Chapter 43. making additional appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 43.— An Act making additional appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and for other purposes.Jan. 30, 1885. *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 six months beginning January first, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty- five, and for other purposes:
For the pay of the Navy, for the active-list, namely: For one Admiral,Pay of the Navy active-list officers. one Vice-Admiral, eight rear-admirals, seven Chiefs of Bureaus, twenty-one commodores, forty-five captains, eighty-seven commanders, seventy-eight lieutenant-commanders, two hundred and seventy- two lieutenants, ninety-five junior lieutenants, one hundred and ninety- three ensigns, fourteen medical directors, fifteen medical inspectors, fifty surgeons, seventy-nine passed assistant surgeons, eight assistant surgeons, two assistant surgeons not in the line of promotion (who shall hereafter, after fifteen years’ service, be entitled to receive, as annual pay, when at sea, two thousand one hundred dollars, when on shore duty one thousand eight hundred dollars, and when on leave or waiting orders one thousand six hundred dollars), thirteen pay directors, twelve pay-inspectors, forty-nine paymasters, twenty- nine passed assistant paymasters, twenty assistant paymasters, sixty- nine chief engineers, ninety-three passed assistant engineers, seventy-eight assistant engineers, twenty-four chaplains, eleven professors of mathematics, ten naval constructors, nine assistant naval constructors, ten civil engineers, one hundred and eighty-eight warrant officers, FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 43. 1885. 288 thirty-eight mates, two hundred and ninety-five naval cadets; in all, one million seven hundred and forty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For pay of the retired-list, namely: For forty-three rear-admirals, twentyRetired-list officers. commodores, eleven captains, twelve commanders, sixteen lieutenant-commanders, twenty-seven lieutenants, seven ensigns, twenty-two medical directors, two medical inspectors, four surgeons, five passed assistant surgeons, seven assistant surgeons, nine pay-directors, two pay-inspectors, four paymasters, two passed assistant paymasters, one assistant paymaster, eleven chief engineers, twenty passed assistant engineers, twenty-six assistant engineers, eight chaplains, six professors of mathematics, one chief constructor, three civil engineers, thirteen boatswains, ten gunners, nine carpenters, and seven sailmakers; in all, three hundred and sixty-one thousand eight hundred and sixty- five dollars.
For pay to petty officers, seamen, ordinary seamen, landsmen, andPetty officers, seamen, etc. boys, including men in the engineers’ force and for the Coast Survey service, not exceeding eight thousand two hundred and fifty in all, one million two hundred and forty-five thousand dollars. For two secretaries, one to the Admiral and one to the Vice-Admiral,Secretaries, clerks to paymasters, etc. clerks to paymasters, clerks at inspections, navy-yards, and stations, and extra pay to men enlisted under honorable discharge; commission Exchange, mileage, extra pay, etc.and interest, transportation of funds, exchange; mileage to officers while travelling under orders in the United States, and for actual personal expenses of officers while travelling abroad under orders, and for travelling expenses of apothecaries, yeomen, and civilian employees, and for .
