Chapter XLV. making Appropriations for the Naval Service for the Year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven
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CHAP. XLV.— An Act making Appropriations for the Naval Service for the Year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.April 17, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedNavy appropriations. 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 treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven;
For pay of commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, includingPay of officers, seamen, and engineer corps. the engineer corps of the navy, nine millions three hundred and thirty-six thousand six hundred and thirty-eight dollars. For the payment of bounties to discharged seamen, eight hundred thousandBounties. dollars. For the purchase of various articles of equipment, viz: canvas, leather,Equipment. iron, cables, and anchors, oil, galleys, and stores, and for the payment of labor on articles manufactured in the navy yards, and for outfit stores in the navigators’, boatswains’, and sailmakers’ department of vessels, one million dollars.
For surgeons’ necessaries and appliances for the sick and wounded ofSurgeons’ necessaries, &c. the navy, including the coast survey and engineer and marine corps, one hundred and sixty-eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For navigation apparatus and supplies, and for purposes incidental toNavigation apparatus, &c. navigation, one hundred and ninety-two thousand five hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of the navy, two hundred and fifty thousandContingent expenses. dollars. *Bureau of Yards and Docks.*—For contingent expenses that may accrueBureau 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 appropriation; for rent of landing at Portsmouth, New Hampshire; for tolls and ferriages; for water tax; and for rent of stores, one million seven hundred and sixty thousand dollars. 34 THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 45. 1866. *Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting.*—For expenses that may accrueBureau of equipment and recruiting; for the following purposes, namely: expenses of recruiting, travelling expenses of officers, transportation of men, printing and stationery, advertising in public newspapers, postage on public letters, wharfage and demurrage, apprehension of deserters, pilotage and towage of vessels, and assistance to vessels in distress, eight hundred thousand dollars. *Bureau of Navigation.*—For contingent expenses of the Bureau ofof 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 Medicine and Surgery.*—For contingent expenses of theof medicine and surgery.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, seventy-five thousand dollars. *Marine Corps.*—For pay of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians,Marine Corps. 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 bounties for enlistment, one million one hundred and seven thousand and sixty-six dollars and ninety-five cents. For provisions, one hundred and sixty-nine thousand nine hundred and seven dollars and fifty cents.
For clothing, three hundred and fourteen thousand six hundred and sixty-three dollars and five cents. For fuel, thirty thousand one hundred and seventeen dollars. For military stores, viz: Pay of mechanics, repair of arms, purchase of accoutrements, ordnance stores, flags, drums, fifes, and other instruments, sixteen thousand dollars. For transportation of officers, their servants, troops, and expenses of recruiting, ten thousand dollars. For repairs of barracks, and rent of offices where there are no public buildings, ten 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; bed sacks, wrapping paper, oilcloth, 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, eighty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That in the purchase of carpets and furniture provided for in this act they shall be of domestic manufacture. navy yards.Navy Yards. *Portsmouth, New Hampshire.*—For iron foundery, five thousand ninePortsmouth. hundred and forty-six dollars.
For shop for iron-cladding, sixteen thousand six hundred and thirty-two dollars. For condensers, seven thousand six hundred and sixty dollars. 35 For road and timber slips, twenty-eight thousand three hundred andNavy Yards. three dollars. For enlarging office building, nine thousand seven hundred and forty-eight dollars. For filling and furnishing plumber’s, coppersmith’s and tin shop, three thousand six hundred dollars. For machinery and tools, forty-eight thousand one hundred dollars.
For repairs of all kinds, seventy thousand dollars. For completing plumber’s, coppersmiths, and tin shop, ten thousand dollars. For the purchase of Seavey’s Island, one hundred and five thousandPurchase of Seavey’s Island. dollars: *Provided,* That a perfect and approved title in fee to the whole island can be obtained and vested in the United States for that sum: *And provided further,* That in case the owners of lots and improvements onProvisos. said island shall not agree to receive said sum for the whole of said island and the privileges and improvements thereunto belonging, the Secretary of the Navy is hereby required to discontinue the public use of the bridge and thoroughfare leading from said island to and across the navy yard, to take effect on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. *Boston.*—For purchase of the right of drainage through the yard, nowBoston. held by the city of Charlestown, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For one steam fire-engine, five thousand dollars. For widening main entrance, twelve thousand dollars. For tools for machine and forge shops, seventy-one thousand five hundred dollars. For machinery for ropewalk, thirty-one thousand dollars. For filling in a portion of timber-dock, forty thousand dollars. For addition to stable, eight thousand dollars. For repairs of all kinds, eighty-five thousand dollars. *New York.*—For iron-plating shop, ninety-eight thousand nine hundredNew York. and twenty-two dollars.
