amount deducted by the committees in the Senate and House of Representatives from their accounts as rendered for printing finished and delivered previous to the passage of the printing law now in operation.

3rd section of SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the third section act making ap- of the "act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic propriations for the civil and di- expenses of government for the year ending the thirtieth of plomatic expen- June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, and for ses of govern- other purposes," approved the tenth of August, one thouending 30 June, Sand eight hundred and forty-six, be, and the same is here1847, revived, by, revived and continued in force for the fiscal year ending &c. for the fiscal the thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and fortyeight.

ment for year

year ending 30

June, 1848.

Approved, March 3, 1847.

Pay of officers and seamen, including engineer corps.

Assistant sur

geons.

his salary.

CHAP. 48.-AN ACT making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending the thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the naval service, for the year ending on the thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight: For pay of commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, including the engineer corps of the navy, three million two hundred and ninety-two thousand eight hundred and six dollars.

For pay of thirteen additional assistant surgeons, whose appointment is hereby authorized, twelve thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.

Pyrotechnist to That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby aube appointed-thorized to appoint a Pyrotechnist for the service of the navy, at an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars, which sum is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, as full compensation for the services of said Pyrotechnist.

Provisions.

For provisions for commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, including engineers and marines attached to vessels for sea service, nine hundred and seventy-six thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and eighty-one cents. And there shall be allowed, instead of the sum now alHu of the spirit lowed by law, three cents per day in lieu of the spirit rations in the navy, to be paid monthly to such persons as may elect to receive the same, who shall actually draw their rations in

Allowance in

ration.

Additionalclerk kind.

for Bureau of
Provision and

Clothing.
Surgeons' ne-

For an additional clerk for Bureau of Provision and Clothing, one thousand dollars.

For surgeons' necessaries, and appliances for the sick and

hurt of the naval service, including the marine corps, in- cessaries for nacluding three thousand dollars for pay of the superintendent, vy and marine who shall be either a captain, commander, or lieutenant in the navy, forty thousand two hundred dollars.

corps.

For the increase, repair, armament, and equipment of the Increase, renavy, and wear and tear of vessels in commission, including pair, &c. coal for steamers and purchase of hemp, two million five hundred thousand dollars.

For ordnance and ordnance stores, including incidental Ordnance and expenses, three hundred and seventy-one thousand three stores. hundred and ninety dollars.

For nautical books, maps, charts, and instruments, binding Books, charts, and repairing the same, and all the expenses of the hydrograinstruments,&c. phical office, twenty-five thousand nine hundred and forty dollars.

For contingent expenses that may accrue for the follow- Contingent exing purposes, viz: Freight and transportation; printing and penses. stationery; advertising in newspapers; books, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines and machinery; repair of steam engines, and attendance on the same in yards; purchase and maintenance of horses and oxen, and driving teams; carts, timber wheels, and workmen's tools of every description, and repairing the same; postage of letters on public business; coal and other fuel, and oil and candles, for navy-yards and shore stations; cleaning and clearing up yards; incidental labor not chargeable to any other appropriation; labor attending the delivery of public stores and supplies on foreign stations; wharfage, dockage, storage, and rent; travelling expenses of officers, funeral expenses, commissions, hire of agents; clerk hire, store rent, office rent, stationery, and fuel to navy agents and naval storekeepers; flags, awnings, and packing boxes; fixtures for officers' quarters; premiums, and incidental expenses of recruiting; apprehending deserters; per diem allowance to persons attending courts-martial and courts of inquiry, or other service authorized by law; compensation. to judge-advocates; pilotage, and towing vessels; assistance . rendered to vessels in distress, six hundred thousand dollars. For enabling the Secretary of the Navy to test, by expe- Earle's patent riments, the value to the navy of Earle's patented invention for preservation for the preservation of canvass, five thousand dollars. For contingent expenses for objects not hereinbefore enu

merated, five thousand dollars.

of canvass.

For support of the civil establishment at the several Civil establishnavy-yards, the officers and others to be paid the annual ment at navy

compensation that was allowed to them severally in the act yards.

making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending on the thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, except as hereinafter provided:

Kittery.

Charlestown.

Brooklyn.

Philadelphia.

Washington.

Gosport.

Pensacola,

AT KITTERY, MAINE.

For pay of storekeeper, naval constructor, inspector of timber, clerk to the yard, clerk to the commandant, clerk to the storekeeper, clerk to the naval constructor, and porter, seven thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.

AT CHARLESTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS.

For pay of storekeeper, naval constructor, measurer and inspector of timber, clerk to the yard, two clerks to the commandant, three clerks to the storekeeper, clerk to naval constructor, keeper of magazine, and porter, eleven thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.

AT BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

For pay of storekeeper, naval constructor, measurer and inspector of timber, clerk to the yard, two clerks to the commandant, three clerks to the storekeeper, clerk to the naval constructor, keeper of magazine, and porter, eleven thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.

