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FORTYSIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 73. 1880. 85 department at the several navy-yards, magazines, and stations, fifty thousand dollars. For labor at all the navy-yards, magazines, and stations in ntting ships for sea and in preserving ordnance material, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For necessary repairs to ordnance buildings, magazines, gun-parks, boats, lighters, wharves, machinery, and other necessaries of the like character, fifty thousand dollars. 4 For miscellaneous items, namely for freight to foreign and home stations, advertising and auctioneers; fees, cartage and express charges, repairs to fire-engines; gas and water pipes, gas and water tax at maggzipes, toll, ferriage, foreign postage, and telegrams, three thousand o ars. For the civil establishment, eleven thousand eight hundred and Civil establisheighty-six dollars and twenty-five cents. m°““· For the Torpedo Corps, namely: For labor, fifteen thousand dollars; Torpedo Corps. material, ten thousand dollars; freight and express charges, five hundred dollars; general repairs to grounds, buildings, wharves, and boats, five thousand dollars; and instruction and general torpedo experiments, gzity-four thousand five hundred dollars; in all, ninety-five thousand o ars. ‘For the completion of the torpedo-boat experiments on the Alarm, Experiments on twenty thousand dollars, the same to be immediately available. Nw Amm- BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING For equipment of vessels: For coal for steamers’ and ships’ use, Equipmemt and including expenses of transportation; storage, and handling; hemp, *°°”“‘*'“g· wire, and other materials for the manufacture of rope; hides, cordage, canvas, leather; iron for manufacture of cables, anchors, galleys, and chains; furniture, wood, hose, bake-ovens, and cooking-stoves; boatdetaching apparatus; life-rafts for monitors; heating apparatus for receivingships; and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels and manufacture of equipment articles in the several navy—yards, eight hundred thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, Contingent ernamely: For expenses of recruiting and fitting up receiving-ships; P¤¤¤¢>¤· extra expenses of training-ships; freight and transportation of equipment stores; transportation of enlisted men and boys; printing, adver- · tising, telegraphing; books and models; stationery; express charges; internalalterations, Hxtures, and appliances in equipment buildings at the several navy—yards; foreign postage; car tickets, ferriage, ice; apprehension of deserters; assistance to vessels in distress; continuousservice certificates and good conduct badges for enlisted men, including purchase of school-books for training-ships and extra medals for boys, fiftytive thousand dollars. For the civil establishment, eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty- Civil establishone dollars and seventy-five cents. H-*°¤*· BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS. For general maintenance of yards and docks, namely: For height D o ck s an d and transportation of materials and stores ; books, models, maps, and Yardsdrawings; purchase and repair of nreengines ; machinery, and patent rights to use the same; repairs on steam fire-engines, and attendance on the same; purchase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and driving teams, carts, and timber-wheels for use 111 the navy—yards, and tools and repairs of the same; dredging; postage; and telegrams; furniture for government houses and offices in the navy-yards; coal and other fuel; candles, oil, and gas; cleaning and clearing up yards, and care of pubhe buildings; attendance on fires ; lights; iireengines and apparatus; for clerical and incidental labor at navy-yards; water—tax, and for toll and