TOL. 46 e Huntingdon Journal. J. A. NASH, DURBORROW, PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS. 1 on the Corner of Bath and Washington streets. E HUNTINGDON JOURNAL IS published every tesday, by J. R. DURBORRONV and J. A. Rise, the firm name of J. R. 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MADDEN, Attorney-at-Law 1-• Office, No. —, 11111 street, Huntingdon, (ap.19,'7 1. TILLIAM A. FLEMING, Attorney at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa. Special attention a to collections, and all other hgal business ndcd to with care and piumptness. Office, No. Hill street. [apl9,'7l. ALES ZENTINIYER, Attorney-at- Law, Huntingdon, Pa., will attend promptly 11 legal business. °thee in Cunningham's new ding. Dan. 4,71. IR. G. D. ARNOLD, Graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, offers his pro ional services to the people of Huntingdon and pity. .EFERENCE:-Dr. B. P. Hook, of Loysville, Pa., whom he formerly practiced; Drs. Stine and sew of Philadelphia. Bee on Washington street, West Iluntingdon, [ap.19,'71. tILLISON MILL E. M. BUCHANAN. FILLER,& -BUCHANAN, DENTISTS o. 228 Hill Street, HUNTINGDON, PA. aril 5, '7l-Iy. DENGATE, Surveyor, Warriors inark, Pa. [apl2,'7l. A CALDWELL, Attorney -at -Law, -F•No. 111, 31 street. Office formerly occupied Messrs. Woods & Williamson. (802;71. 'I L. ROBB, Dentist, office in S. T. r. Nrc.wn's new building, Nu. :i2O, Hill St., ntingdon, Pa. [ap12,71. R. It. R. WIESTLING, - 0 respectfully offers his professional services the citizen..? of Huntingdon and vicinity. iffice removed to No. 618 i Hill street, (Smiries ❑.n:xc.) [apr.s,'7l-Iy. R. DURBORROW, Attorney-at • Law, Huntingdon, Pa., will practice in the "era' Courts of Huntingdon county. Particular cation given to the settlement of estates of doce nts. Office in he JOURNAL Building. [fe`o.l,7l GLAZIER, Notary Public, corner - Washington and Smith streets,. Han gdog, gdon, ALLEN LOVU L :T.4, Attorney-at -3h-• Law, Huntingdon, Pa, attention 'en to COLLECTIONS of all kinds; As nie settle •nt of Estates, &c.; and all other Legal Hasipess lsecuted with fidelity and dispatch. 013- Office in room lately occupied by it, Milton '-cc- pen 4:71 r W. MYTON, Attorney-at-Law, Hun- L • tingdon, Pa. Office with J. Sewell Stewart, Van:4'7l. r HALL MUSSER; Attorney-at-Law, • Huntingdon,Pis. 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RAILS, " `` SCOTT, BROWN & BAILEY, At torne;s-at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa. Pensions, .nd all claims of soldiers and soldiers' heirs against he Government will he promptly prosecuted Office on Hill etre& DR. 1). P. MILLER, Office on Hill street, in the room formerly occupied by )r. John M'Culloch, Huntingdon, Pa.. would res netfully offer his professional services to the chi :ens of Huntingdon and vicinity. Dan. 4,71. Jlt. PATTON, Druggist and Apoth • ecary, opposite the Exchange Motel, Hun- Angdon, Pa. Prescriptions accurately compounded. Pure Liquors for Medicinal purposes. [nos 23,'70. DR. A. B. BRUMBAUGH, offers his professional services to the community. oz. on Washington street, one door east of the Catholic Parsonage. Dan.4,'7l. EJ. GREENE, Dentist. Office re • moyed to Leixter's new building, Hill street rt—ttingtion. Una. 4,71. Miscellaneous ROBT. KING, Merobabt, Taylor; 412 Washington fared., Huntingdon, Pa., a lib eral share of patronage respectfully solicited. April 12, NEAR THE RAILROAD DEPOT, COR. WAYNE and JUNUTA STREETT UNITED STATES HOTEL, HOLLIDAYSBURG, PA. M'CLAIN h CO., PROPRIETORS. EXCHANGE HOTEL, Huutingdon, Pa. JOHN S. MILLER, Proprietor. January 4, 1871. The Huntingdon Journal. United States Laws. (Published by Authority.] LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES PASSED AT THE THIRD SESSION OF TILE FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. [GENERAL NATURE-NO. 49.] 'AN ACT making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy two, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repax,smaatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are here by, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appro priated, for the naval service of the gov ernment for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-two and for other purposes: For pay of commissioned and warrant officers at sea, or shore, on special service, and of those on the retired list and unem ployed, and for mileage or transportation of officers traveling under orders, and for pay of the petty officers, seamen, ordinary seamen, landsmen, and boys, including men for the engineers' force, eight thou sand five hundred men, at an average pay of three hundred dollars each per annum, six million five hundred thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of the Navy Department, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. To restore to the contingent fund of the navy the expense of preparing and furn ishing the vessel for the expedition toward the north pole, provided for in act approv ed July twelve, eighteen hundren and seventy, fifty thousand dollars. BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS, For civil establishment at the navy yard, Kittery, Maine—For draughtsman and clerk to civil engineer, at one thou sand four hundred dollars each; for clerk of pay-rolls and mustering clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; for receiver and inspector of stores, one thousand five hundred dollars; for writer to receiver and inspector of stores one thousand dollars; for cheif accountant, one thousand eight hundred dollars; for gate-keeper and detec tive, one thousand dollars, making in all ten thousand two hundred dollars. At the navy yard, Charlestown, Massa chusetts.