Military stores, &c.For military stores, pay of armorers, keeping arms in repair, drums, fifes, flags, accoutrements, and ordnance stores, two thousand dollars;
Hospital near Pensacola.For erecting and furnishing a new hospital building, and for a dwelling for an assistant surgeon; for the repairs of the present building, and for all expenses upon their dependencies near Pensacola, thirty-one thousand five hundred dollars;
Hospital near Norfolk.For erecting a sea-wall to protect the shore, for enclosing the hospital grounds, for completing the basement of south wing, and for all other expenses upon the dependencies of the hospital near Norfolk, nine thousand dollars;
Naval asylum near Philada.For graduating and enclosing the grounds about the naval asylum near Philadelphia, and for all other expenses upon the building and its dependencies, two thousand six hundred dollars;
Hospital near Brooklyn.For extending the hospital building near Brooklyn, New York, for enclosing the grounds, and for all other expenses upon its dependencies, sixty thousand dollars;
Hospital near Boston.For completing the present hospital building near Boston, and for all expenses upon its dependencies, three thousand five hundred dollars;
Magazine up on Ellis’s Isl’d.For repairing the enclosure, and for the sea-wall of the magazine upon Ellis’s island, in the harbor of New York, three thousand eight hundred dollars;
Magazine, &c. at Norfolk.For repairing the magazine, filling house, wharf, and railway, at Norfolk, Virginia, seven hundred and fifty dollars;
Magazine at Pensacola.For building a wall round the magazine at Pensacola, three thousand dollars;
Naval asylum at Philada.For fixtures, furniture, and other incidental expenses at the naval asylum, at Philadelphia, being a balance carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first December last, twelve hundred and forty-one dollars and thirty-seven cents;
Appropriations for the navy.
Act of March 2, 1833, ch. 67.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That of the amount heretofore appropriated, under the act of the second of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, entitled “An act in addition to the act for the gradual improvement of the navy of the United States,” and remaining unexpended, the sum of one million five hundred thousand dollars be carried to the surplus fund; and that the sum of one million five hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, to be paid one half in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, and the other half in the year eighteen hundred and forty, for the purpose of completing contracts now existing, or which may be hereafter made, according to the provisions of the said act of the second of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three.
Approved, May 31, 1838.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
Chap. XCIII.—An Act to repeal certain provisos of “An act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports,” approved the fourteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,The proviso of the 10th and 12th clauses of the 2d section of the act of July 14, 1832, ch. 227, repealed. That the provisos of the tenth and twelfth clauses of the second section of the act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports, passed July the fourteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, be, and the same are hereby, repealed.
Approved, May 31, 1838.