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on the retired list, and those hereafter retired, who were, or may he, retired after forty years’ sion of 4 assistance to vessels in dis- tress, and pood-conduct hadee= for entisted service. or on attaining the age of sixty-two | men, one bundred and twenty-five years, in conformity with section one of the act of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, | and its amendments, dated Jane twenty-firth, | eighteen hundred and sixty-four, or those who were or may be retired from incapacity reanit- | ing from long and faithfnl service, from wounds or injuries received in the lime of duty, from sickness or exposure therein, shall, after the passage of this act, be entitled to seventy-five percentum of the pi or rank whieh th tirement the f seventy-two, shall be considered as having bees | retired as rear-admirais. | For contungent CF ed of the Navy Depart- { ment. one hundred thousand dollars. BUREAC NAVIGATION. | For foreign and pilotage ami towage of ships of war, fifty thonsand dollars. or services and materials in correcting com- | pames on board ship, and for adjusting and | — compasses on shore, three thousand dol- rs. held at the time of ir The rear-admirals led for in For nautical and astronomical instruments, | nautical books, maps tions, and repairs of nantical instraments for sbi of war, ten thousand dollars. ‘or books for libraries for ships of war, three | thousand dollars. { For navy signals and apparatus, namely, signal-lights, lanterns and rockets, including | running lights, drawings, and engravings for | signal-Looks, six thousand dollars. For compas* fittings, including binnacles, | tripods. and other appendages of ships’ com | passes. five thousand dollars. } For logs and other appliances for measuring | the ships way, leads other appliances for sounding, three thousand dollars. For lanterns and lame. and their appendages, for general use on board ship, ineluding those | ih for the | quarter- | ¢ cabin, ward-room, and steer: ids and spirit-room, for decks ai master’s nse, six thousand dollars. For bunting and other materials for flags, | and making and repairing tiags of all kinds, five thousand five humired dollars. For oi! tor ships of war other than that used for the Engineer department; candles when | need asa substitute for oil in binnacles, and | running-lights; for chimneys and wicks; and soap used in navigation department, thirty-five | thousand dollars. | For stationery for commanders and naviga- tors of vestels of war, four thousand dollars. For musical instruments, and music for ves- selsof war. one thousand dollars. For steering signals and indicators, and for speaking tubes, and gongs, for signal com- munication on board veesels of war, two thou- | sand five hundred dollars. } Civilestablishment: For pay of writers and laborers, and for purposes incidental to the sup- port of the establishment under this burean at the several navy-yards, twelve thou- dollars For contingent expenses of the Bureau of avigat ; transportation of books, and | advertising is: packing boxes and materials, nd stationery at maviga- six thousand dollars. ing, engraving, and printing and }o-lithographing charts, electrotyp ting old plates, preparing and p- ailing directions, and hrdrograpl ic x dollars For making charts, inetuding those of the Pacific coast, thirty t nd dollars. 1, lights. a building and other labe bbrary. drawing ma als, ami other stationery; postage. freight. and other contingent expense=, seven thonsand dollars. ' For revt and repair of building, two thousand exght hundred delta: | For expenses of Naval Observatory, namely: | For of one clerk, one thousand eight ars. | assistant observers, at one thousand | 4 doilars each | ht, and office furniture ired and fitty, ¢ pteen hu a howdred dollars. } « telegraphic apparatus. Aeting-telescope Row in the course of ten thousand dollars. ‘autical Almanac f computers and clerk for comp aring for publication the Awerican sand the Naotical Almanac, twenty | ars. | nuance of work on new plancts dis. | by American astronomers, turce thou- | jars. | t, fuel, labor, stationery, boxes, ex- | presses. and miscellaneous items, one thousand hive hundred dollars. BUREAU OF ORDNANCE. For fuel and materials necessary in carrying } the mechanical branches of the Orinance | partment at the navy-vards and stations, one hundred thousand doliars. For labor at all the navy-yards, three bun- | ured thousand dollars. | For repairs to ordnance buildings, magazines, ks, machinery, and other necessaries of seven thousand six hundred and fifty dellars. For experiments in ordnance, forty thousand dollars. torpedo-corps: For the purchase and ture of ter, six thougand one ture of electrical galvanic es, and insulated wire, twenty-four thousand dollars. For purchase of copper. iron, wood, and other materials necessary for the manufacture of tor- yedoes, and for work on the same, twenty-seven thous. dollars. ruction of torpedo-boats, purchase of work or bulks, and contingent expenses, rohase and inirty-tive thousand dollars. For repairs to buildings and wharves, four thous: seven hundred dollars. For labor, including one chemist at two thou- and dollars, pyroteciinist electrician, one fore- | an machinist at one thousand five hundred | @ sixty-five dollars, and two clerks at one d seven hundred dollars each, twenty- nd and sixty-five dollars: Provided, ypropriated for the tor- used in the establish- | of torpedoes to be oper- Tensive use again: ¢: For pay of supe ivil establishment of the tingent expenses of the ordnance ser- | the navy, one thousand dollars. | AU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING. | uipment of For coal for mses of