The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1840-08-15

description, and for working the lithogra-
phic press; for books, maps, charts, ma
thematical and nautical instruments, chro-
nometers, models and drawingssffor the
purchase and repair of fire engines and
machinery; for the repair Of steam-en.
lgines in navy yards: for the purchase and
maintenance of oxen and horses, and for
carts, timber-wheel, and workmen's tools
of every description; for postage Of letters
on public service; for pilotage and towing
ships of war; for taxes and assessments
on public property; for assistance rende.
red to vessels in distress; for incidental Ia
Dor at navy yards, not applicable to any
other appropriation; for coal and other
fuel, and for candles and oil for the use of
navy yards and shore stations, and for no
other object or purpose whatever, four
hundred and fifty. thousand dollars; j
For contingent expenses for objects not
herein before enumerated, three thousand
dollars;
For pay of the officers, non-commis-
stoned officers, musicians, and privates,
and subsistence of the officers of the ma
rine corps, one hundred and seventyifive
thousand and fifty dollars and forty cents;
For provisions for the non-commissioned
officers, musicians and privates serving
on shore, servants and washerwomen,
fory-fve thousand and fty-four dollars
and ninety-nine cents;
For clothing, forty-three thousand six
hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty
cents;
For fuel, sixteen thousand two hundred
and seventy-four dollars and twelve cents:
For keeping barracks in repair, until
new ones shall be erected, and for rent
of temporary barracks at New York, six
thousand dollars;
For transportation of officers, non-com-
missioned officers, musicians, and prl-
Yates, and expenses of recruiting, eight
thousand dollars. -
For medicines, hospital stores, surgical
instruments and pay of matron and hospi-
tai stewards, four thousand one hundred.
and forty dollars;
For military stores, pay of armorers,
keeping arms in repair, accoutrements
and ordnance stores, and flags, drums
and flies, two thousand three hundred
dollars; ...
For contingent expenses Of said. corps,
viz: for freight, ferriage, toll, wharfage
and carriage; for per diem allowance for
attending courts-martial and courts OF In
quiry, compensation to judges-advocate,
house-rent where there are no public quar-
tiers assigned, per diem allowance to en-.
listed men on constant labor, expenses of
burying deceased mariners, printing, sta
|tionery, forage, postage on public letters,
expenses in pursuit of deserters, candles
and oil, straw, barfack furniture, bed sacks,
spades, axes, shovels, picks, carpenters
tools, and for the purchase of horse for
the messenger and keeping the same. Sc
venteen thousand nine hundred and eigh-
ty dollars;
For coppering the roof of the hospital
buiIdingat New York, and for other neces-
sary expenses upon the same, and ITS de-
tendencies, nine thousand five hundred
dollars; !
For necessary repairs of the hospital
building at Norfolk, and its dependencies,
three thousand five hundred dollars;
For furnishing hospital number three,
at Pensacola, and for building stable,
and other necessary appendages, and for
current repairs on the other buildings,
seven thousand dollars;
For the necessary repairs to the asylum
at Philadelphia, and its dependencies, four
thousand two hundred and fifty dollars:
SEC. 2. And br it further enacted That
in addition to the sum of three hundre
and thirty thousand dollars, which wa.
placed subject to the disposition of the
Navy Department by the second section
of the act of Congress making appropr1a-
tions for the naval service for year one
thousand eight hundred and thirty.nine,
the further sum of three hundred and for
ty thousand dollars of the amount hereto
fore appropriated for the gradual improve
ment Of the navy, is hereby directed to
be placed subject to the disposition of the
department aforesaid, for the purpose OF
completing the two steam-vcssels which
have been commenced, in sethat amount
can be diverted from that appropriation
without impairing the ability OF theI Navy