quiry, or other service authorized by law; pay to judge advocates; pilotage and towage of vessels, and assistance rendered to vessels in distress, five hundred and eight thousand dollars; For support of the naval school at Annapolis, Maryland, twenty-eight thousand two hundred dollars;

Naval school at

Annapolis.

Transportation

of U. S. mail in

For transportation of the United States mail between New York and Liverpool, between New York and New Orleans, steamers. Havana and Chagres, and between Panama and some point in the Territory of Oregon, eight hundred and seventy-four thousand six hundred dollars;

Purchase of right to use Bish

derrick.

Proviso.

For the purchase of the right to use A. D. Bishop's patent portable boom derrick for all Government purposes, ten thou- op's patent boom sand dollars. Provided, Phe said Bishop shall within fifteen days from the passage of this act notify the Secretary of the Navy, in writing, of his acceptance of said sum in full compensation for said patent right, and all improvements which he may, hereafter, make upon the same; and shall furnish full working plans and explanations for the construction of said boomderrick ; k;

Testing capa.

city and usefulness of electro

For testing the capacity and usefulness of the electro-magnetic power as a mechanical agent for the purposes of navigation and locomotion, and the probable cost of using the same magnetic power, according to the invention of Professor Page, the sum of twenty thousand dollars, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Navy in making a practicable experiment of said invention according to the plan to be proposed and conducted by Professor Page;

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 powder magazine and smithery I; for constructing commander's quarters, timber shed number twentyeight, store house number thirty, dock wall west of timber sheds; for paving timber shed number twenty-seven, wharf, and filling in rear of number four; for pitch house, engine house, and filling in low grounds; and for repairs of all kinds, fifty-four thousand six hundred and twenty dollars and fiftythree cents.

Towards construction of sail loft and cordage store; for stone wall and filling in southwest of ship house H; for coal house near blacksmith shop, grading and paving avenue sixty-three; for anchor hoys and water tank; and for repairs of all kinds, one hundred and thirty-two thousand two hundred and twentyone dollars and fifty cents.

AT NEW YORK.

For two officers' houses, cob dock, dredging channels, filling in land purchased between navy yard and hospital, fence on

yards.

Portsmouth.

Boston.

New York

Philadelphia.

Washington.

Flushing avenue, filling in timber pond, paving and gutters to avenue, and for repairs of all kinds, ninety-five thousand dollars.

AT PHILADELPHIA.

For two houses for officers; for foundation and slip of ship house G; extension of wharves number one, two, and three, to port warden's line; for timber shed D; for raising smiths' shop, and for repairs of all kinds, seventy-six thousand and twentyseven dollars.

AT WASHINGTON.

For boiler and furnace for small steam hammer, and boilers for steam engines, numbers one and three; for building stone wharf; for large slide lathes, planing machines, shafting, drums, boring, slotting, and drilling machines, and small lathes; and repairs of all kinds, forty-four thousand five hundred and thirty dollars.

Norfolk.

Pensacola.

Memphis.

Sackett's Har

bor.

Hospitals, viz:
Boston.

New York.

AT NORFOLK.

For slip number forty-eight; continuation of quay walls, digging out timber dock, grading, paving, gutters, filling low grounds, brick stables, water cisterns, engine house to smithery, coal house, and repairs of all kinds, one hundred and five thou sand eight hundred and forty-four dollars.

AT PENSACOLA.

For completing permanent wharf, smith, and machine shop, timber shed and mould loft, water tank, lime house, paint shop, dredging machine and lighters, and yard boats; for brick kitchen to officers' houses, (eleven,) six first class, and six second class houses, and repairs of all kinds, two hundred thousand and thirteen dollars and fifty-five cents.

AT MEMPHIS.

For saw mill, one wing of store house; to complete building for officers, blacksmith's shop, and joiner's shop; for fire engine, excavation, and embankment, piling on river bank, wall to enclose yard, guard house, and enclosure to commandant's house, pavements, drains, and gutters, and repairs of all kinds, one hundred and thirty-six thousand five hundred and fifty-four dollars.

AT SACKETT'S HARBOR.

For stables and fencing, and repairs of all kinds, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For Hospitals, viz:

At Boston. For repairs to road, fences, wall, white-washing, and general repairs, one thousand five hundred dollars. At New York.--For completing small-pox building, finishing sewer, dead-house, grading, brick barn, and stable, general repairs, eleven thousand three hundred dollars.

and

At Washington. For general repairs, one hundred and fifty Washington. dollars.

At Norfolk. For general repairs, one thousand dollars. At Pensacola. For repairs of hospital buildings, medical officers' quarters, out buildings, fences, and general repairs, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For Magazines, viz:

At Boston, one hundred and fifty dollars;

At New York, two hundred dollars;

At Washington, one hundred and fifty dollars;

At Norfolk, one hundred and fifty dollars.

For stone and floating Dry Docks, viz:

For completing the stone dry dock building at New York, four hundred and ninety thousand dollars;

For the construction of the floating dry dock to be built at Kittery, two hundred thousand dollars;

For the construction of the floating dry dock to be built at Philadelphia, two hundred thousand dollars;

For the construction of the floating dry dock to be built at Pensacola, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars;

For improvement and superintendence at naval depôt near New Orleans, the sum of one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

Norfolk.

Pensacola.

Magazines, viz:
Boston.

New York.
Washington.

Norfolk.

MARINE CORPS.

Marine corps.

marines, &c.

