United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/16th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 25
Chap. XXV.—An Act making appropriations for the support of the navy of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Appropriations.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for defraying the expenses of the navy, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively appropriated.
Pay of officers and pay of seamen.For pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, nine hundred and eighty-nine thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.
Provisions.For provisions, four hundred and fifteen thousand one hundred and eighty-seven dollars.
Medicines, hospital stores, &c.For medicines, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of the sick, including the marine corps, thirty-six thousand dollars.
Repairs of vessels.For repairs of vessels, four hundred and eighty-four thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses.For store rent, freight, transportation, enlistment of seamen, and all other contingent expenses, two hundred and forty thousand dollars.
Repairs of navy yards.For improvement of navy yards, docks, and wharves, pay of superintendents, storekeepers, clerks, and labourers, one hundred thousand dollars.
Contracts for shells and shot.For payment of contracts made for shells and shot, and for military stores, fifty thousand dollars.
Marine corps.For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, one hundred and seventy-seven thousand two hundred and twenty-eight dollars.
Clothing.For clothing the same, twenty-seven thousand two hundred and five dollars.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of the same, twenty thousand dollars.
Military stores.For military stores, one thousand dollars. To be paid out of the treasury.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations herein before made, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 17, 1820.