Chapter XX. *making Appropriations to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the naval Service for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other Purposes*
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CHAP. XX.— An Act *making Appropriations to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the naval Service for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other Purposes*. Feb. 24, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Appropriation for deficiencies in the naval service. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the naval service for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, namely :
Bureau of steam engineering;For the bureau of steam engineeering, five hundred thousand dollars. of construction and repairs.For the bureau of construction and repairs, one million five hundred thousand dollars; and the following amounts of unexpended balances are hereby covered into the treasury, viz.: Of the unexpended Certain unexpended balances covered into the treasury.balance standing to the credit of the bureau of provisions and clothing, one million four hundred thousand dollars ; of the balance to the credit of the bureau of equipment and recruiting, three hundred and ninety-nine thousand dollars; of the balance to the credit of the bureau of navigation, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and of the balance to the credit of the bureau of yards and docks, nine hundred and fifty-one thousand dollars.
And these sums shall be covered in and restored to the treasury, whether they stand to the credit of said bureaus in the proper books of the Treasurer of the United States, or have been placed to any other account, or are under the control of any officer or agent of the Navy Appropriations how to be expended.Department: *Provided*, That the money so appropriated shall be expended only for the purpose of providing materials, carrying on the work, and paying the employes of the bureaus for which it is appropriated.
Approved, February 24, 1870.