Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 219.
(No Report.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
February 9, 1848.
Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
state of the Union.
Mr. Vinton, from the Committee on Ways and Means, reported
the following bill:
A BILL
Making appropriations for the Naval Service, for the year
ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred
and forty-nine.

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sentatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, That the following sums be appropriated for
the naval service, for the year ending June thirtieth, one
thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, out of any unap-
propriated money in the treasury, in addition to the
unexpended balances of former appropriations for the
naval service.
For pay of commission, warrant, and petty officers,
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and forty eight dollars.
For pay of superintendants, naval constructors, and
all the civil establishments at the several navy yards,
seventy-four thousand two hundred and twenty dollars.
For provisions for commission, warrant, and petty
officers, and seamen, including engineers and marines,
attached to vessels for sea service, nine hundred and
three thousand eight hundred and thirteen dollars.
For surgeons’ necessaries and appliances for the
sick and hurt of the navy, including the marine corps
thirty-eight thousand dollars.
For increase, repair, armament, and equipment for
the navy, including wear and tear of vessels in commission,
coal for steamers, purchase of hemp, and one million, two
hundred thousand dollars, for completing four first class
steamers, two millions nine hundred and seventy-five
thousand two hundred and eighty-one dollars.
For ordnance, and ordnance stores, including inci-
dental expenses, two hundred and eighteen thousand four
hundred and twenty dollars.
For nautical books, maps, charts, instruments, bind-
ing and repairing the same, and all expenses of the
hydrographical office, thirty thousand dollars.
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maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire
engines and machinery; repair of and attending on steam
engines in yards; purchase and support of horses and
oxen, and driving teams; carts, timber wheels, and the
purchase and repair of workmen’s tools; postage of public
letter; furniture for government houses; fuel, oil, and
candles for navy yards and shore stations; cleaning and
clearing up yards; watchmen, and incidental labor not
chargeable to any other appropriation; labor attending
the delivery of stores and supplies on foreign stations;
wharfage, dockage, and rent; travelling expenses of
officers; funeral expenses; store and office rent; station-
ery, and fuel to navy agents, and store keepers; flags,
awnings, and packing boxes; premiums and other
expenses of recruiting, apprehending deserters; per diem
pay to persons attending courts martial, and courts of
inquiry, or other service authorized by law; pay to judge
advocates; pilotage and towage of vessels; assistance
rendered to vessels in distress, seven hundred thousand
dollars.
For contingent expenses for objects not hereinbefore
enumerated, two thousand dollars.
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several navy yards, viz:
AT PORTSMOUTH.
For completing quay wall and wharf, and wharf
number one; wall west side of ship house number four,
and filling in; timber shed opposite number seven, and
addition to smithery I; brick powder magazine, engine,
fixtures, &c., for blowing fires to forges; and for repairs
of all kinds, fifty thousand five hundred and fifty-one
dollars.
AT BOSTON.
For timber shed number thirty-seven, and pier wharf
at angle number fifty-nine: coal house near dry dock, and
pier wharf in rear of carpenter’s and joiner’s shop; for
eight knee docks, and tracks for stowage of guns in gun
park; commandant’s office; for completing brick barn;
water tank, and repairs of all kinds, ninety-seven thousand
three hundred and fifty-one dollars.
AT NEW YORK.
For iron and copper store, cooperage, cob wharf, and
filling in timber pond; dredging channels and wharf in
front of hospital lands; steam engine in smithery, steam
pipes, &c., and cistern for east reservoir; paving, and
flagging, and granite skids, and platforms for cannon,
and for repairs of all kinds, one hundred and six thousand
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AT PHILADELPHIA.
For two officers’ houses; removing and extending
ship house G; completing wharf number two; dredging
machine; dispensary and temporary hospital, and repairs
of all kinds, eleven thousand five hundred dollars.
AT WASHINGTON.
