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Fonrr mourn coxcnuss. srss. ii. cu. 344. issn. 427 paymasters’ offices at the various cities, including clerks, furniture, fuel, stationery, and incidental expenses; newspapers and advertising; foreign postage; telegrapliing, foreign and domestic; telephones; copy- ing; care of library ; mail and express wagons, and livery and express fees; costs of suits; commissions, warrants, diplomas, and discharges; relief of vessels in distress, and pilotage; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; care and transportation of the dead; reports, professional investigation, cost of special instruction, and information from abroad, and the collection and classiiication thereof, three hundred and seventy-tive thousand dollars. For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, arising at home or Extraordinary abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, exclusive of per- °‘P"““°°· sonal services in the Navy Department or any of its subordinate Bureaus or offices, at Washington, District of Columbia, twenty thousand dollars. ‘ BUREAU OF NAVIGATION. For foreign and local pilotage and towage of ships of war; services Navigation supand materials in correcting compasses on board ship, and for adjusting Pl;°,;· and testing compasses on shore; nautical and astronomical instruments, ms' nautical books, maps, charts, and sailing directions, and repairs of nautical instruments for ships of war; books for libraries of ships of war; naval signals and apparatus, namely, signallights, lanterns, rockets, running-lights, drawings, and engravings for signal-books; compassiittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ships’ compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship’s ways, and leads and other appliam es for sounding; lanterns and lamps, and their appendages, for general use on board ship, including those for the cabin, ward-room, and steerage, thr the holds and spirit—room, for decks and quartermastersnse; hunting and other materials for iiags, and making and repairing flags of all kinds; oil for ships of war, other than that used in the engineer department; candles when used as a substitute for oil in binnacles and running-lights; chimneys and wicks; and soap used in the navigation department; stationery for commanders and navigators of vessels of war, and for use of courts-martial; musical instruments and music for vessels of war; steering-signals and indicators, and speaking-tubes and gongs for signal communication on board vessels of war; and for introducing electric lights ‘on board vessels of war, in all, eighty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. For special ocean surveys and the publication thereof, ten thousand Svwinl ¢>¤¤¤¤ dollars. '“"°Y‘· For contingent expenses of the Bureau of Navigation, namely: For Contingent oxfreight and transportation of navigation materials, postage and tele- P°“°°“· graphing on public business, advertising for proposals, packing-boxes and materials, and all other contingent expenses, four thousand dollars. For the civil establishment at navy~yards and stations, five thousand Civil ¤•¤•l>li¤h- dollars. ““°“°· . BUREAU OF ORDNANCE. For preserving and handling ordinance and ordnance material of the ordn¤¤¤¤ ¤t¤¤r¤¤ kinds now in service, for the armament of ships therewith, for the pur- "“‘l '“PPu°°· chase or manufacture of ammunition theretor, for materials and labor to be used in the general work of the Ordnance Bureau for these purposes; for furniture at magazines, at the ordnance dock, New York, and at the naval ordnance provinggrouud, one hundred and twenty- tive thousand dollars. For the purchase or manufacture of steel guns of small caliber for Stool gum. ships new in service, and for testing the same at the naval ordinance provin g· ground, twentypne thousand dollars.