Gosport, Vir

ginia.

Pensacola.

Wharves, &c.

Powder magazine.

Brick wall.

Ordnance and

stores.

Various con

tingent expen

For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Gosport, Virginia, one hundred and sixty-seven thousand dollars.

For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Pensacola, forty-nine thousand dollars.

For wharves and their appendages at the navy yard at Pensacola, as recommended by the Secretary of the Navy, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For powder magazine, seventeen thousand dollars.

For wall or enclosure of brick three yards high, and a half yard thick, as recommended by Commodore Dallas, twenty-four thousand dollars.

For ordnance and ordnance stores, sixty-four thousand nine hundred dollars.

For defraying the expenses that may accrue for the following purses enumerated. poses, 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 commissions, clerk hire, office rent, stationery 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 courts martial and courts of inquiry; for printing and stationery of every description, and 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; 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 cabin furniture for vessels in commission; 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 repairs of magazines or powder-houses; for preparing moulds for ships to be built; and for no other purpose whatever, three hundred and twenty-one thousand six hundred dollars.

Contingent expenses not enumerated.

Steam vessel building at Brooklyn. Completing navy hospitals

near New York

and Boston, &c.

Powder magazines, &c.

Pay of marine

corps.

Pay of marine corps, &c. on shore.

Clothing.
Fuel.

Sites for barracks, &c.

For contingent expenses for objects not hereinbefore enumerated, three thousand dollars.

For completing the steam vessel now building at the navy yard at Brooklyn, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For completing the navy hospitals near New York and Boston, regulating the grounds, making the necessary enclosures, repairing the naval asylum and all other hospitals, and the buildings wharves, and landings connected with them, and for preparing suitable burying grounds, fortyfive thousand four hundred and ten dollars.

For completing the powder magazines near New York and Boston, with the landings, enclosures, and dependencies, nineteen thousand two hundred dollars.

For pay of the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, and for subsistence of the officers of the marine corps, one hundred and sixty-three thousand seventy-seven dollars and twenty-five

cents.

For provisions for non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates of said corps, serving on shore, and for servants and washerwomen, thirty-three thousand five hundred and seventeen dollars and seventy

two cents.

For clothing, thirty-eight thousand six hundred and fifty-five dollars.
For fuel, fourteen thousand five hundred and eighty-nine dollars.
For the purchase of sites and the erection of barracks near the navy

yards at Charlestown, Gosport, and Pensacola, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Repair of barracks.

For repair of barracks near Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and for repairs at other stations, eight thousand nine hundred dollars. For transportation of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, and expenses of recruiting, six thousand dollars. For medicines, hospital stores, surgical instruments, and pay of matron, four thousand one hundred and thirty-nine dollars and twenty- hospital stores,

nine cents.

For military stores, pay of armorers, keeping arms in repair, drums, fifes, flags, accoutrements, and ordnance stores, two thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of said corps, seventeen thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven dollars and ninety-three cents.

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 thirtyfour, for the same object, but by that act made applicable only to arrearages for the year eighteen hundred and thirty, fifteen hundred dollars. 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 to 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.

Transportation of officers, recruiting, &c. Medicines,

&c.

CHAP. LXII.—An Act making appropriations for the support of the army, for the May 14, 1836. 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:

For the pay of the army, nine hundred and eighty-eight thousand three hundred and seventeen dollars.

For subsistence of officers, three hundred and fifteen thousand one hundred and eighteen dollars.

For forage of officers' horses, sixty thousand one hundred and thirtynine dollars.

For clothing for officers' servants, twenty-four thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars.

For payments in lieu of clothing to discharged soldiers, thirty thousand dollars.

For subsistence, exclusive of that of officers, four hundred and ninetyfive thousand four hundred dollars.

For clothing of the army, camp and garrison equipage, cooking utensils, hospital furniture, two hundred and two thousand nine hundred and eighty-two dollars.

For the medical and hospital department, thirty-one thousand five hundred dollars.

[Obsolete.]

Pay of the army.

Subsistence of officers.

Forage. Clothing officers' servants.

Discharged soldiers.

Subsistence.

Clothing, &c.

Medical and hospital depart

ment.

Expenses of Quarter-master's department.

Transporta

tion of officers' baggage.

For transportation of clothing, &c.

Contingencies.
Recruiting,

&c.

