Chapter 73. making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 73.— An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and for other purposes.Feb. 23, 1881. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Appropriations, naval service. 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 naval service of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and for other purposes:
For the pay of the Navy, for the active-list, namely: For one Admiral,Navy active list, officers. one Vice-Admiral, twelve rear-admirals, eight chiefs of bureAn (commodores), twenty-four commodores, forty-seven captains, ninety commanders, eighty lieutenant-commanders, two hundred and eighty lieutenants, one hundred and one masters, ninety-live ensigns, seventy-five midshipmen, fifteen medical directors, fourteen medical inspectors, fifty surgeons, seventy-three passed assistant surgeons, sixteen assistant Surgeons, twelve pay-directors, thirteen pay-inspectors, fifty paymasters, thirty-one passed assistant paymasters, twenty assistant paymasters, sixty-nine chief engineers, ninety-six passed assistant engineers, forty-two assistant engineers, fifty-four cadet-engineers (graduates), twenty-four chaplains, eleven professors of mathematics, ten naval constructors, five assistant naval constructors, ten civil engineers, two hundred and foui’ warrant-officers, forty-one mates, two hundred and sixty-eight cadet-midshipmen (on probation), one hundred and five cadet-engineers, and one hundred and three cadet-midshipmen (not graduates); in all, three million nine hundred and one thousand one hundred dollars.
For pay of the retired-list, namely: For forty-one rear-admirals,Retired list, officers. twenty-one commodores, eighteen captains, seventeen commanders, fourteen lieutenant-commanders, eight lieutenants, eleven masters, five ensigns, two midshipmen, twenty-two medical directors, one medical inspector, two surgeons, five passed assistant surgeons, eight assistant surgeons, nine pay-directors, one pay-inspector, three paymasters, two passed assistant paymasters, two assistant paymasters, seven chief engineers, nineteen passed assistant engineers, twenty-five assistant engineers, seven chaplains, six professors of mathematics, three naval constructors, eight boatswain Sj four gunners, thirteen carpenters, and eleven sail makers; in all, six hundred and eighty-seven thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
For pay to petty-officers, seamen, ordinary seamen, landsmen,Petty officers and men. and boys, including men in the engineers’ force, and for the Coast Survey service, not exceeding eight thousand two hundred and fifty in all, two million four hundred and ninety thousand dollars. For two secretaries, one to the Admiral and one to the Vice-Admiral,Secretaries, clerks, paymasters, extra pay, exchange, mileage, increase of pay. clerks to fleet-paymasters, paymasters of vessels, clerks at inspections, navy-yards, and stations, and extra pay to men enlisted under honorable discharge; commission and interest, transportation of funds, ex- 332 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 73. 1881. change and mileage, and for the payment of any such officers as may be in service either upon the active or retired list, during the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, in excess of the numbers for each class provided for in this act, ad for any increase of pay arising from different duty, as the needs of the service may require, four hundred and eighty-six thousand seven hundred and twenty-live dollars; and should the sums hereinbefore 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 here authorized to use any and all balances which may be due, orDeficiency in pay from unexpended balances of other bureaus. become due, to “pay of the Navy” from the other bureaus of the department for that purpose.
And hereafter the estimates for pay of the Navy shall be submitted in the book of estimates in detailed classifications and paragraphs, after the manner above set forth. For contingent expenses of the Navy, namely: For rent and furnitureContingent expenses.Sundries. of buildings and offices not in navy-yards; expenses of courts-martial and courts of inquiry, boards of investigation, exandning 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; care of library; mail and express wagons and livery and express 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, Extraordinary expenses.and information from abroad; and all other emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, one hundred thousand dollars.