—For assistant to civil engineer, one thousand five hundred dollars; for draughtsman and clerk to civil engineer, at one thousand four hundred dollars each : for clerk of pay-rolls and mustering clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars • for receiver and inspector of stores, one thou sand five hundred dollars; for writer to receiver and inspector of stores, one thou sand dollars; for writer to commandant, one thousand dollars; for chief accoun tant, on thousand eight hundred dollars; for gate-keeper and detective, one thou aousand dollars; and for messenger for commandant's office, six hundred dollars; in all, twelve thousand seven hundred dol lars. At the navy yard, Brooklyn, New York. —For assistant to civil engineer, cne thousand five hundred dollars; fin. draught sman, and clerk to civil engineer, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; for receiver and inspector of stores, one thou hand five hundred dollar.s; for clerk of pay rolls and mustering clerk, one thousand five,hundred dollars; for writer to com mandant, one thousand' dollars; for chief accountant, one thousand eight hundred dollars; for gate-keeper and detective, one thousand dollars; for mail-carrier, nine hundred dollars ; and for messenger for commandant's office, six hundred dollars; in all, twelve thousand six hundred dol lars. At tho navy yard, Philadelphia, Penn sylvania —For draughtsman, and lerk to civil engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars each ; for clerk of pay-rolls and mustering clerk, one thousand five hun dred dollars ; for receiver and inspector of stores, one thousand five hundred dollars; for chief accountant, one thousand eight 'hundred dollars; for gate-keeper and de- Wave, one thousand dollars; and for mes senger ear the commandant's office, six hundred dollars; in all, nine thousand two hundred dollars. . _ At the navy yard, Washington, District of Columbia,-- , For draughtsman, and clerk to civil engine3r, at one thou Sand four hundred dollars each ; for receiver and inspector of stores, one thousand five hun dred dollars ; for clerk of pay-rolls and mustering clerk. one thousand five hun dred dollars ; for cheif accountant, ons thousand eight hundred dollars; for clerk to chief accountant. one thousand two hun dred dollars; for gate-keeper and detective, one thousand dollars; for mail messenger, one thousand dollars; and for messenger for commandant's office, six hundred dol lars; in all, eleven thousand dollars. At the navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia.— For draughtsman, and clerk to civil engi neer. at one thousand four hundred dol lars each ; for receiver and inspectors of stores, one thousand five hundred dollars; for clerk of pay-rolls and mustering clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; for gate-keeper and detective, one thousand dollars ; and for messenger for comman dant's office, six hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand four hundred dollars. At the navy yard, Pensacola, Florida.— For superintendent of yard improvements, two thousand dollars; for receiver and in spector of stores, one thousand five hun dred dollars; for ;ate keeper and detective, one thousand dollars ; for messenger for the office of the commandant, six hundred dollars; in all, five thousand ono hundred dollars. [janA,"7l. At the navy yard, Marc Island, Califor nia.—For assistant to civil engineer and draughtsman, one thousand eight hundred dollars; for clerk to civil engineer, one thousand five hundred dollars; for recei ver and inspectors of stores, one thousand eight hundred end seventy-five dollars; for clerk of pay-rolls and mustering clerk, one thousand eight hundred and seventy five dollars; for chief accountant, one thou sand eight hundred and seventy-fie dollars; for gate-keeper and detective, one thou sand dollars; and for messenger for com mandant's Ace, seven hundred and duty dollars; in all, ten thousand six hundred and seventy-five dollars. At the Naval Asylum.—For steward, four hundred and eighty dollars; for ma tron, three hundred dollars; for cook, one hundred and sixty-eight dollars; as sistant cook, one hundred and twenty dol lars; four laundresses, at one hundred and eight dollars each ; eight scrubbers and house-cleaners, at ninety-six dollars each ; six laborers, at two hundred and forty dol lars each, and seven laborers, at two hun dred and sixty-four dollars each; master at-arms, four hundred and eighty dollars; for ship's corporal, three hundred dollars; M3hls-tf for barber, three hundred and sixty clonal! ; superintendent, five hundred and forty do', !ars ; in all, seven thousand two hundred and thirty-six dollars. For the Naval Asylum at Philadelphia. —For support of the institution, sixty-five thousand one hundred dollars ; which shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund. For protection of timber lands, five thou sand dollars. For contingent expenses of Bureau of Yards and Docks, viz : For freight and transportation of materials and stores; printing, stationery, and advertising; books models, maps, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines; machinery and pa tent-rights to use the same; maintenance of oxen and horses, and driving teams, carts, and timber-wheels fornavy-yard pur poses, and tools and repairs of same ; pos tage on letters on public service, and tele grams; furniture for government houses and offices in navy-yards ; coal and other fuel; candles, oils, and gas ; cleaning and clearing up.the yard, and care of build ings; attendance on fires, lights, fire-en gines and apparatus; incidental labor at navy yards; water tax, and for toll and ferriages; pay of the watchmen in the navy yards; and for flags, awnings, and packing boxes, eight hundred thousand dollars. BUREAU EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING. For equipment of vessels.—For coal for steamers' use, including expenses of trans portation; storage, labor, hemp, wire, and other materials for the manufacture of rope; hides, cordage, canvas, leather; iron for manufacture of cables, anchors, and galleys; condensing and boat-detaching apparatus ; cables, anchors, furniture, hose, bake-ovens, and cooking-stoves, life rafts, heating apparatus for receiving ships; and for the payment of labor in equipping ves sels, and manufacture of articles in the navy yards pertaining to this bureau, one million five hundred thousand dollars. Civil establishment at the navy yard, Kittery, Maine.—For clerk in equipment office, one thousand four hundred dollars ; and for time clerk, nine hundred dollars; in all, three thousand four hundred dol lars. At the navy yard, Boston.