Annual Report of the Secretary of the NavyU.S. Government Printing Office, 1868 |
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00 Alonzo 00 Class 00 David Babcock 00 George Adams 00 Hyatt 00 James Bigler 00 John H 00 Joseph L 00 Joseph Low 00 S. P. Brown 00 William Porter 1st rate act of July appropriation boilers Brown & Son Bureau of Yards C. M. Clapp Chief of Bureau coal Creed Duryee ending June 30 Estimate European Squadron fiscal year ending Fowler & Snow George Adams George H GIDEON guns harbor honor Hyatt & Spencer iron J. B. Fuller labor Lookins & Myers machinery midshipmen Navigation NAVY DEPARTMENT navy yards obedient servant Observatory ordnance Porter & Sons Portsmouth Provisions and Clothing Rear-Admiral respectfully salary of clerk Samuel L Samuel Oakman Savage ship South Pacific Squadron steam steamer submitted as increase Torrey Total UNITED STATES FLAG-SHIP vessels visited Wampanoag Washington Watson & Pittinger Wesley Smith Wheeler & Browning William H Woodley Yards and Docks
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Page xxv - The board, whenever it finds an officer incapacitated for active service, will report whether, in its judgment, the said incapacity result from long and faithful service, from wounds or injury received in the line of duty, from sickness or exposure therein, or from any other incident of service.
Page 147 - Freight, ferriage, toll, cartage, wharfage, purchase and repair of boats, compensation to judges advocate, per diem for attending courts-martial, courts of inquiry, and for constant labor, house rent in lieu of quarters, burial of deceased marines, printing, stationery, postage, telegraphing, apprehension of deserters, oil, candles, gas, repair of gas and water fixtures, water rent, forage, straw, barrack furniture, furniture for officers' quarters, bedsacks, spades, shovels, axes, picks, carpenters...
Page xxviii - ... who may be entitled to receive the same; and if the said fund shall be insufficient for the purpose, the public faith is hereby pledged to make up the deficiency; but if it should be more than sufficient, the surplus shall be applied to the making of further provision for the comfort of the disabled officers, seamen, and marines...
Page xxviii - States from the sale of prizes, shall be and remain forever a fund for the payment of pensions and half pay, should the same be hereafter granted, to the officers and seamen who may be entitled to receive the same, and if the said fund shall be insufficient for the purpose, the public faith is hereby pledged to make up the deficiency; but if it should be more than sufficient, the surplus shall be...
Page 3 - Near the centre is a valve, under the control "f the officer of the deck, and as he turns it the water is thrown with great force, either forward or aft; thus propelling the vessel ahead or astern at his will. So soon as we got on board we proceeded out of the harbor, and to my amazement she went ahead at a speed of seven or eight miles }>cr hour, against a fresh breeze and quite a sea.
Page xxvii - ... if in the naval service, was at the time borne on the books of some ship or other vessel of the United States, at sea or in harbor, actually in commission, or was at some naval station, or on his way, by direction of competent authority, to the United States or to some other vessel or naval station or hospital.
Page xxvii - No person shall be entitled to a pension by reason of wounds or injury received or disease contracted in the service of the United States subsequent to the twenty-seventh day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, unless the person who was wounded, or injured , or contracted the disease was in the line of duty...
Page 75 - For defraying the expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, viz: For freight and transportation of materials and stores of every description; for wharfage and dockage; storage and rent; travelling expenses of officers and transportation of seamen; house rent...
Page 147 - For military stores, viz: pay of armorers, repair of arms, purchase of accoutrements, ordnance stores, flags, drums, fifes, and other instruments . . 5.
Page 48 - Ropewalk machinery, widening main entrance, toola for machine and forge shops, and filling in a portion of timber dock. The amount expended on these objects during the year is, for materials, $22,104 99, and for labor, $20,723 24; making an aggregate of $42,828 23. The improvements which have been in progress during the year, but which are not yet completed, are: Extension of sheer wharf, paving and draining around dry-dock, railroad tracks, and repairs of all kinds.