Improvement, &c. of navy yards.For improvement and repairs of navy yards, one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars, viz: at Portsmouth, in New Hampshire, three thousand dollars; at Charlestown, in Massachusetts, twenty thousand dollars; at New York, sixty thousand dollars; at Philadelphia, twelve thousand dollars; at Washington, forty thousand dollars; at Norfolk, including the purchase of a tract of land, for the extension and security of the navy yard at that place, thirty thousand dollars.
Ordnance.For ordnance and ordnance stores, thirty-five thousand dollars.
Medicines, &c.For medicines and hospital stores, thirty-five thousand dollars.
Sundry expenses.For defraying the expenses which may accrue during the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, for the following purposes: For freight and transportation of materials and stores of every description; for wharfage and dockage; for storage and rent: for travelling expenses of officers, and transportation of seamen; for house rent or chamber money; for fuel and candles to officers, other than those attached to navy yards and shore stations; for commissions, clerk hire, office rent, stationery, and fuel, to navy agents; for premiums and incidental expenses of recruiting; for expenses of pursuing deserters: for compensation to judge advocates: for per diem allowance to persons attending courts martial and courts of inquiry, and to officers engaged in extra service beyond the limits of their stations; for expenses of persons in sick quarters; for burying deceased persons belonging to the navy; for printing and for stationery of every description; for books, charts, nautical and mathematical instruments, chronometers, models, and drawings; for purchase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and for carts, wheels, and workmen’s tools, of every description; for postage of letters on the public service; for pilotage; for cabin furniture for vessels in commission; for taxes on navy yards and public property; for assistance rendered to public vessels in distress; for incidental labour at navy yards, not applicable to any other appropriation; for coals and other fuel for forges, founderies, steam-engines, and for candles, oil, and fuel; for vessels in commission and in ordinary: and for no other object or purpose whatever—two hundred thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, for objects arising in the current year, and not hereinbefore enumerated, five thousand dollars.
Marine corps.For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, one hundred and eighty-nine thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars and fifty cents.
For clothing for the same, twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars.
For fuel for the same, six thousand dollars.
For medicines, hospital stores, and instruments for the officers and marines stationed on shore, two thousand three hundred and sixty-nine dollars seventy-one cents.
For contingent expenses, that is to say: fuel for commissioned officers, transportation, stationery, bed sacks, straw, extra rations to officers, and postage on public letters, fourteen thousand dollars.
For arrearages of contingent expenses for the years one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three and one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, five thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums hereby appropriated, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated:Proviso. Provided, however, That no money appropriated by this act shall be paid to any person for his compensation, who is in arrears to the United States, until such person shall have accounted for and paid into the treasury, all sums for which he may be liable:Proviso. Provided, also, That nothing in this section contained shall be construed to extend to balances arising solely from the depreciation of treasury notes received by such person to be expended in the public service: but, in all cases where the
