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TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess.II. Ch.31. 1841.
Provisions.
Clothing.
Fuel.
Barracks.
Transporta-
tion.
Medicines,&c.
Military stores,&c.
Contingent
expenses.
Lt. Hunter’sinvention.
Collections ofexploring expe-dition.
and incidental expenses of recruiting; for apprehending deserters; forcompensation to judges advocate; for per diem allowance to personsattending courts-martial and courts of inquiry, or other services autho-rized by law; for printing and stationery of every description, and forworking the lithographic press; for books, maps, charts, mathematicaland nautical instruments, chronometers, models, and drawings; for thepurchase and repair of fire engines and machinery; for the repair ofsteam engines in navy yards; for the purchase and maintenance of oxenand horses, and for carts, timber wheels, and workmen’s tools of everydescription; for postage of letters on public service; for pilotage andtowing ships of war; for taxes and assessments on public property ; forassistance rendered to vessels in distress; for incidental labor at navyyards, 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, andfor no other object or purpose whatever, four hundred and fifty thousanddollars;
For contingent expenses for objects not hereinbefore enumerated,three thousand dollars;
For necessary repairs of the hospital building at Charlestown, Massa-chusetts , one thousand five hundred dollars;
For necessary repairs of the hospital building at Brooklyn, New York ,three thousand dollars;
For necessary repairs of the hospital building at Norfolk, Virginia ,two thousand dollars;
For necessary repairs of the hospital building at Pensacola , Flor ida,one thousand five hundred dollars;
For pay of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, privates,and servants serving on shore, and subsistence of officers of the mairinecorps, one hundred and seventy-six thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven dollars;
For provisions for the non-commissioned officers, musicians, privates,and servants and washerwomen serving on shore, forty-five thousand andfifty-four dollars;
For clothing, forty-three thousand six hundred and sixty-two dolhars;
For fuel, sixteen thousand two hundred and seventy-four dollars;
For keeping barracks in repair, and for rent of temporary barraccks,at New York , six thousand dollars;
For transportation of officers, non-commissioned officers, musici.ans,and privates, and expenses of recruiting, eight thousand dollars;
For medicines, hospital supplies, surgical instruments, pay of mattronand hospital stewards, four thousand one hundred and forty dollars;
For military stores, pay of armorers, keeping arms in repair, accoutre-ments, ordnance stores, flags, drums, fifes, and other instruments, twothousand three hundred dollars;
For contingent expenses of said corps, viz : for freight, ferriage, ttoll,wharfage, and cartage; for per diem allowance for attending couirts-martial and courts of inquiry, compensation to judges-advocate, lioniserent where there are no public quarters assigned, per diem allowainceto enlisted men on constant labor, expenses of burying deceased ma-rines, printing, stationery, forage, postage on public letters, expensess inpursuit of deserters, candles and oil, straw, barrack-furniture, bed-saccks,spades, axes, shovels, picks, carpenters’ tools, and for keeping a hcorsefor the messenger, seventeen thousand nine hundred and eighty dolhars;
For the purpose of making a satisfactory experiment of LieutemantHunter’s invention to propel war steamers by horizontal wheels tthatwill be safe from the balls of an enemy, one thousand dollars;
For defraying the expense of transporting to the city of Washingtonand arranging and preserving the collections made by the exploring ex-pedition, five thousand dollars.
Approved, March 3, 1841.