Chapter XCII. making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight
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Chap. XCII.— An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.May 31, 1838. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be appropriated, in addition to the unexpended balances of former appropriations, out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, for the naval service, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, viz:
For the pay of commissioned, warrant, and petty officers, and of Pay of officers and seamen. seamen, one million three hundred and twelve thousand dollars; For the pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishments Pay of superintendents, &c. at yards. at the several yards, sixty-nine thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars; For provisions, six hundred thousand dollars;Provisions. For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and the repairs and wear and tear Repairs, &c. of vessels in commission, one million two hundred thousand dollars;
For medicines, surgical instruments, and hospital stores, and other Medicines, &c. expenses on account of the sick, seventy-five thousand dollars; For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Portsmouth, Portsmouth navy yard. New Hampshire, twenty thousand dollars; For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Charlestown, Charlestown navy yard. Massachusetts, seventy-four thousand dollars; For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Brooklyn, Brooklyn navy yard.
New York, sixty-one thousand dollars; 233 TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 92. 1838. For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Philadelphia, Philadelphia navy yard. Pennsylvania, twenty-one thousand five hundred dollars; For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Washington, Washington navy yard. thirty thousand dollars; For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Gosport, Gosport navy yard. Virginia, seventy-seven thousand five hundred dollars;
For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard near Pensacola, Pensacola navy yard. seventy-six thousand five hundred dollars; For ordnance and ordnance stores, sixty-five thousand dollars;Ordnance, &c. For defraying the expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, Miscellaneous expenses. viz; for the freight and transportation of materials and stores of every description; for wharfage and dockage; storage and rent; travelling expenses of officers and transportation of seamen; house rent for pursers when attached to yards and stations where no house is provided; for funeral expenses; for commissions, clerk hire, office rent, stationery, and fuel to navy agents; for premiums and incidental expenses of recruiting; for apprehending deserters; for compensation to judge advocates; for per diem allowance to persons attending courts martial and courts of inquiry; for printing and stationery of every description, and for working the lithographic press; for books, maps, charts, mathematical and nautical instruments, chronometers, models, and drawings; for the purchase and repair of fire engines and machinery, and for the repair of steam engines; for the purchase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and for carts, timber wheels, and workmen’s tools of every description; for postage of letters on public service; for pilotage and towing ships of war; for cabin furniture of vessels in commission; taxes and assessments on public property; for assistance rendered to vessels in distress; for incidental labour at navy yards, not applicable to any other appropriation; for coal and other fuel, and for candles and oil; for repairs of magazines or powder-houses; for preparing moulds for ships to be built, and for no other purpose whatever, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars;
For contingent expenses for objects not hereinbefore enumerated, Contingent expenses. three thousand dollars; For pay of the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and Pay, &c. of the marine corps. privates, and subsistence of the officers of the marine corps, one hundred and sixty-two thousand and nineteen dollars; For provisions for the non-commissioned officers, musicians, and Provisions for non-commissioned officers, &c. serving on shore. privates serving on shore, servants and washerwomen, forty-nine thousand eight hundred and forty dollars;
For clothing, forty-three thousand six hundred and ninety-five dollars;Clothing. For fuel, fifteen thousand eight hundred and four dollars;Fuel. For keeping the present barracks in repair until new ones can be Repair of barracks, &c. erected, and for the rent of temporary barracks at New York, ten thousand dollars; For transportation of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, Transportation. and privates, and expenses of recruiting, six thousand dollars; For medicines, hospital stores, surgical instruments, and pay of Medicines, &c. matron, four thousand one hundred and thirty-nine dollars;
For contingent expenses of said corps, freight, ferriage, toll, wharfage, Contingent expenses. and carriage, per diem allowance for attending courts of inquiry, compensation to judge advocates, house rent where there are no public quarters assigned, incidental labour in the quartermaster’s department, expenses of burying deceased persons belonging to the marine corps, printing, stationery, forage, postage on public letters, expenses in pursuing deserters, candles and oil for the different stations, straw for the men, barrack furniture, bed sacks, spades, axes, shovels, picks, and carpenters’ tools, seventeen thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven dollars and ninety-three cents; 234 TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 93. 1838. For military stores, pay of armorers, keeping arms in repair, drums, Military stores, &c. fifes, flags, accoutrements, and ordnance stores, two thousand dollars; For erecting and furnishing a new hospital building, and for a dwelling Hospital near Pensacola. for an assistant surgeon; for the repairs of the present building, and for all expenses upon their dependencies near Pensacola, thirty-one thousand five hundred dollars; For erecting a sea-wall to protect the shore, for enclosing the hospital Hospital near Norfolk. grounds, for completing the basement of south wing, and for all other expenses upon the dependencies of the hospital near Norfolk, nine thousand dollars;
For graduating and enclosing the grounds about the naval asylum Naval asylum near Philada. near Philadelphia, and for all other expenses upon the building and its dependencies, two thousand six hundred dollars; For extending the hospital building near Brooklyn, New York, for Hospital near Brooklyn. enclosing the grounds, and for all other expenses upon its dependencies, sixty thousand dollars; For completing the present hospital building near Boston, and for all Hospital near Boston. expenses upon its dependencies, three thousand five hundred dollars;
For repairing the enclosure, and for the sea-wall of the magazine Magazine upon Ellis’s Isl’d. upon Ellis’s island, in the harbor of New York, three thousand eight hundred dollars; For repairing the magazine, filling house, wharf, and railway, at Magazine, &c. at Norfolk. Norfolk, Virginia, seven hundred and fifty dollars; For building a wall round the magazine at Pensacola, three thousand Magazine at Pensacola. dollars; For fixtures, furniture, and other incidental expenses at the naval Naval asylum at Philada. asylum, at Philadelphia, being a balance carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first December last, twelve hundred and forty-one dollars and thirty-seven cents;
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That of the amount heretofore Appropriations for the navy. Act of March 2, 1833, ch. 67. appropriated, under the act of the second of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, entitled “An act in addition to the act for the gradual improvement of the navy of the United States,” and remaining unexpended, the sum of one million five hundred thousand dollars be carried to the surplus fund; and that the sum of one million five hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, to be paid one half in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, and the other half in the year eighteen hundred and forty, for the purpose of completing contracts now existing, or which may be hereafter made, according to the provisions of the said act of the second of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three.
Approved, May 31, 1838.