The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1835-04-15
BY AUTHORITY.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES, PASSED AT THE Sec
oND SESSION OF THE TwENTY-THIRD CONGRESS-.
fPUBLIc. No. 81

sentdtires of the United States of america in Con-
sress assembled, That the following sums be appro-
priated for the naval service for the year thou
sand eight hundred and thirty-iiv in addition to
the expended balance offormer appropriations, viz:
For pay and subsistence of the officers of the
w and pay of seamcn, one million five hundred and
one thousand, eight hundred and twenty four dol
lars, and forty two cents.
For pay and superintendents, naval constructors,
and all the civil establishment the several yards,
sixty one thousand one hundred aud eighty dollars
For provisions four hundred and fifty thousand
dollars.
For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and the repairs.
and wear and tear of vessels in commission, nine
hundred and seventy four thousand dollars.
For medicines and surgical instruments, hospital
stores, and other expenses on account of the sick,
forty thousand dollars
For improvement and necessary repairs of the
navy yard at Portsmouth, n III. thirty nine thou
sand nine hundred and twenty five dollars.
For improvement and necessary repairs of the
navy yard at Charlestown, Mass ninety nine thou
sand five hundred dollars.
For improvement and necessary repairs of the
navy yard at Brooklyn, n. Y. forty six thousand
one hundred and twenty dollars.
For improvement and necessary repairs of the
navy yard at Philadelphia, three thousand five hun
drcd and twenty dollars
| For improvement and necessary repairs of the
navy yard at Washington, ten thousand dollars.
For improvement and necessary repairs of the
navy yard at Gosspor, Va. one hunered thousand
four hundred and fifty dollars.
For improvement and necessary repairs Of the
yard at Pensacola, forty four thousand six hundred
dollars.
For repairs of building and preservation of YES
sci at Sackcus Harbor, five hundred dollars
! For ordnance and ordnance stores fifteen thou
sand dnllars.
For defraying the expenses that may accrue for
the following purposes, viz
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 staions
and for officers in sick quarters where there
hospitals, and for funeral expenses, for commissions,
clerk hire andofice rent sationary and fuel to navy
agents for premiums and incidental expenses of
recruiting, for apprehending deseers, for compcn
d saon Judge advocates, for per diem allowance to
a persons attending courts martial and courts Of in
qury, and for officers engaged on extra service be-
yond the limits of their stations, for printing and
stationary of every description, and for books maps,
charts, mathematical and nautical instrumeters,
K chronometers, models and drawings; for purchase
q and repair of fire and steam engines and for
chnery, for purchase and maintenance of oxen and
horses, and for carts, timber wheels, and workmens
tools of every descriptions for postage of ettors
public service, for pilotage and towing of ships of
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and for furniture of officers houses in navy yards
incidental labor navy yards not applicable to any
other appropriation for coal and other fuel for forges,
foundres and steam engines; for candles, oil, and
fuel for vessels in commission and in ordinary; for
repairs Of magazines and powder houses; for pre-
pairing moulds of ships to be built and for no other
purpose whatever, two hundred and ninety five thou
sand dollars.
For contingent expenses for objects not hereinbe-
fore enumerated, three thousand dollars.
For pay of the officers, commissioned officers,
, musicians and privaos and for subsistence Of the
officers of the marine corps, one hundred sixty thou
sand seven hundred and forty nine dollars, and fifty
five cents
For the subsistence oftho non-coinmssioned Off
GERS musicians, and privates, and washcrwomen of
said corps serving shore, and for servants, thir
ty five thousand five hundred and sixy-fye dollars,
and sixty cents.
For clothing thirty-eight thousand seven hundred
and eleven dollars, and twenty-five cents.
For fuel fifteen thousand one hundred and sixty
six dollars
For transportation and recruiting, six thousand
dollars.
For medicines, hospital stores, surgical instru-
ments, pay of matron and acting hospital steward,
four thousand one hundred and thirty nine dollars
and twenty five cents.
For contingent expenses, seventeen thousand
nine hundred and seventy seven dollars and ninety
three cents
For military stores, pay of armorers, keeping arms
in repair, drums, ffes flags, accourements, and
ordnance stores, two thousand dollars
For repairs Of barracks, three thousand dollars.
For completing the naval magazines authorized
to be built near Boston, and New York, for enclos
ing and providing convenient access to them, seven
thousand five hundred dollars.
For completing the naval hospitals near Boston,
RI ~ York, and Pensacola, building the necessary
out-houses and appendages, aud for enclosing them
/ tbnusand hundred dollars.
;: For repair ofthe hospital near Norfolk, and its
. enclosures and dependencies, one thousand dol
! lars.
Forrcparing enclosures and graduating the ground
about the naval asylum, near Philadelphia, three
, thousond five hundred hundred dollars:
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