Chapter XXV. making appropriations for the support of the navy of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty
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Chap. XXV.— An Act making appropriations for the support of the navy of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty.March 17, 1820. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Appropriations. States of America, in Congress assembled,* That for defraying the expenses of the navy, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively appropriated. For pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, Pay of officers and pay of seamen. nine hundred and eighty-nine thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.
For provisions, four hundred and fifteen thousand one hundred and Provisions. eighty-seven dollars. For medicines, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of the sick, Medicines, hospital stores, &c. including the marine corps, thirty-six thousand dollars. For repairs of vessels, four hundred and eighty-four thousand Repairs of vessels. dollars. For store rent, freight, transportation, enlistment of seamen, and Contingent expenses. all other contingent expenses, two hundred and forty thousand dollars.
For improvement of navy yards, docks, and wharves, pay of superintendents, Repairs of navy yards. storekeepers, clerks, and labourers, one hundred thousand dollars. For payment of contracts made for shells and shot, and for military Contracts for shells and shot. stores, fifty thousand dollars. For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, one hundred and seventy-seven Marine corps. thousand two hundred and twenty-eight dollars. For clothing the same, twenty-seven thousand two hundred and five Clothing. dollars.
For contingent expenses of the same, twenty thousand dollars.Contingent expenses. For military stores, one thousand dollars.Military stores 554SIXTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 26, 27. 1820. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the several appropriations To be paid out of the treasury. herein before made, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 17, 1820.