yards at Charlestown, Gosport, and Pensacola, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Repair of tracks.For repair of barracks near Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and for repairs at other stations, eight thousand nine hundred dollars.
Transportation of officers, recruiting, &c.For transportation of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, and expenses of recruiting, six thousand dollars.
Medicines, hospital stores, &c.For medicines, hospital stores, surgical instruments, and pay of matron, four thousand one hundred and thirty-nine dollars and twenty-nine cents.
Military stores, armorers, &c.For military stores, pay of armorers, keeping arms in repair, drums, fifes, accoutrements, and ordnance stores, two thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of said corps, seventeen thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven dollars and ninety-three cents.
Services in the coast survey for 1830, and prior thereto.For arrearages for defraying the extra services and expenses of the officers of the navy engaged in the survey of the coasts and harbors of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty, and prior thereto, being the amount appropriated in eighteen [hundred] and thirty-four, for the same object, but by that act made applicable only to arrearages for the year eighteen hundred and thirty, fifteen thousand dollars.
To enable the President to send out an exploring expedition to the south seas, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States, be, and he hereby is authorized, to send out a surveying and exploring expedition to the Pacific ocean and [the] South seas, and for that purpose employ a sloop of war, and to purchase or provide such other smaller vessels as may be necessary and proper to render the said expedition efficient and useful, and for this purpose the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and in addition thereto, if necessary, the President of the United States is authorized to use other means in the control of the Navy Department, not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the objects required.
Approved, May 14, 1836.
Statute Ⅰ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. LXII.—An Act making appropriations for the support of the army, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.
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 the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, that is to say:
Pay of the army.For the pay of the army, nine hundred and eighty-eight thousand three hundred and seventeen dollars.
Subsistence of officers.For forage of officers’ horses, sixty thousand one hundred and thirty-nine dollars.
Clothing officers’ servants.For clothing for officers’ servants, twenty-four thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars.
Discharged soldiers.For payments in lieu of clothing to discharged soldiers, thirty thousand dollars.
Subsistence.For subsistence, exclusive of that of officers, four hundred and ninety-five thousand four hundred dollars.
Clothing, &c.For clothing of the army, camp and garrison equipage, cooking utensils, hospital furniture, two hundred and two thousand nine hundred and eighty-two dollars.
Medical and hospital department.For the medical and hospital department, thirty-one thousand five hundred dollars.