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of the twenty-seventh of December, seventeen hundred and eighty-two.

Approved, May 18, 1826.

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May 18, 1826.
[Obsolete.]

Chap. LXVII.An Act making further appropriation for ten sloops of war, and re-appropriating certain balances carried to the surplus fund.

Specific appropriations.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, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects following, that is to say:

For ten sloops of war.
1825, ch. 101.
For building ten sloops of war, as authorized by the act of third March, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For pay of labourers and teams employed in loading and unloading vessels, &c. &c.For pay of labourers and teams, employed in loading and unloading vessels, piling, docking, and removing timbers and stores, in the service of the navy, being the balance of the appropriation of the act of the third March, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, carried to the surplus fund, seventeen thousand six hundred and ninety-three dollars and forty-five cents.

For the inclined plane at the navy yard in Washington.
1823, ch. 32.
For the inclined plane at the navy yard in Washington, being the balance of the appropriation, by the act of the third March, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, carried to the surplus fund, ten thousand and seventeen dollars and forty-one cents.

For ship-houses.
1823, ch. 32.
For ship houses, being the balance of an appropriation, by the act of third March, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, carried to the surplus fund, forty-four thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars and fifty-two cents.

For contingent expenses of the naval service prior to 1824.
1823, ch. 32.
For contingent expenses of the naval service, prior to the year eighteen hundred and twenty-four, two thousand four hundred and fifty-eight dollars and thirty-one cents; fifty dollars whereof, being the balance of appropriation, by the act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, and carried to the surplus fund.

For pay to superintendents, naval constructors, &c.
1823, ch. 32.
For pay to the superintendents, naval constructors, store keepers, inspectors of timber, clerks of the yards, and artificers in the naval service, being the balance of appropriation, by the act of the third March, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, carried to the surplus fund, twenty-nine thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars and eighteen cents.

For the suppression of piracy.
1822, ch. 2.
For the suppression of piracy, being the balance of an appropriation, by the act of the twentieth December, eighteen hundred and twenty-two, carried to the surplus fund, three thousand seven hundred and twenty-two dollars and twenty-seven cents.

For rewarding captors of Algerine vessels as authorized by law.For rewarding captors of Algerine vessels, as authorized by law, being the balance of former appropriations, carried to the surplus fund, fourteen thousand seven hundred and thirty-one dollars and twenty-eight cents.

Approved, May 18, 1826.

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May 18, 1826.

Chap. LXXIII.An Act for authorizing the building of lighthouses and light vessels, erecting beacon lights, placing buoys, removing obstructions in the river Savannah, and for other purposes.

The Secretary of the Treasury empowered to build lighthouses, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, empowered to provide by contract for