United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/10th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 18
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Chap. XVIII.—An Act making appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Specific appropriations.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 eight, the following sums be, and the same hereby are, respectively, appropriated; that is to say:
For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, three hundred and sixty-eight thousand and forty-eight dollars.
For provisions, one hundred and sixty-two thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars and ten cents.
For medicines, instruments and hospital stores, five thousand dollars.
For repairs of vessels, one hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars.
For freight, store rent, commissions to agents and other contingent expenses, seventy-five thousand dollars.
For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, including provisions for Specific appropriations.those on shore, and forage for the staff, one hundred and sixty thousand one hundred and thirty-one dollars and ninety cents.
For clothing for the same, twenty-nine thousand nine hundred and thirty-three dollars and eighty cents.
For military stores for the same, nine thousand six hundred and fifty-four dollars.
For medicine, medical services, hospital stores and all other expenses on account of the sick belonging to the marine corps, two thousand dollars.
For quartermaster’s and barrack-master’s stores, officer’s travelling expenses, armorer’s and carpenter’s bills, fuel, premiums for enlisting, musical instruments, bounty to music, and other contingent expenses, fourteen thousand and thirty-five dollars.
For the expense of navy yards, comprising docks and other improvements, pay of superintendents, storekeepers, clerks and labourers, sixty thousand dollars.
For ordnance, fifty thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums herein specifically appropriated shall be paid out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, February 10, 1808.