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merits, chronometers, models, and drawings; for purchase and repair ofsteam and fire engines, and for machinery; for purchase and mainte-nance of oxen and horses, and for carts, timber wheels, and workmen’stools of every description; for postage of letters on public service; forpilotage; for cabin furniture of vessels in commission, and for furnitureof officers’ houses at navy yards; for taxes on navy yards and public pro-perty ; for assistance rendered to vessels in distress; for incidental labourat navy yards, not applicable to any other appropriation; for coal andother fuel for forges, founderies, and steam engines; for candles, oil, andfuel; for vessels in commission and in ordinary; for repairs and buildingof magazines <fnd powder houses; for preparing moulds for ships to bebuilt, and for no other object or purpose whatsoever, two hundred andfifty thousand dollars.

For contingent expenses for objects not hereinbefore enumerated, fivethousand dollars.

For the pay of the officers and non-commissioned officers and privates,and for subsistence of the officers of the marine corps, one hundred andeleven thousand five hundred and sixty-three dollars.

For subsistence for non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates,and washerwomen serving on shore, eighteen thousand four hundred andthirty-nine dollars.

For clothing, twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-fivedollars.

For fuel, nine thousand and ninety-eight dollars.

For contingent expenses, fourteen thousand dollars.

For military stores, two thousand dollars.

For medicines, hospital stores, and surgical instruments, two thousandthree hundred and sixty-nine dollars.

Approved, February 24, 1832.

Chap. LI.— An Act for the adjustment and settlement of the claims of the state ofSouth Carolina against the United States .

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the proper accountingofficers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directedto liquidate and settle the claim of the state of South Carolina againstthe United States for interest upon money actually expended by her formilitary stores for the use and benefit of the United States , and onaccount of her militia, whilst in the service of the United States , duringthe late war with Great Britain ; the money so expended having beendrawn by the state from a fund upon which she was then receivinginterest.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, in ascertaining the amountof interest to be paid, as aforesaid, to the state of South Carolina , interestshall be computed upon sums expended by the state for the use andbenefit of the United States , as aforesaid, and which have been, or shallbe, repaid to South Carolina by the United States .

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the following claims of thestate of South Carolina against the United States , which have beenheretofore disallowed, in consequence of their not coming within theregulations of the government, shall be adjusted and settled, that is tosay:

First. The cost of certain cannon-balls purchased or procured by thesaid state for her military defence during the late war, and rejected bythe inspecting officers of the United States , in consequence of their notbeing conformable to the standard fixed by the Department of War :Provided, That the balls so rejected shall belong to the United States .

Contingencies.Marine corps.

Subsistence.

Clothing.

Fuel.

Contingencies.

Stores.

Medicines,&c.

Statute I.March 22 j 1832.

Claim for in-terest to be set-tled.

Upon whatsums.

Other claimsto be allowed.

For cannon-balls.