FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 234. 1898. 375 BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS. gumauofyudsaud ‘ Docks. MAINTENANCE OF YARDS AND DOCKS: For general maintenance of M,,,,,,,,,,,,,,_ yards and docks, namely: For freight, transportation of materials and · stores; books, maps, models, and drawing; purchase and repair of fire engines; machinery; repairs on steam hre engines and attendance on the same; purchase and maintenance of oxen, horses, and driving teams; carts, timber-wheels, and all vehicles for use in the navy-yards; tools and repairs of the same; postage on letters and other mailable matter on public service sent to foreign countries, and telegrams; stationery; furniture for Government houses and odlces in navy-yards; coal and other fuel, candles, oil, and gas; cleaning and clearing up yards and care of buildings; attendance on tires, lights, ilre engines, and apparatus; incidental labor at navy-yards; water-tax, tolls, and ferriage; rent of four of[lcers’ quarters at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; pay of watchmen in navy-yards; awnings and packing boxes, and advertisin for yards and docks and other purposes; and for rent of wharf and storehouse at Erie, Pennsylvania, for use and accommodation of United States steamer Michigan, three hundred thousand dollars. - Oommennr, Burman or Ykuns Ann Docks: For contingent contingent, elxpenses that may arise at navy-yards and stations, twenty thousand · o ars; Civu. ESTABLISHMENT, Burman OF YARDS AND Dock : Navy- civiissmimmm. yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one clerk, at one thousand four P°'"'“°“"‘· N- H- hundred dollars; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; one foreman laborer and head teamster, at four dollars per diem, including Sundays; one janitor, at six hundred dollars; one pilot, at three dollars per diem, ilneiluding Sundays; in all, five thousand eight hundred and eighfydive o ars; Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one clerk, at one thousand Bo•ton,Mus. tour hundred dollars; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one messenger to commandant, at one dollar and seventy-six cents per diem; one messenger, at one dollar and seventy-six cents per diem; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one writer, at nine hundred dollars; one master of tugs, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, six thousand flve hundred and eighty-three dollars and seventy-six cents; Navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand four 1;,.,.,;,;,,,, N, y, hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and tweu ty-tive cents; one yard pilot, two thousand dollars; two masters of tugs, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; two writers, at nine hundred dollars each; one foreman laborer, at four dollars and- fifty cents per diem ; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; two messengers, at two dollars and twenty-tive cents per diem each; one draftsman, at ilve dollars per diem; one quartermau, at three dollars per diem; one superintendent of teams or quarterman, at tour dollars per diem; one messenger to cominandant, at two dollars and twenty-tive cents per diem, including Sundays; one electrician, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, eighteen thousand five hundred and forty-one dollars and nity cents; Naval station, Sacketts Harbor, New York: For one ship keeper, at smums Harbor, three hundred and sixty-five dollars per annum; N‘Y‘ Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one 1.¤.g¤¤1n.¤.i,rk thousand four hundred dollars; one writer and telegraph operator, at one thousand dollars; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one master of tugs, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, five thousand four hundred and seventy-eight dollars; Navy-yard, Washington. District of Columbia: For one clerk, at one wamngm. n. c. thousand four hundred dollars; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one electrician, one
