Specific appropriations.
1809, ch. 11.hundred and nine, the following sums, including therein the sum of four hundred thousand dollars, already appropriated by an act, intituled “An act authorizing the employment of an additional naval force,” the following sums be, and the same are hereby respectively appropriated, that is to say:
For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, one million three hundred and twenty-three thousand and seventy-seven dollars.
For provisions, five hundred and sixty-seven thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars.
For medicines, instruments and hospital stores, thirty-five thousand dollars.
For repairs of vessels, four hundred and forty-five thousand dollars.
For freight, store rent, commissions to agents, and other contingent expenses, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, including provisions for those on shore, and forage for the staff, one hundred and thirty-five thousand six hundred and forty-seven dollars and seventy cents.
For clothing for the same, thirty-two thousand nine hundred and thirty-three dollars and eighty cents.
For military stores for the same, one thousand three hundred and fifty-four dollars.
For medicines, medical services, hospital stores, and all other expenses on account of the sick belonging to the marine corps, two thousand dollars.
For quartermasters and barrack-masters’ stores, officers’ travelling expenses, armorers and carpenters’ bills, fuel, premiums for enlisting, musical instruments, bounty to music, and other contingent expenses of the marine corps, fourteen thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For the expense of navy-yards, comprising dock and other improvements, pay of superintendents, storekeepers, clerks and labourers, sixty thousand dollars.
For ordnance and small arms, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Sec. 3. 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, 1809.
