United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/12th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 55
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Chap. LV.—An Act making appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.
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, during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, 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, one million six hundred and sixty-eight thousand dollars, and for pay due to the officers and crews of the public ships and other vessels in commission for the year one thousand eight [hundred] and twelve, three hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars.
For provisions, seven hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
For medicines, instruments, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of the sick, one hundred thousand dollars.
For repair of vessels, six hundred and forty thousand dollars.
For freight, store rent, and all other contingent expenses, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For expenses of navy yards, comprising docks and other improvements, pay of superintendents, storekeepers, clerks, and labourers, ninety thousand dollars.
For Specific appropriations.ordnance, and for ordnance and military stores, one hundred thousand dollars.
For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, including provisions for those on shore, and forage for the staff, two hundred and forty-five thousand three hundred and ninety-one dollars and seventy cents.
For clothing for the same, seventy-one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight dollars and ten cents.
For military stores for the same, twenty-seven thousand six hundred and eight dollars and seventy-five cents.
For medicines, medical services, hospital stores, and all other expenses on account of the stick belonging to the marine corps, twenty thousand dollars.
For quartermasters and barrack masters’ stores, officers’ travelling expenses, armorers and carpenters’ bills, fuel, premiums for enlisting men, musical instruments, bounty to music, and other contingent expenses of the marine corps, forty-six thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums specifically appropriated by this act, shall be paid out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1813.