BUREAU OF NAVIGATION. For foreign and local pilotage and towage of ships of war, thirty-fiveNavigation supplies.Items. 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, ten 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, including 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, four 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, six thousand dollars. For oil for ships of war other than that used for the engineer Department, candles when used as a substitute for oil in binnacles and running-lights, for chimneys and wicks, and soap, used in navigation department, twenty-two thousand dollars. For stationery for commanders and navigators of vessels of war, and for use of courts-martial, two thousand dollars. For musical instruments and music for vessels of war, one thousand dollars. 333 FORTY-SIXTH CONGBESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 73. 1881. For steering-signals and indicators, and for speaking-tubes and gongs, for signal communication on board vessels of war, two thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of the BureAn of Navigation, namely: ForContingent expenses. 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. For the civil establishment, ten thousand four hundred and seventeenCivil establishment. dollars and twenty-five cents.
For drawing, engraving, purchase of chart paper, and printing andHydrographic. photolithographing charts, correcting old plates, preparing and publishing sailing directions, and other hydrographic information, forty-five thousand dollars. For office furniture; care of building and other labor; purchase ofFurniture, labor, stationery, postage. books for library, drawing materials, and other stationery; postage, freight, and other contingent expenses, four thousand dollars. For expenses of Naval Observatory, namely:Naval observatory.
For pay of three assistant astronomers, four thousand nine hundred dollars: *Proviso.**Provided*, That any assistant astronomer who has not served for four years continuously shall receive only one thousand five hundred dollars per annum. For one clerk, at one thousand eight hundred dollars. For wages of one instrument-maker, three watchmen, one messenger, and one porter; for keeping grounds in order and repairs to buildings and inclosures; for fuel, light, and office furniture; chemicals for batteries; and for stationery, freight, and all other contingent expenses, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars.
For reducing and transcribing astronomical and meteorological observations for publication, two thousand two hundred dollars. For professional books and periodicals for library, one thousand dollars. For solar and stellar photography, one thousand dollars. For payment to the Smithsonian Institution for freight on observatoryDistribution. publications to be shipped to foreign countries during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-two, three hundred and. thirty-six dollars and twenty-five cents.
For photographic apparatus, five hundred dollars. For computing, one thousand two hundred dollars. For repairs to dome of large telescope, five hundred dollars. To finish the computations of the second part of the transit of Venus observations, and to complete them for publication, nine hundred and fifty dollars. For expenses of Nautical Almanac: For pay of computers and clerksNautical Almanac. for preparing for publication the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, nineteen thousand dollars.
For rent, fuel, labor, stationery, boxes, expressage, books, and miscellaneousContingent expenses. items, one thousand five hundred dollars. For improving the tables of the planets, three thousand dollars. BUREAU OF ORDNANCE. For fuel, tools, and materials of all kinds necessary in carrying on theOrdnance stores and supplies. current daily work of the mechanical branches of the ordnance Department at the several navy yards, magazines, and stations, sixty 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 forty thousand dollars.
For necessary repairs to ordnance buildings, magazines, gun-parks, boats, lighters, wharves, machinery, and other necessaries of the like character, twenty thousand dollars. 334 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 73. 1881. For miscellaneous items, namely: For freight to foreign and homeContingent. stations, advertising and auctioneers’ fees, cartage and express charges, repairs to fire-engines, gas and water pipes, gas and water tax at magazines, toll, ferriage, foreign postage, and telegrams, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For the civil establishment, eleven thousand eight hundred and eighty-sixCivil establishment. 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; and instruction and general torpedo experiments, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars; in all, forty-five thousand dollars.
BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING. For equipment of vessels: For coal for steamers’ and ships’ use, including Equipment of vessels.expenses of transportation; storage and handling; hemp, wire, and other materials for the manufacture of rope; hides, cordage, canvas, leather; iron for manufacture of cables, anchors, galleys, and chains; furniture, wood, hose, bake-ovens, and cooking-stoves; boat-detaching apparatus; life-rafts for monitors; heating apparatus for receiving-ships; and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels and manufacture of equipment articles in the several navy-yards, eight hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses of the BureAn of Equipment and Recruiting,Contingent. namely: For expenses of recruiting and fitting up receiving-ships; extra expeuses of training-ships; freight and transportation of equipment stores; transportation of enlisted men and boys; printing, advertising, telegraphing; books and models; stationery; express charges; internal alterations, fixtures, and appliances in equipment buildings at the several navy-yards; foreign postage; car-tickets, ferriage, ice; apprehension of deserters; assistance to vessels in distress; continuous-service certificates and good-conduct badges for enlisted men, including purchase of schoolbooks for training-ships and extra medals for boys, fifty-five thousand dollars.
For the civil establishment, eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty-oneCivil establishment. dollars and seventy-five cents. BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS. For general maintenance of yards and docks, namely: For freight andYards and docks, transportation of materials and stores; books, models, maps, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire-engines; machinery, and patent rights to use the same; repairs on steam fire-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 repairs of the same; dredging; 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 yar ds, and care of public buildings; attendance on fires; lights; fire-engines and apparatus; for clerical and 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, sixNaval Asylum. 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; 335 FORTY-SIXTH CONG KESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 73. 1881. chief laundress, one hundred and ninety-two dollars; six laundresses, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; nine scrubbers and waiters, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; six laborers, at two hundred and forty dollars each; stable-keeper 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 thousand five hundred dollars; and for support of beneficiaries, forty-three thousand five hundred dollars; in all, fifty-nineBeneficiaries.Fund. thousand eight hundred and thirteen dollars; which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund.
BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY. For support of the medical department, for surgeons’ necessaries forSurgeons’ necessaries. vessels in commission, navy-yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and Coast Survey, forty-five thousand dollars. For the naval-hospital fund, namely: For maintenance of the navalHospital fund. 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. For contingent expenses of the bureau: For freight on medical stores;Contingent. 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 and harness; purchase and feed of horses and cows; trees, garden-tools, and seeds, fifteen thousand dollars.
For necessary repairs of naval laboratory, naval hospitals, andRepairs. appendages, including roads, wharves, out houses, sidewalks, fences, gardens, farms, and cemeteries, thirty thousand dollars. For the maintenance of the civil establishment at the several navalCivil establishment. hospitals, navy-yards, naval laboratory, and Naval Acadenry, forty thousand dollars. For continuing investigations of atmospheric impurities, one thousandInvestigations of atmospheric impurities. five hundred dollars.
BUREAU OF PROVISIONS AND CLOTHING. For provisions for the seamen and marines; commuted rations forProvisions and clothing, transportation, etc. officers, seamen, and marines; expenses of the handling and transportation of provisions; of inspections and storehouses; and for purchase of water for ships, and for provisions and commutation of rations for seven hundred and fifty boys, one million two hundred thousand dollars. For contingent expenses: For freight on shipments (except provisions),Contingent expenses. candles, fuel; books and blanks; stationery; advertising and Commissions on sales; foreign postage, telegrams, and express charges; toll, ferriages, and car-tickets; and yeomen’s stores, iron safes, ice, newspapers, and incidental expenses absolutely necessary, sixty thousand dollars.
For civil establishment, twelve thousand four hundred and elevenCivil establishment. dollars and fifty cents. BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR. For preservation of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary, purchasePreservation of vessels, etc. of materials and stores of all kinds; labor in navy-yards and on foreign 336 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 73. 1881. 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 live hundred thousand *Proviso.*U.
S. ships Brooklyn and Lancaster.Civil establishment.dollars: *Provided*, That one hundred and fifty thousand dollars of this amount shall be immediately available for the purpose of repairing and converting the ships Brooklyn and Lancaster into flagships. For the civil establishment, forty thousand one hundred and five dollars and seventy-five cents. BUREAU OF STEAM-ENGINEERING. For repairs and preservation of machinery and boilers in vessels onSteam machinery. the stocks and in ordinary; purchase and preservation of all materials and stores; and patent rights, purchase, fitting, and repair of machinery and tools in the navy-yards and stations; wear, tear, and repair of machinery and boilers of naval vessels; incidental expenses, such as foreign postages, telegrams, advertising, freight, photographing, *Proviso.*books, and instruments, eight hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: *provided*, That seventy-five thousand dollars of this amount shall be immediately available for the purpose of repairing and converting the ships Brooklyn and Lancaster into flagships.
