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Chap. XVI.—An Act supplementary to the act intituled “An act providing passports for the ships and vessels of the United States.”
Act of June 1, 1796, ch. 45.
Unregistered vessels sailing with sea letters to be furnished with passports on paying ten dollars.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every unregistered ship or vessel owned by a citizen or citizens of the United States, and sailing with a sea-letter, going to any foreign country, shall, before she departs from the United States, at the request of the master, be furnished by the collector of the district where such vessel may be, with a passport of the form prescribed and established by the act to which this is a supplement, for which the master shall pay to the collector ten dollars, and be subject to the rules and conditions prescribed in the said act, for ships and vessels of the United States.
Unregistered vessels sailing to foreign countries to pay the same on clearing as vessels of the U. States.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be paid on every such unregistered ship or vessel, sailing or trading to any foreign country, other than some port or place in America, for each and every voyage, the sum at the time of clearing outwards, to be received and accounted for in the same manner as is by said act required in cases of ships and vessels of the United States.
Approved, March 2, 1803.
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Chap. XVII.—An Act making an appropriation for the support of the Navy of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and three.
Specific appropriations for the Navy of the United States.
1803, ch. 1.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for defraying the expenses of the Navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and three, and for making good deficiencies for the same, in the year one thousand eight hundred and two, the following sums, including therein the sum of one hundred thousand dollars already appropriated by the “act making a partial appropriation for the naval service during the year one thousand eight hundred and three,” be, and they hereby are respectively appropriated, that is to say:
For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and the pay of the seamen, two hundred and eighty-three thousand nine hundred and ninety-three dollars.
For provisions, one hundred and fifty-seven thousand three hundred and sixty dollars and twenty cents.
For medicines, instruments, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of the sick, seven thousand seven hundred dollars.
For the purchase of ordnance and other military stores, fifteen thousand dollars.
For the repairs of vessels, store rent, and other contingent expenses, one hundred and eighty-two thousand dollars.
For completing the contracts made for the timber, ordnance, and other materials for the seventy-four gun ships, including their transportation, &c., one hundred and fourteen thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For the expense of erection of sheds and navy yards, including docks and other improvements, the pay of superintendents, store-keepers, clerks and labourers, forty-eight thousand seven hundred and forty-one dollars and thirty-seven cents.
For the pay and subsistence of the marine corps, including provisions for those on shore, and forage for the staff, sixty-four thousand and ninety-five dollars and sixty cents.
For clothing and military stores for the same, sixteen thousand two hundred and twenty-three dollars and eighty-three cents.
