Report of the claims, with tes

timony and opinions on validity of each, to be made, and laid beforeCongress.

STATUTE II.

Feb. 13, 1835. [Obsolete.] Appropriations for the naval service.

Pay and subsistence.

Pay of superintendents, &c.

Provisions.
Repairs.

Medicines, &c.

Repairs, &c.

which service, in recording the applicant's title-papers and evidence, they shall be entitled to receive from said applicant at the rate of twentyfive cents for every hundred words.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the registers and receivers of the land offices, at or before the beginning of each session of Congress thereafter, to make to the Secretary of the Treasury a report of the claims which may have been presented before them, together with the testimony, accompanied by their opinions of the validity of each claim, and such other information respecting them as may be in their possession, which said report shall, by the Secretary of the Treasury, be laid before Congress as soon as practicable, with the opinion of the commissioner of the general land office, touching the validity of the respective claims.

APPROVED, February 6, 1835.

CHAP. XIX.-An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.

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-five, in addition to the unexpended balances of former appropriations, viz:

For pay and subsistence of the officers of the navy and pay of seamen, one million five hundred and one thousand eight hundred and twentyfour dollars and forty-two cents.

For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishment at the several yards, sixty-one thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.

For provisions, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and the repairs and wear and tear of vessels in commission, nine hundred and seventy-four thousand dollars.

For medicines and surgical instruments, hospital stores, and other expenses on account of the sick, forty thousand dollars.

For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Portsmouth, of navy yards at New Hampshire, thirty-nine thousand nine hundred and twenty-five

Portsmouth;

Charlestown;

Brooklyn ;

Philadelphia;

Washington;
Gosport ;

Pensacola.

Repairs, &c.

dollars.

For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Charlestown, Massachusetts, ninety-nine thousand five hundred dollars.

For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Brooklyn, New York, forty-six thousand one hundred and twenty dollars.

For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Philadelphia, three thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.

For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Washington, ten thousand dollars.

For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Gosport, Virginia, one hundred thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.

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

For repairs of building and preservation of a vessel at Sackett's Har

at Sackett's harbour, five hundred dollars.
bour.
Ordnance, &c.

Miscellaneous.

For ordnance, and ordnance stores, fifteen thousand dollars.

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, chamber

money, and fuel and candles to officers other than those attached to navy yards and stations, and for officers in sick quarters where there are no hospitals, and for funeral expenses, for commissions, clerk hire, and 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, and for officers engaged on extra service beyond the limits of their stations, for printing and stationery of every description, and for books, maps, charts, mathematical and nautical instruments, chronometers, models, and drawings; for purchase and repair of fire and steam engines, and for machinery; for 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 of ships of war; for cabin furniture of vessels in commission, and for furniture of officers' houses in navy yards: for taxes on navy yards and public property; for assistance rendered to vessels in distress; for incidental labour at navy yards not applicable to any other appropriation; for coal and other fuel for forges, founderies and steam engines; for candles, ail, and fuel for vessels in commission and in ordinary; for repairs of magazines and powder houses; for preparing moulds for ships to be built, and for no other purpose whatever, two hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars.

For contingent expenses for objects not hereinbefore enumerated, three Contingencies. thousand 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-six thousand seven hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty-five cents.

Marine corps.

Marine corps,

For the subsistence of the non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, and washerwomen of said corps, serving on shore, and for &c. on shore. servants, thirty-three thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars and sixty

cents.

For clothing, thirty-eight thousand seven hundred and eleven dollars and twenty-five cents.

For fuel, fifteen thousand one hundred and sixty-six dollars. For transportation and recruiting, six thousand dollars. For medicines, hospital stores, surgical instruments, pay of matron and acting hospital steward, four thousand one hundred and thirty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents.

Clothing.

Fuel. Transportation. Medicines, &c.

For contingent expenses, seventeen thousand nine hundred and seventy- Contingencies. seven dollars and ninety-three cents.

For military stores, pay of armorers, keeping arms in repair, drums, fifes, flags, accoutrements, and ordnance stores, two thousand dollars. For repairs of barracks, three thousand dollars.

Stores, &c.

Barracks.

