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A. ORBISON, Attorney-at-Law,
Si Office, 321 Hill street, Huntingdon, Pa.
[may3l,7l.
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offers his professional services to the citizens
.untingdon and vicinity. Office second floor of
ningham's building, on corner of 4th and Hill
et. may 24.
r C. 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
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HUNTINGDON, PA.
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DENGATE, Surveyor, Warriors
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A CALDWELL, Attorney -at -Law,
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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.
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- Washington and Smith streets,. Han
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lsecuted with fidelity and dispatch.
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r W. MYTON, Attorney-at-Law, Hun-
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3 M. & M. S. LYTLE, Attorneys
- • at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa., will attend to
kinds of legal business entrusted to their care.
Office on the south side of Hill street, fourth door
:st of Smitb. Dan. 4,71.
SYLVANUS BLAIR, Attorney-at
• Law, Huntingdon, Pa. Office, Hill street,
,roe doors west of Smith. [jan.4ll.
TA. POLLOCK, Surveyor and Real
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Surveying in all its branches. Will also buy,
or rent Farms, Houses, and Real Estate of ev
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DR. J. A. DEAVER, having located
at Franklinville, offers his Professional m
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°Hien' claims against the Government for back
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WIN SCOTT. S. T. BROWN. J. M. RAILS,
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torne;s-at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa. Pensions,
.nd all claims of soldiers and soldiers' heirs against
he Government will he promptly prosecuted
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)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
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April 12,
NEAR THE RAILROAD DEPOT,
COR. WAYNE and JUNUTA STREETT
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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.