Specific appropriations.For the contingent expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, fifty thousand dollars.
For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen, including the sum of twenty thousand dollars to reimburse the bankers of the United States in London, and others, sums heretofore advanced by them for this object, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For expenses of prosecuting claims and appeals in the courts of Great Britain, in relation to captures of American vessels, and defending causes elsewhere, six thousand dollars.
To enable the accounting officers of the treasury formally to pass the accounts of Timothy Pickering, late secretary for the department of state, the sum of seventy-eight thousand five hundred and eighty-three dollars and eleven cents, being the amount of former appropriations of monies received and expended by him in that department, by the application of surpluses in some articles and appropriations to others in which the appropriations were deficient.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, four thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations herein before made, shall be paid and discharged1790, ch. 34. out of the fund of six hundred thousand dollars, reserved by an act making provision for the debt of the United States, and out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, February 26, 1810.
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Chap. XIV.—An Act making appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and ten.
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 ten, the following sums be, and the same are hereby respectively appropriated, that is to say:
Specific appropriations.For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, seven hundred and eighteen thousand one hundred and fifteen dollars.
For provisions, three hundred and fifty-three thousand six hundred and ten dollars and eighty-four cents.
For medicines, instruments and hospital stores, sixteen thousand dollars.
For repairs of vessels, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For freight, store rent, commissions to agents and other contingent expenses, seventy-five thousand dollars.
For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, including provisions for those on shore and forage for the staff, one hundred and forty thousand one hundred and twenty-one dollars and forty cents.
For clothing for the same, thirty-eight thousand three hundred and ninety-four dollars and seventy cents.
For military stores for the same, one thousand three hundred and ninety-eight dollars and seventy-five cents.
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, fifteen thousand dollars.