For chain cable forges, and fitting part of number
eleven for a boiler shop; steam hammer for smith’s shop,
and alteration in hydraulic proving machine; converting
joiner’s shop in number twelve to mould loft, and steam
hammer in place of old tilt hammer; ordnance work
shops, and extending brass foundry; towards filling up
timber dock; extending blacksmith’s shop and iron store
under N and finishing shop for smithery; converting old
foundry into stables, and for repairs of all kinds, thirty-
two thousand four hundred and eighteen dollars.
AT NORFOLK.
For extension of quay walls; completing slip forty-
eight; timber dock walls, and for the store house number
nineteen; brick stables; steam hammer and engine;
brick gun place, coal house and landing wharf; culvert
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one hundred and thirty-six dollars.
AT PENSACOLA.
For two third class officers’ houses; completing tim-
ber shed number twenty-six; dredge machine scows;
four warrant officers’ houses, kitchens and guard house;
coal house; paint shop and rail tracks; permanent wharf;
drain in rear of officers’ quarters; wharf and rail track in
front of store house number twenty-six; paving, gra-
ding planting trees, and levelling, and for repairs of all
kinds, one hundred and fifty-nine thousand six hundred
and twenty-five dollars.
AT MEMPHIS.
For completing commandant’s house and store house;
tarring house; engine and machinery for saw mill; build-
ing slip, timber shed, and boat builder’s shop, and wall to
enclose yard; embankment and excavations; machinery
for rope walk, and for repairs of all kinds, one hundred
and seventy-four thousand and thirty-eight dollars.
AT SACKETT’S HARBOR.
For completion of officers’ quarters, and for repairs
of all kinds, two thousand dollars.
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whitewashing, two thousand eight hundred dollars.
At New York—For purchase from the city of New
of water—front to hospital lands; for surgeon’s house;
paving, guttering, and completing sewer, and for cur-
rent repairs, twenty thousand and fifty-seven dollars.
At Washington.—For current repairs, one hundred
dollars.
At Norfolk.—For repairs of galleries, cells, bath
house, fence, and surgeon’s house, one thousand four hun-
dred dollars.
At Pensacola.—For bricking up ponds and drain;
repairs to hospital, and for current repairs, six thousand
three hundred and seventy-eight dollars.
FOR MAGAZINES, viz:
At Boston, five hundred dollars.
At New York, five hundred dollars.
At Washington, two hundred dollars.
At Norfolk, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-
eight dollars.
MARINE CORPS.
For pay officers, non-commissioned officers, mu-
sicians, privates, and servants, serving on shore, subsist-
ence of officers, and pay for undrawn clothing, two hun-
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thousand dollars.
For clothing, eighty one thousand four hundred and
ninety two dollars.
For fuel, eleven thousand three hundred and thirty-four
dollars.
For military stores, repair of arms, pay of armorers
accoutrements, ordnance stores, flags, drums, fifes, and
musical instruments, eight thousand dollars.
For transportation of officers and troops, and for
expenses of recruiting, twelve thousand dollars.
For contingencies, viz:
Freight, ferriage, toll, cartage, wharfage, compensa-
tion to judges’ advocate, per diem for attending courts
material, courts of inquiry, and for constant labor; house
rent, in lieu of quarters; burial of deceased marines;
printing, stationery, forage, postage, pursuit of deserters;
candles; oil; straw; furniture; bed sacks; spades;
axes; shovels; picks; carpenter’s tools; keep of a
horse for messenger; pay of the matron; washer-
woman; and porter at hospital head quarters, twenty-
two thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, on the appli-
cation of the Secretary of the Navy, the President of the
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transfer funds from one head of appropriation to another
head of the appropriations made for the naval service:
this authority of transfer to remain so long as the war
with Mexico shall continue, and no longer; and in all
cases of such transfer, a special account of the moneys
transferred, and their application shall be laid before
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H. R. 219.
(Miscellaneous Document No. 71.)
April 7, 1848.
