# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/26th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 34

Chap. XXXIV.—An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Appropriations. 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 one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, viz:
Pay of officers and seamen.For pay of commission, warrant, and petty officers, and seamen, two million three hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars;
Pay of sup’dts &c. at yards.For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishments at the several yards, forty thousand dollars;
Provisions.For provisions, five hundred thousand dollars;
Increase, repairs, &c. War steamers.For increase, repair, armament, and equipment of the navy, and wear and tear of vessels in commission, two millions of dollars; four hundred thousand dollars of which sum shall be expended in building and equipping war steamers of medium size;
Medicines, &c.For medicines and surgical instruments, hospital stores, and other expenses on account of the sick, thirty thousand dollars;
Navy yards at Portsmouth.For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, twenty-five thousand dollars;
Charlestown.For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Charlestown, Massachusetts, forty-two thousand two hundred dollars;
Brooklyn.For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Brooklyn, New York, seventy-eight thousand eight hundred dollars;
Philadelphia.For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, nine thousand dollars;
Washington.For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Washington, District of Columbia, eleven thousand dollars;
Gosport.For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Gosport, Virginia, forty-nine thousand dollars;
Pensacola.For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard near Pensacola, Florida, twenty thousand dollars;
Miscellaneous expenses.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 to pursers, when duly authorized; 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 judges advocate; for per diem allowance to persons attending courts-martial and courts of inquiry, or other services authorized by law; 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; for the repair of steam engines in navy yards; 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 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 the use of navy yards and shore stations, and for no other object or purpose whatever, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars;
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses for objects not hereinbefore enumerated, three thousand dollars;
Hospital at Charlestown.For necessary repairs of the hospital building at Charlestown, Massachusetts, one thousand five hundred dollars;
Brooklyn.For necessary repairs of the hospital building at Brooklyn, New York, three thousand dollars;
Pensacola.For necessary repairs of the hospital building at Pensacola, Florida, one thousand five hundred dollars;
Pay of marine corps, &c.For pay of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, privates, and servants serving on shore, and subsistence of officers of the marine corps, one hundred and seventy-six thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven dollars;
Provisions.For provisions for the non-commissioned officers, musicians, privates, and servants and washerwomen serving on shore, forty-five thousand and fifty-four dollars;
Clothing.For clothing, forty-three thousand six hundred and sixty-two dollars;
Fuel.For fuel, sixteen thousand two hundred and seventy-four dollars;
Barracks.For keeping barracks in repair, and for rent of temporary barracks, at New York, six thousand dollars;
Transportation.For transportation of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, and expenses of recruiting, eight thousand dollars;
Medicines, &c.For medicines, hospital supplies, surgical instruments, pay of matron and hospital stewards, four thousand one hundred and forty dollars;
Military stores, &c.For military stores, pay or armorers, keeping arms in repair, accoutrements, ordnance stores, flags, drums, fifes, and other instruments, two thousand three hundred dollars;
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of said corps, viz: for freight, ferriage, toll, wharfage, and cartage; for per diem allowance for attending courts-martial and courts of inquiry, compensation to judges-advocate, house rent where there are no public quarters assigned, per diem allowance to enlisted men on constant labor, expenses of burying deceased marines, printing, stationery, forage, postage on public letters, expenses in pursuit of deserters, candles and oil, star, barrack-furniture, bed-sacks, spades, axes, shovels, picks, carpenter’s tools, and for keeping a horse for the messenger, seventeen thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars;
Lt. Hunter’s invention.For the purpose of making a satisfactory experiment of Lieutenant Hunter’s invention to proper war steamers by horizontal wheels that will be safe from the balls of an enemy, one thousand dollars;
Collections of exploring expedition.For defraying the expense of transporting to the city of Washington and arranging and preserving the collections made by the exploring expedition, five thousand dollars.
Approved, March 3, 1841.