United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/22nd Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 39

United States Statutes at Large, Volume 4
United States Congress
Public Acts of the Twenty-Second Congress, Second Session, Chapter 39
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Feb. 20, 1833.
[Obsolete.]

Chap. XXXIX.An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.

Appropriations for naval service.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be appropriated for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, in addition to the unexpended balances of former appropriations for similar objects, viz:

Officers, &c.For pay and subsistence of the officers of the navy, and the pay of seamen, one million four hundred and forty-five thousand dollars.

Superintendents, &c.For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishments at the several yards, fifty-seven thousand three hundred and thirty dollars.

Provisions.For provisions, four hundred and sixty thousand dollars.

Repairs, &c.For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and the repairs, and wear and tear, of vessels in commission, five hundred and six thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

Medicines, &c.For medicines and surgical instruments, hospital stores, and other expenses on account of the stick, thirty-five thousand dollars.

Navy yards atFor improvements and necessary repairs of navy yards, viz:

Portsmouth;For the navy yard at Portsmouth, twenty-one thousand five hundred and twenty-four dollars.

Boston;For the navy yard at Boston, seventy-three thousand five hundred and thirty-five dollars.

New York;For the navy yard at New York, thirty-four thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.

Philadelphia;For the navy yard at Philadelphia, three thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars.

Washington;For the navy yard at Washington, sixteen thousand dollars.

Norfolk;For the navy yard at Norfolk, one hundred and twenty-six thousand five hundred and twenty-nine dollars.

Pensacola.For the navy yard at Pensacola, fifty-three thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.

Ordnance, &c.For ordnance, and ordnance stores, ten thousand dollars.

Miscellaneous.For defraying expenses; for freight and transportation of materials and stores of every description; for wharfage and dockage, storage and rent, travelling expenses of officers, and transportation of seamen, house rent, chamber money, and food and candles to officers, other than those attached to navy yards and stations, and for officers in sick quarters, where there is no hospital, and for funeral expenses; for commissions, clerk hire, and office rent, stationery, and fuel to navy agents; for premiums, and incidental expenses of recruiting; for apprehending deserters; for compensation to judge advocates; for per diem allowances for persons attending courts martial, and courts of inquiry, and for officers engaged in extra service beyond the limits of their stations; for printing and stationery of every description, and for books, maps, charts, and mathematical and nautical instruments, chronometers, models and drawings; for purchase and repair of steam and fire engines, and for machinery; for purchase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and for carts, timber wheels, and workmen’s tools of every description; for postage of letters on public service; for pilotage; for cabin furniture of vessels in commission, and for furniture of officers’ houses at navy yards, for taxes on navy yards and public property; for assistance rendered to vessels in distress; for incidental labour at navy yards, not applicable to any other appropriation; for coal and other fuel for forges, founderies, and steam engines; for candles, oil, and fuel, for vessels in commission and in ordinary; for repairs and building of magazines and powder houses; for preparing moulds for ships to be built; and for no other object or purpose whatsoever, two hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars.

Contingencies.For contingent expenses for objects not hereinbefore enumerated, five thousand dollars.

Marine corps.For pay of the officers and non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, and for subsistence of the officers of the marine corps, one hundred and twelve thousand nine hundred and ninety dollars.

Subsistence.For subsistence of non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, and washerwomen, serving on shore, eighteen thousand four hundred and thirty-nine dollars.

Clothing.For clothing, twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars.

Fuel.For fuel, nine thousand and ninety-eight dollars.

Contingencies.For contingent expenses, fourteen thousand dollars.

Stores.For military stores, two thousand dollars.

Medicines, &c.For medicines, hospital stores, and surgical instruments, two thousand three hundred and seventy dollars.

Claim for prize money.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to discharge an outstanding claim for prize money for the capture of the Algerine vessels in one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, twenty-one dollars, being part of an unexpended balance carried to the surplus fund.

Claims under act of July 11, [14,] 1832, ch. 223.For the payment of claims arising under the act of eleventh of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, entitled “An act concerning certain marine officers,” eighteen thousand three hundred and thirty-seven dollars and twenty-eight cents.

Compensation to Board authorized by act of May 19, 1832, ch. 80.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, for the purpose of compensating the board authorized by the act of the nineteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, for their services in revising and enlarging “the rules and regulations governing the naval service, with the view to adapt them to the present and future exigencies of this important arm of national defence,” the sum of seven thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid by the Navy Department, according to the rates of allowances for detention on special service now prescribed by the rules and regulations of the Navy Department.

Salary of clerk.
1832, ch. 194.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the salary directed by “An act for the regulation of the navy, and privateer pension, and navy hospital funds,” passed July tenth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, to be paid to the clerk of said funds out of the treasury of the United States, shall be paid from any money in said treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Suppression of slave trade.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That for carrying into effect the acts for the suppression of the slave trade, including the support in the United States, and for a term not exceeding six months after their arrival in Africa, of all persons removed from the United States under the said acts, the sum of five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

John D. Sloat.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That there be paid to Master Commandant John D. Sloat, of the United States’ navy, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand three hundred and sixty dollars, being the amount of his account exhibited to the Navy Department for expenses incurred in entertaining, on board the St. Louis, under his command, General Bolivar and several of his officers, at Guayaquil, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine; and General La Fuente, President of Peru, and Major-general Miller, of the Peruvian army, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.

Approved, February 20, 1833.