Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous items and incidental expenses, seven hundred and thirty-one dollars and fifty cents;
Engineering.For the department of engineering, three hundred dollars;
Philosophy.For the department of philosophy, twelve hundred dollars;
Mathematics.For the department of mathematics, ninety-seven dollars and fifty-four cents;
Chemistry.For the department of chemistry, eight hundred and twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents;
Drawing.For the department of drawing, two hundred and eighty-five dollars;
Tactics.For the department of tactics, three hundred and sixty dollars;
Artillery.For the department of artillery, two hundred and seventy-five dollars;
Reservoir.For a reservoir, three thousand one hundred and eighteen dollars;
Fire engines, &c.For two fire-engines, with hose complete, one thousand nine hundred dollars;
Completion of buildings.For the completion of the buildings, for the library and the engineering, philosophical, and chemical departments, in addition to the appropriation of eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, sixteen thousand six hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty cents.
Payment for horses of Missouri volunteers.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That payment shall be made, under the directions of the Third Auditor, to the Missouri volunteers, whose horses were lost, or cast away at sea, or which perished or died in consequence of suffering at sea, in the voyage from New Orleans to Tampa Bay, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven; and that the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same hereby is, appropriated, to make said payments.
In cases of erroneous valuation, payment to be suspended.And when it shall appear that erroneous valuations have been made of such property with a view to defraud the Government, the Secretary of War shall suspend payment therefor until a satisfactory investigation can be made, and it shall appear that such valuation was made in good faith.
Approved, March 3, 1839.
Statute ⅠⅠⅠ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XCV.—An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine.
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-nine in addition to the unexpended balanced of former appropriations, viz:
Pay of officers and seamen.For pay of commissioned, warrants, and petty officers, and of seamen, two millions three hundred and fifty-two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars and sixty-four cents;
Pay of sup’dts &c. at yards.For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishments at the several yards, forty-four thousand dollars;
Provisions.For provisions, six hundred thousand dollars;
Repairs, &c.For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and the repairs and wear and tear of vessels in commission, one million of dollars;
Medicines, &c.For medicines and surgical instruments, hospital stores, and other expenses on account of the sick, seventy-five thousand dollars;
Portsmouth navy yard.For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, thirty thousand dollars;
Charlestown navy yard.For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Charlestown, Massachusetts, twenty-six thousand dollars;
Brooklyn navy yard.For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Brooklyn, New York, seven thousand five hundred dollars;
Philadelphia navy yard.For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, eight thousand dollars;
