Thirtieth Congress,
thiSecond Session,
BE IT ENACTED
By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in
Congress Assembled.

That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the naval service for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty:

For pay of commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, including the engineer corps of the navy, two million four hundred and sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars;

For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishments at the several yards and stations, seventy-three thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars;

For provisions for commission, warrant and petty officers and seamen, including engineers and marines, attached to vessels for sea-service, six hundred and eighty-six thousand two hundred dollars;

For surgeon’s necessaries and appliances for the sick and hurt of the navy, including marine corps, thirty eight thousand five hundred dollars;

For repair of vessels in ordinary, and for wear and tear of vessels in commission, including fuel for steamers, and the purchase of hemp, one million four hundred and thirty-six thousand dollars;

For the construction at the national observatory of a magnetic clock under the superintendence of D^r Locke, and to pay him for the free use by the United States of his invention of said clock, and of all improvements that he may make thereto, ten thousand dollars;

For paying the unsatisfied demands upon the fund for continuing the survey of the coast on the Gulf of Mexico from Apalachicola Bay to the Mississippi, four thousand and seventy dollars, to be taken out of the balance of the fund appropriated for that purpose, by act of the third of March eighteen hundred and forty one, and ^12^ which has been carried to the credit of the surplus fund.

For ordnance and ordnance stores, and small arms, including incidental expenses, two hundred and fifty-seven thousand dollars;

For nautical books, maps, charts, instruments and all other expenses of the hydrographical office, fifty-eight thousand ^6^ two hundred and sixty dollars;

For contingent expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, viz: freight and transportation; printing and stationery; advertising 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 maintenance of horses and oxen and driving teams; carts, timber wheels, and the purchase and repair of workmen’s tools; postage of public letters; 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; stationery 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, and assistance rendered to vessels in distress, five hundred and eight thousand dollars;

For support of the naval school at Annapolis, Maryland,

twenty-eight thousand two hundred dollars;

For transportation of the United States mail between New York and Liverpool, between New York and New Orleans, Havana and Chagres, and between Panama and some point in the Territory of Oregon, eight hundred and seventy-four ^6^ thousand six hundred dollars;

For the construction, extension, and completion of the following objects, and for the current repairs at the several navy yards, viz;

At Portsmouth.

For completing powder magazine and smithery I; for constructing commander’s quarters, timber shed number twenty-eight, store house number thirty, dock wall west of timber sheds; for paving timber shed number twenty-seven, wharf and filling in rear of number four; for pitch-house, engine-house, and filling in low grounds; and for repairs of all kinds, fifty-four thousand six hundred and twenty dollars and fifty-three cents.

At Boston.

Towards construction of sail-loft and cordage store; for stone wall and filling in southwest of ship-house H; for coal-house near blacksmith shop, grading and paving avenue sixty-three; for anchor hogs and water tank; and for repairs of all kinds, one hundred and thirty two thousand two hundred and twenty-one dollars and fifty cents.

At New York.

For two officers’ houses, cob dock, dredging channels, filling in land purchased between navy yard and hospital, fence on Flushing avenue, filling in timber pond, paving and gutters

to avenue, and for repairs of all kinds, ninety-five thousand dollars.

At Philadelphia.

For two houses for officers; for foundation and slip of ship-house G; extension of wharves number one, two, and three, to port warden’s line; for timber shed D; for raising smiths’ shop, and for repairs of all kinds, seventy-six thousand and twenty-seven dollars.

At Washington.

For boiler and furnace for small steam hammer, and boilers for steam engines, number one and three; for building stone wharf; for large slide lathes, planing machines, shafting, drums boring, slotting and drilling machines, and small lathes; and repairs of all kinds, forty four thousand five hundred and thirty dollars.

At Norfolk.

For slip number forty-eight; continuation of quay walls digging out timber dock, grading, paving, gutters, filling low grounds, brick stables, water cisterns, engine house to smithery, coal-house, and repairs of all kinds, one hundred and five thousand eight hundred and forty-four dollars.

At Pensacola.

For completing permanent wharf, smith and machine shop, timber shed and mould loft, water tank, lime-house, paint-shop dredging machine and lighters, and yard boats; for brick kitchen to officers’ houses, (eleven,) six first class, and six second class houses, and repairs of all kinds, two hundred thousand and thirteen dollars, and fifty-five cents.

