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Appropriations, &c.-Continued.

Object of appropriation.

Amount.

Brought forward

For torpedo experiments in their application to harbor and land defense, and for instruction
of engineer battalion in their preparation and application.....
For the ordnance service required to defray the current expenses at the arsenals; of receiv-
ing stores and issuing arms and other ordnance supplies; of police and office duties; of
rents, tolls, fuel, and lights; of stationery and office furniture; of tools and instruments for
use; of public animals, forage, and vehicles; incidental expenses of the ordnance service,
including those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small-arms, and other ord-
nance supplies....

Provided, That none of the money hereby appropriated shall be expended, directly or
indirectly, for any use not strictly necessary for, and directly connected with, the military
service of the Government; and this restriction shall apply to the use of public animals,
forage, and vehicles: And provided further, That none of the money hereby appropriated
shall be expended for the construction or repair of buildings.
For manufacture of metallic ammunition for small-arms...

$27, 278, 830 00

10, 000 00

125,000 00

For overhauling, cleaning, and preserving new ordnance stores on hand at the arsenals
For repairing ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of troops and for issue at the arsen-
als and depots

75,000 00 50,000 00

For saddlers' tools, smiths' tools and materials, tool bags, cavalry forges, with their tools and materials, for the cavalry service..

25,000 00

20,000 00

100, 000 00

For purchase and manufacture of ordnance-stores, to fill requisitions of troops, and for alter-
ation of carriages now in use in sea-coast forts...

For infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments, consisting of valises, haversacks, canteens,
and great-coat straps, and for re-covering cavalry saddles with leather, and of manufacture
of saddle-bags, and repairing horse equipments for cavalry troops.
For manufacture, at national armories, of the new model breech-loading musket and carbine,
adopted for the military service on recommendation of the board of officers convened under
act of June 6, 1872

Provided, That hereafter no money shall be expended at said armories in the perfection of patentable inventions in the manufacture of arms by officers of the Army otherwise compensated for their services to the United States.

SEC. 2. That in all contracts for material for any public improvement, the Secretary of War shall give preference to American material; and all labor thereon shall be performed within the jurisdiction of the United States.

SEC. 3. That all issues of arms and other ordnance-stores which were made by the War Department to the States and Territories between the 1st day of January, 1861, and the 9th day of April, 1865, under the act of April 23, 1808, and charged to the States and Territories, having been made for the maintenance and preservation of the Union, and properly chargeable to the United States, the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, upon a proper showing by such States of the faithful disposition of said arms and ordnance-stores, in the service of the United States in the suppression of the war of the rebellion, to credit the sev eral States and Territories with the sum charged to them respectively for arms and other ordnance-stores which were issued to them between the aforementioned dates, and charged against their quotas under the law for arming and equipping the militia: Provided. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War, before making a credit to any of said States and Territories, to investigate and ascertain, so nearly as he can, the disposition made by each of said States and Territories of said arms and ordnance-stores; and, if he shall find that any of said arms or ordnance-stores have been sold or otherwise misapplied, to refuse a credit to such State or Territory for so much of said arms and ordnance-stores as have been sold or misapplied; and the amount thereof shall remain a charge against said State or Territory, the same as if this act had not been passed: And provided further, That so much of the appropriations between the 1st of January, 1861, and the 9th of April, 1865, under the act of April 23, 1808, herein referred to, as would have been used for the purchase of arms to be distributed to the several States that were in rebellion, shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States.

Total

By the act making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending June 30, 1876, and for other purposes.

For pay of commissioned and warrant officers at sea, on shore, on special service, and of those on the retired list and unemployed, (and for expenses and transportation of officers traveling under orders,) and for pay of the petty-officers, seamen, ordinary seamen, landsmen, and boys, including men of the engineer's force, and for the Coast-Survey service, 8,500 men

Provided, That no allowance shall be made in the settlement of any account for traveling expenses unless the same be incurred on the order of the Secretary of the Navy, or the allowance be approved by him.

