# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/7th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 17

Chap. XVII.—An Act making an appropriation for the support of the Navy of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and three.
Specific appropriations for the Navy of the United States. 1803, ch. 1.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 of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and three, and for making good deficiencies for the same, in the year one thousand eight hundred and two, the following sums, including therein the sum of one hundred thousand dollars already appropriated by the “act making a partial appropriation for the naval service during the year one thousand eight hundred and three,” be, and they hereby are respectively appropriated, that is to say:
For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and the pay of the seamen, two hundred and eighty-three thousand nine hundred and ninety-three dollars.
For provisions, one hundred and fifty-seven thousand three hundred and sixty dollars and twenty cents.
For medicines, instruments, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of the sick, seven thousand seven hundred dollars.
For the purchase of ordnance and other military stores, fifteen thousand dollars.
For the repairs of vessels, store rent, and other contingent expenses, one hundred and eighty-two thousand dollars.
For completing the contracts made for the timber, ordnance, and other materials for the seventy-four gun ships, including their transportation, &c., one hundred and fourteen thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For the expense of erection of sheds and navy yards, including docks and other improvements, the pay of superintendents, store-keepers, clerks and labourers, forty-eight thousand seven hundred and forty-one dollars and thirty-seven cents.
For the pay and subsistence of the marine corps, including provisions for those on shore, and forage for the staff, sixty-four thousand and ninety-five dollars and sixty cents.
For clothing and military stores for the same, sixteen thousand two hundred and twenty-three dollars and eighty-three cents.
​Specific appropriations for the Navy of the U. States.For medicines, medical services, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of the sick of the marine corps, one thousand dollars.
For quartermaster’s and barrackmaster’s stores, officers’ travelling expenses, armorers and carpenters’ bills, and other contingent expenses, nine thousand four hundred and sixty-one dollars.
To make good deficiencies in the appropriations for the navy of the United States, in the year one thousand eight hundred and two, that is to say:
For pay and subsistence of the officers, the pay of the seamen, provisions, repairs and expenses incurred in the year one thousand eight hundred and one, and which have been paid out of an appropriation made in the year one thousand eight hundred and two, including a deficiency for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and two, one hundred and sixty-eight thousand four hundred and thirty-nine dollars and eighty-one cents.
For salaries of superintendents of navy yards, store-keepers, and clerks, store rent, hire of labourers, &c., on account of expenses incurred in the year one thousand eight hundred and one, including a deficiency for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and two, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars and sixty-eight cents.
For navy yards, docks and wharves, eleven thousand five hundred and thirty-five dollars and twenty-eight cents.
For medicines, medical services, and hospital stores for the marine corps, on account of expenses incurred in the year one thousand eight hundred and one, including a deficiency for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and two, five hundred and ninety-six dollars and thirty-nine cents.
For marine barracks, on account of expenses incurred in the year one thousand eight hundred and one, four hundred and one dollars and ninety-three cents.
Payment to the estate of John Habersham, for naval materials.For the payment of a balance due the estate of John Habsersham, late collector at Savannah, or naval materials ascertained at the treasury, for sundry payments made by him to John H. Morel, on the same account, including a commission on the said payments at one per cent., sixteen thousand nine hundred and forty-eight dollars and thirty-seven cents.
Whence the appropriations are to be drawn.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums of money herein specifically appropriated and amounting together to the sum of one million and ninety-eight thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven dollars and forty-six cents, shall be paid first out of the sum of one hundred thousand dollars already appropriated for the naval service during the year one thousand eight hundred and three, and secondly out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 2, 1803.