388 Contingent expenses. Maintenance of yards and docks. Contingent ex penses. Naval Asylum. Surgeons' necessaries. Repairs. ratus for receiving ships; and for the payment of labor in equipping For contingent expenses of the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, 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 superintendent, 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 laundress, one hundred and ninety-two dollars; three laundresses, at one 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, five hundred dollars; cemetery and burial expenses, headstones and digging graves, three hundred and fifty dollars; repairs and preservation, one thousand dol lars; and for support 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. For support of the medical department, for surgeons' necessaries for vessels in commission, navy-yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and Coast Survey, thirty thousand dollars. For necessary repairs of naval laboratory, hospitals, and appendages, including roads, wharves, out-houses, steam-heating apparatus, sidewalks, fences, gardens and farms, cemeteries, furniture, head-marks for graves, twenty thousand dollars. For the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals and naval Civil establishlaboratory: For the maintenance of the several naval hospitals and ment at naval hospitals. naval laboratory, twenty-five thousand dollars. 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 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. For purchase of water for ships, twenty-five thousand dollars. For contingent expenses: For freight and charges on shipments; candles and fuel; books and blanks; stationery; telegrams; advertising; postage, telegrams, and express charges; and yeoman's stores, incidental labor not chargeable to other appropriations, thirty-five thou sand 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 postage, one million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. BUREAU OF STEAM ENGINEERING. Repairs, etc., of For repairs and preservation of boilers and machinery on naval vessels: For fitting, repairs, and preservation of machinery and tools in machinery. 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 fortytwo thousand dollars. NAVAL ACADEMY. For pay of professors and others: For two professors, (heads of de partments,) namely, one of drawing and one of modern languages, at two thousand five hundred dollars each, five thousand dollars; three professors, namely, one of physics, (assistant,) one of chemistry, and one of Spanish, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; seven assistant professors, namely, four of French, two of English studies, history, and laws, and one 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 mess-man, two hundred and eighty-eight dollars; one cook, three hundred and twentyfive dollars and fifty cents; one messenger to superintendent, six hundred dollars; one armorer, five hundred and twenty-nine dollars and fifty cents; ore 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 390 Sea-pay of midshipmen. Pay of watchmen and others. Pay of mechanics and others. Pay of employés cents; one seaman in the department of seamanship, one seaman in the That cadet-midshipmen, during such period of their course of instruc- 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; foreman of the gas and steamheating works, at five dollars per diem, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five dollars; ten attendants at gas and steam heating 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 four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents; and for one steam-pipe fitter, five hundred and forty-seven dollars. Pay of mechanics and others: One mechanic at workshop, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem, eight hundred and twenty-one dollars and twenty-five cents; one master-laborer, to keep public grounds in order, at two dollars and twenty eight cents per diem, eight hundred and thirty-two dollars and twenty cents; fourteen laborers to assist in same, three at two dollars per diem each, and eleven at one dollar and seventy-five cents per diem each, nine thousand two hundred and sixteen dollars and twenty-five cents; one laborer to superintend quarters of cadet-midshipmen and public grounds, at two dollars and twentyeight cents per diem, eight hundred and thirty-two dollars and twenty cents; five attendants at recitation-rooms, library, chapel, and offices, and store, at twenty dollars per month each, one thousand two hundred dollars; twenty servants to keep in order and attend to quarters of cadetmidshipmen and public buildings, at twenty dollars per month each, four thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, seventeen thousand seven hundred and one dollars and ninety cents. For pay of employees in the department of steam-enginery, for ma in department of chinists, boiler-makers, and others, eight thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars. steam-enginery. Repairs. Fuel, light. Contingent penses. ex Gas, miscellaneous items. For necessary repairs of public buildings, pavements, wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, for improvements and furniture and fixtures, twenty-one thousand dollars. For fuel, and for heating and lighting the academy and school-ships, eighteen thousand dollars. For contingent expenses, Naval Academy: For purchase of books for the library, two thousand dollars. For stationery, blank books, models, maps, and so forth, and for textbooks for use of instructors, two thousand dollars. For expenses of the board of visitors, two thousand six hundred dollars. For purchase of chemicals, apparatus, and instruments in the department of physics and chemistry, and for repairs of the same, two thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase of gas and steam machinery; steam-pipe and fixtures; rent of building for use of the academy; freight; cartage; water; music; musical and astronomical instruments; uniforms for the bandsmen; telegraphing; and for the current expenses and repairs of all kinds; and for incidental labor and expenses not applicable to any For stores in the department of steam-enginery, eight hundred dollars. MARINE CORPS. For pay of officers of the Marine Corps, and for pay of non-commissioned officers, musicians, privates, and others of the corps, and for transportation of officers traveling without troops, and for payments to discharged soldiers for clothing undrawn, six hundred and nineteen thousand eight hundred and twenty-five dollars. For provisions, eighty-eight thousand three hundred and