Enlistments lim

ited.

R. S., 1417, p. 249,

amended.

Number of en

listed men, etc., in Navy.

Contingent ex

penses.

Civil establish

and as to rendez

listed men is reduced to seven thousand five hundred: Provided, That section fourteen hundred and seventeen of the Revised Statutes shall be amended so as to read as follows:

"SEC. 1417. The number of persons who may at one time be enlisted into the Navy of the United States, including seamen, ordinary seamen, landsmen, mechanics, firemen, coal-beavers, apprentices, and boys, shall not exceed seven thousand and five hundred."

For contingent expenses of the Navy Department, namely: 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 traveling-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; copying; mail and express wagons and livery and express fees and freight; all books for the use of the Navy; experts' fees, and 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, and information from abroad; and all other emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, eighty thousand dollars.

For the civil establishments of the several navy-yards, eighty five ment at navy thousand dollars. And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed yards. Naval board to to organize a naval board of five commissioned officers in the Navy as determine what soon as practicable, three of whom shall be the senior officers on the navy-yards may be active list of the Navy whose duty it shall be to examine fully and dispensed with, determine whether in their opinion any of the navy-yards can be disvous at Tybee pensed with and abandoned, and, if so, to report the best manner of Island, etc. making disposition of the same; and, further, to inquire as to the propriety of establishing a naval rendezvous at Tybee Island or at Cockspur Island in the State of Georgia, or at any other point on the coast of Georgia or South Carolina, and whether any Government property at said islands can be made available and are suitable for such purpose; and said board shall, through the Secretary of the Navy, report to Congress at the commencement of the next session the result of their inquiry; and the sum of two thousand dollars is hereby appropriated to meet the expenses incurred by said board.

Report.

BUREAU OF NAVIGATION.

Xavigation and For foreign and local pilotage and towage of ships of war, forty-five navigation sup- thousand dollars. plies.

For services and materials in correcting compasses on board ship, and for adjusting and testing compasses on shore, three thousand dollars. For nautical and astronomical instruments, nautical books, maps, charts, and sailing-directions, and repairs of nautical instruments for ships of war, nine thousand dollars.

For books for libraries for ships of war, three thousand dollars. For navy-siguals and apparatus, namely, signal-lights, lanterns, rockets, including running-lights, drawings, and engravings for signal-books, six thousand dollars.

For compass-fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ships' compasses, three thousand dollars.

For logs and other appliances for measuring the ship's way, leads and other appliances for sounding, three thousand dollars.

For 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-room, for decks and quartermasters' use, five thou sand dollars.

For bunting and other materials for flags, and making and repairing flags of all kinds, five thousand dollars.

For oil for ships of war other than that used for the engineer depart ment, candles when used as a substitute for oil in binnacles, runninglights, for chimneys and wick and soap used in navigation department, sixteen thousand dollars.

For stationery for commanders and navigators of vessels of war and for use of courts-martial, two thousand dollars.

For musical instruments and music for vessels of war one thousand dollars.

Contingent ex

For steering-signals and indicators, and for speaking-tubes and gongs, for signal-communication on board vessels of war, two thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of the Bureau of Navigation, namely: For freight and transportation of navigation materials; postage and tele- penses. graphing; advertising for proposals; packing-boxes and materials, and all other contingent expenses, three thousand dollars. For drawing, engraving, and printing and photolithographing charts, Hydrograghic ofcorrecting old plates, preparing and publishing sailing-directions, and fice. other hydrographic information, and for making charts, including those of the Pacific coast, fifty thousand dollars.

For fuel, lights, and office-furniture; care of building and other labor; purchase of books for library, drawing materials, and other stationery; postage, freight, and other contingent expenses, five thousand dollars. For rent and repair of building, two thousand eight hundred dollars. For expenses of Naval Observatory, namely:

Naval Observa

For pay of three assistants, at one thousand five hundred dollars tory. each, four thousand five hundred dollars; and one clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars.

For wages of one instrument-maker, one messenger, three watchmen, and one porter; for keeping grounds in order and repairs to buildings; for fuel, light, and office furniture; and for stationery, purchase of books for library, chemicals for batteries, and freight, and all other contingent expenses, ten thousand dollars.

For reducing and transcribing astronomical observations upon sheets for publication, two thousand two hundred dollars.

For continuing theory and tables of the moon's motion, three thousand dollars.

Nautical Alma

For expenses of Nautical Almanac. For pay of computers and clerk for compiling and preparing for publication the American Ephemeris nae. and Nautical Almanac, fifteen thousand dollars.

For rent, fuel, labor, stationery, boxes, expresses and miscellaneous items, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For continuance of work on new planets discovered by American astronomers, three thousand dollars.

BUREAU OF ORDNANCE.

