which service, in recording the applicant’s title-papers and evidence, they shall be entitled to receive from said applicant at the rate of twenty-five cents for every hundred words.
Report of the claims, with testimony and opinions on validity of each, to be made, and laid before Congress.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the registers and receivers of the land offices, at or before the beginning of each session of Congress thereafter, to make to the Secretary of the Treasury a report of the claims which may have been presented before them, together with the testimony, accompanied by their opinions of the validity of each claim, and such other information respecting them as may be in their possession, which said report shall, by the Secretary of the Treasury, be laid before Congress as soon as practicable, with the opinion of the commissioner of the general land office, touching the validity of the respective claims.
Approved, February 6, 1835.
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Chap. XIX.—An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.
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-five, in addition to the unexpended balances of former appropriations, viz:
Pay and subsistance.For pay and subsistence of the officers of the navy and pay of seamen, one million five hundred and one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four dollars and forty-two cents.
Pay of superintendents, &c.For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishment at the several yards, sixty-one thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.
Provisions.For provisions, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Repairs.For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and the repairs and wear and tear of vessels in commission, nine hundred and seventy-four thousand dollars.
Medicines, &c.For medicines and surgical instruments, hospital stores, and other expenses on account of the sick, forty thousand dollars.
Repairs, &c. of navy yards at
Portsmouth;For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, thirty-nine thousand nine hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Charlestown;For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Charlestown, Massachusetts, ninety-nine thousand five hundred dollars.
Brooklyn;For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Brooklyn, New York, forty-six thousand one hundred and twenty dollars.
Philadelphia;For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Philadelphia, three thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.
Washington;For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Washington, ten thousand dollars.
Gosport;For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Gosport, Virginia, one hundred thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
Pensacola.For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Pensacola, forty-four thousand six hundred dollars.
Repairs, &c. at Sackett’s harbour.For repairs of building and preservation of a vessel at Sackett’s Harbour, five hundred dollars.
Ordnance, &c.For ordnance, and ordnance stores, fifteen thousand dollars.
For defraying the expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, viz:
Miscellaneous.For the freight and transportation of materials and stores of every description, for wharfage and dockage, storage and rent, travelling expenses of officers, and transportation of seamen, house-rent, chamber--