trans- | wire, amd other les, anchors, and galleys; condensing and hoat-detaching apparatus; s, anchors, fur- miture, hese, bake-ovens, and cooking-stoves, life-raits, heating-apparatus for receiving-ships; and for the payment of Labor in equipping ves- vel, and manufacture of articles in the navy- pertaining to this bureau, oue million {red thousand dollars. | tablishment at the navy-yard, Kit- sipment office, for store- for Crvil tery, Mair Por clerk in the four bundred dollars; , One thousand one hundred dollars ime-clerk, nine hundred dollars; in ail, thousand four hundred dollars. At the nayy-yard, Charlestown, Massachua- setts: For superintendent of rope-walk, one thousand nine hundred dollars; clerk to same. n@ thousand two hundred dollars, clerk in ipment office, one thousand five hundred ; for store-clerk, one thousand two bun- | <ired dollars; time-cierk, one thousand two hun- | dred dollars; in all, seven thousand dollars. | H At the y-yard, Wastington, District of | Columbia: For clerk in equipment ofice, ove ‘ five hundred dollars; and for one | store and one time clerk, one at one thousand two husdveadetun ea als ke one thousand two hundred in one | hundred dollars | ag navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York: For ro in equipment office, one five er “25 » thousand fiv bu ye ari os ne eae and one time el , at one thousand two handred dol- lars @ach; in all, three thousand nine hundred ‘Al the navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For clerk In equipment office, one thousand four hundred doliage; for store-élerk, one thous | the d, Ponmnesine at navy-yard, Pe: east panes t-office clerk, one thousand three by ars. 2 clock tn taaipeent alloy obs thesmned ce, OBE Ege Sundred nse sovente- Sve » for store-clerk, one thousand two inall, three thousand and seventy-five dollars. “Bor con’ expenses of the Bureau of Reeraiting, namely: For freight of stores, ration of ant ieneh se. awe + gn = eT men, printing, vertising, meee, tion-sales, telographing, » apprehen- sent sea-pay of the grade t of June fifth, eighteen hundred and | arts, and sailing direc- } | seven thousand eight hundred dollars. | office, six hundred dollars; in all, tive thousand | Craughteman ‘a | one thousand four hundred dollars each;for, | ant’softice, seven hundred and tifty dollars; In | ene hb ? fifty dollars: | freight on nia: One paymaster | Slt impactor o¢ provi Sal thier aoRars, BUPEAT OF YARDS AND DOCKS. For civil establisbmeré at the navy-yard, Kit- tery, Maine: Por oneness clerk to civil engineey, at «ne four hundred ‘for gate-keeper fowchinemenge mg com- dollars each: foré theusand dots san 5 clerk to civil engineer, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; for writer dant, one thousand Linn for Cay 5 and detective, one thousand dollars; messenger to commandant’s office, six dollars; in all, thousand nine dollars. Atthe -yard, Brooklyn, New York: For ‘to iv ineer, one thousand LS assistant to civil ¢ hundred dollars; for tsman_ and clerk civil engineer, at oné theusand four bundred dollars each; for writer to commandant, one thousand dollars; for gate-keeper and detective, one thousand dollars; for mail-carrier, nine hundred dollars; and for messenger for com- mandant’s office, six hundred dollars; in all, At the navy-yard, Philadelphia, “Pennsy!- vania: For draughtsnian and clerk to civil engi- neer, one thousand four hu: dollars each; for gate-keeper and detective, one thousand dollars; and for messenger for commandant’s cffice, six hundred dollars; in all, four thousand four hundred dollars. the navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For daughtsman and clerk to civil engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars each; for gate-keeper and detective, one thou- sand dollars; for mail-messenger, one thousand dollars; and for messenger for commandant’s four hundred dollars. At the navy-yard Norfolk, Virginia: For id el ‘k to civil engineer, at te keeper and detective, one thousand dollar: for messenger for commandant’soffice, six hun- cred dollars; in all, tour thousand fofir hundred dollars. For the construction of at the Norjolk navy-yard, ginia, ten thousand doflars. At the navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: For superintendent of ‘yard improvements, two thousand dollars; for gate-keeper and detective, | one thousand dollars; for messenger for the of: fice of the commandant, six hundred dollars; in | all, three thousand six hundred dollars. At the navy-yard, Mare island, California: For assistant engincer and draughtsman, one thousand eight hundred dollars; for clerk to civil engineer, one thousand five htmdred dol- lars; for gate-keeper and detective, one thou- sand dollars; and for messenger for’ command- ‘works and piping Portsmouthy Vite all, five thousand and fifty dollars. At the naval station, League island, Penn- 1 For draughtsman and clerk to civil at one thousand four hundred dollars each; in all, two thousand eight hundred dol- lars. At the Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania: For superintendent, six hundred dol- jars, steward, four hundred and eighty dollars; matron, three hundred and sixty dollars; cook, twe hundred and forty dollars; assistant cook, ndred and sixty-eight dollars; clicf cress, one hundred and ninety-two dollar fy laundresses, at one bunfred and sixty-eight dol- | larseach; eight scrubbers and waiters, at or bundred and sixty-eight dotiars ea x labor: ble-keeper and drivers, three hundred and sixty dollars; masters-at-arms, four hundred and eighty dollars; corporal, three hundred dollars; barber, three hundred ‘and sixty dollars. For furniture, and repairs of the same, one thon- sand doUars; house-cleaning and