Chapter 68.
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CHAP. 68.— An act making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes. Feb. 14, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Appropriations. That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the TreasuryNaval service. not otherwise appropriated, for the naval service of the government, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes:
Pay.Active list.For the pay of the Navy, for the active list, namely: One admiral, one vice-admiral, eleven rear-admirals, eight chiefs of bureau (commodores), twenty-four commodores, forty-seven captains, ninety commanders, eighty lieutenant-commanders, two hundred and eighty lieutenants, one hundred and one masters, one hundred ensigns, one hundred and four midshipmen, fourteen medical directors, fifteen medical inspectors, fifty surgeons, eighty-six passed assistant surgeons, fourteen assistant surgeons, twelve pay-directors, thirteen pay-inspectors, fifty paymasters, thirty passed assistant paymasters, twenty assistant paymasters, sixty-nine chief engineers, ninety-eight passed assistant engineers, sixty-six assistant engineers, twenty-four’ chaplains, twelve professors of mathematics, ten naval constructors, five assistant naval constructors, nine civil engineers, two hundred and one warrant-officers, forty-three mates, two hundred and fifty cadet-midshipmen, additional for thirty-eight cadet-midshipmen at sea, one hundred cadet-engineers and twenty-five to be admitted in eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, additional for twenty-three cadet-engineers when at sea, one acting master, one acting ensign, three acting passed assistant surgeons, and eighteen acting assistant surgeons, three million eight hundred and twenty-two thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars.
Retired list.For pay of the retired list, namely; For forty-six rear-admirals, twenty-five commodores, sixteen captains, thirteen commanders, fourteen lieutenant-commanders, six lieutenants, fourteen masters, five ensigns, two midshipmen, four surgeon-generals, twenty-one medical directors, one medical inspector, two surgeons, two passed assistant surgeons, five assistant surgeons, three pay master-generals, five pay directors, three paymasters, two passed assistant paymasters, two assistant paymasters, four chief engineers, seventeen passed assistant engineers, twenty-four assistant engineers, seven chaplains, six professors of mathematics, one chief constructor, four naval constructors, nine boatswains, five gunners, thirteen carpenters, and thirteen sailmakers, six hundred and forty-five thousand four hundred dollars.
Petty-officers, seamen, etc.For pay to petty-officers, seamen, ordinary seamen, landsmen, and boys, including men in the engineers’ force, and for the Coast Survey service, not exceeding seven thousand five hundred men in all, two million three hundred thousand dollars. Secretaries, clerks, etc.For secretaries to the Admiral and Vice-Admiral, clerks to fleet-paymasters, paymasters of vessels, clerks at inspections, navy-yards, and stations, and extra pay to men enlisted under honorable discharge; ex- FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 68. 1879. 285 change and mileage, and for the payment of any such officers as may he in service, either upon the active or retired list, during the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, in excess of the numbers for each class provided for in this act, and for any increase of pay arising from different duty, as the needs of the service may require, four hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars; and should the sums hereinbefore*Balances to meet deficiencies*. appropriated for the pay of the officers on the active and retired lists of the Navy be insufficient, then, and in that case, the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to use any and all balances which may be due, or become due, to Pay of the Navy ” from the other bureaus of the department, for that purpose.
For contingent expenses of the Navy, namely: For rent and furnitureContingent. of buildings and offices not in navy-yards; expenses of courts-martial and courts of inquiry, boards of investigation, examining boards, with clerks’ and witnesses’ fees, and traveling expenses and costs; stationery and recording; expenses of purchasing-paymasters’ offices at the various cities, including clerks, furniture, fuel, stationery, and incidental expenses; newspapers and advertising; foreign postage; telegraphing, foreign and domestic; copying; mail and express wagons and livery and express fees and freight; all books for the use of the Navy; care of library; experts’ fees and costs of suits; commissions, warrants, diplomas, and discharges; relief of vessels in distress and pilotage; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; care and transportation of the dead; reports, professional investigation, and information from abroad; and all other emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, eighty thousand dollars.
For the purchase of ordinary postage-stamps for use on official matter,Foreign postage. to be sent to foreign countries in pursuance of the requirements of the United Postal Union Treaty, five thousand dollars; to be available on and after April first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. To pay for clothing and bedding of officers and others in the NavyClothing, etc., destroyed. and Marine Corps destroyed to prevent the spread of disease, one thousand two hundred dollars; to be available immediately.