Arrearages.

For removal of troops and building a fort.

Barracks at

Key West, &c.
Hospitals, &c.

For various expenses in the quartermaster's department, viz: fuel, forage, straw, stationery, blanks, and printing; repairing and enlarging barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hospitals, at the various posts; erecting temporary cantonments at such posts as shall be occupied during the year, including huts for the dragoons, and gun-houses at the Atlantic posts, and those on the Gulf of Mexico, with the necessary tools and materials; providing materials for the authorized furniture of the rooms of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; rent of quarters, barracks and storehouses, and of grounds for summer cantonments and encampments, including a farm at Fort Monroe for military practice; postage on public letters and packets; expenses of courts martial and courts of inquiry, including the compensation of judge advocates, members, and witnesses; extra pay to soldiers under an act of Congress of the second of March, eighteen hundred and nineteen; expenses of expresses from the frontier posts; of escorts to paymasters; hire of laborers; compensation to extra clerks in the offices of the quartermaster and assistants, at posts where their duties cannot be performed without such aid, and to temporary agents in charge of dismantled works and in the performance of other duties; coffins and other articles necessary at the interment of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; and purchase of horses, and various other expenditures necessary to keep the regiment of dragoons complete, three hundred and thirty-two thousand dollars.

For the allowance made to the officers for the transportation of their baggage when travelling on duty without troops, fifty thousand dollars.

For transportation of clothing from the depot at Philadelphia, to the stations of the troops; of subsistence from the places of purchase and points of delivery, under contracts, to the posts where they are required to be used; of ordnance from the foundries and arsenals to the frontier posts and the fortifications and lead from the western mines to the several arsenals; and of the army, including officers when removing with troops, either by land or water; freight and ferriages; purchase or hire of horses, oxen, mules, carts, wagons, and boats for transportation of troops and supplies, and for garrison purposes; drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay department; the expense of sailing a public transport between the several posts on the Gulf of Mexico, and procuring water at such posts as from their situation require it, the sum of one hundred and forty-eight thousand dollars.

For contingencies of the army, three thousand dollars.

For two months' extra pay to re-enlisted soldiers, and for the contingent expenses of the recruiting service, in addition to the sum of twenty thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars and sixty-three cents, being an unexpended appropriation for bounties and premiums, ten thousand five hundred and sixty-four dollars and forty-four cents.

For arrearages prior to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, payable through the office of the Third Auditor, in addition to an unexpended balance of two thousand one hundred and sixty-six dollars and thirty-one cents, three thousand dollars.

For enabling the Secretary of War, under the direction of the President of the United States, to remove the troops from Fort Gibson to some eligible point on or near the western frontier line of Arkansas, and to cause a fort to be built upon the point so selected, for the accommodation of the troops of the United States, and for the better defence of the Arkansas frontier, the sum of fifty thousand dollars.

For completing the barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hospital, at Key West, in the Territory of Florida, ten thousand dollars.

For hospitals at the various military posts at which they may be required by the proper officers of the medical department, where there are not proper accommodations for the sick, and which may be author

ized by the Secretary of War to be erected, one hundred thousand dollars.

For the national armories, three hundred and thirty thousand dollars. For the armament of the fortifications, two hundred thousand dollars. For the current expenses of the ordnance service, seventy-five thousand six hundred and seventy dollars.

For the purchase of gunpowder, one hundred thousand dollars. For arsenals, two hundred and thirty-one thousand five hundred and two dollars.

For supplying the arsenals with certain ordnance stores, one hundred and eighty-eight thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars.

For the purchase of cannon balls, twenty-nine thousand four hundred and eighty-eight dollars.

For completing the Medal, heretofore ordered by Congress, for General Ripley, three hundred dollars. APPROVED, May 14, 1836.

National ar

mories.

Fortification. Ordnance service.

Gunpowder.
Arsenals.

Supplying arsenals.

Cannon balls.

Medal to Ge

neral Ripley.

STATUTE I.

CHAP. LXXVI.—An Act to give effect to patents for public lands issued in the May 20, 1836. names of deceased persons.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in all cases where patents for public lands have been or may hereafter be issued, in pursuance of any law of the United States, to a person who had died, or who shall hereafter die, before the date of such patent, the title to the land designated therein shall enure to, and become vested in, the heirs, devisees, or assignees of such deceased patentee, as if the patent had issued to the deceased person during life; and the provisions of this act shall be construed to extend to patents for lands within the Virginia Military District in the State of Ohio. APPROVED, May 20, 1836.