Mr. Vinton, from the Committee on Ways and Means, to
whom was re-committed the bill (H. R. No. 219) “making
appropriations for the naval service for the year ending
the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-nine,”
reported the same back with the following amendments:
AMENDMENTS.

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superintendent of the naval observatory at Washington
city, who shall be a captain, commander, or lieutenant
in the navy, three thousand dollars, which shall be the
salary per annum of said superintendent. And the pro-
vision in the act, entitled “An act making appropriations
for the naval service for the year ending the thirtieth of
June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight,” which is
in these words, viz: “including three thousand dollars for
pay of the superintendent, who shall be either a captain,
commander, or lieutenant in the navy,” shall be construed
to apply to the superintendent of said naval observatory,
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observations, to be conducted under the direction of the
Secretary of the Navy, two thousand dollars.
Between lines 59 and 60 insert: For payments
to be made to the assignees of the contract made
with A. G. Sloo, for the transportation of the mail from
New York to New Orleans, and from Havana to
Chagres, two hundred and ninety thousand dollars. And
the Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed to ad-
vance to the said assignees, for the purpose of enabling
them to finish their steamships, after they shall have been
launched, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars per
month on each ship: Provided, The sums so advanced shall
not exceed the amount of one year’s compensation, as
stipulated for in said contract, to be secured by a lien on
said ships, in such manner as the Secretary of the Navy
may require: And provided, also, That the moneys so ad-
vanced shall be faithfully expended in finishing said ships
to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Navy.
Between lines 88 and 89 insert: For the purchase,
by the Secretary of the Navy, of the land, above and
under water, bounded by Flushing avenue in the city of
Brooklyn, in the State of New York, the United States
navy yard, hospital grounds, and the Wallabout bay, to
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applied to the payment of the purchase money until a good
and perfect title is secured to the United States for the said
land and its appurtenances.
Between lines 122 and 123 insert: For construction,
in part, of a new timber shed at said navy yard, fifty
thousand dollars.
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H. R. 219.
(Report No. 470.)
April 30, 1848.
Mr. Stanton, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported
the following amendment to the bill (H. R. 219) “making
appropriations for the naval service for the year ending
the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-nine,”
which was committed to the Committee of the Whole
House on the state of the Union:
AMENDMENT
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lars,” and insert the following in lieu thereof: “thirty-five
thousand dollars, and the Secretary of the Navy is hereby
directed to expend five thousand dollars, or so much
thereof as may be necessary, in causing the observations
to be made, which have been recently recommended to
him by the American Philosophical Society and the Acad-
emy of Arts and Sciences.”

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be appropriated for the naval service, for the year ending June thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, out of any unap- propriated money in the treasury, in addition to the unexpended balances of former appropriations for the naval service. For pay of commission, warrant, and petty officers, and seamen, including the engineer corps of the navy, two
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11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35	millions nine hundred and eighteen thousand nine hundred and forty eight dollars. For pay of superintendants, naval constructors, and all the civil establishments at the several navy yards, seventy-four thousand two hundred and twenty dollars. For provisions for commission, warrant, and petty officers, and seamen, including engineers and marines, attached to vessels for sea service, nine hundred and three thousand eight hundred and thirteen dollars. For surgeons’ necessaries and appliances for the sick and hurt of the navy, including the marine corps thirty-eight thousand dollars. For increase, repair, armament, and equipment for the navy, including wear and tear of vessels in commission, coal for steamers, purchase of hemp, and one million, two hundred thousand dollars, for completing four first class steamers, two millions nine hundred and seventy-five thousand two hundred and eighty-one dollars. For ordnance, and ordnance stores, including inci- dental expenses, two hundred and eighteen thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. For nautical books, maps, charts, instruments, bind- ing and repairing the same, and all expenses of the hydrographical office, thirty thousand dollars. For contingent expenses that may accrue for the