For gratuities and medals of honor, under section fourteen hundredMedals of honor. and seven of the Revised Statutes, five hundred dollars; to be available immediately. BUREAN OF NAVIGATION. For foreign and local pilotage and towage of ships of war, forty-fiveNavigation supplies thousand dollars. For services and materials in correcting compasses on board ship, and for adjusting and testing compasses on shore, three thousand dollars. For nautical and astronomical instruments, nautical books, maps, charts, and sailing directions, and repairs of nautical instruments for ships of war, nine thousand dollars.
For books for libraries for ships of war, two thousand dollars. For Navy signals and apparatus, namely, signal-lights, lanterns, rockets, running-lights, drawings, and engravings for signal-books, six thousand dollars. For compass-fittings, binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ships’ compasses, three thousand dollars. For logs and other appliances for measuring the ship’s way, and leads and other appliances for sounding, three thousand dollars. For lanterns and lamps, and their appendages, for general use on board ship, including those for the cabin, wardroom, and steerage, for the holds and spirit-room, for decks and quartermasters’ use, five thousand dollars.
For bunting and other materials for flags, and making and repairing flags of all kinds, four thousand dollars. 286 For oil for ships of war other than that used for the engineer department, candles when used as a substitute for oil in binnacles, running-lights, for chimneys and wicks, and soap, used in navigation department, twenty thousand dollars. For stationery for commanders and navigators of vessels of war, and for use of courts-martial, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For musical instruments and music for vessels of war, one thousand dollars. For steering-signals and indicators, and for speaking-tubes and gongs, for signal communication on board vessels of war, two thousand dollars. Contingent.For contingent expenses of the Bureau of Navigation, namely: For freight and transportation of navigation materials; postage and telegraphing on public business: advertising for proposals; packing-boxes and materials; and all other contingent expenses, two thousand dollars.
Civil establishment.For the civil establishment, ten thousand four hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents. Sailing directions.For drawing, engraving, and printing and photolithographiug charts, purchase of chart paper, correcting old plates, preparing and publishing sailing directions, and other hydrographic information, forty thousand *Sale of charts; price*.dollars: *Provided,* That all charts hereafter furnished to mariners or others not in the government service shall be paid for at the cost price of paper and printing paid by the government.
For fuel, light, and office furniture; care of building and other labor; purchase of books for library, drawing materials, and other stationery; postage, freight, and other contingent expenses, four thousand dollars. For rent and repair of building, two thousand dollars. Naval Observatory.For expenses of Naval Observatory, namely: For pay of three assistant astronomers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, four thousand five hundred dollars; and one clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars.
For wages of one instrument-maker, one messenger, three watchmen, and one porter; for keeping grounds in order and repairs to buildings and inclosures; for fuel, light, and office furniture; and for stationery, chemicals for batteries, and freight; labor and all other contingent expenses, twelve thousand dollars. For reducing and transcribing astronomical and meteorological observations for publication, two thousand two hundred dollars. For professional books for library, one thousand dollars.
For repairs to dome of twenty-six inch telescope, three hundred dollars. For changing the method of controlling clocks and time-signals, five hundred dollars. Nautical Almaaac.For expenses of Nautical Almanac: For pay of computers and clerk for preparing for publication the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, nineteen thousand dollars. For rent, fuel, labor, stationery, boxes, expresses, books, and miscellaneous items, one thousand five hundred dollars. For ephemeris of new planets discovered by American astronomers, two thousand dollars.
BUREAN OF ORDNANCE. Ordnance stores and supplies.For fuel, tools, and materials of all kinds necessary in carrying on the current daily work of the mechanical branches of the ordnance department at the several navy-yards, magazines, and stations, fifty thousand dollars. For labor at all the navy-yards, magazines, and stations in fitting ships for sea and in preserving ordnance material, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For necessary repairs to ordnance buildings, magazines, gun parks, boats, lighters, wharves, machinery, and other necessaries of the like character, fifty thousand dollars. 287 For miscellaneous items, namely, for freight to foreign and home stations,Contingent. advertising and auctioneers’ fees, cartage and express charges, repair’s to fire-engines, gas and water pipes, gas and water tax at magazines, toll, ferriage, foreign postage, and telegrams, three thousand dollars.
