Chapter CXVII. making appropriations for the support of the navy of the United States, for the first quarter of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine
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Chap. CXVII.— An Act making appropriations for the support of the navy of the United States, for the first quarter of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine. May 24, 1828. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, * For defraying the expenses of the navy for 1st quarter of 1829. That, for defraying the expenses of the navy for the first quarter of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated, to wit:
For pay and subsistence of officers, and pay of seamen employed inPay and subsistence of officers, &c. the navy afloat, two hundred and ninety-four thousand and seventy-eight dollars. For pay, subsistence, and allowances of officers, and pay of seamen,Pay, &c. of officers and seamen. at navy yards, shore stations, hospitals, and in ordinary, forty-six thousand two hundred and fifty-eight dollars. For pay of superintendents, naval constructor, and all the civil establishmentPay of superintendents, &c. at the yards and stations, fourteen thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For provisions, one hundred and twenty-six thousand two hundred andProvisions. fifty dollars. For repairs of vessels, one hundred and eighteen thousand seven hundredRepairs of vessels. and fifty dollars. For medicines, surgical instruments, and hospital stores, six thousandMedicines. seven hundred and fifty dollars. For ordnance and ordnance stores, twelve thousand five hundredOrdnance. dollars. For repairing and improvements of navy yards, twenty-six thousandRepairing, &c. of navy yards, &c. two hundred and fifty dollars.
For arrearages prior to one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine,Arrearages prior to 1829. three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For contingent expenses for one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine,Contingent expenses for 1829, &c.Act of March 2, 1827, ch. 22. embracing the items enumerated for that object in the act of second of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, sixty thousand dollars. For contingent expenses, not enumerated, for one thousand eight hundredContingent expenses not enumerated. and twenty-nine, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, thirty thousand fivePay, &c. of marine corps. hundred and ninety-four dollars. For clothing for the same, seven thousand one hundred and ninety-oneClothing for same. dollars and twenty-five cents. For fuel for the same, three thousand and forty-nine dollars.Fuel. 312 TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 118, 119, 120. 1828. Contingencies for same.For contingencies for the same, three thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars. Additional contingencies for same.For contingencies additional for the same, one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Military stores. Medicines, &c.For military stores for the same, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For medicines and hospital stores for the same, five hundred and ninety-two dollars and twenty-five cents. Sec. 2. Sums appropriated to be paid from the treasury. *And be it further enacted, *That the sums herein appropriated shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; but that no part of the same shall be drawn from the treasury before the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.
Approved, May 24, 1828.