Chapter XXX. matting appropriations for the naval service, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven
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Chap. XXX.— An Act matting appropriations for the naval service, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.March 3, 1837. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That[Obsolete.] the following sums be appropriated for the naval service, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, in addition to the unexpended balances of former appropriations, to wit: ForPay of navy. pay of commissioned, warrant and petty officers, and of seamen, two million four hundred and fifty-four thousand six hundred and eighty-six dollars;
ToBounty for enlistments. enable the President, provided he should deem it necessary, to offer a bounty for the purpose of promoting the enlistment of seamen, seventy-two thousand dollars; ForPay of superintendents, &c, at yards. pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishments at the several yards, sixty-nine thousand four hundred and seventy dollars; ForProvisions. provisions, seven hundred and sixty-two thousand eight hundred and sixty-five dollars;
ForRepairs of vessels, &c. repairs of vessels in ordinary, and the repairs and wear and tear of vessels in commission, one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; ForMedicines and surgical instruments, &c. medicines and surgical instruments, hospital stores, and other expenses, on account of the sick, thirty-nine thousand dollars; ForPortsmouth navy yard. improvements and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, forty-seven thousand seven hundred dollars;
ForCharlestown navy yard. improvements and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Charlestown, Massachusetts, one hundred and twenty-four thousand dollars; 156TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 30. 1837. ForBrooklyn navy yard. improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Brooklyn, New York, sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars; ForPhiladelphia navy yard. improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, thirty-four thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars;
ForWashington navy yard. improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Washington, fifty-two thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars; ForGosport navy yard. improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Gosport, Virginia, one hundred and forty thousand five hundred dollars; ForPensacola navy yard. improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard near Pensacola, seventy-eight thousand dollars; ForOrdnance, &c. ordnance and ordnance stores, seventy-two thousand dollars;
ForMiscellaneous expenses. defraying the expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, to wit; 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, and 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 labor 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, three hundred and thirty-seven thousand six hundred dollars;
ForContingent expenses. contingent expenses for objects not hereinbefore enumerated, three thousand dollars; ForPay and subsistence of marine corps. pay of the officers, noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, and subsistence of the officers of the marine corps, one hundred and sixty-three thousand and nineteen dollars and sixty cents; ForProvisions for noncommissioned officers, &c., serving on shore. the provisions for the noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, serving on shore, servants, and washerwomen, thirty-three thousand four hundred and twenty-eight dollars and eighty cents;
ForClothing. clothing, thirty-eight thousand six hundred and fifty-five dollars; ForFuel. fuel, fourteen thousand five hundred and eighty-nine dollars; ForRepairs of barracks. keeping the present barracks in repair until new ones can be erected, and for the repairs of barracks at head-quarters and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, ten thousand dollars; ForTransportation of officers, &c. the transportation of officers, noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, and expenses of recruiting, six thousand dollars;
ForMedicines, hospital stores, &c. medicines, hospital stores, surgical instruments, and pay of matron, four thousand one hundred and thirty-nine dollars and twenty-nine cents; ForContingent expenses of said corps, &c. contingent expenses of said corps, freight, ferriage, toll, wharfage, and cartage, per diem allowance for attending courts of inquiry, compensation to judge advocates, house rent where there are no public quarters assigned, incidental labor in the quartermaster’s department, expenses of burying deceased persons belonging to the marine corps, printing, stationery, forage, postage on public letters, expenses in pur-TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 30. 1837.157suing deserters, candles and oil for the different stations, straw for the men, barrack furniture, bed sacks, spades, axes, shovels, picks, and carpenter’s tools, seventeen thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven dollars and ninety-three cents; ForMilitary stores, pay of armorers, &c. military stores, pay of armorers, keeping arms in repair, drums, fifes, flags, accoutrements, and ordnance stores, two thousand dollars; ForLaunching, &c., ship Pennsylvania. launching and securing the ship of the line Pennsylvania, one hundred thousand dollars;