—For super intendent of rope walk, one thousand nine hundred dollars; clerk to same, one thous and two hundred dollars; clerk in equip ment office, one thousand five hunred dol lars; for store clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; time clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all seven thousand dollars. - At the navy yard, Philadelphia.—For clerk in equipment office, one thousand four hundred dollars; for one store and one time clerk, at one thousand eight two hundred dollars each ; in all, three thousand eight hundred dollars. At the navy yard, Washington.—For clerk in equipment office, one thousand five hundred dollars; and for one store and one time clerk, one at one thousand four hundred dollars, and one at one thous and two hundred dollars; in all, four thous and one hundred dollars. At the navy yard, Brooklyn, New York. —For clerk in equipment office, one thous and five hundred dollars; and for one store and one time clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; in all, three thousand nine hundred dollars. At the navy yard, Norfolk.—For clerk in equipment office, one thousand four hundred dollars; for store clerk, one thous and one hundred and twenty-five dollars, and for one time olerk, nine hundred dol lar; in all, three thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars. At the navy yard, Pensacola.—For equipment office clerk, one thousand three hundred dollars. At the navy yard, Mare Island.—For clerk in equipment office, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; for store clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; three thousand and seventy-five dollars. For contingent eapenses of Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, namely : For freight and transportation of stores, trans portation of enlisted men, mileage to hon orably discharged men, printing, advertis ing, telegraphing, stationery, apprehension of deserters, assistance to vessels in dis tress, one hundred and twenty-five thous and dollars. BUREAU OF NAVIGATION. For foreign and local pilotage and tow ageof ships of war, fifty thousand dollars. For services and materials in correcting compasses on board ship, and for adjusting and testing compasses on shore, three thousand dollars. For nautical and astronomical instru ments, nautical books, maps, and charts, and sailing directions, and repairs of nau tical instruments for ships of war, ten thousand dollars. For books for libraries for ships of war, three thousand dollars. For navy signals and apparatus; namely, signal-lights, lanterns, and rockets, includ ing running lights, drawings, and engrav ings fQr signal-books, six thousand dol lars. For compass fittings, including binna cles, pedestals, tripods, and other appeu r dagcs of ships' compasses to be made in the navy yards, five thousand dollars. For logs and other appliances for meas uring the ships' way, leads, and other ap pliances for founding, three thousand dol lars. For lanterns and lamps and their appen. dages for general use on board ship, in cluding those for the cabin, ward-room, and steerage, for the holds and spirit-room r l for decks and quartermaster's use six thousand dojlars. „ . For bunting and other materials for flags, and making an 4 repairing flags of all kinds, live thousand dollars. For oil for ships of war other than used for the engineer department, candles when used as a substitute for oil in running lights,for chimneys and wick and soap used in navigation department, forty thous and dollars. For stationery for commanders and navigators of vessels of war, five thousand dollars. For musical instruments, and music for vessels of war, one thousand dollars. For steering signals and indicators, and for speaking tubes and gongs, for signal communication on board ships of war, two thousand five hundred dollars. For drawing, engraving, and printing charts, electrotyping and correcting old plates, preparing and publishing sailing directions, and other hydrographie infor mation, ten thousand dollars. Civil establishment.—For pay of wri ters and laborers, and for purposes inci dental to the support of the civil estab lishment under this burea 'at the several navy yards, twelve thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of the Bureau of Navigation : Freight and transporta- HUNTINGDON, PA., JUNE 21, 1871 tion of navigation materials ; instruments, books, and stores; postage and telegraph ing on public business ; advertising for proposals; packing-boxes and materials; blank books, forms, and stationery at nav igation offices, six thousand dollars. For rent of building, fuel, lighte, and office furniture -; care of building and other labor ; purchase of books for libra ry, drawing materials, and other statione ry, postage, freight, and other contingent expenses, ten thousand dollars.. For expenses of Naval Observatory, namely : _ . For pay of one clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For three assistant observers, four thou. sand dollars. For payment, in part, for the great re fractingtelescope now in course of con struction, ten thousand dollars. For purchase of chronograph, five hun dred dollars. For computation for theory and tables of the moon, two thousand dollars. For preparing instruments for observa tion of transit of Venus, two thousand dol lars : Provided, That this and all other appropriations made for the observations of the transits of Venus shall be expended. subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Navy, under the direction of a com mission to be composed of the superintend ent and two of the professors. of mathema tics of the navy attached to the Naval Ob servatory, the president of the National Observatory, the president of the National Academy of Sciences, and the supetintend ent of the Coast Survey, for which service they shall not receive any compensation. For wages of one instrument-maker, one messenger, three watchmen, and one por ter ; for keeping grounds in order and repairs to buildings; for fuel, light, and office furniture, and for stationery, pur chase of books for library, chemicals for batteries, postage, and freight, and all oth er contingent expenses, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. Fox expenses of Nautical Almanac For pay of computers and clerk for com piling and