Chapter XCI. making appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen
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Chap. XCI.— An Act making appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.March 3, 1817. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Appropriations for defraying the expenses of the navy for 1817. States of America, in Congress assembled,* That, for defraying the expenses of the navy, for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, the following sums be, and they are hereby, respectively, appropriated, that is to say:
For pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of seamen, one million ninety-two thousand seven hundred and thirty-two dollars. For provisions, four hundred and ninety-six thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars. For medicine, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of sick, including those of the marine corps, ten thousand dollars. For repairs of vessels, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For ordnance, ammunition, and military stores, one hundred thousand dollars.
For the purchase of saltpetre and sulphur, twenty thousand dollars. For navy yards, docks, and wharves, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For contingent expenses, including freight, transportation, and recruiting expenses, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For expenses in procuring gold and silver medals and swords, in conformity with sundry resolutions of Congress, fifteen thousand dollars. For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, one hundred and eighty-seven thousand three hundred and eight dollars.
For clothing for the same, thirty-four thousand one hundred and sixty-six dollars. For military stores for the same, one thousand one hundred and eighty-eight dollars. For contingent expenses for the same, fourteen thousand dollars. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the several appropriations, hereinbefore made, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 3, 1817.