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 476 FORTY·SEVEL*TH_CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 97. 1883. Civil establish- For the civil establishment at navy-yards and stations, twentyfour m°“*· thousand dollars. BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY. Surgeons neces- For support of the medical department: For surge0ns’ necessaries ¤¤1’i¤¤ for vessels in commission, xnavyyards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and Coast Survey, forty thousand dollars. Hospital fund- For the naval-hospital fund, namely: For maintenance of the naval hospitals at the various nuvyyards aud stations, thirty thousand dollars. And if the Secretary of the Navy shall not be able to rnaintain properly the whole number of naval hospitals now kept open on the amounts hereby appropriated for the maintenance of and civil establishment at naval hospitals, he shall close those which are least necessary to the service, aud provide for the patients now caued for therein at such other naval hospitals as may be most convenient. Contingent ex- For contingent expenses of the bureau: For freight ou medical stores; P°“°°· transportation of insane patients to the government hospital; advertising; telegraphiug; purchase of books; expenses attending the medical board of examiners; rent of rooms for naval dispensary, hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration; purchase and repair of wagons and harness; purchase and feed of horses and cows; trees, garden tools, and seeds, twenty five thousand dollars. R•1>•i¤- For  repairs of ua.va.l` laboratory, naval hospitals, and appendages, including roads, wharves, out-houses, sidewalks, fences, gardens, tarms, and cemeteries, fifteen thousand dollars. . Civil ..1;;.1,1;.1.. For the maintenance of the civil establishment at the several naval ment. hospitals, navyyards, naval laboratory aud Naval Academy, twenty thousand dollars. BUREAU OF PROVISIONS AND CLOTHING. Provisions ima For provisions for the seamen and marines; eommuted rations for ¢=l<>¢hi¤z· officers, seamen, and marines; expenses of the handling and transportation of provisions; of inspections and storehouses; purchaseof water for ships for cooking and drinking purposes, and for provisions and commutation of rations for seven hundred and fifty boys, one million one hundred thousand dollars. C<>¤#i¤¢;¤¤* •¤- For contingent expenses: For freight on shipments (except provis- ¥’°““°“· ions), candles, fuel; books and blanks; stationery; advertising and commissions on sales; furniture for inspection and pay-offices in navy- yards; foreign postage, telegrams, and express charges; toll, ferriages, · and cartickets; yeomans stores, iron safes, ice, newspapers, and incidental expenses absolutely necessary, forty thousand dollars. mgiiil establish- For civil establishment, six thousand dollars. BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR. Preservaticnpe- For preservation and completion of vessels on the stocks and in orxgair, wd ¤¤¤pl¤- dinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; labor in navy “°“ °f "°““1‘·°°°·  and on tbreign stations; preservation of materials; purchase of tools; wear, tear, and repair of vessels atioat, and for general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair, and incidental expenses, namely, advertising and ioreign postage, pm.-am one million one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this sum shall be applied to the repairs of any wooden ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers. shall exceed twenty per eentum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like ma· Pawin. terial: Provided further, That nothing herein contained shall deprive the Se·cr<·t:n·y of the Navy of the authority to order repairs of ships alanmgeel in tori-ign waters or on the_ high seas, so taras may be necessary to bring them home. mggil ecitablisb For the civil establishment, twenty thousand dollars.