United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/7th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 43
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Chap. XLIII.—An Act making an appropriation for the support of the Navy of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and two.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums, including any sum which may have been, or might be expended during the present year, by virtue of any former appropriation, be, and the same are hereby respectively appropriated, to defray the expenses of the navy of the United States during the year one thousand eight hundred and two; that is to say:
Specific appropriations.For the pay and subsistence of the officers, the pay of the seamen, provisions and repairs, five hundred and eight thousand two hundred and twenty-six dollars.
For medicines, instruments, and hospital stores, ten thousand dollars.
For the purchase of ordnance and other military stores, twenty thousand dollars.
Specific appropriations.For salaries of superintendents of navy yards, storekeepers and clerks, store-rent, hire of labourers, &c. twelve thousand dollars.
For the purchase and expense of transportation of timber, and other materials, including ordnance for the seventy-four gun ships, one hundred and ninety thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For the improvement of navy yards, docks and wharves, fifty thousand dollars.
For contingencies, ten thousand dollars.
For the pay and subsistence, including provisions for those on shore, and forage for the staff of the marine corps, seventy-one thousand seven hundred and fifty-four dollars and forty cents.
For clothing for the same, fifteen thousand five hundred and nineteen dollars.
For military stores for the same, one thousand two hundred and twenty-four dollars and sixty cents.
For the quartermaster’s department, comprising quarters for the officers, and barracks for the men at different stations, fuel, stationery, camp utensils, &c. seven thousand and sixty-one dollars.
For medicine, medical services, and hospital stores, one thousand dollars.
For officers’ travelling expenses, armourer’s and carpenter’s bills, and other contingent expenses, two thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That so much of the said several sums of money, herein before specifically appropriated, and amounting together to the sum of nine hundred thousand dollars, as shall not have been expended by virtue of any former appropriation, shall be paid, first, out of any balance remaining unexpended of former appropriations for the support of the navy;—and secondly, out of any monies in the treasury of the United States, not otherwise appropriated by law.
Approved, May 1, 1802.