General estimate of the sums required for the support of the navy for the fiscal year commencing the first day of July, 1854, and
ending on the 30th day of June, 1855.
For pay of commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, including the engineer corps..
For provisions for commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, including engineers, and also
marines attached to vessels for sea-service.
For surgeons' necessaries and appliances for the sick and hurt of the navy, including the marine corps...
For increase, repair, armament, and equipment of the navy, including the wear and tear of vessels in
commission, fuel for steamers, and purchase of hemp for the navy...
For ordnance and ordnance stores, including incidental expenses
For contingent expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, viz: freight and transportation;
printing and stationery; advertising in newspapers; books, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and
repair of fire-engines and machinery; repairs of, and attending to, steam-engines in navy yards; pur-
chase and maintenance of horses and oxen and driving teams; for carts, timber-wheels, and the pur-
chase and repair of workmen's tools; postage of public letters; furniture for government houses; fuel,
oil, and candles for navy yards and shore stations; pay of watchmen, and incidental labor not chargeable
to any other appropriation; transportation to and labor attending the delivery of provisions and stores
on foreign stations; wharfage, dockage, and rent; travelling expenses of officers and others under
orders; funeral expenses; store and office rent; stationery; fuel; commissions and pay of clerks to
navy agents and store-keepers; flags, awnings, and packing-boxes; premiums and other expenses of
recruiting; apprehending deserters; per diem pay to persons attending courts martial and courts of in-
quiry, and other services authorized by law; pay to judges advocate; pilotage and towage of vessels,
and assistance to vessels in distress; for bills of health, and quarantine expenses of vessels of the
United States navy in foreign ports......
Appropriated for
1853-'54.
General estimate of the sums required for the support of the Marine Corps for the fiscal year commencing on the first day af July, 1854, and ending on the 30th day of June, 1855.
For pay of the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, clerks, messengers, stewards,
servants, &c.; for rations and clothing for servants; subsistence and additional rations for five years'
service of officers; for undrawn clothing and rations, bounties for re-enlistments, and pay for unexpired
terms of previous service.
For provisions for marines serving on shore.
For military stores, repairs of arms, pay of armorer; for accoutrements, ordnance stores, flags, drums
fifes, and musical instruments..
For transportation of officers and troops, and expenses of recruiting.
For repairs of barracks, and rent of temporary barracks and offices..
For contingent expenses, viz: freight, ferriage, cartage, and wharfage; compensation to judges advocate;
per diem for attending courts martial and courts of inquiry; for constant labor; house rent, in lieu of
quarters; burial of deceased marines; printing, advertising, stationery, forage, postage, pursuit of
deserters, candles, oil, straw, furniture, bed-sacks, spades, shovels, axes, picks, and carpenters' tools;
expense of a horse for messenger; pay of matron, washerwoman, and porter, for the hospital at head-
quarters
eneral estimate of the sums required for special objects under the Navy Department, for the fiscal year commencing on the first
day of July, 1854, and ending on the thirtieth day of June, 1855.
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