Magazines at

For completing the naval magazines authorized to be built near Boston, Massachusetts, and New York, for enclosing and providing convenient Boston and New access to them, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

For completing the naval hospitals near Boston, New York, and Pensacola, building the necessary out-houses and appendages, and for enclosing them, twenty thousand seven hundred dollars.

For repair of the hospital near Norfolk, and its enclosures and dependencies, one thousand dollars.

For repairing enclosures and graduating the ground about the navy asylum, near Philadelphia, three thousand five hundred dollars.

For completing the payments which will be due on contracts for iron tanks, made under the act of the tenth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, nine thousand dollars.

For continuing the survey of the coast of the United States, thirty thousand dollars.

York.

Hospitals at
New
Boston,
York, and Pen-
sacola.
Hospital near
Norfolk.

Asylum near
Philadelphia.

Iron tanks. 1832, ch. 192.

Coast survey.

Extra services,

For arrearages for defraying the extra services and expenses of the &c. in the coast officers of the navy engaged in the survey of the coasts and harbours of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty, one thousand five hundred dollars.

survey for 1830.

Lithographic

press.

Unexpended balances re-appropriated.

Frigate Java

anne.

and sloop Cy1832, ch. 188.

Iron tanks.

For the purchase of a lithographic press, for the Navy Department, and for expenses of the same for one year, one thousand dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following sums-being the unexpended balances of former appropriations, which have been carried to the account of the surplus fund-be, and the same are hereby re-appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury,

viz:

For the purchase of timber to rebuild the frigate Java, and the sloop Cyanne, authorized by the act of July the tenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, the sum of forty-six thousand, three hundred and thirty-two

dollars and three cents.

For the purchase of iron tanks for the use of the navy, as authorized 1832, ch. 192. by the act of tenth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, the sum of three hundred and fifty-one dollars and sixty-five cents.

Furniture, &c. for asylum at Philadelphia. 1832, ch. 189.

Ships in ordi

nary.

1830, ch. 32.

For providing fixtures, furniture, and apparatus, for the navy asylum at Philadelphia, as authorized by the act of July tenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, one thousand three hundred and sixty-two dollars and thirty-three cents.

For covering and preserving ships in ordinary, as authorized by the act of March eleventh, eighteen hundred and thirty, two thousand six hundred and fifty-three dollars and eighty-eight cents. APPROVED, February 13, 1835.

STATUTE II.

Feb, 24, 1835.

Appropriation for a new entrance into harbour at mouth of river Raisin.

Proviso.

CHAP. XXI.—An Act for improving the harbour at the mouth of the river Raisin, in the territory of Michigan.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the sum of thirty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the construction of a new entrance into the harbour, at or near the mouth of the river Raisin, where it unites with Lake Erie, according to a plan and survey of the said works, made under the direction of the War Department by Capt. H. Smith, during the fall of the year eighteen hundred and thirty-four; Provided, however, That no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be expended for improving the channel of said river, but the expenditure hereby directed, shall be confined exclusively to the construction of a cut or passage from the lake to that part of the river which is to be used as a harbour for vessels.

APPROVED, February 24, 1835.

STATUTE II.

Feb. 24, 1835. Appropriations for internal im

provements in Florida.

Clearing Ochlawaha river.

CHAP. XXII.—An Act for the completion of certain improvements in Florida. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of executing certain internal improvements, hereinafter designated, in the territory of Florida, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated:

For clearing out the Ochlawaha river from the St. John's to Glassall's Spring, near Camp King, for the transportation of provisions and military stores to the garrison at that place, as estimated in the report of the quartermaster general, ten thousand dollars:

Opening road

to Webbville. Improving na

For opening a road from the head of Pensacola bay, by Pittman's ferry, on the Chatawhachie river, to Webbville, four thousand dollars: For continuing the improvement of the navigation of Chatahawchie river from Cedar Bluff to the Big Spring, in Florida, according to the vigation of Chat report of the assistant quartermaster charged with the superintendence of the removal of obstructions, two thousand dollars.

For removing obstructions in the Chipola river, in Florida, five thousand dollars.

APPROVED, February 24, 1835.

tahoochie river.

Clearing Chipola river.

STATUTE II.

