Chapter XXVI. making appropriations for ordnance and ordnance stores for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixteen
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Chap. XXVI.— An Act making appropriations for ordnance and ordnance stores for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.March 18, 1816. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Specific appropriations. Appropriation for ordnance and ordnance stores. United States of America, in Congress assembled,* That for the expense of ordnance and ordnance stores, including arsenals, magazines and armories for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, the following sums be, and the same are hereby respectively appropriated, that is to say; for armories, three hundred and thirty-seven thousand eight hundred and forty-eight dollars, twenty-five cents—for arsenals, three hundred and eighty-three thousand dollars, for timber for mounting cannon, seventy-five thousand dollars.
For coals, iron and steel, seventy-nine thousand dollars. For contracts for gun-powder, ninety-three thousand dollars. For contracts for cannon, shot and shells, one hundred and eleven thousand dollars. In part of the annual sum of two hundred thousand dollars, appropriated for the purpose of providing arms and military equipments for the militia, eighty-nine thousand dollars. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the several appropriations herein before made shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 18, 1816.