Traveling expenses cadets, apothecaries, yeoman, civilian employés, etc.actual and necessary travelling expenses of naval cadets while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment as cadets, 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-five, in excess of the numbers of each clasS provided for in Contingent expenses.this act, and for any increase of pay arising from different duty, as the needs of the service may require; for rent and furniture 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 travelling 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; telephones; copying; care of library; mail and express wagons, and livery and express fees; 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, cost of special instruction, and information from abroad, and the collection and classification thereof,one hundred and eighty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home orExtraordinary expenses. abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, exclusive of personal services in the Navy Department or any of its subordinate Bureaus or offices at Washington, District of Columbia, seven thousand five hundred dollars. BUREAU OF NAVIGATION. For foreign and local pilotage and towage of ships of war; servicesNavigation supplies.Items. and materials in correcting compasses on board ship, and for adjusting and testing compasses on shore; nautical and astronomical instruments, nautical books, maps, charts, and sailing directions, and repairs of nautical instruments for ships of war; books for libraries of ships of war; naval signals and apparatus, namely, signal-lights, lanterns, rockets, running-lights, drawings, and engravings for signal-books; compass- 289 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 43. 1885. fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ships’ compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship’s ways, and leads and other appliances for sounding; 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-rooms, for decks and quartermasters’ use; bunting and other materials for flags, and making and repairing flags of all kinds; oil for ships of war, other than that used in the engineer department; candles when used as a substitute for oil in binnacles and running-lights; chimneys and wicks and soap used in the navigation department; stationery for commanders and navigators of vessels of war, and for use of courts-martial; musical instruments and music for vessels of war; steering-signals and indicators, and speaking-tubes and gongs for signal communication on board vessels of war; and for introducing electric lights on board vessels of war, not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For the civil establishment at navy-yards and stations, two thousandCivil establishment.Erection of compass-testing house.Contingent expenses. five hundred dollars. For erection of compass-testing house, seven thousand dollars. 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, one thousand five hundred dollars.
BUREAU OF ORDNANCE. For procuring, producing, and preserving ordnance material; for theOrdnance stores and supplies. armament of ships; for fuel, tools, materials, and labor to be used in the general work of the Ordnance Department; for furniture at magazines, at the ordnance dock, New York, and at the naval experimental battery, fifty thousand dollars. For necessary repairs to ordnance buildings, magazines, gun-parks,Repairs, etc. boats, lighters, wharves, machinery, and other objects of the like character, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For miscellaneous items, namely: For freight to foreign and homeMiscellaneous. 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 to and from the Bureau, one thousand five hundred dollars. For the civil establishment at navy-yards and stations, two thousandCivil establishment. five hundred dollars. For the torpedo corps, namely: For labor, material, freight and expressTorpedo corps. charges; general repairs to grounds, buildings, and wharves; boats; instruction; instruments, tools, furniture, experiments, and general torpedo outfits, twenty-five thousand dollars.
BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING. For equipment of vessels: For coal for steamers’ and ships’ use, includingEquipment of vessels. expenses of transportation, storage, and handling; hemp, wire, hides, and other materials for the manufacture of rope and cordage; iron tor the manufacture of anchors, cables, galleys, and chains; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, bags, and hammocks; heating-apparatus for receiving-ships; and for the purchase of all other articles of equipment at home and abroad, and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels and manufacture of equipment articles in the several navy-yards, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For expenses of recruiting: For expenses of recruiting for the navalRecruiting. service, rent of rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same, advertising for men and boys, and all other expenses attending the re- 290cruiting for the naval service, and for the transportation of enlisted men and boys at home and abroad, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. For contingent expenses equipment and recruiting: For extra expensesContingent expenses. of training-ships, freight and transportation of equipment stores, printing, advertising, telegraphing, books and models, postage, car-tickets, ferriage, ice, apprehension of deserters and stragglers, assistance to vessels in distress, continuous-service certificates and good-conduct badges for enlisted men, schoolbooks for training-ships, medals for boys, and emergencies arising under cognizance of Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting unforeseen and impossible to classify, five thousand dollars.
For the civil establishment at navy-yards and stations, four thousandCivil establishment. five hundred dollars. BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS. For general maintenance of yards and docks, namely: For freightsYards and docks.Items. and transportation of materials and stores; books, models, maps, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire-engines; machinery; repairs on steam fire-engines, and attendance on the same; purchase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and driving teams, carts, and timber-wheels, and all vehicles for use in the navy-yards, and tools and repairs of the same; dredging; postage on letters and other mailable matter on public service, 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; for clerical and incidental labor at navy-yards; water-tax, and for toll and ferriages; rent of four officers’ quarters at League Island; pay of the watchmen in the navy-yards; and for awning and packing-boxes, and advertising for yard and dock purposes, ninety thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses that may arise at navy-yards and stations,Contingent expenses. five thousand dollars. For the civil establishment at navy-yards and stations, twelve thousandCivil establishment. dollars. BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY. For support of the medical department: For surgeons, necessariesSurgeons, necessaries. for vessels in commission, navy-yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and Coast Survey, twenty thousand dollars. For the naval hospital fund, namely: For maintenance of the naval- hospitalsHospital fund. at the various navy-yards and stations, fifteen thousand dollars.
