# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 121

Chap. CXXI.—An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.
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, in additionAppropriations. 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-two, viz:
Pay of officers and seamen. Proviso. Vol. ix. p. 172.No. 1. For pay of commission, warrant and petty officers and seamen, two million three hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That till otherwise ordered by Congress, the officers of the navy shall not be increased beyond the number in the respective grades that were in the service on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-two, nor shall there be any further appointment of midshipmen until the number in the service be reduced to the number that were in service on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-one, beyond which they shall not be increased until the further order of Congress.
Pay of superintendents, &c. at yards.No. 2. For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishments at the several yards, seventy-eight thousand four hundred and twenty dollars.
Provisions.No. 3. For provisions, seven hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
Medicines, &c.No. 4. For medicines and surgical instruments, hospital stores and other expenses on account of the sick, thirty thousand dollars.
Repairs, &c.No. 5. For increase, repair, armament, and equipment of the navy, and wear and tear of vessels in commission, two million dollars.
Ordnance, &c. on the lakes.No. 6. For ordnance and ordnance stores on the Northern lakes, fifty-nine thousand and ninety-seven dollars.
Navy yards at Portsmouth.No. 7. For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, forty-seven thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Charlestown.No. 8. For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Charlestown, Massachusetts, twenty-nine thousand dollars.
Brooklyn. Provisoes relative to the construction of a dry dock.No. 9. For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Brooklyn, New York, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand one hundred dollars: Provided, That no part of this or any former appropriation to that object shall be applied to the construction of a dry dock at Brooklyn, except in payment for materials previously contracted for and yet to be delivered, until a suitable place shall be selected in the harbor of New York, and the title to land obtained, and a plan and estimate of the cost made, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, and approved by him and the President: And provided, also, That the Secretary of the Navy may, in his discretion, apply the sum of one hundred thousand dollars of the amount hereby appropriated, and any balance of former appropriations for the construction of a dry dock at Brooklyn, New York, to the construction of a floating dock at the same place; and if any part of this appropriation shall be expended upon the construction of a floating dock, as hereby authorized, the construction of the dry dock shall be suspended until the further order of Congress.
​Philadelphia.No. 10. For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one thousand six hundred dollars.
Washington.No. 11. For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Washington, District of Columbia, fifteen thousand three hundred dollars.
Gosport.No. 12. For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Gosport, Virginia, fifty-six thousand eight hundred dollars.
Pensacola.No. 13. For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard near Pensacola, Florida, and for a naval constructor at said place, thirty-five thousand three hundred dollars.
Hospitals at Charlestown.No. 14. For necessary repairs of the hospital building and its dependencies at Charlestown, Massachusetts, three thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars.
New York.No. 15. For finishing coppering the roof of the hospital building at Brooklyn, New York, fifteen hundred dollars.
Norfolk.No. 16. For necessary repairs of the hospital building and its dependencies at Norfolk, Virginia, thirteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Pensacola.No. 17. For building an ice-house and privies at the hospital at Pensacola, Florida, two thousand dollars.
Philadelphia.No. 18. For necessary repairs of the Philadelphia naval Asylum, one thousand three hundred dollars.
Miscellaneous expenses.No. 19. 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 judge advocates; 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.No. 20. For contingent expenses for objects not hereinbefore enumerated, three thousand dollars.
Steamers Splendid and Clarion.No. 21. For the charter of steamers Splendid and Clarion, in September and October, eighteen hundred and forty-one, for the survey of Nantucket Shoal, four thousand three hundred and forty-five dollars and thirty-nine cents.
Suppression of the slave trade.No. 22. For carrying into effect the acts for the suppression of the slave trade, including the support of recaptured Africans, and their removal to Africa, under authority of said acts, including an unexpended balance of former appropriations carried to the surplus fund, ten thousand five hundred and forty-three dollars and forty-two cents.
Collections of exploring expedition.No. 23. For the transportation, arrangement, and preservation, of articles brought and to be brought by the exploring expedition, twenty thousand dollars, if so much be necessary.
Marine corps. Pay and subsistence.Marine Corps.―No. 24. 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 eighty-three thousand three hundred and eighty-one dollars.
Provisions.No. 25. For provisions for the non-commissioned officers, musicians, privates and servants and washerwomen, serving on shore, forty-five thousand fifty-four dollars and ninety-nine cents.
Clothing.No. 26. For clothing, forty-three thousand six hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents.
Fuel.No. 27. For fuel, sixteen thousand two hundred and seventy-four dollars and twelve cents.
Barracks.No. 28. For keeping barracks in repair, and for rent of temporary barracks at New York, six thousand dollars.
Transportation.No. 29. For transportation of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, and expenses of recruiting, eight thousand dollars.
Medicines, &c.No. 30. For medicines, hospital supplies, surgical instruments, pay of matron, and hospital stewards, four thousand one hundred and forty dollars.
Military stores, &c.No. 31. For military stores, pay of armorers, keeping arms in repair, accoutrements, ordnance stores, flags, drums, fifes and other instruments, two thousand eight hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses.No. 32. 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 judge advocates; 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, straw, barrack furniture, bed sacks, spades, axes, shovels, picks, carpenters’ tools, and for keeping a horse for the messenger, seventeen thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars.
Approved, August 4, 1842.