white-wash- ing, eight hundred doliars; furnaces, grates, and ranges, six hundred dollars; | ers, at two hundred and forty doliars each; sta- | as and water- | Hi kinds, five thonsand dollars; improvement | of cemetery, two thousand eight hundred and | and for support of benefictaries, forty thousand dollars; in all, fifty-eight thou sand four hundred and seventy-eight dollars; which sum shail be paid out of the income from th al pension fund eneral maintenance of yards and docks, general expenses of the Bureau of Yardsand Docks: Freight and transportation of materials and stores; printing, stationery, and advertising, intluding pmandant’s office: books, models, m: chase and repair of fire-engi patent rights to use the same; repairs on steam engines and attendance on the same: purchase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and and offices in the na fuel; can il, and gas; clean raring up yard: l care of build- ings; attendance on fin glits; tire-engines and apparatus; incidental labor at navy yards; water-tax, and for toll and ferriages; pay of the watchmen in the nayy-yards; and for flags, awnings, and packing-boxes, aii for contingent expenses of yards and dock-. not exceeding = thousand dollars, nine Lundred thousand dollars. BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY Yor support of the Medical department for surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in commission, bavy-yards, nayal stations, marine corps, and Coast Survey, forty thousand dollars. For necessary repairs of naval laboratory, hospitals, and Ss Tost, wharves, cemeteries, out- , Steam-heatin; apparatus, side-walks, fences, gardens, and farms, twenty-five thousand dollars. For pay of the civil establishment under this bureau: At the hospital at Chelsea, Massachu- setts, seven thousand seven hundred and eighty-two dollars. At ihe hospital, Ne three hundred and t York,eleven thousand ty-two dollars. At the hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, | six thousand nine bundred and ninety dolla: At the hospital, Washington, Distriet of © four thousand nine hundred and y-six dollars. At the hospital, Annapolis, Maryland, four thousand five hundred and twelve 5 At the hospital, Norfolk, Virginia, and four hundred and six dollars. At the hospital, Pensacoia, Florida, five thous- and and ninety-four dollar: At the hospital, Mare Island, California, eight hundred and seventy-two are. ve thous- eight thousa: cellars. At the hospital at Yokohama, Japan, two | thousand tour bundred and seventy-eight dol- lars. At the naval laboratory, New York, six thous- and four bundred dollars, At the nayy-yard, Charlestown, Massachu- setts, one thousand "four hundred’ and eighty dollars. wings; pur- | ; machinery and | | | rent. one thousand fonr hundred dollars; repairs | | Atthe navy-yard, New York,one thousand tour hunared and eighty dollars. At the navy-vard, Philadelphia, Pennsyl- yania, one thousand four hundred and eighty dotiars. At the navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia, one thousand four hundred and ‘At the navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia, one thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. At the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Mary- — one thousand two hundred and forty-two dollars, At the naval station, Mound city, Iinois, one thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Atthe pavy- yard, Kittery, Maine, one thou- sand two hundred and nitety dollars. For contingent expenses of the bureau, ical stores, transportation of sane patients to the government hospital, ad- vertising, telegraphing, purchase of books, ex- penses attending the naval medical board of examiners, purchase and repair of wagons, har- | eighty dollars. ness, purchase and feed of horses, cows, trees, | garden-tools, and seeds, twenty-five thousand dollats. BUREAU OF PROVISIONS AND CLOTHING. For provisions for the officers, seamen, and | marines, one million five hundred and forty- seven thousand and six hundred dollars. For purchase of water for ships, forty thous- and dollars, For pay of the civil establishment at the several navy-yards under this bureau : At the pavy-yard, Bosto Two writers, one to pay: and one to in- of provisions and clothing, at one thous- seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents in all, two thousand and thirty-four dol- lars and cents. , Brooklyn, New York: } ~ Ro thousand and and twenty-five cents each; a “pn ‘istons inspector ‘At the navy= writers to teen dollars and twenty- five cents; in all, two thousand and ‘thirty-four t the navy-yard, Washington, Columbia: One writer to Fone thous- sae swe seventeen and twenty-five District of Two | cen j ‘At the yard, Norfolk, Virginia: One writer to paytanter, One thousand tae Sere on ake sereeistaen chargerble rm seventy-five thousand dollars. BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR. For the construction of eight steam vessela of war, three million two hundred thousand dol- lars; this — to be available from the Vor preservation of Yeessie on the stocks snd in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of ail’ hinds; iabor all, eight At the navy-yard, Charlestown, Massachu- setts: For ee naval constructor, one thousand four hundred dollars; clerk to naval constructor, inspector of timber, time- clerk, at one thousand tive by doliars each; clerk of store-houses, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand one hundred dollars. At the navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York: For draughtsman to naval constructor, one thou- sand four hundred dollars; clerk io naval con- structor, inspector of timbers, and time-clerk at one tlousand five hundred dollars