For the civil establishment, eleven thousand eight hundred andCivil establishment. eighty-six dollars and twenty-five cents. For the Torpedo Corps, namely: For labor, fifteen thousand dollars;Torpedo Corps. material, ten thousand dollars; freight and express charges, five hundred dollars; general repairs to grounds, buildings, wharves, and boats, five thousand dollars; instruction and general torpedo experiments, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars; in all, forty-five thousand dollars.
BUREAN OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING. For equipment of vessels: For coal for steamers’ and ships’ use, includingEquipment of vessels. expenses of transportation; storage, labor, hemp, wire, and other materials for the manufacture of rope; hides, cordage, canvas, leather; iron for manufacture of cables, anchors, galleys, and chains; boat detaching apparatus; cables, anchors, furniture, wood, hose, bake-ovens, and cooking-stoves; life rafts for monitors; heating apparatus for receiving-ships; and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels and manufacture of articles in the several navy-yards, eight hundred thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses of the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting,Contingent. namely: For expenses of recruiting and fitting up receiving-ships; freight and transportation of stores; transportation of enlisted men; printing, advertising, telegraphing; books and models; stationery; express charges; internal alterations, fixtures, and appliances in equipment-buildings at navy-yards; foreign postage; car-tickets, ferriage, and ice; apprehension of deserters; assistance to vessels m distress; continuous-service certificates and good conduct badges for enlisted men, including purchase of schoolbooks for training-ships, fifty thousand dollars.
For the civil establishment, eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty-oneCivil establishment. dollars and seventy-five cents. BUREAN OF YARDS AND DOCKS. For general maintenance of yards and docks, namely: For freightMaintenance of yards and docks. and transportation of materials and stores; printing, stationery, and advertising, including the commandant’s office; books, models, maps, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire-engines; machinery, and patent rights to use the same; repair’s on steam-engines, and attendance. on the same; purchase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and driving teams, carts, and timber-wheels for use in the navy-yards, and tools and repair’s of the same; postage and telegrams; furniture for government houses and offices in the navy-yards; coal and other fuel; candles, oil, and gas; cleaning and clearing up yards, and care of public buildings; attendance on fires; lights; fire engines and apparatus; incidental labor at navy-yards; water-tax, and for toll and ferriages; pay of the watchmen in the navy-yards; and for awnings and packing-boxes, four hundred and forty thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses that may arise at navy-yards and stations,Contingent. twenty thousand dollars. For the civil establishment, thirty-seven thousand nine hundred andCivil establishment. six dollars and twenty-five cents. At the Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For superintendent,Naval Asylum. six hundred dollars; steward, four hundred and eighty dollars; matron, three hundred and sixty dollars; cook, two hundred and forty dollars; two assistant cooks, one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; chief laundress, one hundred and ninety-two dollars; four laundresses, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; eight scrubbers and waiters, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; six laborers, at two hun- 288 dred and forty dollars each; stablekeeper and driver, three hundred and sixty dollars; master-at-arms, four hundred and eighty dollars; corporal, three hundred dollars; barber, three hundred and sixty dollars; carpenter, eight hundred and forty-five dollars; water-rent and gas, two thousand dollars; ice, two hundred dollars; car-tickets, two hundred and fifty dollars; cemetery and burial expenses, headstones, and digging graves, three hundred and fifty dollars; improvement of grounds, five hundred dollars; repairs and preservation of all kinds, painting, and for grates, furnaces, ranges, furniture, and repairs of furniture, four thousandBeneficiaries. five hundred dollars; and for support of beneficiaries, forty-three thousand five hundred dollars; in all, sixty thousand eight hundred and *Fund*.nine dollars; which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund.
BUREAN OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY. Surgeons’ necessaries.For support of the medical department, for surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in commission, navy-yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and Coast. Survey, forty-five thousand dollars. Hospital fund.For the naval hospital fund, namely: For maintenance of the naval hospitals at Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Chelsea, Massachusetts; Brooklyn, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Annapolis, Maryland; Washington, District of Columbia;
Norfolk, Virginia; Pensacola, Florida; Mare Island, California; and Yokohama, Japan, fifty thousand dollars. Contingent.For contingent expenses of the bureau: For freight on medical stores; transportation of insane patients to the government hospital; advertising; telegraphing; purchase of books; expenses attending the medical board of examiners; purchase and repair of wagons, harness; purchase and feed of horses, cows; trees, garden tools, and seeds, fifteen thousand dollars.
