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For the examination of the navy-yard and bottom of the harbor of Pensacola, for the purpose of ascertaining whether a dry dock can be constructed and at what cost; and whether a dry dock or a floating dock with or without a basin and railways would be most suitable for that place; and the Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed to appoint a competent board of officers and engineers to examine and report to Congress at its next session the relative properties and advantages of a dry dock, and of the different kinds of floating docks with or without a basin and railways; five thousand dollars. And that a similar examination be made at the navy-yard near Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and a report made on the expediency of making a dry dock there.

For magazines, viz:

At Charleston, two hundred dollars;

At Brooklyn, two hundred dollars;

At Washington, two hundred dollars;

At Norfolk, seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For contingent expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, viz:

For the freight and transportation of materials and stores of every description; for printing and stationery; for books, maps, charts, mathematical and nautical instruments, chronometers, models and drawings; for the purchase and repair of fire-engines, and for machinery of every description; for the repair of steam-engines in yards; for the purchase and maintenance of horses and oxen; for carts, timber-wheels, and workmen’s tools of every description; for postage of letters on public service; for coals and other fuel; for candles and oil for use of vessels of war in commission and of navy-yards and shore stations; for incidental labor at navy-yards and on board vessels not chargeable to any other appropriation; for labor attending the delivery of public stores and supplies on foreign stations; for wharfage, dockage, storage, and rent, travelling expenses of officers, and transportation of seamen; house rent to pursers, when duly authorized; funeral expenses, commissions, clerk hire, store rent, office rent, stationery and fuel to navy agents and naval storekeepers; premiums, and incidental expenses of recruiting; apprehending deserters; per diem allowance to persons attending courts-martial and courts of inquiry, or other services authorized by law; compensation to judge advocates; printing and stationery of every description, and for working the lithographic press; pilotage and towing vessels of war; assistance rendered to vessels in distress; and for no other purpose whatever, four hundred thousand dollars;

For contingent expenses for objects not hereinbefore enumerated, five thousand dollars;

For coal and other fuel for steam vessels, forty thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars;

Marine Corps.―For pay of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, privates and servants on shore, and subsistence of officers, two hundred thousand eight hundred and fifteen dollars and sixty cents;

For clothing, forty-three thousand six hundred and thirty-five dollars: and the President of the United States is hereby authorized to direct the transfer of any unexpended balance of appropriation heretofore made for the pay or subsistence of the marine corps, to the head of clothing for the marine corps;

For provisions, forty-five thousand and eleven dollars and ninety-five cents;

For fuel, sixteen thousand two hundred and seventy-four dollars and twelve cents;

For military stores, repair of arms, pay of armorers, accoutrements,