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224 THIRTYSECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 102. 1853. terms of previous service, two hundred and twenty-three thousand tive hundred and thirty dollars and forty-four cents; For provisions for marines serving on shore, twenty-nine thousand nine hundred and eighty-four dollars and seventy-five cents; For clothing, fifty-two thousand and sixty-four dollars; For fuel, fourteen thousand one hundred and ninety-four dollars and fifty cents; For military stores, repair of arms, pay of armorers, accoutrements, ordnance stores, flags, drums, fifes, and musical instruments, eight thousand dollars; For transportation of officers and troops, and expenses of recruiting, twelve thousand dollars; For repairs of barracks, and rent of temporary barracks and officcs, where there are no public buildings for that purpose, six thousand dollars; For contingencies, viz. freight, tonnage, toll, cartage, wharfage, compensation to judges advocate, per diem for attending courts-martial, courts of inquiry, and for constant labor, house-rent in lieu of quarters, burial of deceased marines, printing, stationery, postage, apprehension of deserters, oil, candles, forage, straw, furniture, bed sacks, spades, axes, picks, shovels, carpenters tools, keep of a horse for the messenger, pay of matron, washerwoman, and porter, at the hospital head-quarters, twenty- five thousand dollars. Nag Yard at For the purpose of paying the lien existing on the lands recently pur- BM Y¤· chased as an addition to the Navy Yard at Brooklyn, twelve thousand two hundred and forty-seven dollars and five cents, to be paid by the Secretary of the Navy, if upon examination he shall find the same to be due as a lien on the purchase of the said land: And the Secretary of the S,,;,,,,;-;,md_ Navy is hereby empowered and directed to sell and convey to any purchaser all that part of the navy yard lands at Brooklyn between the west side of Vanderbuilt Avenue and the hospital grounds, containing about twenty-six and a half acres, including Vanderbuilt and Clinton P*‘°Vi¤°¤- Avenues: Provided, That said lands shall not be sold at less price than they cost the Government, including interest with all assessments and charges: And provided further, That, prior to_ the sale of said lands, exclusive jurisdiction shall be ceded to the United States of all the remaining lands connected with the said navy yard, belonging to the United States: Provided, That the sale be made at public auction, after thirty days’ notice in at least three daily newspapers published in the cities of New York and Brooklyn. Survev or the That the sum of one thousand one hundred and sixty-four dollars and G““`°fM°"“°°· ten cents, being part of the appropriation made for the service of continuing the survey of the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, from Apalachicola Bay to the Mississippi River, by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and forty-one, and which has been carried to the credit of the surplus fund, be and is hereby reappropriated to pay for the services of the otiicer or officers employed in that survey. Pay of certain Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the proper accounting officers $;g";Q£v8%m:§3 of the Treasury be and they are hereby directed to credit the medical mmssssnmm. officers of the navy, who, by order of the department, served with a °°· detachment of marines in Mexico during the late war with that Republic, in addition to the pay to which they are entitled as medical officers of the navy, respectively, the same allowance for rations and forage, in proportion to the time they so served, as are allowed to officers of the army of similar standing. Approved, March 3, 1853.