Ordnance and

For fuel, tools, and materials of all kinds necessary in carrying on the mechanical branches of the Ordnance Department at the several navy- ordnance stores. yards, magazines, and stations, fifty thousand dollars.

For labor at all the navy-yards, magazines, and stations in fitting ships for sea and in preserving orduance material, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

For necessary repairs to ordnance buildings, magazines, gun-parks. boats, lighters, wharves, machinery, and other necessaries of the like character, ten thousand dollars.

For miscellaneous items, namely, for freight to foreign and home 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, three thousand dollars.

Maintenance of yards and docks.

Contingent expeuses.

For the torpedo corps: For the purchase and manufacture and preservation of gunpowder, nitro-glycerine, and gun-cotton, six thousand dollars.

For purchase and manufacture of electrical apparatus, galvanic batteries, and insulated wire, five thousand dollars.

For purchase of copper, iron, wood, and other materials necessary for the manufacture of torpedoes, and for work on the same, fifteen thou sand dollars.

For labor including chemist, pyrotechnist, electrician, one foreman machinist, and one writer, ten thousand dollars.

For repairs to buildings and wharves, and material and labor for sea wall, two thousand dollars.

For freight and express charges, five hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses of the ordnance service of the Navy, one thousand dollars.

BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING.

For equipment of vessels: For coal for steamers' and ships' use, including expenses of transportation; storage, labor, hemp, wire, and other materials for the manufacture of rope; hides, cordage, canvas, leather; iron for manufacture of cables, anchors, and galleys; condensing and boat-detaching apparatus; cables, anchors, furniture, hose, bake-ovens, and cooking stoves; life rafts for monitors; heating apparatus for receiving-ships; and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels, and manufacture of articles in the several navy-yards nine hundred and seventy thousand dollars.

For contingent expenses of the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, namely: For expenses of recruiting and fitting up receiving-ships, freight, and transportation of stores, transportation of enlisted men, printing, advertising, telegraphing, books and models, stationery, express charges, internal alterations, fixtures, and appliances in equip ment buildings at navy-yards, foreign postage, car-tickets, ferriage, and ice, apprehension of deserters, assistance to vessels in distress, continuous-service certificates and good conduct badges for enlisted men, including purchase of school books for training-ships, seventy-five thou sand dollars.

BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS.

For general maintenance of yards and docks, namely: For freight and transportation of materials and stores; printing, stationery, and advertising, including the commandants' office; books, models, maps, and drawing; purchase and repair of fire engines, machinery, and patentrights to use the same; repairs on steam engines, and attendance on the same; purchase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and driving teams, carts, and timber-wheels for use in the navy-yards, and tools and repairs of the same; postage 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; incidental labor at navyyards; water tax, and for toll and ferriages; pay of the watchmen in the navy-yards; and for awnings and packing boxes, four hundred and forty thousand dollars

For contingent expenses that may arise at navy-yards and stations, twenty thousand dollars.

At the Naval Asylum, Philadelphia Pennsylvania; For superintend Naval Asylum. ent, six hundred dollars; steward four hundred and eighty dollars; matron, three hundred and sixty dollars; cook, two hundred and forty dollars; assistant cook, one hundred and sixty-eight dollars; chief lauudress, one hundred and ninety two dollars; three laundresses, at oue hundred and sixty eight dollars each; eight scrubbers and waiters, at

one hundred and sixty eight dollars each; six laborers, at two hundred and forty dollars each; stable keeper and driver, three hundred and sixty dollars; master-at-arms, four hundred and eighty dollars; corporal, three hundred dollars; barber, three hundred and sixty dollars; carpenter eight hundred and forty-five dollars; furnaces, grates, and ranges, three hundred dollars; water-rent and gas, one thousand eight hundred dollars; increase of library, and car-tickets, two hundred and fifty dollars; furniture, and repairing of the same, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; cemetery and burial expenses, two hundred dollars; repairs and preservation one thousand dollars; and for sup port of beneficiaries, forty thousand dollars; in all, fifty two thousand nine hundred and seventy three dollars; which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund.

BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

To be paid out of income from naval pension fund.

Surgeons' neces

For support of the medical department, for surgeons' necessaries for vessels, in commission, navy-yards, naval stations Marine Corps, and saries. Coast Survey, thirty thousand dollars.

Repairs. Post, p. 113.

For necessary repairs of naval laboratory, hospitals, and appendages, including roads wharves, out-houses, steam-heating apparatus, sidewalks, fences, gardens and farms, cemeteries furniture bead marks for graves, ten thousand dollars; And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed to report to the next session of this Congress the best method of making sale of the naval hospitals at Annapolis and Washington Washington. and the same shall be closed during the coming year.

Report as to sale of naval hospitals at Annapolis and

Civil establish

For the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals and naval laboratory; For the maintenance of the several naval hospitals and ment at naval hosnaval laboratory, twenty five thousand dollars.

pitals.