For contingencies, such as instruments and materials forContingent expenses. draughtingroom, one thousand dollars. For the civil establishment, twenty thousand and thirty-eight Civil establishment.dollars NAVAL ACADEMY.Naval Academy. For pay of professors and others: For two professors (heads of Departments),Professors, assistants, clerks, messengers, laborers, and musicians. namely, one of drawing and one of modern languages, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; four professors, namely, one of physics (assistant), one of chemistry (assistant), one of Spanish (assistant), and one of English studies, history, and law (assistant), at two thousand two hundred dollars each; six assistant professors, namely, four of French, one of English studies, history, and laws, and one of drawing, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; sword-master, at one thousand five hundred dollars, and two assistants, at one thousand dollars each; boxing-master and gymnast, at one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant librarian, at one thousand four hundred dollars;
Secretary of the Naval Academy, one thousand eight 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 two hundred dollars; one clerk to paymaster, one thousand dollars; one dentist, one thousand six hundred dollars; one baker, six hundred dollars; one mechanic in department of physics and chemistry, six hundred dollars; one mess-man, 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 gunner’s mate, four hundred and sixty-rune 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 seamair 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-four thousand five hundred and seventy-six dollars.
For pay of watchmen and others: For captain of the watch andCaptain of watch, watchmen, and others. weigher, at two dollars and fifty cents per day; four watchmen, at two dollars per day each; foreman of the gas and steam heating works of 337 FORTY SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 73. 1881. academy, at five dollars per day; ten attendants at gas and steam-heating works, one at three dollars, one at two dollars and fifty cents, and eight at two dollars per 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 For pay of mechanics and others:
For one mechanic at workshop, atMechanics and laborers. 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, paymaster’s office, chapel and offices, and store, at twenty dollars per month each; twenty servants, to keep in order and attend to quarters of cadetmidsiiipmen and public buildings, at twenty dollars per month each; in all, sixteen thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, dollars and ninetyfive cents.
For pay of employees in the department of steamenginery: Formastermachinist,Employees in Department of steamenginery. boilermaker, and pattern-maker, at three dollars and fifty cents per day each; two machinists, one blacksmith, and one molder, 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. For necessary repairs of public buildings, pavements, wharves, andRepairs of buildings, etc. walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, and for improvements and furniture and fixtures, twenty-one thousand dollars.
For fuel, and for heating and lighting the academy and school-ships,Fuel and lights. seventeen thousand dollars. For contingent expenses, Naval Academy: For purchase of books forContingent expenses. the library, two thousand dollars. For stationery, blank books, models, maps, and so forth, and for textbooksStationery. for use of instructors, two thousand dollars. For expenses of the Board of Visitors to the Naval Academy, two Board of Visitors.thousand six hundred dollars. For purchase of chemicals, apparatus, and instruments in the DepartmentChemicals, etc. of physics and chemistry, and for repairs of the same, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For purchase of gas and steam machinery; steam-pipe and fittings;Miscellaneous. rent of building for the use of the academy; freight; cartage; water; music; musical and astronomical instruments; uniforms for the bandsmen; telegraphing; and for feed and maintenance of teams; 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 steamenginery, eight hundred dollars.
For materials for repairs in steam-machinery, one thousand dollars. MARINE COBPS. For pay of officer’s on the active-list, as follows: For one colonel commandantPay., one colonel, two lieutenant-colonels, one adjutant and inspector, one quartermaster, one paymaster, four’ majors, two assistant quartermasters, one judge-advocate-general, United States Navy, nineteen captains, thirty first lieutenants, and fourteen second lieutenants, one hundred and seventy-two thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.