each; and clerk of store-houses, one thousand two hun- éred dollars; in all, seven thousand one hun- dred dollars. At the navy-rard, Philadelphia, Penneylva- nin: For draughtsman to naval constructor, one thousand four hundred dollars; clerk of store- houses, one thousand two hundred dollars; in- spector of timber, clerk to naval constructor, tlone-clerk, and superintendent of floating-dock, at one thonsand four hundred dollars each; in all, fe Sy thousand seven handred dollars. At the navy yards Washington, District of Columbia: For draughtsman to naval constrac- tor, one thousand four hundred dollars; clerk to naval constructor and clerk of store-houses, inspector of timber and time-clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; in all, six thousand two hundred dollars. At the navy-yard, Nortolk, Virginia: For draughtsman to naval constructor and clerk of store-houses, at one thousand four hundred dol- ime-clerk, one thousand two hun- 8; in all, four thousand dollars. At th Loved If dae Pensacola, Florida: For clerk of store-houses, one thousand four hun- dred dollars. At the navy-yard, Mare island, California: For dreughtsman to naval constructor, one thousand four hundred dollars; inspector of timber, clerk of store-houses, clerk to naval constructor, superintendent of floating-dock and time-clerk; at one thousand five hundred dollars cach; in all, cight thousand nine hun- dred dollars. BUREAU OF STEAM-ENGINEERING. For repairs and preservation of machinery and boilers on naval vessels, one million dollars. For fitting, repair, and preservation of yard machinery and tools, fifty thousand dollars, For labor in navy-yards and stations, not be- fore included, and incidental expenses, one hun- dred thousand dollars. For parchase and preservation of otis, coal, iron, anJ all —— and stores, four hundred fol componnd en- n Galena, and other vessels, se fifty thousand dolla ishmeut at the na Hampshire: For d ard, Ports- tsman, one mouth, thousand gimeer and 5! hundred dollarsea sand two hundred « six hundre At the navy-y setts: For draughtsman, one thousand six h rk, at o1 ; and time i «red doilars; clerk to chief engineer and ste clerk, #t one thousand four hundred dollars | each; and time-elerk, one thousand two kon are dollars. At the navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York: For draughtsman, one ‘thousand six hundred dol- lars; clerk toch engiveer and sto one thousand four handred dollars e t time-clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; n all, five thousand six haudred dollars. At the navy-yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylva- nia: For draughtsman, o ars; in all, five thousand six hundred and rs; dred dollars; clerk to chief engineer and store- clerk, at one thonsand fear hundred dollars i time-clerk, one thousand two hun- ars; In all, tive thousand six hundred iet of nd Six er anil store-clerk, at © sand four hundred dol- lars each: and time-clerk, one thousand two bundred dollars; in all, five thousand six han- dred dollars. At the navy-yard, Norfotk, Virginia: For dranght-man, one thousand six hamdred dol- lars; clerk to chief engineer and store-clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; and time-clerk, one thousand two hundred dol- lars; in all, five thousand six hundred dollars. At the navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: For clerk of store-louses, one thousand two hun- dred dollars. At the pavy-yard, Mare Island, California: For draughtsman, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk to chief engineer and store-clerk, | one thousand four hundred dollars each; and Ume-clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, five thousand six hundred dollars. NAVAL ACADEMY. For pay of professors and others: One pro- fessor of mathematics, two thousand five hun- «red dollars; four professors, namely, of mathe- matics, (assistant,) of French, of chemistry, and of ethics and English studies, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; twelve assistant pro- fessors, namely, four of French, one of Spanish, three of etl and English studies, one of mathematics, one of astronomy, and two of bigs atone thousand eight hundred dol- lars each; sword-master, at one thousand two hundred dotlars, and two assistants, at one thousand dollars each; boxing master and gymnast, one thousand two hundred dol- lars; assistant Nbrarian, one thousand four hundred dollars; three clerks to su- perintendent,*one at one thousand two hundred dollars, one at one thousand dollars, and one ateight hundred dollars; clerk to commandant of midshipmen and clerk to paymaster, atone thousand dollarseach; apothe- ary, seven hundred and fifty dollars; comris- sary, two hundred and cighty-eight dollars; messenger to superintendent, six hundred dol- lars; cook, three hundred and twenty-five dol- lars and fifty cents; armorer, five hundred and twenty-nine dollars and filty cents; quarter- gunner, four hundred and nine dollars and fifty cents; gunner’s mate, four hundred and sixty- nine dollars and fifty cents; cockswain, four bundred and sixty-nine dollars and titty cents; three seamen in departments of seamanship, at three hundred and forty-nine dollars and titty cents cach; band-master, five hundred and twenty-eight dollars; eighteen first-class musi- cians, at three hundred aud forty-eight dollars each; seven second-class musicians, at three hundred dollars each; two drummers and one fifer, (first-class,) at three hundred and for cight dollars each; in all, fifty-eight thousand five hundred and seventy-six dollars. For pay of watchmen and others, thirty thon- sand six hundred and fifty-nine dollars and arty ce: of mechanics and others, seventeen four hundred and