And if the Secretary of the Navy shall not be able to maintain properly the whole number of naval hospitals now kept open on the amounts hereby appropriated for the maintenance of and civil establishment at naval hospitals, be shall close those which are least necessary to the service, and provide for the patients now cared for therein at such other naval hospitals as may be most convenient. For contingent expenses of the Bureau: For freight on medical stores;Contingent expenses. transportation of insane patients; advertising; telegraphing; purchase of books; expenses attending the medical board of examiners; rent of rooms for naval dispensary; hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration; purchase and repair of wagons and harness; purchase and feed of horses and cows; trees, garden tools, and seeds, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
For necessary repairs of naval laboratory, naval hospitals, and appendages,Repairs including roads, wharves, outhouses, sidewalks, fences, gardens, farms, and cemeteries, two thousand five hundred dollars. For the maintenance of the civil establishment at the several navalCivil establishments. hospitals, navy-yards, naval laboratory, and Naval Academy, ten thousand dollars. 291 BUREAU OF PROVISIONS AND CLOTHING. For provisions for the seamen and marines; commuted rations forProvisions and clothing. officers, seamen, and marines; expenses of the handling and transportation of provisions; of inspections and storehouses; purchase of water for ships for cooking and drinking purposes; and tor provisions and commutation of rations for seven hundred and fifty boys, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That all enlisted men and boys in*Proviso*. the Navy, attached to any United States vessel or station and doing duty thereon, and naval cadets, shall be allowed a ration, or commutation thereof in money, under such limitations and regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe.
For contingent expenses: For freight on shipments (except provisions);Contingent expenses. candles,fuel; books and blanks; stationery; advertising and commissions on sales; furniture for inspection and pay offices in navy-yards; foreign postage, telegrams, and express charges; toll, ferriages, car-tickets; yeoman’s stores, iron safes, newspapers, ice, and incidental expenses absolutely necessary, fifteen thousand dollars. For the civil establishment, three thousand dollars.Civil establishment.
BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR. For preservation and completion of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary;Preservation, repair, and completion of vessels, etc. purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; labor in navy-yards and on foreign stations; preservation of materials; purchase of tools; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat, and for general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair, and incidental expenses, namely, advertising, foreign postage, telegrams, photographing, books, plans, stationery, and instruments for drawing-room, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part*Proviso*. of this sum shall be applied to the repairs of any wooden ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed twenty per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material: *Provided further*, That nothing herein contained shall deprive the Secretary*Proviso*. of the Navy of the authority to order repairs of ships damaged in foreign waters or on the high seas, so far as may be necessary to bring them home.
For the civil establishment, ten thousand dollars.Civil establishment. BUREAU OF STEAM-ENGINEERING. For repairs, completion, and preservation of machinery and boilers,Steam machinery. including steamsteerers, steam-capstans, steam-windlasses, and so forth, in vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase and pReservation of all materials and stores 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, books, stationery, and instruments, two hundred and eighty thousand dollars; and the unexpended balance of the appropriation of one million dollars made by the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty- three, for engines and machinery for the double-turreted ironclads be, and the same is hereby, reappropriated and made available during the last half of the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty- five, for the purposes enumerated in this paragraph: *Provided*,*Proviso*.
That no part of said sum shall be applied to the repair of engines and machinery of wooden ships where the estimated costs of such repair shall exceed twenty per centum of the estimated cost of new engines and machinery of the same character and power; but nothing herein contained shall prevent the repair or building of boilers for wooden ships the hulls of which can be fully repaired for twenty per centum of the estimated cost of a new ship of the same size and material. 292 For contingencies, such as instrument and materials for draughting room,Contingent expenses. five hundred dollars.
