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 698 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. SEss. I. Ch. 859. 1900. Bureau of Supplies BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS. and Accounts. P¤>Vi¤i<>¤¤· PROVISIONS, NAVY: For provisions and commuted rations for the seamen and marines, which commuted rations may be aid to caterers of messes in cases of death or desertion, upon orders of) the commanding officer, commuted rations for officers on sea duty (other than commissioned officers of the line, medical and pa corps and chief boatswains, chief gunners, chief sailmakers, ch1ety carpenters) and naval cadets, and commuted rations stopped on account of sick in hospital and credited to the naval hospital fund, subsistence of officers and men unavoidably detained or absent from vessels to which attached under orders (during which subsistence rations to be stopped on board ship and no credit for commutation therefor to be given), labor in general storehouses and paymasters’ offices in navy-yards, including naval stations maintained in island possessions under the control of the United States, and expenses in handling stores purchased under the naval·supply fund; one chemist, at two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, and two chemists, at two thousand dollars each per annum, two million tive hundred thousand dollars. conmxgenr. CoN*1:11~1oEN1·, BUREAU or Sorrmns AND Acconncrsz For freight and express charges, 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, newspaipers, ice, transportation of stores purchased under the naval-supply und, and other incidental expenses, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. §,§,‘{{L$1§f]§;‘{{§S*;mI§“‘~ CIVIL ESTABLISHMENT, BUREAU or SUPPLIES AND Accouisrrsz 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¤¤¤>¤·M¤¤~- Navy—yard, Boston, Massachusetts: In general storehouses: One bookkeeper, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one ship ing 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 fifty cents. ‘ New Y°’k·N· Y- Navy-yard, New York, New York: In office of board of inspection: One writer, 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 each per diem; one assistant receiving clerk, at one thousatnd and ninety-nine dollars; three shippin clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one bill clerk, at one thousand gollars; one assistant bill clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; two leading men, at two dollars and fifty cents each (per diem; five pressmen, at two dollars and seventy· six cents each per iem; one su erintendent of coffee mills, at three dollars per diem; one box maker, at three dollars per diem; one engine tender, at three dollars and twent.y—six cents per diem; one co ee roaster, at two dollars and fifty cents per diem; one fireman, at two dollars per diem; one messenger, at two dollars and twenty-Eve cents per diem; one writer, one thousand dollars; one store man, nine hundred dollars. In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one messenger, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem; in all, thirty thousand three hundred and twelve dollars and three cents.