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TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 107. 1844.

Examinationof Pensacola harbor.

Yard at Ports-mouth to beexamined.

Magazines at

Charleston .

Brooklyn.

Washington .

Norfolk .

Contingent

expenses.

Freight,books,& c.

Contingencies.

Coal, &c.

Marine corps.Officers, &c.on shore.

Clothing.President maydirect transfer ofbalance.

Provisions.

Fuel.

MilitaryStores, &c.

For the examination of the navy-yard and bottom of the harbor ofPensacola , for the purpose of ascertaining whether a dry dock can beconstructed and at what cost; and whether a dry dock or a floatingdock with or without a basin and railways would be most suitable forthat place; and the Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed to appointa competent board of officers and engineers to examine and report toCongress at its next session the relative properties and advantages of adry dock, and of the different kinds of floating docks with or without abasin and railways; five thousand dollars. And that a similar examina-tion be made at the navy-yard near Portsmouth, New Hampshire , and areport made on the expediency of making a dry dock there.

For magazines, viz :

At Charleston , two hundred dollars;

At Brooklyn, two hundred dollars;

At Washington , two hundred dollars ;

At Norfolk , seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For contingent expenses that may accrue for the following purposes,viz :

For the freight and transportation of materials and stores of everydescription; for printing and stationery; for books, maps, charts, ma-thematical and nautical instruments, chronometers, models and draw-ings ; for the purchase and repair of fire-engines, and for machinery ofevery description ; for the repair of steam-engines in yards; for thepurchase and maintenance of horses and oxen; for carts, timber-wheels,and workmen’s tools of every description; for postage of letters onpublic service; for coals and other fuel; for candles and oil for use ofvessels of war in commission and of navy-yards and shore stations; forincidental labor at navy-yards and on board vessels not chargeable toany other appropriation ; for labor attending the delivery of public storesand supplies on foreign stations; for wharfage, dockage, storage andrent, travelling expenses of officers, and transportation of seamen;house rent to pursers, when duly authorized; funeral expenses, com-missions, clerk hire, store rent, office rent, stationery and fuel to navyagents and naval storekeepers; premiums, and incidental expenses ofrecruiting ; apprehending deserters; per diem allowance to personsattending courts-martial and courts of inquiry, or other services author-ized by law ; compensation to judge advocates; printing and station-ery of every description, and for working the lithographic press; pilot-age and towing vessels of war ; assistance rendered to vessels in dis-tress ; and for no other purpose whatever, four hundred thousanddollars;

For contingent expenses for objects not hereinbefore enumerated,five thousand dollars;

For coal and other fuel for steam vessels, forty thousand eight hun-dred and eighty dollars ;

Marine Corps . —For pay of officers, non-commissioned officers,musicians, privates and servants serving on shore, and subsistence ofofficers, two hundred thousand eight hundred and fifteen dollars andsixty cents;

For clothing, forty-three thousand six hundred and thirty-five dol-lars : and the President of the United States is hereby authorized todirect the transfer of any unexpended balance of appropriation hereto-fore made for the pay or subsistence of the marine corps, to the head ofclothing for the marine corps;

For provisions, forty-five thousand and eleven dollars and ninety-fivecents ;

For fuel, sixteen thousand two hundred and seventy-four dollars andtwelve cents;

For military stores, repair of arms, pay of armorers, accoutrements,