Specific appropriations for the Navy of the U. States.For medicines, medical services, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of the sick of the marine corps, one thousand dollars.
For quartermaster’s and barrackmaster’s stores, officers’ travelling expenses, armorers and carpenters’ bills, and other contingent expenses, nine thousand four hundred and sixty-one dollars.
To make good deficiencies in the appropriations for the navy of the United States, in the year one thousand eight hundred and two, that is to say:
For pay and subsistence of the officers, the pay of the seamen, provisions, repairs and expenses incurred in the year one thousand eight hundred and one, and which have been paid out of an appropriation made in the year one thousand eight hundred and two, including a deficiency for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and two, one hundred and sixty-eight thousand four hundred and thirty-nine dollars and eighty-one cents.
For salaries of superintendents of navy yards, store-keepers, and clerks, store rent, hire of labourers, &c., on account of expenses incurred in the year one thousand eight hundred and one, including a deficiency for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and two, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars and sixty-eight cents.
For navy yards, docks and wharves, eleven thousand five hundred and thirty-five dollars and twenty-eight cents.
For medicines, medical services, and hospital stores for the marine corps, on account of expenses incurred in the year one thousand eight hundred and one, including a deficiency for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and two, five hundred and ninety-six dollars and thirty-nine cents.
For marine barracks, on account of expenses incurred in the year one thousand eight hundred and one, four hundred and one dollars and ninety-three cents.
Payment to the estate of John Habersham, for naval materials.For the payment of a balance due the estate of John Habsersham, late collector at Savannah, or naval materials ascertained at the treasury, for sundry payments made by him to John H. Morel, on the same account, including a commission on the said payments at one per cent., sixteen thousand nine hundred and forty-eight dollars and thirty-seven cents.
Whence the appropriations are to be drawn.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums of money herein specifically appropriated and amounting together to the sum of one million and ninety-eight thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven dollars and forty-six cents, shall be paid first out of the sum of one hundred thousand dollars already appropriated for the naval service during the year one thousand eight hundred and three, and secondly out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 2, 1803.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
Chap. XVIII.—An Act in addition to the act, intituled “An act concerning the registering and recording of ships and vessels of the United States,” and to the act, intituled “An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage.”
Act of July 31, 1789, ch. 5.
Act of December 31, 1792, ch. 1. Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.
Penalty on forging sea letters, passports, &c. or using such.
Officers disqualified thereby.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That if any person shall knowingly make, utter, or publish any false sea letter, Mediterranean passport, or certificate of registry, or shall knowingly avail himself of any such Mediterranean passport, sea letter, or certificate of registry, he shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, to be recovered by action of debt, in the name of the United States, in any court of competent jurisdiction; and if an officer of the United States, he shall for ever thereafter be rendered incapable of holding any office of trust or profit, under the authority of the United States.
