and incidental expenses of recruiting; for apprehending deserters; for compensation to judges advocate; for per diem allowance to persons attending courts-martial and courts of inquiry, or other services authorized by law; for printing and stationery of every description, and for working the lithographic press; for books, maps, charts, mathematical and nautical instruments, chronometers, models, and drawings; for the purchase and repair of fire engines and machinery; for the repair of steam engines in navy yards; for the purchase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and for carts, timber wheels, and workmen’s tools of every description; for postage of letters on public service; for pilotage and towing ships of war; for taxes and assessments on public property; for assistance rendered to vessels in distress; for incidental labor at navy yards, not applicable to any other appropriation; for coal and other fuel, and for candles and oil, for the use of navy yards and shore stations, and for no other object or purpose whatever, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars;
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses for objects not hereinbefore enumerated, three thousand dollars;
Hospital at Charlestown.For necessary repairs of the hospital building at Charlestown, Massachusetts, one thousand five hundred dollars;
Brooklyn.For necessary repairs of the hospital building at Brooklyn, New York, three thousand dollars;
Pensacola.For necessary repairs of the hospital building at Pensacola, Florida, one thousand five hundred dollars;
Pay of marine corps, &c.For pay of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, privates, and servants serving on shore, and subsistence of officers of the marine corps, one hundred and seventy-six thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven dollars;
Provisions.For provisions for the non-commissioned officers, musicians, privates, and servants and washerwomen serving on shore, forty-five thousand and fifty-four dollars;
Clothing.For clothing, forty-three thousand six hundred and sixty-two dollars;
Fuel.For fuel, sixteen thousand two hundred and seventy-four dollars;
Barracks.For keeping barracks in repair, and for rent of temporary barracks, at New York, six thousand dollars;
Transportation.For transportation of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, and expenses of recruiting, eight thousand dollars;
Medicines, &c.For medicines, hospital supplies, surgical instruments, pay of matron and hospital stewards, four thousand one hundred and forty dollars;
Military stores, &c.For military stores, pay or armorers, keeping arms in repair, accoutrements, ordnance stores, flags, drums, fifes, and other instruments, two thousand three hundred dollars;
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of said corps, viz: for freight, ferriage, toll, wharfage, and cartage; for per diem allowance for attending courts-martial and courts of inquiry, compensation to judges-advocate, house rent where there are no public quarters assigned, per diem allowance to enlisted men on constant labor, expenses of burying deceased marines, printing, stationery, forage, postage on public letters, expenses in pursuit of deserters, candles and oil, star, barrack-furniture, bed-sacks, spades, axes, shovels, picks, carpenter’s tools, and for keeping a horse for the messenger, seventeen thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars;
Lt. Hunter’s invention.For the purpose of making a satisfactory experiment of Lieutenant Hunter’s invention to proper war steamers by horizontal wheels that will be safe from the balls of an enemy, one thousand dollars;
Collections of exploring expedition.For defraying the expense of transporting to the city of Washington and arranging and preserving the collections made by the exploring expedition, five thousand dollars.
Approved, March 3, 1841.