lPUBLIc-No. 24.l
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/ AN ACT making appropriation for the nava


service for the year one thousand eight hun


dred and thirty-eight


Be 1T enacted By the Seaate and House o.
Representatives. of The United Stntes of America
IN Congress assembled, That the following sums
be appropriated in addition to the unexbended
balances of former appropriations, out of any
unappropriated money in the Treasury, for the
naval service, for the year eighteen hundred and
thIrty-eight VIZ:


For the pay OF commissioned, warrant, and
petty officers, and Of Seamen, one million three
hundred and twelve thousand dollars;


For pay superintendents, naval constructors,
all the civil establishments at the several Yards
sixty-nine thousand seven hundred and seventy
dollars:


For provisions, six hundred thousand dollars


For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and repairs
and wear and tear of vessels in commission, one
million two hundred thousand dollars
For medicines and surgical instruments. hospi-
tai stores, and other expenses on account of the
sick, seventy-6ve thousand dollars;


For improvement and necessary repairs of the
navy yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire,
twenty thousand dollars


For Improvements and necessary repairs of the
navy yard at CharleStown, Massachusetts, sew
enty four thousand dollars;


For improvement and necessary repairs of the,
navy yard Brooklyn New York, sixty-une thou
sand dollars;


For improvement and necessary repairs ofthe
navy yard at Philadelphia Pennsy twenty
one thousand five hundred;


For improvement and necessary repairs ofthe
navy yard at Washington, thirty thousand dol
lars;


For improvement and necessary repairs of the
navy yard at Gosport, Virginia, seventy-seven
thousand FIVE hundred dollars.


For imnroVement and necessary re nairS oft hp
navy yard near Pensacola, seventy-six thousand
five hundred dollars;


For ordnance aud ordnance stores, sixtv.fve
thousand dollars i


For defrayingthe expenses that may accrue
for the following purposes viz: for the freight !
and transportation of mateals and stores of every
description; for wharfage and dockage; storage
and rent; travelling expenses Of officers and |
Transportation of seamen house rent for pursers
when attached TO yards and stations where no !
house is provided; for funeral expenses; for
commissions, clerk hire, Office rent, stationary
and fuel to navy agents; for premiums and in
cidentaI expenses of recruitingS; for apprehend-
ing deserters; for compensation TO Judge adVo-
Gates for per diem allowance to persons attend.
ing courts martial and courts of inquiry; for
printing and stationary of every description, and
for working the lhhogTaphic press; for books,
maps, charts. mathematical and nautical instru.
mentS, thermometers, models, and drawings
for the purchase and repair OF FIRE engines and
machinery, and for the repair of steam engines
for the purchase and maintenance of oxen and
horses, and for carts. timber wheels, and work
mems tools OF eSeTy description; for postage oil
letters on public service; for piesaee and tow.
ing ships OF war; for cabin flrnitnTe of vessels
in commission; taxes and assessments on public /
property; for assistance rendered 10 vessels in
distress for rincidental labor at navy yards, not
applicable any other appropriation; for coal