United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/22nd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 190
Chap. CXC.—An Act authorizing the construction of naval hospitals at the navy yards at Charlestown, Massachusetts, Brooklyn, New York, and Pensacola.
Naval hospitals to be constructed.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby authorized, under the direction of the President of the United States, to cause to be constructed, for the use of the navy of the United States, proper hospitals at or near each of the following places, to wit: the navy yard at Charlestown, Massachusetts, the navy yard, Brooklyn, New York, and the navy yard, Pensacola.
Appropriation.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there be, and hereby is, appropriated for the construction of such hospital at Charlestown aforesaid, twenty-six thousand dollars; at Brooklyn aforesaid, twenty thousand dollars; and at Pensacola, thirty thousand dollars; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, July 10, 1832.