Chapter LXI. *making Appropriations for the naval Service for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine.*June 17, 1868. *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. LXI.— An Act *making Appropriations for the naval Service for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine.*June 17, 1868. *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-nine:
Pay of officers and seamen.For pay of commission, warrant, and petty officers, and seamen, eight million dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Preservation of vessels, materials, stores, repairs, &c.For preservation of wood and iron vessels and ships in ordinary, and for those that are on the stocks; vessels for the naval academy; for purchase of material and stores of all kinds; labor in navy yards; tools, transportation of material, repair of vessels, and maintenance of the navy afloat, three million dollars.
Bureau of yards and docks.*Bureau of Yards and Docks.* — for contingent expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, viz. For freight and transportation; for printing, advertising, and stationery; for books, models, and drawings; for the purchase and repair of fire engines; for machinery of every description; for purchase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and driving teams; for carts, timber-wheels, and workmen’s tools; for telegrams and postage of letters on public service; for furniture for government offices and houses; for candles, oil, and gas; for cleaning and clearing up yards; for flags, awnings, and packing boxes; for rent of landings; for tolls and ferriages; for coal and other fuel; for water tax and for rent of stores, eight hundred thousand dollars.
Navy yard at Portsmouth;*Navy Yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire.* — For the necessary repairs of all kinds, fifty thousand dollars. Boston*Navy Yard at Boston.* — For repairs of buildings, and repairs of all kinds, one hundred thousand dollars. FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 61. 1868.69 *Navy Yard at New York.*; — For repairs of all kinds, one hundredNavy yard at New York; thousand dollars. *Navy Yard at Philadelphia.*; — For repairs of all kinds, fifty thousandPhiladelphia. dollars. *Navy Yard at Washington.*; — For repairs of all kinds, eighty thousandWashington. dollars. *Navy Yard at Norfolk.*; — For preservation of the yard and the necessaryNorfolk. repairs of all kinds, fifty thousand dollars. *Navy Yard at Pensacola.*; — For preservation of the yard and thePensacola; necessary repairs of all kinds, fifty thousand dollars. *Navy Yard at Mare Island.*; — For repairs of all kinds, sixty thousandMare Island. dollars. *Naval Station at Sackett’s Harbor.*; — For repairs and the general careNaval station at Sackett’s Harbor; of the public property, two thousand dollars. *Naval Station at Mound City, Illinois.*; — For the necessary repair ofMound City; the levee and yard buildings, twenty-seven thousand dollars. *Naval Station at Key West.*; — For necessary repairs of wharves andKey West. buildings, three thousand dollars. *Naval Asylum at Philadelphia.*; — For furniture and repairs of same,Naval Asylum. one thousand dollars.
For house cleaning and white-washing, eight hundred dollars. For furnaces, grates, and ranges, six hundred dollars. For gas and water rent, one thousand two hundred dollars. For general improvement and repairs, five thousand dollars. For support of beneficiaries, fifty-four thousand dollars. For pay of superintendents and the civil establishment at the severalCivil establishment at navy yards, &c. navy yards and stations under the control of the bureau of yards and docks, and at the navy asylum, fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, ThatAppointment of civil engineer and naval storekeeper at navy yards. the civil engineer and naval storekeeper at the several navy yards shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and that the persons employed at the several navy yards to superintend the mechanical departments, and heretofore known as master mechanics, master carpenters, master joiners, master blacksmiths, master boiler-makers, master sail-makers, master plumbers, master painters, masterSuperintendents of mechanical departments to be skilled in their duties and appointed from civil life. caulkers, master masons, master boat-builders, master spar-makers, master block-makers, master laborers, and the superintendents of ropewalks, shall be men skilled in their several duties and appointed from civil life, and shall not be appointed from the officers of the navy. *Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting.*; — For the purchase of hempBureau of equipment and recruiting. and other material for the navy; for the purchase of coal and the transportation and other expenses thereon; for the purchase of various articles of equipment, viz. wire rope and machinery for its manufacture, hides, cordage, canvass, leather, iron cables and anchors, furniture, galleys, and hose, and for the payment of labor for equipping vessels, and manufacture of articles in the navy yards pertaining to this bureau, one million dollars.
For expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, viz. For freight and transportation of materials and stores for bureau of equipment and recruiting, expenses of recruiting, transportation of en-listed men, printing, postage, advertising, telegraphing, and stationery for the bureau of equipment and recruiting, apprehension of deserters, as-sistance to vessels in distress, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the pay of superintendents and the civil establishment at the several navy yards under this bureau, eighteen thousand dollars. *Bureau of Navigation.* — For navigation apparatus and supplies, andBureau of navigation. for the purposes incidental to navigation, viz.
For compass stations and for repairs and care of same, four thousand dollars. For services and materials for correcting compasses on board of vessels, and for testing compasses on shore, three thousand dollars. FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 61. 1868.70 Bureau of navigation.For nautical and astronomical instruments, for nautical books, maps and charts, and sailing directions, and for repairs of instruments for vessels of war, ten thousand dollars. For books for libraries for vessels of war, and for books and stationery for naval apprentices, four thousand five hundred dollars.
For binnacles, pedestals, and other appurtenances of ships’ compasses, to be made in the yards, three thousand dollars. For bunting and other materials for flags, and for making and repairing flags of all kinds for the navy, seven thousand and five hundred dollars. For navy signals other than signal flags, namely, signal-lanterns, lights, rockets, and apparatus of all kinds for signal purposes, for drawings and engravings for signal-books, six thousand dollars. For logs, log lines, log reels, log paper, and sand-glasses, for lead, lead reels, lead lines, armings for leads and other sounding apparatus, and for running lights, (side and head lanterns prescribed by law,) eight thousand dollars.
For musical instruments for vessels of war, one thousand dollars. For commanders’ and navigators’ stationery for vessels of war, five thousand dollars. For oil for vessels of war, other than for engineer department, fifty thousand dollars. For local and foreign pilotage for vessels of war, sixty thousand dollars. For lamps and lanterns of all kinds for binnacles, standard-compasses, and tops, for lamps for cabins, wardroom, and other quarters for officers, and for decks, holds, and storerooms, and for lamp-wicks, chimneys, shades, and other appendages, six thousand dollars.
For freight and transportation of navigation materials, instruments, books, and stores, postage on public letters, telegraphing on public business, advertising for proposals, packing boxes and material, blank-books, forms, and stationery at navigation offices, and contingent expenses, ten thousand dollars. Naval academy.For expenses of naval academy, viz. For pay of professors and others, seventy-six thousand seven hundred and six dollars. For pay of watchmen and others, forty-five thousand two hundred and ninety-four dollars.
For contingent expenses, sixty-three thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. For necessary repairs of quarters, ten thousand dollars. For support of department of steam enginery, and for payment of mechanics and laborers, five thousand dollars. Naval observatory.For expenses of naval observatory, viz. For wages of one instrument-maker, one messenger, one porter, and three watchmen; for keeping grounds in order, and repairs to buildings and enclosures; for fuel, light, and office furniture, and for stationery, chemicals for batteries, postage, and freight, ten thousand six hundred dollars.
For incidental expenses, five hundred dollars. For salary of clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars. For salary of three aids, four thousand dollars. American Nautical Almanac.For preparing for publication the American Nautical Almanac, namely: For pay of computers, fifteen thousand dollars. For pay of clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars. Visitors to naval academy.For payment of expenses of visitors to the naval academy, two thousand dollars. Bureau of ordnance.*Bureau of Ordnance.—* For guns, gun-carriages, shot, shell, magazine and laboratory stores, and equipments of all kinds; for gunpowder, small71arms, equipments, and ammunition; for fuel and materials necessary inBureau of ordnance; carrying on the mechanical brandies of the ordnance department at the navy yards and stations, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For the necessary repairs of the magazine at Chelsea; for the dwellings at the nitre depot, Malden; for repairs to buildings on ordnance dock, and also repairs to tugs and lighters, and for repairs of ordnance dock at Ellis Island, New York; for repairs of magazine at Fort Mifflin; for repairing crane and wharf at Norfolk, and for repairs of magazine at Mare Island, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars. For pay of the superintendents and the civil establishment at the several navy yards under this bureau, fifteen thousand dollars. *Bureau of Construction and Repairs.*; — For pay of superintendentsof construction and repairs; and the civil establishment at the several navy yards under this bureau, thirty-nine thousand dollars. *Bureau of Steam Engineering.*; — For pay of the superintendents andof steam engineering; the civil establishment at the several navy yards under this bureau, twenty-four thousand dollars.