For pay of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, Pay of officers, privates and servants, serving on shore, subsistence of officers, and pay for undrawn clothing, two hundred and nine thousand and twelve dollars: Provided, That the President of the United States may substitute marines for landsmen in the navy, as far as he may deem it expedient to promote the efficiency of the service.

ma.

Proviso, stituted for lands men in the navy.

rines may be sub

Certain officers

by the act

of

And that the officers of the Marine Corps, affected by the 4th of the Marine section of the act of Congress approved March 2, 1847, enti- Corps disbanded tled "An act for the increase of the Marine Corps of the United March 2d, 1847, States," shall be provided for in the same manner that the offi- restored. cers of the old army, who received appointments in the additional regiments raised for the war with Mexico, were under the 4th section of the act of Congress, approved July nineteen, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, entitled "An act supplementary to an act entitled 'An act providing for the prosecution of the existing war between the United States and the Republic of Mexico, and for other purposes.'

For provisions for marines serving on shore, thirty thousand six hundred and seventy-four dollars and eighty cents;

For clothing, forty-two thousand nine hundred and fortyeight dollars;

For fuel, thirteen thousand one hundred and fifty-eight dollars; For military stores, repair of arms, pay of armorers, accoutrements, ordnance stores, flags, drums, fifes, and musical instruments, six thousand dollars;

Provisions.

Clothing.

Fuel, &c.

Military stores.

Transportation.

Repairs of barracks, &c.

Contingencies.

For transportation of officers and troops, and expenses of recruiting, eight thousand dollars;

For repairs of barracks, and rent of temporary barracks and offices for commanding officers, six thousand dollars;

For contingencies, namely: freight, ferriage, 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, portage, pursuit of deserters, candles, oil, straw, furniture, bed sacks, spades, axes, shovels, picks, carpenter's tools, keep of a horse for the messenger, pay of matron, washerwoman, and porter at the hospital head-quarters, eighteen thousand one hundred and eighty-four dollars; Deficiency in To supply a deficiency in the appropriation of the third of March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, for two buoy-boats, one on the eastern end of Tuckernuck shoal, and the other on the end of Great or Sandy Rip shoal, two hundred and five dollars and fifty-three cents;

appropriation for buoy boats.

Meteorological observations.

Secretary of the

Navy to detail

routes, &c.

For meteorological observations, to be conducted under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, two thousand dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of three vessels in the Navy be directed to detail three suitable vessels of the navy testing new in testing new routes and perfecting the discoveries made by Lieutenant Maury in the course of his investigations of the winds and currents of the ocean; and to cause the vessels of the navy to co-operate in procuring materials for such investigations, in so far as said co-operation may not be incompatible with the public interests: Provided, That the same can be accomplished without any additional expense.

Proviso.

Secretary of War to transfer

Navy Dept.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of certain vessels to War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, in conformity with the recommendation contained in his annual report, to transfer to the Navy Department such vessels now belonging to the War Department as, in his judgment, will promote the public interests.

Pay of purser

at naval station in California.

Retention from pay of musicians and privates extended.

Pay of Engineers in the navy established.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That in lieu of the pay allowed by law, a purser when, by order of the Secretary of the Navy attached to, and doing duty at, the Naval Station of California, shall receive the same pay as if attached to a frigate in commission for sea-service: Provided, That not more than one purser shall, at the same time, be attached to the said station on general or special duty.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the retention of one dollar per month from the pay of the musicians and privates of the Marine Corps, directed by the act of second March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, be extended, as in the case of the musicians and privates of the army, to the whole term of their enlistment.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the engineers the Navy shall hereafter receive the following pay, viz: Chief Engineer on duty, first five years, fifteen hundred dollars;

Chief Engineers on duty, after five years, two thousand dollars;

Chief Engineers on leave, first five years, twelve hundred dollars;

Chief Engineers on leave, after five years, fourteen hundred dollars;

First Assistant Engineers, on duty, one thousand dollars; First Assistant Engineers, on leave, eight hundred and fifty dollars;

tract with E. K.

Second Assistant Engineers, on duty, eight hundred dollars; Second Assistant Engineers, on leave, six hundred dollars; Third Assistant Engineers, on duty, six hundred dollars; Third Assistant Engineers, on leave, four hundred dollars. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of commencement the Navy be, and hereby is, authorized so to modify the contract of the mail con entered into by him with E. K. Collins and his associates for Collins postponthe transportation of the mail between New York and Liver- 1850. pool, under direction of the act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, as to postpone the commencement of the mail service stipulated to be performed until the first day of June, eighteen hundred and fifty, without, in other respects, impairing the condition or obligations of the said

contract.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the passage of this act, all prize money, arising from captures made by the vessels of the navy of the United States, received by the marshal who shall make sale of such prizes, shall, within sixty days after such sale, deposit the net proceeds, after paying all charges, as now provided by law, into the treasury of the United States; and all money now in the hands of prize agents shall also be deposited in the treasury, to be distributed as now provided by law; such part thereof as may belong to the officers and crews of the vessels of the navy shall be paid to them under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, and the law authorizing the appointment of prize agents is hereby repealed.. Approved March 3, 1849.

CHAP. 104.—AN ACT making appropriations for the service of the Post Of fice Department for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty.

[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 of money be, and they are hereby, appropriated for the service of the Post Office Department for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, out of any moneys in the treasury arising from the revenues of the said department, in conformity to the act of the second of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, namely:

ed to 1st June,

For transportation of the mails within the United States, two Transportation millions five hundred and forty thousand dollars;

of mails.

Transportation of mails by steam

For transportation of the mails in four steamships, at one hundred thousand dollars each per year, from New York to ships.