Transportation of the U. States mail. advances to contractors. and support of horses and oxen, and driving teams; carts, timber wheels, and the purchase and repair of workmen's tools; postage of public letters; furniture for government houses; fuel, oil, and candles for navy-yards and shore stations; cleaning and clearing up yards; watchmen and incidental labor not chargeable to any other appropriation; labor attending the delivery of stores and supplies on foreign stations; wharfage, dockage, and rent; travelling expenses of officers; funeral expenses; store and office rent; stationery and fuel to navy agents and storekeepers; flags, awnings, and packing boxes; premiums and other expenses of recruiting; apprehending deserters; per diem pay to persons attending courtsmartial, and courts of inquiry, or other service authorized by law; pay to judge advocates; pilotage and towage of vessels; assistance rendered to vessels in distress; seven hundred thousand dollars. And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized, from the sum aforesaid, without further notice or advertisement, out of the appropriation for provisions, to purchase, at his discretion, a sufficient quantity of flour and cornmeal prepared and dried by the process and machinery invented by J. R. Stafford, of Ohio, to be sent to different naval stations, to test its capacity to resist the influence of time and climate, and to ascertain what advantage there may be in introducing the use of the same for the navy. For the transportation of the United States mail between New York and Liverpool, between New York and New Orleans, and Havana and Chagres, and between Panama and Astoria, under the act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, eight hundred and seventy-four Secretary of the thousand six hundred dollars. And the Secretary of the Navy may make Navy is hereby directed to advance to the contractors for said service, or to their assignees, for the purpose of enabling them to finish the steamships contracted for under their respective contracts, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars per month on each of said ships, after such ship shall have been launched; but the money so advanced under any one of said contracts shall not exceed the amount of one year's compensation, stipulated for in such contract, to be secured in all cases by a lien on said ships, in such manner as the Secretary of the Navy may require; and the money so advanced shall be faithfully expended in finishing said ships to the satisfaction of When contract the Secretary of the Navy; and compensation on the contract from Panama to from Panama to Astoria shall commence from the time the ships are ready for service, and placed at the disposal of the United States; the said annual compensation, however, not to commence until first October, eighteen hundred and fortyeight: Provided, That the contractor for the line from Panama to Astoria, as the condition of this advance, be required to stop and deliver and take mails at San Diego, San Francisco, and Monterey, in California, if required so to do by the Secre tary of the Navy, with the concurrence of the Postmaster General: And provided further, That, in consideration of the Astoria commence. Proviso. shall foregoing advance, the line of steamers provided in the contract with A. S. Sloo shall stop, going and returning, at Charleston, if practicable, and Savannah. For contingent expenses for objects not herein before enumerated, two thousand dollars. Contingent ex penses. Grading Univer To pay arrearages due for grading University square, and other expenses, for the construction of the depot for charts sity square. and instruments, being a reappropriation in part of a sum carried to the surplus fund, heretofore appropriated for that purpose, ten thousand forty-three dollars and seventy-seven cents. For furnishing the marine hospital building at New Or Marine hospital, leans, seven thousand five hundred dollars. New Orleans. Meteorological For "meteorological observations," to be conducted under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, two thousand observations. dollars. Depot at New For the establishment of a depot for naval stores, which the Secretary of the Navy is hereby required to cause to be Orleans. located at or near the city of New Orleans, twenty thousand dollars. Construction, &c., and current For the construction, extension, and completion of the following objects, and for the current repairs at the several navy expenses at navy yards, viz: AT PORTSMOUTH. For completing quay wall and wharf, and wharf number one; wall west side of ship-house number four, and filling in; timber shed opposite number seven, and addition to smithery I; brick powder magazine, engine, fixtures, &c., for blowing-fires to forges; and for repairs of all kinds, fifty thousand five hundred and fity-one dollars. AT BOSTON. For timber shed number thirty-seven, and pier wharf at angle number fifty-nine; coal-house near dry-dook, and pier wharf in rear of carpenter's and joiner's shop; for eight knee docks, and tracks for stowage of guns in gun park ; for com. pleting brick barn; and repairs of all kinds, ninety-seven thousand three hundred and fifty-one dollars. AT NEW YORK. For iron and copper store, cooperage, cob wharf, and filling in timber pond; dredging channels and wharf in front of hospital lands; steam engine in smithery, steam pipes, &c., and cistern for each reservoir; paving and flagging, and granite skids, and platforms for cannon, and for repairs of all kinds, one hundred and six thousand dollars. For the dry-dock, three hundred and fifty thousand dol lars. For the purchase by the Secretary of the Navy of the land, yards. Portsmouth. Boston. New York. above and under water, bounded by Flushing avenue, in the city of Brooklyn, in the State of New York, the United States navy yard, hospital grounds, and the Wallabout bay to the channel, two hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of said sum of money shall be applied to the payment of the purchase money until a good and perfect title is secured to the United States for the said land and its appurtenances. Philadelphia. Washington. Norfolk. Pensacola. AT PHILADELPHIA. For removing and extending ship-house G; completing wharf number two; dredging machine; and repairs of all kinds, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars. AT WASHINGTON. For chain-cable forges, and fitting part of number eleven for a boiler shop; steam hammer for smith's shop, and alteration in hydraulic proving machine; converting