For contingent expenses of the Navy Department...

For the civil establishment at the various navy-yards and stations, the sum of..

100, 000 00

150,000 00

27,933, 830 00

6,250,000 00

100, 000 00 158, 000 00

BUREAU OF NAVIGATION.

For foreign and local pilotage and towage of ships of war..

For nautical and astronomical instruments, nautical books, maps, charts, and sailing-directions, and repairs of nautical instruments for ships of war

For books for libraries for ships of war..

Carried forward

For services and materials in correcting compasses on board ships, and for adjusting and testing compasses on shore

50,000 00

3,000 00

10, 000 00 3,000 00

6, 574, 000 00

Appropriations, &c.-Continued.

Object of appropriation.

Amount.

Brought forward..

For navy-signals and apparatus, namely: Signal-lights, lanterns, and rockets, including running-lights, drawings, and engravings for signal books

For compass-fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ships' compasses, to be made in the navy-yards..

For logs and other appliances for measuring the ship's way, leads and other appliances for sounding

For lanterns and lamps, and their appendages, for general use on board ship, including those
for the cabin, ward-room, and steerage, for the holds and spirit-room, for decks and quar-
termasters' use..

For bunting and other materials for flags, and making and repairing flags of all kinds.
For oil for ships of war other than that used for the engineer department, candles when
used as a substitute for oil in binnacles, running-lights, for chimneys and wick and soap
used in navigation department

For stationery for commanders and navigators of vessels of war, and for use of courts-
martial

For musical instruments and music for vessels of war

For steering-signals and indicators, and for speaking-tubes and gongs, for signal-communica tion on board vessels of war

For contingent expenses of the Bureau of Navigation, viz: For freight and transportation of navigation-materials; instruments, books, and stores; postage and telegraphing; advertising for proposals; packing-boxes and materials; blank books, forms, and stationery at navigation offices

For drawing, engraving, and printing and photolithographing charts, correcting old plates, preparing and publishing sailing-directions, and other hydrographic information; and for making charts, including those of the Pacific coast....

For fuel, lights, and office-furniture; care of building and other labor; purchase of books for library, drawing-materials, and other stationery; postage, freight, and other contingent expenses ...

For rent and repair of building.

For expenses of Naval Observatory, namely:

For pay of three assistants, at $1,500 each, $4,500; and one clerk, at $1,800

For wages of one instrument-maker, one messenger, three watchmen, and one porter; for keeping grounds in order and repairs to buildings; for fuel, light, and office-furniture; and for stationery, purchase of books for library, chemicals for batteries, and freight, and all other contingent expenses

For reducing and transcribing astronomical observations upon sheets for publication..

For reducing the observations of the transit of Venus

For expenses of Nautical Almanac:

For pay of computers and clerk for compiling and preparing for publication the American
Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac

For continuance of work on new planets discovered by American astronomers.........................
For rent, fuel, labor, stationery, boxes, expresses, and miscellaneous items..

BUREAU OF ORDNANCE.

For fuel, tools, and materials of all kinds necessary in carrying on the mechanical branches
of the Ordnance Department at the several navy yards and stations...
For labor at all the navy-yards, magazines, and stations

For repairs to ordance-buildings, magazines, gun-parks, boats, lighters, wharves, machinery,
and other necessaries of the like character.

For miscellaneous items, viz: for freight, express-charges, and purchase of instruments.
For the torpedo-corps: For the purchase and manufacture and preservation of gunpowder,
nitro-glycerine, and gun-cotton..

For purchase and manufacture of electrical apparatus, galvanic batteries, and insulated wire.
For purchase of copper, iron, wood, and other materials necessary for the manufacture of
torpedoes, and for work on the same

For construction of torpedo-boats, purchase of coffer-work or hulks, and contingent expenses.
For labor, including chemist, pyrotechnist, electrician, machinist, and clerical force
For repairs to buildings and wharves, and material and labor for sea-wall...
For contingent expenses of the ordnance service of the Navy..

BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING.

For equipment of vessels: For coal for steamers and ships' use, including expenses of trans-
portation; storage, labor, hemp, wire, and other materials for the manufacture of rope;
hides, cordage, canvas, leather; iron for manufacture of cables. anchors, and galleys; con-
densing and boat-detaching apparatus; cables, anchors, furniture, hose, bake-ovens, and
cooking-stoves; life-rafts; heating-apparatus for receiving-ships; and for the payment of
labor in equipping vessels, and manufacture of articles in the several navy-yards
For contingent expenses of the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, namely: For expenses
of recruiting, freight, and transportation of stores, transportation of enlisted men, printing,
advertising, telegraphing, books and models, stationery, express charges, internal altera-
tions, fixtures, and appliances, in equipment-buildings at navy-yards, foreign postage, car
tickets, ferriage, and ice, apprehension of deserters, assistance to vessels in distress, and
good-conduct badges for enlisted men

BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS.

For general maintenance of yards and docks, namely: For general expenses of the Bureau
Carried forward

$6,574, 000 00

6,000 00

5, 000 00

3, 000 00

5, 000 00 5, 000 00

20,000 00

2,000 00 1,000 00

2,500 00

4,000 00

60,000 00

5,000 00 2,800 00

6,300 00

10, 000 00 1,200 00 3,000 00

20, 000 00 3,000 00

1,500 00

75, 000 00 250,000 00

10,000 00 5,000 00

12, 000 00 15, 000 00

25,000 00 25, 000 00 15, 000 00 1,000 00 1,000 00

1,250,000 00

75, 000 00

8,499, 300 00

Appropriations, &c.—Continued.

Object of appropriation.

Amount.

Brought forward..

of Yards and Docks: Freight and transportation of materials and stores; printing, stationery, and advertising, including the commandant's office; books, models, maps, and drawing; purchase and repair of fire-engines; machinery, and patent rights to use the same; repairs on steam-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; 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 fires; lights; fire-engines and ! apparatus; incidental labor at navy-yards; water-tax, and for toll and ferriages; pay of the watchmen in the navy-yards; and for awnings and packing-boxes For contingent expenses that may arise at navy-yards and stations

At the Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For superintendent, $600; steward, $480; matron, $360; cook, $240; assistant cook, $168; chief laundress, $192; three laundresses, at $168 each; eight scrubbers and waiters, at $168 each; six laborers, at $240 each; stable. keeper and driver, $360; master-at-arms, $480; corpora!, $300; barber, $360; carpenter, $45; furnaces, grates, and ranges, $300; water-rent and gas, $1,800; increase of library and car-tickets, $250; furniture, and repairing of the same, $1,750; cemetery and burial expenses, $200; repairs and preservation, $1,000; and for support of beneficiaries, $40,000; in all, $52,973; which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval-pension fund..

BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

For support of the medical department for surgeons' necessaries for vessels in commission,
navy-yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and Coast Survey..

For necessary repairs of naval laboratory, hospitals, and appendages, including roads, wharves,
outhouses, steam-heating apparatus, sidewalks, fences, gardens, and farms..
For the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals and naval laboratory........

For contingent expenses of the Bureau, freight on medical stores, transportation of insane
patients to the Government hospital, advertising, telegraphing, purchase of books, expenses
attending the naval medical board of examiners, purchase and repair of wagons, harness;
purchase and feed of horses, cows; trees, garden-tools, and seeds....

$8,499,300 00

760, 000 00 40, 000 00

52, 973 00

30,000 00

20, 000 00 35, 000 00

25,000 00

BUREAU OF PROVISIONS AND CLOTHING.

For provisions for the officers, seamen, and marines
For purchase of water for ships.....

