Chapter XXXVI. making appropriations for the support of the nary of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one
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Chap. XXXVI.— An Act making appropriations for the support of the nary of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one. March 3, 1821. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*, That, for defraying the expenses Sums appropriated, for—of the navy, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty- one, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively appropriated:
Pay and subsistence of officers For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, nine hundred and eighty-three thousand three hundred and twenty-five dollars and twenty-five cents. SIXTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 37, 38. 1821. 635 For provisions, three hundred and thirty-seven thousand eight hundred Provisions.and thirty-one dollars. For medicines, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of the sick, Medicines.thirty-two thousand dollars. For repairs of vessels, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
Repairs of vessels. Navy yards, &c. Ordnance, &c. Contingent expenses. Marine corps. For improvement of navy yards, docks, and wharves, pay of superintendents, storekeepers, clerks, and labourers, twenty-five thousand dollars. For ordnance and ordnance stores, twenty-five thousand dollars. For contingent expenses, two hundred thousand dollars. For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, one hundred and sixty-nine thousand three hundred and ninety-three dollars. For clothing the same, thirty thousand six hundred and eighty-six dollars and thirty-one cents.
For fuel for the same, six thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents. For contingent expenses of the same, fourteen thousand dollars. For completing the equipment of the vessels constructed in pursuance Equipment of small vessels of war.of the act authorizing the building of a certain number of small vessels of war, ten thousand dollars. For the purpose of enabling the Secretary of the Navy to remove obstructions Removing obstructions in river Thames.placed in the river Thames, in Connecticut, by the commander of the American ships, during the late war, one hundred and fifty dollars.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the several appropriations Out of moneys in the treasury.hereinbefore made, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 3, 1821.