For the civil establishment, five thousand dollars.Civil establishment. INCREASE OF THE NAVY. For completing the Mohican at the Mare Island Navy Yard, fiftyAppropriations for increase of the Navy.Completion, of the Mohican.Care of ironclad monitors. thousand dollars. For care and safekeeping of the ironclad monitors now in the hands of the contractors, when they shall have been turned over to the Government by said contractors, five thousand dollars. NAVAL ACADEMY. For pay of professors and others:
For two professors, namely, one ofNaval Academy.Pay of professors and others. mathematics, and one of chemistry, at the rate per annum of two thousand five hundred dollars each; three professors (assistants), namely, one of physics, one of Spanish, and one of English studies, history, and law, at the rate per annum of two thousand two hundred dollars each; six assistant professors, namely, four of French, one of English studies, history, and law, and one of drawing, at the rate per annum of one thousand eight hundred dollars each; sword-master, at the rate per annum of one thousand five hundred dollars, and two assistants, at the rate per annum of one thousand dollars each; boxing-master and gymnast, at the rate per annum of one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant librarian, at the rate per annum of one thousand four hundred dollars;
Secretary of the Naval Academy, at the rate per annum of one thousand eight hundred dollars; three clerks to superintendent, at the rate per annum of one thousand two hundred dollars, one thousand dollars, and eight hundred dollars, respectively; one clerk to commandant of cadets, at the rate- per annum of one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk to paymaster, at the rate per annum of one thousand dollars; one dentist, at the rate per annum of one thousand six hundred dollars; one baker, at the rate per annum of six hundred dollars; one mechanic in department of physics and chemistry, at the rate per annum of seven hundred and thirty dollars; one cook, at the rate per annum of three hundred and twenty-five dollars and fifty cents; one messenger to superintendent, at the rate per annum of six hundred dollars; one armorer, at the rate per annum of five hundred and twenty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one gunner’s mate, at the rate per annum of four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents, and one quarter-gunner, at the rate per annum of four hundred and nine dollars and fifty cents; one cockswain, at the rate per annum of four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one seaman in the department of seamanship, at the rate per annum of three hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one attendant in the department of astronomy and one in the department of physics and chemistry, at the rate per annum of three hundred dollars each; six attendants at recitation-rooms, library, store, chapel, and offices, at the rate per annum of two hundred and forty dollars each; one bandmaster, at the rate per annum of five hundred and twenty-eight dollars; twenty-one first-class musicians, at the rate per annum of three hundred and forty-eight dollars each; seven second- class musicians, at the rate per annum of three hundred dollars each; in all, twenty-six thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine dollars and fifty cents.
For pay of watchmen and others: For captain of the watch andCaptain of watch 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 Academy, at five dollars per day; ten attendants at gas and steamheating works, one at three dollars, one at two dollars and fifty cents, and eight at two dollars per day each; one steam-pipe fitter, at the rate 293 per annum of six hundred dollars; one foreman of joiners, one foreman of painters, and one foreman of masons, at three dollars and fifty cents per day each; one mason, at three dollars per day; two joiners and one painter, 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 al), eleven thousand five hundred and twelve dollars and seventy-five cents.
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; twenty servants, to keep in order and attend to quarters of cadet-midshipmen and public buildings, at twenty dollars per month each; in all, seven thousand two hundred and eighty-eight dollars and forty-eight cents.
For pay of the employees in the department of steam-engineering,Employés in department of steam-engineering. Naval Academy: One master machinist, one boilermaker, and one pattern maker, at three dollars and fifty cents per day each; two machinists and one blacksmith, at two dollars and fifty cents per day each; four laborers, at one dollar and fifty cents per day each; in all, three thousand eight hundred and thirty-four dollars. For necessary repairs of public buildings, pavements, wharves, andRepairs. walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, and for improvements, repairs, and furniture and fixtures, ten thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That no appropriations provided for in this act shall*Proviso*. be construed to authorize or be applied to a new building for the use of the superintendent or other officers of the Academy.