Repairs.For accessary repairs of naval laboratory, hospitals, and appendages, including roads, wharves, outhouses, steam heating apparatus, side walks, fences, gardens, farms, and cemeteries, thirty thousand dollars. Civil establishment.For the civil establishment, at the several naval hospitals and naval laboratory: For the maintenance of the several naval hospitals and naval laboratory, forty thousand dollars. BUREAN OF PROVISIONS AND CLOTHING. Provisions.For provisions for the seamen and marines; commuted rations for officers, seamen, and marines; expenses of inspectors and storehouses; and for purchase of water for ships, one million and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Small-stores.For the purchase of small-stores, one hundred thousand dollars; and it is hereby provided that from and after the first day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, the value of issues of small-stores shall be credited to a fund to be designated as the “small-stores fund”, in the same manner as the value of the issues of clothing is now credited to *Fund created*.the “clothing fund”; the resources of the fund to be used hereafter in the purchase of supplies of small-stores for issue.
Civil establishment.For civil establishment, eleven thousand three hundred and ninety-four dollars and twenty-five cents. Contingent.For contingent expenses: For freight and charges on shipments; candles and fuel; books and blanks; stationery: advertising and commissions on sales; toll, ferriages, and ear-tickets; postage, telegrams, and express charges; and yeomen’s stores, iron safes, ice, newspapers, and incidental expenses absolutely necessary, sixty thousand dollars. BUREAN OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR.
Preservation of vessels.For preservation of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; labor in navy-yards and or foreign 289 stations; preservation of materials; purchase of tools; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat, and for general care and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; and incidental expenses, namely, advertising and foreign postage, one million five hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no portion of the sum hereby appropriated shall*Limit to use*. be used in the payment of any other than the expenditures legally to be incurred under this appropriation.
For the civil establishment, forty thousand one hundred and five dollarsCivil establishment. and seventy-five cents. BUREAN OF STEAM-ENGINEERING. For repairs and preservation of boilers and machinery on naval vessels;Steam machinery. for fitting, repairs, and preservation of machinery and tools in the several navy-yards; for labor in navy-yards and stations not included above, and incidental expenses; and for purchase and preservation of oils, coals, metals, and all materials and stores, eight hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no portion of the sum hereby appropriated shall*Limit to use*. be used in the payment of any other than the expenditures legally to be incurred under this appropriation.
For the civil establishment, twenty thousand and thirty-eight dollars.Civil establishment. For the purchase of one testing machine for making tests of plate iron,Testing machine. and so forth, three thousand dollars. For contingencies, one thousand dollars.Contingent. NAVAL ACADEMY. For pay of professors and others: For two professors (heads of departments),Pay.Professors and others. namely, one of drawing and one of modem languages, at two thousand five hundred dollars each, five thousand dollars; three professors, namely, one of physics (assistant), one of chemistry (assistant), and one of Spanish (assistant), at two thousand two hundred dollars each; seven assistant professors, namely, four of French, two of English studies, history, and laws, and one of drawing, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; swordmaster, at one thousand five hundred dollars, and two assistants, at one thousand dollars each; boxing-master and gymnast, at one thousand two hundred dollars; secretary of the Naval Academy, one thousand eight hundred dollars; and assistant librarian, at one thousand four hundred dollars; three clerks to superintendent, at one thousand two hundred dollars, one thousand dollars, and eight hundred dollars respectively; one clerk to commandant of cadets, one thousand dollars; one clerk to paymaster, one thousand dollars; one apothecary, seven hundred and fifty dollars; one baker, six hundred dollars; one mechanic in department of physics and chemistry, six hundred dollars; one messman, two hundred and eighty-eight dollars; one cook, three hundred and twenty-five dollars and fifty cents; one messenger to superintendent, six hundred dollars; one armorer, five hundred and twenty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one gunners mate, four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents, and one quarter-gunner, four hundred and nine dollars and fifty cents; one cockswain, four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one seaman in the department of seamanship, one seaman in the department of astronomy, and one seaman in the department of physics and chemistry, at three hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty cents each; one bandmaster, five hundred and twenty-eight dollars; twenty-one first-class musicians, at three hundred and forty-eight dollars each; seven second-class musicians, at three hundred dollars each; in all, fifty-three thousand one hundred and twenty-six dollars.
