Chapter XCIII. *making Appropriations for the Naval Service for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and for other Purposes.*May 21, 1864. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Navy appropriation
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CHAP. XCIII.— An Act *making Appropriations for the Naval Service for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and for other Purposes.*May 21, 1864. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Navy appropriation.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 year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-five:— Pay.For pay of commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, including the engineer corps of the navy, nineteen millions four hundred and twenty-three thousand two hundred and forty-one dollars.
Repair, &c. of vessels.For repair and maintenance of vessels of the navy, labor, materials, and stores, eleven millions five hundred thousand dollars. Completion of steam screw sloops.For the completion of sixteen fast steam screw sloops-of-war, seven millions two hundred thousand dollars. Vessels for western waters;For the purchase, construction, and repairs of vessels, materials, and labor, for the western waters, four millions of dollars. for naval and blockading purposes.For the purchase and charter of vessels for naval and blockading purposes, three millions of dollars.
For extra labor, expense of repairs, and so forth, on foreign stations, six hundred thousand dollars. Bounty.For payment of the three months’ bounty to seamen and ordinary sea-men under the joint resolution of February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, five hundred thousand dollars. Armored plated vessels.For the completion of armored plated vessels, three million six hundred thousand dollars. Hemp and fuel.For the purchase of hemp and other materials for the navy, seven hundred thousand dollars.
For fuel for the navy, and for the transportation and expenses thereof, three millions eight hundred and forty thousand dollars. Equipment.For the equipment of vessels in the navy, viz:— For the purchase of various articles of equipment, viz: canvas, leather, 81cables and anchors, and furniture, and stores in the masters’, boatswains’ and sailmakers’ departments, three million dollars. Provisions.For provisions for commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, including engineers and marines attached to vessels for sea service, six million four hundred and fifteen thousand six hundred and five dollars.
Machinery.For the construction, repair, wear and tear of machinery of vessels in commission, twenty-eight million three hundred and twelve thousand dollars. Surgeons’ necessaries, &c.For surgeons’ necessaries and appliances for the sick and hurt of the navy, including the coast-survey and engineer and marine corps, two hundred and ten thousand dollars. Ordnance and stores.For ordnance and ordnance stores, including labor and incidental expenses, eight million three hundred thousand dollars.
Navigation apparatus.For navigation apparatus and supplies, and for purposes incidental to navigation, one hundred and twenty-six thousand dollars. Contingencies.For contingent expenses of the navy, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Nautical. &c., instruments, books, chart, &cFor the purchase of nautical and astronomical instruments, books, maps, and charts; and for the repairs of instruments, and binding and backing books and charts, one hundred and one thousand and forty-two dollars.
Clothing.For clothing for the navy, five hundred thousand dollars. Bureau of yards and ducks,*Bureau of Yards and Pocks.—* For contingent expenses that, may accrue 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, postage of letters on public service; for furniture for government offices and houses in the navy yards; for coals and other fuel; for candles, oil, and gas; for cleaning and clearing up yards; for flags, awning, and packing-boxes; for pay of watchmen; for incidental labor at navy yards not applicable to any other appropriation; for rent of landing at Portsmouth, New Hampshire; for tolls and ferriages; for water tax; and for rent of stores and rendezvous, one null ion three hundred and seventy thousand dollars. of equipment and recruiting,*Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting.*— For contingent expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, viz: expenses of recruiting; travelling expenses of officers; transportation of men and materials; 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; and for bills of health and quarantine expenses of vessels in the navy, one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. of navigation,*Bureau of Navigation.*— For contingent expenses of the bureau of navigation, viz;
For freight and transportation of navigation materials, instruments, books, and stores; for postage on 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, one thousand five hundred dollars. of construction and repair,*Bureau of Construction and Repair.—* For contingent and incidental expenses, viz:
For blank-books, binding, stationery, and miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars. For postage, drawings, and transportation of materials, seventy-five thousand dollars. 82 Bureau 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, five hundred thousand dollars. of medicine and surgery,*Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.—* For contingent expenses of the bureau of medicine and surgery, sixty thousand dollars. of steam engineering.*Bureau of Steam Engineering.—* For contingent expenses, viz:
For transportation of materials, printing, stationery, advertising, books, drawings, models, postages, and incidental expenses, twenty-five thousand dollars. Marine corps.*Marine Corps.*— For pay of officers, 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 additional pay to musicians of the band, seven hundred and ninety-one thousand seven hundred and eighty-live dollars and eighty cents.
For provisions, one hundred and thirty-five thousand nine hundred and twenty-six dollars. For clothing, two hundred and twenty-three thousand three hundred and ninety-eight dollars. For fuel, thirty-one thousand four hundred and thirty dollars and seventy-five cents. For military stores, viz: Pay of mechanics, repairs of aims, purchase of accoutrements, ordnance stores, flags, drums, fifes, and other instruments, fifteen thousand dollars. For transportation of officers, their servants, troops, and expenses of recruiting, twenty-two thousand dollars.