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36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60	following purposes, viz: freight, and transportation, print- ing and stationary; advertizing in newspapers; books, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines and machinery; repair of and attending on steam engines in yards; purchase and support of horses and oxen, and driving teams; carts, timber wheels, and the purchase and repair of workmen’s tools; postage of public letter; furniture for government houses; fuel, oil, and candles for navy yards and shore stations; cleaning and clearing up yards; watchmen, and incidental labor not chargeable to any other appropriation; labor attending the delivery of stores and supplies on foreign stations; wharfage, dockage, and rent; travelling expenses of officers; funeral expenses; store and office rent; station- ery, and fuel to navy agents, and store keepers; flags, awnings, and packing boxes; premiums and other expenses of recruiting, apprehending deserters; per diem pay to persons attending courts martial, and courts of inquiry, or other service authorized by law; pay to judge advocates; pilotage and towage of vessels; assistance rendered to vessels in distress, seven hundred thousand dollars. For contingent expenses for objects not hereinbefore enumerated, two thousand dollars. For the construction, extension, and completion of
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61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 6	the following objects, and for the current repairs at the several navy yards, viz: AT PORTSMOUTH. For completing quay wall and wharf, and wharf number one; wall west side of ship house number four, and filling in; timber shed opposite number seven, and addition to smithery I; brick powder magazine, engine, fixtures, &c., for blowing fires to forges; and for repairs of all kinds, fifty thousand five hundred and fifty-one dollars. AT BOSTON. For timber shed number thirty-seven, and pier wharf at angle number fifty-nine: coal house near dry dock, and pier wharf in rear of carpenter’s and joiner’s shop; for eight knee docks, and tracks for stowage of guns in gun park; commandant’s office; for completing brick barn; water tank, and repairs of all kinds, ninety-seven thousand three hundred and fifty-one dollars. AT NEW YORK. For iron and copper store, cooperage, cob wharf, and filling in timber pond; dredging channels and wharf in front of hospital lands; steam engine in smithery, steam pipes, &c., and cistern for east reservoir; paving, and flagging, and granite skids, and platforms for cannon, and for repairs of all kinds, one hundred and six thousand dollars.
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87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110	For the dry dock, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. AT PHILADELPHIA. For two officers’ houses; removing and extending ship house G; completing wharf number two; dredging machine; dispensary and temporary hospital, and repairs of all kinds, eleven thousand five hundred dollars. AT WASHINGTON. For chain cable forges, and fitting part of number eleven for a boiler shop; steam hammer for smith’s shop, and alteration in hydraulic proving machine; converting joiner’s shop in number twelve to mould loft, and steam hammer in place of old tilt hammer; ordnance work shops, and extending brass foundry; towards filling up timber dock; extending blacksmith’s shop and iron store under N and finishing shop for smithery; converting old foundry into stables, and for repairs of all kinds, thirty- two thousand four hundred and eighteen dollars. AT NORFOLK. For extension of quay walls; completing slip forty- eight; timber dock walls, and for the store house number nineteen; brick stables; steam hammer and engine; brick gun place, coal house and landing wharf; culvert drill press; punching machine and cutting shears, and for
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111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134	repairs of all kinds, one hundred and forty-four thousand one hundred and thirty-six dollars. AT PENSACOLA. For two third class officers’ houses; completing tim- ber shed number twenty-six; dredge machine scows; four warrant officers’ houses, kitchens and guard house; coal house; paint shop and rail tracks; permanent wharf; drain in rear of officers’ quarters; wharf and rail track in front of store house number twenty-six; paving, gra- ding planting trees, and levelling, and for repairs of all kinds, one hundred and fifty-nine thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars. AT MEMPHIS. For completing commandant’s house and store house; tarring house; engine and machinery for saw mill; build- ing slip, timber shed, and boat builder’s shop, and wall to enclose yard; embankment and excavations; machinery for rope walk, and for repairs of all kinds, one hundred and seventy-four thousand and thirty-eight dollars. AT SACKETT’S HARBOR. For completion of officers’ quarters, and for repairs of all kinds, two thousand dollars. FOR HOSPITALS, viz: At Boston.—For repairing hospital buildings and
