Chapter LXIV. making appropriations for certain objects of expenditure therein named in the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and forty-four
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Chap. LXIV.— An Act making appropriations for certain objects of expenditure therein named in the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and forty-four.June 15, 1844. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following Appropriations. sums of money be, and the same are hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury for the respective objects of expenditure herein specified, being principally for arrearages or deficiencies arising in consequence of expenses improperly incurred beyond the amounts appropriated for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-four, or for objects not authorized by law:
For the pay of superintendents, naval constructors and all the civil Superintendents, &c. establishments of the several yards, twelve thousand dollars; For the increase, repair, armament and equipment of the navy, including Increase, &c. of the navy. steamers on the lakes, and wear and tear of vessels in commission, one hundred and thirty-eight thousand five hundred dollars and sixty-two cents; For contingencies enumerated, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars;Contingencies enumerated.
For contingencies not enumerated, one thousand five hundred dollars;Contingencies not enumerated. For the building of an iron steamer at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, on Lieutenant Hunter’s plan, and now in progress of construction there, Building iron steamer. one hundred thousand dollars; For the purchase of clothing, including transportation and every other Clothing, &c. expense, to be reimbursed out of the sales of the clothing, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Approved, June 15, 1844.