sixty-one dollars and ninety cents. ‘ For pay of employees in the ‘ment of Steam-Engivery, for machinists, boiler makers, and others, eight thousand seven hundred and 7 dollars. an ‘or contingent expenses, sixty-four thousand re. from and after the thirtieth day of June, eighteen bundred and seventy-three, the ot the classes in the Naval Academy at Annap- olis shall be six years, instead of four, as now provided by law, and this provision shail first apply to the class entering the academy in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and to all subsequent classes. Hereatter the course of instruction for cadet- naval sea-steamers in the Naval Academy now provided by law: vided, That engineer officers graduated at Naval Academy shail take with all Charlestown, Massachu- | n- thousand six hun- | | and for horses belonging to fi oe ee qounere nd al ae a thousand bad ped quarters, sixteen five any appeal in prize cases, or allow a prize appeal therein, if it ——< any no- tice of appeal or of intention te appeal was filed with the clerk of the district court within thirty days next after the rendition of the final decree therein. Sxc.3. That the act of Congress approved December twenty-first, be greg hundred and sixty-one, entitled “An act to farther promote the efficiency of the Navy,” and the act ap- proved June twenty-8fth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled “An act to amend the act of the twenty-first of December, eighteen bundred and sixty-one, entitled ‘An act to fur- ther promote the efficiency of the Navy,’” shall not be heraefter construed to retire any officer before sixty-two years of age. Approved, March 3, 1873. (GENERAL NATURB_NO. 59.) A® ACT making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. Be it enacted by the Fenate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United States of America in Con- gress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are bereby, appropriated for the ser- vice of the Post-Office ‘tment for the year pomates & dune thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seyenty-four, out of any moneys in the treasur: arising trom the revenues of said Department, in conformity to the act of July second, eigh- teen hundred and thirty-six, as follows: * For intand mail trans ation, fourteen mil- lion eight hundred and forty ‘thousand and twenty dollars. For pay of matl-messengers, six hundred and seven thousand one hundred and seven dol! For pay of route-agents, eigit handred and cighty-fonr thousand seven hundred and nine- te-six dollars, For pay of mail-route messengers, one hnn- dred and seventy-one thousand two hundred ty-five dollars. For pay of local agents, ninoty-five thousand one hundred and Sfty-eight dollars. For pay of railway post-oflice clerks, one mil- lion two bandred and tifty-seven thousand one Londred and fifty-seven dollars. For pay of baggage-masters, two thousand four hundred and twenty-nine dollars. For foreign mail transportation, three hun- dred thousand dollars. For ship, steamboat, and way thousand dollars. F of postmasters, five million seven d twenty-five thousand dollars. of clerks for pest-oftices, two million letters, ten | nine hundred and seventy-five thoasand dollars. For pay of letter-carriers, one million six hun- dred thousand dollars; that commencing with the first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, letter-carriers may be employed for the free delivery of mail matter, as frequent- ly asthe public convenience may require, at every place containing a population of not fess than twenty thousand within the delivery of its post-office; and that for the purpose of employ- ing carriers where not already employed at such places, thesum of one hundred thonsand dol ‘ars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. And for the more efficient organization of the fred delivery svstem, the Postmaster-General may designate one of the present fourth-class clerks to act as superintendent of free-delivery in the Post-Office Department; at, an annual salary of two thousand five hov?-e4 dollars: Provided, Chat the salary hereby n\=d shall terminate at (he end of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, cighteen hundred and seventy-four. ‘ For wrapping paper, ‘thirty three thousand dollars. For twine, thirty-eight thousand dollars, For letter- balances, three thousand doilars. For office-furniture, six thousand five han- died collars. For advertising, seventy thousand dollars: Previded, That hereafter no payment shall be made to uy newspaper published in the Dis- trictof Columbia for advertising any other mn Y routes than those in Virginia and Mary- land. For manufacture of adhesive post: ‘stamps, one hundred and thirty-tive thousand five hun- dred and fifty dollars. - For stamped envelopes and wrap] , four handred and seventy-five thousand dollars: Provided, That hereafter no envelope as furn- ished by the Government shall contain any lithographing and engraving, and no printing except a printed request to return the letter to the writer. For manufacture of postal cards, one hun- dred and sixty-seven thousand dollars. For pay of distributing agents and assistants, fourteen thousand dollars. For payments on account of mail depreda- tions and for agents, one hundred and sixty thourand dollars. For mail-bags and mail-bag catchers, one bundred and eighty thousand dollars. For mail-locks and keys, forty thousand dol- 78. For pott-marking and canceling stamps, 7 a dol = Aiietit . ‘or preparing and pu’ ing post-route way Gronty-esven thousand dollars. ‘or balances due foreign countries, two hun- dred and thousand dollars. For rent of post-oftices, three hundred thou- sand dollars. For fuel for