preparing for publication the American Ephemeris and the Nautical Almanac, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars. For rent, fuel, labor, stationery, boxes, expresses, and miscellaneous items, one thousand five hundred dollars. BUREAU OF ORDNANCE. For ten fifteen-inch guns, to meet con tingencies, seventy thousand dollars. For one thousand two hundred and fifty barrels of gunpowder, twenty-five thousand dollars. For fuel and materials necessary in car rying on the mechanical branches of the Ordnance department at the navy yards and stations, seventy-five thousand dollars. For labor at navy yard, two hundred thousand dollars. For repairs to ordnance buildings,maga zines, gun-parks, machinery, and other necessaries of the like character, seventy thousand five hundred and nine-dollars. For miscellaneous items, six thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. For experiments in ordnance, „fifteen thousand dollars. For improvements at the nitre depot, Malden, seven thousand three hundred and sixty dollars; at the magazine, Norfolk, one thousand dollars. For the construction of two iron-plated torpedo boats, six hundred thousand dol lars. For the torpedo corps.—For, the pur chase and manufacture of gun-powder, nitro-glycerine, and gun-cotton, seven thousand dollars. For purchase and manufacture of elec trical machines, galvanic batteries, and in sulated wire, twenty thousand dollars. For purchase of copper, iron, wood, and other materials necessary for the manufac ture of torpedoes, and for work on the same, eighteen thousand dollars. For construction of torpedo-Loots, pur chase of coffer-work or hulks, and contin gent expenses, twenty thousand dollars. For additional buildings, and repairs to buildings and to wharf, five thousand dol lars. For labor, including one chemist at two thousand dollars, one foreman machinist at one thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars, and one clerk, ten thousand dol lars. Civil establishment —For pay of the superintendents and the civil establishment of the several navy yards under this bu reau, fifteen thousand dollars. _ _ For contingent expenses of the ordnance service of the navy, one thousand dollars. BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR. For preservation of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; labor in navy yards and on foreign stations; preservation of mate rial ; purchase of tools ; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat, and general main tenance of the navy; incidentrl expenses, advertising, and foreign postage?; three million five hundred thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Navy to purchase of Seth Wilmarth "the right to use, for all purposes. his patent called hy drostatic arrangement for raising turrets," fifty thousand dollars : Provided, That be shall execute, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Navy, an instrument con veying to the United States full right to use the same under his patent, and under all improvements, modifications, or exten sions of the same, which may now or here after exist. • Civil establishment at the navy yard, Kittery.—For clerk of store-houses, one thousand five hundred dollars; inspector of timber, draughtsman, clerk to naval constructor, time clerk, and superintendent of floating dock, at one thousand four hun dred dollars each, eight thousand five hun dred dollars. At the navy yard, Boston.--,For c.erk to naval constructor, i,nrpeetor of timber, and time clerk, at one thousand five hun dred dollars each ; draughtsman to naval constructor, one thousand four hundred dollars • and clerk of storehouses, at one thousand two hundred dollars each ; iu all, seven thousand one hundred dollars. At the navy yard, Brooklyn, New York. For draughtsman to naval constructor, one thousand four hundred dollars; clerk to naval constructor, inspector of timber, and time clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; and clerk of storehouses, at one thousand two hundred dollars each 7 seven thousand one hundred dollars- At the navy yard, Philadelphia. For clerk of storehouses, one thousand five hun dred dollars; inspector of timber, draughts man for naval constructor, clerk to naval constructor, time clerk, and• superintend ent of floating dock, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; in all, eight thous and five hundred dollars. At the navy yard, Washingtou.—For clerk of storehouses, one thousand four hundred dollars; inspector of timber, clerk to naval constructor, and time clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars each ; in all, five thousand dollars. At the navy yard, Norfolk.—For draughtsman to naval constructor, and clerk of storehouses, at one thousand four httudred dollars each, and time clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, four thousand dollars. At the navy yard, Pensacola.—For clerk of storehouses, one thousand two hundred dollars. At the navy yard, Mare Island, Calitor nia.—For draughtsman to naval construc tor, one thousand four hundred dollars; inspector of timber, clerk of storehouse, clerk to naval constructor, superintendent of floating dock, and time clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, eight thousand nine hundred dollars. • BUIIEAU OF STEAM ENGINEERINO. For repairs and preservation of machin ery, boilers, labor in navy yards, coal, transportation, materials, and stores, one million dollars : Provided, That no money appropriation by this act shall be expended on account of naval engines contracted for during the war. Removing machinery and tools from old to new machine F hops, for converting cld machine shops into a storehouse, and re= pairs Co yard machinery at Brooklyn navy yard, seventy-five thousand dollars. Civil establishment at the navy yard, 'Kittery, Maine.—For draughtsntu, one thousand six hundred dollars,- clerk to chief engineer, and store clerk,i at one thousand four hundred dollars each ; and time clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, five thousand six hundred dollars. At the navy yard, ,harlestown.