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 220 THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess., II. Ch. 102. 1853. Mum], .. 0 riations or the Naval Service or the ' CHAP. Ch. th? zTl»$?et?h_;c'1’.lhri?l>:cpUmo¢sand`QgM hundred and _;’i_ft;]?>m~, year mdmg Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the `following sums be and they are hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four: _ Pay. For pay of commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, includ. ing the Engineer Corps of the Navy, two million eight hundred and _ Salaries of as- eighty thousand one hundred and forty-eight dollars: Provided, That the °*”**¤° d¤j'°’*L¤°; salary of the assistant observer or astronomer at the National Obseyv. grlghgfu °8{,,;_ atory shall be two thousand dollars, and the salary of the principal V¤¤>¤Y· clerk at said observatory shall be twelve hundred dollars. Pay_ot' parsers And the pay of a purser, when attached to and doing duty at the naval l“Pm};;”$;tk_ station of California, shall be four thousand dollars per annum, and he shall be allowed a clerk ata compensation not exceeding two thousand Extra. pay of dollars per annum. And the proper accounting officers of the Treasury N"';, °P °°°“* be and they are hereby authorized and directed to allow and pay, out of of exico and . . . cmcm any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the officers, petty officers, and seamen of the United States Navy, to the officers, noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates of the Marine Corps, and to the officers and men of the Revenue Service who served in the Pacific Ocean, on the coast of California, and Mexico, during the late war with Mexico, and since the conclusion of the war up to the twenty-eighth of 185% <>h· 78- September, eighteen hundred and fifty, the same additional compensation as has been by law directed to be paid to the officers and soldiers of the army who served in California; and that this provision, allowing extra pay, as well as that contained in the navy appropriation act of August 1852, cb. 109. thirtydirst, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, shall extend to and include all naval storekeepers who were stationed on the Pacific coast; and the additional compensation authorized by the foregoing provision, and by 185a,ch.109. the navy appropriation act of eighteen hundred and fifty-two, shall be paid to the legal representatives of all deceased persons who would have been entitled to receive the same if living. Wm. L. Flem- And there shall be allowed to Lieutenauts William Lewis Flemdou ‘g,€,::d L“·"d“°' and Lardner Gibbon, officers of the United States Navy, who were en- ` gaged upon the exploration of the Amazon, the same pay as has been allowed to the superintendent of the naval astronomical expedition in Chili, by the act making appropriations for the Naval Service, approved 1851, ch. 84. March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, during the period of their service as aforesaid, which period shall be reckoned from the date on which each officer left the United States until the final return of the exploring party. Psy at navy For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil estay°‘°d°‘ blislunents at the several navy yards and stations, one hundred and eight uglerlm at cer- thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. And the first and second ”"·l' Y“"d“* clerks to the commandants of the principal navy yards, viz. Boston, New York, Washington, Norfolk, and Pensacola, shall receive the same pay that the two lowest classes of clerks in the Bureaus of the Navy Depart- 'ment now received respectively; and each “ clerk of the yard " in said navy yards, shall receive the same compensation as is herein provided for the nrst clerks to commandants ; Y*'°'i*i°¤¤· For provisions for commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, including engineers and marines attached to vessels for sea service, six _ hundred and eighty-six thousand two hundred dollars ; O,. Egggghm For the completion of a scientinc investigation and experiments upon my,m,,,,,,,_ ry the character of alimentary substances, used as subsistence in the navy, and means to prevent their deterioration, five thousand dollars, to be ex- . pended under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy;