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 370 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. C1!. 399. 1896. ing and cooking purposes, one million two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars; labor in general storehouses and paymasters’ offices in navy-yards, including expenses of handling stores purchased under the naval supply fund, a chemist at two thousand dollars per annum, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars; in all, one million four hundred and five thousand dollars. cmzqm. Courmonur, BUREAU or SUPPLIES AND AoooUNrs: For freight and express charges, candles, fuel, books and blanks, stationery, advertising, furniture for general storehouses and pay offices in navy-yards, expenses of naval clothing factory and machinery for same, postage, telegrams, telephones, tolls, ferriages, yeoman’s stores, iron safes, newspapers, ice, transportation of stores purchased under the naval supply fund, and other incidental expenses, fifty thousand dollars. Tvhw- And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized and directed to ,.,,$§'§§°j°§::_°° b° °d' cause advertisement to be made for tobacco for the use of the Navy, as mi- P- the needs of the service may require, in the manner prescribed by law 'for other supplies. Bidders shall submit with their proposals a sample of the tobacco which they propose to furnish, and the contract shall, in ` the discretion of the Department, be awarded to the bidder whose sample is found by a board of officers to be best adapted for use in the Navy. · dw ·¤¤·>¤¤* of And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed Aman, mmm_ to cause the general account of advance to be charged with the sum of three hundred thousand dollars in addition to the sum of two V°'· “"· P- m- hundred thousand dollars provided in the Act aplproved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, making in a, nve hundred ‘ thousand dollars, which amount shall be carried to the credit of the permanent naval supply fund, to he used under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy in the purchase of ordinary commercial supplies for the naval service, and to be reimbursed from the proper naval apprapriations, whenever the supplies purchased under said fund are issu for use. civmstablishunns. CIVIL ESTABLISBHENT, BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND Aco0U1~:·rs : P•¤*¤¤°¤*‘*· Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: In general storehouses: Two bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one assistant bookkeeper, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one shipping and receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; in all, five thousand eight hundred and forty dollars; B<>¤*»·>¤· Navy·yard, Boston, Massachusetts: In general storehouses: One bookkeeper, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars; one receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars. In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-tive cents; in all, four thousand and thirty-four dollars and ilfty cents; N"' Y'"- N avy-yard, Brooklyn, New York: One writer to boards of inspection, nine hundred dollars. In general storehouses: Three bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one assistant bookkeeper, at one thousand dollars; one assistant bookkeeper, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; three receiving clerks, at four dollars per diem each; one assistant receiving clerk,·at one thousand and ninety-nine dollars; three shipping clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant bill clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; two leading men, at two dollars and fifty cents per diem each; five pressmen, at two dollars and seventysix cents per diem each; one superintendent of coffee mills, at three dollars per diem; one box maker, at three dollars per diem; one engine tender, at three dollars and twenty- six cents per diem; one coiiee master, at two dollars and fifty cents per diem; one firemen, at two dollars per diem; one messenger, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem. In yard pay officez One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twentyfive cents; one messenger, at two dollars and twenty-tive cents per diem;