post-offices, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. For light for post-offices, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For stationery and miscellaneous items, sixty thousand dollars. For registered package envelopes, fifty-six thousand dollars. For official envelopes for postmasters, twen- eee thousand five hundred and twenty-five Mars. For envelopes for returning dea: six thousand one hundred and dollars. For fees to marshals, attorneys, and clerks of courts, seven thousand five hundred dollars. An; For engraving, printing, and binding drafts ard warrants, thee thousand five hundeed dol- lars. For miscellaneous items, two thousand five bundred dollars. For increase of compensation for the trans- portation of mails on railroad routes upon the condition and at the rates hereinafter men- Uoned, five hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: Provided, That the Postmaster General be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to readjust the id for the trans- SC ererer i cae jue frequenc} 5 cient and suitable eng Elly and furniture, in a cat oF apartment properly lighted and warmed, provided for route-agents to accompany and distribute the end and Bint the peg, mile per annum shall not exceed the fo! lowing rates, ; On routes their whole length an average weight of two hundred pounds, fifty doll i itl ait rae not caeoting Coen; lat oe aa ts eee iar go ay anager mie pr anna fr bis So] Seah undlaltia eateries Sens oe feet i z He i a i : 4 sre June fou 5 g eighteen hundred and seventy-three. :| Approved, March 3, 1873. [GENRRAL BATURE—No. 60.) Aw Act to amend an act entitled “ an act to a. begeenk im and to redace inter- nal taxes, ai r ot] purposes,” approved June sixth, —- hundred and seventy- two, and for other purpases. Be it enacted by sentatives of the United States of America in sect bd meget tenga after the oe. or e passage of " purposes relating to custom duties and importation, “ heading- bolts” shali be held and construed to be in- cluded under the term “ stave-bolts.”” Szotion 2. That barrels of American manu- facture exported illed with domestic petroleam and returned empty —— admitted free of duty, under such regal: as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, and without re- quiring the fling of a declaration at time of ex- port of intent to retarn the same em, merchai which arrived at a port of the United States on or be- fore the thirty-first day of July, eighteen han- dred and seventy-two, and upon which daties were not paid prior to August first, eighteen bundred and seventy-two, though the same were not entered or transferred to a public store or bonded warehouse, shall be entitled to the bene- fits vided for in the second section of an act entitled “‘An act to reduce duties and imports, and to redace internal taxes, and for other par- poses,” approved June sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, the same assuch merchandise wonld have been entitled to had it actually been in public store or bonded warehouse on or prior to the thirty-tis lay of July, eighteen hundred Provided, That the ownor of ‘ail, within thi jays irom he passage of this ect, make application the: im writing to the collector of the port at hich such merchandise arrived. ._ Skotion 4. That on kid and allother gloves imported into the United States from foreign countries there shall be no discrimination in determining by appratsement the toreign market value of such goods, whether protected by trade-mark or not, and that in no case shall the goods so protected by trade-mark be ap- praised at a lees foreign market value than the like goods not so protected; and no sale or pre- tended sale of such goods si be held to fix the value of the same. SEorTion ‘bat section fifty-five of the act of July twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty- cight, as amended by the act of June sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, be further amended by adding to the first paragraph of nid section the words: “ Provided further, That the bonds required to be given for the exporta- ton of distilled spirits shall be cancelled upon the presentation of satisfactory proof and cer. tificates that said distilled spirite have been landed at the port of destination named in the bill of lading, or upon satisfactory proof that after shipment the same were lost at sea with- out faultor neglect of the owner or shipper thereot.” (Approved, Mareh 3, 1573. [Generac ‘UR#—No. 61} AN ACT making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain pub- lve works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes. Be it enected by the Senateand House of Repre. sentativs of the United States of America in 48 assembled, That the —e sums ot money be, and are hereby, appropriated, to be paid Out of any money in the not other- W +e appropriated, to be expended under the sireetion of the Secretary of War, for the re- pair, preservation, and completion of the fol- lowing public works hereinafter named: For the purpose of dredging out the bay of Superior from the natural enirance to the docks 0: Superior and Du Luth and preserving both entrasces trom the lake thereto, one hundred thousand dollars. For the improvement of Marquette harbor, Mochig: fifteen thouand dollars. Fer the improvement of Menomonee harbor, Michigan and Wisconsin, twenty-tive thousand dolla Bay harbor, 3. For the improvement of Green Wisconsin, twenty thousand dollar: For the improvement of Two Rivers harbor, Wiscousin, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the bwprovement of Manitowoc harbor, Wisconsin, twenty thousand dollars. For the improvement of Sheboygan harbor, Wisconsin, ten thousand dollars. For improvement of Port Washington