# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/24th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 61

Chap. LXI.—An Act making appropriations for the naval service, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.
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-six, in addition to the unexpended balances of former appropriations, viz:
Pay of officers and seamen.For pay of commissioned, warrant, and petty officers, and of seamen, two millions three hundred and eighteen thousand and seventeen dollars and sixteen cents.
Superintendents, &c. at navy yards.For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishment at the several yards, sixty-eight thousand three hundred and forty dollars.
Provisions.For provisions, seven hundred and eighty-two thousand two hundred and sixty-three dollars and seventy-five cents.
Repairs, &c.For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and the repairs and wear and tear of vessels in commission, one million and sixty-five thousand dollars.
Medicines, &c.For medicines and surgical instruments, hospital stores, and other expenses on account of the sick, forty-one thousand one hundred dollars.
Repairs, &c. navy yard, Portsmouth, N. H.For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, sixty-seven thousand dollars.
Charlestown, Mass.For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Charlestown, Massachusetts, one hundred and ninety-nine thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars.
Brooklyn, N. Y.For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Brooklyn, New York, eighty-four thousand three hundred dollars.
Philadelphia.For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, eleven thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Gosport, Virginia.For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Gosport, Virginia, one hundred and sixty-seven thousand dollars.
Pensacola.For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Pensacola, forty-nine thousand dollars.
Wharves, &c.For wharves and their appendages at the navy yard at Pensacola, as recommended by the Secretary of the Navy, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Powder magazine.For powder magazine, seventeen thousand dollars.
Brick wall.For wall or enclosure of brick three yards high, and a half yard thick, as recommended by Commodore Dallas, twenty-four thousand dollars.
Ordnance and stores.For ordnance and ordnance stores, sixty-four thousand nine hundred dollars.
Various contingent expenses enumerated.For defraying the expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, 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 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 for vessels in commission; 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 repairs of magazines or powder-houses; for preparing moulds for ships to be built; and for no other purpose whatever, three hundred and twenty-one thousand six hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses not enumerated.For contingent expenses for objects not hereinbefore enumerated, three thousand dollars.
Steam vessel building at Brooklyn.For completing the steam vessel now building at the navy yard at Brooklyn, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Completing navy hospitals near New York and Boston, &c.For completing the navy hospitals near New York and Boston, regulating the grounds, making the necessary enclosures, repairing the naval asylum and all other hospitals, and the buildings wharves, and landings connected with them, and for preparing suitable burying grounds, forty-five thousand four hundred and ten dollars.
Powder magazines, &c.For completing the powder magazines near New York and Boston, with the landings, enclosures, and dependencies, nineteen thousand two hundred dollars.
Pay of marine corps.For pay of the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, and for subsistence of the officers of the marine corps, one hundred and sixty-three thousand seventy-seven dollars and twenty-five cents.
Pay of marine corps, &c. on shore.For provisions for non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates of said corps, serving on shore, and for servants and washerwomen, thirty-three thousand five hundred and seventeen dollars and seventy-two cents.
Clothing.For clothing, thirty-eight thousand six hundred and fifty-five dollars.
Fuel.For fuel, fourteen thousand five hundred and eighty-nine dollars.
Sites for barracks, &c.For the purchase of sites and the erection of barracks near the navy ​yards at Charlestown, Gosport, and Pensacola, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Repair of tracks.For repair of barracks near Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and for repairs at other stations, eight thousand nine hundred dollars.
Transportation of officers, recruiting, &c.For transportation of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, and expenses of recruiting, six thousand dollars.
Medicines, hospital stores, &c.For medicines, hospital stores, surgical instruments, and pay of matron, four thousand one hundred and thirty-nine dollars and twenty-nine cents.
Military stores, armorers, &c.For military stores, pay of armorers, keeping arms in repair, drums, fifes, accoutrements, and ordnance stores, two thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of said corps, seventeen thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven dollars and ninety-three cents.
Services in the coast survey for 1830, and prior thereto.For arrearages for defraying the extra services and expenses of the officers of the navy engaged in the survey of the coasts and harbors of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty, and prior thereto, being the amount appropriated in eighteen [hundred] and thirty-four, for the same object, but by that act made applicable only to arrearages for the year eighteen hundred and thirty, fifteen thousand dollars.
To enable the President to send out an exploring expedition to the south seas, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States, be, and he hereby is authorized, to send out a surveying and exploring expedition to the Pacific ocean and [the] South seas, and for that purpose employ a sloop of war, and to purchase or provide such other smaller vessels as may be necessary and proper to render the said expedition efficient and useful, and for this purpose the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and in addition thereto, if necessary, the President of the United States is authorized to use other means in the control of the Navy Department, not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the objects required.
Approved, May 14, 1836.