TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess.II. Ch. 283,286. 1842.
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contract made with the Common Council of the said city of Alexandria,as aforesaid, to vend or sell tickets, or parts of tickets, or shares, in anylottery or lotteries, authorized by the Legislature of any State or Terri-tory within the United States , or any foreign Government.
Approved, August 31, 1842.
Chap. CCLXXXIII .—An Jlct to provide for purchasing materials and for thesupport of the penitentiary in the District of Columbia .
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled,, That the sum of seven thou-sand nine hundred and sixty-five dollars be, and the same is hereby, ap-propriated for the purpose of furnishing raw materials for manufactureand for the support of the penitentiary in the District of Columbia , tobe expended under the direction of the board of inspectors of said peni-tentiary, and to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not other-wise appropriated.
Approved, August 31, 1842.
Chap. CCLXXXVI.— An Act to reorganize the Navy Department of the United
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That the act ap-proved February seventh, eighteen hundred and fifteen, entitled “ Anact to alter and amend the several acts establishing a Navy Depart-ment , by adding thereto a Board of Commissioners,” be, and the sameis hereby, repealed.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be attached tothe Navy Department the following bureaus, to wit:
1. A bureau of Navy Yards and Docks.
2. A bureau of Construction, Equipment and Repairs.
3. A bureau of Provisions and Clothing.
4. A bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography.
5. A bureau of Medicine and Surgery .
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the President of the UnitedStates, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate , shall appoint,from the captains in the naval service, a chief for each of the bureausof Navy Yards and Docks , and of Ordnance and Hydrography, whoshall each receive a salary of three thousand five hundred dollars perannum, in lieu of all other compensation whatever, in the naval ser-vice; and shall, in like manner, appoint a chief of the bureau of Con-struction, Equipment, and Repairs, who shall be a skilful naval con-structor, and shall also appoint a chief of the bureau of Provisions andClothing, who shall each receive for his services three thousand dollarsper annum; and shall in like manner appoint from the surgeons of thenavy a chief of the bureau of Medicine and Surgery , who shall receivefor his services two thousand five hundred dollars per annum.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Navy shall appoint the following clerks, to wit:
For the office of the Secretary of the Navy , a chief clerk, who shall re-ceive for his services two thousand dollars per annum ; one registeringclerk, who shall receive for his services one thousand four hundred dol-lars per annum ; three recording clerks, who shall receive for their ser-vices each one thousand dollars per annum ; one principal correspondingclerk, who shall receive for his services one thousand five hundred dol-lars per annum; and two assistant corresponding clerks, who shall re-ceive for their services each twelve hundred dollars per annum; one
Appropriation.
Actof7th Feb.1815, ch. 35,repealed.
Chiefs of thebureaus to beappointed, how.