296 FORTY -SEVEN TH CONGRESS. Sxass. I. Gu. 301. 1882. grounds; repair of pumps; and for other purposes, including gas and oil for marine barracks maintained at the various navy-yards and stations · and water at marine barraxcks, Boston Massachusetts; Brooklyn New zYork; and Mare Island, California; also straw for bedchng tor enlisted men at the various posts, and furniture for government houses, twenty-ive thousand dollars. Naval Anymm. At the Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; For superm tendent, six hundred dollars; steward, four hundred and eighty dollars; matron, three hundred and sixty dollars; cook, two hundred and forty dollars; two assistant cooks, one hundred and suxty-eight: dollars each; chief laundress, one hundred and ninetytwo dollars; six lamndresses, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; nine serubbers and waiters, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars meh; six laborers, at two hundred and forty dollars each; stablekeeper and driver, three hundred and sixty dollars; master-atrarms, four hundred and eighty dollars; corporal, three hundred dollars; barber, three hundred and sixty dollars; carpenter, eight hundred and forty-five dollars; waterrent and gas, two thousand dollars J ice, two hundred dollars; ear tickets two hundred and nity dollars; cemetary and burial expenses, headstones, and digging graves, three hundred and fifty dollars · improvement of grounds, five hundred dollars; repairs to buildings and preservation of all kinds, painting, and for gmtes, furnaces, ranges, furniture, billiard tables, and repairs of furniture, four thousand five hundred dollars; and for sup-. port of beneficiaries, forty-three thousand fivehundred dollars; in all, fifty-nine thousand eight hundred and thirteen dollars; which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund Invgutgry and SEO.,2.——Th¤.t it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Navy, as uvpraisemsm of soon as may be after the passage of this act, to cause an account to be TE m:}!;??" taken of the stock of stores and supplies pertaining and belonging to Dspummt mw the several bureaus of the Navy Department, in which account shall be ’ stated the original cost of each article and the date of purchase, so far as the same is known, and cause an appraisement of the present value of such stores and supplies to be made and entered in such account; and said appraised value, when so entered, shall hereafter be the price
at which they shall be charged in accounting with the several bureaus.
MAppr¤s¤m•¤utto Such appraisal shall be made by boards of officers of the Navy to be “,m""°f mg? designated by the Secretary; and all such stores and supplies asshall be S,;,, of mM_ foumlby boards of appraisers to beunserviceablefor use in theNavy,shall ieesble mq, em.; be condemned and sold in the manner hereinafter provided for the sale of 1¤>¤•¤¤¤ %•¤•li¤f¤ old materials, and the proceeds thereof, after deducting the cost. of such W "*°'l appraisal condemnation and sale, shall be paid into the Treasury. And no old material of the Navy shall hereatter be sold or exchanged by the Secretary of the Navy, or by any officer of the Navy, which can beproiitably used by reworking or otherwise in the construction or re» . pur of vessels, their machinery, armor, armament, or equipment; but the same shall be stored and preserved for future use. And when any such old material cannot be profitably used as aforesaid, the same shall he appraised and sold at public auction after public notice und advertxsement; shall have been given according to law under such rules and regulations and in such manner as the said Secretary may direct. The net proceeds arising from the sales of such old materials shall be paid mto the Treasury. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Navy Sq arg guy of annually to report in detail to Congress, in his annual report, the pro· Nnvylto mg:r::¤¤· ceeds of all sales of materials, stores, and supplies, made under the 3 Y °¤· provision of this act, and the expenses attending such sales. It shall also he the duty og the Secretary of the Navy, as soon as may be a er e passage o this act, to cause to be examined b com tent
°;';*5:$;¤; boards of officerspf the Navy, to be designated by him fag- thumnty,
v,;,,, is not in all vessels belonging to the Navy not in actual service at see, and vesmimi mum at sels at sea as soon as practicable after they shall return to the United we ¤t¤· States, and hereafter all vessels on their return from foreign stations, and all vessels in the United States us often as once in three years,
