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T HIRTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 34. 1851. 621 For the thorough trial, and for maintaining of light on Brandywine Brandywine Shoal, Delaware Bay, YFOm October the First, one thousand eight hun- Sh°°l· dred and fifty, to March thirty-first, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, six months, one thousand one hundred and forty-four dollars and twenty-four cents. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That of the seventy-two thou- Mode of maksaud dollars heretofore appropriated for the payment of eight com- **8 F%*(l’“Ym°¤* Pgnles of Texas troops, the amount which has been paid by the State giolésh, of Texas, shall be paid to said State, or its properly constituted agent, § 2, for Texan and that the amount due to the ofricers, non-commissioned officers and “°°PS‘ privates, be paid to each by the pay department, in the usual manner, estimating their pay in accordance with the provisions of the law for paying volunteers during the Mexican war, so soon as the amount due each shall be ascertained by the accounting officers of the treasury. Approved, March 3, 1851. Cru?. XXXlV.—J1n Act makin A ro riatizms or the Na rz ` pie Year ending the thirtiet/1. o_tgJuii; oziie thousarifd eight huriidiedsieeiiijtdlj/i]`;`?;,; tM“”°h 3, 1861. 700. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two z- · For. pay of commission, warrant, and petty, officers and seamen, pay Oy Omcers including the engineer corps of the navy, two millions seven hundred wd Seamenand seventy-one thousand four hundred and forty-eight dollars. For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil Superintendestablishments at the several navy yards and stations, ninety thousand °¤*S» °°¤S¤¤¤· nine hundred and sixty dollars. t°"’ &°‘ For provisions for commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, provisions_ including engineers and marines attached to vessels for sea service, six hundred and eighty-eight thousand and eighty dollars: Provided, That no commutation of rations shall be allowed except to officers and their commutation attendants, and for the spirit part of the ration; and no person not °f Yeti0D8- actually attached to, and doing duty on board a sea-going or receiving Who entitled vessel, and the petty officers, seamen, and ordinary seamen attached to *° '***i°¤s· the ordinary of the navy yards, shall be allowed a ration. And provided, further, That no rations stopped for the sick on board vessels shall be Stoppage of credited to the hospital fund, but shall remain and be accounted for by ’?*i°“S °f *h°“ the purser as part of the provisions of the vessels, and that the rations Sick' of officers and others of the navy, sent to hospitals on shore, shall be credited to the hospital fund at the cost only thereof; and the chief of the bureau of provisions and clothing, with the approbation of the Secretary of the Navy, shall prescribe all such regulations in relation to stopping such rations as will ensure a faithful accountability for the rations stopped for the sick on board vessels, and to ensure due credit to the hospital fund for the rations at cost of those sent to the hospitals on shore; the said regulations to go into effect on the/first day of the iuccgedinglmonth after their official receipt at yards, stations, and on oar vesse s. For surgeons necessaries, and appliances for the sick and hurt of Surge0ns’ neghiluavy, including the marine corps, thirty-seven thousand six hundred °”“““· o ars. For repair of vessels in ordinary, and for wear and tear of vessels in Repair and commission, including fuel and purchase of hemp, 0118 milll0Il tht6C margand wu °f hulidféd and sixty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That the SeC1‘€tat‘y