334 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. On. 73. 1881. Contingent. For miscellaneous items, namely: For freight to foreign and home stations, advertising and auctioneers’ 1`ees,cartage and express charges, repairs to iire-engines, gas and water pipes, gas and water tax at magazines, toll, ferriage, foreign postage, and telegrams, three thousand five hundred dollars. Civil establish- For the civil establishment, eleven thousand eight hundred and eighty- 1**0*1* six dollars and twenty-tive cents. 'lbrpcdo Corps. For the Torpedo Corps, namely: For labor, fifteen thousand dollars; material, ten thousand dollars; freight and express charges, five hundred dollars; general 1‘Gp2ll1‘S to grounds, buildings, wharves, and boats, five thousand dollars; and instruction and general torpedo experiments, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars; in all, forty-five thousand dollars. BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING. Eqmpnlont or For equipment of vessels: For coal for steamers’ and ships’ use, in-
- '¤¤¤*>l¤· cluding expenses of transportation; storage and handling; hemp, 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, bakeovens, and cookingstoves; boatdetachin g apparatus; life-rafts for monitors; heating apparatus for receiving-ships; and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels and manufacture of equipment articles in the several navy-yards, eight hundred and twentyfive thousand dollars. Coutiuggup For contingent expenses of the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, namely: For expenses of recruiting and iitting up receiving-ships; extra expenses of training-ships; freight and transportation of equipment stores; transportation of enlisted men and boys; printing, advertising, telegraphing; books and models ; stationery; express charges; internal alterations, fixtures, and appliances in equipment buildings at the several navyyards; foreign postage; car-tickets, ferriage, ice; apprehension of deserters; assistance to vessels in distress; continuous-service certificates and good-conduct badges for enlisted men, including purchase of school-books for training-ships and extra medals for boys, fifty-ve thousand dollars. own, esmtijsn- For the civil establishment, eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty- ment. one dollars and seventy-tive cents. BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOOKS. Yards and docks. For general maintenance of yards and docks, namely : For freight and transportation of materials and stores; books, models, maps, and drawings; purchase and repair of flreengines; machinery, and patent rights to use the same; repairs on steam nre-engines, and attendance on the same ; purchase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and driving teams, carts, and timber-wheels for use in the navy-yards, and tools and repairs of the same; (imaging, 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 public buildings; attendance on llres; lights; tire-engines and apparatus; for clerical and incidental labor at navy-yards; water-tax, and for toll and ferriagcs; pay of the watehmen in the navy-yards; and for awnings and packing- _ boxes, four hundred and forty thousand dollars. C°¤i¤m§<>¤t· For contingent expenses that may arise at navy-yards and stati0I1S, twenty thousand dollars. own estatiasn. For the civil establishment, thirty-seven thousand nine hundred and mum six dollars and twenty-five cents. Naval Asylum. At the Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For superintendent, six l1l1ll(lI‘(?(l 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 sixty-eight dollars each;
