ThirtiethCongress,
SecondSession,
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 which ^12^ 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 two ^6^ 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,

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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 thousand^6^ 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 hoys 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

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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 Pensacola ^9^, two hundred and 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 Navy ^15^, 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

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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, stationery, 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,

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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.

In Senate of the United States,
March 2, 1849

Resolved, That the Bill from the House of Representatives entitled
“An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending the 30^th of June, 1850,” do pass, with the following

Amendments;

In Page 8.

1Strike out lines 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15.

2Strike out the fourth section of the bill.

Add to the bill the following sections:

3Sec.And be it further enacted, That, in lieu of the pay allowed by law, a purser, when, by order of the Secretary of the Navy, attached to and doing duty at the naval station of California, shall receive the same pay as if attached to a frigate in commission for sea service: Provided, That not more than one purser shall, at the same time, be attached to the said station on general or special duty.

4Sec.And be it further enacted, That the retention of one dollar per month from the pay of the musicians and privates of the marine corps directed by the act of second march eighteen hundred and thirty three be extended as in the case of the musicians and privates of the army, to the whole term of their enlistment.

5Sec.And be it further enacted, That the Engineers in the navy shall hereafter receive the following pay viz

6Chief Engineers, on duty, first five years fifteen hundred dollars

7Chief Engineers on duty after five years two thousand dollars

8Chief Engineers on leave first five years twelve hundred-dollars

Chief Engineers on leave after five years fourteen hundred dollars

First assistant Engineers on duty one thousand dollars

First assistant Engineers on leave eight hundred and fifty dollars

Second assistant Engineers on duty eight hundred dollars

Second assistant Engineers on leave six hundred dollars

Third assistant Engineers on duty six hundred dollars

Third assistant Engineers on leave four hundred dollars

9Sec And be it further enacted That the Secretary of the navy be and hereby is authorized so to modify the contract entered into by him with E. K. Collins and his associates, for the transportation of the mail between New York and Liverpool, under direction of

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the act of congress approved march third eighteen hundred and forty seven, as to postpone the commencement of the mail service stipulated to be performed, until the first day of June eighteen hundred and fifty, without in other respects impairing the condition or obligations of the said contract.

Page 3. Line 16 after the word “dollars,” insert:

10Provided, That a competent officer of the Navy, not below the grade of lieutenant, be charged with the duty of preparing the Nautical Almanac for publication; and that the Secretary of the Navy may, when in his opinion the interests of navigation would be promoted thereby, cause any nautical works that may from time to time be published by the Hydrographical office, to be sold at cost, and the proceeds arising therefrom to be placed in the Treasury of the United States.

11Page 7. After line 9, insert:

For improvements, and superintendence at naval depot near New Orleans, the sum of one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

12Page 4. After line 6, insert:

For the purchase of the right to use A. D. Bishop’s Patent portable Boom Derrick for all government purposes, ten thousand dollars; Provided the said Bishop shall, within fifteen days from the passage of this act, notify the Secretary of the Navy in writing, of his acceptance of said sum, in full compensation for said Patent right, and all improvements which he may hereafter make upon the same; and shall furnish full working plans and explanations for the construction of said boom derrick.

13Page 7. Line 15, after the word “service,” insert:

And that the officers of the marine corps affected by the 4^th section of the Act of Congress approved March 2^d 1847, entitled “An Act for the increase of the marine corps of the United States,” shall be provided for in the same manner that the officers of the old army who received appointments in the additional regiments raised for the war with Mexico were under the 4^th Section of the act of Congress approved July 19^th 1848” Entitled “an act supplemental to an Act entitled and act providing for the prosecution of the existing war between the United States and the Republic of Mexico and for other purposes.”

14Page 4. After line 6, insert:

For testing the capacity and usefulness of the electro-magnectic power as a mechanical agent for the purposes of navigation and locomotion, and the probable cost of using the same, according to the invention of Professor Page, the sum of Twenty thousand dollars; to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Navy in making a practicable experiment of said invention according to the plan to be proposed and conducted by Professor Page.

15Page 4. after line 6, insert:

For grading University square five thousand thousand Dollars.

16Page 5. after line 1, insert:

For the embankment on the flats between the Navy yard and Hospital at Brooklyn, Forty thousand dollars.

17Page 2. After line 12, insert:

For the survey of the Reefs, shoals, Keys, and Coasts of South Florida by the “Coast survey” and for which the Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed ^(authorized)^ to provide the requisite officers, vessels, and crews to said “Coast survey” the sum of thirty thousand dollars.

⋄amend last amendment of senate by inserting after the word “the” in the second line, the words “Superintendent of the.”18 ⋄

In the House of Representatives
March. 3^d 1849

Resolved, That this House do concur in the 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 11^th amendments of the Senate to House Bill (N^o 699) Making appropriations for the naval service, for the year ending 30^th June, 1850.

Resolved, That this Hous do concur in the 14^th amendment of the Senate to the said bill, with and amendment.

Insert after the word “the“ in the second line, the words “superintendent of the”

Resolved, That this House do disagree to the 1, 2, 3, 9, 10, 12 and 13^th amendments of the Senate to the said bill.

In Senate of the U. States
March 3, 1849.

Resolved, That the Senate insist upon their amendments to the aforementioned Bill (H. R. 699) disagreed to by the House. and disagree to the amendment of the House to their said 14 amendment; and ask a conference upon the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on said amendments.

Ordered, That Mr. Badger Mr. Hunter and Mr. Yulee be the managers of the said conference on the part of the Senate

For H^o Rep^s

The Committee of Conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the Bill (H R. 699) making appropriations for the Naval service for the year ending the 30 June, 1850. made the following report. That the conferees of the respective Houses have met and after a full and free conference have agreed to recommend to the respective Houses as follows:

That the Senate recede from their first, twelfth and thirteenth amendments and that they recede from their disagreement to the amendment proposed by the House to the fourteenth amendment of the senate, with a further amendment to wit: strike out the word “directed” in the said amendment and insert the word authorized.

And that the House recede from their disagreement to the second, third, ninth and tenth amendments of the Senate.

Resolved that this House, concur in the within report

In the House of Representatives US.
March 3 1849

Resolved That this House do agree to the Committee of Conference asked by the Senate on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses upon House bill (No 699) entitled “an act making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending the thirtieth of June 1850 and have appointed managers on their part consisting of M^r Hudson, M^r M^cKay and M^r White

In the House of Representatives
March. 3^d, 1849

The Committee of Conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the Bill (H. R. 699) Making appropriations for the Naval service for the year ending the 30^th June, 1850, have met and after a full and free conference have agreed to to recomend to the respective Houses as follows;

That the Senate recede from their 1, 12, and 13 amendments, and that they recede from their disagreement to the amendment proposed by the House to the 14^th amendment of the Senate, with a further amendment to wit: strike out the word “directed” in the said amendment, and insert the word “authorized”

And that the House recede from their disagreement to the 2, 3, 9, & 10 amendments of the Senate.

Resolved, That this House concur in the report of the committee of conference