CHAP. XXIII.—An Act to provide for the further compensation of the marshal of Feb. 24, 1835. the district of Delaware.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the marshal of the district of Delaware shall be entitled to receive, in addition to the compensation now allowed by law, an annual salary of two hundred dollars, payable quarterly, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, February 24, 1835.

Additional sa

lary to marshal Delaware.

of the district of

STATUTE II.

CHAP. XXIV. An Act supplementary to an act, entitled "An Act to authorize Feb. 24, 1835. the inhabitants of the state of Louisiana to enter the back lands.”

Act of June

Time for entering lands on rivers, &c. extended one year

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the time given by the act to 15,1832, ch.140. which this is a supplement, to the owners of lands bordering on any of the rivers, creeks, bayous or other water-courses of the state of Louisiana, to become the purchasers by preference, of the back tracts adjacent to those owned by them, be, and the same is hereby, extended one year from the fifteenth of June next.

APPROVED, February 24, 1835.

from June 15.

CHAP. XXV.—An Act to complete certain roads in the territory of Arkansas: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the sum of twenty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, to complete the road leading from the southern boundary line of the state of Missouri, by Jackson, Little Rock, and Washington, to the town of Fulton, on the north bank of Red river; and that the further sum of fifteen thousand dollars be appropriated in like manner to complete the military road leading from fort Towson on Red River, to the northern boundary line of the state of Louisiana, in the direction of Natchitoches. APPROVED, February 24, 1835.

CHAP. XXVI.-An Act making additional appropriations for the Delaware break-
water, and for certain harbours, and removing obstructions in and at the mouths
of certain rivers, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.
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
the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for carrying on and completing
certain works heretofore commenced, viz:

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For improving the harbour of Chicago, in addition to the balance of former appropriations, thirty-two thousand eight hundred dollars.

For securing the works at Black river, four thousand four hundred dollars.

For continuing the improvement at Ashtabula creek, in addition to the balance of former appropriations, seven thousand five hundred and ninetvone dollars.

For securing the works at Presqu' Isle in addition to the balance of former appropriations, five thousand dollars.

For completing the works at Genesee river, two thousand three hundred and ninety dollars.

For continuing the improvement of Big Sodus bay, eleven thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars.

For the preservation of the beach at Provincetown harbour, in addition to the balance of former appropriation, four thousand four hundred dollars.

For the preservation of Plymouth beach, seven hundred dollars. For the breakwater at Hyannis harbour, in addition to the balance of former appropriation, nine thousand dollars.

For improving the harbours of New Castle, Marcus Hook, Chester, and Port Penn, in the Delaware river, in addition to the balance of former appropriation, six thousand dollars.

For improving the navigation of the Savannah river, in removing the obstructions in said river from the city of Savannah to its mouth, in addition to the balance of former appropriations, twenty thousand dollars. For improving the navigation of the Ohio river below the falls, and the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, fifty thousand dollars.

For the improvement of the navigation of the Ohio river, between Pittsburg and the falls of the Ohio, fifty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the War Department, and under the care of a superintendent for that part of the Ohio.

For the Delaware breakwater, one hundred thousand dollars, Provided, That only so much of this sum shall be applied as, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, may be advantageously expended in the present situation of the said work.

For completing the improvement at the harbour of Mobile, in removing the bar at the entrance of the harbour, called the Choctaw Pass, in addition to the appropriation of ten thousand dollars, made at the last session, seventeen thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven dollars and sixty cents.

For completing the removal of the obstructions to the navigation of Red river, in addition to the appropriation of fifty thousand dollars, made at the last session of Congress, the sum of fifty thousand dollars.

For improving the navigation of the Arkansas river, and for constructing a boat with an iron hull, forty thousand dollars.

For completing the improvement in the navigation of the Cape Fear river, below the town of Wilmington, North Carolina, twenty thousand dollars.

For constructing a dredging machine, and for completing the inland channel between St. Mary's and St. John's, in the territory of Florida, according to the estimate of the engineer department, fifteen thousand dollars.

For filling up with stone, three hundred and fifty-two yards of the outer pier or breakwater at Dunkirk harbour, New York, one thousand four hundred and eighteen dollars and twenty-seven cents.

For extending and completing the pier or breakwater in front of said pier at Dunkirk harbour, nine thousand five hundred and seventy dollars and sixteen

Provided, That no officer of the army shall receive any per cent. or