For the department of artillery, two hundred and seventy- 1832. five dollars; Artillery. For a reservoir, three thousand one hundred and eighteen Reservoir. dollars; For two fire-engines, with hose complete, one thousand nine Fire-engines, hundred dollars; &c. buildings. For the completion of the buildings, for the library and the Completion of engineering, philosophical, and chemical departments, in addition to the appropriation of eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, sixteen thousand six hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty cents. Payment to be made under di rection of 3d Au ditor to Missouri volunteers, whose horses SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That payment shall be made,under the directions of the Third Auditor, to the Missouri volunteers, whose horses were lost, or cast away at sea, or which perished or died in consequence of suffering at sea, in the voyage were lost in the from New Orleans to Tampa Bay, in the year eighteen hundred voyage from N. and thirty-seven; and that the sum of thirty-five thousand dol- pa Bay, in 1837. lars, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. priated, be, and the same hereby is, appropriated, to make said payments. Orleans to Tam $35,000 appro roneous valua shall And when it shall appear that erroneous valuations have been In cases of ermade of such property with a view to defraud the Government, tion, Sec. War the Secretary of War shall suspend payment therefor until a suspend satisfactory investigation can be made, and it shall be made to &c. appear that such valuation was made in good faith. Approved, March 3d, 1839. payment, until, CHAP. 95. An ACT making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be appropriated for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine in addition to the unexpended balances of former appropriations, viz: and seamen. For pay of commissioned, warrant, and petty officers, and of Pay of officers seamen, two millions three hundred and fifty-two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars and sixty-four cents; &c. at yards. For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the Pay of supdts. civil establishments at the several yards, forty-four thousand dollars; For provisions, six hundred thousand dollars; For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and the repairs and wear and tear of vessels in commission, one million of dollars; For medicines and surgical instruments, hospital stores, and other expenses on account of the sick, seventy-five thousand dollars; Provisions. Repairs, &o. Medicines, &c For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Portsmouth Portsmouth, New Hampshire, thirty thousand dollars; navy yard. 1839. navy yard. Brooklyn navy yard. Philadelphia navy yard. Washington navy yard. Gosport navy yard. Pensacola na vy yard. Ordnance, &c. Miscellaneous expenses. Contingent expenses. Pay of marine corps, and subsistence of offcers. For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at For the improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Gosport, Virginia, sixty-four thousand dollars; For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard near Pensacola, twenty-five thousand dollars; For ordnance and ordnance stores, sixty-five thousand dol lars : For defraying the expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, viz: for the freight and transportation of materials and stores of every description; for wharfage and dockage; storage and rent; travelling expenses of officers and transportation of seamen; house-rent for pursers when attached to yards and stations where no house is provided; for funeral expenses; for commissious, clerk-hire, office-rent, stationary, and fuel to navy agents; for premiums and incidental expenses of recruiting; for apprehending deserters; for compensation to judge advocates; for per diem allowance to persons attending courtsmartial and courts of inquiry; for printing and stationary of every description, and for working the lithographic press; and for books, maps, charts, mathematical and nautical instruments, chronometers, models, and drawings; for the purchase and repair of fire-engines and machinery, and 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 appli cable to any other appropriation; for coal and other fuel, and for candles and oil for the use of navy yards and shore stations; for repairs of magazines or powder-houses; and for no other purpose whatever, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars; For contingent expenses for objects not hereinbefore enumerated, three thousand dollars; For pay of the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, and subsistence of the officers of the marine corps, one hundred and seventy-four thousand three hundred dollars; For the provisions of the non-commissioned officers, musi sioned officers, cians, and privates serving on shore, servants and washer women, &c. serving on forty-five thousand and fifty dollars; Provisions for non-commis shore. (lothing. For clothing, forty-three thousand six hundred and sixty dollars; For fuel, sixteen thousand two hundred and seventy dollars; be erected, and for the rent of temporary barracks at New York, 1839. ten thousand dollars; For the transportation of officers, non-commissioned officers, Transportation. musicians and privates, and expenses of recruiting, six thousand dollars; penses. For medicines, hospital stores, surgical instruments, and pay Medicines, &c. of matron, four thousand one hundred and thirty-nine dollars; For contingent expenses of said corps, freight, ferriage, toll, Contingent exwharfage, and cartage, per diem allowance for attending courts of inquiry, compensation to judge advocates, house rent where there are no public quarters assigned, incidental labor in the quartermaster's department, expenses of burying deceased persons belonging to the marine corps, printing, stationary, forage, postage on public letters, expenses in pursuing deserters, candles and oil for the different stations, straw for the men, barrack furniture, bed-sacks, spades, axes, shovels, picks, and carpenter's tools, seventeen thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven dollars; &c. For military stores, pay of armorers, keeping arms in repair, Military stores, drums, fifes, flags, accoutrements, and ordnance stores, two thousand dollars; For completing the hospital at New York, twenty thousand dollars; For conveying Schuylkill water to the naval asylum at Philadelphia, and for all necessary repairs, nine thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars; Hospital New York. at Naval asylum at Philadelphia. For current expenses of the hospital and its dependencies Hospital near near Norfolk, one thousand five hundred dollars; Norfolk. Pensacola. at der direction of and to com struction of sels of war, or to one, as in the President shall public interest, For completing the hospital buildings at Pensacola, and build-Hospital ing a wharf for landing the sick, four thousand dollars; SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty, Sec. Navy unof the Secretary of the Navy, under the direction of the Presi- Prest. to make dent, to make preparations for, and to commence, the