# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/18th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 43

Chap. XLIII.—An Act making appropriations for the support of the navy of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.
Special appropriation for the Navy.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-four, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated:
Pay of officers and seamen.For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, eight hundred and forty-seven thousand one hundred and forty-two dollars and twenty-five cents.
Provisions.For provisions, in addition to the sum of twenty-five thousand one hundred and twenty-eight dollars, and seventy-five cents, the balance of appropriation for provisions unexpended and provisions on hand, three hundred thousand dollars.
Medicines.For medicines, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of the sick, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Subsistence of officers at navy yards, &c.For pay, subsistence, and allowances, of every description, to all commissioned and warrant officers, employed at the several navy yards and store stations, also of naval constructors, store-keepers, inspectors, master workmen, clerks of the yards, of the check, and of commanders, and porters attached to the navy yards and store stations, two hundred and thirty-one thousand two hundred and ninety-three dollars and twenty-six cents.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses accruing in the present year; that is to say: for commissions, clerk hire, office rent, stationery, and fuel, to navy agents; premiums, and other expenses of recruiting; freight of provisions, stores, and materials, from one station to another, and from the United States to distant stations in other countries where our ships are employed; allowances to officers at the several navy yards and stations, for house rent, fuel, and candles; travelling expenses for officers, and transportation for seamen; freight of timber, wharfage, and dockage for vessels where there are no public yards; expenses, and a per diem allowance, attending courts martial and courts of inquiry; compensation to judge advocates; cabin furniture for vessels in commission; incidental labour at navy yards, which is not applicable to any other appropriation; pilotage of public vessels in the United States, and in foreign countries; printing naval registers, blank pay-rolls, receipt rolls, steward’s returns, seamen’s allotment tickets, the proceedings of courts martial; storage of provisions, and stores in foreign ports, and in the United States where public stores are not provided; coals for blacksmiths and anchormakers, and fuel for steam-engines; purchase and maintenance of oxen, carts, large timber wheels, and workmen’s tools; chamber money to ​officers, in lieu of quarters, other than house-rent; purchase of books, charts, nautical and mathematical instruments, chronometers, machinery, models, drawings, and all stationery, of every description, used throughout the naval service; expense of pursuing deserters; expense of officers in sick quarters; storage of powder; lighterage and scow hire; postage of letters on public service; for per diem allowance to officers engaged on extra service beyond the limit of their stations; for the purchase and repairs of steam and fire engines and machinery; for expenses of burying deceased persons belonging to the navy; for taxes on navy yards and public property; and for accidents to the public vessels, and for no other object or purpose whatever, one hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses for objects arising in the current year, and not herinbefore enumerated, five thousand dollars.
Repairs of vessels.For repairs of vessels, and for wear and tear, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Navy yards.For the improvement of navy yards, docks, and wharves, slips, enclosures, and buildings, of every description, one hundred and fifty-seven thousand five hundred dollars, with authority to purchase, by and with the consent of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, a slip of land, estimated to contain about nine thousand superficial feet, to straighten the back line of the navy yard at Charlestown, Massachusetts.
Ordnance and ordnance stores.For ordnance and ordnance stores, including small arms, manufacture of powder, one thousand dollars, with the unexpended balances of former appropriations, estimated to amount to about nineteen thousand dollars.
Ship’s houses.For ship’s houses, to repay the amount taken from the gradual increase, seventy-eight thousand five hundred dollars.
Marine corps.For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, one hundred and seventy-two thousand and ninety-four dollars.
Clothing.For clothing for the same, twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars.
Fuel.For fuel for the non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, six thousand dollars.
Military stores, &c.For military stores, including stocking arms, armorer’s pay, armorer’s tools, knapsacks, tents, camp equipage, accoutrements, and ordnance stores, five thousand dollars.
For medicines, hospital stores, and instruments for the officers and marines of the marine corps, stationed on shore, two thousand three hundred and sixty-nine dollars, and seventy-one cents.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses; that is to say: fuel for commissioned officers, transportation, stationery, bed sacks, straw, extra rations to officers, and postage on public letters, nine thousand dollars.
For repairing barracks at the different stations, and for building new barracks at Portsmouth, ten thousand dollars.
Paid out of the treasury. Proviso.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums hereby appropriated, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, however, That no money appropriated by this act, shall be paid to any person for his compensation, who is in arrears to the United States, until such person shall have accounted for, and paid into the treasury, all sums for which he may be liable: Provided, further,Proviso. That nothing in this section contained shall extend to balances arising solely from depreciation of treasury notes, received by such person to be expended in the public service; but, in all cases where the pay or salary of any person is withheld in pursuance of this act, it shall be the duty of the accounting officer, if demanded by the party, his agent, or attorney, to report, forthwith to the agent of the Treasury Department, the balance due; and it shall be the duty of the ​said agent, within sixty days thereafter, to order suit to be commenced against such delinquent and his sureties.
Approved, April 29, 1824.