Patents for

public lands to issue to heirs, devisees, and assignees.

STATUTE I.

CHAP. LXXVII.-An Act explanatory of the act entitled "An act to prevent defal- May 20, 1836. cations on the part of the disbursing agents of the Government, and for other purposes."

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, the act entitled "An act to prevent defalcations on the part of the disbursing agents of the Government, and for other purposes," approved the twenty-fifth of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, shall not be construed to authorize the pension of any pensioner of the United States to be withheld.

APPROVED, May 20, 1836.

Act of Jan.

1828, ch. 2, not to apply to pen

sions.

STATUTE I.

CHAP. LXXIX.-An Act for the relief of the several corporate cities of the District May 20, 1836.

of Columbia.

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 be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to assume, on behalf of the United States, and discharge, to the holders of the evidences of debt contracted and entered into between the cities of Washington, Alexandria, and Georgetown, and certain individuals in Holland, negotiated by Richard Rush, Esquire, on behalf of said corporate bodies, the entire obligation of paying said debts, with the accruing interest thereon, together with the interest now due and remaining unpaid, according to the terms of said contract.

stock with the

Treasurer of the United States, &c.

Corporations SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That before the said Secretary of to deposite the the Treasury, shall execute the duties prescribed by the first section of this act, the said corporate authorities of said cities shall deposite in the hands of the said Secretary of the Treasury, the stock in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, held by them respectively; and the said Secretary of the Treasury may, at such time within ten years, as may be most favorable for the sale of said stock, dispose thereof at public sale, and reimburse to the United States such sums as may have been paid under the provisions of this act; and if any surplus remain after said reimbursement, he shall pay over said surplus to said cities, in proportion to the amount of stock now held by them respectively. APPROVED, May 20, 1836.

STATUTE I.

May 23, 1836. [Expired.]

President

may accept the

services of ten

thousand volunteers, &c.

To do military duty, &c.

To be receiv

CHAP. LXXX.-An Act authorizing the President of the United States to accept the service of volunteers, and to raise an additional regiment of dragoons or mounted riflemen.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is authorized to accept volunteers who may offer their services either as infantry or cavalry not exceeding ten thousand men, to serve six or twelve months after they shall have arrived at the place of rendezvous, unless sooner discharged; and the said volunteers shall furnish their own clothes, and, if cavalry, their own horses, and when mustered into service, shall be armed and equipped at the expense of the United States.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said volunteers shall be liable to be called upon to do military duty only in cases of Indian hostilities, or to repel invasions, whenever the President shall judge proper, and when called into actual service and while remaining therein, shall be subject to the rules and articles of war, and shall be in all respects, except as to clothing, placed on the same footing with similar corps of the United States army, and in lieu of clothing every non-commissioned officer and private, in any company, who may thus offer themselves, shall be entitled, when called into actual service, to receive in money a sum equal to the cost of the clothing of a non-commissioned officer or private (as the case may be) in the regular troops of the United States. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said volunteers, so offered in compa- ing their services, shall be accepted by the President in companies, battalions, squadrons, regiments, brigades, or divisions, whose officers shall be appointed in the manner prescribed by law in the several States and Territories, to which such companies, battalions, squadrons, regiments, brigades, or divisions, shall respectively belong. Provided, That, where any company, battalion, squadron, regiment, brigade, or division, of militia, already organized, shall tender their voluntary service to the United States, such company, battalion, squadron, regiment, brigade, or division, shall continue to be commanded by the officers holding commissions in the same, at the time of such tender; and any vacancy thereafter occurring shall be filled in the mode pointed out by law in the State or Territory wherein the said company, battalion, squadron, regiment, brigade or division, shall have been originally raised.

nies, &c.

Proviso.

To be organ

sident.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United ized by the Pre- States be, and he is hereby authorized to organize companies, so tendering their services, into battalions or squadrons, battalions or squadrons into regiments, regiments into brigades, and brigades into divisions, as soon as the number of volunteers shall render such organization in his judgment expedient; and the President shall, if necessary, apportion the staff, field and general officers among the respective States or Territories from which the volunteers shall tender their services as