Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. XLII.—An Act making appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and six.
For defraying the expenses of the navy for the year 1806.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 six, the following sums be, and the same are hereby respectively appropriated, that is to say:
Specific appropriations.For pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, two hundred and ninety-one thousand one hundred and nineteen dollars.
For provisions, one hundred and fifty-seven thousand two hundred and fifty-four dollars and thirty-four cents.
For medicine, instruments and hospital stores, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For repairs of vessels, store rent, pay or armorers, freight and other contingent expenses, four hundred and eleven thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, including provisions for those on shore, and forage for the staff, sixty-six thousand and twenty-eight dollars and ten cents.
For clothing for the same, fourteen thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.
For military stores for the same, one thousand one hundred and thirty-five dollars.
For medicine, medical services, hospital stores, and all other expenses on account of the sick, belonging to the marine corps, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For quartermaster’s and barrack master’s stores, officers’ travelling expenses, armorer’s and carpenter’s bills, fuel, premium for enlisting, musical instruments, bounty to music, and other contingent expenses, eight thousand one hundred and forty-five dollars.
For the expense of navy yards, docks and other improvements, the pay of superintendents, store-keepers, clerks and labourers, sixty thousand dollars.
For ordnance, fifty thousand dollars.
For completing the marine barracks, at the city of Washington, three thousand five hundred 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, April 21, 1806.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. XLIII.—An Act to provide for the adjustment of titles of land in the town of Detroit and territory of Michigan, and for other purposes.[1]
A town to be laid out by the governor and judges of Michigan.
Titles to lots to be adjusted and settled by them.
Lots to be given to actual settlers of the town of Detroit when it was burnt, if they were citizens of the United States.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the governor and the judges of the territory of Michigan shall be, and they, or any three of them, are hereby authorized to lay out a town, including the whole of the old town of Detroit, and ten thousand acres adjacent, expecting such parts as the President of the United States shall direct to be reserved for the use of the military department, and shall hear, examine, and finally adjust all claims to lots therein, and give deeds for the same. And to every person, or the legal representative or representatives of every person, who not owning or professing allegiance to any foreign power, and being above the age of seventeen years, did on the eleventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and five, when the old town of Detroit was
- ↑ See notes to act of March 3, 1807, chap. 34.