At Memphis.

For saw-mill, one wing of store-house; to complete building for officers, blacksmith’s shop, and joiner’s shop; for fire engine, excavation and embankment, piling on river bank, wall to enclose yard, guard-house, and enclosure to commandant’s house, pavements, drains and gutters, and repairs of all kinds, one hundred and thirty-six thousand five hundred and fifty-four dollars.

At Sacket’s Harbor.

For stables and fencing, and repairs of all kinds, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For Hospitals, viz:

At Boston.—For repairs to road, fences, wall, white-washing and general repairs, one thousand five hundred dollars.

At New York.—For completing small-pox building, finishing sewer, dead house, grading, brick barn, and stable, and general repairs, eleven thousand three hundred dollars.

At Washington.—For general repairs, one hundred and fifty dollars.

At Norfolk.—For general repairs, one thousand dollars.

At Pensacola.—For repairs of hospital buildings, medical officers’ quarters, out buildings, fences, and general repairs, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For magazines, viz:

At Boston, one hundred and fifty dollars;

At New York, two hundred dollars;

At Washington, one hundred and fifty dollars;

At Norfolk, one hundred and fifty dollars.

For stone and floating dry docks, viz:

For completing the stone dry dock building at New York, four hundred and ninety thousand dollars;

For the construction of the floating dry dock to be built at Kittery, two hundred thousand dollars;

For the construction of the floating dry dock to be built at Philadelphia, two hundred thousand dollars;

For the construction of the floating dry dock to be built at ^9^ Pensacola, two hundred fifty thousand dollars.

Marine Corps.

For pay of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, privates and servants, serving on shore, subsistence of officers, and pay for undrawn clothing, two hundred and nine ^thousand & twelve dollars. (Provided, That the President of the United States may substitute marines for landsmen, in the ^15^ Navy, as far as he may deem it expedient to promote the efficiency of the service.)^

For provisions for marines, serving on shore, thirty thousand six hundred and seventy-four dollars and eighty cents;

For clothing, forty-two thousand nine hundred and forty-eight dollars;

For fuel, thirteen thousand one hundred and fifty-eight dollars;

For military stores, repair of arms, pay of armorers, accoutrements, ordnance stores, flags, drums, fifes, and musical instruments, six thousand dollars;

For transportation of officers and troops, and expenses of recruiting, eight thousand dollars;

For repairs of barracks, and rent of temporary barracks

and offices for commanding officers, six thousand dollars;

For contingencies, namely; freight, ferriage, cartage, wharfage, compensation to judges advocate per diem, for attending courts martial, courts of inquiry, and for constant labor, house rent in lieu of quarters, burial of deceased marines, printing, stationary, forage, postage, pursuit of deserters, candles, oil, straw, furniture, bed sacks, spades, axes, shovels, picks, carpenter’s tools, keep of a horse for the messenger, pay of matron, washerwoman, and porter at the hospital head-quarters, eighteen thousand one hundred and eighty-four dollars;

For meteorological observations to be conducted under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, two thousand dollars.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That the Secretary of the Navy be directed to detail three suitable vessels of the Navy in testing new routes and perfecting the discoveries made by Lieutenant Maury in the course of his investigations of the winds and currents of the ocean; and to cause the vessels of the Navy to co-operate in procuring materials for such investigations in so far as said co-operation may not be incompatible with the public interests; Provided, That the same can be accomplished without any additional expense.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War,

be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, in conformity with the recommendation contained in his annual report, to transfer to the Navy Department, such vessels now belonging to the War Department, as in his judgment will promote the public interests.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this act, all prize money, arising from captures made by the vessels of the Navy of the United States, received by the Marshal who shall make sale of such prizes, shall within sixty days after such sale, deposit the net proceeds after paying all charges as now provided by law, into the Treasury of the United States, and all money now in the hands of prize agents, shall also be deposited in the Treasury to be distributed as now provided by law; such part thereof as may belong to the officers and crews of the vessels of the Navy, shall be paid to them under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, and the law authorizing the appointment of prize agents is hereby repealed.