Pay of watchmen and others: Captain of the watch and weigher, atWatchmen and laborers. two dollars and fifty cents per day; four watchmen, at two dollars per day; foreman of the gas and steam-heating works, at five dollars per diem; ten attendants at gas and steam-heating works of academy, one 290 at three dollars, one at two dollars and fifty cents, and eight at two dollars lier day each; one steam-pipe fitter, seven hundred and thirty dollars: one foreman of joiners, one foreman of painters, and one foreman of masons, at three dollars and fifty cents per day each; two joiners, one painter, and one mason, at two dollars and fifty cents per day each; one tinner, one gas-fitter, and one blacksmith, at two dollars and fifty cents per day each; in all, twenty-four thousand four hundred and fifty-five dollars.
Mechanics and others.Pay of mechanics and others: One mechanic at workshop, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem; one master-laborer, to keep public grounds in order, at two dollars and twenty-eight cents per diem; fourteen laborers, to assist in same, three at two dollars per diem each and eleven at one. dollar and fifty cents per diem each; one laborer, to superintend quarters of cadet-midshipmen and public grounds, at two dollars per diem; six attendants at. recitation-rooms, library, chapel and offices, and store, at twenty dollars per month each; twenty servants, to keep in order and attend to quarters of cadet-midshipmen and public buildings, at twenty dollars per month each; in all, sixteen thousand eight hundred and thirty-five dollars and ninety-five cents.
Employees in department of steam-enginery.For pay of employees in the department of steam-enginery: For master-machinist, boilermaker, and pattern-maker, at three dollars and fifty cents per day each; two machinists, one blacksmith, and one moulder, at two dollars and fifty cents per diem each; and two laborers, at one dollar and fifty cents per diem each; in all, eight thousand five hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty cents. Repairs, etc.For necessary repairs of public buildings, pavements, wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, and for improvements and furniture and fixtures, twenty-one thousand dollars.
Fuel and lights.For fuel, and for heating and lighting the academy and school-ships, seventeen thousand dollars. Contingent.For contingent expenses, Naval Academy: For purchase of books for the library, two thousand dollars. Stationery, etc.For stationery, blank books, models, maps, and so forth, and for textbooks for use of instructors, two thousand dollars. Chemicals, etc.For purchase of chemicals, apparatus, and instruments, in the department of physics and chemistry, and for repairs of the same, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Miscellaneous.For purchase of gas and steam machinery; steam-pipe and fixtures; rent of building for the use of the academy; freight; cartage; water; music; musical and astronomical instruments; uniforms for the bandsmen; telegraphing; and for the current expenses and repairs of all kinds; and for incidental labor and expenses not applicable to any other appropriation, thirty-four thousand six hundred dollars. For stores in the department of steam-enginery, eight hundred dollars.
For materials for repairs in steam-machinery, one thousand dollars. Board of Visitors.For expenses of the Board of Visitors to the Naval Academy, two thousand six hundred dollars. *Constitution of Board*.That from and after the passage of this act there shall be appointed every year, in the following manner, a Board of Visitors, to attend the annual examination of the academy: Seven persons shall be appointed by the President, and two Senators and three Members of the House of Representatives shall be designated as Visitors by the Vice-President or President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, respectively, at the session of Congress next preceding *Mileage*.such examination.