Contingent ex

For contingent expenses of the Bureau: For freight on medical stores, transportation of insane patients to the Government hospital, advertis- penses. ing, telegraphing, purchase of books, expenses attending the naval medical board of examiners, purchase and repair of wagons, harness, purchase and feed of horses, cows, trees, garden-tools, and seeds, fifteen thousand dollars.

BUREAU OF PROVISIONS AND CLOTHING.

For provisions for the officers, seamen, and marines nine hundred and thirty thousand dollars.

Provisions.

Purchase of

Contingent ex

penses.

For purchase of water for ships, twenty five thousand dollars. For contingent expenses: For freight and transportation to foreign water. and home stations; candles, and fuel, interior alterations and fixtures in inspection buildings; tools, and repairing same, at eight inspections; special watchmen in eight inspections; books and blanks; stationery; telegrams; advertising; postage and express charges; tolls, ferriages, and car-tickets; ice, and incidental labor not chargeable to other appropriations thirty-five thousand dollars.

BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR.

Preservation of

For preservation of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; labor in navy-yards and on foreign vessels, purchase of stations; preservation of materials; purchase of tools; wear, tear, and materials, etc. repair of vessels afloat, and for general care and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; incidental expenses, namely, advertising and foreign postages, one million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and that the sum of two hundred thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary shall be used in employment of Putting live-oak labor to put the live oak timber in the different yards in wet docks. timber in wet And no increase of the force at any navy-yard shall be made at any time docks. within sixty days next before any election to take place for President of at navy-yards be the United States, or member of Congress, except when the Secretary fore elections.

Increase of force

Repairs, cte., of machinery.

Pay of professors, assistants, teachers, etc.

Pay of watchmen and others.

Pay of mechanics and others.

of the Navy shall certify that the needs of the public service make such increase necessary at that time which certificate shall be immediately published when made.

BUREAU OF STEAM ENGINEERING.

For repairs and preservation of boilers and machinery on naval ves sels: For fitting, repairs, and preservation of machinery and tools in the several navy yards; for labor in navy-yards and stations not included above, and incidental expenses; and for purchase and preservation of oils, coals, metals and all materials and stores, nine hundred and forty-two thousand five hundred dollars.

NAVAL ACADEMY.

For pay of professors and others: For two professors, (heads of departments,) viz. one of drawing and one of English studies, history and law, at two thousand five hundred dollars each, five thousand dollars; three professors, namely, one of mathematics, (assistant,) one of chemistry, and one of French, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; ten assistant professors, namely, four of French, one of Spanish, two of English studies, history, and laws, one of mathematics, and two of drawing, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; sword-master, at one thousand five hundred dollars, and two assistants, at one thousand dollars each; boxing master and gymnast, at one thousand two hundred dollars; and assistant librarian, at one thousand four hundred dollars; three clerks to superintendent, at one thousand two hundred dollars, one thousand dollars, and eight hundred dollars respectively; one clerk to commandant of cadets, one thousand dollars; one clerk to paymaster; one thousand dollars; one apothecary, seven hundred and fifty dollars, one commissary, two hundred and eighty eight dollars; one cook, three hundred and twenty-five dollars and fifty cents; one messenger to superintendent, six hundred dollars; one armorer, five hundred and twenty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one gunner's mate, four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents, and one quarter-gunner, four hundred and nine dollars and fifty cents; one cockswain, four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents; three seamen in the department of seamanship, at three hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty cents each; one band-master, five hundred and twenty-eight dollars; eighteen first class musicians, at three hundred and forty-eight dollars each; seven second class musicians, at three hundred dollars each; two drummers and one fifer, (first class,) at three hundred and forty-eight dollars each; in all, fifty-five thousand five hundred and twenty-six dollars. Pay of watchmen and others: Captain of the watch, at two dollars and fifty-cents per day, nine hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents; four watchmen, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per day, three thousand two hundred and eighty five dollars; forman of the gas and steam-heating works, at five dollars per diem, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five dollars; ten attendants at gas and steam-beating works of academy, one at three dollars and fifty cents, one at three dollars, and eight at two dollars and fifty cents per day each, nine thousand six hundred and seventy-two dollars; three joiners, two painters, and two masons, at three dollars and fifty cents per day each; eight thousand nine hundred and forty-two dollars and fifty cents; one tinner, one gas-fitter, and one blacksmith, at three dollars and fifty cents per day each, three thousand eight hundred and thirty two dollars and fifty cents; in all, twenty-eight thousand eight hundred and thirty four dollars and fifty cents.

Pay of mechanics and others: One mechanic at workshop, at two dol lars and twenty-five cents per diem, eight hundred and twenty-one dol lars and twenty-five cents; one master laborer, to keep public grounds in order, at two dollars and twenty-eight cents per diem, eight hundred