For contingent expenses: For freight and transportation to foreign and home stations; can-
dles, fuel; interior alterations and fixtures in inspection-buildings; tools, and repairing the
same at eight inspections; special watchmen in eight inspections; books and blanks; station-
ery; telegrams; advertising; postage and express-charges; tolls, ferriages, and car-
tickets; ice; and incidental labor not chargeable to other appropriations

BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR.

For preservation of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; labor in navy-yards aud on foreign stations; preservation of materials; purchase of tools; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat, and for general care and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; incidental expenses, namely, advertising and foreign postages..

For salaries of subagents and watchmen and miscellaneous expenses incurred in the protec tion of timber-lands

BUREAU OF STEAM-ENGINEERING.

For repairs and preservation of boilers and machinery on naval vessels, and for fitting, repair, and preservation of yard machinery and tools, and for labor in navy-yards and stations not before included, and for incidental expenses, and for purchase and preservation of oils, coal, iron, and all materials and stores; and for completing and erecting on board vessels compound engines with boilers

NAVAL ACADEMY.

For pay of professors and others: For two professors, (heads of departments,) namely, one of drawing, and one of English studies, history, and law, $2,500 each; three professors, namely, one of mathematics, (assistant,) one of chemistry, and one of French, at $2,200 each; twelve assistant professors, namely, four of French, one of Spanish, three of English studies, history, and law, one of mathematics, one of astronomy, and two of drawing, at $1,800 each; sword-master, at $1,500, and two assistants, at $1,000 each; boxing-master and gymnast, at $1,200, and assistant librarian, at $1,400; three clerks to superintendent, at $1,200, $1,000, and $800, respectively; one clerk to commandant of midshipmen, $1,000; one clerk to pay. master, $1,000; one apothecary, $750; one commissary, $288; one cook, $325.50; one messenger to superintendent, $600; one armorer, $529.50; one gunner's mate, $469.50, and one quarter-gunner, $409.50; one coxswain, $469.50; three seamen in the department of seamanship, at $349.50 each; one band-master, $528; eighteen first-class musicians, at $348 each; seven second-class musicians, at $300 each; two drummers and one fifer, (first-class,) at $348 each; in all..

Pay of watchmen and others: Captain of the watch, at $2.50 per day, $912.50; four watchmen, at $2.25 per day, $3,285; foreman of the gas and steam-heating works, at $5 per diem, $1,825; ten attendants at gas and steam-heating works of academy, and at school-ships, one at $3.50, one at $3, and eight at $2.50 per day each, $9,672; three joiners, two painters,

1,244, 000 00 35,000 00

50, 000 00

3,300,000 00 5,000 00

1,800, 000 00

58,826 00

Carried forward

15,955, 099 00

Appropriations, &c.-Continued.

Object of appropriation.

Amount.

Brought forward

and two masons, at $3.50 per day each, $8,942.50; one tinner, one gas-fitter, and one black-
smith, at $3.50 per day each, $3,832.50; in all.

Pay of mechanics and others: One mechanic at workshop, at $2.25 per diem, $821.25; one
master-laborer, to keep public grounds in order, at $2.28 per diem, $832.20; fourteen labor-
ers to assist in same, three at $2 per diem each, and eleven at $1.75 per diem each, $9,216.25;
one laborer to superintend quarters of cadet-midshipmen, public grounds, &c., at
$2.28 per diem, $832.20; four attendants at recitation-rooms, library, chapel, and offices, at
$20 per month each, $960; twenty servants to keep in order and attend to quarters of cadet-
midshipmen, public buildings, &c., at $20 per month each, $4,800; in all..
For pay of employés in the department of steam-enginery, for machinists, boiler-makers, and
others

For necessary repairs of public buildings, pavements, wharves, and walls inclosing the
grounds of the Naval Academy, for improvements and furniture and fixtures..
For fuel, and for heating and lighting the academy and school-ships....
For general maintenance..

MARINE CORPS.