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135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159	dependencies, fences and furnaces, painting, glazing, and whitewashing, two thousand eight hundred dollars. At New York—For purchase from the city of New of water—front to hospital lands; for surgeon’s house; paving, guttering, and completing sewer, and for cur- rent repairs, twenty thousand and fifty-seven dollars. At Washington.—For current repairs, one hundred dollars. At Norfolk.—For repairs of galleries, cells, bath house, fence, and surgeon’s house, one thousand four hun- dred dollars. At Pensacola.—For bricking up ponds and drain; repairs to hospital, and for current repairs, six thousand three hundred and seventy-eight dollars. FOR MAGAZINES, viz: At Boston, five hundred dollars. At New York, five hundred dollars. At Washington, two hundred dollars. At Norfolk, one thousand nine hundred and thirty- eight dollars. MARINE CORPS. For pay officers, non-commissioned officers, mu- sicians, privates, and servants, serving on shore, subsist- ence of officers, and pay for undrawn clothing, two hun- dred and eighty-three thousand dollars.
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160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 1 2 3	For provisions for marines, serving on shore, sixty- thousand dollars. For clothing, eighty one thousand four hundred and ninety two dollars. For fuel, eleven thousand three hundred and thirty-four dollars. For military stores, repair of arms, pay of armorers accoutrements, ordnance stores, flags, drums, fifes, and musical instruments, eight thousand dollars. For transportation of officers and troops, and for expenses of recruiting, twelve thousand dollars. For contingencies, viz: Freight, ferriage, toll, cartage, wharfage, compensa- tion to judges’ advocate, per diem for attending courts material, courts of inquiry, and for constant labor; house rent, in lieu of quarters; burial of deceased marines; printing, stationery, forage, postage, pursuit of deserters; candles; oil; straw; furniture; bed sacks; spades; axes; shovels; picks; carpenter’s tools; keep of a horse for messenger; pay of the matron; washer- woman; and porter at hospital head quarters, twenty- two thousand dollars. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, on the appli- cation of the Secretary of the Navy, the President of the United States, be authorized, when, in his opinion, the
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4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11	contingencies of the public service may require it, to transfer funds from one head of appropriation to another head of the appropriations made for the naval service: this authority of transfer to remain so long as the war with Mexico shall continue, and no longer; and in all cases of such transfer, a special account of the moneys transferred, and their application shall be laid before Congress at each session, previous to its adjournment.

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14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38	Between lines 59 and 60 insert: For meteorological observations, to be conducted under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, two thousand dollars. Between lines 59 and 60 insert: For payments to be made to the assignees of the contract made with A. G. Sloo, for the transportation of the mail from New York to New Orleans, and from Havana to Chagres, two hundred and ninety thousand dollars. And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed to ad- vance to the said assignees, for the purpose of enabling them to finish their steamships, after they shall have been launched, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars per month on each ship: Provided, The sums so advanced shall not exceed the amount of one year’s compensation, as stipulated for in said contract, to be secured by a lien on said ships, in such manner as the Secretary of the Navy may require: And provided, also, That the moneys so ad- vanced shall be faithfully expended in finishing said ships to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Navy. Between lines 88 and 89 insert: For the purchase, by the Secretary of the Navy, of the land, above and under water, bounded by Flushing avenue in the city of Brooklyn, in the State of New York, the United States navy yard, hospital grounds, and the Wallabout bay, to the channel, two hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars:
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39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46	Provided, That no part of said sum of money shall be applied to the payment of the purchase money until a good and perfect title is secured to the United States for the said land and its appurtenances. Between lines 122 and 123 insert: For construction, in part, of a new timber shed at said navy yard, fifty thousand dollars. At the end of line 137, add the word “York.”