Specific ap the invalid pensioners of the United States, propriations. from the fifth of March, one thousand eight hundred and ten, to the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, ninetyeight thousand dollars: For the maintenance and support of light houses, beacons, buoys and public piers, stakeages of channels, bars and shoals, and certain contingent expenses, sixty-eight thousand one hundred and thirty-one dollars and four cents: For erecting a light house on St. Simon's island, in Georgia, and placing buoy or buoys on or near the bar of St. Simon's, being the balance of former appropriations carried to the surplus fund, nine thousand and fifty dollars: For erecting a beacon and placing buoys near the entrance of Savannah river, being an expense incurred under the act of the sixteenth day of July, seventeen hundred and ninety eight, (a former appropriation for the same object having been carried to the credit of the surplus fund) two thousand four hundred and ninety-four dollars and eighty-nine cents: For erecting light houses at the mouth of the Mississippi river, and at or near the pitch of cape Lookout, in North Carolina, being the amount of an additional appropriation carried to the surplus fund, fifty-five thousand dol ars: For building a light house at Naushawn island, near Tarpaulin cove, in Massachusetts, being a balance of former appropriation carried to the surplus fund, two thousand four hundred and seventy-five dollars : For rebuilding the light house on North island, at the entrance of Winyaw bay, in South Carolina, being the amount of appro priation carried to the surplus fund, twenty Specific apthousand dollars; For fixing buoys and stakes in and along the channel in Winyaw bay, leading to the harbor of Georgetown, South Carolina, being the amount of appropriation carried to the surplus fund, one thousand five hundred dollars: For erecting a light house on point Judith, Rhode Island, in addition to the appropriation heretofore made for that purpose, two hun dred dollars: For defraying the expense of surveying the public lands within the several territories of the United States, thirty thousand dollars: For repaying the bank of the United States, a sum advanced to the late collector of New Orleans, to enable him to pay drawbacks, one hundred thousand dollars: For expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, forty-nine thousand four hundred dollars: For the contingent expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, fifty thousand dollars: For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, fifty thousand dollars : For the contingent expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, fifty thousand dollars: For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen, including the sum of twen ty thousand dollars to reimburse the bankers of the United States in London, and others, sums heretofore advanced by them for this object, twenty-five thousand dollars: For expenses of prosecuting claims and appeals in the courts of Great Britain, in relation to captures of American vessels, and de propriations. Specific ap fending causes elsewhere, six thousand dolpropriations. lars: To enable the accounting officers of the treasury formally to pass the accounts of Timothy Pickering, late secretary for the department of state, the sum of seventy-eight thousand five hundred and eighty-three dollars and eleven cents, being the amount of former appropriations of monies received and expended by him in that department, by the application of surplusses in some articles and appropriations to others in which the appropriations were deficient: For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, four thousand dollars. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations herein before made, shall be paid and discharged out of the fund of six hundred thousand dollars, reserved by an act making provision for the debt of the United States, and out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. GEO: CLINTON, Vice-President of the United States, and February 26, 1810. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON. AN ACT making appropriations for the support of the navy of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and ten. E it BE enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That for defraying the expenses of the navy of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and ten, the following sums be, and the same are hereby respectively appropriated, that is to say: propriations. For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, seven hundred and Specific apeighteen thousand, one hundred and fifteen dollars: For provisions, three hundred and fifty-three thousand, six hundred and ten dollars, and eighty-four cents : For medicines, instruments and hospital stores, sixteen thousand dollars: For repairs of vessels, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: For freight, store-rent, commissions to agents and other contingent expenses, seventyfive thousand dollars: For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, including provisions for those on shore and forage for the staff, one hundred and forty thousand, one hundred and twenty-one dollars and forty cents: For clothing for the same, thirty-eight thousand, three hundred and ninety-four dollars and seventy cents: For military stores for the same, one thousand three hundred and ninety-eight dollars and seventy-five cents: Specific apFor medicines, medical services, hospital propriations. stores and all other expenses on account of the sick belonging to the marine corps, two thousand dollars: For quarter-masters' and barrack-masters' stores, officers' travelling expenses, armorers' and carpenters' bills, fuel, premiums for enlisting, musical instruments, bounty to music, and other contingent expenses of the marine corps, fifteen thousand dollars: For the expenses of navy yards, comprising dock and other improvements, pay of superintendants, store keepers, clerks and laborers, seventy-five thousand dollars: For ordnance and small arms, seventy-five thousand dollars. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums specifically appropriated by this act, shall be paid out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives, JOHN GAILLARD, President of the Senate, pro tempore. March 2, 1810. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON. |