For pay of officers of the Marine Corps, and for pay of non-commissioned officers, musicians, and others of the corps

For the civil force of the Marine Corps...

For pay of one thousand five hundred privates, and no more..

For provisions

For clothing...

For fuel

........

For military stores, namely: For pay of mechanics, repair of arms, purchase of accouterments, ordnance stores, flags, drums, fifes, and other instruments

For transportation of troops, and for expenses of recruiting.

For transportation of officers traveling without troops.

For repairs of barracks, and rent of offices where there are no public buildings.

For forage for public horses and horses belonging to field and staff officers.

For payment of discharged soldiers for clothing not drawn..

For hire of quarters for officers where there are no public quarters

For contingencies, namely: Freight; ferriage; toll; cartage; wharfage; purchase and repair of boats; labor; burial of deceased marines; stationery; telegraphing; apprehension of deserters; oil, candles, gas; repairs of gas and water fixtures; water-rent; barrack-furniture; furniture for officers' quarters; bed-sacks; wrapping-paper; oil-cloth; crash; rope; twine; spades; shovels; axes; picks; carpenters' tools; repairs to fire-engines; purchase and repair of engine-hose; purchase of lumber for benches, mess-tables, bunks; repairs to public carryall; purchase and repair of harness; purchase and repair of hand-carts and wheel-barrows; scavengering; purchase and repair of galleys, cooking-stoves, ranges, stoves where there are no grates; gravel for parade-grounds; repair of pumps; brushes; brooms; buckets; paving; and for other purposes

Total...

By the act making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic service of the Government
for the year ending June 30, 1876, and for other purposes.

For salaries of envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Great Britain, France,
Germany, and Russia, at $17,500 each

For salaries of envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Spain, Austria, Brazil,
Mexico, Japan, China, and Italy, at $12,000 each.

For salaries of envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Chili and Peru, at
$10,000 each

For ministers resident at Portugal, Switzerland, Greece, Belgium, Netherlands. Denmark, Sweden and Norway, Turkey, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, Venezuela, Hawaiian Islands, and the Argentine Republic, at $7,500 each

For minister resident accredited to Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, Salvador, and Nicaragua to reside at the place that the President may select in any one of the states named, as by the act making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic service approved May 22, 1872...

For minister resident at Uruguay, also accredited to Paraguay.

$15, 955, 099 00

28,469 50

17,461 90

8,760 00

14,000 00

15,000 00 41,600 00

319, 760 00 10,000 00 270, 000 00 100, 000 00

100, 000 00 30,856 00

9, 000 00 5,000 00 5, 000 00 10,000 00 5, 000 00 20, 000 00 16,000 00

20, 000 00

17, 001 006 40

70, 000 00

84, 000 00

20, 000 00

105, 000 00

10, 000 00

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For salaries of the secretaries to the legations at London, Paris, Berlin, and Saint Petersburg, at $2,625 each..

40,000 00

For salary of the secretary to the legation at Japan.

10,500 00

For the secretaries to the legations at Austria, Brazil, Italy, Mexico, and Spain, at $1,800 each

2,500 00

For the second secretaries to the legations at Great Britain, France, and Germany, at $2,000 each

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To enable Robert C. Schenck, minister to Great Britain, to employ a private amanuensis, according to the joint resolution approved January 11, 1871..

2,500 00

2,500 00

Carried forward

391,500 00

Appropriations, &c.-Continued.

Object of appropriation.

Amount.

Brought forward..

For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse proper, and of all the missions abroad..
For consuls general, consuls, vice-consuls, commercial agents, and thirteen consular clerks,
$333,200, namely...

$391,500 00 100, 000 00

333, 200 00

CLASS I

GREAT BRITAIN.

Hong Kong.

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.

Honolulu.

CLASS II.

CHINA.

Fowchow; Hankow; Canton; Amoy; Chin Kiang; Tien-Tsin; Ningpo; Swatow.

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