671
TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1. 1884.
For defraying the expenses that may accrue for the following purposes,viz:
For freight and transportation of materials and stores of every descrip-tion : for wharfage and dockage, storage and rent, travelling expenses ofofficers and transportation of seamen, house rent, chamber money, andfuel and candles, to officers other than those attached to navy yards andstations, and for officers in sick quarters where there is no hospital, andfor funeral expenses; for commissions, clerk hire and office rent, sta-tionery and fuel, to navy agents; for premiums and incidental expenses ofrecruiting, for apprehending deserters; for compensation to judge advo-cates ; for per diem allowances to persons attending courts martial andcourts of inquiry, and to officers engaged in extra service beyond thelimits of their stations; for printing and stationery of every description,and for books, maps, charts and mathematical and nautical instruments,chronometers, models and drawings; for purchase and repair of fire andsteam engines, and for machinery; for purchase and maintenance ofoxen and horses, and for carts, timber wheels, and workmen’s tools ofevery description; for postage of letters on public service; for pilotageand towing ships of war; for cabin furniture of vessels in commission,and for furniture of officers’ houses at navy yards; for taxes on navy yardsand public property; for assistance rendered to vessels in distress; for in-cidental labour at navy yards, not applicable to any other appropriation ;for coal and other fuel for forges, foundries, and steam engines; forcandles, oil, and fuel for vessels in commission and in ordinary; for re-pairs of magazines and powder houses ; for prepairing moulds for shipsto be built, and for no other purpose whatsoever, two hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses for objects not herein-before enumerated,four thousand dollars.
For pay of the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians and pri-vates, and for subsistence of the officers of [the] marine corps, includingarrearages and increased pay under the act, second of March, one thou-sand eight hundred and thirty-three, one hundred and thirty-five thousandeight hundred and eighty dollars and twenty-five cents.
For subsistence of non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates,and washerwomen of said corps serving on shore, nineteen thousand twohundred and thirty-one dollars and eighty cents.
For clothing, twenty-nine thousand three hundred and fifteen dollars.
For fuel, nine thousand and ninety-eight dollars.
For contingent expenses, including arrearages, nineteen thousanddollars.
For transportation and recruiting, five thousand dollars.
For medicines, hospital stores, and surgical iustruments, for officersand men serving on shore, two thousand three hundred and sixty-ninedollars and seventy-one cents.
For balance due Lieutenant Colonel Anderson, nine hundred andfifty-four dollars and twenty-two cents.
For the erection of barracks for the marines stationed at the navyyard, Brooklyn, New York , thirty thousand dollars.
For carrying into effect the acts for the suppression of the slave trade,including the support in the United States , and for a term not exceedingsix months after their arrival in A frica, of all persons removed from theUnited States under the said acts, five thousand dollars.
That so much of the sums appropriated by the act of the twenty-eighthMay, eighteen hundred and thirty, for the relief of Alexander Claxton, asstill remains due and unpaid, and which has been carried to the creditof the surplus fund, shall be, and the same is hereby, re-appropriated.
Approved, January 24,1834.
Miscellaneous.
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Contingencies.
Marine corps.
March 2, 1833,ch. 68.
Subsistence.
Clothing.
Fuel.
Contingencies.
Transportation.Medicines, &c.
Re-appropria-tion to Alexan-der Claxton.
1830, ch. 140.