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ordnance stores, flags, drums, fifes, and musical instruments, two thousand eight hundred dollars;

For transportation of officers and troops, and for expenses of recruiting, eight thousand dollars;

For repair of barracks and rent of temporary barracks, six thousand dollars;

For contingencies, viz:

Freight, ferriage, toll wharfage and cartage; compensation to judge advocates; per diem for attending courts-martial and courts of inquiry; per diem to enlisted men on constant labor; house rent where no public quarters are assigned; the burial of deceased marines; printing; stationery; forage; postage; the pursuit of deserters; candles and oil; straw; barrack furniture; bed sacks; spades; axes; shovels; picks; carpenters’ tools; and keeping a horse for the messenger, seventeen thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars.

. And be it further enacted, That there be and there is hereby appropriated the sum of fifty thousand dollars to purchase American water-rotted hemp for the use of the navy and to pay the cost of agencies of purchase as established by law. And no further purchases of foreign hemp shall be made for the navy of the United States, except so far as a supply of American hemp of proper quality and at as cheap a price cannot be obtained.

. And be it further enacted, That so much of the first section of the act entitled “,” approved the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, and the twelfth section of an act entitled “,” passed August twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and forty-two, as provides that officers temporarily performing the duties belonging to those of a higher grade shall receive the compensation allowed to such higher grade, while actually so employed, be and the same are hereby repealed.

. And be it further enacted, That no person shall be employed or continued abroad, to receive and pay money for the use of the naval service on foreign stations whether under contract or otherwise, or to perform the duties usually performed by navy agents, who has not been or shall not be appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate: Provided, That this shall not apply to the disbursement of any sum now in the hands of any person heretofore employed for such purposes.

. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Navy be empowered to relinquish and pay all reservations of the ten per centum upon deliveries made under all contracts with the Navy Department, where these reservations have arisen and the contracts been afterwards extended, or where the contracts have been completed after the time of delivery by and with the consent of the Department, or in all cases where the contracts have been dissolved by the like consent, or been put an end to, or an extension thereof been prevented by operation of law, where no injury has been sustained by the public service: Provided, That this section shall not extend or apply to any case where the reservations shall have been made on contracts which have been expired more than five years before the first day of January last.

. And be it further enacted, That the sum of fifty thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated, for the commencement of fortifications on the Florida reef, including Key West, and the Dry Tortugas, at such positions as, in the opinion of the President, may be best adapted for the command of the straits of Florida, and the general defence on the Gulf of Mexico.

, June 17, 1844.