# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/23rd Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 19

Chap. XIX.—An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.
Appropriations for the naval service.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-five, in addition to the unexpended balances of former appropriations, viz:
Pay and subsistance.For pay and subsistence of the officers of the navy and pay of seamen, one million five hundred and one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four dollars and forty-two cents.
Pay of superintendents, &c.For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishment at the several yards, sixty-one thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.
Provisions.For provisions, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Repairs.For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and the repairs and wear and tear of vessels in commission, nine hundred and seventy-four thousand dollars.
Medicines, &c.For medicines and surgical instruments, hospital stores, and other expenses on account of the sick, forty thousand dollars.
Repairs, &c. of navy yards at Portsmouth;For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, thirty-nine thousand nine hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Charlestown;For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Charlestown, Massachusetts, ninety-nine thousand five hundred dollars.
Brooklyn;For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Brooklyn, New York, forty-six thousand one hundred and twenty dollars.
Philadelphia;For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Philadelphia, three thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.
Washington;For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Washington, ten thousand dollars.
Gosport;For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Gosport, Virginia, one hundred thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
Pensacola.For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Pensacola, forty-four thousand six hundred dollars.
Repairs, &c. at Sackett’s harbour.For repairs of building and preservation of a vessel at Sackett’s Harbour, five hundred dollars.
Ordnance, &c.For ordnance, and ordnance stores, fifteen thousand dollars.
For defraying the expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, viz:
Miscellaneous.For the 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 are no hospitals, 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 allowance to persons attending courts martial and courts of inquiry, and for officers engaged on extra service beyond the limits of their stations, for printing and stationery of every description, and for books, maps, charts, mathematical and nautical instruments, chronometers, models, and drawings; for purchase and repair of fire and steam 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 and towing of ships of war; for cabin furniture of vessels in commission, and for furniture of officers’ houses in 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, foundries 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 purpose whatever, two hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars.
Contingencies.For contingent expenses for objects not hereinbefore enumerated, three thousand dollars.
Marine corps.For pay of the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, and for subsistence of the officers of the marine corps, one hundred and sixty-six thousand seven hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty-five cents.
Marine corps, &c. on shore.For the subsistence of the non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, and washerwomen of said corps, serving on shore, and for servants, thirty-three thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars and sixty cents.
Clothing.For clothing, thirty-eight thousand seven hundred and eleven dollars and twenty-five cents.
Fuel.For fuel, fifteen thousand one hundred and sixty-six dollars.
Transportation.For transportation and recruiting, six thousand dollars.
Medicines, &c.For medicines, hospital stores, surgical instruments, pay of matron and acting hospital steward, four thousand one hundred and thirty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents.
Contingencies.For contingent expenses, seventeen thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven dollars and ninety-three cents.
Stores, &c.For military stores, pay of armorers, keeping arms in repair, drums, fifes, flags, accoutrements, and ordnance stores, two thousand dollars.
Barracks.For repairs of barracks, three thousand dollars.
Magazines at Boston and New York.For completing the naval magazines authorized to be built near Boston, Massachusetts, and New York, for enclosing and providing convenient access to them, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Hospitals at Boston, New York, and Pensacola.For completing the naval hospitals near Boston, New York, and Pensacola, building the necessary out-houses and appendages, and for enclosing them, twenty thousand seven hundred dollars.
Hospital near Norfolk.For repair of the hospital near Norfolk, and its enclosures and dependencies, one thousand dollars.
Asylum near Philadelphia.For repairing enclosures and graduating the ground about the navy asylum, near Philadelphia, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Iron tanks. 1832, ch. 192.For completing the payments which will be due on contracts for iron tanks, made under the act of the tenth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, nine thousand dollars.
Extra services, &c. in the coast survey for 1830.For arrearages for defraying the extra services and expenses of the officers of the navy engaged in the survey of the coasts and harbours of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Lithographic press.For the purchase of a lithographic press, for the Navy Department, and for expenses of the same for one year, one thousand dollars.
Unexpended balances re-appropriated.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following sums—being the unexpended balances of former appropriations, which have been carried to the account of the surplus fund—be, and the same are hereby re-appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, viz:
Frigate Java and sloop Cyanne. 1832, ch. 188.For the purchase of timber to rebuild the frigate Java, and the sloop Cyanne, authorized by the act of July the tenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, the sum of forty-six thousand, three hundred and thirty-two dollars and three cents.
Iron tanks. 1832, ch. 192. Furniture, &c. for asylum at Philadelphia. 1832, ch. 189.For the purchase of iron tanks for the use of the navy, as authorized by the act of the tenth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, the sum of three hundred and fifty-one dollars and sixty-five cents.
For providing fixtures, furnitures, and apparatus, for the navy asylum at Philadelphia, as authorized by the act of July tenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, one thousand three hundred and sixty-two dollars and thirty-three cents.
Ships in ordinary. 1830, ch. 32.For covering and preserving ships in ordinary, as authorized by the act of March eleventh, eighteen hundred and thirty, two thousand six hundred and fifty-three dollars and eighty-eight cents.
Approved, February 13, 1835.