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 l96 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 640. 1890. Washington, in the State of Washington; and having selected_ such vnuamn, ew., and site shal, if upon private lands, estimate its value, and ascertain, as '°’°"· nearly as practicable, the cost for which it can be purchased or acquired, and of their proceedin and action make ful and detailed report to the President, and the g·esident shall transmit such report with his recommendations to Congress. _ _ G`{’u¤’¥_j}°gx,g*0°° °¤ And the President be, and he hereby is, required to appoint acom- App0i¤tmé¤t0f mission composed of two competent naval officers, one competent °°'“”“““*°“’° “°*°°°· Army omcer, and two competent persons from civil life, whose duty _ it shall be to select a suitable site, having due regard to commercial and naval interests, for a dry-dock at some point on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico or the waters connected therewith; and having selected such site shall if upon private lands, estimate its value an vumum, etc.,md ascertain as nearly as practicab e the cost for which it can be pur- '°¤’°"~ chased or acquired, and of their proceedings and action make full and detailed report to the President, and the President shall trans- Expenses_ or dry- mit such report with his recommendations to Congress. That to 'd°°k °°‘“”“““*°"‘· defray the expenses of such commissions the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated. . _ ggygldgggg NAVAL onm, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA: For one supermnmpmyeee tendent, at_ six hundred dollars; one steward, at four hundred and eighty dollars; one matron, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one - `chief cook, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one assistant cook, at two hundred and forty dollars; one assistant cook, at one hundred and eighty dollars· one chief laundress, at one hundred and ninety-two dollars; fom-laundresses, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; four scrubbers,at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; eight waiters, at one hundred and sixty-eight do lars each; eight la rers, at two hundred and forty dollars each; one stablekeeper and driver, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one master-at arms, at four hundred and eighty dollars ; two house corporals, at three hundred dollars each; one barber, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one carpenter, at eight hundred and forty-five dollars; one ‘|};pe¤g3, painter, at six hundred dollars; water-rent and gas, two thousand our hundred dollars; cemetery, burial expenses, and headstones, three hundred and fifty dollars; im rovement of grounds, five hundred dollars; repairs to buildings, fiirnace, grates, ran es, furniture, and repairs of furniture, four thousand five hundred thnllarsg music in chapel, six hundred dollars; and the sum of eight hundred dollars vd_g,P_“_ appropriated by act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty- mne, is hereby reappropriated for fitting up bath rooms for bene - ciaries; transportation of indigent and des itute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, five hundred dollars; erecting elevator in main buildsuppmotmmnes ing of Naval Home, four thousand dollars; for support of beneficiaries, fifty thousand dollars; total for Naval Home, seventyéthree thousand one hundred and fifteen dollars; which sum shall paid out of the income from the naval pension fund. auguéégeg; M¤¤i<=i¤¤ BUREAU or MEDICINE AND SURGERY. m_¤¤*‘¤°°¤¤’ ¤°°°¤*· MEDIUAL DEPARTMENT: For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in ' commission, navy-yards. naval-stations, Marine Corps, and Coast Survey, and for the civil establishment at the severa naval hospitals, navy-yards, naval-laboratory, museum of hygiene, and Naval Academy, sixty thousand dollars. Nnvdhcqitals. N AVAL—HOSPITAL- FUND: For maintenance of the naval hospitals at the various navy-yards and stations, and for care and maintenance gf lpatients in other hospitals at home and abroad, twenty thousand o ars. °“"""8°"- CONTINGENT, BUREAU or MEDICINE AND SURGERY: For freight, expressage on medical stores,tolls, ferriages, transportation of sick and