For stores and materials, tools, repairs of machinery of steamers, boilers, instruments, and labor at navy yards, and repairs of the machinery, and purchase of stores and materials for vessels of squadrons on foreign stations; and for transportation of materials, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars. *Bureau of Provisions and Clothing.*; — For pay of the civil establishmentof provisions and clothing; at the several navy yards under this bureau, and at the naval asylum, twenty-six thousand dollars.
For provisions and clothing, one million five hundred thousand dollars. To meet the demands upon the bureau for freight and transportation of stores, for candles, fuel; for tools and repairing same at eight inspections; for books and blanks; for stationery; for furniture and repairs of same in offices of paymasters and inspectors; for telegrams and postage; tolls and ferriages; and for ice, one hundred thousand dollars. *Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.*; — For necessary repairs and improvements of hospitals and appendages, including roads, wharves, walls,of medicine and surgery. outhouses, sidewalks, fences, gardens, farms, painting, glazing, blacksmiths’, plumbers’, and masons’ work; for furniture, thirty thousand dollars.
For pay of the civil establishment under this bureau, at the several navy hospitals and navy yards, sixty thousand dollars. *Marine Corps.*; — For pay of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians,Marine corps. privates, clerks, messengers, steward, nurse, and servants; for rations and clothing for officers’ servants, additional rations to officers for five years’ service; for undrawn clothing, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars. For provisions, one hundred thousand dollars.Provisions, clothing, fuel.
For clothing, one hundred thousand dollars. For fuel, ten thousand dollars. For military stores, viz. Pay of mechanics; repair of arms; purchaseMilitary stores. of accoutrements; ordnance stores, flags, drums, fifes, and other instruments, five thousand dollars. For transportation of officers, their servants, troops, and for expensesTransportation. of recruiting, twelve thousand dollars. For repair of barracks, and for rent of offices where there are no publicRepair of barracks. buildings, ten thousand dollars.
For contingencies, viz. Freight; ferriage; toll; cartage; wharfage;Contingencies. purchase and repair of boats; compensation of judge advocates; per diem for attending courts-martial, and courts of inquiry, and for constant labor; house-rent in lieu of quarters, and commutation for quarters to officers on ship-board; burial of deceased marines; printing, stationery, postage, telegraphing; apprehension of deserters; oil, candles, gas; re72Marine corps.pairs 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; repairs to fire-engines; purchase and repair of engine hose; purchase of lumber for benches, mess-tables, 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, seventy-five thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,*Number of enlisted persons in navy limited to 8,500 men. That the number of persons authorized to be enlisted into the navy of the United States, including seamen, ordinary seamen, landsmen, and mechanics, and including apprentices and boys, is hereby fixed and established at eight thousand five hundred, and no more. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,*Certain unexpended appropriations to be carried to surplus fund, unless, &c. That all unexpended appropriations existing on the first day of July next, for any of the several heads of appropriation provided for in this act, shall be carried to the surplus fund, unless the same is necessary to pay expenditures made during the current fiscal year, or unless the same is necessary to execute contracts made before said date.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,*Secretary of Treasury in next annual estimates to state balances of appropriations, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed in his next annual estimates of appropriations to state all the balances of appropriations made prior to the present session of Congress, for each branch of the public service, and remaining unexpended on the first day of July next, and designate the amounts necessary to execute contracts or pay expenditures properly chargeable to each of such balances.
Approved, June 17, 1868.