# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/22nd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 28

Chap. XXVIII.—An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-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 for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, viz:
Pay and subsistence, &c. Pay at navy yards.For pay and subsistence of the officers of the navy, and the pay of seamen, one million four hundred and nine thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven dollars. For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishments at the several navy yards, fifty-eight thousand five hundred and thirty dollars.
Provisions.For provisions, four hundred and twenty-nine thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars.
Repairs.For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and the repairs and wear and tear of vessels in commission, five hundred and thirty thousand six hundred and eighty-two dollars.
Medicines, &c.For medicines and surgical instruments, hospital stores, and other expenses on account of the sick, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Repairs, &c. at navy yards. Portsmouth. Boston. New York. Philadelphia. Washington. Norfolk. Pensacola. Ordnance, &c.For improvements and repairs of navy yards, viz: For the navy yard at Portsmouth, forty-one thousand one hundred and thirty-four dollars. For the navy yard at Boston, eighty-five thousand dollars. For the navy yard at New York, seventy-two thousand dollars. For the navy yard at Philadelphia, ten thousand six hundred and eighty-eight dollars. For the navy yard at Washington, forty-two thousand dollars. For the navy yard at Norfolk, one hundred and twenty thousand nine hundred and twenty-three dollars. For the navy yard at Pensacola, twenty-five thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For ordnance and ordnance stores, ten thousand dollars.
Miscellaneous.For defraying expenses that may accrue 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, chamber money, and fuel and candles to officers other than those attached to navy yards and stations, and for officers in sick quarters, where there is no hospital, and for funeral expenses; for commissions, clerk hire, and 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 allowances for persons attending courts martial and courts of inquiry, and for officers engaged in extra service beyond the limits of their stations; for printing and stationery of every description, and for books, maps, charts, and mathematical and nautical ​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, timber wheels, and workmen’s tools of every description; for postage of letters on public service; for pilotage; for cabin furniture of vessels in commission, and for furniture of officers’ houses at navy yards; for taxes on navy yards and public property; for assistance rendered to 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 and building of magazines and powder houses; for preparing moulds for ships to be built, and for no other object or purpose whatsoever, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Contingencies.For contingent expenses for objects not hereinbefore enumerated, five thousand dollars.
Marine corps.For the pay of the officers and non-commissioned officers and privates, and for subsistence of the officers of the marine corps, one hundred and eleven thousand five hundred and sixty-three dollars.
Subsistence.For subsistence for non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, and washerwomen serving on shore, eighteen thousand four hundred and thirty-nine dollars.
Clothing.For clothing, twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars.
Fuel.For fuel, nine thousand and ninety-eight dollars.
Contingencies.For contingent expenses, fourteen thousand dollars.
Stores.For military stores, two thousand dollars.
Medicines, &c.For medicines, hospital stores, and surgical instruments, two thousand three hundred and sixty-nine dollars.
Approved, February 24, 1832.