# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/10th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 36

Chap. XXXVI.—An Act making appropriations for the support of the Military establishment, and of the Navy of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and nine.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for defraying the expense of the military establishment of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and nine, for the Indian department, and for the expense of fortifications, arsenals, magazines and armories, the following sums be, and the same hereby are respectively appropriated, that is to say:
Specific appropriations.For the pay of the army of the United States, eight hundred and sixty-eight thousand two hundred and forty dollars.
For forage, sixty-four thousand six hundred and twenty-four dollars.
For subsistence, six hundred and forty-one thousand two hundred and twenty-eight dollars and thirty-five cents.
For clothing, two hundred and ninety-three thousand two hundred and sixty-four dollars.
For bounties and premiums, fifteen thousand dollars.
For the medical and hospital departments, forty-five thousand dollars.
For camp equipage, fuel, tools and transportation, two hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
For ordnance, seventy-five thousand dollars.
For purchasing horses, saddles and bridles for the light dragoons, and for the light artillery fifty-one thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For forage for the horses for the regiment of light artillery, ten thousand eight hundred dollars.
For fortifications, arsenals, magazines and armories, two hundred and nineteen thousand and thirty-four dollars and seventy-five cents.
For purchasing maps, plans, books and instruments, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For contingencies, fifty thousand dollars.
For the salary of clerks employed in the military agent’s offices, and in the office of inspector of the army, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For the Indian department, one hundred and twenty-five thousand six hundred dollars.
For the purpose of paying James Powell, late collector of Savannah, the amount of monies advanced by him to Solomon Ellis, contractor for supplying rations to the troops of the United States, in the state of Georgia, including a commission of two per centum to the collector, twenty-seven thousand six hundred and twenty-one dollars and eight cents.
For the purpose of paying Ferdinand Phinizy, late contractor for supplying the troops in Georgia, a balance due to him as admitted by the comptroller of the treasury, on the twenty-fourth of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, one thousand three hundred and ninety-three dollars and thirty-nine cents.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That for defraying the expenses of the navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight ​Specific appropriations. 1809, ch. 11.hundred and nine, the following sums, including therein the sum of four hundred thousand dollars, already appropriated by an act, intituled “An act authorizing the employment of an additional naval force,” the following sums be, and the same are hereby respectively appropriated, that is to say:
For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, one million three hundred and twenty-three thousand and seventy-seven dollars.
For provisions, five hundred and sixty-seven thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars.
For medicines, instruments and hospital stores, thirty-five thousand dollars.
For repairs of vessels, four hundred and forty-five thousand dollars.
For freight, store rent, commissions to agents, and other contingent expenses, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, including provisions for those on shore, and forage for the staff, one hundred and thirty-five thousand six hundred and forty-seven dollars and seventy cents.
For clothing for the same, thirty-two thousand nine hundred and thirty-three dollars and eighty cents.
For military stores for the same, one thousand three hundred and fifty-four dollars.
For medicines, medical services, hospital stores, and all other expenses on account of the sick belonging to the marine corps, two thousand dollars.
For quartermasters and barrack-masters’ stores, officers’ travelling expenses, armorers and carpenters’ bills, fuel, premiums for enlisting, musical instruments, bounty to music, and other contingent expenses of the marine corps, fourteen thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For the expense of navy-yards, comprising dock and other improvements, pay of superintendents, storekeepers, clerks and labourers, sixty thousand dollars.
For ordnance and small arms, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the several sums specifically appropriated by this act, shall be paid out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1809.