harbor, Wisconsin, fifteen thousand dollars. For the improvement of Milwaukee harbor, Wiscensin, ten thousand dollars. For the improvement of Racine harbor, Wis- consi nty thousand dollars. For the improvement of Chicago harbor, Ili- rois, ninety thousand dollars. For improvement of Calumet harbor, [i- linois, forty thousand dollars. For the improvement of Michigan City har- tor, Indiana, fifty thousand dollars. For the improvement of the Fox and Wiscon- sin rivers, three hundred thousand dollars. For the improvement of Manistee harbor, ——_ ~ thousand ee ay os hort for the improvement of Lu ‘bor, Michi , twenty-five thousand pre For the improvement ot the harbors of Wash- ington and poe nate District of Columbia, fil im thousand dollars. ‘or the improvement of the Great Kanawha yer West Virginia, twenty-five thousand jollars. For the improvement of White River harbor, Michigan, seven thousand dollars. For the improvement of Frankfort harbor, Michigan, ten thousand dollars. For the improvement of Grand Haven har- Lor, Michigan, seventy-five thousand dollars, For the improvement of Black Lake harbor, —_ oeuetee, acsonrgey — hina, ‘or the improvement o: tuck hari Michigan, tea thousand dollars’ , For the improvement of South Haven harbor, Michigan, twenty thousand dollars. For the improvement of Monroe harbor, Mich! , fifteen thousand dollars. For the im ment of Che harbor, Michi 2, dfveen thousand detiacse 2 For the improvement of Saint Mary’s Falls | jar: canal, two hundred thousand doll: For the im bi © mouth of Black river, fifteen thousand dol- ars. For the improvement of harbor of Refuge, on Lake Huron, seventy-tive thousand dollars. For the improvement of Pentwater harbor, Michigan, twenty doliars. For the improvement of Saint Clair Flats canal, one hundred thousand dollars. For the improvement of Toiedo harbor, Ohio, cone bundred thousand dollars. For the improvement of Sandusky City har- tor, Ohio, t ‘five thousand dollars. For the nes ot Vermillion harbor, 8. Chio, twelve thousand dollars. For the improvement of Black River harbor, Chio, twenty y F New York, jonen a For the of | # i ement of Saint Clair river, at | liye i i f: i Fi ty i 8 i ey z F 3 Fe | F i i g F | i [ tf i fi | wiz g F | i : E H ! 2 J i between the mouth Feged, subject to |, subject to Engineers of eaid corps, to adjust hand pay, out of apy money appropriated tor the impreve- ment of said weno ©. Dennis any legalor equitable claims he may have against the Uni- ted States arising cut of work done by him un- der McGlincy and ys contract to per- form work on‘said canal, ia the — cighteen hundred and seventy ove and eighteen hundred and seventy-two; and said Godfrey Weitzel! zed and directed to pay to J. C. Dennis, in addition to the amount of McGlincy and Company tor work done by sald x! id improvement: Provided, That such sums thal! not exceed the amount due and owing 7 the government of the United States for work done under said ‘contract of Hagh McGlincy and Company, and that the sums thus received of Weitzell shall be in fall of the claim of said McGiincy and Company under their contract, and in full of the claim of said Dennis as the of said firm. For completing the Louisville and Portland esnal, one hundred thousand dollars; and the | Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and @irected to assume, on behalf of the United S'ates, the control and management of the said canal in conformity with the terms of the joint resolution of the yg ee of the State of Kentucky, roved March twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, at each time and in such manner as in his judgment the interests of the United States, and the com merce thereof, may require; and the sum of movey necessary to enable the Secretary of the ‘Treasurs to carry this provision into effect is hereby appropriated: /’rorided, That after the United States shall assume control of said ca- 21, the tolls thereon on vessels propelled by andon all other vesseis in proportion. ‘or the improvement of the Upper Monon- 1 organtown, West Virgini pilars. ment of the Camb ville, Tennessee, twe thousand dollars. For the improvement of the Wabash river, Indiana and Illinois, firty thousand dollars. For the improvement of the Tennessee river yelow Chattanooga, including the Muscle shoals, one bandred thousand dollars. For the improvement of the Tennessee river above Chattanooga, twemty-five thousand dol- lars, For the improvement of the month of the Mississippi river, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollare. For removing the raft in Red river, Louisiana, eighty thoosand dollars. For the improvement of Cypress bayou, and construction of dams, and dredging at the foot of Soda Lake, Texas, fifty thousand dollars. For the improvement of Mobile harbor and bay, Alabama, one hundred thousand dollars, For completing work now in progress in im- proving Charleston harbor, South Carolina, five thousand dollars. ~ For the improvement of Savannah harbor and river, Georgia, fifty thousand dollars. For the improvement of Saint John’s river, ida, ten thousand dollars. For the improvement of the entrance to the barber of Baltmore, in Patapsco river and Chesapeake bay, two hundred thousand doliars. For the improvement of the Wicomico river, ryland, five thousand dollars. ‘or the improvement of Cambridge Harbor, ryland, five thousand dollars. i the improvement of Kent I+land narrows, Maryl: tend dollars. For the improvement of Aquia creek, Vir- ginia, two thousand dollars For the improvement of the mouth of Occo- quan river, Virginia, five thousand dollars. For the improvem yf the mouth of Nomoni creek, Virginia, ten thousand dollars. For the improvement of the Rappahannock river below Fredericksburg, Virgiuia, fifteen