# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 12

Chap. XII.—An Act making appropriations for the support of the navy of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.
Expenses of the navy, for the year 1826.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, for defraying the expenses of the navy for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated:
For pay and subsistence of officers, &c., at navy yards, &c.For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, other than those at navy yards, shore stations, and in ordinary, nine hundred and eight thousand five hundred and ninety-five dollars and fifty cents.
Of officers, &c., at navy yards, &c.For the pay, subsistence, and allowances of officers, and pay of seamen, and others at navy yards, shore stations, hospitals, and in ordinary, one hundred and forty one thousand six hundred and thirteen dollars and twenty-five cents.
Naval constructors, &c.For the pay of naval constructors, superintendents, and all the civil establishment at the several navy yards and stations, fifty-two thousand two hundred and forty dollars.
For provisions.For provisions, three hundred and seventy-seven thousand eight hundred and seventy-one dollars and seventy-five cents.
Repairs of vessels.For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and for wear and tear of vessels in commission, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Navy yards.For repairs and improvements to navy yards, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars, to wit: Portsmouth, New Hampshire, ten thousand dollars; Charlestown, Massachusetts, forty thousand dollars; New York, thirty-five thousand dollars; Philadelphia, thirty thousand dollars; Washington, fifteen thousand dollars; Gosport, forty thousand dollars.
Survey of harbours.For a survey of the harbours of Savannah and Brunswick, in Georgia, Beaufort in South Carolina, and Baltimore, Maryland, with a view to ascertain the practical facilities of those places for naval purposes, ten thousand dollars.
Medicines, &c.For medicines, surgical instruments, and hospital stores, and all other expenses on account of the sick, forty-five thousand dollars.
For defraying certain expenses for 1826.For defraying the expenses which may accrue during the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, for the following purposes:
For freight and transportation, &c., &c.For freight and transportation of materials and stores of every description; for wharfage and dockage; for storage and rent: for travelling expenses of officers, and transportation of seamen; for house rent or chamber money; for fuel and candles to officers, other than those ​attached to navy yards and shore stations; for commissions, clerk hire, office rent, fuel, and stationery to navy agents; for premiums and incidental expenses of recruiting; for expenses of pursuing deserters; for compensation to judge advocates; for per diem allowance to persons attending courts martial, and courts of inquiry, and to officers engaged on extra service beyond the limits of their stations; for expenses of persons in sick quarters, for burying deceased persons belonging to the navy; for printing and stationery of every description; for books, charts, mathematical and nautical instruments, chronometers, models, and drawings; for purchase and repair of fire and steam engines and machinery; for purchase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and for carts, wheels, and workmen’s tools, of every description; for postage of letters on public service; for pilotage; for cabin furniture for vessels in commission; for taxes on navy yards and public property; for assistance rendered to public vessels in distress; for incidental labour at navy yards, not applicable to any other appropriation; for coals and other fuel for forges, founderies, steam engines, and for candles, oil, and fuel; for vessels in commission, and in ordinary: and including the expense of breaking up the stations on the Lakes, and at New Orleans and Barrataria, and for transporting articles from thence, and for no other object or purpose whatever, two hundred and forty thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, for objects arising during the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, and not hereinbefore enumerated, five thousand dollars.
Pay, &c., of officers, &c., of the marine corps.For the pay and subsistence of the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, privates, and washerwomen of the marine corps, one hundred and seventy-six thousand one hundred and fifty-eight dollars and ten cents.
Clothing.For clothing for the same, twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars.
Fuel.For fuel for the same, six thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses.For contingencies, that is to say: for travelling expenses for officers, and transportation for men, freight of stores from one station to another, toll, ferriage, wharfage and cartage, expenses of recruiting, per diem allowance for attending courts martial and courts of inquiry, compensation to judge advocates, house rent, chamber money, where there are no quarters assigned, incidental labour in the quartermaster’s department, expenses of burying deceased persons belonging to the corps, printing and stationery, postage on public letters, forage, per diem allowance to officers on extra duty, expenses of pursuing deserters, keeping in repair the barracks at the different stations, straw for the men, barrack furniture, spades, axes, shovels, picks, and carpenters’ tools, and for no other purpose whatever, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars.
For defraying sundry expenses.For sundry expenses arising in the current year, not hereinbefore mentioned, five hundred dollars.
Medicines, &c.For medicines, hospital stores, and instruments for the officers and marines stationed on shore, two thousand three hundred and sixty-nine dollars and seventy-one cents.
Barracks.For barracks, nine thousand dollars.
Agency to the coast of Africa.For the agency on the coast of Africa, for receiving the negroes, mulattoes, and persons of colour, delivered from on board vessels seized in the prosecution of the slave trade, by commanders of the United States armed vessels, thirty-two thousand dollars.
Money to be paid from the treasury. Proviso. Provided nothing in this section be construed so as to extend to balances arising solely from the depreciation of treasury notes.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums hereby appropriated, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, however, That no money appropriated by this act shall be paid to any person for his compensation, who is in arrears to the United States, until such person shall have accounted for, and paid into the treasury, all sums for which he may be liable: Provided, ​also, That nothing in this section contained, shall be construed to extend to balances arising solely from the depreciation of treasury notes, received by such person to be expended in the public service; but in all cases where the pay or salary of any person is withheld, in pursuance of this act, it shall be the duty of the accounting officer, if demanded by the party, his agent, or attorney, to report forthwith to the agent of the Treasury Department, the balance due; and it shall be the duty of said agent, within sixty days thereafter, to order suit to be commenced against such delinquent and his sureties.
Approved, March 14, 1826.