—For draughtsman, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk to chief engineer, and store clerk, at one thousand four hundred dol lars each • and time clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, five thousand six hundred do:lars. At the navy yard, Brooklyn, New York. —For draughtsman, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk to chief engineer, and store clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars each ; and time clerk, at one thou sand two hundred dollars; in all, five thou sand six hundred dollars. At the navy yard, Philadeiphia.—For draughtsman, one thousand six hundred dollars ; clerk to chief engineer, and store clerk, at one thousand four hundred dol lars eat; and time clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, five thousand six hundred dollars. At the navy yard, Washington.—For draughtsman, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk to chief engineer, and store clerk, at one thousand four hundred dol lars each; and time clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, five thousand six hundred dollars. At the navy yard, Norfolk.—For draughtsman; one thousand six hundred dollars ; clerk to chief engineer, and store clerk, at one thousand four hundred dol lars each; and time clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, five thousand six hundred dollars. At the navy yard, Pensacola.—For clerk of storehouse, one thousand two hundred dollars. ' At the navy yard, Mare Island, Califor nia.—For draughtsman, ono thousand six hundred dollars; clerk to chief engineer. and store clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars each ; and time clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, five thousand six hundred dollars. For fouudery tools, machinery, and ap pliances for erecting machinery, and tools in machine shop, and for fitting up smithy, eighty-five thousand dollars. BUREAU OF PROVISIONS AND CLOTHING. For provisions for the officers, seamen and marines, one million five hundred and forty-seven thousand dollars. For purchase of water for ships, forty thousand dollars. For purchase of clothing and clothing materials, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. «For pay of the civil establishment at the several navy yards under this bureau : At navy yard, Boston.—Two writers, one to paymaster and one to inspector of - pro- visions and clothing, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each ; in all, two thousand and thirty-four dollars anctfifty cents. At the navy yard, Brooklyn.—Two wri ters to paymasters, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; assistant to inspector of provisions and clothing, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight dollars; writer to in spector of provisions and clothing, one thousand and seventeen dollars and twen ty-five cents; assistant superintendent - cf mills, nine hundred and thirty-nine dollars; in all, five thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents. At the navy yard, Philadelphia —One writer to paymaster, one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one writer to inspector of provisions and clothing, one thousand and seventeen dol lars and twenty-five cents; in all, two thousand and thirty-four dollara and fifty cents. At the navy yard, Washington.—One writer to paymaster, one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-fire cents. At the navy yard, Norfolk—One writer to paymaster, one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents. At the navy yard, Mare Island.—One writer to paymaster, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one writer to inspector of provisions and clothing, one thousand two hundred and ninety-five dollars and fifty cents; in all, two thousand three hundred and twelve dollars and seventy-five - cents. For contingent expenses: For freight and transportation to foreign and home stations; candles; fuel; interior altera tions and fixtures-in inspection buildings; tools, and repairing same at eight inspec tions; speci,ilwatchatcn in eight inspec tions; books and blanks; stationery; tele grams; postage and express cearges; ferriages and car tickets ; ice; and incidental labor not chargeable to other appropriations, seventy-five thousand dol lars. BUREAU OF .3IEDICINE AND SURGERY. For support of the medical department. for sergeons' necessaries for vessels in com mission, naval stations, marine corps, coast survey, not including the families of officers nu shore stations, fifty' thousand dollars. For necessary repairs of naval laborato ry, hospitals, and appendages, including roads, wharves outhouses, steam-heating apparatus, sidewalks, fences, gardens, farms, and for grading and laying off the grounds of the two new hospitals, forty thousand dollars. For pay of the civil establishments un der this barest' :At the hospital at Chel sea, Massachusetts, seven thousand seven hundred and eighty-two dollars. At the hospital, New York, eleven thou sand three hundied and thirty-six dollars, At the hospital, Philadelphia, six thou sand nine hundred and ninety dollars. At the hospital,Washington, District of Columbia, five thousand and seventy dol lars. At the hospital, Annapolis, Maryland, four thousand five hundred and twelve dol lars. At the hospital, Norfolk, Virginia, five thousand four hundred and six dollars. At the hospital, Pensacola, Florida, five thousand and ninety-four dollars. At the hospital, Mare Island, Califor nia, eight thousand eight hundred and seventy-two dollars. At the naval laboratory, New York, five thousand six hundred dollars. At the navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, one thousand two hundred and ninety dollars. At the navy yard, Boston, Massachu setts, one thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. At the navy yard, New York, one thousand four hundred and eighty dol lars. At the navy yard, Philadelphia, one thousand four hundred .and eighty dol lars. At the navy yard, Washington, District of Columbia, one thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. At the navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia, one thousand four hundred eighty dol lars. • At the naval station, Mound City, Illi nois, one thousand four hundred, and eighty dollars. For contingent expenses of the bureau, freight on medical stores, transportation of insane