Chapter XXX. *making appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve.* Feb. 24, 1812.[Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, *Appropriation for the expenses of
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Chap. XXX.— An Act *making appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve.* Feb. 24, 1812.[Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, *Appropriation for the expenses of the navy. That for defraying the expenses of the navy, during the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, the following sums, including therein the sum of four hundred thousand dollars already appropriated by the act, entituled “An act 685TWELFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 31. 1812.authorizing the purchase of ordnance and ordnance stores, camp equipageSpecific appropriations.1812, ch. 16. and other quartermaster’s stores and small arms,” be, and the same hereby are respectively appropriated, that is to say: For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, one million one hundred and twenty-three thousand three hundred and forty-one dollars. For provisions, five hundred and fifty-nine thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven dollars.
For medicines, instruments, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of the sick, forty thousand dollars. For repairs of vessels, three hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. For freight, store rent and all other contingent expenses, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. For the expenses of navy yards, comprising docks and other improvements, pay of superintendents, storekeepers, clerks and labourers, sixty thousand dollars. For ordnance and ordnance stores, comprising cannon, carronades, muskets, pistols and other small arms, cannon ball and shot of every description, two hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
For the purchase of saltpetre and sulphur, and for making the same into powder, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, including provisions for those on shore and forage for the staff, one hundred and fifty-four thousand three hundred and forty-six dollars and eighty cents. For clothing for the same, forty-nine thousand two hundred and eighty-one dollars and sixty cents. For military stores for the same, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty cents.
For medicines, medical services, hospital stores, and all other expenses on account of the sick, belonging to the marine corps, three thousand five hundred dollars. For quartermasters and barrack-masters’ stores, officers’ travelling expenses, armorers and carpenters’ bills, fuel, premiums for enlisting men, musical instruments, bounty to music and other contingent expenses of the marine corps, twenty thousand dollars. For the relief of the legal representatives of David Valenzin, deceased, being the amount of a former appropriation for that object, carried to the surplus fund, two thousand six hundred and sixty-five dollars and seventy cents.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums, specifically appropriated by this act, shall be paid out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated. Approved, February 24, 1812. Chapter XXXI: supplementary to “An act to raise, for a limited time, an additional military force,” passed on the twelfth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight. 2 Stat. 685 1812-02-26 Chapter XXXI Charles C. Little and James Brown text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
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*making appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve.* Feb. 24, 1812.[Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, *Appropriation for the expenses of
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