burial expenses, and headstones, three hundred and fifty dollars; improvement of grounds, five hundred dollars; repairs to buildings and preservation of all kinds, painting, and for grates, furnaces, ranges, furniture, and repairs of furniture, four thousand five hundred dollars; and for support of beneficiaries, forty-three thousand five hundred dollars; in all, fifty-nine thousand eight hundred and thirteen. dollars, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund.

SEC. 2. That hereafter no officer of the Navy shall be employed on any shore duty, except in cases specially provided by law, unless the Secretary of the Navy shall determine that the employment of an officer on such duty is required by the public interests, and he shall so state in the order of employment, and also the duration of such service, beyond which time it shall not continue.

Approved, March 3, 1883.

FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION-JULY 7, 1884.

[PUBLIC-No. 113.]

AN ACT Making temporary provision for the naval service.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of providing for the expenses of the naval service for the six months ending December thirty first, eighteen hundred and eighty four, there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated one half or fifty per centum of the sums of money (and for the like purposes and continuing the same provisions relating thereto) as were appropriated for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty four, by the act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth eighteen hundred and eighty four and for other purposes" approved March third eighteen hundred and eighty three (except as hereinafter declared), subject to all the limitations and conditions in respect to the disbursement of the appropriations hereby made that were imposed by said act and the other laws of the United States upon or in respect to the appropriations made by said act: Provided, That nothing is appropriated by this act "for special ocean surveys and the publication thereof" or "for the purchase and manufacture after full investigation and test in the United States under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy of torpedoes adapted to naval warfare or of the right to manufacture the same and for the fixtures and machinery necessary for operating the same That the clause under the heading "Bureau of Yards and Docks" commencing commencing" For general maintenance of yards and docks" is amended so as to appropriate for the six months herein provided for the sum of one hundred and ten thousand dollars;

That under the heading "Increase of the Navy" in said act, in lieu of all the paragraphs thereunder and preceding the heading of "Naval Academy " there is hereby substituted the following:

For continuing work upon the three new steel cruisers and one dispatch boat authorized by act of Congress approved March third eighteen hundred and eighty-three as follows: Chicago three hundred and forty nine thousand one hundred and thirty three dollars and forty five cents; Boston, two hundred and thirty one thousand eight hundred and fifty three dollars and twenty eight cents; Atlanta two hundred and thirty one thousand eight hundred and fifty three dollars and twenty seven cents; Dolphin one hundred and eight thousand six hundred and sixty dollars, in all nine hundred and twenty one thousand five hundred dollars; the four pivot-guns of the Chicago to be mounted on Clark's deflective single-gun turrets or V shields, of the same weight as is now allowed for the mounting and armor protection of the guns: Provided, That it shall not change the contract entered into by the Government for the construction of said vessels."

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"For completion of steam-machinery and boilers, with necessary fittings for sea-service, of steel cruisers and dispatch boat, under contract with John Roach, as per act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three: United States steel cruiser Chicago, two hundred and twenty thousand dollars; United States steel cruiser Boston, one hundred and fifty five thousand dollars; United States steel cruiser Atlanta, one hundred and fifty five thousand dollars; United States dispatch-boat Dolphin, ninety thousand dollars; in all, six hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

"For completing equipment outfits of three new cruisers and one dispatch-boat, now in course of construction, seventy eight thousand six hundred dollars."

"For navigation outfit of the four new steel cruisers, thirty thousand dollars.'

"For ordnance outfit of the three new steel cruisers and one dispatch boat, five hundred thousand dollars."

Nothing herein contained shall be construed as appropriating money for or authorizing the continuation of work upon the doubleturreted-monitors, Monadnock, Terror, Amphitrite, and Puritan, and any unexpended balance now remaining of the appropriation contained in said act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty three, for engines and machinery for the said double turreted monitors shall be covered into the Treasury, except such part thereof as may be required under existing contracts made for the engines and machinery of the three last named monitors.

Approved, July 7, 1884.

FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION-JANUARY 30, 1885.

[PUBLIC-No. 19.]

