Specific appropriations.For salaries of superintendents of navy yards, storekeepers and clerks, store-rent, hire of labourers, &c. twelve thousand dollars.
For the purchase and expense of transportation of timber, and other materials, including ordnance for the seventy-four gun ships, one hundred and ninety thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For the improvement of navy yards, docks and wharves, fifty thousand dollars.
For contingencies, ten thousand dollars.
For the pay and subsistence, including provisions for those on shore, and forage for the staff of the marine corps, seventy-one thousand seven hundred and fifty-four dollars and forty cents.
For clothing for the same, fifteen thousand five hundred and nineteen dollars.
For military stores for the same, one thousand two hundred and twenty-four dollars and sixty cents.
For the quartermaster’s department, comprising quarters for the officers, and barracks for the men at different stations, fuel, stationery, camp utensils, &c. seven thousand and sixty-one dollars.
For medicine, medical services, and hospital stores, one thousand dollars.
For officers’ travelling expenses, armourer’s and carpenter’s bills, and other contingent expenses, two thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That so much of the said several sums of money, herein before specifically appropriated, and amounting together to the sum of nine hundred thousand dollars, as shall not have been expended by virtue of any former appropriation, shall be paid, first, out of any balance remaining unexpended of former appropriations for the support of the navy;—and secondly, out of any monies in the treasury of the United States, not otherwise appropriated by law.
Approved, May 1, 1802.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. XLIV.—An Act to extend and continue in force the provisions of an act intituled “An act giving a right of pre-emption to certain persons who have contracted with John Cleves Symmes or his associates, for lands lying between the Miami rivers, in the territory northwest of the Ohio, and for other purposes.”
Act of March 3, 1801, ch. 23.
Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 29.
Provisions of a former act, under certain modifications, continued in force.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the several provisions of an act intituled “An act giving a right of pre-emption to certain persons who have contracted with John Cleves Symmes, or his associates, for lands lying between the Miami rivers in the territory northwest of the Ohio,” shall be, and the same are hereby continued in force until the first day of March next, subject to the modifications contained in this act.
Provisions of that act extended to persons claiming lands between the Miami rivers in certain cases.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of the said act shall, and the same are hereby extended to all persons claiming lands lying between the Miami rivers, and without the limits of Ludlow’s survey, by purchase or contract made prior to the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred, with John Cleves Symmes or his associates.
Persons claiming lands—who have not obtained certificates of the right of pre-emption.How such claims are to be settled.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That every person claiming lands as aforesaid, either within or without the limits of Ludlow’s survey, and who have not obtained a certificate of the right of pre-emption therefor, shall, on or before the first day of November next, give notice of the nature and extent of his claim, in manner prescribed by the second section of the said act. And the receiver of public monies, and commissioners appointed under the fourth section of the said act, shall meet at Cincinnati, on the second Monday of November next, they having given four weeks previous notice of such meeting in a public newspaper printed at Cincinnati, and shall then and there proceed to hear and
