Chapter XLII. *making appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and six.*April 21, 1806. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United for defraying the expenses of the navy for the year 1806
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Chap. XLII.— An Act *making appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and six.*April 21, 1806. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United for defraying the expenses of the navy for the year 1806. States of America in Congress assembled,* That for defraying the expenses of the navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and six, the following sums be, and the same are hereby respectively appropriated, that is to say:
For pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, two Specific appropriations. hundred and ninety-one thousand one hundred and nineteen dollars. For provisions, one hundred and fifty-seven thousand two hundred and fifty-four dollars and thirty-four cents. For medicine, instruments and hospital stores, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs of vessels, store rent, pay of armorers, freight and other contingent expenses, four hundred and eleven thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, including provisions for those on shore, and forage for the staff, sixty-six thousand and twenty-eight dollars and ten cents. For clothing for the same, fourteen thousand three hundred and sixty dollars. For military stores for the same, one thousand one hundred and thirty-five dollars. For medicine, medical services, hospital stores, and all other expenses on account of the sick, belonging to the marine corps, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For quartermaster’s and barrack master’s stores, officers’ travelling expenses, armorer’s and carpenter’s bills, fuel, premium for enlisting, musical instruments, bounty to music, and other contingent expenses, eight thousand one hundred and forty-five dollars. For the expense of navy yards, docks and other improvements, the pay of superintendents, store-keepers, clerks and labourers, sixty thousand dollars. For ordnance, fifty thousand dollars. For completing the marine barracks, at the city of Washington, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the several sums herein specifically appropriated, shall be paid out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated. Approved, April 21, 1806.