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584 '1‘HIRTY—-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 268. 1854. To enable the Secretary of the Navy to pay the salary of Professor J. P. Bspy. James P. Espy for the current fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, two thousand dollars; the payment to be made in the same manner and under the like control as former appropriations for meteorological observations ; For the wages of persons employed at the observatory and hydrographical office, viz : One lithographer, one instrument maker, two watchmen, and one porter, three thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; For contingent expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, viz: Freight and transportation, printing and stationery, advertising in newspapers, books, maps, models, and drawings, purchase and repair of fire engines and machinery, repairs of and attending to steam-engines in navy·yards, purchase and maintenance of horses and oxen, and driving teams, carts, timber wheels, and the purchase and repair of workmen’s tools, postage of public letters, fuel, oil and candles for navy-yards and shore stations, pay of watchmen, and incidental labor, not chargeable to any other appropriation, labor attending the delivery of stores on civil stations, wharfage, dockage, and rent, travelling expenses of officors and others under orders, funeral expenses, store and office rent, stationery, fuel, commissions and pay of clerks to navy agents and store keepers, 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, and other services authorized by · law, pay to judges-advocate, pilotage and towage of vessels and assistance to vessels in distress, bills of health, and quarantine expenses of the United States navy in foreign ports, seven hundred and six thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars ; Testing im- To enable the Secretary of the Navy to test any improvements in §;%:;“°““ lll steam boilers or other improvements applicable to naval purposes, ten ` thousand dollars; For the erection and repair of buildings, for the improvement and Naval Acadc· preservation of the grounds, and for contingencies, at the naval academy EY ” A”“°P°' at Annapolis, Maryland, thirty-nine thousand six hundred and seventy- ' eight dollars: Provided, That no part of this sum shall be expended for the worksho until a contract, with security, to be approved by the Secretary ofp the Navy, be entered into for the completion of the same at a sum not exceeding Eve thousand dollars, and herein provided for ; B».r1nw·¤ For the purchase of Barlow’s Planetarium for the use of the naval P1”·°°ml“m academy at Annapolis, Maryland, two thousand dollars ; At Navy For construction, extension and completion of the following objects, Yau-ds. and for contingent expenses at the several navy-yards, viz: Portsmouth. Portsmouth, Mw Hampshire.-——For quay wall connecting with dock basin ; completing engine-house and machinery ; tools for machinists and smiths’ launching and hauling up ways; cisterns for officers’ quarters; extending ship-house number four; extension of ship-house and launching slip; and repairs of all kinds, sixty-three thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. Bomm Boston, Mirssac/zusetts.—For machine shop, smithery, foundry and forge shop, boiler house and chimney, new steam engine for dry dock, extension of ship—house and Slip, and repairs of all kinds, one hundred and sixty-six thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. New York. New York, New Rrk.— Towards foundry and boiler shop ; completing saw mill; continuation of quay wall; dredging channels; lightning conductors, water pipes, iron railing on wall along Navy street; extension of ship-house and slip; saw mill machinery; launching slip ; balance due city of Brook1yn for lien on account of assessments ; and repairs of all kinds, one hundred and seventy-one thousand six hundred and fifteen dollars: Provided, That so much of the lirst section of the act