For fuel, and for heating and lighting the Academy and school-ships,Fuel, lights, etc. eight thousand five hundred dollars. For contingent expenses, Naval Academy: For purchase of booksContingent expenses. for the library, one thousand dollars. For stationery, blank-books, models, maps, and for textbooks for useStationery, etc. of instructors, one thousand dollars. For expenses of the Board of Visitors to the Naval Academy, sevenBoard of Visitors.Chemicals, etc. hundred and fifty dollars.
For purchase of chemicals, apparatus, and instruments in the Department of physics and chemistry, and for repairs of the same, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For purchase of gas and steam machinery; steam-pipe and fittings;Gas and steam machinery, freight, water, music, etc. rent of building for the use of the Academy; freight; cartage; water; music; musical and astronomical instruments; uniforms for the bandsmen; telegraphing; for feed and maintenance of teams; for current expenses and repairs of all kinds; and for incidental labor and expenses not applicable to any other appropriation, seventeen thousand three hundred dollars.
For stores in the department of steamenginery, four hundred dollars.Stores.Materials for repairs. For materials for repairs in steam-machinery, five hundred dollars. MARINE CORPS. For pay of officers on the active-list, as follows: For one colonelMarine Corps.Pay of active-list officers. commandant, 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 twenty-two second lieutenants, ninety-eight thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; and from and after the passage of this act there shall be no appointments, exceptAppointments. by promotion, to fill vacancies occurring in the list of commissioned officers of the Marine Corps until the number of such officers shall have been reduced, by casualties or otherwise, below seventy-five as fixed by 294 the act approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six; and1876, vol. 19, Ch. 169, p. 71. after the number of officers shall be reduced as above provided,the whole number of commissioned officers on the active list in the Marine Corps shall not exceed seventy five.
For pay of officers on the retired-list: For one colonel, three majors,Retired-list officers. two assistant quartermasters, three captains, two first lieutenants, and three second lieutenants, fourteen thousand eight hundred and nineteen dollars. For pay of non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates: ForNon-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates. one sergeant-major, one quartermaster-sergeant, one leader of the band, 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, one hundred and ninety-four thousand five hundred and twenty-six dollars.
For ten clerks and two messengers, eight thousand and seventeenClerks, Messengers, etc. dollars and fifty cents; payments to discharged soldiers for clothing undrawn, ten thousand dollars; transportation of officers travelling under orders without troops, four thousand dollars; commutation of quarters for officers where there are no public buildings, two thousand dollars; in all, twenty-four thousand and seventeen dollars and fifty cents. For provisions for the Marine Corps, and for difference between costProvisions. of rations and commutation thereof for detailed men, thirty thousand dollars.
For clothing, thirty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.Clothing.Fuel.Military stores. For fuel, nine thousand dollars. For military stores, namely: For pay of one chief armorer, at three dollars per day; three mechanics, at two dollars and fifty cents per day each; purchase of military equipments, such as cartridge-boxes, bayonet-scabbards, haversacks, blanket-bags, canteens, musket-slings, swords, flags, knapsacks, drums, fifes, bugles, and other instruments, two thousand five hundred dollars; purchase of ammunition, five hundred dollars; purchase and repair of instruments for the band and purchase of music, two hundred and fifty dollars; in all, four thousand eight hundred and ninety-three dollars and twenty-five cents.
For transportation of troops and for expenses of recruiting, five thousandTransportation of troops and recruiting.Repairs of barracks, etc. dollars. For repairs of barracks, and rent of buildings to be used for the manufacture of clothing, stores for supplies, and offices of assistant quartermaster at Philadelphia, and for hire of quarters where there are no public buildings, seven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For forage for four public horses, one for messenger to commandantForage. and staff, Washington, District of Columbia, and three for general use at marine barracks, Mare Island, California, and League Island, Pennsylvania, three hundred and sixty dollars.
For the purchase of forage, two thousand three hundred and forty *Proviso*.Contingencies.dollars: *Provided*, That no commutation for forage shall be paid. For contingencies, namely: For freight; ferriage; Loll; cartage; funeral expenses of marines; stationery; telegraphing; rent of telephone; apprehension of deserters; per diem to enlisted men employed on constant labor for periods not less than ten days; repair of gas and water fixtures; office and barrack furniture; mess utensils for enlisted men; packing-boxes; wrapping paper; oilcloth; crash; rope; twine; carpenter’s tools; tools for police purposes; purchase and repair of hose: repairs to public carryall; purchase and repair of harness; repair of fire-extinguishers; purchase and repair of handcarts and wheelbarrows; purchase and repair of cooking-stoves, ranges, and so forth; stoves where there are no grates; purchase of ice; towels and soap for offices; improving parade-grounds; repair of pumps and wharves laying drain and water pipes; introducing gas; and for other purposes, including gas and oil for marine barracks maintained at the various navy-yards and stations; and water at marine barracks, Boston, Massa- 295 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 43, 45. 1885. chusetts; Brooklyn, New York; Annapolis, Maryland, and Mare Island, California; also straw for bedding for enlisted men at the various posts, and furniture for Government houses; in all, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. At the Naval Asylum, Philadelphia,Pennsylvania: For superintendent,Naval Asylum. at the rate per annum of six hundred dollars; steward, at the rate per annum of lour hundred and eighty dollars; matron, at the rate per annum of three hundred and sixty dollars; cook, at the rate per annum of two hundred and forty dollars; two assistant cooks, at the rate per annum of one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; chief laundress, at the rate per annum of one hundred and ninety-two dollars; six laundresses, at the rate per annum of one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; nine scrubbers and waiters, at the rate per annum of one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; six laborers, at the rate per annum of two hundred and forty dollars each; stable-keeper and driver, at the rate per annum of three hundred and sixty dollars; master-at-arms, at the rate per annum of four hundred and eighty dollars; corporal, at the rate per annum of three hundred dollars; barber, at therate per annum of three hundred and sixty dollars; carpenter, at the rate per annum of eight hundred and forty-five dollars; water-rent and gas, one thousand dollars; ice, one hundred dollars; car-tickets, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; cemetery and burial expenses, and headstones, one hundred and seventy-five dollars; improvement of grounds, two hundred and fifty dollars; repairs to buildings and preservation of all kinds, painting, and for grates, furnaces, ranges, furniture, and repairs of furniture, two thousand two hundred anti fifty dollars; and for support of beneficiaries, twenty-one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; in all, twenty-nine thousand nine hundred and six dollars and fifty cents, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund.
Sec. 2. That all appropriations made by the act of July seventh,Balances of certain appropriations made available for naval service.Pamphlet laws, 48th Cong., 1st sess., p. 262. eighteen hundred and eighty-four, making temporary provisions for the naval service for the six months ending December thirty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, or any balances thereof that may be unexpended at that date, be, and they are hereby, reappropriated, continued, and made available for the remainder of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five.
Sec. 3. That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed to reportSecretary of Navy directed to report amount expended during prior fiscal year in payment of civilians employed on clerical duty, and submit estimates for civilian employees for fiscal year 1887 and thereafter. to Congress, at its next and each regular session thereafter, the amount expended during the prior fiscal year, from the appropriations for the pay of the Navy, Bureaus of Navigation, Ordnance, Equipment and Recruiting, Yards and Docks, Medicine and Surgery, Provisions and Clothing, Construction and Repair, and Steam-Engineering, for civilians employed on clerical duty, or in any other capacity than as ordinary mechanics and workingmen, and to submit, under the estimates for pay of the Navy and for the respective Bureaus enumerated above, specific estimates for such civilian employees for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and each fiscal year thereafter.
Approved, January 30th, 1885.