Each member of said board shall receive not exceeding eight cents per mile traveled by the most direct route from his residence to Annapolis, and eight cents per mile for each mile from said place to his residence on returning. MARINE CORPS. Pay.For pay of officers of the Marine Corps, as follows: One colonel commandant, four thousand five hundred dollars; one colonel, four thou- 291 sand five hundred dollars; two lieutenant-colonels, eight thousand dollars; one adjutant and inspector, one quartermaster, and one paymaster, two at three thousand five hundred dollars and one at three thousand dollars per annum, ten thousand dollars; four majors, fourteen thousand dollars; two assistant quartermasters, one at two thousand eight hundred dollars and one at two thousand six hundred dollars per annum, five thousand four hundred dollars; twenty captains, one at two thousand five hundred and twenty dollars and nineteen at two thousand three hundred and forty dollars per annum, forty-six thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars; thirty fir st-lieutenants, fifteen at one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars, thirteen at one thousand eight hundred dollars, and two at one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars per annum, fifty-five thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars; twenty second-lieutenants, eleven at one thousand five hundred and forty dollars and nine at one thousand four hundred dollars per annum, twenty-nine thousand five hundred and forty dollars; one brigadier-general (retired list), four thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars; one lieutenant-colonel (retired list), three thousand dollars; four majors (retired list), three at two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars and one at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars per annum, ton thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars; one assistant quartermaster (retired list), two thousand one hundred dollars; three captains (retired list), one at one thousand six hundred and twenty dollars, one at one thousand four hundred and eighty-five dollars, and one at one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars per annum, four thousand four hundred and fifty-five dollars; two first-lieutenants (retired list), two thousand seven hundred dollars; three second-lieutenants (retired list), one at one thousand one hundred and fifty-five dollars and two at one thousand and fifty dollars per annum, three thousand two hundred and fifty-five dollars; one leader of the band, one thousand and eighty dollars; one sergeant-major, one quartermaster-sergeant, and one drum-major, one thousand and eighty dollars; fifty first-sergeants, sixteen thousand two hundred dollars; one hundred and forty sergeants, ninety at seventeen dollars and fifty at twenty-two dollars per month, thirty-one thousand five hundred and sixty dollars; one hundred and eighty corporals, one hundred and thirty at fifteen dollars and fifty at twenty dollars per month, thirty-five thousand four hundred dollars; thirty musicians, seven at forty dollars, eight at twenty-six dollars, and fifteen at twenty-three dollars per month, nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-six dollars; ninety-six drummers and filers, seventeen thousand seven hundred and thirty-six dollars; one thousand five hundred privates, six hundred at thirteen dollars, five hundred at sixteen dollars, lour hundred at eighteen dollars per month, two hundred and seventy-six thousand dollars; ten clerks and two messengers, fifteen thousand seven hundred and fifteen dollars; payments to discharged soldiers for clothing undrawn, twenty thousand dollars; transportation of officers traveling without troops, five, thousand dollars; commutation of quarters for officers where there are no public buildings, ten thousand dollars; in all, six hundred and forty-eight thousand three hundred and ninety-seven dollars.
For provisions, seventy-five-thousand and seven dollars and fifty cents.Provisions. For clothing, sixty thousand dollars.Clothing. For fuel, twenty thousand dollars.Fuel. For military stores, namely: For pay of one chief armorer, nine hundredStores. and thirty-nine dollars; three mechanics, at two dollars and fifty cents per day each; repairs of arms, purchase of accouterments, ordnance stores, bags, drums, fifes, and other instruments, five thousand dollars; for purchase of new instruments for the band, one thousand four hundred dollars; in all, nine thousand six hundred and eighty-six dollars and fifty cents.
For transportation of troops and for expenses of recruiting, sevenTransportation and recruiting. thousand dollars. 292 Barracks.For repairs of barracks, and rent of offices where there are no public buildings, thirteen thousand dollars. Forage.For forage for three public horses, one for messenger to commandant and staff, Washington, District of Columbia, and two for general use at marine barracks, Mare Island, California, five hundred dollars. Contingent.For contingencies, namely:
Freight; ferriage; toll; cartage; per diem for constant labor; wharfage; purchase and repair of boats; labor; burial of deceased marines; stationery; telegraphing; apprehension of deserters; oil, candles, gas; repairs of gas and water fixtures; water rent; barrack furniture; furniture for officers’ quarters; bedsacks; wrapping-paper; oilcloth; crash; rope; twine; spades; shovels; axes; picks; carpenters’ tools; repairs to fire-engines; purchase and repair of engine-hose; purchase of lumber for benches, mess-tables, bunks; purchase anti 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; brushes; brooms; buckets; paving; and for other purposes, twenty thousand dollars.
Approved, February 14, 1879.