United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/21st Congress/1st Session/Chapter 32
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XXXII.—An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty.
Appropriations for naval service.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated:
Pay of officers, &c.For pay and subsistence of the officers of the navy, and pay of seamen, one million four hundred and sixty-three thousand four hundred and forty-nine dollars.
Pay of Supts., naval constructors, &c.For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishment of the several navy yards and stations, fifty-seven thousand four hundred and forty-nine dollars.
Provisions.For provisions, four hundred and fifty-seven thousand five hundred and thirty-seven dollars.
Repairs, and wear and tear.For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and the wear and tear of vessels in commission, five hundred and ninety thousand dollars.
Medicines, &c.For medicines, surgical instruments, hospital stores, and other expenses on account of the sick, thirty thousand five hundred dollars.
Ordnance, &c.For ordnance and ordnance stores, thirty thousand dollars.
Timber sheds.For timber sheds, viz: one at Portsmouth, two at Boston, two at New York, one at Washington, and three at Norfolk, at nine thousand five hundred dollars each, eighty-five thousand five hundred dollars. Timber docks.For making and repairing timber docks at Norfolk, Washington, and Boston, eighteen thousand dollars.
Wharves.For repairing and enlarging wharves at Washington and Norfolk, nineteen thousand dollars.
Repairs storehouses, &c.For repairs of storehouses at Washington, and for two building ways at Norfolk, eighteen thousand dollars.
Covering, &c.For covering and preserving ships in ordinary, forty thousand dollars.
For replacing same sum taken from fund for increase of navy.For the gradual increase of the navy, to supply a sum taken from that fund, and applied to the purchase of iron water tanks, one hundred and fifty-two thousand three hundred and eighty dollars.
Miscellaneous items.For defraying expenses that may accrue during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty, for the following purposes, viz:
For 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, chamber money, and fuel and candles to officers, other than those attached to navy yards and stations, and for officers in sick quarters, where there is no hospital, and for funeral expenses; for commissions, clerk hire, and 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 allowances for persons attending courts martial and courts of inquiry, and for officers engaged in extra service beyond the limits of their stations; for printing and stationery of every description, and for books, maps, charts, and mathematical and nautical instruments, chronometers, models, and drawings; for purchase and repair of steam and fire engines, and for machinery; for 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; for cabin furniture of vessels in commission, and for furniture of officers’ houses houses at navy yards; for taxes on navy yards and 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 for forges, foundries, and steam engines; for candles, oil, and fuel; for vessels in commission and in ordinary; for repairs of magazines and powder houses; for preparing moulds for ships to be built; and for no object or purpose whatever, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses for objects arising during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty, and not hereinbefore enumerated, five thousand dollars.
Pay, &c. of marine corps.For pay of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates, and for subsistence of officers of the marine corps, one hundred and seven thousand seven hundred and thirteen dollars.
Subsistence, &c.For subsistence for four hundred non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, and washer-women serving on shore, seventeen thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.
Arrearages.For deficiency of the appropriation for pay and subsistence during the last year, eleven thousand nine hundred and seventy-three dollars.
Clothing.For clothing, twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars.
Fuel.For fuel, nine thousand and ninety-eight dollars.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, fourteen thousand dollars.
Military stores.For military stores, six thousand dollars.
Medicines.For medicines, two thousand three hundred and sixty-nine dollars.
Officers’ quarters.For completing the officers’ quarters at the marine barracks in Washington, three thousand dollars.
Approved, March 11, 1830.