ForBuilding and equipping two sloops of war.Also six vessels of war. building and equipping two sloops of war, from frames already provided under former appropriations, two hundred and eighty thousand dollars; and also six vessels of war, if not less than ten, nor more than eighteen guns, four hundred thousand dollars, in addition to any materials on hand; ForHospital near Pensacola. erecting and furnishing a new hospital building, and for a dwelling for an assistant surgeon; for the repairs of the present building, and for all expenses upon their dependencies near Pensacola, forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars;
ForHospital near Norfolk. erecting a sea-wall to protect the shore; for enclosing the hospital grounds, for completing the basement of south wing; for repairing damages sustained from a recent gale, and for all other expenses upon the dependencies of the hospital near Norfolk, eighteen thousand dollars; ForNaval asylum near Philadelphia. graduating and enclosing the grounds about the naval asylum near Philadelphia, and for all other expenses upon the building and its dependencies, ten thousand four hundred and sixty dollars;
TowardsHospital near Brooklyn. an extension of the hospital building near Brooklyn, New York, for enclosing the grounds, and for all other expenses upon its dependencies, sixty-six thousand dollars; ForHospital near Boston. the completion of the present hospital building near Boston, and for all expenses upon its dependencies, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; ForMagazine upon Ellis’s Island. the repair of the enclosure, and for the sea-wall of the magazine upon Ellis’s island, in the harbor of New York, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;
ForMagazine near Boston. the completion of the enclosure of the magazine near Boston, the wharf and other dependencies, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; ForGosport navy yard the purchase of that portion of land, belonging to the town of Portsmouth, Virginia, enclosed by the walls of the navy yard at Gosport, four thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine dollars; To defrayExamination, &c., of Beaufort and Wilmington harbors. any additional expense that may be incurred in making an examination and survey of the harbors of Beaufort and Wilmington, in North Carolina, with a view to determine the respective facilities and advantages of the establishment of a navy yard, fifteen hundred dollars;
ForSurvey of May river. the survey of May river, from Tybee bar to the Hunting island, fifteen hundred dollars, for a similar object; ForPayment to Thomas J. Harris. payment to Thomas J. Harris of his proportion of the sum of two thousand dollars, appropriated by Congress, for the capture of a piratical felucca, in eighteen hundred and twenty-three, twenty-nine dollars and sixteen cents; To defrayExamining the shoals of George’s Bank. the expense of examining the shoals of George’s Bank, for the purpose of determining upon the practicability of erecting a light-house upon the same, (in aid of the general appropriations for the navy,) five thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* ThatMoney re-appropriated. the following sums being the unexpended balances of former appropriations, which have been carried to the account of the surplus fund, be, and the same are hereby re-appropriated, to be paid out of any money unappropriated in the treasury, viz: ForSuppression of the slave trade, &c. carrying into effect the acts for the suppression of the slave trade,158TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 31. 1837. including their support in the United States and for a term not exceeding six months after their arrival in Africa, of all persons removed from the United States under the said acts, eleven thousand four hundred and thirteen dollars and fifty-seven cents;
ForPrize-money to officers, &c. of brig General Armstrong. payment of prize-money to the officers and crew of the late private armed brig General Armstrong, and the legal representatives of such as may be dead, two thousand dollars. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* ThatSecretary of the Treasury to distribute residue of prize-money belonging to crews of Bon Homme Richard and Alliance. the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized to distribute the residue of the prize-money heretofore deposited in the treasury, belonging to the crews of the men-of-war Bon Homme Richard and Alliance, commanded by John Paul Jones, in the revolutionary war, among the several persons entitled thereto, and to pay them the sums respectively due, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* ThatEnclosure of navy yard at Pensacola. the sum appropriated at the last session for the erection of a brick enclosure of the navy yard at Pensacola, shall be erected to suit the present plan of the yard, and in such manner as the Navy Commissioners shall direct. Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted,* ThatPresident to purchase articles of a durable nature for vessels. under the laws providing for the gradual improvement of the navy, the President be authorized to cause articles of a durable character to be purchased for the armament and equipment, as well as for the building of vessels.
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