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 FORTY·NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 391. 1887. 587 at Naval Academy, dispensaries at navy-yards and ships and rendezxiogs, and all other necessary contingent expenses, twenty-five thousand e dollars. REPAIRS, BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY: For necessary re- Repairs. pairs of naval laboratory, naval hospitals, and appendages, including roads, wharves. out-houses, side-walks fences, gardens, farms, and cemeteries, fifteen thousand dollars. _I·lor the improvement of the naval-hospital park at Portsmouth, Vir- Naval hospital, gima, five thousand dollars. Portsmouth, vu. BUREAU OF PROv1S1oNs AND cLor1uNc. Bureau gte1P:::- VIBIOIIB 81] ot - For provisions for the seamen and marines; commuted rations for mgimvssiom, ,,,,.1 otiicers, naval cadets, seamen, and marines; commuted rations stopped clothing. on account of sick in hospital and credited to the hospital fund; water for drinking and cooking purposes on board ships; and for labor and expenses of inspections, in all one million one hundred and twenty-one thousand dollars. CONT1NGENT EXPENSES: For freight on shipments, candles, fuel Contingent exhooks and blanks, stationery, advertising, furniture for inspections and l>¤¤¤>¤- pay-ollices in the navy-yards expenses of naval-clothing factory, and machinery for same; foreign postage, telegrams, express charges, tolls, ferriages, yeoman’s stores, iron safes, newspapers, ice and incidental expenses absolutely necessary, fifty thousand dollars; and to pay the expenses of consolidating and arranging under orders of the Secretary of C<>¤¤<>1id=¤ti¤g, the Navy, the stores and other property of the United States under °*°·•“*°’°“· control of the Department of the navy, to be immediately available, twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For the civil establishment, to include clerks, firemen, writers, re- Civil establishceivers, assistant receivers, messengers, leading men and pressmen in m°°"· inspection office, superintendent of coffee and spice mill, box-maker, coliee-roaster, engine-tender teamster, telephone-operating, cutter, machine-operator, and laborers seventy thousand dollars. And no other fund appropriated by this act shall be used in payment for such services. BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR. Bureau of Con. struction and Re- CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR or VESSELS: For preservation and com- pa;-`;,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,_ pletion of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials pair, eco., of firsand stores of all kinds; for steamsteerers, pneumatic steerers, steam- MS- capstans, steam-windlasses, and other steam auxiliaries; labor in navy- yards and on foreign stations; purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat, and for general care,. increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; incidental expenses, snch as advertising, freight, foreign postages, Contingent ex. telegrams, photographing, books,plans, stationery, and instruments for p¤¤¤¤¤· drawing-room, nine hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That no part Prompt. 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 ccntmn of the estimated cost, Li¤¤it0f¤'¤P¤¤¤‘¤- appraised in like manner. of a new ship of the same size and like material: Provided further, That nothing herein contained shall deprive the Secretary of the Navy of the authority to order repairs of ships damaged in foreign waters or on the high seas, so far as may be necessary to bring them home: Proridedfurther, That the Secretary of the Sm ¤ f c ¤ ¤- Navy shall sell the New York, under the laws and regulations applica- d°‘““°d l"°P°“Y· ble to the sale of condemned property in the Navy Department. For repair on the Hartford, Krarsage, Trenton Swatara, Thetis, Rich- Repair wcermin mond, Nipsic, and Enterprise or such of said vessels as the Secretary "°“'°l'· of the Navy may deem advisable, two hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available.