ACTS OF THE TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday the second day of December, 1833, and ended on the thirtieth day of June, 1834.
Andrew Jackson, President; J. C. Calhoun, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; Andrew Stevenson, Speaker of the House of Representatives, until Monday, the second day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, and John Bell for the remainder of the session.
STATUTE Ⅰ.
Chapter I.—An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.
Appropriations for the 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-four, 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 pay of seamen, one million four hundred and eighty-seven thousand two hundred and forty-four dollars and twenty-one cents.
Superintendents, &c.For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishments at the several yards, sixty-one thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.
Provisions.For provisions, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Repairs, &c.For the repairs of vessels in ordinary, and the repairs and wear and tear of vessels in commission, five hundred and ninety thousand dollars.
Medicines, &c.For medicines and surgical instruments, hospital stores and other expenses on account of the sick, forty thousand dollars.
Navy yards at
Portsmouth;For the improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, forty thousand seven hundred dollars.
Charlestown;For the improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Charlestown, Massachusetts, eighty-six thousand three hundred dollars.
Brooklyn;For the improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Brooklyn, New York, fifty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Philadelphia;For the improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Philadelphia, six thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
Washington;For the improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Washington, twenty-nine thousand five hundred dollars.
Gosport;For the improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Gosport, Virginia, one hundred and eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Pensacola.For the improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Pensacola, twenty-six thousand dollars.
Ordnance, &c.For ordnance and ordnance stores, ten thousand dollars.