For receiving store, forty-seven thousand six hundred and three dollars. For quay with extension at sewer, one hundred thousand dollars. For continuing the work on the new machine and boiler shop, one hundred thousand dollars. For dredging channels, sixty-five thousand dollars. For special repairs, twenty thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs of all kinds, one hundred and sixteen thousand dollars. For the purchase of the Ruggles property, ninety thousand dollars. For protecting from destruction and decay the unfinished buildings and other structures already commenced, for which no appropriation is made in this bill, twenty thousand dollars. *Philadelphia.*—For dredging channels, four thousand and twenty-eightPhiladelphia. dollars.
For repairs of dry dock, forty-six thousand dollars. For repairs of all kinds, fifty-eight thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. For completing saw-mill, twenty-five thousand dollars. For extending south pier one hundred feet, fifteen thousand dollars. *Washington.*—For new paint-shop, eight thousand five hundred andWashington. eighty-three dollars. For smithery, twelve thousand and sixty-two dollars. For extension of iron foundery, eight thousand four hundred and forty-five dollars.
For machinery and tools, ninety thousand six hundred dollars. For repairs of all kinds, sixty-one thousand six hundred dollars. *Norfolk.*—For railway track and care, eight thousand dollars.Norfolk. 36 For repair of wharves, two thousand five hundred dollars.Navy Yards. For one Ames’s wharf crane, three thousand dollars. For machinery and tools, fifty thousand dollars. For ship joiners’shop and timber shed number twelve, forty-five thousand dollars. For storehouse number fourteen, forty-six thousand dollars.
For the protection of the property at Norfolk navy-yard, twenty thousand dollars or so much thereof as shall be necessary. *Pensacola, Florida.*—For muster office, ei[g]ht thousand one hundredPensacola. and four dollars. For new gate to dock basin, thirty thousand dollars. For pile engine, seven hundred dollars. For the preservation and necessary repairs of the property of the United States at the Pensacola navy yard, fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. *Mare Island, California.*—For foundery and boiler establishment,Mare Island. eighty-five thousand dollars.
For cisterns, buildings sixty-eight and forty-five, seven thousand three hundred dollars. For quay-wall, fifty thousand dollars. For grading, twenty thousand dollars. For cistern and holder for gas works, two thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs of all kinds, fifty thousand dollars. hospitals.Hospitals. *Boston.*—For repairs of buildings, roads, fences, cemetery, walls, stable,Boston. and furniture; painting, glazing, grounds, and miscellaneous items, ten thousand dollars. *New York.*—For repairs of hospital buildings and appendages, roads,New York. fences, walls, stables, and furniture; painting, glazing, cemetery, grounds, and miscellaneous items, ten thousand five hundred dollars. *Laboratory, New York.*—For repairs of buildings and appendages, purchaseLaboratory at New York. and repair of instruments, apparatus and machinery, painting, glazing, furniture, and miscellaneous items, three thousand five hundred dollars. *Washington.*—For completing building authorized by act of CongressWashington.1864, ch. 30.Vol. xiii. p. 26. approved March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, including cost of enclosing premises, grading sidewalks, laying curbstones, together with the necessary out-buildings and their appurtenances, thirty thousand dollars. *Annapolis.*—For repairing hospital building, appendages, painting, glazing,Annapolis. furniture, and miscellaneous items, five thousand dollars. *Norfolk.*—For repairs of buildings, appendages, roads, fences, rebuildingNorfolk. sea-wall, painting and glazing, spouting and repairing roof, wharves and bridges, brick pavement, stable, furniture, floors of basement, improving grounds, and for miscellaneous items, twenty thousand dollars. *Pensacola.*—For repairs of building, appendages, painting, glazing,Pensacola. furniture, and miscellaneous items, ten thousand five hundred dollars. *Mare Island.*—For repairs of building, appendages, painting, glazing,Mare Island. furniture, and miscellaneous items, seven thousand five hundred dollars. miscellaneous.Miscellaneous.
For pay of superintendent, naval constructors, and all the civil establishmentsCivil establishments at navy yards.Pay of clerks at Portsmouth and Philadelphia. of the several navy yards and stations, one hundred and forty-six thousand two hundred and thirty dollars. And the pay of the clerk of the yard and first clerk to naval storekeeper at each of the navy yards at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Philadelphia, shall be twelve hundred dollars per annum. 37 For testing the use of petroleum as a fuel under marine boilers, fivePetroleum as fuel. thousand dollars.
