100 TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 176, 1846 mdlmrppcagplmeogt _ Fpr the improvement and repairs of the several naval hospitals, navy hospitals. VIZ- · , , . . Chelsea_ AtC/rqlsea.-—Bu1lding for a coal-house, repairing outhouses and wall in rear of main building, two thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. B,,,,,k,,,,,_ d B1: Brooklyn.-For completing small-pox hospital, ten thousand o ars. For repairs to hospital quarters, three thousand dollars. Gosport, Near Gosport. ——For fence around garden and repairs to hospital buildings, two thousand six hundred and sixty-seven dollars. Pensacola. At Pensacola.-For centre building at hospital and galleries to connect buildings, seven thousand four hundred and nine dollars and fifty cents. For engine-house, five hundred and ten dollars. For repairs of hospital quarters, three thousand dollars. For magazines, viz.: At Charlestown, one hundred and fifty dollars. At Brooklyn, two hundred dollars. At Washington, one hundred and fifty dollars. At Gosport, three hundred dollars. Marine cor-ps, Marine C0rps.——For pay of officers, non-commissioned oi-I-ioers, Pay and sub- musicians, privates, and servants, serving on shore, and subsistence 'l“°“°°- of officers, two hundred thousand seven hundred and seventy-one P . dollars: Provided, That no payment shall hereafter be made to the l'0VlS0. . . . . colonel, or any other officer of said corps, by virtue of a commission of brigadier-general by brevet. Clothing_ For clothing, forty-six thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents. Provisions. For provisions, forty-five thousand seventy dollars and twenty cents. Military stores, For military stores, repair of arms, pay of armorers, accoutrements, 22m' °*` ‘“mS> ordnance stores, flags, drums, lifes, and musical instruments, two ' thousand three hundred dollars. Tmngpm-m_ti(m_ For tl°illlSPOI`ia.i.`iOD of OmCCI'S Blld tI'O0pS, and for GXPGDSSS of ]`C· cruiting, eight thousand dollars. Barracks. For repair of barracks and rent of temporary barracks, six thousand dollars. Contingencies. For contingencies, viz.: freight, ferriage, toll, wharfage and cartage ; compensation to judge advocates; per diem for attending courtsmartial and courts of inquiry; per diem to enlisted men on constant labor; house rent where no public quarters are assigned; the burial of deceased mariners; printing, stationery, forage, postages, andthe pursuit of deserters; candles and oil; straw, barrack furniture, bed sacks; spades, axes, shovels, picks, carpenters' tools, and keeping a. lgofpe for the messenger, seventeen thousand nine hundred and eighty 0 ars. Number ,_,,·,,m_ Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the cern and men to Secretary of the Navy, on the conclusion of the existing war with ggnciighssgf tg; Mexico, to reduce the number of petty onicers, seamen, ordinary seawu, men, landsmen, and boys, herein provided for, to seven thousand five hundred. Ex,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,-0,. Sec. 3. And be it furthpr enacted, That it shall be the duty of the navy_ yard the Secretary of the Navy, m the expenditure of the appropriations
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struction of a ropewalk. Bgpgirg, gm. · $12.0. 4. And be it further enacted, That of the money appropriated f::,:!:;::, 3*:: m this act for " pay of the navy," and " contingent expenses enume- Fon s9,,,,Z,,_ rated," an amount not exceeding twenty-eight thousand and tW0 Post,;. 173, hundred dollars may be expended, under the direction of the Secretary
