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EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 12. 1825.
Improvement,&c. ofnavy yards.
Ordnance.
Medicines,
&c.
Sundry ex-penses.
Contingent
expenses.
Marine corps.
Proviso.
Proviso.
For improvement and repairs of navy yards, one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars, viz: at Portsmouth, in New Hampshire , threethousand dollars; at Charlestown, in Massachusetts , twenty thousanddollars; at New York, sixty thousand dollars; at Philadelphia , twelvethousand dollars; at Washington, forty thousand dollars; at Norfolk ,including the purchase of a tract of land, for the extension and securityof the navy yard at that place, thirty thousand dollars.
For ordnance and ordnance stores, thirty-five thousand dollars.
For medicines and hospital stores, thirty-five thousand dollars.
For defraying the expenses which may accrue during the year onethousand eight hundred and twenty-five, for the following purposes:For freight and transportation of materials and stores of every descrip-tion ; for wharfage and dockage; for storage and rent: for travellingexpenses of officers, and transportation of seamen; for house rent orchamber money; for fuel and candles to officers, other than those attach-ed to navy yards and shore stations; for commissions, clerk hire, officerent, stationery, and fuel, to navy agents; for premiums and incidentalexpenses of recruiting; for expenses of pursuing deserters: for compen-sation to judge advocates: for per diem allowance to persons attendingcourts martial and courts of inquiry, and to officers engaged in extraservice beyond the limits of their stations; for expenses of persons insick quarters; for burying deceased persons belonging to the navy; forprinting and for stationery of every description; for books, charts, nauti-cal and mathematical instruments, chronometers, models, and drawings;for purchase an.d repairs of steam and fire engines and machinery; forpurchase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and for carts, wheels, andworkmen’s tools, of every description; for postage of letters on the pub-lic service ; for pilotage; for cabin furniture for vessels in commission;for taxes on navy yards and public property; for assistance rendered topublic vessels in distress; for incidental labour at navy yards, not applica-ble to any other appropriation; for coals and other fuel for forges,founderies, steam-engines, and for candles, oil, and fuel; for vessels incommission and in ordinary : and for no other object or purpose what-ever—two hundred thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses, for objects arising in the current year, andnot hereinbefore enumerated, five thousand dollars.
For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, one hundred and eighty-nine thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars and fifty cents.
For clothing for the same, twenty-eight thousand seven hundred andsixty-five dollars.
For fuel for the same, six thousand dollars.
For medicines, hospital stores, and instruments for the officers andmarines stationed on shore, two thousand three hundred and sixty-ninedollars seventy-one cents.
For contingent expenses, that is to say: fuel for commissioned officers,transportation, stationery, bed sacks, straw, extra rations to officers, andpostage on public letters, fourteen thousand dollars.
For arrearages of contingent expenses for the years one thousand eighthundred and twenty-three and one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, five thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums hereby appro-priated, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise ap-propriated: Provided, however, That no money appropriated by this actshall be paid to any person for his compensation, who is in arrears to theUnited States , until such person shall have accounted for and paid intothe treasury, all sums for which he may be liable: Provided, also, Thatnothing in this section contained shall be construed to extend to balancesarising solely from the depreciation of treasury notes received by suchperson to be expended in the public service: but, in all cases where the