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548 FORTY——SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. HI. Ch. 230. 1873. lights ; for chimneys and wicks; and soap used in navigation department, thirty-five thousand dollars. Stationery. For stationery for commanders and navigators of vessels of war, four thousand dollars. Lipsical instru- For musical instruments, and music for vessels of war, one thousand ’“°“ “· dollars. Signal commu- For steering signals and indicators, and for speaking-tubes and gouge, ”l°°*l°“· for signal communication on board vessels of war, two thousand five hundred dollars. Civil establish- Civil establishment: For pay of writers and laborers, and for purposes m°““· incidental to the support of the civil establishment under this bureau at the several navy-yards, twelve thousand dollars. Contingent ex- For contingent expenses of the bureau of navigation: Freight and P°”s°’· transportation of navigation materials; instruments, books, and stores ; postage and telegraphing; advertising for proposals; packingloxcs and materials; blank books, forms, and stationery at navigation offices, six thousand dollars. Chai-ts. For drawing, engraving, and printing and photodithographing charts, electrotyping and correcting old plates, preparing and publishing sailing directions, and other hydrographic information, twenty thousand dollars. Surveys in th., For surveying in the Pacific, fifty thousand dollars. Pacific- For making charts, including those of the Pacific coast, thirty thousand dollars. Fue1,&e. For fuel, lights, and office furniture ; care of building and other labor ; purchase of books for library, drawing materials, and other stationery; postage, freight, and other contingent expenses, seven thousand dollars. Bent. For rent and repair of building, two thousand eight hundred dollars. · Ngvglgbsgrvg- For expenses of nava.l·ohservatory, namely: WW- For pay of one clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For three assistant observers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each. For wages of one instrument-maker, one messenger, three watchmen, and one porter; for keeping grounds in order and repairs to buildings; for fuel, light, and office furniture; and for stationery, purchase of books for library, chemicals for batteries, postage, and freight, and all other contingent expenses, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. For transcribing astronomical observations upon sheets for publication, one thousand two hundred dollars.

 fvglrésw For completing tower and dome for the new refracting telescope, five

mpc_ gthousand dollars: T . Catalogue of For computations for catalogue of zone-stars observed by the United ’°¤°·¤*¤¤‘S· States naval astronomical expedition to the southern hemisphere, in eighteen hundred and fifty, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and eighteen hundred and fifty-two, one thousand five hundred dollars. , For switch-board for telegraphic apparatus, six hundred dollars. Refracting tel- For payment of second instalment for the great refracting-telescope ¢¤¢¢>P¢· now in the course of construction, ten thousand dollars. Nautical al. For expenses of Nautical Almanac: ¤¤¤¤¤<=• For pay of computers and clerk for compiling and preparing for publicationl the1American Ephemeris and the Nautical Almanac, twenty thousan dollars. Elements of For continuance of work on new planets discovered by American D"' Pl““"‘·’· astronomers, three thousand dollars. 1>.e¤t,&c. For rent, fuel, labor, stationery, boxes, expresses, and miscellaneous items, one thousand five hundred dollars. Bureau 0g,,,;, Bureau of Ordnance.-—For fuel and materials necessary in carrying mpi; and mm on the mechanical branches of the ordnance department at the navy—yards ‘ and stations, one hundred thousand dollars. For labor at all the navy—yards. three hundred thousand dollars.