thoueand dollars. For the improvement of the James river, Virginia, seventy-five thousand dollars. For the improvementof the eeath branch of Elizabeth river, Virginia, fifteen thousand dol- M lars. For the improvement of the Appomatox river below Petersburgh, Virginis, thirty thousand dollars. For the improvement of Nansemond river, Virginia, fifteen thousand dollars. For the improvement of Roanoke river be- low Weldon, North Carolina, ten thousand dol- lars. For the improvement of Cape Fear river be- jow Wilmington, N Carolina, ene hundred teror the see rement of Wilmington harbor. ‘or the im ent q Delaware, six thousand dollars. For the improvement of the channe! of the Delaware river, at Fort Miffiin bar, fifty thou- sand dollars. For the improvement of the channel of the Delaware river at and near the Horse-Shoe 4 hoals, flifty thonsend dollars; the work not to be commenced until an examinationandsurrey | has been made by #boara of engineers of the Secretary | United States army, appeinted by the. ot War, and a favorapie upon the feasi- bility and expense of the prevention and removal of the o! . For the improvement of the channel of the Schuylkill river, Pennsylvania, forty thousand doliars,of which amount a portion shall be used | for commencing the removal of the rocks at and wharf. For the improvement of Broadkiln river, Del- aware, ten thousand . For building an additional pier for the ice- harbor at New Castle, Delaware, twenty thous- and dollars. For the improvement of South river, New Jersey, five thousand dollars. For the _ eben meee — —_ branches o1 ywebury river, New Jersey, five usand dollars. th b For the improvement of Delaware river be- fifteen For the improvement of Hudson river, New | York, forty thousand dollars. for removil For ing obstractions in East river. Ni York, ing Hell Gate, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. < For provement of Passaic river, New Jersey, enty-five thousand doilare. For the im} of East Chester creek, New York, twenty-five thousand For the improvement of Roundout harbor, Hudson river, New York, twenty thousand dollars. am shail be reduced to twenty-tive cents per | | lan adopted for the al tween Trenton and Bordentown, New Jersey, | d dollars. z 4 & i ! | | i | i Hu a7f i i : | | f z fi g 2 | | ag z g | i i i i 5 ! fi i i ! i i i i i i | ?? tt 4 i Hf f i Fi = g therefrom, at Woods bole, in Bizzard’s bay, Massachusetts, for removal of reste therefrom, to ani Old House channel pelo! Pamtioa sound, N Carolin, the harbor of Washi ton, North Carolina, bayou Lafourche, Loa- isiana, from Lato crowing t> the mouth; ‘mouth of Red river down Atchafalaya Tiver to Brashear, in Louisiana; at the entrance of M Day and the channei tol ; Pine river, Saint Clair ecunty, Michi- jonistique harbor, Lake Michigan; Seba- ichigan; Yamhill river. Oregon; uille river, Oregon; Ked river st the month of sey, below New Brauswick, inclading the shoals ‘called the Middle Ground; the Yough- er, Pennsyivant M Autonio creek, San Francisco bay, California; Santa Cruz, California; Estero near Santa Barbara, California. Aud not te exceed five thousand doliars of the above appropriation may et in an exploration of routes fer the extension of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal to the Obio river, by the north and south branches of the Potomac river. For collecting the inland waters the margin of the Galf of sfexico, from Donaldson- Fille, in Louisiana, to the Kio Grande river, in Texas, by cuts and canals, not to exceed twenty | tho dollars of the amoant herein appro- | priated for eurveys of rivers and harbors at Great Pee Dee river, from Pine Bluff to Ghe- raw, South Carolina; at Ashley river, South Caroliva; at Cleveland, Ohio, for the constrac- tion of a harbor of refuge; at Forked Deer river, below Dyersburg, Tennessee; at arbor at Wil son, on Lake Ontario, New York; at East Pas- | Tpewich bay, Maseact: to ascertain the yp Tetuge by building a breakwater there. Sxc. 3. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and required to detail from the en- Fineer corps one OF more enginecrs, whose duty it shail be to inquire into and report upon the practicability of bridging, consistently with the interests Of Bavigation, the chanuel between | Lake Huron and Lake Erie, at such points as may be needful for the passtng of railroad trains across said channel, and aiso its effect apon tl navigation of the same; and further, to inte the number and character of the v; navigating said channel, and the number of trips made by each, and, if said bridging bs practicable, to report what extent of span or spans and elevation above the water will be re- quired in the construction of auch bridge or bri¢ges, 50 as pot seriously te injare the navi- gation of said channe!. Sxo. 4. That the appropriation for building the pier at Lewes, Delaware, contained In the act approved July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy, an act entitled “ An act making sppropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and for otber putposes,” be end the same is hereby ex- tended until Jane thirtieth, cighteen hundred and seventy-four. [Approved. March 3. 1573. N*¥ EXPRESS LINE VIA CANAL, PSILADELPHIA ALEXANDRIA Va, WASH- INGTON AND GEORGETOWN, at Hodgkin's cove, leability of a harbor of From Pier 3; Rarch Wharves, Phil or en, Phil- adelphia, WE! . UeUAy: LAWLEY snd sar From 69 Water street, DAY and SATURDAY, at 10.a.m." This live connects: Phi’ m Line FAY! P. CLYDE & CO. REID, Alexand: ALDO A. PEARCE, WwW ASRINGTOR, 80) fine Lron Steamer Lake. via “ Express Office, 663 . TM. CROUOH, Agent. ch. wharf. mi Boas chicane ae aot Ps, ave. | (CUSARD Ling. 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