patients to the Government hospi tal, advertising, telegraphing, purchase of books, expenses attending the naval medi cal board of examiners, purchase and re pair of wagons, harness,• purchase and feed of horses, cows, trees, garden tools, seeds, thirty thousand dollars. NAVAL ACADEMY For pay of professors and others: one professor of mathematics, twenty-five hun dred dollars; four professors, namely, of mathematics, (assistant,) of French, of chemistry, and of ethics and English stud ies, at two thousand two hundred dollars each ; fourteen assistant professors, namely, five of French, two of Spanish,- three of ethics and English studies, one of mathe matics, one of astronomy, and two of drawing, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; and the money appropriated for the current year for the salaries of professors and assistant professors may be distributed as above : Provided, That the sum se appropriated be not exceeded; sword-master, at one thousand two hun dred dollars, and two assistants, at one thousand dollars each ; boxing-master and gymnast, one thousand two hundred dol lars; assistant librarian, at one thousand four hundred dollars ;' three clerks to su perintendent, one at one thousand two hundred dollars, one at one thousand dol lars. and one at eight hundred dollars; clerk to paymaster, one thousind dollars ; commissary, at two hundred and eighty eight dollars ; messenger to superinten dent, at six hundred dollars; cook, at three hundred and twenty-five dollars and fifty cents ; armorer, at five hundred and twenty-nine dollars and fifty cents; guar ter-gunner at four hundred and nine dol lars and fifty cents ; gunner's mate, at four hundred and sixty-seine dollars and fifty cents; coxswain, at four hundred and sixty nine dollars and fifty cents ; three seamen, in departm,nts of seaman ship, at three hundred nd brty nine dol lars and fifty cents each; band master, at five hundred and twenty eight dollars; eighteen first class musicians, at three hun dred, and forty eight dollars each; seven second class musicians, at three hundred dollars each ; two drummers and one filer, (first class,) at three hundred- and forty eight dollars each ; in all, fifty eight thous and four hundred and seventy six dollars. For pay of watchmen and others, thirty thousand two hundred and ninety four dollars and fifty cents. For pay of mechanics and others, seven teen thousand four hundred and sixty two dollars and seventy-five cents. For pay of employees in the department of steam-enginery, for machinists, boiler makers, and others, eight thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars. For repairs and improvements of public buildings, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars. For contingent expenses, sixty four thousand and eighty nine dollars. MARINE CORPS. For pay and subsistence of officers of the marine corps, and for pay of non-com missioned officers, musicians, privates, and others of the corps, seven hundred thous and dollars. _ . For provisions, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. For clothing, one hundred and sixteen thousand eight hundred and nineteen dol lars. For fuel, twenty six thousand one hun dred and sixty nine dollars. For military stores, namely : For pay of mechanics, repair of arms, purchase of accoutrements, ordnance stores, flags, drums, fifes, and other instruments, twelve thousand dollars. For transportation of officers and their servants, and troops, and for expenses of recruiting, twelve thousand dollars. For repairs of barracks, and rent of of fices, where there arc no public buildings, ten thousand dollars. For contingencies, namely : Freight, ferriage, toll, cartage, wharfage, purchase and repair of boats, _ labor, house rent of officers' quarters, burial of deceased ma rines, printing, stationcly, postage, tele graphing, apprehension of deserters, oil, candles, gas, repairs of gas and water fix tures. water rent, forag,e, straw, barrack furniture, furniture thr officers' quarters, bed sacks, wrapping piper, oil cloth, crash, ',pc, twine, spades, shovels. axes. p:cks, carpenters' tuols. keep or' a 1 1 , ,1 Re fur the messenger, repairs to fire eng:nes. purchase and repair of engine h• se, purchase of lumber f a. benches, thess tables, bunks. repairs to public carry.,ll, purchase and re asir harness; purchase and repair of handcarts and wheelbarrow.. scavengering, purchase and repair oF galleys, cooking stoves, ranges, stoves, nhere there are no grates, gravel for parade grounds, repair of pumps, brushes, brooms, buckets, pav ing, and for other purp. sea, forty thousand dollars : Provided, That the amount of fifty thousand dollars appropriated by sec tion nine of an act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for theyear ending the thirtieth of Jona, eighteen hundred And seventy, to be expended un der the direction of the, President in or ganizing.and sending out au expedition to the north pole, shall not be carried to the surplus fund or covered into the treasury until the purpose of said appropriation shall have been completed, but may be ap plied to expenses of said expedition incur red during any subsequent year that said expedition may be engaged on its duties. SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to have built, by con tract in some private yard, a floating iron dock, for the repair of naval vessels on their stations, and a sum not exceeding one million dollars is hereby appropriated for this purpose. And the said contract shall only be made to the lowest responsi ble bidder, and on plans and specifications which shall be open for the inspection of bidders for at least ninety days before the day of letting said contract, after the pub lic notice by advertisement for at least thirty days in at least one daily newspaper published in each of the cities of Boston. New York, and Philadelphia, inviting sealed bids for such contract. which bore shall be opened and the award of the con tract made publicly by the Secretary the Navy, at a time and place to be speci fied in such notice. And no contract shall be made for a dock under this section at a cost exceeding one million dollars : Pro vided, That if it be thought best by a board consisting