Chapter LXXIII. making appropriations for the support of the navy of the United States for the year one thousand eight [hundred] and sixteen
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Chap. LXXIII.— An Act making appropriations for the support of the navy of the United States for the year one thousand eight [hundred] and sixteen.April 24, 1816. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Specific appropriations. States of America, in Congress assembled,* That for defraying the expenses of the navy for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, the following sums be, and they are hereby respectively appropriated, that is to say:
For pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, one million, one hundred and forty-two thousand and fifteen dollars. For provisions, three hundred and fifty-six thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars. For medicine, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of the sick, including those of the marine corps, twenty-five thousand dollars. For repairs of vessels, three hundred thousand dollars. For ordnance, ammunition and military stores, two hundred and ten thousand dollars.
For navy yards, docks, and wharves, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For contingent expenses, including freight, transportation and recruiting expenses, three hundred thousand dollars. For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, one hundred and forty-one thousand one hundred and seventy-two dollars. 300FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 74, 75. 1816. For clothing for the same, thirty-four thousand one hundred and sixty-six Specific appropriations. dollars. For military stores for the same, one thousand one hundred and eighty-eight dollars.
For contingent expenses for the same, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the several appropriations herein before made, shall be paid out of moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, April 24, 1816.