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cers, musicians, privates and servants, serving on shore, and subsistence of officers of the marine corps, one hundred and eighty-three thousand three hundred and eighty-one dollars.

Provisions.No. 25. For provisions for the non-commissioned officers, musicians, privates and servants and washerwomen, serving on shore, forty-five thousand fifty-four dollars and ninety-nine cents.

Clothing.No. 26. For clothing, forty-three thousand six hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents.

Fuel.No. 27. For fuel, sixteen thousand two hundred and seventy-four dollars and twelve cents.

Barracks.No. 28. For keeping barracks in repair, and for rent of temporary barracks at New York, six thousand dollars.

Transportation.No. 29. For transportation of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, and expenses of recruiting, eight thousand dollars.

Medicines, &c.No. 30. For medicines, hospital supplies, surgical instruments, pay of matron, and hospital stewards, four thousand one hundred and forty dollars.

Military stores, &c.No. 31. For military stores, pay of armorers, keeping arms in repair, accoutrements, ordnance stores, flags, drums, fifes and other instruments, two thousand eight hundred dollars.

Contingent expenses.No. 32. 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 judge advocates; 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, straw, barrack furniture, bed sacks, spades, axes, shovels, picks, carpenters’ tools, and for keeping a horse for the messenger, seventeen thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars.

Approved, August 4, 1842.

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Aug. 4, 1842.

Chap. CXXII.An Act to provide for the armed occupation and settlement of the unsettled part of the peninsula of East Florida.[1]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Certain persons settling in Florida entitled to a quarter section of land, on the following conditions. That any person, being the head of a family, or single man over eighteen years of age, able to bear arms, who has made, or shall, within one year from and after the passage of this act, make an actual settlement within that part of Florida situate and being south of the line dividing townships numbers nine and ten south, and east of the base line, shall be entitled to one quarter section of said land, on the following conditions and stipulations:

To obtain a permit describing the land.
Proviso.
First. That said settler shall obtain from the register of the land office, in the district in which he proposes to settle, a permit describing as particularly as may be practicable, the place where his or her settlement is intended to be made: Provided, That no person who shall be a resident of Florida at the time of the passage of this act, who shall be the owner of one hundred and sixty acres of land, at the time he proposes to settle, shall be entitled to a permit from the register.

Five years’ residence.Second. That said settler shall reside in the Territory of Florida, south of said township line, for five consecutive years, and to take his grant on any public land south of that township.

Erection of a house, &c.Third. That said settler shall erect thereon a house fit for the habitation of man, and shall clear, enclose, and cultivate at least five acres of said land, and reside thereon for the space of four years next follow-

  1. An act to amend an act entitled “An act to provide for the armed occupation and settlement of the unsettled part of the peninsula of East Florida,” June 15, 1844, chap. 71.