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. And be it further enacted, That from and after the thirtieth day of July present, the office of surveyor of the port of Stonington aforesaid, be, and the same is hereby, abolished; and a collector for the aforesaid district shall be appointed, to reside at the port of Stonington, who, in addition to his other emoluments, shall be entitled to receive the salary now allowed by law to the surveyor, aforesaid, and no more; and said collector shall also perform the duties heretofore enjoined on the surveyor.

, August 3, 1842.

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, in addition to the unexpended balances of former appropriations, out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, viz:

No. 1. For pay of commission, warrant and petty officers and seamen, two million three hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That till otherwise ordered by Congress, the officers of the navy shall not be increased beyond the number in the respective grades that were in the service on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-two, nor shall there be any further appointment of midshipmen until the number in the service be reduced to the number that were in service on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-one, beyond which they shall not be increased until the further order of Congress.

No. 2. For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishments at the several yards, seventy-eight thousand four hundred and twenty dollars.

No. 3. For provisions, seven hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

No. 4. For medicines and surgical instruments, hospital stores and other expenses on account of the sick, thirty thousand dollars.

No. 5. For increase, repair, armament, and equipment of the navy, and wear and tear of vessels in commission, two million dollars.

No. 6. For ordnance and ordnance stores on the Northern lakes, fifty-nine thousand and ninety-seven dollars.

No. 7. For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, forty-seven thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars.

No. 8. For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Charlestown, Massachusetts, twenty-nine thousand dollars.

No. 9. For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Brooklyn, New York, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand one hundred dollars: Provided, That no part of this or any former appropriation to that object shall be applied to the construction of a dry dock at Brooklyn, except in payment for materials previously contracted for and yet to be delivered, until a suitable place shall be selected in the harbor of New York, and the title to land obtained, and a plan and estimate of the cost made, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, and approved by him and the President: And provided, also, That the Secretary of the Navy may, in his discretion, apply the sum of one hundred thousand dollars of the amount hereby appropriated, and any balance of former appropriations for the construction of a dry dock at Brooklyn, New York, to the construction of a floating dock at the same place; and if any part of this appropriation shall be expended upon the construction of a floating dock, as hereby authorized, the construction of the dry dock shall be suspended until the further order of Congress.