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For keeping barracks in repair, until new ones shall be erected, and for rent of temporary barracks at New York, six thousand dollars;

For transportation of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, and expenses of recruiting, eight thousand dollars;

For medicines, hospital stores, surgical instruments, and pay of matron and hospital stewards, four thousand one hundred and forty dollars;

For military stores, pay or armorers, keeping arms in repair, accoutrements and ordnance stores, and flags, drums and fifes, two thousand three hundred dollars;

For contingent expenses of said corps, viz: for freight, ferriage, toll, wharfage, and cartage; for per diem allowance for attending courts-martial and courts of inquiry, compensation to judges-advocate, house-rent where there are no public quarters assigned, per diem allowance to enlisted men on constant labor, expenses of burying deceased marines, printing, stationery, forage, postage on public letters, expenses in pursuit of deserters, candles and oil, straw, barrack furniture, bed sacks, spades, axes, shovels, picks, carpenters’ tools, and for the purchase of a horse for the messenger and keeping the same, seventeen thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars;

For coppering the roof of the hospital building at New York, and for other necessary expenses upon the same, and its dependencies, nine thousand five hundred dollars;

For necessary repairs of the hospital building at Norfolk, and its dependencies, three thousand five hundred dollars;

For furnishing hospital number three, at Pensacola, and for building a stable and other necessary appendages, and for current repairs on the other buildings, seven thousand dollars;

. And be it further enacted, That in addition to the sum of three hundred and thirty thousand dollars, which was placed subject to the disposition of the Navy Department by the second section of the, the further sum of three hundred and forty thousand dollars of the amount heretofore appropriated for the gradual improvement of the navy, is hereby directed to be placed subject to the disposition of the department aforesaid, for the purpose of completing the two steam vessels which have been commenced, in case that amount can be diverted from that appropriation without impairing the ability of the Navy Department to make payments under existing contracts prior to the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-one, and if that cannot be done consistently with the rights of contractors and the public interests, then so much of the said sum of three hundred and forty thousand dollars as can be so diverted to this object, from the appropriation referred to, shall be subject to the disposition of the Secretary of the Navy for this purpose, and the said sum of three hundred and forty thousand dollars, to be expended in the manner in this section prescribed, shall be in addition to any materials now on hand applicable to the construction of the said steam vessels of war.

. And be it further enacted, That all appropriations, and all remaining balances of appropriations heretofore made for building, rebuilding, purchasing, or repairing vessels of war, or other vessels, for the use of the navy, or for the purchase of timber, ordnance, or any other articles for building, arming, equipping, or repairing vessels of the navy, or for the repairs of vessels in ordinary, and repair, wear and tear of vessels in commission, together with any materials which have been, or may be, collected under any of the said appropriations, be, and the same are hereby, transferred to one head of appropriation, to be called