# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/20th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 117

Chap. CXVII.—An Act making appropriations for the support of the navy of the United States, for the first quarter of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.
For defraying the expenses of the navy for 1st quarter of 1829.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 first quarter of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated, to wit:
Pay and subsistence of officers, &c.For pay and subsistence of officers, and pay of seamen employed in the navy afloat, two hundred and ninety-four thousand and seventy-eight dollars.
Pay, &c. of officers and seamen.For pay, subsistence, and allowances of officers, and pay of seamen, at navy yards, shore stations, hospitals, and in ordinary, forty-six thousand two hundred and fifty-eight dollars.
Pay of superintendents, &c.For pay of superintendents, naval constructor, and all the civil establishment at the yards and stations, fourteen thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars.
Provisions.For provisions, one hundred and twenty-six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Repairs of vessels.For repairs of vessels, one hundred and eighteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Medicines.For medicines, surgical instruments, and hospital stores, six thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Ordnance.For ordnance and ordnance stores, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
Repairing of navy yards, &c.For repairing and improvements of navy yards, twenty-six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Arrearages prior to 1829.For arrearages prior to one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Contingent expenses for 1829, &c. Act of March 2, 1827, ch. 22. Contingent expenses not enumerated.For contingent expenses for one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, embracing the items enumerated for that object in the act of second of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, sixty thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses, not enumerated, for one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Pay, &c. of the marine corps.For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, thirty thousand five hundred and ninety-four dollars.
Clothing for same.For clothing for the same, seven thousand one hundred and ninety-one dollars and twenty-five cents.
Contingencies for same.For contingencies for the same, three thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars.
Additional contingencies for the same.For contingencies additional for the same, one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Military stores.For military stores for the same, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Medicines, &c.For medicines and hospital stores for the same, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Sums appropriated to be paid from the treasury.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sums herein appropriated shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; but that no part of the same shall be drawn from the treasury before the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.
Approved, May 24, 1828.