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[[strikethrough]] ch [[/strikethrough]] clear wind west [[preprinted]]FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1865.[[/preprinted]] clear
Engaged on the report - ordered the printing of Mr Conrad's check list -
The printing of 750 copies of Meeks paper - 
adopted the introduction to Meeks paper as corrected -.
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May 25 continued - on this recommendation congress granted 20 thousand dollars
The money was first placed in charges of Isherwood and afterwards into [[?]] of a commission
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clear     [[preprinted]]SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1865.[[/preprinted]]
Mr Mayor has presented his translation from the French of the determination of true velocity of light for the Report.
Light House Board-
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May 25 Mr Dickerson informs me that there was a commission appointed about 3 years ago by the Navy Department to investigate the assertions of Mr D relative to the erroneous principles adopted in the construction of the ships of the Navy - The report was made in 3 years ago  - to the affects that the boilers in use were unanimously condemned as inferior to the boilers used by other navies and that the engines were inferior to giving one third less power than could have been obtained in the same spaces and weight by other engines. The boilers were those of Martin. As to the theory of expansion there was a division. two advocating expansion and the remainder thought there was but little gain by expansion but recommended experiments to be tried. 
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