Pay of pursers at navy-yards.Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That no more than one Purser doing duty at any navy-yard shall at the same time be entitled to the pay fixed by law for that service.
2d and 3d secs. act of 2d March 1837, ch. 21, extended to marines.Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That the term “persons,” mentioned in the second and third sections of an act passed March second, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, entitled “An act to provide for the enlistment of boys for the naval service, and to extend the term of enlistment of seamen,” shall be construed to include marines.
Settlement of R. M. Price’s account as purser of the Missouri.Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That the accounting officers of the Treasury Department be authorized and directed, in the settlement of the account of Rodman M. Price, as purser of the United States steam-ship Missouri, to credit him with such portion of the amount of the slops, small stores, and money, with which he stands charged on the books of the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury, as they shall be satisfied was consumed or lost by the burning of said vessel; now, however, to exceed the sum of twelve thousand and sixty dollars; and that the said Rodman M. Price be, and he is hereby, exonerated from all liability on account of the provisions which were lost with said vessel.
Erection of marine hospitals at Pittsburg, Louisville, and Cleveland.Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated, for the purpose of erecting marine hospitals upon the sites owned by the United States at Pittsburg in Pennsylvania, Louisville in Kentucky, and at Cleveland in Ohio, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.
Publication for proposals, &c. by Executive Departments.Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That in all cases where proposals for any contract or contracts, to be made by any of the Executive Departments or Bureaus, and in all cases where notices of any description, issuing from the same, are now required by law to be advertised, the same shall be advertised by publication in the two newspapers, in the city of Washington, having the largest permanent subscription, and at the discretion of the Executive in any third paper that may be published in said city: Provided, That the charges for such publications shall not be higher than such as are paid by individuals for advertising in said papers: And provided also, That the same publications shall be made in each of said papers equally, as to frequency.
Approved, March 3, 1845.
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Chap. LXXVIII.—An Act relating to revenue cutters and steamers.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,No revenue cutter or steamer to be built, &c. without an appropriation therefor. That no revenue cutter or revenue steamer shall hereafter be built (excepting such as are now in the course of building and equipment) nor purchased, unless an appropriation be first made, by law, therefor.
J. W. JONES,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
WILLIE P. MANGUM,
President pro tempore of the Senate.
In Senate of the United States,
March 3, 1845.
The President of the United States having returned to the Senate, in which it originated, the bill entitled “An act relating to revenue cutters and steamers,” with his objections thereto, the Senate proceeded, in pursuance of the Constitution, to reconsider the same; and,
Resolved, That the said bill to pass, two thirds of the Senate agreeing to pass the same.
Attest: