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For extra clerk hire, four thousand dollars;

For printing, three hundred dollars;

For labor, three hundred and fifty dollars;

For miscellaneous items, three hundred and fifty dollars;

For newspapers and periodicals, two hundred dollars;

For payment of sundry bills for stationery and newspapers for eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, eighteen hundred and forty, eighteen hundred and forty-one, and eighteen hundred and forty-two, seven hundred dollars.

Bureau of Navy-yards and Docks.For compensation of the chief of bureau of Navy-yards and Docks, and the draughtsman, clerks, and messenger, in his office, eight thousand four hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses of said bureau, viz:

For blank books, binding, and stationery, three hundred dollars;

For labor, one hundred and fifty dollars;

For miscellaneous items, fifty dollars.

Bureau of Construction, Equipment and Repair.For compensation of the chief of bureau of Construction, Equipment, and Repairs, and the assistant constructor, clerks, and messenger, in his office, nine thousand one hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses of said bureau, viz:

For blank books and stationery, two hundred dollars;

For miscellaneous items, one hundred and eighty dollars;

For labor, one hundred and twenty dollars;

Bureau of Provisions and Clothing.For compensation of the chief of bureau of Provisions and Clothing, and the clerks and messenger in his office, seven thousand one hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses of said bureau, viz:

for blank books, binding, and stationery, four hundred dollars;

For miscellaneous items, one hundred dollars.

Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography.For compensation of the chief of bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography, and the draughtsman, clerk, and messenger, in his office, nine thousand four hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses of said bureau, viz:

For blank books and stationery, two hundred and sixty dollars;

For miscellaneous items, one hundred and forty dollars;

For labor, one hundred dollars.

Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.For compensation of the chief of bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and the clerks and messenger in his office, five thousand two hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses of said bureau, viz:

For blank books, binding, and stationery, four hundred dollars;

For miscellaneous items, two hundred dollars.

S. W. executive building.For compensation of the superintendent and three watchmen of the southwest executive building, one thousand three hundred and forty-five dollars.

For contingent expenses of said building, viz:

For labor, three hundred and twenty-five dollars;

For fuel and lights, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollasr;

For miscellaneous items, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.

Purchase of Babbitt’s anti-attrition metal.
Act of Aug. 29, 1842, ch. 268.For payment to Isaac Babbitt, of Boston, in execution of a contract made with him by the Secretary of the Navy for the purchase of Babbitt’s “anti-attrition metal,” pursuant to the act of Congress of the twenty-ninth of August, eighteen hundred and forty-two, twenty thousand dollars; and the accounting officers of the treasury, are hereby authorized and directed, in the settlement of the accounts of the officers attached to the late surveying and exploring expedition, to the Pacific ocean, and the South seas,Extra pay to officers of the exploring expedition. who were employed in the scientific duties, to allow and credit them with extra pay, equal to that allowed to the officers engaged in the service of the coast survey.