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incidental labour at navy yards, not applicable to any other appropriation; for coal and other fuel for forges, founderies, and steam engines; for candles, oil, and fuel, for vessels in commission and in ordinary; for repairs and building of magazines and powder houses; for preparing moulds for ships to be built; and for no other object or purpose whatsoever, two hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars.

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

For pay of the officers and non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, and for subsistence of the officers of the marine corps, one hundred and twelve thousand nine hundred and ninety dollars.

For subsistence of non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, and washerwomen, serving on shore, eighteen thousand four hundred and thirty-nine dollars.

For clothing, twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars.

For fuel, nine thousand and ninety-eight dollars.

For contingent expenses, fourteen thousand dollars.

For military stores, two thousand dollars.

For medicines, hospital stores, and surgical instruments, two thousand three hundred and seventy dollars.

To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to discharge an outstanding claim for prize money for the capture of the Algerine vessels in one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, twenty-one dollars, being part of an unexpended balance carried to the surplus fund.

For the payment of claims arising under the act of eleventh of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, entitled “,” eighteen thousand three hundred and thirty-seven dollars and twenty-eight cents.

. And be it further enacted, That, for the purpose of compensating the board authorized by the, for their services in revising and enlarging “the rules and regulations governing the naval service, with the view to adapt them to the present and future exigencies of this important arm of national defence,” the sum of seven thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid by the Navy Department, according to the rates of allowances for detention on special service now prescribed by the rules and regulations of the Navy Department.

. And be it further enacted, That the salary directed by “,” passed July tenth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, to be paid to the clerk of said funds out of the treasury of the United States, shall be paid from any money in said treasury not otherwise appropriated.

. And be it further enacted, That for carrying into effect the acts for the suppression of the slave trade, including the support in the United States, and for a term not exceeding six months after their arrival in Africa, of all persons removed from the United States under the said acts, the sum of five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

. And be it further enacted, That there be paid to Master Commandant John D. Sloat, of the United States’ navy, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand three hundred and sixty dollars, being the amount of his account exhibited to the Navy Department for expenses incurred in entertaining, on board the St. Louis, under his command, General Bolivar and several of his officers, at Guayaquil, in the year one thousand eight hundred and