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 THIRTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 121 1848. 267 For increase, repair, armament, and equipment for the navy, in- increase, reclnding wear and tear of vessels in commission, coal for steamers, l_,l:'·0,P;g‘ss“';;;“‘· purchase of hemp, and one million two hundred thousand dollars for completing four lirst~class steamers, two millions five hundred and thirty-one thousand four hundred and seventy-four dollars. For ordnance and ordnance stores, including incidental expenses, ord¤¤¤¢¤ ¤¤<i two hundred and eighteen thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. °'d'““‘°" S°°'°°‘ For nautical books, maps, charts, instruments, binding and repair- Books, maps, ing the same, and all expenses of the hydrographical office, thirty-five °h°'“»&"* thousand dollars. And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed to expend five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be neces- _ sary, in causing the observations to be made which have been recently 0b’°"“t;°g’b recommended to him by the American Philosophical Society and the i,i,°:,i;i;i:;,$,nr$h;;°i Academy of Arts and Sciences. sophicat Society. For contingent expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, Miscellaneous viz.: freight and transportation; printing and stationery; advertising °‘P°""*‘ in newspapers; books, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines and machinery; repair of and attending on steam engines in yards; purchase and support of horses and oxen, and driving teams; carts, timber wheels, and the purchase and repair of workmen’s tools; postage of public letters; furniture for government houses; fuel, oil and candles for navy-yards and shore stations; cleaning and clearing up yards; watchmen and incidental labor not chargeable to any other appropriation; labor attending the delivery of stores and supplies on foreign stations; wharfage,. dockage, and rent; travelling expenses of officers; funeral expenses; store and office rent; stationery and fuel to navy agents and storekeepers; flags, awnings, and packing boxes; premiums and other expenses of recruiting; apprehending deserters; per diem pay to persons attending courts-martial, and courts of inquiry, or other service authorized by law; pay to judge advocates; pilotage and towage of vessels; assistance rendered to iessels in distress; seven hundred thousand dollars. And the Secre- _Test of kiln tary of the Navy is hereby authorized, from the sum aforesaid, without Q22mg:;"' ‘“‘l further notice or advertisement, out of the appropriation for provisions, ' to purchase, at his discretion, a sumcient quantity of Hour and cornmeal prepared and dried by the process and machinery invented by J. R. Stafford, of Ohio, to be sent to different naval stations, to test its capacity to resist the influence of time and climate, and to ascertain what advantage there may be in introducing the use of the same for the navy. For the transportation of the United States mail between New York T¤¤•P°¤·¤§i¤¤ and Liverpool, between New York and New Orleans, and Havana and §$,,,;'° mgfmgg Chagres, and between Panama and Astoria, under the act of the third steamsinps. of March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, eight hundred and 1847, ch. 62. seventy-four thousand six hundred dollars. And the Secretary of the NS€°’::’>"£:° Navy is hereby directed to advance to the contractors for said service, ad?,,);,,,, fn, ,,0,: or to their assignees, for the purpose of enabling them to finish the tractors steamships contracted for under their respective contracts, the sum of twenty-tive thousand dollars per month on each of said ships, after such ship shall have been launched; but the money so advanced under any one of said contracts shall not exceed the amount of one year’s compensation, stipulated for in such contract, to be secured in all cases by a lien on said ships, in such manner as the Secretary of the Navy may require; and the money so advanced shall be faithfully expended in finishing said ships to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Navy ; and compensation on the contract from Panama to Astoria When compenshall commence from the time the ships are ready for service, and ff;;‘Q“,;’;‘r:.h";,,‘;f]{:; placed at the disposal of the United States; the said annual com- ma to Astoria pensation, however, not to commence until first October, eighteen °l‘°“ °°'¤m°¤°°· hundred and forty-eight: Provided, That the contractor for the line