# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/23rd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 1

Chapter I.—An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.
Appropriations for the naval service.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 for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, in addition to the unexpended balances of former appropriations for similar objects, viz:
Officers, &c.For pay and subsistence of the officers of the navy, and pay of seamen, one million four hundred and eighty-seven thousand two hundred and forty-four dollars and twenty-one cents.
Superintendents, &c.For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishments at the several yards, sixty-one thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.
Provisions.For provisions, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Repairs, &c.For the repairs of vessels in ordinary, and the repairs and wear and tear of vessels in commission, five hundred and ninety thousand dollars.
Medicines, &c.For medicines and surgical instruments, hospital stores and other expenses on account of the sick, forty thousand dollars.
Navy yards at Portsmouth;For the improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, forty thousand seven hundred dollars.
Charlestown;For the improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Charlestown, Massachusetts, eighty-six thousand three hundred dollars.
Brooklyn;For the improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Brooklyn, New York, fifty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Philadelphia;For the improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Philadelphia, six thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
Washington;For the improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Washington, twenty-nine thousand five hundred dollars.
Gosport;For the improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Gosport, Virginia, one hundred and eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Pensacola.For the improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Pensacola, twenty-six thousand dollars.
Miscellaneous.For defraying the expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, viz:
For 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, chamber money, and fuel and candles, to officers other than those attached to navy yards and stations, and for officers in sick quarters where there is no hospital, and for funeral expenses; for commissions, clerk hire and 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 allowances to persons attending courts martial and courts of inquiry, and to officers engaged in extra service beyond the limits of their stations; for printing and stationery of every description, and for books, maps, charts and mathematical and nautical instruments, chronometers, models and drawings; for purchase and repair of fire and steam engines, and for machinery; for 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, and for furniture of officers’ houses at navy yards; for taxes on navy yards and 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 for forges, foundries, and steam engines; for candles, oil, and fuel for vessels in commission and in ordinary; for repairs of magazines and powder houses; for prepairing moulds for ships to be built, and for no other purpose whatsoever, two hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars.
Contingencies.For contingent expenses for objects not herein-before enumerated, four thousand dollars.
Marine corps. March 2, 1833, ch. 68.For pay of the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, and for subsistence of the officers of [the] marine corps, including arrearages and increased pay under the act, second of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, one hundred and thirty-five thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars and twenty-five cents.
Subsistence.For subsistence of non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, and washerwomen of said corps serving on shore, nineteen thousand two hundred and thirty-one dollars and eighty cents.
Clothing.For clothing, twenty-nine thousand three hundred and fifteen dollars.
Fuel.For fuel, nine thousand and ninety-eight dollars.
Contingencies.For contingent expenses, including arrearages, nineteen thousand dollars.
Transportation.For transportation and recruiting, five thousand dollars.
Medicines, &c.For medicines, hospital stores, and surgical instruments, for officers and men serving on shore, two thousand three hundred and sixty-nine dollars and seventy-one cents.
Balance to Col. Anderson.For balance due Lieutenant Colonel Anderson, nine hundred and fifty-four dollars and twenty-two cents.
Barracks at Brooklyn.For the erection of barracks for the marines stationed at the navy yard, Brooklyn, New York, thirty thousand dollars.
Suppression of the slave trade.For carrying into effect the acts for the suppression of the slave trade, including the 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, five thousand dollars.
Re-appropriation to Alexander Claxton. 1830, ch. 140.That so much of the sums appropriated by the act of the twenty-eighth May, eighteen hundred and thirty, for the relief of Alexander Claxton, as still remains due and unpaid, and which has been carried to the credit of the surplus fund, shall be, and the same is hereby, re-appropriated.
Approved, January 24, 1834.