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Philadelphia navy yard.For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, twenty-one thousand five hundred dollars;

Washington navy yard.For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Washington, thirty thousand dollars;

Gosport navy yard.For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Gosport, Virginia, seventy-seven thousand five hundred dollars;

Pensacola navy yard.For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard near Pensacola, seventy-six thousand five hundred dollars;

Ordnance, &c.For ordnance and ordnance stores, sixty-five thousand dollars;

Miscellaneous expenses.For defraying the expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, viz; 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 for pursers when attached to yards and stations where no house is provided; for funeral expenses; for commissions, clerk hire, office rent, stationery, and fuel to navy agents; for premiums and incidental expenses of recruiting; for apprehending deserters; for compensation to judge advocates; for per diem allowance to persons attending courts martial and courts of inquiry; for printing and stationery of every description, and for working the lithographic press; for books, maps, charts, mathematical and nautical instruments, chronometers, models, and drawings; for the purchase and repair of fire engines and machinery, and for the repair of steam engines; for the purchase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and for carts, timber wheels, and workmen’s tools of every description; for postage of letters on public service; for pilotage and towing ships of war; for cabin furniture of vessels in commission; taxes and assessments on public property; for assistance rendered to vessels in distress; for incidental labour at navy yards, not applicable to any other appropriation; for coal and other fuel, and for candles and oil; for repairs of magazines or powder-houses; for preparing moulds for ships to be built, and for no other purpose whatever, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars;

Contignent expenses.For contingent expenses for objects not hereinbefore enumerated, three thousand dollars;

Pay, &c. of the marine corps.For pay of the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, and subsistence of the officers of the marine corps, one hundred and sixty-two thousand and nineteen dollars;

Provisions for non-commissioned officers, &c. serving on shore.For provisions for the non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates serving on shore, servants and washerwomen, forty-nine thousand eight hundred and forty dollars;

Clothing.For clothing, forty-three thousand six hundred and ninety-five dollars;

Fuel.For fuel, fifteen thousand eight hundred and four dollars;

Repair of barracks, &c.For keeping the present barracks in repair until new ones can be erected, and for the rent of temporary barracks at New York, ten thousand dollars;

Transportation.For transportation of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, and expenses of recruiting, six thousand dollars;

Medicines, &c.For medicines, hospital stores, surgical instruments, and pay of matron, four thousand one hundred and thirty-nine dollars;

Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of said corps, freight, ferriage, toll, wharfage, and cartage, per diem allowance for attending courts of inquiry, compensation to judge advocates, house rent where there are no public quarters assigned, incidental labour in the quartermaster’s department, expenses of burying deceased persons belonging to the marine corps, printing, stationery, forage, postage on public letters, expenses in pursuing deserters, candles and oil for the different stations, straw for the men, barrack furniture, bed sacks, spades, axes, shovels, picks, and carptenters’ tools, seventeen thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven dollars and ninety-three cents;