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 THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 102. 1853. 221 For surgeons’ necessaries and appliances for the sick and hurt of the Medical <i¤· navy, including the Marine Corps, thirty-seven thousand three hundred Pmm°m‘ dollars; For repair of vessels in ordinary, and for wear and tear of vessels in Repairecommission, including fuel and purchase of hemp, one million nine hun- Hemp. dred and forty-one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars; For ordnance and ordnance stores and small arms, including incidental Ordnance. expenses, two hundred thousand dollars; For preparing for publication the American Nautical Almanac, nine- Almanac. teen thousand four hundred dollars; For the purchase of nautical instruments required for the use of the Nautical innavy, for repairs of the same, and also of astronomical instruments, eleven smmeum thousand dollars ; For the purchase of nautical books, maps, and charts, and for backing Nautica] books, and binding the same, twelve thousand five hundred dollars ; &¢· For printing and publishing sailing directions, hydrographical surveys, Printing, sto. and astronomical observations, five thousand five hundred dollars ; For models, drawing and copying, postage, stationery, freight, and Contingencies transportation ; for pay of lithographer and for working lithographic g;,H{,%%€“i§& press, including chemicals ; for keeping grounds and buildings in order; observatory, for fuel and lights ; for repairs of buildings, and for all other contingent expenses of the Hydrographical Office and United States Observatory, seven thousand two hundred and forty dollars ; For continuing the publication of the wind and current charts, and for Wind and ourdefraying all the expenses connected therewith, ten thousand dollars; mnt °h““S· For pipes for carrying gas to, and fixtures for lighting with it, the Na- Lighting Ob tional Observatory, i.\V€lll._Y—flV€ hundred dollars ; “"‘“°’5’· For the wages of persons employed at the Observatory and Hydrogra- Wagesat lgy- phical Office, viz. one lithographer, one instrument maker, two watchmen, g;‘;§;1?g€g§;1vf and one porter, three thousand one hundred and sixty dollars ; tory_ " For contingent expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, Contingenciesviz.: freight and transportation, printing and stationery, advertising in newspapers, books, maps, models, and drawings, purchase and repair of iire·engines and machinery, repairs of and attending to steam-engines in navy yards, purchase and maintenance of horses and oxen, and driving teams, carts, timber wheels, and the purchase and repair of workmen’s tools, postage of public letters, furniture for Government-houses, fuel, oil, and candles for navy yards and shore stations, pay of watchmen and incidental labor not chargeable to any other appropriation, labor attending the delivery of stores on civil stations, wharfage, dockage, and rent, travelling expenses of officers and others under orders, funeral expenses, store and office rent, stationery, fuel, commissions and pay of clerks to navy agents and storekeepers, flags, awnings, and packing boxes, premiums and other expenses of recruiting, apprehending deserters,_per diem pay to persons attending courts—martial and courts of inquiry, and other services authorized by law, pay to judges advocate, pilotage and towage of vessels and assistance to vessels in distress, bills of health and quarantine expenses of the United States navy in foreign ports, five hundred and twenty-seven thousand eight hundred and forty dollars; For improvement and repair of buildings and grounds and support of Navel Ac¤<l¤my· the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, forty-six thousand and fifty-nine dollars; For purchase of land, extending walls, making new roads and wharf, building and furnishing hospital, and changing the fronts of houses, atthe Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, thirty-eight thousand dollars; For meteorological observations, to be conducted under the directions Meteorological of the Secretary of the Navy, two thousand dollars. And the Secretary °bs°“'*m°“"· of the Navy is hereby authorized to settle all existing controversies as to Nav,] Hosp,. the title to any portions of salt marsh, near the lands of the Naval Hos— ml at Chelsea.