For the construction of a levee on the river-front of the governmentLevee at Mound City. property at Mound City, Illinois, seven thousand dollars. To pay mileage of visitors to the Naval Academy, one thousand dollars.Naval Academy. For expenses of Naval Academy, viz: for pay of civil officers, professors, watchmen and others, contingent expenses, improvements and repairs, one hundred and ninety-eight thousand four hundred and twenty-nine dollars. For the purchase of the land adjacent to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, belonging to the State of Maryland, and known as the government house and grounds, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For the purchase of other grounds at Annapolis for the use of the Naval Academy, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the erection of a building suitable for the accommodation of the third and fourth classes at the Naval Academy, one hundred thousand dollars. For the erection of a machine-shop at the Naval Academy, twenty thousand dollars. For the increase of the library at the Naval Academy, two thousand dollars. For the enlargement of the chapel at the Naval Academy, and for the erection of mural tablets therein to commemorate the memory of naval officers who have sacrificed their lives in the service of the country, seven thousand dollars. naval observatory.Naval Observatory.
For the pay of assistant astronomer, three aids, and clerk, eight thousand dollars. For wages of instrument maker, two watchmen, porter, and messenger; for keeping grounds in order, and repairs to buildings and enclosures; for fuel, light, office-furniture, and stationery, and for freight, transportation, postage, and incidental expenses, twelve thousand dollars. For preparing for publication the American Nautical Almanac, fifteenAmerican Nautical Almanac. thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. naval asylum, philadelphia.Naval Asylum.
For furniture and repairs to same, one thousand dollars. For house-cleaning and whitewashing, eight hundred dollars. For furnaces, grates, and ranges, seven hundred dollars. For gas and water rent, one thousand five hundred dollars. For improvement of grounds, three hundred dollars. For wharves and lots, eight hundred dollars. For painting houses and walls, two thousand dollars. For repairs of all kinds, one thousand dollars. For support of beneficiaries, forty-eight thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That so much of the first section ofAmendment of act 1864, ch. 93, § 1.Vol. xiii. p. 85.Bounties for destruction of enemies’ vessels. the act making appropriations for the naval service, approved May twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, as appropriates two hundred and fifty thousand dollars “for bounties for destruction of enemies’ vessels, as per act of July seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two,” be amended so that said appropriation shall apply to all cases of destruction of enemies’ vessels during the recent rebellion, and at the same rate as is provided in the act to which reference is made.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That no portion of the amountsNo payments to those who do not take the oath.1862, ch. 128.Vol. xii. p. 502. herein appropriated shall be paid in violation of the provisions of the act entitled “An act to prescribe an oath of office, and for other purposes,” approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. 38THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 45, 46. 1866. Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That so much of the second sectionAllowance to officers for rent of quarters, &c.1835, ch. 27, § 2.Vol. iv. p. 757. of an act entitled An act to regulate the pay of the navy of the United States, approved March three, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, as prohibits any allowance to any officer in the naval service for rent of quarters, or for furniture, or for lights, or fuel, or transporting baggage, and all acts and parts of acts authorizing the appointment of navy agents, be, and theNavy agents abolished. same are hereby, repealed.
Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted,* That the examination of candidates for admission to the Naval Academy shall be held at such stated times asExaminations for Naval Academy. the Secretary of the Navy may direct. Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted,* That the office of assistant in BureauAssistant in Bureau of Ordnance abolished. of Ordnance be, and the same is hereby, abolished. Sec. 7. *And be it further enacted,* That hereafter no vacancy in theVacancies in grade of professor of mathematics not to be filled. grade of professor of mathematics in the navy shall be filled.
Sec. 8. *And be it further enacted,* That the act approved August thirty-first, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, for “surveys an[d] reconnaissances, for naval and commercial purposes, of such parts of Behring’s StraitsSurvey of Behring’s Straits, North Pacific, and China Seas.1852, ch. 109, § 2.Vol. x. p. 104. of the north Pacific ocean, and of the China seas, as are frequented by American whale ships and by trading vessels in their routes between the United States and China,” be, and the same is hereby, revived, and the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized and required to recommence and continue surveys and reconnaissance in the Pacific ocean, not yet fully examined, by using such vessels, officers, crews, outfits, and supplies of the navy, as may be necessary and available for that service.
Sec. 9. *And be it further enacted,* That, for the purpose of settling the accounts of disbursing officers of the navy, where payments for contingentTransfer of appropriation to settle accounts of disbursing officers. expenses have been made from the appropriation for “the pay of the navy” prior to the passage of the act making appropriations for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and sixty-three-four, the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to transfer from the appropriation for the pay of the navy to the appropriation for contingent, the sum of two hundred and forty-five thousand and nine hundred and four dollars and twelve cents.
Approved, April 17, 1866.