of chiefs of the bureaus 01' '-Construction and Repairs," "Steam Engineering," and "Yards and Docks," that plans and specifications shall be in vited from responsible builders, engineers, and others outside of the Navy Depart ment, the Secretary of the Navy may, by public advertisement, as provided in this section, advertise for such plans and speci fications to accompany bids for the con struction of the dock according to the same; in which case the Secretary of the ' Navy shall refer all such plans and specifi cations and bids and the bids on the plans furnished by the department to a board of at least five experienced officers, a majority of whom shall be constructors and engin eers, and one of whom may be an expe rienced civilian engineer, who shall con sider and report which of all the bids is the lowest for the purposes of this contract, taking into consideration the plans and specifications on which they are respective ly made: Provided, however, That if the contract shall be awarded upon plans and specifications furnished by persons outside of the department, such contract shall not be entered into unless the contractor shall furnish good and sufficient security in at least five hundred thousand dollars, in addition to the reservations on said con tract, that the dock, when completed, shall be portable and safe, and shall in all re spects answer the purposes for which it was built. SEC. 3. That no chief of a bureau shall make any contract for supplies for the navy, to be executed in a foreign country, except it be on first advertising for at least thirty days in two daily newspapers. of the city of New York, inviting sealed bids for furnishing the supplies desired, which bids *shall be opened in the presence of the Sec retary of the Navy, ancLthe heads of two bureaus; and contract shall in all cases be awarded to the lowest bidder; and pay masters for the navy on foreign stations shall render, when practicable, with their accounts, for settlement, an official certifi cate from the resident consul, commercial, or consular agent of the4inited States, if there be one, to be furnished gratuitously, vouching that all purchases and expendi tures made by said paymasters were made at the ruling market prices of the port or pla•-e at the time of purchase or expendi ture. Sec. 4. Thati the Presi4ent be, and he is hereby, suthoriz: d to accept the resigna tion of any officer in the ottu until the number of officers hi the grade to which such officers shall belong is . ..edficed to the number authorized by law, wh , :ze resigna tion shall take effect on or bet,,r, the first day of January nfmt, and any officer so resigning shall be entitled to otie,year's sea pay in addition to the pay due such officers at the date when his resignation shall take effect : Providod, That this section shall not apply when the number of officers shall have been reduced to the number allowed by law. SEc. 5. That the officers of the medical corps on the active list of the navy shall be as follows : Fifteen medical directors, who shall have the relative rank of captain. Fifteen medical inspectors, who shall have the relative rank of commander; and Fifty surgeons, who shall have the relatiie rank of lieutenant commander or lieutenant ; and each and all of the above named officers of the medical corps shall have the pay of surgeons in the navy as new provided; and medical directors and inspectors, on duty at sea, shall receive the pay of fleet surgeons. One hundred assistant surgeons, who shall have the relative rank of master or ensign, with the present pay of assistant surgeon in the navy: Provided, That assistant surgeons of three years' service, who have been found qualified for promo tion by a medical board of examiners, shall have the pay of past assistant surgeons, as uow provided; and passed assistant sur geons shall have the relative rank of lieu tenant or master; and no person under twenty one, or over twenty six years of age, shall hereafter he appointed an assist ant surgeon in the navy. rsy CORPS. SEC. 6. That the officer of the pay corps on the active list of the navy shall be as follows : Thirteen pay directors, who shall have the relative rank of captain. Thirtcen pay inspectors, who shall have the relative rank of commander; and Fifty paymasters, who shall have the relative rank of lieutenant commander or lieutenant. And each and all of ,the above named officers of•tho pay corps shall have the pay of paymasters in the navy as now provided; and pay directors and inspectors on duty at sea shall receive the pay of feet pay master. Thirty passed assistant paymasters, who shall have the relative rank of lieutenant or master, with the pay of passed assistant p ,pe,sters in the navy cs now provided. Twenty assistant paymasters. who shall have the relative rank of master or ensrfn, ..with the pay of assistant paymasters is now provided: Provided, tioa - ever, That all laws and regulations relati..g ft) the bonds of paym 'stars shall c. minau in full force and application, and the issu7ng of a new appointment and e,,tui.iissl,n to any officer of the pay corps under the ptivi sion of this act shall not effect or annul any existing bond, but the same shall re ' main in force, and apply to such new ap pointment and commission. lANOINERI CORPS. SEC. 7. That the officersof the engineer corps on the active list of the navy shall be as follows : Tee chief engineers, who shall have the relative rank of commander; and Forty five chief engineers, who shall have the relative rank of lieutenant com mander Of lieutenant. NO. 25. And each and all of the above named officers of the engineer corps shall have the pay of chief engineers of the navy as now provided. One hundred first assistant engineers, who shall have the relative rank of lieu tenant or master; and One hundred second assistant engineerd, who shall have the relative rank of master or ensign ; and the said assistant engineers shall have the pay of first and second as sistant enginee -a of the navy, respectively, as now provided. SEC. S. That no person under nineteen or over twenty-six years of. age shall be appointed a second asistant engineer in the navy ; nor shall any perse,n b appoint ed or pr..na Ica in