joiner's shop in number twelve to mould loft, and steam hammer in place of old tilt hammer; ordnance workshops, and extending brass foundry; extending blacksmith's shop and iron store under N, and finishing shop for smithery; converting old foundry into stables, and for repairs of all kinds, thirty-two thousand four hundred and eighteen dollars. For extension of quay walls; completing slip forty-eight, and for the storehouse number nineteen; brick stables; steam hammer and engine; brick gun place, coal-house, and landing wharf; culvert drill press; punching machine and cutting shears, and for repairs of all kinds, one hundred and forty-four thousand one hundred and thirty-six dollars. AT PENSACOLA. For two third-class officers' houses; completing timber shed number twenty-six; dredge machine scows; four warrant officers' houses, and guard-house; coal-house; paint shop and rail tracks; permanent wharf; drain in rear of officers' quarters; wharf and rail track in front of storehouse number twenty-six ; paving, grading, planting trees and levelling, and for repairs of all kinds, one hundred and fifty-nine thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars. For construction, in part, of a new timber shed at said navy yard, fifty thousand dollars. For payment of such arrearages as the Secretary of the Navy may in law and equity decide to be due to Jerrison and Foster, seven thousand dollars. AT MEMPHIS. For completing commandant's house and storehouse; tarring-house; engine and machinery for saw mill; timber shed, and boat builder's shop, and wall to enclose yard; embankment and excavations; machinery for ropewalk, and for repairs of all kinds, one hundred and seventy-four thousand and thirty-eight dollars. AT SACKETT'S HARBOR. For the completion of officers' quarters, and for repairs of all kinds, two thousand dollars. FOR HOSPITALS, viz: At Boston. For repairing hospital buildings and dependencies, fences and furnaces, painting, glazing, and whitewashing, two thousand eight hundred dollars. Memphis. Sackett's Har bor. Hospitals, viz: Boston. For the completion of the marine hospitals now building, Pittsburg. viz: At Pittsburg, ten thousand dollars; at Cleveland, ten thousand dollars; at Louisville, ten thousand dollars. For the purpose of erecting marine hospitals on the sites owned by the United States at the following places, viz: At St. Louis, ten thousand dollars; at Natchez, ten thousand dollars; at Paducah, ten thousand dollars. At Napoleon, Arkansas, (so soon as the government title to the site selected and purchased shall be perfected,) ten thousand dollars. Erection of marine hospitals. St. Louis. Napoleon, Ark. ' Also for the construction of a marine hospital on such site Chicago, as shall be selected by the Secretary of the Treasury, on the lands owned by the United States at Chicago, ten thousand dollars. At New York. For purchase from the city of New York of water front to hospital lands; for surgeon's house; paving, guttering, and completing sewer, and for current repairs, twenty thousand and fifty-seven dollars. At Washington.-For current repairs, one hundred dollars. At Norfolk. For repairs of galleries, cells, bath-house, fence, and surgeon's house, one thousand four hundred dollars; and for making necessary repairs for the marine hospital at Norfolk, sixteen hundred dollars. New York. Washington. Norfolk. At Pensacola. For bricking up ponds and drain, repairs Pensacola. to hospital, and for current repairs, six thousand three hun dred and seventy-eight dollars. At Mobile. For necessary repairs of the marine hospital, Mobile. one thousand and ninety dollars. FOR MAGAZINES, viz: At Boston, five hundred dollars. At New York, five hundred dollars. Magazines, viz: Boston. New York. Washington. At Norfolk, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight Norfolk. dollars. Marine corps. Pay of officers, marines, &c. Provisions. Clothing. Fuel. Military stores. Transportation. Contingencies. Miscellaneous expenses. Relief and pro can seamen. MARINE CORPS. For pay of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, privates, and servants, serving on shore, subsistence of officers, and pay for undrawn clothing, two hundred and eigtythree thousand dollars. For provisions for marines, serving on shore, sixty thousand dollars. For clothing, eighty-one thousand four hundred and ninety-two dollars. For fuel, eleven thousand three hundred and thirty-four dollars. For military stores, repair of arms, pay of armorers, accoutrements, ordnance stores, flags, drums, fifes, and musical instruments, eight thousand dollars. For transportation of officers and troops, and for expenses of recruiting, twelve thousand dollars. For contingencies, viz: Freight, ferriage, toll, cartage, wharfage, compensation to judges-advocate, per diem for attending courts-martial, courts of inquiry, and for constant labor; house-rent, in lieu of quarters; burial of deceased marines; printing, stationery, forage, postage, pursuit of deserters; candles, oil, straw, furniture, bed sacks, spades, axes, shovels, picks, carpenters' tools; keep of a horse for messenger, pay of the matron, washerwoman, and porter at hospital headquarters, twentytwo thousand dollars. For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign tection of Ameri- countries, further to supply deficiencies in appropriations made for the service of the fiscal year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, twenty thousand dollars. Improvements, polis, viz: SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of seven&c., at the naval teen thousand and three hundred dollars be, and the same is school at Anna hereby, appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for improvements and repairs at the Enclosing naval school at Annapolis, to be expended as follows: For enclosing the grounds embraced in the new purchase, repairing the houses thereon, docking, grading, and improving the grounds, six thousand eight hundred dollars. grounds. Superinten dent's house. For repairing and tinning superintendent's house, one thousand five hundred dollars. For building an arsenal, five hundred dollars. For raising the row of houses occupied by professors, one story, six thousand dollars. For completing mess-room and lyceum, five hundred dol lars. For painting outside of houses, and other necessary repairs, one thousand five hundred dollars. For fire engines and apparatus, complete, five hundred dollars. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That in execution of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, |