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 278 FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 48. 1869. B}¤¢¢}¤ of For text·books, stationery, instruments, and furniture used in instructmVlgam°¤' ing naval apprentices, one thousand five hundred dollars. For services and materials for correcting compasses on board of vessels, and for testing compasses on shore, three thousand dollars. For nautical and astronomical instruments, for nautical books, maps, and charts, and sailing directions, and for repairs of nautical instruments for vessels of war, ten thousand dollars. For books for libraries of ships of war, three thousand dollars. For navy signals and apparatus, other than signal flags, namely, signal lanterns, lights, rockets, and apparatus of all kinds for signal purposes, for drawings and engravings for signal books, six thousand dollars. For compass fittings, including binnacles, pedestals, and other appurtenances of ships’ compasses, to be made in the yards, three thousand dollars. For appliances for measuring ships’ way and sounding, as logs, log lines, log reels, log paper, and sand glasses, for leads, lead reels, lead lines, armings for leads, and other sounding apparatus, and for running lights, (side and head lanterns prescribed by law,) three thousand dollars. For lamps and lanterns of all kinds for binnacles, standard compasses, and tops, for lamps for cabins, ward-room, and other quarters for officers, and for decks, holds, and store-rooms, and for lamp-wicks, chimneys, shades, and other appendages, six thousand dollars. For bunting and other material for flags, and for making and repairing flags of all kinds for the navy, three thousand dollars. For oil for vessels of war, candles, chimneys, wick, and soap, other than for engineer department, forty thousand dollars. For commanders and navigators’ stationery for vessels of war, five thousand dollars. For musical instruments and music of flag-ships for vessels of war, one thousand dollars. For freight and transportation of navigation materials, instruments, books, and stores, postage on public letters, telegraphing on public business, advertising for proposals, packing-boxes and material, blank-books, forms, and stationery at navigation offices, eight thousand dollars. For preparing and publishing maps, charts, nautical books, and other hydrographic information, twenty thousand dollars. Naval acado~ For expenses of naval academy, viz: my" For pay of professors and others, sixty thousand dollars. For pay of watchmen and others, forty-five thousand two hundred and ninety-four dollars. For contingent expenses, sixty-one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. For necessary repairs of quarters, eight thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. For support of department of steam enginery, and for pay of mechanics and laborers, five thousand dollars. W§;;f’·l °b“°"` For expenses of naval observatory, viz : For wages of one instrument-maker, one messenger, one porter, and three watohmen; for keeping grounds in order and repairs to buildings and enclosures; for fuel, light, and ofl‘ice—furniture, and for stationery, chemicals for batteries, postage, and freight, and contingent, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. For salary of clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars. For salary of three aids, four thousand dollars. mgxtxlczilmw For preparing for publication the American nautical almanac, namely: ,,,,Cf for pay of computers and clerk, twenty thousand five hundred dollars. Eclipse of me For observation of the eclipse of the sun in August, under the direction ““"· of the superintendent of the nautical almanac, Eve thousand dollars, 01* so much thereof as may be necessary. For office expenses, one thousand dollars.