For repairs of barracks, and rent of offices where there are no public buildings, eight, thousand dollars. 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 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 in the barracks; 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, washer-woman, and porter at the hospital head-quarters; 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, forty-five thousand dollars.
For widening and improving the marine barracks, and officers’ quarters at the navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, twenty-two thousand dollars. For building marine barracks, at navy yard, Mare Island, California, thirty-nine thousand fifty-eight dollars and forty-four cents. navy yards.Navy yards. Portsmouth.*Portsmouth, New Hampshire.—* For plumbers, coppersmiths, and tin-shops; quay-walls, mooring-piers, iron store, extension of ship-house, machinery and tools, repairs on floating dock, barracks and guard-house, on Seavey’s Island, and for repairs of all kinds, one hundred and fifty-one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five dollars. 83 Navy Yards.Boston.*Boston.—* For additional amount for joiners’ shop, additional amount for coal-house, extension of shear wharf, railroad tracks, and repairs of all kinds, one hundred and eighty-four thousand live hundred dollars.
New York.*New York.*— For dredging channels; quay-wall at saw-mills; new foundery; improvements on cob dock; improvements to dry dock; machine-shop extension; improvements of dry dock; quay-wall at new derrick; iron-plating shop; receiving store; iron fence in front of officers’ houses; repairs of all kinds; machinery for iron-clad building; machinery for pattern, boiler, and machine-shop; machinery for new foundery; machinery for machine-shop extension; machinery for smithery, joiner, and oakum shops; one six-ton, one four-ton, and one two-ton hammer, six hundred and sixty-nine thousand three hundred and fifteen dollars.
Philadelphia.*Philadelphia.—* For repairs of dry dock, pitch-house, dredging; repairs of damage to store by fire, and for repairs of all kinds— and for the purchase of two lots adjoining navy yard, Philadelphia, extending from Front Street to the commissioners’ line in the Delaware river, at a price not exceeding ninety thousand dollars— two hundred and fourteen thousand nine hundred and forty-five dollars, Washington.*Washington, District of Columbia.—* For extension of copper rolling-mill; machinery and tools; storehouse for provisions and clothing; dredging channels; repairs of all kinds, and rail tracks in yard, one hundred and forty-nine thousand four hundred and sixty-five dollars.
Norfolk.*Norfolk.*— For repairs of victual hug-house, boat-shed, blacksmith-shop, and tools; wharves, foundery, officers’ quarters, boiler-shop, repairs of dry dock, engine-house, mast-house, and sail-loft; saw-mill and machinery; offices and storehouse and repairs of all kinds, two hundred and twenty-three thousand four hundred and thirty-three dollars. Pensacola.*Pensacola.*— For repairs of all kinds, fifty thousand dollars. For machinery and materials for the repair of vessels at Pensacola, Ship Island, and New Orleans, one hundred thousand dollars.
Mare Island.*Mare Island.*— For continuation of grading and paving, ten thousand dollars; scows, lighter, and stages; foundery and machinery for same; machinery for saw-mill; continuing coal-shed and wharf; continuing sea-wall; steam hammer and tools for smithery; rigging and sail-loft; repairs of all kinds; excess of expenditure on wharf; guard-house; machinery for machine-shop, and gas-works, two hundred and twenty-four thousand five hundred and ninety-five dollars. hospitals.Hospitals.
Boston.*Boston.—* For remodelling old section of the hospital; heating and cooking and laundry apparatus; brick wall andiron gateways on Broad-way; and repairs of building and improvement of grounds, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. New York.*New York.*— For repairs and improvements of buildings and grounds, increase of apparatus in the laboratory, and repairs to heating apparatus, nine thousand dollars. Norfolk.*Norfolk.—* For general improvement and repairs of building, ground, and wharves, five thousand dollars. % Pensacola.*Pensacola.*— For completion of extension of building, thirty thousand dollars.
Memphis.*Memphis.—* For improvements and repairs of hospitals, seven thousand dollars. New Orleans.*New Orleans.*— For improvements and repairs of hospital, five thousand dollars. Mare Island.*Mare Island, California.*— For completion of hospital, seventy-five thousand dollars. magazines.Magazines. Portsmouth.*Portsmouth.*— For howitzer and gun-equipment shed; machinery for 84Hospitals.ordnance building, and for fitting and furnishing new wing of ordnance building; grading grounds for repairs of ordnance buildings and railways, twenty thousand and fifty dollars.
