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 68 FORTYFOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 159. 1876. T•>1‘r<>d° °*¤1>¤- For the torpedo corps: For the purchase and man ufactn_re and preservation of gunpowder, nitro-glycerine, and gun-cotton, six thousand dollars. ` For purchase and manufacture of electrical apparatus, galvanic bat- ` teries, and insulated wire, five thousand dollars. _ For purchase of copper, iron, wood, and other materials necessary for the manufacture of torpedoes, and for work on the same, nfteen thousand dollars. For labor including chemist, pyrotechnist, electrician, one foreman _ machinist, and one writer, ten thousand dollars. For repairs to buildings and wharves, and material and·1abor for seawall, two thousand dollars. _ For freight and express charges, five hundred dollars. g(,,,,;,,g,,,, GX- For cgnéiplgent expenses of the ordnance service of the Navy, one penses. lJh0l1S3.ll 0 BIS. · ` BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING. ’ Equipm out of For equipment of vessels: For coal for steamers’ and ships’_ use, in- ,.,,S,,,,],,_ cluding expenses of transportation ; storage, labor, hemp, wire, and other materials for the manufacture of rope; hides, cordage, canvas, leather; iron for manufacture of cables, anchors, and galleys; condensing and boat-detaching apparatus; cables, anchors, furniture, hose, bake-ovens, and cooking-stoves ; life rafts for monitors; heating apparatus for receiving-ships; and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels, and manufacture of articles in the several navy-yards nine hundred and seventy thousand dollars. ‘ Coming0D, Bx_ For contingent expenses of the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, mmm_ namely: For expenses of recruiting and fitting up receiving-ships, freight, and transportation of stores, transportation of enlisted men, printing, advertising, telegraphing, books and models, stationery, express charges, internal alterations, iixtures, and appliances in equipment buildings at navy-yards, foreign postage, car-tickets, ferriage, and ice, apprehension of deserters, assistance to vessels in distress, continuous-serviee certificates and good conduct badges for enlisted men, incléidgng purchase of school books for training-ships, seventynve thousan t dollars. · BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS. Maintenance of For general-maintenance·of yards and docks, namely: For freight and y,,,.,;, 8,,,; docks_ transportatmn of matemals and stores; printing, stationery, and advertismg, including the commandants’ office; books, models, maps, and drawing; purchase and repair of nre 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 telegraxns; 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; nre-engines and apparatus; incidental labor at navy- yards; water tax, and for toll and ferriages; pay of the watchmen in ghletnaiy-yard;;] and for awnings and packing-boxes, four hundred and o y thousand dollars · Oomngmt 6X_ tW1;`Iq;‘yc<€}pt)i;gle]u1térxlpglnses that may arise at navy-yards and stations, 011668. . ' P N al A I At the Naval Asylum, Philadelphia Pennsylvania; For superintend· " BY “m‘ ent, 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 dx llars each; eight scrubbers and waiters, at