AT PHILADELPHIA.

For pay of storekeeper, naval constructor, measurer and inspector of timber, cleik to the yard, clerk to the commandant, clerk to the storekeeper, clerk to naval constructor, and porter, seven thousand seven hundred dollars.

AT WASHINGTON.

For pay of storekeeper, measurer and inspector of timber, clerk to the yard, two clerks to commandant, clerk to the storekeeper, keeper of the magazine, and porter, six thousand six hundred and eighty dollars.

AT GOSPORT, VIRGINIA.

For pay of storekeeper, naval constructor, measurer and inspector of timber, clerk to the yard, two clerks to commandant, three clerks to the storekeeper, clerk to the naval constructor, keeper of the magazine, and porter, eleven thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.

AT PENSACOLA.

For pay of storekeeper, and naval constructor, clerk to the yard, two clerks to the commandant, two clerks to the storekeeper, and porter, eight thousand and fifty dollars.

AT MEMPHIS.

For pay of storekeeper, clerk to the yard, clerk to the commandant, and porter, three thousand three hundred dollars.

Memphis.

For improvements and necessary repairs of navy-yards, Improvements

viz:

AT KITTERY.

For extending knee-dock wall, and filling in for gun and anchor wharf, rebuilding wharf number one, cistern near mast and boat-house number fifteen, and for repairs of all kinds, thirty-one thousand five hundred and twenty-eight dollars. That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed

and repair of

navy yards. Kittery.

to cause to be constructed at each of the navy-yards at Kit- Floating docks tery, Philadelphia, and Pensacola, a floating dry-dock for at Kittery, Philadelphia, and ships of the line, with basin and railways at Philadelphia, Pensacola. and reference thereto at the other places, on such plan as may be preferred by the Secretary of the Navy: the said dock at Pensacola to be completed with all possible despatch; and the sum of fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated towards said dock at Kittery; fifty thousand dollars towards said dock at Philadelphia; and two hundred and fifty thousand dollars towards said dock at Pensacola; out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

AT CHARLESTOWN.

For wharf number sixty-four, and repairs of dry-dock number fifty-four; timber-dock and bridge across timberdock; brick barn to be erected on number twenty-seven; smith shop and plumber's shop, and drains to reservoir, and pipes to smithery; shell-house, joiners' and carpenters' shops and rigging loft, and for repairs of all kinds, ninety-seven thousand six hundred and fifty-five dollars.

AT BROOKLYN.

For repairing wharves in front of D and E; cisterns to reservoir C; completing cob-wharf; filling in timber pond and dredging channels; shell-house on gun-block, and for repairs of all kinds, fifty-one thousand eight hundred and fortyeight dollars.

Charlestown.

Brooklyn.

from sales of clothing, &c. to

For dry-dock, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. That from and after the passage of this act, all moneys Moneys derived derived from the sale of all stores and other articles belonging to the navy, shall revert to that appropriation from which revert to origi such stores and other articles were originally purchased; and nal appropriathe Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to refund to the appropriation for "clothing for the

tion.

Philadelphia.

Washington.

Gosport.

Pensacola.

Memphis.

navy," the proceeds of all sales of condemned navy clothing which have been paid into the Treasury of the United States subsequent to the first day of August, eighteen hundred and forty-four, as shall appear from the accounts of the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing and the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury; and it shall not be lawful hereafter to make transfers from the clothing fund, or the head of the appropriation for "clothing for the navy," to any other head of appropriation, except in the adjustment of the accounts of disbursing officers, at the office of the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury.

AT PHILADELPHIA.

For outside piers of wharves numbers two and three; wharf number four, and outside pier of number four; workshops on site number ten; anchorage and repairs of all kinds, fortyseven thousand four hundred and sixteen dollars.

AT WASHINGTON.

For trip-hammer in anchor-shop, and blowing chain-cable fires in hydraulic proving machine shop; new boiler to steam engine number two; converting number eleven to an iron foundry; temporary laboratory building, and repairs of all kinds, thirty thousand five hundred and forty-eight dollars.

AT GOSPORT.

For completing storehouse number thirteen, and launching slip number forty-eight; new wharf where small shears now stand, and for repairs of all kinds, forty-five thousand two hundred dollars.

AT PENSACOLA.

For completing storehouse number twenty-five, and timber-shed number twenty-six; blacksmith shop and steamengine; permanent wharf; extending and completing coalhouse; completing lime-house, and for repairs of all kinds, fifty-eight thousand and seventeen dollars.

AT MEMPHIS.

For blacksmith's shop; steam engine and boilers for ropewalk; joiner's shop and storehouse, (one wing;) saw-mill; commandant's house and offices; foundation of wall to enclose yard; embankment and excavation, and for repairs of all kinds, one hundred and two thousand two hundred and five dollars.