For pay of officers on the retired-list: For one colonel, one lieutenant-colonel, three majors, two assistant quartermasters, two captains, three 338 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 73. 1881, first lieutenants, and three second lieutenants, twenty-seven thousand three hundred and seventy dollars. For pay of non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates: For one leader of the band, one sergeant-major, one quartermaster-sergeant, and one drum-major, fifty first sergeants, one hundred and forty sergeants, one hundred and eighty corporals, thirty musicians, ninety-six drummers and lifers, and one thousand five hundred privates, three hundred and eighty-nine thousand and fifty-two dollars.
For ten clerks and two messengers, sixteen thousand and thirty-five dollars; payments to discharged soldiers for clothing undrawn, twenty thousand dollars; transportation of officers traveling under orders without troops, eight thousand dollars; commutation of quarters for officers where there are no public buildings, ten thousand dollars; in all, fifty-four thousand and thirty-five dollars. For provisions, sixty-eight thousand and thirteen dollars and tenProvisions. cents. For clothing, seventy-five thousand six hundred and fifty-nine dollars.Clothing.Fuel.
For fuel, eighteen thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars and fifty cents. 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; purchase of military equipments, such as cartridge-boxes, bayonet-scabbards, haversacks, canteens, musket-slings, swords, flags, knapsacks, drums, fifes, bugles, and other instruments, five thousand dollars; for purchase of one hundred Springfield rifles, one thousand five hundred dollars; purchases of ammunition, one thousand dollars; purchase and repair1of instruments for the band, and purchase of music, five hundred dollars; in all, eleven thousand two hundred and eighty-six dollars and fifty cents.
For transportation of troops and for expenses of recruiting, sevenTransportation and recruiting. thousand dollars. For repairs of barracks, and rent of buildings to be used for the manufacture Repairs of barracks.Rent.of clothing, for stores for supplies, and offices of assistant quartermaster at Philadelphia, and for hire of quarters where there are no public buildings, thirteen thousand dollars. For forage for three public horses, one for messenger to commandantForage. and stall, Washington, District of Columbia, and two for general use at marine barracks, Mare Island, California, and for two private horses for commanding officer at the same place, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingencies, namely: For freight; ferriage; toll; cartage; per Contingencies.diem for constant 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; packing-boxes, wrapping-paper; oilcloth; crash; rope; twine; spades; shovels; axes; picks; carpenters’ tools; repairs to fire-engines; purchase of fire-extinguishers; purchase and repair of engine-hose; repairs to public carryall; purchase of lumber for benches, mess-tables, bunks; purchase and repair of harness; purchase and repair of handcarts and wheelbarrows; purchase and repair of galleys, cooking-stoves, ranges, stoves where there are no grates; gravel for parade-grounds; repair bf pumps; brushes; brooms; buckets; paving; and for other purposes, including gas and oil for marine barracks at Portsmouth, New Hampshire;
Boston, Massachusetts; Brooklyn, New York; League Island, Pennsylvania; assistant-quartermaster’s offices, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Annapolis, Maryland; headquarters and navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia; Gosport, Virginia; and Mare Island, California; and water at marine barracks, Boston, Massachusetts; Brooklyn, New York; and Mare Island, California; also straw for bedding for enlisted men at the various posts, and furniture for government houses, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. That section fourteen hundred and eighteen, fourteen hundredR. S. 1418 amended. and nineteen, and fourteen hundred and twenty of the Revised Statutes, 339 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 73, 78. 1881. as heretofore amended relating to enlistment of minors in the navalR. S. amended.R. S. amended. service, be, and hereby are, amended by striking out the word “ fifteen ” and inserting in its stead the word “fourteen” Approved, February 23, 1881.