# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 22

Chap. XXII.—An Act making appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and twenty-seven.
Sums appropriated to defray the expenses of the navy, for the year 1827.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-seven, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated:
For pay and subsistence of officers, &c., other than those 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, one million one hundred and twelve thousand three hundred and ninety-two dollars and twenty-five 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 seventy-two thousand nine hundred and twenty-four dollars and twenty-five cents.
Naval constructors, &c.For the pay of naval constructors, superintendents, and all the civil establishments at the several navy yards, fifty-eight thousand and thirty-one dollars and fifty cents.
Provisions.For provisions, five hundred and seventy-nine thousand one hundred and forty-eight dollars and fifty-four cents.
Repairs of vessels.For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and for the wear and tear of vessels in commission, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Medicines, &c.For medicines, surgical instruments, hospital stores, and all other expenses on account of the sick, fifty thousand dollars.
Ordnance, &c.For ordnance and ordnance stores, thirty-five thousand dollars.
Repairs, &c. of navy yards.For repairs and improvements of navy yards, two hundred and thirty-one thousand seven hundred dollars and seventy-two cents.
For defraying certain expenses for 1827.For defraying the expenses which may accrue during the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, 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, and for fuel and candles to officers, other than those attached to navy yards and shore stations; 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 for persons attending courts martial and courts of inquiry, and to officers engaged in extra service beyond the limits of their stations; for printing and for stationery of every description; for books, charts, nautical and mathematical instruments, chronometers, models, and drawings; for purchase and repairs of steam and fire engines, and for 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 of 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 coal and other fuel for forges, foundries, steam engines, and for candles, oil, and fuel, for vessels in commission and in ordinary; and for no other object or purpose whatever, two hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses arising in 1827.For contingent expenses for objects arising in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, and not herein before enumerated, five thousand dollars.
Pay, &c. of officers, &c. of marine corps.For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
Clothing.For clothing for the same, twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars.
Fuel.For fuel for the same, six thousand dollars.
Contingencies.For contingencies for the same, fourteen thousand dollars.
Medicine.For medicines for the same, two thousand three hundred and sixty-nine dollars.
To carry into effect a resolution of Congress, of May 22, 1826.For carrying into effect a joint resolution of Congress, of May twenty-second, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, directing surveys and estimates for dry docks, two thousand seven hundred and seven dollars and twenty-seven cents.
Agency on the coast of Africa. Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 101, sec. 2.For the agency on the coast of Africa, and expenses of supporting in the United States, and transporting to the coast of Africa, those persons who have been released and subject to be transported by the provisions of the act of eighteen hundred and nineteen, thirty-six thousand seven hundred and ten dollars. For arrearages prior to the first of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, twenty thousand dollars.
Balance of the appropriation to be carried to the surplus fund 1st January, 1827, re-appropriated.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the balances of the appropriations for the navy department to be carried to the surplus fund on the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, be, and the same are hereby, re-appropriated.
Money to be paid from the treasury. Proviso. Proviso.Sec. 3. 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 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 the said agent, within sixty days thereafter, to order suit to be commenced against such delinquent, and his sureties.
Approved, March 2, 1827.