and where a store-keeper is necessary: Provided, That said officers shall be required to give a bond in such amount as may be fixed by the Secretary of the Navy for the faithful performance of his duty: And provided also, That the annual compensation for all his services except travelling, shall not exceed fifteen hundred dollars.
Provisions.For provisions for the navy, including transportation, cooperage, and other expenses, six hundred and fifteen thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight dollars;
Surgeons’ necessaries, &c.For surgeons’ necessaries and appliances, for the sick and hurt of the naval service, including the marine corps, twelve thousand two hundred dollars;
Increase of navy, &c.For the increase, repair, armament and equipment of the navy, and wear and tear of vessels in commission, one million dollars;
Ordnance, &c.For the ordnance and ordnance stores, including all incidental expenses and liabilities on outstanding contracts, three hundred and seventy thousand eight hundred and eighty-five dollars;
Books, &c.For books, maps, charts and instruments, binding and repairing the same, and all expenses of the Hydrographical office, twenty-three thousand two hundred dollars;
University Square.For grading and enclosing University Square in the city of Washington, upon which the depot of charts and instruments has been erected, twelve thousand five hundred dollars;
Improvements of yards.For improvements and necessary repairs of navy-yards, viz:
Kittery.At Kittery, Maine, twenty-four thousand eight hundred dollars;
Charlestown.At Charlestown, Massachusetts, twenty-four thousand five hundred and fifty dollars;
Brooklyn, for construction of a dry dock.
Act of August 4, 1842, ch. 121.At Brooklyn, New York, thirty-eight thousand six hundred and eighteen dollars, and the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the said navy-yard of one hundred and twenty-nine thousand one hundred dollars, made by the act entitled “An act making appropriations for the naval service for the year eighteen hundred and forty-two,” approved on the fourth day of august, eighteen hundred and forty-two, shall be immediately expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy in continuance of the work already commenced at said navy-yard, for the construction of a stone dry dock at the said place, or in the construction of a dry dock on some other plan, if he shall deem the same better suited for the purposes of the navy, as in his discretion he shall deem best for the public interest.
Philadelphia.At Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, nine thousand two hundred and twenty-two dollars and sixty-six cents;
Washington.At Washington, District of Columbia, sixteen thousand two hundred and sixty-seven dollars;
Gosport.At Gosport, Virginia, twenty-nine thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars;
Pensacola.
Continuation of certain works specified.
Act of March 3, 1843, ch. 83.At Pensacola, Florida, sixteen thousand three hundred and thirty-seven dollars; and the further sum of fifty thousand three hundred and seventy-one dollars, which, with the sum of one hundred thousand dollars heretofore appropriated for the construction of a floating dry dock at that place by the act of March third one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, making together the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand three hundred and seventy-one dollars, shall be expended in the construction of the following works and in the following proportions, to wit: for a permanent wharf, sixty thousand dollars; for a ship-house and building slip, forty thousand dollars; for a store-house, twenty thousand dollars; for a timber shed, twenty thousand dollars, and for a temporary wharf, ten thousand three hundred and seventy-one dollars; according to a plan and report communicated to the Senate by the Secretary of the Navy in compliance with a resolution of the twenty-ninth April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.
