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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 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 launching and securing the ship of the line Pennsylvania, one hundred thousand dollars;

For building and equipping two sloops of war, from frames already provided under former appropriations, tow hundred and eighty thousand dollars; and also six vessels of war, if not less than ten, nor more than eighteen guns, four hundred thousand dollars, in addition to any materials on hand;

For erecting and furnishing a new hospital building, and for a dwelling for an assistant surgeon; for the repairs of the present building, and for all expenses upon their dependencies near Pensacola, forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars;

For erecting a sea-wall to protect the shore; for enclosing the hospital grounds, for completing the basement of south wing; for repairing damages sustained from a recent gale, and for all other expenses upon the dependencies of the hospital near Norfolk, eighteen thousand dollars;

For graduating and enclosing the grounds about the naval asylum near Philadelphia, and for all other expenses upon the building and its dependencies, ten thousand four hundred and sixty dollars;

Towards an extension of the hospital building near Brooklyn, New York, for enclosing the grounds, and for all other expenses upon its dependencies, sixty-six thousand dollars;

For the completion of the present hospital building near Boston, and for all expenses upon its dependencies, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars;

For the repair of the enclosure, and for the sea-wall of the magazine upon Ellis’s island, in the harbor of New York, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;

For the completion of the enclosure of the magazine near Boston, the wharf and other dependencies, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars;

For the purchase of that portion of land, belonging to the town of Portsmouth, Virginia, enclosed by the walls of the navy yard at Gosport, four thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine dollars;

To defray any additional expense that may be incurred in making an examination and survey of the harbors of Beaufort and Wilmington, in North Carolina, with a view to determine the respective facilities and advantages of the establishment of a navy yard, fifteen hundred dollars;

For the survey of May river, from Tybee bar to the Hunting island, fifteen hundred dollars, for a similar object;

For payment to Thomas J. Harris of his proportion of the sum of two thousand dollars, appropriated by Congress, for the capture of a piratical felucca, in eighteen hundred and twenty-three, twenty-nine dollars and sixteen cents;

To defray the expense of examining the shoals of George’s Bank, for the purpose of determining upon the practicability of erecting a light-house upon the same, (in aid of the general appropriations for the navy,) five thousand dollars.

. 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 money unappropriated in the treasury, viz:

For carrying into effect the acts for the suppression of the slave trade,