AN ACT making additional appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the naval service of the Government for the six months beginning January first, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and for other purposes:

For the pay of the Navy, for the active-list, namely: For one Admiral, one Vice-Admiral, eight rear-admirals, seven Chiefs of Bureaus, twenty-one commodores, forty-five captains, eighty-seven commanders, seventy-eight lieutenant-commanders, two hundred and seventy-two lieutenants, ninety-five junior lieutenants, one hundred and ninetythree ensigns, fourteen medical directors, fiftéen medical inspectors, fifty surgeons, seventy-nine passed assistant surgeons, eight assistant surgeons, two assistant surgeons not in the line of promotion (who shall hereafter, after fifteen years' service, be entitled to receive, as annual pay, when at sea, two thousand one hundred dollars, when on shore duty one thousand eight hundred dollars, and when on leave or waiting orders one thousand six hundred dollars), thirteen pay directors, twelve pay inspectors, forty-nine paymasters, twenty-nine passed assistant paymasters, twenty assistant paymasters, sixty-nine chief engineers, ninety-three passed assistant engineers, seventy-eight assistant engineers, twenty-four chaplains, eleven professors of mathematics, ten naval constructors, nine assistant naval constructors, ten civil engineers, one hundred and eighty-eight warrant officers, thirty-eight mates, two hundred and ninety-five naval cadets; in all, one million seven hundred and forty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For pay of the retired-list, namely: For forty-three rear-admirals, twenty commodores, eleven captains, twelve commanders, sixteen lieutenant-commanders, twenty-seven lieutenants, seven ensigns, twenty-two medical directors, two medical inspectors, four surgeons, five passed assistant surgeons, seven assistant surgeons, nine paydirectors, two pay-inspectors, four paymasters, two passed assistant paymasters, one assistant paymaster, eleven chief engineers, twenty passed assistant engineers, twenty-six assistant engineers, eight chaplains, six professors of mathematics, one chief constructor, three civil engineers, thirteen boatswains, ten gunners, nine carpenters, and seven sailmakers; in all, three hundred and sixty-one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five dollars.

For pay to petty officers, seamen, ordinary seamen, landsmen, and boys, including men in the engineers' force and for the Coast Survey service, not exceeding eight thousand two hundred and fifty in all, one million two hundred and forty-five thousand dollars.

For two secretaries, one to the Admiral and one to the ViceAdmiral, clerks to paymasters, clerks at inspections, navy-yards, and stations, and extra pay to men enlisted under honorable discharge; commission and interest, transportation of funds, exchange; mileage to officers while traveling under orders in the United States, and for actual personal expenses of officers while traveling abroad under orders, and for traveling expenses of apothecaries, yeomen, and civilian employees, and for actual and necessary traveling expenses of naval cadets while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment as cadets, and for the payment of any such officers as may be in service, either upon the active or retired list, during the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, in excess of the numbers of each class provided for in this act, and for any increase of pay arising from different duty, as the needs of the service may require; for rent and furniture of buildings and offices not in navy-yards; expenses of courtsmartial and courts of inquiry, boards of investigation, examining boards, with clerks' and witnesses' fees, and traveling expenses and costs; stationery and recording; expenses of purchasing-paymasters' offices at the various cities, including clerks, furniture, fuel, stationery, and incidental expenses; newspapers and advertising; foreign postage; telegraphing, foreign and domestic; telephones; copying; care of library; mail and express wagons, and livery and express fees; costs of suits; commissions, warrants, diplomas, and discharges; relief of vessels in distress, and pilotage; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; care and transportation of the dead; reports, professional investigation, cost of special instruction, and information from abroad, and the collection and classification thereof, one hundred and eighty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.

For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, exclusive of personal services in the Navy Department or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at Washington, District of Columbia, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

BUREAU OF NAVIGATION.

For foreign and local pilotage and towage of ships of war; services and materials in correcting compasses on board ship, and for adjusting and testing compasses on shore; nautical and astronomical instruments, nautical books, maps, charts, and sailing directions, and repairs of nautical instruments for ships of war; books for libraries of ships of war; naval signals and apparatus, namely, signal-lights, lanterns, rockets, running-lights, drawings, and engravings for signalbooks; compass-fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ships' compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship's ways, and leads and other appliances for sounding; lanterns and lamps and their appendages, for general use on board ship, including those for the cabin, ward-room, and steerage, for the holds and spirit-rooms, for decks and quartermasters' use; bunting