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TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch.51. 1840.
Repair of bar-racks, &c.
Transporta-
tion.
Medicines,&c.
Militarystores, &c.
Expenses.
Completion ofthe two steamvessels.
All appropria-tions for build-ins. &c. ves-sels, herebytransferred toone head of ap-propriation, tobe expended,how.
For keeping barracks in repair, until new ones shall be erected, andfor rent of temporary barracks at New York , six thousand dollars;
For transportation of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians,and privates, and expenses of recruiting, eight thousand dollars;
For medicines, hospital stores, surgical instruments, and pay of matronand hospital stewards, four thousand one hundred arid forty dollars;
For military stores, pay of armorers, keeping arms in repair, accou-trements and ordnance stores, and flags, drums and fifes,- two thousandthree hundred dollars;
For contingent expenses of said corps, viz : for freight, ferriage, toll,wharfage and cartage; for per diem allowance for attending courts-martial and courts of inquiry, compensation to judges-advocate, house-rent where there are no public quarters assigned, per diem allowance toenlisted men on constant labor, expenses of burying deceased marines,printing, stationery, forage, postage on public letters, expenses in pur-suit of deserters, candles and oil, straw, barrack furniture, bed sacks,spades, axes, shovels, picks, carpenters’ tools, and for the purchase of ahorse for the messenger and keeping the same, seventeen thousand ninehundred and eighty dollars;
For coppering the roof of the hospital building at New York , and forother necessary expenses upon the same, and its dependencies, ninethousand five hundred dollars ;
For necessary repairs of the hospital building at Norfolk , and its de-pendencies, three thousand five hundred dollars;
For furnishing hospital number three, at Pensacola , and for buildinga stable and other necessary appendages, and for current repairs onthe other buildings, seven thousand dollars;
For the necessary repairs to the naval asylum at Philadelphia , and itsdependencies, four thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That in addition to the sum ofthree hundred and thirty thousand dollars, which was placed subject tothe disposition of the Navy Department by the second section of theact of Congress making appropriations for the naval service for the yearone thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, the further sum of threehundred and forty thousand dollars of the amount heretofore appro-priated for the gradual improvement of the navy, is hereby directed tobe placed subject to the disposition of the department aforesaid, for thepurpose of completing the two steam vessels which have been com-menced, in case that amount can be diverted from that appropriationwithout impairing the ability of the Navy Department to make pay-ments under existing contracts prior to the fourth day of March, eigh-teen hundred and forty-one, and if that cannot be done consistentlywith the rights of contractors and the public interests, then so much ofthe said sum of three hundred and forty thousand dollars as can be sodiverted to this object, from the appropriation referred to, shall be sub-ject to the disposition of the Secretary of the Navy for this purpose,and the said sum of three hundred and forty thousand dollars, to be ex-pended in the maimer in this section prescribed, shall be in addition toany materials now on hand applicable to the construction of the saidsteam vessels of war.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted , .That all appropriations and allremaining balances of appropriations heretofore made for building, rebuild-ing, replacing, purchasing, or repairing vessels of war, or other vessels, forthe use of the navy, or for the purchase of timber, ordnance, or anyother articles for building, arming, equipping, or repairing vessels of thenavy, or for the repairs of vessels in ordinary, and repair, wear and tearof vessels in commission, together with any materials which have been,or may be, collected under any of the said appropriations, be, and thesame are hereby, transferred to one head of appropriation, to be called