the engineer corps until after he has been found qualificd by a board conipetent engine r and medical officers designated by the Secretory of the Wavy. ;in d has crqmpl:ed with existing regulations. SEc. 9. That of the naval constructors two shall h.vc the relative rank of captain, three of commander, and all others that of lieutenant commander or lieutenant; and 'assistant naval constructors shall have the relative rank of lieutenant or master; four chaplains shall have the relative rank of captain, seven that of commander, and not more than seven that of lieutenant com mander or lieutenant; and that the Presi dent of the United States is hereby author ized, in his discretion, to determine and fix the relative rank of civil engineers : Pro vided, That the pay of said officers shall not be increased. Sae. 10. That the foregoing grades, hereby established for the staff corps of the navy, shall be filled by appointment from the highest numbers in each corps, according to seniority, and that new com missions shall be issued to the officers so appointed, in which commissions the titles and grades herein established shall be in serted; and no existing commission shall be vacated in the said sestral staff corps, except by the issue of new commissions re quired by the provisions of this act, and no officer shall be reduced in rank or lose seniority in his own corps by any change which may be required under the provi sions of this act; and the officers of the staff corps of the navy shall take prece dence in their several corps, and in their several grades, and with officers of the line with whom they hold relative rank, ac cording to length of service in the navy: Provided, That in estimating the length of service for this purpose, the several offi cers of the staff corps shall respectively take precedence in their several grades and with those officers of the line of the navy witn whom they hold relative rank who have been in the naval service six years longer than such officers of said staff corps have been in said service : And provided further, That in estimating such length of service, officers who have been advanced or lost numbers on the Navy Register shall be considered as having gained or lost length of service accordingly : And provi ded further, That chiefs of bureau may be appointed from officers having the relative rank of captain in the staff corps of the navy on the active list : And provided further, That no staff officer shall, in vir tue of his relative rank or precedence, have any additional right to quarters : And pro vided further, 1 hat any staff officer of the navy who has pc,rforned th• duty of chief of a bureau of the Navy Department for a full term shah theceafter be exempt from sea duty, except in tame of war. Sac. 11. That dficeri of the medical, pay, and ougineer corps, obapliins, and processes of mathematics, and also con structors, who have served faithfully for ihrty-n,,:e years, shall, when retired, have the relative rank of commodore; and officers or these several corps who have been or shall be retired at the age of sixty-two years, before having keyed for forty-five years, but who shall have served faithfully until retired, on the completion of forty years from their entry into the service, shall also from that time have the relative rank of commodore ; and staff officers who hive been or shall be retired for causes incident to the service before arriving at sixty-tho years of age shall have the same rank on the retired list as pertained to their position on the active list: Provided, however, That nothing contained in this section shall be construed to increase the pay now provided for said several staff otfi cers. SEc. 12. That the chiefs of the Bureau of , Medicine and Surgery, Provisions and Clothing, Steam Engineering, and Con struction and Repair, shall have the role tine rank of commodore while holding said position, (or if heretofore or hereafter re tired tnerefram by reason of age or length of service,) and shall have, respectively, the title of Surgeon General, Paymaster General, Engineer-in-Chief. and Chief Constructor: Provided, That when the office of chief of bureau is filled by a hue afficer below the rank of commodore, said officer shall have the relative rank oicom modore during the time he holds said (Ace : And provided further, That the pay of chiefs of bureau in the Navy De partment shall be the highest pay of the grade to which they belong, but not below that of commodore; and officers of the staff now on the retired list shall have the rank thereon to which they would have been entitled had they remained in the ac tive list, unless they shall be entitled to higher rank. That commanding officers of vessels of war and of naval stations shall take precedence over all officers placed un der their command, and the Secretary of the Navy may, in his discretion, detail a line officer to act as the aid or executive of the commanding officer of a vessel of war, or naval station, which officer shall, when not impracticable, be next in rank to said commanding officer, and who, as such aid or executive, shall, while execu ting th r.rders of the commanding officer, ou board such vessel, or at such station, take precedence over all officers attached to such vessel or station ; and all orders of such aid or executive shah he regarded as proceeding from the connuanding officer; and such aid or ex !entire sh,di have no independent lurity in coLsetimince of suchl; una st.. , Toffice:s, seni..-r to the ticra•!ctl sh- 1, have the right to ,-ounuonic ,te directly with the commanding officer,. and in processions un shore, on courts ni.tAial. summary courts, courts of inquiry, hoards of survey. and all other boards, line and staff officers shall take precedency according to rank. Sze. 13. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby re pealed. Approved, March 3, 1871. The bill forbiding the sale of liquor on election days was not passed by the Senate and signed by the Governor, as reported, and is not a law. It appears that the bill was never taken out of the hands of the Senate committee, to whom it was referred, and hence was not finally acted upon.
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