia. *Philadelphia.—*For two stone magazine buildings, fifteen thousand six hundred and ninety-six dollars. Washington. *Washington, District of Columbia.—*For repairs to buildings in ordnance yard, repairs to branch magazine, cleaning, and improving ordnance yard, erecting temporary buildings, additional ordnance machinery, and continuing work on new ordnance foundry, eighty-seven thousand dollars.
Norfolk. *Norfolk.—*For improvements and repairs of buildings at magazine Fort Norfolk, ten thousand dollars. Mare Island. *Mare Island.—*For continuing shell-house and powder magazine at north end of yard, building a second shell-house at magazine, continuing preparations for gun-park, tools and machines for ordnance shop, repairs to building number seventy, occupied by ordnance; repairs to magazine; and for strengthening old wharf at magazine and building new addition, forty-four thousand four hundred and eighty-six dollars.
Miscellaneous. *Miscellaneous.—*For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishments of the several navy-yards and stations, one hundred and thirty-two thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars. Naval Academy. For expenses of professors, watchmen, and others, and contingencies of the United States Naval Academy, one hundred and fifteen thousand six hundred and twenty-six dollars. Naval Observatory. *Naval Observatory.—*For pay of assistant astronomer, three aids, and clerk, eight thousand dollars.
For wages of instrument maker, two watchmen, porter, messenger, and laborers; keeping grounds in order, and repairs to buildings and enclosures; fuel, lights, office furniture, and stationery; and for freight, trans-portation, postage, and incidental expenses, fourteen thousand dollars. Nautical Almanac. For preparing for publication the American Nautical Almanac, twenty-five thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. naval asylum, philadelphia. Naval Asylum, Philadelphia. For furniture and repairs of same; house-cleaning and whitewashing; furnaces, grates, and ranges; gas and water rent; improvement of grounds; wharves and lots; and for hospital, and repairs of all kinds, fire thousand six hundred dollars.
For support of beneficiaries, F orty-two thousand dollars. Emergencies. To meet emergencies at the Atlantic, East and West Gulf, and Mississippi stations, five hundred thousand dollars. Photographer. For pay of photographer in the bureau of ordnance, three, hundred dollars. Appointment of midshipmen. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That no midshipman shall be appointed for any district not represented in congress. Pay of officer experimenting in gunnery. 1860, ch. 67, § 2.
Vol. xii. p. 27. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That so much of the second section of an act entitled “An act to increase and regulate the pay of the navy of the United States,” approved June one, eighteen hundred and sixty, as provided that the officer charged with experiments in gunnery at the navy-yard, Washington, shall receive the sea-service pay of the grade next above him, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Pay of commission on site for navy-yard. Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That to defray the necessary expenses of the commission “to select the most approved site for a navy-yard or naval station on the Mississippi River, or upon one of its tributaries,” the sum of two thousand five hundred and ninety dollars is hereby appropriated.
Enlargement of accommodations for sick, &c., at naval asylum. 1864, ch 30. *Ante,* p. 26. Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted,* That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated to enlarge the accommodations for THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 74, 75. 1865. 467sick, wounded, and otherwise disabled at the Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, authorized by act of congress of March fourteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of the Navy be, and is hereby, authorized to purchase the balance of square nine hundred Land, for naval hospital in Washington.and forty-eight, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, some fourteen thousand feet, upon which a naval hospital is now in course of erection: *Provided* the same can be obtained, in the judgment of the secretary, upon terms deemed just and reasonable.
Sec. 7. *And be it further enacted,* That so much of the proviso of the Repeal of part of 1843, ch. 83. Vol. v. p. 617.act of third March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, entitled “An act making appropriations for the naval service for the half calendar year, beginning the first of January and ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-four,” as requires that provisions, and all other materials of every name and nature, for the use of the navy, be furnished by contract with the lowest bidder, after advertisement, shall be, and the same is hereby, so far modified, that it shall not apply to bunting delivered for the use of the army and navy; that it shall be lawful for the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into contract for bunting, of American manufacture, as their Banting for army and navy.respective services require, for a period not exceeding one year, and at a price not exceeding that at which an article of equal quality can be imported.
Approved, March 2, 1865.