construc- preparations for tion of three steam vessels of war, on such models as shall be mence, the conmost approved, according to the best advices they can obtain, or three steam vesto complete the construction of one such vessel of war, upon a complete the model so approved, as in the opinion of the President shall be construction of best for the public interest, and most conformable to the demands opinion of the of the public service; and that to enable the Department to carry be best for the into effect this requirement, a part of the sum already appropri- and most conated for the gradual improvement of the navy, equal to the sum formable to the of three hundred and thirty thousand dollars, shall be, and is public service. hereby, directed to be subject to the disposition of the Department for this object, in case that amount can be diverted from that appropriation without a violation of existing contracts, and if that cannot be done consistently with the rights of contractors and the public interests, then so much of the said sum of three hundred and thirty thousand dollars as can be so diverted to this object, from the appropriation referred to, shall be subject to the disposition of the Secretary of the Navy for this purpose, and the residue of the said sum of three hundred and thirty thousand dollars shall be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, and shall be demands of the dition to any 1839. paid, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropri $330.000 ap- ated: and the said sum of three hundred and thirty thousand dollars, propriated in ad- to be expended in the manner in this section prescribed, shall be material now on in addition to any materials now on hand, applicable to the conto the construc- struction of the said steam vessels of war. tion of said steam vessels. hand, applicable Approved, March 3d, 1839. pay the legal deceased,$7,000, CHAP. 96 An ACT for the relief of the legal representatives of Michael Fenwick, deceased. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as Sec. Treas. to sembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to the legal representatives representatives of Michael Fenwick, deceased, the sum of seven of M. Fenwick, thousand dollars, out of any money in the Treasury not otherin full satisfac wise appropriated, in full satisfaction for buildings (other destroyed than the dwelling-house) destroyed by the enemy, on the estate by the enemy of the said deceased, during the late war with Great Britain, in consequence of the occupation of the said buildings by the troops of the United States. Approved, March 3d, 1839. tion for build presentatives of lary of a charge, CHAP. 97. An ACT for the settlement of the accounts of Edmund Roberts late plomatic agent of the United States to Cochin China, Muscat and Siam. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as The legal resembled, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be E. Roberts to be authorized to allow to the legal representatives of the late Edmund allowed the sa- Roberts the salary of a charge d'affaires, without the outfit, without the out during the time he was employed as diplomatic agent of the time he was em- United States under his appointment of January twenty-seventa, appointment of eighteen hundred and thirty-two deducting the per diem allow 27th Jan. 1832, ance already paid, and that the same be paid out of any money per diem allow- in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, which shall be paid in full of all demands. Approved, March 3d, 1839. fit, during the ployed under his deducting the ance already paid. Wm. Tudor, jr. CHAP. 98. An ACT for the relief of the legal representatives of William Tudar junior. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as The legal re- sembled, That there be allowed and paid, out of any moneys in presentatives of the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the legal represento be allowed tatives of William Tudor, junior, compensation for his services as for his services informal diplomatic agent of the United States in Peru, from the plomatic agent twenty-seventh of March, one thousand eight hundred and twen in Peru, at same ty-four, to the tenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and lowed him for twenty-five, at the same rate per annum as was allowed and paid compensation as informal di rate as was al to said William Tudor, junior, for like services at a subsequent 1839. like services at a subsequent period. CHAP. 99. An ACT for the relief of William S. Colquhoun. $687 50 for his part. of Commis. [SEC. 1.] 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 is hereby au- W. S. Colquthorized and required to pay to William S. Colquhoun, six hour to be paid hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents, out of any services in demoney in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated; the same sary General of being in full discharge of all that is due to the said William S. Col-supplies. quhoun, for all the services rendered by him in the department of the Commissary General of supplies, from the tenth day of December, in the year eighteen hundred and nineteen, to the twenty-seventh day of July, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-one. Approved, March 3d, 1839. CHAP. 100. An ACT for the relief of certain officers of the Florida militia. Officers and non-commis. 2d regt. 2d brig. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War cause the officers and noncommissioned officers of the second regiment of the second brigade sioned officers of of Florida militia, ordered into the service of the United States Florida militia, by General J. M. Hernandez, in the year eighteen hundred and ordered into serthirty-five, to be paid according to their respective ranks, for the Gen. J. M. Hertime they were in the service, deducting such payments as may to be paid accordheretofore have been made to any of them on account of ing to their re services rendered at that time or under the order by which they for the time they were originally called out. Approved, March 3d, 1839. vice U. S. by nandez, in 1835, spective ranks, were in service, deducting any payments heretofore made. CHAP. 101. An ACT for the relief of Peter Bargy, junior. paid $5,645 04 ed under his contract with [SEC. 1.] 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 pay to Peter Bar- P. Bargy to be gy, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropri- for loss sustainated, the sum of five thousand six hundred forty-five dollars and four cents, for the loss sustained by him in the necessary perform- the Government ance of his contract, made with the Government in August, adamizing eighteen hundred and thirty-two, for Macadamizing a large por-sylvania portion of Penntion of the Pennsylvania avenue, in the city of Washington; nue, in Washwhich loss was not occasioned by any neglect on the part of said contractor, but by events beyond his control. in 1832, for Mac ington. a ave Bargy not to receive SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Bargy shall Said not receive any benefit from this act, until he shall have fur- any benefit from nished evidence to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Trea- &c. |