# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/20th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 17

Chap. XVII.—An Act making appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and twenty-eight.
Appropriations for the navy for 1828.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-eight, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively appropriated:
For pay and subsistence of officers, &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 seventy-six thousand three hundred and twelve dollars.
Pay of officers, and pay of seamen, &c.For pay and subsistence and allowances of officers, and pay of seamen, &c. at navy yards, shore stations, hospitals, and in ordinary, one hundred and eighty-five thousand and thirty-two dollars.
Pay, &c., of naval constructors, &c.For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishment at the several yards and stations, fifty-nine thousand one hundred and two dollars.
Repairs of vessels.For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and for wear and tear of vessels in commission, four hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
Medicines, &c.For medicines, surgical instruments and hospital stores, twenty-seven thousand dollars.
Ordnance, &c.For ordnance and ordnance stores, fifty thousand dollars.
Repairs, &c., of navy yards.For repairs and improvements of navy yards, one hundred and five thousand dollars.
Arrearages prior to Jan. 1st, 1828.For arrearages prior to the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, fifteen thousand dollars.
For the sloops of war authorized by act of 1825, ch. 101.For completing the construction and equipment of the sloops of war, authorized by act of Congress of third March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, two hundred and one thousand three hundred dollars.
For defraying certain expenses during the year 1828. Wharfage, &c. Travelling expenses of officers, &c. For premiums, &c. For printing, &c.For defraying the expenses that may accrue during the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, for the following purposes, to wit: 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 and chamber money, fuel and candles to officers other than those attached to navy yards and shore stations, and for officers in sick quarters where there is no hospital; for commissions, clerk hire, office rent, stationery, and fuel to the 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, and to officers engaged on extra service beyond the limits of their stations; for printing and stationery of every description, and for books, maps, charts, nautical and mathematical instruments, chronometers, models and drawings; for purchase and repair 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 taxes on navy yards, and public property, &c. For candles, oil, &c. 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, founderies, and steam-engines; for candles, oil and fuel for vessels in commission and in ordinary; for repairs of magazines and powder houses; for preparing moulds for ships to be built; and for no other object of purpose whatever, two hundred and forty thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses arising in 1828.For contingent expenses for objects arising in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, and not hereinbefore enumerated, five thousand dollars.
Pay, &c., of marine corps.For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, one hundred and twenty-two thousand three hundred and seventy-six dollars.
Clothing for same.For clothing for the same, twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars.
Fuel for the same.For fuel for the same, twelve thousand one hundred and ninety-six dollars.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars.
Additional contingencies.For additional contingencies not enumerated for the same, five hundred dollars.
Military stores for same.For military stores for the same; that is to say; for keeping the arms in repair, armorer’s pay and armorer’s tools, and ordnance stores, three thousand dollars.
Medicines, &c., for officers, &c., on shore.For medicines, hospital stores and instruments for the use of the officers and marines on shore, two thousand three hundred and sixty-nine dollars.
For the following items which have been carried to the surplus fund on the first of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, viz:
For contingent expenses prior to 1824.For contingent expenses prior to one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, eight hundred and forty-two dollars, thirty-four cents.
For contingent expenses for 1824.For contingent expenses for one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, two thousand eight hundred and ninety-three dollars, four cents.
For contingent expenses for 1825.For contingent expenses for one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, seven hundred and eighty-four dollars, twenty-eight cents.
Contingent expenses not enumerated.For contingent expenses for one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, not enumerated, two thousand and forty dollars, eight cents.
Navy yards.For navy yards, five thousand dollars.
Navy yard at Pensacola.For navy yard at Pensacola, three hundred thirty-seven cents.
Swords, &c.For swords and medals, five hundred and seventy-nine dollars, sixty-two cents.
Five schooners.For five schooners, fifty-eight dollars and thirty-three cents.
For building barges.For building barges, sixty-seven dollars sixteen cents.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the aforesaid sums be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
A sum not exceeding 10,000 dollars appropriated, &c. 1827, ch. 94.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That there be, and hereby is, appropriated, for the purchase of such lands as the President of the United States may think necessary and proper to provide live oak and other timber for the use of the navy of the United States, a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars, to be paid out of the moneys appropriated for the gradual improvement of the navy of the United States, by the first section of the act, entitled “An act for the gradual improvement of the navy of the United States, approved the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.”
Approved, March 10, 1828.