thirty dollars. For clothing, forty thousand dollars. For military stores, namely: For pay of mechanics, repair of arms, purchase of accouterments, ordnance-stores, flags, drums, fifes, and other instruments, five thousand dollars. For transportation of troops and for expenses of recruiting, five thou sand dollars. For repairs of barracks, and rent of offices where there are no public buildings, five thousand dollars. For forage for public horses and horses belonging to field and staff officers five thousand dollars. For rent of quarters for officers where there are no public buildings, sixteen thousand dollars. Pay. Provisions. Clothing. Transportat i on of troops. Barracks and rent of offices. Forages. Hire of quarters. Contingent ex For contingencies, namely: Freight; ferriage; toll; cartage; wharfage; purchase and repair of boats; labor; burial of deceased marines; penses. stationery; telegraphing; apprehension of deserters; oil, candles, gas; repairs of gas and water fixtures; water-rent; barrack-furniture; furniture for officers' quarters; bed-sacks; wrapping paper; oil-cloth; crash; rope; twine; spades; shovels; axes; picks; carpenters' tools; repairs to fire-engines; purchase and repair of engine-hose; purchase of lumber for benches, mess-tables, bunks; purchase and repair of harness; purchase and repair of hand-carts and wheel-barrows; scavengering; purchase and repair of galleys, cooking-stoves, ranges, stoves where there are no grates; gravel for parade-grounds; repair of pumps; brushes; brooms; buckets; paving; and for other purposes, twenty thousand dollars. Approved, March 3, 1877. CHAP. 112.-An act making appropriations for fortifications and for other works of defense, and for the armament thereof, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1878, and for other purposes. March 3, 1877. Ante, p. 59. Appropriations. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the protection preservation and repair of fortifications and other works of defense, for and other works of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth eighteen hundred and seventy- defense. eight; the same to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War; also, the following for armament of fortifications, namely: For the armament of sea-coast fortifications, including heavy guns, and howitzers for flank defense, carriages, projectiles, fuses, powder, and implements, their trial and proof, and all necessary expenses incident thereto, one hundred thousand dollars; and for Gatling or other machine guns, twenty-five thousand dollars. For torpedoes for harbor defenses, and preservation of the same, and for torpedo experiments in their application to harbor and land defense, Fortifications Armament of sea-coast fortifica tions. Machine guns. Torpedoes for harbor defenses. 392 Proviso. FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. SESS. II. and for instruction of engineer battalion in their preparation and appli- Approved, March 3, 1877. March 3, 1877. emption by townsite. CHAP. 113.-An act respecting the limits of reservations for town-sites upon the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Quantity of land States of America in Congress assembled, That the existence or incorpoexcluded from pre-ration of any town upon the public lands of the United States shall not be held to exclude from pre-emption or homestead entry a greater quantity than twenty-five hundred and sixty acres of land, or the maximum area which may be entered as a town-site under existing laws, unless the entire tract claimed or incorporated as such town-site shall, including and in excess of the area above specified, be actually settled upon, inhabited, improved, and used for business and municipal purposes. Certain entries confirmed. SEC 2. That where entries have been heretofore allowed upon lands within town-sites afterward ascertained to have been embraced in the corporate limits of any town, but which entries are or shall be shown, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of the General Land-Office, to include only vacant unoccupied lands of the United States, not settled upon or used for municipal purposes, nor devoted to any public use of such town, said entries, if regular in all respects, are hereby confirmed and may be carried into patent: Provided, That this confirmation shall not operate to restrict R. S., 2389, p. 440. the entry of any town-site to a smaller area than the maximum quantity of land which, by reason of present population, it may be entitled to enter under section twenty-three hundred and eighty-nine of the Revised Statutes. Proviso. Where town-site SEC. 3. That whenever the corporate limits of any town upon the exceeds maximum public domain are shown or alleged to include lands in excess of the maximum area specified in section one of this act, the Commissioner of the General Land Office may require the authorities of such town, and it shall be lawful for them, to elect what portion of said lands, in compact form and embracing the actual site of the municipal occupation and improvement, shall be withheld from pre-emption and homestead entry; and thereafter the residue of such lands shall be open to disposal under the homestead and pre-emption laws. And upon default of said town authorities to make such selection within sixty days after notification by the Commissioner, he may direct testimony respecting the actual lo cation and extent of said improvements, to be taken by the register and receiver of the district in which such town may be situated; and, upon receipt of the same, he may determine and set off the proper site according to section one of this act, and declare the remaining lands open to settlement and entry under the homestead and pre-emption laws; and it shall be the duty of the secretary of each of the Territories of the United States to furnish the surveyor-general of the Territory for the use of the United States a copy duly certified of every act of the legis lature of the Territory incorporating any city or town, the same to be forwarded by such secretary to the surveyor-general within one month from date of its approval. Copies of acts incorporating towns; how furnished. Where town site is less than maximum. SEC. 4. It shall be lawful for any town which has made, or may hereafter make entry of less than the maximum quantity of land named in section twenty-three hundred and eighty-nine of the Revised Statutes to make such additional entry, or entries, of contiguous tracts, which may be occupied for town purposes as when added to the entry or entries therefore made will not exceed twenty-five hundred and sixty acres: Pro |