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 104 THIRTY—-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 109. 1852. clothing, two hundred and seventeen thousand nine hundred and eighty- three dollars and forty-four cents. _ _ For provisions for marines serving on shore, nineteen thousand nine hundred and eighty-four dollars and seventy-five cents. I For clothing, forty-nine thousand four hundred and sixteen dollars. For fuel, three thousand dollars. For military stores, repair of arms, pay of arznorers, accoutrements, ordnance stores, Bags, drums, lifes, and musical instruments, eight thousand dollars. _ _ For transportation of officers and troops, and expenses of recruiting, nine thousand dollars. For repairs of barracks and rent of temporary barracks and offices where there are no public buildings for that purpose, six thousand dollars. For contingencies, viz.: Freight, tonnage, 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, postage, apprehension of deserters, oil, candles, forage, straw, furniture, bed-sacks, spades, axes, picks, shovels, carpenters tools, keep of a horse for the messenger, pay of matron, washerwoman, and porter at the hospital head-quarters, twenty-Gve thousand dollars. For purchase and freight to San Francisco of patent black marine paint for painting the interior of the sections and end-floats of the California dry dock, nfteen hundred dollars. Coast survey. For a deficiency in the act making appropriations for the naval service 18*% °h* 10* for the year ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty, approved third March, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, for paying the unsatisfied demands upon the fund for continuing the survey of the coast on the Gulf of Mexico from Apalachicola Bay to the Mississippi, two thousand one hundred and ten dollars and sixty-two cents, to be taken out of the balance of the fund appropriated for that purpose by the act of third 1849, ch. 108. March, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, and which has been carried to the credit of the surplus fund. _ T¤¤¤f9l¤ of Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all acts or parts of acts au- appropriated for a particular branch of expenditure in that department, to be applied to another branch of expenditure in the same department, be, and are hereby, so tar as relates to the Navy Department, repealed. Bellrgwggugf For the building or purchase of suitable vessels and for prosecuting a North K PMN; survey and reconnoissance for naval and commercial purposes, of such me ms omni parts of Behring Straits, of the North Pacific Ocean, and of the China “°°·*- seas, as are frequented by American whalcships and by trading vessels in their routes between the United States and China, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, the sum of one hundred and twenty-five thou- Provlsc. sand dollars: Provided, That the expense of purchasing or building and of equipping, with the exception of the armament and of fitting out these vessels, shall not exceed the sum hereby appropriated. Navy—yard and Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Navy be gmzisctl Sm and he is hereby authorized and directed to select a site for a navy-yard ` and naval depot in the bay of San Francisco, in California, or neighboring waters, either by purchase or by reservation of public lands, as the case may be, and shall cause the same to be surveyed and a plat thereof to be recorded in proper form; and when such selection shall have been made, the said Secretary shall make such arrangements as may be necessary to establish a navy··yard and naval depot upon the most approved and economical plan on the site so obtained, and cause to be erected a foundry, machine-shop, blacksmitlfs shop, boiler shop, engine house, pattern shop,
 * £,p€§§”;:°;§,"§°r_ thorizing the President of the United States, or the secretary of the probidden. per department under his direction, to transfer any portion of the moneys