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yards at Charlestown, Gosport, and Pensacola, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For repair of barracks near Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and for repairs at other stations, eight thousand nine hundred dollars.

For transportation of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, and expenses of recruiting, six thousand dollars.

For medicines, hospital stores, surgical instruments, and pay of matron, four thousand one hundred and thirty-nine dollars and twenty-nine cents.

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

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

For arrearages for defraying the extra services and expenses of the officers of the navy engaged in the survey of the coasts and harbors of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty, and prior thereto, being the amount appropriated in eighteen [hundred] and thirty-four, for the same object, but by that act made applicable only to arrearages for the year eighteen hundred and thirty, fifteen thousand dollars.

. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States, be, and he hereby is authorized, to send out a surveying and exploring expedition to the Pacific ocean and [the] South seas, and for that purpose employ a sloop of war, and to purchase or provide such other smaller vessels as may be necessary and proper to render the said expedition efficient and useful, and for this purpose the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and in addition thereto, if necessary, the President of the United States is authorized to use other means in the control of the Navy Department, not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the objects required.

, May 14, 1836.

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 in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, that is to say:

For the pay of the army, nine hundred and eighty-eight thousand three hundred and seventeen dollars.

For forage of officers’ horses, sixty thousand one hundred and thirty-nine dollars.

For clothing for officers’ servants, twenty-four thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars.

For payments in lieu of clothing to discharged soldiers, thirty thousand dollars.

For subsistence, exclusive of that of officers, four hundred and ninety-five thousand four hundred dollars.

For clothing of the army, camp and garrison equipage, cooking utensils, hospital furniture, two hundred and two thousand nine hundred and eighty-two dollars.

For the medical and hospital department, thirty-one thousand five hundred dollars.