Boston.*Boston.—* For repairs of magazine and shell-houses at Chelsea, and powder-boat; repairs of ordnance store, shell-houses, and gun and shot parks; tools for gun-carriage shop; and for completing ordnance store, sixty-three thousand four hundred and thirty-nine dollars. New York.*Hew York.*— For machinery for repairing small arms; repairs to wharves and track on Ellis’ island; sea-wall on north side of Ellis’ island; repairs on magazine at Ellis’ island; dredging at Ellis’ island; and for re-pairs of all kinds, forty-two thousand dollars.
Philadelphia.*Philadelphia.—* For repairs and alterations of ordnance storehouse and office; machinery and tools in ordnance workshops; and for magazine, wharf-buildings, and grounds, eight thousand one hundred and sixty-three dollars. Washington.*Washington.*— For repairs and improvements of the magazine, ordnance buildings, and grounds of the ordnance yard; erecting temporary sheds; additional ordnance machinery; and for continuing the new ordnance foundery, sixty-nine thousand dollars.
Mare Island.*Mare Island, California.*— For two small magazines at north end of the yard; enlargement of shell-house; preparing gun park; building skids and shot beds; machinery and tools for ordnance shop; and for re-pairs on magazine buildings and pile wharf, twenty-nine thousand three hundred and sixty-eight dollars. miscellaneous.Miscellaneous. Civil establishments at Navy Yards.For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishments of the several navy yards and stations, one hundred and twenty-five thousand six Salary of constructing engineer at Mare Island.hundred and eighty-eight dollars; and the annual salary of the constructing engineer at Mare Island, California, shall be three thousand two hundred dollars, after the close of the present fiscal year.
Naval Academy.For expenses of professors, watchmen, and others, and contingencies of the United States Naval Academy, one Proviso.hundred and one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one dollars and fifty-five cents: *Provided,* That no money appropriated for the support of the naval academy shall be applied to the support of any midshipmen hereafter appointed not in strict conformance with the provisions of the law for appointing midshipmen to the naval academy. Key West.For constructing coal-wharf at Key West, Florida, thirty-two thousand dollars.
For altering coal-depot to storehouse at Key West, Florida, eighteen thousand dollars. For constructing railroad from naval wharf to coal-yards at Key West, Florida, ten thousand dollars. For the pay of mileage of visitors to the naval academy, two thousand dollars. naval observatory.Naval observatory. For pay of assistant astronomer, three aids, and clerk, eight thousand dollars, and four thousand dollars thereof shall be equally divided among the three aids as their salary.
For wages of instrument maker, watchman, porter, and laborers; keeping grounds in order, and repairs to buildings and enclosures; fuel, lights, office furniture, and stationery; and for freight, transportation, postage, and incidental expenses, twelve thousand dollars. Nautical Almanac.For preparing for publication the American Nautical Almanac, twenty-five thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 93, 94, 95. 1864.85 naval asylum, philadelphia.Naval asylum.
For furniture and repairs of same; house-cleaning and whitewashing; repairs to furnaces, grates, and ranges; gas and water rent; for hospital, and repairs of all kinds, five thousand two hundred dollars. Cemetery.For the purchase and preparation of a site for a cemetery for the navy and marine corps, near Philadelphia, fifteen thousand dollars. Beneficiaries.For support of beneficiaries, thirty-two thousand dollars. Gratuities and medals.For gratuities and medals of honor, five thousand dollars.
Destruction of vessels.1862, ch. 204, § 4.Vol. xii. p. 606.Pay of officers, &c., of the Monitor;For bounties for destruction of enemies’ vessels, as per “act of July seventeen, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, For the better government of the navy,” two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For pay of photographer, for ordnance bureau, three hundred dollars. For compensation of petty officers, seamen, and others of the crew of the United States steamer Monitor, lost at sea December thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, three thousand dollars. the Cairo.For compensation of petty officers; seamen, and others of the crew of the United States steamer Cairo, lost in Yazoo river December twelve, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That, out of theTwo dry docks authorized.Application of former appropriation.1868a ch. 118,Vol xii. p. 817. appropriation of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars for a floating dry dock at navy yard, New York, provided for by the act making appropriations for the naval service of the United States, approved third March, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to construct one or two dry docks, as he may deem expedient, at New York and Philadelphia, at two hundred and sixty thousand dollars each, and to expend the balance of said appropriation, if it shall be necessary, lo enlarge the sectional docks to a capacity to receive the large vessels now building.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That there shall beAdditional professors at the naval academy. added three professors to the number of professors of mathematics now authorized by law, who shall be appointed and commissioned as now provided by law, and who shall be a professor of ethics and English studies, a professor of Spanish, and a professor of drawing, at the naval academy. Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That the United StatesNaval academy to be returned to Annapolis. naval academy shall be returned to and established at the naval academy grounds in Annapolis, in the state of Maryland, before the commencement of the academic year eighteen hundred and sixty-five.
Approved, May 21, 1864.